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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hassall, Edward

​HASSALL or HALSALL, EDWARD (fl. 1667), royalist, born about 1627, was probably a member of an old family seated at Halsall, near Ormskirk, Lancashire. He fought in the defence of Lathom House in 1644, and was wounded. A diary which he kept of the siege, extending from 28 Feb. to 27 May 1644, is preserved among Wood's manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. Another copy in the British Museum (Harleian MS. 2074) has been printed in a modernised form in Draper's ‘House of Stanley.’ The authorship of the diary has, however, been also ascribed to both Colonel Edward Chisenhale [q. v.] and to Ralph Brideoake [q. v.], then one of Lord Derby's chaplains. Hassall, who attained the rank of major, was one of the four cavaliers who, on 5 June 1650, assassinated Anthony Ascham [q. v.] at Madrid (Cal. Clarendon State Papers, ii. 63, 220, 343). He was imprisoned there for four months, but in October was released, and went to England to act as a spy on the leaders of the commonwealth (ib. ii. 260). From a letter of his brother James to the king, dated 12 Feb. 1655, it would seem that he had planned to surprise and secure Liverpool for Charles (ib. iii. 16). He accompanied his brother to Flanders in June of that year, and in the following November ​engaged in a plot to kill Cromwell (iii. 43, 68). On 13 July 1663 he was appointed equerry to the queen (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1663–4 pp. 202, 613, 1664–5 pp. 339, 379).
His brother, James Hassall (fl. 1667), also styled a major, arrived at Antwerp in February 1655, and gave Ormonde much information about affairs in England (Cal. Clarendon State Papers, iii. 13). In July following he received a letter from the king desiring him to return to England to collect any sums of money that the generosity of friends might supply (ib. iii. 44). At the end of the year he was concerned in the plot to assassinate Cromwell, but was betrayed, arrested on 16 Nov., and committed a close prisoner to the Tower (ib. pp. 87, 134). There he remained until the Restoration (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1655–60). According to his fellow-conspirators, the plot failed through his delay (Cal. Clarendon State Papers, iii. 81). At this examination he refused to disclose anything (ib. iii. 90). Charles made him his cupbearer and captain of a company (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1660–1, pp. 244, 453), and in October 1660 granted him a patent for ‘sea wreck, minerals, gravel, sand, etc., usually taken up for ballast at low water-mark’ (ib. Dom. 1660–1 pp. 244, 326, 1663–4, p. 409). During 1666–7 he corresponded with Aphra Behn [q. v.], then at Antwerp, but she often complained of his silence and delay (ib. Dom. 1666–7). Pepys, who often met him, describes him as ‘a great creature of the Duke of Albemarle's’ (Diary, 24 June 1666). On 27 Sept. 1667 he was made captain of the foot company employed in Portsmouth garrison (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1667, p. 487). The name occurs in the state papers as Halse, Halsey, Halsall, and Hallsall.
[Draper's House of Stanley, pp. 99, 111.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Kelly, Edward

​KELLY, EDWARD (1854–1880), bushranger, was the eldest son of John Kelly, a convict, who having served a term of fifteen years in Tasmania, for killing a man in a faction fight at Belfast, went to Victoria and married there in 1849. He died in 1865, leaving his widow with three sons, Edward, James, and Daniel, and three daughters. From early boyhood the three sons were in continual trouble for horse-stealing, and Edward underwent a sentence of three years' imprisonment. In April 1878 a party of constables arrived at their house, then near Greta, to arrest Daniel on a charge of horse-stealing. The Kellys showed fight. Edward shot one of the constables through the arm, and their mother knocked him down with a shovel. Eventually Edward and Daniel escaped and took to the hills; the mother, her son-in-law, and another man who was with them were captured and were sentenced to three and six years' imprisonment. Two other men, Byrne and Hart, now joined the Kellys, and for the next two years they were the terror of the country, especially affecting the borderland of Victoria and New South Wales, whose governments jointly offered a reward of 8,000l. for their apprehension. Some of their achievements read almost like romance. On 11 Dec. 1878 they went into Euroa in Victoria, made prisoners of every one likely to offer any opposition, and gutted the bank, carrying off money and notes to the value of nearly 3,000l. Two months later they visited Jerilderie in New South Wales in the same manner, overawed the residents, numbering three hundred, plundered the bank of about 700l., and held the town for two days. Their reckless audacity, their good fortune, and the fact that their murders were principally confined to policemen, their robberies to banks or government property, obtained for them some popular sympathy, and they seem to have had no difficulty in obtaining provisions and intelligence in their hiding-places in the mountains.
They were at last, on 27 June 1880, found in an ‘hotel,’ a wooden shanty not far from Beechworth. The house was surrounded by a strong force of police, was riddled with musket bullets, and finally set on fire. The whole of the gang was there killed except Edward, who was outside and might have escaped, but that, with a courage worthy of a better cause, he refused to desert his brothers and comrades. In attempting a diversion from the rear he was severely wounded in the arms and legs, and made prisoner. It was then found that both he and the others had covered their bodies with rudely forged plates of iron, weighing close on 100 lb. for each man. Edward was sent to hospital, and on his recovery was tried at Beechworth. He was convicted, and was hanged there in October 1880.
J. K. L.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Kelly, John (1801-1876)

