Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
FITZROY, Sir William (3 son of 3 Duke of Grafton 1735–1811). b. 1 June 1782; entered navy 21 April 1794; captain 3 March 1804; admiral 2 April 1853; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840. d. East Sheen near Richmond 13 May 1857.
FITZWALTER, Sir Brook William Bridges, 1 Baron (elder son of Sir Brook Wm. Bridges, 4 bart. 1767–1829). b. Goodneston park, Kent 2 June 1801; ed. at Winchester and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1827; succeeded his father 21 April 1829; M.P. for East Kent, Feb. to July 1852 and April 1857 to April 1868; created Baron Fitzwalter 17 April 1868. d. Goodneston park 6 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. xxx, 478 (1857), portrait, lxvii, 614, 629 (1875), portrait.
FITZWILLIAM, Charles William Wentworth, 5 Earl (only child of 4 Earl Fitzwilliam 1748–1833). b. Grosvenor sq. London 4 May 1786; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Yorkshire 20 May 1807 to 24 July 1830 as Viscount Milton; M.P. for Northamptonshire 23 May 1831 to March 1833; pres. of Yorkshire Philosophical Soc. 1830 to death; K.G. 4 Nov. 1851; took surname of Wentworth by r.l. 20 Aug. 1856; author of First, second and third addresses on the Corn laws 1839 and other books; edited with Sir Richard Bourke Correspondence of Edmund Burke 4 vols. 1844. d. Wentworth house, Rotherham 4 Oct. 1857. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii, 337–42 (1854).
FITZWILLIAM, Edward. b. near Holborn, London 8 Aug. 1788; actor at Southend, Hythe and Gosport 1806–8; first appeared in London as Hodge in Love in a village, at West London theatre 1812; acted at Olympic 1813 and at Royal Circus; his best parts were Leporello, Dumbiedykes in the Heart of Midlothian, Patch, Partridge in Tom Jones and Humphry Clinker; went to Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1821; became a comic vocalist at city entertainments; generally known as Little Fitz; retired on an annuity from Drury Lane theatrical fund 1845. d. Regent st. London 30 March 1852. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography ii, 267–76 (1825), portrait; Cumberland’s Minor Theatre, vol. 2, portrait.
FITZWILLIAM, Edward Francis (son of the preceding). b. Deal, Kent 2 Aug. 1824; composed a Stabat Mater performed at Hanover square rooms, London 15 March 1845; musical director of Lyceum theatre Oct. 1847 to 1849; musical director of Haymarket theatre Easter 1853 to death; composed The Queen of the day, a comic opera, A summer night’s love, an operetta; author of O Incomprehensible Creator, a cantata 1850; Dramatic songs for 4 voices 1856 and other works; his music to the songs As I laye a thynkynge 1846, The maid with the milking pail 1846, and The jug of Punch 1845 was very popular. d. 9 Grove place, Brompton, London 19 Jany. 1857. Era 25 Jany. 1857 p. 9, col. 3.
FITZWILLIAM, Ellen (eld. dau. of Thomas Acton Chaplin, d. Nov. 1859). First appeared in London at Adelphi as Wilhelm in Die Hexen am Rhein 7 Oct. 1841; member of Haymarket company under J. B. Buckstone 22 years; went to Australia 1877. (m. 31 Dec. 1853 Edward Francis Fitzwilliam 1824–57). d. Auckland, New Zealand 19 Oct. 1880 aged 58. Theatrical Times 18 Nov. 1848 p. 439, portrait.
FITZWILLIAM, Fanny Elizabeth (dau. of Robert Copeland, manager of Dover circuit). b. Dover theatre 1801; was on the stage at 3 years of age; as Norah in the Poor Soldier played at Dover theatre 1815; first appeared in London at Haymarket as Lucy in The Review 1817; went to the Olympic and the Surrey; first seen at Drury Lane as Fanny in Maid or Wife 5 Dec. 1821; commenced engagement at Adelphi 10 Oct. 1825, the original Kate Plowden in The Pilot 31 Oct. 1825 and Bella in The Wreck Ashore 21 Oct. 1830; manager of Sadler’s Wells 1832; gave a monologue The Widow Wiggins at Adelphi during Lent 1835; in 1837 was at Haymarket under B. Webster; went to America and made her debut at Park theatre, New York as Peggy in The Country Girl, Oct. 1839; played at Adelphi, London 1844 and afterwards at Haymarket; was good in Lady Teazle, country girls and Irish peasants. (m. 2 Dec. 1822 Edward Fitz William, actor 1788–1852). d. of cholera at Richmond lodge, Putney 11 Sep. 1854. Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i, 302–4 (1867); Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 3–5, 2 portraits; Actors by daylight i, 145–6 (1838), portrait; Theatrical Times ii, 73 (1847), portrait; Actors by gaslight (1838) 25, portrait.
