Arthur Henry Grant

“ BELLENDEN, Sir JOHN, of Auchnoul, or Auchinoul (d. 1577) , Scottish lawyer, was the elder son of Thomas Bellenden of Auchinoul, who, in January 1541, was one of the two Scottish commissioners for the negotiation of an extradition treaty for the reciprocal surrender of fugitives between England and Scotland ”

“ Barclay to the appointment upon Sir George Grey, expressing his conviction that the man who could preach such a sermon on Sunday, and next day by his firmness and promptitude save a boat from being swamped, was one eminently fitted for the government of young men and of a great college. ”

“ The hymnal was compiled to meet the wants of churchmen of all schools, but strong objections were raised in many quarters to Sir Henry Baker's own hymn addressed to the Virgin Mary, 'Shall we not love thee. Mother dear?' Sir Henry Baker held the doctrine of the celibacy of the clergy, and at his death the baronetcy devolved on a kinsman. He was the author of 'Daily Prayers for the Use of those who have to work hard,' as well as of a 'Daily Text-book' for the same class, and of some tracts on religious subjects. ”

“ ABNEY, Sir THOMAS (d. 1750) , justice of the common pleas, was the younger son of Sir Edward Abney, elder brother of Sir Thomas Abney [q. v.] , lord mayor of London, by his second wife, Judith, daughter and co-heir of Peter Barr, of London. He became K.C. and attorney-general for the duchy of Lancaster in 1733, steward of the Marshalsea court in 1736, in November 1740 a baron of the exchequer, and in February 1743 a justice of the common pleas. ”

“ From 1853 to 1858 Brady was again lord chancellor of Ireland. He resumed the post once more in 1859, and held it through the second administrations of Lord Palmerston and Earl Russell until the overthrow of the latter in 1866. On 28 June of that year he sat for the last time in the Irish Court of Chancery. He retired amidst general regret. He was fond of scientific studies, especially geology. In 1869 he was created a baronet by Mr. Gladstone. He died at his residence in Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin, on Thursday, 13 April 1871. ”

“ He produced also in the same year a polemical letter on the ‘Eternal Generation of the Son of God,’ which was followed in 1771 by a letter on the ‘Assurance of Faith,’ and a ‘Letter on Prayer, addressed to a certain Independent Congregation in Scotland.’ The death of Mr. Dow, minister of Fettercairn, 25 Aug. 1772, left Barclay to the mercy of the presbytery, who not only inhibited him from preaching in the church of Fettercairn, but used all their influence to close his mouth within their bounds, which lie in what is called the Mearns. ”

“ He retained the consul-generalship for about four years, when he left Egypt, 31 May 1833, for his villa at Suediah, at the mouth of the Orontes river, and about fifteen miles from Antioch. Here Barker had formed a garden which was known throughout the East, and in which he grew all the fruits of the West, and introduced into Syria many species and varieties unknown before. This garden was also a nursery for supplying new varieties to England, the most celebrated being the Stanwick nectarine, for which Barker received a medal from the Royal Horticultural Society of Chiswick. ”

“ He was employed by Mary of Lorraine, queen regent, as a mediator between her and the lords of the congregation; but he soon joined the reformers. Under the queen regent he was likewise employed as one of the two Scottish commissioners appointed to meet two others on the part of England with a view ‘to cement the two nations in a firm and lasting bond of peace’ (Keith's History, p. 69) . ”

“ John Hill Burton, by the latter of whom he was encouraged to migrate to Edinburgh in 1847. There he studied for four years in the Trustees' School of Design; essayed modelling on a larger scale, and executed a bust of Lord Jeffrey, one of his earliest patrons. About this time Brodie spent some months at Rome, where he modelled a figure of Corinna, the lyric muse, exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, of which he was elected an associate in 1857, a full member in 1859, and secretary in 1876. He is believed to have executed more portrait busts than any other artist. ”

“ He continued to discharge the important functions of the office until the year 1837, when the death of King William IV opened the throne of Hanover to the Duke of Cumberland. The administration of Hanoverian affairs by the Duke of Cambridge was characterised by wisdom, mildness, and discretion, and by the introduction of timely and conciliatory reforms. ”

“ James Baird represented the Falkirk group of burghs in the House of Commons from 1851-2 and 1852-7, being the same constituency which was represented, in 1841–6, by his brother, William Baird, the first conservative returned by a burgh constituency in Scotland after the Reform Act, Retiring from parliament in 1857, James Baird devoted much of his time to religious and educational questions, and built and endowed a large number of schools. He was a firm believer in the teaching of the Bible in schools, and a staunch supporter of the so-called 'use-and-wont' platform. ”

“ Barrington's politics were opposed to those of Sir Robert Walpole, whose political power terminated with the first session of the new parliament in 1741. In 1745 Barrington brought forward a plan for forming and training a national militia, of which the parish was to be the basis and unit; and in the autumn of the same year visited Dublin in order to take his seat in the Irish House of Lords. His father had never taken his seat as a peer of Ireland. ”

“ He then accepted the invitation of Marshal Schomberg to accompany him to Holland and England, and in the autumn of 1689 he went to Ireland with the marshal. It was in the Irish camp that Abbadie commenced one of his most successful works, which was published at Rotterdam in 1692, as ‘L'Art de se connoître soi-même; ou, La Recherche des Sources de la Morale,’ 8vo, and went through many editions and amplifications. Translations of this work into other languages include a popular English version by the Rev. Thomas Woodcock, ‘The Art of Knowing One-self,’ 12mo, Oxford, 1694. ”

