Frederic Boase

“ BOULT, Swinton. b. 1809; local agent in Liverpool for insurance offices 1831; founded Liverpool fire and life insurance company 1836 which became largest fire insurance office in the world, it was renamed in 1848 Liverpool and London insurance office and in 1864 Liverpool, London and Globe, secretary 1836–65, managing director 1865 to death; originated Liverpool Salvage committee, first combination of the kind ever introduced; devised a uniform policy for tariff offices; author of Law and practice relating to assurance, banking and other joint-stock companies 1841 ”

“ LISTER, Joseph Jackson (son of John Lister of Stoke Newington, wine merchant) . b. Lothbury, London 11 Jany. 1786; ed. at Hitchin and at Compton in Dorset; wine merchant in partnership with his father and then sole proprietor; a founder of the London Institution in King’s Arms yard 1805; discovered principle upon which the modern microscope is constructed, and made an improved lens; a founder of Microscopical Soc. 1839; invented the tripod for supporting the camera now used by photographers; the first to ascertain the true form of the red corpuscle of mammalian blood ”

“ CRUIKSHANK, George (younger son of Isaac Cruikshank of London, caricaturist, who d. 1810 or 1811) . b. Duke st. Bloomsbury, London 27 Sep. 1792; employed to complete the plates left unfinished by Gillray 1811; illustrated the political pamphlets of Wm. Hone 1819–21; published Illustrations of phrenology 1826; Illustrations of time 1827; illustrated Fielding, Smollett and Goldsmith for Roscoe’s Novelist’s Library 17 vols. 1831–2; illustrated the Comic Almanac 1835–53 ”

“ UDNY, GEORGE (2 son of Robert George Udny, member of council of governor-general of India 1801–7, died 24 Oct. 1830 aged 69) . b. 1803; educ. Haileybury coll. 1818–20; writer Bengal civil service 30 April 1819; acting magistrate of Jessore 1823; acting import warehouse keeper 1826–7; went home 1827; returned to India 2 Oct. 1830; sec. and treasurer of Bank of Bengal 17 Sept. 1833 to 1840; on furlough 1840–3; sub-treasurer general treasury Bengal 1843, retired on annuity fund 1851 ”

“ IRVINE, Alexander (son of a farmer) . b. Daviot, Aberdeenshire 1793; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; schoolmaster at Albury, Surrey, in London, at Bristol and at Guildford; kept a school at Chelsea from 1851; connected with Irvingite ch. White Notley, Essex; a botanist in the neighbourhood of London; edited The Phytologist 6 vols. 1855–63; F.B.S.; author of The London Flora 1838, new ed. 1846; Illustrated handbook of British plants 1858; Botanists’ Chronicle 17 numbers 1865; Introduction to the science of botany 1858. d. Upper Manor st. Chelsea 13 May 1873. Journal of Botany (1873) p. 222 ”

“ AITKEN, Robert Dickson. b. Hawick, Roxburghshire 8 May 1801; a gardener, then a horsebreaker; left Hawick 1857; purchased estate of Reston Mains, Berwickshire, worth many thousands; tried in the sheriff court at Greenlaw 31 May 1860, for making people of Dunse believe he was heir to a large estate, when found guilty and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment with hard labour; his career was dramatised by George Duckenfield, theatrical manager; he played the chief part in this drama at Berwick and other border towns; delivered a lecture in Hawick 31 May 1864 entitled “How I did the Dunse dunces.” ”

“ MEAGHER, Thomas (son of Thomas Meagher of Waterford) . b. 1796; mayor of Waterford 1843–5; M.P. Waterford 1847–57. d. 1874.
MEAGHER, Thomas Francis (son of the preceding) . b. city of Waterford 3 Aug. 1823; ed. at Clongowes Wood college, Kildare, and at Stonyhurst college, Lancs. 1834–43; an orator at meetings of the Repeal Association, from which he seceded 28 July 1846; called by Thackeray in The battle of Limerick (Works 1869, vol. xviii 179) ‘Meagher of the Sword,’ which sobriquet adhered to him; a founder of the Irish Confederation 13 Jany. 1847; contested city of Waterford 1 March 1848 ”

“ BUCKLE, Henry Thomas (only son of Thomas Henry Buckle of London, shipowner 1779–1840) . b. Lee, Kent 24 Nov. 1821; travelled in Belgium, Germany, Holland, Italy and France 1840–1; lectured at Royal Instit. London on the “Influence of women on the progress of knowledge” 19 March 1858, published in Fraser’s Mag. April 1858; author of History of civilisation in England 2 vols. 1857–61, republished as History of civilisation in England, France, Spain and Scotland 3 vols. 1869; won the chess tournament at Strand divan London 1849; one of the best chess, whist, and backgammon players in Europe ”

