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

Douglas 902,

Drummond 919,

Duckett 923,

Dundas 933,

Dunraven 940,

Duppa 941,

Dwarris 945,

Dyce 946,

Eastlake 953,

Eastwick 954,

Egerton 970,

Elliot W. 979,

Elliott C. 980,

Elliott C. B. 980,

Ellis H. 983,

Ellis H. 984,

Enniskillen 993,

Erle 995,

Evans 1003,

Everest 1007,

Fairbairn 1014,

Falconer 1017,

Faraday 1020,

Farr 1023,

Farre 1024,

Featherstonhaugh 1029,

Fellowes 1033,

Fergusson J. 1037,

Fergusson Sir W. 1037,

Field F. 1041,

Field J. 1042,

Finlay 1048,

Fisher 1053,

Fitton 1056,

Fitzroy 1064,

Fletcher 1069,

Flight 1071,

Forbes 1076,

Forbes E. 1077,

Forbes J. D. 1077,

Forbes Sir J. 1078,

Forshall 1083,

Fortescue 1087,

Fowler 1093,

Fox R. W. 1095,

Fox W. 1096,

Frere G. E. 1107,

Frere H. B. E. 1107,

Freshfield 1108,

Froude 1110,

Galloway 1118,

Garrod 1126,

Gaskin 1129,

Gassiot 1130,

Gibbes 1137,

Gilbart 1144,

Glynn 1162,

Godwin 1164,

Godwin-Austen 1165,

Goldsmid 1168,

Gompertz 1169,

Gordon H. P. and J. A. 1180,

Gordon J. W. 1181,

Gosse 1187,

Gould 1191,

Graham Sir J. R. G. 1196,

Graham T. 1198,

Grainger 1199,

Grant R. E. 1206,

Grant Sir T. T. 1206,

Granville 1208,

Gravatt 1210,

Graves J. T. 1212,

Graves R. J. 1213,

Gray G. R. 1215,

Gray H. 1215,

Gray J. E. 1216,

Green 1225,

Greenhow 1228,

Greig 1236,

Greswell 1238,

Griess 1243,

Griffith 1244,

Grubb 1253,

Guest J. 1254,

Guest J. J. 1255,

Gull 1257,

Gulliver 1257,

Gunn 1258,

Gurney 1261,

Guthrie F. 1264,

Guthrie G. J. 1264,

Guy 1266,

Haast 1269,

Haig 1274,

Haldane 1276,

Hall M. 1288,

Hall T. H. 1291,

Halliwell 1295,

Hamilton, duke of 1298,

Hamilton H. P. 1301,

Hamilton J. 1303,

Hamilton W. J. 1306,

Hamilton W. R. 1307,

Hanbury 1312,

Hansler 1321,

Harcourt 1325,

Harding 1327,

Hardwick J. 1330,

Hardwick P. 1331,

Hardy 1332,

Harford 1335,

Hargreave 1336,

Harkness 1338,

Harris 1351,

Harrison 1352,

Harvey 1367,

Harvey 1369,

Hasted 1371,

Hatherley 1376,

Hatherton 1376,

Hawkins C. H. 1386,

Hawkins E. 1387,

Hawkins J. H. 1389,

Head 1404,

Heath G. C. 1411,

Heath J. B. 1411,

Henfrey 1427,

Henwood 1435,

Herapath 1437,

Herschel 1447,

Hewett 1454,

Heygate 1456,

Heywood 1457,

Higginbottom 1463,

Higman 1466,

Hogg 1502,

Hill Sir R. 1474,

Hilton 1479,

Hobhouse 427,

Hoblyn 1489,

Hodgkinson 1493,

Hodgson 1496,

Holland C. 1507,

Holland H. 1508,

Holman 1513,

Home 1520,

Hood 1524,

Hook 1526,

Hooker 1526,

Hope 1530,

Hopkins 1534,

Hoppus 1536,

Horne 1539,

Horner 1540,

Horsfield 1541,

Hoskins 1545,

Houghton 1547,

Howard J. E. 1553,

Howard L. 1554,

Hume 1586,

Hunt G. 1590,

Hunt R. 1592,

Hunter 1594,

Hyett 1611,

Hymers 1612,

Quin 940,

Wood 1376.

