Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
ANDERSON, Joseph Jocelyn. b. 1789; ensign 78 foot 27 June 1805; served in Peninsula 1809–12; lieut. col. 50 foot 1 April 1841 to 19 Sep. 1848 when he sold out; military commander and civil superintendent of convicts Norfolk Island; commanded a brigade in Gwalior campaign 1843; a squatter on the Goulburn Victoria; member of legislative council 1852; K.H. 1837, C.B. 2 May 1844. d. Fairlie house, South Yarra 18 July 1877. bur. St. Kilda cemetery 21 July. I.L.N. lxxi, 347, 348 (1877), portrait.
ANDERSON, Lucy (dau. of John Philpot of Bath). b. Bath Dec. 1790; made her début at Philharmonic Society’s concerts 1822; Pianist to Queen Adelaide 1832; Pianist to Queen Victoria 1837; gave her last concert 30 May 1862 in Her Majesty’s theatre; granted a civil list pension of £100 23 July 1840. (m. 1820 George Frederick Anderson). d. 34 Nottingham place, London 24 Dec. 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 31 Dec. I.L.N. xli, 77 (1862), portrait.
ANDERSON, Paul (2 son of James Anderson of Grace Dieu, co. Waterford, by Susanna youngest dau. of Christmas Paul). b. 29 March 1767; ensign 51 foot 31 March 1788; lieut. col. 60 foot 14 Jany. 1808 to 25 Feb. 1817 when placed on h.p.; commander of Gravesend and Tilbury forts 1 Dec. 1827, of Pendennis castle 23 July 1832; col. 78 foot 9 Feb. 1837 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C. d. Bath 17 Dec. 1851.
ANDERSON, Rev. Philip (son of Mr. Anderson, captain H.E.I.Co.) Entered St. Paul’s school 7 Oct. 1824 aged 8; Pauline exhibitioner C.C. coll. Cam. 1834; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1849; chaplain at Colaba, Bombay Nov. 1849 to death; began Bombay quarterly magazine 1850; edited Bombay quarterly review Jany. 1855; author of The English in Western India 1854. d. Malabar hill, Bombay 13 Dec. 1857.
ANDERSON, Rev. Richard. b. 16 Jany. 1792; ed. at Linc. coll Ox., B.A. 1815; V. of Burreston, Yorkshire 1834–54; P.C. of Leeming, Yorkshire 1868–79; chairman of Leeming school board to 1879. d. Aisken house near Bedale 24 Oct. 1884.
Note.—He was the survivor of the celebrated trio of hardriding Yorkshire clergymen mentioned by “Nimrod” in his Sporting Tour as hunting with the Earl of Darlington’s hounds.
ANDERSON, Robert. b. Fettercairn, Aberdeenshire; assistant surgeon R.N. 1838; surgeon of the Investigator and Enterprise in the Arctic seas 1848–55; made a large collection illustrative of natural history of Arctic regions, zoological specimens were sent to British Museum, dried plants to Kew, and fossil remains to Geological society. d. June 1856 aged 38.
Note.—Anderson bay on Victoria land is named after him.
ANDERSON, Robert Sterling Hore. b. near Coleraine; ed. at Belfast academy and Dublin Univ.; solicitor in Dublin 1846, in Melbourne, Victoria 1854; M.P. for Emerald Hill 1855; comr. of customs 1860–61, 1862–63 and 1875–77; repres. of Eastern province in legislative council; minister for justice. d. Melbourne 26 Oct. 1883 aged 62.
ANDERSON, Samuel. b. London 15 Nov. 1839; secretary to American land boundary commission 1869; chief astronomer to North American boundary commission 14 June 1872; returned to England 30 June 1875; comr. for demarcation of frontier of Servia 1 April 1879; major R.E. 13 Sep. 1879 to death; C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. Dalhousie grange, Bonnyrigg, Midlothian 11 Sep. 1881.
ANDERSON, Thomas. Colonel 3 Madras light cavalry 21 Dec. 1859 to death; M.G. 21 April 1863. d. 9 Thurloe square, London 27 May 1864.
ANDERSON, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Anderson, sec. to National bank of Scotland). b. Edin. 26 Feb. 1832; M.D. Edin. 1853; in Bengal medical service 1854 to death; surgeon 20 May 1866; had medical charge of Hodson’s Horse during the mutiny; superintendent of forest department 1864–66; director of Calcutta botanic garden 1869 to death; worked out the flora of India; author of Florula Adenensis 1860 and more than 20 other papers in journal of Linnæan society, &c. d. Edin. 26 Oct. 1870. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. ii, 41–45 (1873).
