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

ANSELL, Thomas. M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.S.A. 1820; M.D. St. Andrews 1843; surgeon at Bow, London; chairman of Society of Apothecaries 1861 to death; officer of health for Bow; F.L.S. d. of cholera at Harley place, Bow road 24 July 1866 in his 68 year.

ANSON, Augustus Henry Archibald. b. 5 March 1835; captain 84 foot 1855–58; aide de camp to general Grant in Indian mutiny 1857–58; received Victoria cross for bravery at Bolundshawm and Lucknow 24 Dec. 1858; M.P. for Lichfield 1859–68, and for Bewdley 1869–74. d. Cannes 17 Nov. 1877. Mrs. Farlie’s Portraits of the children of the nobility, 3rd series 1841, portrait.

ANSON, Very Rev. Frederic (youngest son of George Adams of Orgrave, Staffs. 1731–89 who assumed name of Anson). b. 23 March 1779; ed. at Eton, Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox.; student 1796, B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, B.D. and D.D. 1839; fellow of All soul’s coll. 1799–1803; R. of Sudbury, Derbyshire 1803–36; canon of Southwell, Notts. 7 Oct. 1826; dean of Chester 9 May 1839 to death; R. of Doddleston, Cheshire 1843 to death. (m. 2 May 1807 Mary Anne only dau. of Rev. Richard Levett of Milford, Staffs., she d. 15 Oct. 1862). d. The deanery, Chester 8 May 1867. bur. Chester cemetery.

ANSON, George (2 son of Thomas Anson, 1 Viscount Anson 1767–1818). b. Shugborough near Stafford 13 Oct. 1797; captain 14 dragoons 1823–25 when placed on h.p.; clerk of the Ordnance 1846–52; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; commanded a division in Bengal 1853 and the Madras army 1854; commander in chief in India 20 Nov. 1855 to death; col. 55 foot 19 Dec. 1856 to death; M.P. for Great Yarmouth 1818–34, for Stoke upon Trent 1836–37, and for South Staffs. 1837–53; a great friend of Duke of York; crack shot of Red House Club, Battersea when pigeon shooting mania was at its height 1828; was never excelled as a judge of racing. d. of cholera at Karnál during the mutiny 27 May 1857. Fortnightly Review xxxix, 541–44 (1883).

ANSON, John William. b. Marylebone, London 31 July 1817; made his début at T.R. Bath as Lissardo in The Wonder 1842; acted in north of England and Ireland 1843–49; manager of Scotch theatres 1849–53; acted at Astley’s 1853–59; founded Dramatic, equestrian and musical sick fund 4 July 1855, Dramatic burial ground at Woking 1856, Dramatic college at Woking 1859, (opened by Prince of Wales 5 June 1865) and the G. V. Brooke lifeboat fund 1866; treasurer and acting manager of Adelphi theatre 1858–78; published Dramatic almanac 1857–72. d. 50a Lincoln’s Inn Fields 6 Feb. 1881. The Players i, 185 (1860), portrait; Anson’s dramatic almanac 1872, portrait.

ANSON, Sir John William Hamilton, 2 Baronet. b. London 26 Dec. 1816; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; succeeded 13 Jany. 1847. d. Royal hotel Wigan 2 Aug. 1873 2 hours after accident at Wigan junction station of London and North Western railway. I.L.N. lxiii, 134, 135 (1873).

ANSTEAD, Thomas. b. Twickenham 9 Aug. 1840; a fast round-armed bowler; engaged at the Oval, London 1866; and at Oatlands park club, Weybridge 1869 to death. d. Weybridge 21 July 1875.

ANSTED, David Thomas (son of Wm. Ansted). b. London 5 Feb. 1814; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam. 32 wrangler 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; Ley fellow of his college 1840–1851; professor of geology in King’s college London April 1840–1853; professor of geology at college of Civil Engineers Putney 1845; consulting geologist and mining engineer 1850 to death; F.G.S. 1838, Sec. 1844–1847; F.R.S. 11 Jany. 1844; edited Quarterly Journal of Geological Society; author of An elementary course of geology 1850, 2 ed. 1856; Physical geography 1867, 5 ed. 1871 and many other books. (m. 24 June 1848 Augusta Dorothea Hackett youngest dau. of Alexander Baillie of Green st. Grosvenor sq.) d. Melton near Woodbridge 20 May 1880. Proc. of Royal society xxxi, 1 (1881).

