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FABER, Rev. Frederick William (7 child of Thomas Henry Faber, who d. 1833, sec. to Dr. Barrington, bishop of Durham). b. Calverley vicarage, Yorkshire 28 June 1814; ed. at Shrewsbury, Harrow and Ball. coll. Ox.; scholar of Univ. coll. Ox. 1834, fellow 1837, Newdigate prizeman 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; Johnson divinity scholar 1837; R. of Elton, Hunts. 1843–45; admitted into R.C. church at Northampton by Bishop Wareing 17 Nov. 1845; entered Monastery of St. Wilfrid, Colmore terrace, Birmingham 26 May 1846; rector of oratory of St. Philip Neri, 24 and 25 King William st. Strand, London opened 31 May 1849, Father Superior 12 Oct. 1850 to death, the oratory removed to Brompton, March 1854; created D.D. 9 July 1854; edited The Saints and Servants of God, continued by the Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri 42 vols. 1847–56; author of The Cherwell water lily and other poems 1840 and about 30 other books. d. the Oratory, Brompton 26 Sep. 1863. bur. in burial ground of St. Mary’s, Sydenham 30 Sep. J. E. Bowden’s Life and letters of F. W. Faber 1869; A brief sketch of the early life of F. W. Faber, by his only surviving brother [Rev. F. A. Faber] 1869; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 207–18; I.L.N. xxiv, 289, 290 (1854), portrait.
FABER, Rev. George Stanley (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Faber, V. of Calverley, Yorkshire). b. Calverley parsonage 25 Oct. 1773; ed. at Happenholme gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796, B.D. 1803; fell. and tutor of Linc. coll. 1793–1803; proctor 1801; Bampton lecturer 1801; C. of Calverley 1803–1805; V. of Stockton upon Tees 1805–1808; V. of Redmarshall, Durham 1808–11; V. of Longnewton, Durham 1811–32; Preb. of Salisbury 1831; master of Sherburn hosp. near Durham 1832 to death; author of Horæ Mosaicæ, or a view of the Mosaical records 2 vols. 1801, 2 ed. 1818; Dissertation on the prophesies 2 vols. 1807, 5 ed. 3 vols. 1814–18; The difficulties of Romanism 1826, 3 ed. 1853; The sacred calendar of prophecy 3 vols. 1828, 2 ed. 1844 and many other works. d. Sherburn hospital 27 Jany. 1854. The many mansions in the house of the Father, by G. S. Faber with memoir by F. A. Faber 1854; Christian Remembrancer xxix, 310–31 (1855); H. Heaviside’s Annals of Stockton on Tees (1865) 101–104.
FABER, William Raikes (son of the preceding). Second lieut. 60 rifles 10 April 1826; lieut. col. 2 West India foot 15 Dec. 1848 to 21 Feb. 1851 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 53 foot 9 Jany. 1857 to 13 July 1858 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 foot 30 April 1871 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Staplegrove lodge, Taunton 24 June 1879 aged 73.
FADDY, Peter. Second lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803; lieut. col. 10 Aug. 1839 to 3 Sep. 1845 when he retired on full pay; general 7 Feb. 1870; author of Essay on the defence of Great Britain at home and abroad 1848. d. Charleville, co. Cork 17 July 1879.
FAGAN, William Trant (eld. son of James Fagan of Cork). b. Cork 1801; ed. at Southall park, Middlesex; a merchant at Cork, alderman, mayor; M.P. for city of Cork 1847–1851 and 1852 to death; author of The life and times of Daniel O’Connell 2 vols. 1847–8. d. 9 or 16 May 1859. I.L.N. xiv, 205 (1849), portrait; Fitzpatrick’s O’Connell (1888) ii, 453.
FAGGE, Charles Hilton (son of Charles Fagge, surgeon). b. Hythe, Kent 30 June 1838; ed. at Guy’s hospital; M.D. 1863; M.R.C.P. 1864, F.R.C.P. 1870; medical registrar of Guy’s hospital 1866, assistant phys. 1867, phys. 1880; edited Guy’s Hospital Reports some years; author of Principles and practice of medicine 1886, 2 ed. 1888. d. 76 Grosvenor st. London 18 Nov. 1888.
