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MODERN ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY

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MODERN

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VOLUME II.

I I’ANSON.

I’ANSON, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward I’Anson 1775–1853, surveyor and architect). _b._ St. Laurence, Pountney hill, London 25 July 1812; ed. at Merchant Taylors’; exhibited 18 designs at R.A. 1830–80; architect in city of London 1837 to death; surveyor for St. Bartholomew’s hospital 18 Dec. 1871; designed British and Foreign Bible Society’s buildings, Queen Victoria st. 1866, Merchant Taylors’ school at the Charterhouse opened 1875, and greater part of the fine buildings in the City built exclusively for offices; restored Dutch church in Austin Friars and that of St. Mary, Abchurch; F.R.I.B.A. 1840, pres. 1886 to death, wrote many papers for its Transactions; author of Detached essays and illustrations, Architectural Publication soc. 1853. _d._ 28 Clanricarde gardens, Bayswater, London 30 Jany. 1888. _bur._ at Headley in Hampshire. _Builder, xxix_ 189, 1006 (1871), _portrait_.

I’ANSON, WILLIAM, _b._ Middleham, Yorkshire 1810; horse trainer; trainer to A. Johnstone at Malton 1849; trained Blink Bonny winner of the Derby 1857, Caller Ou winner of the St. Leger 1861 and Blair Athol winner of the Derby and St. Leger 1864; had a yearly sale of horses on Friday after the St. Leger; owner of numerous race horses; golf player; captain of Malton curling club; his Blink Bonny stud farm was very well known. _d._ Hungerford house, Norton, Malton 10 Jany. 1881. _Illust. sp. and dram. news, xiv 453, 466 (1881), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 15 Jany. 1881 pp. 6, 7._

IBBETSON, LEVETT LANDEN BOSCAWEN. Captain; gave his valuable collections of fossils and cretaceous mollusca to Museum of practical geology, Jermyn st. London 1853–61; F.G.S.; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; knight of the orders of the Red Eagle and Hohenzollern of Prussia; resided at Biebrich for several years; author of Notes on the geology and chemical composition of the various strata in the Isle of Wight 1849. _d._ Biebrich, Prussia 8 Sep. 1869. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxvi p. xli (1870)._

IBBOTSON, HENRY, _b._ about 1816; schoolmaster at Mowthorpe near Castle Howard, at Dunnington and at Grimthorpe near Whitwell all in Yorkshire; distributed sets of the rarer plants of the northern counties; contributed to Baines’s Flora of Yorkshire 1840 and to Baker’s North Yorkshire 1863; author of A catalogue of the Phœnogamous plants of Great Britain 1848; The ferns of York 1884. _d._ in great poverty at York 12 Feb. 1886.

IBRAHIM, MIRZA MUHAMMAD. _b._ Persia; a great English scholar; assistant professor in the Oriental department at Haileybury college near Amwell, Herts., professor of Arabic and Persian there 1829–44; retired on a pension from H.E.I. Co.; translated Isaiah into Persian, London 1834 but the title page is in Arabic; wrote A grammar of the Persian language, London 1841, and other books published in Leipzig; tutor to the heir of the Shah of Persia. _d._ Teheran, Persia, July 1857.

ICELY, THOMAS. _b._ Plymouth, Nov. 1797; went to New South Wales 1819; a merchant and shipper Sydney; member of legislative council 1842–56; a member of the upper house 1864 to death. _d._ Elizabeth farm, Paramatta 13 Feb. 1874. _Heaton’s Australian Dict. of dates (1879) 99._

IDDESLEIGH, SIR STAFFORD HENRY NORTHCOTE, 1 Earl of (eld. son of Henry Stafford Northcote 1792–1850). _b._ 23 Portland place, London 27 Oct. 1818; ed. at Eton 1831–6 and at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, D.C.L. 1863; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1847; legal sec. to board of trade 1847; sec. to comrs. of Great exhibition of 1851; succeeded his grandfather as 8 baronet 17 Nov. 1851; C.B. 25 Oct. 1851, G.C.B. 20 April 1880; M.P. Dudley 1855–7, M.P. Stamford 1858–66, M.P. North Devon 1866–85; president of board of trade 1 July 1866 to March 1867; P.C. 6 July 1866; sec. of state for India 2 March 1867 to Dec. 1868; governor of Hudson Bay co. 5 Jany. 1869; chancellor of the exchequer 21 Feb. 1874 to 28 April 1880; elected lord rector of Edin. univ. 3 Nov. 1883, installed 30 Jany. 1884; cr. earl of Iddesleigh and viscount St. Cyres of Newton St. Cyres, co. Devon 3 July 1885; first lord of the treasury 24 June 1885 to 6 Feb. 1886; author of A short review of the history of the navigation laws. By A Barrister 1849; A statement connected with the elections of W. E. Gladstone for the university of Oxford 1847, 1852 and 1853; Twenty five years of financial policy 1862; reprinted The triumphs of Petrarch. Roxburgh Club 1887. _d._ in Lord Salisbury’s ante-room, Downing st. London 12 Jany. 1887. _Lang’s Life, letters and diaries of Sir S. Northcote, new ed. (1891), 2 portraits_; _D. Anderson’s Scenes in the house of commons (1884) 24–28_; _C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, i 98 (1882), portrait_; _W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 19, 21–3, portrait_.

NOTE.--He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel _The Three Clerks_ under the name of Sir Warwick West End.

IDDISON, ROGER. _b._ Bedale, Yorkshire 15 Sep. 1834; a butcher; kept a shop for sale of cricket articles at Manchester 1864; one of the first team of English cricketers who played 15 matches in Australia 1 Jany. to 22 March 1862; played his first match at Lords 9–11 June 1862; played in 27 first-rate matches and made 1059 runs 1867; founded with George Freeman the United North of England Eleven 1869; professional at Harrow school 1871–2; joint sec. with C. D. Barstow of Yorkshire United Eleven 1874; a first-rate batsman, a good fieldsman at point and a good lob-bowler; a commission agent at York 1870 to death. _d._ 20 Blake st. York 19 March 1890. _Illust. sporting news, iii 441 (1864), portrait._

IDLE, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ Kent 1799 or 1800; lived in France some years, then in Argyleshire; joint editor with J. H. Walsh of The Field 1858–9; contributed to the Review and Land and Water; a salmon fisher; a whist player and member of Graham’s and the Portland clubs; a member of the Reform where he was one of the best ecarté players 1856 to death; edited The rural almanack 1855; author of Hints on shooting and fishing 1855, 2 ed. 1865. _d._ 11 Norris st. Haymarket, London 28 May 1871. _Westminster papers July 1871 p. 44_; _Field 3 June 1871 p. 447_.

IGGULDEN, JOHN. _b._ Deal 1 June 1777; notary and proctor Doctors’ commons, London; one of the 3 deputy registrars of prerogative court of Canterbury, Doctors’ commons 1829 to death. _d._ 8 Russell sq. London 18 Nov. 1857. _bur._ Highgate cemetery.

IKIN, JOHN ARTHUR. _b._ 1810; solicitor at Leeds 1832 to death; town clerk of Leeds 19 July 1843 to death. _d._ Scarcroft grange near Leeds 4 Sep. 1860. _Leeds Intelligencer 8 Sep. 1860 p. 5._

ILBERY, JOSIAH JAMES. _b._ London 16 Sep. 1769; superintendent Liverpool and Manchester railway 1826, superannuated in 1855 when 86 years old being one of the oldest and most indefatigable railway officers in the world. _d._ Douglas, Isle of Man 11 April 1869 when almost a centenarian. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i 485–6 (1869)._

ILCHESTER, HENRY STEPHEN FOX STRANGWAYS, 3 Earl of (only son of 2 Earl of Ilchester 1747–1802). _b._ 21 Feb. 1787; styled lord Stavordale 1787–1802; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., D.C.L. 1814; succeeded his father 5 Sep. 1802; capt. Dorsetshire regt. of yeomanry 15 April 1808, lieut.-col. commandant 12 Feb. 1846; lord lieut. of Somerset 19 April 1837 to May 1839; capt. of the yeomen of the guard 12 July 1837 to 5 July 1841; P.C. 12 July 1837. _d._ Melbury house near Dorchester 3 Jany. 1858.

ILCHESTER, WILLIAM THOMAS HORNER FOX STRANGWAYS, 4 Earl of (half brother of the preceding). _b._ 7 May 1795; styled hon. William Fox-Strangways 1795–1858; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; attaché at St. Petersburg 1816, at Constantinople 1820, at Naples 1822 and at the Hague 1824; sec. of legation at Florence 1825, at Naples 1828, at Turin 1832 and at Vienna 1832; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 1835–40; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. at Frankfort 17 March 1840 to Jany. 1849; succeeded as 3 earl 3 Jany. 1858; F.R.S. 8 March 1821. _d._ Melbury house near Dorchester 10 Jany. 1865.

ILES, VEN. JOHN HODGSON (eld. son of John Iles of Healing, Lincolnshire). _b._ 22 Sep. 1828; ed. at Rugby and Lincoln coll. Oxf., fellow 1855–61; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; assist. master Bromsgrove gr. sch. 1852–7; R. of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton 1860–76; V. of Barton-under-Needwood 1876–80; V. of Ch. Ch. Lichfield 1880–3; preb. of Lichfield 1870–7; archdeacon of Stafford 1876 to death; canon of Lichfield 1877 to death. _d._ 13 Nov. 1888. _bur._ Lichfield 17 Nov.

ILIFF, REV. FREDERICK (younger son of Wm. Tiffin Iliff 1772–1830). _b._ Nottingham 12 Nov. 1799; ed. at Christ hospital; entered Trin. coll. Cam. as a sizar 6 Jany. 1819, scholar 19 April 1822; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1838; head master of royal institution school, Liverpool; master of Grange sch. Bishop Wearmouth 1856–62; P.C. of Gateworth near Selby 1862, resigned 1868; edited the Biblia ecclesiæ polyglotta: the proper lessons for Sundays in Hebrew etc. 1843; author of Week days prayers for the use of boarding schools 1855; A plea for a revisal of the Bible translation of 1611. Sunderland 1856; The Old is better: materials for new forms of Common Prayer from parts of the Prayer book not used in Sunday services 1872. _d._ Sunderland 9 March 1869. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i 350 (1869)._

ILIFF, REV. GEORGE (2 son of the preceding). Ordained deacon 1855, priest 1857; second master at Grange sch. Bishop Wearmouth 1856–61; head master of Hall school, Sunderland (opened by him) July 1861 to death; author of Chronology in verse without numbers 1855, anon.; An English education, what it means and how it may be carried out 1858, 3 ed. 1861. _d._ 15 Murton st. Sunderland 6 Sep. 1878.

