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bequest for foundation and endowment of professorships of
science at Owen’s college Manchester. d. Llantysilio hall,
Denbighshire 2 June 1876. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xlvii, 290–97 (1877).
BIANCONI, Carlo (2 son of Pietro Bianconi of Tregolo, Lombardy,
farmer who d. 1833). b. Tregolo 24 Sep. 1786; went to Ireland
as a picture seller 1802; opened a carver and gilder’s shop at
Carrick-on-Suir 1806, removed to Waterford and then to
Clonmel; started a one-horse two-wheeled car for conveyance
of passengers from Clonmel to Cahir 6 July 1815; started cars
all over Ireland where they were known as “Bians”; in 1864 his
passenger traffic realised £27,700 and his mail contracts
£12,000; gave up his shop at Clonmel 1826 and his car
business 1865; received letters of Naturalisation from Irish
Privy Council 31 Aug. 1831; mayor of Clonmel 1844–46;
purchased Longfield, Tipperary for £22,000 23 March 1846,
where he lived 16 Sep. 1846 to death; D.L. for Tipperary June
1863. (m. 14 Feb. 1827 Eliza, dau. of Patrick Hayes of Dublin,
stockbroker). d. Longfield 22 Sep. 1875. Charles Bianconi, a
biography 1786–1875 by his daughter Mrs. Morgan John
O’Connell 1878, portrait; Dublin univ. mag. lxxxv 16–24
(1875), portrait.
BIBBY, Thomas. b. Kilkenny 1799; ed. at Kilkenny gr. sch. and
Trin. coll. Dublin scholar 1814, B.A. 1816; one of the best
Greek scholars of his day; author of two dramatic poems,
Gerald of Kildare 1854 and a sequel to it called Silken Thomas
1859; confined by his relations in a private lunatic asylum in
Dublin but released by his literary friends. d. St. Canice’s Steps,
Kilkenny 7 Jany. 1863.
BIBER, Rev. George Edward. b. Ludwigsburg, Würtemberg 4 Sep.
1801; ed. at Univs. of Tubingen and Gottingen; Ph. Doc.
Tubingen 1839; LLD. Gottingen 1839; settled in England 1826;
head of a classical school at Hampstead, afterwards at Coombe
 Wood; naturalised by private act of parliament 2 and 3 Vict.,
cap. 51 June 1839; ordained to curacy of Ham, Surrey July
1839; V. of Roehampton, Surrey 1842–72; R. of West Allington
Lincs. 1872 to death; edited John Bull weekly paper 1848–56;
author of Henry Pestalozzi and his plan of education 1831; The
Standard of Catholicity 1840, 2 ed. 1844; Vindication of the
Church 1844; The life of St. Paul 1849; Bishop Blomfield and
his times 1857. d. West Allington 19 Jany. 1874.
BICHENO, James Ebenezer (son of Rev. James Bicheno of Newbury,
Berks, baptist minister who d. 9 April 1831 aged 80). b.
Newbury 1785; F.L.S. 7 April 1812, secretary 1825–32;
barrister M.T. 17 May 1822; comr. to inquire into expediency of
introducing Poor Law into Ireland 1833–36; colonial sec. in Van
Diemen’s Land Sep. 1842 to death, arrived out there 10 April
1843; a founder of Royal Society of Van Diemen’s Land 1844;
author of An inquiry into the nature of benevolence 1817;
Observations on the philosophy of criminal jurisprudence 1819;
Ireland and its economy 1830. d. Hobart Town 25 Feb. 1851.
Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii, 180 (1855).
BICKERS, Henry. b. near Leicester square, London; bookseller in
Noel st. Soho, in Leicester square 1833 to death; partner with
H. J. Bush 1847–63; published many standard works 1863 to
death. d. 83 Cumberland road, London 6 Aug. 1875 aged 69.
BICKERS, Henry (son of the preceding). Head of firm of Bickers
and Son, publishers Leicester square, London 1875 to death.
d. Dulwich 1 Dec. 1884 aged 49. His copyrights were sold at
Hodgson’s Chancery lane for £8,500 March 1885.
BICKERSTETH, Robert (youngest son of Henry Bickersteth of
Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland, surgeon). b. Kirkby Lonsdale
1787; M.R.C.S. 1806, F.R.C.S. 1843; practised at Liverpool
1807 to death; surgeon to Liverpool infirmary 1810–50. d. 2
Rodney st. Liverpool 17 April 1857. Lancet i, 441 (1857).
BICKERSTETH, Right Rev. Robert (4 son of Rev. John Bickersteth,
R. of Sapcote. co. Leicester who d. 2 Sep. 1855 aged 74). b.
Acton, Suffolk 24 Aug. 1816; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A.
1841, M.A. 1848, D.D. 1857; ordained deacon 1841, priest
1842; C. of Sapcote 1841–43; C. of St. Giles’s Reading 1843–
45; Inc. of St. John’s church Clapham 1845–51; R. of St. Giles’s
in the Fields, London 1851–56; canon residentiary of Salisbury
April 1854–56; bishop of Ripon 30 Nov. 1856 to death,
consecrated in Ripon Minster 18 June 1857; pres. of Church
Congress at Leeds 8 Oct. 1872; edited The weekly visitor
1851; author of Bible landmarks 1850; Means of grace 1851
and many charges and sermons. d. the palace Ripon 15 April
1884. bur. in south end of Cathedral churchyard 19 April. Our
bishops and deans by Rev. F. Arnold ii, 103–16 (1875);
Orthodox London by Rev. C. M. Davies, 2 series (1875) 135–
42, 394–95; Illust. news of the world iii, (1859), portrait; I.L.N.
xxx, 43 (1857), portrait, lxxxiv, 401 (1881), portrait; Graphic
xxix, 400 (1884), portrait.