FAHEY, James. b. Paddington 16 April 1804; sec. of New Society of Painters in watercolours 1838–74; drawing master at Merchant Taylor’s school 1856–83; exhibited 13 landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1825–36. d. The Grange, Shepherd’s Bush Green, London 11 Dec. 1885. I.L.N. 26 Dec. 1885 p. 667, portrait.
FAIR, Alexander. Entered Madras army 1792; col. 27 Madras N.I. 1837 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. South crescent, Bedford sq. London 29 Jany. 1861 aged 85.
FAIRBAIRN, Rev. Patrick (son of John Fairburn of Hallyburton, Greenlaw, Berwickshire, farmer). b. Hallyburton 28 Jany. 1805; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach 1826; minister of parish of North Ronaldshay, Orkney islands 1830–36; minister of Bridgeton, Glasgow 1836–40; minister of Salton, East Lothian 1840–43; minister of free church Salton 1843–53; professor of divinity in free church theological college, Aberdeen 1853–56; transferred to free church college, Glasgow 1856, principal 4 Nov. 1856; moderator of general assembly 1865; member of Old Testament revision company; edited The Imperial Bible Dictionary 2 vols. 1866; author of The typology of Scripture 2 vols. 1845–47, 5 ed. 1870 and 7 other books. d. 6 Aug. 1874. Pastoral Theology, by Rev. P. Fairbairn, with biog. sketch by Rev. James Dodds 1875.
FAIRBAIRN, Sir Peter (youngest son of Andrew Fairbairn of Kelso, Roxburghshire). b. Kelso, Sep. 1799; machine maker at Glasgow 1823–28, at Leeds 1828 to death; invented many new machines; member of town council Leeds 1836–42, alderman 1854 to death, mayor 1857–59; knighted by the Queen at Leeds 7 Sep. 1858; there is a portrait of him by Sir Francis Grant in the council chamber Leeds and a bronze statue by Noble in the town. d. Woodsley house, Leeds 4 Jany. 1861. Fortunes made in business ii, 252–79 (1884); Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 491–96; Illust. news of the world ii, 181 (1858), portrait, vii, 29 (1861), portrait.
FAIRBAIRN, Sir William, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Andrew Fairbairn of Smailhome, co. Roxburgh 1758–1844). b. Kelso, co. Roxburgh 19 Feb. 1789; manufacturing engineer at Manchester 1817 to death; M.I.C.E. 20 April 1830; established an iron shipbuilding yard at Millwall near London 1835; built and designed nearly 100 bridges; F.R.S. 6 June 1850, Royal Medallist 1860; correspondent of National Institute of France 11 May 1852; pres. of Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1854–55; pres. of Manchester literary and philosophical society 1855–60; pres. of British Association at Manchester 1861; declined knighthood 23 Oct. 1861; created Baronet 7 Oct. 1869; author of Useful information for Engineers 1856, 4 ed. 1864; Iron, its history 1861, 3 ed. 1869 and other books. d. Moor park near Farnham, Surrey 18 Aug. 1874. bur. Prestwick parish church, Manchester. The life of Sir W. Fairbairn, edited by W. Pole 1877; Fortunes made in business ii, 240–50 (1884); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 251–64 (1875); Practical Mag. iv, 241, portrait; I.L.N. xl, 215, 225 (1862), portrait, lxv, 205, 212, 332 (1874), portrait.
FAIRFAX, Sir Henry, 1 Baronet (youngest son of vice-admiral Sir Wm. George Fairfax 1739–1813). b. Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1790; ensign 49 foot 8 June 1809; major 85 foot 17 July 1823 to 6 Nov. 1827 when placed on h.p.; retired from the army 1844; created baronet in consideration of his father’s distinguished naval services 21 Feb. 1836. d. Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1860.
FAIRFAX, John. b. Warwick 1804; printer and bookseller at Leamington; librarian to the Australian subscription library in Sydney 26 Sep. 1838; bought the Sydney Morning Herald a biweekly paper 1841, converted it into a daily morning paper which soon became leading journal of New South Wales, sole proprietor of the paper 1853; member of council of education 1870; member of legislative council 1874 to death; author of The Colonies of Australia 1852. d. Ginahgulla near Rose Bay, Port Jackson 16 June 1877.
