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EVANS, Thomas. Ensign 113 foot 3 Dec. 1794; lieut.-col. 70 foot 24 Sep. 1829 to 28 June 1838; col. 81 foot 12 July 1847 to death; general 18 May 1855; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Quebec 11 Feb. 1863.

EVANS, Thomas. b. Cardigan 1840; a collier at Aberdare; won 20 prizes for his poems at Eisteddfodau; his poetical works were published with a short memoir in 1866. d. 29 April 1865.

EVANS, Rev. Thomas Saunders. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1845, M.A. Durham 1862, D.D. Edin. 1885; assistant master of Rugby 1847–62; canon of Durham 1862 to death; professor of Greek in Univ. of Durham, May 1862 to death; proctor for chapter of Durham 1864 to death; author of Tennyson’s Œnone translated into Latin hexameters 1873; Notes on i. Corinthians in The Speaker’s Commentary 1881; The Nihilist in the Hayfield, a Latin poem 1882. d. Weston-super-Mare 16 May 1889.

EVANS, William. b. Carana, Ireland 22 Nov. 1786; went to Canada 1819; sec. to the first Agricultural Society founded in Montreal; established the Canadian Quarterly and the Agriculturalist and Industrial Magazine; edited in Toronto British American Cultivator 1842; founded at Montreal the Canadian Agricultural Journal 1843, edited it 1843–56; sec. and treasurer of board of agriculture in Lower Canada 1853; author of Theory and practice of agriculture, Montreal 1835, supplement 1836. d. Montreal 1857.

EVANS, William. b. North Wales about 1810; painted scenery in North Wales down to 1852 when he went to Italy; associate member of Old Society of Painters in water-colours. d. Marylebone road, London 7 Dec. 1858.

EVANS, William (son of Samuel Evans of Flintshire, landscape painter, who d. about 1835). b. Eton 4 Dec. 1798; ed. at Eton; drawing master at Eton 1818, resigned 1856; associate of Old Society of Painters in water-colours 1828, member 1830; exhibited a great number of paintings; head of one of the houses at Eton 1856 to death. d. Eton 31 Dec. 1877. I.L.N. lxxii, 103, 107 (1878), portrait.

EVANS, Rev. William Edward (son of John Evans, M.D. of Shrewsbury). b. Shrewsbury 8 June 1801; ed. at Shrewsbury and Clare hall, Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; P.C. of Criggion, Montgomeryshire 1829–32; C. of Monkland, Herefordshire 1832–50; preb. and prælector of Hereford 1841–61; V. of Madley near Hereford 1850 to death; canon of Hereford 1861 to death; author of The song of the birds, or analogies of animal and spiritual life 1845 and other books. d. The Close, Hereford 21 Nov. 1869.

EVATT, Henry. Second lieut. R.E. 11 July 1788; col. commandant 6 April 1832 to death; L.G. 28 June 1838. d. Fordwich near Canterbury 27 Jany. 1851 aged 83.

EVELEGH, Henry. Second lieut. R.A. 24 April 1793, col. commandant 6 Feb. 1845 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Standen, Newport, Isle of Wight 24 Sep. 1859 aged 86.

EVERARD, Harriette Emily. b. 12 March 1844; first appeared at T.R. Exeter about 1860; in London at royal Alfred theatre 1869; acted at Queen’s, Princess’s, Royalty, St. James’s and Drury Lane theatres; played Little Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore at Opera Comique 25 May 1878 to March 1880. (m. George Wm. Darley Beswick). d. 22 Feb. 1882. bur. Highgate cemetery 28 Feb.

EVERARD, Mathias. Ensign 2 foot 28 Sep. 1804; led the forlorn hope at storming of Monte Video 3 Feb. 1807 when out of 32 men 22 were killed or wounded; lieut.-col. 14 foot 12 July 1831 to 25 Dec. 1847 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 26 Sep. 1826; K.H. 1831. d. Southsea 20 April 1857.

EVEREST, Sir George (eld. son of Tristram Everest of Gwernvale, Breconshire). b. Gwernvale 4 July 1790; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 4 April 1806; superintendent of trigonometrical survey at Hyderabad 1823–43; surveyor general of India 1830–43; retired with rank of lieut.-col. 16 Dec. 1843; C.B. 26 Feb. 1861; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1861; F.R.S. 8 March 1827, mem. of council 1863–65; the loftiest peak of Himalayan range is called Mount Everest after him; author of An account of the measurement of two sections of the meridional arc of India 1830 and 1847 and other books. d. 10 Westbourne st. Hyde park gardens, London 1 Dec. 1866. F. W. Stubbs’ History of Bengal artillery ii, 251–54 (1877); Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, pp. xi-xiv (1868).