BICKERTON, Thomas. Educ. at Andersonian Univ. of Glasgow;
L.R.C.S. Edin. 1851, L.S.A. 1851; house surgeon to Warrington
dispensary; surgeon to the Emigration service; practised at
Liverpool 1854 to death; surgeon to the Eye and Ear infirmary;
consulting surgeon to London and North Western railway
company; a skilful operator in ophthalmic surgery. d. Mount
Pleasant, Liverpool 13 April 1872 aged 45. British Medical
journal i, 459 (1872).
BICKMORE, Rev. Charles. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840, M.A.
1843; ad eund. Ox. 1853; Incorp. at Trin. coll. Ox. 1857, B.D.
and D.D. 1857; C. of Bebbington, Cheshire 1840–43; asst. Min.
at Temple Church Balsall, Warwick 1848–54; Min. of Christ
Church Leamington 1856–70; author of A course of historical
and chronological instruction; A series of questions and
answers on Dr. Smith’s History of Greece. d. Highlands,
Leamington 12 May 1880 aged 73.
BICKNELL, Elhanan (son of Wm. Bicknell of London, serge
manufacturer who d. 21 Nov. 1825 aged 77). b. Blackman st.
London 21 Dec. 1788; joined a firm at Newington Butts
engaged in the sperm whale fishery 1809 retired from business
1859; lived at Herne hill, Surrey 1819 to death where he
formed a splendid collection of pictures by Gainsborough,
Turner, Roberts and other modern British painters, this
collection was sold at Christie’s 25–29 April 1863 for sum of
£74,380. d. Herne hill 27 Nov. 1861. Waagen’s Treasures of art
ii, 349–54 (1854).
BICKNELL, Henry Edgeworth (younger son of John Bicknell of
Lincoln’s Inn, barrister). b. 1787; ed. at Greenwich; clerk to the
registrars of high court of Chancery June 1809; senior registrar
to 11 July 1859 when he retired on a superannuation
allowance of £2,250; served under 14 Lord Chancellors. d. 28
Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 20 Feb. 1879 in 92
year.
BICKNELL, Herman (3 son of Elhanan Bicknell 1788–1861). b.
Herne hill 2 April 1830; ed. at Paris, Hanover, Univ. coll.
London and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1854;
assistant surgeon of 81 Foot 16 May 1855 and of 84 Foot 15
Feb. 1861; served during Indian mutiny; explored parts of
Java, Thibet and the Himalayas; went to Cairo 1862; joined the
annual pilgrimage to the shrine of Mohammed at Mecca May
1862, a dangerous exploit which no other Englishman had
achieved without disguise of person or nationality; climbed
nearly all the chief mountains in Switzerland; travelled over
nearly the whole globe; author of Hafiz of Shiraz, selections
from his poems translated from the Persian by H. Bicknell
1875. d. 48 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 14 March 1875.
bur. at Ramsgate. H. Bicknell’s Hafiz of Shiraz (1875) ix-xii,
365–68.
BIDDER, George Parker (son of Mr. Bidder of Moreton
Hampstead, Devon, stonemason). b. Moreton Hampstead 14
 June 1806; was exhibited about England as the ‘calculating
phenomenon’; ed. at Camberwell gr. sch. 1818–19 and Univ. of
Edin. 1819–24; engaged on the ordnance survey 1824–25; civil
engineer in London 1825–77; A.I.C.E. 1825, M.I.C.E. 1837,
member of council 1847 to death, vice pres. 1854, pres. 1860
and 1861; a founder of Electric Telegraph company 1846;
constructed Victoria docks. London 100 acres for less than
£870,000 in 1853; engineer of Royal Danish railway opened
1855; originator of railway swing bridge, the first of which was
erected at Reedham in Norfolk; lieut. col. commandant of
Engineer and railway volunteer staff corps 1865. d.
Ravensbury, Dartmouth 20 Sep. 1878. I.L.N. xxviii, 267–68
(1856), portrait; Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xv, 251–80
(1856), lvii, 294–309 (1879), his contributions to these
proceedings embrace the whole range of engineering and
require no less than 16 columns of the general indexes for
citation.
BIDDER, Samuel Parker. b. 10 Nov. 1843; assistant manager to
Victoria Docks graving company; took out 2 patents for
apparatus for breaking down coal, shale, stone and other
minerals 1868; took out a patent for safety lamps 1869, which
have come into very general use in South Wales; A.I.C.E. 1
Dec. 1868. d. Southsea 10 Jany. 1878.
BIDDLE, Richard Junius (3 son of Richard Biddle, of Wooton
under Edge, co. Gloucester). b. 9 Nov. 1832; a marine artist;
exhibited 6 sea pieces at Suffolk st. exhibition, and Royal
Academy 1877–80. d. 30 Nov. 1882.
BIDDLECOMBE, Sir George (son of Thomas Biddlecombe of
Sheerness dockyard, who d. 12 Sep. 1844). b. Portsea 5 Nov.
1807; officer in H.E.I. Co’s. navy 1825–28; second master R.N.
May 1828; master of 6 different ships 1836–50; master of the
Baltic fleet on board Duke of Wellington 14 March to 27 Dec.
1854; assistant master attendant in Keyham yard, Devonport
26 Feb. 1855 to 5 Nov. 1864; master attendant of Woolwich
 yard 5 Nov. 1864 to Jany. 1868; C.B. 13 March 1867; staff
captain 1 July 1867; knighted at Windsor Castle 26 June 1873;
granted a Greenwich hospital pension 29 May 1874; author of
Art of rigging 1848; Remarks on the English Channel 1850, 6
ed. 1863; Naval tactics and trials of sailing 1850; Steam fleet
tactics 5 Nov. 1857. d. 68 Granville park, Lewisham 22 July
1878. Autobiography of Sir George Biddlecombe 1878.
BIDDULPH, Edward. Second lieutenant Bengal artillery 1806;
lieut. col. 6 Dec. 1839 to 6 Oct. 1846; C.B. 22 May 1843. d.
Fitzroy terrace, Regent’s park, London 3 Dec. 1858 aged 70.
BIDDULPH, Robert. b. 1801; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll.
