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

Holyoake-Goodricke 1519,

Honywood 1523,

Hood 1525,

Howe 1556,

Huntingdon 1598,

Lambton 1588,

Ridley 1589,

Suffield 1589.

House decorators, Garrett 1125,

Hay 1393.

Huddersfield, Convalescent home founded 414.

Hudson bay co., secretary 1102.

Hull, adventures of James Acland at 10,

convent of our Lord of Mercy 679,

grammar school founded 1612.

Hulsean lecturer, the first, Benson 245.

Hume, Joseph d. 1855, M.P. 1586,

his private secretary 679,

speech wilfully misreported 677.

Humming birds, Gould’s collection of 1191.

Hungate family estates 1588.

Hunter, John d. 1793 surgeon, his coffin 462.

Hunting, D’ ye ken John Peel, a song 1212,

on foot 1373, 1523.

Hunting parsons, Anderson 65,

Honywood 1523.

Huntsmen, Ayris 114,

Bartlett 186,

Carter 561,

Christian 615,

Davis 829,

Goodall 1172,

Head 1405,

Hills J. 1477,

Hills T. 1478,

Hunnum 1588.

Huskisson, William killed 1830 statesman, person present at his death 1516.

Hussars, The Eleventh, crack regiment 542.

Hydraulic engineer, Beardmore 209.

Hydropathy, practiser of 1257.

Hydrostatic beds invented 90.

Hygrometer, a self registering 1183.

Hymns, ancient and modern, originator of 136,

ancient and modern, writers in 948,

hymns as a substitute for Dr. Watts 684,

invalids hymn book 981,

Just as I am without one plea 981,

Much in sorrow, oft in woe 685,

My God and Father while I stray 981.

Hymn tunes, Burnham 628,

Joyful 276,

Kilmarnock 901,

Pembroke 628,

Queenborough 628.

Hymn writer, Havergal 1380–81.

Hypnotism 378, 1260.

I

Ice merchant, Gatti 1130.

Iceland, Iceland and its volcanoes, large picture of 770,

Icelandic dictionary 643.

Ilford, pleistocene mammalia found at 376.

I know a bank, a duet 1537.

I’ll hang my harp on a willow tree, a song 1254.

Illuminated manuscripts, Bragge’s collection 378,

copying of 725.

Impostors, Ady 25,

Aitken 36,

Fletcher 1069.

Imprisoned eight years for refusing to give up deeds 1564.

Income tax introduced 1124.

India, Arnold medals in the Punjab 88,

commander in chief 73,

cinchona cultivation 1553,

Delhi princes shot 1500,

Euphrates route 604,

flora of 66,

fossil mammalia 574,

Ganges canal 574,

governors general Amherst 56,

Canning 537,

Dalhousie 803,

Elgin 973,

Ellenborough 975 and Hardinge 1328,

Great Indian peninsular railway 592,

Hobson-Jobson a glossary of colloquial words 485,

Hodson’s horse 1500,

irrigation scheme 592,

Indian church aid association founded 412,

Kutcherry technicalities 553,

land revenue of N.W. provinces 286,

Mhow court martial 756,

Nagpore annexed 803,

Nilagiris, collection of their arms, dresses, etc. 388,

order of star of 537,

Oudh annexed 803,

Pathan companies raised 1610,

Pegu annexed 803,

Punjaub annexed 803,

railway system initiated 254–55,

Sanscrit proverbs 557,

sec. of state Cranborne, afterwards marquis of Salisbury, 954 and Wood 1281,

Sikh regt. the first 1496,

Syrian route to 604,

Telegu proverbs 557,

tea plant introduced 1088,

vernacular characters passing through post office 1605.

India, Bangalore, Cubbon park and statue 778.

India, Bengal, middle class schools 728,

stud department 873.

India, Bombay, conservator of forests 1139,

Elphinstone coll. 989,

gas introduced 792,

reformatory school of industry founded 468.

India, Calcutta, bishop Cotton 728,

cathedral 1079,

Calcutta journal established 461,

drainage and water works 629,

mint 1079, 1610,

schools for native females of higher class established 264.

India, Madras, army commander of 73,

female school of industry 612.