ANDERSON, Thomas. b. 2 July 1819; M.D. Edin. 1841; F.R.S. Edin. 1845, Keith medallist 1855; chemist to Highland and Agricultural society of Scotland 1848–73; regius professor of chemistry in Univ. of Glasgow 1852; pres. of Glasgow philosophical society 1859; pres. of chemical section of British Association at Dundee 1867; royal medallist of Royal Society 1872. d. Chiswick near London 2 Nov. 1874. Journal of chemical society of London (1875) 1309–13.
ANDERSON, Thomas. Ensign 78 foot 1845, served with it 18 years chiefly in India; captain 17 Aug. 1857 to 24 March 1863 when he sold out; Persian interpreter to Sir Willoughby Cotton and Sir John Grey commanders in chief at Bombay; adjutant general of militia in New Brunswick; commanded the frontier field force there during threatened Fenian invasion 1866. d. Westward Ho, Devonshire 11 Feb. 1876 aged 48.
ANDERSON, William (son of James Anderson of Oban, Argyleshire, supervisor of excise who d. 1812.) b. Edin. 10 Dec. 1805; joined Aberdeen Journal 1831; edited Aberdeen Advertiser 1835; The Western Watchman a weekly journal at Ayr 1842; sub edited The Witness newspaper at Edin. 1844; chief sub editor of North British Daily Mail 14 April 1847 to 1849, this was first daily paper in Scotland; author of Poetical Aspirations 1830, 2 ed. 1833; Landscape Lyrics 1839, 2 ed. 1854; The Scottish nation 3 vols. 1860–62. d. London 2 Aug. 1866. J. G. Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland ii, 269–72 (1877).
ANDERSON, William. Lieut. col. Bengal artillery 6 March 1854 to 20 Feb. 1855; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. Albury hall, Ware, Herts 22 Sep. 1869 aged 64.
ANDERSON, Rev. William (2 son of Rev. John Anderson, Relief minister at Kilsyth near Glasgow). b. Kilsyth 6 Jany. 1799; licensed by Relief presbytery Glasgow 5 Sep. 1820; minister of John st. church Glasgow 6 March 1821 to 24 Dec. 1871, the church was pulled down in 1858 and a new church opened by him 1 Jany. 1860; LLD. Glasgow April 1850; author of An apology for the organ 1829; Discourses 1st series 1844, 2nd series 1859; Regeneration 1850, 3 ed. 1875. d. Prospect house, Uddingstone near Glasgow 15 Sep. 1872. Rev. G. Gilfillan’s Life of Rev. W. Anderson 1873, portrait; Reunion in the heavenly kingdom by the Rev. Wm. Anderson 1876, portrait.
ANDERSON, William Acland Douglas (son of Joseph Jocelyn Anderson, C.B.) b. 1829; captain 65 foot 1852–54; a comr. of gold fields in Victoria; col. commandant of all the volunteer corps in Victoria 1862; C.M.G. 25 May 1878. d. South Yarra 23 Jany. 1882.
ANDERSON, William Cochrane. b. East Lothian 1792; col. R.A. 20 June 1854 to 26 Oct. 1858; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858. d. Edge hill near Edin. 30 Aug. 1865 aged 73.
ANDERSSEN, Adolf. b. Breslau 6 July 1818; gained 1st prize at London chess tournaments 1851 and 1862; 2nd prize at Manchester 1857; 1st prize at Baden 1870; 3rd prize at Vienna 1873; beaten by Paul Morphy at Paris Dec. 1858, losing 7 out of 9 games; an unrivalled player in the beauty of his combinations. d. Breslau 14 March 1879. Westminster chess club papers x, 39 (1878), portrait; Chess players chronicle iii, 73–75 (1879).
ANDERTON, James. b. near Lincoln 1782; solicitor in London 1811; common councilman for ward of Farringdon Without 1836–66; undersheriff several times; projected Law life assurance society 1823; founded Solicitors benevolent institution 1858. d. Cypress lodge, Dulwich 23 Jany. 1868.
ANDRÉE, Richard Collier. Colonel 7 Bengal N.I. 20 June 1836 to 28 Sep. 1850; colonel 69 Bengal N.I. 28 Sep. 1850 to death; general 2 Nov. 1861. d. Stuttgart 27 March 1865 aged 70.
