FABER, Rev. Frederick William (7 child of Thomas Henry Faber, who d. 1833, sec. to Dr. Barrington, bishop of Durham). b. Calverley vicarage, Yorkshire 28 June 1814; ed. at Shrewsbury, Harrow and Ball. coll. Ox.; scholar of Univ. coll. Ox. 1834, fellow 1837, Newdigate prizeman 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; Johnson divinity scholar 1837; R. of Elton, Hunts. 1843–45; admitted into R.C. church at Northampton by Bishop Wareing 17 Nov. 1845; entered Monastery of St. Wilfrid, Colmore terrace, Birmingham 26 May 1846; rector of oratory of St. Philip Neri, 24 and 25 King William st. Strand, London opened 31 May 1849, Father Superior 12 Oct. 1850 to death, the oratory removed to Brompton, March 1854; created D.D. 9 July 1854; edited The Saints and Servants of God, continued by the Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri 42 vols. 1847–56; author of The Cherwell water lily and other poems 1840 and about 30 other books. d. the Oratory, Brompton 26 Sep. 1863. bur. in burial ground of St. Mary’s, Sydenham 30 Sep. J. E. Bowden’s Life and letters of F. W. Faber 1869; A brief sketch of the early life of F. W. Faber, by his only surviving brother [Rev. F. A. Faber] 1869; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 207–18; I.L.N. xxiv, 289, 290 (1854), portrait.

FABER, Rev. George Stanley (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Faber, V. of Calverley, Yorkshire). b. Calverley parsonage 25 Oct. 1773; ed. at Happenholme gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796, B.D. 1803; fell. and tutor of Linc. coll. 1793–1803; proctor 1801; Bampton lecturer 1801; C. of Calverley 1803–1805; V. of Stockton upon Tees 1805–1808; V. of Redmarshall, Durham 1808–11; V. of Longnewton, Durham 1811–32; Preb. of Salisbury 1831; master of Sherburn hosp. near Durham 1832 to death; author of HorÆ MosaicÆ, or a view of the Mosaical records 2 vols. 1801, 2 ed. 1818; Dissertation on the prophesies 2 vols. 1807, 5 ed. 3 vols. 1814–18; The difficulties of Romanism 1826, 3 ed. 1853; The sacred calendar of prophecy 3 vols. 1828, 2 ed. 1844 and many other works. d. Sherburn hospital 27 Jany. 1854. The many mansions in the house of the Father, by G. S. Faber with memoir by F. A. Faber 1854; Christian Remembrancer xxix, 310–31 (1855); H. Heaviside’s Annals of Stockton on Tees (1865) 101–104.

FABER, William Raikes (son of the preceding). Second lieut. 60 rifles 10 April 1826; lieut. col. 2 West India foot 15 Dec. 1848 to 21 Feb. 1851 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 53 foot 9 Jany. 1857 to 13 July 1858 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 foot 30 April 1871 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Staplegrove lodge, Taunton 24 June 1879 aged 73.

FADDY, Peter. Second lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803; lieut. col. 10 Aug. 1839 to 3 Sep. 1845 when he retired on full pay; general 7 Feb. 1870; author of Essay on the defence of Great Britain at home and abroad 1848. d. Charleville, co. Cork 17 July 1879.

FAGAN, William Trant (eld. son of James Fagan of Cork). b. Cork 1801; ed. at Southall park, Middlesex; a merchant at Cork, alderman, mayor; M.P. for city of Cork 1847–1851 and 1852 to death; author of The life and times of Daniel O’Connell 2 vols. 1847–8. d. 9 or 16 May 1859. I.L.N. xiv, 205 (1849), portrait; Fitzpatrick’s O’Connell (1888) ii, 453.

FAGGE, Charles Hilton (son of Charles Fagge, surgeon). b. Hythe, Kent 30 June 1838; ed. at Guy’s hospital; M.D. 1863; M.R.C.P. 1864, F.R.C.P. 1870; medical registrar of Guy’s hospital 1866, assistant phys. 1867, phys. 1880; edited Guy’s Hospital Reports some years; author of Principles and practice of medicine 1886, 2 ed. 1888. d. 76 Grosvenor st. London 18 Nov. 1888.

FAHEY, James. b. Paddington 16 April 1804; sec. of New Society of Painters in watercolours 1838–74; drawing master at Merchant Taylor’s school 1856–83; exhibited 13 landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1825–36. d. The Grange, Shepherd’s Bush Green, London 11 Dec. 1885. I.L.N. 26 Dec. 1885 p. 667, portrait.

FAIR, Alexander. Entered Madras army 1792; col. 27 Madras N.I. 1837 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. South crescent, Bedford sq. London 29 Jany. 1861 aged 85.

FAIRBAIRN, Rev. Patrick (son of John Fairburn of Hallyburton, Greenlaw, Berwickshire, farmer). b. Hallyburton 28 Jany. 1805; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach 1826; minister of parish of North Ronaldshay, Orkney islands 1830–36; minister of Bridgeton, Glasgow 1836–40; minister of Salton, East Lothian 1840–43; minister of free church Salton 1843–53; professor of divinity in free church theological college, Aberdeen 1853–56; transferred to free church college, Glasgow 1856, principal 4 Nov. 1856; moderator of general assembly 1865; member of Old Testament revision company; edited The Imperial Bible Dictionary 2 vols. 1866; author of The typology of Scripture 2 vols. 1845–47, 5 ed. 1870 and 7 other books. d. 6 Aug. 1874. Pastoral Theology, by Rev. P. Fairbairn, with biog. sketch by Rev. James Dodds 1875.

FAIRBAIRN, Sir Peter (youngest son of Andrew Fairbairn of Kelso, Roxburghshire). b. Kelso, Sep. 1799; machine maker at Glasgow 1823–28, at Leeds 1828 to death; invented many new machines; member of town council Leeds 1836–42, alderman 1854 to death, mayor 1857–59; knighted by the Queen at Leeds 7 Sep. 1858; there is a portrait of him by Sir Francis Grant in the council chamber Leeds and a bronze statue by Noble in the town. d. Woodsley house, Leeds 4 Jany. 1861. Fortunes made in business ii, 252–79 (1884); Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 491–96; Illust. news of the world ii, 181 (1858), portrait, vii, 29 (1861), portrait.

FAIRBAIRN, Sir William, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Andrew Fairbairn of Smailhome, co. Roxburgh 1758–1844). b. Kelso, co. Roxburgh 19 Feb. 1789; manufacturing engineer at Manchester 1817 to death; M.I.C.E. 20 April 1830; established an iron shipbuilding yard at Millwall near London 1835; built and designed nearly 100 bridges; F.R.S. 6 June 1850, Royal Medallist 1860; correspondent of National Institute of France 11 May 1852; pres. of Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1854–55; pres. of Manchester literary and philosophical society 1855–60; pres. of British Association at Manchester 1861; declined knighthood 23 Oct. 1861; created Baronet 7 Oct. 1869; author of Useful information for Engineers 1856, 4 ed. 1864; Iron, its history 1861, 3 ed. 1869 and other books. d. Moor park near Farnham, Surrey 18 Aug. 1874. bur. Prestwick parish church, Manchester. The life of Sir W. Fairbairn, edited by W. Pole 1877; Fortunes made in business ii, 240–50 (1884); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 251–64 (1875); Practical Mag. iv, 241, portrait; I.L.N. xl, 215, 225 (1862), portrait, lxv, 205, 212, 332 (1874), portrait.

FAIRFAX, Sir Henry, 1 Baronet (youngest son of vice-admiral Sir Wm. George Fairfax 1739–1813). b. Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1790; ensign 49 foot 8 June 1809; major 85 foot 17 July 1823 to 6 Nov. 1827 when placed on h.p.; retired from the army 1844; created baronet in consideration of his father’s distinguished naval services 21 Feb. 1836. d. Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1860.

FAIRFAX, John. b. Warwick 1804; printer and bookseller at Leamington; librarian to the Australian subscription library in Sydney 26 Sep. 1838; bought the Sydney Morning Herald a biweekly paper 1841, converted it into a daily morning paper which soon became leading journal of New South Wales, sole proprietor of the paper 1853; member of council of education 1870; member of legislative council 1874 to death; author of The Colonies of Australia 1852. d. Ginahgulla near Rose Bay, Port Jackson 16 June 1877.

FAIRHOLT, Frederick William (16 child of a German named Fahrholz, who Anglicised his name to Fairholt). b. London 1814; employed in a tobacco factory 14 years; assistant to S. Sly the wood engraver 1835; made many hundreds of drawings on wood to illustrate Charles Knight’s publications; illustrated many important works; F.S.A. 1844; draughtsman to British ArchÆol. Assoc. 1845–52; author of Costume in England 1846, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1885 and 5 other books. d. 22 Montpelier square, Brompton 3 April 1866. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 218–26, 307–21 (1883).

FAIRLAND, Thomas. Pupil of Charles Warren; a lithographer, afterwards a portrait painter; his best work, one of the best ever executed in lithography, was the cartoon of the Virgin and Child by Raphael known as the Rogers Madonna; published a volume of Comic Sketches after W. Hunt 1844 which was very popular. d. of consumption Oct. 1852 in 49 year. G.M. Jany. 1853 p. 102.

FAIRLIE, Robert Francis. b. Scotland, March 1831; civil engineer in Gracechurch st. London; patented the double-bogie engine 1864, first of which was built for Neath and Brecon railway 1866; these engines were introduced into many foreign countries; the Czar of Russia had a special gold medal struck in honour of Fairlie; author of Railways or no railways, narrow gauge v. broad gauge 1872. d. the Woodlands, Clapham common, London 31 July 1885.

FALCIERI, Giovanni Battista, the faithful servant of Lord Byron. Entered service of Isaac D’Israeli; messenger at the India office, superannuated on pension of £140. d. Ramsgate 22 Dec. 1874; Sarah his widow was granted civil list pension of £50, 5 March 1875.

FALCONAR, Chesborough Grant. Ensign 36 foot 1 Sep. 1795; major 78 foot 26 June 1823 to 22 Oct. 1825 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 22 foot 25 Nov. 1828 to 18 Oct. 1839; inspecting field officer 18 Oct. 1839 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 73 foot 11 Feb. 1857 to death; L.G. 20 July 1858; K.H. 1837. d. Hazelbank near Edinburgh 10 Jany. 1860.

FALCONER, Edmund, stage name of Edmund O’Rourke. b. Dublin 1814; acted in the provinces many years; lessee with B. Webster of Lyceum theatre, London, Aug. 1858 to April 1859; played Danny Man in The Colleen Bawn at Adelphi theatre 231 nights from 18 July 1860; lessee of Lyceum again 1861 where his Irish drama Peep o’ Day ran from 9 Nov. 1861 to Dec. 1862; lessee with F. B. Chatterton of Drury Lane 1863 to 26 Sep. 1866 where he lost all his money; played in America 1867–70; author of Memories, poems 1863; Murmurings in the May and Summer of Manhood, O’Ruark’s Bride and Man’s Missions, poems 1865 and of many dramas, librettos and songs. d. 28 Keppel st. Russell sq. London 29 Sep. 1879. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 116–20; Illust. sporting and dramatic news 4 Dec. 1875 pp. 233–4.

FALCONER, Forbes (2 son of Gilbert Falconer of Braeside, Fifeshire). b. Aberdeen 10 Sep. 1805; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal college; teacher of Oriental languages in London; professor of Oriental languages in Univ. college, London; author of Selections from the “BÔstan of SÂdi” in Persian 1838; Persian Grammar, 2 ed. 1848. d. 40 Dorset st. Portman sq. London 7 Nov. 1853.

FALCONER, Hugh (youngest child of David Falconer of Forres, Elginshire). b. Forres 29 Feb. 1808; ed. at Forres gr. sch. and King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1826; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1829; assist. surgeon in the H.E.I.Co.’s service 1830; superintendent of Botanic garden at Suharunpoor, North Western provinces 1832; awarded Wollaston medal of Geol. Society 1837; returned to England on sick leave 1842, went out again 20 Dec. 1847; superintendent of Calcutta botanic garden, and professor of botany in the medical college, June 1847 to 1855; F.G.S. 1842, foreign sec. 1861 to death; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845; author of Descriptive catalogue of the fossil remains from the Sewalik hills, Calcutta 1859. d. Park crescent, London 31 Jany. 1865. C. Murchison’s PalÆontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868) vol. 1, pp. xxiii-liii, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xv, 14–20 (1867); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxi, 45–49 (1865).

FALCONER, Randle Wilbraham (youngest son of Rev. Thomas Falconer of Bath 1772–1839). b. 29 Circus, Bath 1816; studied at Edin., M.D. 1839; practised at Tenby 1839–47, at Bath 1847 to death; physician of Bath united hospital 12 Feb. 1849; physician of Bath mineral water hospital 28 Feb. 1856; mayor of Bath 1857–59; author of The baths and mineral waters of Bath, 6 ed. 1880, and other books. d. Bennett st. Bath 6 May 1881.

FALCONER, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 25 June 1805; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1830; revising barrister for boroughs of Finsbury, Tower Hamlets and Marylebone 1837–1840; one of arbitrators to settle boundary of Canada and New Brunswick, Oct. 1850; colonial sec. of Western Australia 29 July 1851; judge of county courts circuit 30, (Brecknock and Glamorgan) 22 Dec. 1851 to Dec. 1881 when he retired on pension; aided in abolishing Duke of Beaufort’s gaol at Swansea; author of On Surnames and the rules of law affecting their change, Cardiff 1862 privately printed, 2 ed. London 1862, Supplement 1863 and 7 other books. d. Royal crescent, Bath 28 Aug. 1882 in 77 year. T. Falconer’s Bibliography of the Falconer family (1866) 20–30; The Red Dragon ii, 193–98 (1882), portrait.

FALCONER, Rev. William (brother of the preceding). b. Corston, Somerset 27 Dec. 1801; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1827 to 18 July 1839, public examiner 1832–3 and 1836–8; R. of Bushey, Herts. 26 Jany. 1839 to death; translated with H. C. Hamilton for Bohn’s Classical Library The Geography of Strabo 3 vols. 1854–57. d. Bushey rectory 9 Feb. 1885.

FALKLAND, Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10 Viscount (eld. child of Charles John Cary, 9 Viscount Falkland 1768–1809). b. 5 Nov. 1803; succeeded his father who d. of wounds received in a duel 2 March 1809; a lord of the bedchamber to Wm. iv, Dec. 1830; a representative peer for Scotland 1831–32; G.C.H. 1831; created Baron Hunsdon of Skutterskelfe, co. York in peerage of the U.K. 15 May 1832; P.C. 1 March 1837; governor of Nova Scotia 1840–1846; captain of yeomen of the guard 24 July 1846 to 16 Feb. 1848; governor of Bombay 1 Feb. 1848 to Dec. 1853, took his seat 1 May 1848. d. Montpellier, France 12 March 1884.

FALKNER, George. b. Edinburgh 1817; edited Bradshaw’s Manchester Journal from first number 1 May 1841; typographer and lithographer at Manchester to death; published his own Notes on Algiers 1852, and A pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Loreto 1882. d. The Oaklands, Timperley near Manchester 31 Dec. 1882.

FALLON, James Thomas. b. Athlone 1823; went to Sydney, N.S.W. 1842; bought a vineyard at Albury about 1859; his wines took first prize at Vienna exhibition 1873 and London exhibition 1875; made champagne from Australian grapes 1876; had largest vineyards and cellars in Australia; member of legislative assembly of N.S.W. 1869–72. d. Manly near Sydney 27 May 1886.

FALLOON, Rev. Daniel. b. Ireland; minister of Church of England in Canada; author of An historical view of the Church of England 2 vols. Dublin 1830; The Apostolic Church 1837; History of Ireland, civil and ecclesiastical from the earliest times to the death of Henry ii, edited by Rev. John Irwin, Montreal 1863. d. Montreal, Sep. 1862.

FALMOUTH, George Henry Boscawen, 2 Earl of (only child of Edward Boscawen, 1 Earl of Falmouth 1787–1841). b. Woolhampton house near Newbury, Berks. 8 July 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; M.P. for West Cornwall 8 July 1841 to 29 Dec. 1841 when he succeeded his father as 2 Earl; high steward of Wallingford 1845 to death. d. 2 St. James’s square, Westminster 28 Aug. 1852.

FALSHAW, Sir James, 1 Baronet (son of Wm. Falshaw of Leeds). b. Leeds 21 March 1810; assisted Stephenson in construction of Caledonian and other railways; constructed with Brassey the northern lines of railway from Inverness; lord provost of Edinburgh 1876; created baronet 17 Aug. 1876; deputy chairman of North British railway co. 1881, chairman 3 Aug. 1882 to 1887. d. 14 Belgrave crescent, Edinburgh 14 June 1889. Graphic x, 490, 501 (1874), portrait; I.L.N. lxix, 253 (1876), portrait.

FANE, Henry Edward Hamlyn (eld. son of Rev. Edward Fane of Fulbeck, Lincs. 1783–1862). b. Fulbeck hall 5 Sep. 1817; ed. at Charterhouse; ensign 90 foot 1 Aug. 1834; major 4 light dragoons 1846–50 when he sold out; lieut. col. South Lincoln militia 20 April 1854 to death; assumed name of Hamlyn by r.l. 1865; M.P. for South Hants. 1865–68; author of Five years in India 1842. d. Avon Tyrrel, Ringwood, Hants. 27 Dec. 1868.

FANE, John William. b. 1 Sep. 1804; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1854; lieut. col. of Oxford militia 18 July 1862 to 22 May 1872; M.P. for Oxfordshire 1862–1868. d. 34 Cavendish sq. London 19 Nov. 1875.

FANE, Julian Henry Charles (5 son of 11 Earl of Westmoreland 1784–1859). b. Florence 2 Oct. 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.A. 1850; attachÉ at Berlin 1844; sec. of embassy at Vienna 23 Nov. 1860, at Paris 30 Dec. 1865 to 7 June 1868 when he resigned; published Poems 1852; Poems by Heinrich Heine, translated by Julian Fane 1854; author with Edward Lytton of TannhÄuser, or the battle of the bards, a poem by Neville Temple [J. C. Fane] and Edward Trevor [E. R. Bulwer-Lytton] 1861. d. 29 Portman sq. London 19 April 1870. Lytton’s Julian Fane, a memoir (1871), portrait; Jerningham’s Reminiscences of an attachÉ (1886) 16–20.

FANE, Mildmay (5 son of Henry Fane 1739–1842, M.P. for Lyme Regis). b. Sep. 1794; ensign 59 foot 11 June 1812; lieut. col. 98 foot 25 March 1824 to 24 Dec. 1829; lieut. col. 54 foot 24 Dec. 1829 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 96 foot 11 Aug. 1855 to 27 Dec. 1860; col. 54 foot 27 Dec. 1860 to death; general 27 March 1863. d. Fulbeck 12 March 1868.

FANE, Robert George Cecil (brother of the preceding). b. 8 May 1796; ed. at Charterhouse and Balliol coll. Ox.; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1819; a demy and fellow of Magd. coll. Ox. 1824–35; barrister L.I. 1 June 1821; a bankruptcy comr. 1823, one of the six bankrupt comrs. 2 Dec. 1831 to death; author of Bankrupt Reform, Letters i-vii, 2 vols. 1838 and 8 other books. d. Burdon hotel, Weymouth 4 Oct. 1864.

FANQUE, Pablo, assumed name of William Darby. b. Norwich; apprenticed to Wm. Batty, circus proprietor; a negro rope-dancer; circus proprietor 1841 to death. d. Britannia inn, Stockport 4 May 1871 aged 67 or 75. I.L.N. x, 189 (1847), portrait.

FANSHAWE, Sir Arthur (youngest son of Robert Fanshawe, Capt. R.N. 1740–1823). b. 1794; entered navy 8 Feb. 1804; captain 17 Oct. 1816; commander in chief North America and West Indies 23 Nov. 1853 to 25 Nov. 1856; R.A. 18 June 1851, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral 4 Oct. 1862; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. 32 Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 14 June 1864 aged 70.

FARADAY, Michael (younger son of James Faraday of Newington, Surrey, blacksmith 1761–1810). b. Newington 22 Sep. 1791; chemical assistant at royal institution 1 March 1813; travelled as amanuensis with Sir Humphrey Davy in France, Italy and Switzerland 1813–1815; F.R.S. 8 Jany. 1824, Copley medallist 1832 and 1838, royal medallist 1835 and 1846, Rumford medallist 1846; began his lectures to children 29 Dec. 1827; began his ‘Electrical researches’ 29 Aug. 1831; discovered magneto-electricity 1831, electro-chemical decomposition 1833; professor of chemistry at royal institution Jany. 1833 to 1865; granted civil list pension of £300 a year 1835; senator of univ. of London 1836; an elder of the Sandemanian church for 3½ years from 1840; discovered magnetisation of light 1845, diamagnetism 1845 and magnetic character of oxygen 1847; received 95 honorary titles and marks of merit; lived in one of the Queen’s houses Hampton Court Green 1858 to death; author of Chemical manipulation, instructions to students 1827, 3 ed. 1842 and other works. d. Hampton Court Green 25 Aug. 1867. bur. Highgate cemetery 30 Aug. Bence Jones’s Life and letters of Faraday 2 vols. 1870, portrait; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 399–409; Illustrated Review v, 29–39, portrait; Illust. news of the world i (1858), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xvii, 1–68 (1868).

FARDELL, John. b. 4 May 1784; F.S.A. 15 June 1809; barrister M.T. 2 July 1824; M.P. for city of Lincoln 1830–1831. d. Sprotborough rectory, Yorkshire 5 Feb. 1854.

FAREY, John (son of John Farey of Woburn, geologist 1766–1826). b. Lambeth 20 March 1791; ed. at Woburn; made drawings for illustrative plates of many scientific works; invented machine for drawing ellipses 1813 for which gold medal of Society of Arts was awarded him; constructed ironworks in Russia 1819–21; a lace manufacturer in Devonshire 1821–23; consulting C.E. in London 1826 to death; M.I.C.E. 1826; author of A treatise on the steam engine vol. i, 1827. d. the Common, Sevenoaks 17 July 1851. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi, 100–102 (1852).

FARGUS, Frederick John (eld. son of Frederick Charles Fargus of Bristol, auctioneer, who d. 14 April 1868). b. Bristol 26 Dec. 1847; auctioneer at Bristol 1868–83; author of Called Back 1883, 350,000 copies of it were sold and it was at once translated into 6 European languages, his dramatic version of it was played at Prince’s theatre, London nearly 200 nights from 20 May 1884; all his stories were published under pseudonym of Hugh Conway. d. Monte Carlo 15 May 1885. bur. Nice cemetery 18 May. Called Back, by H. Conway (1885) pp. vii-xiii, portrait; The Lute, June 1885 p. 125; I.L.N. 30 May 1885 p. 559, portrait.

FARIS, William. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany. 1814, lieut. col. 6 Aug. 1849 to 24 Nov. 1851 when placed on retired list; general 8 June 1871. d. 17 Pall Mall, London 4 Dec. 1874 aged 80.

FARLEY, Charles. b. London 1771; first appeared on the stage at Covent Garden 1782; supervised dramatic spectacles at Covent Garden 1806–34; author of The Magic Oak, a Christmas pantomime 1799; Aggression, or the heroine of Yucatan 1805 and other pieces; instructed Grimaldi to whose Orson when he made his appearance in the character 10 Oct. 1806 he played Valentine; the best theatrical machinist of his time. d. 42 Ampthill square, Hampstead road, London 28 Jany. 1859. British stage ii, 145 (1818), portrait.

FARLEY, James Lewis (only son of Thomas Farley of Meiltran, co. Cavan). b. Dublin 9 Sep. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; chief accountant of Beyrout branch of Ottoman Bank 1856; accountant general of state bank of Turkey at Constantinople 1860; consul for Turkey at Bristol 1870–84; author of The massacres in Syria 1861; The Druses and the Maronites 1861; Turks and Christians, a solution of the Eastern question 1876 and other books. d. Bayswater, London 12 Nov. 1885.

FARNBOROUGH, Sir Thomas Erskine May, 1 Baron. b. London 8 Feb. 1815; ed. at Bedford gr. sch.; assistant librarian House of Commons 1831; barrister M.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 21 May 1873; taxing master in Parliament 1847–56; clerk assistant of House of Commons 1856–71, clerk Jany. 1871 to death; member of Statute law committee 1868, chairman; C.B. 1860, K.C.B. 6 July 1866; created Baron Farnborough of Farnborough in the county of Southampton 10 May 1886; author of Constitutional history of England 1760–1860, 2 vols. 1861–2, new ed. 3 vols. 1871; Law privileges, proceedings and usage of Parliament 1844, 9 ed. 1883; Democracy in Europe 2 vols. 1877. d. Speaker’s Court, Houses of Parliament 17 May 1886. Biograph, Jany. 1882 pp. 14–20.

FARNCOMB, Thomas. b. Sussex; proprietor of one of the largest wharfs on Surrey side of the Thames for about 50 years; a merchant and shipowner; one of earliest promoters of London and Westminster bank 1834, and long a director of it; sheriff of London 1840, alderman for ward of Bassishaw 1841–59, lord mayor 1849–50. d. Rose hill, Forest hill, Surrey 23 Sep. 1865 aged 86.

FARNHAM, Henry Maxwell, 7 Baron (eld. child of Rev. Henry Maxwell, 6 Baron Farnham 1773–1838). b. Dublin 9 Aug. 1799; M.P. for co. Cavan 1824–38; succeeded 19 Oct. 1838; an Irish representative peer 2 July 1839 to death; K.P. 1845; killed near Abergele, Denbighshire on the London and north western railway 20 Aug. 1868. I.L.N. liii, 210 (1868).

FARNHAM, Somerset Richard Maxwell, 8 Baron (brother of the preceding). b. Dublin 18 Oct. 1803; M.P. for Cavan 1838–40; sheriff of Cavan 1844. d. Farnham house, Cavan 1 June 1884.

FARNHAM, Edward Basil. b. 19 April 1799; M.P. for North Leicestershire 1837–59; sheriff of Leics. 1870. d. Quorndon house near Loughborough 13 May 1879.

FARNIE, Henry Brougham. b. Fifeshire; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Cambridge; edited the Fifeshire Journal; edited in London a musical weekly called The Orchestra 1863, also the Paris Times, Sock and Buskin 1867 and Cramer’s Opera Bouffe Cabinet 1874; his song The Last Stirrup-cup became very popular; wrote librettos of many operettas and burlesques; translated and adapted most of the more successful modern French comic operas, most popular of which were Genevieve de Brabant produced at Philharmonic theatre 11 Nov. 1871, Nemesis at Strand theatre 17 April 1873, La Fille de Madame Angot at Gaiety theatre 10 Nov. 1873 and Les Cloches de Corneville at Folly theatre 23 Feb. 1878; 20 of his adaptations were printed 1850–87. d. Paris 22 Sep. 1889. Law Reports 5 P.D. 153, 6 P.D. 35, 8 Appeal Cases 43.

FARQUHAR, Thomas Newman. b. 1809; solicitor in London 1830 to death; one of the nine purchasers of the Crystal Palace for £70,000, 24 May 1852, one of the original directors of the Co. at Sydenham. d. Sydenham, Kent 30 July 1866.

FARQUHARSON, Francis (son of Rev. Robert Farquharson of Allarque, co. Aberdeen). b. 1787; entered Bombay army 1802; col. 9 Bombay N.I. 8 March 1845 to 1869; general 6 Jany. 1863. d. Clifton 20 March 1872.

FARQUHARSON, James John (only son of James Farquharson of Littleton, Dorset 1728–95). b. 9 Oct. 1784; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1828; student of L.I. 1829; kept a pack of foxhounds in Dorset at his own expense 1806 to 1858 when he sold the pack; kept a small racing stud; sheriff of Dorset 1809. d. 9 March 1871. Sporting Review xxxviii, 355–58 (1857), xxxix, 440–42 (1858), portrait; Baily’s Mag. xi, 113–18 (1866), portrait.

FARQUHARSON, Robert, stage name of Robert Farquharson Smith. b. 1820; articled to Harris of Drury Lane, chorus master; sang at coronation of William iv, 1838; sang in opera at Drury Lane and Surrey theatres, also at concerts; member of the Sims Reeves opera troupe; went to Australia 1856, sang there in opera and concerts; sang at the Opera Comique, London. d. 2 Wilberforce road, Finsbury park, London 12 Feb. 1880.

FARR, William. b. Kenley, Shropshire 30 Nov. 1807; studied medicine in Paris 1829–31; L.S.A. 1832; practised in London 1833–38; compiler of abstracts in registrar general’s office 1838; an assistant comr. for censuses of 1851 and 1861 and a comr. for that of 1871; wrote greater part of the reports on each census; F.S.S. 1839, treasurer 1855–67, vice-pres. 1869–70, pres. 1871–2; F.R.S. 7 June 1855 to 1882; C.B. 10 April 1880; gold medallist of British Association 1880; author of A medical guide to Nice 1841 and of many papers in the Lancet and other periodicals. d. 78 Portsdown road, Maida Vale, London 14 April 1883. Biographical notice of W. Farr by F. A. C. Hare 1883; W. Farr’s Vital Statistics 1885 with biographical sketch by N. A. Humphreys, portrait.

FARRAR, Rev. John (youngest son of Rev. John Farrar, Wesleyan minister, who d. 1837). b. Alnwick 29 July 1802; Wesleyan min. Aug. 1822; resident minister successively at Sheffield, Huddersfield, Macclesfield and London; classical tutor at Wesleyan theological institution, Richmond, Surrey 1843–58; governor and chaplain of Woodhouse Grove school near Leeds 1858–68; governor of Headingley college, Leeds 1868–76; pres. of Wesleyan conference at Birmingham 1854 and at Burslem 1870; author of The proper names of the Bible 1839, 2 ed. 1844; A biblical and theological dictionary illustrative of the Old and New Testament 1851 and 3 other books. d. Headingley, Leeds 19 Nov. 1884. bur. Abney Park cemetery, London 25 Nov. Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school (1885) pp. 14, 79–84, 135, 257; I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1870 p. 149, portrait.

FARRE, Arthur (younger son of John Richard Farre 1775–1862). b. London 6 March 1811; ed. at Charterhouse sch. and Caius coll. Cam.; M.B. 1833, M.D. 1841; F.R.S. 2 May 1839; F.R.C.P. 1843, Harveian orator 1872; professor of obstetric medicine at King’s college, and phys. accoucheur to King’s college hospital 1841–62; examiner in midwifery to royal college of surgeons 1852–75; pres. of Royal Microscopical Society 1851–2; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 30 Aug. 1875 to death; pres. of Obstetrical Society 1875; author of The Uterus and its appendages forming parts 49 and 50 of Todd’s CyclopÆdia of anatomy and physiology 1858. d. 18 Albert Mansions, Victoria st. Westminster 17 Dec. 1887.

FARRE, Frederick John (brother of the preceding). b. Charterhouse sq. London 16 Dec. 1804; ed. at Charterhouse, gold medallist 1821, captain 1822; foundation scholar at St. John’s coll. Cam., 32 wrangler 1827; M.A. 1830, M.D. 1837; lecturer on botany at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1831–54, on materia medica 1854–76, assistant phys. 1836, phys. 1854; phys. to Royal London Ophthalmic hospital 1843 to death; F.R.C.P. 1838, lecturer on materia medica 1843–5, treasurer 1868–83, vice pres. 1885; one of the editors of first British Pharmacopoeia 1864, and of an abridgment of Pereira’s Materia Medica 1865, new eds. 1872 and 1874. d. 35 Elsham road, Kensington, London 9 Nov. 1886.

FARRE, John Richard (son of Richard John Farre of Barbadoes, surgeon). b. Barbadoes 31 Jany. 1775; student at United Borough hosps. London 1792; spent two years at Edinburgh; M.D. Aberdeen 22 Jany. 1806; L.C.P. 31 March 1806; physician in London 1806; joint founder with J. C. Saunders of Royal London Ophthalmic hospital 1806, physician there 1806–56; edited Journal of Morbid Anatomy, ophthalmic medicine and pharmaceutical analysis 1828; author of The morbid anatomy of the liver 1812–15, Pathological researches on malformations of the human heart 1814. d. Pentonville road, London 7 May 1862.

FARRELL, Francis. Entered Bombay army 1818; col. 28 Bombay N.I. 15 March 1851 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Hyde lodge, Winchester 17 July 1869 aged 69.

FARREN, Henry (eld. son of Wm. Farren 1786–1861). b. 1825; made his first appearance on the stage at Haymarket theatre as Charles Surface 1848; played leading comedy parts at Strand 1847–50 and Olympic 1850–53; manager of Brighton theatre short time; played in the U.S. 1854 to death; manager of theatre at St. Louis. d. St. Louis 8 Jany. 1860.