FAIRHOLT, Frederick William (16 child of a German named Fahrholz, who Anglicised his name to Fairholt). b. London 1814; employed in a tobacco factory 14 years; assistant to S. Sly the wood engraver 1835; made many hundreds of drawings on wood to illustrate Charles Knight’s publications; illustrated many important works; F.S.A. 1844; draughtsman to British Archæol. Assoc. 1845–52; author of Costume in England 1846, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1885 and 5 other books. d. 22 Montpelier square, Brompton 3 April 1866. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 218–26, 307–21 (1883).
FAIRLAND, Thomas. Pupil of Charles Warren; a lithographer, afterwards a portrait painter; his best work, one of the best ever executed in lithography, was the cartoon of the Virgin and Child by Raphael known as the Rogers Madonna; published a volume of Comic Sketches after W. Hunt 1844 which was very popular. d. of consumption Oct. 1852 in 49 year. G.M. Jany. 1853 p. 102.
FAIRLIE, Robert Francis. b. Scotland, March 1831; civil engineer in Gracechurch st. London; patented the double-bogie engine 1864, first of which was built for Neath and Brecon railway 1866; these engines were introduced into many foreign countries; the Czar of Russia had a special gold medal struck in honour of Fairlie; author of Railways or no railways, narrow gauge v. broad gauge 1872. d. the Woodlands, Clapham common, London 31 July 1885.
FALCIERI, Giovanni Battista, the faithful servant of Lord Byron. Entered service of Isaac D’Israeli; messenger at the India office, superannuated on pension of £140. d. Ramsgate 22 Dec. 1874; Sarah his widow was granted civil list pension of £50, 5 March 1875.
FALCONAR, Chesborough Grant. Ensign 36 foot 1 Sep. 1795; major 78 foot 26 June 1823 to 22 Oct. 1825 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 22 foot 25 Nov. 1828 to 18 Oct. 1839; inspecting field officer 18 Oct. 1839 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 73 foot 11 Feb. 1857 to death; L.G. 20 July 1858; K.H. 1837. d. Hazelbank near Edinburgh 10 Jany. 1860.
FALCONER, Edmund, stage name of Edmund O’Rourke. b. Dublin 1814; acted in the provinces many years; lessee with B. Webster of Lyceum theatre, London, Aug. 1858 to April 1859; played Danny Man in The Colleen Bawn at Adelphi theatre 231 nights from 18 July 1860; lessee of Lyceum again 1861 where his Irish drama Peep o’ Day ran from 9 Nov. 1861 to Dec. 1862; lessee with F. B. Chatterton of Drury Lane 1863 to 26 Sep. 1866 where he lost all his money; played in America 1867–70; author of Memories, poems 1863; Murmurings in the May and Summer of Manhood, O’Ruark’s Bride and Man’s Missions, poems 1865 and of many dramas, librettos and songs. d. 28 Keppel st. Russell sq. London 29 Sep. 1879. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 116–20; Illust. sporting and dramatic news 4 Dec. 1875 pp. 233–4.
FALCONER, Forbes (2 son of Gilbert Falconer of Braeside, Fifeshire). b. Aberdeen 10 Sep. 1805; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal college; teacher of Oriental languages in London; professor of Oriental languages in Univ. college, London; author of Selections from the “Bôstan of Sâdi” in Persian 1838; Persian Grammar, 2 ed. 1848. d. 40 Dorset st. Portman sq. London 7 Nov. 1853.
FALCONER, Hugh (youngest child of David Falconer of Forres, Elginshire). b. Forres 29 Feb. 1808; ed. at Forres gr. sch. and King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1826; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1829; assist. surgeon in the H.E.I.Co.’s service 1830; superintendent of Botanic garden at Suharunpoor, North Western provinces 1832; awarded Wollaston medal of Geol. Society 1837; returned to England on sick leave 1842, went out again 20 Dec. 1847; superintendent of Calcutta botanic garden, and professor of botany in the medical college, June 1847 to 1855; F.G.S. 1842, foreign sec. 1861 to death; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845; author of Descriptive catalogue of the fossil remains from the Sewalik hills, Calcutta 1859. d. Park crescent, London 31 Jany. 1865. C. Murchison’s Palæontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868) vol. 1, pp. xxiii-liii, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xv, 14–20 (1867); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxi, 45–49 (1865).
