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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jones, Charles Handfield

​JONES, CHARLES HANDFIELD (1819–1890), physician, son of Captain Jones, R.N., was born at Liverpool, 1 Oct. 1819. He was one of Dr. Arnold's [q. v.] pupils at Rugby School, whence he went to Catharine Hall, Cambridge, in 1837, and there graduated B.A. in the poll of 1840. After study at St. George's Hospital, London, he took the degree of M.B. at Cambridge in 1843, but never proceeded to that of M.D. He became a member of the College of Physicians of London in 1845, and was elected a fellow in 1849. He published a paper of observations on the minute structure of the liver, which led to his election as F.R.S. in 1850. In 1851 he was elected physician to St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, and continued on the staff of that institution till his death. He attained considerable reputation as an histologist and as a clinical observer. In the College of Physicians he was junior censor in 1863–4 and senior censor in 1886, and in 1888 a vice-president. In 1865 he delivered the Lumleian lectures on the pathology of the nervous system. Besides numerous papers in medical journals he published in the ‘Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of London’ ‘On the Liver and Cholgagues’ (xxxv. 249); ‘On Morbid Changes in the Mucous Membrane of the Stomach’ (xxxvii. 67); ‘On Degeneration of the Pancreas’ (xxxviii. 195); ‘On Hæmatemesis’ (xliii. 353); and ‘On a Case of Intussusception’ (lxi 301). He never joined the Pathological Society, but communicated observations on morbid histology from time to time through others (Transactions, xxxiv. 55, 60, xxxv. 134, xxxvi. 158, xxxvii. 203). He published with E. H. Sieveking, in 1854, a ‘Manual of Pathological Anatomy,’ and in 1864 ‘Clinical Observations on Functional Nervous Disorders.’ The histology in which he was an original worker is much of it obsolete, but the clinical observations are of permanent value; the relations of paralysis, spasm, anæsthesia, and neuralgia are ably discussed, and the close relation of neuralgia to debility pointed out more clearly than in most previous books on nervous diseases. He resided in Green Street, Park Lane, until his latter years, when he removed to Montagu Square, London. He died there of cancer of the stomach, 30 Sept. 1890. He married in 1851 Louisa Holt, and had two sons, who both followed the profession of physic.
[Handfield Jones's Work; London and Provincial Medical Directory; Graduati Cantabr. 1884; Memoir in British Medical Journal, vol. ii. 1890; personal recollection.]
N. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jones, David (1711-1777)

​JONES, DAVID (1711–1777), Welsh hymn-writer, was the son of Daniel Jones of Cwmgogerddan, in the parish of Caio, Carmarthenshire, where he was born in the early part of 1711. A farmer and cattle-dealer, he remained in his native place until 1764, when he removed to Hafod-dafolog, near Llanwrda, an estate belonging to his second wife, and remained there until his death on 30 July 1777.
Jones was an independent, and wrote, at the request of ministers of that denomination, a large number of Welsh hymns, which rank in popularity second only to the productions of the greatest of Welsh hymn-writers, William Williams of Pantycelyn (1717–1791) [q. v.], the methodist preacher. Like Williams's hymns, Jones's works do not bear the impress of sectarian theology, and are in common use throughout Wales at the present day. Always joyful in tone, they move easily and are clear in thought and expression. His translation of Watts's version of the Psalms was published in 1753, and the following year he issued a small volume of original hymns, to which he subsequently added two other volumes. His last and, ​perhaps, his greatest work was his translation of Dr. Watts's hymns. The titles of his published works are as follows: 1. ‘Salmau Dafydd: wedi eu cyfansoddi yn ol jaith y Testament Newydd … yn Saesneg gan J. Watts, D.D.,’ London, 1753; 2nd edit. Llandovery, 1766; 3rd edit. Carmarthen, 1817. 2. ‘Difyrwch y Pererinion o Fawl i'r Oen, yn cynwys Hymnau ar amryw Destunau o'r Ysgrythyr Lan,’ 1754; 2nd edit. Carmarthen, 1763. 3. Ibid., ‘Yr Ail Ran’ (the second part), Llandovery, 1764. 4. Ibid., ‘Y Drydedd Ran’ (the third part), Carmarthen, 8vo, 1770. These three parts were republished in one book under the title of ‘Hymnau a Chaniadau Ysbrydol, gan I. Watts, D.D., ac a gyfieithwyd i'r Gymraeg gan D. J.,’ Carmarthen, 1775; 2nd edit. Trevecca, 1791; 3rd edit. Carmarthen, 1794. 5. ‘Caniadau Dewisol wedi eu hamcanu mewn iaith esmwyth er budd a gwasanaeth i Blant, yn Saesneg gan Isaac Watts, D.D.,’ Carmarthen, 1771, 8vo. 6. ‘Can Ddewisol … ar ddull ymddiddan rhwng Proffesswr hunangyfiawn a'i gydwybod,’ Carmarthen, 1779.
[Yr Adolygydd, ii. 475–95; Rees's Hist. of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales, pp. 401–3; Rowlands's Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry; Enwogion y Ffydd, ii. 145–50.]
D. Ll. T.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jones, David (1796-1841)