ANDREW, James (son of Rev. James Andrew, the first principal of East India college at Addiscombe, Surrey who d. 13 June 1833 in 60 year). b. Addiscombe college 1811; ed. at Caius coll. Cam.; studied medicine at Edin. while he kept his terms at Cam.; M.D. Cam. 1839; practised at Edin.; phys to Royal infirmary 1846–56; F.R.C.P. Edin., member of council; F.R.S. Edin. d. 15 Queen st. Edin. 1 Dec. 1859.
ANDREW, John William, Captain R.N. 26 Sep. 1812; C.B. 4 June 1815; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. d. Chudleigh 5 Jany. 1854.
ANDREW, William. b. Glasgow 1804; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; professor of mathematics in Mc Gill coll. Quebec; rector of the high school Quebec; edited the Daily Chronicle Quebec. d. Aberdeen 1862.
ANDREWS, Alexander. Author of The eighteenth century 1856; The history of British journalism, 2 vols. 1859. d. Albion grove, Stoke Newington 9 Nov. 1873 aged 50.
ANDREWS, Augustus. Entered Madras army 1793; col. of 27 N.I. 5 June 1829, of 42 N.I. 21 Feb. 1834, of 1 N.I. 5 Jany. 1837, of 8 N.I. 2 Oct. 1848, and of 39 N.I. 4 July 1856 to death; general 16 March 1855; C.B. 23 July 1823. d. Vellore, Bath 3 March 1858 aged 78.
ANDREWS, Biggs. b. 1794; barrister M.T. 12 Nov. 1819; bencher 21 April 1837, treasurer 1846; K.C. 24 Feb. 1837; comr. of bankrupts for Exeter district 16 Dec. 1858 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted £1,800 on abolition of his office. d. Heavitree house near Exeter 28 April 1880 in 86 year.
ANDREWS, George. b. London 1798; made his début as Lothair in Adelgitha at Manchester 1819; first appeared in America Oct. 1827 as Bob Acres in The Rivals at Federal st. theatre Boston; acted in New York 1838, in Philadelphia 1842; left the stage and managed old Chinese Buildings, New York as a ball room. d. New York 7 April 1866.
ANDREWS, Harry. b. Monmouthshire 28 May 1831; a pedestrian; won the Four Miles champion cup at Bow; defeated the American Deer, Whitmore, Deerfoot, and many others; managed running grounds at Lillie Bridge and Surbiton. d. Cottage grove, Surbiton 7 March 1885.
ANDREWS, Henry Ogden (youngest son of Charles Savery Andrews, captain 24 foot). b. St. John’s, Newfoundland 28 April 1808; ed. at Stratford on Avon, and in Canada; called to Canadian bar; Q.C. d. 37 Lansdowne crescent, Leamington 25 March 1884.
ANDREWS, Jane (dau. of Mr. Constant). b. 1817; vocal composer and teacher. (m. John Holman Andrews). d. 60 Baker st. Portman sq. London 29 March 1878.
ANDREWS, Richard (son of Thomas Andrews of Bramdean, Hants, wheelwright). b. Bishop Sutton near Alresford 18 Dec 1798; a coachmaker at Southampton 1 Oct. 1832 to death; sold more than 300 carriages for £22,000 in 1845; built state carriages for Mehemet Ali and the Sultan; one of first members of Anti-Corn-law league; sheriff of Southampton 1848, mayor 1849, 1850, 1851 and 31 May 1856 to Dec. 1856; contested Southampton Dec. 1856; gave a great banquet to Louis Kossuth on his arrival in England 25 Oct. 1851. d. Portland st. Southampton 28 March 1859. I.L.N. xix, 549 (1851), xx, 12 (1852), portrait.
ANDREWS, Robert. Colonel R.A. 20 June 1854 to 7 June 1856; M.G. 7 June 1856. d. Sunderland terrace, Westbourne park, London 1 Nov. 1863.
ANDREWS, Robert. Called to Irish bar 1825; Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849. d. 1865.
ANDREWS, William. b. Chichester 1802; made many valuable additions to the flora and fauna of south west of Ireland; his name will be perpetuated in names of Trichomanes Andrewsii, and Galathea Andrewsii; a founder and subsequently sec. and pres. of Natural history society of Dublin; chairman of Natural history committee of Royal society of Dublin many years; M.R.I.A. 10 Jany. 1842. d. Dublin 11 March 1880. Journal of botany (1880) 256–86.
