EADIE, Rev. John. b. Alva, Stirlingshire 9 May 1810; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, LLD. 1846; D.D. St. Andrews 1850; professor of hermeneutics in United Presbyterian Church of Scotland 1847; a temperance lecturer; licensed as a preacher by United Secession church 1835; minister of Cambridge st. ch. Glasgow, Sep. 1835; minister of Lansdowne ch. Glasgow, Dec. 1863 to death; professor of Biblical literature in United Secession divinity hall, Glasgow 1843 to death; moderator of the Synod 1857; edited Voluntary church mag. 1840; member of New Testament revision committee 1870; edited A Biblical cyclopÆdia 1849, 14 ed. 1873; author of A commentary on the Greek text of the epistle of Paul to the Ephesians 1854, 3 ed. 1883; The English Bible, an external and critical history of the English translations 2 vols. 1876 and many other books. d. Glasgow 3 June 1876. J. Brown’s Life of Rev. J. Eadie (1878); John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 95–102; Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxviii, 276–91, portrait; Good Words xix, 470–72 (1878).

EAGLE, Francis King (2 son of Robert Eagle of Lakenheath, Suffolk). Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., LLB. 1819; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1809, bencher; recorder of Thetford; judge of county courts, circuit 33. (Suffolk) March 1847 to death; F.L.S. 1807; author with Edward Younge of A collection of reports of cases relating to tithes 4 vols. 1826. d. Bury St. Edmunds 8 June 1856 aged 68.

EAGLE, George Barnardo (i.e. Barnard). Professor of Clairvoyance; known as the “Wizard of the South”; when giving a morning performance at the Assembly Rooms, St. Peters Port, Guernsey 1 May 1858 suddenly seized on the stage with vomiting of blood. d. at his residence Pollet st. St. Peters Port 5 May 1858 aged 51. bur. Abney park cemetery, London 10 May. Era 16 May 1858 p. 10.

EAGLES, Rev. John (eld. son of Thomas Eagles of Bristol, merchant and classical scholar 1746–1812). b. parish of St. Augustine, Bristol, baptised 8 Nov. 1783; ed. at Winchester and Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1818; C. of Halberton, Devon 1822–34; C. of Winford near Bristol 1834–41; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. 1831–55 chiefly on subjects connected with fine art; author of The Sketcher, Edin. 1856; Sonnets, ed. by Z. K. Edin. 1858; Felix Farley, rhymes, Latin and English, by Themaninthemoon, Bristol 1826. d. King’s Parade, Clifton 9 Nov. 1855. G.M. xliv, 661–62 (1855) xlv, 148 (1856); Bentley’s Miscellany xlvi, 594–605 (1859).

EARDLEY, Sir Culling Eardley, 3 Baronet (only son of Sir Culling Smith, 2 bart. 1768–1829). b. Lower Grosvenor st. London 21 April 1805; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox.; succeeded 30 June 1829; M.P. for Pontefract 1830–31; contested Pontefract 1837, Edinburgh 1846 and West Riding of Yorkshire 1848; founded Evangelical Alliance 1846; assumed surname of Eardley in lieu of Smith 14 May 1847; pres. of London Missionary Soc.; built All Saints ch. Belvedere, Kent 1861; took a prominent part in many religious and social movements; had a gallery of paintings at Belvedere near Erith. d. Bedwell park, Hatfield 21 May 1863. Waagen’s Galleries of Art (1857) 275–84.

EARDLEY-WILMOT, Frederick Marow (2 son of Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1 bart. 1783–1847). b. 29 May 1812; 2 lieut. R.A. 6 Nov. 1830, colonel 1 April 1860 to 6 March 1868; M.G. 6 March 1868; F.R.S. June 1863. d. Fox hills near Chertsey 30 Sep. 1877.

EARLE, Sir Hardman, 1 Baronet (4 son of Thomas Earle of Spekelands, Lancs., a Liverpool merchant, who d. 9 July 1822). b. 11 July 1792; a merchant at Liverpool; created Baronet 3 Nov. 1869. d. Allerton Tower, Woolton, near Liverpool 25 Jany. 1877. I.L.N. lxx, 156 (1877), portrait.

EARLE, Ralph Anstruther (2 son of Charles Earle of Everton, Lancs. 1798–1880). b. Edinburgh 1835; ed. at Harrow; attachÉ at Paris 6 Oct. 1854; private sec. to Disraeli, when chancellor of the exchequer 1 March 1858–June 1859; M.P. for Berwick April 1859 to Aug. 1859, for Maldon July 1865 to Nov. 1868; parliamentary sec. to poor law board 14 July 1866 to 22 March 1867. d. Soden, Nassau 10 June 1879.

EARLE, Thomas. b. Hull 1810; exhibited 57 sculptures at R.A. and 24 at B.I. 1834–73; gained gold medal and book at R.A. for best historical group 1839; designer and modeller to Sir Francis Chantrey. d. of grief at his great sculpture being refused admission to R.A. 1876 at 1 Vincent st. Ovington square, London 28 April 1876. AthenÆum 13 May 1876 p. 673; Times 3 May 1876 p. 12, col. 5.

EARLE, William (3 son of Sir Hardman Earle 1792–1877). b. 18 May 1833; ensign 49 foot 17 Oct. 1851; served in Crimean war; lieut. grenadier guards 20 March 1857, major 21 Aug. 1878 to 1 April 1880 when placed on h.p.; military sec. in British North America 1865–70, to viceroy of India 1872–76; C.S.I. 7 March 1876; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882; commanded garrison of Alexandria 1882–84; commanded column sent up the Nile to rescue of General Gordon at Khartoum 1884 to death; shot while leading on his troops against the Arabs at Kirbekan 10 Feb. 1885. bur. at Allerton, statue of him by C. B. Birch, A.R.A., erected at Liverpool. H. Brackenbury’s The river column (1885); I.L.N. 21 Feb. 1885 p. 200, portrait.

EARLY, Rev. John. b. co. Fermanagh 1814; went to United States 1832; entered Society of Jesus 1834; ordained priest 1844; professor of belles lettres in Georgetown college, Ontario; pres. of Worcester college Mass.; went to Baltimore 1852 where he built college and church of St. Ignatius; pres. of Georgetown college. d. Georgetown 1874.

EARNSHAW, Rev. Samuel. b. Sheffield 1805; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1831; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; a very successful coach at Cambridge 1831–47; chaplain in church and parish of Sheffield 1847 to death; author of Dynamics or a treatise on motion 1833, 3 ed. 1844; The theory of Statics 1834, 4 ed. 1856; The Tradition of the Elders 1860; The love of the world 1861. d. Earnscliffe 6 Dec. 1888.

EASBY, John. b. Deansgate, Manchester 1812; a green coat schoolboy 1820; journalist actor and local preacher; a frequent contributor to periodicals; Manchester correspondent of The Era. d. Lower Mosley st. Manchester 18 Nov. 1852. J. Easby’s Scenes from the life of a green-coated schoolboy 1851. R. W. Procter’s Manchester Streets (1874) 224–28.

EASSIE, Peter Boyd. b. Lochee, Dundee 17 April 1835; railway contractor at Gloucester; constructed part of Cornwall railway, opened 1859; brought out an elliptograph and other successful inventions; author of Wood and its use, Gloucester 1874. d. 26 June 1875.

EAST, Sir East George Clayton, 1 Baronet (2 son of Sir W. Clayton, 4 Bart. 1762–1834). b. 9 April 1794; ed. at Caius coll. Cam.; LLB. 1818, LLD. 1823; assumed name of East by royal sign manual 6 April 1829; created baronet 17 Aug. 1838. d. Hall place near Maidenhead 6 March 1851.

EAST, Sir James Buller, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Edward Hyde East, 1 Bart. 1764–1847). b. Bloomsbury, London 1 Feb. 1789; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1824, D.C.L. 1834; barrister I.T. 5 Feb. 1813; succeeded 8 Jany. 1847; bencher of his Inn 15 Jany. 1856, reader 1869; M.P. for Winchester 30 July 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832, and 10 Jany. 1835 to 10 Feb. 1864. d. Bourton house near Moreton in the Marsh, Gloucs. 19 Nov. 1878.

EASTBURN, Right Rev. Manton. b. Leeds 9 Feb. 1801; graduated at Columbia, U.S. 1817; ordained 1822; assistant minister in Ch. Ch. New York 1822–27; R. of church of the Ascension, New York 1827–42; assistant bishop of Protestant episcopal diocese of Massachusetts 29 Dec. 1842, bishop, March 1843 to death; author of Four lectures on Hebrew, Latin and English poetry 1825; Lectures on the Epistles to the Philippians 1833 and other books. d. Boston 11 Sep. 1872. H. G. Batterson’s sketch of American episcopate (1878) 136–37.

EASTHOPE, Sir John, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Easthope of Tewkesbury). b. Tewkesbury 29 Oct. 1784; stockbroker at 9 Exchange buildings, city of London 1818; made £150,000 in a few years; contested St. Albans 1821, Southampton 1835, Lewes 1837 and Bridgnorth 1847; M.P. for St. Albans 1826–30, for Banbury 1831–32 and for Leicester 1837–47; purchased Morning Chronicle in 1834 for £16,500; created baronet 24 Aug. 1841. d. Fir Grove near Weybridge, Surrey 11 Dec. 1865. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters i, 76–86 (1841); J. Sedgwick’s Letters (1845) pp. i-vi.

EASTLAKE, Sir Charles Lock (youngest son of George Eastlake of Plymouth, solicitor, who d. 1820). b. Plymouth 17 Nov. 1793; exhibited 51 pictures at R.A. and 18 at B.I. 1813–55; painted in Rome 1816–30, in London 1830–55; A.R.A Nov. 1827, R.A. 10 Dec. 1830, librarian 1842–44, pres. Nov. 1850 to death; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1838; sec. to commission of the Fine Arts 3 Dec. 1841 to 1861; keeper of National gallery Nov. 1843 to Oct. 1847, director 1855 to death, when the trustees bought his library for £2,100; knighted at Windsor Castle 13 Nov. 1850; author of Materials for a history of oil painting 2 vols. 1847–69; History of the Gothic revival 1871 and other books. d. Pisa 24 Dec. 1865. bur. English cemetery, Florence 27 Dec., reinterred Kensal Green cemetery 18 Jany. 1866. Sir C. L. Eastlake’s Contributions to the literature of the fine arts, second series with a memoir by Lady Eastlake 1870; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy, ii, 225, 280–87 (1862); W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 152–56; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, fourth series (1860), portrait; I.L.N. xvii, 357 (1850), portrait, xxxvi, 448, 450 (1860), portrait.

EASTLAKE, William (son of George Eastlake of Plymouth, solicitor). b. 1820; ed. at Repton school; articled to his father; admitted 1844; partner with his father; deputy judge advocate of the fleet 1851 to death. d. 3 Buckland terrace, Plymouth 12 Oct. 1881 in 61 year.

EASTON, John Alexander, b. India 1807; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 1836; surgeon of Glasgow police April 1840 to Nov. 1859; professor of materia medica in Univ. of Glasgow, Oct. 1855 to death. d. Blythswood sq. Glasgow 11 Nov. 1865.

EASTWICK, Edward Backhouse (2 son of Robert William Eastwick of Thurloe sq. London 1772–1865). b. Warfield, Berkshire 13 March 1814; ensign Bombay army 5 June 1836; professor of UrdÚ at Haileybury college, Aug. 1845, librarian 1850; sec. of legation at court of Persia 1860–62; barrister M.T. 6 June 1860; private sec. to Lord Cranbourne, sec. of state for India 1866–67; M.P. for Penryn and Falmouth 18 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; F.S.A. 17 March 1853; C.B. 6 Nov. 1866; translated Anvari Suhaili, The Fables of Pilpay 1854 and other books; author of Journal of a diplomate’s three years residence in Persia, 2 vols. 1864 and other books. d. Ventnor 16 July 1883.

EASTWICK, William Joseph (brother of the preceding). b. 1808; ed. at Winchester; ensign Bombay army 1826; acting resident at Hyderabad to 1841; a director of the H.E.I. Co. 30 June 1847, deputy chairman 1858; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1868; an original member of Cobden club 1866; author of Lord Lytton and the Afghan war 1879. d. 12 Leinster gardens, Hyde park, London 24 Feb. 1889. bur. Teddington churchyard 1 March.

EASTWOOD, Rev. Jonathan. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; C. of Ecclesfield near Sheffield 1847–54; C. of Eckington, Derbyshire 1854–62; P.C. of Hope near Hanley 1862 to death; author of History of the parish of Ecclesfield in the county of York 1862; author with W. A. Wright of Bible word-book, a glossary of old English Bible words 1866. d. St. Leonards on Sea 5 July 1864 aged 40.

EASTWOOD, Richard (son of Henry Eastwood, head keeper to Peregrine Edward Towneley of Towneley, Lanes). b. Burnley; admitted attorney 1824; partner with Anthony Buck of Burnley 1824–62, with A. B. Creeke and J. B. Sandy 1862 to death; bred race horses and short horns; won the Oaks with Butterfly 1860. d. Morecambe near Lancaster 28 May 1871. Saddle and Sirloin, By the Druid, Part North (1870) 345–57.

EBORALL, Cornelius Wilkes. b. Birmingham 1820; general manager of East Lancashire railway company 1850–56, of South Eastern railway company 1856 to death; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1865. d. 2 Lee park, Blackheath, Kent 15 Dec. 1874. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 287–89 (1875).

EBSWORTH, Joseph (son of Joseph Ebsworth of Islington, London). b. Islington 10 Oct. 1788; apprenticed to a watch jeweller; sec. to D. E. Morris proprietor of the Haymarket theatre; actor and prompter at T.R. Edinburgh 1826; teacher of music and singing at Edin. 1828 to death; bookseller at 23 Elm row, Edin. 1828–43; gave concerts at Hopetoun rooms, Queen st. 1830–68; leader of the choir at St. Stephen’s ch. Edin.; author of Crockery’s misfortunes or transmogrifications, a burletta produced at Royal Coburg theatre, London 11 July 1821 and 33 other dramatic pieces. d. Edinburgh 22 June 1868.

EBSWORTH, Mary Emma (dau. of Robert Fairbrother, pantomimist and fencing-master). b. London 2 Sep. 1794; author of the following play published in Cumberland’s acting drama, Payable at sight, or the chaste salute, acted at Surrey theatre; also of The two brothers of Pisa, acted at Royal Coburg theatre, and The sculptor of Florence. (m. 22 June 1817 the preceding). d. Walworth, London 13 Oct. 1881.

EBURN, William Hawthorn. Acted at Glasgow; acted at Edinburgh many years; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Amiens in As you like it 6 April 1855; acted at Adelphi theatre many years. d. Kennington park road, London 19 Sep. 1874. bur. Woking cemetery 27 Sep.

ECCLES, Henry. b. Bath 1817; called to bar in Canada 1842; a bencher of Canadian Law Society 1853; Q.C. 1856; very prominent in his profession. d. Toronto 22 Nov. 1863.

ECCLES, Rev. Seth. b. Longridge, Lancs. 1800; admitted student at English college, Rome 1820, a medallist; R.C. priest of Weston Underwood, Bucks. 1825 to 1871; member of chapter of see of Northampton 1850, provost to death; created hon. D.D. by Pius ix, 1861; author of An explanation of the seven penitential psalms 1844; On justification, What saith the Scripture 1861. d. Weston Underwood 10 July 1884.

ECKFORD, James. Entered Bengal army 1804; col. 56 Bengal N.I. 27 Oct. 1848 to death; L.G. 29 April 1861; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. 33 Clarendon road, St. Heliers, Jersey 2 July 1867 aged 81.