FITZWILLIAM, George Wentworth (3 son of 5 Earl Fitzwilliam 1786–1857). b. Grosvenor place, London 3 May 1817; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1838; M.P. for Richmond 1841, for Peterborough 1841–59; sheriff of Northampton 1866; master of the Fitzwilliam hounds. d. Milton hall, Peterborough 4 March 1874.
FITZWILLIAM, William John Wentworth (5 son of 6 Earl Fitzwilliam, b. 1815). b. 7 Aug. 1852; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Cam., B.A. 1874; M.P. for Peterborough 29 Oct. 1878 to death. d. Wentworth house near Rotherham 11 Sep. 1889. Pictorial World 3 Oct. 1889 p. 416, portrait.
FITZWILLIAM, William Wentworth (brother of the preceding). b. Grosvenor sq. London 27 July 1839; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for South West Yorkshire 1865–72. d. 17 Jany. 1877.
FLAHERTY, William Edward. Apprenticed to J. G. Barnard of London, printer; worked for Messrs. Bradbury and Evans 1834; went to Harrisons 1840; assisted Thomas Duffus Hardy in various works; compiled The annals of England 3 vols. 1855–7, anon.; edited The Gentleman’s Magazine, Jany. 1861 to Dec. 1865; revised several handbooks for John Murray. d. 33 Hassett road, Homerton 16 June 1878 aged 71. Bookseller, July 1878 p. 585.
FLANAGAN, Rev. Thomas. b. 1814; educ. Sedgley park sch. Staffordshire and at Oscott coll.; ordained at Oscott 1842, professor and prefect of studies there to 1851 and again July 1853 to 1854; V.P. of Sedgley park sch. 1851 and president Aug. 1851 to July 1853; canon of the chapter of Birmingham 1850; resident priest Blackmore park 1854–60; priest at St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham 1860 to death; author of A manual of British and Irish history 1847; A history of the church in England to the re-establishment of the hierarchy in 1850, 2 vols. 1857 and other works. d. Kidderminster 21 July 1865. bur. in crypt of St. Chad’s cathedral. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 291 (1885).
FLATMAN, Elnathan. b. Holton, Suffolk 1810; apprenticed to Wm. Cooper of Newmarket, trainer; won the Goodwood cup on Glencoe 1834, the One thousand guineas on Preserve 1835, the Derby on Orlando 1844, the St. Leger on Surplice 1848; won 104 races in 1848. d. Newmarket 20 Aug. 1860. Sporting Times 25 July 1885 p. 2; Sporting Review xxx, 10–13 (1853), portrait, xliv, 162, 225 (1860); Rice’s British turf i, 263–65 (1879); I.L.N. xxii, 416 (1853), portrait.
FLEETWOOD, Sir Peter Hesketh, 1 Baronet (son of Robert Hesketh of Rossall, Lancashire). b. Wennington hall near Lancaster 9 May 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; sheriff of Lancashire 1830; M.P. Preston 1832–47; projected and commenced to build town and port of Fleetwood on river Wyre 1836; created baronet 20 July 1838; assumed name of Fleetwood by r.l. 5 March 1851; translator of Victor Hugo’s Last days of a condemned 1840. d. 127 Piccadilly, London 12 April 1866.
FLEMING, Alexander. b. Edinburgh 1824; M.D. Edin. 1844; F.R.C.P. Lond.; his essay on the physiological and medicinal properties of Aconitum Napellus 1845 led to the introduction of a tincture of aconite known as Fleming’s tincture; edited Monthly retrospect of medical science 2 vols. 1848–9; professor of materia medica Queen’s coll. Cork to 1858; hon. physician to Queen’s hospital, Birmingham 1858–73. d. Brixton, London 21 Aug. 1875.