“ KERSHAW, James (son of T. Kershaw a working man) . b. Manchester 1795; clerk in firm of Lees, Millington & Cullender, cotton spinners, Manchester 1811, became a partner, afterwards head of firm of Kershaw, Lees and Sidebottom; set the Mersey mills at Stockport to work employing 1200 hands 1842; member of council of anti-corn law league 1838; instrumental in obtaining municipal franchise for Manchester 1838; mayor of Manchester 1842–43; M.P. Stockport 1847 to death. d. the Manor house, Streatham, Surrey 27 April 1864, personalty sworn under £300,000, 16 July 1864. ”

“ A dispenser in the navy and at Haslar hospital; lived at 18 Soho sq. London and advertised himself in the newspapers and by pamphlets as an aural surgeon 1815; founded Royal dispensary for diseases of the Ear, Carlisle st. Soho 1816; employed Hume Weatherhead and other persons to write his books; made £5000 a year for many years; had a tube from his consulting room to his waiting room by which he could hear what the patients said of themselves; always received his patients in full dress of time of George iv; gambled away his earnings at Junior United Service Club ”

“ Stockwell, London 1803; stationer with his father at 95 Cornhill, succeeded to the business, carried it on at 8 Royal Exchange 1838 to death; devoted himself specially to manufacture of diaries, of which he was issuing 28 varieties in 1839, also issued interest tables, medical diaries, office calendars, &c. of which he sold several hundred thousand annually; erected large factories at North road, New Cross 1865, the business was turned into a limited liability company shortly after his death, but in 1885 the company went into liquidation, and the business was purchased by Cassell & Co. ”

“ Great trouble has been taken about births and deaths, the dates of births frequently cannot be obtained and the places and dates of deaths of even very well known individuals are sometimes not easily settled. Information has been sought from all printed sources, from private individuals, and from church registers; reference has been also continually made to the books of the registrar general at Somerset House. ”

“ Thomas Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett’s Collection of Saxon antiquities and presented it to city of Liverpool; exhibited his collection of arts and antiquities valued at £80,000 in Colquitt st. Liverpool, he presented it to the corporation of Liverpool 1867; gave a free library and 20,000 volumes to Bebington, Cheshire, with a garden surrounding the building 1866; city of Liverpool erected a statue to him by Fontana in St. George’s hall; with Thomas Spencer he introduced for domestic use the electroplating process; gave many authors pecuniary assistance; raised three companies of volunteers ”

“ A pupil at Imperial printing office Vienna 1850 where he learnt process of Nature printing which he claimed afterwards to have invented; founded a business in Fetter lane, London which he moved to Farringdon st. and carried on under name of Bradbury, Wilkinson and Co.; produced nature printed plates to Moore and Lindley’s Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland 1855 and Johnstone’s British sea weeds 4 vols. 1860–1; author of Printing, it’s dawn, day, and destiny 1858; Autotypography or art of nature printing 1860 ”

“ KING, William. b. Hartlepool, Durham, April 1809; curator of Museum of natural history at Newcastle-on-Tyne 1841–9, lecturer on geology in school of medicine there; professor of geology Queen’s college, Galway 1849–83 and professor of natural history there 1882–3, emeritus professor of geology, mineralogy and natural history there 1883 to death; the first D.Sc. of Queen’s Univ. of Ireland 1870; author of Monograph of the Permian fossils, published by Palæontographical Soc. London 1850. d. Glenoir, Taylor’s Hill, Galway 24 June 1886. Nature 1 July 1886 p. 200. ”

“ Copeland of the Stoke potteries, porcelain manufacturer, who d. 1826) . b. 24 March 1797; manufacturer of porcelain at Stoke upon Trent 1833; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1828–29, alderman for ward of Bishopsgate 1829 to death, lord mayor 1835–36; M.P. for Coleraine 1833–37, for Stoke upon Trent 1837–52 and 1857 to 6 July 1865; pres. of Bridewell and of Bethlehem hospitals many years; bred racehorses and kept a stud. d. Russell farm, Watford, Herts. 12 April 1868. John Ward’s Borough of Stoke upon Trent 1843 pp. 64, 497–504, 582; Sporting Review lix, 309 (1868) ; Art Journal (1868) p. 158 ”

“ MARTIN, George William. b. London 8 March 1828; chorister at St. Paul’s cathedral; one of the choir boys at Westminster Abbey at coronation of Queen Victoria 1838; professor of music at Normal college for army schoolmasters; resident music master at St. John’s training college, Battersea 1845–53; the first organist of Ch. Ch. Battersea 1849; established the National choral society 1860, by which he maintained a series of oratorio performances at Exeter hall some years; conducted the National schools choral festival at Crystal Palace 1859; organised in Jany. ”

“ C CABBELL, Benjamin Bond (4 son of George Cabbell of 17 Wigmore st. London, apothecary) . b. Vere st. Oxford st. London 1781; ed. at Westminster; matric. from Oriel coll. Ox. 19 June 1800; migrated to Exeter college 25 Feb. 1801; barrister M.T. 9 Feb. 1816, bencher 1850; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1837; contested Marylebone July 1841; M.P. for St. Albans 1846–7 and for Boston 1847–57; sheriff of Norfolk 1854; provincial grand master of freemasons of Norfolk; a well-known patron of art. d. 39 Chapel st. Marylebone road, London 9 Dec. 1874. John Pye’s Patronage of British art (1845) 358, 365, portrait. ”