Royal warrant 1147.

Rugby, rebellion at 731.

Rugeley poisoning case 1565.

Runic literature 1275.

Rural deans, account of 812.

Ruskin, John b. 1819 art critic, employs J. W. Bunny 474.

Russia, blank passes in 104,

Lancaster schools introduced 1408,

Mennonites emigrate to Canada 1367,

peace with 737,

Sebastopol, siege of 479.

Russia, St. Petersburg, Baird works founded 133,

Alexander column bas reliefs 133,

St. Nicholas bridge built 133.

S

Sabbath question, collection of books on the 742.

Sacred heart, society of the 797.

Sailors homes established 1226, 1292.

St. Albans, Harriet Beauclerk d. 1837 duchess of, Spanish dances composed for 310.

St. Andrew’s university, principal 394 and rector 76,

only place where degree can be obtained without residence 285.

St. Helens foundries 800.

St. John of Jerusalem, order of 429,

prior of 948.

Safe maker, Chubb 618.

Salford, first member of parliament 423,

Peel park given to 29.

Salisbury, bishop of 858,

Blackmore museum 299,

Salisbury and south Wiltshire museum 1093.

Salmon, killing fifty two in fifty five hours 1061.

Salvage committee, the first formed 348.

Sands, Dick b. 1840 clog dancer 1399.

Sandwich islands, king and queen of in England 317, 505.

San Remo, climate of 820.

Sanskrit scholars,

Brown 430,

Goldstuecker 1168,

Haas 1268.

Saws and sawing, endless band machine 1009,

inventions and improvements in saws 882.

Sax horns, improvements in 882.

Scandinavian scholar, Barclay 159.

Scene painters,

Bough 347,

Danson 812,

Fenton 1034,

Greenwood 1231,

Telbin 1243.

Scheffer, Ary d. 1858 painter, his model for Monica 1511.

Schools,

agricultural 961,

farm sch. system 1070,

Fellenberg’s system of industrial schools 507,

Hazelwood system of management 1474,

school excursions established 1448,

seven pupils drowned 1070.

Sciography or examples of shadows 1267.

Scotland, Aberdeen, Udney sch. near 291,

baronial architecture 455,

church courts 700,

churches, scheme for building two hundred 534,

congregational union founded 320,

education of women 1300,

etymological dictionary of the language 755,

Ferguson bequest founded 1035,

Glasgow, first provost of 1199,

Glenalmond coll. 1319, 1424, 1532,

great seal, keeper of 1519,

historiographer royal 409, 494,

jesuits introduced 1150,

legitimate king of 1298,

Lockmaben, keeper of 1532,

locomotive engine the first 551,

lunacy commission 744,

poor, board of supervision 47,

premier earl on union roll 753,

Roman catholic bp. 1150,

Rothesay, episcopacy restored in 1525,

royal archers 1529,

royal assoc. for promoting fine arts 755,

secretary of state 804,

Sunday travelling stopped 1424,

Tay bridge, fall of 346,

tramway the first 1193,

Wellington school for criminals 644.

Scott, Sir Walter d. 1832, Abbotsford 317, 1393, 1532,

Greig much like him 1235,

his library 660,

his friends 1150, 1502,

his legal adviser 1141,

sermons by 1179,

Waverley, authorship of 25,

Waverley, MS. of 1286,

Waverley novels,

printing of 738,

Waverley novels, transcriber of 1179,

works purchased by Black 292.

Screw propellers, experiments with 453.

Scullers,

Bagshawe 126,

Bates 192,

Casamajor 567,

Chambers J. G. 586,

Chambers R. 587,

Clasper 637,

Coombes 707.

Sculptors,

Behnes 223,

Brodie 408,

Burnard 484,

Campbell 534,

Carew 544,

Durham 943,

Earle 951,

Fillans 1045,

Foley 1073,

Forrest 1082,

Francis 1098,

Fuller 1111,

Gatley 1130,

Gibson J. 1140,

Gibson S. 1141,

Gott 1189,

Henning 1431,

Hinchliff 1479,

Hogan 1500,

Hollins 1511,

Hughes 1576.

