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

BELL, John Montgomerie. b. Paisley 1804; advocate in Edinburgh 1825; advocate depute 1847; sheriff of Kincardine 7 May 1851 to death; author of Treatise on law of arbitration in Scotland 1861; The martyr of liberty, a poem 1863. d. Linnhouse 16 Oct. 1862.

BELL, Jonathan Anderson (2 son of James Bell, advocate). b. Glasgow 1809; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; spent some years with Messrs. Rickman and Hutcheson of Birmingham, architects; an architect in Edinburgh 1838 to death; sec. to Royal Association for the promotion of the fine arts in Scotland May 1839 to death; author of Poems. Privately printed 1865. d. Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1865. Poems by J. A. Bell (1865) v-xi.

BELL, Sir Joshua Peter. b. co. Kildare 1826; owner with his father and brothers of a splendid station called Jimbour near Dalby, Queensland where they became great wool growers; M.P. for Dalby in Queensland parliament 1863 to March 1879; colonial treasurer 1871–74; pres. of legislative council March 1879 to death; K.C.M.G. 24 Nov. 1881. d. Brisbane 20 Dec. 1881. Illust. sporting and dramatic news xvi, 405 (1882), portrait.

BELL, Lady Marion (2 dau. of Charles Shaw of Ayr). b. Edinburgh 1787. (m. 3 June 1811 Sir Charles Bell, F.R.S., celebrated physiologist b. Nov. 1774 d. 28 April 1842). Granted a civil list pension of £100 for her husband’s services to science 14 Sep. 1843; published The letters of Sir Charles Bell 1870. d. 47 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 9 Nov. 1876.

BELL, Matthew. b. 18 April 1793; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Northumberland 1816; M.P. for Northumberland 1826–31 and for South Northumberland 1832–52; lieut. col. of Northumberland and Newcastle yeomanry cavalry 1826–63. d. Woolsington near Newcastle 28 Oct. 1871.

BELL, Oswald Home. M.R.C.S. Edin. 3 Feb. 1863; professor of medicine in Univ. of St. Andrews 1863 to death; dean of the medical faculty. d. The Scores, St. Andrews 24 June 1875 in 39 year.

BELL, Rev. Patrick (son of George Bell of Mid Leoch farm, parish of Auchterhouse near Dundee). b. Mid Leoch farm April 1799; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, LLD. 1867; ordained 1843; minister of Carmyllie, Arbroath Dec. 1843 to death; invented a reaping machine 1826 being 7 or 8 years before the earliest American inventors; presented by Highland Society with sum of £1000 1868. d. The manse of Carmyllie 22 April 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 473 (1869); I.L.N. lii, 225 (1868), portrait.

BELL, Robert (son of Benjamin Bell, surgeon). b. 1782; ed. at high school Edinburgh; advocate 1809; sheriff of Berwickshire 1842–60; procurator to Church of Scotland 1842 to death; member of Bannatyne club; made a fine collection of Rembrandt etchings. d. 15 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 27 April 1861. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), portrait.

BELL, Robert (youngest son of John Bell of Cork). b. Cork 16 Jany. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin where he originated the Dublin Historical Society; settled in London 1828; edited the Atlas weekly paper many years, the Monthly Chronicle and the Home News a monthly journal; author of History of Russia 3 vols. 1838; Lives of the English poets 2 vols. 1839; Wayside pictures through France, Belgium and Holland 1849, 2 ed. 1858; Hearts and altars 3 vols. 1852; The ladder of gold 3 vols. 1856; The annotated edition of the English poets 24 vols. 1854–57, and of 3 five-act comedies, Marriage 1842; Mothers and daughters 1843, 2 ed. 1845 and Temper 1847. d. 14 York st., Portman sq. London 12 April 1867.

BELL, Venerable Robert. Ordained 1831; Inc. of Tipperary 1866 to death; archdeacon of Cashel 1872 to death; canon of St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin. d. rectory Tipperary 10 Jany. 1883 in 75 year.

BELL, Robert Charles. b. Edinburgh 1806; Engraved a series of Scottish views and a number of vignette portraits, also many plates for the Royal Scottish Association; his largest and most important work was an engraving of Sir William Allan’s Battle of Preston Pans which he completed in 1872; several of his best plates appeared in the Art Journal 1850–72. d. Edinburgh 5 Sep. 1872. Art Journal (1872) 284.