ECKFORD, Robert. Surgeon Bombay army 22 Oct. 1812; pres of medical board Bombay 1830 to 1 May 1832 when he retired. d. Jersey 27 Feb. 1865 aged 93.

EDE, George Matthews. b. Clayfield lodge near Southampton Common Feb. 1834; ed. at Eton; agriculturalist at Northampton; returned to Southampton; gentleman steeplechaser and hurdle rider under name of Mr. Edwards; first rode at Warwick meeting Sept. 1856, rode 9 stone without training; won 306 races 1856–70; called the Fordham of amateurs; won the Grand National on the Lamb 1868 and the Grand Annual at Warwick on Musketeer 1868; established with his twin brother Edward Lee Ede the Hampshire county cricket club, scored 1200 runs in 1863; killed when jumping at Aintree near Liverpool 13 March 1870. Bailey’s Mag. xii, 351–55 (1867), portrait on title page. Sporting Review lxiii, 238–39 (1870).

EDEN, Sir Ashley (3 son of 3 Baron Auckland 1799–1870). b. Hertingfordbury Herts. 13 Nov. 1831; ed. at Rugby and Winchester; entered Indian civil service 1852; sec. to government of Bengal and member of Bengal legislative council 1860–71; chief comr. of British Burmah 1871–77; lieut. governor of Bengal 1877–82; a member of secretary of state’s council 1882 to death; C.S.I. 30 May 1874, K.C.S.I. 1878; the Eden canal which joins the Ganges and the TistÁ is called after him. d. 31 Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 9 July 1887. bur. Armthorpe near Doncaster 14 July. T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 70–75.

EDEN, Sir Charles. (youngest son of Sir Frederick Morton Eden, 2 baronet 1766–1809). b. 3 July 1808; entered navy 27 Oct. 1821; captain 11 Aug. 1841; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; controller general of coastguard 5 Dec. 1855 to 1859; a lord of the admiralty 27 June 1859 to 1866; V.A. 6 April 1866, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 8 Feb. 1873. d. 9 Queen’s gate place, London 7 March 1878.

EDEN, Rev. Charles Page (3 son of Rev. Thomas Eden, C. of St. George’s, Bristol, who d. 22 July 1809 aged 57). b. Whitehall St. George’s near Bristol 13 March 1807; Bible clerk at Oriel coll. Ox. 25 Oct. 1825, fellow 1832–51, dean 1838; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; select preacher Oxford 1838 and 1853; V. of St. Mary’s, Oxford 1843–50; V. of Aberford near Leeds 1850 to death; proctor in convocation of province of York 1869, 1874 and 1880; preb. of York cath. 1870 to death; edited Gunning’s Paschal, or Lent fast 1845; Andrewes’s Pattern of catechistical doctrine 1846; Jeremy Taylor’s Works vols. i-viii; contributed to the ‘Tracts for the times’ No. 32, ‘On the standing ordinances of religion.’ d. Aberford vicarage 14 Dec. 1885. J. W. Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men (1888) ii, 305–42.

EDEN, Emily (7 dau. of 1 Baron Auckland 1744–1814). b. Old palace yard, Westminster 3 March 1797; lived in India with her brother Lord Auckland 1835–42; author of Portraits of the people and princes of India 1844; The semi-detached house, edited by Lady Theresa Lewis 1859 anon.; The semi-attached couple, By E. E. 2 vols. 1860; Up the country, letters written from the upper provinces of India 2 vols. 1866, 3 ed. 1872. d. Fountain house, 5 Upper Hill st. Richmond, Surrey 5 Aug. 1869. bur. in family vault at Beckenham, Kent.

EDEN, George Morton, b. 9 May 1806; ensign 84 foot 18 July 1822; lieut. col. 56 foot 20 May 1836 to 5 July 1839; captain Scots fusilier guards 5 July 1839 to 20 June 1854; col. 50 foot 20 April 1861 to death; L.G. 14 March 1862. d. Bern, Switzerland 11 Nov. 1862.

EDEN, Henry (4 son of Thomas Eden, deputy auditor of Greenwich hospital, who d. 1 May 1805). b. 9 Aug. 1797; entered navy 15 June 1811; captain 30 April 1827; private sec. to Lord. Auckland, first lord of the Admiralty 1846–48; superintendent of Woolwich dockyard 1848–53; A.D.C. to the Queen 1853–54; a lord of the Admiralty 1855–58; admiral 16 Sep. 1864, retired 1 April 1870. d. 45 Eaton sq. London 30 Jany. 1888.

EDEN, John (brother of preceding). b. 25 March 1789; cornet 22 light dragoons 14 Feb. 1807; major 15 foot 8 June 1826 to 31 Dec. 1830 when placed on h.p.; col. 34 foot 28 Jany. 1860 to death; general 25 Aug. 1868; C.B. 30 March 1839. d. Bath 6 Oct. 1874.

EDEN, Right Rev. Robert (brother of Sir Charles Eden 1808–78). b. Pall Mall, London 2 Sep. 1804; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1839, D.D. 1851; R. of Leigh, Essex 1837–51; bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness 1851 to death, consecrated at St. Paul’s, Edin. 9 March 1851; Primus of the Episcopal church of Scotland 5 July 1862 to death; founded cathedral of St. Andrew in Inverness, foundation stone laid 17 Oct. 1866; author of many addresses and sermons. d. Eden court, Inverness 26 Aug. 1886.

EDEN, William (2 son of Sir Robert Eden, governor of Maryland 1 bart. who d. 1786). Ensign 46 foot 26 Aug. 1786; assist. quartermaster general in England 25 Dec. 1797; lieut. col. 79 foot 15 Aug. 1798 to 11 Dec. 1806; lieut. col. 84 foot 11 Dec. 1806 to 1814; quartermaster general in Madras 20 June 1807: general 28 June 1838; granted reward for distinguished service 1 Dec. 1838. d. Ham, Surrey 24 May 1851 aged 83.

EDEN, William Hassall. b. 22 Feb. 1800; ensign 6 foot 31 March 1814; lieut. col. 88 foot 10 Aug. 1839 to 16 Aug. 1839; lieut. col. 56 foot 16 Aug. 1839 to 3 Feb. 1854; commandant at Chatham 1 Sep. 1854 to 31 March 1858; col. 90 foot 24 Oct. 1862 to death; general 4 March 1872; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. 5 Royal crescent, Bath 10 Dec. 1832.

EDERSHEIM, Rev. Alfred. Educ. at Univ. of Vienna and Berlin; Ph.D. Kiel 1855; D.D. New coll. Edin.; hon. M.A. Ox. 1881, M.A. by Decree of convocation 1883; ordained deacon and priest 1875; C. of Christchurch, Hants. 1875–76; V. of Loders, Dorset 1876–83; Warburtonian lecturer at Lincoln’s Inn 1880–84; select preacher at Oxford 1884–85; author of History of the Jewish nation after the destruction of Jerusalem 1856; True to the end, a story of Scottish life 1871, new ed. 1878; Jewish social life in the days of Christ 1876; The Life and times of Jesus the Messiah 2 vols. 1883 and many other books, d. Mentone 16 March 1889 aged 64.

EDGAR, Edward Fisher. Made his first appearance on the stage at Victoria theatre, London, as a child in The Stranger; played in the provinces; appeared at Olympic theatre, as AndrÉ in Lucille or the story of a heart 1852; lessee of Marylebone theatre; lessee with Richard Shepherd of Surrey theatre 1871–72; acted at Princess’s, Lyceum, Globe, Adelphi, Royalty and other theatres; played part of Hasting in She stoops to conquer at Imperial theatre, April to July 1879; sec. of Royal general theatrical fund 5 April 1876 to 1879. d. 2 Powis place, Queen sq. London 2 Sep. 1884.

EDGAR, Rev. John (son of Rev. Samuel Edgar pastor of Ballykine, Tipperary). b. Ballykine 13 June 1798; professor of theology in secession branch of Presbyterian church 1826–48; D.D. Hamilton college U.S.A. 1836; LLD. New York 1860; a great temperance advocate in Ireland 1829–41; a founder of Religious Book and Tract Society; moderator of general assembly of United church 1842; author of 42 pamphlets published under title of select works of John Edgar. d. Rathgar 26 Aug. 1866. W. D. Killen’s Memoir of John Edgar (1867), portrait.

EDGAR, John George (4 son of Rev. John Edgar, minister of Hutton, Berwickshire). b. 1834; passed some time in a Liverpool house; visited the West Indies on mercantile affairs; published Biography for boys; Foot-prints of famous men 1854 and about 20 books for the young; the first editor of Every Boy’s Magazine 1862. d. London 22 April 1864.

EDGELL, Harry (eld. son of Hippil Edgell of Beckington, Somerset). b. Beckington 30 Jany. 1767; ed. at Warminster gr. sch. and Royal college, Douai; admitted student at Gray’s Inn 1787; clerk of Assize of Norfolk circuit 1795 to death; clerk of the Errors in court of Exchequer; barrister G.I. 26 June 1811; clerk of the Errors in Court of Common Pleas 1837. d. 21 Cadogan place, Chelsea 14 May 1863. bur. Ruislip, Uxbridge 21 May.

EDGELL, Harry Edmund (only son of Henry Folkes Edgell 1767–1846, R.A.) b. 1809; entered navy 1823; captain 9 Nov. 1846; retired V.A. 14 July 1871; C.B. 20 May 1859. d. Chichester 4 Feb. 1876.

EDGEWORTH, Michael Pakenham (youngest son of Richard Lovell Edgeworth the author 1744–1817). b. 24 May 1812; ed. at Charterhouse, Edinburgh and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1831; one of the 5 comrs. for settlement of the Punjaub 1850–59; collected 11 new species of plants in two hours at Aden 1846; author of Grammar of Kashmiri language 1841; Pollen with 446 figures 1877, new ed. 1879. d. in the island of Eigg, Inverness 30 July 1881.

EDISON, John Sibbald (son of J. Edison). b. 1803; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1831; author of Letters to the authors of the Plain tracts for critical times, By a Layman 1839; Remarks on Lord Brougham’s character of Pitt 1842; Legitimate system of national education 1855; Question of admissibility of Jews to Parliament 1859; Henry of Richmond, a drama 2 parts 1857–60; Commentary on Lord Brougham’s character of George iii, 1860; Jephtha, a dramatic poem 1863; Northumberland, a historical dramatic poem 1866; Divine right of rule 1869; Edwin, an historical poem 1873. d. Stock near Ingatestone, Essex 9 Sep. 1878.

EDKINS, Robert Pitt. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1836; second master of Kensington proprietary school; second master of city of London school 18 years; professor of geometry in Gresham college, city of London. d. 28 Belitha villas, Barnsbury, London 11 Nov. 1854 aged 49.

EDMESTON, James. b. 10 Sept. 1791; educ. Hackney; articled to an architect and surveyor 1807; architect 1816, removed to Homerton 1822; sec. of St. Barnabas, Homerton parochial schools; author of The search and other poems 1817; Anston Park, a tale 1821; The world of spirits; The cottage minstrel, 50 hymns 1821; Fifty hymns on missionary subjects 1822; One hundred Sunday School hymns 1822; Patmos a fragment and other poems 1824; The woman of Shunem, a sketch 1829; Hymns for the chamber of sickness 1844; Closet hymns and poems 1846; Sacred Poetry 1848. d. 15 Brooksby’s Walk, Homerton 7 Jany. 1867. Miller’s Singers and songs (1869) pp. 418–20.

EDMONDS, George (3 son of Richard Edmonds 1774–1860, town clerk of Marazion, Cornwall). b. Penzance 25 March 1805; admitted attorney 4 July 1827; practised in London 1829–38; author of The tuck net retucked, or porpoises instead of pilchards 1824; Complete ancient classical dictionary [1837]; Complete English grammar 1837; The tri-national grammar [1838]; The penny gospel 1843. d. Croydon 13 Sep. 1869.

Note.—He was while residing in London actively engaged in writing against the stamp duty on newspapers, and was so often employed by defendants in prosecutions for selling unstamped newspapers, that he was frequently called “The attorney general for unstamped newspapers.”

EDMONDS, George (son of Rev. Edward Edmonds, pastor of Baptist chapel in Bond st. Birmingham). b. Kenion st. Birmingham 1788; edited Edmonds’s Weekly Recorder 1819; imprisoned 12 months for taking part in a conspiracy to elect a member of parliament 1820–21; kept a school in Bond st. Birmingham 1823; clerk of the peace for Birmingham May 1839, solicitor there 1852; author of The philosophic alphabet with an explanation of its principles 1832; A universal alphabet, grammar and language comprising a scientific classification of the radical elements of discourse and illustrative translations from the Holy Scriptures and principal British classics [1856]. d. Abington Abbey Retreat near Northampton 1 July 1868. E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 140–54, portrait; R. K. Dent’s Old and new Birmingham (1880) 350–56, 398, 571, portrait; Notes and Queries 6 S. iv, 102, 210, 539 (1881); Aggravating Ladies, by Olphar Hamst (1880) p. 25.

EDMONDS, Richard (brother of George Edmonds 1805–69). b. Penzance 18 Sep. 1801; admitted attorney 4 June 1823; practised at Penzance 1823–25 and 1836–61, at Redruth 1825–36, at Plymouth 1861 to death; author of The Land’s End district, its antiquities, natural history, natural phenomena and scenery 1862, and of numerous papers in scientific and archÆological transactions. d. Plymouth 12 March 1886. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 132–34 (1874), iii, 1169 (1882).

EDMONDS, Thomas Rowe (brother of the preceding). b. Penzance 20 June 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; actuary of the Legal and general life assurance society, London 1832–66; author of Practical, moral and political economy, or the government, religion and institutions most conducive to individual happiness and to national power 1828; Life tables founded on the discovery of a numerical law regulating the existence of every human being 1832; An inquiry into the principles of population 1832, anon. d. 72 Portsdown road, Maida Vale, London 6 March 1889. C. Walford’s Insurance CyclopÆdia ii, 470–74 (1873).

EDMONDSON, George (son of John Edmondson of Lancaster, Quaker). b. Lancaster 8 Sep. 1798; ed. at Ackworth sch. Yorkshire; assisted Daniel Wheeler in superintending some agricultural institutions in Russia 1817–20; lived in Russia again 1823–30; opened a school at Blackburn 1830 and then one at Tulketh hall near Preston; kept an agricultural school at Queenwood Hall, Hants. 1847 to death; an early promoter of College of Preceptors 1846. d. 15 May 1863. bur. in burial ground of Society of Friends, Southampton. From the Lune to the Neva sixty years ago, By J. B. [Mrs. Davis Benson] 1879.

EDMONDSON, Thomas (brother of George Edmondson 1798–1863). b. Lancaster 30 June 1792; apprenticed to a cabinet maker; journeyman in firm of Gillow and Co. Lancaster; a cabinet maker at Carlisle, became bankrupt; railway booking clerk at Milton station (since called Brampton) 14 miles from Carlisle about 1836; invented the railway ticket system 1837; founded a ticket printing establishment at Manchester. d. Manchester 22 June 1851. J. B. Edmondson’s To whom are we indebted for the railway ticket system? 1878; Household Words vi, 31, (1852); I.L.N. vi, 117 (1845), view of ticket printing machinery.

EDMONDSTON, Laurence (son of Laurence Edmonston of Lerwick, Shetland, surgeon). b. Lerwick 1795; studied at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1830; surgeon in Unst, most northerly of Shetland islands 1830 to death; a great naturalist, made many additions to list of British birds embracing the snowy owl, the Glaucus, Iceland and Ivory gulls; author of The claims of Shetland to a separate representation in parliament 1836 and other pamphlets. d. Baltasound, Shetland, March 1879. The home of a naturalist, In Memoriam, in Chambers’s Journal 11 Feb. 1882 pp. 89–92.

