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BEARD, Rev. John Relly. b. Southsea, Portsmouth 4 Aug. 1800; ed. at Unitarian college, York; minister at Salford, Manchester 1825; kept a school at Salford 1826; D.D. Univ. of Giessen 1838; minister at Strangeways, Manchester 1848–64; started a scheme for educating young men for home missions, which originated Unitarian home missionary board or college, of which he was the first principal; minister at Sale near Ashton-on-Mersey 1865–73; the first editor of the Christian Teacher 1835; started the Unitarian Herald; author of Voices of the church in reply to Dr. Strauss 1845; Historical and Artistic illustrations of the Trinity 1846; Illustrations of the divine in Christianity 1849; Latin dictionary 1854; Christ the interpreter of scripture 1865; Christian evidence, an antidote to materialism 1868; Autobiography of Satan 1872. d. Ashton upon Mersey 21 Nov. 1876. J. Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 13–17.

BEARD, William (son of a farmer at Banwell, Somerset). b. Banwell 24 April 1772; a small farmer; dug out a cavern in Banwell hill and found many bones of the bear, buffalo, reindeer and wolf about 1826; let his land and spent all his time searching for bones; his collection of bones was bought by the Somersetshire Archæological and natural history society and is now in the museum at Taunton Castle. d. Banwell 9 Jany. 1868. J. Rutter’s Delineations of north western division of Somerset (1829) 147–60, portrait.

BEARDMORE, Nathaniel (2 son of Joshua Beardmore of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 19 March 1816; partner with James Meadows Rendel C.E. in London and Plymouth to 1848; took out a patent for piers and breakwaters 1848; one of the first hydraulic engineers; engineer to Public works loan comrs. and River Thames Conservancy board; M.I.C.E. 3 May 1842; F.R.A.S. 8 Jany. 1858; F.M.S. pres. 1861 and 1862; F.R.G.S. 1852; author of Manual of hydrology 1852, new ed. 1867, which became the text book of the profession for hydraulic engineering. d. Broxbourne, Herts. 24 Aug. 1872; Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxvi, 256–64 (1873).

BEARDMORE, William. b. Greenwich 6 May 1824; partner with Wm. Rigby in the Parkhead rolling mill and forge near Glasgow 1861–71, and partner with his brother 1871 to death, these works became largest of their kind in Scotland and achieved an European reputation; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1860; inventor and patentee. d. Brighton 11 Oct. 1877. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. li, 268–70 (1878).

BEASLEY, Joseph Noble. b. 30 March 1832; lieut. col. Royal Irish Fusiliers 21 June 1880 to death. d. Ismaila, Egypt 20 Sep. 1882.

BEATRICE, Mademoiselle, stage name of Marie Beatrice Binda (dau. of Chevalier Binda, British consul at Florence). b. Lucca, Italy 5 Aug. 1839; acted at Theatres de l’Odéon and Vaudeville, Paris; made her début in London under name of Lucchesini at Haymarket theatre 3 Oct. 1864; played at Lyceum theatre 1865 and in the provinces 1866–68; organised a company 1870 with which she travelled to her death; played in London summers of 1872, 74, 75 and 78; produced and acted chief parts in Our Friends, The Sphinx, Frou-Frou and other translations from the French. d. 102 Earl’s Court road, London 22 Dec. 1878. bur. Père Lachaise cemetery Paris 2 Jany. 1879. The Stage i, 61, 63 (1874), portrait; Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1880) 388–90.

BEATSON, Rev. Benjamin Wrigglesworth (son of Anby Beatson). b. 24 Jany. 1803; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school and Pemb. coll. Cam., 16 wrangler 1825, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; fellow of his college 1827 to death; author of Progressive exercises on the composition of Greek Iambic verse 1836, 10 ed. 1871; Exercises on Latin prose composition 1840; Lessons in ancient history 1853; edited Demosthenes’ Oration against Leptines 1864. d. Charles st. City road, London 20 July 1874.