FARREN, Harriet Elizabeth (dau. of Mr. Diddear, provincial theatrical manager). b. Penzance, Cornwall 31 July 1789; made her first appearance in London at Covent Garden theatre 7 Oct. 1813 as Desdemona; played leading characters in tragedy and comedy at Covent Garden and Drury Lane; retired about 1837. (m. (1) 1805 John Faucit Saville actor, he d. 1 Nov. 1853. m. (2) Jany. 1856 William Farren 1786–1861). d. 23 Brompton sq. London 16 June 1857. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii, 127–35 (1825), portrait; Theatrical inquisitor x, 83–86 (1817), portrait.

FARREN, William (3 son of Wm. Farren of Covent Garden theatre, London, actor, who d. 9 May 1795 aged 41). b. 13 May 1786; made his first appearance on the stage as Sir Archy Macsarcasm in Love À la Mode at Plymouth theatre about 1806; played in Ireland; appeared in London at Covent Garden theatre as Sir Peter Teazle 10 Sep. 1818; played at Covent Garden winter seasons 1818–28, at the Haymarket summer seasons 1818–28; played at Drury Lane 1828–1837, at Covent Garden again 1837, at the Haymarket 1837–47; lessee of the Strand 1847–50, of the Olympic 2 Sep. 1850 to 22 Sep. 1853; took final farewell of the stage at the Haymarket theatre 16 July 1855; famous for his old men characters. d. 23 Brompton sq. London 24 Sep. 1861. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii, 37–47 (1825), portrait; Metropolitan mag. xviii, 85–91 (1837); Theatrical inquisitor xiii, 323 (1818), portrait; I.L.N. i, 188 (1842), portrait, xxvii, 99, 100 (1855), portrait.

FARRER, James (eld. son of the succeeding). b. London 8 May 1812; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.; M.P. for South Durham 1847–57 and 1859–65. d. Ingleborough near Settle, Yorkshire 13 June 1879.

FARRER, James William (eld. son of James Farrer). b. 11 May 1785; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1811; a master in chancery 9 March 1824 to 30 June 1852 when office was abolished by 15 & 16 Vict. c. 80, and he retired on full pay; author of Observations on the offices of the Masters in Chancery 1848. d. Ingleborough 9 Nov. 1863.

FARRIER, Robert. b. Chelsea 1796; exhibited 35 pictures at R.A., 50 at B.I. and 32 at Suffolk st. gallery 1818–72 many of which were engraved; one of his pictures ‘The Parting’ is in the South Kensington Museum. d. Holly villa, Hayes, Uxbridge 19 April 1879.

FAULKNER, George. b. Oldham st. Manchester about 1790; partner in a firm of silk, cotton and linen manufacturers at Manchester 1812; the first chairman of trustees of Owens college, Manchester 1851 to Aug. 1858; a liberal benefactor to the college. d. Limebank, Crumpsall, Manchester 21 Feb. 1862. Thompson’s Owen’s College, Manchester (1886) pp. 52–8; Manchester Courier 1 March 1862 p. 7.

FAULKNER, Thomas. b. Fulham near London; bookseller and stationer in Paradise row, Chelsea; contributed essays and reviews to Gent. Mag. for more than half a century from Oct. or Nov. 1797; published histories of Chelsea, Fulham, Kensington, Hammersmith, Brentford, Chiswick and Ealing 1810–45. d. Smith st. Chelsea 26 May 1855 in 79 year. G.M. xliv, 215–16 (1855).

FAUSSETT, Rev. Godfrey (son of Henry Godfrey Faussett of Nackington near Canterbury, who d. 1825). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 7 July 1797 aged 16, scholar 1797; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, B.D. 1822, D.D. 1827; probationary fellow of Magd. coll. July 1802; select preacher 1809, 1813, 1824 and 1835; Bampton lecturer 1820; Lady Margaret’s professor of divinity in Univ. of Ox. 1827 to death; preb. of Worcester 1827–40; canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1840 to death; V. of Cropthorne, Worcs. 1840 to death; author of The claims of the established church, Oxford 1820; The Thirty-nine articles considered with reference to No. 90 of Tracts for the Times 1841 and other works. d. Christ Church, Oxford 28 June 1853.

FAUSSETT, Thomas Godfrey (6 son of the preceding). b. Oxford 1829; ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854, fellow of his coll. 1857–64; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1863; chapter clerk and auditor of Canterbury cathedral 1866 to death; district registrar of Court of Probate at Canterbury 1871 to death; F.S.A. March 1859; hon. sec. of Kent ArchÆological Soc. 1863–73; author of many articles on antiquity and archÆology; wrote the article Canterbury in EncyclopÆdia Britannica, 9 ed. d. The Precincts, Canterbury 26 Feb. 1877. Rev. W. J. Loftie’s Memorials of T. G. Faussett 1878.

FAUVET, Pierre Adolphe Duhart-. Lived in London nearly 50 years; head French master at Working men’s college North London and other institutions; author of Champ de Roses 1847; PoÉsies FranÇaises 1870, 2 ed. 1870; wrote Soyer’s Pantropheon, or history of food and its preparations 1853. d. 8 Arlingford road, Brixton, London 15 Oct. 1882 aged 75.

FAVANTI, Rita, stage name of Margaret Edwards. Educ. at Royal Academy of Music, Aug. 1836 to May 1840; appeared as Mademoiselle Favanti at Her Majesty’s theatre in Cenerentola 23 March 1844; had a compass of voice of almost 3 octaves. d. 28 Abingdon villas, Kensington 19 Aug. 1867 aged 39. H. F. Chorley’s Thirty years musical recollections i, 244–50 (1862); I.L.N. iv, 189 (1844), portrait.

FAWCETT, Charles. b. Leicester; acted at Hull; author of plays entitled The Irish Farmer and Cousin Sophy played by Barney Williams; The Irish American played by John Drew, Roderick the King of the Goths and Napoleon the Third. d. Philadelphia 23 July 1867.

FAWCETT, Henry (son of William Fawcett of Salisbury, draper 1793–1887). b. Salisbury 26 Aug. 1833; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. Hall, Cam., 7 wrangler 1856; B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; student at L.I. 26 Oct. 1854; fell. of his coll. Dec. 1856; totally blinded by his father when shooting 17 Sep. 1858; professor of political economy in Univ. of Cam. 27 Nov. 1863 to death; contested Cambridge 1862, Brighton 1863 and 1874; M.P. for Brighton, July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874, M.P. for Hackney 24 April 1874 to death; postmaster general 3 May 1880 to death, established the parcels post 1 Aug. 1883; P.C. 3 May 1880; lord rector of Glasgow Univ. 1883; a correspondent of French academy 1884; author of Manual of political economy 1863, 6 ed. 1883 and 10 other books. d. 18 Brookside, Cambridge 6 Nov. 1884, monument placed in Westminster Abbey by national subscription. bur. Trumpington churchyard 10 Nov. Life of Henry Fawcett by Leslie Stephen (1885), 2 portraits; Times 7 Nov. 1884 p. 10, cols. 3–6.

FAWCETT, John (son of a shoemaker at village of Wennington, Lancashire). b. Wennington 8 Dec. 1789, shoemaker there to 1825; organist and professor of music at Bolton 1825 to death; his compositions are said to number 200; his chief works are The Seraphic Choir 1840; The Cherub Lute 1845; Music for thousands 1845; The Lancashire vocalist 1854; The temperance minstrel 1856; Chanting made easy 1857; The universal chorister 1863; The temperance harmonist 1864. d. Bolton 26 Oct. 1867. J. Fawcett’s Harp of Zion, portrait.

FAWCETT, John (3 son of the preceding). b. Bolton 1824; organist of St. John’s church, Farnworth, Lancs. 1825–1842, of Bolton parish church 1842 to death; obtained degree of Mus. Bac. Ox. 3 Nov. 1852, his exercise a sacred cantata Supplication and Thanksgiving was published by subscription 1856. d. Manchester 1 July 1857.

FAWCETT, Rev. Joshua (2 son of Richard Fawcett of Bradford, worsted manufacturer). b. Bradford 9 May 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1836; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Wibsey, Yorkshire 17 Feb. 1833 to death; hon. canon of Ripon, Sep. 1860 to death; edited The Village Churchman afterwards incorporated with The Churchman and continued under title of The Churchman’s Magazine 8 vols. 1838–45; author of A harmony of the Gospels 1836 and other books. d. suddenly while walking on Low Moor, Bradford 21 Dec. 1864. J. James’s Bradford (1866) 263–64.

FAWKNER, John Pascoe. b. London 20 Aug. 1792; went out to Port Phillip, Australia 1803; a publican at Launceston, Van Diemen’s Land; brought out the Launceston Advertiser 1830; founded Melbourne, Victoria 29 Aug. 1835; brought out the Melbourne Advertiser the first newspaper in Victoria 1 Jany. 1838, the Port Phillip Patriot 5 March 1838 converted it into the Daily News; member of first legislative council Oct. 1851; member of the upper house, Nov. 1856 to death. d. Melbourne 4 Sep. 1869. Labilliere’s Early history of Victoria ii, 88–95 (1878).

FAWSITT, Amy, stage name of Mary Ann Fawsitt (dau. of William Fawsitt of the Manchester exchange, who d. 1843). b. London 1836; ed. for a governess at Abbeville and Milan; first appeared on stage at Edinburgh 1865; first appeared in London at Holborn theatre as Flora Grainger in The Mistress of the Mill 1 May 1869; played Lottie in Albery’s Two Roses at Vaudeville theatre 400 times from 4 June 1870; played Lady Teazle at same theatre 412 times from 18 July 1872; came out at Fifth Avenue theatre New York 27 Sep. 1876. (m. 27 May 1871 Edward Menzies of Perth and Belgrave sq. London). d. 8th Avenue, New York 26 Dec. 1876. bur. Marble cemetery, New York 29 Dec. Illustrated sporting and dramatic news i, 217, 219 (1874), portrait; London Figaro 29 Sep. 1877, pp. 10–12.

FEARON, Ven. Henry (son of Rev. J. F. Fearon, V. of Cuckfield, Sussex). b. 20 June 1802; ed. at Winchester and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow of Em. coll.; R. of Loughborough 1848 to death; archdeacon of Leicester 1863–84; author of Old Dame Walder, a tale of Suffolk life 1847; What to learn and what to unlearn, Lectures 1860 and other books. d. Loughborough 12 June 1885.

FEARON, Robert Bryce. Ensign 31 foot June 1795, lieut. col. 8 May 1823; lieut. col. 64 foot 12 Jany. 1826; lieut. col. 6 foot 1 May 1828; lieut. col. 40 foot 23 Nov. 1838 to death; commanded troops on board ship ‘Kent’ burnt in Bay of Biscay 1 March 1825, C.B. for his services on this occasion 2 April 1825; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; committed suicide by shooting himself at residence of his daughter Lady Palmer at Much Hadham, Herts. 26 Jany. 1851.

FEARON, Samuel Turner. M.R.C.S. 1848; M.D. St. Andrews 1851; professor of Chinese literature, King’s college, London. d. Abercrombie house, Southampton st. Fitzroy sq. London 18 Jany. 1854 aged 35.

FEATHERSTON, Isaac Earl (4 son of Thomas Featherston of Cotfield house, Durham). b. 21 March 1813; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1836; went to New Zealand 1840; superintendent of province of Wellington 1853–71; member of general assembly for Wanganui and afterwards for city of Wellington; agent general for New Zealand in England 1871 to death. d. 60 York road, Brighton 19 June 1876. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers (1886), 83, portrait.

FEATHERSTONHAUGH, George William. b. London 1780; went to U.S. America 1807 where he married and resided; geologist of U.S.A. in journeys through Mexico and Arkansas 1834–5; commissioner to determine boundary between U.S.A. and British North America 1839; British consul at Havre 29 Oct. 1844 to death; instrumental in bringing Louis Philippe and his queen to England 3 March 1848; F.R.S. 2 April 1835; edited the monthly American journal of geology from 1831; author of The Republic of Cicero, translated 1829; Excursion through the slave states 2 vols. 1844; A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor 2 vols. 1847 and other books. d. Havre 27 Sep. 1866. Quarterly Journal of Geological Soc. xxiii, pp. xliii-v (1867).

FECHTER, Charles Albert (son of Jean Maria Guillaume Fechter, sculptor). b. Hanway yard, Oxford st. London 23 Oct. 1824; made his dÉbut at ComedÍe FranÇaise, Paris, Dec. 1844; played at St. James’s theatre, London 1847; played at Vaudeville theatre, Paris 1852–58; joint director of OdÉon theatre 1857; the leading jeune premier in France; appeared as Ruy Blas in Victor Hugo’s drama Ruy Blas at Princess’s theatre 27 Oct. 1860, and as Hamlet 20 March 1861 with great success; lessee of Lyceum theatre, Dec. 1862 to Nov. 1867; played at Adelphi theatre 1867–69 and 1872; first appeared in New York 10 Jany. 1870; opened Globe theatre, New York 12 Sep. 1870; opened Park theatre, New York 15 April 1874; broke his leg 1876 when he retired from the stage. d. at his farm, Richmond, Bucks. county, Philadelphia 5 Aug. 1879. Kate Field’s C. A. Fechter (1882), 4 portraits; A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets (1884) 45–50; Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 127–36; Tallis’s Illustrated life in London (1864) 104, 105, 138, 2 portraits; Theatre iii, 70, 132 (1879), portrait.

FEDERICI, Frederick, stage name of Frederick Baker. Sang frequently in London at St. James’s hall and Monday popular concerts; played all the baritone parts in Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operas in America and England; went to Australia, June 1887; played Mephistopheles in Faust at Princess’s theatre, Melbourne 3 March 1888. d. in the green-room of the theatre at 12.10 a.m. 4 March 1888. Illustrated sporting and dramatic news 26 May 1888 pp. 321, 322, portrait.

FEENEY, Patrick. b. Galway 1800; ran away from home at 9 years of age; a strolling showman or performer of feats of strength and agility, he balanced coach wheels, a plank 21 feet long and a live donkey on a ladder; always known as Old Malabar; made the round of all the fairs in England and Scotland; an account of his life was written and published by David Prince Miller; performed in streets of Glasgow 5 Nov. 1883. d. 9 M’Pherson st. Glasgow 6 Nov. 1883. Era 10 Nov. 1883 p. 4, col. 4.

FEENEY, Patrick. b. Rosscommon 19 Nov. 1850; first appeared on the stage at Birmingham as an Irish comic singer; first appeared in London 1876; sang in all chief music halls in London and the provinces; the leading Irish comic singer for some years before his death; spent 40 weeks in the United States 1888. d. Kennington park road, London 13 May 1889.

FEENEY, Right Rev. Thomas. Professor in Maynooth college; bishop of Ptolemais and administrator apostolic of Killala, July 1839, consecrated 13 Oct. 1839; bishop of Killala 12 Dec. 1847 to death. d. Killala 9 June 1873.

FEILD, Right Rev. Edward (3 son of James Feild). b. Worcester 7 June 1801; ed. at Rugby and Queen’s coll. Ox., Michel scholar, Michel fellow 1827–33; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1844; R. of English Bicknor, Gloucs. 1834–44; the first inspector of schools under National Society, May 1840; bishop of Newfoundland 22 March 1844 to death; consecrated at Lambeth palace 28 April; author of addresses, sermons and charges. d. the bishop’s palace, Bermuda 8 June 1876. Tucker’s Memoir of E. Field (1877), portrait.

FEILDEN, Henry Master (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Witton park, Blackburn 21 Feb. 1818; M.P. for Blackburn 30 March 1869 to death. d. Lytham, Lancashire 5 Sep. 1875.

FEILDEN, Joseph. b. Blackburn 1792; sheriff of Lancs. 1818; M.P. for Blackburn 15 Aug. 1865 to 16 March 1869 when unseated on petition. d. Wilton park near Blackburn 29 Aug. 1870.

FEIST, Charles (son of Rev. Peter Feist who became a dissenting minister). b. Beverley, Yorkshire 12 April 1795; educ. Beverley gram. sch.; in solicitor’s office London; member of Norfolk and Suffolk circuits under David Fisher 5 years; proprietor of a sch. at Swaffham, Norfolk 7 years, of a sch. in London 1 year, of a sch. in Newmarket 18 years where he educated many of the jockeys; correspondent of Sunday Times at Newmarket; came to London 1842 in connection with Sunday Times; author of Breathings of the Woodland Lyre 1815; Useful rhymes for youths betimes 1837; Spring blossoms, dialogues on subjects entertaining to children, 4 ed. 1844. d. 10 Granville sq. Clerkenwell, London 10 July 1856. Sporting Review xxxvi, 391–4 (1856).

FEIST, Henry Mort. Editor of The Sporting Life 16 March 1859 to decease, wrote in it under name of Augur; no man understood racing and racing men more thoroughly; reporter and sporting prophet for Daily Telegraph under pseudonym of Hotspur; amateur actor and good in the role of a clown. d. Croydon 18 Dec. 1874 aged 37, a fund raised for his wife and children, admiral Rous president. Sporting Times 26 Dec. 1874 pp. 157–8, portrait; Sporting Life 19 Dec. 1874, p. 2, 26 Dec. p. 2; Illust. sporting and dramatic news ii, 327, 333 (1875), portrait.

FELIX, Nicholas, assumed name of Nicholas Wanostrocht (son of Vincent Wanostrocht of Camberwell, Surrey, schoolmaster, who d. 1824). b. Camberwell 5 Oct. 1804; kept a school at Peckham road, Camberwell 1824–32 when he leased it to Royal Naval School; studied cricket under Harry Hampton at Camberwell; invented the Catapulta with which he practised; left hand batsman; slow underhand left hand bowler; played first match at Lord’s 23 Aug. 1828; played in the Gentlemen v. Players matches 1831–52; kept a school at Blackheath; afterwards lived at Montpellier road, Brighton; subscription raised for him 1858; portrait, animal and landscape painter; inventor of the tubular india rubber gloves; a player of fives and billiards; author of Felix on the bat 1845, 3 ed. 1855. d. Wimborne Minster, Dorset 3 Sep. 1876. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores ii, 61 (1862), vii, p. xi (1877).

FELLOWES, Charles (son of Sir Thomas Fellowes 1778–1853). b. 19 Oct. 1823; entered navy 14 May 1836; captain 26 Feb. 1858; R.A. 18 June 1876; admiral superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1876–79; V.A. 31 Dec. 1880; C.B. 20 May 1871; commanded channel squadron 3 July 1885 to death. d. Gibraltar 8 March 1886.

FELLOWES, Sir James (3 son of Wm. Fellowes, M.D. of Leicester, physician to George iv). b. Edinburgh 1772; ed. at Rugby; entered at Peterhouse, Cam., removed to Caius as a Tancred scholar; fellow of Caius; studied medicine in London and Edinburgh; M.B. Cam. 1797, M.D. 5 July 1803; F.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1805; hospital assist. June 1794; one of phys. to the Forces 28 Oct. 1795; knighted by George 3rd at the Queen’s palace 21 March 1810; inspector general of military hospitals 29 April 1813 to 1815 when he retired; F.R.S. 29 Feb. 1816; author of Reports of the pestilential disorder of Andalusia which appeared at Cadiz in the years 1800, 1804, 1810 and 1813, 1815. d. Langstone cottage near Havant 30 Dec. 1857.

FELLOWES, Sir Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. Minorca 1778; midshipman in service of H.E.I.C.; master’s mate R.N. 1797; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C. 22 Feb. 1822; knighted 13 Feb. 1828; naval A.D.C. to the Queen 1841–47; superintendent of royal naval hospital and victualling yard, Plymouth 6 Feb. 1843 to 1 Sep. 1847; R.A. 26 July 1847. d. Great Bedwyn vicarage, Wilts. 12 April 1853.

FELLOWS, Sir Charles (son of John Fellows of Nottingham). b. Nottingham, Aug. 1799; made the 13th recorded ascent of Mont Blanc 25 July 1827; discovered Xanthus and Tlos, Asia Minor 1838 and 13 other ancient cities there 1840; brought home the Lycian marbles 1844; knighted at St. James’s palace 7 May 1845; author of A journal written during an excursion in Asia Minor 1839; An account of discoveries in Lycia 1841 and other books. d. 4 Montagu place, Russell sq. London 8 Nov. 1860. C. Brown’s Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies (1882) 352–3.

FELLOWS, Thomas Howard (eld. son of Thomas Fellows of Moneyhill, Herts., solicitor). b. 1823; ed. at Eton; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; went to Melbourne 1853; member of legislative assembly of Victoria 1855–58 and 1867–72; member of legislative council 1858–67; solicitor general 1856–57 and 1857–58; attorney general 25 Feb. 1857 to 24 March 1857; postmaster general 14 Oct. 1863 to 24 March 1864; minister of justice and leader of the Assembly, May to July 1868; judge of supreme court of Victoria 18 Dec. 1872 to death; author of The law of costs 1847; Convocation, its origin, progress and authority 1852. d. Melbourne 8 April 1878 in 56 year.

FENN, Rev. Joseph Finch (son of Rev. Joseph Fenn, minister of Blackheath park chapel, Kent). b. 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1844–7; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845, B.D. 1877; V. of Stotfold, Beds. 1847–60; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Cheltenham 1860 to death; chaplain to bishop of Gloucester and Bristol 1877 to death; hon. canon of Gloucester 1879 to death; proctor in convocation 1880 to death; promoter of free library system in Cheltenham; author of a vol. of sermons entitled Lenten Teachings. d. Cheltenham 22 July 1884.

FENNELL, John Greville. b. at sea between Ireland and England 1807; artist, naturalist and angler; drew pictures of tournament at Eglinton Castle for Illustrated London News; wrote on fishing in The Field 1853 to death; contributed to Fishing Gazette under name of Creel, and other sporting papers; author of The Rail and the Rod 1867; The book of the Roach 1870. d. Jessamine cottage, Henley 13 Jany. 1885. Fishing Gazette x, 24, 51, 61, 220, 264 (1885), portrait.

FENTON, Charles Gill (son of James Gill Fenton, stage director to Edmund Kean, who d. 20 Aug. 1877 aged 83). Played small parts in pantomimes 1831; played Shakesperian parts and principal parts in pantomimes at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1844–59; actor and scene painter at Strand theatre about 1863–73; acted at Vaudeville theatre 1873–74. d. Shelburne road, Islington 15 Feb. 1877 aged 56.

FENTON, Edward Dyne. Ensign 53 foot 1847, lieut. 1849–57 when placed on h.p.; captain 14 foot 1858; captain 86 foot 1860–70 when he sold out; author of Sorties from Gib in quest of sensation and sentiment 1872; Military men I have met 1872; Eve’s Daughters 1873; B. an autobiography 3 vols. 1874 a novel. d. Scarborough 29 July 1880.

FENWICK, Edward Matthew (son of Edward James Reid of Jamaica). b. Jamaica 1812; barrister M.T. 1 May 1854; assumed name of Fenwick in lieu of Reid, June 1851; contested Lancaster 30 April 1859; M.P. for Lancaster 13 April 1864, re-elected 1 Feb. 1866, election was declared void 23 April 1866 and writ was suspended till passing of Reform bill 1867 when borough was disfranchised. d. Burrow hill, Kirkby Lonsdale 16 Oct. 1877.

FENWICK, Henry (eld. son of Thomas Fenwick of Southill, co. Durham). b. 1820; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; barrister L.I. 6 May 1845; contested Sunderland, July 1852 and Durham, Dec. 1852; M.P. for Sunderland 1855–66. d. Lansdowne house, Richmond, Surrey 18 April 1868.

FENWICK-BISSET, Mordaunt (only son of Ven. Maurice George Fenwick-Bisset 1797–1879, archdeacon of Raphoe, Ireland). b. Raphoe 27 Feb. 1825; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; master of Devon and Somerset stag hounds 1855–80; assumed additional name of Bisset 1853; sheriff of Somerset 1872; M.P. for West Somerset, April 1880 to Feb. 1884. d. Bagborough house near Taunton 7 July 1884. Covert side sketches by J. N. Fitt (1870) 219–22; Fores’s Sporting Notes, Oct. 1884, portrait.

FERGUSON, Sir Adam (eld. son of Adam Ferguson 1723–1816, professor of moral philosophy in Univ. of Edin.) b. Edinburgh 1771; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; captain 101 foot 1808–16 when placed on h.p.; prisoner of war in France 1812–14; deputy keeper of Regalia of Scotland 1818 to death, the Regalia were discovered 5 Feb. 1818; knighted by George iv at Edin. 29 Aug. 1822. d. Edinburgh 1 Jany. 1855 in 84 year. Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott (1837) iv, 223, 249, 272.

FERGUSON, George. b. 1786; entered navy July 1798; captain 6 June 1814; admiral on half pay 11 Feb. 1861; M.P. for Banff 1832–37. d. 37 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 15 March 1867.

FERGUSON, James. b. Perthshire 31 Aug. 1797; taken to the United States 1800; assistant civil engineer on Erie canal 1817; first assistant of U.S. coast survey 1833–47; assistant astronomer of U.S. naval observatory 1847 to death; discovered three asteroids; contributed to Gould’s Astronomical Journal, Astronomische Nachrichten, Episcopal Church Review and other magazines. d. Washington, D.C. 26 Sep. 1867.

FERGUSON, James Frederic (son of Jacques FrÉdÉric Jaquemain, who assumed name of Ferguson 1793, deputy postmaster of Beaufort in South Carolina). b. Charleston 1807; went to Dublin 1820; indexed the entire body of Exchequer records; clerk and sec. to commission for arranging records of the Irish courts 1850; in charge of the Exchequer records to death; contributed to Gent. Mag., Notes and Queries, Topographer and Genealogist and Transactions of the Kilkenny archÆological society; translated Norman French chronicle of conquest of Ireland, edited by M. Michel. d. Dublin 26 Nov. 1855.

FERGUSON, John (son of William Ferguson of Irvine, Ayrshire, shipmaster). b. Irvine 28 Feb. 1787; ed. at Ayr; in a banker’s office; went to America; settled at Irvine 1810; left by his will £80,000 for educational and religious objects in Scotland, and about £375,000 called the Ferguson Bequest Fund interest of which is spent in building churches and schoolhouses, &c. d. 8 Jany. 1856.

FERGUSON, John Creery. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.B. 1827, M.A. 1833; licentiate of K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1827, fellow 1829, hon. fellow 1846; professor of practice of medicine, school of physic, Trin. coll. Dublin; professor of practice of medicine Queen’s college, Belfast to death. d. 14 Howard st. Belfast 24 June 1865.

FERGUSON, Robert (son of Robert Ferguson of Indian civil service). b. India 15 Nov. 1799; studied medicine in London, Heidelberg and Univ. of Edin., M.D. Edin. 1 Aug. 1823; resident medical officer of Marylebone infirmary; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1824, F.R.C.P. 3 July 1837, censor 1844 and 1845, consiliarius 1857–59; phys. to Westminster Lying-in-hospital; professor of midwifery at King’s coll. 1831–39 or 40; physician accoucheur to the Queen 16 July 1840; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 14 March 1857; contributed numerous articles to Quarterly Review; published Essay on diseases of women, Puerperal Fever 1839. d. Ascot cottage, Winkfield near Windsor 25 June 1865. Munk’s Roll of the royal college of physicians (1878) iii, 295.

FERGUSON, Sir Robert Alexander, 2 Baronet. b. Londonderry 1795; succeeded his father 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1817; M.P. for city of Derry 1830 to death; lord lieut. of Londonderry 1840 to death; col. of Derry militia 24 June 1839 to death. d. Dublin 13 March 1860.

FERGUSON, Robert Munro. b. 20 Aug. 1802; ed. at Eton and Univ. of Edin.; ensign 43 foot 24 Feb. 1820; lieut. col. 79 foot 13 March 1835 to 29 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Kirkaldy burghs 1841–62. d. Raith house near Kirkaldy 28 Nov. 1868.

FERGUSON, Sir Samuel (3 son of John Ferguson of Collon house, co. Antrim). b. Belfast 10 March 1810; ed. at Belfast and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1832, hon. LLD. 1864; called to Irish bar 1838; Q.C. 16 June 1859; deputy keeper of public records of Ireland 1867; knighted 17 March 1878; pres. of Royal Irish Academy 1882; contributed from 1833 to Dublin Univ. Mag.; wrote many tales and poems in Blackwood’s Mag.; author of Lays of the Western Gael 1865; Congal, an epic poem in five books 1872; Poems 1880; Ogham inscriptions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland, edited by Lady Ferguson 1887. d. Strand lodge, Howth, co. Dublin 9 Aug. 1886. bur. Donegore, co. Antrim. O’Hagan’s Poetry of Sir S. Ferguson 1887; A. P. Graves’s Has Ireland a national poet?; Blackwood’s Mag. Nov. 1886 pp. 621–41.

FERGUSON, William. Entered Ceylon civil service 1839; lived in Ceylon, Dec. 1839 to death; author of The Palmyra Palm, Borassus flabelliformis, Colombo 1850; A plan of the summit of Adam’s Peak; Scripture botany of Ceylon and 4 other books. d. Ceylon 31 July 1887.

FERGUSON-DAVIE, Sir Henry Robert, 1 Baronet. b. 2 May 1797; cornet 9 Lancers 18 March 1818; major 34 foot 28 Dec. 1826, lieut. col. 1828–29; captain Grenadier guards 1830, major 1844–47; col. 73 foot 17 Feb. 1865 to death; general 25 June 1866; took additional surname of Davie 9 Feb. 1846; M.P. for Haddington burghs 1846–78; created baronet 9 Jany. 1847. d. Creedy park near Crediton 1 Dec. 1885.

FERGUSSON, Sir James (son of Charles Fergusson). b. 17 March 1787; ensign 18 foot 20 Aug. 1801; lieut. col. 3 foot 16 May 1814 to 1815 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. of 88 foot 12 Aug. 1819, of 52 foot 2 June 1825 to 10 May 1839 when he retired on h.p.; A.D.C. to the Sovereign 1830–41; col. 62 foot 9 March 1850 to 26 March 1850; col. 43 foot 26 March 1850 to death; commanded troops at Malta, May 1852 to July 1855; governor of Gibraltar 26 July 1855 to 1859; general 13 Feb. 1860; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Bath 4 Sep. 1865.

FERGUSSON, James (2 son of Wm. Fergusson, M.D. 1773–1846). b. Ayr 22 Jany. 1808; an indigo manufacturer in India; member of Royal Asiatic Soc. 1840; general manager of Crystal palace, Sydenham, Feb. 1856 to 1858; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; sec. to first comr. of public works 1869; inspector of public buildings 1870–74; awarded by Institute of British Architects royal gold medal for architecture 1871; author of Illustrations of rock cut temples of India 1845; Illustrations of ancient architecture in Hindostan 1847; History of architecture in all countries from the earliest times to the present day 3 vols. 1865–7 and other books. d. 20 Langham place, London 9 Jany. 1886.

FERGUSSON, William. Second lieut. R.M. 10 Sep. 1798, col. 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant of Plymouth division 25 April 1849 to 26 Feb. 1851 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 6 Feb. 1857. d. Princes st. Hanover sq. London 26 Dec. 1861 aged 82.

FERGUSSON, Sir William, 1 Baronet (youngest son of James Fergusson of Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire). b. Preston-pans, East Lothian 20 March 1808; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin., L.R.C.S. Edin. 1828, F.R.C.S. 1829; M.R.C.S. London 1840, F.R.C.S. 1844; professor of surgery King’s college, London, May 1840 to April 1870; surgeon at King’s college hospital May 1840 to death; surgeon extraord. to the Queen 18 Dec. 1855, one of serjeant surgeons in ordinary 11 Oct. 1867; F.R.S. Edin. 1839; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; created baronet 10 Jany. 1866; the greatest operative surgeon in Great Britain or probably in Europe; author of A system of practical surgery 1842, 5 ed. 1870; Lectures on the progress of anatomy and surgery during the present century 1867 and other books. d. 16 George st. Hanover sq. London 10 Feb. 1877. bur. West Linton, Peebleshire 16 Feb. H. Smith’s Sir W. Fergusson 1877; Medical Circular i, 395–7 (1852), portrait; I.L.N. xlviii, 176 (1866), portrait; Graphic xv, 172 (1877), portrait.