EDMONSTONE, Sir Archibald, 3 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Charles Edmonstone, 2 baronet 1764–1821). b. 32 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 12 March 1795; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1816; succeeded 1 April 1821; contested Stirlingshire 24 May 1821; author of Journey to two of the Oases of Upper Egypt 1822; Tragedies 1837; The Christian gentleman’s daily walk 1840, 3 ed. 1850 and 8 other books. d. 34 Wilton place, London 13 March 1871. Sir A. Edmonstone’s Genealogical account of the family of Edmonstone (1875) 56–7.

EDMONSTONE, Sir George Frederick (4 son of Neil Benjamin Edmonstone 1765–1841, member of supreme council, Bengal). b. April 1813; entered Bengal civil service 1831; sec. to government of India in foreign, political and secret department 1856; lieut. governor of north western provinces of Bengal 20 Jany. 1859 to 7 March 1863; K.C.B. 11 Dec. 1863. d. Effingham hill, Dorking 24 Sep. 1864.

EDMONSTONE, Sir William, 4 Baronet (brother of Sir Archibald Edmonstone 1795–1871). b. Hempton, Middlesex 29 Jany. 1810; entered navy Oct. 1823; inspecting commander in Coast Guard 1844–49; captain 20 Oct. 1853; A.D.C. to the Queen 1865–69; superintendent of Woolwich dockyard 1866–71; R.A. 3 July 1869, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 1 Jany. 1880; M.P. for Stirlingshire 1874–80; C.B. 24 March 1863. d. 11 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 18 Feb. 1888.

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. 28^B 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).

ELLERTON, John Lodge (son of Adam Lodge of Liverpool). b. Chester 11 Jany. 1801; ed. at Rugby and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1828; studied music at Rome where he wrote 7 Italian operas; his English opera Domenica produced at Drury Lane 7 June 1838 failed; wrote another English opera The Bridal of Triermain and a German opera Lucinda; published an oratorio Paradise Lost 1857, fifty string quartets and many other musical works; a member of the Musical Union 1847–71; assumed name of Ellerton about 1844; author of The bridal of Salerno, a poetical romance 1845, The elixir of youth, a legend and other poems 1864. d. Connaught place, Hyde park, London 10 Jany. 1873.

ELLESMERE, Francis Egerton, 1 Earl of (younger son of 1 Duke of Sutherland 1758–1833). b. Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 1 Jany. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Bletchingley, Surrey 1822–26, for Sutherlandshire 1826–30, for South Lancashire 1834–46; a lord of the Treasury 1827; under sec. of state for Colonies, Jany. to May 1828; chief sec. to Marquis of Anglesey, lord lieut. of Ireland 1828–30; P.C. 28 June 1828; P.C. Ireland 9 Aug. 1828; sec. at war 30 July to 22 Nov. 1830; rector of Univ. of Aberdeen, Oct. 1838; created Earl of Ellesmere of Ellesmere, Salop, and Viscount Brackley of Brackley, Northamptonshire 1 July 1846; K.G. 7 Feb. 1855; lord lieut. of Lancashire 9 April 1856; author of Translations from the German and original poems 1824; Mediterranean sketches 1843; The pilgrimage and other poems 1856. d. Bridgewater house, St. James’s, London 18 Feb. 1857. Journal of British ArchÆol. Assoc. xiv, 184–6 (1858); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xiv, pp. xlv-xlvii (1858); Fraser’s Mag. July 1835 p. 43, portrait; I.L.N. viii, 60 (1846), portrait, xxxvii, 563, 568 (1860), portrait.

ELLESMERE, George Granville Francis Egerton, 2 Earl of. b. Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 15 June 1823; M.P. for North Staffs. 1847–51; succeeded 18 Feb. 1857. d. Balbirnie, Fifeshire 19 Sep. 1862.

ELLICE, Sir Charles Henry (2 son of general Robert Ellice 1784–1856). b. Florence 10 May 1823; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign Coldstream guards 10 May 1839; lieut. col. 24 foot 8 Aug. 1851 to 8 July 1862 when placed on h.p.; quarter master general 1 April 1871 to 30 March 1876; adjutant general 1 Nov. 1876 to March 1882; col. of 49 foot 7 Sep. 1874, of 24 foot 6 April 1884 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 April 1887; C.B. 1 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873, G.C.B. 15 April 1882. d. Brook house, Horringer, Bury St. Edmunds 12 Nov. 1888.

ELLICE, Edward (eld. son of Alexander Ellice, managing director of the Hudson’s Bay Company). b. Montreal 1781; ed. at Winchester sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1800; settled in London as member of firm of Inglis and Ellice, West India and America house; M.P. for Coventry 1818–1826 and 1830 to death; sec. to the Treasury 26 Nov. 1830 to 10 Aug. 1832 when he resigned; sec. of war 4 April 1833 to 16 Dec. 1834; P.C. 3 April 1833; original chairman of Reform club, London mainly established by his influence 1836; hon. D.C.L. St. Andrews 1862. d. Ardochy, Glengary 17 Sep. 1863. Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 33, 37, 123, portrait; I.L.N. xliii, 335, 337 (1863), portrait.

ELLICE, Edward (only son of the preceding). b. London 19 Aug. 1810; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1831; contested Inverness 1834; M.P. for Huddersfield 1836–37, for St. Andrew’s district 1837–80; author of A Letter in reply to A Report on the Poor Law in the Highlands 1855. d. on board his yacht Ita off Portland during the night of 2 Aug. 1880. bur. at Tor-na-cairidh on Lochgarry, Invernessshire.

ELLICE, Robert (2 son of Alexander Ellice, managing director of the Hudson’s Bay Company). b. 1784; cornet 12 light dragoons 8 Nov. 1798; major 6 dragoons 25 June 1812 to 30 Nov. 1820 when placed on h.p.; col. 24 foot 2 Nov. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 18 June 1856.

ELLICOMBE, Sir Charles Grene (brother of Rev. H. T. Ellacombe 1790–1885). b. Alphington rectory 3 Aug. 1783; first lieut. R.E. 1 July 1801, brigade major 1821 to Dec. 1842, col. commandant 30 May 1856 to death; served in Peninsula, Nov. 1811 to end of the war; general 20 April 1861; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. Worthing 7 June 1871. United Service Mag. July 1871 pp. 407–409.

ELLIOT, Sir Charles (youngest son of Hugh Elliot 1752–1830, governor of Madras). b. Dresden 1801; entered navy 26 March 1815; captain 28 Aug. 1828; protector of slaves in British Guiana 1830–33; British plenipotentiary in China 1840–41; consul general in Texas 1841–46; governor of Bermuda 1846–54; governor of Trinidad 1854–56; governor of St. Helena 20 May 1863 to 1 Feb. 1870 when he retired on pension; retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865; K.C.B. 19 July 1856; is drawn by Sir Henry Taylor in the poem Edwin the Fair 1845 as Earl Athulf. d. Withycombe near Exmouth 9 Sep. 1875. Autobiography of H. Taylor i, 164–69, 345–75 (1885).

ELLIOT, Charles Morgan (9 child of John Elliot, F.R.S.) b. Pimlico lodge, Westminster 27 April 1815; ed. at Eton and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 1832, lieut. 11 Sep. 1841 to death; superintendent of magnetic observatory at Singapore 1840–45; made a magnetic survey of Eastern Archipelago, Jany. 1846 to Oct. 1849; F.R.S. 5 June 1851. d. Masulipatam 4 Aug. 1852.

ELLIOT, Lady Charlotte (eld. dau. of Sir James Carnegie, 5 baronet 1799–1849). b. 22 July 1839; raised to rank of an Earl’s daughter 1855 on her brother becoming Earl of Southesk; author of Stella and other poems By Florenz 1867; Medusa and other poems 1878. (m. (1) 16 June 1860 Thomas Frederick Scrymsoure Fothringham, who d. 7 March 1864; m. (2) 17 Dec. 1868 Frederick Boileau Elliot, barrister 1826–80). d. 15 Jany. 1880. AthenÆum 24 Jany. 1880 p. 124.

ELLIOT, Sir George (2 son of 1 Earl of Minto 1751–1814). b. Swanage, Dorset 1 Aug. 1784; entered navy 4 June 1794; a naval aide-de-camp to Wm. iv, 1830–37; a junior lord of the Admiralty 1835–37; commander in chief at Cape of Good Hope 1837–40; commander of fleet in East Indies 15 Feb. 1840 to Nov. 1840; admiral 5 March 1853; pensioned 3 Oct. 1855; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 4 Prince’s terrace, Knightsbridge, London 24 June 1863.

ELLIOT, Sir Henry Miers (brother of Charles Morgan Elliot 1815–52). b. 1808; ed. at Winchester; entered Bengal civil service 1826; sec. for foreign department to governor general in council 1847; K.C.B. for service during Sikh war 5 June 1849; author of Supplement to the glossary of Indian terms [Compiled in 1842 by H. H. Wilson] A-J. 1860, no more printed; Bibliographical index to the historians of Muhammedan, India, vol. i, 1849; The History of India as told by its own historians, edited by J. Dowson 8 vols. 1867–77 and other books. d. Simon’s Town, Cape of Good Hope 20 Dec. 1853.

ELLIOT, John Edmund (youngest son of 1 Earl of Minto 1751–1814). b. 30 March 1788; in the Bengal civil service to 1830; M.P. for co. Roxburgh 1837–1841 and 1847–1859; sec. of Board of Control 26 Jany. 1849 to March 1852; author of Letter to the Teviotside Farmer 1841. d. 29 Cadogan place, London 4 April 1862.

ELLIOT, Sir Thomas Frederick (brother of Sir Charles Eliot 1801–75). b. London, July 1808; ed. at Harrow; clerk in colonial office London 5 July 1825; sec. to commission of enquiry into state of Canada, July 1835; agent general of emigration April 1837; chairman of board of advice and management over colonial land and emigration 1840–1847; assistant under sec. of state for colonies 1847 to Dec. 1868 when he retired on pension; K.C.M.G. 30 June 1869. d. Shepherd’s hotel, Cairo 12 Feb. 1880.

ELLIOT, Sir Walter (eld. son of James Elliot of Wolfelee, Roxburghshire). b. Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1803; writer Madras civil service 1821; third member of Board of Revenue 1844, second 1848, first 1851; comr. of the Northern Circars 1848–54; member of council and pres. of revenue and marine boards 1855–56 and 1857 to 27 Dec. 1859 when he resigned the service; a scholar in the Tamil and Hindustani languages; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; F.R.S. 6 June 1878; hon. LLD. Edin. 22 April 1878; author of Carnacta translation of Esop’s Fables 1840; Flora Andhrica, a list of plants in the Telegu district 1859, and of many papers on archÆology in Indian Antiquary, Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society and other periodicals. d. Wolfelee 1 March 1887. Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, July 1887 pp. 519–24; Biograph i, 251–54 (1882).

ELLIOTSON, John (eld. son of Thomas Elliotson of 106 High st. Southwark, druggist). b. High st. Southwark 24 Oct. 1791; spent 5 years at Univ. of Edin. 1805–10, M.D. 24 June 1810; L.R.C.P. London 22 Dec. 1810; spent 3 years at Jesus coll. Cam. 1813–16, M.B. 1816, M.D. 4 July 1821; candidate of R.C.P. 1 Oct. 1821, a fellow 30 Sep. 1822, censor 1825, consiliarius 1836, Gulstonian lecturer 1824, Lumleian lecturer 1829–30, Harveian orator 1846; assist. phys. to St. Thomas’s hospital 1817, phys. 1823–34; professor of medicine at London University 1832 to Dec. 1838; senior phys. to University hospital 1834 to Dec. 1838; began practise of Mesmerism 1837; founded Phrenological Society of London, pres.; founded London Mesmeric infirmary in Weymouth st. 1849; established The Zoist, a journal of cerebral physiology and mesmerism 1844 which ran to 13 vols.; broke up his establishment and quitted his house in Conduit st. 1865; pres. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc.; author of The principles and practice of medicine 1839; Treatise on human physiology, Fifth ed. 1835–40, another ed. 1856 and other books. d. 2 Davies st. Berkeley sq. London 29 July 1868. J. Ashburner’s Notes and Studies (1867) 59–68; Medical Circular iv, 403–4, 419–21, 432–3 (1854); Physic and Physicians ii, 273–85 (1839).

ELLIOTT, Charles. Entered Bengal civil service 1797; senior member of Board of Revenue in Bengal; agent to governor general in Western provinces, retired on annuity 1826; F.R.S. 1832; F.R.G.S.; treasurer of Asiatic Society some years; author of The life of Hafiz-ool-Moolk Hafiz Rehmab Khan 1831. d. Portland place, London 4 May 1856 aged 79.

ELLIOTT, Rev. Charles. b. Greenconway, Donegal 16 May 1792; went to the U.S. about 1815; presiding elder of Wesleyan, Ohio district 4 years; professor of languages in Madison college, Uniontown, Panama 4 years; edited Pittsburg Conference Journal; edited Western Christian Advocate to 1848 and 1852–56; professor of Biblical literature in and pres. of Iowa Wesleyan Univ. 1856–60; author of Treatise on Baptism 1834; Delineation of Roman Catholicism 2 vols. 1842, third ed. 1851; Life of Bishop Roberts 1853 and other books. d. Mount Pleasant, Iowa 6 Jany. 1869.

ELLIOTT, Rev. Charles Boileau (eld. son of Charles Elliott, who d. 4 May 1856). b. 1803; ed. at Harrow and Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; V. of Godalming, Surrey 1833–38; R. of Tattingstone near Ipswich 1838 to death; F.R.G.S.; F.R.S. 5 April 1832; author of Letters from the North of Europe 1832; Travels in the three great empires of Austria, Russia and Turkey 2 vols. 1838 and other books. d. Geneva 1 July 1875.

ELLIOTT, Rev. Charles John. b. 7 July 1818; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Cam., Crosse Univ. scholar 1840, Tyrwhitt Univ. scholar 1842, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; V. of Winkfield near Windsor 1844 to death; surrogate 1872; hon. canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1873; select preacher at Cambridge 1877; member of Old Testament revision company; author of Enquiry into the doctrine of the Church of England on private confession and absolution 1859 and other books; contributed to the Bible Educator 1872, the S.P.C.K. Commentary, Smith’s Dictionary of Biography and Antiquities, Edinburgh Review, &c. d. Winkfield vicarage 11 May 1881.

ELLIOTT, Charlotte (3 dau. of Charles Elliott of Clapham and Brighton). b. 17 March 1789; lived at Torquay 1845–57, at Brighton 1857 to death; edited Christian Remembrancer Pocket Book 1834–59; edited The Invalid’s Hymn book, 6 ed. 1854, to this collection she contributed 112 hymns including “Just as I am, without one plea,” a hymn dated 1836 which has been translated into almost every living language, she also wrote “My God and Father while I stray” 1834 in the same collection; author of Hymns for a week 1837, 40th thousand 1871; Hours of Sorrow 1836 and many later editions; Poems by C. E. 1863. d. 10 Norfolk terrace, Brighton 22 Sep. 1871. Selections from the poems of Charlotte Elliott with a memoir by her sister E. B. (Mrs. E. Babington) 1873, portrait; Just as I am, by C. Elliott 1884 with memoir by H. L. L. 1885; Miller’s singers and songs of the church 1869, 461–62.