FLEMING, Ann Cuthbert. b. Scotland; went to Canada 1815 or 1816; kept a school at Montreal several years; author of Home, a poem, Edinburgh 1815; A year in Canada and other poems, By A. C. Knight, Edinburgh 1816; Views of Canadian scenery and other books. (m. (1) Mr. Knight, m. (2) James Fleming). d. 1860.
FLEMING, Christopher. b. Boardstown, co. Westmeath 14 July 1808; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1821, M.D. 1838; L.C.S.I. 1824, member 1826, president 1859–60; surgeon House of Industry hospitals, Dublin 1851; M.R.I.A.; author of Clinical records of injuries and diseases of genito-urinary organs 1877; Remarks on application of chloroform to surgical purposes 1851. d. Donnybrook near Dublin 30 Dec. 1880.
FLEMING, Edward Cary. Ensign 31 foot 1803; lieut. col. of 2 Ceylon regiment 12 Aug. 1819, of 53 foot 24 Feb. 1820, of 24 foot 6 Nov. 1823 to 1 March 1833; C.B. 19 July 1838; col. 27 foot 19 Sep. 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 23 April 1860.
FLEMING, Henry. Assistant sec. poor law board 3 Feb. 1848 to 5 July 1859, permanent sec. 5 July 1859 to 19 Aug. 1871. d. 2 Charles St. Berkeley sq. London 28 Feb. 1876.
FLEMING, James (eld. son of Valentine Fleming of Tuam, co. Galway). Barrister M.T. 10 June 1836; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1858; chief comr. of West Indian incumbered estates court 17 Feb. 1865 to death; chancellor of county palatine of Durham 21 March 1871 to death; author of Rules and orders Chancery Court, Durham 1878. d. 12 Dorset sq. London 23 July 1887.
FLEMING, Rev. John (son of Alexander Fleming). b. Kirkroads farm near Bathgate in Linlithgowshire 10 Jany. 1785; ordained 22 Sep. 1808; minister of Flisk, Fifeshire 1810; the best zoologist in Scotland; D.D. of univ. of St. Andrews 1814; minister of Clackmannan 1832–34; professor of natural philosophy in Univ. and King’s coll. Aberdeen 1834; joined the Free ch. 1834; professor of natural science Free ch. coll. Edin. 1845; studied the old red sand stone and its fossils; author of The Philosophy of Zoology 2 vols. 1822; The temperature of the seasons 1851 and other books and articles in scientific journals. d. Llangwym, Monmouthshire 18 Nov. 1857. Fleming’s Lithology of Edinburgh, with memoir by Rev. John Duns 1859 pp. i-civ.
FLEMING, John Gibson. b. Glasgow 1809; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 1830; member of faculty of phys. and surgeons Glasgow 1833, pres. 1865–71; represented the faculty in general medical council 15 years; surgeon to Royal asylum for lunatics; F.R.S. Edin.; author of Medical statistics of life assurance, Glasgow 1862. d. 155 Bath st. Glasgow 2 Oct. 1879.
FLEMING, Sir Valentine (brother of James Fleming, who d. 23 July 1887). b. Ashby de la Zouch 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1832; barrister G.I. 21 Nov. 1838; comr. of Insolvent Court for Hobart Town 1841; solicitor general of Tasmania 1844 to Jany. 1848, attorney general Jany. 1848 to Aug. 1854; chief justice of supreme court of Tasmania Aug. 1854 to May 1870 when he resigned; knighted by patent 2 July 1856. d. Holbrook, Redhill 25 Oct. 1884 in 75 year.
FLETCHER, Rev. Alexander (son of Rev. Wm. Fletcher of Bridge of Teith, Downe, Perthshire, minister of the associate synod). b. Bridge of Teith 8 April 1787; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.A.; co-pastor with his father at Bridge of Teith 16 Sep. 1807; minister of Miles’s lane chapel, London, Nov. 1811, of Albion chapel, London Wall 7 Nov. 1816 to 1824; prosecuted in a breach of promise case by Eliza Dick, April 1824; separated from the Secession church 1824, minister of Finsbury chapel, London 1824–59; author of A guide to Family Devotion 1834 of which 50,000 copies were sold in England, The Sabbath School Preacher and Juvenile Miscellany 1848–50, 2 vols., and other works. d. 4 Portland place, Lower Clapton, London 30 Sep. 1860. Macfarlane’s Altar-Light, a tribute to the memory of the Rev. A. Fletcher 1860; Blair’s The prince of preachers, Rev. A. Fletcher 1860; The Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1860 p. 31, portrait; Trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher before the United Associate synod 1824.
