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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bingham, Peregrine (1788-1864)

​BINGHAM, PEREGRINE, the younger (1788–1864), legal writer, was the eldest son of Peregrine Bingham the elder [q. v.], by Amy, daughter of William Bowles. He was educated at Winchester School and Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A. 1810), was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1818, and was for many years a legal reporter. He also took great interest in literature, and was one of the principal contributors to the 'Westminster Review,' which was established in 1824. John Stuart Mill in describing the appearance of the first number says: 'The literary and artistic department had rested chiefly on Mr. Bingham, a barrister (subsequently a police magistrate), who had been for some years a frequenter of Bentham, was a friend of both the Austins, and had adopted with great ardour Bentham's philosophical opinions. Partly from accident there were in the first number as many as five articles by Bingham, and we were extremely pleased with them.' He edited Bentham's 'Book of Fallacies.'
Bingham became one of the police magistrates at Great Marlborough Street, and resigned that appointment about four years before his death, which occurred on 2 Nov. 1864. His works are:
* 'The Law and Practice of Judgments and Executions, including extents at the suit of the Crown,' London, 1815, 8vo.
* 'The Law of Infancy and Coverture,' ​London, 1816, 8vo, first American edition, Exeter, U.S., 1824, 8vo.
* ‘A Digest of the Law of Landlord and Tenant,’ London, 1820, 8vo.
* ‘A System of Shorthand, on the principle of the Association of Ideas,’ London, 1821, 8vo; a stenographic system of no practical value.
* ‘Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court of Common Pleas and other Courts,’ from Easter term 1819, to Michaelmas term 1840, 19 vols., London, 1821–40, 8vo. The first three volumes of these reports were compiled jointly with W. J. Broderip.
[Law Times, 5 Nov. 1864, p. 6; Addit. MS. 29539, f. 12b; Burke's Dict. of the Landed Gentry (1868), 100; Gent. Mag. ccxvii. 806; Mill's Autobiography, 95, 114; Cat. of Oxford Graduates (1851), 59; Wallace's Reporters, 330; Clarke's Bibl. Legum. 258, 301; Marvin's Legal Bibliography, 109.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bingham, George Ridout

1904 Errata appended.
​BINGHAM, Sir GEORGE RIDOUT (1777–1833), major-general and colonel-commandant of 2nd battalion rifle brigade, was the son of Richard Bingham, colonel of the Dorset militia, by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of J. Ridout, and was born on 21 July 1777. He entered the army in June 1793 as ensign in the 69th foot, serving with it in Corsica and with one of the detachments embarked as marines under Admiral Hotham, in the Gulf of Genoa. Promoted to a company in the 81st foot in 1796, he served with that regiment at the Cape, and took part in the Kaffir war of 1800 on the Sundays River. In 1801 he became major in the 82nd foot, and was with it in Minorca until that island was finally restored to Spain at the peace of Amiens. In 1805 he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the newly raised 2nd battalion 53rd foot in Ireland, and, proceeding with it to Portugal four years later, fought at its head throughout its distinguished Peninsular career, beginning with the expulsion of the French from Oporto in 1809, and ending with the close of the Burgos retreat in 1812. The battalion being then reduced to a skeleton, and having no home battalion to relieve or reinforce it (the 1st battalion was in India), was sent home, but four companies were left in Portugal, and these, with four companies of 2nd Queen's similarly circumstanced, were formed into a provisional battalion which, under the command of Colonel Bingham, performed gallant service in the subsequent campaigns in Spain and the south of France, including the victories at Vittoria, in the Pyrenees, and on the Nivelle. When it was decided to consign the Emperor Napoleon to St. Helena, Colonel (now Sir George) Bingham was senior officer of the troops sent thither, and continued to serve in the island with the rank of brigadier-general, as second in command under Sir Hudson Lowe, until 1819, when he returned home on promotion. Some unpublished letters and memoranda of Bingham relating to St. Helena are among the British Museum Additional MSS. Sir George was afterwards on the Irish staff, and commanded the Cork district from 1827 to 1832, a most distracted period, when the discord fomented by the catholic emancipation debates was aggravated by agrarian crime, famine, and latterly by pestilence. In Ireland, as at St. Helena, Sir George Bingham's fine tact and kindliness of disposition appear to have won general esteem. He is described as having been a thorough gentleman as well as a brilliant soldier. He died in London on 3 Jan. 1833.
[Hutchins's Hist. of Dorset (ed. 1815, iv. 203); Cannon's Hist. Record 53rd (Shropshire) Regt. of Foot; Gent. Mag. ciii. (i.) 274; Ann. Biog. vol. xviii. ]
H. M. C.
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# Death the Knight and the Lady/Chapter 14
### CHAPTER XIV THE BALLADE OF THE FALCON