Ox.; M.P. for city of Hereford 12 Dec. 1832 to 17 July 1837;
sheriff of Hereford 1857. d. 31 Eaton place, London 28 Feb.
1864.
BIDDULPH, Robert Myddelton. b. Manchester sq. London 20 June
1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Denbigh 1830–32,
for Denbighshire 1832–34 and 1852–68; colonel of Denbigh
militia 3 March 1840 to death; lord lieut. of Denbighshire 1841
to death; aide-de-camp to the Queen 1869 to death, d. 35
Grosvenor place, London 21 March 1872.
BIDDULPH, Samuel. b. Hyson Green near Nottingham 23 Dec.
1840; a lace maker; professional cricketer; a good batsman
and bowler and a first-rate wicket keeper; employed by the
Marylebone Club at Lord’s cricket ground, London 1863 to
death, d. Mornington st. Nottingham 7 March 1876.
BIDDULPH, Sir Theophilus, 6 Baronet. b. East Barnet, Herts 25
March 1785; succeeded 30 July 1841; sheriff of Warwickshire
1849. d. Birdingbury hall, Rugby 15 July 1854.
BIDDULPH, Sir Theophilus William, 7 Baronet. b. Nursling, Hants
18 Jany. 1830; succeeded 15 July 1854. d. Mentone 1 March
1883.
BIDDULPH, Sir Thomas Myddelton (2 son of Robert Biddulph of
Ledbury, Herefordshire who assumed name of Myddelton and
 d. 1843). b. 29 July 1809; ed. at Eton; cornet 1 Life Guards 7
Oct. 1826; captain 16 May 1834 to 31 Oct. 1851 when placed
on h.p.; Master of the Queen’s household 16 July 1851 to 3
March 1866 and 16 July 1878 to death; one of joint keepers of
Queen’s privy purse 3 March 1866, sole keeper 30 April 1867;
receiver general of Duchy of Cornwall 31 March 1866; general
1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 27 March 1863; P.C. 22 Dec. 1877. d.
Abergeldie Mains near Balmoral 28 Sep. 1878. bur. churchyard
of Clewer near Windsor 7 Oct. Queen Victoria’s More leaves
from the journal of a life in the Highlands (1884) 375–78;
Graphic xviii, 392 (1878), portrait.
BIDWELL, John. Superintendent of consular department in
Foreign Office 15 Jany. 1826 to 30 Sep. 1851 when he retired
on pension. d. Park place, St. James’s st. London 31 Oct. 1853
aged 70.
BIDWELL, John Carne (eld. child of Joseph Bidwell of Exeter,
merchant). b. Exeter 1815; a merchant at Sydney N.S.W.
1838; made an exploring voyage to New Zealand 1839; comr.
of crown lands and chairman of bench of magistrates for
district of Wide Bay N.S.W.; discovered the Bunya Bunya tree
(afterwards-named after him Araucaria Bidwelli) and the
Nymphæa gigantea; author of Rambles in New Zealand 1841.
d. Tinana, Maryborough, Australia March 1853.
BIGG, Henry Heather (son of Mr. Bigg of London, surgical
instrument maker). b. Dean st. Southwark 23 July 1826;
studied at St. George’s hospital; a surgical instrument maker in
London; made the substitutes for lost limbs of our soldiers
wounded in Crimean war; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1862; author of On
artificial limbs 1855; Orthopraxy the mechanical treatment of
deformities 1865, 3 ed. 1877; The gentle treatment of spinal
curvature 1875. d. 56 Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 30
April 1881. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxviii, 317–20 (1882).
BIGG, John Stanyan. b. Ulverston, Lancashire 14 July 1828; editor
of the Ulverston Advertiser 1848 to about 1854 and 1860 to
 death, and proprietor 1863 to death; editor of the Downshire
Protestant about 1854–60; author of The sea King, a metrical
romance in 6 cantos 1848; Night and the Soul, a dramatic
poem 1854; Alfred Staunton, a novel 1860; Shifting scenes
and other poems 1862. d. 7 Hoad terrace, Ulverston 19 May
1865. Ulverston Advertiser 25 May 1865 p. 4, col. 5.
BIGGAR, William. Editor and proprietor of The railway times
weekly paper. d. Thorpe banks, Willow vale, Shepherd’s Bush
27 Dec. 1872 in 64 year.
BIGGE, Arthur (7 son of Charles Wm. Bigge of Linden,
Northumberland). b. 18 May 1818; ed. at Rugby and Univ. coll.
Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; fellow of All Soul’s college, bursar
1848–58; barrister I.T. 7 June 1844; stipendiary magistrate for
Brighton (the first) 3 Feb. 1855 to 3 May 1884; started the
plan of presenting to the deserving aged poor of Brighton on
St. Thomas’s day annually sum of 10/- each. d. 23 Cambridge
road Hove, Brighton 28 Aug. 1885.
BIGGE, Rev. John Frederic. Educ. at Univ. coll. Durham, B.A.
1840, M.A. 1843; V. of Ovingham 1841–47; V. of Stamfordham
1847 to death; author of many articles in Transactions of
Tyneside Naturalists field club. d. Newcastle 28 Feb. 1885 in 71
year.
BIGGS, James. b. Canterbury; bookseller at 18 Strand, London,
removed to 421 Strand; started 13 May 1843 The Family
Herald or useful information and amusement for the million in
weekly numbers and monthly parts, this paper in a few years
attained a circulation of 260,000 copies per week; founded
Biggs’s Charity 1863 for granting pensions of £10 a year to
printers and their widows over 55 years of age. d. 421 Strand,
London 22 May 1859 aged 64, leaving nearly £50,000 in
legacies to about 300 charities and individuals.
BIGGS, John. b. Leicester 1801; manufacturer at Leicester;
mayor 1840, 1847 and 1855; M.P. for Leicester 1856–1862;
 took out a patent for lacemaking 1844. d. Leicester 4 June
1871.
BIGGS, William. b. Leicester 1805; mayor of Leicester 1842 and
1849; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 9 July 1852 to 21 March
1857. d. Upper Parliament st. Liverpool 3 Oct. 1881 in 77 year.