FLETCHER, Eliza (dau. of Mr. Dawson of Oxton near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, land surveyor). b. Oxton 15 Jany. 1770; educ. Manor sch. York; wrote her autobiography. (m. 16 July 1791 Archibald Fletcher, advocate, who died at Auchindinny house near Edinburgh 20 Dec. 1828). d. Edinburgh 5 Feb. 1858. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, edited by Lady Richardson 1875, 2 portraits.
FLETCHER, George (son of Joseph Fletcher). bapt. Clarborough, Nottinghamshire 15 Oct. 1764; enlisted in Welsh fusiliers 2 Nov. 1785, deserted 16 March 1792; enlisted 3 foot guards 14 March 1793 when he stated that his original enlistment took place in Oct. 1773; pensioned 18 April 1803 on 1s. 2½d. a day; worked in West India dock 1803–39; local Wesleyan preacher, gave out that his birth took place on 2 Feb. 1747 and had large congregations to see him. d. 41 Wade st. Poplar, London 2 Feb. 1855. Thom’s Human Longevity (1873) 64,164–70; I.L.N. 10 March 1855 p. 221, portrait.
FLETCHER, Isaac (2 son of John Wilson Fletcher of Tarnbank, Cumberland 1788–1857). b. Greysowthen, Cumberland 22 Feb. 1827; a coal owner and ironmaster; M.P. for Cockermouth, Nov. 1868 to death; chairman of Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith railway; F.R.A.S. 11 May 1849; F.R.S. 7 June 1855; shot himself at Morley’s hotel, Trafalgar sq. London 3 April 1879.
FLETCHER, John Venour. b. Chesterfield 14 Nov. 1801; entered navy 13 Feb. 1814; captain 8 June 1841, went on half pay 24 Oct. 1841; admiral on half pay 20 Oct. 1872. d. Reading 5 Dec. 1877.
FLETCHER, Joseph. b. 1813; barrister M.T. 7 May 1841; sec. to Handloom inquiry commission 1841, to Children’s employment commission 1841–3; inspector of schools receiving grants under Privy Council 1844; one of hon. secretaries of statistical society of London 15 Feb. 1841; edited the Statistical Journal; author of Summary of the Moral Statistics of England and Wales 1850; Statistics of the Farm School system of the Continent and the education of pauper and criminal children 1851. d. Chirk, co. Denbigh 11 Aug. 1852. bur. Tottenham church, Middlesex 18 Aug.
FLETCHER, Rev. Joseph (son of Rev. Joseph Fletcher 1784–1843, independent minister at Stepney). b. Blackburn 7 Jany. 1816; in a Manchester counting house to 1833; at Coward coll. 1833; minister of Congregational ch. Hanley 1839–49, of Christchurch, Hampshire 1849–73; kept a school at Christchurch but the death by drowning of 7 of his pupils in May 1838 caused him to close the establishment; author of The works and memoirs of Rev. Joseph Fletcher, D.D. 1846; History of Independency 4 vols. 1847–49 and other works. d. Christchurch 2 June 1876.
FLETCHER, Ralph. b. Gloucester; studied at St. Bartholomews; surgeon to Gloucester county hospital; had one of finest consulting practices in the kingdom, extending to whole of South Wales and Bristol; the income from his practice, which was purely surgical, exceeded £4000 for many years; had a very fine collection of pictures; author of Sketches on the influence of the mind on the body 1833; Notes on cruelty to animals 1846. d. Barton st. Gloucester 8 Feb. 1851 aged 70 worth more than £80,000. Medical Directory 1852 pp. 646–7.