“ MARTIN, Robert Montgomery. b. co. Tyrone, Ireland about 1803; went to Ceylon about 1820; arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, June 1823; went to New South Wales 1825; resided in India 1828–30 when he returned to England; founded The Colonial Magazine 1840, edited it 1840–2; member of the court of East India Co. 1839; treasurer and member of legislative council of Hong Kong, Jany. 1844 to July 1845; an original member of East India Association 1866; author of Ireland as it was, is and ought to be 1833; The history of the British colonies 5 vols. 1834 ”

“ DARLING, William. b. Belford 7 Feb. 1786; lighthouse keeper at the Longstone or Outer Farn or Faroe island 1815 to Dec. 1860 when he retired on full pay; went out to the wreck of the steamboat Forfarshire (with his daughter Grace Darling 1815–43) and rescued the 9 survivors of the crew 7 Sep. 1838, the boat in which they went out was on view during the summer of 1883 at the Fisheries Exhibition, South Kensington, and on 9 Nov. it was carried through the streets of London in the Lord Mayor’s show. d. The Wynding house, Bamburgh 28 May 1865. Journal of W. Darling 1795–1860, (1886) ”

“ LEWES, George Henry (grandson of Charles Lee Lewes, actor 1740–1803) . b. London 18 April 1817; ed. in London, Jersey, Brittany and at Greenwich; in a notary’s office; employed by a Russian merchant; a medical student a short time; visited Germany 1838; appeared at the Whitehall theatre in Garrick’s comedy The Guardian 1841, played in Dickens’ amateur company 1848, played Shylock 1849; acted in his own tragedy The Noble Heart, at the Olympic Feb. 1850 and in the provinces 1850; wrote many articles in the quarterly reviews; wrote The game of speculation, produced at Lyceum 2 Oct. ”

“ BEAMISH, Francis Bernard (6 son of Wm. Beamish of Cork, porter brewer 1760–1828) . b. Beaumont near Cork 5 April 1802; ed. at Rugby; M.P. for Cork 1837–1841, and 1853 to 1865; mayor of Cork 1843, sheriff of co. Cork 1852; chairman of Reform club London to death. d. Totnes, Devon 1 Feb. 1868.
BEAMISH, Rev. Henry Hamilton. Minister of Holy Trinity chapel, Conduit st. London 1832–62; V. of Old Cleeve, Somerset 1862–65; V. of Wimbish 1865–69; R. of Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks 1869 to death; author of Romanism and Tractarianism refuted 1853; Lectures, Who is Antichrist 1854. d. ”

“ JACKSON, Henry James. b. London 5 Sep. 1824; apprenticed to Otway and Warmington 1840–7; with sir J. Whitworth, Manchester 1849–51; engineer in service of North of Europe steam navigation co. 1851; engineer in W. S. Lindsay and co.’s steamship Harbinger in India 1855–9; engineer of John Penn between Dover and Calais 1859–65; superintendent of arsenal at Alexandria and engineer of Khedive’s steam yacht Mahroussa the fastest steamer afloat 1865–74; created a Bey as Jackson Bey; engineer of General steam navigation co.’s fleet of 64 steamers with a factory of 500 men 1874 to death ”

“ CARMICHAEL, James (son of George Carmichael of the Trongate, Glasgow, merchant) . b. Glasgow, 1776; millwright with his brother Charles at Dundee 1810; fitted up first twin steam-boat for ferry across the Tay at Dundee 1821; invented planing, shaping and boring machine used at Woolwich and Portsmouth; made locomotive steam engines for Dundee and Newtyle railway 1832–3 the first locomotives made in Scotland; invented fan blast or blowing machine for heating and melting iron, brought into practical use about 1829. d. Fleuchar Craig, Dundee 14 Aug. 1853, bronze statue of him erected in Albert sq. ”

“ MACGREGOR, Sir George Hall (son of general John A. P. Macgregor d. 1868) . b. 1810; ed. Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 16 June 1826, lieut.-col. 18 May 1856, retired 22 Dec. 1858; political assistant and military sec. to sir W. H. Macnaghten, envoy to Shah Soojah 1838, present at capture of Ghuznee 1839; assisted in capturing Hyder Khan; political agent with Sale’s brigade 1841, present at capture of Cabul; assistant to sir Henry Lawrence at Lahore 1846; brigade general during the mutiny 1857, present at capture of Lucknow 1858 ”

“ Perthshire; an engineer in America; practised in London 1861 to death; invented Chalmers target for defence of ships of war, it was tried at Shoeburyness 1863 and nearly completed at Atlas works, Sheffield for War Office at time of his death; made a design for a wrought-iron railway tunnel across the English channel; his Indian problem at chess baffled some of the best players; author of Channel railway connecting England and France 1861, 2 ed. 1867; England’s danger, the Admiralty policy of naval construction 1864 ”