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# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Brackenbury, Henry

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​BRACKENBURY, Colonel Henry, C.B., R.A., born at Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, Sept. 1, 1837, was educated at Tonbridge, Eton, and Woolwich. He was appointed to the Royal Artillery in April, 1856; and served in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny in 1857–58. Subsequently he was appointed to the staff of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, first as officer for discipline, then as Instructor in Artillery, finally as Professor of Military History. He served throughout the Franco-German war as chief representative of the British National Society for aid to sick and wounded in war; received the Iron Cross from the Emperor of Germany; and was made Officer of the Legion of Honour by the French Government, and Knight of the First Class of the Bavarian Order of St. Michael. Being appointed Military Secretary to Sir Garnet Wolseley, he served with him throughout the Ashanti Campaign, 1873–4. He served as a member of a special mission to Natal in 1875; was Assistant Adjutant-General to the Cyprus Expeditionary Force in 1878; and raised and organised the Cyprus Military Police. In 1879 he accompanied Sir G. Wolseley to South Africa as Military Secretary, and later succeeded Sir G. Colley as Chief of the Staff, in which capacity he served throughout the closing operations of the Zulu war and the campaign against Sekukuni. In 1880 he was appointed Private Secretary to the Viceroy of India, and returned to England with the Earl of Lytton, on his resignation. He was Military Attaché to the British Embassy at Paris from Jan., 1881, to May, 1882, when he was appointed Assistant Under-Secretary for Ireland, to deal with all matters relating to police and crime in that country. He resigned the latter post, however, on July 19, 1882. He is the author of "Fanti and Ashanti," 1873; "Narrative of the Ashanti War;" and of several military pamphlets.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bradley, Edward

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​BRADLEY, The Rev. Edward, better known under the pseudonym "Cuthbert Bede," a son of Thomas Bradley, Esq., of Kidderminster, was born in 1827, and educated at Durham University, where he was Thorp Scholar and Foundation Scholar at the University College. Having graduated at Durham, he was ordained in 1850, appointed incumbent of Bobbington, Staffordshire, in 1857, and rector of Denton, Huntingdonshire, in 1859. The latter incumbency he held till 1871, when he was appointed rector of Stretton, near Oakham, co. Rutland. His first publication was "Verdant Green," a novel, portraying Oxford life in a humorous aspect, followed by "Medley," "Motley," "Photographic Pleasures," "Love's Provocations," "Tales of College Life," "Fairy Fables," "Nearer and Dearer," and "Happy Hours at Wyndford Grange." He published, in 1861, "Glencreggan," an illustrated work on Cantire, in the West Highlands, descriptive of the scenery, history, antiquities, and legends of that peninsula, the original seat of the ancient Scottish monarchy; in 1862, "The Curate of Cranston," with other prose and verse; in 1863, "A Tour in Tartan Land;" in 1864, "The Visitor's Handbook to Rosslyn and Hawthornden;" and "The White Wife," another illustrated work on the legends and popular stories of the Land's-end of Scotland; in 1865, "The Rook's Garden: Essays and Sketches;" and in 1866, "Mattins and Muttons; or, the Beauty of Brighton," a novel. He has contributed to Punch, the Illustrated ​London News, the Gentleman's, Bentley's, Sharpe's, and the St. James's Magazines, to the London Review, Once a Week, and other periodicals and journals.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bramston, John