ELLIOTT, Rev. Edward Bishop (brother of the preceding). b. 24 July 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1817–24, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; wrote Seatonian prize poems 1821 and 1822; V. of Tuxford, Notts. 1824–40; preb. of Salisbury 1853; P.C. of St. Mark’s chapel, Brighton 1853 to death; author of The Question “What is the image of the Beast?” answered 1838; HorÆ Apocalyptica, or a commentary on the Apocalypse critical and historical 3 vols. 1844; VindiciÆ HorariÆ 1848 and 6 other books. d. 30 July 1875.

ELLIOTT, George Percy (eld. son of Rev. Luther Graves Elliott of Ottery St. Mary, Devon). b. Silverton 1800; ed. at Winchester and St. Mary hall, Ox.; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 29 May 1829; magistrate at Lambeth police court 1845 to 20 Sep. 1870 when he retired; author of A practical treatise on the qualifications of Parliamentary electors 1839; ed. for the Camden Soc. Diary of Dr. E. Lake and Autobiography of Dr. Taswell. d. Egland, Honiton, Devon 12 July 1874.

ELLIOTT, Rev. Henry Venn (brother of Charlotte Elliott 1789–1871). b. 17 Jany. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1 Oct. 1816; 14 wrangler and 2 chancellor’s medallist 1814; C. of Ampton, Suffolk 1823–25; prior of St. John’s, Wilton near Salisbury 1826–32; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Brighton 18 Jany. 1827 to death, this chapel was built by his father for about £10,000 in 1826; founded St. Mary’s hall, Brighton opened 1 Aug. 1836; author of Psalms and Hymns 1835, fourteenth thousand 1858 and of many sermons. d. 31 Brunswick sq. Brighton 24 Jany. 1865. Life of Rev. H. V. Elliott by Josiah Bateman 1868, portrait.

ELLIOTT, Samuel Mackenzie. b. Inverness 9 April 1811; graduated at College of surgeons, Glasgow 1828; studied in Cincinnati and Philadelphia 1833–35; an oculist in New York 1835–74 where he gained a high reputation; lieut. col. of 79 regiment of New York volunteers in civil war 1861; raised the Highland brigade; author of The U.S. Highland Brigade, New York 1861. d. New Brighton, Staten Island, New York 1 May 1873.

ELLIOTT, Sir William Henry (younger son of John Elliott, captain R.N.) b. Elliott house near Ripon 1792; ensign 51 foot 6 Dec. 1809, lieut. col. 27 June 1838 to 13 Feb. 1855 when placed on h.p.; commanded Madras brigade in second Burmese war 1852–53; commandant at Rangoon 1853–55; col. of 55 foot 15 Nov. 1861, of 51 foot 1 June 1862 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871; K.H. 19 July 1837; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. 20 Cambridge sq. Hyde park, London 27 March 1874. I.L.N. lxiv, 331 (1874).

ELLIS, Rev. Arthur Ayres (son of Charles Ellis of Birmingham). b. Birmingham 1830; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855, fell. of his coll. 1854; senior classical master Liverpool coll. 1853–57; junior dean of Trin. coll. Cam. and divinity lecturer in Ch. coll. Cam. 1859–60; V. of Stotfold, Beds. 1860 to death; published Bentleii Critica Sacra 1862. d. 22 March 1887.

ELLIS, Sir Barrow Helbert (son of S. Helbert Ellis of London). b. London 24 Jany. 1823; ed. at Univ. coll. school and Haileybury; matric. at Univ. of London 1839; entered Bombay civil service 26 July 1843; assistant comr. in Sind 1851–55; ordinary member of Bombay council 1865, member of governor general’s council 2 May 1870 to 27 April 1875; member of council of secretary of state, July 1875 to 1885; K.C.S.I. 5 Oct. 1875; vice pres. of Jews’ college, London where there is a portrait of him; edited G. Stack’s Dictionary of Sindhi and English, Bombay 1855. d. Evian-les-Bains, Savoy 20 June 1887. bur. Jewish cemetery, Willesden, Middlesex 28 June. Journal of Royal Asiatic Soc. xix, 688–90 (1887).

ELLIS, Charles Willats (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Ellis, V. of Great Milton, Oxon.) Ed. at Westminster; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 22 Oct. 1807 aged 17; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1817; published A treatise on the pleadings in suits for tithes in equity 1821; A treatise on the law of debtor and creditor 1822; The clergyman’s assistant ed. by C. Ellis 1822, new ed. 1828; A collection of acts and records of parliament by Sir H. Gwillim, second ed. with notes by G. Ellis 1825; The law of fire and life insurance and annuities 1832, second ed. 1846. d. 42 Kensington sq. London 17 July 1868.

ELLIS, Edward Shipley (eld. son of John Ellis 1789–1862). b. 1817; chairman of Midland railway company, May 1873 to death. d. The Newark, Leicester 3 Dec. 1879.

ELLIS, Edwin. Solo violinist at Cremorne Gardens, London 1841; member of orchestra of Princess’s theatre; member of orchestra at Adelphi theatre 1860, conductor 1867 to death; published selections from Flotow’s Alessandro Stradella, Thomas’s Le Caid and Offenbach’s La Belle HÉlÈne and a few songs. d. St. Thomas’s hospital, London 25 Oct. 1878 aged 35.

ELLIS, George Cressall. Director of Her Majesty’s dramatic performances at Windsor castle many years. d. Park road east, West Brompton, London 23 June 1875 in 66 year.

ELLIS, Sir Henry. b. 1777; private sec. to pres. of Bengal board of control at Calcutta 1812–14; minister plenipotentiary ad interim in Persia 18 April 1814 to 1815; clerk of the Pells 1825–1834 when office was abolished; comr. of board of control 6 Dec. 1830 to 20 Dec. 1834; P.C. 11 July 1832; a comr. for affairs of India 13 Dec. 1832; ambassador to Persia 1 July 1835 to Nov. 1836; sent on an extraordinary and special mission to the Brazils 20 Sep. 1842; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; F.R.S. 11 June 1819, F.G.S.; author of Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China 1817. d. Brighton 28 Sep. 1855.

ELLIS, Sir Henry (younger son of John Ellis, master of the free school in Primrose st. Bishopsgate st. London, who d. 1812). b. Primrose st. 29 Nov. 1779; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school and St. John’s coll. Ox., fellow 1802–5; B.C.L. 1802; assistant librarian at Bodleian library 1797–1800; temporary assistant in British Museum library 1800, assistant keeper of printed books 1805, keeper 1806–12, keeper of the manuscripts 1812–27, secretary 1814–27, principal librarian 20 Dec. 1827 to Feb. 1856; F.S.A. 15 Jany. 1807, one of the secs. 1813 to 1 Dec. 1853, director 1 Dec. 1853 to 7 Dec. 1857; F.R.S. 30 May 1811; K.H. 21 July 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 22 Feb. 1833; author of History of the parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch 1798; edited Original letters illustrative of English history 3 series 1824, 1827, 1846 and other books. d. 24 Bedford sq. London 15 Jany. 1869. Fagan’s Life of Panizzi i, 142–43 (1880), portrait; Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1872) 230–32; Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series iv, 303–305 (1869); I.L.N. liv, 99, 141 (1869), portrait.

ELLIS, James. Managed Cremorne gardens, London 1845–51; arrived in Melbourne, Oct. 1852; established Salle Valentino there also Cremorne gardens. d. Melbourne 9 Jany. 1874 in 62 year. Era 22 March 1874 p. 7, col. 4.

ELLIS, John (eld. son of Joseph Ellis of Sharman’s lodge near Leicester, farmer). b. Frisk house near Leicester 1789; farmer at Beaumont Leyes near Leicester 1807–47; founded at Leicester firm of Ellis, Everington and Co. 1826; projected the third line of railway in England namely from Swannington to Bagworth, opened July 1832; M.P. for Leicester 1848–52; chairman of Midland railway company 1849–58. d. Belgrave near Leicester 26 Oct. 1862. Charlotte Ellis’s Sketch of one branch of the Ellis family, privately printed; The Midland railway by F. S. Williams (1876) 166–68.

ELLIS, Rev. Robert. b. Tyn-y-meini, Denbighshire 3 Feb. 1810; began preaching 5 Oct. 1834; baptist minister at Llanelian 1837, at Sirhowy, Monmouthshire 1847, at Carnarvon 1862–75; author of Lectures on Baptism 1841; The principles of Biblical Exegesis 1854; Memoir of John Williams 1871 and other books. d. Gartheryr 20 Aug. 1875. Rev. J. S. James’s Biography of Rev. R. Ellis 1877.

ELLIS, Rev. Robert. Member of St. John’s coll. Cam. 9 April 1836, scholar 5 Nov. 1839, fellow 30 March 1841 to 2 April 1872; fifth wrangler 1840; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; B.D. 1850; chiefly known by his controversy with W. J. Law on route followed by Hannibal over the Alps; author of A Treatise on Hannibal’s passage of the Alps 1853; Contributions to the ethnography of Italy and Greece 1858; The Armenian origin of the Etruscans 1861 and 6 other books. d. 3 Higher Summerlands, Exeter 20 Dec. 1885 aged 65. The Eagle, the St. John’s college magazine (1886).

ELLIS, Robert Leslie (youngest child of Francis Ellis of Bath). b. Bath 25 Aug. 1817; pensioner of Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1836, senior wrangler 1840; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; fell. of his coll. Oct. 1840 to 1849; edited Cambridge mathematical journal; seized with rheumatic fever at S. Remo 1849. d. Anstey hall, Trumpington 12 May 1859. The mathematical and other writings of R. L. Ellis, edited by W. Walton, with a biographical memoir by Very Rev. H. Goodwin (1863) pp. ix-xxxvi, portrait.

ELLIS, Robert Staunton. Entered Madras civil service 1844; member of council Madras 1875 to 16 March 1877; member of India office council 1877 to death; C.B. 21 April 1875; found dead in his bed at 141 Gloucester road, Kensington, London 9 Oct. 1877 aged 52.

ELLIS, Sir Samuel Burdon (son of Charles Ellis, captain R.N.) b. 1787; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 Jany. 1804; commanded Chatham division of R.M. 1851–1855; col. of Portsmouth division 28 March 1863 to death; general 1862; C.B. 1841, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Old Charlton, Kent 10 March 1865. Memoirs and services of Sir S. B. Ellis, edited by Lady Ellis 1866.

ELLIS, Sarah (dau. of William Stickney of Ridgmont near Hull, farmer, who d. 9 July 1848 aged 84). b. 1812; brought up as a Quaker, but became a Congregationalist 1837; author of Pictures of private life, 3 series 3 vols. 1833–37; The poetry of life 2 vols. 1835; Home, or the iron rule, a story 3 vols. 1836; The women of England, their social duties and domestic habits 1839, more than 20 eds.; The sons of the soil, a poem 1839; Family Secrets, or hints to those who would make home happy 3 vols. 1841 and numerous other books. (m. 1837 William Ellis 1794–1872). d. Rose Hill, Hoddesdon, Herts. 16 June 1872. Fisher’s Drawing Room scrap book 1844–5, portrait; S. Ellis’s Self Deception vol. i, portrait.

ELLIS, Sydney (youngest son of Edward Shipley Ellis 1817–79). b. Leicester 12 Dec. 1850; educ. at Brighton and at Tottenham; member of a firm of worsted spinners; lectured to his work people on physical and natural science; took great interest in chemistry, geology and anthropology; member of British Assoc. 1874 and of Literary and Philosophical Soc. of Leicester; author of Leila Marston, a tale 1861. d. from accidentally inhaling poisonous gas while investigating the composition of ferro-prussiate of potash 26 Oct. 1877, left legacies of £1000 each to Anthropological Instit., the Royal, Chemical and Geological societies. Journal of Anthropological Institute ix, 441–42 (1880).

ELLIS, Thomas Flower. b. 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow; B.A. 1818; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1824; Q.C. within county palatine of Lancaster; a municipal corporation comr. 1831; recorder of Leeds, May 1839 to death; attorney general of Duchy of Lancaster to death; edited with J. L. Adolphus Reports in court of King’s Bench 12 vols. 1835–42 and Queen’s Bench reports, new series, 18 vols. 1842–56; with Colin Blackburn Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 8 vols. 1852–58; with C. Blackburn and F. Ellis Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 1858; with F. Ellis Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 3 vols. 1858–61; acted as Lord Macaulay’s executor, and edited the posthumous vol. of his works. d. 15 Bedford place, Russell sq. London 5 April 1861. Trevelyan’s Life of Lord Macaulay (1878) i, 182, 253, 345, ii, 95, 220, 284; Pollock’s Personal Remembrances i, 91, 100.

ELLIS, Rev. William (2 child of William Ellis of London). b. Charles st. Long Acre, London 29 Aug. 1794; employed as a gardener at Wisbeach; removed to London 1811; missionary of the London missionary society in the South Sea Islands 1816–25; travelling agent at home 1825–31; foreign sec. of L.M.S. 1831–41; edited The Christian Keepsake an annual; pastor of Congregational church at Hoddesdon, Herts. 1847–52; missionary to Madagascar 1853, 1856 and 1861–65; author of History of Madagascar 2 vols. 1838; Polynesian Researches 2 vols. 1829, second ed. 3 vols. 1832–34, another ed. 1848, 4 vols. 1853 and other books. d. Rose hill, Hoddesdon 9 June 1872. bur. Abney park cemetery 14 June. J. E. Ellis’s Life of W. Ellis 1873; I.L.N. lx, 625, 630 (1872), portrait.

ELLIS, William (son of Andrew Ellis De Vezian, an underwriter at Lloyds, London, who took name of Ellis about 1801). b. Jany. 1800; assistant underwriter of Indemnity marine insurance company 1824, chief manager 1827; founded at his own expense five schools 1848–52, naming them Birkbeck after George Birkbeck; gave lectures to the royal children at Buckingham Palace; author of Outlines of social economy 1846; Education as a means of preventing destitution 1851; Philo-Socrates 1861 a series of papers, and other books. d. 6 Lancaster terrace, Regent’s park, London 18 Feb. 1881. Good Words, Aug. 1881 p. 543, portrait.

ELLIS, Rev. William Webb (2 son of James Ellis of Manchester). b. Nov. 1807; ed. at Rugby and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1831; C. of St. George’s, Albemarle st. London 1836–55; R. of St. Clement Danes, Strand 1843–55; R. of Laver Magdalen, Essex 1855 to death; author of A concise view of prophecy which relates to the Messiah 1832; Sermons at St. George’s 1838; Dangerous errors of Romanism 1853. d. 24 Jany. 1872. I.L.N. xxiv, 400 (1854), portrait.

ELLIS, Wynn (son of Thomas Ellis of Oundle, Northamptonshire). b. Oundle, July 1790; hosier and mercer at 16 Ludgate st. City of London 1812, wholesale silk merchant 1830–71 latterly the largest in London; M.P. for Leicester 1831–34 and 1839–47; sheriff of Herts. 1851–52. d. 30 Cadogan place, Sloane st. London 20 Nov. 1875. bur. at Whitstable, personalty sworn under £600,000, 8 Jany. 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 35, 37, 38 (1876), portrait.

Note.—He bequeathed all his pictures by the old masters 402 in number to the National Gallery, but the trustees selected only 44 of them which have since been exhibited as the Wynn Ellis collection. Among his modern pictures was a portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire purchased by Thomas Agnew and Sons for £10,605 the largest sum ever obtained for a picture at public auction, after being exhibited for a short time at 39 B Old Bond st., it was on the night of 26 May 1876 cut out of the stretching frame and stolen.

