Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
EDMUNDS, Charles. b. 1801; entered navy 19 Dec. 1813; captain 22 Nov. 1848; retired admiral 9 March 1878. d. 2 Park place villas, Maida hill west, London 1 Nov. 1879.
EDMUNDS, Leonard (eld. son of John Edmunds of Ambleside, Westmoreland, who d. 7 July 1826). Articled to Wm. Vizard, solicitor of 61 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London; sec. to Comrs. of the Peace, Nov. 1830; purse bearer 1830; clerk of the patents 29 Aug. 1833 to July 1864; clerk of the Crown 1834–48; reading clerk of House of Lords 1848 to July 1864; clerk of comrs. of patents, Oct. 1852 to July 1864; claimed money from the Government for several years but was always unsuccessful; brought an action for libel against W. E. Gladstone the prime minister, June 1872 when he was nonsuited. d. 6 Culworth st. St. John’s Wood, London 19 June 1887 aged 85. Report on case of Mr. Edmunds in House of Commons Papers (1865) vols. ix and xliii; Law Reports vi Equity (1868) 381–96; The Edmunds scandal case 1870; T. A. Nash’s Life of Lord Westbury (1888) ii, 112–23.
EDWARD, Thomas (son of a hand-loom linen weaver). b. Gosport, Hants. 25 Dec. 1814; shoemaker at Banff 1835; collected nearly 2000 species of animals which he exhibited at Banff fair, May 1845 and 1846; discovered 20 new species of Sessile-eyed Crustacea; curator of museum of Banff Institution to 1882; A.L.S. 1866; collected nearly every plant in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire; granted civil list pension of £50, 24 Jany. 1877. d. 27 April 1886. Life of a Scotch Naturalist by S. Smiles 1882; Stories of remarkable persons by W. Chambers (1878) 158–71; Graphic xv, 256 (1877), portrait.
EDWARDES, George Warren (3 son of 2 baron Kensington 1777–1852). b. 28 May 1802; ed. at Eton; auditor general St. Helena 1845–56; governor of Labuan 13 Feb. 1856 to July 1861. d. Chandos house 21 Feb. 1879.
EDWARDES, Sir Herbert Benjamin (2 son of Rev. Benjamin Edwardes, R. of Frodesley, Salop). b. Frodesley 12 Nov. 1819; ed. at King’s coll. London; ensign 1 Bengal fusiliers 1841; suppressed rebellion in Mooltan, June to July 1848; captain 1 European fusiliers 1 March 1850; comr. of Peshawur frontier, Oct. 1853 to 1859; comr. of Umballa 1862–65; left India 7 Feb. 1865; M.G. 22 Feb. 1868; C.B. 20 Oct. 1849, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; author of A year on the Punjaub frontier in 1848–49, 2 vols. 1851. d. Holles st. Cavendish sq. London 23 Dec. 1868, mural tablet in Westminster Abbey. Memorials of the life and letters of Sir H. B. Edwardes by Emma Edwardes 2 vols. 1886, portrait; C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age ii, 1–43 (1880); I.L.N. xiii, 213 (1848), portrait, xviii, 618 (1851), portrait.
EDWARDES, Richard (brother of G. W. Edwardes 1802–79). b. 25 Oct. 1807; entered diplomatic service 1826; minister plenipotentiary to the Argentine republic 10 Aug. 1865 to death but did not leave England. d. 22 Dover st. Piccadilly, London 23 March 1866.
EDWARDS, Rev. Bartholomew. b. 2 March 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; R. of Ashill, Norfolk 1813 to death; rural dean of Breckles and Thetford. d. Ashill rectory 21 Feb. 1889 said to be the oldest clergyman in England.
EDWARDS, Sir Bryan (son of Bryan Edwards). b. 1799; barrister I.T. 6 May 1825; chief justice, vice chancellor and judge of vice admiralty court for Jamaica 1859–69 when he retired on a pension; knighted by patent 15 Nov. 1859. d. Eltham Pen, Spanish town, Jamaica 6 Dec. 1876.
EDWARDS, Charles. b. Norwich 17 March 1797; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1807; practised law in New York; counsel to British consulate, New York 25 years; author of The Juryman’s guide 1831; Parties to bills and other pleadings 1832; Feathers from my own wings 1832; The History and poetry of finger rings 1855; Pleasantries about courts and lawyers 1865 and other books. d. New York 30 May 1868.