BEATSON, George Stewart (3 son of Henry Duncan Beatson of Campbelltown, Argyleshire). b. Greenock May 1814; ed. at Glasgow Univ., M.D. 1836; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1836; assistant surgeon army medical department 1838; surgeon general 1 May 1863; principal medical officer of British troops in India 1863–68 and 1871 to death; in charge of Royal Victoria hospital Netley 1868–71; honorary phys. to the Queen 13 March 1866; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Knollswood, Simla 7 June 1874. I.L.N. lxv, 229 (1874), portrait.

BEATSON, William Ferguson. b. about 1804; entered Bengal army 1820; served with British legion in Spain 1835–36; commander of the 10 regiment in Spain 13 July 1836; commanded the Nizam of Hyderabad’s division of cavalry to March 1851; organised a corps of 4000 Bashi Bazouks in Crimean war 1854–55, resigned command of the corps Sep. 1855; served in Indian mutiny 1857–58 when he raised and organised two regiments of cavalry in 6 months; M.G. 3 Oct. 1866; created a knight of San Fernando by Queen Regent of Spain. d. The vicarage New Swindon 4 Feb. 1872. Nolan’s Russian war ii, 753 (1857), portrait; The war department and the Bashi Bazouks by W. F. Beatson 1856, privately printed.

BEATTIE, James. b. parish of Rayne, Scotland 27 Jany. 1781; a shoemaker at Gordonstown in Auchterless; conducted a school of from 30 to 40 pupils for 60 years for which he would never take any payment; known as “the Auchterless John Pounds” after the Portsmouth cobbler of that name who founded ragged schools and died 1839. d. Gordonstown July 1867.

BEATTIE, Joseph Hamilton (son of George Beattie of North of Ireland, architect). b. 12 May 1808; assistant engineer on London and Southampton railway 1837; assistant engineer and locomotive superintendent of London and south western railway 1851 to death; took out many patents for improvements in railway rolling stock and effected great saving in consumption of fuel in working locomotives; M.I.C.E. 1 Dec. 1857. d. South Bank, Surbiton, Surrey 18 Oct. 1871. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 204–206 (1872).

BEATTIE, William (son of James Beattie of Dalton, Annandale who d. 1809). b. Dalton 1793; ed. at Clarencefield academy 1807–13 and Univ. of Edin. 1813–20, M.D. 1818; studied in France, Italy and Germany 1823–26; physician to Duke of Clarence 8 years and private secretary to him 3 years; L.R.C.P. 1827; practised at Hampstead 1827–45; foreign sec. to British Archæological Society; lost £7,000 in Albert Assurance Office Aug. 1869; author of Journal of a residence in Germany 2 vols. 1831; Scotland illustrated 2 vols. 1838; The Waldenses illustrated 2 vols. 1838; The Danube 1844; Life of Thomas Campbell 3 vols. 1848. d. 13 Upper Berkeley st. London 17 March 1875. Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington iii, 255–76 (1855).

BEATTY, George. Second lieutenant R.M. 16 May 1795, colonel commandant 12 Feb. 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846; general 20 June 1855. d. Dublin 27 June 1857 aged 79.

BEATTY, Thomas Edward (son of John Beatty, M.D.) Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. Edin. 1820, M.R.C.S. Ireland 1821, F.R.C.S. 1824; master of South-Eastern Lying-in hospital, Dublin; professor of medical jurisprudence at Royal college of surgeons Dublin, pres. 1850; helped to found City of Dublin hospital 1832; pres. of Dublin Pathological Society 1859; fellow of King and Queen’s college of physicians 2 May 1862, pres. 1864–65; M.D. Dublin 1863. d. 3 May 1872.

BEAUCHAMP, John Reginald Pyndar, 3 Earl (2 son of Wm. Lygon, 1 Earl Beauchamp 1747–1816). Assumed name of Pyndar 22 Oct. 1813; succeeded 12 May 1823. d. 37 Portman sq. London 22 Jany. 1853 in 71 year.

BEAUCHAMP, Henry Beauchamp Lygon, 4 Earl (brother of the preceding). b. 5 Jany. 1784; cornet 13 Dragoons 9 July 1803; lieut. col. 1 Life Guards 17 July 1821 to 10 Jany. 1837; colonel 10 Hussars 23 June 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. for Worcestershire 1816–1831 and for West Worcestershire 1832–1853; succeeded 22 Jany. 1853. d. Madresfield Court, Great Malvern 8 Sep. 1863.