FLEXMORE, Richard, stage name of Richard Flexmore Geatter (son of Richard Flexmore Geatter, celebrated comic dancer). b. Kennington, London 15 Sep. 1824; appeared at Victoria theatre as a dancer 1832; clown at Grecian theatre, Christmas 1844, at Olympic theatre, Christmas 1845; played at Princess’s, Strand, Adelphi, Covent Garden and Drury Lane to 1860; noted for his imitations of the leading dancers of his day; acted with his wife in chief European cities in 1849, &c. (m. 28 July 1849 Franciska Christophosa dau. of Jean Baptiste Auriol famous French clown, she m. (2) her cousin Monsieur Auriol, and d. Paris 3 Sep. 1862). d. 66 Hercules buildings, Lambeth, London 20 Aug. 1860. Illust. sp. and dr. news ii, 268 (1874), portrait, iv, 294 (1875), portrait; Era 26 Aug. 1860 p. 10, col. 1, and 2 Sep. p. 10, col. 2; A first appearance, By Mrs. Evans Bell (1872), i, 129–33, iii, 195–7.
FLIGHT, Walter (son of William P. Flight). b. Winchester 21 Jany. 1841; ed. at Queenwood coll. Hampshire, D. Sci. London 1867; assistant in mineralogical department British Museum 5 Sep. 1867, resigned 1884; experimented on the constituents of meteorites; F.R.S. 7 June 1883; author of numerous papers in scientific journals, majority of them on meteorites. d. 4 Wildwood terrace, North End, Hampstead 4 Nov. 1885. W. Flight’s Chapter on Meteorites 1887.
FLOOD, Frederick Solly- (only son of Richard Solly of Walthamstow, who d. 1803). b. 7 Aug. 1801; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; assumed by r.l. additional surname of Flood 14 Oct. 1818; barrister L.I. 6 May 1828; attorney general for city and garrison of Gibraltar 15 Feb. 1866 to 1877. d. Gibraltar 13 May 1888.
FLOWER, Edward Fordham (younger son of Richard Flower, who d. 15 Jany. 1862). b. Marden hall, Hertfordshire 31 Jany. 1805; spent his early life in Illinois; brewer Stratford on Avon 1832–62; mayor of Stratford 3 times, also in 1864 during Shakespeare tercentenary; contested Coventry 1865 and North Warwickshire 1868; removed to London 1873; endeavoured to prevent cruelty to horses in use of bearing reins and gag-bits; author of Bits and bearing reins 1875, 7 ed. 1886 and 3 other books. d. 35 Hyde park gardens, London 20 March 1883. E. F. Flower’s Bits and bearing reins (1886) 3–15, portrait; Victoria Mag., May 1878 pp. 67–8, portrait; I.L.N. 7 May 1864 p. 453, portrait.
FLOWER, John Wickham. b. London 11 Aug. 1807; studied geology and archæology; lived at Croydon about 1848 to death; F.G.S. 1863; author of Adam’s disobedience and its results, 2 ed. 1871; A Layman’s reason for discontinuing the use of the Athanasian creed 1872. d. Park hill, Croydon 11 April 1873.
FLOWER, Richard. b. Hertfordshire about 1780; went with Morris Birkbeck to the U.S. 1817 to found an English colony in Albion, Edwards co. Illinois; instrumental in securing defeat of attempt to legalize African slavery in Illinois 1823; author of History of the English settlement in Edwards county, Illinois founded in 1817 and 1818 by Morris Birkbeck and Richard Flower, Chicago 1882. d. Grayville, White co. Illinois 15 Jany. 1862.
FLOWERS, Frederick (3 son of Field Flowers, rector of Partney, Lincs.) b. Boston, Lincs. 1810; educ. Louth gram. sch.; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1839; recorder of Stamford, March 1862 to July 1864; revising barrister northern division Nottinghamshire; police magistrate Bow st. London 6 July 1864 to death. d. Holmesdale, Tottenham lane, Hornsey, Middlesex 26 Jany. 1886. Graphic 8 Jany. 1881 p. 32, portrait; Saturday Review lxi, 145 (1886).