ELLIS-McTAGGART, Francis (son of Thomas Flower Ellis 1796–1861). b. 13 Dec. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; barrister I.T. 4 May 1849; edited with T. F. Ellis and C. Blackburn Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 1858; with T. F. Ellis Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 3 vols. 1858–61; judge of circuit 34 (Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) 4 May 1861 to Dec. 1871; judge of circuit 43 (Marylebone, London), Dec. 1871 to death; assumed additional name of McTaggart 1868. d. 28 Norfolk sq. London 15 March 1872.

ELLIS-NANNEY, Owen Jones. b. 1790; contested Carnarvon district 15 Dec. 1832, seated on petition 6 March 1833, unseated on counter petition 23 May 1833; contested Carnarvon district 12 Jany. 1835; sheriff of Carnarvon 1861. d. 27 Oct. 1870. Perry and Knapp’s Cases of controverted elections (1833) 106–11, 435–61; Cockburn and Rowe’s Cases (1833) 127–38, 550–60.

ELLISON, Cuthbert Edward. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1845; stipendiary magistrate at Newcastle 25 Jany. 1854, at Manchester 4 May 1860, at Worship st. police court, London 14 June 1864, at Lambeth police court, Sep. 1870 to death. d. 7 Chester st. Grosvenor place, London 26 May 1883.

ELLISON, Nathaniel (son of Rev. Nathaniel Ellison, Incumbent of St. Andrew, Newcastle upon Tyne). b. Newcastle 19 March 1786; ed. at Durham gr. sch.; admitted commoner of Univ. coll. Ox. 18 Oct. 1802; B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810; fellow of Merton coll. 1807–23; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1811; one of comrs. of bankrupts in London; comr. of court of bankruptcy at Newcastle upon Tyne 21 Oct. 1842 to death. d. Jesmond near Newcastle 12 Dec. 1861.

ELLISTON, Henry Twiselton (2 son of Robert Wm. Elliston the comedian 1774–1831). b. about 1801; established with his brother Wm. a library at Leamington, afterwards known as the County library; erected the music hall in Bath st. Leamington, lessee of the royal assembly rooms, organist at the parish church to death, librarian of the free public library Sep. 1863; wrote four services. d. Leamington 19 April 1864 aged 63.

ELMES, James (son of Samuel Elmes). b. London 15 Oct. 1782; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school; exhibited 36 architectural designs at R.A. 1801–42; vice pres. of Royal Architectural Society 1809–48; surveyor of port of London 1809–48; edited The Annals of the Fine Arts 1816–20; author of Hints for the improvement of prisons 1817, 3 ed. 1829; Lectures on Architecture 1823; Memoirs of Sir Christopher Wren 1823, 2 ed. 1852; The Arts and Artists 3 vols. 1825; Survey of the harbour and port of London 1838. d. Greenwich 2 April 1862.

ELMORE, Alfred. b. Clonakilty, co. Cork 18 June 1815; historical painter; exhibited 72 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. gallery 1834–80; his picture ‘Origin of the Guelph and Ghibelline quarrel’ was sold in 1845 for £300; A.R.A. 1845, R.A. 1857. d. 1 St. Alban’s road, Kensington, London 24 Jany. 1881. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 302–4 (1862); I.L.N. lxxviii, 125, 126 (1881), portrait; Ottley’s Dict. of painters 1866 p. 61.

ELMSLEY, John (son of John Elmsley 1762–1805, speaker of legislative council of Lower Canada). b. Elmsley house, Toronto 1801; entered British navy 1815, lieut. 1824; member of legislative council of Upper Canada until union of two provinces 1840; joined Church of Rome; established House of Providence at Toronto, and the first Roman Catholic school in Upper Canada; chief founder of College of St. Michael in Toronto. d. Toronto 8 Aug. 1863.

ELMSLEY, William. b. 1797; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 11 Nov. 1825; Q.C. 1851; bencher of his inn, Dec. 1851, treasurer and master of the library 1861; judge of county courts circuit 19 (Derbyshire) 16 April 1862 to death. d. Derby 20 Dec. 1866.

ELMSLIE, William Jackson (2 child of James Elmslie). b. Aberdeen 29 June 1832; a shoemaker to 1848; at Aberdeen gram. sch. 1848, at King’s coll. Aberdeen 1853, at Free ch. divinity coll. 1858; medical student in Edinburgh 1862; M.R.C.S. 1864; medical missionary in Kashmir 1864 to death; author of A vocabulary of the KashmÍrÍ language 1872. d. Goojerat 16 Nov. 1872. Seed time in Kashmir, a memoir of W. J. Elmslie 1875, portrait.

ELPHINSTONE, John, 13 Baron Elphinstone (only son of 12 baron Elphinstone, who d. 21 May 1813). b. Cumbernauld house, Dumbartonshire 23 June 1807; cornet royal horse guards 28 Jany. 1826, captain 4 Dec. 1832 to 21 Nov. 1836 when placed on h.p.; governor of Madras 6 March 1837 to 24 Sep. 1842; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Dec. 1847 to Feb. 1852 and Jany. to Oct. 1853; governor of Bombay Oct. 1853 to May 1860, took his seat 26 Dec. 1853; representative peer for Scotland; G.C.H. 1836; P.C. 3 Aug. 1836; G.C.B. 31 March 1859; created baron of the U.K. as Baron Elphinstone of Elphinstone 21 May 1859. d. King st. St. James’s, London 19 July 1860. Kaye and Malleson’s History of the Indian mutiny (1888–89) i, 309 etc.

ELPHINSTONE, Sir James Dalrymple Horn, 2 Baronet (son of Sir Robert Elphinstone, 1 baronet 1766–1848). b. Logie, Elphinstone, Aberdeenshire 20 Nov. 1805; captain in navy of H.E.I.Co.; M.P. for Portsmouth, April 1857 to July 1865 and Dec. 1868 to March 1880; a lord of the Treasury, Feb. 1874 to March 1880. d. Uplands, Bridgwater 26 Dec. 1886.

ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart (youngest son of 11 baron Elphinstone 1737–94). b. 6 Oct. 1779; went to Calcutta 1796; resident at Nagpur 1803–8; envoy to King of Cabool 13 Oct. 1808; political resident at Poona 1810–18; governor of Bombay 7 Oct. 1818 to 17 Jany. 1827 where a college bearing his name was founded; author of An account of the kingdom of Caubul 1815; History of India 2 vols. 1841, 5 ed. 1866 and other books. d. Hookward park near Limpsfield, Surrey 20 Nov. 1859. Life of M. Elphinstone by Sir T. E. Colebrooke 2 vols. 1884, 2 portraits.

ELSLEY, Charles Heneage (2 son of Rev. Heneage Elsley 1746–1833). b. 14 Aug. 1792; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1819; a comr. of bankrupts for Whitby, Scarborough and Northallerton; clerk of the peace for west riding of Yorkshire 1827 to death; recorder of Richmond, Yorkshire 1827 to death, of York 1834 to death, of Scarborough 1836 to death; judge of county courts March 1847–1854 when he resigned; author of Reports of Cases by Sir W. Blackstone, revised 1828; Essay on the relation between the English and French languages 1858. d. York 3 Aug. 1865.

ELT, Charles Henry. b. about 1805; a chartist; chairman of building act committee; member of Metropolitan Board of Works 1866 to death. d. 41 Gibson sq. Islington 20 May 1882.

ELTON, Sir Arthur Hallam, 7 Baronet (3 son of the succeeding). b. Belle Vue place, Clifton 19 April 1818; lieut. 14 foot 1840–41 when he sold out; sheriff of Somerset 1857; M.P. for Bath 28 March 1857 to 23 April 1859; author of Poems of past years 1856; Below the surface 3 vols. 1857; Herbert Chauncey, a novel 3 vols. 1860. d. Clevedon court near Bristol 14 Oct. 1883. I.L.N. xxx, 478 (1857), portrait.

ELTON, Sir Charles Abraham, 6 Baronet (eld. son of Rev. Sir Abraham Elton, 5 baronet 1755–1842). b. Bristol 31 Oct. 1778; ed. at Eton; ensign 4 foot Nov. 1796, captain 1799–1802 when placed on h.p.; captain 48 foot 1803–4; retired July 1825; lieut.-col. 2 Somerset militia; author of Poems 1804; Tales of romance with other poems 1810; The remains of Hesiod translated into English verse 1815; Specimen of the classic poets in a chronological series from Homer to Tryphiodorus translated into English verse 3 vols. 1814; A History of the Roman emperors 1825. d. at house of his son-in-law Rev. E. D. Tinling at Bath 1 June 1853.

ELTON, James Frederic (2 son of Roberts W. Elton, lieut. col. Bengal army). b. 3 Aug. 1840; entered Bengal army 1857; aide-de-camp to Sir Hugh Rose, commander in chief; captain 98 foot; served on staff of French army in Mexico 1866; vice consul at Zanzibar 15 Dec. 1874; consul for Portuguese possessions on east coast of Africa 8 March 1875 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of With the French in Mexico 1867. d. near Usekhe in Ugogo on an exploring expedition to Lake Nyassa 19 Dec. 1877. J. F. Elton’s Travels and researches among the lakes and mountains of Eastern and Central Africa 1879, portrait.

ELVEY, Stephen (eld. son of John Elvey of Canterbury). b. Canterbury, June 1805; lay clerk at Canterbury cathedral; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1831, Mus. Doc. 1838; organist of New coll. Ox. 1830 to death; organist of St. John’s coll. Ox. 1856 to death; deputy professor of music at Ox. to 1847; choragus in Univ. of Ox. 1848 to death; published The Oxford Psalm Book 1852; The Psalter printed for chanting upon a new principle 1856; The Canticles 1858. d. Oxford 6 Oct. 1860.

ELY, John Henry Loftus, 3 Marquis of (eld. son of 2 Marquis of Ely 1770–1845). b. Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 19 Jany. 1814; contested Gloucester 29 July 1841; M.P. for Woodstock 1 May 1845 to 26 Sep. 1845 when he succeeded. d. 63 Eaton place, London 15 July 1857.

EMDEN, William Samuel. Prompter at Covent Garden theatre under Madame Vestris 1839, subsequently acting manager; partner with F. Robson at Olympic theatre 1857–64; acting manager of St. James’s theatre; treasurer of Covent Garden theatrical fund 1869 to death; wrote The evil May Day, The head of the family, Lives labyrinth and The rear admiral, printed in Duncombe and Lacy’s plays. d. 18 Upper park road, Haverstock hill, London 4 Jany. 1872 aged 71.

EMERY, Samuel Anderson (son of John Emery, actor 1777–1822). b. Hyde st. Bloomsbury, London 10 Sep. 1817; first appeared on the stage at Fitzroy theatre, May 1834 as Dan in John Bull; played at Lyceum 1843 and 1844–47; stage manager at Surrey theatre 1848–9; played at Drury Lane 1850; the original FouchÉ in Tom Taylor’s Plot and Passion at Olympic 17 Oct. 1853; manager of Marylebone theatre 1857–58; first appeared in America 30 March 1863, at Barnum’s Old Museum, New York; returned to England, Sep. 1863; played at nearly all the west end theatres; played in Australia 1880–81. d. 3 King William st. Strand, London 19 July 1881. Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 45–6, portrait; Theatre n.s. iii, 70–2 (1884); Theatrical Times ii, 57 (1847), portrait; Touchstone 13 July 1878 p. 3, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, xv, 464 (1881), portrait.

EMMETT, Anthony. Educ. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 16 Feb. 1808, col. 11 Nov. 1851 to 21 May 1855 when placed on retired full pay as M.G.; served in Peninsula 1809–12; held various commands at St. Helena 1815–21, at Bermuda and in the Mediterranean. d. Brighton 27 March 1872.

EMMETT, Robert (son of Thomas Addis Emmett, Irish patriot 1764–1827). b. Ireland about 1792; went to New York with his father 1804, admitted to New York bar; a justice of state superior court; one of the directory formed in New York for purpose of aiding contemplated Irish insurrection of 1848. d. New Rochelle, New York 15 Feb. 1873.

EMPSON, William. Educ. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; began to contribute to Edinburgh Review 1823, wrote more than 60 articles upon law, politics and literary topics 1823–49, editor Feb. 1847 to death; professor of general polity and the laws of England in Haileybury college near Hertford 2 July 1824 to death. d. Haileybury 10 Dec. 1852 aged 62. Cockburn’s Life of Lord Jeffrey (1852) i, 374, ii, 232, 310 etc.; Selections from the correspondence of Macvey Napier (1879) pp. 62, 547.

ENFIELD, Edward (3 son of Henry Enfield, town clerk of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 15 May 1811; one of the moneyers of the Mint, London to 1851 when he retired on pension; member of council of University college, London, and of its committee of management 1858 to death; chairman of committee of management and treasurer of University college hospital 1867 to death; pres. of senate of the college 1878 to death; pres. of Manchester New college, London to death. d. 19 Chester terrace, Regents park, London 21 April 1880. N. H. Nixon’s North London hospital, a history (1882) 40; In Memoriam, Edward Enfield 1880.

ENGEL, Carl. b. Hanover 1818; author of Pianist’s Handbook 1853; The music of the most ancient nations 1864; Musical myths and facts 2 vols. 1876; hanged himself at 54 Addison road, Kensington, London 17 Nov. 1882.

ENGLAND, Poole Vallancey. Second lieut. R.A. 10 May 1805, col. 17 Feb. 1854, col. commandant 27 Feb. 1866 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on retired list; general 29 March 1873. d. 41 Marine parade, Dover 6 Nov. 1884 in 97 year.

ENGLAND, Sir Richard (son of lieut. general Richard England of Lifford near Ennis, co. Clare). b. Detroit, Upper Canada 13 May 1793; ed. at Winchester and Marlow; ensign 5 foot 25 Feb. 1808; lieut. col. 75 foot 6 July 1826 to 7 July 1837; lieut. col. 4 foot 7 July 1837 to 10 July 1837; lieut. col. 41 foot 10 July 1837 to 22 July 1845; brigadier general Madras 5 Feb. 1839 to Oct. 1840; commanded third division in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1855; col. of 50 foot 20 Sep. 1854 to 20 April 1861; major general division Curragh 15 Aug. 1856 to 31 March 1859; col. 41 foot 20 April 1861 to death; general 6 July 1863; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; K.H. 1835; K.C.B. 27 Sep. 1843, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; grand officer of legion of honour 1856. d. St. Margaret’s, Titchfield, Hants. 19 Jany. 1883. Once a week, xxvii, 7, 39, 53 (1872); Nolan’s Russian War, ii, 405, portrait.

ENGLISH, Henry. b. 1803; proprietor and editor of The Mining Journal 1835 to death; edited The quarterly mining review 4 vols. 1830–37; F.R.G.S.; author of A compendium of information relating to companies formed for working British mines 1826; A Glossary of mining terms used in Mexico, Columbia, Peru and other parts of South America, also those used in the mining districts of Cornwall and Derbyshire 1830; The mining almanack 3 vols. 1849–51. d. Islington, London 28 April 1855.

ENNIS, Sir John, 1 Baronet (only son of John Ennis of Ballinahowen court near Athlone, who d. 31 March 1834). b. Dublin 15 Aug. 1800; ed. at Stonyhurst college; merchant in Dublin; sheriff of Westmeath 1837, of co. Dublin 1849; contested Athlone, April 1856, M.P. for Athlone, April 1857 to July 1865; a comr. of charitable bequests to death; governor of Bank of Ireland to death; created baronet 27 July 1866. d. 9 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 8 Aug. 1878.

ENNIS, Sir John James, 2 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. 6 April 1842; ed. at Oscott and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Westmeath 1866; M.P. for Athlone 1868–74 and 1880 to death. d. Curzon st. Mayfair, London 28 May 1884.