To the deep window of the library, where I am sitting now wrapped in shawls and scribbling this, I came that day after our drive to sit and think, and stare out of the double windows at the dusky garden, and wait for tea. I had taken an old book from one of the library shelves. It was "The whole art of Falconry," dedicated to his Majesty, King Charles the First, by his liege servant—I forget whom.
When I was tired with looking out of the window I turned over the leaves of the book; they smelt of age. Between the cover and the last leaf was a manuscript, the ink faded, the paper mildewed. I spelt it out in the dusk.
It was a ballad written in a curious, old-fashioned hand. It was about a little falcon which a lady had given to her lover; he killed her in a fit of passion, and he killed the little falcon, or "the little hawke," as the ballad sometimes called it, and then he killed himself. As I read it grew sadder and sadder, it seemed to moan to me like a living thing, and my eyes became blind with tears so that I could scarcely read it in the twilight. It was all about the little falcon, but I knew that the pity was meant for the cavalier. Perhaps the writer dared not express it openly, for was not the cavalier an assassin and a suicide?
This is the last verse, as well as I remember—
"With the little falcon prest To his cold and lifeless breast, They laid him to his rest. And the ballade humbly prays The tribute of your sighs For the hawke's blinde little eyes, —And the cavalier who lies By the four cross ways."
Ah! the dead hand that wrote that long ago betrayed itself in the two last lines,
"And the cavalier who lies By the four cross ways."
I laid it down and cried as if my heart would break. I was crying, not for the cavalier but for "the little hawke."
# Death the Knight and the Lady

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DEATH THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD LONDON & NEW YORK
DEATH THE KNIGHT
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A GHOST STORY
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MDCCCXCVII

### CONTENTS

    Ballad of the Arras, vii
    Prologue, 1
* I. I describe Myself, 11
* II. James Wilder, 16
* III. A Sound which reminds me of my Past, 27
* IV. Instructions Performed, 35
* V. We say Good-bye, 38
* VI. —And I Start, 42
* VII. North, 44
* VIII. The Dimly-painted Face, 50
* IX. Geraldine, 57
* X. We Meet, 72
* XI. The Little Black Book, 78
* XII. The Morning, 89
* XIII. "You were not dressed like this", 102
* XIV. The Ballade of the Falcon, 109
* XV. My Letter, 112
* XVI. The Black Horse and the White, 121
* XVII. The old oak Chest, 126
* VIII. The Trumpeter, 144
* XIX. The Trumpeter, 147
* XX. The Ruby Wine, 151
* XXI. "And They laid Him to his Rest", 160
* XXII. The End, 162
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# Death the Knight and the Lady/Ballad of the Arras
### BALLAD OF THE ARRAS

Lo! where are now these armoured hosts Mailed for the tourney câp-a-pie, These dames and damozelles whose ghosts Make of the past this pagentry?
O sanguine book of History! Romance with perfume cloaks thy must, But he who shakes the page may see —Dust.
Stiff hangs the arras in the gloom; I turn my head awhile to gaze: Here lordly stallions fret and fume, Here streams o'er briar and brake the chase.
Here sounds a horn, here turns a face, How filled with fires of life and lust! Wind shakes the arras and betrays —Dust.
Ephemeral hand inditing this Great hound that lolls against my knee, Lips pursed in thought as if to kiss Regret—full soon the time must be.
When one shall search, but find not ye, For that dim moth whose labours rust All forms in time or tapestry —Dust.
Forth offspring to the perch and then Clap wings—or fall, if find you must This saddest fate of books or men —Dust.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bunsen, Frances

