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 eleven and in the Gentlemen v. the Players; generally played
under name of Bissett. d. 9 Nov. 1881.
HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS, James Orchard (3 son of Thomas
Halliwell). b. Sloane st. Chelsea 21 June 1820; matric. from
Trin. coll. Cam. 1837, removed to Jesus coll. 1838; LLD. of
Edin. univ. 1883; F.S.A. 14 Feb. 1839; F.R.S. 30 May 1839;
projected Cambridge Antiquarian soc. and was the sec. 1840;
settled with his father in London 1840; became connected with
Shakespeare soc. 1840; accused of taking MSS. from library of
Trin. coll. Cam. 1844; forbidden to enter Br. Museum library 10
Feb. 1845; presented his Shakespearian library to Univ. of
Edin. Feb. 1872; bought theatre Stratford on Avon, March
1872; was the means of buying Shakespeare’s residence New
place, Stratford 1863, conveyed it to the corporation of
Stratford by deed dated 8 April 1876; author of Dictionary of
archaic and provincial words 1846, 10 ed. 1881; Life of William
Shakespeare 1848; Shakespeare 16 vols. 1853–63;
Lithographed facsimiles of the Shakespearean quartos 48 vols.
1862–71 of which there are only 15 complete sets. (m. 9 Aug.
1842 Henrietta E. M. eld. dau. of Sir Thomas Phillipps, baronet,
she d. 25 March 1879); discontinued name of Halliwell and
assumed name of Phillips by r.l. 29 Feb. 1872, prefixed former
name of Halliwell to name of Phillips by deed inrolled in
chancery 28 May 1879. d. Hollingbury Copse near Brighton 3
Jany. 1889. I.L.N. 12 Jany. 1889 p. 36, portrait.
HALLOWES, John. Entered navy July 1803; captain 5 Dec. 1842;
R.A. on half pay 20 May 1862; admiral on half pay 30 July
1875. d. Milton house near Portsmouth 11 Jany. 1883 aged 91.
HALLYBURTON, John Frederick Gordon- (3 son of 9th Marquis of
Huntly, d. 1853). b. 15 Aug. 1799; entered navy Feb. 1813,
captain 4 Aug. 1836; G.C.H. 22 Aug. 1836; known as Lord J. F.
Gordon from 1838; admiral on half pay 8 April 1868; assumed
name of Hallyburton 1843; M.P. for Forfar 1841–52. d.
Hallyburton house, Coupar Angus 29 Sep. 1878.
HALPIN, Rev. Robert Crawford. Boy volunteer in Canadian
rebellion 1839; ensign 14 foot 1840; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1843, M.A. 1868; chaplain in army 1849; served in
Crimean campaign, medal, 4 clasps and Turkish medal; in
China war 1860; chaplain to household brigade 1863, retired 1
July 1880; reward for distinguished service 1 April 1875;
chaplain hospital for women Soho, London 1880. d. 22 Belsize
sq. London 19 March 1889.
HALPINE, Charles Graham (son of Rev. Nicholas John Halpine
1790–1850, editor of the Dublin Evening Mail). b. Oldcastle,
co. Meath, Nov. 1829; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin to 1846;
emigrated to U.S. America 1851; assist. editor Boston Post
1852; editor New York Leader 1857; served in Federal army
April 1861 to 1864; assist. adjutant general and colonel 1862;
editor of New York Citizen 1864; registrar of the county of New
York 1867; author under name of Miles O’Reilly of Life and
adventures of Private Miles O’Reilly 1864; Baked meats of the
funeral by Private Miles O’Reilly 1866. d. from taking undiluted
chloroform at New York city 3 Aug. 1868. Poetical works of C.
G. Halpine (1869), portrait.
HALSEY, Thomas Plumer (1 son of Joseph T. W. Halsey of
Gaddesden park, Herts. d. 1818). b. 26 Jany. 1815; M.P. for co.
Hertford, Jany. 1846 to death; lost in the ‘Ercolano’ steamer off
Villa Franca on her way from Genoa to Marseilles 24 April
1854. G.M. xli, 649 (1854); A.R. 1854 pp. 68, 292.
HALSTED, Francis. Printseller Bond st., then at 13 Rathbone
place, Oxford st. London; great authority on Turner before
Ruskin’s era commenced; formed the collection of Liber
Studiorum prints which Mr. Stokes bequeathed to Miss Mary
Constance Clark; formed similar collections for J. L. Taylor
proprietor of Manchester Guardian, and Sir John Hippesley. d.
St. John’s Wood, Aug. 1879 aged 72.
HALY, Right Rev. Francis. b. Doonane parish, Queen’s county
1781; ed. at Maynooth 1807–12; C. of Rathvilly 1812–3;
 administrator of Mountrath 1813–22; parish priest of Kilcock
1822; bp. of Kildare and Leighlin, consecrated 25 March 1838;
visited Rome 1844. d. Carlow 19 Aug. 1855 aged 74, left his
library to Carlow coll. Comerford’s Collections (1883) 140–50,
portrait.
HALY, Sir William O’Grady (son of Aylmer Haly of Wadhurst
castle, Sussex). b. 1810; ensign 4 foot 17 June 1828; lieut. col.
38 foot 4 Feb. 1859 to 12 Jany. 1865; colonel of 106 foot 17
May 1874, of 47 foot 2 Nov. 1875 to death; served Eastern
campaign of 1854–55; commanded forces in Canada 6 May
1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B.
29 May 1875. d. Halifax, Nova Scotia 19 March 1878.
HAMBLET, Henry. Steward and practically manager of Garrick
club 35 King st. Covent Garden, London for many years down
to 17 May 1862. d. London 1863. W. Ballantine’s Experiences
(1883) 151; Lord W. P. Lennox’s My Recollections (1874) i,
144.
HAMBLETON, Rev. John (5 son of John Hambleton of St. Mary’s,
Wallingford). b. 1799; ed. at St. Edm. hall, Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A.
1829; minister of Holloway episcopal chapel, Holloway road,
London 1830 to death; author of Christ the good physician, a
sermon 1829, 7 ed. 1847; A brief history of the soul 1833, 7
ed. 1847; A help to preparation for death, judgment and
eternity 1839; Seven lectures on the Bible as the word of God
1861. d. 21 Compton ter. Upper st. Islington, London 22 Oct.
1865.
HAMBLIN, Thomas Sowerby. b. Pentonville, London 14 May 1800;
ballet dancer Adelphi theatre at 6s. a week; first acted at
Sadler’s Wells 1819, at Drury Lane 26 Dec. 1819 as Truman in
George Barnwell; appeared at Park theatre, New York as
Hamlet, Oct. 1825; lessee of Bowery theatre, New York, Aug.
1830, theatre burnt 16 Sep. 1836; played at Covent Garden
1836–7; lessee of Bowery 1838, again burnt 1845, lessee
again 1847 to death; lessee of Park theatre, New York 1848,
 theatre burnt 16 Dec. 1848; his chief characters were Hamlet,
The Stranger, William Tell, Virginius, Rolla and Petruchio. d. of
brain fever Broome st. New York 8 Jany. 1853, left 100,000
dollars. Ireland’s New York Stage, i, 459–61 (1866); Appleton’s
Cyclop. of American Biog. iii, 55 (1887), portrait.
HAMEL, Joseph Von. b. Sarepta on the Volga 1788; member of
Imperial academy of sciences, St. Petersburgh 1828; ascended
Mont Blanc when 3 of his guides perished 20 Aug. 1820;
travelled and resided much in England from 1814 onwards;
reported to his government on progress of science and arts in
England; author of England and Russia, the voyage of J.
Tradescant to the White sea 1854; Historical account of
Galvanic and electro-magnetic telegraph 1859; Bishop Watson
and the electric telegraph 1861 and works in Russian and
German. d. Duke st. St. James’, London 22 Sep. 1862. G.M.
xiii, 510, 788 (1862).
HAMERTON, John Millet. Ensign 44 foot 31 Oct. 1792, lieut. col.
31 March 1814 to 24 Jany. 1816 when placed on h.p.; col. 55
foot 7 Dec. 1848 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June
1815. d. Orchardstown house near Clonmel 27 Jany. 1855
aged 77.
HAMILTON, Alexander Hamilton-Douglas 10 Duke of (elder son of 9
Duke of Hamilton 1740–1819). b. St. James’s sq. London 5
Oct. 1767; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., M.A. 1789; styled Marquis of
Douglas 1799–1819; M.P. for Lancaster 1802–6; col. of royal
Lanarkshire militia 1802–34; lord lieut. of Lanarkshire 13 Nov.
1803 to death; ambassador to St. Petersburgh 28 May 1806 to
July 1812; P.C. 18 June 1806; called to House of Lords by writ
in his father’s barony of Dutton 4 Nov. 1806; F.R.S. 14 Jany.
1808; F.R.S. Edin., president; succeeded 16 Feb. 1819; lord
high steward at coronations of Wm. iv. and of Victoria; K.G. 5
Feb. 1836. d. 12 Portman sq. London 18 Aug. 1852.