BEAUCLERK, Aubrey William. b. 20 Feb. 1801; M.P. for East Surrey 15 Dec. 1832 to 17 July 1837. d. Ardglass castle, co. Down 1 Feb. 1854.

BEAUFORT, John Henry Somerset, 7 Duke of (eld. child of Henry Charles Somerset, 6 Duke of Beaufort 1766–1835). b. 5 Feb. 1792; cornet 10 Hussars 1811; aide de camp to Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula; captain 37 Foot 2 Dec. 1819 to 25 Oct. 1821 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Monmouth 30 Dec. 1813 to 3 Dec. 1832 and for West Gloucs. 12 Jany. 1835 to 23 Nov. 1835 when he succeeded as 7 Duke; junior lord of the Admiralty 1816–1819; lieut. colonel commandant of Gloucestershire yeomanry April 1834 to death; K.G. 1842; master of the Badminton fox hounds 1835 to death. d. Badminton, Gloucs. 17 Nov. 1853. Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known 2 series i, 118–30 (1877); Sporting Review xxxi, 69–70 (1854); I.L.N. xxiii, 448, 476 (1853), portrait.

BEAUFORT, Sir Francis (younger son of Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort 1739–1831, V. of Collon, co. Louth). b. Collon 1774; entered navy 21 June 1787; engaged in the action off Brest 1 June 1794; constructed with R. L. Edgeworth a telegraph from Dublin to Galway 1804; captain R.N. 30 May 1810; conducted survey of coast of Asia Minor 1810–12; granted pension for wounds 2 Dec. 1815, retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; F.R.S. 30 June 1814; one of founders of Royal Astronomical Society 1820 and of Royal Geographical Society 1830; corresponding member of Institute of France; hydrographer of the Admiralty July 1832 to 30 Jany. 1855; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of Karamania or a brief description of the south coast of Asia Minor 1817 which was the chief book of travels of its day. d. Hove near Brighton 17 Dec. 1857 in 84 year. H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 213–30; Quarterly Journal of Geological Soc. xiv, 47–54 (1858); Proc. of Royal Soc. ix, 524–27 (1858).

BEAUFORT, Francis Lestock (son of the preceding). b. 1815; in Bengal civil service 1837–76 when he retired upon the annuity fund; judge of the 24 Purgunnahs beyond the suburbs of Calcutta 1863–76; author of Digest of the criminal law procedure in Bengal 1850. d. 1879.

BEAUFOY, Henry Benjamin Hanbury (eld. son of Mark Beaufoy of London, astronomer 1764–1827). Established 4 scholarships at Univ. of Cam.; gave city of London school £10,000; erected at cost of £10,000 Lambeth Ragged schools opened 5 March 1851, and invested £4,000 in perpetual trust for their maintenance; formed a library of 25000 volumes; privately printed his father’s Nautical and hydraulic experiments 1834; F.R.S. 14 Dec. 1815, F.L.S. d. South Lambeth 12 July 1851 in 66 year. H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i, 7–12 (1865).

BEAULIE, Baron A. de. Belgian envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in London 1 March 1869 to death, d. 43 Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. 11 Oct. 1872 aged 66.

BEAUMONT, Miles Thomas Stapleton, 8 Baron (eld. son of Thomas Stapleton of Carlton hall, Yorkshire 1778–1839). b. Richmond, Yorkshire 4 June 1805; fought a duel with major general Lorenzo Moore on Wimbledon Common 13 Feb. 1832 when he received a bullet in his breast which was never extracted; summoned to House of Lords by writ as one of the coheirs of barony of Beaumont 16 Oct. 1840; col. commandant of 4 West York Militia 18 May 1853 to death; author of Austria and Central Italy 1849; The late edict of Court of Rome; Lord Beaumont’s letter to Lord Zetland 1850, 7 ed. 1850. d. 17 Bruton St. Berkeley sq. London 16 Aug. 1854.

