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 ”

“ 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) ”

“ 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 ”

“ 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 ”

“ 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 ”

“ 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.” ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Cam., 2 wrangler, 2 Smith’s prizeman and chancellor’s medallist 1810, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; fellow of his college 1811; barrister I.T. 5 June 1818; revising barrister for Liverpool, Bolton and other towns in Lancashire many years; invented a logometer or ten-foot gunter, a friction wheel, and a double-check clock escapement, all of which he patented; invented a machine in which the weight of a horse was utilised on a moving platform, this invention was used where steam power proved too expensive as in Lombardy and in some parts of the United States where it is still employed ”

“ BROUGHAM, John. b. Dublin 9 May 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.; made his début at 427Tottenham st. theatre London in extravaganza of Tom and Jerry July 1830; played at Olympic and Covent Garden; manager of Lyceum 1840–2; managed Niblo’s Garden New York; opened a new theatre in Broadway N.Y. called Brougham’s Lyceum 15 Oct. 1850; lessee of Bowery theatre N.Y. 7 July 1856; played in London 1860–5 and in America 1865–79; opened Brougham’s theatre 25 Jany. 1869; edited a comic paper in New York called The Lantern 1852; author of nearly 80 dramatic pieces ”

“ BALL, William. b. 1785; composed hundreds of comic and sentimental songs, his song Jack’s lament for the loss of his tail was one of the most popular songs of the day ever written; his Drawing room concerts in 1829 were very successful; adapted to English words librettos of Masses of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, Mozart’s Requiem, Spohr’s God thou art great, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Mendelssohn’s St. Paul and Lobgesang; edited with N. Mori The musical gem, 2 vols. 1831–32; edited The London Spring annual lyrical and pictorial 1834. d. London 14 May 1869. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ DALE, John. b. Settle, Yorkshire 1 March 1803; articled to Reay and Collison, surgeons, Liverpool; played under Samuel Russell’s management in the provinces 1823; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Rob Roy 5 Oct. 1825; went to Paris with the Kean, Macready, Kemble company 1827; the original Adrastus in Talfourd’s tragedy Ion at Covent Garden, May 1836; played Cromwell to Macready’s Wolsey at Covent Garden; acted at Surrey and Victoria theatres; one of his best characters was Creve Cœur in The Bohemians. d. Manchester 25 Oct. 1872. Theatrical Times iii, 137, 146 (1848) , portrait. ”

“ Piccadilly, London 31 March 1853.
CARTWRIGHT, Fairfax William (eld. son of Wm. Cartwright 1797–1873) . b. London 14 May 1823; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1844; fellow of All Souls’ college; served in Austrian army; major 2 hussars British German legion 7 Nov. 1855; M.P. for South Northamptonshire 25 Nov. 1868 to death. d. 7 New Burlington street, London 2 Feb. 1881.
CARTWRIGHT, Frances Dorothy (youngest child of rev. Edmund Cartwright 1743–1823 inventor of the power loom) . b. Goadby Marwood, Leics. 28 Oct. 1780; author of The life and correspondence of Major Cartwright 2 vols. 1826 ”

“ Ox., Hebrew scholar; a writer in Ceylon civil service 1860, private secretary to the governor Sir Charles McCarthy 3 years; office assistant to government agent in Kandy to March 1864 when he returned home; sub-librarian at India office, London 1872; professor of Pali and Buddhist literature at Univ. coll. London, July 1873 to death; published Pali text of the Khadduka Patha with English translation and notes in Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Nov. 1869 being the first Pali text printed in England; Dictionary of the Pali language 2 vols. ”

“ BENTLEY, Samuel (brother of the preceding) . b. 10 May 1785; ed. at St. Paul’s school; apprenticed to John Nichols, printer and publisher; partner in firm of Nichols, Son and Bentley April 1812 to Dec. 1818; publisher with his brother Richard Jany. 1819 to 1829; carried on business at Bangor house, Shoe lane under firm of Samuel and John Bentley, Wilson and Fley 1829 to April 1853 when he retired; an antiquary, musician and artist; edited the Concio de puero Jesu of Erasmus 1816; author of Excerpta Historica 1831; indexed Nichols’s Literary anecdotes and Surtees’s History of Durham. d. ”