ANSTER, John (eld. son of John Anster of Charleville, Cork). b. Charleville 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; scholar 1814, B.A. 1816, LL.B. and LLD. 1825; barrister 1824; registrar of high court of admiralty Ireland 1837 to death; granted civil list pension of £150 30 Aug. 1841; regius professor of civil law Trin. coll. Dub. 1850 to death; M.R.I.A. 12 Feb. 1838; vice pres. 1849–52; author of Faustus from the German of Goethe, 2 parts 1835–64 the first English translation and thrice reprinted in Germany. Xeniola, poems including translations from Schiller and De la Motte Fouqué 1837. (m. 1832 Elizabeth eld. dau. of Wm. Blacker Bennett of Castle Crea, co. Limerick, she was granted a civil list pension of £50 3 Aug. 1870). d. Dublin 9 June 1867. Dublin Univ. Mag. xiv, 544–46 (1839), portrait.

ANSTEY, Thomas Chisholm (2 son of Thomas Anstey of Anstey Barton, Tasmania, sheep farmer and member of legislative council who d. 23 May 1851 aged 73). b. London 1816; ed. at Wellington Somerset, and Univ. college London; articled to J. A. Frampton of 10 New Inn, London, solicitor; one of the first affected by the Oxford tractarian movement who went over to Rome; barrister Middle Temple 25 Jany. 1839; equity draftsman; professor of law and jurisprudence at colleges of St. Peter and St. Paul. Prior park, Bath, some years; comr. for insolvent debtors in Van Diemen’s Land a short time; member of the Irish confederation which first met 13 Jany. 1847; M.P. for Youghal (lib.) 7 Aug. 1847 to 1 July 1852; contested Bedford 9 July 1852; signalized himself as the special adversary of Lord Palmerston, moved a kind of general impeachment of him in a speech of 5 hours length during which he never referred to a note for a date, figure or fact 8 Feb. 1848; introduced bills for repeal of Roman catholic penal laws 1848 and 1849; a comr. to revise the statutes March 1853; attorney general at Hong Kong Oct. 1855 to 30 Jany. 1859; poisoned by Ah-lum the Chinese baker there 15 Jany. 1857 but recovered; joined the Bombay bar 1860, became leader of it 1862; acting judge of high court of Bombay as deputy for Sir Joseph Arnould 1865 to 30 Dec. 1865; went to England 1866; revising barrister in England 1868; rejoined the Bombay bar 1869; author of A guide to the laws of England affecting Roman Catholics 1842; Guide to the history of the laws and constitutions of England 1845. (m. 1840 Harriet 2 dau. of Gerard Edward Strickland of Loughlin house, co. Roscommon). d. Bombay 12 Aug. 1873. Law mag. and law review xxi, 136–40 (1866), xxiii, 145–55 (1867), xxvi, 121–40 (1868); Law Times lv, 316–17 and 352–54 (1873); I.L.N. xvi, 85 (1849), portrait; Hansard’s Debates xcvi, 291–311 (1848).

ANSTICE, William Reynolds. b. Shropshire 1807; a solicitor at Iron Bridge; partner in Madeley Wood iron company 1858; manager of the works 1867 to death; devoted much attention to manufacture of cold-blast pig iron; member of Iron and steel institute 1869. d. Madeley 28 July 1881.

ANSTIE, Francis Edmund (youngest child of Paul Anstie of Devizes, manufacturer). b. Devizes 11 Dec. 1833; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1856, M.B. London 1857, M.D. 1859; M.R.C.P. 1859, F.R.C.P 1865; assistant phys. Westminster hospital 1860–73, phys. 1873 to death; edited the Practitioner 1868 to death, wrote a great deal of it; originated with Ernest Hart inquiry into workhouse system, which resulted in Gathorne Hardy’s Metropolitan poor act 1867; author of Stimulants and narcotics 1864; Notes on epidemics 1866; Neuralgia and the diseases which resemble it 1871. d. 16 Wimpole st. Cavendish square, 12 Sep. 1874. Graphic x, 298, 309 (1874), portrait; Practitioner xiii, 241, 305 (1874), xvi, 1–43 (1876), portrait.

ANSTIE, George Washington. b. 1800; admitted attorney 1822; practiced at Devizes; worked energetically for parliamentary reform, negro emancipation, corn law repeal and the temperance movement. d. Park dale, Devizes 17 July 1882.

