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

DYCE-SOMBRE, David Ochterlony (only son of George Dyce, commandant of the forces of Zerbonissa, begum of Sirdhana, Bengal). b. Sirdhana 1808; inherited half a million sterling on death of his grandmother the Begum Sumroo 27 Jany. 1836; took additional name of Sombre 1836; came to England Aug. 1838 where he became the lion of London season; M.P. for Sudbury 29 June 1841, unseated on petition for bribery 14 April 1842; put under restraint as a lunatic at Clarendon hotel 169 New Bond st. March 1843, a commission de lunatico inquirendo was held at Hanover lodge, Regent’s Park 31 July 1843 when a verdict of unsound mind from 27 Oct. 1842 was returned; escaped from his attendant Dr. Grant at Liverpool, Sep. 1843, arrived in Paris 22 Sep.; author of Mr. Dyce-Sombre’s Refutation of the charges brought against him in the Court of Chancery 1849, and of The Memoir published in English, French and Italian. d. Davies st. Berkeley sq. London 1 July 1851. bur. in catacombs of Kensal Green cemetery 8 July. G. B. Malleson’s Recreations of an Indian official (1872) 438–59; W. H. Sleeman’s Rambles of an Indian official ii, 377–99 (1844); Law mag. and law review i, 356–68 (1856); Macnaghten and Gordon’s Reports i, 116–37 (1850); Deane’s Reports i, 22–120 (1858).

DYER, Joseph Chessborough (son of Nathaniel Dyer, captain Rhode island navy). b. Stonnington Point, Connecticut 15 Nov. 1780; machine maker at Camden Town, London 1811–16, at Manchester 1816–42 where he introduced inventions which gave a great impulse to the cotton manufacture 1817; an original director of Bank of Manchester 1828 which stopped payment 31 Dec. 1842 when he lost £96,000; established machine-making works at Gamaches, Somme, France 1832 gave them up 1848 after losing £120,000; author of Remarks on Education 1850, and 5 other pamphlets. d. at house of his son Frederick Dyer near Manchester 3 May 1871. R. A. Smith’s Centenary of science in Manchester (1883) 298–325.

DYER, Thomas Henry. b. St. Dunstan-in-the-East, London 4 May 1804; LLD. St. Andrews 1865; author of Tentamina Æschylea 1841; Life of Calvin 1850; History of Modern Europe 4 vols. 1861–64, 2 ed. 5 vols. 1877; A history of the City of Rome 1865; The history of the Kings of Rome 1868; Pompeii, its history, buildings and antiquities 1867; Ancient Athens, its history, topography and remains 1873; On imitative beauty 1882. d. Bath 30 Jany. 1888. Academy 11 Feb. 1888, p. 97.

DYKE, Francis Hart (4 son of Sir Percival Hart Dyke, 5 baronet 1767–1846). b. 28 Nov. 1803; admitted a proctor 1825; partner with James Bush in Doctors’ Commons to 1830; deputy registrar of Dean and chapter of St. Paul’s cathedral 1838 to 1845; member of firm of Jenner, Dyke & Jenner of Doctors’ Commons; Queen’s proctor 25 Jany. 1845 to death; thrown from his horse at Egham near Windsor 15 July 1876. d. from the injuries Luddington house, Egham 17 July 1876.

DYKES, Rev. John Bacchus (son of William Hey Dykes of Hull). b. Hull 10 March 1823; ed. at Wakefield and St. Cath. coll. Cam.; a founder of Cambridge university musical soc.; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1851; Mus. Doc. Durham 1861; C. of Malton 1847; minor canon of Durham 1849 to death, precentor of Durham 1849–62; V. of St. Oswald’s, Durham 1862 to death; author of many sermons and letters; composed many hymn tunes most of which appeared first in Hymns ancient and modern 1862, of which collection they are the most popular; wrote several services and anthems. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 22 Jany. 1876. bur. St. Oswald’s churchyard, Durham 28 Jany. In Memoriam J. B. Dykes 1876.