ANGAS, Caleb. b. 1782; a farmer at Brancepeth and at Neswick farm, East Yorkshire about 1815 to death; the best authority on farming in the East Riding; wrote letters in the Sun newspaper on Free Trade which excited much attention and were of great service. d. Driffield, Yorkshire 6 Feb. 1860.
ANGAS, George Fife. b. Newcastle 1 May 1789; senior partner of G. F. Angas & Co. shipowners and merchants 2 Jeffrey sq. London 1824–33 when he retired to Devonshire; originated National and Provincial bank of England 1833; one of the first comrs. for formation of colony of South Australia 1834; established South Australian company 1836, Union bank of Australia 1837, and Bank of South Australia 1841; chairman of London boards of direction of these 3 companies down to 1850; arrived in Adelaide 15 Jany. 1851; M.P. for district of Barossa in 1st legislative council July 1851–1871; leading spirit in colonizing South Australia. d. Lindsey park Angaston, South Australia 15 May 1879.
ANGELL, Alfred. Organist of Exeter cathedral 34 years. d. The Close, Exeter 24 May 1876 aged 60.
ANGELL, Helen Cordelia (5 dau. of Wm. Thomas Coleman, M.D. of Horsham, Sussex). b. Horsham Jany. 1847; exhibited drawings of flowers at Dudley Gallery 1864, afterwards called The general water colour society, and 6 flower pictures at the R.A. 1876–78; the only successor of Wm. Hunt. (m. Oct. 1875 Thomas Wm. Angell, Postmaster of the S.W. district of London). d. 55 Holland road, Kensington 8 March 1884. Clayton’s English female artists ii, 261–63 (1876).
ANGELL, John Benedict. ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Ox.; won first Grand national hunt steeplechase at Farndon village with Bridegroom 1860 and second with Queensferry 1861; won Liverpool Grand national with Alcibiade 1865; one of chief revivers of coaching; commonly known as “Cherry” Angell; the hero of C. Clarke’s novel A box for the season. d. 36 Curzon st. London 12 May 1874. Illust. sporting and dramatic news i, 400 (1874), portrait.
ANGELO, Edward Anthony. Captain 30 foot 9 Aug. 1831 to 12 Dec. 1834 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1827; a military knight of Windsor 1854 to death. d. Windsor Castle 26 Aug. 1869.
ANGELO, Henry. Superintendent of sword exercise to the army 1833 to death. d. Brighton 14 Oct. 1852 aged 72. G. M. xxxviii, 543 (1852).
ANGERSTEIN, John. M.P. for Greenwich 10 Jany. 1835 to 17 July 1837. d. the Woodlands, Blackheath 10 April 1858 aged 85.
ANGERSTEIN, John Julius William. b. 1800; major Grenadier guards 27 Dec. 1850 to 20 June 1854; L.G. 2 Feb. 1862; col. 4 West India regiment 14 Jany. 1866 to death. d. Weeting hall near Brandon, Norfolk 23 April 1866.
ANGLESEY, Henry William Paget, 1 Marquess of (eld. child of Henry Bayly, 1 Earl of Uxbridge 1744–1812). b. 17 May 1768; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., M.A. 1786; M.P. for Carnarvon 1790–96 and 1806–10; M.P. for Milbourn Port 1796–1804; raised among his father’s tenantry 80th regiment of foot or Staffordshire volunteers; lieut. col. commandant of it 12 Sep. 1793 to 16 June 1795; lieut. col. 16 light dragoons 16 June 1795; lieut. col. 7 light dragoons 6 April 1797 and col. 16 May 1801 to 20 Dec. 1842; succeeded 13 March 1812; lord lieut. of Anglesey 21 April 1812 to death; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; created Marquess of Anglesey 4 July 1815; G.C.H. 1816; K.G. 19 Feb. 1818; general 12 Aug. 1819; lord high steward at coronation of George iv, 19 July 1821; master general of the ordnance 1827–28 and 1846–52; P.C. 30 April 1827; lord lieut. of Ireland 1828–29 and 1830–33; col. of royal horse guards 20 Dec. 1842 to death; field marshal 9 Nov. 1846; lord lieut. of Staffs. 31 Jany. 1849 to death. d. 1 Old Burlington st. London 29 April 1854. bur. in Lichfield cathedral 6 May. J. W. Cole’s British generals i, 109–44 (1856), portrait; N. and Q. 3rd series ii, 249, 320, 339; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. 1876 57–63.