EDWARDS, Clement Alexander. b. 12 Nov. 1812; ensign 31 foot 11 June 1829; lieut. col. 18 foot 9 March 1855, lieut. col. 49 foot 3 Aug. 1860 to 4 Aug. 1863 when placed on h.p.; inspector general of recruits 6 July 1867 to 31 July 1873; col. 18 foot 25 March 1877 to death; general 20 May 1878; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. Leeson house, Blackheath 29 July 1882.
EDWARDS, Edward. b. Corwen, Merionethshire 23 Nov. 1803; a draper at Bangor to 1839; carried on a foundry and iron works at Menai Straits several years from 1840; invented a dark-water chamber slope-back tank for marine aquaria, the principle of which was adopted here and in many of the continental and American zoological schools. d. 13 Aug. 1879.
EDWARDS, Edward. b. probably in London 1812; supernumerary assistant in printed book department British Museum 1839–1846; one of the 5 framers of the 91 rules for the printed catalogue; librarian of the Manchester Free library 1850–58, library was opened Sep. 1852; catalogued library of Queen’s college, Oxford 1870–80; author of Napoleon medals 1837; Memoirs of libraries 2 vols. 1859; Libraries and founders of libraries 1865; Lives of the founders of the British Museum 2 vols. 1870 and other books; found dead in his bed at St. Catherine’s Lodge, Niton, Isle of Wight 7 Feb. 1886. Book-Lore, April 1886 pp. 135–41.
EDWARDS, Edwin (son of Charles Edwards of Bridgham hall, Norfolk). b. Framlingham 6 Jany. 1823; admitted solicitor 1845; practised as a proctor first in Bennett’s hill, then in Knightrider st. London 1845–60; exhibited 54 pictures chiefly sea pieces at R.A. 1861–79, his etchings number about 371; author of Cases in prerogative court with respect to wills 1847; Treatise on jurisdiction of high court of Admiralty 1847; Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, succession to personal property 1853. d. 26 Golden sq. London 15 Sep. 1879.
EDWARDS, George Nelson (eld. son of George Edwards of Eye, Suffolk, surgeon). b. Eye 1830; ed. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam., M.B. 1851, M.D. 1859; assistant phys. St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1860, phys. 23 Jany. 1867; lecturer on forensic medicine 1866; edited St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports vols. 1–3 (1865–7); author of The examination of the chest, in a series of tables 1862. d. 20 Finsbury sq. London 6 Dec. 1868.
EDWARDS, Henry. Entered navy 19 Nov. 1796; captain 2 Aug. 1826; admiral on half pay 9 Feb. 1864. d. Huntingdon 22 Oct. 1864 aged 80.
EDWARDS, Sir Henry, 1 Baronet (3 son of Henry Lees Edwards of Pye Nest near Halifax 1775–1848). b. Pye Nest 20 July 1812; M.P. for Halifax 1847–52, for Beverley 1857–69; contested Halifax 1852, 1853 and 1857; lieut. col. commandant 2 West Yorkshire yeomanry cavalry 1863 to death; created baronet 3 Aug. 1866; sheriff of Yorkshire 1871; C.B. 1881. d. Pye Nest 23 April 1886. I.L.N. xxiii, 203 (1853), portrait, lxxxvii, 37 (1885), portrait.
EDWARDS, Very Rev. Henry Thomas (son of Rev. William Edwards, V. of Llangollen, who d. 1868). b. Llangmawddwy, co. Merioneth 6 Sep. 1837; ed. at Westminster and Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1860; C. of Llangollen 1861; V. of Aberdare 1866–69; V. of Carnarvon 1869; dean of Bangor, March 1876 to death; author of The church of the Cymry, a letter to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 1870 and other small books; hanged himself at Ruabon vicarage 24 May 1884. bur. Glenadda cemetery, Bangor 28 May. Church portrait journal, Aug. 1879 pp. 71–3, portrait; C. Mackeson’s Church congress handbook (1877) 76–7; I.L.N. 31 May 1884 pp. 520, 523, portrait.
EDWARDS, John. b. Llanuwch-y-lynn near Bala 15 April 1806; a farmer near Utica, New York 1828–34, 1840–66, and near Rome, New York 1866 to death; a successful competitor for the prizes awarded at the Eisteddfodan in Wales; known as Eos Glan Twrch (the nightingale of the Twrch river); edited a Welsh periodical published at Utica called Amserai; his published poems include The Crucifixion 1853 and The Omnipresence of God 1859. d. near Rome, New York 20 Jany. 1887.