Sea, deep sea dredging 1596,

sea water, composition of 1596.

Secularist, Greg 1231.

Selby, St. James’ ch. erected 107.

Selkirk, Alexander d. 1723 prototype of Robinson Crusoe, life of 1557.

Sellis d. 1810 attempts to murder Duke of Cumberland 1320.

Selwyn, George Augustus d. 1791 M.P., his adopted dau. 1449.

Sennacherib d. 680 B.C. king of Assyria, his name discovered on a monument 1480.

Serjeants at law,

Adams 16,

Alderson 40,

Allen 52,

Amphlett 58,

Archibald 82,

Bellasis 233,

Bovill 354,

Burke 480,

Byles 504,

Campbell 526,

Channell 590,

Clarke 635,

Cleasby 643,

Cox 741,

Cresswell 758,

Cross 770,

Crowder 774,

Doyley 913,

Erle 954,

Gaselee 1128,

Glover 1160,

Glynn 1161,

Goulburn 1190,

Halcomb 1276,

Hayes 1398,

Heath 1411,

Hill 1471,

Honyman 1523,

Huddleston 1565,

Storks 1190,

peer made a serjeant 526.

Sermons remarkable 99, 472, 1526.

Serpents, serpent myths 712, worship of 842.

Sewage, method of utilising 113.

Sewing machine, Singer, original suggestion for the 214,

introduced to Bombay 792.

Sextant,

improved 831,

protracting pocket 132.

Shaftesbury, Anthony A. d. 1885 seventh earl, his colleagues 1052.

Shakespeare, William d. 1616, before St. Thomas Lucy 1365,

catalogue of plays in all languages 1391,

chair 1164,

clowns, representations of 690,

dramas produced at Sadler’s Wells 1231,

New Place purchased 1295,

no deerstalker 371,

literary cookery with reference to matters attributed to 377,

Shakspeare soc. 1295,

Stratford library, librarian 1391,

tercentenary 1071, 1349,

twelve plays produced in Dublin 1349,

works in all languages, collection of 1578.

Shakespeare, William, editions of his works,

The Cambridge 629,

Cassell’s illustrated 631,

Clarke’s edition 631,

Collier’s editions 678,

Collier’s reported forgeries 677,

facsimile of the quartos 1295,

Harness’ edition 1342,

Perkin’s folio 678.

Shakespeare, William, his plays, Hamlet, long run of 191,

King Richard ii. Greek version 1558,

Midsummer night’s dream, music for 703,

Titus Andronicus acted 42,

Winter’s tale acted 102,

Winter’s tale, music for 703.

Shakespeare scholars,

Bulloch 471,

Clarke 631,

Collier 678,

Dyce 946,

Halliwell 1295,

Harness 1342,

Perkins 678.

Shakespearian readers,

Bellew 234,

Betham 262,

Glyn 1161.

Shawls, knitted, manufactory for 1350,

shawl manufacturers 626, 1106.

Sheep breeders,

Berners 257,

Garrett 1126,

Hall 1286.

Sheffield, Mark Firth almshouses 1051,

Firth park 1051,

Firth college 1051,

money left to 127,

saw grinders union 405.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe d. 1822 poet, eloped with Clara M. J. Clairmont 621,

his friends 1503, 1568, 1591,

the necessity of atheism 1503.

Shells, collections of,

Broderip 408,

Carpenter 555,

Cuming 783, 1218,

Dyson 949,

Hope 1530.

Sheriff, declining to serve as, Carne 552.

Ship builders,

Elder 972,

Fincham 1046,

Harland 1339.

Ship owners,

Burns 488,

Cunard 489,

Green 1226,

Guion 1256,

Hartley 1361,

Henderson 1425,

Hodgkinson 1493,

Mac Iver 489.

Shipping Companies,

Allan founded 48 bis.,

British and North American founded 786,

Cunard 489, 785–86,

East India steam navigation 1422,

Great Eastern 1170,

Guion line 1256,

Henderson line 1425,

Montreal Ocean founded 48,

Peninsular and O.S.N. Co. formation of 48, 60,

See also Steam ships.