Note.—In a garden close to the church at Waterloo is a monument to his right leg lost in the battle; he refused a pension of £1,200 per annum granted him for this loss, thus saving his country nearly £47,000.
ANGLESEY, Henry Paget, 2 Marquess of (eld. son of preceding). b. 6 July 1797; M.P. for Anglesey 1820–32; summoned to House of Lords as Baron Paget of Beaudesert 15 Jany. 1833; col. in the army 28 June 1838, retired 1843; lord chamberlain of the Queen’s household 6 May 1839 to 14 Sep. 1841; P.C. 22 May 1839; succeeded 29 April 1854; lord lieut. of Anglesey 18 May 1854 to death; kept a racing stud 1831–35 and 1854 to death; made on the high ground above Beaudesert near Lichfield one of best cricket grounds in England. d. Beaudesert 6 Feb. 1869. Baily’s Mag. v, 51–54 (1863), portrait.
ANGLESEY, Henry William George Paget, 3 Marquess of. b. 9 Dec. 1821; lieut. col. 2 Staffordshire militia 5 Jany. 1853 to 29 Sep. 1855; M.P. for south Staffs 1854–57; succeeded 6 Feb. 1869. d. 10 Albert mansions, Victoria st. London 30 Jany. 1880.
ANGUS, George. Surgeon Bengal medical service 1836; sec. to medical board at Calcutta; superintending surgeon at Benares, and at Cawnpore; retired 1854; pres. of Medical society of Aberdeen 2 years; manager of royal infirmary and general dispensary, Aberdeen. d. 13 Golden sq. Aberdeen 7 April 1872 in 78 year.
ANGUS, Rev. Henry. b. Inverkeithing, Fifeshire 18 Oct. 1794; minister of St. Nicholas’ lane united presbyterian church, Aberdeen 1813; author of Works of fiction, their use and abuse 1853. d. Aberdeen 28 June 1860. Sermons by the late Rev. Henry Angus, edited with a memoir by his son Rev. Robert Angus 1861.
ANNESLEY, William Richard Annesley, 4 Earl (eld. son of 3 Earl Annesley 1772–1838). b. Rutland sq. Dublin 21 Feb. 1830; succeeded 25 Aug. 1838; M.P. for Grimsby 1852–57; established his claim as a peer 24 July 1855; representative peer for Ireland 15 Oct. 1867. d. Cowes, Isle of Wight 10 Aug. 1874. I.L.N. lxv, 188 (1874), portrait.
ANSELL, Charles (eld. son of Thomas Ansell of Lewisham, Kent). b. 1794; actuary of Atlas insurance office 1823–64; published A treatise on friendly societies 1835, when a large professional practice at once fell to his share; completed the Bonus investigation of National provident office; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; F.S.A. 21 June 1828. d. 7 Eastern terrace, Brighton 14 Dec. 1881.
ANSELL, George Frederick. b. Carshalton, Surrey 4 March 1826; assistant to A. W. Hofman at Royal School of mines; scientific director at Royal Panopticon, Leicester sq. London 1854; employed at Royal mint 12 Nov. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1868; an analyst in London 1869 to death; patented the firedamp indicator 9 March 1865, which was adopted in many foreign collieries. d. 6 Hartham road, London 21 Dec. 1880. The royal mint by G. F. Ansell, 3 ed. 1871.
ANSELL, Thomas. M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.S.A. 1820; M.D. St. Andrews 1843; surgeon at Bow, London; chairman of Society of Apothecaries 1861 to death; officer of health for Bow; F.L.S. d. of cholera at Harley place, Bow road 24 July 1866 in his 68 year.
ANSON, Augustus Henry Archibald. b. 5 March 1835; captain 84 foot 1855–58; aide de camp to general Grant in Indian mutiny 1857–58; received Victoria cross for bravery at Bolundshawm and Lucknow 24 Dec. 1858; M.P. for Lichfield 1859–68, and for Bewdley 1869–74. d. Cannes 17 Nov. 1877. Mrs. Farlie’s Portraits of the children of the nobility, 3rd series 1841, portrait.