DYMOKE, Sir Henry, 1 Baronet (elder son of Rev. John Dymoke 1764–1828, R. of Scrivelsby, Lincs.) b. Scrivelsby 5 March 1801; in the navy; officiated as deputy for his father the King’s Champion at coronation of George the 4th, 19 July 1821; created a baronet 23 Aug. 1841; vice lieut. of co. Lincoln 1857 and 1859; grand prior of order of St. John of Jerusalem. d. Portman square, London 28 April 1865. W. Jones’s Crowns and Coronations (1883) 128–40, 318 (1883); Once a Week xii, 593–98 (1865); Gent. Mag. xci, pt. 2, 109, 395 (1821), portrait.

DYMOND, Robert (eld. son of Robert Dymond of Exeter, estate agent, who d. 1866). b. St. Edmund’s, Exeter 8 Sep. 1824; estate agent at Exeter; hon. sec. of Devon and Exeter Institution 1875 to death; F.S.A. 27 March 1873; author of many pamphlets, and papers on antiquarian and historical subjects in the Herald and Genealogist, Transactions of the Devonshire Association, and Bath and West of England Journal. d. Blackslade, Widecombe-in-the-Moor near Ashburton 31 Aug. 1888. Notes and Gleanings 15 Sep. 1888 pp. 129–31.

DYNELY, Thomas. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1801, col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 20 June 1854, col. commandant 4 Feb. 1857 to death; L.G. 16 Dec. 1856; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. 78 Upper Berkeley st. London 21 June 1860 aged 78.

DYNEVOR, George Talbot Rice, 3 Baron. b. 8 Oct. 1765; M.P. for Carmarthenshire 28 June 1790 to 14 March 1793 when he succeeded to the peerage; lord lieut. of Carmarthenshire 1804 to death; col. of Carmarthenshire militia to death. d. Barrington park, Gloucs. 9 April 1852.

DYNEVOR, George Rice, 4 Baron (eld. child of the preceding). b. 5 Aug. 1795; ed. at Westminster; M.P. for Carmarthenshire 1830–31 and 1832 to 9 April 1852 when he succeeded; lieut. col. of Carmarthen militia 28 Jany. 1831, col. 12 Aug. 1861 to death; militia aide-de-camp to the Queen 24 April 1852 to death. d. Great Malvern 7 Oct. 1869. I.L.N. xxviii, 72 (1856), portrait.

DYOTT, John. b. Dublin 1812; acted at T.R. York and other country theatres 1834–44; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New York as Iago 2 Sep. 1844; a leading actor in New York to about 1866; edited a newspaper at New Rochelle, New York to death. d. New Rochelle 22 Nov. 1876.

DYSART, Lionel William John Tollemache, 7 Earl of. b. 18 Nov. 1794; M.P. for Ilchester 22 Feb. 1827 to 24 July 1830; succeeded 22 Sep. 1840. d. 34 Norfolk st. Strand, London 23 Sep. 1878, personalty sworn under £1,700,000, 14 Dec. 1878.

DYSON, Rev. Charles (son of Jeremiah Dyson, clerk of House of Commons, who d. 14 Sep. 1835 aged 78). Educ. at Southampton; matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 6 Dec. 1804 aged 17, scholar of his coll.; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1812; R. of Nunburnholme, Yorkshire 1818–28; V. of Nazing, Essex 1828–36; R. of Dogmersfield, Hants. 1836 to death; Rawlinsonian professor of Anglo-Saxon at Ox. 1812–1816, delivered one lecture only; contributed 4 poems under signature of D to the volume entitled Days and Seasons 1845. d. Dogmersfield rectory 24 April 1860 aged 73. Sir J. T. Coleridge’s Memoir of Rev. John Keble, 3 ed. (1869) i, 19, 35–46, 74, 99, 146, 245, 464.

DYSON, David. A weaver; went to the United States about 1843, crossed the country from New York to St. Louis; returned to England with upwards of 18,000 specimens of insects, birds, shells and plants 1844; twice explored Central America and made another very large collection; curator of the Museum of Earl of Derby; left a private collection of 20,000 shells. d. Rusholme near Manchester 10 Dec. 1856 aged 33.

DYSON, Rev. Francis (brother of Rev. Charles Dyson). Matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 13 Dec. 1802 aged 17, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; fellow of his college to 1817; R. of South Tedworth, Hants. 1816 to death; R. of North Tedworth 1829 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the sovereign 1819 to death; preb. of Salisbury 6 April 1847 to death. d. Cheltenham 30 Nov. 1858 aged 73.