BEAUMONT, Edward Blackett. b. 1802; F.R.S. 4 June 1835, F.R.A.S. d. 33 Norland sq. Notting hill, London 7 June 1878.

BEAUMONT, Sir George Howland, 9 Baronet. b. Addington park, Surrey 12 Sep. 1828; succeeded 7 June 1845; sheriff of Leicestershire 1852. d. Cole Orton hall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch 8 June 1882.

BEAUMONT, Rev. Joseph. b. Castle Donington, Leics. 19 March 1794; Wesleyan minister 1813 to death; minister in Edinburgh 1821–23 and 1833–35, in London 1831–32, 1836–38 and 1845–50, in Liverpool 1839–44; M.D. Edin. 1836; an eloquent and popular preacher; author of Memoir of Mrs. Mary Tatham 1838. d. in the pulpit of Waltham chapel, Hull 21 Jany. 1855. Life by his son Joseph Beaumont 1856, portrait; The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. 1856, 381–403.

BEAUMONT, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1 July 1795; L.S.A. 1822; surgeon at Bradford 1822 to death; pres. of Bradford Medical Association; alderman of Bradford; one of the founders of Bradford Temperance Society the first in England 2 Feb. 1830; author of An essay on the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors 1837. d. Bradford 16 Oct. 1859.

BEAUMONT, William Rawlings. b. London 1803; studied at St. Bartholomews hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1844; surgeon to Islington dispensary; went to Toronto 1841; professor of surgery in Toronto Univ. 1843; surgeon to general hospital; M.D. Toronto 1850; emeritus professor of surgery in Trinity college; invented many surgical instruments, especially one for the making of deep sutures 1837, which suggested invention of the Singer sewing machine. d. 12 Oct. 1875. Canadian Lancet 1 Nov. 1875.

BEAUREGARD, Elizabeth, Countess de (dau. of Joseph Hargett). Known as Miss Howard; remarkable for her beauty; mistress of Louis Napoleon to 1853 when he created her Countess de Beauregard. (m. 16 May 1854 Clarence Trelawney, Hussar officer in the Austrian army, he was b. 20 Dec. 1826 and obtained a divorce in Court of appeal Paris Feb. 1865). d. Chateau of Beauregard near Versailles 20 Aug. 1865 aged 42.

BEAVAN, Charles (son of Hugh Beavan of Llowes, Radnorshire). b. March 1805; ed. at Aldenham and Caius coll. Cam., 22 wrangler 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 6 May 1873; practised in Chancery courts; an official examiner of Court of Chancery June 1866 to Jany. 1884 when office abolished; author of Reports of cases in Chancery argued and determined in the Rolls Court 36 vols. 1840–69, being the longest series of authorized reports ever published. d. 91 St. George’s road, Pimlico, London 18 June 1884. Solicitor’s Journal xxviii, 173, 592, 601 (1884).

BEAVAN, Edward (younger brother of the preceding). b. 1814; ed. at Hounslow; practised as special pleader; barrister M.T. 3 May 1844; recorder of Chester 1864–66. d. 15 Feb. 1870.

BEAZLEY, Samuel (son of Samuel Beazley of Whitehall, London, army accoutrement maker). b. Whitehall 1786; served as a volunteer in the Peninsula; designed St. James’s, Lyceum and City of London theatres, also 2 theatres in Dublin, 2 in Belgium, 2 in India and 1 in Brazil; erected London Bridge railway station, most of the stations on North Kent line and Lord Warden hotel at Dover; wrote and arranged more than 100 dramatic pieces chiefly farces and short comedies; author of The Roué [anon.] 3 vols. 1828; The Oxonians, a glance at society 3 vols. 1830. d. Tunbridge Castle 12 Oct. 1851 in 66 year. Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities, I have known, 2 series ii, 70–90 (1877); Lord W. P. Lennox’s Percy Hamilton 1851 in which he is drawn to the life.