FERMOR-HESKETH, Sir Thomas George, 5 Baronet. b. Rufford hall near Ormskirk 11 Jany. 1825; succeeded his father 10 Feb. 1843; sheriff of Lancashire 1848; colonel 2 Lancashire militia 1 March 1852 to death; M.P. for Preston 4 April 1862 to death; assumed name of Fermor by royal license 8 Nov. 1867. d. Rufford hall 20 Aug. 1872.

FERMOY, Edmund Burke Roche, 1 Baron (only son of Edward Roche of Trabolgan, co. Cloyne 1771–1855). b. Aug. 1815; M.P. for co. Cork 1837–55, for Marylebone 1859–65; lord lieutenant of Cork 1856; created Baron Fermoy in the county of Cork 10 Sep. 1856. d. Trabolgan 17 Sep. 1874. I.L.N. xxxv, 82 (1859), portrait.

FERNELEY, John (son of Mr. Ferneley of Thrussington, Leics., wheelwright). b. Thrussington 18 May 1782; pupil of Ben Marshal the animal painter; painted some large hunting pictures for Assheton Smith 1806; an animal painter at Melton Mowbray 1814 to death; enjoyed an unlimited patronage for about 50 years; many of his pictures were engraved in the Sporting Magazine and other similar works. d. Thrussington 4 June 1860. Sporting Review xliv, 4–6 (1860).

FERREY, Benjamin. b. Christchurch, Hants. 1 April 1810; ed. at Wimborne gr. sch.; articled to Augustus Pugin 1825; practised as an architect 1832 to death; designed oldest part of present town of Bournemouth 1837; diocesan architect of Bath and Wells 1841 to death; restored Wells cathedral 1842; designed many churches mainly Gothic; F.R.I.B.A. 1839; F.S.A. 1863; author of Recollections of A. N. W. Pugin and of A. Pugin 1861; author with E. W. Brayley of Antiquities of the priory church of Christchurch, Hants. 1834. d. 55 Inverness terrace, Bayswater, London 22 Aug. 1880.

FERRIER, James Frederick (son of John Ferrier of Edinburgh, writer to the signet). b. Edinburgh 16 June 1808; ed. at univ. of Edin. and Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. Ox. 1832; called to Scottish bar 1832; prof. of civil history in univ. of Edin. 1842–45; prof. of moral philosophy and political economy in univ. of St. Andrews 1845 to death; author of The institutes of metaphysics 1854, 2 ed. 1856 and other books. d. St. Andrews 11 June 1864. Lectures on Greek philosophy by J. F. Ferrier 1, pp. vii-xliv, 1866; G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars (1867) 139–46.

FERRIER, Susan Edmonstone (youngest child of James Ferrier of Edinburgh, writer to the signet 1744–1829). b. Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1782; author of Marriage, a novel 3 vols. 1818, anon.; The Inheritance 3 vols. 1824, and Destiny, or the chief’s daughter 3 vols. 1831. d. at house of her brother Walter Ferrier in Edinburgh 5 Nov. 1854. Works of S. E. Ferrier (1881), i, 1–38; Edinburgh Review lxxiv, 498–505 (1842).

FESTING, Benjamin Morton (5 son of Henry Festing, commander R.N., who d. 1807). b. Andover, Hants., April 1794; entered navy 2 May 1805; inspector in the coast guard 11 July 1837–1840; captain on half pay 27 Sep. 1851; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837 for services on coast of Italy in 1812–13. d. Weymouth 10 May 1865.

FESTING, Sir Francis Worgan (2 son of the preceding), b. High Littleton, Somerset 24 July 1833; 2 lieut. R.M. 3 July 1850; served in the Baltic 1854–5, in the China expedition 1857–9; served in Ashantee war 1873–4 for which he received thanks of both Houses of Parliament 30 March 1874; A.A.G. of R.M. 1876–1883; A.D.C. to the Queen 7 July 1879; col. commandant R.M.A. 3 Sep. 1886; C.B. 31 March 1874; K.C.M.G. 8 May 1874. d. Donnington lodge, Newbury 21 Nov. 1886. bur. Eastney cemetery, Portsmouth 26 Nov. Brackenbury’s Ashantee war (1874) i, 72–100; Graphic 2 May 1874, pp. 413, 415, 420, portrait.

FESTING, Robert Worgan George (brother of B. M. Festing 1794–1865). Entered navy 22 Feb. 1799; captain 9 Oct. 1811; retired admiral 1 Nov. 1860; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Maiden Bradley near Frome 16 July 1862 aged 73.

FEVERSHAM, William Duncombe, 2 Baron. b. London 14 Jany. 1798; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; M.P. for Yorkshire 1826–30, for North riding of Yorkshire 1832 to 16 July 1841 when he succeeded to the peerage; a breeder of short horn cattle. d. 3 Hyde park gate, London 11 Feb. 1867. bur. Helmsley church 19 Feb. Sporting Review lvii, 158 (1867).

FEW, Robert (eld. son of Charles Few of Henrietta st. Covent Garden, London, solicitor). b. 1807; ed. at old gr. sch. Marlborough; solicitor in London 1828 to death; settled with Rev. John Hodgson basis of Clergy Mutual Insurance Co. 1829, member of the board 40 years, deputy chairman 1872 to death; one of the founders of Marlborough college 1843, mem. of council many years; deputy steward of Westminster 1873 to death; author of History of St. John’s house 1884. d. Wolsey grange, Esher, Surrey 24 Oct. 1887 in 80 year.

FFARINGTON, William. b. 1777; entered navy 13 Oct. 1785; captain 18 Sep. 1815; retired admiral 4 Oct. 1862. d. Woodvale, Cowes 4 May 1868.

FFENNELL, William Joshua (eld. son of Joshua William Ffennell of Ballybrado near Cahir). b. Ballybrado 16 Aug. 1799; sec. of river Suir Preservation Society 1837; fishery inspector under Board of Works 1845; commissioner to enquire into salmon fisheries of England and Wales 30 July 1860; inspector of fisheries Oct. 1861 to Oct. 1864; com. under Salmon fisheries of Scotland act 1861, 25 Sep. 1862; the act commonly called ‘Ffennell’s act’ was passed 1848 being the first modern salmon fishery act; started with F. T. Buckland Land and Water 27 Jany. 1866. d. London 12 March 1867.

FFOULKES, Ven. Henry Powell (2 son of John Powell Ffoulkes of Eriviatt, co. Denbigh, who d. 2 Dec. 1826 aged 56). b. 2 Jany. 1815; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; C. of St. Matthew, Buckley, Flints. 1840–57; R. of Llandyssil, Montgomery 1857–59; R. of Whittington, Salop 1859 to death; archdeacon of Montgomery and canon res. of St. Asaph, Feb. 1861 to death. d. the Canonry, St. Asaph 26 Jany. 1886.

FIDDES, Thomas. Entered Bengal army 1804; col. of 45 Bengal N.I. 9 Aug. 1843, of 1 European fusiliers 1853, of 42 Bengal light infantry 1854, of 5 Bengal N.I. 1861 to death; L.G. 15 Sep. 1856. d. Oakfield, Cheltenham 13 April 1863 aged 81.

FIELD, Charles Frederick. Chief inspector of Metropolitan detective police to 1851 when he retired on pension; inquiry agent at Eldon chambers, Devereux court, Strand, London; figures prominently in Dickens’s novel Bleak House under name of Inspector Bucket. d. 2 Gertrude st. Chelsea, London 27 Sep. 1874. Publisher’s Circular 1874 p. 738.

FIELD, Edwin Wilkins (eld. child of Rev. Wm. Field 1767–1851). b. Leam near Warwick 12 Oct. 1804; ed. at his father’s school; admitted an attorney and solicitor Nov. 1826; partner with Wm. Sharpe 1827, they became partners in firm of Taylor and Roscoe 1835; secretary to royal commission to prepare a plan for new law courts 1865; a great law reformer, also amateur artist; author of Memoir of Edgar Taylor, privately printed 1839; Observations of a solicitor on defects in the system of the equity courts 1840 and 17 other pamphlets; drowned in the Thames near Goring 30 July 1871. bur. Highgate cemetery 4 Aug., statue by T. Woolner at solicitors’ entrance to the Law courts in Carey st. Edwin Wilkins Field, a memorial sketch by T. Sadler 1872, portrait; Law magazine and law review i, 35–50 (1872).

FIELD, Frederick (2 son of Charles Field of London, candle maker). b. Lambeth, London 2 Aug. 1826; an original member of Chemical Soc. of London 1846; chemist to some copper-smelting works at Coquimbo, Chili 1848, manager of the works 1852; British vice consul at Caldera near Coquimbo 1853–56; chemist and sub-manager to smelting works at Guayacan 1856–59; lecturer on chemistry at St. Mary’s hospital, London 1860; professor of chemistry in London Institution 1862; a partner in firm of J. C. and J. Field, candle makers 1866 to death; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; F.R.S. Edin.; M.R.I.A.; wrote 43 papers on scientific subjects. d. Oakfield, Addlestone 3 April 1885.

FIELD, Rev. Frederick (son of Henry Field of London, apothecary 1755–1837). b. London 20 July 1801; ed. at Christ’s hosp. and Trin. coll. Cam.; Tyrwhitt’s Hebrew scholar and tenth wrangler 1823; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, hon. LLD. 1875; fell. of his coll. 1824–43, hon. fell. of his coll. 1876 to death; R. of Reepham, Norfolk 1842–63; edited S. Joannis Chrysostomi HomiliÆ in MatthÆum 3 vols. 1839; S. Joannis Chrysostomi Interpretatio omnium epistolarum Paulinarum per homilias facta 7 vols. 1849–62; Origenis Hexaplorum, quÆ supersunt 2 vols. 1874–5 and many other patristic works; member of Old Testament revision company 1870 to death. d. Carlton terrace, Heigham, Norwich 19 April 1885. Origenis Hexaplorum 1874, preface; Cambridge Review 6 May 1885.

FIELD, George. b. Berkhampstead, Herts. about 1777; grew Madder in his own garden from which he produced specimens of the colouring matter more beautiful than any before seen; invented the pereolator by atmospheric pressure for reducing the madder to its finest consistence 1816; author of Chromatography, or a treatise on colours and pigments 1835, 3 ed. 1885; Outlines of analogical philosophy 2 vols. 1839; Rudiments of the painter’s art, or a grammar of colouring 1850 and 5 other books. d. Syon hill, Park cottage, Isleworth, Surrey 28 Sep. 1854.

FIELD, Henry William (4 son of John Field 1764–1845, umpire at Royal Mint, London). b. 23 March 1803; entered Royal Mint 1818, probationer assayer 1836, Queen’s assay master 1851 to 1871; made chemically pure gold and brought the coin of the realm up to mathematical precision; exhibited 8 designs or models for coins at R.A. 1822–27. d. 10 Chesham place, Brighton 9 June 1888. bur. Nunhead cemetery, London 14 June. J. Waylen’s House of Cromwell (1880) p. 49.

FIELD, Joseph M. b. London 1810; ed. in New York; first appeared on the stage in New York 1843; performed in most of the large cities; manager of Field’s Varieties, St. Louis, Mo. 1852; established at St. Louis the Reveille a daily paper, one of the editors and chief proprietor; dramatized and produced many local plays; wrote many humorous sketches for the New Orleans Picayune, signed Straws which were widely quoted; proprietor of theatre in Mobile to death; author of The drama of Pokerville, Philadelphia 1847. d. Mobile 30 Jany. 1856.

FIELD, Joshua (son of Mr. Field of Lower Thames st. London, corn and seed merchant). b. Hackney 1786; ed. at Harlow, Essex 1793–1802; employed by Maudslay marine engine maker 1804–22, a partner 1822; one of the 6 founders of Institution of Civil engineers and, the first chairman 6 Jany. 1818, vice pres. 1837–48, pres. 1848–50; F.R.S. 3 March 1836. d. Balham hill house, Surrey 11 Aug. 1863. Pusely’s Commercial Companion, 2 ed. (1860) 123–4; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxiii, 488–92 (1864).

FIELD, Rev. William (son of John Field of Stoke Newington, London, surgeon). b. Stoke Newington 7 Jany. 1768; ed. for Calvinist ministry at Homerton and Daventry; pastor of presbyterian chapel, High st. Warwick 1789–1843; founded the Warwick Advertiser 4 Jany. 1806; schoolmaster at Leam near Warwick many years; pastor of presbyterian chapel, Kenilworth 1828–50; published An historical account of town and castle of Warwick 1815; Memoirs of the life of the Rev. S. Parr 2 vols. 1826 and many sermons, tracts, letters and pamphlets. d. Leam 16 Aug. 1851. Spears’s Record of Unitarian Worthies (1877); J. Waylen’s House of Cromwell (1880) p. 51.

FIELDEN, Joshua (son of John Fielden 1784–1849, M.P. for Oldham). b. 1827; member of firm of Fielden Brothers, cotton spinners of Todmorden and Manchester, and of firm of Fielden Brothers & Co. of London, merchants; M.P. for eastern division of West Riding of Yorkshire 1868–80; author of A Letter showing the effects of the malt tax 1865. d. Hotel Monte Huri, Cannes 9 March 1887 in 60 year, personalty declared of value of £503,598.

FIELDEN, Thomas (4 son of Joshua Fielden, who d. 1811). Member of firm of Joshua Fielden and Sons, cotton spinners, Todmorden; manager of the Manchester warehouse, firm became Fielden Brothers; erected gas works 1830; firm became Fielden Brothers & Co. 1837. d. Manchester 7 Dec. 1869, personalty sworn under £1,300,000, 12 March 1870. Fortunes made in business i, 411–56 (1884).

FIELDING, Antony Vandyke Copley (2 son of Nathan Theodore Fielding, painter). b. 1787; pupil of John Varley; member of Society of Painters in water-colours 1813, treasurer 1817, sec. 1818, pres. 1831 to death; exhibited 17 pictures at R.A. and 100 at B.I. 1811–55; awarded a medal at Paris Salon 1824. d. Worthing 3 March 1855 in 68 year. Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 509–13 (1866); J. Sherer’s Gallery of British Artists ii, 57–8.

FIELDING, Henry Borron (only son of Henry Fielding of Myerscough house near Garstang, Lancs.) Devoted himself to study of plants; bought herbarium of Dr. Steudel 1836; bought Prescott collection of 28,000 plants 1837; F.L.S. 1838; bequeathed his herbarium to Univ. of Oxford. d. Lancaster 21 Nov. 1851.

FIELDING, Newton Smith (brother of Antony V. C. Fielding 1787–1855). b. Huntingdon 1799; worked in water colours, etching, aquatint and lithography; best known for his paintings and engravings of animals; taught painting to family of Louis Philippe in Paris; published Subjects after nature 1836; Lessons on fortification 1853; A dictionary of colour containing 750 tints 1854; How to sketch from nature, or perspective and its application, 2 ed. 1856 and other books, d. Paris 12 Jany. 1856.

FIELDING, Theodore Henry Adolphus (brother of the preceding). Painter and engraver; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A., 21 at B.I. and 27 at Suffolk st. gallery 1799–1837; teacher of drawing and perspective at Addiscombe college; published numerous sets of engravings in aquatint; author of Index of colours and mixed tints 1830; On the theory of painting 1836; The art of engraving with the various modes of operation 1844 and other books. d. Croydon 11 July 1851 aged 70.

FIFE, James Duff, 4 Earl of (elder son of Alexander Duff, 3 Earl of Fife 1731–1811). b. 6 Oct. 1776; served with great distinction in Spanish army during Peninsular war, major general; M.P. for Banffshire 1818–27; succeeded as 4 Earl 7 April 1811; lord lieut. of Banffshire 1811–56; vice pres. of Antiquarian society, Scotland; G.C.H. 1823; K.T. 3 Sep. 1827; created Baron Fife 27 April 1827. d. Duff house, Banffshire 9 March. 1857. W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv, 86 (1848), portrait; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery ii, (1831), portrait.

FIFE, James Duff, 5 Earl of (elder son of General Sir Alexander Duff, G.C.H. 1777–1851). b. Edinburgh 6 July 1814; attached to the embassy at Paris; M.P. for Banffshire 1837 to 1 Oct. 1857 when he was created Baron Skene of Skene; lieut. and sheriff principal of Elginshire 26 May 1851; lord lieut. of Banffshire 1857 to death; succeeded his uncle as 5 Earl 9 March 1857; K.T. 2 March 1860. d. Mar lodge, Braemar, Aberdeenshire 7 Aug. 1879.

FIFE, George (son of Wm. Fife of Newcastle, surgeon). M.D. and L.R.C.P. Edin. 1827; surgeon to Northern public dispensary, Edin.; phys. to Queen’s hospital and professor of clinical medicine and materia medica and therapeutics at Queen’s college, Birmingham to death; translated Coster’s Manual of operative surgery 1831; author of Observations on Influenza 1833; Treatise on Cholera 1849 and other books; died from taking morphia at his lodgings Surrey st. Strand, London 10 May 1857 aged 50.

FIFE, Sir John (brother of the preceding). b. Newcastle 1795; surgeon at Newcastle 1815; member of Newcastle corporation 1835, alderman 1835, mayor 1838–9 and 1842–3; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his exertions in repressing Chartist disturbances 1840; F.R.C.S. 1844; senior surgeon to Newcastle infirmary; lieut. col. commandant 1 Newcastle rifle volunteers 1860–68; author of Practical remarks on the Continental cholera, Newcastle 1831. d. Reedsmouth house, North Tyne 15 Jany. 1871.

FIFE, William Wallace (son of Peter Fife of Dundee, baker). b. Dundee 28 March 1816; one of staff of the Dundee Warder; edited North British Agriculturist short time; edited Nottingham Daily Guardian to death. d. Hound’s Gate, Nottingham 25 Sep. 1867.

FIGGINS, James (son of Vincent Figgins of Smithfield, London, type founder, who d. Dec. 1860 or Jany. 1861). b. West st. Smithfield, London 16 April 1811; a type founder in Smithfield; sheriff of London 1865–6; M.P. for Shrewsbury 1868–74; alderman of Farringdon without, 9 June 1873 to 1882. d. 12 Russell sq. London 12 June 1884.

FILDES, John. b. Dorton, Lancs. 18 Dec. 1811; M.P. for Great Grimsby 1865–68. d. Stanley house, Oxford road, Manchester 6 July 1875.

FILLANS, James. b. Wilsontown, Lanarkshire 27 March 1808; apprenticed to a stonemason at Paisley; a sculptor at Glasgow, moved to London 1836; his best works are The Blind teaching the Blind, Grief, a Madonna, busts of Sir James Shaw and John Wilson; exhibited 25 sculptures at R.A. 1837–50. d. 95 Montrose st. Glasgow 27? Sep. 1852. James Paterson’s Memoir of James Fillans 1854, portrait.

FILLEUL, Rev. Philip (son of Philip Filleul of Jersey). Matric. from Pemb. coll. Ox. 6 Dec. 1813 aged 20, scholar; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; R. of St. Brelade, Jersey 1818–29; R. of St. Peter, Jersey 1828–48; vice dean of Jersey 1838; R. of St. Saviour, Jersey 1848–50; R. of St. Heliers, Jersey 1850 to death; author of DÉfense des Missions 1821; Christ est-il divisÉ? Guernsey 1825; Infant baptism and confirmation, Jersey 1855 and other books. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 13 Oct. 1875.

FILMER, Sir Edmund, 8 Baronet. b. 14 June 1809; succeeded his uncle 15 July 1834; M.P. for West Kent 1838 to death. d. East Sutton place near Maidstone 8 Jany. 1857.

FILMER, Sir Edmund, 9 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. 11 July 1835; ed. at Eton; M.P. for West Kent 1859–65, for Mid Kent 1880–84; sheriff of Kent 1870. d. Brighton 17 Dec. 1886.

FINCH, Francis Oliver (only child of Francis Finch of Friday st. London, merchant, who d. 25 March 1805 aged 50). b. Friday st. 22 Nov. 1802; pupil of John Varley 1814–19; studied at Sass’s life academy and produced some portraits; exhibited 14 landscapes at R.A. 1817–32; associate of S.P.W.C. 11 Feb. 1822, mem. 4 June 1827; a musician and a poet; lost the use of his limbs 10 Oct. 1861; author of An Artist’s Dream; Sonnets 1863. d. Highfield villas, London 27 Aug. 1862. Memorials of the late F. O. Finch [by his widow] 1865, portrait.

FINCH, George. b. 1794; M.P. for Lymington, Hants. 1818–19, for Stamford 1833–37, for Rutland 1846–47. d. 41 South st. London 29 June 1870.

FINCH, John (4 son of 4 Earl of Aylesford 1751–1812). b. 13 March 1793; cornet 15 dragoons 5 Oct. 1809; major Royal West India Rangers 5 March 1818 to 25 June 1819 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 Feb. 1855; col. 24 foot 19 June 1856 to death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818. d. Dover 25 Nov. 1861.

FINCHAM, John. Master shipwright of Portsmouth dockyard 2 Oct. 1844 to 2 July 1852; superintendent of school of naval architecture Portsmouth; built the celebrated “Arrogant” the first screw frigate in the British navy 1850; author of A history of naval architecture 1851; A treatise on masting ships 1854. d. Highland lodge near Portsmouth 15 Dec. 1859 aged 74.

FINDEN, Edward Francis. b. 1791; pupil and coadjutor of William Finden sharing his successes and fortunes; among his separate works were etchings for Duppa’s Miscellaneous Opinions on the Continent 1825 and Illustrations of the Vaudois 1831; illustrator of annuals, books of beauty and other sentimental works; among his separate engravings were Gainsborough’s Harvest Waggon, Collins’ As Happy as a King, Westall’s Princess Victoria. d. St. John’s Wood, London 9 Feb. 1857 aged 65.

FINDEN, William (brother of the preceding). b. 1787; apprentice to James Mitan engraver; he worked chiefly in conjunction with his brother E. F. Finden; made engravings illustrating the books published by Sharpe, Sutton and others; established a school of pupils who worked under their directions and executed much of the work which goes by their name, they themselves giving the finishing touches; produced illustrations to H. Ellis’ ed. of Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s 1818 and Dibdin’s Ædes AlthorpianÆ 1822; with his brother engraved Elgin marbles for British museum; published on their own account the illustrations to Moore’s Life and works of Byron 1833; brought out The Royal Gallery of British Art 1838–1840, Nos. 1–15, an admirable work in which they lost all their money; engraved full length portrait of George iv, after Sir T. Lawrence and other important single works; the Crucifixion, after W. Hilton, Finden’s last work was purchased by Art Union for £1470. d. 49 Camden st. Camden Town 20 Sep. 1852 in 65 year. bur. Highgate.

FINDLATER, Andrew. b. Aberdour, Aberdeenshire 1810; educ. Aberdeen univ. LLD. 1864; sch. master at Tillydesk; head master Gordon’s hospital, Aberdeen; commenced a life long connection with W. and R. Chambers 1853; edited Information for the People 1857; Chambers’s EncyclopÆdia 1860; prepared for the Educational Course, manuals on language, astronomy, physical geography and physiography, edited their Etymological Dictionary 1882; contributed an essay on Epicurus to EncyclopÆdia Metropolitana, and articles in the Scotsman. d. 15 Rillbank terrace, Edinburgh 1 Jany. 1885. London Figaro 17 Jany. 1885 p. 4, portrait.

FINDLAY, Alexander. Entered the army as private; ensign 2 West India regiment 27 July 1814, captain 24 Oct. 1821 to 28 Dec. 1826; major royal African corps 28 Dec. 1826 to 19 March 1829 when placed on h.p.; governor of Sierra Leone; fort major at Fort George, Inverness, Feb. 1847 to death; K.H. 1836. d. Fort George 10 May 1851.

FINDLAY, Alexander George (son of Alexander Findlay b. London 1790, an original F.R.G.S. 1830, made an atlas sheet of environs of London 1829 to a distance of 32 miles from St. Paul’s ½ inch scale, d. 1870). b. London 9 Jany. 1812; geographer and hydrographer succeeding on death of John Purdy in 1843 to the first position in this business; produced six nautical directories invaluable to the maritime world; received Soc. of Arts medal for dissertation on the English lighthouse system; F.R.G.S. 1844, member of Arctic committee and instrumental in government sending out Alert and Discovery expedition 1875; succeeded to Laurie’s geographical and print publishing business in 1858 and on dispersal of navigating business of Van Kenlen of Amsterdam in 1885 it became the oldest firm in Europe for charts and nautical works; foreign hon. memb. of SocietÀ Geografica Italiana 1870; author of A directory for the navigation of the Pacific Ocean 2 vols. 1851 and many other books. d. East Cliff, Dover 3 May 1875.

FINGALL, Arthur James Plunkett, 9 Earl of (only son of 8 Earl of Fingall 1759–1836). b. Geneva 29 March 1791; M.P. for co. Meath 1830–32; P.C. Ireland 1834; K.P. 12 Oct. 1846; lord lieut. of co. Meath 1849 to death. d. 47 Montagu sq. London 21 April 1869.

FINLAISON, John (son of Donald Finlaison d. 1790). b. Thurso, Caithness 27 Aug. 1783; factor to Sir B. Dunbar 1802; employed by board of naval revision London, July 1805, first clerk 1805–8, invented systems for reforming victualling department and arranging admiralty records 1809; keeper of records and librarian of admiralty 1809–22; compiled the original account of the enemy’s naval forces 1811; investigated abuse of sixpenny revenue at Greenwich hospital 1811; founded a system for the salaries in the admiralty 1813; compiled first official navy list 1814 and edited it monthly to 1821; his plan for fund for widows and orphans of civil department of navy established 17 Sep. 1819; connected with London Life Assurance Co. and other offices as actuary; made improvements on Northampton tables of mortality 1829; computed the annuity for the naval and military half pay and pensions, being the only person who could do it 1823; actuary and accountant of check department national debt office 1 Jany. 1822 to Aug. 1851; president of Institution of Actuaries 1847 to death. d. 15 Lansdowne crescent, Notting hill, London 13 April 1860. Assurance magazine, April 1862, 147–69; Walford’s Insurance cyclopÆdia iii, 300–303 (1874).

Note.—In 1833 he computed the duration of Slave and Creole life, with reference to the emancipation of slaves on the West Indian plantations, preliminary to raising a loan of £15,000,000 to compensate the slave owners, which was carried out and 770,280 slaves became free on 1 Aug. 1834.

FINLAY, Alexander Struthers. b. 21 July 1806; ed. at Harrow and Glasgow Univ.; M.P. for Argyllshire 1857–68; author of Our monetary system 1864. d. Castle Toward, Greenock 9 June 1886.

FINLAY, Francis Dalzell (son of John Finlay, tenant farmer). b. Newtownards, co. Down 12 July 1794; apprentice to a printer at Belfast; master printer 1820; founded Northern Whig 1824; often prosecuted for press offences; imprisoned 3 months in 1826 and his newspaper suspended Aug. 1826 to May 1827; imprisoned 3 months in 1832 and fined £50; a friend of D. O’Connell but not an advocate of repeal. d. Glenarm, co. Antrim 10 Sep. 1857. Freeman’s Journal 12 Sept. 1857 p. 4.

FINLAY, George (son of John Finlay, captain R.E., F.R.S., who d. 1802). b. Faversham, Kent 21 Dec. 1799; studied law in Glasgow, at univ. of GÖttingen 1821; went to Greece in 1823 where he was very intimate with Byron; joined Odysseus in an expedition into the Morea 1824, fought in the war of 1824–27; purchased an estate in Attica 1828 in which he lost his money; studied the history of Greece for many years; author of Greece under the Romans 1844; The history of Greece to its conquest by the Turks 1851; The history of Greece under the Ottoman and Venetian domination 1856; History of the Greek Revolution 1861, all republished collectively as A History of Greece, ed. H. F. Tozer 7 vols. 1877. d. Athens 26 Jany. 1875.

FINLAY, Sir Thomas (youngest son of David Finlay). b. 1803; high sheriff of co. Cavan 1837; knighted 1837. d. 19 Adelaide road north, Hampstead 22 Oct. 1869.

FINLAYSON, John. b. Scotland 1770; a writer at Cupar-Fife and then in Edinburgh; a house agent in London 1798; became a believer in Richard Brothers 1797; obtained Brothers’s release from Fisher house asylum Islington 14 April 1806, Brothers resided in Finlayson’s house Upper Baker st. Marylebone 1815 to his decease 25 Jany. 1824; claimed from the government £5710 for Brothers’s maintenance, but all he received was £270 Brothers’s naval half pay 4 Mch. 1830; reduced to poverty and lived on a parish allowance; author of An admonition to the people of all countries [in support of Richard Brothers], Edin. 1797; An essay [on the First Resurrection] 1798; The last trumpet and the flying angel, the true system as given by God to R. Brothers and myself 1849 and other works; engraved 9 sheets of the ground plan of the New Jerusalem and 12 sheets of views of its public buildings for Brothers’ publications; found dead 14 Paradise st. Marylebone 20 Sept. 1854. bur. in Brothers’ grave at St. John’s Wood.

FINLAYSON, Rev. Thomas (2 son of Thomas Finlayson of Coldock, Blair Drummond, Perthshire, farmer). b. Coldock 22 Dec. 1809; licensed by presbytery of Stirling and Falkirk as a preacher of the gospel April 1835; min. of Union st. congregation Greenock, Nov. 1835 to Sep. 1847; min. of Rose st. church, Edinburgh, Sep. 1847 to death; moderator of supreme court of his church 1867; D.D. Univ. of Edin. 1867 or 1868; edited Beattie’s Poems 1864; Goldsmith’s Poems 1871. d. of heart disease at Campbeltown 17 Oct. 1872. bur. Grange cemetery, Edinburgh 22 Oct. Memorials of Rev. Thomas Finlayson, D.D. Edinburgh 1873; John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 series (1849) 295–301.

FINNELLY, William. Barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1827; author with Charles Clark of Reports of cases in the House of Lords on appeals and writs of error 1831–1846, 12 vols. 1835–47, and of House of Lords cases on appeals and writs of error, claims of peerage and divorces 1847–1850, 2 vols. 1849–51; found dead on the floor of his sitting room at 20 Old sq. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Nov. 1851 aged 52. Law Times 29 Nov. 1851 p. 103.

FINNIS, Thomas Quested (son of Robert Finnis of Hythe, Kent). b. Hythe, Jany. 1801; partner in firm of Finnis and Fisher 79 Great Tower st. London, provision merchants; the first pioneer of commerce to port of Bussorah; alderman of Lower Ward 18 Jany. 1848; sheriff of London 1848–49, lord mayor 1856–57. d. Park Gate, Wanstead, Essex 29 Nov. 1883. J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men (1884) 96–105; Illust. news of the world ii, 333 (1858), portrait; I.L.N. xxix, 479 (1856), portrait, lxxxiii, 581 (1883), portrait.

Note.—His brother John Finnis, lieut. col. 11 Bengal N.I. was the first English officer killed in the Sepoy mutiny, at Meerut 10 May 1857 in 54 year, memorial tablet in church of St. Dunstan in the East, London.

FIRBANK, Joseph. b. Bishop Auckland 1819; worked in a colliery 1826; executed works for North Western railway 1848; contractor for maintenance of Monmouthshire railway 1854–61; railway contractor in South Wales 30 years; contractor for widening of London and North Western railway near London 1859–66, for Midland Company’s Bedford and London extension 1864–68 and their Settle and Carlisle extension 1870; built St. Pancras goods depot for Midland 1884; promoted the interest of his workmen; J.P. and D.L. for co. Monmouth. d. St. Julian’s, Newport 29 June 1886. Mc. Dermott’s Life of J. Firbank (1887).

FIRTH, Joseph Firth Bottomley- (eld. son of Joseph Bottomley of Matlock). b. near Huddersfield 21 Feb. 1842; barrister M.T. 6 June 1866; pres. of Municipal reform league; assumed additional surname of Firth by r.l. Feb. 1873; LL.B. Univ. of London 1875; member of London school board (Chelsea division) 1876–79; M.P. for Chelsea 1880–85, for Dundee 1888 to death; contested North Kensington 1885, received invitations from 13 of the London boroughs to stand for parliament at general election 1886; member of London county council 17 Jany. 1889, deputy chairman 12 Feb. 1889 to death; author of Gas supply of London 1874; Municipal London 1876. d. whilst ascending the FlÉgÈre mountain near Chamounix 3 Sep. 1889. Graphic xxv, 153 (1882), 2 portraits; I.L.N. 14 Sep. 1889 pp. 325, 326, portrait.