EVERETT, Edward (4 son of Joseph Everett of Salisbury, banker). b. 13 May 1798; ed. at Winchester and Ball. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; a barrister M.T. 28 May 1824; a conveyancer at Salisbury; judge of court of requests at Salisbury; judge of Dorset county courts (circuit 56), March 1847 to Dec. 1867 when he resigned. d. Clifton 24 Jany. 1870.

EVERETT, Rev. James (2 son of John Everett of Alnwick). b. Alnwick 16 May 1784; Wesleyan minister at Shields 1807, in Derbyshire 1808–10, in Yorkshire 1810–22, at Newcastle 1834–39, at York 1839–42; bookseller at Sheffield 1823–25, at York 1839–42; expelled from Wesleyan conference 7 Aug. 1849 being suspected of authorship of the Fly Sheets reflecting on leading men of the conference; lived at Newcastle 1853–59, at Sunderland 1859 to death; pres. of United Methodist Free Churches, July 1857; author of Adam Clarke portrayed 3 vols. 1843 and 17 other works. d. Sunderland 10 May 1872. James Everett, a biography by Richard Chew 1875; G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars 1867 pp. 14–25; I.L.N. xv, 188 (1849), portrait.

EVERITT, Allen Edward (son of Edward Everitt of Birmingham, art dealer). b. Birmingham 1824; a painter there all his life; member of Royal Soc. of Artists of Birmingham 1857, hon. sec. 1858 to death; taught drawing in midland counties; hon. curator of Birmingham free art gallery, June 1880 to death; illustrated Davidson’s History of the Holtes of Aston 1854, and History of Old St. Martin’s, Birmingham 1875. d. The Grove, Frederick road, Edgbaston 11 June 1882. Edgbastonia ii, 108 (1882), portrait.

EVERSLEY, Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1 Viscount (eld. son of Charles Shaw-Lefevre, M.P. for Reading, who d. 27 April 1823). b. Bedford sq., London 22 Feb. 1794; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; barrister L.I. 12 May 1819; bencher 29 May 1839; M.P. for Downton, Wilts. 1830–31, for Hampshire 1831–32, for North Hants. 1832–57; speaker of House of Commons 27 May 1839 to 20 March 1857; P.C. 3 June 1839; second comr. of church estates 24 Aug. 1850; created Viscount Eversley of Heckfield co. Southampton 11 April 1857; governor of Isle of Wight 31 Oct. 1857; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 2 Aug. 1859. d. Heckfield place, Winchfield, Hants. 28 Dec. 1888. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 2 Jany. 1889. J. A. Manning’s Lives of the speakers (1850), 494–96; I.L.N. xxx, 109 (1857), portrait, 5 Jany. 1889, p. 8, portrait.

EWART, John Frederick. b. Berlin 28 July 1786; ensign 52 foot 1 Nov. 1803; lieut. col. York Chasseurs 15 Sep. 1814 to 8 May 1817; lieut. col. 67 foot 5 Feb. 1818 to June 1826; inspecting field officer of Coventry recruiting district 1826–37; col. 67 foot 30 Oct. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 24 Oct. 1818. d. 1A Wellington road, St. John’s Wood, London 23 Oct. 1854.

EWART, Joseph Christopher (2 son of Wm. Ewart of Liverpool, merchant). b. Liverpool 1799; ed. at Eton; a merchant at Liverpool; a founder of Peninsular and Oriental steam navigation company; M.P. for Liverpool 1855–65. d. Broadleas near Devizes 14 Dec. 1868.

EWART, William (brother of the preceding). b. Liverpool 1 May 1798; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; Newdigate prizeman 1820; B.A. 1821; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1827; M.P. for Bletchingly 1828–30, for Liverpool 1830–37, for Wigan 1839–41, for Dumfries district 1841–68; author of The Temple of Diana at Ephesus 1820. d. Broadleas 23 Jany. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biography i, 209–10, 522 (1869); I.L.N. 25 July 1846, p. 53, portrait, 6 March 1869, p. 237, portrait.