Note.—He cherished an idea that he was the legitimate King of Scotland; at
his death his body was embalmed, deposited in a sarcophagus brought from
the Pyramids of Egypt, and buried in a mausoleum 120 feet high which he
had erected near Hamilton palace at cost of £130,000.
HAMILTON, William Alexander Anthony Archibald Hamilton-Douglas,
11 Duke of (only son of the preceding). b. Grosvenor place,
London 18 Feb. 1811; Marquis of Douglas 1819–52; ed. at Ch.
Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832; col. 1 royal Lanark militia 23 Jany. 1834 to
death; knight marischall of Scotland, June 1846; major
commandant Glasgow yeomanry 1848–56; lord lieutenant of
Lanarkshire, Aug. 1852 to death; grand master of freemasons
of Scotland; lived chiefly at Paris and Baden. d. Paris 15 July
1863.
HAMILTON, Alexander. b. 27 Jany. 1774; called to Irish bar 1795;
K.C. 25 Nov. 1822. d. Oct. 1852.
HAMILTON, Ven. Anthony (2 son of Ven. Anthony Hamilton 1739–
1812, archdeacon of Colchester). b. 12 July 1778; ed. at St.
John’s coll. Oxf, B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803; R. of Loughton, Essex
1805 to death; preb. of Warminster in Wells cath. 1810–27;
chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1812–37; R. of St. Mary Le
Bow with St. Pancras, Soper Lane and All Hallows, Honey
Lane, London 1820 to death; archdeacon of Taunton and preb.
of Milverton prima in Wells cath. 5 Dec. 1827 to death;
precentor and first residentiary canon Lichfield cath. 1831 to
1850. d. Loughton rectory 10 Sep. 1851.
HAMILTON, Arthur Philip. Entered navy Oct. 1800; on 28 Sep.
1810 in a boat attack captured 2 brigs from under the battery
of Pointe du Ché near Rochelle; captain 31 May 1816; retired
admiral 4 Oct. 1862. d. 2 Dorset sq. London 2 Sep. 1877.
HAMILTON, Charles. b. 1801; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign Bengal
army 27 Jany. 1818; lieut.-col. Bengal infantry 19 Jany. 1843,
served in Gwalior campaign 1843, commanded 2 grenadier N.I.
at battle of Maharajpore and same regt. in Sutlej campaign
1845–6 including actions of Moodkee and Ferozeshah and
capture of Kote Kangra 1846; C.B. 22 May 1843; general 16
 May 1872; retired 1 Oct. 1877. d. 19 Sussex gardens, London
27 Oct. 1889.
HAMILTON, Charles George Archibald (2 son of 11 duke of
Hamilton 1811–63). b. Connaught place, London 18 May 1847;
cornet 11 hussars 1866–69; served in German army at siege of
Strasbourg 1870; his vagaries were the talk of Paris and the
German spas about 1870; joined the Church of Rome 1885;
resided at Biarritz 1876–86. d. Nice 2 May 1886, having been
nursed by his intended wife Mdlle. Pignatelli. bur. in Hamilton
palace mausoleum 12 May.
HAMILTON, Charles James (elder son of Charles Powell Hamilton
1747–1825, admiral R.N.) b. 29 July 1779; minister plenipo. to
French court 3 March 1832 to 19 April 1833 at Buenos Ayres 5
July 1834; envoy extrad. and min. plen. at Rio Janiero 2 Oct.
1835 to 9 Feb. 1847 when he was pensioned. d. 15 Dec. 1856.
HAMILTON, Charles William. Entered Bengal army 1799; col. 40
Bengal N.I. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Home Mead,
Lymington 22 July 1866 aged 82.
HAMILTON, Claud (2 son of James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton
1786–1814). b. Lower Grosvenor st. London 27 July 1813; ed.
at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for co. Tyrone 1835–37
and 1839–74; treasurer of the household 27 Feb. 1852 to Dec.
1852 and 26 Feb. 1858 to June 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; vice
chamberlain of the household 10 July 1866 to Dec. 1868;
lieut.-col. commandant Donegal militia 19 July 1867 to death.
d. 83 Portland place, London 3 June 1884. bur. at Elton 12
June.
HAMILTON, Sir Edward, 1 Baronet (2 son of Sir John Hamilton, 1
baronet, d. 1784). b. 12 March 1772; entered navy 21 May
1799; cut out Spanish frigate ‘Hermione’ from port of Puerto
Cabello 25 Oct. 1799, a feat unsurpassed in naval annals;
captain 3 June 1797; knighted by patent 3 June 1800; received
freedom of city of London 25 Oct. 1800; commanded royal
 yacht Mary 1806–19; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; baronet 26 Jany.
1819; admiral 9 Nov. 1846. d. 17 Cumberland terrace, Regent’s
park, London 20 March 1851.
HAMILTON, Eliza Mary (5 child of Archibald Hamilton of Dublin,
attorney 1778–1819). b. 4 April 1807; author of Poems, Dublin
1838. d. Dublin 14 May 1851.
HAMILTON, Elizabeth (dau. of Sir W. S. Hamilton 1788–1856). A
promoter of university education of women in Scotland; wrote
memoir of her father for Encyclopædia Britannica; author of
Microcosmus by H. Lotze, a translation 1885. d. 30
Northampton park, Canonbury, London 2 March 1882 aged 42.
HAMILTON, Frederic Douglas (5 son of Capt. Augustus Barrington
P. A. P. Hamilton). b. 12 May 1815; attaché at Buenos Ayres
1834–6, at Rio de Janiero 1836, paid attaché there 1844; first
paid attaché at Vienna 1852; sec. of legation at Stuttgardt
1853–8, at Athens 1859, at Frankfort 1859, at Stockholm
1862; chargé d’affaires and consul general at Quito, Ecuador
1867, minister resident and consul general there 1872, retired
17 Nov. 1883. d. Tunbridge Wells 15 May 1887.
HAMILTON, Sir Frederick William (son of William Richard
Hamilton 1777–1859). b. 8 July 1815; page of honour to
George iv. and William iv. 1826–31; ensign Grenadier guards
12 July 1831, adjutant 1836–46, lieut. col. 19 June 1860; col.
21 fusiliers 10 Jany. 1870 to death; general 21 Nov. 1876,
retired 1881; served with the grenadier guards 1854–5,
present at Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman; commanded
divisions of the army in the trenches at Sebastopol; C.B. 29
Dec. 1856, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; military attaché at Berlin
1860–62; V.P. of council on military education 1862–6;
commander of forces in Scotland 1866–8; commanded brigade
of guards 1868–70; author of The origin and history of the
First Grenadier guards 3 vols. 1874–7. d. Pitcorthie, Fife 4 Oct.
1890. I.L.N. 18 Oct. 1890 p. 433, portrait.
HAMILTON, George Alexander (elder son of Rev. George Hamilton
of Tyrellas, co. Down, who d. March 1833). b. Tyrellas 29 Aug.
1802; ed. at Rugby, Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1832,
LL.B. and LLD. 1851, and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, D.C.L.
1853; contested city of Dublin 1826, 1830, 1832 and 1837;
M.P. for city of Dublin 1835–7; M.P. for univ. of Dublin 1843–
59; financial sec. of the Treasury, March to Dec. 1852, March
1858 to Jany. 1859, permanent sec. Jany. 1859; a comr. of
church temporalities in Ireland 1870; P.C. 7 Aug. 1869. d.
Kingstown near Dublin 17 Sep. 1871. Portraits of eminent
conservatives 2 series (1846), portrait; I.L.N. xxi, 517, 518
(1852), portrait.
HAMILTON, Hans Henry (4 son of Henry Hamilton of Ballymacool,
Meath). b. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1820, M.A.
1832; called to Irish bar 1823; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; chairman of
quarter sessions for co. Galway 1852–8, for co. Armagh 1858
to death. d. 28 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 20 April 1875. Irish
Law Times, ix, 208 (1875).
HAMILTON, Very Rev. Henry Parr (son of Alexander Hamilton of
Edinburgh, M.D. 1739–1802). b. 3 April 1794; ed. at Trin. coll.
Cam.; 9th wrangler 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fell. of his
coll. 1816; R. of Wath near Ripon 1830–50; P.C. of St. Mary
the Great, Cam. 1833–44; rural dean 1847; dean of Salisbury
17 April 1850 to death; F.R.S. 17 Jany. 1828; F.R.A.S.; F.G.S.;
author of The principles of analytical geometry, Cambridge
1826; An analytical system of conic sections, Cambridge 1828,
5 ed. 1843; The church and the education question 1848;
Scheme for the reform of their cathedral by the dean and
chapter of Salisbury 1855. d. the Deanery, the Close, Salisbury
7 Feb. 1880. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xli, 184–
7 (1881).
HAMILTON, Rev. James (son of Rev. William Hamilton 1780–1835,
minister of St. Andrew’s, Dundee). b. Lonend, Paisley 27 Nov.