FIRTH, Mark (elder son of Thomas Firth of Sheffield, steel manufacturer, who d. 1848). b. Sheffield 25 April 1819; worked as a steel smelter for 20/- a week; a steel manufacturer at Sheffield with his father and brother Thomas 1843, they erected the Norfolk works covering 13 acres 1849; master cutler 1867–69; mayor of Sheffield 1875; erected the Mark Firth almshouses at Ranmoor, Sheffield at cost of £30,000, 1869; gave the Firth park of 36 acres to town of Sheffield, park was opened by Prince of Wales 16 Aug. 1875; erected and fitted up Firth college, Sheffield at cost of £20,000, opened by Prince Leopold 20 Oct. 1879, he also endowed it at cost of £5000; famous for castings for gun blocks, and for their refined steel; cast the steel cores for the government great guns; supplied to Italian government a 100 ton gun. d. Oakbrook, Sheffield 28 Nov. 1880, personalty sworn under £600,000, Jany. 1881. Practical mag. vi, 289–91 (1876), portrait; I.L.N. lxvii, 208 (1875), portrait.

FISCHER, John George Paul. b. Hanover 16 Sep. 1786; pupil of John Henry Ramberg, court painter 1800 when he painted portraits and theatrical scenery; went to England 1810, painted miniatures of Queen Charlotte, produced a series of military costumes for the Prince Regent, painted Queen Victoria 1819 and 1820; exhibited 80 paintings at R.A. and 17 at Suffolk st., chiefly portraits in miniature 1817–52. d. 4 Upper Spring st. Marylebone 12 Sep. 1875.

FISH, Thomas Liversedge (son of Mr. Fish, magistrate at Union hall police office, London). Lived at Knowle cottage, Sidmouth, Devon; known as the “Golden Fish” from his immense wealth, having no less than 400 public houses; author of Guide to Knowle Cottage 1837. d. 18 Penton row, Walworth road, Newington, London 22 March 1861 aged 79.

FISH, William. b. Norwich 1775; violinist Norwich theatre; studied under Sharp oboist, and Bond pianist and organist; organist of St. Andrew’s, Norwich; kept a music warehouse; he wrote Sonata for pianoforte, Op. i, 1800; The Morning Star 1842 a ballad, words by the composer, an oboe concerto and some fantasias for the harp. d. 90 Rose lane, Conisford, Norwich 15 March 1866.

FISHBOURNE, Edmund Gardiner. b. 1811; entered navy 1 Feb. 1824; captain 25 Feb. 1853, retired 1 March 1866; retired admiral 2 Aug. 1879; C.B. 23 June 1859; hon. sec. to Royal patriotic fund and to Naval and military Bible Soc. many years; one of most active of Lord Shaftesbury’s colleagues in work of evangelizing the masses of London; author of Current fallacies in naval architecture 1871; Our ironclads and merchant ships 1874; Stability the seaman’s safeguard 1878 and 20 other books. d. 26 Hogarth road, Kensington, London 12 May 1887.

FISHER, Charles (2 son of David Fisher, manager of Suffolk circuit, who d. 6 Aug. 1832 aged 71). Educ. at Cambridge; trained in singing, dancing, fencing and the drama by his father; good in tragedy, comedy and melodrama, acted in Norfolk and Suffolk; appeared at Drury Lane in Lionel and Clarissa 1818; manager of theatres on Norwich circuit 1832 to 1843; violinist, violoncellist and player of double bass; a fine organist; leader of band Norwich theatre 1843; violoncellist in various theatres. d. Glasgow 17 April 1869 aged 76. Theatre i, 193–99 (1880); Era 25 April 1869, p. 10, col. 1.

FISHER, David (brother of the preceding). b. 1788; manager on the Suffolk circuit; first appeared in London at Drury Lane as Macbeth 3 Dec. 1817, the original Titus in Howard Payne’s Brutus 3 Dec. 1818, and Angelo in Buck’s Italians 3 April 1819; played at Bath 1823; built theatres at Bungay, Beccles, Halesworth, Eye, Lowestoft, Dereham, North Walsham and other places; leader of Norwich choral concerts; retired about 1838 to Woodbridge, Suffolk. d. Woodbridge 20 Aug. 1858. Theatrical Inquisitor xi, 479, 481 (1818).

FISHER, David (son of the preceding). b. East Dereham, Norfolk 1816; violinist at local concerts; acted at Prince’s theatre, Glasgow 1849–53; appeared in London at Princess’s theatre as Victor in The Lancers 2 Nov. 1853, remained at Princess’s 6 years where he played in his own piece Music hath charms in June 1858; acted at Adelphi as AbbÉ Latour in The Dead Heart 1859; gave an entertainment Facts and Fancies at Hanover sq. rooms and St. James’ hall 1863; played at Princess’s 1863, at Haymarket 1865 and at Ampitheatre and Alexandra theatres, Liverpool 1866–68, at opening of Globe theatre, London 28 Nov. 1868 played Major Treherne in Byron’s Cyril’s Success; appeared at Drury Lane, Olympic, Globe, Opera Comique, Criterion, Mirror, Princess’s and Lyceum to 1884. d. St. Augustine’s road, Camden Town, London 4 Oct. 1887. The Players ii, 73 (1860), portrait; Saturday Programme 5 Feb. 1876, portrait; London Figaro 15 Oct. 1887 p. 14, col. 2, portrait.

FISHER, Ven. Edmund Henry. b. 31 Jany. 1835; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1860; 20 wrangler 1858; B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861; assistant master at Marlborough 1860; V. of St. Mark, Kennington, London 1869 to death; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1869 to death; hon. canon of Winchester cathedral 1874 to death; archdeacon of Southwark 1878 to death; author of The Goth and the Saracen 1859. d. Monk’s Eleigh rectory 6 May 1879. bur. Barnes cemetery 10 May.

FISHER, Rev. George. b. Sunbury, Middlesex 31 July 1794; clerk in Westminster insurance office 1808; entered St. Cath. coll. Cam. 1817; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; astronomer to ships Dorothea and Trent in Arctic expedition 1818; chaplain and astronomer to Parry’s expedition to discover North West passage 1821–23; C. of Stanstead, Essex 1825–27; C. of Ampthill, Beds. 1827; F.R.S. 27 Jany. 1825; F.R.A.S. 1827, mem. of council 1835–63; chaplain to H.M.’s ships Spartiate and Asia 1827–32; retired on h.p. 1832; principal and chaplain of Greenwich hospital school 2 Dec. 1834 to 4 Sep. 1863; made experiments on pendulums, chronometers, velocity of sound, liquefaction of gases and refraction; author of papers in Phil. Trans., Proc. of Royal Soc. and other journals. d. 19 Hillmorton road, Rugby 14 May 1873. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxiv, 140–44 (1875).

FISHER, Sir James Hurtle (son of James Fisher of London, architect). b. 1790; attorney in partnership with Thomas Rhodes in Davies st. Cavendish sq. London 1811–32; resident comr. for crown lands in South Australia 1836; the first mayor of Adelaide 1840 and 4 times afterwards; member for West Adelaide 1853–55; speaker of the legislative council 1855–56; first pres. of the legislative council 1856–65 when he retired from office and parliament; knighted by patent 24 May 1860. d. Adelaide 28 Jany. 1875.

FISHER, Sir John William (son of Peter Fisher of Perth). b. London 30 Jany. 1787; M.R.C.S. 1809, F.R.C.S. 1836, member of council 1843; surgeon to Bow st. patrol 1821; surgeon-in-chief to Metropolitan police 1829–65; M.D. Erlangen 1841; knighted at Osborne 2 Sep. 1858. d. 33 Park lane, London 22 March 1876. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii, 173–4 (1876); I.L.N. lxviii, 335, 527 (1876).

FISHER, Robert Alexander. Barrister M.T. 25 Jany. 1850; deputy judge of City of London court; secretary of the Judicature commission 25 Nov. 1872 to Sep. 1874 when last report was issued; judge of county courts (circuit 54) Somerset 1 Oct. 1874 to death; author of Digest of the reported decisions of the courts of common law, bankruptcy, probate, admiralty and divorce from 1756, 5 vols. 1870, new ed. by J. Mews 7 vols. 1884 and other books. d. Glanmorfa, Clifton 30 Sep. 1879.

FISHER, Walter David (3 son of David Fisher 1816–87). b. Norwich 1845; first appeared on stage at T.R. Glasgow 1852; played in the provinces; acted at AthenÉe theatre in Paris 1873; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Moses in The school for scandal, July 1875; acted Potain in Cora at Globe theatre March 1877; played with Doyly Carte’s provincial company 1880; acted in Germany with the Gilbert and Sullivan rÉpertoire company 1887; played Shadbolt in The Yeomen of the Guard at Court theatre, Liverpool 15 May 1889. d. 15 Seymour st. Liverpool 25 May 1889.

FISHER, William (2 son of John Fisher of Yarmouth, Norfolk). b. 18 Nov. 1780; midshipman R.N. 18 Aug. 1795; surveyed the Mozambique channel 1809–10; employed in suppression of slave trade on coast of Guinea 1816–17; commanded Asia in Mediterranean 1836–41; received Turkish gold medal; good service pension awarded him 1 July 1842; R.A. 2 Dec. 1847; suggested to Admiralty plan of watering ships generally adopted; author of The Petrel, or love on the ocean 1850; Ralph Rutherford, a nautical romance 1851. d. 38 Blandford sq. London 30 Sep. 1852.

FISHER, William Richard (2 son of John Goate Fisher of Great Yarmouth). b. 14 Aug. 1824; barrister L.I. 13 June 1851; author of The law of mortgage as applied to the redemption, foreclosure and sale in equity of incumbered property 1856, 4 ed. 1884; The forest of Essex, its history, laws, administration and ancient customs 1887. d. Guildford, Surrey 17 Nov. 1888.

FISHER, William Webster. b. Westmoreland 1798; studied medicine at Montpellier, M.D. 1825; of Trin. coll. Cam. 1827, of Downing coll., fellow to 1841; Downing professor of medicine 1841 to death; lectured 1841–68; M.B. Cam. 1834, M.D. 1841; univ. examiner of students in medicine and member of univ. board of medical studies; physician to Addenbrooke hospital; had large private practice at Cam.; fellow of Cambridge Philos. Soc. and contributed to its Transactions. d. East lodge, Downing coll. 4 Oct. 1874 in 76 year. Brit. Med. Journ. 10 Oct. 1874, 481.

FISK, William (son of a farmer at Can hall, Essex). b. Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex 1796; educ. Colchester; in mercantile house in London 1815–25; commenced historical compositions 1834 in which he accurately reproduced portraits and costumes, among these were Lady Jane Grey in the Tower 1834, Leonardo da Vinci expiring in the arms of Francis i. 1838, Conspiracy of the Pazzi, attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de Medici 1839 for which in 1840 was awarded gold medal of Manchester Institution; painted 5 pictures connected with reign of Charles i. 1840–44; exhibited 25 paintings at R.A., 17 at B.I. and 45 at Suffolk st. 1818–48. d. Danbury, Essex 8 Nov. 1872.

FISK, William Henry (son of the preceding). b. 1827; pupil of his father and student of R. Acad.; anatomical draughtsman to royal coll. of Surgeons; teacher of drawing and painting at Univ. coll. sch. London; made a series of drawing of trees for the queen; lectured on art in London and the provinces; exhibited 11 landscapes at R.A., 7 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1846–73. d. Hampstead 13 Nov. 1884.

FISKEN, Rev. William. b. Gelleyburn farm near Crieff, Perthshire; taught a school at Alyth; minister at Stamfordham near Newcastle 1847 to death; governor and sec. of endowed schools at Stamfordham; with his brother Thomas invented the steam plough; invented a potato-sowing machine, a safety steam boiler, a propeller, apparatus for heating churches and the steam tackle for the steam plough July 1855; author of The cheapest system of steam cultivation and steam cartage; On the comparative methods of steam tackle. d. Stamfordham manse 28 Dec. 1883 aged upwards of 70.

FITCH, William Stevenson. b. 1793; postmaster Ipswich 1838 to death; founder of West Suffolk archÆological assoc.; made collections for a history of Suffolk, which were dispersed at his death, but 30 vols. of them are in Suffolk archÆol. assoc. museum at Bury St. Edmunds; author of A catalogue of Suffolk manorial registers, Great Yarmouth 1843; Ipswich and its early mints, Ipswich 1848. d. Ipswich 17 July 1859. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 245–8 (1883).

FITTON, Michael. b. Gawsworth, Cheshire 1766; entered navy June 1780; served in Mediterranean 1782, in West Indies 1799–1802, 1803–4; lieut. 9 March 1804 his highest rank; captured or destroyed 40 of the enemy’s ships, received the thanks of the admiralty and a sword value £50 from the Patriotic Soc.; served in the Baltic 1811–15; lieut. of the ordinary at Plymouth 22 Feb. 1831 to 1834; admitted into Greenwich hospital 20 April 1835; one of the bravest and most active officers in the navy. d. Peckham 31 Dec. 1852.

FITTON, William Henry (son of Nicholas Fitton of Dublin). b. Dublin, Jany. 1780; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, senior scholar 1798, B.A. 1799; studied at Edin. Univ. 1808, in London 1809–12; M.D. Edin. 12 Sep. 1810, incorporated at Cam. 1815; candidate of royal coll. of phys. 1815, fellow 1816; practised at Northampton 1811–19 when he removed to London and devoted himself to scientific researches; F.R.S. 9 Nov. 1815; F.G.S. 18 , sec. 18 , pres. 1827, the first to deliver an annual address 15 Feb. 1828, established publication of proceedings 1827, Wollaston medallist 1852; wrote 21 papers on geological subjects 1811–57; author of A geological sketch of Hastings 1833; wrote many articles in Edinburgh Review 1817–41. d. Sussex gardens, London 13 May 1861. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xviii, 30–34 (1862); Proc. of Royal Soc. of London xii, 4–6 (1861).

FITZADAM, John Thompson (eld. son of Adam Fitz Adam of Birmingham, barrister). b. 1833; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1859; recorder of Wigan, April 1880 to death; alderman of Wigan many years. d. 5 Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 19 April 1886 in 53 year.

FITZBALL, Edward, originally called Edward Ball. b. Burwell, Cambs. 1792; attempted to establish a printing office at Norwich; dramatist in London many years; author of Edda; The Pilot 1825; The Innkeeper of Abbeville 1826; The Floating Beacon 1826; The Inchcape Bell 1828; The Flying Dutchman 1829 and many other successful dramas; wrote all the librettos of Balfe’s early operas, libretto of Wallace’s Maritana, and many librettos for other Composers; wrote My Pretty Jane 1828 and many other songs. d. near Chatham 27 Oct. 1873. E. Fitzball’s Thirty five years of a dramatic author’s life 2 vols. 1859, portrait; I.L.N. lxiii, 445 (1873), portrait.

FITZCLARENCE, Lord Adolphus (7 child and 3 son of William iv. 1765–1837 by Dorothea natural dau. of Francis Bland of Kerry, she was known on the stage as Mrs. Jordan 1762–1816). b. 18 Feb. 1802; entered R.N. 26 May 1814; captain 24 Dec. 1824; commander of Royal George yacht 1830; captain of Victoria and Albert yacht 1 Jany. 1851 to 21 Oct. 1852 and commodore of her 21 Oct. 1852 to 17 Sep. 1853; aide de camp to Victoria 12 Feb. 1848 to death; groom of the robes to Will. iv. 24 July 1830; granted rank of younger son of a marquis 24 May 1831; G.C.H. 24 Feb. 1832; a lord of the bedchamber 5 Jany. 1833; R.A. 17 Sep. 1853. d. Newburgh park near Easingwold, Yorkshire 17 May 1856. Lennox’s Celebrities 2 series i, 208–12 (1877).

FITZCLARENCE, Rev. Lord Augustus (brother of the preceding), b. 1 March 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.C.L. 1832, D.C.L. 1835; R. of Mapledurham, Oxon. 1829 to death; chaplain in ordinary to his father 1829–37, to Queen Victoria 1837 to death; granted rank of younger son of a marquis 24 May 1831. d. Mapledurham 14 June 1854.

FITZCLARENCE, Lord Frederick (brother of the preceding). b. 9 Dec. 1799; ensign Coldstream guards 12 May 1814, assisted at arrest of Cato st. conspirators 23 Feb. 1820; lieut. col. 7 foot 2 June 1825 to 24 Aug. 1832 when placed on h.p.; granted rank of younger son of a marquis 24 May 1831; G.C.H. 1831; military governor of Portsmouth 1840; col. 36 foot 23 July 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; commander in chief at Bombay 1852 to death, assumed command 22 Nov. 1852; author of A manual of out-post duties 1851 and other works. d. Poorundhur near Poonah 30 Oct. 1854, body embalmed and bur. at Ford, Northumberland 10 Feb. 1855.

FITZGERALD, John David Fitzgerald, 1 Baron (son of David Fitzgerald of Dublin, merchant). b. Dublin 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to bar in Ireland 1838; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1847; bencher of King’s Inns 1855; leader of the Munster circuit; M.P. for Ennis 1852–60; solicitor general for Ireland, Feb. 1855 to April 1856, attorney general April 1856 to March 1858 and 1859 to Feb. 1860; P.C. Ireland 1856; comr. of national education Ireland 1863 to death; justice of Queen’s Bench, Ireland, Feb. 1860 to May 1882; principal judge at great state trials of Messrs. Parnell, Biggar and others Jany. 1881; a lord of appeal in ordinary May 1882 to death; created Baron Fitzgerald of Kilmarnock, co. Dublin 23 June 1882; P.C. 29 June 1882; bencher of Gray’s Inn 21 Dec. 1883; author of Report on trial of A. M. Sullivan and R. Pigott for seditious libels 1868. d. 22 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 16 Oct. 1889. Law magazine and law review v, 267–69 (1858); Graphic 16 Nov. 1889 p. 597, portrait.

FITZGERALD and VESEY, Very Rev. Henry Vesey-Fitzgerald, 3 Baron. b. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; dean of Emly 6 July 1818 to 1825; dean of Kilmore 16 March 1825 to death; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 11 May 1843. d. Danesfort, co. Cavan 30 March 1860.

FITZGERALD, Charles (son of Robert Fitzgerald of Kilkee, co. Clare). Entered navy 1809; governor of British settlements on the Gambia 1844 to 1847; governor of Western Australia Aug. 1848 to June 1855; captain 1 April 1856; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Geraldine house, Kilkee, co. Clare 29 Dec. 1887 in 96 year. I.L.N. xxx, 59, 60 (1857), portrait.

FITZGERALD, Edward (3 son of John Purcell who took name of Fitzgerald). b. Bredfield house near Woodbridge, Suffolk 31 March 1809; ed. at Bury St. Edmund’s gram. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830; a friend of Spedding, Donne and Thackeray; resided at Farlingay hall near Woodbridge (where Carlyle visited him in 1855) 1853–60, at Woodbridge 1860–74, at Little Grange 1874 to his death; issued Euphranor, a dialogue on youth 1851, Polonius, a collection of Wise Saws 1852, Six dramas of Calderon 1853 the only book to which he put his name, it was withdrawn from circulation; translated the Agamemnon of Æschylus 1876 and the Œdipus Tyrannus and Œdipus Coloneus of Sophocles, the Quatrains of Omar KhayyÁm 1859, the SalÁmÁn and AbsÁl of Jami 1856; author of a translation of Attar’s Mantik-ut-tair which he called the Bird Parliament MS.; Tennyson’s poem Tiresias 1884 contains a birthday ode to Fitzgerald. d. while on a visit to Merton rectory, Norfolk 14 June 1883. W. Aldis Wright’s Letters and remains of E. Fitzgerald 3 vols. 1889, portrait.

FITZGERALD, James. Entered Madras army 1820; commandant at Malabar 19 Feb. 1858 to 17 Jany. 1862; col. 42 Madras N.I. 12 Dec. 1862 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Kildare house, Lyndall’s park, Clifton 14 Nov. 1871.

FITZGERALD, Sir John Forster (4 son of Edward Fitzgerald of Carrigoran, co. Clare, who d. 1815). b. about 1785; ensign 29 Oct. 1793; major 60 foot 1809; commandant of Quebec and afterwards of Montreal 1818–24; lieut. col. 20 foot 1824–30; commanded divisions in Madras and Bombay 1838–41; col. of 62 foot 1843, of 18 foot 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854, field marshal 29 May 1875; K.C.B. 1831, G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; M.P. for co. Clare 1852–57. d. Tours, France 24 March 1877. bur. with military honours in St. Symphorien cemetery, Tours 27 March. Times 29 March 1877 p. 9, col. 6.

FITZGERALD, Otho Augustus (3 son of 3 Duke of Leinster 1791–1874). b. Carton, Maynooth 10 Oct. 1827; M.P. for co. Kildare 1865–74; master of the horse to viceroy of Ireland 1855 and 1858–59; gentleman of the bedchamber 1859–62; treasurer of H.M.’s household 8 May 1866 to July 1866, comptroller 1868–74; P.C. 11 June 1866. d. Oakley court, Windsor 19 Nov. 1882.

FITZGERALD, Sir Peter George, 1 Baronet (5 son of Maurice Fitzgerald, P.C., M.P., knight of Kerry 1774–1849). b. 15 Sep. 1808; clerk to David Digges la Touche & Co. bankers, Dublin; vice treasurer of Ireland 1841, nineteenth knight of Kerry 1849; sheriff of Kerry 1849 and of Carlow 1875; improved his estates and built better homesteads for his tenants 1849; created a baronet 8 July 1880. d. Glanlearn, island of Valentia 6 Aug. 1880.

FITZGERALD, Robert Allan (2 son of Thomas Fitzgerald of Shalstone, Bucks., who d. 1860). b. 1 Oct. 1834; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861; played in Harrow and Cambridge cricket elevens; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1860; sec. to Marylebone cricket club 1864–76; captain of amateur eleven who visited Canada and United States 1872; author of Jerks in from short-leg, By Quid 1866; Wickets in the West, or the twelve in America 1873. d. Charleywood, Herts. 28 Oct. 1881. Illust. sp. and dr. news i, 277 (1874), portrait.

FITZGERALD, Right Rev. William (son of Maurice Fitzgerald, M.D. of Lifford, Limerick). b. Lifford 3 Dec. 1814; ed. at Middleton, co. Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1833, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1848, B.D. and D.D. 1853, fellow of his college, professor of moral philosophy there 1847–52 and of ecclesiastical history 1852–57; C. of Lackagh, Kildare 1838–46; C. of Clontarf, Dublin 1846–48; V. and preb. of Donoghmore, Dublin 16 Feb. 1848; V. of St. Anne’s, Dublin 1851–55; P.C. of Monkstown, Dublin 13 May 1855; preb. of Timothan, Dublin 1855; archdeacon of Kildare 1855; bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross 7 Feb. 1857, consecrated at St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin 8 March, enthroned 14 March; translated to Killaloe 3 Feb. 1862; edited Bishop Butler’s Analogy with notes and a life of the author, Dublin 1849, reprinted 1860; chief contributor to The Cautions for the Times, a series of papers ed. by R. Whately 1853; author of Episcopacy, tradition and the sacraments considered in reference to the Oxford Tracts 1839 and 20 other works. d. Clarisford house, Killaloe 24 Nov. 1883. Brady’s Records i, 302, iii, 87–8; Dublin Univ. Mag. xlix, 416–26 (1857).

FITZGERALD, Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey- (eld. son of William Fitzgerald of Dublin). b. 1818; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21 Feb. 1833, of Oriel coll., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1844, Newdigate prizeman 1835, D.C.L. 1863; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1839; M.P. Horsham 1848 but unseated, M.P. Horsham 1852 to 1865 and 1874–5; under sec. of state foreign affairs 26 Feb. 1858 to June 1859; governor of Bombay 19 Nov. 1866 to March 1872; P.C. 28 Dec. 1866; K.C.S.I. 22 Oct. 1867, G.C.S.I. 8 Dec. 1868; chief commissioner of charities 30 Nov. 1875 to 1885; took names of Seymour Vesey. d. 29 Warwick sq. London 28 June 1885. I.L.N. l, 117 (1867), portrait.

FITZ-GIBBON, Abraham Coates (2 son of lieut. Philp Fitz-Gibbon, R.N., d. 1826). b. Mount Eagle, Kilworth, co. Cork 23 Jany. 1823; apprentice to Sir Charles Lanyon 1837–43; agent and manager for W. Dargan 1847–52; in U.S. America 1852–56, in Ceylon 1857–60, in New Zealand 1860–62, in Queensland 1863–68, in all these countries he surveyed and constructed railway lines; M.I.C.E. 9 Jany. 1866; adopted a 3 foot 6 in. gauge in Queensland; with his brother Maurice Fitz-Gibbon published in Journal of R. Hist. and ArchÆol. Assoc. of Ireland “Unpublished Geraldine Documents” which with additions were reprinted in four parts by Rev. Samuel Hayman, Dublin 1870–81. d. Moorside, Bushey Heath, Herts. 4 April 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix, 466–70 (1887).

FITZGIBBON, Edward (son of a land agent d. 1817). b. Limerick, Aug. 1803; came to London 1817; articled to a surgeon 1819–20; classical tutor in the provinces 1820–23; at Marseilles 1824–30 studying the language and literature; parliamentary reporter for Morning Chronicle 1830; wrote on angling for Bell’s Life under pseudonym of Ephemera; wrote for the Observer and acted as a theatrical critic; from 1830 his writings gave great impulse to the art of fishing, were the means of improving fishing tackle and of increasing the rents of rivers; he once killed 52 salmon on the Shin river in 55 hours fishing; author of Handbook of Angling, By Ephemera 1847, 3 ed. 1853; The book of the Salmon 1850; author with W. Shipley of A true treatise on the art of fly fishing 1838, and with A. Young of Natural History of the Salmon 1854; ed. The Compleat Angler of Walton and Cotton 1853. d. 19 Nov. 1857. bur. Highgate cemetery 25 Nov. Baron Nicholson’s Autobiography (1860) 334–6; Bell’s Life in London 22 Nov. 1857 p. 8, 29 Nov. p. 5.

FITZGIBBON, Gerald (4 son of Mr. Fitzgerald of co. Limerick, tenant farmer). b. Glin, Limerick 1 Jany. 1793; employed in W. Jameson’s distillery, Dublin 1814; entered univ. of Dublin 1817, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1832, maintained himself by teaching 1817–30; called to Irish bar Jany. 1830; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; counsel for Dr. John Gray in state trial of Daniel O’Connell and his 7 fellow prisoners 15 Jany. to 12 Feb. 1844 during which on 30 Jany. he was challenged to a duel by the attorney general Thos. Bury Cusack Smith, when he brought the matter under notice of the Court and Mr. Smith apologised; the greatest commercial lawyer of his day; bencher of King’s Inns 1858; third serjeant at law 1859–60; receiver-master in Chancery 1860 to April 1878; author of Ireland in 1868 the battle field for English party strife 1868, 2 ed. 1868; Roman Catholic priests and National Schools 1871, 2 ed. 1872 and other works. d. Larkfield, Clondalkin 27 Sep. 1882. O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 328–30; Irish Law Times xvi, 494 (1882).

FITZ GIBBON, James. b. 1780; enlisted in the army 1797; served in war against Napoleon and in American war 1812–15; captain of Glengarry light infantry fencibles 1813–16 when placed on h.p.; assistant adjutant general of militia Upper Canada; saved city of Toronto during Mackenzie rebellion 1837 for which he was awarded 5000 acres of land and received thanks of parliament, the grant of land was subsequently disallowed; chief clerk of lower house of Canadian parliament 1816–29, clerk of the upper house 1829–35; created a military knight of Windsor 1850; author of An appeal to the people of Upper Canada, Montreal 1847. d. Lower Ward, Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1863.

FITZHARDINGE, William Fitzhardinge Berkeley, 1 Earl of (eld. son of 5 Earl of Berkeley 1745–1810). b. 26 Dec. 1786; lieut. South Gloucestershire militia 6 July 1803, col. 22 Aug. 1810 to death; kept a pack of hounds in Gloucestershire 1808 to death, not excelled by any in England; M.P. for Gloucestershire 1810; his claim to Berkeley peerage disallowed by House of Lords 28 June 1811; created Baron Segrave of Berkeley Castle 10 Sep. 1831 and Earl Fitzhardinge 17 Aug. 1841; lord lieut. of Gloucestershire 3 Feb. 1836 to death. d. Berkeley Castle about midnight 10 Oct. 1857. Sporting Review xxxviii, 319–22, 389–95 (1857); Cecil’s Records of the Chase (1877) 181–5; My life and recollections by G. F. Berkeley (1865) i, 370–83 and vol. ii passim.

Note.—He is drawn as Fitzalleyne of Berkeley in Fitzalleyne of Berkeley, a romance of the present times by Bernard Blackmantle [Charles Molloy] 2 vols. 1825, who also makes him one of the characters in his book The English Spy 2 vols. 1826.

FITZHARDINGE, Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley, 1 Baron (brother of the preceding). b. 3 Jany. 1788; entered navy June 1802, captain 7 June 1814, admiral 15 Jany. 1862; M.P. for Gloucester 1831–33, 1835–37 and 1841–57; contested Gloucester 1833, 1837 and 1857; a comr. of admiralty 1833–34, 1837–39, 1846–52 and 1852–57; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; P.C. 13 Aug. 1855; master of the Berkeley hounds 1857 to death; claimed Barony of Berkeley 1857; created Baron Fitzhardinge of city and county of Bristol 5 Aug. 1861. d. Berkeley castle 17 Oct. 1867. Baily’s Mag. vi, 217–19 (1863), portrait; Sporting Review lviii, 417–20 (1867).

FITZMAURICE, John G. Second lieut. 95 foot 25 April 1811; captain rifle brigade 19 Dec. 1826 to 30 March 1832 when placed on h.p.; granted service reward 13 March 1855; M.G. 7 May 1861; lieut. of Yeomen of the Guard, Dec. 1861 to death; K.H. 1831. d. Drayton green, Ealing 24 Dec. 1865 aged 72.

FITZMAURICE, William Edward (younger son of John Fitzmaurice, Viscount Kirkwall 1778–1820). b. 22 March 1805; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; captain 9 lancers 26 Feb. 1828; captain 2 life guards 1831–40 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Bucks. 1842–47; author of A cruise to Egypt, Palestine and Greece 1834. d. Brussels 18 June 1889.

FITZPATRICK, James Coleman. b. Ireland about 1818; Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1844; barrister L.I. 6 June 1857; chief justice of the Gold Coast 1857–61; judge of British Kaffraria 20 July 1861 to 1872; judge of supreme court of Cape of Good Hope 1872–79 when he retired on pension; author of The Pope, his rights and duties 1860. d. Wynberg, British Kaffraria 6 Feb. 1880.

FITZROY, Charles (2 son of 4 Duke of Grafton 1760–1844). b. 28 Feb. 1791; ed. at Harrow and Great Marlow; ensign 1 foot guards 25 June 1807; major 55 foot 27 Jany. 1820 to 11 Jany. 1821 when placed on h.p.; sold out 1834; M.P. for Thetford 1818–32, for Bury 1832–47; vice chamberlain of the household 29 June 1835 to 2 May 1838; P.C. 1 July 1835. d. Elm lodge, Hampton 17 June 1865.

FITZROY, Sir Charles Augustus (only son of general Charles Fitzroy 1764–1829). b. 10 June 1796; attached to staff of Sir Hussey Vivian at Waterloo 1815; captain royal horse guards 27 April 1820 to 23 June 1825 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds, June 1831 to Dec. 1832; lieut. governor of Prince Edward Island 19 March 1837; governor of Leeward Islands 3 Aug. 1841; governor of New South Wales 3 Aug. 1846 to 17 Jany. 1855; his wife Lady Mary Fitzroy killed at Parramatta being thrown from her carriage 7 Dec. 1847; governor general of all the Australian colonies 1850; act for separation of Victoria passed 5 Aug. 1850; constitution act of N.S.W. passed 1853; presented with purse of 2000 guineas 28 Jany. 1856; knighted by Wm. iv. at St. James’s palace 1 June 1837; K.C.B. 12 June 1854. d. Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 16 Feb. 1858. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers (1886), 36–42; Rev. J. Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand (1878) 377–82; Therry’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1863) 376–80; Heads of the people i, 65 (1847), portrait; I.L.N. xxix, 479 (1856), portrait.

FITZROY, Henry (younger son of 2 Baron Southampton 1761–1810). b. Great Stanhope st. London 2 May 1807; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox. and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. Cam. 1828; M.P. Great Grimsby 10 Aug. 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Lewes 1835, M.P. Lewes 21 April 1837 to death; a lord of the Admiralty 12 Feb. 1845 to 13 July 1846; lieut. col. of the Artillery company 1848 to death; under sec. of state for home department Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; P.C. 8 Feb. 1855; chairman of committees of House of Commons 16 April 1855 to 1859; chief comr. of board of works 1859 to death. d. Sussex sq. Kemp Town, Brighton 22 Dec. 1859.