FLOWERS, George French (brother of the preceding). b. Boston 1811; studied music under Rink and Von Wartensee in Germany; of Lincoln coll. Oxf., Bac. Mus. 1839, Doc. Mus. 1865; organist British embassy chapel, Paris, St. Mark’s Myddleton sq., and St. John’s Paddington successively; founded Contrapuntists’ Soc. 1843; introduced and developed Vogler’s system of progressive cadences 1848; his most distinguished pupil in singing was Mrs. Howard Paul; joined ch. of Rome 1860; author of Essay on the construction of fugue 1846; Muscular Vocalisation, a poem, Barrow on Humber 1861; composer of organ fugues, pastoral chorus and choral fugue. d. of cholera in London 14 June 1872.
FLOYER, John (younger son of Rev. Wm. Floyer 1746–1819, V. of Stinsford, Dorset). b. 26 April 1811; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1831; sheriff of Dorset 1844; M.P. for Dorset 1846–57 and 1864–85; contested Dorset, April 1857; chairman of Dorset quarter sessions. d. 5 Old palace yard, Westminster 4 July 1887.
FLUDE, Thomas Peters (2 son of Jonathan Flude, town mayor of Berwick on Tweed). Second lieut. R.A. 17 July 1817, col. 15 May 1855, col. commandant 11 Dec. 1868 to 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Tweed house, Folkestone 13 July 1885 in 87 year.
FOGGO, George. b. London 14 April 1793; instructed in painting by Jean Baptist Regnault in Paris; worked with his brother James Foggo 1819–59; one of founders and hon. sec. of Soc. for obtaining free access to Museums; lithographer; published a set of lithographs from Raphael’s cartoons 1828; Catalogue of the pictures in the National Gallery 1844 and the Adventures of Sir J. Brook, Rajah of Sarawak 1853; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 36 at Suffolk st. 1816–64. d. London 26 Sep. 1869.
FOGGO, James. b. London 11 June 1789; instructed by Jean Baptist Regnault in Paris; returned to London 1815; supported himself by teaching and portrait painting; from 1819 painted pictures in conjunction with his brother George Foggo for 40 years; well known as painters of altar pieces; exhibited a large picture “The Christian inhabitants of Parga preparing to emigrate”; exhibited their works with Haydon and others at the Pantheon, London 1843 etc.; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 22 at Suffolk st. 1816–58; with his brother undertook care of exhibition of pictures at Pantheon Oxford st. London 1852. d. London 14 Sep. 1860.
FOLEY, Thomas Henry Foley, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3 Baron Foley 1780–1833). b. Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 11 Dec. 1808; M.P. for Worcestershire 5 Aug. 1830 to 16 April 1833; captain of corps of gentlemen at arms 1833–34, 1835–41, 1846–52, 1852–58, 1859–66 and 1868 to death; P.C. 1833; lord lieut. of Worcestershire. d. Paris 20 Nov. 1869, personalty sworn under £250,000, 22 Jany. 1870.
FOLEY, Rev. Daniel. b. about 1815; employed in shop of Patrick Grey, Tralee; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1852, B.D. 1854, D.D. 1858; professor of Irish in univ. of Dublin 1849–61; prebendary of Kilbragh in Cashel cath. to death; R. of Templetuohy 1852 to death; lectured against disestablishment of Ch. of Ireland; author of An English-Irish Dictionary, Dublin 1855. d. Blackrock, Dublin 7 July 1874.
FOLEY, John Henry. b. Dublin 24 May 1818; student of the R.A. London 1835, A.R.A. 1849, R.A. 1858; his group of Iro and Bacchus exhibited 1840 purchased by the earl of Ellesmere; executed statues of Hampden and Selden for St. Stephen’s hall, Westminster; executed group of Asia and figure of Prince Consort for Albert Memorial, Hyde park, Caractacus and Egeria for Mansion house, and statues of Canning, Harding and Outram for Calcutta; exhibited 49 works at R.A. and 8 at B.I. 1839–75. d. Hampstead 27 Aug. 1874. bur. St. Paul’s cathedral 4 Sep., left his models to the Dublin Soc. and the bulk of his property to the Artists’ Benevolent fund. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxi, 226–29 (1875); Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 315–17 (1862); I.L.N. xxx, 419 (1857), portrait, lxv, 236, 249, 254 (1874), portrait.
FOLJAMBE, George Savile. b. 4 June 1800; ed. at Eton and St John’s coll. Cam.; kept fox hounds in Notts. 1822–45 when he sold them for upwards of £3500; sheriff of Notts. d. Osberton near Worksop 18 Dec. 1869. Sporting Review lxiii, 12–14, 371 (1870).