Ships and Shipping,

anchors, inventions in 112,

boats, safety rods for 10,

bow and stern rudder 1422,

Boxer’s rocket 859,

cellular system of building 1259,

Denham’s jury tiller 856,

Dennett’s life saving rocket 859,

diagonal system of building 914,

iron ships sheathed with copper 1208,

Juanita built in 70 days 824,

load line committee 861,

resistance and propulsion of 1110,

screw trenail fastenings 914,

stay sails 1413,

to propel during a calm 494,

water tight bulkheads, invention of 224,

watering, plan of 1054,

wrecked ships, raising of 389.

Shipwrecks,

Arctic 727,

Brazen 1322,

Captain 479, 675,

General Outram 557,

Great Britain 389,

Kent 1029, 1334,

London 915,

Lutine frigate 1417,

Orion 634,

Orpheus 487,

Pacific 571,

Princess Alice 564,

Psyche 649,

Reynard 746,

Thetis 875.

Shoemakers learned,

Beattie 210,

Brown 434,

Burnet 485,

Crocker 762,

Edwards 963,

Elmslie 989,

Fawcett 1028,

Gammage 1119,

Hall 1289,

Hunter 1596,

Pounds 210.

Short-hand, Bradley’s system 374,

philosophic shorthand 1476.

Short-hand writers,

Gurney J. 1262,

Gurney W. 1263,

Harland 1339.

Showmen,

Bishop 290,

Feeney 1031,

Richardson 564, 1447.

Shrewsbury, bishop of 433.

Shrewsbury school, captain of 1588,

the beef row 1467.

Sicily, Eclipse expedition to 1351.

Silk, merchants 987, 1256, 1557,

silk printing 77,

silk throwing 733.

Siliad, The, authors of 221.

Silver, to extract from it ore without mercury 610.

Silver Cross, order of the 1232.

Silver smiths, Hamlet 1308,

Storr and Mortimer 1551.

Simeon, Rev. Charles d. 1836 of Cambridge, his curate 1434.

Sinai, exploration of peninsula of 601,

survey fund founded 1507.

Singers, See also Actors 1617,

Aspull 100,

Binge 878,

Bishop 1561,

Bosio 344,

Braham 378,

Brough 424,

Caradori-Allan 541,

Collins 679,

Comer J. 689,

Comer T. 689,

Cooper 711,

Crivelli 762,

Crosmond 770,

Donnadieu 896,

Drayton 916,

Fagniani 1449,

Favanti 1027,

Fearon 1345,

Frazer 1103,

Gibbs 1138,

Giuglini 1154,

Graddon 1138,

Green 1226,

Grisi 1249,

Harrison 1356,

Hawes 1384,

Hayes 1397,

Henry 1432,

Hersee 1556,

Hicks 1461,

Hobbs 1487,

Home 1520,

Horn 1537,

Howell 1556,

Huddart 1565,

Hunt J. 1592,

Hunt W. 1594,

Lennox 1539,

Lind 1158,

Murska 60,

Paton 1138,

Paul 1072,

Pyne 1539,

Romer 424, 1537,

Stephens 997–8, 1138,

Thillon 1567,

Young 997.

Singers, comic, Clifton 649,

Collins 680,

Cowell 736,

Coyne 744,

Feeney 1031,

Fitzwilliam 1065,

Herbert 1440.

Sinner’s friend, a tract 1287.

Siskin’s nest, a 801.

Skelt, publisher of the Toy theatre 1523.

Sketching on wood with a hot iron 1576.

Skulls and skeletons, collection of 831.

Slaves and slavery,

abolitionists 361, 1074,

duration of life 1048,

emancipation of in West Indies 635,

freeing of the slaves 1048,

slaves in Tennessee 818.

Sleep,

nervous sleep 378,

sleep and dreams, a monograph of 741,

to procure at will 281.

Sligo, lord lieutenant 339,

Markree castle observatory 709.

Small coal man, a political song 1573.

Smee, Alfred, M.D. 1606.

Smith, Assheton, pictures painted for 1038.

Smith, Rev. Sydney d. 1845 canon of St. Paul’s, memoir of 1509.