ANSTRUTHER, Philip. b. 12 Sep. 1807; served in China 1841; a prisoner there 6 months; served in Punjab and Kaffir wars; major Madras artillery 1853–58; M.G. 4 Nov. 1858; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. Pitcorthie near Fife 18 Feb. 1884.

ANSTRUTHER, Philip Robert. b. 30 June 1841; ensign 94 foot 31 Dec. 1858; lieut. col. 7 Aug. 1880 to death. d. Transvaal of wounds received in action 26 Dec. 1880. I.L.N. lxxviii, 205 (1881) portrait.

ANSTRUTHER, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, 4 baronet. b. Grosvenor place, London 1 March 1804; succeeded 2 Aug. 1818; rector of univ. of St. Andrews 1859. d. Balcaskie, Fifeshire 18 Oct. 1863.

ANSTRUTHER, Sir Wyndham Carmichael, 4 Baronet. b. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 6 March 1793; succeeded Nov. 1831. d. Boulogne 10 Sep. 1869.

ANTHONY, Charles. Founded the Hereford Times 1832; mayor of Hereford 6 times. d. The Elms, Hereford 5 Feb. 1885 in 82 year.

ANTRIM, Hugh Seymour MacDonnell, 4 Earl of. b. Portman square, London 7 Aug. 1812; succeeded 26 Oct. 1835. d. Glenarm castle, Larne, co. Antrim 18 July 1855.

ANTRIM, Mark MacDonnell, 5 Earl of. b. Portman square, London 3 April 1814; established his claim as an Irish peer 15 July 1858; captain R.N. 1 July 1864. d. Glenarm castle 19 Dec. 1869.

ANTROBUS, Sir Edmund, 2 Baronet. b. St. Martin’s in the Fields London 17 May 1792; succeeded 6 Feb. 1826. d. 146 Piccadilly 4 May 1870.

Note.—His personalty was sworn under £300,000 25 June 1870.

ANTROBUS, Gibbs Crawfurd. b. 27 May 1793; sec. of legation to the United States of America 18 June 1816, at Turin 8 Feb. 1823, and at court of the two Sicilies 1 Oct. 1824 to May 1826; M.P. for Aldborough, Yorkshire 1820–26 and for Plympton, Devon 1826–32. d. Eaton hall, Congleton 21 May 1861.

APLIN, John Guise Rogers. b. 7 Nov. 1819; ensign 28 foot 7 Oct. 1837; lieut. col. 48 foot 23 Nov. 1860 to 12 Nov. 1870 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 10 Edith road, West Kensington, London 10 April 1883.

APPERLEY, William Wynne (son of Charles James Apperley 1778–1843, author of sporting works under pseudonym of Nimrod). Cornet Bengal cavalry 1823; in charge of Poosah stud in Behar 1840–43 and 1845–52; superintended central division of stud department in Bengal 1854–55; major 3 European light cavalry 1854–61; remount agent at Cape of Good Hope 1857–60; left the service Dec. 1861. d. Morben near Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 25 April 1870 aged 62. Baily’s Mag. xviii, 253–55 (1870).

APPLEBY, John Frederick (son of John Appleby of Soberton, Hants, farmer). b. 18 Nov. 1795; captain R.N. 29 Jany. 1838; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869. d. Blackbrook lodge, Fareham 3 Feb. 1878.

APPLEGATH, Augustus (son of Augustus Joseph Applegath, captain of H.E.I. Co.’s ship Europa). b. parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney 17 June 1788; a printer in Nelson sq. Blackfriars road; constructed machines for printing bank notes 1818; erected a printing office in Duke st. Stamford st.; invented the composition ball and roller, and the steam printing press; the first book printed by steam was Waterton’s Wanderings; invented with Edward Cowper the four-cylinder machine, and erected it at the Times office 1827; patented vertical machine 1846; erected one at Times office, May 1848, which produced 10,000 impressions per hour; invented a machine for printing 6 colours at once; took out 18 patents for improvements in letterpress and silk printing; established large silk and print works at Crayford, and printing works at Dartford. d. Dartford 9 Feb. 1871. Bohn’s Pictorial handbook of London (1854) 76–86; N. and Q. 4 series iii, 485 (1869) vii, 153 (1871); Dartford Chronicle 25 Feb. 1871, p. 3, col. 1.

Note.—In the year 1818 Messrs. Applegath and Cowper constructed machines for the Bank of England to print in several colours in perfect register designs for the prevention of forgery; some millions of £1 notes were printed by them in the Bank, but were never issued, in consequence of the resumption of cash payment 1 May 1821.