FITZROY, Robert (brother of Sir C. A. Fitzroy, 1796–1858). b. Ampton hall, Suffolk 5 July 1805; entered navy 19 Oct. 1819; captain 3 Dec. 1834; commander of Beagle on surveys of Straits of Magellan etc. 1828–30, 1831–36, when he ran a chronometric line round the world; F.R.G.S. 1830, gold medallist 1837; an elder brother of Trinity house 1839; M.P. Durham 1841–43; acting conservator of river Mersey 21 Sep. 1842 to 1843; governor of New Zealand 3 April 1843, superseded Nov. 1845 as he did not agree with the colonists; retired from active service 1850; R.A. 1857, V.A. on half pay 12 Sep. 1863; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; superintendent of Meteorological department of board of trade 1854; invented Fitzroy barometer; instituted a system of storm warnings 1862 which developed into the daily forecasts of the weather 1872; author of Narrative of voyages of Adventurer and Beagle and the Beagle’s circumnavigation of the globe 3 vols. 1839; Weather Book, a manual of practical meteorology 1863, 2 ed. 1863 and other works; committed suicide by cutting his throat, at his residence Lyndhurst house, Norwood, Surrey 29 April 1865. Proc. of Royal Soc. xv, 21–23 (1867); Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. ix, 215–8 (1865); Good Words vii, 406–13 (1866).

FITZROY, Sir William (3 son of 3 Duke of Grafton 1735–1811). b. 1 June 1782; entered navy 21 April 1794; captain 3 March 1804; admiral 2 April 1853; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840. d. East Sheen near Richmond 13 May 1857.

FITZWALTER, Sir Brook William Bridges, 1 Baron (elder son of Sir Brook Wm. Bridges, 4 bart. 1767–1829). b. Goodneston park, Kent 2 June 1801; ed. at Winchester and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1827; succeeded his father 21 April 1829; M.P. for East Kent, Feb. to July 1852 and April 1857 to April 1868; created Baron Fitzwalter 17 April 1868. d. Goodneston park 6 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. xxx, 478 (1857), portrait, lxvii, 614, 629 (1875), portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, Charles William Wentworth, 5 Earl (only child of 4 Earl Fitzwilliam 1748–1833). b. Grosvenor sq. London 4 May 1786; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Yorkshire 20 May 1807 to 24 July 1830 as Viscount Milton; M.P. for Northamptonshire 23 May 1831 to March 1833; pres. of Yorkshire Philosophical Soc. 1830 to death; K.G. 4 Nov. 1851; took surname of Wentworth by r.l. 20 Aug. 1856; author of First, second and third addresses on the Corn laws 1839 and other books; edited with Sir Richard Bourke Correspondence of Edmund Burke 4 vols. 1844. d. Wentworth house, Rotherham 4 Oct. 1857. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii, 337–42 (1854).

FITZWILLIAM, Edward. b. near Holborn, London 8 Aug. 1788; actor at Southend, Hythe and Gosport 1806–8; first appeared in London as Hodge in Love in a village, at West London theatre 1812; acted at Olympic 1813 and at Royal Circus; his best parts were Leporello, Dumbiedykes in the Heart of Midlothian, Patch, Partridge in Tom Jones and Humphry Clinker; went to Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1821; became a comic vocalist at city entertainments; generally known as Little Fitz; retired on an annuity from Drury Lane theatrical fund 1845. d. Regent st. London 30 March 1852. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography ii, 267–76 (1825), portrait; Cumberland’s Minor Theatre, vol. 2, portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, Edward Francis (son of the preceding). b. Deal, Kent 2 Aug. 1824; composed a Stabat Mater performed at Hanover square rooms, London 15 March 1845; musical director of Lyceum theatre Oct. 1847 to 1849; musical director of Haymarket theatre Easter 1853 to death; composed The Queen of the day, a comic opera, A summer night’s love, an operetta; author of O Incomprehensible Creator, a cantata 1850; Dramatic songs for 4 voices 1856 and other works; his music to the songs As I laye a thynkynge 1846, The maid with the milking pail 1846, and The jug of Punch 1845 was very popular. d. 9 Grove place, Brompton, London 19 Jany. 1857. Era 25 Jany. 1857 p. 9, col. 3.

FITZWILLIAM, Ellen (eld. dau. of Thomas Acton Chaplin, d. Nov. 1859). First appeared in London at Adelphi as Wilhelm in Die Hexen am Rhein 7 Oct. 1841; member of Haymarket company under J. B. Buckstone 22 years; went to Australia 1877. (m. 31 Dec. 1853 Edward Francis Fitzwilliam 1824–57). d. Auckland, New Zealand 19 Oct. 1880 aged 58. Theatrical Times 18 Nov. 1848 p. 439, portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, Fanny Elizabeth (dau. of Robert Copeland, manager of Dover circuit). b. Dover theatre 1801; was on the stage at 3 years of age; as Norah in the Poor Soldier played at Dover theatre 1815; first appeared in London at Haymarket as Lucy in The Review 1817; went to the Olympic and the Surrey; first seen at Drury Lane as Fanny in Maid or Wife 5 Dec. 1821; commenced engagement at Adelphi 10 Oct. 1825, the original Kate Plowden in The Pilot 31 Oct. 1825 and Bella in The Wreck Ashore 21 Oct. 1830; manager of Sadler’s Wells 1832; gave a monologue The Widow Wiggins at Adelphi during Lent 1835; in 1837 was at Haymarket under B. Webster; went to America and made her debut at Park theatre, New York as Peggy in The Country Girl, Oct. 1839; played at Adelphi, London 1844 and afterwards at Haymarket; was good in Lady Teazle, country girls and Irish peasants. (m. 2 Dec. 1822 Edward Fitz William, actor 1788–1852). d. of cholera at Richmond lodge, Putney 11 Sep. 1854. Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i, 302–4 (1867); Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 3–5, 2 portraits; Actors by daylight i, 145–6 (1838), portrait; Theatrical Times ii, 73 (1847), portrait; Actors by gaslight (1838) 25, portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, George Wentworth (3 son of 5 Earl Fitzwilliam 1786–1857). b. Grosvenor place, London 3 May 1817; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1838; M.P. for Richmond 1841, for Peterborough 1841–59; sheriff of Northampton 1866; master of the Fitzwilliam hounds. d. Milton hall, Peterborough 4 March 1874.

FITZWILLIAM, William John Wentworth (5 son of 6 Earl Fitzwilliam, b. 1815). b. 7 Aug. 1852; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Cam., B.A. 1874; M.P. for Peterborough 29 Oct. 1878 to death. d. Wentworth house near Rotherham 11 Sep. 1889. Pictorial World 3 Oct. 1889 p. 416, portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, William Wentworth (brother of the preceding). b. Grosvenor sq. London 27 July 1839; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for South West Yorkshire 1865–72. d. 17 Jany. 1877.

FLAHERTY, William Edward. Apprenticed to J. G. Barnard of London, printer; worked for Messrs. Bradbury and Evans 1834; went to Harrisons 1840; assisted Thomas Duffus Hardy in various works; compiled The annals of England 3 vols. 1855–7, anon.; edited The Gentleman’s Magazine, Jany. 1861 to Dec. 1865; revised several handbooks for John Murray. d. 33 Hassett road, Homerton 16 June 1878 aged 71. Bookseller, July 1878 p. 585.

FLANAGAN, Rev. Thomas. b. 1814; educ. Sedgley park sch. Staffordshire and at Oscott coll.; ordained at Oscott 1842, professor and prefect of studies there to 1851 and again July 1853 to 1854; V.P. of Sedgley park sch. 1851 and president Aug. 1851 to July 1853; canon of the chapter of Birmingham 1850; resident priest Blackmore park 1854–60; priest at St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham 1860 to death; author of A manual of British and Irish history 1847; A history of the church in England to the re-establishment of the hierarchy in 1850, 2 vols. 1857 and other works. d. Kidderminster 21 July 1865. bur. in crypt of St. Chad’s cathedral. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 291 (1885).

FLATMAN, Elnathan. b. Holton, Suffolk 1810; apprenticed to Wm. Cooper of Newmarket, trainer; won the Goodwood cup on Glencoe 1834, the One thousand guineas on Preserve 1835, the Derby on Orlando 1844, the St. Leger on Surplice 1848; won 104 races in 1848. d. Newmarket 20 Aug. 1860. Sporting Times 25 July 1885 p. 2; Sporting Review xxx, 10–13 (1853), portrait, xliv, 162, 225 (1860); Rice’s British turf i, 263–65 (1879); I.L.N. xxii, 416 (1853), portrait.

FLEETWOOD, Sir Peter Hesketh, 1 Baronet (son of Robert Hesketh of Rossall, Lancashire). b. Wennington hall near Lancaster 9 May 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; sheriff of Lancashire 1830; M.P. Preston 1832–47; projected and commenced to build town and port of Fleetwood on river Wyre 1836; created baronet 20 July 1838; assumed name of Fleetwood by r.l. 5 March 1851; translator of Victor Hugo’s Last days of a condemned 1840. d. 127 Piccadilly, London 12 April 1866.

FLEMING, Alexander. b. Edinburgh 1824; M.D. Edin. 1844; F.R.C.P. Lond.; his essay on the physiological and medicinal properties of Aconitum Napellus 1845 led to the introduction of a tincture of aconite known as Fleming’s tincture; edited Monthly retrospect of medical science 2 vols. 1848–9; professor of materia medica Queen’s coll. Cork to 1858; hon. physician to Queen’s hospital, Birmingham 1858–73. d. Brixton, London 21 Aug. 1875.

FLEMING, Ann Cuthbert. b. Scotland; went to Canada 1815 or 1816; kept a school at Montreal several years; author of Home, a poem, Edinburgh 1815; A year in Canada and other poems, By A. C. Knight, Edinburgh 1816; Views of Canadian scenery and other books. (m. (1) Mr. Knight, m. (2) James Fleming). d. 1860.

FLEMING, Christopher. b. Boardstown, co. Westmeath 14 July 1808; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1821, M.D. 1838; L.C.S.I. 1824, member 1826, president 1859–60; surgeon House of Industry hospitals, Dublin 1851; M.R.I.A.; author of Clinical records of injuries and diseases of genito-urinary organs 1877; Remarks on application of chloroform to surgical purposes 1851. d. Donnybrook near Dublin 30 Dec. 1880.

FLEMING, Edward Cary. Ensign 31 foot 1803; lieut. col. of 2 Ceylon regiment 12 Aug. 1819, of 53 foot 24 Feb. 1820, of 24 foot 6 Nov. 1823 to 1 March 1833; C.B. 19 July 1838; col. 27 foot 19 Sep. 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 23 April 1860.

FLEMING, Henry. Assistant sec. poor law board 3 Feb. 1848 to 5 July 1859, permanent sec. 5 July 1859 to 19 Aug. 1871. d. 2 Charles St. Berkeley sq. London 28 Feb. 1876.

FLEMING, James (eld. son of Valentine Fleming of Tuam, co. Galway). Barrister M.T. 10 June 1836; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1858; chief comr. of West Indian incumbered estates court 17 Feb. 1865 to death; chancellor of county palatine of Durham 21 March 1871 to death; author of Rules and orders Chancery Court, Durham 1878. d. 12 Dorset sq. London 23 July 1887.

FLEMING, Rev. John (son of Alexander Fleming). b. Kirkroads farm near Bathgate in Linlithgowshire 10 Jany. 1785; ordained 22 Sep. 1808; minister of Flisk, Fifeshire 1810; the best zoologist in Scotland; D.D. of univ. of St. Andrews 1814; minister of Clackmannan 1832–34; professor of natural philosophy in Univ. and King’s coll. Aberdeen 1834; joined the Free ch. 1834; professor of natural science Free ch. coll. Edin. 1845; studied the old red sand stone and its fossils; author of The Philosophy of Zoology 2 vols. 1822; The temperature of the seasons 1851 and other books and articles in scientific journals. d. Llangwym, Monmouthshire 18 Nov. 1857. Fleming’s Lithology of Edinburgh, with memoir by Rev. John Duns 1859 pp. i-civ.

FLEMING, John Gibson. b. Glasgow 1809; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 1830; member of faculty of phys. and surgeons Glasgow 1833, pres. 1865–71; represented the faculty in general medical council 15 years; surgeon to Royal asylum for lunatics; F.R.S. Edin.; author of Medical statistics of life assurance, Glasgow 1862. d. 155 Bath st. Glasgow 2 Oct. 1879.

FLEMING, Sir Valentine (brother of James Fleming, who d. 23 July 1887). b. Ashby de la Zouch 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1832; barrister G.I. 21 Nov. 1838; comr. of Insolvent Court for Hobart Town 1841; solicitor general of Tasmania 1844 to Jany. 1848, attorney general Jany. 1848 to Aug. 1854; chief justice of supreme court of Tasmania Aug. 1854 to May 1870 when he resigned; knighted by patent 2 July 1856. d. Holbrook, Redhill 25 Oct. 1884 in 75 year.

FLETCHER, Rev. Alexander (son of Rev. Wm. Fletcher of Bridge of Teith, Downe, Perthshire, minister of the associate synod). b. Bridge of Teith 8 April 1787; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.A.; co-pastor with his father at Bridge of Teith 16 Sep. 1807; minister of Miles’s lane chapel, London, Nov. 1811, of Albion chapel, London Wall 7 Nov. 1816 to 1824; prosecuted in a breach of promise case by Eliza Dick, April 1824; separated from the Secession church 1824, minister of Finsbury chapel, London 1824–59; author of A guide to Family Devotion 1834 of which 50,000 copies were sold in England, The Sabbath School Preacher and Juvenile Miscellany 1848–50, 2 vols., and other works. d. 4 Portland place, Lower Clapton, London 30 Sep. 1860. Macfarlane’s Altar-Light, a tribute to the memory of the Rev. A. Fletcher 1860; Blair’s The prince of preachers, Rev. A. Fletcher 1860; The Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1860 p. 31, portrait; Trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher before the United Associate synod 1824.

FLETCHER, Eliza (dau. of Mr. Dawson of Oxton near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, land surveyor). b. Oxton 15 Jany. 1770; educ. Manor sch. York; wrote her autobiography. (m. 16 July 1791 Archibald Fletcher, advocate, who died at Auchindinny house near Edinburgh 20 Dec. 1828). d. Edinburgh 5 Feb. 1858. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, edited by Lady Richardson 1875, 2 portraits.

FLETCHER, George (son of Joseph Fletcher). bapt. Clarborough, Nottinghamshire 15 Oct. 1764; enlisted in Welsh fusiliers 2 Nov. 1785, deserted 16 March 1792; enlisted 3 foot guards 14 March 1793 when he stated that his original enlistment took place in Oct. 1773; pensioned 18 April 1803 on 1s. 2½d. a day; worked in West India dock 1803–39; local Wesleyan preacher, gave out that his birth took place on 2 Feb. 1747 and had large congregations to see him. d. 41 Wade st. Poplar, London 2 Feb. 1855. Thom’s Human Longevity (1873) 64,164–70; I.L.N. 10 March 1855 p. 221, portrait.

FLETCHER, Isaac (2 son of John Wilson Fletcher of Tarnbank, Cumberland 1788–1857). b. Greysowthen, Cumberland 22 Feb. 1827; a coal owner and ironmaster; M.P. for Cockermouth, Nov. 1868 to death; chairman of Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith railway; F.R.A.S. 11 May 1849; F.R.S. 7 June 1855; shot himself at Morley’s hotel, Trafalgar sq. London 3 April 1879.

FLETCHER, John Venour. b. Chesterfield 14 Nov. 1801; entered navy 13 Feb. 1814; captain 8 June 1841, went on half pay 24 Oct. 1841; admiral on half pay 20 Oct. 1872. d. Reading 5 Dec. 1877.

FLETCHER, Joseph. b. 1813; barrister M.T. 7 May 1841; sec. to Handloom inquiry commission 1841, to Children’s employment commission 1841–3; inspector of schools receiving grants under Privy Council 1844; one of hon. secretaries of statistical society of London 15 Feb. 1841; edited the Statistical Journal; author of Summary of the Moral Statistics of England and Wales 1850; Statistics of the Farm School system of the Continent and the education of pauper and criminal children 1851. d. Chirk, co. Denbigh 11 Aug. 1852. bur. Tottenham church, Middlesex 18 Aug.

FLETCHER, Rev. Joseph (son of Rev. Joseph Fletcher 1784–1843, independent minister at Stepney). b. Blackburn 7 Jany. 1816; in a Manchester counting house to 1833; at Coward coll. 1833; minister of Congregational ch. Hanley 1839–49, of Christchurch, Hampshire 1849–73; kept a school at Christchurch but the death by drowning of 7 of his pupils in May 1838 caused him to close the establishment; author of The works and memoirs of Rev. Joseph Fletcher, D.D. 1846; History of Independency 4 vols. 1847–49 and other works. d. Christchurch 2 June 1876.

FLETCHER, Ralph. b. Gloucester; studied at St. Bartholomews; surgeon to Gloucester county hospital; had one of finest consulting practices in the kingdom, extending to whole of South Wales and Bristol; the income from his practice, which was purely surgical, exceeded £4000 for many years; had a very fine collection of pictures; author of Sketches on the influence of the mind on the body 1833; Notes on cruelty to animals 1846. d. Barton st. Gloucester 8 Feb. 1851 aged 70 worth more than £80,000. Medical Directory 1852 pp. 646–7.

FLEXMORE, Richard, stage name of Richard Flexmore Geatter (son of Richard Flexmore Geatter, celebrated comic dancer). b. Kennington, London 15 Sep. 1824; appeared at Victoria theatre as a dancer 1832; clown at Grecian theatre, Christmas 1844, at Olympic theatre, Christmas 1845; played at Princess’s, Strand, Adelphi, Covent Garden and Drury Lane to 1860; noted for his imitations of the leading dancers of his day; acted with his wife in chief European cities in 1849, &c. (m. 28 July 1849 Franciska Christophosa dau. of Jean Baptiste Auriol famous French clown, she m. (2) her cousin Monsieur Auriol, and d. Paris 3 Sep. 1862). d. 66 Hercules buildings, Lambeth, London 20 Aug. 1860. Illust. sp. and dr. news ii, 268 (1874), portrait, iv, 294 (1875), portrait; Era 26 Aug. 1860 p. 10, col. 1, and 2 Sep. p. 10, col. 2; A first appearance, By Mrs. Evans Bell (1872), i, 129–33, iii, 195–7.

FLIGHT, Walter (son of William P. Flight). b. Winchester 21 Jany. 1841; ed. at Queenwood coll. Hampshire, D. Sci. London 1867; assistant in mineralogical department British Museum 5 Sep. 1867, resigned 1884; experimented on the constituents of meteorites; F.R.S. 7 June 1883; author of numerous papers in scientific journals, majority of them on meteorites. d. 4 Wildwood terrace, North End, Hampstead 4 Nov. 1885. W. Flight’s Chapter on Meteorites 1887.

FLOOD, Frederick Solly- (only son of Richard Solly of Walthamstow, who d. 1803). b. 7 Aug. 1801; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; assumed by r.l. additional surname of Flood 14 Oct. 1818; barrister L.I. 6 May 1828; attorney general for city and garrison of Gibraltar 15 Feb. 1866 to 1877. d. Gibraltar 13 May 1888.

FLOWER, Edward Fordham (younger son of Richard Flower, who d. 15 Jany. 1862). b. Marden hall, Hertfordshire 31 Jany. 1805; spent his early life in Illinois; brewer Stratford on Avon 1832–62; mayor of Stratford 3 times, also in 1864 during Shakespeare tercentenary; contested Coventry 1865 and North Warwickshire 1868; removed to London 1873; endeavoured to prevent cruelty to horses in use of bearing reins and gag-bits; author of Bits and bearing reins 1875, 7 ed. 1886 and 3 other books. d. 35 Hyde park gardens, London 20 March 1883. E. F. Flower’s Bits and bearing reins (1886) 3–15, portrait; Victoria Mag., May 1878 pp. 67–8, portrait; I.L.N. 7 May 1864 p. 453, portrait.

FLOWER, John Wickham. b. London 11 Aug. 1807; studied geology and archÆology; lived at Croydon about 1848 to death; F.G.S. 1863; author of Adam’s disobedience and its results, 2 ed. 1871; A Layman’s reason for discontinuing the use of the Athanasian creed 1872. d. Park hill, Croydon 11 April 1873.

FLOWER, Richard. b. Hertfordshire about 1780; went with Morris Birkbeck to the U.S. 1817 to found an English colony in Albion, Edwards co. Illinois; instrumental in securing defeat of attempt to legalize African slavery in Illinois 1823; author of History of the English settlement in Edwards county, Illinois founded in 1817 and 1818 by Morris Birkbeck and Richard Flower, Chicago 1882. d. Grayville, White co. Illinois 15 Jany. 1862.

FLOWERS, Frederick (3 son of Field Flowers, rector of Partney, Lincs.) b. Boston, Lincs. 1810; educ. Louth gram. sch.; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1839; recorder of Stamford, March 1862 to July 1864; revising barrister northern division Nottinghamshire; police magistrate Bow st. London 6 July 1864 to death. d. Holmesdale, Tottenham lane, Hornsey, Middlesex 26 Jany. 1886. Graphic 8 Jany. 1881 p. 32, portrait; Saturday Review lxi, 145 (1886).

FLOWERS, George French (brother of the preceding). b. Boston 1811; studied music under Rink and Von Wartensee in Germany; of Lincoln coll. Oxf., Bac. Mus. 1839, Doc. Mus. 1865; organist British embassy chapel, Paris, St. Mark’s Myddleton sq., and St. John’s Paddington successively; founded Contrapuntists’ Soc. 1843; introduced and developed Vogler’s system of progressive cadences 1848; his most distinguished pupil in singing was Mrs. Howard Paul; joined ch. of Rome 1860; author of Essay on the construction of fugue 1846; Muscular Vocalisation, a poem, Barrow on Humber 1861; composer of organ fugues, pastoral chorus and choral fugue. d. of cholera in London 14 June 1872.

FLOYER, John (younger son of Rev. Wm. Floyer 1746–1819, V. of Stinsford, Dorset). b. 26 April 1811; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1831; sheriff of Dorset 1844; M.P. for Dorset 1846–57 and 1864–85; contested Dorset, April 1857; chairman of Dorset quarter sessions. d. 5 Old palace yard, Westminster 4 July 1887.

FLUDE, Thomas Peters (2 son of Jonathan Flude, town mayor of Berwick on Tweed). Second lieut. R.A. 17 July 1817, col. 15 May 1855, col. commandant 11 Dec. 1868 to 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Tweed house, Folkestone 13 July 1885 in 87 year.

FOGGO, George. b. London 14 April 1793; instructed in painting by Jean Baptist Regnault in Paris; worked with his brother James Foggo 1819–59; one of founders and hon. sec. of Soc. for obtaining free access to Museums; lithographer; published a set of lithographs from Raphael’s cartoons 1828; Catalogue of the pictures in the National Gallery 1844 and the Adventures of Sir J. Brook, Rajah of Sarawak 1853; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 36 at Suffolk st. 1816–64. d. London 26 Sep. 1869.

FOGGO, James. b. London 11 June 1789; instructed by Jean Baptist Regnault in Paris; returned to London 1815; supported himself by teaching and portrait painting; from 1819 painted pictures in conjunction with his brother George Foggo for 40 years; well known as painters of altar pieces; exhibited a large picture “The Christian inhabitants of Parga preparing to emigrate”; exhibited their works with Haydon and others at the Pantheon, London 1843 etc.; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 22 at Suffolk st. 1816–58; with his brother undertook care of exhibition of pictures at Pantheon Oxford st. London 1852. d. London 14 Sep. 1860.

FOLEY, Thomas Henry Foley, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3 Baron Foley 1780–1833). b. Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 11 Dec. 1808; M.P. for Worcestershire 5 Aug. 1830 to 16 April 1833; captain of corps of gentlemen at arms 1833–34, 1835–41, 1846–52, 1852–58, 1859–66 and 1868 to death; P.C. 1833; lord lieut. of Worcestershire. d. Paris 20 Nov. 1869, personalty sworn under £250,000, 22 Jany. 1870.

FOLEY, Rev. Daniel. b. about 1815; employed in shop of Patrick Grey, Tralee; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1852, B.D. 1854, D.D. 1858; professor of Irish in univ. of Dublin 1849–61; prebendary of Kilbragh in Cashel cath. to death; R. of Templetuohy 1852 to death; lectured against disestablishment of Ch. of Ireland; author of An English-Irish Dictionary, Dublin 1855. d. Blackrock, Dublin 7 July 1874.

FOLEY, John Henry. b. Dublin 24 May 1818; student of the R.A. London 1835, A.R.A. 1849, R.A. 1858; his group of Iro and Bacchus exhibited 1840 purchased by the earl of Ellesmere; executed statues of Hampden and Selden for St. Stephen’s hall, Westminster; executed group of Asia and figure of Prince Consort for Albert Memorial, Hyde park, Caractacus and Egeria for Mansion house, and statues of Canning, Harding and Outram for Calcutta; exhibited 49 works at R.A. and 8 at B.I. 1839–75. d. Hampstead 27 Aug. 1874. bur. St. Paul’s cathedral 4 Sep., left his models to the Dublin Soc. and the bulk of his property to the Artists’ Benevolent fund. Journal of British ArchÆol. Assoc. xxxi, 226–29 (1875); Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 315–17 (1862); I.L.N. xxx, 419 (1857), portrait, lxv, 236, 249, 254 (1874), portrait.

FOLJAMBE, George Savile. b. 4 June 1800; ed. at Eton and St John’s coll. Cam.; kept fox hounds in Notts. 1822–45 when he sold them for upwards of £3500; sheriff of Notts. d. Osberton near Worksop 18 Dec. 1869. Sporting Review lxiii, 12–14, 371 (1870).

FOLLETT, Brent Spencer (4 son of Benjamin Follett of Topsham, Devon). b. 1810; barrister L.I. 7 June 1833, bencher 3 Nov. 1851 to death, treasurer 1872; Q.C. 11 July 1851; M.P. for Bridgwater 1852–57; contested Cirencester, April 1859; chief registrar of Land Registry Office, London 18 Aug. 1862 to death; member of council of legal education, London. d. 23 Jany. 1887.

FOLSOM, Abby H. b. England about 1792; went to the U.S. about 1837; became noted as an advocate of anti-slavery reform and for addresses at meetings of American anti-slavery society about 1842–5; author of A letter from a member of the Boston bar to an Avaricious Landlord, Boston 1851. (m. Mr. Folsom of Massachusetts). d. Rochester, New York 1867.

FONBLANQUE, Albany William (3 son of John de Grenier Fonblanque 1760–1838). b. London 1793; a journalist on Morning Chronicle, Times and Atlas; on the Examiner 1826, manager and editor 1830–47, sole proprietor to 1860; head of statistical department of Board of Trade 1847 to death; a brilliant talker, a finished scholar and a student of music and art; author of England under seven administrations 3 vols. 1837. d. London 14 Oct. 1872. Life, ed. by E. B. de Fonblanque 1874; Westminster Papers vii, 21–23 (1874); Graphic vi, 442, 445 (1872), portrait.

FONBLANQUE, John Samuel Martin De Grenier (brother of the preceding). b. Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London, March 1787; ed. at Charterhouse and Caius coll. Cam.; 2 lieut. 21 fusiliers 3 June 1810, 1 lieut. to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in the American war, made prisoner at New Orleans; barrister L.I. 27 Nov. 1816; one of the 70 comrs. of bankruptcy 1817, comr. of Court of Bankruptcy 1830 to death; a founder of The Jurist, a quarterly journal of jurisprudence and legislation 1827; author with J. A. Paris of Medical Jurisprudence 3 vols. 1823. d. Brighton 3 Nov. 1865.

FOOTE, Henry Richard. Entered navy 6 May 1830; captain 20 Oct. 1853; harbour manager and secretary Newport dock company 1854; retired captain 31 March 1866; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880. d. Ellesmere house, Newport, Monmouthshire 23 Nov. 1885 aged 68.

FORAN, Most Rev. Nicholas. b. Waterford; ed. at Maynooth; pres. of St. John’s college, Waterford short time; parish priest of Lismore; parish priest of Dungarvan to 1837; R.C. Bishop of Waterford and Lismore 23 May 1837 to death; consecrated 24 Aug. 1837. d. Dungarvan 18 May 1855 in 74 year.

FORBES, Walter Forbes, 18 Baron. b. Crailing house, Roxburghshire 29 May 1798; ensign Coldstream guards 1814; commanded a company at defence of Hougoumont 18 June 1815; retired 1825; succeeded 4 May 1843; a great benefactor to St. Ninian’s cathedral, Perth. d. Richmond, Surrey 1 May 1868, monument in Guards’ chapel, Wellington barracks, London.

FORBES, Right Rev. Alexander Penrose (2 son of John Hay Forbes, lord Medwyn 1776–1854). b. Edinburgh 6 June 1817; educ. Glasgow univ. 1833 and Haileybury coll.; assistant collector Rajahmundry, India 1837; head assistant to the Sudder and Foujdarry Adawlut 1839–40; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1840, Boden Sanskrit scholar 1841; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846, D.C.L. 18 May 1848; C. of Aston Rowant, Oxf. 1844; C. of St. Thomas’, Oxf. 1845; incumb. of Stonehaven, Kincardine 1846; V. of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1847, one of the first Tractarian churches; elected bishop of Brechin 21 Sep. 1847 when the seat of the bishoprick was removed from Brechin to Dundee, and he also became V. of St. Paul’s, Dundee; censured by the college of bishops for his teaching on the real presence 15 March 1860; built St. Paul’s cathedral, Dundee 1855 and founded sisterhood of St. Mary and St. Modwenna; author of An explanation of the Thirty nine articles 2 vols. 1867–68 in which he was assisted by Dr. Pusey; The prisoners of Craigmacaire 1852; The pious life of Helen Inglis 1854; Kalendars of Scottish saints 1872 and 20 other works. d. Castle hill, Dundee 8 Oct. 1875. Mackey’s Bishop Forbes (1888), portrait; Memoir of Alexander, bishop of Brechin, By Miss Skene (1876).

FORBES, Sir Charles Fergusson. b. 1779; hospital assistant in army medical service, May 1798; served in Egypt, Gallicia and the Peninsula; retired with rank of deputy inspector general of hospitals 1864; M.D. Edinburgh 24 June 1808; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814, F.R.C.P. 10 July 1841; practised in London 1814 to death; physician Royal Westminster infirmary for diseases of the eye 1816, fell out with his colleague G. J. Guthrie 1827 when he resigned; fought a duel with Hale Thomson one of Guthrie’s party, on Clapham common 29 Dec. 1827; F.L.S. 1822; K.C.H. 1837; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. d. 23 Argyll st. London 22 March 1852. Munk’s Roll of College of Physicians (1878) iii, 129; Medical Circular i, 137 (1852).

FORBES, David. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. col. 9 Bombay N.I. 23 Nov. 1841 to 25 May 1852; commandant at Aden 9 Jany. 1851 to 25 May 1852; col. 3 European regiment 1854 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Upper Brunswick place, Brighton 2 April 1863.

FORBES, David (son of Edward Forbes of Oakhill, Isle of Man, banker). b. Douglas 6 Sep. 1828; educ. Brentwood, Essex and Edin. univ.; superintendent of mining and metallurgical works at Espedal, Norway 1848–58; F.G.S. 1853 and one of secretaries 1871; F.R.S. 3 June 1856; partner with Evans and Askin, nickel smelters, Birmingham 1856; A.I.C.E. 1 Feb. 1853, mem. of council 1872–73; visited Bolivia, Peru, South Sea islands and Africa in search of mines and minerals 1857–66; foreign sec. of Iron and Steel Institute 1871–6; one of the first to apply the microscope to the study of rocks; wrote 58 papers on scientific subjects. d. 11 York place, Portman sq. London 5 Dec. 1876. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxiii, 41–8 (1877); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlix, 270–75 (1877); Journal of Iron and Steel Institute 1876 pp. 519–24.

FORBES, Duncan. b. Kinnaird, Perthshire 28 April 1798; village school master of Straloch 1815; educ. Carmichael sch., Perth gram. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ., M.A. 1823, LLD. 1847; employed in Calcutta academy Nov. 1823 to 1826; assistant to Dr. John Borthwick Gilchrist, teacher of Hindustani and to Dr. Sandford Arnet 1826–37; professor of oriental languages, King’s coll. London 1837–61; hon. fellow of King’s coll. 1861; catalogued Persian MSS. in British Museum 1849–55; author of The Hindustani Manual 1845; The history of chess from the time of the early invention of the game in India 1860; A grammar of the Bengali language 1861; A grammar of the Arabic language 1863 and other books. d. London 17 Aug. 1868. Annual Report R. Asiatic Soc., May 1869 pp. vii-viii.