​KELLY, JOHN (1801–1876), independent minister, was born in Edinburgh on 1 Dec. 1801, received his education at Heriot's Hospital, and at an early age was converted by the preaching of Dr. Robert Gordon of Edinburgh. He was for some time engaged in tuition in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and for four years later studied at the academical institution at Idle, since known as Airedale College. Thence in January 1827 he was sent to Liverpool to preach at Bethesda Chapel, and was ordained to the charge in September 1829. His career as a minister was very successful, and the new Crescent Chapel built for his growing congregation at Everton, Liverpool, was opened on 23 Nov. 1837. Kelly was for many years a director of the London Missionary Society, and took a warm interest in the Lancashire Independent College. He was chairman of the meeting of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in London in May 1851, and of the meeting held at Northampton in the following October. He retired from the Crescent Chapel on 28 Sept. 1873, and died at 18 Richmond Terrace, Liverpool, on 12 June 1876. He was buried in the necropolis on 15 June.
Kelly was author of many addresses and single sermons, and of:
* ‘The Voluntary Support of the Christian Ministry the Law of the New Testament,’ 1838.
* ‘The Hindrances which Civil Establishments present to the Progress of genuine Religion,’ 1840.
* ‘The Church Catechism considered in its Character and Tendency,’ 1843.
* ‘Discourses on Holy Scripture,’ 1850.
* ‘An Examination of the Explanation of the Rev. Samuel Davidson, relative to the Second Volume of the Tenth Edition of Horne's “Introduction,”’ 1857.
[Hassan's Rev. John Kelly, a memorial, 1876, with portrait; Congregational Year-Book, 1877, pp. 384–7; Waddington's Congregational History, 1880, v. 561–9; Liverpool Mercury, 13 June 1876, p. 8.]
G. C. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Kelly, George

​KELLY, GEORGE (fl. 1722–1747), Jacobite conspirator, born in 1688 in Connaught, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, graduated B.A. in 1706, and took deacon's orders. About 1718, after preaching at Dublin a sermon in favour of the Pretender, he was threatened with a prosecution and retired to Paris, where he became a successful adventurer in Law's Mississippi scheme. He went by the alias of James Johnson, and Atterbury employed him as an amanuensis in his correspondence with the Pretender. He subsequently came to London, and was arrested at his lodgings there in Little Ryder Street (21 May 1722), on suspicion of treasonable practices against the government. He contrived to burn his papers, and as it was feared by his friends that his conviction would compromise Atterbury, every effort was made to defeat the prosecution. On 3 May 1723, upon the third reading of the bill of pains and penalties against Kelly in the House of Lords, a rider allowing him to depart his majesty's dominions on giving security not to return again without license. This was rejected by 83 votes to 38. The third reading was then passed by 79 votes to 41. Kelly's speech in his defence was printed, and went through four editions. He was ordered to be imprisoned in the Tower during the king's pleasure. There he became a great favourite, and was allowed much freedom. He thus managed to escape on 26 Oct. 1736.
In 1724 Kelly printed by subscription a translation of Castelnau's ‘Memoirs of the English Affairs during the Reigns of Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth,’ 1724, fol.. He also translated from the French of J. Morabin ‘The History of Cicero's Banishment,’ 8vo, London, 1725; 2nd edit. 1742. It was also issued in 1736 as ‘An Inquiry into the Life and Writings of Cicero,’ in order to draw a parallel between the case of Atterbury and that of Cicero. In 1729 Kelly issued proposals for printing by subscription a translation, by himself and two friends, of Cicero's ‘Letters to Atticus’ in two quarto volumes.
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Kelly, John (1680?-1751)