BELL, Sir Sydney Smith (9 son of Wm. Bell, of London, banker). b. 1805; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839; puisne judge at Cape of Good Hope 7 Feb. 1851, and first puisne judge May 1858; chief justice of supreme court and pres. of legislative council of Cape of Good Hope 16 Dec. 1868 to 1879; knighted by patent 9 Oct. 1869; author of Cases decided in the House of Lords on appeal from the courts of Scotland 7 vols. 1843–52; Colonial administration of Great Britain 1859. d. 42 Kensington park road, London 13 Sep. 1879.

BELL, Thomas (son of Richard Bell of Newcastle). b. Newcastle 16 Dec. 1785; land valuer and surveyor; an antiquary, assisted the local topographical authors in their works especially Rev. John Hodgson in his History of Northumberland 6 vols. 1827–40; one of the founders of Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society and of Society of antiquaries of Newcastle 1813. d. Newcastle 30 April 1860.

BELL, Thomas (only son of Thomas Bell of Poole, Dorset, surgeon). b. Poole 11 Oct. 1792; studied at Guys and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1815, F.R.C.S. 1844, F.L.S. 1815, pres. 1853–61; dental surgeon to Guy’s hospital 1817–61 where he lectured on comparative anatomy; F.R.S. 10 Jany. 1828, junior secretary 1848–53; professor of Zoology at King’s college London 1836 to death; pres. of the Ray Society 1843–59; purchased in 1866 from the grandnieces of Gilbert White The Wakes, Selborne where he lived to his death; author of Monograph of Testudinata, parts 1–8, 1832–37, folio; History of British quadrupeds 1837, 2 ed. 1874; History of British reptiles 1839; History of British Stalk-eyed Crustacea 1853; edited White’s Natural history of Selborne 2 vols. 1877. d. The Wakes, Selborne 13 March 1880. Nature xxi, 473, 499 (1880).

BELL, Sir William (son of Wm. Bell of Ripon, Yorkshire). b. 1788; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 23 Nov. 1804; served through Peninsular war; colonel R.A. 18 March 1852, colonel commandant 26 Dec. 1865 to death; general 31 Jany. 1872; K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. South lodge, Ripon 28 March 1873.

BELLAIRS, Rev. Henry (3 son of Abel Walford Bellairs of Uffington, Lincolnshire 1755–1839). b. 29 Aug. 1790; midshipman on board H.M.S. Spartiate; wounded twice at Trafalgar; cornet 15 Hussars 25 Nov. 1808; lieut. 26 May 1809 to 1811; ed. at St. Mary hall Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Bedworth, Warws 1830; V. of Hunsingore, Yorkshire 1832 to death; hon. canon of Worcester Sep. 1853 to death. d. Paignton near Torquay 17 April 1872.

BELLAIRS, Sir William (younger brother of the preceding). b. Uffington 1793; cornet 15 Hussars 2 May 1811; captain 10 April 1817 to 10 Feb. 1820 when he sold out; exon of Yeomen of the Guard 19 Sep. 1837 to Dec. 1848; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s Palace 17 May 1848. (m. 1822 Cassandra dau. of Edmund Hooke of Mulbarton lodge, Norfolk, she d. 1876). d. London 2 Oct. 1863.

BELLAMY, George. b. Plymouth 15 Nov. 1773; surgeon’s mate R.N. Feb. 1793; surgeon 19 May 1795; surgeon to the Bellerophon 74 guns 1796–1800; served at battle of the Nile; placed on retired list 1817; M.R.C.P.; mayor of Plymouth 1811–12. d. Plymouth 10 Oct. 1863.

BELLAMY, Rev. James William (son of John Bellamy). b. 25 Nov. 1788; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school and Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1816; Norrisian and Seatonian prizeman 1815; incorporated at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1820, B.D. 1821; head master of Merchant Taylors’ school 6 April 1819 to 23 July 1845; V. of Sellinge, Kent 1822 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s cathedral 10 March 1843 to death; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; edited A concordance to the Holy Bible 1818. d. Sellinge 2 March 1874.