Soap, resin used in making 1589,

soap makers 900, 1383.

Smoking apparatus, Bragge’s collection 378.

Snake bites, cures for 502.

Snuff, Petersham mixture 1344.

Sobieski, Amelia A. G. princess of 865.

Societies, See also Associations col. 1623 and Institutions col. 1649.

Actors’ fund founded 1209.

Adult instruction founded 157.

Æsthetic, Edin. founded 1393.

Alists contemplated 161.

Almondbury clerical founded 1547.

Anastatic founded 1237.

Anthropological and Ethnological 299.

Anthropological founded 1591.

Animals’ friend founded 1086, 1170.

Anti Piratical, gold medal 875.

Antique academy Birmingham, founded 1124.

Architects benevolent fund originators 1276,

property left to 1073.

Ashmolean founded 1238.

Astronomical founded 1169, 1447.

Athenian founded 6.

Aurelian founded 783.

Bach founded 244.

Bath and west of England soc., journal of 1175.

Birmingham political union founded 105.

Blue Friars established 1351.

Botanical established 1247.

Botanical of Edinburgh founded 144.

British and foreign bible, founded 1316.

British and foreign sch. soc. training coll. 793.

British and foreign temperance founded 681.

British artists established 1515,

president 1601.

British, for propagating gospel among Jews 1448.

British madrigal conductor 719.

Cambridge antiquarian projected 1295,

founded 723.

Cambridge philosophical founded 1434.

Cambridge university musical founded 948.

Camden founded 451.

Cavendish founded 1198.

Cavendish philological and chemical members 580.

Celtic union originated 536.

Chemical, London, founded 361, 1198, 1228, 1244, 1437.

Chetham projected 724, 773.

Christian instruction originated 296.

Colonial missionary founded 280.

Communist propaganda founded 169.

Congregational union merged in Missionary Soc. 9.

Conservative land founded 1253.

Contrapuntists founded 1072.

Corresponding founded 217.

Coventry labourers’ and artisans’ established 385.

De Quincey founded 1160.

Dublin historical originated 231.

Dublin, models left to 1073.

Dublin university zoological and botanical founded 146.

English church union founded 391.

Entomological founded 783, 1530.

Epidemiological, chief founder 117.

Ethnological 299, 434, 755.

Evening sketching founded 584.

Fanny Wright founded 818.

Farmers’ alliance originated 1552.

Folk lore founded 713.

Freed slaves aid originated 795.

Friends of Italy founded 96.

Geological, foundation of 29, 1229.

Godists advocated 161.

Granger founded 1326.

Graphic society of artists founded 406.

Harleian founded 605.

Historical of Lancashire and Cheshire founded 1584.

Holbein founded 1223,

publications 99.

Home missionary originated 9.

Horticultural, collector for in Brazil 893,

sec. of 247.

Huguenot founded 1153.

Hunterian president 734.

Ilam Anastatic drawing and Anastatic soc. 1237.

Incorporated law instituted 1513.

India reform founded 874.

Juridical, sec. of 625.

Kilkenny archæological established 1211.

Lambeth chemical established 783.

League of universal brotherhood developed 491.

Legal discussion founded 157.

Liberal registration, sec. of 717.

Linnean, black ball J. E. Gray 1216.

London and Middlesex archæological founded 1579.

London astrological, last survivor of 1270.

London city mission, sec. 1127.

London corresponding chairman 281.

London organ school founded 626.

London professional chorus founded 1348.

London surgical home formed 432.

Manx established 1357.

Mathematical president 1169.

Metaphysical, a member of 649.

Metropolitan soc. of florists and amateurs started 1157.

Microscopical founded 357.

Middlesex archæological founded 352.

Midland medical founded 1453.

Moslem missionary founded 87.

Motett founded 946.

Musomanik, at Anstruther founded 1214.

National founded 730,

money raised for 1238.

Natural history, Glasgow, founded 1219.

New British and foreign dissolved 488.

Newcastle literary and philosophical founded 232.

Northumberland and Durham natural history founded 39.

Numismatic first meeting 37.

Odontological first president 565.

Oxford churchmen’s union founded 1284.

Paleontographical founded 357.