​KELLY, JOHN (1680?–1751), journalist and author, born about 1680, was well educated at home and abroad, and became especially well versed in French. He joined the Inner Temple, but ultimately earned a livelihood by journalism and play-writing. He was a writer in a weekly paper entitled ‘The Universal Spectator, by Henry Stonecastle of Northumberland, Esq.,’ which was edited by Henry Baker, Defoe's son-in-law, and lasted from 1728 to 1739. Twenty-eight papers out of the first 149 are ascribed to Kelly in a manuscript notice affixed by the editor to a copy of the publication in the Bodleian Library. But Kelly has been credited with responsibility for the collected reprint of the ‘Universal Spectator,’ issued in 4 vols. 12mo in 1747; 3rd edit. 1756. Kelly apparently died at Hornsey on 16 July 1751, and was buried at St. Pancras. The ‘London Magazine’ in recording his death somewhat erroneously describes him as an ‘eminent counsellor in the Temple.’
Kelly published four plays: 1. ‘The Married Philosopher,’ a comedy ‘by a gentleman of the Temple’ (1732, 8vo), from the ​French, first performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields on 25 March 1732, and resembling in plot Mrs. Inchbald's ‘Married Man,’ produced at the Haymarket in 1780 (Genest, Stage, iii. 353). 2. ‘Timon in Love’ (1733, 8vo), a comedy in three acts, taken from the ‘Timon Misanthrope’ of De Lisle de la Drévetière, and produced at Drury Lane, with Mrs. Clive as Aspasia, 5 Dec. 1733 (ib. iii. 408). Reduced to two acts, it was revived as ‘Innocent Theft’ at Covent Garden on 23 March 1736 (ib. p. 480). 3. ‘The Fall of Bob, or the Oracle of Gin’ (1736, 12mo), not apparently acted. 4. ‘The Levee,’ a farce (1741, 8vo), published after a license for its performance at Drury Lane had been refused (ib. x. 169). Chetwood ascribes to Kelly ‘The Plot, or Pill and Drop,’ a pantomimical entertainment, London, 1735, 8vo; also described as ‘a temporary trifle interspersed with songs,’ and produced at Drury Lane, 22 Jan. 1735 (ib. iii. 446; cf. Brit. Mus. Cat.) ‘The Islanders, or Mad Orphan,’ is among the manuscripts presented by George IV to the British Museum (No. 301). The author's name is given as ‘John O'Kelly, Esq., of the Inner Temple,’ and it is dedicated to the Princess of Wales—i.e. the mother of George III. The identity of the writer with Kelly is probable.
Kelly translated part of Rapin's ‘History of England’ (1732); Pluche's ‘Spectacle de la Nature’ (3rd edit. 1743); and Fénelon's ‘Adventures of Telemachus’ (1743). He also compiled a work on French idioms ‘with the English adapted,’ London, 1736, 8vo.
F. W-t.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lister, Joseph (1627-1709)

​LISTER, JOSEPH (1627–1709), puritan autobiographer, born at Bradford in Yorkshire 7 June 1627, was educated for some time at the free school there, and was apprenticed at Horton, near Bradford, and later at Sowerby. After the completion of his apprenticeship he traded in Sowerby for two years on his own account, but being unsuccessful he went to London and became a man-servant. Returning to the north he continued in the same capacity for two years at Greatham Hospital (Durham), when he returned to Bradford and became a small farmer. After two years at Bradford he removed to Bailey fold, Allerton, a small property which had been left him by an uncle. He was deacon in the nonconformist congregation at Kipping, near Allerton, and occasionally performed ministerial functions. He died 14 March 1709.
Lister married at Allerton in 1657, and had two sons; the second (b. 1671) was ordained to the nonconformist ministry, and for seven years was pastor of the congregation at Kipping. He died on 25 Feb. 1709, a few days before his father. Lister's autobiography, edited by Thomas Wright, was published in 1842 at London, and was reprinted at Bradford in 1860. It is in the style of the puritan biographies of the period, and chiefly deals with his spiritual conflicts and experiences. ‘A Genuine Account of the Siege of Bradford in the time of the Civil War,’ by Lister, is appended to the original memoirs of Sir Thomas Fairfax, 1810.
[Lister's Autobiography, London, 1842, and Bradford, 1860; Historical Narrative of Life of Joseph Lister, Wakefield, n.d. 16mo; a sermon on death of Joseph Lister by Thomas Whitaker of Leeds, 1709.]
W. A. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lister, Thomas (1810-1888)