EDWARDS, John (eld. son of John Edwards of Lower Broughton near Manchester). b. 1836; ed. at Owen’s coll. Manchester; barrister G.I. 26 Jany. 1860, bencher 7 July 1874; practised as a conveyancer in Manchester; Q.C. 6 July 1874. d. The Rosary, Aston-on-Mersey, Cheshire 15 Sep. 1885.
EDWARDS, Rev. Joseph. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1835; second master of King’s college school, London 1833–55; chaplain to Fishmongers’ Co. 1841–55; V. of Barrow-on-Trent 1855–70; author of Introduction to English composition, 5 ed. 1847, and many other school books. d. Weybridge, Surrey 1 July 1875.
EDWARDS, Rev. Lewis. b. Pwllcenavon, Cardiganshire 27 Oct. 1809; studied at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1836, D.D. 1865; ordained in Welsh Calvinistic church 1837; principal of a school at Bala (which became Bala college) 1837 to death; started Y Traethodydd (The Essayist) a quarterly mag. Jany. 1845, edited it 10 years; started the Geiniogwerth (Pennyworth) 1847; most of his essays were published as Traethodau llenyddol a Duwinyddol (Essays literary and theological) 2 vols. 1867. d. Bala college 19 July 1887. Rev. L. Edwards’s Athrawiaeth yr Iawn (Atonement), 2 ed. 1887 with memoir by his son.
EDWARDS, Peter. Second lieut. 3 Ceylon regiment 1 Oct. 1807; captain 75 foot 30 April 1818 to 11 May 1826 when placed on h.p.; general 19 Nov. 1871. d. London 14 Dec. 1874 aged 83.
EDWARDS, Rev. Roger. b. Wales 1811; edited Welsh political paper called Cronicl yr Oes 1835–39, wrote most of it; sec. of Calvinistic Methodist Assoc. 1839–74; co-editor of Y Traethodydd Jany. 1845 to death; edited the Drysorfa 1846 to death; wrote 3 serial stories in Welsh being the first published; author of The Welsh psalmist; Methodist Diary. d. 1886. Drysorfa, Sep. and Oct. 1886.
EDWARDS, Thomas. b. Northop, Flintshire 1779; sec. to Nathaniel M. Rothschild in London; a member of the Cymmrodorion, delivered many of their lectures; contributed frequently to Welsh magazines; author of Analysis of Welsh orthography 1845; English and Welsh dictionary, Holywell 1850, 2 ed. 1864. d. 10 Cloudesley sq. London 4 June 1858. Foulkes’s Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol.
EDWARDS, Rev. Thomas Wynne (son of Evan Edwards of Plas Nantylyn, Denbighshire 1724–96). b. Plas Nantylyn 8 April 1796; ed. at Donnington school, Shropshire and Jesus coll. Ox.; pulled the stroke-oar in his college boat in the first eight-oared boat race ever rowed at Oxford, when Jesus coll. won 1815; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1863; V. of Rhuddlan, Flintshire 1827 to death; vicar choral of St. Asaph cathedral 1828 to death. d. Rhuddlan vicarage 28 Dec. 1877.
EDWARDS, Rev. William. b. Festiniog, North Wales about 1812; a quarry-man at Meirion; studied at Liverpool and Brecon colleges; Congregational minister at Ebenezer, Aberdare 1844 to death; founded many Congregational churches in Wales; temperance, social and political reformer; chairman of Welsh Congregational Union 1883, delivered his address The Church and the age we live in, at Festiniog 22 Aug. 1883. d. Aberdare 29 Aug. 1884.
EDWARDS, William Camden. b. Monmouthshire 1777; engraver at Bungay, Suffolk; engraved portraits and illustrations for the Bible and Pilgrim’s Progress published by Brightly of Bungay; engraved plate of ‘Milton and his daughters’ after Romney and many portraits; a complete series of his engravings and etchings was in Dawson Turner’s collection. d. Bungay 22 Aug. 1855.
EDWIN, Elizabeth Rebecca (dau. of Mr. Richards of Dublin, actor). b. 1769; first appeared at Crow st. theatre, Dublin when aged 8; first appeared in London at Covent Garden 13 Nov. 1789; played chief characters in comedy at nearly all the west-end theatres; retired about 1822. (m. 1791 John Edwin the younger, comedian 1768–1805). d. at her lodgings in Chelsea 3 Aug. 1854. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses i, 103–20 (1844); Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iv, 199–209 (1826), portrait; Theatrical Inquisitor vi, 163–65 (1815) portrait.