ANSON, Very Rev. Frederic (youngest son of George Adams of Orgrave, Staffs. 1731–89 who assumed name of Anson). b. 23 March 1779; ed. at Eton, Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox.; student 1796, B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, B.D. and D.D. 1839; fellow of All soul’s coll. 1799–1803; R. of Sudbury, Derbyshire 1803–36; canon of Southwell, Notts. 7 Oct. 1826; dean of Chester 9 May 1839 to death; R. of Doddleston, Cheshire 1843 to death. (m. 2 May 1807 Mary Anne only dau. of Rev. Richard Levett of Milford, Staffs., she d. 15 Oct. 1862). d. The deanery, Chester 8 May 1867. bur. Chester cemetery.
ANSON, George (2 son of Thomas Anson, 1 Viscount Anson 1767–1818). b. Shugborough near Stafford 13 Oct. 1797; captain 14 dragoons 1823–25 when placed on h.p.; clerk of the Ordnance 1846–52; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; commanded a division in Bengal 1853 and the Madras army 1854; commander in chief in India 20 Nov. 1855 to death; col. 55 foot 19 Dec. 1856 to death; M.P. for Great Yarmouth 1818–34, for Stoke upon Trent 1836–37, and for South Staffs. 1837–53; a great friend of Duke of York; crack shot of Red House Club, Battersea when pigeon shooting mania was at its height 1828; was never excelled as a judge of racing. d. of cholera at Karnál during the mutiny 27 May 1857. Fortnightly Review xxxix, 541–44 (1883).
ANSON, John William. b. Marylebone, London 31 July 1817; made his début at T.R. Bath as Lissardo in The Wonder 1842; acted in north of England and Ireland 1843–49; manager of Scotch theatres 1849–53; acted at Astley’s 1853–59; founded Dramatic, equestrian and musical sick fund 4 July 1855, Dramatic burial ground at Woking 1856, Dramatic college at Woking 1859, (opened by Prince of Wales 5 June 1865) and the G. V. Brooke lifeboat fund 1866; treasurer and acting manager of Adelphi theatre 1858–78; published Dramatic almanac 1857–72. d. 50a Lincoln’s Inn Fields 6 Feb. 1881. The Players i, 185 (1860), portrait; Anson’s dramatic almanac 1872, portrait.
ANSON, Sir John William Hamilton, 2 Baronet. b. London 26 Dec. 1816; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; succeeded 13 Jany. 1847. d. Royal hotel Wigan 2 Aug. 1873 2 hours after accident at Wigan junction station of London and North Western railway. I.L.N. lxiii, 134, 135 (1873).
ANSTEAD, Thomas. b. Twickenham 9 Aug. 1840; a fast round-armed bowler; engaged at the Oval, London 1866; and at Oatlands park club, Weybridge 1869 to death. d. Weybridge 21 July 1875.
ANSTED, David Thomas (son of Wm. Ansted). b. London 5 Feb. 1814; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam. 32 wrangler 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; Ley fellow of his college 1840–1851; professor of geology in King’s college London April 1840–1853; professor of geology at college of Civil Engineers Putney 1845; consulting geologist and mining engineer 1850 to death; F.G.S. 1838, Sec. 1844–1847; F.R.S. 11 Jany. 1844; edited Quarterly Journal of Geological Society; author of An elementary course of geology 1850, 2 ed. 1856; Physical geography 1867, 5 ed. 1871 and many other books. (m. 24 June 1848 Augusta Dorothea Hackett youngest dau. of Alexander Baillie of Green st. Grosvenor sq.) d. Melton near Woodbridge 20 May 1880. Proc. of Royal society xxxi, 1 (1881).
ANSTER, John (eld. son of John Anster of Charleville, Cork). b. Charleville 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; scholar 1814, B.A. 1816, LL.B. and LLD. 1825; barrister 1824; registrar of high court of admiralty Ireland 1837 to death; granted civil list pension of £150 30 Aug. 1841; regius professor of civil law Trin. coll. Dub. 1850 to death; M.R.I.A. 12 Feb. 1838; vice pres. 1849–52; author of Faustus from the German of Goethe, 2 parts 1835–64 the first English translation and thrice reprinted in Germany. Xeniola, poems including translations from Schiller and De la Motte Fouqué 1837. (m. 1832 Elizabeth eld. dau. of Wm. Blacker Bennett of Castle Crea, co. Limerick, she was granted a civil list pension of £50 3 Aug. 1870). d. Dublin 9 June 1867. Dublin Univ. Mag. xiv, 544–46 (1839), portrait.