BIGLAND, Wilson Braddyll. b. Bigland hall, Holker, Lancashire 20
July 1788; entered navy 21 Oct. 1801; captain 6 March 1821;
retired V.A. 2 Oct. 1857; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836. d. Lansdowne
place, Leamington 19 Nov. 1858.
BIGNOLD, Sir Samuel (youngest son of Thomas Bignold of
Norwich, banker). b. Norwich 13 Oct. 1791; secretary of
Norwich Union Fire insurance company 1814 and of Norwich
Union Life insurance company 1818; sheriff of Norwich 1830
and mayor 1833, 1848, 1853 and 1873; knighted by the
Queen at St. James’s Palace 3 May 1854; M.P. for Norwich
1854–1857. (m. 1815 Elizabeth only child of Wm. Atkins of
Ridlington, Norfolk, she d. 30 March 1860). d. Surrey st.
Norwich 2 Jany. 1875. I.L.N. lx, 181, 189 (1872), portrait.
BIGSBY, John Jeremiah (eld. son of John Bigsby of Nottingham,
physician 1760–1844). b. Nottingham; baptised at St. Peter’s
church 14 Aug. 1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1814;
assistant surgeon in the army 14 March 1816; physician at
Newark 1827–46; lived in London 1846 to death; F.G.S. 1823,
Murchison medallist 1874, founded Bigsby gold medal 1877;
F.R.G.S. 1850; F.R.S. 3 June 1869; author of The shoe and
canoe, or pictures of travel in the Canadas 2 vols. 1850;
Thesaurus Siluricus the flora and fauna of the Silurian period
1868; Thesaurus Devonico-Carboniferus the flora and fauna of
the Devonian and Carboniferous periods 1878. d. 89
Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 10 Feb. 1881. Quarterly
Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvii, 39–41 (1881).
BIGSBY, Robert (only son of Robert Bigsby 1764–1825, registrar
of archdeaconry of Nottingham). b. Castle gate, Nottingham 11
 April 1806; ed. at Repton school; a virtuoso or collector of
relics and memorials of illustrious characters; author of The
triumph of Drake, a poem 1839; Miscellaneous poems and
essays 1842; Visions of the times of old, or the antiquarian
enthusiast 3 vols. 1848; Ombo, a dramatic romance in 12 acts
1853; Historical and topographical description of Repton 1854;
Irminsula, or the great pillar, a mythological research 1864;
Memoir of the order of St. John of Jerusalem 1869 and 10
other books; granted civil list pension of £100 16 Jany. 1860;
member of order of St. John of Jerusalem; F.S.A., F.R.S.; a
knight of St. James of Portugal. d. 4 Beaufort terrace, Peckham
Rye, London 27 Sep. 1873. The Freemason 18 Oct. 1873 p.
677.
BILBY, Thomas. b. Southampton 1794; musical composer; best
known as composer of the hymn tune called “Joyful.” d.
Islington, London 24 Sep. 1872.
BILLER, George. b. 20 Nov. 1811; solicitor in London; wrote
many letters to The Church Advocate and other papers on
Priestly Absolution; author of Rhymes, reasons and
recollections from the common-place books of a Sexagenarian
1876; A few suggestions on Prayer book reform 1878. d. 43
Agate road, Hammersmith 24 April 1885.
BILLING, Archibald (son of Theodore Billing of Cromlyn, co.
Dublin). b. Cromlyn 10 Jany. 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A.
1811, M.B. 1814, M.A. and M.D. 1818; incorporated M.D. at
Oxford 22 Oct. 1818; physician in London 1818 to death;
F.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1819, Censor 1823, Consiliarius 1852 and
1855–57; the first in London to organise a system of practical
teaching at the bedside and to give it full effect by regular
clinical lectures; physician to London Hospital 2 July 1822 to 4
June 1845; member of senate of Univ. of London 1836 to
death; F.R.S. 6 June 1844; author of First principles of
medicine 1831, 6 ed. 1868; On the treatment of Asiatic cholera
1848; Practical observations on diseases of the lungs and heart
 1852; The science of gems, jewels, coins and medals 1867. d.
34 Park lane, London 2 Sep. 1881. Medical Circular i, 243–45
(1852), portrait; I.L.N. lxxix, 272 (1881), portrait; Graphic xxiv,
389 (1881), portrait.
BILLING, Richard Annesley. b. 1814; called to bar in Ireland Nov.
1839; practised at Dublin; admitted to bar at Melbourne 23
Oct. 1856; lecturer in law at Melbourne Univ.; Q.C. 1878;
county court judge for western division of Victoria April 1882 to
death. d. Melbourne 21 June 1882.
BILLINGE, Mary (dau. of Charles Billinge of Eccleston near
Prescot). b. Eccleston 6 Nov. 1772. d. Edge lane, Liverpool 20
Dec. 1863 aged 91, but generally reputed to be 112 and so
recorded in the 26th report of the Registrar General. W. J.
Thoms’s Human longevity (1873) 34–37, 105–13.
BILLINGS, Elkanah (2 son of Bradish Billings, of Gloucester near
Ottawa, then called Bytown, farmer). b. Gloucester 5 May
1820; ed. at Ottawa and Potsdam in state of New York;
admitted attorney at Toronto 1844; called to bar at Toronto
1845; practised at Ottawa 1845–48, and at Renfrew 1849–52;
edited the Citizen paper at Ottawa 1852–55; palæontologist to
Geological survey of Canada at Montreal 1 Aug. 1856 to death;
visited Europe 1858; F.G.S. April 1858; published the Canadian
Naturalist Feb. 1856, edited the first vol. and wrote 55 out of
the 63 papers in it; contributed to Silliman’s Journal; presented
his fine collection of Star fishes, Cystideans and Crinoids to
museum of Geological survey of Canada. d. Montreal 14 June
1876. Canadian Naturalist viii, 251–61 (1878); Quarterly
journal of Geol. Soc. xxxiii, 48–50 (1877).