EFFINGHAM, Henry Howard, 2 Earl of (son of 1 Earl of Effingham 1767–1845). b. Southampton 23 Aug. 1806; ed. at Harrow; ensign 58 foot 1825; captain 10 foot 1830–33; M.P. for Shaftesbury 2 July 1841 to 13 Feb. 1845 when he succeeded. d. 57 Eaton place, London 5 Feb. 1889.
EGAN, Right Rev. Cornelius (son of Daniel Egan of Lismickfinan, Killorghan, co. Kerry). b. Lismickfinan 24 June 1780; entered Maynooth college 14 Aug. 1799; ordained priest 26 May 1804; principal of diocesan seminary in Killarney, professor of theology there; erected from Pugin’s design a church at Killarney; P.P. Tralee and vicar general Nov. 1811; coadjutor Bishop of Kerry 29 March 1824, consecrated in Tralee church 25 July 1824, bishop of the diocese Oct. 1824 to death. d. Tralee 22 July 1856. W. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii, 62 (1876).
EGAN, Daniel. b. Windsor, N.S.W. 1803; foreman of dockyards in Sydney, a merchant there; alderman of Sydney, mayor 1851; magistrate of Sydney 1848–53; member of legislative council N.S.W. 1854, of legislative assembly 1856 to death; postmaster general 27 Oct. 1868 to death. d. Watson’s Bay near Sydney 16 Oct. 1870.
EGAN, Pierce (son of Pierce Egan the author 1772–1849). b. London 19 Dec. 1814; illustrated Davidge’s Acting Drama and his father’s The pilgrims of the Thames in search of the national 1837; author of Wat Tyler 1841, new ed. 1851; Paul Jones 2 vols. 1842; edited the Home Circle 7 July 1849 to Dec. 1851; contributed novels to the London Journal Dec. 1857 to death, the best of them were The flower of the flock 1857–8, The snake in the grass 1858, The poor girl 1862–3, Eve or the angel of innocence 1867. d. Ravensbourne, Burnt Ash, Lee, Kent 6 July 1880. bur. Highgate cemetery 9 July.
EGERTON, William Tatton Egerton, 1 Baron (eld. child of Wilbraham Egerton 1781–1856). b. 30 Dec. 1806; M.P. for Lymington 1830, for Cheshire 1832–58; created baron Egerton of Tatton county palatine of Cheshire 15 May 1859; lord lieut. of Cheshire 29 Jany. 1868 to death. d. Tatton hall, Cheshire 21 Feb. 1883. bur. Rostherne church 27 Feb. Graphic xxvii, 296 (1883), portrait.
EGERTON, Caledon Richard. b. 28 July 1814; ensign 89 foot 15 June 1832, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to 12 Dec. 1856; lieut. col. of 18 depot battalion 1856–63, of 8 depot battalion 1863–65; assistant adjutant general in Scotland 1865–66; deputy adjutant general 1 April 1866 to 1 Nov. 1871; M.G. 6 March 1868; military sec. to commander in chief 1 Nov. 1871 to 20 Feb. 1874; col. 89 foot 20 Feb. 1874 to death. d. 7 Durham villas, Kensington, London 27 May 1874.
EGERTON, Sir Charles Bulkeley (4 son of Philip Egerton of Oulton park, Cheshire 1732–86). b. Oulton park 5 June 1774; ensign 29 foot 16 Nov. 1791; lieut. col. 44 foot 5 Jany. 1809 to 22 Aug. 1811 when placed on h.p.; col. 89 foot 26 Sep. 1837 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846; G.C.M.G. 10 May 1837. d. 1 Upper Portland place, London 8 July 1857.
EGERTON, Charles Chandler (son of Rev. Charles Egerton, V. of Thorncombe, Dorset). b. Thorncombe vicarage, April 1798; ed. at St. Thomas’s and Guy’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1819, assistant surgeon Bengal 1823; oculist at the Eye hospital and afterwards at Medical college hospital, Calcutta where he was also first surgeon to 1847 when he retired. d. Kendal lodge, Epping, May 1885.