EWBANK, Thomas. b. Barnard castle, Durham 11 March 1792; maker of cases for preserved meats in London 1812–19; manufacturer of lead, tin and copper tubing in New York 1820–36; comr. of patents in Washington 1849–52; a founder and pres. of American Ethnological Society; author of A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water 1842, 17 ed. 1876; The world a workshop, or the physical relationship of man to the earth 1855; Life in Brazil, or the land of the cocoa and the palm 1856 and other books all published at New York. d. 140 East Thirty-first st. New York 16 Sep. 1870.

EWING, Right Rev. Alexander (eld. son of John Ewing, advocate of Shelagreen, Aberdeenshire 1790–1827). b. Castle st. Aberdeen 25 March 1814; ed. at Chelsea 1830–31, Edin. univ. 1831 and 1834–35; incumbent of Forres 1841–47; bishop of Argyll and the Isles 28 Oct. 1847 to death; provost of Cumbrae 28 June 1854 to 28 Dec. 1866; D.C.L. Ox. 1851; author of Revelation considered as light 1873, new ed. 1874; The relations of the church of England with foreign churches 1866 and 15 other books. d. Westmill rectory, Herts. 22 May 1873. Memoir of Right Rev. A. Ewing by A. J. Ross 1879, portrait.

EWING, James (son of Walter Ewing who assumed name of Maclae, arbitrator, d. 22 Oct. 1814). b. Glasgow 7 Dec. 1775; educ. High sch. Glasgow and univ. of Glasgow, D.C.L. 1835; West India merchant; lord dean of Guild 10 Oct. 1816; helped to establish first Provident or Savings bank in Glasgow of which he was deputy governor 19 June 1815; president of the Andersonian univ. 1817; gave an annual silver medal to Glasgow high sch.; lord provost of Glasgow 1820; a founder of the Royal Exchange and the Fir park; M.P. Glasgow 19 Dec. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834, contested Glasgow 17 Jany. 1835; author of a History of the Merchants’ House; left £70,000 to Glasgow charities. d. Glasgow 29 Nov. 1853. Mackay’s Memoir of James Ewing 1866, portrait; Bourne’s English Merchants ii, 321–39 (1866).

EWING, Juliana Horatia (2 dau. of Rev. Alfred Gatty, V. of Ecclesfield, Yorkshire b. 1813). b. Ecclesfield 3 Aug. 1841; wrote many stories in Aunt Judy’s Magazine 1861–85; author of Melchior’s Dream and other tales 1862; Mrs. Overtheway’s Remembrances 1868, 3 ed. 1880; A Flat-iron for a farthing 1873; Passages in life of an only son 1872; Lob Lie-by-the-Fire and other tales 1874 and many other books for children. (m. 1 June 1867 Alexander Ewing, major army pay department). d. Bath 13 May 1885. J. H. Ewing and her books, by H. K. T. Gatty (1885), portrait.

EXALL, William. b. Godalming, Surrey, May 1808; partner with his uncle Barrett in the Katesgrove foundry, Reading; invented patent safety cylindrical horse gear, and endless-band sawing machine; the first to apply the double acting air pump or box shaped condenser to horizontal engines; the pioneer of steam cultivation, having made first set of machinery on roundabout system for H. J. Hannam of Buscot park, Oxfordshire 1849; constructed the first hand-power threshing machine 1844 of which his firm made thousands; A.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1850; alderman of Reading 1854 to death, mayor 1854–5. d. Holy Bank house, Reading 14 July 1881. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvii, 405–7 (1882).

EXETER, Brownlow Cecil, 2 Marquis of (2 son of 1 Marquis of Exeter 1754–1804). b. Burghley house near Stamford 2 July 1795; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1814, LLD. 1835; recorder of Stamford 1816; lord lieut. of Rutland 1826; K.G. 10 May 1827; groom of the stole to Prince Albert 1841–46; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841; lord lieut. of Northampton 1842; lord chamberlain of Queen’s household 27 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852; lord steward of Queen’s household 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; bred one of largest studs in England 1815–55; won the Oaks 1821, 1829 and 1832 and Two thousand guineas 1825, 1829, 1830 and 1852. d. Burghley house 16 Jany. 1867. Rice’s British Turf i, 311–17 (1879); Baily’s Mag. i, 311–15 (1860), portrait; Sporting Review lvii, 82–85 (1867); Waagen’s Treasures of art iii, 402–9 (1854).

EXLEY, Thomas. b. Gowdall near Snaith, Yorkshire; a mathematical teacher at Bristol about 1811–47; author of A vindication of Dr. Adam Clarke, Bristol [1817]; Principles of natural philosophy 1829; Physical Optics 1834 and other books; author with Rev. W. M. Johnson of The Imperial Encyclopædia 4 vols. [1812]. d. Cotham, Clifton, Bristol 17 Feb. 1855 aged 80.