FALCONER, Randle Wilbraham (youngest son of Rev. Thomas Falconer of Bath 1772–1839). b. 29 Circus, Bath 1816; studied at Edin., M.D. 1839; practised at Tenby 1839–47, at Bath 1847 to death; physician of Bath united hospital 12 Feb. 1849; physician of Bath mineral water hospital 28 Feb. 1856; mayor of Bath 1857–59; author of The baths and mineral waters of Bath, 6 ed. 1880, and other books. d. Bennett st. Bath 6 May 1881.
FALCONER, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 25 June 1805; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1830; revising barrister for boroughs of Finsbury, Tower Hamlets and Marylebone 1837–1840; one of arbitrators to settle boundary of Canada and New Brunswick, Oct. 1850; colonial sec. of Western Australia 29 July 1851; judge of county courts circuit 30, (Brecknock and Glamorgan) 22 Dec. 1851 to Dec. 1881 when he retired on pension; aided in abolishing Duke of Beaufort’s gaol at Swansea; author of On Surnames and the rules of law affecting their change, Cardiff 1862 privately printed, 2 ed. London 1862, Supplement 1863 and 7 other books. d. Royal crescent, Bath 28 Aug. 1882 in 77 year. T. Falconer’s Bibliography of the Falconer family (1866) 20–30; The Red Dragon ii, 193–98 (1882), portrait.
FALCONER, Rev. William (brother of the preceding). b. Corston, Somerset 27 Dec. 1801; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1827 to 18 July 1839, public examiner 1832–3 and 1836–8; R. of Bushey, Herts. 26 Jany. 1839 to death; translated with H. C. Hamilton for Bohn’s Classical Library The Geography of Strabo 3 vols. 1854–57. d. Bushey rectory 9 Feb. 1885.
FALKLAND, Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10 Viscount (eld. child of Charles John Cary, 9 Viscount Falkland 1768–1809). b. 5 Nov. 1803; succeeded his father who d. of wounds received in a duel 2 March 1809; a lord of the bedchamber to Wm. iv, Dec. 1830; a representative peer for Scotland 1831–32; G.C.H. 1831; created Baron Hunsdon of Skutterskelfe, co. York in peerage of the U.K. 15 May 1832; P.C. 1 March 1837; governor of Nova Scotia 1840–1846; captain of yeomen of the guard 24 July 1846 to 16 Feb. 1848; governor of Bombay 1 Feb. 1848 to Dec. 1853, took his seat 1 May 1848. d. Montpellier, France 12 March 1884.
FALKNER, George. b. Edinburgh 1817; edited Bradshaw’s Manchester Journal from first number 1 May 1841; typographer and lithographer at Manchester to death; published his own Notes on Algiers 1852, and A pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Loreto 1882. d. The Oaklands, Timperley near Manchester 31 Dec. 1882.
FALLON, James Thomas. b. Athlone 1823; went to Sydney, N.S.W. 1842; bought a vineyard at Albury about 1859; his wines took first prize at Vienna exhibition 1873 and London exhibition 1875; made champagne from Australian grapes 1876; had largest vineyards and cellars in Australia; member of legislative assembly of N.S.W. 1869–72. d. Manly near Sydney 27 May 1886.
FALLOON, Rev. Daniel. b. Ireland; minister of Church of England in Canada; author of An historical view of the Church of England 2 vols. Dublin 1830; The Apostolic Church 1837; History of Ireland, civil and ecclesiastical from the earliest times to the death of Henry ii, edited by Rev. John Irwin, Montreal 1863. d. Montreal, Sep. 1862.
FALMOUTH, George Henry Boscawen, 2 Earl of (only child of Edward Boscawen, 1 Earl of Falmouth 1787–1841). b. Woolhampton house near Newbury, Berks. 8 July 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; M.P. for West Cornwall 8 July 1841 to 29 Dec. 1841 when he succeeded his father as 2 Earl; high steward of Wallingford 1845 to death. d. 2 St. James’s square, Westminster 28 Aug. 1852.