BILLINGS, Robert William. b. London 1813; pupil of John Britton,
topographical draughtsman 1813–20; illustrated Godwin’s
History of St. Paul’s Cathedral 1837; Illustrations of the Temple
Church, London, 1838; Baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of
Scotland 240 illustrations 4 vols. 1845–52; restored the chapel
of Edinburgh Castle; built Castle Wemyss, Renfrewshire. d. The
Moulinère, Putney, Surrey 14 Nov. 1874. Builder xxxii, 982,
1035 (1874).
BILLINGTON, William (son of a contractor for road making). b.
the Yew Trees, Samlesbury near Blackburn 1827; worked in
cotton mills at Blackburn 1839; a beerseller at Blackburn;
wrote a ballad called Th’ Shurat Weyvur 14,000 copies of
which were sold at time of Lancashire cotton famine; author of
Sheen and shade 1861; Lancashire poems with other sketches
1883, some copies of which have a portrait of him. d. 2
Bradshaw st. Blackburn 3 Jany. 1884 aged 56.
BINDLEY, Charles. b. 1796; author of following books all written
under pseudonym of Harry Hieover; Stable talk and table talk,
2 vols. 1845–46, portrait; The pocket and the stud 1848,
portrait; The stud for practical purposes and practical men
1849; Practical horsemanship 1850; The hunting field 1850;
Bipeds and quadrupeds 1853; Sporting facts and sporting
fancies 1853; The world how to square it 1854; Hints to
horsemen 1856; Precept and practice 1857; The sportsman’s
friend in a frost 1857; The sporting world 1858 and Things
worth knowing about horses 1859. d. at house of Sir Thomas
Barrett-Lennard, 7 Lewes crescent, Brighton 12 Feb. 1859.
BINDON, Samuel Henry. b. Ireland 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1835; called to Irish bar Nov. 1838; practised at Dublin;
went out to Victoria 1855; called to bar at Melbourne 22 May
1855; member of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864–69;
minister of justice 1866–1869; county court judge at Sale,
Victoria 1869 to death except a short time, during which the
Berry ministry took all the judges of county courts off the
 bench, the day when this was done 9 Jany. 1878 was known
as Black Wednesday; had a prominent share in establishment
of technological classes in large places. d. Melbourne 1 Aug.
1879 in 67 year.
BINFIELD, John Bilson (son of Mr. Binfield of Reading, organist
who d. 1839). b. Reading 1805; organist of St. Giles’s church
Reading many years; author of The choral service of the
Church 1846; editor and compiler of The Reading psalmody
1847; set Dean Milman’s Martyr of Antioch to music. d. Devizes
28 June 1875.
BINGE, John Bull (son of a Sheffield cutler). First appeared in
London May 1839 at Strand theatre in Lee’s adaptation of
Auber’s opera The fairy lake; sang at Covent Garden theatre
1840–42; known as The singing mouse from his small voice;
kept a toyshop in the Lowther Arcade; sec. to Covent Garden
theatrical fund 1869 to death. d. New Malden, Surrey 21 Nov.
1878 aged about 63.
BINGHAM, Charles. b. 1 June 1815; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 June 1832;
brigade major at Woolwich 1849–54; deputy adjutant general
to R.A. 1 April 1858 to death; colonel R.A. 20 Jany. 1863 to
death. (m. 13 March 1841 Williamina Henrietta dau. of John
Mackintosh, M.D. of Edinburgh, she was granted a civil list
pension of £150, 19 June 1865). d. Brighton 6 April 1864.
BINGHAM, Rev. Charles William (youngest son of Rev. Wm.
Bingham 1771–1810, R. of Cameley, Somerset). b. 28 Sep.
1810; ed. at New coll. Ox., fellow, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; V. of
Sydling St. Nicholas Dorset 1838–46; R. of Melcombe Horsey,
Dorset 23 Feb. 1842 to death; preb. of Salisbury 1876 to
death; author of Commentaries on the four last books of the
Pentateuch translated from the Latin of John Calvin 4 vols.
1852–55; a frequent contributor to Notes and Queries 1850 to
death. d. Bingham’s Melcombe 1 Dec. 1881.
BINGHAM, Henry. Second lieut. 60 Rifles 30 April 1827, lieut. col.
19 June 1857 to 1865; inspecting field officer 1865–70; M.G. 6
March 1868. d. Wolverton house, co. Dublin 1 Oct. 1878.
BINGHAM, Peregrine (elder son of Rev. Peregrine Bingham 1754–
1826, R. of Edmundesham, Dorset). b. 1788; ed. at
Winchester and Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810; barrister M.T. 27
Nov. 1818; recorder of Southampton 5 Nov. 1830 to July 1840;
contested Southampton 9 Jany. 1835; police magistrate at
Worship st. London 1841, at Great Marlborough st. 1846–60;
lived at 35 Gordon square, London 1842 to death; author of
The law and practice of judgments and executions 1815; The
law of infancy and coverture 1816; A system of shorthand
1821; Reports of cases in Court of Common Pleas and other
courts 10 vols. 1824–34; New cases in the Court of Common
Pleas and other courts 6 vols. 1835–41; one of chief
contributors to Westminster Review, wrote 5 articles in the first
number Jany. 1824. d. 35 Gordon sq. London 1 Nov. 1864.
BINGHAM, Rev. Richard (son of Rev. Isaac Moody Bingham, R. of
Runwell, Essex who d. 1807). b. 1 April 1765; ed. at
Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow, B.A. 1787, B.C.L. 1801;
P.C. of Trinity church, Gosport 1790 to death; V. of Great Hale,
Lincs. 1796 to death; preb. of Chichester cathedral 22 July
1807 to death; sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in county
gaol at Winchester 26 Nov. 1813 for having illegally obtained a
license for a public house when no such house was in
existence; published by subscription third ed. of Joseph
Bingham’s Origines Ecclesiasticæ 1829. d. Newhouse, Gosport
18 July 1858. Proceedings in a trial, the King against Rev.
Richard Bingham 1814.