DYSON, Jerry Francis. Entered Bombay army 1797; col. 18 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. 5 Lower Berkeley st. Portman sq. London 20 Feb. 1861.

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EADIE, Rev. John. b. Alva, Stirlingshire 9 May 1810; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, LLD. 1846; D.D. St. Andrews 1850; professor of hermeneutics in United Presbyterian Church of Scotland 1847; a temperance lecturer; licensed as a preacher by United Secession church 1835; minister of Cambridge st. ch. Glasgow, Sep. 1835; minister of Lansdowne ch. Glasgow, Dec. 1863 to death; professor of Biblical literature in United Secession divinity hall, Glasgow 1843 to death; moderator of the Synod 1857; edited Voluntary church mag. 1840; member of New Testament revision committee 1870; edited A Biblical cyclopædia 1849, 14 ed. 1873; author of A commentary on the Greek text of the epistle of Paul to the Ephesians 1854, 3 ed. 1883; The English Bible, an external and critical history of the English translations 2 vols. 1876 and many other books. d. Glasgow 3 June 1876. J. Brown’s Life of Rev. J. Eadie (1878); John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 95–102; Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxviii, 276–91, portrait; Good Words xix, 470–72 (1878).

EAGLE, Francis King (2 son of Robert Eagle of Lakenheath, Suffolk). Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., LLB. 1819; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1809, bencher; recorder of Thetford; judge of county courts, circuit 33. (Suffolk) March 1847 to death; F.L.S. 1807; author with Edward Younge of A collection of reports of cases relating to tithes 4 vols. 1826. d. Bury St. Edmunds 8 June 1856 aged 68.

EAGLE, George Barnardo (i.e. Barnard). Professor of Clairvoyance; known as the “Wizard of the South”; when giving a morning performance at the Assembly Rooms, St. Peters Port, Guernsey 1 May 1858 suddenly seized on the stage with vomiting of blood. d. at his residence Pollet st. St. Peters Port 5 May 1858 aged 51. bur. Abney park cemetery, London 10 May. Era 16 May 1858 p. 10.

EAGLES, Rev. John (eld. son of Thomas Eagles of Bristol, merchant and classical scholar 1746–1812). b. parish of St. Augustine, Bristol, baptised 8 Nov. 1783; ed. at Winchester and Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1818; C. of Halberton, Devon 1822–34; C. of Winford near Bristol 1834–41; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. 1831–55 chiefly on subjects connected with fine art; author of The Sketcher, Edin. 1856; Sonnets, ed. by Z. K. Edin. 1858; Felix Farley, rhymes, Latin and English, by Themaninthemoon, Bristol 1826. d. King’s Parade, Clifton 9 Nov. 1855. G.M. xliv, 661–62 (1855) xlv, 148 (1856); Bentley’s Miscellany xlvi, 594–605 (1859).

EARDLEY, Sir Culling Eardley, 3 Baronet (only son of Sir Culling Smith, 2 bart. 1768–1829). b. Lower Grosvenor st. London 21 April 1805; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox.; succeeded 30 June 1829; M.P. for Pontefract 1830–31; contested Pontefract 1837, Edinburgh 1846 and West Riding of Yorkshire 1848; founded Evangelical Alliance 1846; assumed surname of Eardley in lieu of Smith 14 May 1847; pres. of London Missionary Soc.; built All Saints ch. Belvedere, Kent 1861; took a prominent part in many religious and social movements; had a gallery of paintings at Belvedere near Erith. d. Bedwell park, Hatfield 21 May 1863. Waagen’s Galleries of Art (1857) 275–84.

EARDLEY-WILMOT, Frederick Marow (2 son of Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1 bart. 1783–1847). b. 29 May 1812; 2 lieut. R.A. 6 Nov. 1830, colonel 1 April 1860 to 6 March 1868; M.G. 6 March 1868; F.R.S. June 1863. d. Fox hills near Chertsey 30 Sep. 1877.

EARLE, Sir Hardman, 1 Baronet (4 son of Thomas Earle of Spekelands, Lancs., a Liverpool merchant, who d. 9 July 1822). b. 11 July 1792; a merchant at Liverpool; created Baronet 3 Nov. 1869. d. Allerton Tower, Woolton, near Liverpool 25 Jany. 1877. I.L.N. lxx, 156 (1877), portrait.