BELLAMY, John Cremer. b. Plymouth 7 Dec. 1812; L.S.A. 1833, M.R.C.S. 1834; Curator of Plymouth Institute and Devon and Cornwall Nat. Hist. Society; author of The natural history of South Devon 1839; The housekeeper’s guide to the fish market for each month of the year 1843, new ed. 1862; A thousand facts in the histories of Devon and Cornwall 1850. d. George st. Plymouth 12 May 1854.

BELLAMY, William Hoare. b. Cork 5 Aug. 1800; made his début at Elmsworth 1825 as Sir Simon Rochdale in John Bull; went to the United States; made his début in New York 1838. (m. Mrs. A. W. Penson, she was b. Scotland and acted in the United States 1838 to her death May 1857). d. Greenpoint, Long Island 15 April 1866.

BELLARS, Henry John. b. Chester; a schoolmaster; sec. and curator of Chester Natural History Society; photographic artist in London 1862 to death; the best facsimilist in England; author of Illustrated catalogue of British land and freshwater shells 1858; The historical numismatic atlas of the Roman emperors. d. 12 Bedford court, Covent Garden 22 June 1868 aged 44.

BELLASIS, Edward (only son of Rev. George Bellasis, V. of Basildon, Berkshire who d. 1814). b. Basildon vicarage 14 Oct. 1800; ed. at Christ’s Hospital 1808–15; barrister I.T. 2 July 1824; employed in parliamentary practice 1836–66, counsel in 342 important cases; serjeant at law 10 July 1844; received into Roman Catholic Church 28 Sep. 1850; trustee with J. R. Hope-Scott Q.C. of Earl of Shrewsbury 1853–56; steward of manors of Duke of Norfolk in Norfolk and Suffolk 1863; one of the 3 comrs. who reported on College of Arms 1870; author of several anonymous pamphlets. d. Hyères, France 24 Jany. 1873. The Tablet 1 Feb. 1873 p. 138.

BELLEW, Patrick, 1 Baron (elder son of Sir Edward Bellew, 6 baronet who d. 15 March 1827). b. London 29 Jany 1798; succeeded 15 March 1827; lord lieut. of co. Louth 1832 to death; col. of Louth militia 17 Nov. 1843 to death; M.P. for Louth 1831–1832 and 1834–1837; P.C. Ireland 1838; created a peer of Ireland by title of Baron Bellew of Barmeath co. Louth 17 July 1848. d. Barmeath 10 Dec. 1866.

BELLEW, Rev. Sir Christopher, 2 Baronet. b. 1818; succeeded 26 June 1855. d. at house of the Jesuit Fathers, Gardiner st. Dublin 18 March 1867.

BELLEW, John Chippendall Montesquieu (only child of Robert Higgin, lieutenant 12 Foot who d. 24 Jany. 1853). b. Lancaster 3 Aug. 1823; ed. at Lancaster gr. sch. and St. Mary hall Ox.; assumed his mother’s name of Bellew Aug. 1844; C. of St. Andrew’s Worcester 1849; C. of Prescot Lancs. 1850; assistant chaplain in Bengal 1851; chaplain of St. John’s cathedral Calcutta Dec. 1852 to 1855; edited the Bengal Hurkaru; assistant minister of St. Philip’s Regent’s st. London 1855–57; P.C. of St. Mark’s St. John’s Wood 1857–62; minister of Bedford chapel Bloomsbury 26 Oct. 1862 to 1868; one of the most popular preachers in London; received into Church of Rome Oct. 1869; executed deed of relinquishment of holy orders 13 Aug. 1870; very successful as a public reader in England and the United States; author of Shakespeare’s house at New Place 1863; Blount Tempest a novel 3 vols. 1866; Poets Corner, a manual for students 1868. d. 16 Circus road, St. John’s Wood 19 June 1874. Bentley’s Quarterly Review i, 476–92 (1859); Traits of character by a contemporary i, 285–312 (1860); Cartoon portraits (1873) 50–51, portrait; Graphic x, 15 (1874), portrait; E. Yates’s Recollections ii, 66–69 (1884).

BELLEW, Sir Michael Dillon, 1 Baronet (son of Christopher Dillon Bellew of Mount Bellew, co. Galway 1763–1826). b. 29 Sep. 1796; created a baronet 15 Aug. 1838. d. Greenville lodge, Rathmines near Dublin 26 June 1855.