​LISTER, THOMAS (1810–1888), poet and naturalist, born at Old Mill, Barnsley, on 11 Feb. 1810, was the youngest child of Joseph Lister, a quaker gardener and small farmer. From 1821 until 1824 he attended Ackworth school, where he made the acquaintance of John Bright. He afterwards became an assistant to his father. During the parliamentary election of 1832 he worked actively for the return of Lord Morpeth (afterwards Earl of Carlisle) for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and wrote several effective squibs in verse. Lord Morpeth offered to obtain for him the postmastership of Barnsley, but Lister was unwilling to take the requisite oath. In 1834 he published, under the title of the 'Rustic Wreath,' a collection of his fugitive verses, of which an edition of three thousand copies was quickly sold. After visiting Spencer T. Hall [q. v.] at Nottingham, and forming an acquaintance with Ebenezer Elliott [q. v.] in 1837, he made a tour, chiefly on foot, of the Lake district, and thence journeyed into Scotland, where he met Professor John Wilson (Christopher North), William and Robert Chambers,and William Miller the artist. In 1838 he visited France, Italy, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Many of the poems, sonnets, and translations which he wrote during this tour he forwarded to Elliott, and they were published in 'Tait's Magazine.' In 1839, on the office of postmaster at Barnsley again becoming vacant, Lister was appointed to it, a simple affirmation having been substituted for the oath, and he held it until 31 March 1870.
An enthusiastic naturalist, Lister communicated regularly meteorological observations and notes on birds to the 'Barnsley Chronicle.' For many years he was president of the Barnsley Naturalists' Society, and contributed to its collections. In 1857 he read a paper at the Barnsley meeting of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding, on the 'Natural History of Fossil Remains of Barnsley.' He was a constant attendant and contributor of papers at the annual meetings of the British Association. At the Southampton meeting in 1882 he read a paper on 'The Distribution of Yorkshire Spring Migrants,' and when accompanying the association to Montreal in 1884, he visited the principal towns in Canada and the United States. Lister died at Barnsley on 25 March 1888, and was buried on the 29th in the Friends' meeting-house ground in the Cockerham Road. He married in 1841 Miss Hannah Schofield (1812-1882), but had no issue.
Lister published, besides the 'Rustic Wreath' (1834), 'Temperance Rhymes' (1837), and 'Rhymes of Progress' (1862). Mrs. George Linnæus Banks refers to Lister by name in her Yorkshire story entitled 'Wooers and Winners' (1880).
[Barnsley Chronicle, 31 March 1888, p. 5; Barnsley Independent, 31 March 1888, p. 6; Athenæum, 7 April 1888, p. 439; Andrews's Modern Yorkshire Poets; Newsam's Poets of Yorkshire; Grainge's Poets of Yorkshire; Searle's Life of Ebenezer Elliott; Spencer T. Hall's Sketches of Remarkable People; article by J. H. Burland in Country Words of the West Riding; Index to Reports of British Assoc.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lister, Edward

​LISTER, EDWARD, M.D. (1556–1620), physician, brother of Sir Matthew Lister [q. v.], was born in 1556 at Wakefield, Yorkshire, and educated at Eton College. In 1574 he was elected scholar of King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1579, M.A. 1583, and M.D. 1590. He was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians 30 Sept. 1594, was six times chosen censor, and was treasurer from 1612 to 1618. He was physician in ordinary to Queen Elizabeth and to James I.
Lister lived in the parish of St. Mary-the-Virgin, Aldermanbury, London, and in the parish church, 27 Feb. 1593, married Ann, widow of his fellow-collegian, Dr. John Farmery [q. v.] He died 27 March 1620, and was buried in the same church.
[Munk's Coll. of Phys. i. 104.]
N. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lister, Thomas (1559-1626?)

​LISTER, THOMAS, alias Butler (1559–1626?), jesuit, born in Lancashire in 1559, entered the English College at Rome 15 Sept. 1579, joined the Society of Jesus 20 Feb. 1582–3, being fellow-novice with Vitelleschi, afterwards general of the society, and graduated D.D. at Pont-à-Mousson in 1592. He was sent to the English mission in 1596, and for some years was fellow-labourer with Father Edward Oldcorne [q. v.] in the Worcestershire district. At the period of the Gunpowder plot he was committed to prison, and was ultimately banished, with forty-five priests and jesuits, in 1606. He was again in England in 1610, and on 3 June in that year he was professed of the four vows. In 1621 he was superior of the Oxford district, and he probably died between 1625 and 1628.
He was the author of a ‘Treatise of Schism,’ in which he maintained that the appellant priests who refused to acknowledge the archpriest's jurisdiction were ipso facto deprived of their ecclesiastical powers, and ought to be treated as schismatics. This work, which caused much commotion among the secular clergy, does not seem to have been printed, but was extensively circulated in manuscript.
[Dodd's Church Hist. (Tierney), iii. 51; Records of the English Catholics, i. 326; Panzani's Memoirs, pp. 58, 117; Oliver's Jesuit Collections, p. 136; Foley's Records, iv. 271, vi. 139, vii. 462; Gillow's Bibl. Dict. ii. 166, 167; Morris's Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers, i. 430.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lister, Matthew