​JONES, DAVID (1796–1841), missionary to Madagascar, was born in 1796 near Neuaddlwyd, near Aberayron, Cardiganshire, and was educated at the college of Neuaddlwyd, chiefly by Dr. Phillips, at whose suggestion he and a fellow-pupil, Thomas Bevan, were ordained at Neuaddlwyd in August 1817, as the first protestant missionaries to Madagascar. They were married, and with their wives reached the Mauritius in April 1818, and in August crossed to Madagascar. There they were warmly welcomed by Fisatra, king of Tamatave, who sent his own son, along with ten or twelve other boys, to be educated by them. Bevan, and both his and Jones's wife, soon died, and were buried at Tamatave. Jones thereupon returned to the Mauritius to recruit his health, but after fourteen months resumed his work at Madagascar. In 1821 he married again. In 1822 he was joined by David Griffiths [q. v.] Towards the end of this year Jones and Griffiths settled the orthography of the Malagasy language on the phonetic system, giving each letter one sound, and using the Roman characters. They were helped in their work by David Johns [q. v.], and the natives were soon able to write their own language easily and correctly. The English colonists objected strongly to the phonetic spelling, but the missionaries were resolute, and the king (Radama) gave it his royal authority. By 1824 the number of scholars and religious converts had become ​very large. In 1827 a public examination of the children was held, and the king rewarded the most deserving. Shortly after, 1,500 catechisms, 800 hymn-books, and 2,200 books for spelling and reading were published; and in the following year the printing of a translation of the gospel of Luke into Malagasy was begun. About this time King Radama died, and soon afterwards more than twenty-five members of his family were assassinated. A long period of mourning followed, and all missionary work was stopped.
Jones and his friends now busied themselves in translating the scriptures. The queen sent orders that the Bible was not to be taught at the schools; but the missionaries, by patience and a conciliatory manner, secured a revocation of this order, and the work proceeded. In June 1830 Jones and his family visited Great Britain, there to further the interests of the mission. But when Jones returned to Madagascar, he found the work of the mission impeded by the authorities, and persecution was rampant in all directions. In June 1840 Captain Campbell and himself visited Ambatomanga to seek redress from the queen and her advisers. They were allowed a house each, but soon understood they were prisoners. The following day an inquisition was held, and many of the converts were put to death. Jones met with an accident, but managed to return to the Mauritius. He died there on 1 May 1841. His widow and children returned to London.
[Eglwysi Annybynol Cymru, iv. 105; Gwynionydd's Enwogion Ceredigion; Jones's Enwogion Sir Aberteifi; Jones's Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol.]
R. J. J.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jones, David (fl.1560-1590)

​JONES, DAVID (fl. 1560–1590), Welsh poet and antiquary, was vicar of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd in Denbighshire towards the close of the sixteenth century. One of the forged Taliesin poems, known as ‘Yr Awdl Fraith,’ was translated by him into Latin sapphics, under the date of 1580, and was published in Nicholas Owen's ‘British Remains,’ pp. 121–8, London, 1777, and subsequently in Jones's ‘Bardic Museum.’ Some of Jones's Welsh poems are preserved among the Additional MSS. at the British Museum, where there is also a volume of ancient Welsh poetry transcribed by him, and presented to one John Williams, 12 Feb. 1587. Hengwrt MS. 66 also contains a prayer of St. Augustine, and ‘Dengran Kristionogion y Byd,’ translated from Latin into Welsh by Jones.
[Owen's Cambrian Biography, p. 207; Thomas's Hist. of St. Asaph, p. 421; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Cat. of the Hengwrt MSS. in Archæologia Cambrensis, 3rd ser. xv. 225.]
D. Ll. T.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Aberdeen, Earls of

​ABERDEEN, Earls of. [See Gordon.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Abercromby, Robert (1534-1613)