EYRE, Charles. b. 1784; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807; proprietor of 3 liberal newspapers printed at Colchester; managed a large farm; author of An illustration of the Epistles of St. Paul including an entirely new translation 2 vols. 1832; The fall of Adam from Milton’s Paradise Lost 1852; hanged himself at his residence Upper Park, Dedham, Essex 28 Sep. 1864.

EYRE, Henry. Ensign 98 foot 10 Dec. 1824, lieut. col. 17 March 1843 to 28 April 1843 when placed on h.p.; commandant at Chatham 1858–59; commandant of Chatham district 1859–64; col. 59 foot 23 March 1865 to death; general 23 Sep. 1874; author of Light Infantry Drill 1868. d. Middleton-Tyas, Richmond, Yorkshire 10 April 1889 aged 83.

EYRE, Sir James (eld. son of Rev. Wm. Eyre, V. of Padbury and Hillesden, Bucks., who d. 18 March 1830 aged 76). b. 14 Feb. 1792; M.R.C.S. 20 May 1814; surgeon in Hereford 1814 to 1834, in London 1834 to death; mayor of Hereford 1829–30; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830 on presenting an address from city of Hereford on his accession; M.D. Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1834; physician accoucheur to St. George’s and St. James’s dispensary 1834–1851, consulting phys. 30 Oct. 1851; L.R.C.P. 1836; published Practical remarks on some exhausting diseases 1845, 2 ed. 1851; The stomach and its difficulties 1852, 8 ed. 1877. d. Lauriston house, Clapham 19 June 1857. Medical Circular i, 353–55 (1852), portrait.

EYRE, Sir Vincent (3 son of Henry Eyre). b. Portsdown near Portsmouth 22 Jany. 1811; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal Artillery 12 Dec. 1828, col. 24 Nov. 1862 to 1 Sep. 1863 when he retired on full pay; rendered great service during Indian mutiny; inspector general of ordnance at Calcutta 1861–62; retired L.G. Oct. 1863; member of army amalgamation commission 1861; C.B. 5 Feb. 1858; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867; author of The military operations at Cabul 1843; A Fortnight’s tour among French ambulances 1870; Lays of a Knight Errant 1874 and other books. d. Villa des Acacias, Aix les Bains 22 Sep. 1881. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 1 Oct. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age i, 284–347 (1880); G. B. Malleson’s Recreations of an Indian official (1872) 249–329; Army and navy mag. iii, 97 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. xxxi, 380 (1857), portrait.

EYRE, Sir William (younger son of vice admiral Sir George Eyre 1769–1839). b. Hatfield 21 Oct. 1805; ed. at Rugby; ensign 6 foot 17 April 1823; served in both Caffre wars 1851–2; lieut. col. 73 foot 12 Nov. 1847 to 14 April 1854; A.D.C. to the Queen 1853–1854; commanded second brigade of third division in Crimea 1854, commanded third division there 1854; commanded troops in Canada 1856–59; M.G. 12 Dec. 1854; K.C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Bilton hall near Rugby 8 Sep. 1859. Naval and military records of Rugbeians (1865) 53–4; Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea (1877) iii, 278, vi 54, ix 203–17, 270.

EYTON, Peter Ellis. b. Flint 1827; solicitor at Flint 1853 to death; M.P. for district of Flint 6 Feb. 1874 to death; author of A trip to the Isle of Man. d. Englefield house, Rhyl, North Wales 17 or 19 June 1878.

EYTON, Rev. Robert William (3 son of Rev. John Eyton, V. of Wellington, Shropshire). b. Wellington vicarage 21 Dec. 1815; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1845; R. of Ryton, Shropshire 1841–63; author of The antiquities of Shropshire 12 vols. 1861; A Key to Domesday, an analysis and digest of the Dorset survey 1878; Court, household and itinerary of Henry ii, 1878 and other books. d. Winchfield house near Basingstoke 8 Sep. 1871.

EYTON, Thomas Campbell (son of Thomas Eyton 1777–1855, recorder of Wenlock). b. Eyton hall near Wellington, Shropshire 10 Sep. 1809; edited the Herd book of Hereford cattle 1842–60; formed at Eyton one of the finest collections of skins and skeletons of birds in Europe; author of History of the rarer British birds 1836; A history of the oyster and the oyster fisheries 1858; Osteologia Avium 1871. d. Eyton hall 25 Oct. 1880.

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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.