India rubber, manufacturers 1528,

masticator invented for 1315,

vulcanised india rubber 1315,

waterproof garments 1315.

Initialism, See also Names and Pseudonyms.

A., H. A. S. i.e. Henry Adams Sergison Atwood 106.

A., S. A. i.e. Alexander Stewart Allen 48.

B., A. C. i.e. Arthur Coke Burnell 485.

B., B. H. i.e. Bertha H. Buxton 503.

B., A. E. i.e. Andrew Edmund Brae 377.

B., C. i.e. Cordelia Georgiana Budd 466.

B., E. i.e. Mrs. E. Babington 981.

B., E. S. i.e. Edwyn Sherard Burnaby 483.

B., F. C. i.e. Francis Capper Brooke 415.

B., G. C. i.e. George Clement Boase 321.

B., J. a friend of the Aborigines Protection Soc. i.e. John Burtt 495.

B., W. i.e. William Borrows 343.

B., W. i.e. William Brinton 402.

B., W. C. i.e. William Corbett Burder 476.

C. i.e. James Crossley 773.

C., C. i.e. Charles Chorley 614.

C., E. J. M. i.e. Edward James Mortimer Collins 680.

C., F. i.e. Frances Collins 679.

C., F. D. i.e. Frances Dorothy Cartwright 565.

C., F. L. i.e. Frederick Leigh Colvile 687.

C., F. P. i.e. F. Percy Cotton 679.

C., J. i.e. James Clay 640.

C., R. H. i.e. Robert Henry Clive 653.

C., W. L. i.e. William Lucas Collins 682.

D. i.e. Charles Dyson 949.

D., J. N. i.e. John Nelson Darby 813.

D—. G—. i.e. George Daniel 811.

E., J. C. i.e. John Caillard Erck 994.

G., A. i.e. Alexander Gardner 1122.

G., E. i.e. Edward Grubb 1252.

G., J. i.e. Joseph Gurney 1262.

G., R. P. i.e. Robert Pierce Gillies 1150.

H., A. i.e. Abraham Hayward 1402.

H., A. i.e. Algernon Herbert 1438.

H., C. i.e. Chambers Hall 1283.

H., C. i.e. Charles Hardwick 1330.

H., C. i.e. Charles Heavysege 1414.

H., E. i.e. Elizabeth Hadfield 1272.

H., E. S. J. i.e. Ellen St. John Hunt 1589.

H., F. i.e. Francis Hessey 1453.

H., F. C. i.e. Frederick Charles Husenbeth 1602.

H., F. T. i.e. Frederic Thomas Hall 1284.

H., H. i.e. Herbert Haines 1275.

H., J. D. i.e. James Dibden Hubbarde 1564.

H., M. i.e. Matilda Heron 1445.

H., R. i.e. Richard Harvey 1366.

J., E. i.e. Miss E. Jolly 886.

N., R. i.e. John Hunter 1596.

O., J. i.e. Matthew James Higgins 1464.

Ink, an inerasable 369,

printing 851.

Innocent person condemned, Barber 157.

Inquests, 4000 held by De Lasaux 852.

Inquiry agent, Field 1040.

Insane, Conolly’s system of treatment 694,

moral control of 594,

new system of treatment adopted in Scotland 446.

Insect life in metallic solutions, discovery of 772.

International exhibitions, original idea of 705.

Institutions.

Actuaries founded 438, 1332,

president 1048.

Albert originated 436.

Anglo Biblical founded 294.

British architects, president 848.

British philosophical and literary founded 697.

Cholera orphan house commenced 436.

Chronological of London founded 294.

Civil engineers founded 97, 1042.

Glandular founded 41.

Home for convalescent women patients 590.

Home for servants out of place started 436.

Institution of Irish architects, president 843.

Inventors’ institute, president 376.

Iron and steel, foreign sec. 1076.

Law projected 1513.

Licensed victuallers’ sch. founded 441.

London infirmary for disease of the skin closed 9.

London university founded 741.

Manchester mechanics founded 1457.

National hospital for paralysed and epiplectic opened 590.

National orphan home founded 436.

National philanthropic, president 660.

Naval architects founded 1208.

North London eye infirmary founded 713.

North of England instit. of mining engineers, president 1085.

Philosophical, Edinburgh, founded 1352.