​LISTER, Sir MATTHEW, M.D. (1571?–1656), physician, son of William Lister, and younger brother of Edward Lister [q. v.], was born at Thornton, Yorkshire, according to the Oxford matriculation register, about 1571, although, according to the age assigned him at his death, the date would be 1564. He entered Oriel College, Oxford 23 Feb. 1587–8, at the age of seventeen (Foster, Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714, p. 918), graduated B.A. 5 Feb. 1590–1, became a fellow of his college, and proceeded M.A. 2 July 1595. He graduated M.D. at Basle and was incorporated at Oxford 15 May 1605, and in 1608 at Cambridge. He was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians of London 5 June 1607, was censor in 1608, and one of the elects 10 May 1625. On 4 Oct. 1614 he was sent with Sir William Paddy [q. v.] to represent to the lord mayor, Sir Thomas Middleton, that the city had no right to command the fellows of the college to bear arms, and succeeded in establishing this immunity. He was appointed physician to Anne, queen of James I, and to Charles I, by whom he was knighted at Oatlands, Surrey, 11 Oct. 1636. He retired to Burwell, Lincolnshire, and there died 14 Dec. 1656.
[Munk's Coll. of Phys. i. 123; Hamey's Bustorum aliquot reliquias, manuscript in Library of Coll. of Phys.; Goodall's Royal Coll. of Phys. of London, 1684.]
N. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lister, Thomas (1597-1668)

​LISTER, THOMAS (1597–1668), parliamentary colonel, born in 1597, was eldest son of William Lister of Coleby Hall, Lincolnshire, by Grisell, daughter of William Rivett of Rowston in the same county. On 1 Nov. 1616 he was admitted of Gray's Inn (Foster, Register, p. 144). Robert, earl of Lindsey, gave him a commission on 5 July 1629 as captain of foot in the Lincolnshire militia (Sleaford session). During the civil war he became a lieutenant-colonel in the parliamentary army and deputy governor of Lincoln. In 1644 he served as high sheriff of Lincolnshire. He was elected M.P. for Lincoln on 24 May 1647, and sat until April 1653. On being appointed one of the commissioners to try the king, he attended the first day for a short time, after which he declined ​to act (Hist. MSS. Comm. 7th Rep. p. 120). He was nominated a member of the council of state on 13 Feb. 1651, and served on several committees (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1661). He represented Lincolnshire in Cromwell's parliaments from 1653 till 1656, and again from May 1659 until the overthrow of the Commonwealth, his name frequently occurring as one of the tellers in division. He was included in the exceptions to the Act of Oblivion, but on 24 June 1660 he petitioned the House of Lords that he might receive the benefit of the indemnity, on the ground that he had not been present when the king was tried and sentenced (Lords' Journals, xi. 118). Accordingly, on 29 Aug. following he was merely incapacitated for life from holding any office. Lister died at his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and was buried in the church of St. Paul, Covent Garden, on 10 Nov. 1668. He married at Lenton, Lincolnshire, on 6 Feb. 1621-2, Margaret, daughter of Sir William Armyn, knt., of Osgodby in that county. His wife was buried at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, on 14 Nov. 1661. He left no children, and his estates of Coleby Hall Manor, Downehall in Rippingale, Lincolnshire, and others, descended to his nephew, William Lister.
[Notes kindly supplied by Mrs. Arthur Tempest from the family papers; will registered in P.C.C. 142, Hene.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Haward, Nicholas

​HAWARD, NICHOLAS (fl. 1569), author, apparently a native of Norfolk, describes himself as a student of Thavies Inn. He published: 1. ‘A briefe Chronicle, where in are described shortlye the Originall, and the successive estate of the Romaine weale publique … from the first foundatyon of the City of Rome, vnto the M.C. and XIX. yeare there of … collected and gathered first by Eutropius, and Englished by N. Havvard,’ 8vo, London, 1564. 2. ‘The Line of Liberalitie dulie directinge the wel bestowing of Benefites and reprehending the comonly vsed vice of Ingratitude,’ 8vo, London, 1569.
[Brydges and Haslewood's Brit. Bibliographer, ii. 155; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
G. G.