Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

BIRMINGHAM, John. b. 1816; lived at Millbrook near Tuam; discovered a remarkable new star in Corona Borealis 12 May 1866; author of Catalogue of red stars in Transactions of Royal Irish Academy xxvi, 249 (1879); Cunningham medallist of the Academy 1884; discovered 22 May 1881 a deep red star in Cygnus which proved strikingly variable and became known by his name; author of a small poetical work entitled Anglicania or England’s mission to the Celt 1863. d. Millbrook 7 Sep. 1884.

BIRMINGHAM, Very Rev. Patrick. Dean of the lay college and professor of humanity Carlow college 1851 to July 1854 when he went to Australia; vice pres. and professor of theology at Carlow college Sep. 1864 to July 1871 when he went again to Australia. d. Fitzroy sq. London 9 Sep. 1883.

BIRNIE, Alexander. b. Morayshire 1826; a baptist minister at Preston; walked to Falkirk 1860; a painter at the Carron works Falkirk; wrote articles in Falkirk Advertiser under signature of Cock of the Steeple; started the Falkirk Liberal a penny weekly paper 1861 which soon collapsed; having been without food or drink for a fortnight, he entered the workhouse Morpeth where he d. March 1862.

BIRRELL, David. b. 15 Sep. 1800; entered Bengal army 1817; commanded a brigade at battle of Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; lieut. col. 51 N.I. 1851, of 52 N.I. 1852 and of 72 N.I. 1857 to 1858; M.G. 25 April 1858; general 23 July 1876. d. 28 Oct. 1878.

BIRT, William Radcliff. b. 15 July 1804; employed by Sir John Herschel in the reduction and arrangement of his barometric observations; investigated subject of atmospheric waves for the British Association; reduced and discussed electrical observations made at Kew 1848; F.R.A.S. 14 Jany. 1859; the first pres. of the Selenographical society 1877 or 1878 to death; author of Hurricane and Sailor’s guide 1850; Handbook of the law of storms 1854, new ed. 1878. d. Leytonstone, Essex 14 Dec. 1881. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlii, 142–43 (1882).

BIRTWHISTLE, John. Ensign 32 Foot 14 April 1813; major 19 Jany. 1839 to 12 March 1841 when placed on h.p; M.G. 28 Aug. 1865. d. Cheltenham 6 Oct. 1867 aged 75.

BISHOP, Anne (dau. of Daniel Riviére of London, artist). b. London 1814; student at Royal academy of music June 1824 to June 1828; a singer at Philharmonic concerts 1831; one of chief singers at Vauxhall gardens, the Oratorio concerts and country festivals; went abroad with R. N. C. Bochsa the harpist 1839; sang at 260 concerts in chief cities of Europe Sept. 1839 to May 1843; sang with great success at St. Petersburg 1840–41 and in Italy 1843–46; appeared in 20 operas at the San Carlo, Naples; went to America 1846 where she appeared at Park theatre New York 4 Aug. 1847 as Linda; went to Australia 1855; sang at the Crystal palace London 1858; gave her farewell concert at Surrey music hall 17 Aug. 1859; sang in Canada, Mexico and Havana 1859–65; went to California 1865; wrecked on her way from Honolulu to China Feb. 1866; arrived in India 1867; sang in Australia 1868; re-appeared at Steinway hall New York Jany. 1881. (m. (1) 1832 Sir Henry Rowley Bishop 1786–1855. m. (2) at New York 30 April 1858, Martin Schultz). d. New York 18 March 1884. Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, third series 1860, portrait; N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs, 2 ed. (1851) 200–203.

BISHOP, Rev. Daniel Godfrey. Head master of Buntingford gr. sch. Herts. 1841–74; V. of Tibshelf near Alfreton, Derbyshire 1874 to death; author of numerous articles upon biblical criticism, classical literature, and general biography in Penny Cyclopædia. d. Briston vicarage, Norfolk 14 April 1880 in 86 year.

BISHOP, Rev. Francis. b. Dorchester 27 July 1813; Unitarian minister at Cheltenham 1840, at Warrington 1841, at George’s meeting Exeter 1844–47, at Liverpool 1847–56, at Manchester 1856–58 and at Chesterfield 1858 to death; edited The Christian Investigator; author of The atonement, or God’s way of speaking and man’s way of speaking 1843. d. Chesterfield 5 Aug. 1869. The Inquirer (1869) 533.