ILLIDGE, THOMAS HENRY. _b._ Birmingham 26 Sep. 1799; ed. at Manchester; painted portraits of many celebrities of Lancashire; exhibited at Liverpool academy from 1827; portrait painter in London 1842 to death; exhibited 14 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1826–51. _d._ of fever at 33 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 13 May 1851.

ILSLEY, REV. JOSEPH MARY. _b._ Maple Durham, Oxfordshire 20 Dec. 1805; ed. at English coll. Lisbon, professor there, president 1854–63; D.D. by papal decree 20 June 1854; missioner at Scorton, Lancs. 1863 to death; received order of the Immaculada Conceicao; wrote ten sermons in The Catholic Pulpit vols. i–ii 1839–40. _d._ Scorton 31 Aug. 1868. _Gillow’s English Catholics_, _iii_ 530–2 (1887).

IMAGE, REV. THOMAS (son of rev. John Image, V. of Peterborough, _d._ 1786). _b._ 1772; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1795, M.A. 1798; R. of Whepstead, Suffolk 30 Jany. 1798 to death; R. of Stanningfield, Suffolk 20 March 1809 to death; formed from counties of Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk, nearly the finest collection of fossils in England, which he sold to Univ. of Cambridge for Woodwardian museum 1856; F.G.S. 1840. _d._ Whepstead rectory 8 March 1856. _G.M. xlv_ 386, 534, 554 (1856).

IMHOFF, SIR CHARLES (son of baron Charles Von Imhoff a German). _b._ England 1766; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox. 1785–6; commanded a company in one of regiments of Prince of Waldeck 1787–93; served in Berkshire militia 1793–8; captain 1 light dragoons 1799; major 4 foot 1801, lieut. col. 5 Feb. 1802; lieut. col. 4 garrison battalion 17 Sep. 1807 to June 1812; inspecting field officer of Guernsey militia 1812; general 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Daylesford house, Chipping Norton, Worcs. 14 Feb. 1853. _G.M. xxxix_ 543–4 (1853), _xl_ 390.

NOTE.--From 18 May 1807 the date of his obtaining a royal licence to accept insignia of grand commander of St. Joachim, he enjoyed the titular distinction of a knight, in this country, the regulation to contrary with respect to foreign orders of knighthood not being issued until the year 1813. His mother _m._ (2) Warren Hastings and _d._ 29 March 1837 aged 90. On his death the mansion and estate of Daylesford, the ultimate aim and object of Warren Hastings’ ambition, were sold 30 July 1853 to George Grisewood of the Stock Exchange for £30,250.

IMLACH, JAMES. _b._ Banff, Scotland 8 May 1789; bookseller, Banff; collected materials for sir Walter Scott for a life of Macpherson the freebooter, a work never published; author of History of Banff and account of its inhabitants. Banff 1868. _d._ Castle Panton, Banff 13 July 1880. _Banffshire Journal 20 July 1880 p._ 5.

IMPEY, JOHN (2 son of sir Elijah Impey 1732–1809, chief justice of Bengal). _b._ 1772; midshipman R.N. 28 April 1785; captain 22 Jany. 1806; R.A. 17 Aug. 1840; admiral on half pay 4 July 1855. _d._ Coly villa, Colyford 2 Aug. 1858.

IMRAY, JAMES FREDERICK. _b._ 1829 or 1830; F.R.G.S.; F.S.A.; author of Pilotage rates of the ports of the United Kingdom 1858; Baltic pilot 1870; The Bay of Bengal pilot 1879; he also published for the admiralty, Sailing directions for the ports in the bay of Bengal 1866, and other books of Sailing Directions for various places 1866–76; with W. Rosser The lights and tides of the world 1869. _d._ St. Catharine’s, Beckenham, Kent 8 Oct. 1891. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 12 Oct.

IMRAY, JOHN. _b._ in north of Scotland 11 Jany. 1811; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1831; M.D. Heidelberg 1842; practised at Roseau, Dominica, West Indies from 1832 to death; introduced the cultivation of limes and of Liberian coffee; member of executive council; chairman of board of health; a founder of the Roseau infirmary; author of Memoir on yaws in Gavin Milroy’s Report on leprosy and yaws in the West Indies 1873; wrote papers on The yellow fever, in Edin. Med. Journ. 1838–48; contributed to the Gardener’s Chronicle, the Technologist, the Journal of applied sciences and Nature. _d._ Dominica 22 Aug. 1880. _Medical Times, ii_ 417 (1880).

IMRAY, KEITH. M.D., F.R.S.; author of A popular cyclopedia of modern domestic medicine 1842. _d._ Stonehaven 27 Aug. 1855.

IMRIE, GEORGE (son of George Imrie of Perth). _b._ Scotland 2 July 1829; ed. at Christ hospital; clerk to Thomas Jones, solicitor, city of London 1844; kept the accounts of the parish of St. Stephen, Coleman st. 1847–64; assist. sec. Licensed victuallers’ asylum, Old Kent road, London 1854, sec. 1864 to death, presented with a purse of 100 guineas 1864, presented with a silver cup and 250 sovereigns 1867. _d._ The Asylum, London 6 Sep. 1872. _Licensed Victuallers’ Almanack_ (1868) 113–5, _portrait_, (1873) 156–7; _Illust. Sporting News_, _vi_ 145 (1867), _portrait_.

INCE, HENRY BRET (eld. son of Edward Bret Ince, publisher of the Law Journal, who _d._ 1882). _b._ London 1830; in business connected with shipping; a leader writer on the Daily News; barrister I.T. 1 Nov. 1852; admitted ad eundem at L.I. 7 Nov. 1859, bencher 4 Nov. 1878; reported for The Jurist in court of V. C. Wood; Q.C. 28 June 1875; M.P. for Hastings 1883 to 1885, for East division of Islington 1885 to 1886, contested the seat 1886; author of A systematic treatment of the Trustee act and the Extension act of 1852, 1858, 2 ed. 1858. _d._ suddenly at 20 Old sq. Lincoln’s Inn 7 May 1889.

INCE, JOSEPH MURRAY. _b._ Presteign, Radnorshire 1806; pupil of David Cox 1823–6; came to London 1826; exhibited 16 pictures at R.A., 23 at B.I. and 137 at Suffolk st. 1826–58; a good painter of landscape in water-colours; painted at Presteign about 1835 to death; published Views illustrating the county of Radnor, Seven lithographic plates 1832. _d._ 24 Sep. 1859. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery, _monu._ erected to his memory at Presteign.

INCE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1794; connected with Godfrey & Cook, pharmaceutical chemists, Southampton st. Covent Garden, London from an early age to his death; a founder of the Pharmaceutical society of Great Britain 20 March 1841, V.P. 1849–50 and president 1850–1. _d._ Kensington 26 March 1853. _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy_ (1880) 228.

INCHBOLD, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Thomas Inchbold, proprietor and editor of the Leeds Intelligencer). _b._ Leeds 29 April 1830; studied under Louis Haghe; a student at the R.A. 1847; exhibited 27 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1849–79; his pictures The Moorland 1855 and The White Doe of Rylstone were much praised by Ruskin; made a sketching tour in Algeria; many of his pictures were exhibited by Leeds Philosophical soc. 1887; author of Annus Amoris. Sonnets 1876. _d._ at his sister’s residence, Headingley near Leeds 23 Jany. 1888. _bur._ Adel ch. yard 25 Jany. Swinburne wrote a memorial funereal ode for him. _Athenæum, i_ 123, 154, 188 (1888).

INCHIQUIN, SIR LUCIUS O’BRIEN, 13 Baron. _b._ Dromoland, county Clare 5 Dec. 1800; M.P. for co. Clare 1826–30 and 1847–52; succeeded his father as 5 baronet 13 March 1837; lord lieut. of Clare, May 1843 to death; succeeded James O’Brien 3rd marquis of Thomond and 12 baron Inchiquin, as 13 baron 3 July 1855, his right to the barony was confirmed by House of Lords 11 April 1862; a representative peer for Ireland 20 Oct. 1863 to death; author of Ireland: the late famine and the poor laws 1848. _d._ Dromoland 22 March 1872.

INCLEDON, CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Incledon, vocalist 1763–1826). _b._ 1791; had a pure tenor voice; appeared at Drury Lane as Meadows in Love in a Village 3 Oct. 1829; an English teacher at Vienna many years. _d._ Bad Tuffé department of Sarthe, France 1865.

INGALL, WILLIAM LENOX. _b._ 2 June 1822; ensign 62 foot 27 Dec. 1842, lieut. col. 25 Oct. 1855 to 6 March 1868; served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6 and in Crimean war 1854–5; brigadier general Bengal, April to Oct. 1869 and April 1870 to Jany. 1874; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; col. Royal Sussex regiment 14 Sep. 1885 to death; C.B. 22 Jany. 1857. _d._ Queen’s park, Chester 11 Jany. 1888.

INGALTON, WILLIAM (son of a shoemaker at Worplesdon, Surrey). _b._ Worplesdon 1794; lived at Eton long time, where he painted domestic and rustic scenes; published lithographed views of Eton 1821; exhibited 9 pictures at R.A., 19 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1816–26; an architect and builder at Windsor from 1824. _d._ Clewer, Windsor 1866.

INGHAM, CHARLES CROMWELL. _b._ Dublin 1796; pupil of Wm. Cumming 1810–14; a portrait painter in New York 1816 to death; noted for his portraits of women and children; a founder of National Academy of Design, V.P. 1845–50 and an originator of the Sketch club, New York; his works include The laughing girl and The White plume. _d._ New York city 10 Dec. 1863. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 348 (1887).

INGHAM, JAMES PENROSE (elder son of the succeeding). _b._ 1839; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A, 1861; rowed in the Cambridge boat against London and Oxford at Henley 1859; sculled with David Ingles in the University pairs 1859 and with Robert U. P. Fitzgerald 1860; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1866; practised as a special pleader; went South Eastern circuit. _d._ 40 Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 28 Nov. 1879.