​BUNSEN, FRANCES (1791–1876), wife of Baron Christian Bunsen, was the eldest daughter and coheiress of Benjamin Waddington, who died at Abercarne on 19 Jan. 1828 in his eightieth year, by his marriage in 1789 with Georgina Mary Ann, eldest daughter of John Port, who was born 1771, and died at Llanover on 19 Jan. 1850. She was born at Dunston Park, Berkshire, on 4 March 1791, and educated under her mother at Hanover. In 1816 her parents, accompanied by their family, went to Rome to spend the winter. Here Frances first met Christian Bunsen, to whom she was married, on 1 July 18 17, in the chapel of the Palazzo Savelli, then the habitation of Barthold Niebuhr, and it was twenty-three years from this period before she again visited her native country. Henceforth she was one with her husband in thought and feeling, tastes and actions; she enabled him to carry out his objects by her sympathy and by her active co-operation; she took upon herself the vexing petty cares of life, and left him free to carry out his political and literary career. Yet she was no mere 'housewife,' but shared all the best parts of his mind on all occasions. He died on 28 Nov. 1860, having acted as German ambassador to England from 1841 to 1854, and in accordance with one of his last requests she published 'A Memoir of Baron Bunsen, drawn chiefly from family papers, by his Widow,' 1868, 2 volumes. After her husband's death she went to reside at Carlsruhe, where she took charge of the children of her deceased daughter, Theodora, Baroness von Ungern Sternberg. She died there 23 April 1876. The brilliant hospitalities which she dispensed at the Prussian embassy during her residence in England will be long remembered. As authoress of the life of her husband her literary ability has been fully acknowledged, but it was only among her private friends that her extraordinary talent and her wonderful knowledge of the various public events of the time could be appreciated. She was the mother of ten children, one of whom, Henry George Bunsen, rector of Donington, Salop, died in 1885.
[Bunsen and his Wife, Contemporary Review, xxviii. 948-69 (1876); Hare's Life and Letters of Frances Baroness Bunsen, 1882, 2 vols.]
G. C. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bundy, Richard

1904 Errata appended.
​BUNDY, RICHARD (d. 1739), divine and translator, was born at Devizes, Wiltshire, and educated at Christ Church, Oxford, as a member of which house he proceeded B.A. on 13 Oct. 1713. An assiduous attendance at court led to his appointment as chaplain in ordinary, and in 1732 he was selected to accompany the king on his visit to Hanover, being at the same time created doctor of divinity by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Gent. Mag. ii. 777). As a further mark of the royal confidence he was nominated a trustee for establishing the new colony in South Carolina to be known hereafter by the name of Georgia. On returning to England in September 1732 Bundy became vicar of St. Bride's, Fleet Street (Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, i. 358), and on 24 August prebendary of Westminster (Le Neve, Fasti Eccl. Angl., ed. Hardy, iii. 365). To these preferments was added in 1733 the rich living of East Barnet. Bundy died on 27 Jan. 1738–9, and was buried at Devizes (Gent. Mag. ix. 47; Lysons, Environs, iv. 17, 18). He left a widow and one daughter. The year following his death appeared ‘Sermons on several Occasions; with a Course of Lectures on the Church Catechism,’ 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1740 (second edition 1750). A third but probably spurious volume was published in the last-named year. Bundy also translated Lamy's ‘Apparatus Biblicus,’ 4to, London, 1723 (second edition, 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1728), and the ‘Roman History’ by Catrou and Rouillé, 6 vols. folio, London, 1728–37. John Ozell had meditated adding one more vile translation of the last to an already extended list, but finding himself forestalled by Bundy he gave vent to his wrath in a series of silly squibs.
G. G.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bunny, Francis