BISHOP, George. b. Leicester 21 Aug. 1785; a maker of British wines in London, being the largest maker in England; erected an observatory at South Villa, Regent’s Park 1836 where 11 planets were discovered 1847–54, after his death the dome and the instruments were removed by his son George Bishop to his house at Twickenham; F.R.A.S. 1830, sec. 1833–39, treasurer 1840–57, pres. 1857–59; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; published in 1852 Astronomical observations during the years 1839–51. d. South villa, Regent’s Park, London 14 June 1861. Monthly notices of Royal Astronomical Soc. xxii, 104–106 (1862).

BISHOP, Sir Henry Rowley (son of Mr. Bishop of London, Watchmaker). b. Great Portland st. London 18 Nov. 1786; pupil of Francesco Bianchi the composer; composer of ballet music at Italian opera house 1806; produced his opera of The Circassian bride at Drury Lane theatre 23 Feb. 1809, theatre was burnt down the next night; musical director and composer at Covent Garden theatre 1810–23, where he produced 50 musical dramas; director of music at King’s theatre, Haymarket 1816–17; received freedom of city of Dublin 2 Aug. 1820; composer at Drury Lane theatre 1825–28; musical director of Vauxhall gardens 1830–33; director of Her Majesty’s concerts of ancient music 1840–48; Reid professor of Music in Univ. of Edin. Nov. 1841 to Dec. 1843; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 June 1842, being the first musician who ever received that honour; professor of music in Univ. of Ox. Jany. 1848 to death; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1848, Mus. Doc. 1853; author of many songs and glees, best known being Bid me discourse, Should he upbraid, The winds whistle cold, My pretty Jane, Mynheer Van Dunck and of the trio and chorus The chough and crow. d. 13 Cambridge st. Edgware road, London 30 April 1855. I.L.N. xix, 669–70 (1851), portrait; Charles Mackay’s Forty years recollections ii, 165–217 (1877); Illust. news of the world iv, 381 (1859), portrait.

BISHOP, James. b. Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1793; a cloth worker 1813; partner with Atkins and Gillman, proprietors of a menagery which became a formidable opponent to George Wombwell’s menagery; attended all the great fairs in England; proprietor of various exhibitions; father of 20 children; the oldest showman in England. d. Plymouth 19 Feb. 1881.

BISHOP, John (4 son of Samuel Bishop of Pimperne, Dorset). b. 15 Sep. 1797; studied at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; M.R.C.S. 1824, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1851, Hunterian orator 1859; member of Medical society of London 1839, councillor, trustee, orator and Lettsomian lecturer successively, and pres. 1852; F.R.S. 9 May 1844; very successful in treatment of impediments of speech; author of On articulate sounds and on the causes and cure of impediments of speech 1851; Researches into the pathology and treatment of deformities in the human body 1852; The Lettsomian lectures on Bones 1855; On the construction of hearing and speaking instruments 1856. d. Strangeways-Marshall, Dorset 29 Sep. 1873. Proc. of royal society xxi, 5–6 (1873); British medical journal ii, 450 (1873).

BISHOP, William. Agent at 170 New Bond st. London for Westley Richards the gunmaker 1820 to death; brought into public notice by Vincent Dowling, who rarely wrote a report of a prize fight without bringing him on the scene; got the Dog Stealers act passed which is known as Bishop’s act; well known in London as “the Bishop of Bond st.” d. 170 New Bond st. 16 March 1871 in 74 year. Illust. sporting news ii, 164 (1863), portrait.

BISSET, Rev. James (2 son of George Bisset of Udny, Aberdeenshire, schoolmaster who d. 1812). b. Udny 20 April 1795; ed. at Marischal coll. and Univ. of Aberdeen; kept a school at Udny 1812–25 which became celebrated; licensed by presbytery of Ellon 31 March 1819; minister of parish of Bourtie, Aberdeenshire June 1825 to death; ordained 19 April 1826; D.D. Aberdeen 23 Feb. 1850; moderator of general assembly 22 May 1862. d. Bourtie 8 Sep. 1872.