FOLLETT, Brent Spencer (4 son of Benjamin Follett of Topsham, Devon). b. 1810; barrister L.I. 7 June 1833, bencher 3 Nov. 1851 to death, treasurer 1872; Q.C. 11 July 1851; M.P. for Bridgwater 1852–57; contested Cirencester, April 1859; chief registrar of Land Registry Office, London 18 Aug. 1862 to death; member of council of legal education, London. d. 23 Jany. 1887.
FOLSOM, Abby H. b. England about 1792; went to the U.S. about 1837; became noted as an advocate of anti-slavery reform and for addresses at meetings of American anti-slavery society about 1842–5; author of A letter from a member of the Boston bar to an Avaricious Landlord, Boston 1851. (m. Mr. Folsom of Massachusetts). d. Rochester, New York 1867.
FONBLANQUE, Albany William (3 son of John de Grenier Fonblanque 1760–1838). b. London 1793; a journalist on Morning Chronicle, Times and Atlas; on the Examiner 1826, manager and editor 1830–47, sole proprietor to 1860; head of statistical department of Board of Trade 1847 to death; a brilliant talker, a finished scholar and a student of music and art; author of England under seven administrations 3 vols. 1837. d. London 14 Oct. 1872. Life, ed. by E. B. de Fonblanque 1874; Westminster Papers vii, 21–23 (1874); Graphic vi, 442, 445 (1872), portrait.
FONBLANQUE, John Samuel Martin De Grenier (brother of the preceding). b. Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London, March 1787; ed. at Charterhouse and Caius coll. Cam.; 2 lieut. 21 fusiliers 3 June 1810, 1 lieut. to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in the American war, made prisoner at New Orleans; barrister L.I. 27 Nov. 1816; one of the 70 comrs. of bankruptcy 1817, comr. of Court of Bankruptcy 1830 to death; a founder of The Jurist, a quarterly journal of jurisprudence and legislation 1827; author with J. A. Paris of Medical Jurisprudence 3 vols. 1823. d. Brighton 3 Nov. 1865.
FOOTE, Henry Richard. Entered navy 6 May 1830; captain 20 Oct. 1853; harbour manager and secretary Newport dock company 1854; retired captain 31 March 1866; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880. d. Ellesmere house, Newport, Monmouthshire 23 Nov. 1885 aged 68.
FORAN, Most Rev. Nicholas. b. Waterford; ed. at Maynooth; pres. of St. John’s college, Waterford short time; parish priest of Lismore; parish priest of Dungarvan to 1837; R.C. Bishop of Waterford and Lismore 23 May 1837 to death; consecrated 24 Aug. 1837. d. Dungarvan 18 May 1855 in 74 year.
FORBES, Walter Forbes, 18 Baron. b. Crailing house, Roxburghshire 29 May 1798; ensign Coldstream guards 1814; commanded a company at defence of Hougoumont 18 June 1815; retired 1825; succeeded 4 May 1843; a great benefactor to St. Ninian’s cathedral, Perth. d. Richmond, Surrey 1 May 1868, monument in Guards’ chapel, Wellington barracks, London.
FORBES, Right Rev. Alexander Penrose (2 son of John Hay Forbes, lord Medwyn 1776–1854). b. Edinburgh 6 June 1817; educ. Glasgow univ. 1833 and Haileybury coll.; assistant collector Rajahmundry, India 1837; head assistant to the Sudder and Foujdarry Adawlut 1839–40; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1840, Boden Sanskrit scholar 1841; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846, D.C.L. 18 May 1848; C. of Aston Rowant, Oxf. 1844; C. of St. Thomas’, Oxf. 1845; incumb. of Stonehaven, Kincardine 1846; V. of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1847, one of the first Tractarian churches; elected bishop of Brechin 21 Sep. 1847 when the seat of the bishoprick was removed from Brechin to Dundee, and he also became V. of St. Paul’s, Dundee; censured by the college of bishops for his teaching on the real presence 15 March 1860; built St. Paul’s cathedral, Dundee 1855 and founded sisterhood of St. Mary and St. Modwenna; author of An explanation of the Thirty nine articles 2 vols. 1867–68 in which he was assisted by Dr. Pusey; The prisoners of Craigmacaire 1852; The pious life of Helen Inglis 1854; Kalendars of Scottish saints 1872 and 20 other works. d. Castle hill, Dundee 8 Oct. 1875. Mackey’s Bishop Forbes (1888), portrait; Memoir of Alexander, bishop of Brechin, By Miss Skene (1876).