BELLEW, Richard Montesquieu (younger son of Sir Edward Bellew 6 baronet who d. 1827). b. 12 Feb. 1803; M.P. for co. Louth 21 Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852 and 16 May 1859 to 6 July 1865; a lord of the treasury 6 Aug. 1847 to 1852; member of Local government board, Ireland. d. Dublin 8 Jany. 1880.

BELLEW, Thomas Arthur Grattan. b. 1824; M.P. for co. Galway 26 July 1852 to 21 March 1857; assumed additional surname of Grattan by r.l. 19 March 1859. d. Mount Bellew, Duleek, co. Galway 24 July 1863.

BELLHOUSE, Edward Taylor (eld. son of David Bellhouse of Manchester). b. Manchester 10 Oct. 1816; started firm of E. T. Bellhouse and Co., engineers, Eagle foundry, Hunt st. Manchester 1 July 1842; erected the Gas works for Buenos Ayres, Pernambuco and Athens; erected many large bridges for various railways and many iron buildings; pres. of Manchester Mechanics’ Institute; M.I.M.E. 1857. d. Southport 13 Oct. 1881. Proc. of Instit. of M.E. (1882) 1–2.

BELLINGHAM, O’Bryen (3 son of Sir Alan Bellingham, 2 baronet 1776–1827). b. 12 Dec. 1805; ed. at Feinagle’s school; M.D. Univ. of Edin. and L.R.C.S. Edin. 1830; professor of botany, Royal college of surgeons Ireland to 1850, a surgical examiner 1850, chairman of the court 1856; sec. of Surgical society of Ireland to death; surgeon to St. Vincent’s hospital 1835 to death; author of Observations on aneurism and its treatment by compression 1847; Treatise on diseases of the heart 1857. d. The Castle, Castle Bellingham, co. Louth 11 Oct. 1857. Dublin Journal of medical science lxiv, 469–75 (1877).

BELLOC, Anne Louise (dau. of Colonel James Swanton, commandant of Rocroi, France who was b. Ireland). b. La Rochelle 1 Oct. 1796; assisted Lafayette in establishing public libraries; founded a choice circulating library; translated many English books into French. (m. 1823 Jean Hilaire Belloc, Director of Royal School of Design, Paris who d. 1866). d. Paris 6 Nov. 1881. S. J. Hale’s Woman’s record, 2 ed. 1855 p. 583, portrait.

BELLOT, Joseph René. b. Paris 18 March 1826: served in French navy 1843–50; went as a volunteer with captain Kennedy in the Prince Albert in search of Sir John Franklin 1851–52; sailed in the Phœnix for the Arctic regions 10 May 1853; left the ship to carry dispatches to Sir Edward Belcher 12 Aug. 1853; author of Journal d’un voyage aux Mers Polaires 1854; fell into a crack in the ice near Cape Bowden and drowned 18 Aug. 1853; an obelisk was erected to his memory by public subscription in front of Greenwich hospital 1857. Memoirs of J. R. Bellot 2 vols. 1855, portrait.

BELLOT, Thomas (elder son of Thomas Bellot of Manchester, surgeon). b. Manchester 16 March 1806; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; pupil of Joseph Jordan, surgeon; M.R.C.S. 15 Feb. 1828, F.R.C.S. 6 Aug. 1844; assistant surgeon H.M. sloop Harrier 1831; surgeon R.N. 1835; surgeon H.M. flag ship Britannia Nov. 1854; author of translations of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates and of Galen On the hand 1850; Sanskrit derivation of English words 1856; arranged two collections of Chinese coins, one of which he presented to the Natural history society of Manchester; collected many ancient Chinese bronzes and a library of Chinese works. d. 37 Greek st. Stockport 25 June 1857. Manchester school register iii, 118 (1874); Medical directory (1858) 849–50.

BELMORE, George, stage name of George Belmore Garstin. Made his début in London at Marylebone theatre 26 Dec. 1856 as Bokes in The Creole; acted at Princess’s and Drury Lane theatres; played Nat Gosling in Boucicault’s drama Flying Scud at Holborn theatre more than 200 nights from 6 Oct. 1866; acted in the provinces and at Adelphi theatre where he played Newman Noggs in Nicholas Nickleby 20 March 1875 to July 1875; acted in New York Aug. to Oct. 1875. (m. 16 April 1862 Alice Maude dau. of Wm. Cooke proprietor of Astley’s Amphitheatre). d. New York 15 Nov. 1875 aged 47. Entr’acte 27 Nov. 1875, portrait.