EARLE, Ralph Anstruther (2 son of Charles Earle of Everton, Lancs. 1798–1880). b. Edinburgh 1835; ed. at Harrow; attaché at Paris 6 Oct. 1854; private sec. to Disraeli, when chancellor of the exchequer 1 March 1858–June 1859; M.P. for Berwick April 1859 to Aug. 1859, for Maldon July 1865 to Nov. 1868; parliamentary sec. to poor law board 14 July 1866 to 22 March 1867. d. Soden, Nassau 10 June 1879.

EARLE, Thomas. b. Hull 1810; exhibited 57 sculptures at R.A. and 24 at B.I. 1834–73; gained gold medal and book at R.A. for best historical group 1839; designer and modeller to Sir Francis Chantrey. d. of grief at his great sculpture being refused admission to R.A. 1876 at 1 Vincent st. Ovington square, London 28 April 1876. Athenæum 13 May 1876 p. 673; Times 3 May 1876 p. 12, col. 5.

EARLE, William (3 son of Sir Hardman Earle 1792–1877). b. 18 May 1833; ensign 49 foot 17 Oct. 1851; served in Crimean war; lieut. grenadier guards 20 March 1857, major 21 Aug. 1878 to 1 April 1880 when placed on h.p.; military sec. in British North America 1865–70, to viceroy of India 1872–76; C.S.I. 7 March 1876; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882; commanded garrison of Alexandria 1882–84; commanded column sent up the Nile to rescue of General Gordon at Khartoum 1884 to death; shot while leading on his troops against the Arabs at Kirbekan 10 Feb. 1885. bur. at Allerton, statue of him by C. B. Birch, A.R.A., erected at Liverpool. H. Brackenbury’s The river column (1885); I.L.N. 21 Feb. 1885 p. 200, portrait.

EARLY, Rev. John. b. co. Fermanagh 1814; went to United States 1832; entered Society of Jesus 1834; ordained priest 1844; professor of belles lettres in Georgetown college, Ontario; pres. of Worcester college Mass.; went to Baltimore 1852 where he built college and church of St. Ignatius; pres. of Georgetown college. d. Georgetown 1874.

EARNSHAW, Rev. Samuel. b. Sheffield 1805; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1831; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; a very successful coach at Cambridge 1831–47; chaplain in church and parish of Sheffield 1847 to death; author of Dynamics or a treatise on motion 1833, 3 ed. 1844; The theory of Statics 1834, 4 ed. 1856; The Tradition of the Elders 1860; The love of the world 1861. d. Earnscliffe 6 Dec. 1888.

EASBY, John. b. Deansgate, Manchester 1812; a green coat schoolboy 1820; journalist actor and local preacher; a frequent contributor to periodicals; Manchester correspondent of The Era. d. Lower Mosley st. Manchester 18 Nov. 1852. J. Easby’s Scenes from the life of a green-coated schoolboy 1851. R. W. Procter’s Manchester Streets (1874) 224–28.

EASSIE, Peter Boyd. b. Lochee, Dundee 17 April 1835; railway contractor at Gloucester; constructed part of Cornwall railway, opened 1859; brought out an elliptograph and other successful inventions; author of Wood and its use, Gloucester 1874. d. 26 June 1875.

EAST, Sir East George Clayton, 1 Baronet (2 son of Sir W. Clayton, 4 Bart. 1762–1834). b. 9 April 1794; ed. at Caius coll. Cam.; LLB. 1818, LLD. 1823; assumed name of East by royal sign manual 6 April 1829; created baronet 17 Aug. 1838. d. Hall place near Maidenhead 6 March 1851.

EAST, Sir James Buller, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Edward Hyde East, 1 Bart. 1764–1847). b. Bloomsbury, London 1 Feb. 1789; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1824, D.C.L. 1834; barrister I.T. 5 Feb. 1813; succeeded 8 Jany. 1847; bencher of his Inn 15 Jany. 1856, reader 1869; M.P. for Winchester 30 July 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832, and 10 Jany. 1835 to 10 Feb. 1864. d. Bourton house near Moreton in the Marsh, Gloucs. 19 Nov. 1878.