FORBES, Sir Charles Fergusson. b. 1779; hospital assistant in army medical service, May 1798; served in Egypt, Gallicia and the Peninsula; retired with rank of deputy inspector general of hospitals 1864; M.D. Edinburgh 24 June 1808; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814, F.R.C.P. 10 July 1841; practised in London 1814 to death; physician Royal Westminster infirmary for diseases of the eye 1816, fell out with his colleague G. J. Guthrie 1827 when he resigned; fought a duel with Hale Thomson one of Guthrie’s party, on Clapham common 29 Dec. 1827; F.L.S. 1822; K.C.H. 1837; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. d. 23 Argyll st. London 22 March 1852. Munk’s Roll of College of Physicians (1878) iii, 129; Medical Circular i, 137 (1852).
FORBES, David. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. col. 9 Bombay N.I. 23 Nov. 1841 to 25 May 1852; commandant at Aden 9 Jany. 1851 to 25 May 1852; col. 3 European regiment 1854 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Upper Brunswick place, Brighton 2 April 1863.
FORBES, David (son of Edward Forbes of Oakhill, Isle of Man, banker). b. Douglas 6 Sep. 1828; educ. Brentwood, Essex and Edin. univ.; superintendent of mining and metallurgical works at Espedal, Norway 1848–58; F.G.S. 1853 and one of secretaries 1871; F.R.S. 3 June 1856; partner with Evans and Askin, nickel smelters, Birmingham 1856; A.I.C.E. 1 Feb. 1853, mem. of council 1872–73; visited Bolivia, Peru, South Sea islands and Africa in search of mines and minerals 1857–66; foreign sec. of Iron and Steel Institute 1871–6; one of the first to apply the microscope to the study of rocks; wrote 58 papers on scientific subjects. d. 11 York place, Portman sq. London 5 Dec. 1876. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxiii, 41–8 (1877); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlix, 270–75 (1877); Journal of Iron and Steel Institute 1876 pp. 519–24.
FORBES, Duncan. b. Kinnaird, Perthshire 28 April 1798; village school master of Straloch 1815; educ. Carmichael sch., Perth gram. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ., M.A. 1823, LLD. 1847; employed in Calcutta academy Nov. 1823 to 1826; assistant to Dr. John Borthwick Gilchrist, teacher of Hindustani and to Dr. Sandford Arnet 1826–37; professor of oriental languages, King’s coll. London 1837–61; hon. fellow of King’s coll. 1861; catalogued Persian MSS. in British Museum 1849–55; author of The Hindustani Manual 1845; The history of chess from the time of the early invention of the game in India 1860; A grammar of the Bengali language 1861; A grammar of the Arabic language 1863 and other books. d. London 17 Aug. 1868. Annual Report R. Asiatic Soc., May 1869 pp. vii-viii.
FORBES, Edward (2 child of Edward Forbes of Douglas, Isle of Man, banker). b. Douglas 12 Feb. 1815; ed. at univ. of Edin. 1831–36; naturalist to H.M.’s surveying ship Beacon, in the Levant 1841–42; professor of botany at King’s college, London, Oct. 1842; F.G.S. 4 Dec. 1844, librarian and curator 1842–44, pres. 1853; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845; palæontologist at Museum of practical geology 1 Nov. 1844 to 1854; founded Club of the Metropolitan Red Lions 1845; professor of natural history in Univ. of Edin. April 1854 to death; published with Sylvanus Hanley A History of British Mollusca 4 vols. 1848–53; author of many books and papers on natural history. d. Wardie near Edinburgh 18 Nov. 1854. J. H. Bennett’s Memoir of E. Forbes 1855; Memoir of E. Forbes by G. Wilson and A. Geikie 1861, portrait; Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of Edin. ii, 434 (1884); I.L.N. xxv, 564, 566 (1854), portrait.