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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/James, William (1635?-1663)

​JAMES or JAMESIUS, WILLIAM (1635?–1663), scholar, son of Henry James, and grandson of a citizen of Bristol, was born about 1635 in Monmouthshire. He was first educated privately by his uncle, William Sutton, at Blandford Forum, Dorsetshire, ‘and being extraordinary rath-ripe, and of a prodigious memory, was entred into his accedence at five years of age’ (Wood, Athenæ Oxon. iii. 634). In 1646 he was elected a king's scholar at Westminster School, and ‘making marvellous proficiency under Mr. Busby, his most loving master’ (ib. p. 634), he was elected a student of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1650 (M.A. 1656). Before he took his degree Busby appointed him an assistant in the school. He contributed, with his schoolfellow, Dryden, English verses to John Hoddesdon's ‘Sion and Parnassus,’ 1650, small 8vo, and some Greek verses by him are prefixed to the ‘Horæ Subsecivæ’ of H. Stubbs, 1651, small 8vo. In 1651 he produced ‘Εἰσαγωγή in linguam Chaldaicam in usum scholæ Regiæ Westmon.,’ dedicated to ‘his tutor, parent, and patron,’ Busby; was made usher at Westminster in 1658, and helped to prepare ‘The English Introduction to the Latin Tongue, for the use of the Lower Forms in Westminster School,’ 1659. In 1661 he became second master (J. Welch, Alumni Westmonasterienses, new edit. 1852, p. 135). He died on 3 July 1663, aged about 28, ‘to the great reluctancy of all who knew his admirable parts,’ and was buried at the west end of Westminster Abbey, ‘near the lowest door, going into the cloister’ (Wood, Athenæ, iii. 634; J. Dart, History of Westminster Abbey, ii. 142).
James was one of Busby's favourite scholars. In the old library at Westminster School there are preserved among the Busby relics two neatly written manuscript Latin translations by James of Bacon's ‘Reginæ Elisabethæ fœlicitas,’ 1652, and the ‘Heros Laurentii,’ 1654, of Balthazar Gracian. The last is dedicated to Busby by his ‘filius et pupillus.’ In the same collection are also Hebrew, Arabic, and Greek vocabularies prepared by James.
[Authorities mentioned above, esp. Welch's Alumni Westmonasterienses.]
H. R. T.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Desenfans, Noel Joseph

​DESENFANS, NOEL JOSEPH (1745–1807), picture dealer, was born at Douai in 1745, educated at Paris, and came to England as a teacher of languages. But a taste for ​art and the fortunate purchase of a picture by Claude, and its advantageous sale to George III, turned his attention to picture dealing. Towards 1789 the troubles of the French noblesse threw many works of art into the market, and Stanislaus, the last king of Poland, commissioned Desenfans to buy paintings for a national collection in that country. Ere these could be paid for, however, Poland was dismembered. Desenfans tried in vain to obtain a recognition of the debt from the Russian government, and in 1802 organised an exhibition of the pictures with a view to their sale, and published what he called a ‘Descriptive Catalogue,’ in 2 vols. This is his chief work, and a fair specimen of the art criticism of the time. There is in it an unlucky observation on envy among artists, which seems to have excited a bitter storm, and brought on the author a fierce pamphlet from the pen of an assailant whom he describes, in a published ‘Letter to Benjamin West,’ as ‘an anonymous assassin styling himself a painter.’
Desenfans was a man of taste and education, and clearly a judicious collector. He published in 1799 ‘A Plan, preceded by a Short Review of the Fine Arts,’ &c., which was in effect a plea for the creation of a national gallery. When he died, on 8 July 1807, he left all his unsold pictures to Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois [q. v.], and Bourgeois considered that the wishes of his dead friend would best be consulted by bequeathing the pictures in turn to Dulwich College, with funds for the erection and maintenance of a public gallery. Mrs. Desenfans (Margaret Morris, sister of Sir John Morris of Claremont, Glamorganshire) further added to the bequest. The three benefactors are entombed in a mausoleum attached to the gallery.
F. T. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dermott, Laurence

​DERMOTT, LAURENCE (1720–1791), freemason, born in Ireland in 1720, came to London about 1750. He was elected grand secretary of the ‘Antient’ masons in 1752. In 1771 the Duke of Atholl appointed him deputy grand master, the duties of which office he discharged until 1787. He died in London in 1791. It was to his great zeal that the success of the Atholl or Antient masons was mainly due. He has been described as ‘the literary man of the Antients.’ In 1756 he wrote a book entitled ‘Ahiman Rezon, or a Help to a Brother,’ one of the most famous books in connection with masonic literature of the last century.
W. M. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Derricke, John