ENNISKILLEN, William Willoughby Cole, 3 Earl of (eld. son of 2 Earl of Enniskillen 1768–1840). b. Dover st. Piccadilly, London 25 Jany. 1807; M.P. for Fermanagh 1831 to 31 March 1840 when he succeeded his father as 3 earl of Enniskillen and 2 baron Grinstead; hon. col. Fermanagh militia 1875 to death; F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1829; F.G.S. d. Florence court, Fermanagh 12 Nov. 1886.

EPPS, Ellen (dau. of John Frederick Elliott). b. 1809; author of Labour and live, a story 1848, anon.; Practical Observations on health and long life 1855; Blenham, a story, By the author of Labour and live 1858; Living among the dead, a story, By the author of Blenham 1860. (m. 24 Aug. 1831 John Epps 1805–69), she d. 7 July 1876.

EPPS, George Napoleon (son of John Epps of Ashford, Kent, who d. 1835). b. 22 July 1815; pupil and assistant of his brother John Epps; M.R.C.S. 1845; surgeon to Homoeopathic hospital in Hanover sq. London 1845; very successful in treating spinal curvatures and deformities; author of Spinal curvature, its theory, its cure 1849; On deformities of the Spine and on Club Foot 1859. d. 28 May 1874.

EPPS, John (half-brother of the preceding). b. Blackheath, Kent 15 Feb. 1805; ed. at Mill Hill school and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1826; practised in London 1827 to death, latterly as a homoeopath; lecturer on materia medica at Homoeopathic hospital 1851; joint editor of the London Medical and Surgical Journal 1828–9; published The Christian physician and Anthropological magazine 1835–9; edited Journal of health and disease 1845–52; Notes of a new truth 1856–69; contested Northampton as a Chartist 30 July 1847; author of The Devil 1842, anon.; Constipation, its theory and cure 1854; Consumption, its nature and treatment 1859. d. 89 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 12 Feb. 1869. Diary of the late John Epps, edited by Mrs. Epps 1875; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical Recollections (1874) 137–40.

ERCK, John Caillard. Ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland; author of The Irish ecclesiastical register for the year 1817 By J. C. E. Dublin 1817; Records of patent rolls of Chancery, Ireland 2 vols. 1847–50. d. Dublin 2 June 1851.

ERLE, Peter (4 son of Rev. Christopher Erle of Gillingham, Dorset). b. 1795; ed. at New college, Ox., fellow 1812–25, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1821; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; chief charity estate comr. 24 Oct. 1853 to 1872; Q.C. 10 July 1854; bencher of his inn 22 Nov. 1854, treasurer 1864; P.C. 27 Nov. 1872. d. 12 Park crescent, Regent’s park, London 29 Jany. 1877.

ERLE, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. Fifehead-Magdalene, Dorset 1 Oct. 1793; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1818, D.C.L. 1857; fellow of his college 1811–34, hon. fellow 1870 to death; barrister M.T. 26 Nov. 1819; admitted barrister at I.T. 11 June 1822, bencher 18 Nov. 1834, reader 1843, treasurer 1844; K.C. 1834; M.P. for city of Oxford 26 July 1837 to 23 June 1841; counsel for Bank of England 1844; serjeant-at-law 7 Nov. 1844; justice of Court of Common Pleas 6 Nov. 1844; transferred to Court of Queen’s Bench, Oct. 1846; chief justice of Court of Common Pleas 24 June 1859 to 26 Nov. 1866; knighted 23 April 1845; P.C. 6 July 1859; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1860; member of Trades Union commission 1867–8; author of The law relating to Trades Unions 1869. d. Bramshott Grange near Liphook, Hants. 28 Jany. 1880. I.L.N. lxxvi, 157 (1880), portrait.

ERLE-DRAX, John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge- (eld. son of Samuel Elias Sawbridge of Olantigh tower, Ashford, Kent). b. 6 Oct. 1800; captain in East Kent militia 35 years; maintained a troop of yeomanry known as the Charborough troop; assumed name of Erle-Drax 1828; M.P. for Wareham 1841–57, 1859–65 and 1868–80; contested Wareham 1857 and 1865. d. Holnest park, Sherborne 5 Jany. 1887. The book of sports ii, 61 (1843), portrait; New sporting mag. xiii, 262 (1837), portrait.

ERRINGTON, Most Rev. George (2 son of Thomas Errington of Clintz near Richmond, Yorkshire). b. Clintz 14 Sep. 1804; ed. at Ushaw 1814–21 and English college, Rome 1821–24; sub-deacon 1825, deacon 1826, priest 22 Dec. 1827; D.D. cum prÆmio 1827; vice rector of English college, Rome 29 May 1832 to 1843; travelled in France and Spain 1832–40; presided over the studies in St. Mary’s coll. Oscott 1843–47; employed at Liverpool and Salford 1848–51; bishop of newly created see of Plymouth 27 June 1851 to March 1855; consecrated in church of St. John, Salford by Abp. Wiseman 25 July 1851; coadjutor to Cardinal Wiseman with title of Archbishop of Trebizond in partibus March 1855 to 2 July 1862; administrator of diocese of Clifton, Oct. 1855 to Feb. 1857; assistant at pontifical throne 5 Dec. 1869; held charge of missions in Isle of Man 1865–8; undertook tuition of young theological students at St. Paul’s college, Prior Park, Bath, Oct. 1870 to death; author of Four lectures on the hierarchy of the Catholic Church 1850; The Irish land question 1880. d. Prior Park 19 Jany. 1886. M. Brady’s Episcopal Succession, iii, 376, 436, 437, 473 (1877).

ERRINGTON, John Edward (eld. son of John Errington). b. Hull 29 Dec. 1806; a resident engineer on Grand Junction railway to 1837; joint engineer with Joseph Locke of Lancaster and Carlisle railway 1843; constructed Caledonian railway 1848; engineer to London and South Western railway 1856–60; A.I.C.E. 1831, M.I.C.E. 22 Jany. 1839, mem. of council 1850, vice pres. 1861–62. d. 6 Pall Mall east, London 4 July 1862. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxii, 626–29 (1863).

ERSKINE, David Montagu Erskine, 2 Baron (eld. son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1797, LLD. 1811; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1802; M.P. for Portsmouth 19 Feb. to July 1806; min. plenipo. to United States, July 1806 to 1809, at Stuttgard 1825–28; ambassador at Munich, Feb. 1828 to Nov. 1843 when he retired on pension. d. Butler’s Green near Lewes 19 March 1855 aged 79.

ERSKINE, Edward Morris (4 son of the preceding). b. Brighton 28 March 1817; attachÉ at Munich 25 Sep. 1835; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Athens 7 May 1864 to 24 July 1872, at Stockholm 24 July 1872 to 1 May 1881 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 25 Feb. 1873. d. Neville house, Twickenham 19 April 1883.

ERSKINE, Very Rev. Henry David (2 son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823). Ed. at Univ. of Edin. and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. Cam. 1809; D.D. Columbia coll. New York 1852; R. of Swithland, Leics. 1817–41; R. of Kirby Underdale, Yorkshire 1840 to death; preb. of York cath. 28 Oct. 1845, dean of Ripon 23 Sep. 1847 to death. d. Ripon 27 July 1859 aged 72.

ERSKINE, John Elphinstone (son of David Erskine of Cardross, Stirling). b. 13 July 1806; entered navy 1819; captain 28 June 1838; M.P. for Stirlingshire, July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874; R.A. 4 Nov. 1857; commanded a division of Channel Squadron 1859–61, admiral 10 Sep. 1869; author of A short account of the discoveries of gold in Australia 1851; Journal of a cruise among the islands of the Western Pacific 1853. d. 1 Albany, Piccadilly, London 23 June 1887.

ERSKINE, Thomas (3 son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823). b. 10 Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet st. London 12 March 1788; ed. at Harrow; entered at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. as a peer’s son without residence or examination 1811; secretary of presentations 1806; practised as special pleader 1810–13; barrister L.I. 20 May 1813; K.C. Nov. 1827; chief judge of Court of Review in Bankruptcy 2 Dec. 1831 to Nov. 1842; P.C. 1831; a judge of Court of Common Pleas 9 Jany. 1839 to Nov. 1844; pres. of Trinitarian Bible Society 1840. d. Bournemouth 9 Nov. 1864.

ERSKINE, Thomas (youngest son of David Erskine of Linlathen, Forfarshire, who d. 5 April 1791). b. Edinburgh 13 Oct. 1788; an advocate in Edin. 1810–16; a friend of Dr. Chalmers and Thomas Carlyle; author of Remarks on the internal evidence of the truth of revealed religion 1820, 10 ed. 1878; An essay on faith 1822; The unconditional freeness of the Gospel 1828; The doctrine of election and its connection with Christianity 1837, 2 ed. 1878 and 8 other books. d. Edinburgh 20 March 1870. Letters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen edited by W. Hanna 1878.

ESCOTT, Bickham Sweet. b. 1802; barrister M.T. 17 June 1825; M.P. for Winchester 1841–47; contested West Somerset at general elections of 1832, 1835 and 1847; author of A letter on the reform question 1831 and other works on same subject. d. Hartrow manor, Somerset 4 Nov. 1853.

ESDAILE, James. b. Montrose 6 Feb. 1808; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1830; assistant surgeon Bengal army 1831; presidency surgeon at Calcutta 1848, marine surgeon 1850 to 1 June 1851; began practising mesmerism 1845; author of Letters from the Red Sea, Egypt and the Continent, Calcutta 1839; Mesmerism in India and its practical application in surgery and medicine 1846; Natural and mesmeric clairvoyance with the practical application of mesmerism in surgery and medicine 1852 and other books. d. Elm bank, Lawrie road, Sydenham 10 Jany. 1859.

ESMONDE, Sir John, 9 or 10 Baronet. b. Kilmanock, co. Wexford 16 May 1826; ed. at Clongowes Wood and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1850; M.P. for co. Waterford 1852 to death; sheriff of Wexford 1866, of Wicklow 1875. d. 9 Dec. 1876.

ESMONDE, Sir Thomas, 8 or 9 Baronet. b. 10 Dec. 1786; succeeded his uncle 19 Dec. 1803; M.P. for Wexford 1841–47; P.C. Ireland 1847. d. 31 Dec. 1868.

ESPINASSE, James (only son of Isaac Espinasse of Bexley, Kent, who d. 14 Feb. 1834 aged 76). b. 1798; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1820; barrister G.I. 27 June 1827; recorder of Rochester 1842 to death; judge of county courts, circuit 49 (West Kent), March 1847 to death; author of A treatise on the law of bankrupts 1823. d. The college, Maidstone 16 March 1867.

ESSEX, Catharine Capel-Coningsby, Countess of (dau. of Edward Stephens of London, carver and gilder). b. London 18 Sep. 1791; sang under name of Miss Young at many concerts in the provinces; sang in Italian opera at the Pantheon, London 1812 as Catharine Stephens; first appeared at Covent Garden as Mandane in Arne’s opera Artaxerxes Sep. 1813; played Polly in The Beggar’s Opera and Clara in The Duenna; sang at Drury Lane 1822–26; sang at concerts and in oratorios; one of the finest soprano singers; her voice reached to the high D; retired from the stage 1831. (m. 19 April 1838 George Capel-Coningsby 5 Earl of Essex 1757–1839), she d. 9 Belgrave sq. London 22 Feb. 1882, mural monument erected in Watford church, Herts. March 1885. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography ii, 123–36 (1825), portrait; Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses i, 276–87 (1844), portrait; E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song ii, 33–44 (1865); Theatrical Inquisitor iii, 259–61 (1813), portrait; Musical Gem (1832), 2–3, portrait.

ESSEX, William. Enamel painter; sole exponent of the art after death of H. P. Bone 1855; painted many miniature copies of pictures by Correggio, Guido, Wilkie and others; exhibited 109 enamels at R.A., 20 at B.I. and 17 at Suffolk st. gallery 1818–64; enamel painter to the Queen 1839 to death; a private exhibition of his works was held in 1839, of which a catalogue was printed. d. Brighton 29 Dec. 1869 aged 85.

ESTCOURT, Rev. Edgar Edmund (eld. son of Rev. Edmund William Estcourt of Newnton, Wilts.) b. 7 Feb. 1816; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1840; C. of Cirencester, Gloucs. 1842–45; received into Church of Rome at Prior Park, Dec. 1845; ordained priest 1848; oeconomus of diocese of Birmingham 1850; canon of St. Chad’s cathedral, Birmingham to death; author of The dogmatic teaching of the Book of Common Prayer on the subject of the Holy Eucharist 1868; The question of Anglican orders discussed 1873; The memoir of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, edited by Rev. J. Stevenson 1887. d. Leamington 16 April 1884. bur. Kenilworth.

ESTCOURT, James Bucknall (2 son of the succeeding). b. Edward st. Portman sq. London 12 July 1802; ed. at Harrow; ensign 44 foot 13 July 1820, second in command in Euphrates valley expedition 1834–36; major 43 foot 21 Oct. 1836 to 25 Aug. 1843 when placed on h.p.; adjutant general in the Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to death; granted distinguished service reward 25 Oct. 1854; M.G. 12 Dec. 1854; M.P. for Devizes 1848–52; named a K.C.B. in London Gazette 10 July 1855. d. of cholera in camp before Sebastopol 23 June 1855.

ESTCOURT, Thomas Grimston Bucknall (eld. son of Thomas Estcourt of Estcourt, Gloucs. 1748–1818). b. 3 Aug. 1775; ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., M.A. 1796; hon. D.C.L. 1827; barrister L.I. 20 June 1820; recorder of Devizes; chairman of Wiltshire general quarter sessions to 1837; M.P. for Devizes 1805–26, for Univ. of Ox. 1826–47. d. Estcourt 26 July 1853.

ESTCOURT, Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron (eld. son of the preceding). b. 4 April 1801; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.C.L. 1857; M.P. for Marlborough 1829–1832, for Devizes 1835–1844, for North Wilts, 1844 to 1865; pres. of Poor law board 8 March 1858 to 9 March 1859; P.C. 1858; sec. of state for home department 3 March 1859 to June 1859. d. Estcourt 6 Jany. 1876. I.L.N. xxxii, 312 (1858), portrait, lxviii, 70, 76, 83, 287 (1876), portrait.

ESTLIN, John Bishop (son of John Prior Estlin of Bristol, schoolmaster 1747–1817). b. St. Michael’s hill, Bristol 26 Dec. 1785; M.C.S. 1806, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at Bristol 1808 to death, where he established a dispensary for treatment of diseases of the eye 1812 which he managed 1812–49; one of the chief ophthalmic surgeons; author of On prayer and divine aid 1825; Remarks on Mesmerism 1845. d. Park st. Bristol 10 June 1855. Memoir of J. B. Estlin By W. James 1855.

ETHERIDGE, Most Rev. James. b. Redmarley, Worcs. 19 Oct. 1808; ed. at Stonyhurst coll.; ordained priest 1836; rector of Mount St. Mary’s coll. 1842; minister at Hodder 1842; minister of St. Wilfred’s, Preston 1855; bishop of Torona and vicar apostolic of British Guiana 1858 to death; consecrated by Cardinal Wiseman in London 17 Oct. 1858. d. on his passage from Barbadoes to Georgetown, Demerara 1 Jany. 1878.