BISSET, Sir John. b. Perth 1777; commissary general 31 July 1811 to 1819 when placed on h.p.; served through Peninsular war; K.C.H. 1832; knighted at St. James’s Palace 6 Nov. 1832; K.C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; granted pension of £550; author of Memoranda regarding the duties of the Commissariat on field service abroad 1846. d. Perth 3 April 1854.

BISSHOPP, Cecil (son of Harry Bisshopp, colonel in the army). Cornet 14 Dragoons 10 Dec. 1799; major 11 Foot 6 Sep. 1834 to 17 May 1844 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; colonel 16 Foot 16 May 1857 to death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818. d. Stoke, Plymouth 21 March 1858.

BISSHOPP, Sir Edward Cecil, 11 Baronet. b. 23 Feb. 1826; succeeded 15 Dec. 1865. d. 27 Jany. 1870.

BISSHOPP, Sir George Curzon, 10 Baronet. b. 10 April 1823; succeeded 23 Jany. 1849. d. Parham park near Hastings 15 Dec. 1865.

BISSON, Edward Leonard (son of Rev. Amias Bisson, R. of St. Laurens, Jersey). b. St. Laurens 1797; jurat or judge of the royal court Jersey 1832 to death; lieutenant bailiff 1839 to death. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 1 April 1884 in 88 year.

BLAAUW, William Henry (only son of Wm. Blaauw of Beechland, Newick, Sussex 1748–1808). b. Queen Anne st. London 25 May 1793; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; chief founder of Sussex Archæological Society 18 June 1846, sec. 1846–58, edited Society’s Collections 1846–56; elected F.S.A. 30 May 1850, admitted 27 Feb. 1851; member of council of Camden Society 1848–65, treasurer 1861–65; sheriff of Sussex 1859; author of The barons’ war, including the battles of Lewes and Evesham 1844, 2 ed. 1871. d. Beechland 26 April 1870. Sussex Archæological Collections xxii, 9–11 (1870), portrait.

BLACHFORD, Augustus George. Ensign 24 Foot 12 Nov. 1825; lieut. col. 30 March 1858 to 9 March 1860 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of major general. d. Sheringham near Cromer 13 Nov. 1884 aged 78.

BLACHFORD, John. b. 1790; solicitor in City of London 1818 to death; head of firm of Blachford, Riches and Wood of 25 Abchurch lane to death; vestry clerk of parish of St. James Aldgate 40 years. d. 4 Jany. 1886.

BLACHLEY, Henry. 2 Lieutenant R.A. 10 Aug. 1804; lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841 to 4 April 1843 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 27 Feb. 1866. d. Banwell, Somerset 13 Aug. 1868.

BLACK, Adam (son of Charles Black of Edinburgh, builder). b. Charles st. Edin. 20 Feb. 1784; ed. at high sch. Edin.; opened a bookseller’s shop at 57 North bridge, Edin. 1808; published Edinburgh Review 1827 to death, and Encyclopædia Britannica, 7 ed. 22 vols. 1830–42, 8 ed. 22 vols. 1853–61, wrote many articles in it; master of the Merchant Company Edin. 1831; a member of the town council 1832; lord provost 1843–48; pres. of Philosophical Institution 1845; bought works of Sir Walter Scott on behalf of an association of 60 persons for £27,000 March 1851; M.P. for Edinburgh 9 Feb. 1856 to 6 July 1865; retired from business 1865. d. 38 Drummond place, Edin. 24 Jany. 1874. A bronze memorial statue of him in East Prince’s st. gardens was unveiled 3 Nov. 1877. A fine portrait of him by Sir J. W. Gordon is in the council room Edinburgh. Life of A. Black by A. Nicolson 1885; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 179–83, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. viii, 467 (1865).

BLACK, Rev. Alexander (son of John Black of Aberdeen, gardener). b. Aberdeen 1789; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal college, B.A. 1807, D.D. May 1824; licensed by presbytery of Aberdeen 9 Feb. 1814; minister of Tarves Nov. 1817 to 27 June 1832; ordained 1 April 1818; professor of divinity in Marischal college Aberdeen April 1832 to 1843 when he joined the Free church at the Disruption; sent to the East to make enquiries as to expediency of beginning a mission to the Jews 1839; professor of exegetical theology in New college Edinburgh about 1844–1856. d. Edinburgh 24 or 27 Jany. 1864 in 75 year.