ANSTEY, Thomas Chisholm (2 son of Thomas Anstey of Anstey Barton, Tasmania, sheep farmer and member of legislative council who d. 23 May 1851 aged 73). b. London 1816; ed. at Wellington Somerset, and Univ. college London; articled to J. A. Frampton of 10 New Inn, London, solicitor; one of the first affected by the Oxford tractarian movement who went over to Rome; barrister Middle Temple 25 Jany. 1839; equity draftsman; professor of law and jurisprudence at colleges of St. Peter and St. Paul. Prior park, Bath, some years; comr. for insolvent debtors in Van Diemen’s Land a short time; member of the Irish confederation which first met 13 Jany. 1847; M.P. for Youghal (lib.) 7 Aug. 1847 to 1 July 1852; contested Bedford 9 July 1852; signalized himself as the special adversary of Lord Palmerston, moved a kind of general impeachment of him in a speech of 5 hours length during which he never referred to a note for a date, figure or fact 8 Feb. 1848; introduced bills for repeal of Roman catholic penal laws 1848 and 1849; a comr. to revise the statutes March 1853; attorney general at Hong Kong Oct. 1855 to 30 Jany. 1859; poisoned by Ah-lum the Chinese baker there 15 Jany. 1857 but recovered; joined the Bombay bar 1860, became leader of it 1862; acting judge of high court of Bombay as deputy for Sir Joseph Arnould 1865 to 30 Dec. 1865; went to England 1866; revising barrister in England 1868; rejoined the Bombay bar 1869; author of A guide to the laws of England affecting Roman Catholics 1842; Guide to the history of the laws and constitutions of England 1845. (m. 1840 Harriet 2 dau. of Gerard Edward Strickland of Loughlin house, co. Roscommon). d. Bombay 12 Aug. 1873. Law mag. and law review xxi, 136–40 (1866), xxiii, 145–55 (1867), xxvi, 121–40 (1868); Law Times lv, 316–17 and 352–54 (1873); I.L.N. xvi, 85 (1849), portrait; Hansard’s Debates xcvi, 291–311 (1848).
ANSTICE, William Reynolds. b. Shropshire 1807; a solicitor at Iron Bridge; partner in Madeley Wood iron company 1858; manager of the works 1867 to death; devoted much attention to manufacture of cold-blast pig iron; member of Iron and steel institute 1869. d. Madeley 28 July 1881.
ANSTIE, Francis Edmund (youngest child of Paul Anstie of Devizes, manufacturer). b. Devizes 11 Dec. 1833; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1856, M.B. London 1857, M.D. 1859; M.R.C.P. 1859, F.R.C.P 1865; assistant phys. Westminster hospital 1860–73, phys. 1873 to death; edited the Practitioner 1868 to death, wrote a great deal of it; originated with Ernest Hart inquiry into workhouse system, which resulted in Gathorne Hardy’s Metropolitan poor act 1867; author of Stimulants and narcotics 1864; Notes on epidemics 1866; Neuralgia and the diseases which resemble it 1871. d. 16 Wimpole st. Cavendish square, 12 Sep. 1874. Graphic x, 298, 309 (1874), portrait; Practitioner xiii, 241, 305 (1874), xvi, 1–43 (1876), portrait.
ANSTIE, George Washington. b. 1800; admitted attorney 1822; practiced at Devizes; worked energetically for parliamentary reform, negro emancipation, corn law repeal and the temperance movement. d. Park dale, Devizes 17 July 1882.
ANSTRUTHER, Philip. b. 12 Sep. 1807; served in China 1841; a prisoner there 6 months; served in Punjab and Kaffir wars; major Madras artillery 1853–58; M.G. 4 Nov. 1858; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. Pitcorthie near Fife 18 Feb. 1884.
ANSTRUTHER, Philip Robert. b. 30 June 1841; ensign 94 foot 31 Dec. 1858; lieut. col. 7 Aug. 1880 to death. d. Transvaal of wounds received in action 26 Dec. 1880. I.L.N. lxxviii, 205 (1881) portrait.
ANSTRUTHER, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, 4 baronet. b. Grosvenor place, London 1 March 1804; succeeded 2 Aug. 1818; rector of univ. of St. Andrews 1859. d. Balcaskie, Fifeshire 18 Oct. 1863.
ANSTRUTHER, Sir Wyndham Carmichael, 4 Baronet. b. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 6 March 1793; succeeded Nov. 1831. d. Boulogne 10 Sep. 1869.