ETHERIDGE, Rev. John Wesley. b. Youngwoods near Newport, Isle of Wight 24 Feb. 1804; Wesleyan minister at Hull 1827, London 1829, in Cornwall 1833–37 and 1853 to death; Ph.D. Heidelberg 1847; a scholar in many languages; author of The Syrian churches, their history, liturgies and literature with translation of the Four Gospels from the Peschito 1846; The Life of Dr. Adam Clarke 1858; The Life of Dr. Thomas Coke 1860 and other books. d. Camborne 24 May 1866. Rev. T. Smith’s Memoirs of Rev. J. W. Etheridge 1871.

ETWALL, Ralph. b. in or near Andover 1804; M.P. for Andover 1831–47; kept a racing stud 1832 to about 1849; one of the best known coursers in south of England. d. Connaught st. Hyde Park, London 15 Dec. 1882. William Day’s Reminiscences of the turf, 2 ed. 1886, pp. 241–46.

EUING, William. b. Partick near Glasgow 20 May 1788; ed. at Glasgow gr. sch. and univ.; an underwriter and insurance broker at Glasgow 1819; founded a music lectureship at Anderson’s college, Glasgow by deed dated 1866; left his valuable musical library (of which a catalogue was printed) to Anderson’s college, with £1000 for its maintenance. d. Glasgow 12 May 1874. T. Mason’s Public and private libraries of Glasgow 1885 pp. 176–93, 437; Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography (1876) p. 331; Journal of British ArchÆol. Assoc. xxxi, 231–2 (1875).

EUSTACE, Sir John Rowland (youngest son of Charles Eustace of Robertstown, co. Kildare). b. 1795; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1816; captain Grenadier guards 5 July 1827 to 24 April 1840 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 2 April 1859; knighted 1816; K.H. 1835; sheriff of Kildare 1848. d. Bouverie sq. Folkestone 7 Aug. 1864.

EUSTACE, Sir William Cornwallis (brother of the preceding). Lieut. 32 foot 27 Sep. 1783; lieut. col. Chasseurs Britanniques 23 Aug. 1810 to 1814 when placed on h.p. regiment being disbanded; captain Grenadier guards 25 March 1818 to 18 May 1826 when placed on h.p.; col. 60 Rifles 7 April 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 1832. d. Sampford hall, Essex 9 Feb. 1855 aged 73.

EVANS, Rev. Alfred Bowen. b. Finsbury sq. London 1816; C. of Enfield, Middlesex 1854–61; R. of St. Mary-le-Strand, London 1861 to death; a powerful and original preacher; D.D. by Abp. of Canterbury 1863; author of Dissent and its inconsistences 1841; Christianity in its homely aspects 2 vols. 1852–4; Lectures on the book of Job 1856 and 30 other books. d. 23 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 6 Nov. 1878. Rev. C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London (1874) 176–85.

EVANS, Anne (dau. of the succeeding). b. 4 June 1820; resided at Britwell court near Burnham, then at Bosworth, afterwards at 16 Kensington sq. London; a friend of Thackeray and his daughters; poet and musician. d. 16 Kensington sq. London 19 Feb. 1870. Anne Evans’ Poems and music, with memorial preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie 1880, portrait.

EVANS, Rev. Arthur Benoni (2 son of Rev. Lewis Evans 1755–1827, V. of Froxfield, Wilts.) b. Compton-Beauchamp, Berks. 25 March 1781; ed. at Gloucester and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1820, B.D. and D.D. 1828; C. of Hartpury, Gloucs. 1804; professor of classics and history in royal military college, Great Marlow 1805–12 when he removed with the college to Sandhurst, resigned 1822; C. of Burnham, Bucks. 1822–29; master of Market Bosworth free gr. sch. 1829 to death; C. of Bosworth Carlton and Cadeby successively 1829–41; author of Synopses for the use of the students in the royal military academy; The Curate and other poems 1810; Leicestershire words, phrases and proverbs 1848, and 16 other books. d. Market Bosworth 8 Nov. 1854. G.M. xliii, 100–102 (1855).

EVANS, Brooke (son of Thomas Evans of Birmingham, tailor). b. Bull st. Birmingham 1797; manufacturer of fire arms in the United States; indigo planter and merchant; glass and lead merchant at Stratford-on-Avon 6 years; partner with Charles Askin as manufacturers of nickel and cobalt at Birmingham 1835–47 when Askin died, managed the business (which gained a European reputation) 1847 to death. d. Birmingham 15 Sep. 1862.

EVANS, Caleb. b. 25 July 1831; clerk in Chancery pay office, London 1852–82; collected fossils near London 1858–83; a founder of Geologists’ Association of London 1857; F.G.S. 1867; author of 11 papers on geological subjects, some of which were published separately; constructed several excellent geological models or relief maps. d. 16 Sep. 1886.

EVANS, Charles (eld. son of Rev. Benjamin Evans, assistant master at Harrow). b. Harrow 1798; ed. at Eton and Pemb. coll. Cam., 12 wrangler 1819; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; fell. of his coll. 1821; barrister L.I. 4 Feb. 1823; revising barrister for Norwich 1832 to death; comr. of bankrupts for Norwich; chancellor of diocese of Norwich 1845 to death; pres. of directors of Norwich Union Fire office. d. Norwich 21 Oct. 1868.

EVANS, Charles John. Entered British Museum 1858; compiled the catalogue of music which occupied him 15 years; wrote many articles in Grove’s Dictionary of Musicians 3 vols. 1879–82; played the fagotto or bassoon in the Wandering Minstrels Orchestra. d. 150 King’s road, Chelsea 8 Dec. 1884.

EVANS, Daniel Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Evans of Taunton). b. Cain’s Cross, Gloucs.; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1847; sub-editor of The Law Times 1843–46; joint editor of Wise and Evans’s Digest 1846–55, sole editor 1855–73 when it ceased. d. London 6 Nov. 1885 in 73 year.

EVANS, David Morier (son of Joshua Lloyd Evans of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire). b. London, 1819; assistant city correspondent of The Times 1846–57; manager of Morning Herald 1857, of Standard 1857–72; started The Hour, daily morning paper, March 1873; became bankrupt 19 Dec. 1873; editor and part proprietor of Banker’s Mag., and Banker’s Almanac and Bullionist; author of The commercial crisis of 1847–48, 1849; City men and city manners 1856; Revelations of facts, failures and frauds 1861. d. Albion house, King Edward’s road, South Hackney, London 1 Jany. 1874.

EVANS, Edward David (eld. son of Edward Evans of London, printseller, who d. 24 Nov. 1835 aged 46). Printseller at 1 Great Queen st., Lincoln’s Inn Fields with his mother and brother 1835–53, then at 403 Strand 1853 to death. d. 3 Circus road, St. John’s Wood, London 15 Aug. 1860 aged 42.

EVANS, Rev. Evan. b. Gellillyndy, Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire 8 March 1804; Calvinistic preacher 1825; joined the Independents 1847; went to America 1869; collected a small Welsh church in Arkansas 1881, in charge of it to his death; author of numerous works in the Welsh language. d. 29 Oct. 1886.

EVANS, Evan William. b. near Swansea 1827; graduated at Yale Univ. 1851; principal of Delaware institute, Franklin, New York; a tutor in Yale 1855–57; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in Marietta college, Ohio 1857–64; a mining engineer 1864–67; professor of mathematics in Cornell Univ. 1868–72; regarded as the best Celtic scholar in the United States. d. Ithaca, New York 22 May 1874.

EVANS, Frederick John (son of John Evans, gas engineer). b. 1818; chief consulting engineer of Gas light and coke company, London 1863–72, the works at Beckton, opposite Woolwich, finest establishment of the kind in the world were opened 1871; this company absorbed 7 other companies 1870–76, in 1881 it made about two-thirds of the whole metropolitan supply; discovered valuable properties of oxide of iron for gas purification which revolutionised conduct of that process; A.I.C.E. 10 March 1840; M.I.C.E. 9 Feb. 1864. d. Clayponds, Brentford 8 July 1880. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii, 311–13 (1881).

EVANS, Sir Frederick John Owen (son of John Evans, master R.N.) b. 9 March 1815; entered navy 1828; superintendent of compass department of navy 1855; Chief Naval Assistant to the hydrographer to the admiralty 1865, hydrographer to the admiralty 1874–84; captain 1872; C.B. 8 May 1873; K.C.B. 24 May 1881; F.R.S. 5 June 1862, vice pres. 1876; author of Chart of curves of equal magnetic declination 1858; Report on compass deviations in the royal navy 1860; edited with Archibald Smith, Admiralty manual for ascertaining deviations of the compass 1862, 3 ed. 1869. d. 21 Dawson place, Bayswater, London 20 Dec. 1885. Proc. of Royal Soc. xl, 1–7 (1886).

EVANS, Sir George De Lacy (son of John Evans of Miltown). b. Moig, co. Limerick 7 Oct. 1787; ensign 22 foot 1 Feb. 1807; captain 5 West India regiment 1815–17 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Rye 1830–31, for Westminster 1833–41 and 1846–65; contested Westminster and Rye, Dec. 1832; commanded British legion of 9,600 men in Spain, June 1835 to June 1837; col. 21 foot 29 Aug. 1853 to death; commanded 2nd division of British army in Crimea 1854–55; general 10 March 1861; K.C.B. 13 Feb. 1838, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; granted distinguished service reward 1 Sep. 1848; grand officer of Legion of Honour 1856; author of Facts relating to the capture of Washington 1829 and other books. d. 6 Great Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 9 Jany. 1870. G. Ryan’s Our Heroes (1855) 13–36; G. Mackay’s Leaders of the Host 1854; Diprose’s St. Clements i, 64–68 (1869); E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i, 661 (1857), portrait; Duncan’s The English in Spain (1877) 41, 342.

Note.—The thanks of the House of Commons were voted to him “in his place” 2 Feb. 1855 and so the seat from which he heard the thanks read out became his all the rest of the time he sat in the House.

EVANS, George Henry. b. Bromyard, Herefordshire 25 March 1805; went to the United States 1820, one of the earliest land reformers there; advocated inalienable homesteads, general bankrupt laws and laborers’ liens; edited and published The Man, at Ithaca, New York about 1822; the Working Man’s Advocate, in New York 1830; The Daily Sentinel 1837; and Young America, in New York and then at Rahway, New Jersey 1853. d. Granville, New Jersey 2 Feb. 1855.

EVANS, John (only son of John Evans of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire). Ed. at univ. of Glasgow and Geneva; barrister I.T. 16 June 1820; Q.C. 1837; bencher of his inn 1837, reader 1849, treasurer 1850; M.P. for Haverfordwest 1847–52; F.S.A. 3 Feb. 1853. d. Buxton 17 Oct. 1864 aged 68.

EVANS, Ven. John. b. Carmarthen; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1830; V. of Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire 1827 to death; R. of Llanglydwen, Carmarthenshire 1832 to death; archdeacon of Carmarthen 1858 to death. d. Nantyr-Eglwys, St. Clear’s 7 Feb. 1865.

EVANS, Rev. John. b. Ty Mawr, North Wales 23 July 1814; Welsh poet and Calvinistic methodist minister; better known as I. D. Fpaid; author of History of the Jews 1830 in Welsh; translated into Welsh Young’s Night Thoughts and Milton’s Paradise Lost; contributed prose and verse to Welsh periodicals. d. 4 March 1876.

EVANS, Rev. John (son of John Evans of Wellington, Somerset). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 13 Oct. 1814 aged 18; P.C. of Whixhall, Salop 1844 to death; author of Compendious view of the authenticity and inspiration of the Old and New Testament 1828; Statutes of the fourth general council of the Lateran 1843 and many other books. d. Whixhall vicarage 7 March 1889.

EVANS, Rev. Lewis (4 son of Thomas Simpson Evans of St. Botolphs, London). Matric. from Wadham coll. Ox. 30 June 1832 aged 17; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1842; fell. of his coll. 1839–46; head master of Sandbach free gr. sch. 1850 to death; edited Marshall’s Penitential Discipline 1844; Bishop Beveridge’s Sermons 8 vols.; author of The satires of Juvenal Persius, Sulpicia and Lucillius literally translated into English prose with notes 1848; author with Rev. J. G. Sheppard of Notes upon Thucydides Books i and ii, 1857. d. Gloucester 28 March 1869.

EVANS, Richard. Portrait painter and copyist; pupil and assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence; lived at Rome many years; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A. 1816–59. d. Southampton, Nov. 1871 aged 87.

EVANS, Robert Harding (son of Thomas Evans of London, bookseller 1742–84). Ed. at Westminster school; apprenticed to Thomas Payne bookseller at the Mewsgate; general bookseller in Pall Mall 1804–12; auctioneer at sale of Roxburghe and many other famous libraries 1812–47; edited Bishop Burnet’s History of his own time 4 vols. 1808–9; Hakluyt’s Collection of early voyages of the English nation 5 vols. 1809–12 and other books; author with Thomas Wright of Historical account of the caricatures of James Gillray 1851. d. Edward st. Hampstead road, London 25 April 1857 in 80 year. Dibdin’s Bibliographical Decameron iii, 51 (1817), portrait; G.M. ii, 734–5 (1857).

EVANS, Ven. Robert Wilson (2 son of John Evans, M.D. of Shrewsbury). b. the council house, Shrewsbury 30 Aug. 1789; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., 7th wrangler 1811; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1842; fellow of his college 1813, classical tutor 1814; V. of Tarvin, Cheshire 1836–42; V. of Heversham, Westmoreland 1842 to death; archdeacon of Westmoreland 1856 to Jany. 1865; author of The Bishopric of Souls 1842, 5 ed. 1877; The rectory of Valehead 1830, 12 ed. 1842; Tales of the ancient British church 1840, 3 ed. 1859 and 25 other works. d. Heversham vicarage 10 March 1866. E. Bickersteth’s ed. of Bishopric of Souls (1877) v-xiv, portrait; The Church of England Photographic portrait gallery (1859), portrait 33.

EVANS, Thomas. Ensign 113 foot 3 Dec. 1794; lieut.-col. 70 foot 24 Sep. 1829 to 28 June 1838; col. 81 foot 12 July 1847 to death; general 18 May 1855; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Quebec 11 Feb. 1863.

EVANS, Thomas. b. Cardigan 1840; a collier at Aberdare; won 20 prizes for his poems at Eisteddfodau; his poetical works were published with a short memoir in 1866. d. 29 April 1865.

EVANS, Rev. Thomas Saunders. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1845, M.A. Durham 1862, D.D. Edin. 1885; assistant master of Rugby 1847–62; canon of Durham 1862 to death; professor of Greek in Univ. of Durham, May 1862 to death; proctor for chapter of Durham 1864 to death; author of Tennyson’s Œnone translated into Latin hexameters 1873; Notes on i. Corinthians in The Speaker’s Commentary 1881; The Nihilist in the Hayfield, a Latin poem 1882. d. Weston-super-Mare 16 May 1889.

EVANS, William. b. Carana, Ireland 22 Nov. 1786; went to Canada 1819; sec. to the first Agricultural Society founded in Montreal; established the Canadian Quarterly and the Agriculturalist and Industrial Magazine; edited in Toronto British American Cultivator 1842; founded at Montreal the Canadian Agricultural Journal 1843, edited it 1843–56; sec. and treasurer of board of agriculture in Lower Canada 1853; author of Theory and practice of agriculture, Montreal 1835, supplement 1836. d. Montreal 1857.

EVANS, William. b. North Wales about 1810; painted scenery in North Wales down to 1852 when he went to Italy; associate member of Old Society of Painters in water-colours. d. Marylebone road, London 7 Dec. 1858.