FORBES, Edward (2 child of Edward Forbes of Douglas, Isle of Man, banker). b. Douglas 12 Feb. 1815; ed. at univ. of Edin. 1831–36; naturalist to H.M.’s surveying ship Beacon, in the Levant 1841–42; professor of botany at King’s college, London, Oct. 1842; F.G.S. 4 Dec. 1844, librarian and curator 1842–44, pres. 1853; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845; palÆontologist at Museum of practical geology 1 Nov. 1844 to 1854; founded Club of the Metropolitan Red Lions 1845; professor of natural history in Univ. of Edin. April 1854 to death; published with Sylvanus Hanley A History of British Mollusca 4 vols. 1848–53; author of many books and papers on natural history. d. Wardie near Edinburgh 18 Nov. 1854. J. H. Bennett’s Memoir of E. Forbes 1855; Memoir of E. Forbes by G. Wilson and A. Geikie 1861, portrait; Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of Edin. ii, 434 (1884); I.L.N. xxv, 564, 566 (1854), portrait.

FORBES, Francis Reginald (2 son of 6 Earl of Granard 1760–1837). b. Moira castle, Ireland 17 Sep. 1791; attached to embassy at St. Petersburg, July 1812; minister plenipotentiary at Dresden 26 Nov. 1832; raised to rank of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary 2 May 1857, transferred to Rio de Janeiro 13 Dec. 1858; retired 2 Sep. 1859, pension granted him 1 Nov. 1859. d. Geneva 5 Nov. 1873.

FORBES, Rev. George Hay (brother of Right Rev. A. P. Forbes). b. 4 Aug. 1821; episcopal minister at Burntisland 1849 to death; founded and endowed the Pitsligo press at Burntisland, issued theological pamphlets, ancient liturgies and missals, and a periodical called The Panoply 1853–69, all of which he printed himself, the press was moved to Edinburgh, January 1884; author of The goodness of God, Prize essay 1849; Doctrinal errors of the English prayer book 1863. d. The Parsonage, Burntisland 7 Nov. 1875.

FORBES, Henry. b. 1804; pupil of Smart, Hummel, Moscheles and Herz; organist of St. Luke’s, Chelsea; his opera The Fairy Oak produced at Drury Lane 18 Oct. 1845; his cantata Ruth performed London 1847; conductor of SocietÀ Armonica 1827–50; composer of National Psalmody 1843. d. London 24 Nov. 1859.

FORBES, James. b. Bridgend, Perthshire, May 1793; head gardener to Duke of Bedford at Woburn abbey, Beds. 37 years; A.L.S. 17 Jany. 1832; published Hortus ericaceus Woburnensis 1825; Salicetum Woburnense 1829; Hortus Woburnensis 1833; Pinetum Woburnense 1839. d. The Abbey Gardens, Woburn 6 July 1861. Proc. of LinnÆan Soc. (1861) 104.

FORBES, James David (youngest son of Sir Wm. Forbes, 7 Bart. 1773–1828). b. Edinburgh 20 April 1809; ed. at Univ. of Edin., LLD. 1860; F.R.S. Edin. 1828, sec. 1840–51; F.R.S. 7 June 1832, Rumford medallist 1838 for discovery of polarisation of heat; a founder of British Association 1832; professor of natural philosophy in Univ. of Edin. 30 Jany. 1833, resigned April 1860; dean of Faculty of Arts 1837; granted civil list pension of £200, 14 Oct. 1845; surveyed Mer de Glace 1850; principal of St. Andrews 2 Dec. 1859 to Oct. 1868; author of Travels through the Alps of Savoy with observations on glaciers 1843 and of upwards of 149 articles in scientific transactions. d. Clifton hill house, Bristol 31 Dec. 1868. Life and letters of J. D. Forbes 1873; Proc. of Royal Soc. xix, 1–9 (1871); Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of Edin. ii, 354–7 (1884); Contemporary Review xxii, 484–508 (1873).

FORBES, Sir John (4 son of Alexander Forbes of the Enzie, Banffshire). b. Cuttelbrae, Ruthven, Banffshire 18 Oct. 1787; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1803–6 and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1817; assistant surgeon R.N. 1807–16 when placed on h.p.; phys. at Penzance 1817–22, at Chichester 1822–40, in London 1840–59; F.R.S. 5 Feb. 1829; founded British and Foreign medical review, Jany. 1836, edited it 1836 to Oct. 1847, 48 numbers; phys. extraord. to Prince Consort, Aug. 1840 to 1859; phys. in ord. to H.M.’s Household, Feb. 1841 to 1859; F.R.C.S. Lond. 1845; knighted at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1853; author of Original cases illustrating the use of the stethescope 1824; editor with A. Tweedie and J. Conolly of CyclopÆdia of practical medicine 1833–35, 4 vols.; author of A physician’s holiday in Switzerland 1848; Sight seeing in Germany 1856. d. Whitchurch near Reading 13 Nov. 1861. E. A. Parke’s Memoir of Sir John Forbes; Proc. of Royal Soc. xii, 6–10 (1862).

FORBES, Rev. John. b. Dunkeld, Perthshire; educ. Perth academy and St. Andrew’s univ., D.D. 1837; LLD. of Glasgow univ. 1840; minister at Hope park chapel, Edinburgh 1826, at Outer-High church, Glasgow 18 Dec. 1828; left the Presbyterian ch. 24 May 1843; contributed to The evidences of Revealed Religion 1838; Free church minister of Free St. Paul’s Glasgow 1843; author of Differential and integral calculus; Three sermons on Lord’s Day 1831 and other books. d. Glasgow 25 Dec. 1874 aged 73. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 253–60; John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 231–7.

FORBES, John Hay (2 son of Sir Wm. Forbes, 6 Bart., of Pitsligo 1739–1806). b. Edinburgh Sep. 1776; advocate 2 March 1799; sheriff depute of Perthshire 1807; judge of Court of Session with title of Lord Medwyn, Jany. 1825 to Oct. 1852; a lord of justiciary 16 Nov. 1830 to May 1849; edited Thoughts concerning man’s condition in this life and hopes in world to come, By Alexander Forbes, Baron Pitsligo 1854. d. Edinburgh 25 July 1854. J. Kay’s Edinburgh Portraits ii, 99 (1842), portrait.

FORBES, Nathaniel. Entered Madras army 1782; col. 24 Madras N.I. 1820 or 1821 to death; L.G. 10 Jany. 1837. d. Sloane st. London 16 Aug. 1851.

FORBES, Thomas John. Second lieut. R.A. 6 March 1795; col. commandant 8 Dec. 1847 to death; general 16 Jany. 1859. d. Stoke-by-Nayland, Colchester 1 Feb. 1868 aged 87.

FORBES, William. b. 1806; M.P. for Stirlingshire 1835–38 and 1841 to death. d. Callander house near Stirling 10 Feb. 1855.

FORBES, William Alexander (2 son of John Staats Forbes). b. Cheltenham 24 June 1855; educ. Kensington sch. and Winchester coll.; studied at Edin. univ. 1873 and univ. coll. London 1875–76; matric. St. John’s coll. Cam. 1876, fellow; prosector to Zoological soc. of London, Dec. 1879 to death; lectured on comparative anatomy Charing Cross hospital medical sch.; wrote on the muscular structure and voice organs of birds; travelled in Pernambuco 1880 and in tropical Africa 1882 to investigate the fauna; author of The collected papers of A. H. Garrod 1881. d. Shonga on the Niger 14 Jany. 1883. bur. Wickham, Kent 1 April 1884. F. E. Beddard’s Collected Papers of W. A. Forbes (1885).

FORBES, William Nairn (6 son of John Forbes of Blackford, co. Aberdeen). b. Blackford 3 April 1796; ed. at King’s coll. old Aberdeen, univ. of Edin. and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 1816, col. 1 Aug. 1854 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; superintendent of mint machinery at Calcutta 1823; master of Calcutta mint 3 Feb. 1836 to death; built cathedral at Calcutta 1839–47; M.I.C.E. 1828. d. on board the ‘Oriental’ off the island of Tibble Teer on his way to England 1 May 1855. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx, 138–40 (1861).

FORBES-LESLIE, Jonathan (youngest son of John Forbes of Blackford). b. 1798; ensign 78 foot 19 Jany. 1814, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 10 Dec. 1847 when he retired from the army; author of Eleven years in Ceylon 2 vols. 1840; Recent disturbances and military executions in Ceylon 1850; assumed name of Leslie after Forbes 1861. d. Rothienorman, Aberdeenshire 23 Dec. 1877. Leslie’s Family of Leslie (1869) iii, 320.

FORD, Charles Erskine. b. 5 Jany. 1812; 2 lieut. R.E. 29 April 1829, col. 11 Oct. 1863, col. commandant 1 Oct. 1877 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. Hampton court palace 27 July 1884.

FORD, Rev. David Everard (son of Rev. David Ford, congregational minister). b. Long Melford, Suffolk 13 Sep. 1797; congregational minister at Lymington, Hants. 1821–1841; visited stations of congregational union 1841–43; minister of Richmond chapel, Manchester 1843, resigned 1858; author of Decapolis, or the individual obligation of christians to save souls 1840, fifth American ed. 1848; Chorazin 1841; Damascus 1842; Laodicea 1844 and Alarm in Zion 1848; published music for psalms and hymns 1825–29 and Rudiments of music 1843. d. Bedford 23 Oct. 1875.

FORD, Richard (eld. son of Sir Richard Ford, chief police magistrate of London, who d. 3 May 1806 aged 47). b. Sloane st. London April 1796; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; resided in Spain 1830–34; settled at Heavitree near Exeter 1834; contributed to Quarterly Review 1836–57; author of A handbook for travellers in Spain and readers at home 2 vols. 1845, new ed. 2 vols. 1861; Gatherings from Spain 1846, new ed. 1861; had a fine collection of majolica ware. d. Heavitree 1 Sep. 1858. Times 4 Sep. 1858 p. 6, col. 5; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 223–6 (1854); Fraser’s Mag. Oct. 1858 pp. 422–4.

FORD, William (eld. son of Rev. Richard Wilbraham Ford, R. of Little Risington, Gloucs.) b. 4 May 1812; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., fellow; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; admitted solicitor 1836; partner in firm of Ranken and Co. London 1837; member of council of Incorporated Law Society 1860–76, vice pres. 1869–70, pres. 1870–71. d. Majori, South Italy 10 Jany. 1889.

FORDHAM, George (son of James Fordham). b. Cambridge 11 Sep. 1837; trained under R. Drewitt and E. Smith, and commenced his career at Brighton 1850; at the head of list of winning jockeys 1855–63, won 165 races 1862; won the Oaks 5 times, the Cambridgeshire 4 times, the Ascot cup 5 times, the 2000 guineas 3 times, the 1000 guineas 7 times; won the Derby on Sir Bevys 1879, won the Grand prix de Paris 1867, 1868 and 1881, the French Derby 1861 and 1868, the French Oaks 1880; known as “the demon.” d. Slough 12 Oct. 1887. Baily’s Mag. iii, 183–8 (1861) xlviii, 277–9 (1888); Illust. sporting news ii, 301 (1863), portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news i, 16 (1874), portrait, 24 May 1884, portrait; Sporting Mirror ii, 37–40 (1881), portrait.

FORDYCE, Alexander Dingwall. b. Aberdeen 4 March 1800; entered navy 12 June 1813; commander on h.p. 3 Sep. 1841; retired captain 14 July 1857; M.P. for Aberdeen 1847–52; author of Outlines of naval routine 1837. d. Aberdeen 16 July 1864. Naval and military gazette 30 July 1864 p. 483.

FORDYCE, Charles Francis. b. 19 Dec. 1819; ensign 41 foot 17 Feb. 1838; major 47 foot 1852–55; A.Q.M.G. Canada 1855–57; military sec. to governor of Madras 1866–71, private sec. 1871–72; col. second battalion Gloucestershire regiment 7 Aug. 1884 to death; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Hayford, Torquay 23 Sep. 1887.

FORDYCE, George Dingwall (brother of Alexander Dingwall Fordyce). b. 1808; advocate 1832, advocate depute; sheriff of Sutherland and Caithness 14 Aug. 1857 to 1875. d. Forres st. Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1875.

FORDYCE, John. b. Ayton, Berwickshire; ensign 34 foot 18 Dec. 1828; lieut. col. 74 foot 10 July 1846 to death; killed in the action of Waterkloof, Caffraria 6 Nov. 1851. The Christian Soldier 1856; W. R. King’s Campaigning in Kaffirland (1853) p. 146, view of his death.

FORDYCE, Sir John (son of James Fordyce). b. 4 March 1806; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 10 May 1822, col. commandant 5 April 1873 to death; L.G. 21 Jany. 1872; K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Colne house, Earl’s Colne, Essex 26 Feb. 1877.

FORDYCE, William Dingwall. b. Rubilaw cottage, Aberdeen 31 March 1836; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1859; advocate 1862; M.P. for Aberdeenshire 1866–68, for East Aberdeenshire 1868 to death. d. Brucklay Castle near Aberdeen 27 Nov. 1875.

FORESTER, John George Weld, 2 Baron (eld. child of 1 Baron Forester 1767–1828). b. Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 9 Aug. 1801; M.P. for Wenlock 1826–28; captain of corps of gentlemen-at-arms 1841–46; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841; master of the Belvoir fox hounds 1830–58. d. Willey park, Broseley, Shropshire 10 Oct. 1874. Baily’s Mag. xii, 163–5 (1867), portrait.

FORESTER, George Cecil Weld Forester, 3 Baron (brother of the preceding). b. Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 10 May 1807; ed. at Westminster; cornet Royal horse guards 27 May 1824, lieut. col. 2 Sep. 1853 to 30 Sep. 1859; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. for Wenlock 1828–74; controller of the household, March to Dec. 1852 and Feb. 1858 to July 1859. d. 3 Carlton gardens, London 14 Feb. 1886.

FORMBY, Rev. Henry (2 son of Henry Greenhalgh Formby of Bury, Lancs. 1789–1834). b. 1816; ed. at Clitheroe gr. sch. Charterhouse and Brasenose coll. Ox.; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1841; V. of Ruardean, Gloucs. 1844; received into R.C. church at St. Mary’s college, Oscott 24 Jany. 1846; ordained priest at Oscott 18 Sep. 1847; priest at St. Chads, Birmingham and Wednesbury successively; resided at Dominican priory of St. Peter, Hinckley, Leics. about 1865 to death; edited for some years The monthly magazine of the Holy Rosary, n.s. 1873, &c.; author of A visit to the East 1843 and 40 other books. d. Normanton hall, Leics. 12 March 1884. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 309–13 (1885).

FORREST, Sir James, 1 Baronet (son of James Forrest of Edinburgh, writer to the signet 1744–1820). b. 16 Oct. 1780; advocate 1803; lord provost of Edinburgh 1838; created a baronet 7 Aug. 1838; a ruling elder of established church of Scotland to 1843 when he joined the free church; grand master of grand lodge of freemasons in Scotland. d. Plymouth 5 April 1860.

FORREST, Robert. b. Carluke, Lanarkshire 1790; a stonemason in Clydesdale quarries; cut colossal figure of first Viscount Melville in centre of St. Andrew sq. Edinburgh; sculptor of statues of John Knox in Glasgow necropolis, and of Mr. Ferguson of Raith at Haddington 1843; opened his public exhibition of statuary on the Calton hill, Edinburgh 1832. d. Edinburgh 29 Dec. 1852. W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation iii, 710 (1863); Georgian Era iv, 180 (1834).

FORREST, Thomas. b. Burnwynd, Wilkieston, Midlothian 1805; studied under W. H. Lizars in Edinburgh; line engraver; many of his plates were published by Royal Assoc. for promotion of fine arts in Scotland; gave a complete set of his works 160 in number to Royal Scottish Academy 1884. d. Edinburgh. 15 Oct. 1889.

FORRESTER, Alfred Henry (son of Robert Forrester of 5 North gate, royal exchange, London, public notary). b. London 10 Sep. 1804; apprentice to a notary in the city; connected with his brother Charles Robert Forrester (who d. 15 Jany. 1850 aged 47) in business about 1825–39; illustrated several of his brother’s books in which the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill was conjointly used by writer and artist, but afterwards it was used by the artist alone; contributed sketches to vols. 2, 3 and 4 of Punch 1842–3; member of staff of Illustrated London News from 1843; wrote and illustrated A. Crowquill’s Guide to watering places 1839 and 25 other books; illustrated wholly or partly Ups and Downs 1823 and 32 other books. d. 3 Portland place north, Clapham road, London 26 May 1872. Everitt’s English caricaturists (1886) 194, 368–71, 410; Illustrated Review 15 June 1872 pp. 737–42, portrait; Bentley’s Miscellany (1846) xix, 87, 99, portrait.

FORRESTER, Henry, stage name of Henry Frost. b. Capel near Dorking 9 April 1827; became an actor 1855; first appeared in London at Marylebone theatre as Korac in Zembuca 18 Dec. 1858; acted at Sadler’s Wells 1861–64, at Princess’s, Victoria, Surrey, Royalty, Lyceum; played Iago at Lyceum 14 Feb. 1876; played Daniel Druce in the provinces more than 300 times. d. Capel house, South Lambeth, London 9 April 1882. Illust. sp. and dr. news v, 31–3 (1876).

FORRESTER, Joseph James, Baron de Forrester. b. Hull 27 May 1809; merchant and wine shipper at Oporto 1831 to death; surveyed river Douro with a view to improvement of its navigation, and published a map of it 1848, adopted by Portuguese government as a national work; author of A word or two on port wine 1844, anon., 8 editions, for which he received addresses of thanks from 102 parishes of the Upper Douro; Oliveira Prize essay on Portugal 1853, 2 ed. 1854; created Baron de Forrester for life by Queen of Portugal; F.S.A. 1 May 1856; drowned in the river Douro near a rapid called the Ponto do Cachuo 12 May 1861. Memorials of Star club of London vol. 1 (1855).

FORSAYETH, Thomas (son of Rev. John Forsayeth of Cork). b. Cork 1798; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar, Jany. 1824; went Munster circuit; recorder of Cork 1844 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1858. d. Merville, Queenstown, co. Cork 13 Oct. 1877. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 408.

FORSHALL, Rev. Josiah (eld. son of Samuel Forshall of Witney, Oxon.) b. Witney 29 March 1795; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., fell. of his coll. 30 June 1819 to 13 July 1826, assistant tutor 1820, tutor 1822–24; B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; assist. keeper of MSS. in British Museum 1824, keeper 1827 to July 1837, secretary Feb. 1828–51; F.R.S. 12 June 1828; chaplain of Foundling Hospital 1829–59; edited Catalogue of Arundel and Burney manuscripts in British Museum 1834 and other catalogues; published Gospel of St. John arranged 1859, and other books; published with Sir F. Madden The Holy Bible ... in the earliest English versions made by John Wycliffe 4 vols. 1850. d. 49 Woburn place, London 18 Dec. 1863. R. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1872) 364–76.

FORSTER, Rev. Charles. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; P.C. of Ash, Kent 1834–38; one of the six preachers in Canterbury cathedral 1835 to death; R. of Stisted near Braintree, Essex 1838 to death; author of Discourses on subjects of Scripture history 1823; The life of J. Jebb, bishop of Limerick 1836; The one primeval language 1851 and other books. d. Stisted rectory 20 Aug. 1871 aged 84. Braintree Advertiser 30 Aug. 1871 p. 2.

FORSTER, Frank. b. near Newcastle 1800; managed mines near Swansea, also in Lancs.; assistant of Robert Stephenson in his chief enterprises up to completion of Chester and Holyhead railway on which he was resident engineer of portion from near Conway to Holyhead; chief engineer to Metropolitan commission of sewers from its formation 1849 to 1852; M.I.C.E. 1845. d. Elm lodge, Kilburn, London 13 April 1852. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 157 (1853).

FORSTER, Sir George, 2 Baronet. b. Baronstown Glebe, co. Louth 21 March 1796; called to bar in Ireland 1830; succeeded 4 Dec. 1843; M.P. for co. Monaghan 1852–65. d. Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 4 April 1876.

FORSTER, Rev. Henry (youngest son of Thomas Forster of St. Michael’s, Oxford). Matric. from New coll. Ox. 17 Nov. 1827 aged 18; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1834; esquire bedel in divinity in Univ. of Ox., Feb. 1832 to death when the office expired. d. Oxford 25 April 1857.

FORSTER, John (eld. child of Robert Forster of Newcastle, cattle dealer, who d. 1836). b. Newcastle 2 April 1812; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch. and Univ. coll. London; student at I.T. 10 Nov. 1828, barrister 27 Jany. 1843; dramatic critic on the True Sun 1832; edited Foreign quarterly review 1842–3; edited Daily News 9 Feb. 1846 to Oct. 1846; edited Examiner 1847 to Dec. 1855; sec. to Lunacy commission 28 Dec. 1855 to Feb. 1861, comr. in Lunacy, Feb. 1861 to 1872; painted by Maclise as Kitely in Ben Jonson’s Every man in his humour; bequeathed his collection of pictures, books, &c. to South Kensington Museum; author of Lives of the statesmen of the Commonwealth 5 vols. 1836–9; The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith 1848, new ed. 2 vols. 1854; Life of Charles Dickens 3 vols. 1872–4 and many other books. d. Palace gate, Kensington 1 Feb. 1876. Catalogue of the Forster library (1888) i-xxii; Handbook of Forster and Dyce collections (1877) 1–21; Monthly Chronicle of north country lore, Feb. 1888 pp. 49–54; Madden’s Life of Countess of Blessington (1855) ii, 396–405; T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors (1851) 193–200; E. Yates’s Recollections (1884) ii, 161–3; G.M., n.s. xvi, 313–19 (1876); Temple Bar xlvi, 491–505 (1876); I.L.N. vii, 329 (1845), portrait; Graphic xiii, 179, 182, 188 (1876), portrait.

FORSTER, John. b. 1817; M.P. for Berwick 1853–57. d. 91 Victoria st. London 7 Jany. 1878.

FORSTER, John Cooper (son of Mr. Forster of Lambeth, surgeon). b. Mount st. Lambeth 13 Nov. 1823; ed. at King’s coll. sch. and Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1844, F.R.C.S. 1849, pres. 1884–5; M.B. London 1847; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1850, assistant surgeon 1855, surgeon 1870–80; retired from practice 1885; the first to perform operation of gastrotomy in England 1858; author of The surgical diseases of children 1860, papers in Pathological and Clinical Society’s Transactions and reports of cases in Guy’s Hospital Reports. d. 29 Upper Grosvenor st. London 2 March 1886. Guy’s Hospital Reports vol. xiv, 40–57 (1887).

FORSTER, Thomas Bowes. Entered Madras army 1818; col. 9 Madras N.I. 13 April 1855 to 1869; L.G. 3 July 1867. d. Burder Titley, Herefordshire 21 March 1870.

FORSTER, Thomas Emerson. b. Garrigill Gate, Northumberland 1802; resident viewer at Walker colliery, Northumberland 1823; engineer at Newcastle 1846 to death; M.I.C.E. 16 Feb. 1836; pres. of north of England institute of mining engineers 1866–68. d. Ellison place, Newcastle 7 March 1875. Transactions of north of England institute of mining engineers, xxv, 5–10 (1876); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xliii, 300–303 (1876).

FORSTER, Thomas Ignatius Maria (eld. son of Thomas Furley Forster of Bishopsgate, London, Russia merchant 1761–1825). b. Bank of England, Threadneedle st. 9 Nov. 1789; studied at C.C. coll. Cam., M.B. 1818; left Cambridge for Edinburgh, Feb. 1816; discovered a comet 3 July 1819; joined Church of Rome about 1823; founded with Gompertz the Animals’ Friend Society 1833; F.L.S. 1811; F.R.A.S.; author of Observations on the brumal retreat of the swallow 1808, 5 ed. 1817; Researches about atmospheric phenomena 1813, 3 ed. 1823 and 44 other books. d. Brussels 2 Feb. 1860. Epistolarium Forsterianum 2 vols. Bruges 1845–50, privately printed; Recueil de ma vie, mes ouvrages, et mes pensÉes, opuscule philosophique, 3 ed. Brussels 1837.

FORSTER, William (son of Mr. Forster of Tottenham, land agent). b. Tottenham 23 March 1784; minister of Society of Friends 1805; resided at Bradpole, Dorset 1816, afterwards at Norwich; spent 5 years on a mission to United States 1820–25; investigated condition of people in Ireland, Nov. 1846 to April 1847; presented an anti-slavery address to president of United States 1 Oct. 1853; author of A Christian exhortation to sailors 1813; Recent intelligence from Van Diemen’s Land 1831; A Salutation of Christian love 1860. d. at house of Samuel Low near the Holston river, East Tennessee 27 Jany. 1854. Memoirs of life of W. Forster edited by B. Seebohm 2 vols. 1865; Brief memoir of W. Forster by R. Charlton 1867.

FORSTER, William Edward (only child of the preceding). b. Bradpole, Dorset 11 July 1818; ed. at the Friend’s sch. Tottenham 1832–5; woollen manufacturer at Bradford with Wm. Fison 1842 to death; left Society of Friends 1850; contested Leeds, April 1859; M.P. for Bradford, Feb. 1861 to 1885, for central division of Bradford, Nov. 1885 to death; under sec. of state for colonies 25 Nov. 1865 to July 1866; P.C. 9 Dec. 1868; vice pres. of committee of council on education 16 Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874; lord rector of Aberdeen Univ., installed 24 Nov. 1876; presented with freedom of city of Aberdeen 27 Nov. 1876; admitted to freedom of Clothworkers’ Co. 5 June 1877; chief sec. of state for Ireland, April 1880 to May 1882. d. 80 Eccleston sq. London 5 April 1886. bur. at Burley-in-Wharfedale. Life of W. E. Forster, By T. W. Reid 1888, 2 portraits; Illustrated Review vi, 279–81; Alpine Journal, May 1886; I.L.N. xlviii, 313 (1866), portrait, lxxvii, 112 (1881), portrait.

FORSTER, William Frederick. Ensign 3 footguards 26 Aug. 1813; captain 97 foot 18 Aug. 1825 to 18 Feb. 1826 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general 27 Feb. 1855 to 1 July 1860; military sec. to Duke of Cambridge, commander in chief 1 July 1860 to 1 Nov. 1871; colonel 81 foot 12 Feb. 1863 to death; general 6 Jany. 1874; K.H. 1833. d. 7 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 8 June 1879 aged 80.

FORSYTH, James. b. 1838; entered Indian civil service; settlement officer and deputy comr. of Nimar; captain Bengal staff corps; author of The sporting rifle and its projectiles 1863; The highlands of Central India, notes on their forests and wild tribes, natural history and sports 1871. d. 38 Manchester st. Manchester sq. London 1 May 1871.

FORSYTH, Sir John. Inspector general medical department, Bengal army 12 Nov. 1857; hon. phys. to the Queen 6 Sep. 1861 to death; C.B. 29 Aug. 1862; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1881. d. 51 Selborne road, West Brighton 14 Jany. 1883 in 84 year.

FORSYTH, Sir Thomas Douglas (10 child of Thomas Forsyth of Liverpool, merchant). b. Birkenhead 7 Oct. 1827; ed. at Sherborne, Rugby and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1848; deputy comr. Umballa 1857; officiating comr. in Punjab 1860; comr. of Lahore 1863, of Jullundur 1865, of Umballa 1871, of Oudh 1872; additional member of governor general’s council 1874; envoy on special mission to Burma 1875, retired 1878; C.B. 1860; K.C.S.I. 27 July 1874. d. Eastbourne 17 Dec. 1886.

FORSYTH, William (son of Morris Forsyth of Turriff, Aberdeenshire). b. Turriff 24 Oct. 1818; ed. at Univs. of Aberdeen and Edin.; assistant to a country doctor; sub-editor of the Inverness Courier 1842; sub editor of Aberdeen Herald 1843; joined staff of Aberdeen Journal 1848, editor 1849 to death; member of Aberdeen school board; author of The martyrdom of Kelavane 1861; Idylls and Lyrics 1872 and other books. d. Richmond hill, Aberdeen 21 June 1879. Memoir of W. Forsyth, By A. Walker (1882).

FORT, Richard. b. Oakenshaw, Lancs. 15 March 1822; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Lancs. 1854; contested Clitheroe 1853, M.P. for Clitheroe 1865–68. d. 24 Queen’s gate gardens, London 2 July 1868.

FORTESCUE, Hugh Fortescue, 2 Earl (eld. child of 1 Earl Fortescue 1753–1841). b. 13 Feb. 1783; styled Viscount Ebrington 1789–1841; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1810; M.P. for Barnstaple 1804–7, for St. Mawes 1807–9, for Buckingham 1812–17, for Devon 1818–20, 1830 and 1831–32, for Tavistock 1820–30, for North Devon 15 Dec. 1832 to 1 March 1839 when summoned to House of Peers in his father’s barony of Fortescue; col. of 1 Devon militia 20 May 1816 to death; F.R.S. 5 June 1817; lord lieut. of Ireland 1 March 1839 to 15 Sep. 1841; P.C. 1 March 1839; lord lieut. of Devon 1839 to death; lord steward of H.M.’s household 1846–50; parliamentary sec. of Poor law board 1847–51; K.G. 12 July 1856; author of Memorandum of two conversations between Napoleon and Viscount Ebrington 1814. d. at house of H. Ford, 25 Southernhay, Exeter 14 Sep. 1861. Saunders’s Portraits of Reformers (1840) 135, portrait; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 349–52.

FORTESCUE, George Matthew (brother of the preceding). b. Hill st. London 21 May 1791; ed. at Eton and Univ. of Edin.; M.P. for Hindon, Wilts. 1827–32. d. Boconnoc near Lostwithiel, Cornwall 24 Jany. 1877.

FORTESCUE, John William (2 son of 2 Earl Fortescue 1783–1861). b. 14 July 1819; M.P. for Barnstaple 1847–52. d. Madeira 25 Sep. 1859.

FORTESCUE, Matthew (son of Joseph Fortescue of the Scots Greys). b. 18 May 1805; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; special pleader; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1839; judge of county court’s circuit No. 58 (Devonshire) 8 Oct. 1857 to death. d. Oak park house, Dawlish 27 March 1883.

FORTUNE, Robert. b. Kelloe, Edrom, Berwickshire 16 Sep. 1813; superintendent of indoor-plant department in Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Chiswick, sent to China by the Society as collector 1842; curator of Chelsea botanical garden 1846–8; introduced tea-plant into north-west provinces of India 1851; author of Three years’ wanderings in the northern provinces of China 1847; Two visits to the tea countries of China and the British plantations in the Himalayas 2 vols. 1853 and other books. d. 1 Gilston road, South Kensington, London 13 April 1880. Field and Semple’s Memoirs of botanic garden at Chelsea (1878) 205–8.

FOSS, Edward (eld. son of Edward Smith Foss of 36 Essex st. Strand, London, solicitor, who d. 13 May 1830 aged 74). b. Gough sq. Fleet st. London 16 Oct. 1787; articled to his father 1804, partner with him 1811–30; student of Inner Temple 1822; under sheriff of London 1827–8; retired from practice 1840; F.S.A. 18 April 1822; one of founders of Incorporated Law Society 1827, pres. 1842–44; published The grandeur of the law 1843; The judges of England 9 vols. 1848–64; TabulÆ Curiales 1865; Biographia Juridica 1870. d. Frensham house, Addiscombe 27 July 1870. Foss’ Biographia Juridica (1870) pp. xii-xv.

FOSTER, Charles James. b. Bicester, Oxfordshire 24 Nov. 1820; went to United States 1847; edited Woodruff’s Trotting horses of America 1868, 2 ed. 1875, also Bogardus’s Field cover and trap shooting 1874; wrote for The Spirit of the times paper; established the New York Sportsman 1876; considered the best informed man in America on subject of racing. d. Astoria, New York 12 Sep. 1883.

FOSTER, Edward Ward (son of Edward Foster, land steward to Sir R. Burdett). b. in parish of All Saints, Derby 8 Nov. 1762; lieut. 20 regt. of foot; served in America, Holland and Egypt; retired 1805; miniature painter to the royal family with apartments in Round tower, Windsor; exhibited 22 landscapes at R.A. 1812–28; travelled in England as a portrait painter; invented machine for taking faces; author of An elementary grammar of French language 1837; A chronological analysis of the Old and New Testament 1850; Chart of Histories of Rome, France and Britain 1835; Chronological Chart of History of British Empire 1847; had grant of £60 a year from Bounty fund. d. Derby 12 March 1865. J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire Gatherings (1866) 81–4, portrait.