​DERRICKE, JOHN (fl. 1578), author of the ‘Image of Ireland,’ was the follower of Sir Henry Sidney, and the friend of his son, Sir Philip. He may have been the Mr. Derricke who, in 1557, was employed to make the great seal for Ireland by direction of Mr. Secretary Sir John Bourne. His work is divided into two parts, the first giving a sort of allegorical description of Ireland, after a somewhat confused manner, the women being represented as seductive nymphs, and the men as a kind of sylvan deities; and the second, which is alone of any value, giving a description of the wood kerne, or native Irish, in the time of Elizabeth, illustrated by curious woodcuts of the wood kerne in the costumes of the period, ecclesiastical, civil, and military. The work appears to have been written in 1578, and was first published in 1581. In 1809 it was reprinted with notes by Sir Walter Scott in ‘Somers Tracts,’ and an impression of 286 copies, on thick paper, edited by John Small, was published at Edinburgh in 1883.
[Small's edition of the Image of Ireland.]
T. F. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Derrick, Samuel

​DERRICK, SAMUEL (1724–1769), author, was a native of Dublin, whose ancestors went to Ireland at an early period, and, after being long seated near Carlow, were finally scattered and ruined during the Irish disturbances of the seventeenth century. He served his apprenticeship with a linendraper, but leaving that calling went on the stage, where he was unsuccessful. He afterwards became a literary man, and published the following books: 1. ‘The Dramatic Censor,’ No. 1, 1752. 2. ‘Sylla,’ a dramatic entertainment, from the French of the king of Prussia, 1753, 8vo. 3. ‘A Voyage from the Moon,’ from the French of Bergerac, 1753, 8vo. 4. ‘Memoirs of the Count de Beauval,’ from the French of D'Argens, 1754, 12mo. 5. ‘The Third Satire of Juvenal,’ translated into English verse, 1755, 4to. 6. ‘A View of the Stage,’ 1759, published under the name of Wilkes. 7. ‘The Battle of Lora,’ a poem, &c., from Ossian, 1762, 4to. 8. ‘Dryden's Works, with a Life and Notes,’ 1760, 4 vols. 9. ‘A Collection of Voyages,’ 1762, 2 vols. 12mo. 10. ‘Letters written from Leverpoole, Chester, Corke,’ &c., 1767, 12mo, 2 vols., with the author's portrait prefixed.
He was acquainted with Dr. Johnson, who had a ‘great kindness’ for him, and, while acknowledging that he was a poor writer, was of opinion that his ‘Letters,’ if they had been written by one of a more established name, ‘would have been thought very pretty letters.’ On being asked, however, whether Derrick or Smart was the best poet, he said that there was ‘no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.’ He helped Johnson in getting materials for Dryden's ‘Life,’ and was Boswell's first tutor in the ways of London. Soon after the death of ​Beau Nash in 1761 he was appointed master of the ceremonies at Bath, which place he kept, along with a like position at Tunbridge Wells, until his death on 28 March 1769. A compilation entitled ‘Derrick's Jests, or the Wit's Chronicle,’ was published soon after his death.
[Chalmers's Dictionary (from Isaac Reed's manuscript anecdotes in possession of the editor); Boswell's Johnson, ed. Napier, i. 89, 314, 372–4, iv. 215; Derrick's Letters, i. 87; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Gent. Mag. 1769, p. 215; The New Bath Guide, 1798, p. 66; Monthly Review, vols. vi. ix. xii. xi. xii. xxviii. xxxvi.]
C. W. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Des Granges, David