1814; ed. at Glasgow univ., B.A. 1835, and at Edin. univ., D.D.;
 assist. presbyterian minister St. George’s ch. Edin. 1838,
minister at Abernyte 1839, at Roxburgh ch. Edin. 1841, at
National Scotch ch. Regent sq. London 1841 to death; author
of Life in earnest 1845; Memoirs of Richard Williams 1854; A
morning beside the lake of Galilee 1863; Excelsior, helps to
progress 6 vols. 1854; Works 6 vols. 1869–73; editor of
Presbyterian Messenger 1849 and of Evangelical Christendom
1864. d. 48 Euston sq. London 24 Nov. 1867. W. Arnot’s Life of
J. Hamilton (1870), portrait; Illust. news of the world, ix,
(1862), portrait.
HAMILTON, Rev. James. b. county Kerry about 1813; ed. at
Carlow coll., professor of classics there 1835 and of natural
philosophy 1842–51; ordained priest 20 Dec. 1836; missioner
in the parishes of Mountrath, Bagenalstown and Rathvilly to
1842, and in Tullow 1851–7; military chaplain at the Curragh
camp Dec. 1857, at Woolwich, at Bermuda 1865–7, at
Aldershot 1868–73, held rank as a major; delivered 4 lectures
on the ‘Structure of the Heavens’ in the Rotunda, Dublin, Jany.
1856. d. at the house of his brother Dr. W. Hamilton at Tarbert
20 Dec. 1873. Comerford’s Collections (1883) 214–24.
HAMILTON, James. b. Ireland 1819; drawing master in
Philadelphia; illustrated Life of Rear admiral J. Paul Jones 1845,
Kane’s Arctic Explorations 1856, The Arabian Nights,
Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, and other popular works; painted
many pictures especially marine views. d. 10 March 1878.
HAMILTON, Sir James (son of Rev. George Hamilton of Armagh).
b. Warrenpoint, co. Down 1815; ed. at Belfast academical
instit.; chairman of Belfast harbour commission 1867 to death;
knighted by lord lieut. earl Spencer, on opening of horticultural
exhibition at Belfast 9 Aug. 1872. d. West view, Bangor, co.
Down 26 Oct. 1882. Times 10 Aug. 1872, p. 12, 21 Aug. p. 7.
HAMILTON, Sir James John, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir John
Hamilton, 1 baronet, G.C.S.I. 1755–1835). b. Londonderry 1
March 1802; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1822; 2 lieut.
 rifle brigade 10 July 1823, served during Canadian rebellion
1837–8; major on h.p. 8 Oct. 1838, sold out May 1852; M.P.
for Sudbury, Suffolk 25 July to Dec. 1837; contested
Marylebone, July 1841 and July 1847; sheriff of Pembrokeshire
1857, of Tyrone 1859. d. 6 Portman sq. London 12 Jany. 1876.
I.L.N. lxviii, 95, 215 (1876).
HAMILTON, Janet (dau. of a shoemaker called Thomson). b.
Carshill, Shotts parish, Lanarkshire 12 Oct. 1795; a yarn
spinner; learnt to write 1848; wrote for Cassell’s Working Man’s
Friend 1849; became blind 1855; author of Poems and songs
1863; Poems of purpose and sketches 1865; Poems and
Ballads 1868; Poems, essay and sketches 1880. (m. 1809 John
Hamilton, shoemaker), she d. Langloan, Lanarkshire 27 Oct.
1873, Memorial fountain erected at Langloan. Poems, sketches
and essays by J. Hamilton (1885), portrait; Good Words, Feb.
1884 pp. 118–24, portrait.
HAMILTON, Sir John. b. Dover 1765; captain in H.M.’s packet
service; communicated to admiral Duncan intelligence of the
Dutch fleet being at sea which led to victory at Camperdown
11 Oct. 1797; knighted at St. James’s palace 5 March 1845. d.
at Capt. Luke Smithett’s house, 17 Snargate st. Dover 1 Feb.
1858.
HAMILTON, John. b. Dumfriesshire; a newspaper reporter at
Preston; edited the Aylesbury News 7 years; formed a church
at Aylesbury; edited the Empire in London, joint proprietor of it
with George Thompson; edited the Morning Star to 1860;
F.R.S. d. Howe villa, Windermere 14 Oct. 1860 aged 39.
HAMILTON, John. b. 1809; M.R.C.S. Ireland, F.R.C.S. 1844, V.P.
1874; edited The Dublin Journal of medical and chemical
science 1832; visiting surgeon Richmond hospital 1844–75;
surgeon in ordinary to the queen 1874; governor of House of
Industry hospitals 1875; president Dublin pathological soc.;
author of An essay on syphilitic sarcocele 1849; The
restoration of a lost nose 1864; Lectures on syphilitic osteitis
 and periostitis 1874. d. 14 Merrion sq. North, Dublin 2 Nov.
1875. Medical Times 13 Nov. 1875 p. 561.
HAMILTON, John Potter. Cornet Scotch Greys 1793; commanded
a battalion at battle of Castalla, May 1813; lieut.-col. 83 foot 3
June 1813; captain 3 foot guards 1814, retired Aug. 1819;
special commissioner to Colombia 10 Oct. 1823, signed treaty
of amity 18 April 1825; K.H. 1836; author of Travels through
Colombia 1827; Reminiscences of an old sportsman 2 vols.
1860. d. Bodleyfryd, Wrexham 28 Jany. 1873 aged 95.
HAMILTON, Rev. Joseph Harriman. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; 27
wrangler and B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; chaplain of his coll. 1824;
C. of St. Michael, Chester sq. Pimlico, London 1848–71;
prebendary of Chiswick in St. Paul’s cath. 1859–72; R. of Frant,
Sussex 1871 to 1879; canon residentiary of Rochester 1872 to
death. d. the precincts, Rochester 17 Aug. 1881 aged 81.
HAMILTON, Ker Baillie (4 son of Ven. Charles Baillie-Hamilton
1764–1820, archdeacon of Cleveland). b. 13 July 1804;
entered H.E.I.C.S. 1822; clerk of council and acting colonial
sec. Cape of Good Hope 1829; lieut. governor of Grenada
1846–52; administrator of Barbadoes and the Windward
islands 1851–2; governor of Newfoundland 1852–5; governor
in chief of Antigua and Leeward islands 1855 to Jany. 1863;
C.B. 23 July 1862; retired 1867; author of Our saddle horses
1865. d. 43 Broadwater Down, Tunbridge Wells 6 Feb. 1889.
HAMILTON, Nicholas. Ensign 5 foot 15 June 1796; inspecting
field officer 10 June 1813 to 11 Nov. 1851; colonel 82 foot 10
Dec. 1856 to death; L.G. 11 Jany. 1858. d. 35 Lower Bagot st.
Dublin 13 Dec. 1859 in 78 year.
HAMILTON, Richard. b. 18 Dec. 1810; ensign 1 Madras N.I. 25
Aug. 1828, major 21 May 1858; lieut.-col. Madras staff corps
18 Feb. 1861, placed on retired list 18 Dec. 1880; general 23
Aug. 1884; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Nethway, Torquay 1 March
1888.
HAMILTON, Robert Douglas (son of a stone mason and farmer).
b. Muirhead, Lanarkshire 16 Jany. 1783; ed. at Glasgow and
Edin. universities; assist. surgeon in H.M. hospital ship ‘Tromp’
at Falmouth, April 1808 to Nov. 1809; surgeon at St. Mawes
1809–12; served as a surgeon with the army in the Peninsula;
emigrated to U.S. America 1827; settled at Scarborough near
Toronto, Upper Canada 1830; contributed to newspapers and
periodicals under name of Guy Pollock; author of Essays, Truro
1812; Craignethan castle. A poem, Edin. 1817, anon.; The
principles of medicine, vol. i, 1821; Dr. Shaddow of
Gostlington, By Mungo Coulter Goggle. d. Scarborough 2 April
1857. Morgan’s Bibl. Canadensis (1867) 174.
HAMILTON, Sir Robert North Collie, 6 Baronet (1 son of Sir
Frederick Hamilton, 5 baronet, d. 1853). b. Benares, India 7
April 1802; of H.E.I.C.S. 1819; judge of Benares March 1829;
sec. to the government in N.W. provinces March 1842, and
resident with Holkar at Indore 1844; governor general’s agent
for Central India 1854–9; served during the mutiny 1857–8;
retired 1860; member of supreme council 1859–60; K.C.B. 18
May 1860; sheriff of Warwickshire 1866; contested S.
Warwickshire 1868. d. Avon Cliffe, Stratford-on-Avon 31 May
1887.
HAMILTON, Thomas. b. Edinburgh 1784; apprentice to his father
a carpenter; architect and builder at Edinburgh; designed
Burns’ memorial at Alloway near Ayr 1818, completed 1823,
Knox monument Glasgow 1825, Edinburgh high sch. 1825–9,
George iv. bridge 1827, Ayr town buildings 1828, Burns’
monument Edin. 1830, Dr. Guthrie’s ch. 1840 and the Martyrs’
monument on the Calton hill 1844; author of Observations on
completing the college of Edinburgh 1816; Report relative to
improvements on the earthen mound 1830. d. 9 Howe st.
Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1858. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882)
142–4, portrait.
HAMILTON, Thomas. b. Longridge, parish of Stonehouse,
Lanarkshire 4 Feb. 1783; partner with Robert and John Ogle at
37 Paternoster row, London 1 Jany. 1808 to 1813; wholesale
bookseller at 33 Paternoster row 1813–50 when he retired,
joined by Wm. Adams 1824, by Joseph Johnson Miles 1833;
published some important books, chiefly religious, the works of
W. Jay of Bath, Rev. J. A. James and Rev. C. Bradley; lived at
Windmill place, Clapham common from 1850, d. there 27 Dec.
1877. bur. Beddington churchyard 2 Jany. 1878. Bookseller
(1878) p. 7.
HAMILTON, Walter Ferrier (1 son of Col. John Hamilton of Cairn
hill, Ayrshire). b. Cairn hill 31 May 1818; M.P. for
Linlithgowshire 1859–65. d. Cathlow house, Torphichen,
Linlithgowshire 8 April 1872.
HAMILTON, Right Rev. Walter Kerr (elder son of Ven. Anthony
Hamilton 1778–1851). b. London 16 Nov. 1808; ed. at Eton
and Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1827–32, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, D.D.
1854; fellow of Merton 1832–42; C. of Wolvercot, Oxf. 1833; V.
of St. Peter’s-in-the-East, Oxf. 1837–41; canon of Salisbury,
June 1841, precentor 1843; bishop of Salisbury 27 March 1854
to death, consecrated at Lambeth 14 May; established a
theological coll. at Salisbury 1861; an extreme high
churchman, his episcopal charge 1867 gave rise to discussion
in house of lords; author of Morning and evening services for
every day in the week 1842; Cathedral reform 1855; A charge
1867 to which there were 9 published replies. d. the palace,
Salisbury 1 Aug. 1869. W. K. Hamilton, bishop of Salisbury, By
H. P. Liddon (1869); Register and Mag. of Biog. ii, 143–4
(1869).
HAMILTON, Walter Richard Pollock (4 son of Alexander Hamilton
of Inistioge, Ireland). b. 18 Aug. 1856; sub-lieut. 70 foot 28
Feb. 1874; with the Guide cavalry in Bengal; served in Jowaki-
Afridi expedition 1877–8, in Afghan campaign 1878, Victoria
cross for gallantry at Futtehabad 2 April 1879 when as the last
 officer he had to assume command of Guide cavalry;
accompanied Sir Louis Cavagnari to Kabul where he was killed
3 Sep. 1879. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign, Biographical division
(1882) 98–100, portrait.
HAMILTON, Sir William (son of W. Hamilton). b. 14 Feb. 1790;
entered royal navy 1803; a prisoner of war in France 1805–14;
vice consul at Flushing and Middleburg 1817, at Antwerp 1818,
at Ostend 1818, at Nieuport 1820, at Boulogne 1822, consul
there 28 June 1826 to 1 April 1873 when he retired on
pension; knighted by patent 21 Feb. 1873. d. 113 Grande rue,
Boulogne 14 Feb. 1877. I.L.N. lxii, 369, 370 (1873), portrait.
HAMILTON, William Alexander Baillie- (brother of Ker Baillie
Hamilton 1804–89). b. Normanby, Yorkshire 6 June 1803;
entered navy 28 Aug. 1816; captain 9 Aug. 1828; private sec.
to first lord of the Admiralty 1841, sec. of the Admiralty Jany.
1845 to 1855 when granted a pension of £1000; comr. of
patriotic fund 1865–81; admiral on h.p. 12 Sep. 1865. d.
Portree, Isle of Skye 1 Oct. 1881.
HAMILTON, William Bishop. b. London 1810; went to U.S. of A.
1827; traversed Mississippi river on a flat boat giving dramatic
performances at chief towns several years; acted at Burton’s
Chambers st. theatre New York; went to California 1851;
lessee of Jenny Lind theatre, San Francisco, afterwards of San
Francisco Hall, the American theatre and Metropolitan, all in
San Francisco; returned to New York 1859. d. London 3 Dec.
1868.
HAMILTON, William John (1 son of William Richard Hamilton
1777–1859). b. London 5 July 1805; ed. at Charterhouse and
Univ. of Gottingen; F.G.S. 1831, sec. 1832–54, pres. 1854,
1865–6; with H. Strickland explored the Levant and the
volcanic region of the Katakekaumene 1835; went on
horseback through Asia Minor 1836; F.R.G.S., pres. 1837, 1841,
1842, 1847, founder’s medallist 1843; F.R.S.; M.P. for Newport,
Isle of Wight 1841–47; director of Great Indian peninsular
 railway 1849 to death; author of Researches in Asia Minor,
Pontus and Armenia 2 vols. 1842. d. 23 Chesham place,
London 27 June 1867. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxiv, 29–
33 (1867).
HAMILTON, William Richard (son of Rev. Anthony Hamilton 1739–
1812, archdeacon of Colchester). b. London 9 Jany. 1777; ed.
at Harrow where he was lamed for life; sec. to lord Elgin at
Constantinople 1799, sent to Egypt 1801 when he recovered
the Rosetta stone from the French; aided in collecting and
removing the Elgin marbles from Athens 1802; F.S.A. 1804,
director 1809–10, under sec. of state for foreign affairs 1809–
22; minister at Naples 1822–4; treasurer of Royal institution
1832–49; F.R.S.; a trustee of Br. Museum 1838–58; author of
Ægyptiaca or the ancient and modern state of Egypt 1809;
Memorandum on the earl of Elgin’s pursuits in Greece 1811. d.
12 Bolton row, London 11 July 1859. Chambers’ Eminent
Scotsmen, ii, 229 (1869).
HAMILTON, Sir William Rowan (4 child of Archibald Hamilton of
Dublin, attorney 1778–1819). b. 29 Dominick st. Dublin at
midnight 3–4 Aug. 1805; was acquainted with 9 languages in
1819; student of Trin. coll. Dublin 1823, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1837,
LL.B. and LLD. 1839; Andrews professor of astronomy,
astronomer royal for Ireland and superintendent of Dublin
observatory at Dunsink near Dublin 1827 to death; knighted by
lord lieutenant Lord Mulgrave in library of Trin. coll. 15 Aug.
1835; M.R.I.A. 1832, president 1837; granted civil list pension
of £200, 27 April 1844 which was continued to his widow;
discovered conical refraction 1824; invented quaternions 1843;
author of Lectures on quaternions 1853; The elements of
quaternions 1866. d. Dunsink observatory 2 Sep. 1865. R. P.
Graves’ Life of Sir W. R. Hamilton 3 vols. 1882–89, 3 portraits;
Dublin Univ. Mag., xix, 94–110 (1842), portrait; Proc. of Royal
Soc. of Edin. v, 473 (1866).
HAMILTON, Sir William Stirling, 3 Baronet (elder son of Wm.
Hamilton 1758–90, professor of anatomy in univ. of Glasgow).
b. Glasgow univ. 8 March 1788; ed. at Glasgow and Edin.
univs.; student of Balliol coll. Ox. 1807, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814;
D.D. of Leyden 1840; called to Scottish bar 1813; styled
himself a baronet, under the decision of an Edinburgh jury
1816; H.M.’s solicitor for Teinds in Scotland 1832; professor of
universal history Univ. of Edin. 1821, professor of logic and
metaphysics there 1836 to death; contributed articles on
metaphysics to Edinburgh Review 1829–39; F.R.S. Edin.,
resigned 1835; published an edition of the works of Thomas
Reid 1846 and of Dugald Steward 10 vols. 1854–8; author of
Discussions on philosophy and literature, education and
university reform 1852, 3 ed. 1866; Lectures on metaphysics
and logic 4 vols. 1859–60, 2 ed. 1861–66; a civil list pension
granted to Lady Hamilton 13 Oct. 1849. d. 16 Great King st.
Edinburgh 6 May 1856, his bust placed in senate hall of Edin.
university Dec. 1867, his library of 9000 volumes purchased
and given to Glasgow univ. Veitch’s Memoir of Sir W. Hamilton
(1869), portrait; Sir W. Hamilton, By W. H. S. Monck (1881);
De Quincey’s Works, xvi, 114–79 (1871); Sir A. Grant’s Story of
Univ. of Edin. ii, 332–35 (1884).
HAMLET, Thomas. b. Boughton, Cheshire 1770; silversmith and
jeweller at 1 and 2 Princes st. Soho, London 1801–1841; built
the Royal bazaar, British diorama and exhibition of works of
art, opened at 73 Oxford st. about April 1828, it was burned
down 27 May 1829, loss £50,000, rebuilt 1830 renamed the
Queen’s Bazaar 1834, converted it into the Princess’s theatre at
cost of £47,000 which opened with promenade concerts 30
Sep. 1840; bankrupt 20 March 1841; sold the theatre for
£14,500; considered a millionaire at one time, but greatly
reduced by being unable to recover on certain bonds of the
Prince Regent and Duke of York. d. 5 Park place, St. James’s,
London 21 Feb. 1853.