1904 Errata appended.
​ABERCROMBY, ROBERT (1534–1613), a Scotch Jesuit, who, after entering the order, spent twenty-three years in assisting catholics abroad, and nineteen years on the Scotch mission, where he suffered imprisonment. Father Drew, in his ‘Fasti S. J.,’ states that Abercromby induced Anne of Denmark, queen of James I, to abjure Lutheranism, and to die in the profession the catholic faith. A reward of 10,000 crowns was offered for his apprehension; but he ​escaped, and died at Bransberg College, 27 April 1613.
T. C.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.1 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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| 46 | ii | 3-2 f.e. | Abercromby, Robert (1534-1613): for and to die . . . . faith read but she died (1619) without professing the catholic faith |
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Abergavenny

​ABERGAVENNY. [See Neville.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Abingdon, Earl of

​ ABINGDON, Earl of. [See Bertie.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Carleton, Richard

​CARLETON, RICHARD (1560?–1638?), musical composer, was possibly a member of the family of the same name who lived at Lynn in Norfolk. He was born in the latter part of the sixteenth century, and educated at Clare College, Cambridge, where he proceeded A.B. in 1577. He subsequently took the degree of Mus. Bac., and was ordained. Soon afterwards he obtained an appointment at Norwich Cathedral. In 1601 e published a collection of twenty-one madrigals, on the title-page of which he styles himself 'Priest.' These compositions, which in the Latin preface he calls 'prima libamina facultatis meas,' are dedicated to Sir Thomas Farmer. Prefixed is a 'Preface to the Skillfull Musician,' dated Norwich, 28 March 1601. In the same year he contributed a madrigal to the collection entitled 'The Triumphs of Oriana.' On 11 Oct. 1612 Carleton was presented by Thomas Thursby to the rectory of Bawsey and Glosthorp, near Lynn. The date of his death is unknown, but it probably took place in 1638, for though a locum tenens (Robert Powis) seems to have been appointed to the living in 1627, there was no other rector until 22 Aug. 1638, when Richard Peynes was presented. Carleton's name is also spelt Carlton or Charlton. The only extant compositions of his, besides those mentioned above, are some instrumental pavans in the British Museum (Add. MS. 568).
[Registers of the University of Cambridge, communicated by Mr. J. W. Clark; Diocesan Registers of Norwich, Register of Bawsey parish, communicated by the Rev. W. F. Creeny and Dr. Mann; information from the Rev. the Master of Clare, Dr. Bensly, and Mr. Walter Rye.]
W. B. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Carleton, Hugh

1904 Errata appended.
​CARLETON, HUGH, Viscount Carleton (1739–1826), lord chief justice of Ireland, eldest son of Francis Carleton of Cork, by Rebecca, daughter of John Lanton, was born 11 Sept. 1739. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and being called to the Irish bar became solicitor-general in 1779, and lord chief justice of the common pleas in 1787. In 1789 he was created Baron Carleton of Amer, and in 1797 Viscount Carleton of Clare, Tipperary. He became lord chief justice in 1800, and the same year was chosen one of the twenty-eight representative peers of Ireland. In 1803, having incensed the mob by the trial and condemnation of the two councillors Sheers, to whom he had been left guardian by their father, he only escaped their summary vengeance by Lord Kilwarden being killed in mistake for him. Curran, referring to the lugubrious manner of Carleton on the bench, said that he was plaintiff (plaintive) in every case before him. He died in 1826. He married in 1766 Elizabeth, only daughter of Richard Mercer, and in 1795 Mary Buckley, second daughter of Andrew Matthew; but by neither marriage had he any issue.
[Georgian Era, ii. 540; Gent. Mag. 1826, i. 270.]
T. F. H.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.55 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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| ii | 13-14 | Carleton, Hugh, Viscount Carleton: for lord chief justice in Ireland read chief justice of common pleas in Ireland |
| | 18 | after became insert third serjeant 1776, second serjeant 1777 |
| | 19 | omit lord |
| | 20 | after 1787 insert He was M.P. for Tuam 1772-6, Philipstown 1776-83, and Naas 1783-7 |
| | 22-23 | for became lord chief justice read retired from the bench |
| | 25-30 | omit In 1803 . . . . in mistake for him |
| | 34 | for in 1826 read on 25 Feb. 1826 |
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Carliell, Robert