BINGHAM, Rev. Richard (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1798; ed.
at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; C. of Trinity church,
Gosport 1821–43; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Harwood, Bolton 1844–52; C.
of St. Mary’s Marylebone 1853–56; P.C. of Queenborough, Kent
1856–70; edited The works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham 10
 vols., Clarendon Press Oxford 1855; author of Liturgia Recusa
or suggestions for revising the services of the United church of
England and Ireland 1860; Liturgiæ recusæ exemplar, The
Prayer book as it might be 1863; The Gospel according to
Isaiah 1870; Hymnologia Christiana Latina 1871. d. Sutton,
Surrey 22 Jany. 1872.
BINGHAM, Richard Camden. b. 2 May 1801; chargé d´affaires at
Venezuela 23 Nov. 1852 to 31 Aug. 1858. d. 23 Jany. 1872.
BINNEY, Edward William. b. Morton, Notts. 1812; solicitor at
Manchester 1836; conducted the case for the Claimant in the
great Chadwick law suit Nov. 1847; a paraffin oil manufacturer
in Scotland; chief founder and sec. of Manchester geological
society Oct. 1838, pres. 1857–59 and 1865–67, contributed 33
papers to the Transactions 1839–72; member of Manchester
literary and philosophical society Jan. 1842, president to death;
F.G.S. 1853, F.R.S. 5 June 1856; possessed the most exact
knowledge of coal fields of Lancashire and Cheshire and of the
geology of the whole district. d. Cheetham hill, Manchester 19
Dec. 1881. Trans. of Geol. Soc. of Manchester xvi, 256–59
(1882); Proc. of Manchester Lit. and Philos. Soc. xxi, 142–48
(1882).
BINNEY, Rev. Thomas. b. Newcastle-on-Tyne April 1798;
apprenticed to Mr. Angas of Newcastle, bookseller 1813–20;
ed. at Wymondley college Herts 1820–23; minister of the New
meeting, Bedford 1823; minister of St. James’s st. chapel
Newport, Isle of Wight Aug. 1824 to July 1829; ordained 29
Dec. 1824; minister of King’s Weighhouse Chapel Eastcheap,
London July 1829 to 4 July 1869, where foundation stone of
new chapel was laid 16 Oct. 1833; went to the United States
and Canada 1845 and to Australia 1857; LLD. Univ. of
Aberdeen 1852; chairman of Congregational Union of England
and Wales 1848; founded the Colonial Missionary Society
1836; author of Illustrations of the practical power of faith
1830, 3 ed. 1856; Conscientious clerical nonconformity 1839, 5
 ed. 1860; Is it possible to make the best of both worlds, a
book for young men 1853, this book sold at the rate of 100 a
day for many months, it was translated into several languages;
St. Paul his life and ministry 1866; author of three Letters
under pseud. of Fiat Justitia 1831, and of The Great Gorham
case 1850, and several other pamphlets under pseud. of John
Search; author of a pamphlet called Leicester Gaol by A.
Balance, Esq. of the Middle Temple 1841. d. Doric lodge, High
road, Upper Clapton 24 Feb. 1874. Sermons by T. Binney
second series, edited by Henry Allon (1875) xiii-lxvi, portrait; A
memorial of the late Rev. T. Binney, edited by Rev. J.
Stoughton 1874; T. Binney, his mind, life and opinions by Rev.
E. P. Hood 1874; The lamps of the temple 3 ed. (1865) 146–
87; Contemporary Review xxiii, 884–97 (1874); Graphic ix, 218
(1874), portrait. He is introduced as Canon Burney into the
novels called The master of Marton 1864 and Diary of a
novelist 1870 by Eliza Tabor.
BINNS, Edward. M.D.; author of The anatomy of sleep or the art
of procuring sound and refreshing slumber at will 1842;
Prodromus towards a philosophical inquiry into the intellectual
powers of the negro 1844. d. Lucca, Jamaica 10 Feb. 1851.
BINNS, John (son of Mr. Binns of Dublin, ironmonger who d.
1774). b. Dublin 22 Dec. 1772; apprenticed to a soapboiler
1786; a member of the London Corresponding Society 1794
which became the greatest political association in Great
Britain, chairman of its general committee 6 months in 1795;
connected with the United Irishmen; left London for France 21
Feb. 1798 but arrested at Margate 27 Feb. and after an
examination by the Privy Council committed to Tower of
London; tried for high treason at Maidstone May 1798 when
acquitted; confined in Clerkenwell prison, then in Gloucester
prison till March 1801; sailed for America July 1801; started a
newspaper called The Republican Argus at Northumberland,
Pennsylvania March 1802; edited at Philadelphia March 1807 to
1829 Democratic Press which soon became leading paper in
 the state; alderman of Philadelphia Dec. 1822 to 1844. d.
Philadelphia 16 June 1860. Recollections of the life of John
Binns 1854, portrait.
BINNS, Thomas. Head master of the Friends’ school, Grove house,
Tottenham 1828; member of Committee of British and Foreign
Bible Society 1852–68, chairman of the Editorial Sub-
Committee. d. Rockley near Bristol 2 Dec. 1872 aged 74.
Annual Monitor for 1874 6–10.
BINSTEAD, Cheesman Henry. b. 1797; entered navy 10 June 1810;
agent for transports afloat 1828–34; captain 7 March 1853;
retired V.A. 30 July 1875. d. South parade, Wakefield 26 Nov.
1876.
BINYON, Edward. b. Manchester 1828; landscape painter both in
oil and water colours; contributed to exhibitions of Royal
Academy and Dudley Gallery 1857–76; his picture ‘The bay of
Mentone’ has frequently been reproduced; lived in island of
Capri many years. d. 5 Via Piazza, Capri 18 July 1876.
BIRCH, Rev. Henry Mildred (eld. son of Rev. Wm. Henry Rous
Birch, R. of Southwold, Suffolk). b. Bedfield rectory, Suffolk
1820; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., scholar 1839, Craven
scholar 1841, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; fellow of his college 1843,
members prizeman 1844; assistant master at Eton; tutor to
Prince of Wales 6 Aug. 1848 to 1851; R. of Prestwich, Lancs.