HAMLEY, Francis Gilbert (eld. son of Joseph Hamley, d. 1854). b.
1815; ensign 12 foot 7 Aug. 1835; major 50 foot 8 Jany. 1858
to 1873; governor general of South Australia 19 Feb. 1868 to
16 Feb. 1869; M.G. 9 Aug. 1873. d. Cheltenham 12 Jany. 1876.
HAMMACK, John George (younger son of John Hammack of
London). Timber merchant 30 Cannon st. road, Commercial
road, London; surveyor in city of London; retained in almost
every case coming under provisions of the Lands Clauses
Consolidation act; returning officer for Tower Hamlets borough;
chairman of city of London and Tower Hamlets cemetery co.;
chairman of Ratcliff gas light co. 25 years; one of the two chief
assistants of registrar general in taking census in 1861. d.
Boxlands near Dorking 4 Oct. 1861 aged 70.
HAMMERSLEY, James Astbury. b. Burslem, Staffs. 1815; exhibited
3 pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 10 at Suffolk st. 1842–52; head
master Manchester sch. of design 1849–62; president
Manchester acad. of fine arts 1857–61; among his paintings
were Mountain and clouds, Loughrigg Fell 1850 in Manchester
art gallery; The castle of Rosenau in the collection at Windsor;
author of The condition of the continental schools of art 1850.
d. Manchester about 1868.
HAMMICK, Sir Stephen Love, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Stephen
Hammick of Plymouth, alderman). b. Plymouth 28 Feb. 1777;
M.C.S. 1799; hon. fellow R.C.S. 1843; surgeon of Royal naval
hospital at Plymouth 1803–29; surgeon extraordinary to
George iv. 1820–30, to Wm. iv. 1830–37; practised 36
Cavendish sq. London 1829–56; baronet 25 July 1834; author
of Practical remarks on amputation, fractures and stricture of
the urethra 1830. d. The Crescent, Plymouth 15 June 1867.
HAMMILL, John (only son of Martin Hammill of Liverpool). b. 13
April 1803; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1825, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1832; one of boundary
comrs. of boroughs 16 July 1835; comr. of bankruptcy in
Liverpool 1840; police magistrate at Worship st. London 1847,
 at Marylebone Jany. 1860 to death. d. 34 Sussex gardens,
Hyde park, London 30 July 1860.
HAMMOND, Edmund Hammond, 1 Baron (3 son of George
Hammond, d. 1853). b. London 25 June 1802; ed. at Eton,
Harrow and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, scholar
1824–8, fellow 1828–46; clerk privy council office 1823–4; in
foreign office 1824, chief of the oriental department 1830–41;
permanent under sec. of state for foreign affairs 10 April 1854,
retired 10 Oct. 1873 on his full pay of £2500; P.C. 11 June
1866; cr. baron Hammond of Kirk Ella, Kingston-on-Hull 22
Feb. 1874; assured Lord Granville that the world was
profoundly at peace 27 June 1870, French and Prussian war
broke out 15 July. d. Mentone, France 29 April 1890. I.L.N. lxiii,
413, 414 (1873), portrait; Graphic 24 May 1890 p. 583,
portrait.
HAMMOND, Alfred William. Music seller and publisher at 9 New
Bond st. and then at 214 Regent st. London 1850–62;
projector, proprietor and many years editor of Musical
Standard, No. 1, Aug. 2, 1862; composer of As o’er the past
my mem’ry strays, a hymn 1857; When all thy mercies O my
God, a hymn 1857. d. Belvedere near Erith, Kent 18 Dec. 1875.
HAMMOND, George (younger son of William Hammond). b. 1763;
matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 16 March 1780 aged 17, B.A.
1784, M.A. 1788, D.C.L. 1810; sec. to David Hartley in Paris
when conducting peace negotiations with France and America
1783; chargé d’ affaires at Vienna 1788–90, at Madrid 1791;
minister plenipo. to U.S. America 1791–5; under sec. foreign
office, London 1795–1806, 1807–9; a comr. for British claims
on France, Sep. 1814 to July 1828 when pensioned; connected
with the Anti-Jacobin 1797 and the Quarterly Rev. 1809. d. 22
Portland place, London 22 April 1853 aged 90.
HAMMOND, James Lempriere. b. 1828; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1852, M.A. 1855, fellow, tutor and bursar; executor of Dr. Wm.
Whewell 1866 when he superintended the additions to Trin.
 coll., completed under Whewell’s will at cost of £100,000 in
1868; assistant Endowed schools commissioner; assistant
Charity commissioner for England and Wales; sec. to D. of
Devonshire, chancellor of Cambridge; on the governing bodies
of Christ’s hospital and Westminster school; author of Carmen
Latinum. Cantab. 1849. d. Clyde villa, Hammersmith, Middlesex
23 July 1880 in 52 year. Times 28, 30, 31 July 1880.
HAMMOND, John (youngest son of Lempriere Hammond of
Jersey). b. 1801; solicitor general of Jersey 1848–58; bailiff of
Jersey and pres. of The States 16 Feb. 1858 to death. d. Royal
court house, Jersey 14 Feb. 1880.
HAMOND, Sir Graham Eden, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Andrew
Snape Hamond 1738–1828, captain R.N., 1 baronet). b.
Newman st. London 30 Dec. 1779; entered R.N. 1785, captain
30 Nov. 1798; present at battle of Copenhagen 1801; knight
commander of Tower and Sword 1825; commander in chief on
South American station 1834–8; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 13
Sep. 1831, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; admiral 22 Jany. 1847, admiral
of the fleet 10 Nov. 1862. d. Norton lodge, Freshwater, Isle of
Wight 20 Dec. 1862.
HAMOND, Horace Edward. Cornet 1 life guards 18 Feb. 1828,
lieut. 1831, sold out 12 Sep. 1834; aide-de-camp to king of
Hanover some time; precis writer to earl of Malmesbury sec. of
state foreign affairs 28 Feb. 1852; consul at Cherbourg 1 April
1852 to death; K.H. d. 8 Feb. 1876.
HAMPDEN, John (brother of Right Rev. R. D. Hampden). b. 27
Oct. 1798; ed. at Univ. coll. Ox.; collector of pictures, coins
and medals; collected materials for life of John Hampden the
patriot. d. 4 Clarence ter. Warwick st. Leamington 13 Nov.
1860. Numismatic Chronicle, xxi, Proceedings 11–12 (1861).
HAMPDEN, John (1 son of Rev. John Hampden, R. of Hinton
Martel, Dorset 1829–47). Matric. from St. Mary hall, Ox. 14
Feb. 1839 aged 19; author of The rampart of steel or a fancys
 (sic) for a permanent coast militia and an army of reserve,
Canterbury 1852; John Hampden’s Monthly. The truth seeker’s
oracle and scriptural science review, Nos. 1–3 May-July 1876;
Description of J. Hampden’s improvements in artillery 1876;
The new manual of Biblical Cosmography 1877; The earth in
its creation and the portion adapted to man’s occupation 1880;
published John Hampden’s Circular map of the world 1875;
John Hampden’s Chronometrical Dial-plate 1876; edited
Cosmos. A Geographical Review 1883. d. from bronchitis at 3
Park st. Croydon 22 Jany. 1891. Daily Graphic 27 Jany. 1891 p.
6 col. 2.
Note.—He inserted an advertisement in Scientific Opinion 12 Jany. 1870
offering £500 to anyone proving that the earth is round. This challenge was
accepted by Alfred Russel Wallace; Hampden and Wallace each deposited
£500 in the hands of John Henry Walsh who decided in favour of Wallace as
having “proved the curvature to and fro of the Bedford Level canal between
Witney bridge and Welsh’s dam (6 miles) to the extent of 5 feet more or less.”
Walsh paid the £1000 to Wallace 1 April 1870 although Hampden instructed
him not to do so, Hampden brought an action against Walsh to recover his
£500, which was tried in the Queen’s Bench division 17 Jany. 1876 when the
judges held that Hampden having demanded his deposit money back before it
had been paid over by Walsh, was entitled to judgment. Law Reports i, Q.B.
division (1876) 189–98; Experimental proofs that the surface of standing
water is not convex but horizontal with an examination of the question, Is the
earth a globe or a plane? between J. Hampden and A. R. Wallace. By Parallax
[Samuel Birley Rowbotham] 1870.
HAMPDEN, Right Rev. Renn Dickson (eld. son of Renn Hampden,
colonel of militia). b. Barbadoes 29 March 1793; ed. at Oriel
coll. Ox., double first class 1813, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816, B.D.
and D.D. 1833, fellow 1814–7, tutor 1832, Bampton lecturer
1832; C. of Newton near Bath 1816; principal of St. Mary hall,
Ox., April 1833–48; professor of moral philosophy 1834–36;
canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. and regius professor of divinity 17 Feb.