EVANS, William (son of Samuel Evans of Flintshire, landscape painter, who d. about 1835). b. Eton 4 Dec. 1798; ed. at Eton; drawing master at Eton 1818, resigned 1856; associate of Old Society of Painters in water-colours 1828, member 1830; exhibited a great number of paintings; head of one of the houses at Eton 1856 to death. d. Eton 31 Dec. 1877. I.L.N. lxxii, 103, 107 (1878), portrait.

EVANS, Rev. William Edward (son of John Evans, M.D. of Shrewsbury). b. Shrewsbury 8 June 1801; ed. at Shrewsbury and Clare hall, Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; P.C. of Criggion, Montgomeryshire 1829–32; C. of Monkland, Herefordshire 1832–50; preb. and prÆlector of Hereford 1841–61; V. of Madley near Hereford 1850 to death; canon of Hereford 1861 to death; author of The song of the birds, or analogies of animal and spiritual life 1845 and other books. d. The Close, Hereford 21 Nov. 1869.

EVATT, Henry. Second lieut. R.E. 11 July 1788; col. commandant 6 April 1832 to death; L.G. 28 June 1838. d. Fordwich near Canterbury 27 Jany. 1851 aged 83.

EVELEGH, Henry. Second lieut. R.A. 24 April 1793, col. commandant 6 Feb. 1845 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Standen, Newport, Isle of Wight 24 Sep. 1859 aged 86.

EVERARD, Harriette Emily. b. 12 March 1844; first appeared at T.R. Exeter about 1860; in London at royal Alfred theatre 1869; acted at Queen’s, Princess’s, Royalty, St. James’s and Drury Lane theatres; played Little Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore at Opera Comique 25 May 1878 to March 1880. (m. George Wm. Darley Beswick). d. 22 Feb. 1882. bur. Highgate cemetery 28 Feb.

EVERARD, Mathias. Ensign 2 foot 28 Sep. 1804; led the forlorn hope at storming of Monte Video 3 Feb. 1807 when out of 32 men 22 were killed or wounded; lieut.-col. 14 foot 12 July 1831 to 25 Dec. 1847 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 26 Sep. 1826; K.H. 1831. d. Southsea 20 April 1857.

EVEREST, Sir George (eld. son of Tristram Everest of Gwernvale, Breconshire). b. Gwernvale 4 July 1790; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 4 April 1806; superintendent of trigonometrical survey at Hyderabad 1823–43; surveyor general of India 1830–43; retired with rank of lieut.-col. 16 Dec. 1843; C.B. 26 Feb. 1861; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1861; F.R.S. 8 March 1827, mem. of council 1863–65; the loftiest peak of Himalayan range is called Mount Everest after him; author of An account of the measurement of two sections of the meridional arc of India 1830 and 1847 and other books. d. 10 Westbourne st. Hyde park gardens, London 1 Dec. 1866. F. W. Stubbs’ History of Bengal artillery ii, 251–54 (1877); Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, pp. xi-xiv (1868).

EVERETT, Edward (4 son of Joseph Everett of Salisbury, banker). b. 13 May 1798; ed. at Winchester and Ball. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; a barrister M.T. 28 May 1824; a conveyancer at Salisbury; judge of court of requests at Salisbury; judge of Dorset county courts (circuit 56), March 1847 to Dec. 1867 when he resigned. d. Clifton 24 Jany. 1870.

EVERETT, Rev. James (2 son of John Everett of Alnwick). b. Alnwick 16 May 1784; Wesleyan minister at Shields 1807, in Derbyshire 1808–10, in Yorkshire 1810–22, at Newcastle 1834–39, at York 1839–42; bookseller at Sheffield 1823–25, at York 1839–42; expelled from Wesleyan conference 7 Aug. 1849 being suspected of authorship of the Fly Sheets reflecting on leading men of the conference; lived at Newcastle 1853–59, at Sunderland 1859 to death; pres. of United Methodist Free Churches, July 1857; author of Adam Clarke portrayed 3 vols. 1843 and 17 other works. d. Sunderland 10 May 1872. James Everett, a biography by Richard Chew 1875; G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars 1867 pp. 14–25; I.L.N. xv, 188 (1849), portrait.

EVERITT, Allen Edward (son of Edward Everitt of Birmingham, art dealer). b. Birmingham 1824; a painter there all his life; member of Royal Soc. of Artists of Birmingham 1857, hon. sec. 1858 to death; taught drawing in midland counties; hon. curator of Birmingham free art gallery, June 1880 to death; illustrated Davidson’s History of the Holtes of Aston 1854, and History of Old St. Martin’s, Birmingham 1875. d. The Grove, Frederick road, Edgbaston 11 June 1882. Edgbastonia ii, 108 (1882), portrait.

EVERSLEY, Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1 Viscount (eld. son of Charles Shaw-Lefevre, M.P. for Reading, who d. 27 April 1823). b. Bedford sq., London 22 Feb. 1794; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; barrister L.I. 12 May 1819; bencher 29 May 1839; M.P. for Downton, Wilts. 1830–31, for Hampshire 1831–32, for North Hants. 1832–57; speaker of House of Commons 27 May 1839 to 20 March 1857; P.C. 3 June 1839; second comr. of church estates 24 Aug. 1850; created Viscount Eversley of Heckfield co. Southampton 11 April 1857; governor of Isle of Wight 31 Oct. 1857; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 2 Aug. 1859. d. Heckfield place, Winchfield, Hants. 28 Dec. 1888. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 2 Jany. 1889. J. A. Manning’s Lives of the speakers (1850), 494–96; I.L.N. xxx, 109 (1857), portrait, 5 Jany. 1889, p. 8, portrait.

EWART, John Frederick. b. Berlin 28 July 1786; ensign 52 foot 1 Nov. 1803; lieut. col. York Chasseurs 15 Sep. 1814 to 8 May 1817; lieut. col. 67 foot 5 Feb. 1818 to June 1826; inspecting field officer of Coventry recruiting district 1826–37; col. 67 foot 30 Oct. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 24 Oct. 1818. d. 1^A Wellington road, St. John’s Wood, London 23 Oct. 1854.

EWART, Joseph Christopher (2 son of Wm. Ewart of Liverpool, merchant). b. Liverpool 1799; ed. at Eton; a merchant at Liverpool; a founder of Peninsular and Oriental steam navigation company; M.P. for Liverpool 1855–65. d. Broadleas near Devizes 14 Dec. 1868.

EWART, William (brother of the preceding). b. Liverpool 1 May 1798; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; Newdigate prizeman 1820; B.A. 1821; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1827; M.P. for Bletchingly 1828–30, for Liverpool 1830–37, for Wigan 1839–41, for Dumfries district 1841–68; author of The Temple of Diana at Ephesus 1820. d. Broadleas 23 Jany. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biography i, 209–10, 522 (1869); I.L.N. 25 July 1846, p. 53, portrait, 6 March 1869, p. 237, portrait.

EWBANK, Thomas. b. Barnard castle, Durham 11 March 1792; maker of cases for preserved meats in London 1812–19; manufacturer of lead, tin and copper tubing in New York 1820–36; comr. of patents in Washington 1849–52; a founder and pres. of American Ethnological Society; author of A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water 1842, 17 ed. 1876; The world a workshop, or the physical relationship of man to the earth 1855; Life in Brazil, or the land of the cocoa and the palm 1856 and other books all published at New York. d. 140 East Thirty-first st. New York 16 Sep. 1870.

EWING, Right Rev. Alexander (eld. son of John Ewing, advocate of Shelagreen, Aberdeenshire 1790–1827). b. Castle st. Aberdeen 25 March 1814; ed. at Chelsea 1830–31, Edin. univ. 1831 and 1834–35; incumbent of Forres 1841–47; bishop of Argyll and the Isles 28 Oct. 1847 to death; provost of Cumbrae 28 June 1854 to 28 Dec. 1866; D.C.L. Ox. 1851; author of Revelation considered as light 1873, new ed. 1874; The relations of the church of England with foreign churches 1866 and 15 other books. d. Westmill rectory, Herts. 22 May 1873. Memoir of Right Rev. A. Ewing by A. J. Ross 1879, portrait.

EWING, James (son of Walter Ewing who assumed name of Maclae, arbitrator, d. 22 Oct. 1814). b. Glasgow 7 Dec. 1775; educ. High sch. Glasgow and univ. of Glasgow, D.C.L. 1835; West India merchant; lord dean of Guild 10 Oct. 1816; helped to establish first Provident or Savings bank in Glasgow of which he was deputy governor 19 June 1815; president of the Andersonian univ. 1817; gave an annual silver medal to Glasgow high sch.; lord provost of Glasgow 1820; a founder of the Royal Exchange and the Fir park; M.P. Glasgow 19 Dec. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834, contested Glasgow 17 Jany. 1835; author of a History of the Merchants’ House; left £70,000 to Glasgow charities. d. Glasgow 29 Nov. 1853. Mackay’s Memoir of James Ewing 1866, portrait; Bourne’s English Merchants ii, 321–39 (1866).

EWING, Juliana Horatia (2 dau. of Rev. Alfred Gatty, V. of Ecclesfield, Yorkshire b. 1813). b. Ecclesfield 3 Aug. 1841; wrote many stories in Aunt Judy’s Magazine 1861–85; author of Melchior’s Dream and other tales 1862; Mrs. Overtheway’s Remembrances 1868, 3 ed. 1880; A Flat-iron for a farthing 1873; Passages in life of an only son 1872; Lob Lie-by-the-Fire and other tales 1874 and many other books for children. (m. 1 June 1867 Alexander Ewing, major army pay department). d. Bath 13 May 1885. J. H. Ewing and her books, by H. K. T. Gatty (1885), portrait.

EXALL, William. b. Godalming, Surrey, May 1808; partner with his uncle Barrett in the Katesgrove foundry, Reading; invented patent safety cylindrical horse gear, and endless-band sawing machine; the first to apply the double acting air pump or box shaped condenser to horizontal engines; the pioneer of steam cultivation, having made first set of machinery on roundabout system for H. J. Hannam of Buscot park, Oxfordshire 1849; constructed the first hand-power threshing machine 1844 of which his firm made thousands; A.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1850; alderman of Reading 1854 to death, mayor 1854–5. d. Holy Bank house, Reading 14 July 1881. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvii, 405–7 (1882).

EXETER, Brownlow Cecil, 2 Marquis of (2 son of 1 Marquis of Exeter 1754–1804). b. Burghley house near Stamford 2 July 1795; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1814, LLD. 1835; recorder of Stamford 1816; lord lieut. of Rutland 1826; K.G. 10 May 1827; groom of the stole to Prince Albert 1841–46; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841; lord lieut. of Northampton 1842; lord chamberlain of Queen’s household 27 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852; lord steward of Queen’s household 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; bred one of largest studs in England 1815–55; won the Oaks 1821, 1829 and 1832 and Two thousand guineas 1825, 1829, 1830 and 1852. d. Burghley house 16 Jany. 1867. Rice’s British Turf i, 311–17 (1879); Baily’s Mag. i, 311–15 (1860), portrait; Sporting Review lvii, 82–85 (1867); Waagen’s Treasures of art iii, 402–9 (1854).

EXLEY, Thomas. b. Gowdall near Snaith, Yorkshire; a mathematical teacher at Bristol about 1811–47; author of A vindication of Dr. Adam Clarke, Bristol [1817]; Principles of natural philosophy 1829; Physical Optics 1834 and other books; author with Rev. W. M. Johnson of The Imperial EncyclopÆdia 4 vols. [1812]. d. Cotham, Clifton, Bristol 17 Feb. 1855 aged 80.

EYRE, Charles. b. 1784; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807; proprietor of 3 liberal newspapers printed at Colchester; managed a large farm; author of An illustration of the Epistles of St. Paul including an entirely new translation 2 vols. 1832; The fall of Adam from Milton’s Paradise Lost 1852; hanged himself at his residence Upper Park, Dedham, Essex 28 Sep. 1864.

EYRE, Henry. Ensign 98 foot 10 Dec. 1824, lieut. col. 17 March 1843 to 28 April 1843 when placed on h.p.; commandant at Chatham 1858–59; commandant of Chatham district 1859–64; col. 59 foot 23 March 1865 to death; general 23 Sep. 1874; author of Light Infantry Drill 1868. d. Middleton-Tyas, Richmond, Yorkshire 10 April 1889 aged 83.

EYRE, Sir James (eld. son of Rev. Wm. Eyre, V. of Padbury and Hillesden, Bucks., who d. 18 March 1830 aged 76). b. 14 Feb. 1792; M.R.C.S. 20 May 1814; surgeon in Hereford 1814 to 1834, in London 1834 to death; mayor of Hereford 1829–30; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830 on presenting an address from city of Hereford on his accession; M.D. Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1834; physician accoucheur to St. George’s and St. James’s dispensary 1834–1851, consulting phys. 30 Oct. 1851; L.R.C.P. 1836; published Practical remarks on some exhausting diseases 1845, 2 ed. 1851; The stomach and its difficulties 1852, 8 ed. 1877. d. Lauriston house, Clapham 19 June 1857. Medical Circular i, 353–55 (1852), portrait.

EYRE, Sir Vincent (3 son of Henry Eyre). b. Portsdown near Portsmouth 22 Jany. 1811; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal Artillery 12 Dec. 1828, col. 24 Nov. 1862 to 1 Sep. 1863 when he retired on full pay; rendered great service during Indian mutiny; inspector general of ordnance at Calcutta 1861–62; retired L.G. Oct. 1863; member of army amalgamation commission 1861; C.B. 5 Feb. 1858; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867; author of The military operations at Cabul 1843; A Fortnight’s tour among French ambulances 1870; Lays of a Knight Errant 1874 and other books. d. Villa des Acacias, Aix les Bains 22 Sep. 1881. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 1 Oct. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age i, 284–347 (1880); G. B. Malleson’s Recreations of an Indian official (1872) 249–329; Army and navy mag. iii, 97 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. xxxi, 380 (1857), portrait.

EYRE, Sir William (younger son of vice admiral Sir George Eyre 1769–1839). b. Hatfield 21 Oct. 1805; ed. at Rugby; ensign 6 foot 17 April 1823; served in both Caffre wars 1851–2; lieut. col. 73 foot 12 Nov. 1847 to 14 April 1854; A.D.C. to the Queen 1853–1854; commanded second brigade of third division in Crimea 1854, commanded third division there 1854; commanded troops in Canada 1856–59; M.G. 12 Dec. 1854; K.C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Bilton hall near Rugby 8 Sep. 1859. Naval and military records of Rugbeians (1865) 53–4; Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea (1877) iii, 278, vi 54, ix 203–17, 270.

EYTON, Peter Ellis. b. Flint 1827; solicitor at Flint 1853 to death; M.P. for district of Flint 6 Feb. 1874 to death; author of A trip to the Isle of Man. d. Englefield house, Rhyl, North Wales 17 or 19 June 1878.

EYTON, Rev. Robert William (3 son of Rev. John Eyton, V. of Wellington, Shropshire). b. Wellington vicarage 21 Dec. 1815; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1845; R. of Ryton, Shropshire 1841–63; author of The antiquities of Shropshire 12 vols. 1861; A Key to Domesday, an analysis and digest of the Dorset survey 1878; Court, household and itinerary of Henry ii, 1878 and other books. d. Winchfield house near Basingstoke 8 Sep. 1871.

EYTON, Thomas Campbell (son of Thomas Eyton 1777–1855, recorder of Wenlock). b. Eyton hall near Wellington, Shropshire 10 Sep. 1809; edited the Herd book of Hereford cattle 1842–60; formed at Eyton one of the finest collections of skins and skeletons of birds in Europe; author of History of the rarer British birds 1836; A history of the oyster and the oyster fisheries 1858; Osteologia Avium 1871. d. Eyton hall 25 Oct. 1880.