1852–84; chaplain in ordinary to the Queen 27 Feb. 1852; B.D.
Lambeth 1862; hon. chaplain to Prince of Wales 16 Feb. 1863;
canon of Ripon 29 June 1868 to death; proctor in convocation
1868, 1874 and 1880 to death, d. St. Leonard’s lodge, Windsor
29 June 1884. I.L.N. xlii, 456 (1863), portrait.
BIRCH, James Wheeler Woodford (eld. son of Rev. James Wheeler
Birch, V. of All Saint’s, Hertford). member of Ceylon civil service
1846–70; colonial sec. of the Straits Settlements May 1870;
British resident in Malay state of Perak Nov. 1874 to death;
assassinated by the Malays at Perak 2 Nov. 1875.
BIRCH, John Francis. Second lieut. R.A. 18 Sep. 1793; second
lieut. R.E. 1 Jany. 1794, colonel R.E. 29 July 1825, colonel
commandant 19 Oct. 1847 to death; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831;
general 20 June 1854; served in Flanders, Holland, Egypt and
Spain. d. Folkestone 29 May 1856 aged 79.
BIRCH, Sir Richard James Holwell (son of Richard Comyns Birch,
of Bengal civil service). b. Calcutta 1803; entered Bengal army
1821; studied at Trin. coll. Cam. 1823–24; judge advocate
general to the forces in Bengal 1841–52; military secretary to
government of India 1854 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired;
M.G. 4 May 1858; C.B. 5 June 1849, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. d.
Venice 25 Feb. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi, 259 (1875).
BIRCH, Robert Henry. b. 1771; second lieut. R.A. 9 March 1795;
colonel 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 12
Aug. 1849 to death; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. d. Dublin 29 June 1851.
BIRCH, Samuel (eld. son of Rev. Samuel Birch, R. of St. Mary
Woolnoth, City of London who d. 1848). b. London 3 Nov.
1813; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1826–31; employed in
Public record office 1834; assistant in department of
Antiquities of British Museum Jany. 1836, assistant keeper
1844; keeper of the Oriental Mediæval and British antiquities
and Ethnographical collections 1861 to death; corresponding
member of Archæological Institute of Rome 1839, of Berlin
Academy 1851, of Academy of inscriptions of French Institute
1861; LLD. St. Andrews 1862; determined the ancient Cypriote
to be a Greek language 1872; presided over Congress of
Orientalists held in London 14 Sep. 1874; received German
order of the Crown Nov. 1874; Rede lecturer Univ. of Cam. for
1876; LLD. Cam. 1875; hon. fellow of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1875;
D.C.L. Ox. 1876; author of Gallery of antiquities 1842;
Introduction to the study of hieroglyphics 1857; History of
ancient pottery 1857, 2 ed. 1873; edited Records of the past
12 vols. 1873–77; The manners and customs of the ancient
Egyptians by Sir J. G. Wilkinson, new ed. 3 vols. 1878. d. 64
 Caversham road, Kentish Town, London 27 Dec. 1885. Times
29 Dec. 1885 p. 8, col. 3; Athenæum 2 Jany. 1886 pp. 34–35;
Dublin Univ. Mag. xc, 53–60 (1877), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxviii, 64
(1886), portrait.
BIRCH, Sylvester Douglas. A writer in Madras civil service 1830;
secretary and treasurer of Bank of Madras 1843; accountant
general at Bombay, pres. of the mint committee and
government director of Bank of Bombay 1859 to 28 Feb. 1865
when he retired on an annuity. d. San Remo, Italy 4 Feb. 1881.
BIRCH, Sir Thomas Bernard, 2 Baronet. b. 18 March 1791;
succeeded 22 Aug. 1833; sheriff of Lancs. 1841; M.P. for
Liverpool 30 July 1847 to 1 July 1852. d. The Hazles Prescot
near Liverpool 3 March 1880.
BIRCH, Thomas Jacob (2 son of Wyrley Birch of Wretham hall near
Thetford, Norfolk 1781–1866). b. 15 Oct. 1806; ed. at Eton
and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 18
Nov. 1831; recorder of Thetford March 1839 to Dec. 1866;
judge of Norfolk county courts (circuit 32) March 1847 to
death. d. Ballycroy, Mayo 26 April 1868.
BIRCHALL, Rev. Joseph (son of John Birchall of Prescot,
watchmaker). b. Prescot 1805; ed. at Manchester school and
Brasn. Coll. Ox., Somerset scholar 1825, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830;
C. of Newbury, Berks. 1831–38; R. of Church, Lancashire 1840
to death; proctor in Convocation for Archd. of Manchester;
author of Occasional Sermons 1840; Ecclesiastical Synods
1868. d. Church rectory 27 Oct. 1878.
BIRCHAM, Francis Thomas (youngest son of Samuel Bircham of
Booton hall, Norfolk). b. Booton hall 1810; admitted solicitor
1833; practised in London to 1882; solicitor to London and
South Western railway 1834–82; pres. of Incorporated law
society 1874–75. d. Burhill near Walton-on-Thames 25 Nov.
1883. Personalty sworn upward of £161,000 3 March 1884; his
 correct name was Thomas Francis Bircham, but he always
called himself Francis Thomas Bircham.
BIRD, Rev. Charles Smith (5 child of William Bird of Liverpool,
West Indian Merchant, who d. 1814). b. Union st. Liverpool 28
May 1795; articled to Stanistreet and Eden of Liverpool,
solicitors Feb. 1812, released from articles 1814; entered Trin.
coll. Cam. 1816, scholar 1818, 3 Wr. and 2 Smith’s prizeman
1820, Fell. of his coll. Sep. 1820; C. of Burghfield, Berks.