FOSTER, James Lancelot. b. York; edited Yorkshire Gazette, manager and publisher of it 1852–82; sheriff of York 1870–71. d. 15 Ogleforth, York 3 Dec. 1883 in 74 year.

FOSTER, John (son of Jonas Foster, yeoman). b. Thornton, Yorkshire 20 Jany. 1798; established a worsted business at Low Fold near Queensbury 1819; removed to Cannon Mill, Great Horton 1832; built the Blackdike mill 1835; introduced power-looms into his works 1836; commenced using alpaca wool and mohair 1837; employed 3000 people and manufactured 15,000 packs of wool a year; retired 1869; purchased Hornby castle estate, Lancaster 1861. d. Prospect house, Queensbury 6 March 1879. Fortunes made in business ii, 1–107 (1881), portrait.

FOSTER, John Frederic (son of Rev. Dr. Frederick Wm. Foster, Moravian bishop). b. Wyke near Halifax, Yorkshire 1795; ed. at a Moravian coll. and Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1821; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; stipendiary mag. of Manchester, Aug. 1825 to April 1838; chairman of quarter sessions of hundred of Salford 9 April 1838 to death; recorder of Manchester 18 April 1839, resigned May. d. Alderley, Cheshire 9 April 1858. G.M. iv, 559–60 (1858); Illust. news of the world ii, 117 (1858), portrait.

FOSTER, Peter Le Neve (only son of Peter Le Neve Foster of Lenwade, Norfolk). b. Lenwade 17 Aug. 1809; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Trin. hall, Cam., fellow 1830; 38 wrangler 1830; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1836; practised as a conveyancer 1836–53; sec. to Society of Arts 1853 to death; a founder of Photographic Soc. of London 1853; pres. of Quekett Microscopical Club; sec. of mechanical science section of British Association 13 years; author of Photography 1876. d. East hill, Wandsworth, London 21 Feb. 1879. Journal of Soc. of Arts (1879) xxvii, 316; I.L.N. lxxiv, 224 (1879), portrait.

FOSTER, Thomas. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Sep. 1815, col. commandant 8 Feb. 1866 to death; general 8 June 1871. d. 5 Cleveland terrace, Hyde park, London 26 Aug. 1872 aged 76.

FOSTER, Thomas Campbell (son of John Foster, proprietor and editor of Leeds Patriot paper). b. Knaresbro’, Yorkshire 6 Oct. 1813; sub-editor of Liverpool Standard; reporter for The Times in Houses of Parliament; made enquiries into the Rebecca riots and other important questions for The Times; special pleader 1842; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1846, bencher Jany. 1878; contested Sheffield 13 July 1865; revising barrister for west riding of Yorkshire 1868–75; recorder of Warwick 23 Dec. 1874 to death; Q.C. 25 June 1875; author of Letters on the condition of the people of Ireland 1845; Treatise on the writ of Scire Facias 1851 and other books. d. 30 Orsett terrace, Hyde park, London 1 July 1882. Biograph vol. 1 (1882) pp. 293–326.

FOSTER, Sir William, 1 Baronet (younger son of Wm. Foster of Norwich 1762–1821). b. 16 June 1798; attorney at Norwich 1820 to death; alderman of Norwich to death, sheriff 1832, mayor 1844; created baronet 3 Aug. 1838. d. St. Giles’s st. Norwich 2 Dec. 1874.

FOTHERGILL, John Milner (son of Mr. Fothergill of Morland, Westmoreland, surgeon). b. Morland 11 April 1841; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1865; practised at Morland, then at Leeds; M.R.C.P. 1872; phys. in London 1872 to death; author of Digitalis, its modes of action and its uses 1871; The heart and its diseases with their treatment 1872, 2 ed. 1879 and 20 other books. d. 3 Henrietta st. Cavendish sq. London 28 June 1888. Midland medical miscellany ii, 161–2 (1883), portrait.

FOULKES, Rev. Henry (2 son of John Foulkes of Henllan, Denbighshire 1736–1814). Matric. from Jesus coll. Ox. 10 July 1790 aged 17; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797, B.D. 1804, D.D. 1817; fellow of Jesus coll. to 1817, principal 1817 to death; R. of Yelford, Oxon. 1815 to death; R. of Besselsleigh, Berks. and of Llandyssil, Cardigan 1817 to death. d. Jesus college 17 Sep. 1857.

FOULKES, William Decimus Inglett (youngest son of Rev. Peter Foulkes, V. of Shebbear, Devon). Ed. at Bedford gr. sch.; barrister M.T. 6 June 1871; a reporter on The Law Journal Reports 1875; edited The Law Journal newspaper 1879 to death; author of An elementary view of the proceedings in an action in the supreme court 1876, 3 ed. 1884; A Generation of Judges. By Their Reporter 1886; author with J. M. Lely of The Judicature acts ... with notes 1875, 4 ed. 1883 and other books. d. 25 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 17 Feb. 1890 in 42 year.

FOUNTAIN, Joseph. Theatrical artist at Leeds many years; the pioneer of the now extensive industry of designing and printing theatrical posters. d. 31 Brunswick terrace, Leeds 11 Oct. 1887 in 60 year.

FOURACRES, Charles. b. Devonshire; enlisted in 1st Madras fusiliers; sub-engineer Godavery Delta irrigation works; engaged on Sone irrigation works 1869, resigned 1879; invented an excavator for which government gave him 10,000 rupees; invented the hydraulic-brake shutter for the Sone weir and the vertical-action bucket steam dredger 1878; engineer of the Seebpur engineering factory Calcutta 1879, retired 1884 when he was awarded a bonus of 15,000 rupees; M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1879. d. Bristol 14 July 1884. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii, 418–24 (1884).

FOURDRINIER, Henry. b. Lombard st. London 11 Feb. 1766; succeeded his father as a paper maker and wholesale stationer; patented with his brother Sealy (who d. 1847) invention of paper making machine 1801, perfected their machine for making continuous paper 1807; became bankrupt 1810; £7000 voted by Parliament to Messrs. Fourdrinier as compensation for their loss by defective state of law of patents 8 May 1840. d. Mavesyn, Rydware, Staffs. 3 Sep. 1854. G.M. xliv, 102–103 (1855); I.L.N. xxv, 345, 354 (1854), portrait.

FOWKE, Francis. b. Belfast, July 1823; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1842, captain 17 Feb. 1854 to death; inspector of Science and Art department, London 1857, architect and engineer to same department; sec. to English commission attached to Paris exhibition 1855–57; designed Museum of science and art, Edinburgh, opened 19 May 1866; planned buildings for International Exhibition 1862; Albert hall was chiefly designed by him; author of A description of the buildings at South Kensington for the reception of the Sheepshanks pictures 1858; Some account of the buildings designed for the International Exhibition of 1862, 1861. d. The Museum, South Kensington 4 Dec. 1865, bust by Woolner in the Museum. Papers on professional subjects, Corps. of R.E. xxv, 9; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx, 468–70 (1866); I.L.N. xl, 431, 433 (1862), portrait.

FOWKE, Sir Frederick Gustavus, 1 Baronet (3 son of Sir Thomas Fowke, knt., who d. 30 Nov. 1786). b. 24 Jany. 1782; created baronet 7 Feb. 1814. d. Leamington 17 May 1856.

FOWLER, Charles. b. Collumpton 17 May 1792; apprentice to a builder at Exeter; erected court of bankruptcy, Basinghall st. London; gained first premium in a design for London bridge 1822; rebuilt Covent Garden market 1829–30; built Hungerford market opened July 1833; restored Powderham castle, Devon; built churches at Charmouth, Buckley and Honiton and Devon county lunatic asylum at Exminster 1845. d. Great Marlow 26 Sep. 1867. Pycroft’s Art in Devon (1883) p. 45.

FOWLER, Frank. Lecturer in Willis’ rooms, London; engaged on a London daily paper; lecturer in Sydney 1855; started the Month, first respectable magazine in Sydney, July 1857 last issue Dec. 1858; contested Sydney for legislative assembly receiving 2000 votes; edited a London newspaper; founded The Library Co. London 1860, sec. of it to death; author of Southern lights and shadows 1859 and other books. d. Oakley cottage, Hammersmith 22 Aug. 1863 aged 30. Frank Fowler’s Last Gleanings (1864) pp. vii-xvii.

FOWLER, George. Formerly of Collumpton; author of Three years in Russia 2 vols. 1841; Lives of the sovereigns of Russia 1858; Turkey, a history of the Ottoman empire 1854; History of the war between Turkey and Russia 1855; Mary Markland the cottager’s daughter, 2 ed. 1861. d. Victoria terrace, Bayswater, London 20 April 1858.

FOWLER, John. b. Melksham, Wiltshire 11 July 1826; entered works of Gilke, Wilson & Co. at Middlesbrough 1847; drained Hainault Forest, Essex by use of his patent drainage plough about 1851; invented with Jeremiah Head a steam plough which gained prize of £500 at Chester show of Royal Agricultural Society 1858; invented double engine tackle 1860; established with Kitson and Hewitson, manufacturing works at Hunslet, Leeds 1860. d. Ackworth, Yorkshire 4 Dec. 1864. Trans. of Soc. of Engineers for 1868 pp. 299–318; Practical Mag. (1875) 257–62, portrait.

FOWLER, Sir John Dickenson. Solicitor, High Bailiff of Burton upon Trent 1818; knighted by Prince Regent at Beaudesert 8 Nov. 1818 but never gazetted. d. Burton 5 Feb. 1839 aged 70 but name remained in Knightages to 1864.

FOWLER, Lydia. b. Nantucket, Massachusetts 1823; a graduate of Syracuse medical college; the first female professor of obstetrics in America; lived in London 1863 to death; author of Familiar lessons on phrenology and physiology 1847; Familiar lessons on astronomy 1848; The pet of the household and how to save it 1865; Heart melodies, poems 1870 and 14 other books. (m. Lorenzo Niles Fowler of London, phrenologist). d. 62 St. Augustine’s road, Camden sq. London 26 Jany. 1879.

FOWLER, Richard. b. London 28 Nov. 1765; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1793; L.C.P. London 1796; practised at Salisbury from 1796; phys. to Salisbury infirmary 1796–1841; F.R.S. 1 April 1802; purchased and endowed ground for Salisbury and South Wiltshire museum to which he gave a large part of his books and collections 1862; author of Some Observations on the mental state of the blind and deaf and dumb, Salisbury 1843, 2 ed. 1860; An attempt to detect the physiological process by which thinking is effected, Salisbury 1849, 2 ed. 1852. d. Milford near Salisbury 13 April 1863 having attained a greater age than had any other member of the Royal Coll. of Phys. from its foundation. Proc. of Royal Soc. xiii, pp. iii-v (1864); Munk’s Roll, 2 ed. vol. ii, p. 447.

FOX, Caroline (2 dau. of Robert Were Fox 1789–1877). b. Falmouth 24 May 1819; kept a journal from 1835 to 1871 which has rendered her celebrated; friend of John Sterling, John Stuart Mill and other eminent men. d. Penjerrick near Falmouth 12 Jany. 1871. Memories of old friends, extracts from journals of Caroline Fox 1835 to 1871, ed. by H. N. Pym 1881, portrait, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1882.

FOX, Sir Charles (youngest son of Francis Fox of Derby, physician). b. Derby 11 March 1810; assistant engineer on London and Birmingham railway 1830–35; a civil and consulting engineer in London 1857 to death; introduced the switch into railway practice 1838; erected with John Henderson the building for Great Exhibition in Hyde Park 1850–1; erected Crystal Palace, Sydenham 1852–54; carried out the East Kent and other railways; erected bridges over Thames at Barnes, Richmond, and Staines and many other large bridges; M.I.C.E. 13 Jany. 1838; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct. 1851. d. Blackheath, Kent 14 June 1874. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 264–6 (1875); Graphic ix, 15, 17 (1874), portrait; Practical Mag. vi, 129–33, portrait.

FOX, Charles (7 son of Robert Were Fox of Falmouth). b. Falmouth 22 Dec. 1797; partner in firm of G. C. and R. W. Fox and Co. merchants, Falmouth; partner in Perran foundry co., manager 1824–47; one of founders of royal Cornwall polytechnic soc. 1833, pres. 1871–72; with Sir Charles Lemon introduced man engines into Cornish mines 1842; pres. of Miners’ Association of Cornwall and Devon 1861–63; pres. of royal geological soc. of Cornwall 1864–67. d. Trebah near Falmouth 18 April 1878. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 160–61, 1186; Joseph Foster’s Descendants of Francis Fox (1872) 11.

FOX, Charles Richard (natural son of 3 Baron Holland 1773–1840). b. 6 Nov. 1796; in the navy 1809–13; ensign Grenadier guards 1815, captain 1830 to 1836 when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the Sovereign 1832–1846; surveyor general of Ordnance 5 Dec. 1832 to 12 Jany. 1835; general 6 March 1863; col. of 57 foot 5 Sep. 1865 to death; M.P. for Calne, Wilts. 1831–32, for Tavistock 1832–34, for Stroud 1835, for Tower Hamlets 1841–47; had finest private collection of Greek coins in the world, purchased by Royal Museum at Berlin 1873. d. 1 Addison road, Kensington, London 13 April 1873. Numismatic Chronicle xiv, 16–19 (1874); Waagen’s Galleries of Art (1857) 232–4; I.L.N. lxii, 393, 451 (1873).

FOX, Ebenezer. b. England; chief reporter on the Manchester Guardian several years; went to Dunedin, New Zealand; on staff of Otago Daily Times 1862; confidential clerk and secretary to treasury New Zealand 1870 to death; wrote articles in New Zealand Times on denudation of the forests which attracted much attention. d. Wellington, Jany. 1886.

FOX, Edward. Author of Poetical Tentatives, By Lynn Erith 1854; Pleasure paths of travel 1857; Amian and Bertha and other poems 1858; drowned while bathing in the Avon at Keynsham, Somerset 9 Aug. 1862 aged 33.

FOX, Henry Hawes. b. Bristol 5 Jany. 1788; ed. at Glasgow and St. John’s coll. Cam.; pres. of royal medical society, Edin.; practised at Bristol 1811–32, phys. to infirmary there 1816–32; M.D. Cam. 1826; bought estate of Northwood, Gloucs. 1832 where he built an asylum for the insane; originated a method of fire proof construction now known as Fox and Barrett’s. d. Northwood 12 Oct. 1851.

FOX, Rev. John (son of Henry Fox of St. Bees, Cumberland). b. St. Bees; ed. at St. Bees; matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 4 Dec. 1794 aged 20, tabarder 1798, fellow 1808–27; B.A. 1798, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1827, D.D. 1827; master of Northleach sch. 1826–27; provost of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1827 to death. d. Oxford 11 Aug. 1855. bur. Sherborne.

FOX, Richard Maxwell. b. Raheny Glebe, co. Dublin 1816; M.P. for co. Longford 13 Aug. 1847 to death. d. St. Leonard’s on Sea 26 April 1856.

FOX, Robert Were (brother of Charles Fox 1797–1878). b. Falmouth 26 April 1789; made researches upon internal temperature of the earth from 1815, the first to prove that the heat increased with the depth; a founder of Royal Polytechnic Soc. 1833; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; contributed 52 papers to scientific periodicals. d. Penjerrick near Falmouth 25 July 1877. A catalogue of the works of R. W. Fox with A sketch of his life, By J. H. Collins, Truro 1878; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 162–5 (1874), iii, 1188 (1882).

FOX, Sackville Walter Lane. b. 1800; M.P. for Helston 1831–34, for Beverley 1840–41 and 1847–52, for Ipswich 1842–47. d. 22 Pall Mall, London 18 Aug. 1874.

FOX, Samuel. b. Bradwell, North Derbyshire 1815; a steel maker at Stockbridge near Sheffield; patented Fox’s paragon frame for umbrellas 6 April 1852 by which he made a fortune; established large works at Lille, France; chairman of Samuel Fox and Co., Stockbridge works, Deepcar near Sheffield to death. d. The Lodge, North Cliffe near Market Weighton, Yorkshire 25 Feb. 1887.

FOX, Sarah Hustler (only dau. of Wm. Hustler of Apple hall, Bradford, Yorkshire). b. Apple hall 8 Aug. 1800. (m. 20 Dec. 1825 Charles Fox 1797–1878.) Author of A metrical version of the book of Job 1852–4; Poems original and translated 1863; Catch who can, or hide and seek, original double acrostics 1869. d. Trebah near Falmouth 19 Feb. 1882.

FOX, Rev. William Johnson. b. Uggeshall farm near Wrentham, Suffolk 1 March 1786; Independent minister at Fareham 1810; Unitarian minister at Chichester 1812–17; minister of Parliament court chapel, London 1817, of a chapel built for him in South place, Finsbury 1824–52; edited the Monthly Repository 1833 to 1836; a leading orator of the Anti-Corn-law League; M.P. for Oldham 1847–52, 1852–57 and 1857–62; contested Oldham 1852 and 1857; author of Lectures to the working classes 4 vols. 1845–49 and 30 other books. d. 3 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 3 June 1864. Memorial edition of collected works of W. J. Fox, vol. 12 (1868); John Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 92–96; People’s Journal iii, 69 (1848), portrait; I.L.N. xii, 298 (1848), portrait.

FOX, William Tilbury (son of Luther Owen Fox, M.D. of Broughton, Winchester). b. 1836; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.B. London 1857, M.D. 1858; phys. accoucheur to Farringdon General Dispensary; a specialist on dermatology; phys. to skin departments of Charing Cross and University college hospitals; one of editors of the Lancet; author of Skin diseases, their description, pathology, diagnosis and treatment 1864, 3 ed. 1873; Atlas of skin diseases 1875–7 and 12 other books. d. Paris 7 June 1879. bur. Willesden cemetery 14 June.

FOX, Wilson. b. Wellington, Somerset 2 Nov. 1831; B.A. London 1850, M.B. 1854, M.D. 1855; phys. at Newcastle-under-Lyme 1859–61; professor of pathological anatomy at Univ. coll. London 1861; assistant phys. Univ. coll. hospital 1862, phys. 1867; F.R.C.P. 1866; Holme professor of clinical medicine Univ. coll. hospital 1867; phys. extraord. to the Queen 16 Aug. 1869, phys. in ordinary 18 Dec. 1882 to death; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of On the diagnosis and treatment of the varieties of Dyspepsia 1867, 3 ed. under the title of The diseases of the stomach 1872, and other books. d. Preston, Lancs. 3 May 1887. bur. Taunton 6 May, bust in shire hall, Taunton unveiled 25 Oct. 1888.

FRADELLE, Henry Joseph. b. Lille, France 1778; historical painter in London from 1816; exhibited 11 pictures at R.A., 36 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–54. d. 36 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 14 March 1865.

FRAIL, John Frederick. b. Shrewsbury 1 May 1804; hairdresser Shrewsbury; a local actor; electioneering agent to the Carlton club in Shropshire; clerk of the course, Shrewsbury 1843; organised many race meetings; entertained at dinner and presented with plate worth £350, 1854; town councillor 1854, mayor. d. Shrewsbury 9 March 1879. Sporting Review xxxix, 361–3 (1858); Sporting Times 24 July 1875 p. 396, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news vi, 403, 419 (1877), portrait, x, 620, 627 (1879), portrait.

FRANCATELLI, Charles ElmÉ. b. London 1805; studied cookery under CarÈme; chef to Earl of Chesterfield, Earl of Dudley, Lord Kinnaird and Rowland Errington successively; managed St. James’s club, London; chief cook and maitre d’hotel to the Queen 1840–42; lessee of Coventry House club; chef at the Reform club 1854–61; managed St. James’s hotel, Berkeley st. Piccadilly 1863–70, and Freemason’s tavern, Great Queen st. 1870–76; author of The modern cook 1846, 12 ed. 1865 and other books. d. Eastbourne 10 Aug. 1876. A. Hayward’s Art of dining, new ed. (1883) 75–6.

FRANCE, Ven. Francis. Educ. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, B.D. 1850; fellow tutor and pres. of his college; archdeacon of Ely, Dec. 1859 to death; author of The example of Christ 1861. d. Cambridge 14 April 1864.

FRANCILLON, James (6 son of Francis Francillon of Harwich, Essex). b. 21 Nov. 1802; admitted attorney; conveyancing clerk to Messrs. Wilton at Gloucester 1824; barrister G.I. 20 Nov. 1833; judge of county courts, circuit 54 (Gloucestershire), March 1847 to death; author of Lectures elementary and familiar on English law 2 series 1860–1. d. of cholera at Lausanne 3 Sep. 1866.

FRANCIS, Francis (son of Captain Morgan, R.N.) b. Seton, Devon 1822; changed his name from Morgan to Francis 1843; angling editor of The Field 25 years; established the Thames Rights defence association; suggested plan of the National fish-culture association; a member of the commission on oyster culture 1868–70; author of Pickackifax, a novel in rhyme 1854; Newton Dogvane, a novel 3 vols. 1859 and 14 other books. d. The Firs, Twickenham 24 Dec. 1886. F. Francis’s A Book on Angling, 6 ed. (1887), portrait; The Field 1 Jany. 1887 p. 9, cols. 1–3.

FRANCIS, George (2 son of George Francis of Maidstone, Kent). b. 20 Aug. 1824; barrister G.I. 16 Jany. 1850, bencher 26 May 1880, treasurer 1886; recorder of Faversham, March 1864 to Nov. 1872; recorder of Canterbury, Nov. 1872 to Aug. 1883; master in Q.B. division, July 1878, master of supreme court of judicature 1879 to death. d. 12 Carlton hill, Maida vale, London 20 Jany. 1890.

FRANCIS, George Grant (eld. son of John Francis of Swansea). b. Swansea, Jany. 1814; mayor of Swansea 1853–4; col. of 1st Glamorgan artillery volunteers raised by his exertions 1859; author of The free grammar school Swansea, Swansea 1849; The smelting of copper in the Swansea district, privately printed Swansea 1867, published 1881, and other books on Welsh history and topography. d. 9 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington, London 21 April 1882. bur. Swansea cemetery 26 April. AthenÆum 28 April 1882 pp. 510–11.

FRANCIS, George Henry. b. about 1817; edited Morning Post, Atlas, Dublin Daily Express; manager and assistant editor of the Press; edited Morning Chronicle; author of Orators of the age 1847 and other books. d. Paris 28 Aug. 1866.

FRANCIS, George William. b. London 1800; edited Magazine of science and school of arts 5 vols. 1840–5; went to Australia 1849; director of Adelaide botanic garden to death; author of Catalogue of British plants and ferns 1835, 5 ed. 1840; An analysis of British ferns 1837, 5 ed. 1855; Electrical experiments 8 ed. 1855 and 8 other books. d. Adelaide 9 Aug. 1865.

FRANCIS, James Goodall. b. London 1819; went to Van Diemen’s Land 1834; partner with Mr. Macpherson in a business at Hobart Town 1847; managed a branch business in Melbourne 1853; vice pres. of chamber of commerce N.S.W. 1856, pres. 1857; member for Richmond in Victorian legislative assembly 1859–74; comr. of trade and customs 1863–68; treasurer of Victoria 1870–71; prime minister 1872–74; passed a free education act 1874; member for Warrnambool in Victorian assembly 1878–82. d. Queenscliff, Victoria 25 Jany. 1884.

FRANCIS, John. b. Lincolnshire 3 Sep. 1780; pupil of Francis Chantrey in London; executed by command of the Queen a bust in marble of Prince Albert 1844; exhibited 71 sculptures at the R.A. 1820–57. d. 56 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 30 Aug. 1861.

FRANCIS, John. b. Bermondsey, London 18 July 1811; junior clerk in office of the AthenÆum, Sep. 1831, business manager and publisher of that paper 4 Oct. 1831 to death; did more than any man to procure repeal of duty on newspaper advertisements 1853, of stamp duty on newspapers 1855 and of the paper duty 1861. d. 20 Wellington st. Strand, London 6 April 1882. John Francis, publisher of the AthenÆum, By J. C. Francis (1888) i, 1–19, 45–7, 226, ii, 173 et seq. 545–50, portrait; H. J. Nicoll’s Great Movements (1881) 269–339.

FRANCIS, Sir Philip. b. 1822; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; judge of supreme consular court of the Levant and consul general at Constantinople 16 Sep. 1867 to death; knighted by patent 7 Dec. 1868; author of The law of Charities 1854; The new common law procedure acts 1854. d. on board H.M.S. Antelope between Besika and Smyrna 9 Aug. 1876. Graphic xiv, 257, 261 (1876), portrait.

FRANCKLYN, John Henry. b. 8 Jany. 1812; 2 lieut. R.A. 26 July 1831, col. commandant 20 Dec. 1878 to death; general 13 Nov. 1880; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. The Wigwam, Dacres road, Forest hill 12 Feb. 1881.

FRANKLAND, Charles Colville (3 son of Rev. Roger Frankland, R. of Yarlington, Somerset, who d. 25 March 1826). b. Bath 10 Feb. 1797; entered navy 13 Jany. 1813, captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875; published Travels to and from Constantinople 2 vols. 1829; Narrative of a visit to the courts of Russia and Sweden 2 vols. 1832. d. 2 Royal crescent, Bath 13 April 1876.

FRANKLIN, Lady Jane (2 dau. of John Griffin of Bedford place, London). b. 1792; travelled in the East, Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand 1828–44; the first lady who travelled overland from Melbourne to Sydney; sent out at her own expense to the Arctic regions 5 ships in search of her husband Sir John Franklin 1850–57; received gold medal of Royal Geog. Soc. 1860. (m. at Great Stanmore 5 Nov. 1828 John Franklin, captain R.N. who d. Victory point, King William Land 11 June 1847, his name is in the navy list down to April 1854); author of A letter to Viscount Palmerston 1857, 2 editions. She d. 45 Phillimore gardens, London 18 July 1875. Graphic xi, 157, 163 (1875), portrait.

FRANKLYN, George Woodroffe. b. Bristol 1800; a merchant at Bristol; mayor of Bristol 1842–43; M.P. for Poole 1852–65. d. Lovel hill, Winkfield, Berks. 5 Nov. 1870.

FRANKS, Sir John (2 son of Thomas Franks of Ballymagooly, co. Cork 1729–87). b. Loher Cannon near Tralee, co. Kerry 1769; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; called to Irish bar 1792; K.C. 25 Nov. 1822; one of judges of supreme court, Calcutta 1825–1834 when he resigned; knighted at Carlton house 20 April 1825; resided at Roebuck near Dublin 1835 to death; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1840. d. St. Bridgets, Clonkeagh, co. Dublin 11 Jany. 1852.

FRANKS, Sir Thomas Harte (2 son of Wm. Franks of Carrig castle near Mallow, co. Cork). Ensign 10 foot 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 28 March 1845 to 20 July 1858; commanded 4th infantry division during Indian mutiny 1858; M.G. 20 July 1858; C.B. 27 June 1846, K.C.B. 27 July 1858. d. Ibstone house, Tetsworth, Oxon. 5 Feb. 1862.

FRASER, Alexander. b. Edinburgh 7 April 1786; painter in Edin. to 1813, in London 1813–59; painted the details and still life in David Wilkie’s pictures for about 20 years; A.R.S.A. 1840; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 97 at B.I. and 37 at Suffolk st. gallery 1810–59. d. Wood Green, Middlesex 15 Feb. 1865.

FRASER, Hastings. Ensign 74 foot 9 April 1788; lieut. col. 86 foot 18 April 1805 to 31 Aug. 1826; col. 83 foot 30 Sep. 1835, col. 61 foot 1 Sep. 1848 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Bury st. St. James’s, London 29 Sep. 1852 aged 81.

FRASER, Sir Hugh (son of Wm. Fraser, commissary of Inverness). Entered military service of H.E.I. Co. 1790; col. of 5 Madras N.I. 1 May 1834 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.B. 7 April 1832 for commanding troops at assault of Copaul Droog. d. Braclangwell, co. Cromarty 6 Oct. 1851 aged 78.

FRASER, Right Rev. James (eld. son of James Fraser of Prestbury, Gloucs.) b. Prestbury 18 Aug. 1818; ed. at Bridgnorth and Shrewsbury; scholar of Lincoln coll. Ox. 1836; Ireland scholar 1839; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1842; fellow of Oriel coll. 1840–60, tutor 1842–47, sub-dean and librarian 1844; R. of Cholderton, Wiltshire 1847–60; select preacher at Oxford 1851, 1861, 1871, 1877 and 1885; R. of Ufton Nervet, Berkshire 1860–70; preb. of Salisbury 1861–70; bishop of Manchester 18 Jany. 1870 to death, consecrated at Manchester cathedral 25 March 1870. d. Bishop’s Court, Higher Broughton, Manchester 22 Oct. 1885. bur. at Ufton Nervet. Memoir of James Fraser. By Thomas Hughes, Q.C. 1887, portrait; J. W. Diggle’s The Lancashire life of Bishop Fraser 1889, portrait; Dublin univ. mag. xcv, 452–64 (1880), portrait; Church portrait gallery i, 47 (1880), portrait; Our Bishops and Deans. By Rev. F. Arnold ii, 119–30 (1875); Rev. C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London 2 series (1874) 94–107, 393.

FRASER, James Baillie (eld. son of Edward Satchell Fraser of Reelick, Invernessshire). b. Reelick 11 June 1783; travelled in the Himalayas 1815, in Persia 1821–2; took charge of the Persian princes when they visited England 1835–6; author of Narrative of the Persian princes in London 2 vols. 1838; Travels in Koordistan, Mesopotamia, &c. 2 vols. 1840; The dark falcon, a tale of the Attruck 4 vols. 1844 and 14 other books. d. Reelick 24 Jany. 1856. G.M. xlv, 307–8 (1856).

FRASER, James Stuart (youngest son of Charles Fraser, col. Madras army, who d. 5 May 1795). b. Edinburgh 1 July 1783; lieut. 18 Madras N.I. 15 Dec. 1800; commandant at Pondicherry 1816–28; col. 36 Madras N.I. 26 Sep. 1835 to death; resident at Hyderabad 31 Dec. 1839 to 1852; general 2 June 1860. d. Twickenham park, Twickenham 22 Aug. 1869. H. Fraser’s Memoir of J. S. Fraser (1885), portrait.

FRASER, Sir John (3 son of Wm. Mackenzie Fraser, M.D. of Balnairn). b. Bath 1792; ed. at Eton; aide-de-camp and Persian interpreter to commander-in-chief in India; retired from army 1827; sec. to lord high comr. of Ionian Islands to 1854; K.C.M.G. 1853. d. Bath 26 Dec. 1864.

FRASER, John Farquhar. Barrister L.I. 13 May 1817; judge of county courts, circuit 46 (Surrey), March 1847 to death; author of The reports of Sir E. Coke in 13 parts, 10 parts by J. F. F. 1826; resided at 104 Eaton place, Belgrave sq. London. d. Feb. 1865.

FRASER, Patrick, Lord Fraser (son of Patrick Fraser of Perth, merchant). b. Pitlochry near Perth 1819; ed. at Perth gr. sch. and univ. of St. Andrews; called to the bar 1843; sheriff of Renfrewshire 3 Feb. 1862; LLD. Edin. 1871; dean of Faculty of Advocates 16 Jany. 1878; Q.C. 1880; a lord of session with title of Lord Fraser 4 Feb. 1881 to death; lord ordinary in exchequer cases 15 Nov. 1881 to death; author of A treatise on the law of Scotland as applicable to the personal and domestic relations 2 vols. Edin. 1846; The conflict of laws in cases of divorce, Edin. 1860 and 5 other books; found dead in his study chair at Gattonside near Melrose 27 March 1889. Juridical Review i, 178–83 (1889), portrait.

FRASER, Robert Samuel. b. North Shields 26 Oct. 1829; apprentice to William Clark, engineer, Sunderland 1843; manager of the s.s. Chasseur floating factory in Balaclava harbour 1855–56 for the government; assistant to inspector of machinery in the Arsenal, Woolwich 1856; manager of royal gun factories, Woolwich 1859, deputy assist. superintendent 1866; invented the service gun known as the Fraser 1867 but since called the Woolwich gun and still in use; presented by government on two occasions with £5000 each time; changed spelling of his name from Frazer to Fraser 1866; M.I.C.E. 6 Dec. 1864. d. of consumption Arbory cottage, Sydenham road, Croydon 12 July 1884. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii, 424–9 (1884).