INGHAM, SIR JAMES TAYLOR (younger son of Joshua Ingham of Blake hall, West Riding of Yorkshire). _b._ 17 Jany. 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 15 June 1832; magistrate Thames police court March 1849, transferred to Hammersmith and Wandsworth 1856; chief magistrate at Bow st. July 1876 to death; knighted at Osborne 21 July 1876; adjudicated upon many important extradition cases. _d._ 40 Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 5 March 1890. _Vanity Fair 20 Feb. 1886_, _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxiii_ 341 (1881) _portrait_.

INGHAM, ROBERT (son of Wm. Ingham of Newcastle on Tyne). _b._ 1793; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Oxf., fellow 1816–26; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; barrister L.I. 16 June 1820, barrister I.T. 1825, bencher 1850 to death, reader 1862, treasurer 1863; Q.C. July 1851; M.P. for South Shields 1832–41 and 1852–68; recorder of Berwick on Tweed June 1832, resigned Nov. 1870; attorney general of county palatine of Durham 1846–61. _d._ Weston, South Shields 21 Oct. 1875.

INGILBY, REV. SIR HENRY JOHN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of rev. Henry Ingilby of Ripley, Yorkshire 1761–1833). _b._ 28 Jany. 1790; ed. at Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar to 1816; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1816; created baronet 26 July 1866. _d._ Ripley castle, Yorkshire 5 July 1870.

INGILBY, SIR WILLIAM AMCOTTS-, 2 Baronet. _b._ Yorkshire, June 1783; succeeded his maternal grandfather as 2 baronet 26 Sep. 1807, his father as 2 baronet 8 May 1815; assumed name of Amcotts before that of Ingilby 1812; M.P. for Lincolnshire 6 Dec. 1823 to 3 Dec. 1832, for North Lincolnshire 24 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834. _d._ 23 Abingdon st. Westminster 14 May 1854.

INGILBY, SIR WILLIAM BATES (brother of rev. sir H. J. Ingilby 1790–1870). _b._ North Deighton, Yorkshire 30 April 1791; ed. at Houghton le Spring, Marlow and Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 April 1809, col. 6 Nov. 1854 to 22 June 1860, colonel commandment 24 Aug. 1866 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ 9 Roland gardens, South Kensington, London 6 Aug. 1879.

INGLEBY, CLEMENT MANSFIELD (only son of Clement Ingleby of Birmingham, solicitor, _d._ 1859). _b._ Edgbaston 29 Oct. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850, LL.D. 1859; solicitor at Birmingham 1849–59; professor of logic at Birmingham and Midland institute 1858; foreign sec. and V.P. of R. Soc. of literature; an original trustee of Shakespeare’s birthplace 1861; V.P. New Shakespeare soc.; author of Outlines of theoretical logic 1856; The Shakespeare fabrications 1859; An introduction to metaphysics 1869; The Still lion 1874, republished as Shakespeare hermeneutics 1875; Shakespeare’s Centurie of prayse 1874, three editions. _d._ Valentines, Ilford, Essex 26 Sep. 1886. _Edgbastonia_, _iii_ 65–7 (1883), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _iii_ 283–8 (1880).

INGLEDEW, HENRY. _b._ 1786; solicitor at Newcastle 1817 to death; registrar of Gateshead county court; alderman of Newcastle to death, sheriff 1852–3, mayor 1860. _d._ Lovaine place, Newcastle 24 May 1882.

INGLIS, ANDREW. _b._ 1838; M.D. Edin. 1859; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1863; professor of midwifery in Univ. of Aberdeen 1869 to death; author of papers in Edin. Medical Journal 1864–71, and of Case of deformity of the pelvis in which cæsarean section was performed. Edin. 1871. _d._ 1 East Craibstone st. Aberdeen 13 March 1875 aged 37.

INGLIS, REV. DAVID. _b._ Greenlaw, Berwickshire 8 June 1825; ed. at Edin. univ. 1841–5; went to U.S. of America 1846; presbyterian minister at Washington Heights, New York, at Bedford, N.Y., at Montreal and at Hamilton; professor of systematic theology, Knox coll. Toronto 1871–2; minister Dutch reformed ch. Brooklyn, N.Y. 1872; LL.D. of Olivet 1872; D.D. of Rutgers 1874; author of Systematic theology in its relation to modern thought 1876. _d._ Brooklyn, New York 15 Dec. 1887. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 349 (1887).

INGLIS, JAMES. _b._ Glasgow, Sep. 1813; ed. at gr. school Musselburgh and univ. of Edin.; apprenticed to sir George Ballingall, Edin.; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1834; M.D. Edin. 1834; practised at Castle Douglas 1835–37, then at Ripon and finally at Halifax; physician to Ripon public dispensary; curator of geology to Halifax Lit. and Philos. soc.; author of Hope Prize essay on Iodine and bromine 1835; Treatise on English bronchocele with remarks on the use of iodine and its compounds 1838, and of contributions to medical periodicals. _d._ Green Royde near Halifax 9 March 1851.

INGLIS, JAMES GORDON. _b._ 1816; M.D. Glasgow 1836; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1838; assistant surgeon in army 29 March 1839, surgeon 1852; surgeon general 7 Jany. 1875 to 19 July 1876 when placed on h.p.; served in Punjab campaign 1848–9, Persian campaign 1856–7 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; medical superintendent of Meerut division 1873–6; C.B. 1859. _d._ Floriana, Jersey 6 Sep. 1879.

INGLIS, JOHN, Lord Glencorse (youngest son of rev. John Inglis, minister of Old Greyfriars’ ch. Edinburgh). _b._ Edin. 21 Aug. 1810; ed. at high sch. Edin., univ. of Glasgow and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837, D.C.L. 1859; LL.D. Aberdeen 1857, LL.D. Edin. 1858; called to bar in Scotland 1838; solicitor general for Scotland 28 Feb. to May 1852, lord advocate 19 May to Dec. 1852 and Feb. to June 1858; dean of faculty of advocates Nov. 1852; defended Madeline Smith, June–July 1857; lord rector of univ. of Aberdeen 1857; M.P. Stamford 3 March to 10 July 1858; H.M. advocate for Scotland 1 March 1858; lord justice clerk in Scotland and president of 2 division of court of session with title of Lord Glencorse 10 July 1858 to Feb. 1867; P.C. 2 Feb. 1859; lord justice general and president of court of session in Scotland 25 Feb. 1867 to death; nominated chancellor of univ. of Edin. 30 Oct. 1868, installed 21 April 1869; author of The historical study of law. An address. Edin. 1863. _d._ Loganbank, Midlothian 20 Aug. 1891. _W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores_ (1884) 3–4; _Juridical Review_, _i_ (1889) _portrait_; _I.L.N. 29 Aug. 1891 pp._ 270, 271, _portrait_.

NOTE.--He brought in a “Bill to make provision for the better government and discipline of the Universities of Scotland” 22 April 1858 which became law 2 Aug. 1858, he was chairman of the executive commission to carry out views of the act from 27 Aug. 1858 to 20 Dec. 1862 and presided at all the 126 meetings. _Sir A. Grant’s Story of the Univ. of Edin. ii_ 91–102, 236 (1884).

INGLIS, SIR JOHN EARDLEY WILMOT (son of right rev. John Inglis, bishop of Nova Scotia, _d._ 27 Oct. 1850 aged 72). _b._ Nova Scotia 15 Nov. 1814; ensign 32 foot 2 Aug. 1833, lieut. col. 20 Feb. 1855 to 26 Nov. 1857, col. 5 May 1860 to death; M.G. 26 Nov. 1857; served in Canadian rebellion of 1837, in the Punjab campaign 1848–9 including siege of Moultan when he succeeded to command of right column of attack, in action of Soorjkomd, at capture of Cheniote and in battle of Goojerat; K.C.B. 21 Jany. 1858 for his enduring fortitude and persevering gallantry in defence of residency of Lucknow for 87 days against an overwhelming force of the enemy; commander of forces in Corfu, Jany. 1862. (_m._ 19 July 1851 Julia Selina 4 dau. of Frederic Thesiger 1 baron Chelmsford, she was _b._ 19 April 1833 and was granted civil list pension of £500 June 1864). _d._ Homburg 27 Sep. 1862. _Illust. news of the world_, _ii_ (1858), _portrait_; _Nolan’s Illustrated history of British empire in India_, _ii_ 755 (1878–9), _portrait_; _The siege of Lucknow: a diary. By Lady Inglis_ (1892).

INGLIS, SIR ROBERT HARRY, 2 Baronet (only son of sir Hugh Inglis, 1 baronet, _d._ 1820). _b._ London 12 Jany. 1786; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809, created D.C.L. 1826; a comr. for settlement of affairs of the Carnatic 1814–30; barrister L.I. 8 June 1818; M.P. Dundalk 1824–6; M.P. Ripon 1828; M.P. univ. of Ox. 1829–54; P.C. 11 Aug. 1854; F.R.S. 4 March 1813; F.S.A. 22 Feb. 1816, V.P. 1846–54; member of record commission 12 March 1831; a trustee of British Museum 1834 to death; professor of antiquity in Royal academy 1850 to death; president of Literary club usually called Dr. Johnson’s club; edited Family prayers. By H. Thornton, M.P. 1834 and other editions 1843, 1851 and 1854; with H. Hallam wrote Survey of the principal repositories of the public records of Great Britain and Ireland 1823; many of Inglis’ Speeches were printed 1825–53. _d._ 7 Bedford sq. London 5 May 1855. _Ryall’s Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 1 series_, _portrait_; _Fraser’s Mag. xxxiv_ 648–53 (1846); _I.L.N. i_ 240 (1842) _portrait_, _xxiv_ 49 (1854) _portrait_.

NOTE.--He was the champion of the Protestant church and earned sobriquet of “Member for Heaven.” He opposed repeal of the test and corporation acts, Roman catholic relief and reform bills and admission of Jews to parliament.

INGLIS, WILLIAM. _b._ Midlem, Roxburghshire 1812 or 1813; partner in firm of W. and R. Chambers, publishers, Edin. to death; author of Book keeping by single entry 1866; Book keeping by single and double entry 1858, other editions 1861 and 1867; Farm book keeping 1866. _d._ Dick place, Edinburgh 11 Oct. 1887.

INGLIS, William (son of sir William Inglis, K.C.B. _d._ 1835). _b._ 8 July 1823; ensign 4 foot 7 Feb. 1840; ensign 57 foot 6 March 1840, lieut. col. 21 May 1858 to 29 Jany. 1861; served in Crimean war 1854–6; lieut. col. 9 foot 29 Jany. 1861 to 23 Jany. 1863; lieut. col. depot battalion 23 Jany. 1863 to 17 April 1866 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 15 March 1879; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Hildersham hall, Cambridge 21 Nov. 1888.