EGERTON, Edward Christopher (brother of 1 Baron Egerton 1806–83). b. Tatton park, Cheshire 27 July 1816; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1837, B.C.L. 1841; fell. of All Soul’s coll. 1837–46; barrister I.T. 12 June 1840; M.P. for Macclesfield 1852 to 1868; M.P. for East Cheshire 1868 to death; under sec. for foreign affairs, July 1866 to Dec. 1868. d. Baveno, Italy 27 Aug. 1869. I.L.N. xxi, 402 (1852), portrait.
EGERTON, Henry. b. 7 July 1836; acting manager T.R. Dublin; killed in the fire of the T.R. Dublin 9 Feb. 1880, body found 6 March. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery 9 March. Graphic xxi, 205 (1880), portrait.
EGERTON, Rev. John Coker (eld. son of John Egerton of Bunbury, Cheshire). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Ox. 3 Feb. 1848 aged 18; B.A. 1852, M.A. 1854; C. of Nunton, Wilts. 1854–57; C. of Burwash, Sussex 1857–62 and 1865–67; C. of St. Andrew Undershaft, City of London 1862–65; R. and V. of Burwash 1867 to death; a writer in Leisure Hour and the Sussex Advertiser; author of Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways. d. 20 March 1888. The Academy 31 March 1888 p. 223.
EGERTON, John Hume (elder son of John Cust 1 Earl Brownlow 1779–1853). b. Cavendish sq. London 15 Oct. 1812; ed. at Magd. coll. Cam., M.A. 1833; M.P. for Bedfordshire 13 Jany. 1835 to death; captain North Lincolnshire militia 29 May 1833, colonel to death; took part in the Eglinton tournament, fought in earnest with the Marquis of Waterford the last day 30 Aug. 1839; took name of Egerton only by r.l. 15 March 1849. d. Ashridge park 3 Jany. 1851.
EGERTON, Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-, 10 Baronet (eld. son of Rev. Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, 9 baronet). b. Malpas, Cheshire 13 Nov. 1806; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828; collected fossil fishes in Germany, Switzerland and Italy; M.P. for Chester 1830–32, for South Cheshire 1835–68, for West Cheshire 1868 to death; contested South Cheshire 1832; F.G.S. 1829, Wollaston medallist 1873; F.R.S. 10 Feb. 1831; author of Alphabetical catalogue of type specimens of fossil fishes 1871, and of over 80 papers in the Transactions, Proceedings and Journal of Geol. Soc., and other scientific journals. d. 28B Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 5 April 1881. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiii, pp. xxii-iv (1882); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxviii, 46–8 (1882).
EGERTON, Richard. b. 7 April 1783; ensign 89 foot 1 Dec. 1798; captain 34 foot 14 April 1808 to 16 Dec. 1819 when placed on h.p.; first aide-de-camp and private sec. to Lord Hill the commander in chief 1828–42; col. 46 foot 24 Jany. 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. Eaton Banks, Cheshire 18 Nov. 1854.
EGERTON, Wilbraham. b. 1 Sep. 1781; sheriff of Cheshire 1808; M.P. for Cheshire 1812–31. d. Tatton park 25 April 1856.
EGG, Augustus Leopold (son of Joseph Egg of 1 Piccadilly, London, gunmaker). b. 1 Piccadilly 2 May 1816; studied at R.A.; exhibited 28 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. gallery 1837–60; A.R.A. 1848, R.A. 1860. d. Algiers 26 March 1863. Life of Charles Dickens by J. Forster iii, 55–74 (1874); Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 358–60 (1866); Art Union monthly journal (1847) 312, portrait; I.L.N. xxx, 419, 420 (1857), portrait.
EGLEY, William. b. Doncaster 1798; miniature painter in London 1824 to death; exhibited 169 miniatures at R.A. 1824–69. d. London 19 March 1870.