BLACK, James. b. Scotland 1787; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1808; assistant surgeon R.N. 1809; practised at Bolton to 1839 and 1848–56, at Manchester 1839–48, and at Edin. 1856 to death; M.D. Glasgow 1820, L.R.C.S. Eng. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1860; an original member of British Association 1831; pres. of British medical association 1842; pres. of Provincial medical association 1853; pres. of Manchester Geological Society; F.G.S. 1838, F.G.S. of France 1848; F.R.S. Edin. 1857; author of An inquiry into the capillary circulation of the blood 1825; A comparative view of the more intimate nature of fever 1826; A manual of the bowels 1840; A medico-topographical, geological and statistical sketch of Bolton and its neighbourhood, a paper of 100 pages in the Transactions of Provincial medical and surgical association. d. 2 George sq. Edin. 30 April 1867 in 80 year. Proc. of Royal Society of Edin. vi, 188 (1869).

BLACK, John (only son of Ebenezer Black of Burnhouses near Dunse, Berwickshire, farm labourer). b. Burnhouses 1783; articled to a writer at Dunse 1796–1800; clerk in an accountant’s office Edinburgh; engaged on the Morning Chronicle daily paper in London 1810, principal editor 1819–44; fought a harmless duel with John Arthur Roebuck, M.P. 19 Nov. 1835; sold his library of 30,000 volumes 1844; translated Humboldt’s Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain 4 vols. 1811–12 and other books. d. Birling, Kent 15 June 1855. C. Mackay’s Forty years’ recollections i, 70–95, ii, 177–78; I.L.N. xxvii, 13–14 (1855), portrait.

BLACK, John. b. Glenrinnes, Upper Banff 1834; professor of humanity in University of Aberdeen 1868 to death. d. at his college residence Old Aberdeen 17 Nov. 1881.

BLACK, Neil (son of Archibald Black of Cowal Argyleshire, sheep farmer). b. Cowal 1804; sailed for Adelaide April 1839; bought a station near Glenormiston, Victoria; bought the Sisters station; his annual sales of cattle attracted buyers from all parts of Australia; member of legislative council of Victoria for the Western province 1856 to death. d. Mount Noorat, Victoria 15 May 1880. Men of the time in Australia, Victorian series (1878) p. 16.

BLACK, Patrick (2 son of colonel Patrick Black of the Bengal cavalry who d. about 1819). b. Aberdeen 1813; ed. at Eton 1828–30 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.D. 1836; F.R.C.P. 1845, censor 3 times, Croonian lecturer 1855: assistant phys. to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1842, warden of the medical school 1851–56, physician and clinical lecturer 1860–78, lecturer on medicine 1861–78; author of Chloroform how shall we ensure, safety in its administration 1855; Essay on the Spleen 1876; revised the Latin part of the Nomenclature of diseases for Royal College of Phys. 1867. d. 11 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 12 Oct. 1879. St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports xv, pp. xxix-xl (1879).

BLACK, Thomas. b. Wemyss 1819; surgeon at Anstruther 1839 to death; his body was found floating in the harbour of Anstruther 29 Feb. 1864. Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife (1866) 64.

BLACK, William. b. Anstruther 1770; entered navy 13 April 1793; captain 7 June 1814; retired R.A. 9 Oct. 1846. d. Ormsby, Norfolk 6 Nov. 1852 in 82 year. Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife (1866) 62.

BLACK, Rev. William. b. Auchinairn parish of Cadder 1801; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow; licensed by presbytery of Hamilton Aug. 1824; minister of Shettleston April 1826; minister of Barony church Glasgow Sep. 1828 to death; D.D. Glasgow April 1834. d. Florence 15 Jany. 1851 in 50 year. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy, 2 series (1849) 17–26.