​DES GRANGES, DAVID (fl. 1625–1675), miniature-painter, was probably a Frenchman, and seems to have been originally an engraver. In 1628 he engraved a plate from the picture of St. George by Raphael, now in the Hermitage at St. Petersburg, but then in the collection of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, to whom the engraving was dedicated. His name also appears on frontispieces of that time. He seems soon to have turned his hand to miniature painting, as there is a miniature of a lady in the royal collection at Windsor, dated 1639, a copy of Titian's ‘D'Avalos and his mistress’ at Ham House, dated 1640, and a miniature of Inigo Jones in the collection of the Duke of Portland, dated 1641. One of Charles I is at Hardwick House, Bury St. Edmund's. His miniatures are always signed with his initials, D. D. G. In 1651, when Charles II was on his fruitless campaign in Scotland, Des Granges attended him, as limner, and while at St. Johnstone's (where he fell sick) painted several miniatures of Charles, which were distributed among the nobles and other adherents to the royal cause. In 1671 he petitioned Charles for payment of the sums remaining due to him for these services, and his petition seems to have been successful. He describes himself as old and infirm, with failing sight and helpless children, and it is probable that he did not survive very long. Miniatures by Des Granges were exhibited at Manchester in 1857, at the Loan Exhibition, South Kensington, in 1862, and the Exhibition of Miniatures at South Kensington in 1865. At the last-named there were miniatures of Sir Thomas Bodley, Madame de Maintenon (1656), and Catherine of Braganza. Others are in the collections at Windsor Castle, Ham House, Madresfield Court, Wroxton Abbey, &c. His signature has sometimes been ignorantly ascribed to the dwarf Gibson. Sanderson in his ‘Graphice’ (1658) mentions Des Granges among the painters from the life then living, and classes him with Walker, Wright, Lely, and others as ‘rare artizans.’
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hailstone, Samuel

Contains subarticle Edward Hailstone (1818–1890).
​HAILSTONE, SAMUEL (1768–1851), botanist, was born at Hoxton, near London, in 1768. His family shortly afterwards settled in York. He was articled to John Hardy, a solicitor at Bradford, grandfather of the present Lord Cranbrook. On the expiration of his articles Hardy took him into partnership. The scanty leisure of a busy professional life was devoted to botany, and Hailstone became known as the leading authority on the flora of Yorkshire. He formed collections illustrating the geology of the district, and of books and manuscripts relating to Bradford. He contributed papers to the 'Magazine of Natural History' (1835, viii. 261-5, 549-53), and a list of rare plants to Whitaker's 'History of Craven' (1812, pp. 509-19). His valuable herbarium was presented by his sons to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and is now in the museum at York. His brother was the Rev. John Hailstone [q. v.], the geologist. He married in 1808 Ann, daughter of Thomas Jones, surgeon, of Bradford. His wife died in 1833, aged 53. He died at Horton Hall, Bradford, on 26 Dec. 1851, aged 83, leaving two sons, John, a clergyman, and Edward, who is noticed below.
Edward Hailstone (1818–1890) succeeded his father as solicitor at Bradford, and finally retired to Walton Hall, near Wakefield, where he accumulated a remarkable collection of antiquities and books, among them the most extensive series of works relating to Yorkshire ever brought together, which has been left to the library of the dean and chapter, York. Edward Hailstone died at Walton 24 March 1890 in his seventy-third year. He printed a catalogue of his Yorkshire library in 1858, and published 'Portraits of Yorkshire Worthies, with biographical notices,' 1869, 2 vols. 4to.
[Bradford Observer, 1 Jan. 1852; Times 27 March 1890; Athenæum, 5 April 1890, p. 444.]
H. R. T.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Haimo

​HAIMO (d. 1054?), archdeacon of Canterbury. [See Haymo.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Haines, Herbert

​HAINES, HERBERT (1826–1872), archæologist, son of John Haines, surgeon, of Hampstead, was born on 1 Sept. 1826. He was educated at the college school, Gloucester, and went to Exeter College, Oxford, 1844, where he proceeded B.A., 1849, M.A. 1851. In 1848, while still an undergraduate, he published the first edition of his work on monumental brasses. In September 1849 he was licensed to the curacy of Delamere in Cheshire. On 22 June 1850 be was appointed by the dean and chapter of Gloucester to the second mastership of his old school, the college school, Gloucester. This office he retained till his death, and on two occasions during vacancies in 1853-4 and in 1871 acted for sometime as headmaster. In 1854 he was appointed chaplain to the Gloucester County Lunatic Asylum, and in 1859 became also chaplain of the newly opened Barnwood House Asylum, near Gloucester. In 1861 he brought out a much enlarged and improved edition of 'Monumental Brasses.' Haines died, after a very short illness, on 18 Sept. 1872, and was buried in the Gloucester cemetery. A memorial brass bearing his effigy, an excellent likeness, was placed in Gloucester Cathedral by friends and old pupils. It is now in the south ambulatory of the choir. Besides some elementary classical school books, now antiquated, he wrote: 1. 'A Manual for the Study of Monumental Brasses,' published under the sanction of the Oxford Architectural Society, 8vo, Oxford, 1848; 2nd edit., 2 vols. 8vo, Oxford, 1861. 2. 'St. Paul a Witness to the Resurrection; a Sermon preached before the University of Oxford,' 8vo. Oxford and London, 1867. 3. 'A Guide to the Cathedral Church in Gloucester,' 8vo, Gloucester and London, 1867; 2nd edit., revised and corrected by F. S. Waller, cathedral architect, 1880; 3rd edit. 1885.
[Information from the diocesan registrars of Chester and Gloucester; private information; personal knowledge.]
J. R. W.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Haines, William