APPLETON, Charles Edward Cutts Birchall (son of Rev. Robert Appleton, Head master of Reading school who d. 5 Feb. 1875 aged 73). b. Reading 16 March 1841; Tunbridge fellow of St. John’s coll. Ox. 1864 to death; B.A. 1863, D.C.L. 1871; studied at Heidelberg and Berlin; lecturer in philosophy at his college Oct. 1867; lived at Hampstead 1872–77; founded The Academy monthly literary paper 9 Oct. 1869, edited it to his death; took an active share in agitation that resulted in passing of Universities act 1877; wrote in the Theological, Fortnightly and Contemporary Reviews; edited Essays on the endowment of research 1876. d. Luxor, Upper Egypt 1 Feb. 1879. Dr. Appleton his life and literary relics, by J. H. Appleton and A. H. Sayce 1881, portrait.

APPLEYARD, George. Of Westbourne place, Eaton square, London; many years secretary and librarian to the Earls Spencer. d. Walmer 30 Aug. 1855.

APPOLD, John George (son of Christian Appold of Wilson st. Finsbury, London, fur skin dyer, who was naturalized by 45 George iii, cap. 83). b. Wilson st. 14 April 1800; a fur skin dyer there 1822; a manager of the London Institution 1844; invented Centrifugal rotary pump which was a prominent feature in International Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862; invented a break used in laying first Atlantic cable 1857; A.I.C.E. May 1850; F.R.S. 2 June 1853. d. Clifton Down hotel, Clifton 31 Aug. 1865. Proc. of Royal society xv, 1–6 (1867); Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. xxv, 523–25 (1866).

APTHORP, East. Entered Madras army 1820; commandant at Hyderabad 18 March 1859 to 18 April 1860; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Amherst lodge, Tunbridge Wells 3 March 1875 aged 69.

ARBUCKLE, Benjamin Hutcheson Vaughan. b. 1788; captain R.A. 1825–46; L.G. 24 Aug. 1866. d. Little Heath, Old Charlton 11 Oct. 1874.

ARBUTHNOT, Sir Alexander Dundas Young (only son of Robert Arbuthnot, lieut. col. 31 foot, who d. 10 July 1796). b. 1796; captain R.N. 1824–46 when he retired on h.p.; gentleman of Privy Chamber 2 Nov. 1824 to death; col. commandant of depôt at Santander, Spain 26 Oct. 1835; led forlorn hope at storming of Irun; brigadier general in service of Queen of Spain 1838; knighted by Queen Victoria at St. James’s palace 25 June 1859; retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863; lord prior of English language of Knights of Malta 16 July 1860 to death. (m. 25 May 1827 Catherine Maria 3 dau. of Rev. Charles Eustace of Robertstown co. Kildare). d. Shenton hall, Nuneaton, Leics. 8 May 1871.

ARBUTHNOT, Charles George James (eld. son of Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnot of Woodford house, Thrapstone, who d. 18 Aug. 1850 aged 82). b. 1801; ed. at Westminster; ensign grenadier guards 26 Dec. 1816; lieut. col. of 72 foot 25 Sep. 1826; of 90 foot 17 May 1831, and of 72 foot 23 Feb. 1838 to 14 April 1843, when placed on h.p.; col. of 89 foot 9 July 1857, and of 91 foot 4 July 1864 to death; general 25 Nov. 1864; M.P. for Tregony 1831–32. d. Folkestone 21 Oct. 1870.

ARBUTHNOT, George. b. 1802; clerk in the Treasury 1820 to death; private secretary to 6 successive secretaries of the Treasury; private sec. to Sir Robert Peel when prime minister Feb. 1843; and to Sir Charles Wood when chancellor of the exchequer July 1846; auditor of the civil list 1850 to death. d. Surbiton, Surrey 28 July 1865. Dictionary of national biography ii, 61 (1885).

ARBUTHNOT, George Bingham. Lieut. col. 8 Madras light cavalry 1 Feb. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Bath 30 May 1867 aged 63.

ARBUTHNOT, Sir Robert (4 son of John Arbuthnot of Rockfleet castle co. Mayo). b. 1773; captain Coldstream guards 25 July 1814 to 19 July 1821, when placed on h.p.; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; col. 76 foot 31 May 1843 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jan. 1815, K.T.S. (m. Harriot only child of Wm. Vesey of Farmill, Ireland, she d. 5 Dec. 1861). d. Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 6 May 1853. Household Words v, 519 (1852).