EGLINTON, Archibald William Montgomerie, 13 Earl of (only son of major general Archibald Montgomerie 1773–1814). b. Palermo 29 Sep. 1812; succeeded his grandfather as 13 Earl, 14 Dec. 1819; ed. at Eton; began racing 1831, won the St. Leger with Blue Bonnet 1842, with Van Tromp 1847, won the Derby and St. Leger with the Flying Dutchman 1849; col. Ayrshire militia 1836–52; carried out celebrated tournament held at Eglinton castle, Ayrshire 28–30 Aug. 1839; served heir male general of George 4 Earl of Winton (who d. 6 March 1704) 22 Dec. 1840; lord lieut. of Ayrshire 17 Aug. 1842; lord rector of Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1852; lord lieut. of Ireland 27 Feb. to Dec. 1852 and 26 Feb. 1858 to 5 Jany. 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; lord rector of Glasgow Univ. 1852; K.T. 18 June 1853; created Earl of Winton in peerage of U.K. 23 June 1859; the most popular man in the three kingdoms. d. Mount Melville near St. Andrews 4 Oct. 1861. Nixon and Richardson’s Eglinton Tournament (1843), portrait; Eton portrait gallery (1876) 352–56; Sporting Review xxxix, 452–5 (1858), xlvi, 320–1 (1861); Rice’s British turf (1879) i, 281–3; Sporting Times 28 March 1885 pp. 5–6.
EGMONT, George James Perceval, 6 Earl of (3 son of 2 Baron Arden 1756–1840). b. 14 March 1794; served as midshipman at Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805, captain 7 Dec. 1818; admiral on h.p. 23 March 1863; M.P. for West Surrey 4 Aug. 1837 to 5 July 1840 when he succeeded as 3 Baron Arden; succeeded as 6 Earl of Egmont 23 Dec. 1841. d. North house, Epsom 2 Aug. 1874, personalty sworn under £350,000, 26 Sep. I.L.N. lxv, 164 (1874), portrait.
EKINS, Sir Charles (son of Very Rev. Jeffery Ekins, dean of Carlisle, who d. 20 Nov. 1791). b. Quainton rectory, Bucks. 1768; entered navy 20 March 1781; captain 22 Dec. 1796; admiral 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.B. 8 June 1831; G.C.B. 6 April 1852; author of Naval battles from 1744 to the peace of 1814 critically reviewed and illustrated 2 vols. 1824, 2 ed. 1828. d. 69 Cadogan place, London 2 July 1855 aged 87.
ELD, George. b. Coventry; a miller, silk dealer and dyer successively; edited Coventry Standard 20 years; mayor of Coventry 1834–5, alderman to death; made many drawings of ancient buildings and other memorials of the past. d. Coventry 22 May 1862 in 71 year.
ELD, John (3 son of Francis Eld of Seighford hall near Stafford 1736–1817). b. 16 July 1779; elected master of the ceremonies of assemblies at Old Ship inn, Brighton, March 1828 being the third and last master, final ball held 20 Nov. 1854. d. Brighton 22 Dec. 1855 in 76 year. J. G. Bishop’s A Peep into the past, Brighton (1880) 34–6, portrait.
ELDER, Charles. Historical and portrait painter; exhibited 5 pictures at B.I., 11 at R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1844–52. d. Gower st. London 11 Dec. 1851 aged 30.
ELDER, Rev. Edward (son of John Edward Elder of Barbadoes). b. 1 Oct 1812; ed. at Charterhouse and Ball. coll. Ox., open scholar 1830; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1836, D.D. 1853; master of Durham cathedral gr. school 1839–53; master of Charterhouse school 1853 to death; contributed several articles to Smith’s Dictionary of classical biography and mythology. d. 6 April 1858, memorial tablet in Charterhouse chapel. G.M. iv, 563, 673–4 (1858).
ELDER, John (3 son of David Elder of Glasgow, marine engineer 1784–1866). b. Glasgow 8 March 1824; member of firm of Randolph Elliott & Co. of Glasgow, marine engineers 1852; a shipbuilder in Glasgow 1860 to death; employed about 4000 men; adopted the compound or combined high and low pressure engines 1854; patented his round war ship 1868 and many improvements in marine machinery; pres. of Institution of engineers and shipbuilders of Glasgow 1869. d. London 17 Sep. 1869. W. J. M. Rankine’s Memoir of J. Elder 1870, portrait; Maclehose’s Memoirs and portraits of a hundred Glasgow men 1886.
ELDER, William. b. Malin, Donegal 22 July 1822; ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast, and Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; a minister in Presbyterian church; went to New Brunswick; edited the Colonial Presbyterian, edited the Morning Journal at St. John 1865; chief editor and proprietor of the Daily Telegraph at St. John 1871; member of legislative assembly of New Brunswick 1878 to death; provincial secretary 1882. d. St. John N.B. 23 July 1882. Dominion Annual Register 1883 pp. 309–11.