Plymouth eye dispensary originated 502.

Polytechnic opened 118, 609.

Royal General theatrical fund founded 781.

Samaritan society founded 590.

Solicitors’ benevolent founded 67.

Insurance, fire policies 836,

life insurance for £300,000 col. 923,

life policies, fifty six on earl of Aylesford’s life 112,

life tables 961,

Northampton tables 1048,

positive life insurance, a form of life policy 201,

union policy for tariff offices devised 348.

Insurance offices.

Albert, great losers in 211.

Alliance, British and foreign, actuary 1169.

Amicable life actuary 1118.

Atlas fire office built 1536.

British foreign and colonial founded 201.

Clergy mutual, founded 1040.

Consols life started 201.

English and Scottish law founded 201.

Equity society tables 826.

Equity and law life offices built 485.

Hope founded 441.

Law life projected 67.

Liverpool fire and life founded 348,

became Liverpool and London 348,

became Liverpool, London and Globe 348.

London life, actuary 1048.

Mutual, actuary 1332.

Mutual life founded 447.

National provident, bonus investigation 72.

New equitable life founded 206.

Positive life founded 229.

Unity general life commenced 201.

Universal life founded 344.

Westminster and general life founded 447.

Inventor’s claim on the government, Clare 623.

Inverness, St. Andrew’s cathedral founded 958.

Ipswich, Cobbold’s bank 658,

Cobbold’s brewery 658,

first mayor 379.

Ireland, alnager the great 845,

amnesty association 502,

Arian separation from synod of Ulster 1550,

benefactors to 62,

Bianconi’s cars 268–9,

catholic univ. at Drumcondra 781,

Celtic soc. 501,

church, disestablishment of the 1216,

coast guard introduced 891,

congregation of the Oblates 703,

constabulary, head of 390,

Emmett the patriot 992,

famine 667,

famine, money raised in Calcutta for relief of 524,

famine, relief commission 479,

fasti ecclesiæ Hibernicæ 729,

flora 69,

Griffith’s valuation 1245,

home rule party 502,

hot air baths instituted 184,

institute of Blessed Virgin Mary introduced into 145,

institution of civil engineers 479,

insurrection act in Limerick & Clare 296,

Irish archæological soc. 501,

Irish coll. at Rome 481,

Irish confederation 74,

Irish legion in France 506,

Irish soc., governor 1586,

land league mobbed King’s county hounds 1598,

lord high treasurer 7,

Murphy’s insurgents 506,

national association founded 879,

national gallery 814,

orangeism 709,

Parnell, Biggar and others, trial of 1057,

peasantry, traits and stories of 547,

poor law act 698,

popular songs of 765,

railway the first 814,

railways, commission on 635,

royal university created 1533,

Sandymount convent, the superior of 29,

South Wexford agricultural soc. founded 1460,

survey of 669,

synod of Ulster 304,

tenant league originated 1231,

three F’s, the 1231,

Turkish baths established 184,

united Irishmen 506.

Ireland, Belfast, Belfast bottoms 1339,

horticultural exhibition 1302.

Ireland, Dublin, crown and hanaper office 1315,

exhibition 814.

Ireland, chief secretaries, Bexley 268,

Carlisle 548,

Cavendish 575,

Derby 1863,

Ellesmere 976,

Forster 1086,

Goulburn 1191,

Glenelg 1157,

Hardinge 1328,

Hobhouse 427,

Horsman 1543,

Stanley 863,

Walhouse or Littleton 1376.

Ireland, lord chancellors, Blackburne 296,

Brady 377,

Brewster 394,

Brooke 418 and Campbell 526.

Ireland, lords lieutenants, Anglesey 71,

Carlisle 548,

Clarendon 623,

De Grey 848,

Eglinton 971,

Fortescue 1088,

Haddington 1271,

Heytesbury 1457.

Irish scholars, Connellan O. 693,

Connellan T. 693,

Doudney 901,

Foley 1073,

Hennessy 1430.

Iron manufactory, blowing machine 551,

cold blast pig 75,

Coltness’ brand of iron 1595,

fan blast 351,

Hodgkinson’s beams 1493,

hopper and spout kilns invented 342,

iron chain cables invented 438,

wrought iron rails, patent for 287.