BECHER, Alexander Bridport (eld. son of Alexander Becher, captain R.N. who d. 1827). b. 12 June 1796; midshipman R.N. 28 Nov. 1812; captain on h.p. 20 March 1856, retired R.A. 11 June 1874; assistant in Hydrographic office 12 May 1823 to 1865, arranged and methodised all documents preserved there 1823–26; sec. to board of visitors of royal observatory; F.R.A.S. 1830, member of council; edited the Nautical magazine from its commencement in 1832 to 1871; author of The landfall of Columbus on his first voyage to America 1856. d. 46 Upper Gloucester place, London 15 Feb. 1876. Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers (1879) 1–6.

BECHER, Lady Eliza (eld. dau. of John O’Neill, stage manager of the Drogheda theatre). b. Drogheda 1791; made her début in Dublin at Crow street theatre as The widow Cheerly in the Soldier’s daughter 1811 and in London at Covent Garden theatre as Juliet 6 Oct. 1814; the favourite actress in London both in comedy and tragedy 1814–19; said to have made £12,000 a year; acted for the last time 13 July 1819. (m. 18 Dec. 1819 Wm. Wrixon, M.P. for Mallow, he was b. 31 July 1780, assumed name of Becher, was created a baronet 1831 and d. 23 Oct. 1850). d. Ballygiblin near Mallow 29 Oct. 1872. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses i, 33–74 (1844), portrait; Theatrical inquisitor vi, 243 (1815), portrait.

BECHER, John Reid. b. 3 July 1819; 2 lieut. Bengal Engineers 6 March 1838; colonel 13 Oct. 1863; colonel commandant 15 Sep. 1881 to death; served in Afghan campaign 1842 and Sutlej campaign 1846; general 29 July 1878; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Southampton 9 July 1884.

BECHER, Martin William (son of Wm. Becher of Norfolk, farmer who d. 1816). b. Norfolk; served in the Store-keeper general’s department; an officer in Buckinghamshire yeomanry cavalry 1821; won the Northampton steeple chase 4 April 1834; beat the Marquis of Waterford in a match for 1000 guineas a side 1834; won the St. Albans steeple chase 1835 and 1836 and many other races; the best steeple chase rider in England. d. 21 Maida hill, St. John’s Wood, London 11 Oct. 1864 aged 67. Sporting Review lii, 400–404 (1864); Scott and Sebright by the Druid (1885) 292–303, portrait.

BECK, Baroness Von, assumed name of Wilhelmina Racidula; passed herself off as a Hungarian exile who had rendered good service to the cause of independence; came to Birmingham with her secretary Constant Derra July 1851, where she was assisted by many of the Liberal leaders; arrested as an impostor and confined in Moor st. police court 29 Aug.; author of Personal adventures during the late war of independence in Hungary 2 vols. 1850. d. in the ante-room of the Court at Moor st. Birmingham 30 Aug. 1851 aged about 54. The persecution and death of the Baroness Von Beck at Birmingham in August 1851, 8º. 1852; Athenæum (1852) 578, 629, 653, 701, 846 and 869; The facts of the case as to the pretended Baroness Von Beck by J. T. Smith 1852.

BECK, Edward. Commanded a merchant ship; a slate merchant at Isleworth, Middlesex; constructed the great waterworks at Hampton; one of most successful growers of Pelargoniums in the kingdom, long unrivalled as an exhibitor; author of A treatise on the cultivation of the Pelargonium 1847; edited The florist and garden miscellany 4 vols. 1848–61. d. Worton cottage, Isleworth 15 Jany. 1861 aged 57. The Florist Feb. 1861, pp. 36–38.

BECK, Richard. Manufacturing optician at 31 Cornhill, London; author of A treatise on the construction, proper use and capabilities of Smith, Beck and Beck’s achromatic microscopes 1865 and of 9 papers read before the Microscopical Society 1859–66. d. Stamford hill, London 30 Sep. 1866 aged nearly 39.

BECK, Thomas Snow. b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne; ed. at gr. school there, and in Cumberland; apprenticed to a surgeon at Newcastle; student at Univ. college London 1836; M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1847; walked the Paris hospitals 1839–40; visited universities of Switzerland, Italy and Germany 1840–41; M.D. London 1849; M.R.C.P. 1852; practised in London 1841; phys. to Farringdon general dispensary 1850; F.R.S. 5 June 1851, royal medallist 1845. d. 7 Portland place, London 6 Jany. 1877 aged 63. Medical Circular i, 209–211 (1852).