FALSHAW, Sir James, 1 Baronet (son of Wm. Falshaw of Leeds). b. Leeds 21 March 1810; assisted Stephenson in construction of Caledonian and other railways; constructed with Brassey the northern lines of railway from Inverness; lord provost of Edinburgh 1876; created baronet 17 Aug. 1876; deputy chairman of North British railway co. 1881, chairman 3 Aug. 1882 to 1887. d. 14 Belgrave crescent, Edinburgh 14 June 1889. Graphic x, 490, 501 (1874), portrait; I.L.N. lxix, 253 (1876), portrait.
FANE, Henry Edward Hamlyn (eld. son of Rev. Edward Fane of Fulbeck, Lincs. 1783–1862). b. Fulbeck hall 5 Sep. 1817; ed. at Charterhouse; ensign 90 foot 1 Aug. 1834; major 4 light dragoons 1846–50 when he sold out; lieut. col. South Lincoln militia 20 April 1854 to death; assumed name of Hamlyn by r.l. 1865; M.P. for South Hants. 1865–68; author of Five years in India 1842. d. Avon Tyrrel, Ringwood, Hants. 27 Dec. 1868.
FANE, John William. b. 1 Sep. 1804; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1854; lieut. col. of Oxford militia 18 July 1862 to 22 May 1872; M.P. for Oxfordshire 1862–1868. d. 34 Cavendish sq. London 19 Nov. 1875.
FANE, Julian Henry Charles (5 son of 11 Earl of Westmoreland 1784–1859). b. Florence 2 Oct. 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.A. 1850; attaché at Berlin 1844; sec. of embassy at Vienna 23 Nov. 1860, at Paris 30 Dec. 1865 to 7 June 1868 when he resigned; published Poems 1852; Poems by Heinrich Heine, translated by Julian Fane 1854; author with Edward Lytton of Tannhäuser, or the battle of the bards, a poem by Neville Temple [J. C. Fane] and Edward Trevor [E. R. Bulwer-Lytton] 1861. d. 29 Portman sq. London 19 April 1870. Lytton’s Julian Fane, a memoir (1871), portrait; Jerningham’s Reminiscences of an attaché (1886) 16–20.
FANE, Mildmay (5 son of Henry Fane 1739–1842, M.P. for Lyme Regis). b. Sep. 1794; ensign 59 foot 11 June 1812; lieut. col. 98 foot 25 March 1824 to 24 Dec. 1829; lieut. col. 54 foot 24 Dec. 1829 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 96 foot 11 Aug. 1855 to 27 Dec. 1860; col. 54 foot 27 Dec. 1860 to death; general 27 March 1863. d. Fulbeck 12 March 1868.
FANE, Robert George Cecil (brother of the preceding). b. 8 May 1796; ed. at Charterhouse and Balliol coll. Ox.; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1819; a demy and fellow of Magd. coll. Ox. 1824–35; barrister L.I. 1 June 1821; a bankruptcy comr. 1823, one of the six bankrupt comrs. 2 Dec. 1831 to death; author of Bankrupt Reform, Letters i-vii, 2 vols. 1838 and 8 other books. d. Burdon hotel, Weymouth 4 Oct. 1864.
FANQUE, Pablo, assumed name of William Darby. b. Norwich; apprenticed to Wm. Batty, circus proprietor; a negro rope-dancer; circus proprietor 1841 to death. d. Britannia inn, Stockport 4 May 1871 aged 67 or 75. I.L.N. x, 189 (1847), portrait.
FANSHAWE, Sir Arthur (youngest son of Robert Fanshawe, Capt. R.N. 1740–1823). b. 1794; entered navy 8 Feb. 1804; captain 17 Oct. 1816; commander in chief North America and West Indies 23 Nov. 1853 to 25 Nov. 1856; R.A. 18 June 1851, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral 4 Oct. 1862; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. 32 Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 14 June 1864 aged 70.