INGPEN, ABEL. F.L.S.; author of Instructions for preserving British insects, crustacea and shells 1827; Instructions for collecting, rearing and preserving British insects, also for collecting and preserving British crustacea, together with a description of entomological apparatus 1843; Manual for the butterfly collector 1849. _d._ Chelsea 14 Sep. 1854.

INGPEN, WILLIAM ALFRED (youngest son of Thomas Ingpen, sec. to sir James Burroughs, judge of common pleas 1816–20). _b._ Guilford st. Russell sq. London 23 Feb. 1812; exhibited 8 sporting pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1830–8; a clerk of insolvent debtors’ court, Portugal st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1842, clerk of the rules 1858 to 12 April 1865 when granted pension of £216. _d._ 3 Pountney road, Lavender hill, London 29 July 1888.

INGRAM, ALEXANDER. _b._ Scotland; M.D.; surgeon in army of U.S. of America, May 1861; served with 2nd cavalry in army of the Potomac 1862–3; in charge of St. Aloysius hospital, Washington 1863, then of Judiciary sq. hospital; chief surgeon of the troops in Southern California; chief medical officer in general Wright’s army in Northern division of the Pacific coast; _lost_ in the wreck of steamship Brother Jonathan off coast of Oregon 30 July 1865. _Appleton’s Annual Cyclop. v_ 645 (1866).

INGRAM, AUGUSTUS HENRY. _b._ 1811; entered navy 13 Feb. 1821; commander 8 June 1841 for his conduct in the Blonde’s boat at siege of Canton; captain 5 June 1856, retired 1 July 1867; retired R.A. 1 Jany. 1875; retired admiral 31 March 1885. _d._ 10 Chilworth st. Westbourne terrace, London 5 Oct. 1888.

INGRAM, HERBERT (son of Herbert Ingram of Boston, Lincs.) _b._ Boston 27 May 1811; a journeyman printer in London 1832–4; printer and bookseller with his brother-in-law Nathaniel Cooke at Nottingham 1834; purchased from T. Roberts a druggist at Manchester, a receipt for an aperient pill called Parr’s Life Pill; they moved to London and started The Illustrated London News at 198 Strand 14 May 1842 mainly to advertize their pill, they dissolved partnership 1848; bought The Pictorial Times 1845, merged it in The Lady’s Newspaper which he started 2 Jany. 1847; started The London Telegraph 1 Feb. 1848, last number appeared 9 July 1848; bought copyright and plant of The London Journal from George Stiff 8 Oct. 1857 for £24,000; M.P. for Boston 7 March 1856 to death; drowned with his eldest son Herbert on board steamer Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan 8 Sep. 1860. _bur._ Boston cemetery 5 Oct., marble memorial statue erected in Market place, Boston 1862. _C. Mackay’s Forty years recollections_, _ii_ 64–75 (1877); _M. Jackson’s Pictorial Press_ (1885) 284–311, _portrait_; _J. Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 24, 222, _portrait_.

INGRAM, REV. JAMES (son of a farmer who lived to be 100). _b._ Logie Coldston, Aberdeenshire 3 April 1776; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen 1791; assist. minister at Fetlar and North Yell 1800–3 and minister 1803; minister of Unst 1821–43; joined the Free ch. 1843 and was minister of Unst Free ch. 1843 to death; learnt Hebrew and German after he was 60; D.D. of Glasgow univ.; presented with his portrait and a silver tea service 1872. d. Unst 3 March 1879. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881); _Times 3 April 1876 p._ 6.

INGRAM, ROBERT HUGH WILSON, _b._ 1792 or 1793; barrister M.T. 20 June 1817, bencher 25 Jany. 1869; presented to Society of Middle Temple, marble busts of the Prince of Wales and of Edmund Plowden placed in Middle Temple hall 1868. _d._ Slough, Bucks. 29 Jany. 1869.

INGRAM, WALTER (youngest son of Herbert Ingram 1811–60). _b._ 1855; officer in Middlesex yeomanry cavalry; travelled in Zululand; went up the Nile in his steam launch and joined Sir H. Stewart’s brigade in its march across Bayuda desert; attached to lord C. Beresford’s naval corps and was in battles of Abu Klea and Metammeh 1885; went up the Nile to within sight of Khartoum, Feb. 1885, rewarded with a medal; _killed_ by an elephant which he had wounded near Berbera east coast of Africa 6 April 1888. _Times 11 April 1888 p._ 5, _col._ 5.

INGS, EDWARD. Barrister I.T. 1 May 1835; a legal coach at 40 Great James st. Bedford row, London many years; author of The act for the abolition of arrest on mesne process in civil actions, with rules, orders and cases and an appendix of forms 1840. _d._ 40 Great James st. London 2 May 1885 aged 76.

INMAN, REV. JAMES (younger son of Richard Inman of Garsdale Foot, Sedbergh, Yorkshire). b. 1776; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1800, senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1800, B.A. 1800, M.A. 1805, B.D. 1815, D.D. 1820; sailed round the world with Flinders as astronomer; professor of mathematics at royal naval college, Portsmouth 1808–39; principal of the school of naval architecture, Portsmouth 1810–39; author of The scriptural doctrine of divine grace. A sermon 1820; A treatise on navigation and nautical astronomy. Portsea 1821, 3 ed. 1835; An introduction to naval gunnery. Portsea 1828; Nautical tables for the use of British seamen 1860, 4 ed. 1888 and other books. _d._ Southsea 2 Feb. 1859.

INMAN, REV. JAMES WILLIAMS (son of the preceding). Ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; fellow of his coll. 1835–7; head master Grantham gram. sch. 1837–58; master of Pymsent’s sch. Chudleigh 1858–77; C. of Knighton, Devon 1863–72; edited some of his Father’s works 1860–88; author of Orioma, the reclaimed, a drama. Grantham 1858; Latitudes and longitudes of places on the seabord 1865; The chasuble not Anglican but Roman 1867. _d._ 1889.

INMAN, THOMAS (2 son of Charles Inman, director of the bank of Liverpool, who _d._ 1858). _b._ Rutland st. Leicester 27 Jany. 1820; ed. at King’s coll. London; M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.S.A. 1842; M.D. Lond. 1844; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; surgeon in Liverpool 1842–71; house surgeon Liverpool infirmary; author of Spontaneous combustion. Liverpool 1855; Foundation for a new theory of medicine 1860, 2 ed. 1861; Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names 2 vols. 1868–9, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1872–3; The preservation of health 1870, 3 ed. 1872; Ancient pagan and modern christian symbolism explained 1869, 3 ed. 1880 and other books. _d._ Clifton 3 May 1876.

INMAN, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Leicester 6 April 1825; clerk successively to Nathan Cairns and to Cater & Co. merchants, Liverpool; clerk to Richardson Brothers, merchants, Liverpool and a partner Jany. 1849, managed the fleet of American sailing packets and purchased the City of Glasgow and 4 other iron screw ships 1850–6; formed the Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia steamship co. better known as the Inman line 1857; established a fortnightly line to New York 1857, a weekly service 1860, three times a fortnight 1863; carried the mail between England and America; launched the City of Berlin 1875 largest steam vessel afloat except the Great Eastern. _d._ Upton manor near Birkenhead 3 July 1881. _bur._ Moreton parish church 6 July. _History of merchant shipping. By W. S. Lindsay_, _iv_ 251–60, 611–2 (1876); _Colburn’s New monthly mag. clxviii_ 177, _portrait_; _Biograph_, _iv_ 467 (1880).

INNES, _Anne_ (eld. dau. of Charles Innes of Fleet st. and Hatton garden, London). Joint proprietor and editor with her sisters Eliza and Maria Catherine of the peerage known as Sams’s annual peerage 2 vols. 1827 after its publisher Wm. Sams of St. James’ st. London, in 1832 it was published by H. Colburn with the altered title of Lodge’s Peerage, the Norroy king at arms allowing his name to be placed on it to oblige the Misses Innes. The surviving sister edited The Peerage to 1862; it is the only work which gives the births of the female nobility. _d._ High st. Hounslow 24 March 1856. _G.M. i_ 253 (1856).

NOTE.--Eliza Innes _d._ about 1857 and Maria Catherine Innes _d._ 4 Thorne road, South Lambeth, London 13 Dec. 1880 in 85 year. _Times 21 Dec. 1880 p._ 11 _col._ 1. Eliza and Maria C. Innes compiled the Index to Davies Gilbert’s Parochial history of Cornwall (1838) vol. iii. pp. 395–571.

INNES, COSMO NELSON (youngest son of John Innes of Leuchars, Elginshire, writer to the signet). _b._ Durris manor house, Kincardineshire 9 Sep. 1798; ed. at Aberdeen univ. and Glasgow univ. from which he was a Snell exhibitioner to Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; called to Scottish bar 1822; one of advocates depute 1833; sheriff of Elginshire 1840–52; a principal clerk of session 23 Feb. 1852 to death; professor of civil history in univ. of Edin. 19 Nov. 1846 to 1862, professor of history there 1862 to death; member of Bannatyne, Spalding and Maitland clubs and Scottish Burghs’ Record Soc. for which he edited many Cartularies and other works 1832–64, 25 in number; edited with T. Thomson, Acts of the parliaments of Scotland 12 vols. 1814–75 for Commissioners on Public Records; author of Sketches of early Scottish history 1861; Scotland in the middle ages 1860. _d._ Killin near Crieff, Perthshire 31 July 1874. _bur._ Warriston cemet. Edinburgh 5 Aug. _Memoirs of Cosmo Innes_ (1874); _Proc. of R. Soc. of Edin. viii_ 453–60 (1875).

INNES, FREDERICK MAITLAND. _b._ Scotland 1816; went to Australia 1833; member Tasmanian legislative assembly 2 Dec. 1856; colonial treasurer 25 April 1857 to 1 Nov. 1862; colonial secretary 1 Nov. 1862 to 20 Jany. 1863; colonial treasurer and premier 4 Nov. 1872 to 4 Aug. 1873; colonial treasurer 13 March 1875 to 20 July 1876; member legislative council 1862, president legislative council 1876. _d._ Hobart Town, May 1882. _Heaton’s Australian Dictionary_ (1879) 100, 156.

INNES, JAMES CHARLES. _b._ 30 May 1811; ensign 61 Bengal N.I. 3 June 1829, major 3 July 1855; lieut. col. Bengal Infantry 15 July 1859, col. 10 Nov. 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 30 May 1881. _d._ 13 Dunsford place, Bath 5 May 1885.