Iron masters, Beale 205,

Bolckow 327,

Crawshay 756,

Fletcher 1069,

Geach 1132,

Guest 1255,

Harley 1340,

Hood 1524,

Houldsworth 1548, 1595.

Irving, Rev. Edward d. 1834 presbyterian, his friend 1448.

Irving, John Henry Brodribb b. 1838 actor, first appearance 830.

Isle of Wight, governor 1008,

history of 1477.

Italy, British Italian legion 483,

Italian antiquities, Disney collection 882.

J

Jaffa, model farm at 1449.

Jamaica, insurrection of the slaves 731.

Japanese scholar, Greey 1231.

Javelin men, fine paid for not providing them 80.

Jeannette and Jeannot, a song 1158.

Jerdan, William d. 1869 journalist, originated Literary gazette 669.

Jerrold, Douglas William d. 1857 dramatist, Housekeeper 1584,

Rent day 1584,

Time works wonders 1584.

Jersey, the six advocates of the royal court 1537.

Jerusalem, Anglican cathedral 1269,

bishops of 159, 1162,

hospital for sick jews 1548,

house of industry at 1449.

Jesus Christ, likenesses of 1408.

Jews, Bevis Marks congregation 866,

board of deputies 668,

committee of seven elders 668,

great synagogue, London 668,

first called to the bar 1167,

first created baronet 1168,

jewish board of guardians 42, 668,

jews’ coll. London 982,

ministers in London 866,

united synagogue London 668.

Jim Crow sung in England 938.

Jockeys, Bullock 471,

Butler 499,

Chaloner 585,

Chapple 593,

Charlton 596,

Chifney S. 608,

Chifney W. 609,

Constable 696,

Day J. 840,

Day J. B. 841,

Day S. 841,

Ede 956,

Flatman 1067,

Fordham 1080,

French 1107,

rode six winners in one day 1107,

Green 1223,

Grimshaw 1248,

Hibberd 1459.

Jon Duan, authors of 221.

Jordan, Mrs. Dorothy d. 1816 actress, her sons 1056, 1057 bis.

Judge removed from office, Boothby B. 339.

Jumping, Howard the jumper 1553,

jumping 29 ft. 7 in. col. 1553,

over a billiard table 1553.

Junot, Andoche d. 1813 duc d’Abrantes, his mistress 1449.

Juggler, Allock 54.

Jullien, Louis G. Antoine J. d. 1860 composer, concerts at Covent garden 882,

concerts at Surrey gardens 770,

opera at Drury Lane 1268.

Junius, authorship of his letters 732, 945,

his hand writing 579.

K

Kaleidoscope invented 394.

Kashmiri scholar 989.

Kean, Charles John d. 1868 actor, his secretary 513.

Kean, Edmund d. 1833 actor, his stage director 1034.

Keats, John d. 1821 poet, his friend 1591.

Kelly, Colonel, the Fenian, rescue of 53.

Kent, fossils of 1351.

Kent, Edward Augustus d. 1820 duke of, conspiracy to shoot 465.

Kent, Victoria M. L. d. 1861 duchess of, comptrollers of her household 696, 732,

mausoleum built 1583.

Kerry, bishop of 968,

lord lieutenant 1439.

Kew, observatory given up 854,

observatory given to Royal soc. 1130.

Kew gardens, Bentham collection of books at 247.

Champion’s collection of plants 589,

director of 1526.

Keyser, Polydore de, lord mayor of London 1465.

Keythorpe hall, Leicestershire, built 257.

Keyzor, Louis, murdered in 1869 at Whitton 1226.

Khol-rabi introduced 762.

Kildare and Leighlin, bishop of 1297.

Killala, bishops of 1031, 1060.

Kilmacduagh, bishop of 1106.

Kilmore, bishops of 444, 560, 815.

Kincardineshire, lords lieutenant 79, 1155.

King’s champion 948.

Kingsley, Charles d. 1875 V. of Eversley, music for his songs 1581.

Kinrossshire lord lieutenant 13.

Kirkcudbright lord lieutenant 1118.

Kiva, a ride to 484.

Knaresborough, history of 521.