EASTBURN, Right Rev. Manton. b. Leeds 9 Feb. 1801; graduated at Columbia, U.S. 1817; ordained 1822; assistant minister in Ch. Ch. New York 1822–27; R. of church of the Ascension, New York 1827–42; assistant bishop of Protestant episcopal diocese of Massachusetts 29 Dec. 1842, bishop, March 1843 to death; author of Four lectures on Hebrew, Latin and English poetry 1825; Lectures on the Epistles to the Philippians 1833 and other books. d. Boston 11 Sep. 1872. H. G. Batterson’s sketch of American episcopate (1878) 136–37.

EASTHOPE, Sir John, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Easthope of Tewkesbury). b. Tewkesbury 29 Oct. 1784; stockbroker at 9 Exchange buildings, city of London 1818; made £150,000 in a few years; contested St. Albans 1821, Southampton 1835, Lewes 1837 and Bridgnorth 1847; M.P. for St. Albans 1826–30, for Banbury 1831–32 and for Leicester 1837–47; purchased Morning Chronicle in 1834 for £16,500; created baronet 24 Aug. 1841. d. Fir Grove near Weybridge, Surrey 11 Dec. 1865. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters i, 76–86 (1841); J. Sedgwick’s Letters (1845) pp. i-vi.

EASTLAKE, Sir Charles Lock (youngest son of George Eastlake of Plymouth, solicitor, who d. 1820). b. Plymouth 17 Nov. 1793; exhibited 51 pictures at R.A. and 18 at B.I. 1813–55; painted in Rome 1816–30, in London 1830–55; A.R.A Nov. 1827, R.A. 10 Dec. 1830, librarian 1842–44, pres. Nov. 1850 to death; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1838; sec. to commission of the Fine Arts 3 Dec. 1841 to 1861; keeper of National gallery Nov. 1843 to Oct. 1847, director 1855 to death, when the trustees bought his library for £2,100; knighted at Windsor Castle 13 Nov. 1850; author of Materials for a history of oil painting 2 vols. 1847–69; History of the Gothic revival 1871 and other books. d. Pisa 24 Dec. 1865. bur. English cemetery, Florence 27 Dec., reinterred Kensal Green cemetery 18 Jany. 1866. Sir C. L. Eastlake’s Contributions to the literature of the fine arts, second series with a memoir by Lady Eastlake 1870; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy, ii, 225, 280–87 (1862); W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 152–56; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, fourth series (1860), portrait; I.L.N. xvii, 357 (1850), portrait, xxxvi, 448, 450 (1860), portrait.

EASTLAKE, William (son of George Eastlake of Plymouth, solicitor). b. 1820; ed. at Repton school; articled to his father; admitted 1844; partner with his father; deputy judge advocate of the fleet 1851 to death. d. 3 Buckland terrace, Plymouth 12 Oct. 1881 in 61 year.

EASTON, John Alexander, b. India 1807; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 1836; surgeon of Glasgow police April 1840 to Nov. 1859; professor of materia medica in Univ. of Glasgow, Oct. 1855 to death. d. Blythswood sq. Glasgow 11 Nov. 1865.

EASTWICK, Edward Backhouse (2 son of Robert William Eastwick of Thurloe sq. London 1772–1865). b. Warfield, Berkshire 13 March 1814; ensign Bombay army 5 June 1836; professor of Urdú at Haileybury college, Aug. 1845, librarian 1850; sec. of legation at court of Persia 1860–62; barrister M.T. 6 June 1860; private sec. to Lord Cranbourne, sec. of state for India 1866–67; M.P. for Penryn and Falmouth 18 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; F.S.A. 17 March 1853; C.B. 6 Nov. 1866; translated Anvari Suhaili, The Fables of Pilpay 1854 and other books; author of Journal of a diplomate’s three years residence in Persia, 2 vols. 1864 and other books. d. Ventnor 16 July 1883.

EASTWICK, William Joseph (brother of the preceding). b. 1808; ed. at Winchester; ensign Bombay army 1826; acting resident at Hyderabad to 1841; a director of the H.E.I. Co. 30 June 1847, deputy chairman 1858; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1868; an original member of Cobden club 1866; author of Lord Lytton and the Afghan war 1879. d. 12 Leinster gardens, Hyde park, London 24 Feb. 1889. bur. Teddington churchyard 1 March.