INNES, REV. WILLIAM (son of Rev. James Innes of Yester). _b._ 1775; presbyterian minister Stirling 1793, deposed from his charge 8 Oct. 1799; chaplain Stirling castle 1793; minister at the Tabernacle, Dundee 1800; pastor of a Baptist congregation, Edinburgh; bookseller Edinburgh; D.D. of Washington coll. Pennsylvania 1848; author of Reasons for separating from the church of Scotland. Dundee 1804; Sketches of human nature. Edin. 1807; Liberia, or the history of the American colony of free Negroes 1831, 2 ed. 1833; Suggestions for thoughtful but sceptical minds 1854 and many other books. _d._ Edinburgh 8 March 1855. _H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ_, _ii part_ 2 _p._ 680 (1869).

INSKIP, JOHN SWANNELL. _b._ Huntingdon 10 Aug. 1816; taken to U.S. of America 1821; a preacher in Methodist Episcopal church 1835; attained distinction as an orator and conductor of camp-meetings; edited The Christian Standard; author of Life of Rev. William Summers a blind man. Baltimore; Methodism explained and defended. Philadelphia 1856. _d._ Ocean Grove, New Jersey 7 March 1884.

INSKIP, REV. ROBERT MILLS. _b._ 1816; naval instructor R.N. 22 Dec. 1836, chaplain 14 June 1853, retired 25 July 1871; C.B. 2 June 1869; author of Navigation and nautical astronomy 1869, new ed. 1871. _d._ 22 Torrington place, Plymouth 17 Dec. 1890.

INSKIPP, JAMES. _b._ 1790; in the commissariat service, retired with a pension; exhibited 24 pictures at R.A., 83 at B.I. and 56 at Suffolk st. 1816–64; his pictures were chiefly small subject-pictures and portraits, some of them were engraved; illustrated Sir Harris Nicolas’s edition of Izaac Walton’s Complete Angler 1833–6; published a series of engravings from his own drawings entitled, Studies of heads from nature 1838. _d._ Godalming, Surrey 15 March 1868.

INVERARITY, JONATHAN DUNCAN. _b._ 1812 or 1813; entered Bombay civil service 1830; comr. in Scinde 1859–62; member of council at Bombay 24 March 1862–65 when he retired on annuity. _d._ Rosemount, Forfarshire 28 April 1882.

INVERNESS, CECILIA LETITIA GORE UNDERWOOD, Duchess of (8 dau. of 2 earl of Arran 1734–1809). _b._ 1788. (_m._ (1) 14 May 1815 sir George Buggin who _d._ Great Cumberland place, London 12 April 1825 aged 65; _m._ (2) 1830 Augustus Frederick 1 duke of Sussex, he was _b._ Buckingham house 27 Jany. 1773, _d._ Kensington palace 21 April 1843); assumed her maternal surname of Underwood by sign manual 2 May 1831; cr. duchess of Inverness 10 April 1840. _d._ Kensington palace, London 1 Aug. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 135 (1873).

IONS, THOMAS (eld. son of James Ions of Gateshead, Durham). _b._ 1817; organist St. Nicholas ch. Newcastle 1835 to death; conductor Sacred harmonic and choral soc. Newcastle 1852 to death; Mus. Bac. (Magdalen hall) Oxf. 10 July 1848, Mus. Doc. 3 Feb. 1854; composer of Clear serene eyes, a canzonet 1845; By the waters of Babylon, an anthem for five voices 1848; Cantica ecclesiastica, a collection of psalm and hymn tunes 1850, 3 ed. 1855, besides songs and other pieces of music. _d._ Westmoreland ter. Newcastle-on-Tyne 25 Sep. 1857. _Newcastle Chronicle 2 Oct. 1857 p._ 8.

IRELAND, JAMES. _b._ Horsham 10 March 1811; went to Brighton to reside with his uncle the proprietor of tea gardens and cricket ground 1823; a carpenter, a wood merchant and a builder 1844; opened up several new districts in Preston and Hove and built a large number of houses; a founder of Brighton gram. sch. 1859; vice chairman of board of guardians 1868–71; member of school board Nov. 1870, chairman to death; mayor of Brighton 1872–4. _d._ 74 Dyke road, Brighton 20 March 1877. _Sussex Daily News 21 March 1877 p._ 3.

IRELAND, RICHARD DAVIES. _b._ Galway; barrister King’s Inns, Dublin, Nov. 1838; went to Victoria, Australia 1852; admitted to Victorian bar 24 Feb. 1853; defended the Ballarat rioters Dec. 1854; member of legislature from 1857; solicitor general, Victoria 10 March 1858 to 27 Oct. 1859, 26 Nov. 1860 to 29 July 1861 and 14 Nov. 1861 to 27 June 1863; Q.C. 14 Aug. 1863. _d._ Melbourne 1875. _Heaton’s Australian Dictionary_ (1879) 100, 158.

IREMONGER, WILLIAM. _b._ 31 Aug. 1776; ensign 18 foot 29 Feb. 1792; lieut. col. 2 foot 17 March 1808 to 2 May 1811; K.C. _d._ Wherwell priory near Andover, Hants. 21 Jany. 1852. _G.M. xxxvii_ 521 (1852).

IRONS, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Ware, Herts. 5 Nov. 1785; ordained an independent minister 21 May 1814; minister at Hoddesdon, Herts. 1814–15, at Sawston, Cambridge 1815–18 and at Grove chapel, Camberwell, Surrey 1818 to death; author of Zion’s hymns: a supplement to Dr. Watts’ Psalms and hymns. Saffron Walden 1816, 10 ed. 1846; Jazer: assistance for the weak in faith 1821, 21 ed. 1880; Calvary, a poem, 2 ed. 1834; The true church of God as described in the oracles of God, 3 ed. 1837; Nymphas: an exposition of the Song of Solomon in blank verse 1841; Grove chapel pulpit: Discourses 4 vols. 1848–51 and 14 other books. _d._ Camberwell 3 April 1852. _G. Bayfield’s Memoir of rev. J. Irons_ (1852).

IRONS, REV. WILLIAM JOSIAH (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Hoddesdon, Herts. 12 Sep. 1812; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1835, B.D. 1842, D.D. 1854; C. of St. Mary, Newington Butts, London 1835–37; P.C. of St. Peter’s, Walworth 1837–38; V. of Barkway, Herts. 1838–40; P.C. of Brompton, London 1840–70; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. Dec. 1860 to death; R. of Waddingham, Lincs. 1870–72; Bampton lecturer 1870; R. of St. Mary Woolnoth with St. Mary Woolchurch, Haw, London 7 June 1872 to death; one of editors of Literary Churchman, in which he wrote leading articles May 1855 to Dec. 1861; author of On the Holy catholic church: lectures, three series 1837–47; Our Blessed Lord regarded in his earthly relationship 1844; Notes of the church 1845, 3 ed. 1846; The miracles of Christ: sermons 1859; Analysis of human responsibility 1869; Occasional sermons 1876. _d._ 20 Gordon sq. London 18 June 1883. _C. Mackeson’s Church congress handbook_ (1877) 98–100; _Guide to the church congress_ (1883) _p._ 46; _Times 20, 21 June 1883_.

IRONSIDE, ADELAIDE ELIZA (dau. of James Ironside, accountant, _d._ Sydney 20 July 1866 aged 63). _b._ Sydney 17 Nov. 1831; studied in Rome 1856–7; painted ‘The marriage in Cana of Galilee’ and ‘The pilgrim of art’ shown at Great exhibition, London 1862; also painted ‘The presentation of the Magi to the infant Jesus,’ which with 2 other subjects was sent to Australia; sent fugitive poems signed A. E. I. to the colonial press. _d._ Rome 15 April 1867. _Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates_ (1879) 100.

IRTON, SAMUEL (eld. son of Edmund Lamplugh Irton of Irton hall, Ravenglass, Cumberland, _d._ 1820). _b._ Irton hall 29 Sep. 1796; ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam.; M.P. western div. of Cumberland 1833–47 and 1852–7. _d._ 10 July 1866.

IRVINE, ALEXANDER (son of a farmer). _b._ Daviot, Aberdeenshire 1793; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; schoolmaster at Albury, Surrey, in London, at Bristol and at Guildford; kept a school at Chelsea from 1851; connected with Irvingite ch. White Notley, Essex; a botanist in the neighbourhood of London; edited The Phytologist 6 vols. 1855–63; F.B.S.; author of The London Flora 1838, new ed. 1846; Illustrated handbook of British plants 1858; Botanists’ Chronicle 17 numbers 1865; Introduction to the science of botany 1858. _d._ Upper Manor st. Chelsea 13 May 1873. _Journal of Botany_ (1873) _p._ 222; _Gardeners’ Chronicle_ (1873) 1017.

IRVINE, ALEXANDER FORBES (eld. son of Alexander Forbes Irvine 1777–1861). _b._ 18 Feb. 1818; ed. at univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh; called to Scotch bar 1843; clerk to the justiciary court; convener of the county of Aberdeen 1862; sheriff of Argyll 1874–91; F.R.S.E. 1874, a vice pres. 1884–5. _d._ Drum castle, Aberdeenshire 4 April 1892.

IRVINE, HANS. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826, M.A. and M.B. 1833; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1837, president; lecturer on anatomy and surgery, medical school, Marlborough st.; hon. sec. royal zoological soc. of Dublin. _d._ University club, Dublin 1 March 1882.

IRVINE, JAMES (eld. son of John Irvine of Meadowburn, Menmuir, Forfarshire). _b._ 1833; studied at Edinb. acad.; portrait painter at Arbroath and then at Montrose, one of best portrait painters in Scotland, also a landscape painter. _d._ Brunswick cottage, Hillside, Montrose 17 March 1889. _Dundee Advertiser 18 March 1889._

IRVINE, JAMES PEARSON (3 son of Dr. James Pearson Irvine). _b._ Galgate, Lancaster, March 1842; ed. at Univ. coll. London; B.A. London 1862, B. Sc. 1864, M.B. 1870, M.D. 1871; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1864; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1874, F.R.C.P. 1879; in practice at Liverpool 1864–74 and in London 1874 to death; assist. physician Charing Cross hospital 1874 and lecturer on botany, lecturer on forensic medicine, demonstrator of morbid anatomy and subdean of the medical school; a frequent contributor to medical journals; author of Tales of a father 1860; Relapse of typhoid fever especially with reference to the temperature 1880. _d._ 3 Mansfield st. Portland place, London 15 Oct. 1880. _Medical Times_, _ii_ 606 (1880); _Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. ix_ 48 (1882).