1836 to 1848; R. of Ewelme, Oxfs. 1836–48; bp. of Hereford
28 Dec. 1847 to death, his election opposed by 13 bishops and
the dean of Hereford, consecrated at Lambeth palace 26 March
1848; author of The Scholastic philosophy considered in its
 relation to Christian theology 1833 and of essays, lectures,
sermons and charges. d. 107 Eaton place, London 23 April
1868. Memorials by his daughter (1871), portrait; Mozley’s
Reminiscences, i, 350–86 (1882); I.L.N. xii, 22 (1848), portrait.
HAMPSON, John. b. 1790; master of Bury st. academy,
Manchester 1810–60; author of The Monitory and Epistolary
Exercise book for schools 1841. d. Ardwick, Manchester, Oct.
1878 in 88 year.
HAMPTON, John Somerset Pakington, 1 Baron (younger son of
Wm. Russell of Powick court, Worcs., who d. 9 Dec. 1812). b.
Powick court 20 Feb. 1799; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox.,
D.C.L. 7 June 1853; assumed name of Pakington 1830;
chairman of Worcs. quarter sessions 1834–54; M.P. for
Droitwich 1837–74; sec. of state for the colonies 27 Feb. to
Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; first lord of the admiralty Feb.
1858 to June 1859 and June 1866 to March 1867; sec. of state
for war 8 March 1867 to Dec. 1868; first civil service
commissioner Nov. 1875; baronet 13 July 1846; G.C.B. 15 June
1859; created Baron Hampton of Hampton Lovett and of
Westwood, co. Worcester 6 March 1874. d. 9 Eaton sq. London
9 April 1880. bur. in family mausoleum Hampton Lovett church,
Worcs. 15 April. The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent
personages, second series 1859, portrait; The statesmen of
England (1862), portrait; I.L.N. xx, 321 (1852), xxi, 237
(1852), portrait.
HAMPTON, Richard. b. Nancekuke down, Illogan, Cornwall 4 April
1782; a worker at a stamping mill; first preached at Redruth
1811; itinerated in Devon and Cornwall as a Wesleyan, known
as the Cornish pilgrim preacher 1813–58. d. Porth Towan,
Illogan 2 April 1858. Foolish Dick, an autobiography of Richard
Hampton 1873, portrait.
HAMPTON, William Philip. b. 21 Sep. 1810; ensign 30 Bengal N.I.
4 Nov. 1828, commandant 2 Bengal N.I. 1 Jany. 1864 to 1
 March 1870; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. 65 Haverstock hill, London 23
Jany. 1881.
HANBURY, Benjamin. b. Wolverhampton 13 May 1778; in Bank of
England 1803–59; deacon of Congregational ch. Union st.
London 1819–57; treasurer of Congregational Union 1831 to
death; author of An historical research concerning the
Congregational church in England 1820; Historical memorials
relating to the Independents 3 vols. 1839–44; edited Hooker’s
Ecclesiastical Polity 3 vols. 1830. d. 16 Gloucester villas,
Brixton, Surrey 12 Jany. 1864. Evangelical Mag. 1864 p. 166.
HANBURY, Daniel (1 son of Daniel Bell Hanbury of firm of Allen
and Hanbury, chemists, Plough court, Lombard st. London). b.
London 11 Sep. 1825; partner in firm of Allen and Hanbury to
1870; student at Pharmaceutical soc. 1844, member 1857,
examiner 1860–72; F.L.S. 1855, treasurer to death; F. Chem.
soc. 21 Jany. 1858, and F.R. Micros. soc. 1867; F.R.S. 6 June
1867, member of council 1872–5; studied the materia medica
of the Chinese; visited Greece and the Holy Land 1860; the
cucurbitaceous genus Hanburya named after him 1870; author
with professor Friedrich A. Flückiger of Pharmacographia 1874.
d. Clapham common, Surrey 24 March 1875. Science papers,
ed. by J. Ince 1876, memoir pp. 3–40, portrait; Proc. of Royal
soc. xxiv, 2–3 (1876); Nature, xi, 428 (1875).
HANBURY, Daniel Bell (1 son of Capel Hanbury). b. 8 Feb. 1794;
with Allen and Hanbury 1808, partner, retired 1868; an
originator of Pharmaceutical soc. 1841, treasurer 1852–67;
assisted to make index for Pharmacographia 1874. d.
Hollywood, Clapham common 12 Feb. 1882. Pharmaceutical
Journal, xii, 698 (1881–82).
HANBURY, Sir John (2 son of Wm. Hanbury of Kelmarsh,
Northamptonshire). b. Kelmarsh 1782; ed. at Eton; ensign 58
foot 20 July 1799; served in Egypt 1801, in Peninsula 1808–9,
1813–4, in Portugal 1826–7; major grenadier guards 25 July
1821 to 22 July 1830; colonel 99 foot 6 Oct. 1851 to death;
 general 20 June 1854; K.C.H. and K.B. 1832; K.C.B. 10 Nov.
1862. d. 15 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 7 June 1863.
HANBURY, Robert (2 son of Osgood Hanbury of Holfield Grange,
Essex 1765–1852). b. 2 July 1796; clerk with Truman, Buxton
& Co. brewers 1815, partner 1820, managing partner of
business in London and at Burton on Trent; sheriff of Herts.
1854; had large gardens and conservatories at Poles near
Ware; built and endowed Thundridge ch. Herts. 184-and Christ
Church, Ware 1858. d. Poles, Ware 20 Jany. 1884. Licensed
Victuallers’ Gazette 16 Jany. 1875 pp. 64, 67, portrait; Licensed
Victuallers’ Year Book 1876 pp. 83–5, portrait.
HANBURY, Robert Culling (1 son of the preceding). b. London 19
March 1823; partner in Truman, Hanbury and Co. brewers,
London; M.P. for Middlesex 29 April 1857 to death. d. 10 Upper
Grosvenor st. London 29 March 1867. bur. in churchyard of
Thundridge, Herts. I.L.N. xxx, 479 (1857), portrait.
HANCE, Henry Fletcher. b. Old Brompton, London 4 Aug. 1827;
entered Hong-kong C.S. 1 Sep. 1844; 4 assistant in
superintendency of trade at Hong-kong 1 May 1854, 1
assistant 1857; vice consul at Whampoa near Canton 1861–78;
consul Canton 1878, 1881, 1883; acting consul at Amoy, May
1886; spent his life in study of botany of China. d. Amoy 22
June 1886, his herbarium 22,000 species offered to British
Museum.
HANCOCK, Albany (son of John Hancock, saddler, Newcastle-on-
Tyne, d. 1812). b. Bridge End, Newcastle 24 Dec. 1806;
solicitor Newcastle 1830–2; a founder of the Tyneside
Naturalists’ Field club 1846; F.L.S. 1862; wrote over 70 papers
on birds, shells, mollusca, etc. 1836 etc., the first to examine
carefully the internal structures of mollusca 1843, gold
medallist of Royal soc. 1858; with J. Alder wrote A monograph
of the British Nudibranchiate mollusca 7 parts 1845–55. d. 4
St. Mary’s ter. Newcastle 24 Oct. 1873. Trans. Northumberland
 Nat. Hist. Soc. v, 118, (1875), portrait; Monthly Chronicle of
North country lore, Dec. 1890 pp. 568–70, portrait.
HANCOCK, Henry. Entered Bombay army 18 June 1819; adjutant
general 1 May 1848 to 15 Sep. 1856; col. 19 Bombay N.I.
1856–69; L.G. 30 March 1869. d. Friedenfels, Upper Maize hill,
St. Leonards on Sea, Sussex 30 Dec. 1872 aged 70.
HANCOCK, Henry (son of Samuel Hancock of London, merchant).
b. Bread st. hill, London 6 Aug. 1809; M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S.
1843, prof. of human anat. 1865, president 1872, Hunterian
orator 1873; house surgeon Westminster hospital,
demonstrator of anatomy 1834–8; lecturer on anatomy and
physiology Charing Cross hospital 1838, assist. surgeon 1839,
surgeon to 1875, lecturer on surgery; surgeon Westminster
ophthalmic hospital to 1875; the first to remove the os calsis
and retain the foot; author of On the operation for
strangulated hernia 1850; On the operative surgery of the foot
and ankle-joint 1873. d. Standen house, Chute, Wilts. 1 Jany.
1880. Medical Times 10 Jany. 1880 p. 53; Lancet (1853) ii,
578, portrait.
HANCOCK, John (brother of Albany Hancock 1806–73). b. about
1808; saddler and ironmonger at Newcastle; formed finest
collection of British birds in the Kingdom and presented it to
Museum of Natural History Soc. Barras bridge, Newcastle
1881; author of A catalogue of the birds of Northumberland
and Durham in Natural History Trans. 1874 and of other papers
in same work and in Trans. of Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club.
d. 4 St. Mary’s terrace, Newcastle 11 Oct. 1890. Monthly
chronicle of North country lore, Dec. 1890 pp. 566–9, 2
portraits; Graphic 25 Oct. 1890 p. 460, portrait.
HANCOCK, Sir Samuel (brother of Henry Hancock 1809–80). b. 3
June 1805; exon of the yeomen of the guard 1832–47;
knighted at St. James’s palace 12 May 1841. d. 5 Paragon
buildings, Cheltenham 7 Aug. 1886.