ELDON, John Scott, 2 Earl of. b. Manchester square, London 10 Dec. 1805; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; D.C.L. 1834; LLD. Cam. 1842; M.P. for Truro 1829–32; succeeded 13 Jany. 1838; pres. of the Pitt club 1842; declared by inquisition to be of unsound mind Jany. 1853. d. Shirley park, Surrey 18 Sep. 1854. bur. family vault at Kingston, Isle of Purbeck 29 Sep. Doyle’s Official baronage i, 671 (1886), portrait; I.L.N. iv, 65 (1844), portrait.
ELDRED, Joseph. b. London 1843; agent for Rev. J. M. Bellew on a reading tour through the provinces 1860; a low comedian in Dublin 1865; an actor and manager at Liverpool; first appeared in London at Olympic theatre 15 June 1868 as Major Regulus Rattan in Ici on parle Français; acted at Gaiety theatre from 21 Dec. 1868; played Micawber in Little Emly at Olympic from 9 Oct. 1869; played several starring tours in provinces; remarkably like the Earl of Beaconsfield. d. Sydney, New South Wales 29 Feb. 1884. Sporting Times 25 Sep. 1875, pp. 537, 540, portrait.
ELDRIDGE, Charles Monroe. Member of assembly for city of St. John’s, Antigua 1852–63; pres. of Dominica 1872 and 1882; pres. of Nevis, April 1872 to May 1873; pres. of St. Christopher 1883 and of St. Kitt’s and Nevis 1883. d. 8 Oct. 1888.
ELEN, Philip West. Landscape painter in London; exhibited 64 pictures at R.A., 57 at B.I. and 46 at Suffolk st. gallery 1838–72. d. Regent’s park road, London 21 Feb. 1880.
ELGIN, James Bruce, 8 Earl of, and 12 Earl of Kincardine (2 son of 7 Earl of Elgin 1766–1841). b. Park lane, London 20 July 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835, D.C.L. 1856; fellow of Merton coll. 1833 to 1841; M.P. for Southampton 1841–42; succeeded his father 17 Nov. 1841; governor general of Jamaica 1842–46, of Canada 1846–54; knighted by patent 19 June 1847; K.T. 12 July 1847; created baron Elgin of Elgin 13 Nov. 1849, special ambassador to China 1857–59 and 1860–61; P.C. 21 March 1857; G.C.B. 28 Sep. 1858; postmaster general 1859 to 1860; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1859; received freedom of City of London 1 March 1860; viceroy of India 21 Jany. 1862 to death. d. Dhurmsala, Cashmere 20 Nov. 1863. T. Walrond’s Letters and journals of James, eighth Earl of Elgin 1872; L. Oliphant’s Narrative of Lord Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan 2 vols. 1859; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 108–21; Eton portrait gallery (1876) 360–67; D. C. Boulger’s History of China, vol. 3 (1884).
ELIOT, Rev. Edward (eld. son of Rev. Richard Eliot, Vicar of Maker, Cornwall, who d. 1795). b. Maker 22 May 1789; ed. at Lostwithiel and Ex. coll. Ox., fellow 30 June 1811 to 10 July 1826; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1825; archdeacon of Barbadoes 1825–37; V. of Norton Bavant, Wilts. 1837 to death; preb. of Salisbury 30 Dec. 1848 to death; author of Christianity and Slavery 1833 and other books. d. Norton Bavant 1 Nov. 1861.
ELIOTT, Sir Daniel (4 son of Sir William Eliott, 6 baronet, who d. 14 May 1812). b. Stobs castle, Roxburghshire 3 March 1798; writer Madras civil service 1817; sec. to board of revenue 1827; member of Madras council and pres. of revenue, marine and college boards 1848; member of legislative council of India 1855–58; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867. d. 12 The Boltons, West Brompton, London 30 Oct. 1872.
ELIOTT, George Augustus (brother of the preceding). b. 24 May 1799; entered navy 1814; captain on h.p. 27 June 1838; admiral on h.p. 10 Sep. 1869. d. Bath 13 May 1872.
ELIOTT, Russell (brother of the preceding). b. Stobs castle 26 March 1802; entered navy 16 Nov. 1814; captain 28 June 1838; admiral on h.p. 10 Sep. 1869. d. Appleby castle, Westmoreland 28 Dec. 1881.