FARADAY, Michael (younger son of James Faraday of Newington, Surrey, blacksmith 1761–1810). b. Newington 22 Sep. 1791; chemical assistant at royal institution 1 March 1813; travelled as amanuensis with Sir Humphrey Davy in France, Italy and Switzerland 1813–1815; F.R.S. 8 Jany. 1824, Copley medallist 1832 and 1838, royal medallist 1835 and 1846, Rumford medallist 1846; began his lectures to children 29 Dec. 1827; began his ‘Electrical researches’ 29 Aug. 1831; discovered magneto-electricity 1831, electro-chemical decomposition 1833; professor of chemistry at royal institution Jany. 1833 to 1865; granted civil list pension of £300 a year 1835; senator of univ. of London 1836; an elder of the Sandemanian church for 3½ years from 1840; discovered magnetisation of light 1845, diamagnetism 1845 and magnetic character of oxygen 1847; received 95 honorary titles and marks of merit; lived in one of the Queen’s houses Hampton Court Green 1858 to death; author of Chemical manipulation, instructions to students 1827, 3 ed. 1842 and other works. d. Hampton Court Green 25 Aug. 1867. bur. Highgate cemetery 30 Aug. Bence Jones’s Life and letters of Faraday 2 vols. 1870, portrait; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 399–409; Illustrated Review v, 29–39, portrait; Illust. news of the world i (1858), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xvii, 1–68 (1868).
FARDELL, John. b. 4 May 1784; F.S.A. 15 June 1809; barrister M.T. 2 July 1824; M.P. for city of Lincoln 1830–1831. d. Sprotborough rectory, Yorkshire 5 Feb. 1854.
FAREY, John (son of John Farey of Woburn, geologist 1766–1826). b. Lambeth 20 March 1791; ed. at Woburn; made drawings for illustrative plates of many scientific works; invented machine for drawing ellipses 1813 for which gold medal of Society of Arts was awarded him; constructed ironworks in Russia 1819–21; a lace manufacturer in Devonshire 1821–23; consulting C.E. in London 1826 to death; M.I.C.E. 1826; author of A treatise on the steam engine vol. i, 1827. d. the Common, Sevenoaks 17 July 1851. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi, 100–102 (1852).
FARGUS, Frederick John (eld. son of Frederick Charles Fargus of Bristol, auctioneer, who d. 14 April 1868). b. Bristol 26 Dec. 1847; auctioneer at Bristol 1868–83; author of Called Back 1883, 350,000 copies of it were sold and it was at once translated into 6 European languages, his dramatic version of it was played at Prince’s theatre, London nearly 200 nights from 20 May 1884; all his stories were published under pseudonym of Hugh Conway. d. Monte Carlo 15 May 1885. bur. Nice cemetery 18 May. Called Back, by H. Conway (1885) pp. vii-xiii, portrait; The Lute, June 1885 p. 125; I.L.N. 30 May 1885 p. 559, portrait.
FARIS, William. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany. 1814, lieut. col. 6 Aug. 1849 to 24 Nov. 1851 when placed on retired list; general 8 June 1871. d. 17 Pall Mall, London 4 Dec. 1874 aged 80.
FARLEY, Charles. b. London 1771; first appeared on the stage at Covent Garden 1782; supervised dramatic spectacles at Covent Garden 1806–34; author of The Magic Oak, a Christmas pantomime 1799; Aggression, or the heroine of Yucatan 1805 and other pieces; instructed Grimaldi to whose Orson when he made his appearance in the character 10 Oct. 1806 he played Valentine; the best theatrical machinist of his time. d. 42 Ampthill square, Hampstead road, London 28 Jany. 1859. British stage ii, 145 (1818), portrait.
FARLEY, James Lewis (only son of Thomas Farley of Meiltran, co. Cavan). b. Dublin 9 Sep. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; chief accountant of Beyrout branch of Ottoman Bank 1856; accountant general of state bank of Turkey at Constantinople 1860; consul for Turkey at Bristol 1870–84; author of The massacres in Syria 1861; The Druses and the Maronites 1861; Turks and Christians, a solution of the Eastern question 1876 and other books. d. Bayswater, London 12 Nov. 1885.
FARNBOROUGH, Sir Thomas Erskine May, 1 Baron. b. London 8 Feb. 1815; ed. at Bedford gr. sch.; assistant librarian House of Commons 1831; barrister M.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 21 May 1873; taxing master in Parliament 1847–56; clerk assistant of House of Commons 1856–71, clerk Jany. 1871 to death; member of Statute law committee 1868, chairman; C.B. 1860, K.C.B. 6 July 1866; created Baron Farnborough of Farnborough in the county of Southampton 10 May 1886; author of Constitutional history of England 1760–1860, 2 vols. 1861–2, new ed. 3 vols. 1871; Law privileges, proceedings and usage of Parliament 1844, 9 ed. 1883; Democracy in Europe 2 vols. 1877. d. Speaker’s Court, Houses of Parliament 17 May 1886. Biograph, Jany. 1882 pp. 14–20.