HANCOCK, Thomas (2 son of James Hancock, timber merchant).
b. Marlborough, Wilts. 8 May 1786; invented the masticator by
which india rubber was pressed into blocks or rolled into
sheets 1820; india rubber manufacturer Goswell road, London
1821, works burnt down 11 April 1834, Manchester works
burnt 1838; partner with Charles Macintosh maker of
waterproof garments London and Manchester; patented
vulcanised india rubber and vulcanite or ebonite 1843; took
out 16 patents 1820–47. d. Woodberry vale, Stoke Newington
26 March 1865. Personal Narrative of India-rubber
manufacture in England, By T. Hancock (1857), portrait.
HANCOCK, Walter (brother of the preceding). b. Marlborough 16
June 1799; engineer Stratford, Essex; invented steam engine
in which the cylinder and piston were replaced by flexible
steam bags, ran it on the road from Stratford to London Feb.
1831, built 10 similar machines up to 1840; associated with
Thomas Hancock in manufacture of india rubber 1841; author
of Narrative of twelve years experiments of steam carriages on
common roads 1838. d. West Ham, Essex 14 May 1852.
HANCOCK, William Neilson (2 son of Wm. John Hancock of
Lisburn, Antrim). b. Castle st. Lisburn 1820; ed. at Dungannon
and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843, LL.B. 1846, LLD. 1849;
barrister King’s inns 1844; Q.C. 1859; professor of political
economy at Trin. coll.; professor of political economy and
jurisprudence Queen’s coll. Belfast; founded Statistical and
social inquiry Soc. of Ireland 1847; sec. to Univ. of Dublin
commission, Irish railway commission and other commissions;
clerk of the Crown and Hanaper office, Dublin. d. at residence
of Sir Wm. Thomson, Glasgow 10 July 1888. bur. Mount
Jerome cemetery, Dublin 17 July.
HAND, George Sumner. b. 1807; entered navy 5 Feb. 1821,
captain 6 Sep. 1852, retired admiral 15 June 1879; C.B. 20
May 1859; F.R.G.S.; served in Ava 1825, West Indies 1829–31,
 on coast of Africa 1844–9. d. I. 4 The Albany, Piccadilly,
London 1 Dec. 1883.
HANDLEY, John. b. Stoke, Notts. 1807; a banker at Newark and
Sleaford as Handley, Peacock & Co.; M.P. for Newark 1857–65;
sheriff of Notts. 1869. d. North gate, Newark 8 Dec. 1880.
HANDYSIDE, Robert (son of William Handyside, writer to the
signet). b. Edinburgh 1798; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; advocate at
Scottish bar 1822; deputy of the lord advocate 1835; sheriff
depute of co. Stirling 9 July 1840; solicitor general for Scotland
17 Jany. 1853; a lord of session and justiciary with courtesy
title of Lord Handyside 15 Nov. 1853 to death. d. Kennet,
Edinburgh 18 April 1858. Journal of jurisprudence ii, 245
(1858).
HANHAM, Thomas Barnabas (youngest son of Rev. Sir James
Hanham, 7 baronet, d. 2 April 1849, m. Eliza Dean dau. of
William Patey, she d. Wimborne, Dorset 5 June 1877 aged 90).
b. 11 June 1825; sub-lieut. R.N. 6 Aug. 1845, lieut. 1847,
retired 1864, commander 30 April 1879; Provincial S.G.W. of
Dorset. d. Manston house, Blandford, Dorset 27 Nov. 1883,
cremated Manston 4 Dec. when a masonic ritual was used
which had not been employed in England during the century.
m. as his third wife 1 Dec. 1868 Edith Mary widow of major
John Swinburne 18 regt., she d. 30 July 1876.
Note.—He erected in the private grounds of Manston house a crematorium,
and having disinterred the remains of his third wife and his mother, had them
cremated there on the 8 and 9 Oct. 1882. These were the first cremations in
England in modern times. Times 12 Oct. 1882 p. 4, 5 Dec. 1883 p. 7, 6 Dec.
p. 7; Trans. Cremation Soc. 1885 p. 48 with view of the Crematorium.
HANKEY, Sir Frederick (3 son of John Hankey). Ensign 90 foot
Sep. 1800; major of 50 foot 1808, of 2 Ceylon regiment 1809,
of 15 foot 1815 to 25 March 1816 when placed on h.p.; sec. to
order of St. Michael and St. George 17 Nov. 1818 to 20 June
1833; col. in the army 27 Nov. 1825, retired Aug. 1826; sec. to
government of Malta 1825 to 1838; G.C.M.G. 4 May 1833 for
 his services in Malta, d. 7 Montagu sq. London 13 March 1855
aged 81.
HANKEY, Henry Aitchison (son of John Peter Hankey). b. 6 Oct.
1805; ensign 10 foot 26 June 1823; lieut. col. 1 dragoon
guards 19 Jany. 1844 to 12 Nov. 1852; col. of 3 hussars 12
Jany. 1866, of 1 dragoon guards 1 Jany. 1872 to death;
general 7 Dec. 1871. d. Cliff house, Sandgate 24 June 1886.
HANKEY, William Alers. b. London 15 Aug. 1771; ed. at univ. of
Edin.; head of the firm of Hankeys & Co. bankers, 7 Fenchurch
st. London; assisted in proceedings of Religious tract society
1801–1808; one of founders and conductors of British and
foreign Bible society 1804, treasurer 1801–32; A.I.C.E. 1820,
treasurer 1820–45; gave evidence on slavery before house of
commons 1833; author of Letters to Joseph Sturge relating to
the Arcadia estate in Jamaica 1838. d. 5 Hyde park gardens,
London 23 March 1859. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx, 134
(1861).
HANKINSON, Most Rev. Michael Adrian. b. Warrington 29 Sep.
1817; ordained priest at St. Edmund’s Benedictine college,
Douay 1841, sub-prior there to 1851, prior 1854–63; bishop of
Port Louis, Mauritius 1863 to death, during which time an
epidemic carried off one-sixth of the population in 3 years. d.
Douay 21 Sep. 1870. Gillow’s English Catholics (1888) iii, 111–
2.
HANKINSON, Ven. Robert Edwards. b. 1798; ed. at C.C. coll.
Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; R. of Halesworth, Suffolk 1850–
63; archdeacon of Norwich 1857 to death; R. of North Creake,
Norfolk 1863 to death; author of The Communion of believers,
a course of lectures 1838; The call of Abraham, a Seatonian
poem 1841. d. North Creake 27 March 1868 aged 70.
HANLON, Thomas, b. Manchester 1836; first appeared in public as
a gymnast at the Colosseum, Liverpool; organised with his 5
brothers gymnastic performances that have made them
 famous in Europe and America; performed in U.S. of America
1858–62 and 1865–6, in California, South America and Europe
1862–4; performed in London and at the Exposition in Paris
1867; committed suicide at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5 April
1868.
HANMER, John Hanmer, 1 Baron (1 child of Thomas Hanmer
1781–1818, lieut.-col. Flintshire militia). b. 22 Dec. 1809; ed.
at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded his grandfather as 3
baronet 1828; sheriff of Flintshire 1832; M.P. Shrewsbury
1832–37; M.P. Hull 1841–47; M.P. Flint district 1847–72; cr.
Baron Hanmer of Hanmer and of Flint 1 Oct. 1872; author of
Poems on various subjects 1836; Fra Cipolla and other poems
1839; Sonnets 1840; A memoir of the family and parish of
Hanmer 1877. d. Knotley hall, Kent 8 March 1881. St. Paul’s, x,
368–77 (1872); I.L.N. lxi, 340, 342 (1872), portrait.
HANMER, Henry (6 child of Sir Thomas Hanmer, d. 1828). b. 30
April 1789; cornet royal horse guards 6 Oct. 1808, major 1826
to 4 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Aylesbury 1832–36; sheriff of Bucks.
1854; K.H. 1837. d. Stockgrove near Leighton Buzzard 2 Feb.
1868.
HANN, James (son of a colliery smith). b. Washington, co.
Durham 1799; engineer in a Tyne towing vessel; kept schools
at Gateshead and at Friar’s Green near Newcastle; accountant
in office of Isaac Dodds, Gateshead; calculator in Nautical
almanac office; writing master King’s coll. sch. London and
then mathematical master there to death; A.I.C.E. 13 June
1843; author of Mathematics for practical men 1833; A short
treatise on the steam engine 1847; Examples on the integral
calculus 1850 and other works. d. King’s coll. hospital, London
17 Aug. 1856.
HANNA, Rev. Samuel, b. Kellswater near Ballymena, co. Antrim
1772; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.A. 1789, D.D. 1818; presbyterian
minister, Drumbo, co. Down 1795 and at Rosemary st. Belfast
1799 to death; professor of divinity and ch. history at
 Assembly’s coll. Belfast 1817; moderator of synod of Ulster
1809; first moderator of the general presbyterian assembly
1840; author of single sermons and pamphlets, d. at residence
of his son in law Rev. Dr. Denham, James st. Londonderry 23
April 1852. bur. Belfast 30 April, portrait in hall of Assembly’s
coll. Belfast. Belfast News Letter 26 April 1852 p. 2.