1904 Errata appended.
​BUNNY, FRANCIS (1543–1617), theological writer, was born 8 May 1543, at the Vache, being third son of Richard, and youngest brother of Edmund Bunny [q. v.] He entered Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1558, was admitted a demy in 1559, and graduated B.A. 10 July 1562, M.A. 9 July 1567. He was probationer fellow from 1561 to 1572. Taking orders, he began to preach 1 Nov. 1567. His preaching was popular, and procured him a chaplaincy to the Earl of Bedford. On 9 May 1572 he was inducted into a prebend at Durham (eighth stall, installed 13 May), and succeeded Ralph Lever as archdeacon of Northumberland, 20 Oct. 1573. He resigned the archdeaconry on becoming rector of Ryton, Durham, 11 Sept. 1578 (inducted 13 Sept.) Like his brother Edmund, he was an indefatigable preacher, and a strong Calvinist. He died at Ryton, 16 April 1617, and was buried in the chancel of his church. He married Jane, daughter of Henry Priestley, and had five children, all of whom died before him. Bunny published: 1. 'A Survey of the Pope's supremacie . . . and in it are examined the chief arguments that M. Bellarmine hath, for defence of the said supremacie . . .' 1590, 1595, 4to (black letter). 2. 'Truth and Falsehood; or a comparison betweene the truth now taught in England, and the doctrine of the Romish church, &c., with an answere to such reasons as the popish recusants alledge, why they will not come to our churches,' 1595, 4to, two parts. 3. 'A Comparison between the auncient Fayth of the Romans and the new Romish religion,' 1595, 4to. 4. 'An Answere to a Popish libell intituled: A Petition to the Bishops, Preachers, and Gospellers, lately spread abroad in the North parts,' Oxford, 1607, 12mo. 5. 'Of the Head Corner-stone by builders still overmuch omitted; i.e. a forme of teaching Jesus Christ out of all the holy Scriptures,' 1611, fol. 6. ' An Exposition of the 28 v. of the 3 chap, of the Epistle to the Romans. Wherein is manifestly proved the doctrine of Justification by Faith, and by Faith onely,' 1616, 4to. 7. 'A Guide unto Godlinesse; or a plain and familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandments by questions and answers,' 1617, 8vo. Wood mentions also his manuscript 'In Joelis prophetiam enarratio,' dedicated 1595 to Tobias Mathew, bishop of Durham, and containing the substance of sermons preached about 1575 at Berwick.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), ii. 200; Fasti, i. 179, 202; Willis's Survey of the Cathedrals, 1742, i. 262, 270; Bloxam's Register of Magdalen College, the Demies, i. 154 sq.]
A. G.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bungay, Thomas

​BUNGAY, THOMAS (fl. 1290), a learned Franciscan friar, was born at Bungay, Suffolk, and educated at Paris and Oxford, in which university he was the tenth reader in divinity. On resigning this post, in which he was succeeded by John Peckham, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury, he migrated to Cambridge, where he held a similar position. He was subsequently appointed provincial minister of his order in England, being the eighth, counting from Agnellus of Pisa, who was deputed by St. Francis to introduce his order into this island. In this post he was again succeeded by Peckham. Wadding speaks of him as being elected by the general suffrage of the order, but at this time the nomination of provincial ministers was in the hands of the general minister, an office which was probably held (for the date of Bungay's appointment is not precisely known) by St. Bonaventura, ‘doctor seraphicus.’ In addition to the subjects on which he lectured—theology and philosophy—Bungay had also attained such proficiency in mathematics, that he was accounted a magician, like his friend, Roger Bacon, and there are many wonderful stories of his doings in the ‘Famous Historie of Roger Bacon,’ of which the first edition was published in 1627. In 1594 Robert Greene made Bungay a chief character in the ‘Honorable History of Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay.’ His writings, according to Pits, were as follows: ‘Super Magistrum Sententiarum liber i.;’ ‘Quæstionum Theologicarum liber i.;’ and ‘De Magia Naturali liber i.’ He was buried at Northampton.
C. T. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bunn, Margaret Agnes