FARNCOMB, Thomas. b. Sussex; proprietor of one of the largest wharfs on Surrey side of the Thames for about 50 years; a merchant and shipowner; one of earliest promoters of London and Westminster bank 1834, and long a director of it; sheriff of London 1840, alderman for ward of Bassishaw 1841–59, lord mayor 1849–50. d. Rose hill, Forest hill, Surrey 23 Sep. 1865 aged 86.
FARNHAM, Henry Maxwell, 7 Baron (eld. child of Rev. Henry Maxwell, 6 Baron Farnham 1773–1838). b. Dublin 9 Aug. 1799; M.P. for co. Cavan 1824–38; succeeded 19 Oct. 1838; an Irish representative peer 2 July 1839 to death; K.P. 1845; killed near Abergele, Denbighshire on the London and north western railway 20 Aug. 1868. I.L.N. liii, 210 (1868).
FARNHAM, Somerset Richard Maxwell, 8 Baron (brother of the preceding). b. Dublin 18 Oct. 1803; M.P. for Cavan 1838–40; sheriff of Cavan 1844. d. Farnham house, Cavan 1 June 1884.
FARNHAM, Edward Basil. b. 19 April 1799; M.P. for North Leicestershire 1837–59; sheriff of Leics. 1870. d. Quorndon house near Loughborough 13 May 1879.
FARNIE, Henry Brougham. b. Fifeshire; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Cambridge; edited the Fifeshire Journal; edited in London a musical weekly called The Orchestra 1863, also the Paris Times, Sock and Buskin 1867 and Cramer’s Opera Bouffe Cabinet 1874; his song The Last Stirrup-cup became very popular; wrote librettos of many operettas and burlesques; translated and adapted most of the more successful modern French comic operas, most popular of which were Genevieve de Brabant produced at Philharmonic theatre 11 Nov. 1871, Nemesis at Strand theatre 17 April 1873, La Fille de Madame Angot at Gaiety theatre 10 Nov. 1873 and Les Cloches de Corneville at Folly theatre 23 Feb. 1878; 20 of his adaptations were printed 1850–87. d. Paris 22 Sep. 1889. Law Reports 5 P.D. 153, 6 P.D. 35, 8 Appeal Cases 43.
FARQUHAR, Thomas Newman. b. 1809; solicitor in London 1830 to death; one of the nine purchasers of the Crystal Palace for £70,000, 24 May 1852, one of the original directors of the Co. at Sydenham. d. Sydenham, Kent 30 July 1866.
FARQUHARSON, Francis (son of Rev. Robert Farquharson of Allarque, co. Aberdeen). b. 1787; entered Bombay army 1802; col. 9 Bombay N.I. 8 March 1845 to 1869; general 6 Jany. 1863. d. Clifton 20 March 1872.
FARQUHARSON, James John (only son of James Farquharson of Littleton, Dorset 1728–95). b. 9 Oct. 1784; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1828; student of L.I. 1829; kept a pack of foxhounds in Dorset at his own expense 1806 to 1858 when he sold the pack; kept a small racing stud; sheriff of Dorset 1809. d. 9 March 1871. Sporting Review xxxviii, 355–58 (1857), xxxix, 440–42 (1858), portrait; Baily’s Mag. xi, 113–18 (1866), portrait.
FARQUHARSON, Robert, stage name of Robert Farquharson Smith. b. 1820; articled to Harris of Drury Lane, chorus master; sang at coronation of William iv, 1838; sang in opera at Drury Lane and Surrey theatres, also at concerts; member of the Sims Reeves opera troupe; went to Australia 1856, sang there in opera and concerts; sang at the Opera Comique, London. d. 2 Wilberforce road, Finsbury park, London 12 Feb. 1880.