FRASER, Rev. Robert William (son of captain Robert Fraser). b. Perth 1810; licensed to preach by Edinburgh presbytery 1840; minister of parish of Burntisland 1843–7; minister of St. John’s ch. Edin. 1847 to death; author of Moriah, or sketches of the sacred rites of ancient Israel, Edinburgh 1849 and many other books. d. 19 Lauriston st. Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1876. Scotsman 12 Sep. 1876 p. 4.

FRASER, Thomas. Took a leading part in Parisian political life which he described in racy articles, sent to the Morning Chronicle 1835–55; sec. to Hudson Bay Co. London 1855. d. Florence 2 Nov. 1869. Newspaper Press 1 Dec. 1869 p. 15.

FRASER, Thomas (son of vice admiral Alexander Fraser, who d. 29 Dec. 1829). b. May 1796; entered navy 11 Nov. 1811; commander 22 July 1826; captain on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on h.p. 1870. d. 19 Brighton place, Portobello 28 Oct. 1870. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), p. 139, portrait.

FRASER, Most Rev. William. b. Scotland about 1790; R.C. vicar apostolic of Nova Scotia with title of bishop of Fanes 1821; devoted himself to Scottish members of his flock in Antigonish, northern part of the peninsula and neglected the Irish; the Pope divided province of Nova Scotia into two dioceses, Antigonish being united to Cape Breton and erected into diocese of Arishat with W. Fraser as titular bishop. d. Antigonish 4 Oct. 1857.

FRASER, Rev. William (eld. son of Wm. Fraser of St. George’s, Southwark, London). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 9 June 1841 aged 17; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, B.C.L. 1848, D.C.L. 1861; C. of Alton, Staffs. 1853–58, V. 1858 to death; P.C. of Cotton, Staffs. 1862 to death; author of Parish Sermons 2 series 1855–60; A plain commentary of the Book of Psalms, chiefly founded on the Fathers 2 vols. 1857 and other books. d. Alton vicarage 26 Nov. 1877.

FRASER, Rev. William. b. Cullen, Banffshire 1817; a master in Normal seminary, Glasgow; pastor of the Free Middle congregation, Paisley 1849 to death; LLD. Glasgow 1872; member of Paisley school board; author of The state of our educational enterprises 1858; Blending lights, or the relations of natural science, archÆology and history to the Bible 1873. d. Free Middle manse, Paisley 21 Sep. 1879. Renfrewshire Independent 27 Sep. 1879 p. 4.

FRASER, William Charles. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 14 Madras N.I. 1848 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Stanley place, Paddington, London 4 March 1859 aged 74.

FRAZER, John James, stage name of John James Fricker. Principal tenor singer in London 1843; went to the United States about 1851. d. Philadelphia 18 June 1863 in 59 year.

FREAKE, Sir Charles James, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Charles Freake of St. George’s, Hanover sq. London). b. 7 April 1814; contested Chelsea 17 Nov. 1868; built Cromwell road and other streets in Kensington; created baronet 23 May 1882. d. 1 Cromwell houses, Kensington, London 6 Oct. 1884.

FREDERICK, Charles (2 son of lieut. colonel Thomas Frederick, who d. 28 May 1844 aged 80). b. 7 May 1797; entered navy 5 June 1810; captain 23 Oct. 1842; member of Irish relief committee 1847; member of Board of Admiralty, June 1859; senior officer on coast of Ireland 31 March 1865 to 8 Oct. 1867; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. 13 Victoria st. Westminster 23 Dec. 1875.

FREDERICK, Edward (son of col. Charles Frederick). b. 23 June 1784; entered Bombay army 1799; col. 10 Bombay N.I. 28 June 1838 to death; general 26 June 1860; C.B. 28 July 1838. d. Shawford house, Hants. 5 Dec. 1866.

FREEBURN, James. b. parish of St. Cuthbert’s, Midlothian 1808; enlisted in 7th battalion of R.A. 1825, serjeant-major April 1844, quartermaster of 10th battalion 1 April 1846 to 21 April 1856 when he retired with hon. rank of captain; invented an elaborate series of metal and wood fuzes for exploding live shells 1846, his fuzes were adopted in the army 1847. d. Plumstead, Woolwich 5 Aug. 1876.

FREEMAN, Ven. Philip (son of Edmund Freeman of The Cedars, Combs, Suffolk). b. The Cedars 3 Feb. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1835; Craven univ. scholar 1838; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; fellow of St. Peter’s coll. 1842–53; principal of theological coll. Chichester 1846–55; canon and reader in theology in Cumbrae coll. Scotland 1855–58; V. of Thorverton, Devon 1858–74; preb. of Exeter 1861–64; canon of Exeter 1864 to death; archdeacon of Exeter, April 1865 to death; author of Proportion in Gothic architecture 1848; The principles of divine service 2 parts 1855–62 and 17 other books. d. 1 Northumberland terrace, Primrose hill, London 24 Feb. 1875 from effects of an accident at Chalk Farm railway station 18 Feb.

FREEMAN, Samuel. Engraver of portraits; worked chiefly in stipple; engraved numerous portraits and other illustrations for Rev. T. F. Dibdin’s Northern Gallery, Jones’s National Gallery and other books. d. 22 Jeffrey’s st. Camden Town, London 27 Feb. 1857 aged 84.

FREEMAN, William Deane. Called to bar in Ireland 1817; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; assistant barrister for Galway to death. d. Galway 13 Oct. 1852. Law magazine and law review ii, 236–40 (1857).

FREEMAN, Rev. Joseph John. b. Thames st. London 7 Oct. 1794; Congregational minister at Chelmsford 21 May 1816; minister for London missionary soc. in Madagascar 1826–35; minister at Walthamstow 1836; one of foreign secretaries of London Missionary Soc. 1841 and home sec. 1846; visited missionary stations in Guiana and Jamaica 1842–43; took charge of Malagasy refugees when in England 1848; visited mission churches at the Cape and in the Mauritius 1849–51; author of The Holy Bible in the Malagasy language 1830; A Tour to South Africa 1851 and 9 other works. d. Homburg 8 Sep. 1851. Congregational Year Book (1852) pp. 215–16; Waddington’s Congregational history v, 51–9 (1880).

FREER, John Charles. b. Malta 1802; appeared on stage at Portsmouth about 1824; played at theatres in east of London with success; kept a public house in Shoreditch which failed; went to Philadelphia; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Richard III. 18 May 1839; lessee of Richmond hill theatre, New York; stage manager of Chatham theatre, New York 10 years. Cut his throat at a coffee house, Bridge court, Cannon row, Westminster bridge, London 24 Dec. 1857. d. Westminster hospital same day. bur. Working 30 Dec. Theatrical times iii, 89 (1848), portrait; Era 27 Dec. 1857 p. 11.

FREER, Ven. Richard Lane (son of Rev. Thomas Lane Freer, R. of Handsworth, Staffs., who d. 1835 aged 57). b. 1806; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch., Ox., B.A. 1828, D.D. 1858; R. of Bishopstone, Herefordshire 1830 to death; preb. of Hereford cath. 1847 to death; archdeacon of Hereford, April 1852 to death; prelector of Hereford cath. 1861 to death. d. Bishopstone rectory 11 Aug. 1863. Memoir of Ven. R. L. Freer [by his widow], privately printed 1866, portrait.

FREESTUN, Sir William Lockyer (2 son of Edward Freestun of Primrose hill, co. Waterford). b. May park, Waterford 1804; ensign 5 foot 4 June 1812; on the staff of British legion under Sir De Lacy Evans 1835–37; served on the staff in Syria as assistant adjutant general with rank of major 15 Dec. 1840 to 1842; M.P. for Weymouth 1847–59; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 June 1860. d. 22 Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 16 April 1862.

FREETH, Sir James (youngest son of Sampson Freeth of Birmingham). b. Birmingham 1786; ensign royal staff corps 25 Dec. 1806, captain 1814 to 1830 when placed on h.p.; A.Q.M.G. 1826–1851, Q.M.G. 1 Feb. 1851 to 13 Aug. 1855; col. 64 foot 13 Aug. 1855 to death; general 9 March 1865; K.H. 1833; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 80 Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 19 Jany. 1867.

FREILIGRATH, Ferdinand. b. Detmold, North Germany 17 June 1810; clerk in a bank at Amsterdam 1831–36; a merchant’s clerk in City of London 1846–48; imprisoned at DÜsseldorf 2 months in 1848 for publishing a poem entitled The Dead to the Living 1848; clerk in a bank in City of London 1851–67; naturalised in England 16 Oct. 1858; lived in Germany 1867 to death; a most popular modern German poet; his collected works were published in 6 vols. at Stuttgart 1877. d. Cannstadt near Stuttgart 17 March 1876. W. Buchner’s F. Freiligrath, ein Dichterleben 2 vols. (1882), 2 portraits.

FREMANTLE, Sir Charles Howe (2 son of admiral Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle 1765–1819). b. 1 June 1800; midshipman R.N. 12 Dec. 1812; captain 4 Aug. 1826; admiral superintendent in Balaklava 18 June 1855; commander-in-chief at Devonport, Oct. 1863 to Oct. 1866; admiral 9 Feb. 1864; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857, G.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 57 Grosvenor st. London 25 May 1869.

FRENCH, Queen of the, Marie Amelie De Bourbon (2 dau. of Ferdinand I. 1751–1825, king of the Two Sicilies). b. Caserte palace near Naples 26 April 1782. (m. at Palermo 25 Nov. 1809 Louis Philippe De Bourbon b. Paris 6 Oct. 1773 king of the French 1830–48, d. Claremont, Surrey 26 Aug. 1850); lived at Claremont, March 1848 to death. d. Claremont 24 March 1866. bur. in mausoleum at Weybridge 3 April. Mrs. Challis’s Illustrious women of France (1873) 215–320, portrait; I.L.N. xii, 147 (1848), portrait; G.M. i, 741–3 (1866).

FRENCH, Most Rev. Edmund (son of Rev. Dr. Ffrench, protestant warden of Galway). Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; Catholic warden of Galway to 1831 when office was abolished; R.C. Bishop of Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora 26 July 1824 to death; consecrated 13 March 1825. d. Gort, co. Galway 14 July 1852.

FRENCH, Fitzstephen (youngest son of Arthur French of French park, co. Roscommon, who d. 24 Nov. 1820). b. 7 Dec. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.P. for co. Roscommon 7 Dec. 1832 to death; col. Roscommon militia 23 Dec. 1854 to death; P.C. Ireland 1866; author of The Question Are the Government entitled to the support of the Irish liberal members? 1839. d. 68 Warwick sq. London 4 June 1873.

FRENCH, George (3 son of Arthur French of French park, co. Roscommon, M.P. for that county). b. 23 Nov. 1771; called to Irish bar 1795; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; assistant barrister co. Longford; crown prosecutor Connaught circuit. d. Seamont, Malhide 26 Oct. 1860. O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 278.

FRENCH, George. Educ. at Shrewsbury and Caius coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 11 June 1844; edited The Equity Reports vol. 3, 1853; judge of mixed courts at Sierra Leone 16 Aug. 1871; returned to England 1875; judge of supreme court for China at Shanghae 10 Dec. 1877; chief justice of supreme court for China and Japan at Shanghae 30 Oct. 1878 to death. d. Kobe, Japan 13 Nov. 1881.

FRENCH, George Russell. b. London 1803; surveyor and architect to Ironmonger’s Company; mem. of council and vice pres. of London and Middlesex ArchÆological Soc.; author of Ancestry of Victoria and Albert 1841; Genealogical and biographical history of England 1847 and other books. d. London 1 Nov. 1881.

FRENCH, Gilbert James (son of James French of Edinburgh, shawl manufacturer). b. 4 Nicholson square, Edinburgh 18 April 1804; apprenticed to a draper in Edinburgh; partner with John Cross, draper of Bolton, Lancashire; a church furnisher in Manchester road, Bolton; pres. of Bolton mechanics institution 1857–58; life member of Society of Antiquaries 9 Feb. 1860; author of Practical remarks on some of the minor accessories to the service of the church 1844; The life and times of Samuel Crompton 1859 and 9 other books. d. Newport sq. Bolton 4 May 1866.

FRENCH, Henry John. Ensign 90 foot 27 Aug. 1812; major 85 foot 23 May 1836 to 31 July 1846 when placed on h.p.; col. 80 foot 3 Sep. 1867 to death; L.G. 9 Aug. 1870. d. 17 Belgrave road, Eccleston sq. London 25 Jany. 1874 aged 77.

FRENCH, Sydney. Edited Weekly Despatch; acting editor of Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette to death. d. Alresford house, Stansfield road, Stockwell 27 Oct. 1878 aged 42. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 1 Nov.

FRENCH, Thomas. A jockey; rode St. Albans in the Great Metropolitan stakes 1861; won the Derby on Kingcraft 1870, on Favonius 1871; accomplished unprecedented feat of riding 6 winners in one day at Newmarket July meeting 1869. d. Newmarket 30 Aug. 1873 in 29 year. Illust. sp. and dramatic news i, 255, 256 (1874), portrait; Baily’s mag. xviii, (1870), portrait.

FRERE, Bartholomew (5 son of John Frere of Roydon, Norfolk, F.R.S. 1740–1807). b. 30 Nov. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1806; sec. of legation at Lisbon 1801; sec. of legation at Constantinople 1807–8, 1811–15 and 1817–20, minister plenipotentiary ad interim there 1815–17 and 1820–21; retired on pension Aug. 1821. d. 23 Old Burlington st. London 29 May 1851.

FRERE, George Edward (2 son of Edward Frere of Llanelly, Brecknockshire). b. 29 Jany. 1807; ed. at Charterhouse and Univ. of Edin.; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1851; F.R.S. 8 June 1837. d. Roydon hall near Diss, Norfolk 3 Dec. 1887.

FRERE, Sir Henry Bartle Edward, 1 Baronet (6 son of Edward Frere of Llanelly). b. Clydach, Brecknockshire 29 March 1815; entered Indian civil service 15 Jany. 1834; resident at Sattara 1 May 1847; comr. to Scinde 2 Dec. 1850; member of council at Calcutta 21 Dec. 1859; governor of Bombay 24 April 1862 to 6 March 1867; member of council of India 12 Nov. 1866; P.C. 4 Aug. 1873; presented with freedom of city of London 16 July 1874; baronet 19 May 1876; governor of Cape of Good Hope 5 March 1877 to July 1880; K.C.B. 20 May 1859, G.C.B. 17 May 1876; G.C.S.I 12 Feb. 1866; F.R.S. 3 May 1877; author of Eastern Africa as a field for missionary labour 1874 and other books. d. Wressil lodge, Wimbledon 29 May 1884. bur. St. Paul’s cath. 5 June, statue erected on Thames embankment 1888. G. B. Malleson’s Recreations (1872) 388–437; Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 92–7; Army and navy mag. i, 474–78 (1881), portrait.

FRERE, James Hatley (brother of Bartholomew Frere 1776–1851). b. 1779; introduced a phonetic system for teaching the blind to read about 1838; author of A combined view of the prophecies of Daniel, Esdras and S. John 1815; The art of teaching to read by elementary sounds 1840 and 10 other books. d. Shillington vicarage, Beds. 8 Dec. 1866.

FRERE, Rev. John Alexander (3 son of James Hatley Frere of army pay office 1779–1866). b. 9 May 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; fellow, tutor and senior dean of his college 1840–47; Whitehall preacher 1847–8; Christian advocate of Univ. of Cam. 1848–50; V. of Shillington, Beds. 1853 to death; author of On the incarnation 1853 and other books. d. Achenkirch, Austrian Tyrol 27 Aug. 1877.

FRERE, Philip Howard (eld. son of Wm. Frere 1775–1836, master of Downing coll. Cam.) b. 1813; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; fellow of Downing coll. 1837, tutor and bursar 1839; edited Journal of Royal Agricultural Society 1862 to death, in which he wrote many papers on agriculture. d. Panton house, Cambridge 12 May 1868.

FRESHFIELD, James William (eld. son of James Freshfield of Chertsey, Surrey). b. Windsor 1775; pensioner at Peterhouse coll. Cam.; admitted solicitor 1795; solicitor to Bank of England 1812–40; M.P. for Penryn and Falmouth 1830–32, 1835–41 and 1852–57; M.P. for Boston 1851–52; barrister G.I. 16 Nov. 1842; chairman of Surrey quarter sessions; sheriff of Surrey 1850; chairman of the Divorce Committee 1856–57; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; author of County Rates 1854. d. 6 Devonshire place, London 27 June 1864.

FREWEN, Charles Hay. b. 1813; M.P. for East Sussex 1846–57; sheriff of Leics. 1866. d. Cold Overton hall, Oakham 1 Sep. 1878.

FREWEN, Thomas (brother of preceding). b. Cold Overton hall 26 Aug. 1811; M.P. for South Leics. 1835–36; sheriff of Sussex 1839. d. Brickwall house, Northiam 14 Oct. 1870.

FRISWELL, James Hain (son of Wm. Friswell of 93 Wimpole st. London, attorney). b. Newport, Shropshire 8 May 1825; founded in London the Friday Knights, a social society, January 1858, the name was changed to the Urban club 15 November 1858; edited The Censor, a weekly review 23 May to 7 November 1868; edited the Bayard series and the Gentle Life series; author of The gentle life 1864 anon., 21 ed. 1879, 2nd series 1868, 11 ed. 1879, and 34 other books. d. Fair home, Bexley Heath, Kent 12 March 1878. Graphic 30 March 1878 pp. 320, 332, portrait; Pictorial World 6 April 1878 pp. 82, 84, portrait.

FRITH, John Wharton. Ensign 12 foot 17 July 1804; lieut. col. 58 foot 1836–1842; inspecting field officer 30 Dec. 1842; col. 2 West India regiment 1860, col. 3 foot 1863 to death; L.G. 13 Aug. 1862. d. 85 Waterloo road, Dublin 8 Sep. 1864 aged 74.

FROME, Edward Charles. b. Gibraltar 7 Jany. 1802; 2 lieut. R.E. 1825, col. 1859, col. commandant 1871 to death; surveyor general of South Australia 1839–49, of Mauritius 1851–58; inspector general of engineers at head quarters 1868–9; lieut. governor of Guernsey 1 May 1869 to 30 April 1874; general 21 Nov. 1874; F.R.A.S.; author of Outlines of the method of conducting a trigonometrical survey 1840, 4 ed. 1873. d. Ewell, Surrey 12 Feb. 1890.

FROPIER, Sir Gabriel Pierre Jules. Member of legislative council of Mauritius; knighted by patent 31 Oct. 1862. d. 1882.

FROST, Charles (son of Thomas Frost of Kingston-upon-Hull, solicitor). b. Kingston-upon-Hull 1781 or 1782, solicitor there to death; solicitor to Hull dock company 33 years; F.S.A. 2 May 1822; pres. of Hull literary and philos. soc. 10 times; vice pres. of British Assoc. at Hull meeting 1853; author of Notices relative to the early history of the town of Hull 1827 and other books. d. Hull 5 Sep. 1862. R. W. Corlass’s Sketches of Hull authors (1879) 33–4; I.L.N. xxiii, 225, 226 (1853), portrait.

FROST, John (son of John Frost of Mill st. Newport, Monmouthshire, publican). Tailor and draper at Newport 1811, member of town council of Newport, magistrate 1835, mayor 1836; elected 1838 as delegate to represent Chartists of Monmouthshire at national convention of working classes which met in London 4 Feb. 1839 and was dissolved 14 Sep.; led a large body of working men into Newport and attacked the Westgate hotel 4 Nov. 1839, tried at Monmouth 10 Dec. 1839, Frost, Williams and Jones sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered 16 Jany. 1840 being the last persons in this country so sentenced, transported to Van Diemen’s Land 1840, obtained a conditional pardon 1854, a free pardon May 1856; author of The horrors of convict life 1856. d. Stapleton near Bristol 29 July 1877 aged 93. Gurney’s Trial of John Frost for high treason (1840); W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials (1850) i, 1–101; The rise and fall of Chartism in Monmouthshire (1840) p. 6 et seq. portrait; Century Mag. xxiii, 428 (1882), portrait.

FROST, William Edward. b. Wandsworth, Surrey, Sep. 1810; student at the R.A. 1829; painter of portraits and allegorical pictures; A.R.A. Nov. 1846, R.A. 30 Dec. 1870 to June 1876 when he resigned; exhibited 77 pictures at R.A. and 33 at B.I. 1836–78. d. 40 Fitzroy sq. London 4 June 1877. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy (1862) ii, 219–21; Art Journal (1849) p. 184, portrait, (1857) pp. 5–7, (1877) pp. 234, 280; I.L.N. xxx, 419, 420 (1857), portrait, and lviii, 61, 63 (1871), portrait.

FROUDE, Ven. Robert Hurrell (son of Robert Froude of Walkhampton, Devon). Matric. from Oriel coll. Ox. 28 Jany. 1788 aged 17, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795; R. of Denbury, Devon 1798 to death; R. of Dartington, Devon 1799 to death; archdeacon of Totnes 30 May 1820 to death. d. Dartington 23 Feb. 1859.

FROUDE, William (4 son of the preceding). b. Dartington parsonage 28 Nov. 1810; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1837; worked under I. K. Brunel on Bristol and Exeter railway 1837 to May 1844 when line was opened; lived at Paignton near Torquay 1859–67, at Chelston Cross, Torquay which he built, 1867 to death; conducted at the Admiralty establishment, Torquay, experiments on resistance and propulsion of ships 1870 to death; M.I.C.E. 1846, mem. of council 1877; F.R.S. 2 June 1870, royal medallist 1876. d. Admiralty house, Simon’s Town, Cape of Good Hope 4 May 1879. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lx, 395–404 (1880); Nature xx, 148–50, 169–73 (1879); Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix, pp. ii-vi (1879); Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences (1882) ii, 14–17.

FRY, Francis (2 son of Joseph Storrs Fry 1769–1835). b. Westbury-on-Trym near Bristol 28 Oct. 1803; partner in firm of J. S. Fry & Sons, cocoa and chocolate manufactures, Bristol; a director of Bristol and Gloucester railway 1839–45, of Bristol and Exeter, South Devon and other railways; his collection of British bibles said to be finest in the world became property of the Bible Society, March 1890; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1863; published A description of the Great Bible 1539, and the six editions of Cranmer’s Bible 1540 and 1541 printed by Grafton and Whitchurch 1865 and 11 other books. d. Tower house, Cotham, Bristol 12 Nov. 1886. A brief memoir of F. Fry. By his son T. Fry, privately printed (1887), portrait.

FULCHER, George Williams. Bookseller, stationer and printer at Sudbury, Suffolk; started the Sudbury Pocket Book 1825, edited it 1825 to death; author of The village paupers and other poems 1845; Life of Thomas Gainsborough 1856 and other books. d. Sudbury 19 June 1855 in 60 year.

FULFORD, Right Rev. Francis (2 son of Baldwin Fulford of Great Fulford, Devon). b. Sidmouth, Devon 3 June 1803; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch. and Ex. coll. Ox., fellow 1824–30; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1838, hon. D.D. 1850; R. of Trowbridge, Wilts. 1832–42; R. of Croydon, Cambs. 1842–45; min. of Curzon chapel, Hanover sq. London 1845–50; bishop of Montreal 19 July 1850 to death, consecrated in Westminster Abbey 25 July; metropolitan bishop of Canada 9 July 1860 to death; edited Colonial church chronicle and missionary journal 1848–50; author of A course of plain sermons on the Church of England 2 vols. 1837–40 and 10 other books. d. See house, Montreal 9 Sep. 1868. F. Taylor’s Last three bishops appointed by the Crown for the Anglican church of Canada (1870) 23–130, portrait; I.L.N. 24 Aug. 1850 p. 168, portrait, 29 Nov. 1862 pp. 576, 587, portrait.

FULFORD, John (brother of the preceding). b. 16 Feb. 1809; entered navy 1821; captain 1848; R.A. 1866; retired admiral 5 Aug. 1877. d. Bemerton, Salisbury 15 Feb. 1888.

FULLER, Charles Francis. Sculptor at Florence; exhibited 28 sculptures at the R.A. 1859–75. d. Florence 10 March 1875 aged 45.

FULLER, Francis. b. Coulsdon, Surrey 29 June 1807; surveyor to London, Brighton and South Coast railway 25 years; constructed line from Caterham Junction to Caterham at his own cost and without aid of act of parliament; promoted with Sir Henry Cole and Scott Russell the Great Exhibition of 1851; declined knighthood; managing director of Crystal Palace co. 1852; saw the race for the Derby at Epsom 1821–84, 64 years, a fact unparalleled in turf history; author of Alexandra Park 1873. d. 63 St. Aubyn’s, Hove, Brighton 27 May 1887. The Field 4 June 1887 p. 769; I.L.N. xix, 487, 508 (1851), portrait.

FULLER, Henry Peter. b. 1785; a surgeon in London 1807–59; a governor of St. George’s hospital 1817 to death, visiting apothecary there 1819 to death, raised in 1830 sum of £20,000 for rebuilding the hospital, where one of the wards is named after him. d. Sarratt hall, Rickmansworth, Herts. 28 Aug. 1866.

FULLER, Right Rev. Thomas Brock. b. Kingston, Upper Canada 16 July 1810; R. of St. George’s, Toronto 1853–67; archdeacon of Toronto 1867–75; bishop of Niagara 1875 to death. d. Bishophurst, Hamilton, Canada 17 Dec. 1884.

FULLERTON, Lady Georgiana Charlotte (younger dau. of 1 Earl Granville 1773–1846). b. Tixall hall, Staffs. 23 Sep. 1812; admitted into R.C. church 29 March 1846; enrolled herself in the third order of St. Francis 1856; founded with Miss Taylor a religious community called the Poor Servants of the Mother of God Incarnate 1868; author of Ellen Middleton, a tale 3 vols. 1844; Too strange not to be true, a tale 3 vols. 1864 and 33 other books. (m. 13 July 1833 Alexander George Fullerton of Ballingtoy castle, co. Antrim). d. Ayrfield, Bournemouth 19 Jany. 1885. bur. in cemetery of convent of Sacred Heart, Roehampton, Surrey 23 Jany. Life of Lady Georgiana Fullerton, from the French of Mrs. Madame Augustus Craven. By H. J. Coleridge (1888), portrait.

FULLERTON, John (son of Wm. Fullerton of Carstairs). b. 16 Dec. 1775; an advocate Feb. 1798; a lord of session with title of Lord Fullerton 7 Feb. 1829 to Nov. 1853 when he retired. d. Edinburgh 3 Dec. 1853.

FULLOM, Stephen Watson. edited United Service Mag. many years; resided at Torquay; author of The King and the countess 3 vols. 1849; The great highway 3 vols. 1854; History of woman 2 vols. 1855; The last days of Jerusalem, a song 1871 and 11 other books. d. in a cab at Liverpool 13 July 1872 aged 54.

FULTON, Hamilton Henry (son of Hamilton Fulton, C.E., state engineer to North Carolina and Georgia 1819–29, who d. 1834). b. Charles st. London 1813; pupil to his father 1829–39; M.I.C.E. 6 May 1845; an engineer in London from 1846; engineer of West London and Crystal palace railway, of Ryde and Ventnor railway, and of Salisbury and Dorset junction railway 1860; projected a railway bridge over the Severn 1863 and a scheme for Manchester ship canal 1882; author of London Water Supply 1869. d. Bedford house, Chiswick 10 Aug. 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii, 418–22 (1886).

FURLEY, Robert (3 son of Robert Furley of Canterbury). b. 1811; solicitor at Ashford, Kent 1832–69; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; author of A history of the Weald of Kent 2 vols. 1871–74. d. Ashford, Kent 9 Sep. 1887.

FURNELL, Michael Cudmore. b. 1 July 1829; M.R.C.S. 1851, F.R.C.S. 1870; M.D. St. Andrews 1877; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co. 7 Feb. 1855; surgeon to governor of Madras 1871–73; principal and professor of medicine, Medical college, Madras 1875–80; surgeon general Madras, April 1885 to death. d. Monte Carlo 24 May 1888.

FURNER, William (eld. son of John Furner of Brighton). b. Brighton 1791; admitted attorney 1815; member of firm of Hill, Fitzburgh and Furner at Brighton 30 years; comr. of bankrupts for Brighton district; judge of local courts of request at Brighton and Shoreham 1840–47; judge of county courts, circuit 50 (Sussex), March 1847 to 20 Sep. 1877 when he resigned; barrister G.I. 7 May 1851. d. 18 Palmeira sq. Brighton 25 Nov. 1877.

FURNESS, Richard (son of Samuel Furness of Eyam, Derbyshire, farmer). b. Eyam 2 Aug. 1791; a currier at Eyam 1813; schoolmaster in free school at Dore, Derbyshire 1821; author of The Rag Bag 1832 a satirical poem; Medicus-Magus, a poem in three cantos, Sheffield 1836, title was afterwards altered to The Astrologer. d. Eyam 13 Dec. 1857. The poetical works of R. Furness with a sketch of his life, By G. C. Holland, M.D. (1858).

FURTADO, Teresa Elizabeth (dau. of Charles Furtado of London, professor of music, by Annie Flanagan). b. 12 a.m. at 19 Edward st. Hampstead road, London 6 June 1845; made her dÉbut on the stage at New Royalty theatre 8 Feb. 1864 as Mercury in Burnand’s burlesque Ixion; leading actress at Olympic theatre 1865–6, then at Adelphi theatre where she played Esmeralda in Notre Dame 10 April 1872. (m. 10 Aug. 1873 John Clarke, comedian, who d. 20 Feb. 1879 aged 49). d. 77 Mornington road, Regent’s park, London 9 Aug. 1877. Illust. sp. and dr. news 17 Oct. 1874 p. 49, portrait, and p. 75; Era 12 Aug. 1877 p. 4, col. 2, 19 Aug. p. 5, col. 2.

FYDELL, Samuel Richard (elder son of Thomas Fydell 1740–1812, M.P. for Boston). b. Hardwicke hall near Chepstow 6 April 1771; receiver general for Lincolnshire 1794 to 1834 when office was abolished by Land tax amendment act 1834 and he declined pension offered him; sheriff of Rutland 1840; lieut. col. of South Lincoln militia. d. Morcott hall, Rutland 1 Feb. 1868. bur. in family vault St. Botolph’s church, Boston. G.M. v, 395 (1868).

FYFE, Andrew (eld. son of Andrew Fyfe of Edinburgh, anatomist 1754–1824). b. 18 Jany. 1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1814; fellow of college of surgeons Edin. 1818, pres. 1842–3; professor of chemistry in Univ. of Aberdeen 1844 to death; author of Elements of Chemistry 2 vols. 1827, 3 ed. 1833. d. 4 Windsor st. Edinburgh 31 Dec. 1861.

FYFE, James Hamilton (only son of John Fyfe of Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 1837; ed. at City of London school; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1863; a reporter on Edinburgh Express, Scotsman, Times; assistant editor of Pall Mall Gazette 1867–71, of Saturday Review 1871 to about 1878; author of Triumphs of invention and discovery 1860; British enterprise beyond the seas or our colonies 1863 and other books. d. 35 Cathcart road, West Brompton, London 5 June 1880.

FYFE, William Baxter Collier. b. Dundee about 1836; studied at R.S.A. and in Paris; painter in London 1863 to death; exhibited 23 pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. gallery 1866–79. d. 62 Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 15 Sep. 1882.

FYFE, William Wallace (eld. son of Peter Fyfe, R.N. of Dundee). A contributor to the newspaper press; promoter and manager of the Church and Country Newspaper Co., and of the Newspaper Press college at Dorchester about 1865, both schemes were unsuccessful and involved him in loss; edited The Provincial Souvenir, Paisley 1846; author of Agricultural science applied in practice 1859; Canada as a field for emigration 1861 and 8 other books. d. Houndsgate, Nottingham 25 Sep. 1867. Newspaper Press 1 Oct. 1867 p. 205.

FYNMORE, James. Midshipman R.N. at Trafalgar 1805 of which battle he was last survivor; captain R.M. 1836–1848, hon. lieut. col. 28 Nov. 1854 to death. d. Blenheim grove, Rye lane, Peckham 15 April 1887 in 94 year. Graphic xix, 217 (1879), portrait, xxxv, 448 (1887), portrait.

FYSH, Rev. Frederick. Ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; lived at 2 Duke st. Bath 1840–47, at 6 Lower terrace, Torquay 1856; author of Catechism of the Apocalypse 1844; A Lyrical version of the Psalms 2 vols. 1851; Historia Apodeixis HorÆ historicÆ et chronologicÆ 5 vols. 1856 and 15 other books. d. 1867.