1904 Errata appended.
​HAINES, WILLIAM (1778–1848), engraver and painter, was born at Bedhampton, Hampshire, on 21 June 1778; but taken in infancy to Chichester he always regarded that city as his native place. He was educated at the Midhurst grammar school, witnessing while there the destruction by fire of Cowdray House. Two years after that disaster he was with Thew, the engraver, at Northaw, Hertfordshire, where, when sufficiently proficient, he worked with Scriven and others on the Boydell-Shakespeare plates. In 1800 he went to the Cape of Good Hope; his ship, outsailed by the convoy, successfully resisting on the voyage an attack by a French privateer. At Cape Town and in excursions up the country he made numerous drawings (Caffres, Hottentots, &c.), resembling Catlin's later American pictures. From the Cape he passed to Philadelphia, where he engraved a number of book illustrations (‘Johnson's Poets,’ ‘Bradford's British Classics,’ &c.) and some portraits (Drs. Barton and Rush, Sir W. Jones, Franklin, &c.). Returning to England he commenced (1805) work in London, adding miniature-painting to his practice as an engraver, which brought him again to Chichester and his connections there. Hayley (for whose ‘Life of Romney’ he had engraved a plate) warmly befriended him, and on his recommendation he proceeded (after his Chichester engagements were concluded) to Southampton, but with little result. Again in London his professional prospects improved; he adopted a larger scale, and ultimately painted in oils. Among his many sitters for miniatures in Boyle Street, Savile Row, where he resided and built a studio, were Lords Strangford and Portarlington, Lord Fitzroy Somerset (afterwards Lord Raglan), Sir Andrew Barnard, and other Peninsula officers; the Earl of Stanhope (engraved by Reynolds), Sir Charles Forbes, Baron Garrow, Legh, the traveller, Salamè, interpreter; Lady Anne Barnard, the Misses Porter, Moore, Theodore Hook, Miss Stephens. He painted portraits in oils of Buchanan McMillan and Captain (Sir E.) Parry (both engraved by Reynolds). Succeeding to some property he retired to East Brixton, where he died 24 July 1848.
W. H.-s.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Haite, John James

​HAITE, JOHN JAMES (d. 1874), musical composer, was a useful member of the Society of British Musicians, which produced several of his works. His published compositions include many songs; some glees; ‘Favourite Melodies as Quintets,’ 1865; a cantata, ‘Abraham's Sacrifice,’ 1871; an oratorio, ‘David and Goliath,’ 1880; and a pamphlet, ‘Principles of Natural Harmony, being a perfect System founded upon the Discovery of the true Semitonic Scale,’ London, 1855, 4to.
L. M. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hakewill, Henry