BELOE, Charles (2 son of Rev. Wm. Beloe 1756–1817, Prebendary of St. Paul’s). A clerk in the London Twopenny post office; sec. to the Alfred club. d. Reading 23 Oct. 1855 aged 69.

BELPER, Edward Strutt, 1 Baron (only son of Wm. Strutt of St. Helen’s house Derby, manufacturer 1756–1830). b. Derby 26 Oct. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, L.L.D. 1862; M.P. for Derby 1830–1848 when unseated for bribery; M.P. for Arundel 1851–1852 and for Nottingham 1852–1856; chief comr. of railways 29 Aug. 1846 to March 1848; P.C. 30 Oct. 1846; sheriff of Notts. 1850; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 30 Dec. 1852 to 21 June 1854; chairman of Notts. quarter sessions 1855; created Baron Belper of Belper, county Derby 29 Aug. 1856; lord lieutenant of Notts. 6 Dec. 1864; pres. of Univ. coll. London 29 July 1871. d. 75 Eaton square, London 30 June 1880.

BELSHES, John Murray. Captain 59 Foot 4 Sep 1812 to 25 May 1816 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 12 Nov. 1862. d. Inverary 12 Jany. 1863. P.R. Drummond’s Perthshire in bygone days (1879) 81–85.

BELSON, George John. Second lieutenant R.A. 29 Sep. 1804; lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841 to 7 April 1842 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 27 Feb. 1866. d. Woolwich 22 April 1868 aged 80.

BELT, Thomas (son of Mr. Belt of Newcastle, seedsman). b. Newcastle 1832; member of Natural history society of Northumberland June 1850; went to Australia 1852; a mining engineer in London 1860; travelled all over Asia and America; superintendent of Nova Scotian gold company’s mines in Nova Scotia 1863–65; examined the quartz rocks of North Wales; superintendent of the Chontales Gold mining company in Nicaragua 1868–72; travelled in Russia 1873–76; F.G.S.; author of Mineral veins, an enquiry into their origin 1861; The naturalist in Nicaragua 1874; The glacial period in North America. d. Denver, Colorado 21 Sep. 1878 in 46 year. Natural history transactions of Northumberland vii, 235–40 (1880).

BELZONI, Sarah. Remarkable for her size and strength; married in London about 1804 Giovanni Baptista Belzoni, acrobat, engineer and traveller who was b. Padua 1778 and d. at Gato, Benin, Africa 3 Dec. 1823; performed feats of strength with her husband in the streets, at fairs and at Astley’s Amphitheatre; travelled in Egypt with him 1815–19; granted civil list pension of £100 6 Feb. 1851; author of Account of the women of Egypt, Nubia and Syria. d. Belozanne valley, Jersey 12 Jany. 1870 aged 87.

BENBEY, Sadi Ombark. Came to England with Mungo Park whom he taught Arabic language. d. 11 Feb. 1854 aged more than 80.

BENBOW, John. Solicitor in London; M.P. for Dudley 8 Aug. 1844 to death. d. Hastings 24 Feb. 1855 aged 86.

BENDIGO, cognomen of William Thompson (son of Mr. Thompson of Nottingham, cabinet maker). b. Nottingham 11 Oct. 1811, being one of 3 children at a birth; fought and beat Ben. Caunt 1 July 1835; beat Brassey (John Leechman) 24 May 1836; beat young Langan 24 Jany. 1837; beat Looney 13 June 1837; beaten by Ben. Caunt 3 April 1838; beat Deaf Burke at Heather, Leicestershire 12 Feb. 1839 in presence of 15000 persons; presented with a “Champion’s belt” by James Ward at Queen’s theatre, Liverpool; beat Ben. Caunt near Sutfield Green Oxon, 9 Sep. 1845 when they fought for £200 a side and the championship; fought Tom Paddock for £200 a side at Mildenhall 5 June 1850 when he won again; a preacher and leader of revivalist services at the Cabmen’s Mission hall, King’s Cross, London. d. Beeston, Notts. 23 Aug. 1880. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii, 1–46 (1880), portrait; J. Greenwoods Low life deeps (1876) 86–94, portrait; Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London 2 series 156–64.