IRVING, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ Dalton, Dumfriesshire; schoolmaster; LL.D.; author of A catechism of astronomy, 6 ed. 1819; A catechism of general geography 1820, 12 ed. 1867; A catechism of Roman history 1821; Elements of permanent and field fortifications 1828; An outline of the kingdom of nature 1841 and upwards of 20 other school books. _d._ Lea, Gloucestershire 27 Feb. 1856.

IRVING, DAVID (4 son of Janetus Irving _d._ April 1815). _b._ Langholm, Dumfriesshire 5 Dec. 1778; ed. at univ. of Edin., M.A. 1801; LL.D. of univ. of Aberdeen 1813; D.C.L. of Göttingen 1837; principal librarian of Faculty of Advocates, Edin. June 1820, resigned Dec. 1848; author of The elements of English composition 1801, 11 ed. 1841; The lives of the Scottish poets 2 vols. 1804, 2 ed. 1810; Memoirs of the life and writings of George Buchanan 1807, 2 ed. 1817; Observations on the study of civil law 1815, several editions; The history of Scottish poetry 1861; edited works for the Bannatyne and the Maitland clubs 1821–32; contributed to seventh ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica 27 biographical memoirs and some articles on law; left 7000 vols. of books. _d._ 6 Meadow place, Edinb. 10 May 1860. _D. Irving’s Scottish poetry_ (1861), _with Memoir by D. Laing pp. xi–xxiv_; _Gent. Mag. viii_ 645, _ix_ 320–1 (1860).

IRVING, GEORGE. _b._ 1774; second lieut. royal Irish artillery 16 Dec. 1793, captain 1 July 1794 to 1 April 1801 when he retired on full pay, the corps being amalgamated with the R.A.; general 16 Dec. 1856. _d._ Balmae, Kirkcudbrightshire 22 Nov. 1864.

IRVING, GEORGE VERE (only child of Alexander Irving, lord Newton, _d._ 1832). _b._ 1815; advocate at Scotch bar 1837; captain of the Carnwarth troop of volunteers; F.S.A. Scot.; Assoc. British Archæological Assoc. 1852 and member of council; author of Digest of the law of the assessed taxes in Scotland. Edin. 1841; Digest of the inhabited house tax act. Edin. 1852; and with A. Murray of The upper ward of Lanarkshire 3 vols. Glasgow 1864. _d._ 5 St. Mark’s crescent, Regent’s park, London 29 Oct. 1869. _Journal British Archæological Assoc. xxvi_ 267–8 (1870); _Notes and Queries 4 ser. iv_ 398 (1869).

IRVING, JACOB ÆMILIUS (son of Jacob Æmilius Irving of Ironshore, Jamaica and of Liverpool). _b._ Charleston, South Carolina 29 Jany. 1797; cornet 13 light dragoons 18 May 1815, lieut. 1816 to 5 Nov. 1818 when placed on h.p.; wounded at Waterloo 18 June 1815; presented with freedom of city of Liverpool for his gallant conduct in the war; went to Canada 1834, aided in suppressing rebellion on Niagara frontier 1837; first warden for district of Simcoe; member of legislative council. _d._ Niagara Falls 7 Oct. 1856.

IRVING, JOHN. Partner in firm of Reid, Irving and Co. merchants, London; executed a contract for clothing the Russian army amounting to £1,500,000, 1816–7; M.P. for Bramber 1806–32; contested Clitheroe 1832 and Poole 1835; M.P. for co. Antrim 1837–45; chairman of Alliance British and foreign fire and life insurance co. from its foundation 1824 to 1846. _d._ 1853.

IRVING, JOSEPH (son of Andrew Irving, joiner). _b._ Dumfries 2 May 1830; apprenticed to a printer, Dumfries; editor of Dumbarton Herald 1854; bookseller Dumbarton to 1869; started the Dumbarton Journal 1867; removed to Paisley 1880; wrote for the Glasgow Herald and other papers; F.S.A. Scot. 1860; author of The history of Dumbartonshire. Dumbarton 1857, 2 ed. 1860; The annals of our Time: a diurnal of events from the accession of queen Victoria 1869, 2 ed. 1871, 3 Supplements 1875, 79, 89; The book of Scotsmen. Paisley 1881; The West of Scotland in history. Glasgow 1885; The book of Dumbartonshire. Edinb. 3 vols. 1879. _d._ Hillhead house, Paisley 2 Sep. 1891. _Stationery trades journal 30 Sep. 1891 p._ 452; _Glasgow Herald 5 Sep. 1891_.

IRVING, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ 1840; appeared at Strand theatre; played at Hull and other places in the provinces; appeared at Haymarket theatre as Narcissus Fitzfrizzle in The Dancing Barber 6 Aug. 1866; played Jean Cochet in Alfred B. Richards’s drama The Prisoner of Toulon at Drury Lane 2 March 1868, Jack in Jack the giant killer, and Grimalkin in Puss in boots at Drury Lane 1867–8 and 1868–9; played Uriah Heep in Halliday’s Little Em’ly at Olympic 9 Oct. 1869; played in New York 1869; his last appearance was as Boggle in The ‘Varsity boat race at the Olympic 6 April 1870. _d._ from softening of the brain at 255 New Cross road, London 6 Sep. 1870. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 12 Sep. _The Era 11 Sep. 1870 p._ 10, _25 Sep. p._ 13.

IRVING, REV. MATTHEW (son of Matthew Irving of Langholme, Dumfriesshire). Matric. from Pemb. coll. Ox. 20 March 1806 aged 26; migrated to Trin. coll. Cam., B.D. 1817, D.D. 1831; V. of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset 25 April 1822 to death; preb. of Rochester 1 Sep. 1824 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1825 to death; P.C. of Chatham, Kent 28 June 1828 to death; author of A sermon at the consecration of the church of Hamworthy, Dorset 1826. _d._ Dover 6 Oct. 1857.

IRVING, REV. THOMAS, usually called Thomas Sherburne (son of Joseph Irving). _b._ Kirkham, Lancs. 16 June 1779; ed. at English coll. Valladolid 1788–1803, where he assumed his mother’s name Sherburne; ordained a priest 1803; missioner at Claughton 1804, at Blackburn 1805; pastor of The Willows, Kirkham 1813–22 and 1824 to death; rector of Valladolid coll. 1822–4; vicar general of Lancashire district Jany. 1842 to death; acquired considerable property on death of Mr. Wm. Heatley 1840; built at cost of £10,000 St. John the Evangelist, Kirkham, opened 23 April 1845, first R.C. ch. with a peal of bells since days of queen Mary; gave evidence before select committee on mortmain 1845; edited Whittingham’s The old fashioned farmer’s motives for leaving the church of England and embracing the Roman catholic faith 1815. _d._ Kirkham 17 Dec. 1854. _Gillow’s English catholics_, _iii_ 555–8 (1887).

IRWIN, FREDERICK CHIDLEY. Ensign 83 foot 25 March 1808, served in Peninsula 1809–14; capt. 63 regt. 1828–42; commandant in Western Australia 28 June 1836 to 15 Dec. 1854; lieut. col. on h.p. 15 Dec. 1854, sold out 29 Aug. 1856; K.H. 1836; war medal and 9 clasps. _d._ Cheltenham 31 March 1860.

IRWIN, WILLIAM. _b._ 3 Dec. 1810; ensign 88 foot 3 Nov. 1827, major 18 Jany. 1848 to 26 Dec. 1851; lieut. col. 3 West India regiment 26 Dec. 1851 to 7 June 1854 when placed on h.p.; A.Q.M.G. Kilkenny district 1854–56; col. of 34 foot 2 Aug. 1875, of 88 foot 9 April 1879 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 3 Dec. 1880. _d._ St. Catherine’s park, Leixlip, Kildare 22 Dec. 1889.

ISAAC, SAMUEL (son of Lewis Isaac of Poole, Dorset). _b._ Chatham 1815; army contractor in London as Isaac, Campbell and Co. 1850–63, merchant in London 1863–71; their ships during 1861–65 were employed as blockade runners in supplying the southern states of the U.S. of America with military stores; ruined on the conclusion of the war 1865; raised the 5th Northampton rifle corps from his factory at Northampton 1860, captain commandant 3 March 1860, major 1868–74; purchased rights of promoters of Mersey tunnel 1880 and completed the boring 17 Jany. 1884, opened by Prince of Wales 20 Jany. 1886; formed a collection of paintings containing many by B. W. Leader. _d._ 29 Warrington crescent, Maida vale, London 22 Nov. 1886, left £203,084 17s. 9d. _Jewish Chronicle 26 Nov. 1886 p._ 10; _Times 26 Nov. 1886 p._ 6; _I.L.N. 30 Jany. 1886 p._ 111.

ISAACS, ELIAS, commonly called Liley Isaacs, attorney in City of London 1797 to 1860; great criminal lawyer. _d._ 1860 aged 85.

ISAACS, REBECCA (dau. of John Isaacs of Covent Garden theatre, actor and bass singer 1791–1830). _b._ London 26 June 1828; first appeared on the stage at The City theatre, Milton st. London as Fanny in The barn burners 17 March 1835; played Mother Bunch in Planche’s burletta Riquet with the Tuft at the Olympic theatre 26 Dec. 1836; travelled with the Distins as a singer under the name of Miss Zuchilli 1838; appeared as Albert at Covent garden 3 Dec. 1838 to Macready’s William Tell; acted at Drury lane taking the chief roles in English operas 1846, at the Surrey theatre 1847; appeared as Amina at Sadler’s Wells; sang in the provinces and in Dublin and appeared in operas with Sims Reeves; took Louisa Pyne’s part Eolia in the Mountain Sylph at Drury lane June 1852; directress of operas at the Strand theatre 1852–3 and 1855; the original Leila in Satanella at Covent Garden 1858; her voice was a soprano of great compass and exceeding sweetness. (_m._ Thomas Roberts, acting manager who _d._ 6 June 1876 aged 44). _d._ London 21 April 1877. _bur._ Woking cemetery 24 April. _The Players_, _iii_ 279–80, 289 (1860), _portrait_; _Era 29 April 1877 p._ 5.