ANTHONY, Charles. Founded the Hereford Times 1832; mayor of Hereford 6 times. d. The Elms, Hereford 5 Feb. 1885 in 82 year.
ANTRIM, Hugh Seymour MacDonnell, 4 Earl of. b. Portman square, London 7 Aug. 1812; succeeded 26 Oct. 1835. d. Glenarm castle, Larne, co. Antrim 18 July 1855.
ANTRIM, Mark MacDonnell, 5 Earl of. b. Portman square, London 3 April 1814; established his claim as an Irish peer 15 July 1858; captain R.N. 1 July 1864. d. Glenarm castle 19 Dec. 1869.
ANTROBUS, Sir Edmund, 2 Baronet. b. St. Martin’s in the Fields London 17 May 1792; succeeded 6 Feb. 1826. d. 146 Piccadilly 4 May 1870.
Note.—His personalty was sworn under £300,000 25 June 1870.
ANTROBUS, Gibbs Crawfurd. b. 27 May 1793; sec. of legation to the United States of America 18 June 1816, at Turin 8 Feb. 1823, and at court of the two Sicilies 1 Oct. 1824 to May 1826; M.P. for Aldborough, Yorkshire 1820–26 and for Plympton, Devon 1826–32. d. Eaton hall, Congleton 21 May 1861.
APLIN, John Guise Rogers. b. 7 Nov. 1819; ensign 28 foot 7 Oct. 1837; lieut. col. 48 foot 23 Nov. 1860 to 12 Nov. 1870 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 10 Edith road, West Kensington, London 10 April 1883.
APPERLEY, William Wynne (son of Charles James Apperley 1778–1843, author of sporting works under pseudonym of Nimrod). Cornet Bengal cavalry 1823; in charge of Poosah stud in Behar 1840–43 and 1845–52; superintended central division of stud department in Bengal 1854–55; major 3 European light cavalry 1854–61; remount agent at Cape of Good Hope 1857–60; left the service Dec. 1861. d. Morben near Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 25 April 1870 aged 62. Baily’s Mag. xviii, 253–55 (1870).
APPLEBY, John Frederick (son of John Appleby of Soberton, Hants, farmer). b. 18 Nov. 1795; captain R.N. 29 Jany. 1838; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869. d. Blackbrook lodge, Fareham 3 Feb. 1878.
APPLEGATH, Augustus (son of Augustus Joseph Applegath, captain of H.E.I. Co.’s ship Europa). b. parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney 17 June 1788; a printer in Nelson sq. Blackfriars road; constructed machines for printing bank notes 1818; erected a printing office in Duke st. Stamford st.; invented the composition ball and roller, and the steam printing press; the first book printed by steam was Waterton’s Wanderings; invented with Edward Cowper the four-cylinder machine, and erected it at the Times office 1827; patented vertical machine 1846; erected one at Times office, May 1848, which produced 10,000 impressions per hour; invented a machine for printing 6 colours at once; took out 18 patents for improvements in letterpress and silk printing; established large silk and print works at Crayford, and printing works at Dartford. d. Dartford 9 Feb. 1871. Bohn’s Pictorial handbook of London (1854) 76–86; N. and Q. 4 series iii, 485 (1869) vii, 153 (1871); Dartford Chronicle 25 Feb. 1871, p. 3, col. 1.
Note.—In the year 1818 Messrs. Applegath and Cowper constructed machines for the Bank of England to print in several colours in perfect register designs for the prevention of forgery; some millions of £1 notes were printed by them in the Bank, but were never issued, in consequence of the resumption of cash payment 1 May 1821.
APPLETON, Charles Edward Cutts Birchall (son of Rev. Robert Appleton, Head master of Reading school who d. 5 Feb. 1875 aged 73). b. Reading 16 March 1841; Tunbridge fellow of St. John’s coll. Ox. 1864 to death; B.A. 1863, D.C.L. 1871; studied at Heidelberg and Berlin; lecturer in philosophy at his college Oct. 1867; lived at Hampstead 1872–77; founded The Academy monthly literary paper 9 Oct. 1869, edited it to his death; took an active share in agitation that resulted in passing of Universities act 1877; wrote in the Theological, Fortnightly and Contemporary Reviews; edited Essays on the endowment of research 1876. d. Luxor, Upper Egypt 1 Feb. 1879. Dr. Appleton his life and literary relics, by J. H. Appleton and A. H. Sayce 1881, portrait.