​HAKEWILL, HENRY (1771–1830), architect, eldest son of John Hakewill [q. v.], was born on 4 Oct. 1771. He was a pupil of John Yenn, R.A., and also studied at the ​Royal Academy, where in 1790 he obtained a silver medal for a drawing of the Strand front of Somerset House. His first works were for Mr. Harenc at Foots Cray, Kent; subsequently he designed Rendlesham House, Suffolk, Cave Castle, Yorkshire, and many other fine mansions. In 1809 he was appointed architect to Rugby School, and designed the Gothic buildings and chapel there. He was also architect to the Radcliffe trustees at Oxford, and to the benchers of the Middle Temple. Among the churches built by him were Wolverton Church, the first church of St. Peter, Eaton Square (since burnt down, and re-erected by his son from his drawings), and the ugly tower of St. Anne's, Soho. Hakewill wrote an account of the Roman villa discovered at Northleigh, Oxfordshire, first published in Skelton's ‘Antiquities,’ and reissued separately in 1826. On 14 Nov. 1804 he married Anne Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Edward Frith of North Cray, Kent, and died 13 March 1830, leaving seven children, including two sons, John Henry and Edward Charles, noticed below, and a daughter, Elizabeth Caroline, married to Edward Browell of Feltham, Middlesex.
Hakewill, John Henry (1811–1880), architect, son of the above, was architect of Stowlangtoft Hall, Suffolk, the hospital at Bury St. Edmunds, and of some churches at Yarmouth. He died in 1880, aged 69.
Hakewill, Edward Charles (1812–1872), architect, younger son of the above, was a student in the Royal Academy, and in 1831 became a pupil of Philip Hardwick, R.A. [q. v.] On setting up for himself he built and designed churches at Stonham Aspall and Grundisburgh, Suffolk, South Hackney, and St. James's, Clapton. He was appointed a metropolitan district surveyor, but retired in 1867, and settled in Suffolk. He died 9 Oct. 1872. In 1851 he published ‘The Temple: an Essay on the Ark, the Tabernacle, and the Temple of Jerusalem.’
[Dict. of Architecture; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; private information.]
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Haines, John Thomas

​HAINES, JOHN THOMAS (1799?–1843), actor and dramatist, was born about 1799. From 1823 up to the year of his ​death he was engaged in supplying the minor theatres of the metropolis with innumerable melodramas of the ‘blood-and-thunder’ type, which were mostly successful. His sea-plays gave full scope to the energies of T. P. Cooke [q. v.] His ‘My Poll and my Partner Joe,’ a nautical drama in three acts, produced at the Surrey Theatre on 7 Sept. 1835, yielded a profit of 4,000l. Haines occasionally acted in his own pieces. He died at Stockwell, Surrey, on 18 May 1843, aged 44, being at the time stage-manager of the English Opera House (Gent. Mag. 1843, pt. ii. p. 103). His more popular plays are: 1. ‘The Idiot Witness; or a Tale of Blood,’ a melodrama in two acts (Coburg Theatre, 1823). 2. ‘Jacob Faithful; or the Life of a Thames Waterman,’ a domestic local drama in three acts (Surrey Theatre, 14 Dec. 1834). 3. ‘Richard Plantagenet,’ an historical drama in three acts (Victoria Theatre, 1836). 4. ‘The Ocean of Life; or Every Inch a Sailor,’ a nautical drama in three acts (Surrey Theatre, 4 April 1836). 5. ‘Maidens Beware!’ an original burletta in one act (Victoria Theatre, January 1837). 6. ‘Breakers Ahead! or a Seaman's Log,’ a nautical drama in three acts (Victoria Theatre, 10 April 1837). 7. ‘Angeline Le Lis,’ an original drama in one act (St. James's Theatre, 29 Sept. 1837). 8. ‘The Charming Polly; or Lucky or Unlucky Days,’ a drama in two acts (Surrey Theatre, 29 June 1838). 9. ‘Alice Grey, the Suspected One; or the Moral Brand,’ a domestic drama in three acts (Surrey Theatre, 1 April 1839). 10. ‘Nick of the Woods; or the Altar of Revenge,’ a melodrama (Victoria Theatre, 1839). 11. ‘The Wizard of the Wave; or the Ship of the Avenger,’ a legendary nautical drama in three acts (Victoria Theatre, 2 Sept. 1840). 12. ‘The Yew Tree Ruins; or the Wreck, the Miser, and the Mines,’ a domestic drama in three acts (11 Jan. 1841). 13. ‘Ruth; or the Lass that Loves a Sailor,’ a nautical and domestic drama in three acts (Victoria Theatre, 23 Jan. 1843). 14. ‘Austerlitz; or the Soldier's Bride,’ a melodrama in three acts (Queen's Theatre). 15. ‘Amilie; or the Love Test,’ an opera in three acts. 16. ‘The Wraith of the Lake; or the Brownie's Brig,’ a melodrama in three acts. 17. ‘Rattlin the Reefer; or the Tiger of the Sea,’ a nautical drama in three acts. Haines also adapted and arranged from the French of Scribe and St. Georges the songs, duets, quartettes, recitatives, and choruses in the opera of ‘Queen for a Day,’ which, set to music by Adolphe Adam, was first performed at the Surrey Theatre on 14 June 1841.
G. G.