​CARLIELL, ROBERT (d. 1622?), poet, is the author of a scarce volume entitled 'Britaines Glorie; or an Allegorical Dreame with the Exposition thereof: containing the ​ Heathens Infidelitie, the Turkes Blasphemie, the Popes Hypocrisie, Amsterdams Varietie, the Church of Englands Veritie in Religion. And in our Church of England, the Kings Excellency. His Issues Integritie. The Nobles and Gentries Constancie. The Councels and Iudges Fidelitie. The Preachers and the Bishops Sinceritie. Conceived and written by Robert Carliell, Gent., for the love and honour of his King and Country,’ London, 1619. This allegorical poem, in forty-two six-line stanzas, is followed by a prose exposition, in which the glories of the church of England are further described. A singular attack on tobacco figures in the early pages. In the British Museum Library are three copies of the work, two dated 1620, and a third dated 1622. Nothing certain is known of the author. The will of a citizen and leatherseller of London of the same name, dated 9 Oct. 1622, was proved on 7 Nov. following. This Robert Carliell had a son Robert, who according to the will had treated his father very undutifully.
[Carlisle's Collections for a History of the Carlisle Family, p. 373; Corser's Collectanea Anglo-Poetica, iii. 253–5; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
S. L. L.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Carleton, William (d.1309?)

​CARLETON, WILLIAM (d. 1309?), judge, appears to have been a Yorkshireman. He was designated 'civis Eboracensis' in a roll of 1291 (Rot. Orig. Abbrev. i. 75). The earliest mention of him occurs under date 1286, when he was placed in possession of the vacant abbey of Ramsey in Huntingdonshire, to hold during the king's pleasure. Between 1286 and 1290 inclusive he acted as one of the justices of the Jews, officials with functions similar to those exercised by the barons of the exchequer, but limited to the transaction of business in which the Jewish community was concerned. His salary appears to have been 20l. per annum. On the expulsion of the Jews, which took place in 1290, it is probable that he was immediately created a baron, as we find him ranked next after John de Cobham, the senior baron, in the list of justices summoned to parliament in 1295. He was despatched to Antwerp in 1297 to negotiate, on behalf of the king, a loan of 10,000l. with the merchants there, presumably for the purposes of the expedition to Flanders. By the death of John de Cobham, in 1300, he became senior baron. He was reappointed on the accession of Edward II (1307), at whose coronation he was present, and the same year received permission, in consideration of his 'long and meritorious and unremitting service,' to attend at the exchequer at his own convenience. The following year he is mentioned as one of the judges assigned to try cases of forestalling in the city of London. As after this year he is not again summoned to parliament, it is probable that he died before the next writ was issued (the 11th of the ensuing June). As his name does not occur in the 'Inquisitiones post Mortem,' we may infer that, like many other of the earlier barons of the exchequer, he was of humble origin; and as he is described as 'civis Eboracensis,' it seems not altogether improbable that he was the tenant of Carleton in Yorkshire, under Henry de Percy.
[Rot. Orig. Abbrev. i. 51, 75, 112; Dugdale's Chron. Ser. 18, 32; Madox's Exch. i. 230, ii. 62; Foss's Lives of the Judges; Rot. Parl. i. 169, 194; Parl. Writs, i. 29, ii. div. ii. pt. i. 18, pt. ii. 4, 19.]
J. M. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Carlile, Anne

Joan Carlile in the ODNB.
​CARLILE or CARLISLE, ANNE (d. 1680?), was an artist. In 1658 Sir William Sanderson, speaking in his ‘Graphice’ of painters ‘now in England,’ says (p. 50), ‘and in Oyl Colours we have a virtuous example in that worthy Artist, Mrs. Carlile.’ She painted her own portrait; Vertue saw in the suceeding century about 1730. She was largely empployed in copying the paintings of the Italian masters, and in reproducing these in miniature; an Charles I was so warm an admirer of her work, Graham says, that he presented Vandyke and the lady with ultramarine to the value of 500l. Anne Carlile died about 1680; and many of her pictures were afterwards in the possession of Lady Cotterel.
[Sir William Sanderson's Graphics, p. 20; Walpole’s Anecd. of Painting, ed. 1849, ii. 381.]
J. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Carlile, Christopher