EASTWOOD, Rev. Jonathan. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; C. of Ecclesfield near Sheffield 1847–54; C. of Eckington, Derbyshire 1854–62; P.C. of Hope near Hanley 1862 to death; author of History of the parish of Ecclesfield in the county of York 1862; author with W. A. Wright of Bible word-book, a glossary of old English Bible words 1866. d. St. Leonards on Sea 5 July 1864 aged 40.

EASTWOOD, Richard (son of Henry Eastwood, head keeper to Peregrine Edward Towneley of Towneley, Lanes). b. Burnley; admitted attorney 1824; partner with Anthony Buck of Burnley 1824–62, with A. B. Creeke and J. B. Sandy 1862 to death; bred race horses and short horns; won the Oaks with Butterfly 1860. d. Morecambe near Lancaster 28 May 1871. Saddle and Sirloin, By the Druid, Part North (1870) 345–57.

EBORALL, Cornelius Wilkes. b. Birmingham 1820; general manager of East Lancashire railway company 1850–56, of South Eastern railway company 1856 to death; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1865. d. 2 Lee park, Blackheath, Kent 15 Dec. 1874. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 287–89 (1875).

EBSWORTH, Joseph (son of Joseph Ebsworth of Islington, London). b. Islington 10 Oct. 1788; apprenticed to a watch jeweller; sec. to D. E. Morris proprietor of the Haymarket theatre; actor and prompter at T.R. Edinburgh 1826; teacher of music and singing at Edin. 1828 to death; bookseller at 23 Elm row, Edin. 1828–43; gave concerts at Hopetoun rooms, Queen st. 1830–68; leader of the choir at St. Stephen’s ch. Edin.; author of Crockery’s misfortunes or transmogrifications, a burletta produced at Royal Coburg theatre, London 11 July 1821 and 33 other dramatic pieces. d. Edinburgh 22 June 1868.

EBSWORTH, Mary Emma (dau. of Robert Fairbrother, pantomimist and fencing-master). b. London 2 Sep. 1794; author of the following play published in Cumberland’s acting drama, Payable at sight, or the chaste salute, acted at Surrey theatre; also of The two brothers of Pisa, acted at Royal Coburg theatre, and The sculptor of Florence. (m. 22 June 1817 the preceding). d. Walworth, London 13 Oct. 1881.

EBURN, William Hawthorn. Acted at Glasgow; acted at Edinburgh many years; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Amiens in As you like it 6 April 1855; acted at Adelphi theatre many years. d. Kennington park road, London 19 Sep. 1874. bur. Woking cemetery 27 Sep.

ECCLES, Henry. b. Bath 1817; called to bar in Canada 1842; a bencher of Canadian Law Society 1853; Q.C. 1856; very prominent in his profession. d. Toronto 22 Nov. 1863.

ECCLES, Rev. Seth. b. Longridge, Lancs. 1800; admitted student at English college, Rome 1820, a medallist; R.C. priest of Weston Underwood, Bucks. 1825 to 1871; member of chapter of see of Northampton 1850, provost to death; created hon. D.D. by Pius ix, 1861; author of An explanation of the seven penitential psalms 1844; On justification, What saith the Scripture 1861. d. Weston Underwood 10 July 1884.

ECKFORD, James. Entered Bengal army 1804; col. 56 Bengal N.I. 27 Oct. 1848 to death; L.G. 29 April 1861; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. 33 Clarendon road, St. Heliers, Jersey 2 July 1867 aged 81.

ECKFORD, Robert. Surgeon Bombay army 22 Oct. 1812; pres of medical board Bombay 1830 to 1 May 1832 when he retired. d. Jersey 27 Feb. 1865 aged 93.

EDE, George Matthews. b. Clayfield lodge near Southampton Common Feb. 1834; ed. at Eton; agriculturalist at Northampton; returned to Southampton; gentleman steeplechaser and hurdle rider under name of Mr. Edwards; first rode at Warwick meeting Sept. 1856, rode 9 stone without training; won 306 races 1856–70; called the Fordham of amateurs; won the Grand National on the Lamb 1868 and the Grand Annual at Warwick on Musketeer 1868; established with his twin brother Edward Lee Ede the Hampshire county cricket club, scored 1200 runs in 1863; killed when jumping at Aintree near Liverpool 13 March 1870. Bailey’s Mag. xii, 351–55 (1867), portrait on title page. Sporting Review lxiii, 238–39 (1870).