Parker secretary and librarian 113.

Patagonian missionary founded 1121.

Patriotic, rewards by 1056.

Peace, first congress 491.

Penzance natural history and antiquarian curator 731.

People’s international league founded 96.

Pharmaceutical originated 1313,

founded 228.

Philharmonic, chief originator of 114, 725.

Philobiblon secretary 853.

Philological founded 1254,

member of 674.

Philological school, principal of 2.

Photographic founded 1090.

Phrenological founded 688, 979.

Physical of London founded 1264.

Plinian, Edinburgh, founded 134.

Polytechnic, Liverpool, founded 1208.

Prayer book and homily founded 467.

Psychological founded 741.

Ray founded 357.

Record first president 773.

Religious book and tract founded 959.

Royal agricultural of England founded 1126,

sec. 1567.

Royal Birmingham soc. of artists founded 1124.

Royal college of chemistry founded 1122.

Royal Cornwall polytechnic founders 1094, 1095.

Royal general theatrical fund founded 737.

Royal geographical founded 410, 427.

Royal geological of Cornwall curator 731.

Royal historical first council 605.

Royal horticultural gardens at Chiswick 1088.

Royal medical and chirurgical presidents 23, 790, 980.

Royal physical, Edinburgh, reformed 1219,

president 670.

Royal society of literature founded 117,

sec. 572.

Sacred harmonic founded 393,

conductor 725,

dissolved 1603.

Sanskrit text 1168.

Selenographical established 288.

Silk conditioning, originator of 579.

Società armonica conductor 1077.

Soc. for diffusion of useful knowledge established 1473.

Soc. for Irish ch. missions to R. Catholics founded 804.

Soc. for obtaining free access to museums founded 1072.

Soc. for propagation of gospel, secretary 1388.

Soc. for protection of agriculture founded 137.

Soc. for protection of ancient buildings founded 1569.

Soc. for psychical research founded 446, 1260.

Soc. for suppression of mendacity, secretary 324.

Soc. of antiquaries of Newcastle founded 229, 232.

Soc. of arts secretary 1090.

Soc. of arts, Edinburgh, secretary 1469.

Soc. of arts for Scotland, president 809.

Soc. of biblical archæology founded 712.

Soc. of British artists founded 52.

Soc. of British musicians, member of 611.

Soc. of Hebrew literature founded 239.

Soc. of Noviomagus founded 765,

president 1289.

Speculative, Edinburgh, history of 644,

member 1537.

Spencer president 773.

Spiritual athenæum founded 1519.

Spitalfields mathematical, member of 580.

Statistical and social enquiry of Ireland 1315.

Statistical, founders of 116, 1293.

Sunday school union founded 1263.

Surtees vice president 773.

Sussex archæological founder 292.

Swedenborg society, house for 651.

Sydenham dissolved 117.

Thames marine officers training ship 1226.

United Irish, member of 653.

Universal communitarian founded 169.

Wernerian dissolved 670.

Western madrigal, conductor of 735.

Westminster medical president 615.

Zoological society founded 408, 1530.

Soda, pyrophosphate of discovered 628.

Somersault thrower, Delevanti 853.

Somnambulism 686.

Soutar, Charles stole Earl Crawford’s body 754.

Southall park asylum Middlesex, burnt 367.

Southey, Robert d. 1843 poet, Cottle’s connection with 728.

Soyer, Alexis d. 1858 cook, his Pantropheon 1027.

Spain, archives at Simancas 252,

Badajoz, storming of 1132,

British legion in 685, 1003,

handbook of 1080,

plays, collection of 614.

Sparrows, purveyor of, Barber 156.

Speaking with tongues 91.

Species, origin of 819.

Spedding, James d. 1874 barrister, his friend 1058.

Speech, stammering, cure of 578, 1590, 1593,

treatment of impediments 290.

Spermatozoa within the ovum first discovered 183.

Spinal complaints, establishment for 56.

Spirits, method of levying duties on 886.

Spiritualists,

Cox 741,

Crowe 775,

Gibson 1142,

Greg 1231,

Hall 1289,

Home 1519, 1559,

Howitt 1559.

Sporting prophet, Hotspur 1032.