“ Alexander soon entered into engagements with the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, and in December 1827 received priest's orders from the Bishop of Kildare, and proceeded to Danzig, as his fixed station and head-quarters from which to evangelise the Jews of West Prussia and Posen. In May 1830 he returned to England, where for nearly twelve years he acted as a home missionary of the society. ”

“ A monument in the chancel of Shrivenham church, Berkshire, where he was buried, was ‘erected to his memory by his three surviving brothers, to whom he was the best of fathers and of friends’ (Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, &c., vol. vi. part i. pp. 643–4) . Sir John Dalrymple accused him of crippling and starving the British army, and disgracing the flag of his country by sending out under it the untrained mercenaries of the continent. ”

“ He spent the summer in Switzerland, in the autumn crossed the St. Gothard to Milan, and remained in Italy nearly five years. It was at Pisa, during the winter of 1844–5, that Barlow became acquainted ‘with the great poet of Italy and Europe, Dante Allighieri.’ In 1846, after revisiting England, he returned to Florence. In October 1847 he made ‘a pilgrimage to Ravenna, the Mecca of all Dantophilists.’ In 1848 he extended his travels to Athens and Constantinople, returning by way of the Danube through Hungary and Austria. In 1849 he resided for some time in Berlin, Dresden, and Prague. ”

“ Remarks on the Reading of the 59th Verse of the 5th Canto of the “Inferno,”’ and Barlow's whole subsequent life seems to have been consecrated to the study of Dante. Later in 1850 he was again at Vienna, Venice, and Florence. In 1851 Barlow returned to England, where he published a little work entitled ‘Industry on Christian Principles,’ 8vo, London, 1851. In 1852 he was in Paris, engaged in the examination of the ‘Codici’ of Dante in the various libraries. He afterwards collated above 150 other manuscripts in Italy, Germany, Denmark, and England. ”

“ Biber was one of the principal writers in the 'English Review,' which took the place of the , 'British Critic' after the appearance of No. XC. of 'Tracts for the Times.' He also contributed largely to the 'Churchman's Magazine,' the 'Literary Churchman,' the 'Church Review,' the 'Colonial Church Chronicles,' the 'John Bull,' of which, for a period of eight years, 1848-1856, he acted as editor, and to the 'English Churchman.' Early in 1872 Biber was promoted by Lord Chancellor Hatherley to the rectory of West Allington, near Grantham. ”

“ The beneficence of the grand duchess was varied and discriminating. She took pains to instruct herself in the methods of philanthropy, attending meetings and visiting institutions without parade, and ‘as a woman among women.’ She translated into German some of Miss Octavia Hill's essays ‘On the Homes of the London Poor,’ and published them with a little preface of her own (to which only her initial A. was affixed) , in the hope that the principles which had been successfully applied in London by Miss Hill and her coadjutors might be put into action in some of the German cities. ”

“ His attention was especially arrested by the traces of the heathen customs still surviving in the manners of the people; and after a second visit which he paid to Italy in the years 1820-21, he published 'Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily,' 8vo, London, 1823, which was translated into German, but which was not reprinted in England, and is now very rare. Blunt devoted himself for many years to parochial duty at Hodnet, in Shropshire, as curate to Reginald Heber and his successor in the living. ”

“ On 21 April 1820 he was created archbishop of Dublin, and was enthroned at Christ Church on 6 May following, and on the 23rd of the same month was appointed a privy councillor in Ireland. Finally he was translated to the archbishopric of Armagh and the primacy of all Ireland, 17 June 1822. In 1829 the primate succeeded Lord Manners as vice-chancellor of the university of Dublin, and continued in that office until his election to the chancellorship left vacant by the death of the King of Hanover, 19 Nov. ”

“ Bellenden combined with secretary Sir John Maitland and the master of Gray to form a faction about the king against the Earl of Arran, the chancellor, in 1585; bore a principal part in Arran's downfall, and helped to secure the return of the banished lords, Angus and others, who were Arran's chief enemies. Affecting to be opposed to Angus and his friends, Bellenden was nominated by the Scottish government ambassador to England, to demand their expulsion from the English court, whence they were to proceed straightway to Scotland. ”

“ Under this régime the diocese of Sydney continued more and more to prosper, and when state aid to religion was abolished in the colony, it was ordained by the legislature that Barker should continue to receive his government salary of 2,000l. a year. Funds were forthcoming for the building of churches and the maintenance of the clergy; a noble cathedral was erected and paid for, and the requisite buildings, endowments, and staff were provided for a college for the education of young men for the ministry. Barker's work was arduous ”

“ At the end of a four years' residence at Utrecht, Shute returned to England, and became a student at the Inner Temple, and was in due course called to the bar. In 1701 he published anonymously ‘An Essay upon the Interest of England in respect to Protestants dissenting from the Established Church,’ 4to, London, which was reprinted two years after, with the name of the author, and with corrections and additions, under the title of ‘The Interest of England, &c., with some Thoughts about Occasional Conformity.’ It was probably this publication that brought him the friendship of Locke ”

“ In August 1840 Professor Alexander, with some sixty leading converts from Judaism, issued a formal ‘protest of Christian Jews in England’ against the charge of using human blood, at that time revived to the discredit of their brethren. ”

“ BRADSTREET, Sir SAMUEL (1735?–1791) , Irish judge, the representative of a family who had settled in Ireland in the time of Cromwell, was born about 1735, being the younger son of Sir Simon Bradstreet, a barrister, who was created a baronet of Ireland on 14 July 1759. Samuel Bradstreet was called to the Irish bar in Hilary term, 1758. He was appointed in 1766 to the recordership of Dublin. In June 1776 Bradstreet who, at the death of Sir Simon, his elder brother, in 1774, had succeeded to the title as third baronet was elected representative of the city of Dublin in the Irish House of Commons. ”