HANNA, Rev. William (son of preceding). b. Belfast 26 Nov. 1808;
ed. at Glasgow univ., LLD. 1852, and at Edin. univ., D.D. 1864;
presbyterian minister East Kilbride near Glasgow 1835 and at
Skirling, Peebleshire 1837–43; minister of Free ch. Skirling
1843–50; colleague of Rev. Thos. Guthrie in St. John’s Free ch.
Edin. 1850–66; ed. of North British Review; author of Memoirs
of the life and writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. 4 vols.
1849–52; The Posthumous works of Thomas Chalmers 9 vols.
1847; Last days of our Lord’s passion 1862 which circulated
50,000 copies, and many other works. d. 77 Coleshill st. Eaton
sq. London 24 May 1882. Guardian, May 1882 p. 760; Scott’s
Fasti, vol. i, pt. i, p. 229.
HANNAH, Rev. John (3 son of a small coal dealer). b. Lincoln 3
Nov. 1792; appointed Wesleyan Methodist minister 1814; went
to America as representative to the Conferences 1824 and
1856; theological tutor at theological training institutions at
Hoxton and Stoke Newington 1834–42; sec. of Conference
1840–2, 1854–8, president 1842 and 1851; theological tutor at
Didsbury, Yorkshire 1843 to death; author of Memoirs of Rev.
D. Stowe 1828; Documents relating to British and Canadian
conferences 1860 and other works. d. Didsbury 29 Dec 1867.
Introductory Lectures on Theology, By J. Hannah (1875) with
Memoir by W. B. Pope pp. 1–69; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors
(1876) 118–23; I.L.N. i, 200 (1842), portrait.
HANNAH, Ven. John (1 son of the preceding). b. Lincoln 16 July
1818; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox. 1837; Lincoln scholar of Corpus
Christi 1837–40, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, D.C.L. 1853; fellow of
Lincoln 1840–4; Bampton lecturer 1863; rector of Edinburgh
 academy 1847–52; warden of Trinity coll. Glenalmond, Perth
1854–70; V. of Brighton 1870 to Dec. 1887 which he divided
into 11 ecclesiastical districts; prebendary of Chichester 1874–
76; archdeacon of Lewes 1876 to death; editor of Poems and
psalms by H. King, bishop of Chichester 1843; Poems by Sir H.
Wotton and Sir W. Raleigh 1845, 2 ed. 1875; author of
Discourse on the fall and its result 1857 and other books. d.
Brighton vicarage 1 June 1888. Times 2 June 1888 p. 13, col.
6.
HANNAN, John. b. St. Giles’s, London 29 Sep. 1817; a pugilist
known as the Drury lane Irishman; beat Dan Dismore 6 June
1837, £25 a side; beaten by Tom Maley 30 Aug. 1838, £25 a
side; beat John Walker 1 Nov. 1838, £25 a side, beat him
again 2 April 1839 in 3 hours and 48 minutes, £50 a side;
beaten by Byng Stocks 11 June 1839, £25 a side; beat Dick
Forsey 14 April 1840, £25 a side; fought John Broome known
as Young Ducrow £500 a side at New park farm near Bicester
26 Jany. 1841 when Broome won after 47 rounds in 79
minutes, the amount fought for was the largest since Ward
and Cannon fought 1825. d. 7 King st. Soho, London 18 Oct.
1857. Henning’s Recollections of the prize ring (1888) 101–
111.
HANNAY, Rev. Alexander. b. Kirkcudbright 27 Feb. 1822; ed. at
Glasgow univ.; D.D. of Yale univ. 1881; congregational minister
Prince’s st. ch. Dundee 1846 to 1862; minister City road ch.
London 1862–6, at West Croydon 1866–70; sec. Colonial
missionary soc.; sec. Congregational union of England and
Wales 10 May 1870 to death; author of The claims of the
temperance movement on the churches 1868; How is England
to be saved? An appeal to young men 1877. d. Lincluden,
Sunnyside road, Hornsey Rise 12 Nov. 1890. I.L.N. 29 Nov.
1890 p. 678, portrait.
HANNAY, James (1 son of David Hannay 1794–1864, banker,
author of Ned Allen). b. Dumfries 17 Feb. 1827; midshipman
 R.N. 1840–45; reporter on Morning Chronicle 1846;
contributed to Pasquin a comic paper 1847; contested
Dumfries burghs May 1857; editor of Edinburgh Evening
Courant 1860–64; consul at Barcelona 13 July 1868 to death;
author of King Dobbs, Sketches in Ultramarine 1849;
Blackwood v. Carlyle: a vindication, by a Carlylian 1850;
Singleton Fontenoy, R.N. 3 vols. 1850; Satires and satirists: six
lectures 1854; Sand and shells 1854 which contains notices of
his naval career; Eustace Conyers 3 vols. 1855; Three hundred
years of a Norman house, the barons of Gournay 1867; Studies
on Thackeray 1869. d. Putchet, Barcelona 9 Jany. 1873.
Temple Bar, xxxviii, 89–94 (1873), xlix, 234–47 (1877); The
Critic xvii, 629 (1858), portrait.
Note.—He is described under the name of Eglinton Conyers in The Club and
the Drawing Room by Cecil Hay 2 vols. 1870.
HANNAY, Robert (son of James Hannay of Kirkcudbright). b.
Lock-Bank, Castle-Douglas 1789; ed. at gram. sch. Annan and
at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1812; member of Speculative soc.;
advocate in Scotland 1814; visited libraries of the Vatican and
Stockholm; gave evidence on British museum before house of
commons 1836; author of Address to Lord Hope on collecting
and reporting decisions 1821; Defence of the usury laws 1823;
History of the representation of England, drawn from records
1831. d. Kew, Surrey 2 Feb. 1868. Journal of Jurisprudence,
xii, 218 (1869); Rep. on British Museum (1836) 418–26.
HANNINGTON, Right Rev. James (3 son of Charles Smith
Hannington, warehouseman). b. Hurstpierpoint near Brighton
3 Sep. 1847; ed. at St. Mary hall, Ox., B.A. 1873, M.A. 1875,
D.C.L. 1884; C. of Martinhoe and Trentishoe, Devon 1874–75;
C. of St. George’s, Hurstpierpoint 1875–82, 1883; missionary in
Central Africa 1882–3; bishop of Eastern equatorial Africa,
consecrated at Lambeth 24 June 1884; author of Peril and
adventure in Central Africa 1886; headed an expedition to the
Lake Victoria Nyanza 23 July 1885, murdered by order of
 Mwanga king of U-Ganda 29 Oct. 1885. E. C. Dawson’s James
Hannington (1887), portrait.
HANOVER, Ernest Augustus, King of (5 son of George III.) b. Kew
6 June 1771; ed. at Univ. of Gottingen 1786–90; K.G. 2 June
1786, installed 28 May 1801; commanded first brigade of
Hanoverian cavalry 1794, lost his left eye in battle of Tournay
10 May 1794; created Earl of Armagh and Duke of Cumberland
and Teviotdale 24 April 1799; badly wounded in his apartments
St. James’s palace, London 31 May 1810 by his Italian valet
Sellis who then cut his own throat; col. of 15 hussars 28 March
1801, of royal horse guards 22 Jany. 1827 to Nov. 1830; field
marshal 26 Nov. 1813; served in campaigns of 1813–14;
G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; G.C.H 12 Aug. 1815; K.P. 20 Aug. 1821;
king of Hanover 20 June 1837, immediately revoked the
constitution, granted a new constitution 1840. d.
Herrenhausen palace, Hanover 18 Nov. 1851. C. A. Wilkinson’s
Court of King Ernest 2 vols. (1886), portrait; Jesse’s Memoirs
of life of George III. (1867) iii, 541–6; Sir N. H. Nicolas’s
Orders of knighthood, iv, (1842), portrait; I.L.N. ii, 410 (1843),
portrait; Annual Register (1833) 90–96.
HANOVER, George Frederick Alexander Charles Ernest Augustus,
King of (only son of preceding). b. Berlin 27 May 1819; G.C.H.
1830; at cricket match at Windsor struck himself in eye while
swinging round a long purse and blinded himself 1833; K.G. 15
Aug. 1835; lost sight of his other eye by Dr. Karl Gräfe of Berlin
cutting through the optic nerve while operating June 1840;
succeeded his father as Duke of Cumberland and King of
Hanover 18 Nov. 1851, revoked constitution 1855; took part
with Austria in Seven Weeks war 1866, Hanover incorporated
with Prussia by royal decree 20 Sep. 1866; general in British
army 27 May 1876; visited England 16 May to 17 June 1876. d.
Rue de Presbourg, Paris 12 June 1878. bur. St. George’s
chapel, Windsor 25 June. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, viii,
657–70 (1878); Almanac de Gotha (1853), portrait;
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