“ BOWES, John (natural son of John Bowes-Lyon 10 Earl of Strathmore 1769–1820) . b. 19 July 1811; ed. at Eton; M.P. for South Durham 24 Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847; began racing 1834, won Derby with Mundig 1835, gaining £19,000 besides stakes of £6,000, won Two thousand guineas with Meteor 1842, same race and Derby with Cotherstone 1843, Derby with Daniel O’Rourke 1852, and Two thousand guineas Derby and St. Leger with West Australian 1853, won Ascot cup with same horse 1854; the luckiest man on the turf and one of best judges of yearlings; oldest member of Jockey club; sheriff of Durham 1854 ”

“ 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 ”

“ BOROUGH, Sir Edward Richard, 2 Baronet. b. Merrion sq. Dublin 20 June 1800; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; army agent in Dublin; succeeded 22 Jany. 1837. d. 61 Fitzwilliam sq. north, Dublin 3 Dec. 1879.
BORRADAILE, Edward Sidney (son of the succeeding) . b. Littlehampton 30 March 1845; assistant engineer Launceston and Western railway Tasmania 1868–9; wrote for the Press 1870–3; lost whilst exploring in North Australia June 1874, two mountains are named after himself and his companion Mr. Permain in memory of the event.
BORRADAILE, Harry (son of Henry Borradaile of London 1759–1822) . b. ”

“ Blamire of The Oaks near Dalston, Cumberland, surgeon who d. 29 Jany. 1814) . b. The Oaks 20 March 1788; housekeeper to her brother at Thackwood, Cumberland 1813 to 1831; a great philanthropist. d. Thackwood 20 Sep. 1857. H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland iv, 117–39 (1873) .
BLAMIRE, William (only brother of the preceding) . b. The Oaks 13 April 1790; ed. at Carlisle and Westminster; entered Ch. Ch. Ox. Oct. 1808, B.A. 1811; a great stock breeder, went to all the fairs in Scotland and North England; sheriff of Cumberland 1828; M.P. for Cumberland 9 May 1831 to 3 Dec. ”

“ BURGOYNE, Sir John Fox, 1 Baronet (elder natural son of John Burgoyne 1723–92, commander in chief in Ireland) . b. Queen st. Soho, London 24 July 1782; ed. at Eton and Woolwich 1796–8; 2 lieut. R.E. 29 Aug. 1798; commanding engineer of expedition to New Orleans 1814; chairman of board of Public works in Ireland 1831–45; a founder of Instit. of Civil Engineers of Ireland and first pres. 5 Aug. 1835; inspector general of fortifications in England July 1845 to 1 Jany. 1868 when he retired on full pay; pres. of Irish famine relief commission 10 Feb. ”

“ ADOLPHUS, John Leycester (only son of John Adolphus 1768–1845, barrister, F.S.A., by Martha Elizabeth only dau. of Rev. Ralph Leycester of White place, Berks) . b. 11 May 1795; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school 1802–11, head monitor, elected to fellowship at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1811; Newdigate English verse prizeman 1814; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; visited Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford; barrister Inner Temple 21 June 1822; went northern circuit; Bencher of his inn 1851; reported in Court of King’s Bench, first with Richard Vaughan Barnewall 1831–35, then with Thomas Flower Ellis 1835–52 ”

“ BARKER, Thomas Rawson. b. Bakewell, Derbyshire 9 April 1812; a lead merchant at Sheffield; mayor of Sheffield 1848; played in many great cricket matches; a right-handed batsman but a left round-armed bowler. d. The Edge, Sheffield 26 April 1873.
BARKER, Thomas Richard. b. London 30 Nov. 1799; ed. at Christ’s Hospital 1807–16; entered Homerton old college 1821; independent minister at Alresford Hants 1822, at Harpenden Herts 1824 and at Uxbridge 1833–38; tutor in classics at Spring Hill college Birmingham 1838 to death. d. near the College 12 Nov. 1870. ”