FARR, William. b. Kenley, Shropshire 30 Nov. 1807; studied medicine in Paris 1829–31; L.S.A. 1832; practised in London 1833–38; compiler of abstracts in registrar general’s office 1838; an assistant comr. for censuses of 1851 and 1861 and a comr. for that of 1871; wrote greater part of the reports on each census; F.S.S. 1839, treasurer 1855–67, vice-pres. 1869–70, pres. 1871–2; F.R.S. 7 June 1855 to 1882; C.B. 10 April 1880; gold medallist of British Association 1880; author of A medical guide to Nice 1841 and of many papers in the Lancet and other periodicals. d. 78 Portsdown road, Maida Vale, London 14 April 1883. Biographical notice of W. Farr by F. A. C. Hare 1883; W. Farr’s Vital Statistics 1885 with biographical sketch by N. A. Humphreys, portrait.
FARRAR, Rev. John (youngest son of Rev. John Farrar, Wesleyan minister, who d. 1837). b. Alnwick 29 July 1802; Wesleyan min. Aug. 1822; resident minister successively at Sheffield, Huddersfield, Macclesfield and London; classical tutor at Wesleyan theological institution, Richmond, Surrey 1843–58; governor and chaplain of Woodhouse Grove school near Leeds 1858–68; governor of Headingley college, Leeds 1868–76; pres. of Wesleyan conference at Birmingham 1854 and at Burslem 1870; author of The proper names of the Bible 1839, 2 ed. 1844; A biblical and theological dictionary illustrative of the Old and New Testament 1851 and 3 other books. d. Headingley, Leeds 19 Nov. 1884. bur. Abney Park cemetery, London 25 Nov. Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school (1885) pp. 14, 79–84, 135, 257; I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1870 p. 149, portrait.
FARRE, Arthur (younger son of John Richard Farre 1775–1862). b. London 6 March 1811; ed. at Charterhouse sch. and Caius coll. Cam.; M.B. 1833, M.D. 1841; F.R.S. 2 May 1839; F.R.C.P. 1843, Harveian orator 1872; professor of obstetric medicine at King’s college, and phys. accoucheur to King’s college hospital 1841–62; examiner in midwifery to royal college of surgeons 1852–75; pres. of Royal Microscopical Society 1851–2; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 30 Aug. 1875 to death; pres. of Obstetrical Society 1875; author of The Uterus and its appendages forming parts 49 and 50 of Todd’s Cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology 1858. d. 18 Albert Mansions, Victoria st. Westminster 17 Dec. 1887.
FARRE, Frederick John (brother of the preceding). b. Charterhouse sq. London 16 Dec. 1804; ed. at Charterhouse, gold medallist 1821, captain 1822; foundation scholar at St. John’s coll. Cam., 32 wrangler 1827; M.A. 1830, M.D. 1837; lecturer on botany at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1831–54, on materia medica 1854–76, assistant phys. 1836, phys. 1854; phys. to Royal London Ophthalmic hospital 1843 to death; F.R.C.P. 1838, lecturer on materia medica 1843–5, treasurer 1868–83, vice pres. 1885; one of the editors of first British Pharmacopœia 1864, and of an abridgment of Pereira’s Materia Medica 1865, new eds. 1872 and 1874. d. 35 Elsham road, Kensington, London 9 Nov. 1886.
FARRE, John Richard (son of Richard John Farre of Barbadoes, surgeon). b. Barbadoes 31 Jany. 1775; student at United Borough hosps. London 1792; spent two years at Edinburgh; M.D. Aberdeen 22 Jany. 1806; L.C.P. 31 March 1806; physician in London 1806; joint founder with J. C. Saunders of Royal London Ophthalmic hospital 1806, physician there 1806–56; edited Journal of Morbid Anatomy, ophthalmic medicine and pharmaceutical analysis 1828; author of The morbid anatomy of the liver 1812–15, Pathological researches on malformations of the human heart 1814. d. Pentonville road, London 7 May 1862.
FARRELL, Francis. Entered Bombay army 1818; col. 28 Bombay N.I. 15 March 1851 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Hyde lodge, Winchester 17 July 1869 aged 69.
FARREN, Henry (eld. son of Wm. Farren 1786–1861). b. 1825; made his first appearance on the stage at Haymarket theatre as Charles Surface 1848; played leading comedy parts at Strand 1847–50 and Olympic 1850–53; manager of Brighton theatre short time; played in the U.S. 1854 to death; manager of theatre at St. Louis. d. St. Louis 8 Jany. 1860.