ISBISTER, ALEXANDER KENNEDY (eld. son of Thomas Isbister an officer of Hudson Bay Co.) _b._ Fort Cumberland, Canada 1822; in service of Hudson Bay Co.; studied at universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, M.A. Edin. 1858; second master East Islington proprietary school 1849 and master 1850–55; head master Jews’ coll. Finsbury sq. 1855–8; master Stationers’ Co. sch. 1858–82; connected with College of preceptors from 1851, editor of the Educational Times 1862, dean of the college 1872 to death; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1864; LL.B. of univ. of Lond. 1866; author of Elements of book-keeping 1850; A proposal for a new penal settlement in British North America 1850; The illustrated public school speaker 1870 and many other school books. _d._ 20 Milner sq. Islington 28 May 1883. _Journal of education_, _July 1883 p._ 247.

ISELIN, JOHN FREDERICK. Ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858; assistant director for science, science and art department, South Kensington to death. _d._ Rosenfeld, Streatham 1 Nov. 1884 aged 52.

ISHAM, REV. ARTHUR (only son of Rev. Henry Charles Isham 1777–1833). _b._ 23 July 1809; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1832–7; R. of Weston-Turville, Bucks. 1837–76; author of Jacob and Israel, Ephraim and Judah or the use of these titles with reference to the destiny of God’s ancient people 1854; Ecclesiastical outlines or suggestions for the abatement of schism 1857; An historical interpretation of the Revelation of John 1890. _d._ Cawood, Reigate 4 Feb. 1892.

IVES, REV. CORNELIUS (son of Thomas Horatio Ives of Horstead, Norfolk). _b._ 18 July 1793; ed. at Rugby and Ex. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; R. of Bradden, Northants. 10 Feb. 1818 to death; author of A compendious history of the church of God to the end of the seventeenth century 1820; Sermons composed for a country congregation. Oxford 1832; edited W. Van Mildert’s Sermons and charges 1838. _d._ Bradden house 15 Nov. 1883.

IVIMEY, JOSEPH. _b._ 1803; admitted a solicitor 1825; practised at 7 Harpur st. Red lion sq. London, next at 89 Chancery lane, then at 30 Southampton buildings and lastly at 8 Staple inn; one of the promoters of Anti-corn law league 1839, solicitor to that body 1839–46. _d._ New lodge near Lymington 4 Oct. 1878.

IVISON, HENRY. _b._ Glasgow 25 Dec. 1808; went to U.S. of A. 1820; apprenticed to Wm. Williams of Utica, bookbinder; established house of H. Ivison and Co. in Auburn, New York about 1830; publisher in New York 1846–80; one of the largest publishers of educational works in the United States, having a list of over 300 school books. _d._ New York 26 Nov. 1884. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 370 (1887), _portrait_.

IVORY, JAMES (son of Thomas Ivory, watchmaker). _b._ Dundee 1792; ed. at univ. of Edin.; called to Scottish bar 1816; one of deputies of lord advocate Francis Jeffrey 1830; sheriff of Caithness 1832–3; sheriff of Bute 26 June 1833; solicitor general of Scotland 20 April 1839; one of lords of session 9 May 1840, resigned Oct. 1862; one of lords of justiciary 24 May 1849 to Oct. 1862 with title of Lord Ivory; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ 9 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 17 Oct. 1866. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 273; _Journal of Jurisprudence_, _x_ 330–32 (1866).

NOTE.--His son Thomas Ivory, advocate, threw himself over the Dean bridge, Leith, Edinburgh 6 May 1882.

JABLONSKI, LEON. _b._ Strjakow, Poland about 1806; entered Polish army and fought for the liberation of Poland; lived at Dijon in France; engaged in tuition in Edinburgh; a merchant in London; author of an English translation of the well-known Polish poem ‘Conrad Wallenrod’ by A. Mickiewicz 1841, this was reprinted in Polish, French and English 1851. _d._ Dijon 2 Oct. 1853.

JACK, ALEXANDER (son of rev. William Jack _d._ 9 Feb. 1854). _b._ 19 Oct. 1805; ensign 30 Bengal N.I. 23 May 1824, major 1846–51; brigadier of force sent against Kangra in the Punjab 1847; commanded a battalion in second Sikh war, present at Aliwal, Chillianwalla and Goojerat; lieut. col. 33 Bengal N.I. 18 Dec. 1851; lieut. col. 42 Bengal light infantry 1853; lieut. col. 34 Bengal N.I. 1856 to death; brigadier at Cawnpore 8 Aug. 1856 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849; published Six views of Kot Kangra sketched on the spot 1847; _shot_ by the mutineers at Cawnpore 27 June 1857. _Mowbray Thomason’s Story of Cawnpore_ (1859) 62, _etc._; _Kaye’s Indian mutiny_, _ii_ 217–68 (1889).

JACK, REV. ALEXANDER (son of rev. Robert Jack of Manchester). _b._ Linlithgow 16 June 1794; ed. at Edin. univ. and at Divinity hall, Selkirk; presbyterian minister Dunbar 1818–64; D.D. of an American univ. 1862. _d._ Musselburgh near Edinburgh 5 Aug. 1868. _Sanctuary services. By A. Jack. With a memoir by J. Kerr. Edin._ (1869), _portrait_.

JACK, JAMES (son of a land steward). _b._ Drumkilbo, parish of Meigle 1785; enlisted in Forfar and Kincardine militia 1803 and was employed as clerk in the orderly room, regiment disbanded 1816; member of Forfar and Kincardine masonic lodge 25 Aug. 1808 for which he framed a code of laws and established a benefit soc. in the lodge; lieut. in the militia at Montrose 1816; formed a code of rules for the Caledonian lodge of Free Gardeners, Montrose; surveyor of taxes for Dundee and district 1831, retired with a pension; kept the Union royal arch chapter No. 6 Dundee in its place on the roll from 1831–55 and was presented with his portrait 1857. _d._ Dundee 15 Dec. 1861. _monu._ erected in ch. yard at Liff. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 204–6.

JACK, THOMAS C. (son of an Edinburgh printer). _b._ 1830; apprentice to W. P. Kennedy, bookseller; bookseller Edinb.; with his brother in the hardware trade, Glasgow; member of firm of Inglis and Jack, publishers, Edinb.; publisher alone; brought out Fairbairn’s Crests of British Families 1860 and Riddell’s The Carpenter 1868; published a Welsh Bible 1873 which returned a good profit, the Globe Encyclopædia 1875, the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, and the Encyclopædia of Freemasonry; sec. of Edinb. chamber of commerce 1872; purchased the stock and copyrights of Fullarton & Co. 1880. _d._ 13 Strathearn road, David st. Edinburgh 3 Dec. 1886. _The Bookseller 16 Dec. 1886 p._ 1322.

JACK, REV. WILLIAM (son of rev. William Jack, D.D.) _b._ Northmavin, Shetland 1768; ed. at Univ. and King’s colleges, Aberdeen, D.D. 1815; M.D. of Edin.; professor in Univ. and King’s colleges, Aberdeen 1794, sub-principal and professor of moral philosophy Dec. 1800, principal 1815 to death; mayor of Aberdeen. _d._ King’s coll. Aberdeen 9 Feb. 1854. _The Aberdeen Herald 25 Feb. 1854 p._ 6.

JACKMAN, HENRY. _b._ about 1786; manager of Northampton theatrical circuit 45 years. _d._ Northampton 30 Sep. 1852 aged 66. _The Era 10 Oct. 1852 p._ 12.

JACKSON, REV. ARTHUR GREGORY. _b._ 1844; ed. at Lichfield theol. coll. to 1868; C. of Wolverhampton coll. ch. 1868–72; in charge of St. Andrew, W. Bromwich 1872–5; C. of St. Thomas, Regent st. London 1875–82; hon. chaplain Newport market refuge 1878; chaplain and warden of Philanthropic Soc. farm sch. Redhill, Surrey 1882 to death; proprietor of the Leicester Journal to death; author of A penny pocket book of prayers and hymns 1867; The missioner’s manual of anecdotes 1876; The history of St. Thomas’s church, Regent st. 1881; The missioner’s hymnal 1884; The missioner’s book of sermon notes and illustrations 1890; _hanged_ himself at Redhill 23 April 1887. _Times 27 April 1887 p._ 14.

JACKSON, ARTHUR HERBERT. _b._ 1852; student R. Acad. of music 1872, won Lucas medal for composition, professor of harmony and composition 1878 to death; composer of Fugue in E for two performers on the piano 1874; Toccata for the piano 1875; In a boat: barcarolle for the pianoforte 1878; Lord Ullin’s daughter: chorus 1879; Andante con variazione for two performers on the piano 1880; The Siren’s song for female voices 1885; The Bride of Abydos, an overture; Jason and the golden fleece. A cantata. _d._ 4 Oxford and Cambridge mansions, London 27 Sep. 1881. _Musical Times 1 Nov. 1881 p._ 581.

JACKSON, BASIL. _b._ Glasgow 27 June 1795; ensign royal staff corps 23 Oct. 1811; attached to head quarters staff at Waterloo, of which battle he lived to be one of the 4 surviving officers; captain royal waggon train 1820; captain royal staff corps 1829 to 7 Feb. 1834 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846; professor of military surveying H.E.I. coll. Addiscombe 20 years; lived at Glewstone court near Ross, Herefordshire 1858–74, at Hillsborough, Ashfield 1874 to death; author of A course of military surveying 1838, 2 ed. 1841; England and Russia, the navy and steam warfare 1839; Elementary surveying, comprising land surveying with Gunter’s chain 1842; and with C. Rochfort Scott The military life of the duke of Wellington 2 vols. 1840. _d._ Ross 23 Oct. 1889. _Graphic 9 Nov. 1889 pp._ 563, 564, _portrait_.

JACKSON, CATHERINE HANNAH CHARLOTTE (dau. of Thomas Elliott of Wakefield). _m._ at St. Helena 1856 Sir George Jackson 1785–1861; granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1874; edited The Diaries and letters of sir G. Jackson 1872; The Bath archives: a further selection from The Diaries 1873; author of Fair Lusitania 1874; Old Paris, its court and literary saloons 2 vols. 1878; The old regime: court, salons and theatres 2 vols. 1880; The French court and society. Reign of Louis XVI. and First empire 2 vols. 1881; The Court of the Tuileries from the restoration to the flight of Louis Philippe 2 vols. 1883; The Court of France in the 16th century 2 vols. 1886; The last of the Valois 2 vols. 1887; The first of the Bourbons 2 vols. 1890. _d._ Bath 9 Dec. 1891. _Times 11 Dec. 1891 p._ 6.