BLACK, William Henry (eld. son of John Black of Kintore, Aberdeenshire). b. 7 May 1808; a tutor among families residing at and near Tulse Hill, Surrey 1825; clerk in the Public Record Office, assistant keeper; founder and sec. of Chronological institute of London Dec. 1850, registrar 21 Dec. 1853; founded Palestine archæological association 13 Sep. 1853 and Anglo-biblical institute; F.S.A. 9 Dec. 1858; pastor of the Seventh Day Baptists (one of smallest sects in England) in Mill yard, Leman st. Whitechapel 1840 to death; prepared an edition of the British part of the Itinerary of Antoninus (never issued); contributed to Samuel Bentley’s Excerpta Historica 1831; catalogued the manuscripts of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, the Arundel MSS. in the library of the Heralds’ College, and Colfe’s library at Lewisham. d. 15 Mill yard, Whitechapel 12 April 1872. Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London (1872) 227–37; J. E. Ritchie’s Religious life of London (1870) 159–66.

BLACKADDER, Robert Barnes. b. Scotland; came to London 1834, employed by Roake and Varty and other booksellers; edited and published Chronological Bible 1867 and Chronological New Testament 1867. d. Booksellers’ provident retreat Abbot’s Langley 26 June 1883 aged 71.

BLACKALL, John (6th son of Rev. Theophilus Blackall, Preb. of Exeter cath. who d. 4 Aug. 1781). b. St. Paul’s st. Exeter 24 Dec. 1771; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Ox.; B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796, M.B. 1797, M.D. 1801; studied medicine at St. Bartholomew’s hosp. London; practised at Exeter 1797–1801 and 1807–52; physician to Devon and Exeter hosp. 1 June 1797–1801 when he resigned, and June 1807; practised at Totnes 1801–1807; physician to St. Thomas’s lunatic asylum Exeter 1812; candidate of R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814; fellow 22 Dec. 1815; the chief physician in the West of England 1822–52; author of Observations on the nature and cure of dropsies 1813 4 ed. 1818 which at once placed him in the rank of the first physicians of his day and acquired for him an European reputation. d. Southernhay Exeter 10 Jany. 1860. Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians iii, 138–41 (1878), abridged from British Medical Journal i, 75–76 (1860).

BLACKALL, Robert. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel of 43 N.I. 18 July 1848, of 2 European Fusiliers 7 April 1851, and of 13 N.I. 19 Aug. 1859 to death; L.G. 18 Dec. 1860. d. 20 April 1863.

BLACKALL, Samuel Wensley (eld. son of Robert Blackall of Colamber manor, co. Longford who d. 1855). b. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign 85 Foot 26 June 1827, lieut. 17 Feb. 1832 to 1 Feb. 1833 when he sold out; sheriff of co. Longford 1833, of co. Tyrone 1862; M.P. for co. Longford 13 Aug. 1847 to April 1851; lieutenant governor of Dominica 1 April 1851 to 1857; governor of Sierra Leone 1862; governor of West African Settlements 23 Feb. 1866; governor of Queensland 4 May 1868 to death. d. Brisbane 21 Jany. 1871.

BLACKBOURN, John (son of James Blackbourn of Billingsgate, London, fish salesman). One of the singing boys of St. Paul’s cathedral 1800–1808, apprenticed to John Sale the master of the boys 1811; organist of Wandsworth parish church 1818–21 and of Clapham parish church 1821 to death; member of Royal Society of Musicians 1818, of the Madrigal Society 1819, of the Glee Club 1819, and secretary to 1825. d. Clapham 18 Dec. 1854 aged 62.

BLACKBURN, Rev. John. b. the Minories, London 1791; ed. at Stepney and Hoxton; a missionary in the Irish Evangelical society; pastor of Church of Christ at Finchingfield, Essex 25 Sep. 1815 to 1822; pastor of Claremont chapel Pentonville, London 1822 to death; editor of Congregational Magazine; originated and edited Congregational Calendar, afterwards merged in the Congregational year book; a projector and sec. of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1831; originator of the Christian Instruction society 1825; edited The Biblical educator. d. 17 Holford sq. Pentonville 16 June 1855. Congregational year book (1856) 208–10; J. Waddington’s Congregational history v, 198–202 (1870).

