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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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