​BUNN, MARGARET AGNES (1799–1883), actress, was born on 26 Oct. 1799 at Lanark. After her birth her father, whose name was Somerville, came to London and established himself as a biscuit baker in Marylebone. Margaret displayed at an early age a talent for the stage, and was introduced in 1815 to the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, member ​of the Drury Lane committee of management. After rehearsing 'Belvidera,’ she was rejected as unequal to the character. A second hearing in the following year by the same gentleman and Lord Byron led to an engagement. She made accordingly, 9 May 1816, at Drury Lane her first appearance on any stage, playing, as Miss Somerville, Imogine in Maturin's tragedy of 'Bertram,’ then given for the first time. Kean was Bertram, and did not escape the charge of refusing the young actress fair play. A three years' engagement followed. On 6 Jan. 1818 she 'created' at Bath, by permission of the Drury Lane management, the character of Bianca in the 'Fazio' of Dean Milman,then given for the first time. In 1818, complaining of want of employment, she resigned her situation at Drury Lane. On 22 Oct. she made as Bianca, which remained her favourite character, her first appearance at Covent Garden, and on 9 Nov. she played Alicia in 'Jane Shore' to the Jane Shore of Miss O'Neill. In 1819 she was acting at Birmingham, where she met and married Alfred Bunn [q. v.] When her husband went to Drury Lane to form one of Elliston's 'triumvirate of management,' she reappeared 27 Oct. 1823 at that theatre, still as Bianca. In the same season (1823-4) she played Hermione in the 'Winter's Tale,' and created the roles of Cornelia in 'Caius Gracchus,' by Sheridan Knowles, and Queen Elizabeth in 'Kenilworth.' Her married life was not fortunate, and led to much scandal. While still young she left the stage, not to return to it. Her death took place early in 1883. Mrs. Bunn had a tall and commanding figure. She was seen to highest advantage in characters belonging to heavy tragedy. Kean is said to have kept back Mrs. Bunn, with whom, in consequence of her being, as he said, 'too big and overtowering a woman for his figure,' he refused to act except in certain characters. Her Lady Macbeth is mentioned with a sneering implication by Macready in his 'Reminiscences.'
[Genest's Account of the English Stage; Biography of the British Stage, 1824; Our Actresses (by Mrs. C. Baron Wilson), 1844; The Drama, or Theatrical Pocket Magazine, vols. v. and vi.; Athenæum, 3 Feb. 1883.]
J. K.
# Demeter and other poems/Romney's Remorse

ROMNEY'S REMORSE.
'I read Hayley's Life of Romney the other day—Romney wanted but education and reading to make him a very fine painter; but his ideal was not high nor fixed. How touching is the close of his life! He married at nineteen, and because Sir Joshua and others had said that "marriage spoilt an artist" almost immediately left his wife in the North and scarce saw her till the end of his life; when old, nearly mad and quite desolate, he went back to her and she received him and nursed him till he died. This quiet act of hers is worth all Romney's pictures! even as a matter of Art, I am sure,' (Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Fitzgerald, vol. i.)
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# Demeter and other poems/Owd Roä

OWD ROÄ.
# Demeter and other poems/Notes To Ulysses

NOTES TO ULYSSES.
‘Ulysses,’ the title of a number of essays by W. G. Palgrave. He died at Monte Video before seeing my poem.
1.Garibaldi said to me, alluding to his barren island, ‘I wish I had your trees.’
2.The tale of Nejd.
3.The Philippines.
4.In Dominica.
5.The Shadow of the Lord. Certain obscure markings on a rock in Siam, which express the image of Buddha to the Buddhist more or less distinctly according to his faith and his moral worth.
6.The footstep of the Lord on another rock.
7.The monastery of Sumelas.
8.Anatolian Spectre stories.
9.The three cities.
10.Travels in Egypt.
# Demeter and other poems/Notes to Owd Roä

NOTES TO OWD ROÄ.
1Old Rover.
2Manner.
3Hold.
4Found
5‘Ou’ as in ‘house.’
6‘Owd-farran’d,’ old-fashioned.
7Built.
8‘Twizzen’d,’ twisted.
9On a staff ragulé.
10Ivy.
11Mangolds and turnips.
12Meadows
13Drifted snow.
14‘Moästlins,’ for the most part, generally.
15Once.
16Peel.
17Arm.
​18Mad.
19Latch.
20The girl was as dirty a slut as ever trudged in the mud, but there is a sense of slatternliness in ‘traäpes’d’ which is not expressed in trudged!
21She half overturned me and shrieked like an owl gone mad.
22Ladder.
23A thoroughly insignificant or worthless person.
24Mark.
25Clutched.
26‘Bubbling,’ a young unfledged bird.
27Beams.
28Wrapt ourselves.
29The beam that runs along the roof of the house just beneath the ridge.