ELKINGTON, George Richards (son of James Elkington of Birmingham, gilt-toy maker). b. St. Paul’s sq. Birmingham 17 Oct. 1801; apprenticed to his uncles Josiah and George Richards of Birmingham, partner with them, succeeded to the business on their death; partner with his cousin Henry Elkington, who d. 26 Oct. 1852, they introduced industry of electro plating and electro gilding 1840; established large copper-smelting works at Pembrey, South Wales. d. of paralysis at Pool park, Denbighshire 22 Sep. 1865, personalty sworn under £350,000, 20 Jany. 1866.
ELKINGTON, John Henry Ford (son of James Goodall Elkington). b. 10 April 1830; ensign 6 foot 28 Aug. 1846, lieut. col. 27 Nov. 1867 to 24 Feb. 1877 when placed on h.p.; lieut. governor and commanding the troops Guernsey 1 Nov. 1885 to death; L.G. 1 April 1887; C.B. 24 May 1881. d. St. George, Guernsey 21 Feb. 1889.
ELLA, John (son of Richard Ella of Thirsk, Yorkshire). b. Thirsk 19 Dec. 1802; violinist in orchestra of Drury Lane theatre 18 Jany. 1821, of the King’s theatre 1822; member of all important orchestras in London 1826; musical editor of the Athenæum and other papers; established “The Musical Union” a series of morning concerts of instrumental chamber music 1845, and a similar series of concerts entitled “Musical Winter Evenings” 1850; musical lecturer to London Institution 1855; author of Musical Sketches abroad and at home 1869, 3 ed. 1878; Lectures on dramatic, music and musical education abroad and at home 1872. d. 9 Victoria sq. Pimlico, London 2 Oct. 1888. I.L.N. viii, 420 (1846), portrait.
ELLACOMBE, Rev. Henry Thomas (son of Rev. William Ellicombe, R. of Alphington near Exeter, who d. 1831). b. 1790; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1816; C. of Cricklade, Wilts. 1816; C. of Bitton, Gloucs. 1817–35; V. of Bitton 1835–50; R. of Clyst St. George, Devon 1850 to death; restored church of Bitton 1822 and built 3 other churches near there; the great authority on bells, invented an apparatus of chiming hammers; changed his name to Ellacombe about 1842; author of Practical remarks on belfries and ringers, Bristol 1850, 4 ed. 1876; The Church bells of Devon, Somerset and Gloucestershire 3 vols. 1872, 1875, 1881, and other books. d. Clyst St. George 30 July 1885. bur. in Bitton churchyard. Mozley’s Reminiscences (1882) i, 75–81; Church Bells 7 Aug. 1885 pp. 847–8, portrait.
ELLENBOROUGH, Edward Law, 1 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Baron Ellenborough 1750–1818). b. 8 Sep. 1790; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1809; M.P. for St. Michael’s, Cornwall 1813–18; lord privy seal 22 Jany. 1828 to 10 June 1829; P.C. 26 Jany. 1828; a lord of the treasury 21 Nov. 1834; pres. of Board of Control 20 Dec. 1834 to 29 April 1835, 9 Sep. 1841 to 28 Oct. 1841, and 6 March to June 1858; governor general of India 20 Oct. 1841 to 15 June 1844; created Viscount Southam of Southam, Gloucs. and Earl of Ellenborough in the county of Cumberland 22 Oct. 1844; G.C.B. 30 Oct. 1844; first lord of Admiralty 8 Jany. 1846 to 6 July 1846. d. Southam Delabere, Gloucs. 22 Dec. 1871. History of the Indian administration of Lord Ellenborough, edited by Lord Colchester 1874; Eton portrait gallery (1876) 371–78; I.L.N. ii, 92 (1843), portrait, lix, 643 (1871), lx, 36, 37 (1872), portrait.
ELLERTON, Rev. Edward (son of Richard Ellerton of Downholm, Yorkshire). b. 30 Jany. 1771; ed. at Richmond sch. and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, B.D. 1805, D.D. 1815; Usher of Magd. coll. sch. 1795, master 1798–1810; fell. of Magd. coll. 2 Nov. 1803 to death, vice pres. 1806, tutor 1810, librarian 1827; senior proctor 1804–5; P.C. of Horsepath, Oxon. 1814; P.C. of Sevenhampton, Gloucs. 1825–51; joint founder in 1832 with Dr. E. B. Pusey and his brother Philip Pusey of the Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholarships, which are three in number open to all members of the university and of annual value of £30 each. d. Theale curacy, Berks. 26 Dec. 1851. J. B. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalene college iii, 246–58 (1863).