ARBUTHNOT, Sir Robert Keith, 2 Baronet. b. Edinburgh 9 Sep. 1801; in Bombay civil service 1819–47; succeeded 18 Sep. 1829. d. Florence 4 March 1873.

ARBUTHNOT, William Urquhart (5 son of Sir Wm. Arbuthnot, 1 Bart. 1766–1829). b. 24 March 1807; ed. at high sch. Edin. and Haileybury college; in the Madras civil service 1826–46; member of firm of Arbuthnot and Co. Madras 1846; returned to England 1858; member of Indian council 21 Sep. 1858 to death; chairman of its finance committee. (m. 2 June 1834 Eliza only dau. of Gen. Sir Henry George Andrew Taylor, G.C.B.) d. Eaton place, London 11 Dec. 1874. Graphic xi, 68 (1875), portrait.

ARBUTHNOTT, John, 8 Viscount Arbuthnott (eld. son of John Arbuthnott, 7 Viscount Arbuthnott, who d. 27 Feb. 1800). b. 16 Jany. 1778; Rep. Peer Scotland 1818–47; lord rector of Univ. of Aberdeen; lord lieut. of Kincardineshire to 1847. d. Berlin 10 Jany. 1860.

ARBUTHNOTT, Sir Hugh (2 son of 7 Viscount Arbuthnott). b. 1780; lieut. col. 52 foot 9 May 1811 to 8 April 1813, when placed on h.p.; col. 38 foot 4 April 1843 to 14 March 1862; col. 79 foot 14 March 1862 to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. for co. Kincardine 1826–65; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 11 July 1868.

ARBUTHNOTT, William. b. 1786; lieut col. R.A. 23 Nov. 1841 to 1 April 1844 when retired on full pay; general 29 March 1873. d. 20 Gloucester road, London 14 Dec. 1876.

ARCEDECKNE, Andrew (only son of Andrew Arcedeckne of Glevering hall, Suffolk 1780–1849). b. 1822; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; sent out a cargo of tobacco pipes to our soldiers in the Crimea; sheriff of Suffolk 1856, paid fine of £100 for not having javelin men; commodore of royal London yacht club 18 years. (m. 1870 Jane Elsworthy, an actress, she d. 5 Oct. 1879 aged 54). d. 45 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 31 May 1871 in 49 year.

Note.—Thackeray depicted him in language, manner and gesture as Harry Foker in Pendennis, where there is also an exact woodcut portrait of him.

ARCH, John (son of William Arch of 163 Fenchurch st. London, linen shirt maker). Apprenticed to George Robinson of 25 Paternoster row, the great publisher of his day; bookseller at corner of Lombard st. and Gracechurch st. 1792, with his brother Arthur Portsmouth Arch who d. 9 April 1839; at 61 Cornhill 1810–38; collected the Henry Perkins library, the George Hibbert library, also the London institution library; published many valuable books. d. Vassal road, Kennington 1853 aged 87.

ARCHBOLD, John Frederick. Barrister L.I. 5 May 1814; author of The practice of the court of King’s Bench in personal actions and ejectment, 2 vols. 1819, 14 ed. 1885; A summary of the law relating to pleading and evidence in criminal cases, 19 ed. 1878; The parish officer 1852, 6 ed. 1881, and many other legal works. d. 15 Gloucester st. Regent’s park, London 28 Nov. 1870 aged 85. J. G. Marvin’s Legal bibliography (1847) 66–70.

ARCHBOLD, Robert. M.P. for co. Kildare (radical) 11 Aug. 1837 to 23 July 1847. d. Davidstown house near Castle Dermot, co. Kildare 9 March 1855.

ARCHDALL-GRATWICKE, Rev. George. b. Derbyshire 21 April 1787; ed. at Em. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. 1825, D.D. 1835; fellow of his college; dean, bursar, prelector and steward; master May 1835 to death; vice chancellor of Cambridge 1835 and 1841; canon of Norwich 1842–67; took additional surname of Gratwicke by royal license 28 April 1863. (m. 1835 Jemima Elizabeth eld. dau. of Rev. Wm. Kinleside of Angmering, Sussex). d. the Lodge, Em. coll. Cambridge 16 Sep. 1871.

Note.—His personalty was sworn under £180,000 Oct. 1871, he left £6000 to his college.