Knights and knighthood, first knight created by Victoria 1321,

knighthood declined by Brown 431,

Carr 557,

Cattermole 572,

Fairbairn 1015,

Fuller 1111,

Hall 1291 and Heelis 1416,

name still in knightage forty six years after death 1093,

prefix Sir assumed 429,

prefix Sir not used 588,

refusal to pay the knightage fees 665.

Knights bachelor, A’Beckett 5,

Agar 27,

Alderson E. H. 40,

Alderson J. 40,

Allan 48,

Amphlett 58,

Anderson C. G. 60,

Anderson G. W. 61,

Anderson J. E. 62,

Archibald 82,

Armitage 83,

Arney 87,

Arrow 90,

Arthur 91,

Ashworth 97,

Atherton 101,

Atkinson H. E. 103,

Atkinson J. 104,

Austen 108,

Awdry 111,

Back 119,

Bain 181,

Baker 137,

Bannerman 153,

Bardsley 160,

Barry C. 181,

Barry R. 183,

Bayly 201,

Bell 231,

Bellairs 232,

Benedict 238,

Bennett 244,

Benson 245,

Bent 246,

Betham 262,

Bethune 264,

Biddlecombe 272,

Bignold 275,

Bishop 290,

Bisset 291,

Blaikie 301,

Boag 321,

Bodkin 324,

Bogle 325,

Bouch 346,

Bovill 354,

Bowring 362,

Boxall 364,

Brady A. 376,

Brady F. 377,

Brancker 380,

Brand 380,

Brewster 394,

Bridges 396,

Briggs 398,

Brown 441,

Brownrigg 449,

Bruce 451,

Buller A. 469,

Buller A. W. 469,

Burrows 492,

Burt 493,

Burton 495,

Butler 499,

Byam 504,

Byles 504,

Campbell G. 529,

Campbell Jas. 530,

Carey 545,

Carr 558,

Carroll 559,

Carswell 560,

Carter 562,

Causton 574,

Chalk 581,

Channell 590,

Chapman 593,

Chetham 606,

Church 618,

Claridge 624,

Clark 630,

Clarke 631,

Clarke R. B. 635,

Cleasby 643,

Cockburn 662,

Coey 666,

Coffin 667,

Colebrooke 672,

Coleridge 675,

Collings 678,

Colvile 687,

Comyn 690,

Cooke 702,

Cooke 705,

Cooper 708,

Cormack 720,

Costa 724,

Cotter 727,

Cowen 736,

Cox 743,

Coxe 744,

Creasy 757,

Cresswell 758,

Crichton 700,

Crichton 761,

Crompton 767,

Crosley 769,

Crowder 774,

Crowe 775,

Cubitt 779,

Currie 792,

Curteis 792,

Daly 808,

Darvill 818,

Darwin 819,

Davies 825,

Davison 832,

Davison 832,

Davy 835,

Deane 842,

Deas 843,

De Butts 846,

De Gex 847,

De La Beche 849,

De La Saussaye 852,

Denham 856,

Denison 858,

Desanges 866,

Dickinson D. J. 874,

Dickinson J. N. 874,

Dickson 876,

Dodson 889,

Doherty 890,

Dombrain 891,

Donaldson 894,

Donovan 897,

Doratt 898,

Douglas 901,

Douglas J. A. 904,

Douglas N. 904,

Downie 909,

Downman 909,

Doyle 912,

Doyle 913,

Dry 922,

Dundas 932,

Dwarris 945,

Eastlake 953,

Edwards 964,

Ellis 983,

Erie 994,

Everest 1007,

Eyre 1011,

Fairbairn 1014,

Fellowes 1032,

Fellows 1033,

Ferguson 1035,

Ferguson 1036,

Fife 1044,

Finlay 1049,

Fisher J. H. 1053,

Fisher J. W. 1053,

Fleming 1068,

Forbes 1078,

Fowler 1093,

Fox 1093,

Francis 1099,

Franks 1099,

Freestun 1105,

Fropier 1109,

Gambier 1118,

Gibbes 1137,

Gibbs 1137,

Giffard 1142,

Glass 1156,

Goodman 1174,

Gordon J. 1181,

Gordon J. W. 1181,

Gosselin 1187,

Gough 1189,

Gowans 1193,

Grant 1202,

Grant 1204,

Grant 1205,

Grattan 1209,

Gray 1216,

Green 1224,

Grey 1240,

Gurney 1261,

Gyll 1268,

Haberfield 1269,

Hackett W. 1270,