BLACKBURN, Peter (eld. son of John Blackburn of Killearn near Glasgow). b. Levenside, Dumbartonshire 1811; ed. at Eton; cornet 2 Life Guards 29 Jany. 1830, lieut. 4 May 1832 to 1836; M.P. for Stirlingshire 5 March 1855 to 6 July 1865; a lord of the Treasury 15 March 1859 to June 1859; chairman of Edinburgh and Glasgow railway Sep. 1846 to death. d. Killearn house, Killearn 20 May 1870.

BLACKBURNE, Francis (eld. son of Richard Blackburne of Great Footstown, co. Meath who d. 1798). b. Great Footstown 11 Nov. 1782; entered Trinity college Dublin July 1798, scholar 1801, B.A. 1803, LL.B. and LLD. 1852; called to bar in Ireland Jany. 1805; went the Home circuit; K.C. 1822; administered the Insurrection act in Limerick and Clare 1822–24; serjeant at law July 1826, king’s second serjeant at law 19 April 1830 to Jany. 1831; attorney general in Ireland 11 Jany. 1831 to April 1835 and 23 Sep. 1841 to Oct. 1842; P.C. Ireland 1831; master of the Rolls 1 Nov. 1842 to 23 Jany. 1846; chief justice of Queen’s Bench 23 Jany. 1846 to Feb. 1852; lord chancellor of Ireland Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852 and 24 July 1866 to March 1867; vice chancellor of Univ. of Dub. Dec. 1851; one of Commissioners of National education 1852–53; lord justice of Appeal in Ireland Oct. 1856 to July 1866; offered the Lord Chancellorship by Earl of Derby 24 Feb. 1858 but declined; refused a Baronetcy May 1867. d. Rathfarnham Castle near Dublin 17 Sep. 1867. Life of the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne by his son Edward Blackburne 1874, portrait; O. J. Burke’s History of lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 277–93; Dublin univ. mag. xxiv, 470–78 (1844), portrait; I.L.N. xii, 323 (1848), portrait.

BLACKBURNE, John George. b. London 4 June 1815; articled to Wm. Dunn of Oldham, surveyor 31 May 1828, partner with him 5 June 1835 to 27 June 1840 when he died; practised at Oldham 1835 to death; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1855; F.G.S. 1835; pres. of Manchester district society of surveyors and valuers 1866. d. Dryclough, Oldham 30 Sep. 1871. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 206–209 (1872).

BLACKBURNE, John Ireland. b. 26 May 1783; M.P. for Newton, Lancashire 8 May 1807 to 10 June 1818 and for Warrington 7 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. d. Hale hall near Warrington 27 Jany. 1874.

BLACKER, Rev. George (elder son of James Blacker of Dublin, police magistrate). b. 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; scholar 1809, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1858; C. of St. Andrew’s, Dublin 1811–38; V. of Maynooth 1838 to death; Preb. of St. Patrick’s cathedral 28 Dec. 1840 to death; author of Castle of Maynooth 1853, 2 ed. 1860; Castle of Kilkea 1860; A record of the history of Maynooth church 1867, all privately printed. d. the Rectory, Maynooth 23 May 1871 in 80 year. Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette xiii, 131 (1871).

BLACKER, William. Ensign 60 Foot 3 July 1801; lieut. col. Armagh militia 5 Nov. 1812 to 6 May 1846; vice treasurer of Ireland 1817–1829. d. Carrick house, Armagh 25 Nov. 1855 aged 80.

BLACKETT, Sir Edward, 6 Baronet. b. London 23 Feb. 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 27 Oct. 1816; sheriff of Northumberland 1833; married 4 times. d. Matfen hall, Northumberland 23 Nov. 1885.

BLACKETT, Henry. Publisher in London with Daniel Hurst (who d. 6 July 1870 aged 67). d. The Green, Ealing 7 March 1871 in 45 year.

BLACKIE, John (son of John Blackie of Glasgow, publisher who d. 17 June 1874 aged 92). b. Glasgow 29 Sep. 1805; ed. at the high school; head of the publishing firm of Blackie and Son in Glasgow and London, with branches in every important town in Scotland; member of Glasgow town council 1857; lord provost 1863; originated the City Improvement scheme. d. Hillhead, Lillybank, Glasgow 11 Feb. 1873. Bookseller 1873 p. 205.