Note.—His curious name Bendigo was a contraction of Abednego, his first challenge in Bell’s Life in London in 1835 is signed Abednego of Nottingham; the town of Bendigo in Victoria, Australia (since called Sandhurst) was named after him.

BENEDICT, Sir Julius (2 son of M. Benedict of Stuttgart, banker). b. Stuttgart 27 Nov. or 24 Dec. 1804; pupil of Hummel at Weimar and of Weber at Dresden; conductor at the Kärnthnerthor theatre Vienna 1823–25 and at the San Carlo and Fondo theatres Naples 1825–35; went to London 1835; conducted a series of Italian comic operas at Lyceum theatre 1836; conductor of English opera at Drury Lane 1838, where he produced The gipsy’s warning 19 April 1838; The brides of Venice 22 April 1844, and The Crusaders 1846; travelled with Jenny Lind in the United States and Havannah and directed all her 122 concerts 1850–52; formed a choral society called The vocal association; conductor of Italian opera at Drury Lane and Her Majesty’s theatres 1859–60; conducted the Norwich Musical Festivals 1845–78 where he produced Undine 1860, Richard Cœur de Lion 1863 and St. Cecilia 1866; conducted the Monday Popular Concerts; his best known opera The Lily of Killarney was produced at Covent Garden 8 Feb. 1862; conductor of Liverpool Philharmonic society 9 April 1867 to Feb. 1879; wrote for Birmingham musical festivals St. Peter 1870 and Graziella 1873; knighted at Windsor Castle 24 March 1871. d. 2 Manchester sq. London 5 June 1885. I.L.N. lviii, 377 (1871), portrait, lxvi, 494 (1875), portrait; Scribner’s Monthly xiii, 480–84 (1877); Graphic xxix, 184 (1884), portrait.

BENETT, John (2 son of Thomas Benett of Pyt house Tisbury, Wilts. who d. 16 May 1797 aged 68). b. 20 May 1773; sheriff of Wilts. 1798; M.P. for Wilts. 19 July 1819 to 3 Dec. 1832 and for South Wilts. 17 Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852; author of some essays on agricultural subjects. d. Pyt house 1 Oct. 1852. G.M. xxxviii, 636–37 (1852).

BENHAM, James Erle. Ed. at St. Mary hall Ox.; student Middle Temple 20 Nov. 1875; author of The student’s guide to the preliminary examination for attorneys and solicitors 1868; edited The preliminary examination Journal 1871. d. Abercorn house, Baron’s court, Kensington, London 11 July 1885 aged 34.

BENHAM, William. Author of English ballads for school reading 1862; St. Matthew, authorised version 1862; Epistles for the Christian year, with notes 1864; Companion to the Lectionary 1873. d. 14 Arley hill, Bristol 16 Sep. 1885 aged 69.

BENIOWSKI, Bartholomew. Educ. at Ecole d’etat major of Paris 1832–33; major in Polish army; attempted to revolutionise art of printing by use of short words cast into one such as, and, but, the; teacher of memory at the Royal Adelaide gallery, Strand, London 1842; took out patents for machinery for printing and composing type 1846, 47 and 49; author of Phrenotypics 1842; A French vocabulary 1843; The Anti-absurd or phrenotypic alphabet and orthography 1844. d. 8 Bow st. Covent Garden 29 March 1867 aged 66.

BENISCH, Abraham. b. Drosan, Bohemia 1811; ed. at Univ. of Vienna; settled in England 1841; edited the Jewish Chronicle 1854 to death; one of chief founders of Society of Hebrew Literature 1870, and of the Anglo Jewish Association 1871; author of A translation of the Old Testament 1851; An essay on Colenso’s criticism of the Pentateuch and Joshua 1863; Judaism surveyed 1874. d. 13 Brownswood park, Green Lanes, London 31 July 1878.

BENJAMIN, George. b. Sussex 15 April 1799; went to Canada; founded the Intelligencer at Belleville 1834, edited it to 1848; member of legislative assembly Canada 1856–61; grand master of the Orangemen of British North America 1848; author of Short lessons for members of Parliament compiled from English and other publications 1862. d. Belleville 6 July or 7 Sep. 1864.