1823–44; took pupils 1823–44; F.L.S. 4 March 1828; C. of
Sulhamstead 1840; V. of Gainsborough 1843–59; preb. of
Lincoln 16 June 1843; chancellor of Lincoln June 1859 to
death, instituted and installed 16 July 1859; edited a monthly
periodical called The Reading church guardian 1839–40;
author of For ever and other devotional poems 1833;
Transubstantiation tried by Scripture and reason 1839; The
baptismal privileges, the baptismal vow, and the means of
grace considered in 6 Lent lectures 1841, 2 ed. 1843; The eve
of the Crucifixion 1858. d. The Chancery, Lincoln 9 Nov. 1862.
Sketches from the life of Rev. Charles S. Bird by Rev. Claude S.
Bird (1864), portrait.
BIRD, Edward Joseph (son of Rev. Godfrey Bird, R. of Little
Waltham, Essex). Entered navy 9 Sep. 1812; attempted to
reach North Pole from Spitzbergen in the Hecla 1825,
penetrated a little beyond 82° 45´ a latitude more northern
than had ever been attained; 1 lieut. of the Erebus in Antarctic
expedition 1839–43; captain of the Investigator 1848–49;
admiral on h.p. 11 Dec. 1875. d. The Wilderness, Witham 3
Dec. 1881 in 83 year.
BIRD, Frederic. b. Colchester 23 Jany. 1818; ed. at Guy’s
Hospital; surgeon in Craven st. Strand 1841; performed
operation of ovariotomy for ovarian dropsy 26 June 1843,
being one of the pioneers of that treatment; lectured on
forensic medicine at Westminster Hospital, obstetric physician
there 1861; phys. to the Maternity Charity; edited Provincial
 (now British) Medical Journal. d. 13 Grosvenor st. London 28
April 1874. Medical Circular i, 229 (1852); Medical times and
gazette i, 519 (1874).
BIRD, George. Writer Madras civil service 1821; judge and
criminal judge of Canara 1835–38 and 1839–42; civil and
session judge Coimbatore 1844–47 and 1850–51; resigned the
service 25 Feb. 1851. d. England 20 July 1880.
BIRD, Golding. b. Downham, Norfolk 9 Dec. 1814; studied at
Guy’s hospital London 1832; lecturer on natural philosophy
there 1836–43; L.S.A. 21 Jany. 1836, M.D. St. Andrews 24
April 1838 being only place where a degree could be obtained
without residing, M.A. 18 April 1840; physician to Finsbury
dispensary 1838–43; L.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1845; assistant
phys. at Guy’s hospital and lecturer on materia medica 1843 to
4 Aug. 1853; F.L.S. 1836, F.R.S. 22 Jany. 1846; author of The
elements of natural philosophy 1839, 6 ed. 1867; Urinary
deposits their diagnosis pathology and therapeutical indications
1844, 5 ed. 1857. d. Camden park, Tunbridge Wells 27 Oct.
1854. Biographical sketch by J. H. Balfour 1855; Medical
Circular iii, 129 (1853), portrait.
BIRD, James. Ed. at King’s college Aberdeen 1810, M.A. 1814;
apprenticed to his maternal uncle Dr. Scott of Elgin 1812–15;
studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. Sep.
1816; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co’s. Bombay service 2 Aug.
1818; residency surgeon at Sattara 1826–32; superintending
surgeon of Belgaum division of the army 1840–43 and of
Presidency division 1843–44; physician general to Bombay
medical board 1844 to 1 Dec. 1847 when he retired. d. Fern
acre lodge, Gerrards Cross, Bucks. 10 July 1864 aged 67.
BIRD, James. Solicitor in London; coroner for West Middlesex 9
July 1862 to death. d. Phœnix lodge, Brook Green,
Hammersmith 7 Jany. 1868.
BIRD, James. b. Cardiff Feb. 1802; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s
hospital; L.S.A. 1821, M.R.C.S. 1825; surgeon at Cardiff 1825–
32; surgeon in London 1832 to 1856; joint sec. with Henry
Ancell to the British medical association; author of Private
devotions for girls 1874. d. 80 Seymour st. Portman sq.
London 4 June 1874. Medical Circular i, 263 (1852).
BIRD, Rev. John. b. Betchworth, Surrey 14 Sep. 1783; ed. at
Stonyhurst college; ordained priest 10 Dec. 1808; professed of
the 4 vows 2 Feb. 1819; rector of St. Aloysius’ college 26 June
1832 to 18 May 1839 and 15 Sep. 1841; missioner at
Pontefract 1842–48; superior of St. George’s Residence,
Worcester Nov. 1850 to death. d. 8 June 1853.
BIRD, Louis Saunders. Ensign Bengal Infantry 26 Nov. 1808; col.
23 Bengal N.I. 17 April 1856–1869; L.G. 22 Feb. 1870. d.
Clevedon, Somerset 17 April 1874 aged 81.
BIRD, Robert Merttins. b. 1788; Bengal civil servant; assistant to
registrar of Court of Sadr Diwàni Adàlat at Calcutta 9 Nov.
1808; comr. of revenue and circuit for the Gorakhpur division
1829; member of board of revenue at Allahabad 1832; revised
settlement of land revenue of North western provinces 1833–
41, the most complete settlement that had yet been made in
India; retired to England 1842; active member of committee of
the Church Missionary Society. d. Torquay 22 Aug. 1853. Dict.
of nat. biog. v, 78 (1886).
BIRD, Robert Nicholas. Ensign 20 Foot 30 Aug. 1859; lieut. 2 Dec.
1862 to death; murdered by Japanese at Kamahura about 17
miles from Yokohama 21 Nov. 1864. R. Lindau’s Erzählungen
und Novellen i, 15–54 (1871); F. O. Adams’s History of Japan i,
485–98 (1874), ii, 1–5 (1875).
BIRD, William Wilberforce (eld. son of Wm. Wilberforce Bird of
the Spring, Kenilworth, M.P. for Coventry). b. 1784; ed. at
Warwick and Geneva; writer in H.E.I. Co.’s civil service at
Calcutta 11 July 1803; third ordinary member of council of
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