JACKSON, CHARLES (_3 son of James Jackson, banker, Doncaster_). _b._ 25 July 1809; barrister L.I. 6 May 1834; banker Doncaster; borough treasurer 1838 to death; helped to establish Doncaster free library 1868; edited for the Surtees Soc., Diary of Abraham de la Pryme 1870, The autobiography of Mrs. A. Thornton 1875 and Yorkshire diaries and autobiographies 1877; author of Doncaster charities, past and present. Worksop 1881, with portrait of C. Jackson. _d._ Balby near Doncaster 1 Dec. 1882. _Times 15 Dec. 1882 p._ 5.

JACKSON, CHARLES FORBES. Entered Bombay army 1825; major 2nd regiment light cavalry 19 Oct. 1819, lieut. col. 24 April 1854 to 1 Jany. 1858; retired M.G. 1 Jany. 1858. _d._ 7 Aug. 1870.

JACKSON, SIR CHARLES ROBERT MITCHELL (eld. son of lieut. gen. Alexander Cosby Jackson of Dawlish, Devon). _b._ Trincomali 1814; ed. at Warminster; barrister L.I. 29 April 1836; advocate general at Bengal 1848; puisne judge of supreme court of Bombay, Feb. 1853; knighted by patent 2 Dec. 1852; transferred to court of Calcutta 1855; member of legislative council of India 1859; judge of high court of judicature at Calcutta 13 May 1862, resigned 1863; chairman of Bombay bank commission 1868; auditor of the Indian home accounts 1872–4; author of A vindication of the marquis of Dalhousie’s Indian administration 1865. _d._ 2 Nevill park, Tunbridge Wells 21 July 1874. _Law Times_, _lvii_ 276 (1874); _I.L.N. lxv_ 115, 210 (1874).

JACKSON, REV. EDWARD DUDLEY. _b._ near Warminster, Wilts. 1803; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., LLB. 1827; C. of St. Matthew’s ch. Manchester 1830; English master of gram. sch. Manchester; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Manchester 21 Dec. 1837–1844; R. of St. Thomas, Heaton Norris near Stockport 1844 to death; edited Goldsmith’s History of England 1844; author of The Crucifixion and other poems 1833, 3 ed. 1834; The Devotional year, or the companion to the liturgy 1835, 2 ed. 1839; Scripture history 1837; Lays of Palestine 1850; Nugæ Lyricæ 1871. _d._ 27 Dec. 1879. _bur._ Cheltenham. _Evans’ Lancashire authors_ (1850) 44–8.

JACKSON, ELPHINSTONE (son of Welby Brown Jackson, judge of Sudder court, Calcutta). _b._ 14 March 1824; entered Bengal civil service 1842; judge of high court of judicature at Fort William 25 May 1865 to death. _d._ Upton park, Slough 3 Feb. 1873. _Law Times_, _liv_ 334 (1873).

JACKSON, EMMANUEL. _b._ 1818; gimp manufacturer at Derby, retired; the best known aeronaut in the Midland counties, made very numerous ascents; in Australia 1878; went up from the Arboretum, Derby in the Evening Star balloon with his dau. in a thunder storm 25 June 1883; _shot_ his wife Hannah Jackson aged 60 and then himself at 102 Burton road, Derby 26 June 1883, he _d._ 27 June. _Derby Mercury 27 June 1883 p._ 5 _and 4 July p._ 2.

JACKSON, GEORGE. _b._ South Devon 1792; ed. at Ashburton school, studied at St. Thomas’s and Guy’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1813; an original member of Microscopical society 1840, president 1852–54: stood alone in contrivance and fabrication of ruled glass micrometers, which he supplied to every optician of eminence for 15 years; a manager of London Institution 1858; author of On micrometers 1847. _d._ 30 Church st. Spitalfields 15 Jany. 1861. _I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1861 p._ 315, _portrait_.

JACKSON, SIR GEORGE (youngest son of rev. Thomas Jackson, D.D. 1745–97, canon residentiary of St. Paul’s cath.). _b._ Oct. 1785; attached to mission at Berlin 1802–6; sec. of legation and chargé d’affaires at Berlin 1807–8 and 1813–15; sec. to embassy at St. Petersburgh 1816; comr. at Washington for settlement of American claims, April 1823 to 1827; commissary judge at Sierra Leone, Jany. 1828, at Rio Janeiro 19 July 1832, at Surinam, Aug. 1841, at Loanda Dec. 1845, retired 1859; K.C.H. 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Sep. 1832. _d._ Boulogne 2 May 1861.

JACKSON, GEORGE. _b._ about 1782; entered Madras army 1800; colonel 7 Madras N.I. 26 Nov. 1834 to death; general 13 March 1859. _d._ 10 Baring crescent, Exeter 26 May 1866 aged 84.

JACKSON, GEORGE. _b._ Hurley Bottom near Henley on Thames 1815; enlisted in grenadier guards 1831, serjeant, retired 1846; taught fencing and boxing at Mahmoud’s gymnasium, Brighton 1847–50, where Tom Sayers was his pupil; exhibited feats of dexterity and strength with the sword before the Queen at Holland house; the originator of assaults at arms, opening at Saville house, Leicester sq. where he held assaults 3 times a week and gave lessons in fencing and boxing, C. Dickens and Albert Smith were his pupils; immortalised in Bleak House as George the Trooper, Dickens gave him the name of General Jackson which stuck to him; taught fencing, etc. at Cambridge during term time from 1855 to his death. _d._ Cambridge 25 Dec. 1878. _Bell’s Life in London 4 Jany. 1879 p._ 12.

JACKSON, GEORGE. _b._ 1 July 1812; cornet 4 Bengal light cavalry 26 June 1830, captain 1849–58; captain 3 European light cavalry 1858, major 1861–4; second in command 2 regiment irregular cavalry 1842, commandant 24 Feb. 1848–64; served in Punjab campaign 1848–9 and on Peshawar frontier 1851–2, twice wounded during the mutiny 1857; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1863; L.G. 17 Nov. 1879; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. _d._ St. Helen’s, Preston, Brighton 26 April 1889.

JACKSON, GEORGE VERNON (eld. son of George Jackson of the Isle of Wight). _b._ Chalwood, Surrey 13 July 1787; midshipman in navy 1801, went on h.p. Feb. 1828; captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875. _d._ Verno, Christchurch, Hants. 18 April 1876. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog._ (1849) 571.

NOTE.--He is said to have been the original of O’Brien in Marryat’s novel Peter Simple.

JACKSON, HARRY. _b._ 1836; played at Auckland theatre 1856; manager of William Denny hotel, Auckland 1857; visited San Francisco, U.S. of America and Australia 1862; appeared at Drury Lane in Heads of the People; at the Surrey theatre in Queen’s Evidence; a music hall artist giving clever sketches of character; engaged at Drury Lane under A. Harris’ management acted Moss Jewell in The World 31 July 1880 and Larry O’Phesey in Youth, 6 Aug. 1881; his embodiment of the part of Napoleon I. whom he much resembled, attracted great notice; directed the Opera Comique during Lotta’s performances 23 Dec. 1883 to 1884; played at the Pavilion theatre 12 Aug. 1885 as Moss Jewell in The World. _d._ from taking an overdose of morphia at 45 Great Russell st. London 13 Aug. 1885. _bur._ Jewish cemetery, Willesden 19 Aug. _Era 15 Aug. 1885 p._ 8, _22 Aug. p._ 8; _The Stage_, _i_ 25 (1874), _portrait_; _Illust. Sport. & Dram. News 22 Aug. 1885 pp._ 589, 590, _portrait_.

JACKSON, HENRY (son of a brewer at Boston). _b._ Boston 15 April 1831; ed. at Sleaford and Boston gram. schools; became an invalid 1849; author of A dead man’s revenge, in Chambers’ Journal vol. 30; A first friendship, in Fraser’s Mag. vols. 66 and 67, reissued in 1 vol. 1863; Gilbert Rugge, in Fraser’s Mag. vols. 69–73, reissued in 3 vols. 1866, both novels were reprinted in America; A dangerous guest 1870; Hearth Ghosts 1871; Argus Fairburn 3 vols. 1874, all his books were anonymous except the last. _d._ Hampstead 24 May 1879.

JACKSON, HENRY JAMES. _b._ London 5 Sep. 1824; apprenticed to Otway and Warmington 1840–7; with sir J. Whitworth, Manchester 1849–51; engineer in service of North of Europe steam navigation co. 1851; engineer in W. S. Lindsay and co.’s steamship Harbinger in India 1855–9; engineer of John Penn between Dover and Calais 1859–65; superintendent of arsenal at Alexandria and engineer of Khedive’s steam yacht Mahroussa the fastest steamer afloat 1865–74; created a Bey as Jackson Bey; engineer of General steam navigation co.’s fleet of 64 steamers with a factory of 500 men 1874 to death; invented an improved propeller adopted by many steam boat companies; A.I.C.E. 4 Feb. 1873 and M.I.C.E. 14 Jany. 1879; M.I.M.E. 1876. _d._ Deptford 2 Nov. 1884. _Proc. Instit. Mechanical Engineers_ (1884) 473–4; _Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxx_ 332–3 (1885).

JACKSON, SIR HENRY MATHER, 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir Wm. Jackson, 1 baronet 1805–76). _b._ 23 July 1831; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1853, M.A. 1859; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1855, bencher 15 April 1875 to death; one of the two leaders of palatine court of Lancaster; Q.C. 3 Feb. 1873; practised in V. C. Bacon’s court 1873–81; justice of Queen’s bench division 2 March 1881 but died without taking his seat; contested Birkenhead 13 July 1865; M.P. Coventry 1867–8 when unseated, and 1874 to 1881. _d._ 61 Portland place, London 8 March 1881. _bur._ Birkenhead cemetery 14 March. _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 281 (1881), _portrait_.

JACKSON, SIR JAMES (3 son of col. George Jackson of North Mayo 1761–1805). _b._ 1790; ensign 83 foot 29 Oct 1806; served in the Peninsula 1809–14 and at Waterloo; served in India and Arabia 1819–26; major 6 dragoon guards 1827, lieut. col. 2 March 1839 to 21 May 1850; commander in chief Cape of Good Hope 1854–9; col. of 6 dragoons 11 June 1856, of 6 dragoon guards 17 July 1860 and of 1 dragoon guards 21 Jany. 1868 to death; general 6 Feb. 1865; K.H. 1837; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 20 March 1865. _d._ Westwood, Manchester 31 Dec. 1871. _I.L.N. lx_ 50 (1872).