Hackett W. B. 1270,

Hagan 1273,

Halkett 1281,

Hall 1283,

Hall 1286,

Halliburton 1294,

Hamilton 1302,

Hamilton 1303,

Hamilton 1306,

Hamilton 1307,

Hancock 1314,

Hansler 1321,

Hanson 1322,

Harding 1327,

Hardman 1329,

Hardy 1333,

Hardy 1334,

Hare 1334,

Harris 1350,

Harris 1351,

Harrison E. S. 1352,

Harrison G. 1352,

Hart A. S. 1359,

Hart H. 1359,

Harvey 1365,

Harvey 1366,

Hastings 1372,

Hastings 1374,

Hawker 1386,

Hay 1393,

Hayes 1397,

Hayter 1401,

Head 1404,

Heathcote 1412,

Henry 1433,

Herbert 1439,

Heron 1445,

Herries 1446,

Hicks 1461,

Hilditch 1466,

Hill 1469,

Hill H. 1471,

Hill J. 1471,

Hill J. 1471,

Hill 1473,

Hill 1474,

Hindmarsh 1482,

Hodges 1492,

Hodgkinson 1493,

Hodgson 1497,

Hoffmeister 1500,

Holker 1505,

Holmes 1516,

Holmes 1517,

Hood 1525,

Hooker 1526,

Hopkins 1534,

Hopkinson 1535,

Horne 1540,

Horsford 1542,

Houlton 1549,

Howell 1557,

Howley 1561,

Hoyles 1563,

Huddleston 1565,

Hughes 1577,

Hume 1585,

Humphreys 1587,

Hunt 1690,

Huntley 1599.

Khondistan, human sacrifices in 532.

Knurr and spell player 1495.

Kossuth, Louis b. 1802, banquet to 69,

entertained by Henry 1432,

his friends 837, 1232.

L

Laboratories 941.

Lace, gassing of 1289,

machine for making 83,

made from mohair 287,

manufacturers of 287, 1412,

Old Loughborough machine 1412,

patent for making 275.

Lacrosse player, Glover 1160.

Ladies’ faces, enamelling of 770.

Laing, Rev. John d. 1880, librarian 1282.

Lamb, Charles d. 1834 essayist, attacked by cholera 93,

his friends 487, 1591.

Lambeth, degrees 557, 1494,

palace librarian 1225.

Lamps, Argand introduced 1554,

lamp of life, invention and explosion of 10.

Lampeter castle turned into St. David’s college 1336.

Lancaster duchy, chancellors of 6, 133, 623, 1241, 1358,

duke of, claimant to the title 1353,

records 1334.

Lanarkshire, lords lieutenant 226, 976, 1298 bis.

Land surveyor, Hodgson 1498.

Langalibalele, Caffre chief, treatment of 673.

Latin, hexameter verses, machine for composing 627.

Laurie, Sir Peter d. 1861, lord mayor 26, 27.

Lavalette, Antoine M. C., comte de d. 1830, his escape 897.

Law, common law procedure act 1272,

inns of court commission 675,

John Doe and Richard Roe 1398,

king’s bench filazer 18,

large incomes made at the bar 451,

law courts commission 675,

law courts, design for 478,

law courts, opening of the new 848,

papers copied at three pence a page 1596,

qualification for offices abolition act 1272,

refusal to call to the bar 1364.

Law, Incorporated Law Society, law institute projected 1513,

incorporated law soc., charter of 1513,

presidents 330, 494, 635, 918, 1080, 1089.

Law, William John d. 1869 barrister, on route of Hannibal over Alps 984.

Lawrence, Sir Thomas d. 1830 P.R.A., funeral of 318,

his assistant 1004.

Leamington, county library 988,

music hall 988.

Leather manufacturer, Hackett 1270.

Lecturers, Bellew 234,

Dawson 837,

Gilfillan 1148,

Gordon-Cumming 785,

Grossmith 1250.

Lee, James Prince d. 1869 bp. of Manchester, his confirmation opposed 1265.