​CARLILE, CHRISTOPHER, D.D. (d. 1588?), divine, was a member of Clare Hall Cambridge, of which society he was elected a fellow. He commenced M.A. in 1541, and in 1548 was chosen one of the proctors of the university. In 1552 he took the degree of B.D,, and he was suhsequently created D.D. He was residing at Monks' Horton in Kent in 1563. The first dated edition (1572) of his discourse on the controverted point, whether St. Peter was ever at Rome is dedicated to Lord Wentworth, ‘by whom,’ says the author, ‘I have bene liberally sustained these xxx. yeares.’ On 22 Aug. 1571 one Christopher Carlile, M.A., was instituted to the rectory of St. John's, Hackney, which was vacant by his death on 2 Aug. 1588 when William Sutton, M.A., was appointed his successor. Another Christopher Carlile, who lived for some time at Barham in Kent, removed thence to the parsh of St. Botolph, near Bishopsgate, London, where he died in the beginning of the year 1596.
Carlile was an excellent Hebrew scholar. He wrote 1. ‘A Discourse wherein is plainly proved by the order of time and place that Peter was never at Rome. Furthermore, that neither Peter nor the Pope is the head of Christes Church,' Lond. n.d. and 1572, 4to. Another edition bears this title, 'A Discourse of Peters Lyfe, Peregrination, and Death,’ Lond. 1582, 4to. The first discourse was reprinted, with two letters to a clergyman, by James Billet, Lond. 1845, 8vo. 2. ‘Discourse, concerning two divine Positions. The first effectually concluding, that the soules of the faithfull fathers deceased before Christ went immediately to Heaven. The second sufficientlye setting foorth unto us Christians, what we are to conceive, touchinq the descension of our Saviour Christ into Hell,’ Lond. 1582, 16mo. Dedicated to Henry, earl of Huntingdon. This book contains the substance of a public disputation held at Cambridge in 1562: and was written in confutation of a work by Dr. R. Smith of Oxford. Carlile’s book was interdicted by public authority soon after its appearance. The Psalms of David in English, with annotations, 1573; manuscript in the Cambridge University Library, Ff. 5. 6.
[Carlisle’s Collections for a History of the Carlisle Family, 58; Tanner’s Bibl. Exit. 154; Ames's Typogr. Antiq. (Herbert). 862, 878. 908, l008, 1071, 1191, 1319; Lyson's Environs, ii. 476; Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, v. 283; Additt MS. 5865, f. 49; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), i. 836, 418; Cooper's Athenæ Cantab. ii. 84; Newcourt's Repertorium, i. 619; Robinson’s Hackney. ii. 154, l55.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Brocky, Charles

​BROCKY, CHARLES (1807–1855), portrait and subject painter, was born at Temeswar, in the Banat, Hungary. When between six and seven years of age he lost his mother. Her sister had married the manager of a company of strolling players, and Brocky's father, who had originally been a peasant, followed the theatrical party in the capacity of hairdresser. He had many difficulties and hardships to contend against in his youth, but succeeded in obtaining some instruction in art at a free drawing-school at Vienna, and afterwards studied in the Louvre at Paris. He settled in London about 1837-8, and enjoyed some practice as a miniature-painter. Among his sitters was the queen. Brocky exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1839 to 1854 both portraits and subject pieces, among the latter an oil picture entitled 'The Nymph,' and four representations of the Seasons. The British Museum possesses four heads drawn by him in red chalk, executed in a masterly style, and four others are at the South Kensington Museum. When at Vienna he painted a St. John the Baptist, an altar-piece, a full-length portrait of the Emperor of Austria, a St. Cecilia, and a St. John the Evangelist. Brocky died in London on 8 July 1855, and was buried in Kensal Green cemetery.
[Wilkinson's Sketch of the Life of Charles Brocky, the Artist, 1870, 8vo.]
L. F.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Brockie, Marianus

​BROCKIE, MARIANUS, D.D. (1687–1755), Benedictine monk, was born at Edinburgh on 2 Dec. 1687, and joined the Scotch Benedictines at Ratisbon in 1708. He was doctor and professor of philosophy and divinity, and for a considerable time superior of the Scotch monastery at Erfurt. In 1727 he was sent on the catholic mission to his native country, where he remained till 1739. After returning to Ratisbon, he was for many years prior of St. James's, during which time he wrote his 'Monasticon Scoticon.' He died, leaving it unfinished, on 2 Dec. 1755. It was completed by Maurice Grant, but the monastery was not able to publish it. The manuscript, bound in seven ponderous volumes, is preserved at St. Mary's College, Blairs. It was lent to Dr. James F. S. Gordon for consultation and use in his 'Monasticum,' printed at Glasgow in 1867. Brockie wrote 'Observationes critico-historicæ' on the 'Regulæ ac Statuta recentiorum Ordinum et Congregationum' which constitute the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th volumes of Holstenius's 'Codex Regularum Monasticarum et Canonicarum,' printed at Augsburg in 1759.
[Gordon's Roman Catholic Mission in Scotland, 526; Cat. of Printed Books in Brit, Mus.; Fernschild's Dissertatio de Origine Animæ Rationalis in Homine, 1718.]
T. C.