BECKER, Carl Ludwig Christian. b. Ratzeburg in Mecklenberg Strelitz 16 July 1821; manager for Elliott brothers of London electrical engineers 1858; member of the firm 1873 to death; F.R.A.S. Jany. 1874. d. 55 St. Paul’s Road Canonbury 3 April 1875.

BECKET, Thomas. M.R.C.S. 1794, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon 1 Foot Guards 8 July 1795 to 1809; surgeon to the Savoy 28 Sep. 1809. d. 5 Russell place, Fitzroy sq. London 21 July 1856 aged 82.

BECKETT, Sir Edmund, 4 Baronet, b. Gledhow hall, Leeds 29 Jany 1787; M.P. for west riding Yorkshire 12 July 1841 to 23 July 1847, and 11 Dec. 1848 to 23 April 1859; succeeded 17 Nov. 1872. d. Doncaster 24 May 1874. Personalty sworn under £300,000 Aug. 1874. I.L.N. lxiv, 547 (1874) lxv, 236 (1874).

BECKETT, John Staniforth (son of Joseph Beckett, of Barnsley 1751–1840). Presented a dispensary to Barnsley, to which he also left sum of £5000. d. Wombwell near Barnsley 9 Nov. 1868 in 75 year. Personalty sworn under £350,000 Jany. 1869.

BECKETT, Sir Thomas, 3 Baronet. b. Leeds 1 Jany. 1779; succeeded 31 May 1847. d. Somerby park near Gainsborough 17 Nov. 1872. Personalty sworn under £350,000 March 1873.

BECKETT, William (5 son of Sir John Beckett, 1 Baronet 1743–1826). b. Leeds 3 March 1784; principal partner in the eminent banking firm of Beckett and Co. of the Leeds “Old Bank”; M.P. for Leeds 1841 to 1852 and for Ripon 1852 to 1857. d. Brighton 26 Jany. 1863. Rev. R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 506–509.

BECKWITH, John Charles (eld. child of John Beckwith of Halifax, Nova Scotia). b. Halifax 2 Oct. 1789; ensign 50 Foot 1803, exchanged into 95 Foot 1804, captain 1808 to 20 Jany. 1820 when placed on h.p.; served in Hanover, Denmark and Sweden, and in the Peninsula 1809–14; lost his left leg at Waterloo where 4 horses were killed under him 18 June 1815; C.B. 22 June 1815, M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; visited the Vaudois valleys Piedmont Oct. 1827 and 5 succeeding years, lived at St. Jean 1834–39 and at La Tour 1841–51, established 120 schools in the Vaudois valleys all of which he frequently inspected; knight of Sardinian order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus 15 Dec. 1848. (m. 20 June 1850 Caroline Volle of the Vaudois). d. La Tour 19 July 1862. bur. in the cemetery of Tour Pellice. General Beckwith, his life and labours among the Waldenses of Piedmont by J. P. Meille 1873.

BECKWITH, Joseph. An early member of the Corresponding Society which was founded 1791; a contemporary of Hardy and Thelwall; lived in Clerkenwell nearly 60 years. d. 3 Dec. 1860 aged 84.

BECKWITH, William (eld. son of Wm. Beckwith of Trimdon, co. Durham 1772–1847). b. 20 Aug. 1795; cornet 16 Dragoons 7 Jany. 1813; major 14 Dragoons 14 Feb. 1828 to 6 Dec. 1833 when placed on h.p.; colonel 15 Hussars 17 July 1859 to death; general 9 April 1868; K.H. 1832; sheriff of Durham 1858. d. Silkworth near Sunderland 23 Feb. 1871.

BEDDOME, John Reynolds. M.R.C.S. 1811; M.D. Erlangen; surgeon at Romsey 1811 to death; mayor of Romsey 6 times, d. Romsey 26 Dec. 1859. I.L.N. xxxiv, 385 (1859), portrait.