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​BRAMSTON, The Very Rev. John, B.D., some time Dean of Winchester, is the younger son of the late Mr. Thomas Gardiner Bramston, of Skreens, Essex. He was born in 1802, and educated at Winchester and Oriel College, Oxford, where he took his bachelor's degree in Michaelmas Term, 1823, obtaining a second-class in the School of Literæ Humaniores. He was shortly afterwards elected to a Fellowship at Exeter College; but this he vacated by his appointment in 1831 to the vicarage of Great Baddow, Essex, a living in private patronage, from which he was transferred by Bishop Blomfield, in 1840, to the vicarage of Witham, which he held until his appointment to the Deanery of Winchester in Oct., 1872. Mr. Bramston was formerly an honorary Canon of Rochester Cathedral, and for some time he sat in the Lower House of Convocation as one of the Proctors for the Diocese of Rochester. He resigned the Deanery of Winchester in 1883.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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​BRADDON, Miss Mary Elizabeth, popular novelist, daughter of Mr. Henry Braddon, solicitor, who contributed to the old Sporting Magazine under the noms de guerre of "Gilbert Forrester" and "A ​Member of the Burton Hunt," was born in Soho Square, London, in 1837, and became at an early age a contributor to periodical literature; and wrote sentimental verses, political squibs, and parodies, for the Poet's Corner of provincial newspapers. Miss Braddon has written "Loves of Arcadia," a comedietta produced at the Royal Strand Theatre in 1860; "Garibaldi, and other Poems," published in 1861; "Lady Lisle," "Captain of the Vulture," "Trail of the Serpent," "Ralph the Bailiff," and other sketches reprinted from Temple Bar, St. James's Magazine, &c.; "Lady Audley's Secret," "Aurora Floyd," "Eleanor's Victory," "John Marchmont's Legacy," "Henry Dunbar," "The Doctor's Wife," "Only a Clod," "Sir Jasper's Tenant," "The Lady's Mile," "Rupert Godwin," and "Run to Earth." Miss Braddon conducts Belgravia, a London magazine, to which she has contributed the following novels:—"Birds of Prey," "Charlotte's Inheritance," "Dead Sea Fruit," "Fenton's Quest," and a variety of short tales and novelettes. Her more recent works are, "To the Bitter End," 1872; "Lucius Davoring," 1873; "Strangers and Pilgrims," 1873; "Griselda," a drama in four acts, brought out at the Princess's Theatre in Nov. 1873; "Lost for Love," 1874; "Taken at the Flood," 1874; "Hostages to Fortune," 1875; "Dead Men's Shoes," 1876; "Joshua Haggard's Daughter," 1876; "An Open Verdict," 1878; "The Cloven Foot," 1879; "Vixen," 1879; "Just as I am," 1880; "The Story of Barbara," 1880; "Asphodel," 1881; and "Mount Royal," 1882.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bradford (Earl of), Orlando George Charles Bridgeman

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​BRADFORD (Earl of), The Right Hon. Orlando George Charles Bridgeman, was born April 24, 1819, succeeded his father as third earl, March 22, 1865, and married, April 30, 1844, Selina Louisa, youngest daughter of the first Lord Forrester. His lordship is Captain of the South Salopian Yeomanry Cavalry, has been Vice-Chamberlain to the Queen's Household, and held the office of Lord Chamberlain of the Household under Lord Derby's third Administration, from July, 1866, to 1868. He held the office of Master of the Horse to the Queen from Feb., 1874, to May, 1880.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bramwell (Lord), George William Wilshere

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​BRAMWELL (Lord), The Right Hon. Sir George William Wilshere, son of the late Mr. George Bramwell, banker, was born in London, in 1808. In early youth he was placed in his father's counting-house, where he acquired a practical knowledge of the business of banking, which in after years proved of great value to him. Having resolved to try the legal profession, he practised for some time as a pleader, and was, in 1838, called to the bar, and went the Home circuit. He gradually obtained a large business as a lawyer and pleader; in 1851 became a Queen's Counsel, and in 1852 was a member, with Sir J. Jervis, Sir A. Cockburn, Mr. Willes, and Mr. Baron Martin, of the Common Law Procedure Commission, which resulted in the Common Law Procedure Act of 1852. This gave great satisfaction, and Mr. Bramwell was, in 1856, made a Baron of the Exchequer, and received the honour of knighthood. In Oct., 1876, he was made a Judge of the intermediate Court of Appeal, and sworn of the Privy Council. He retired from the bench at the close of the year 1881, when a complimentary banquet, attended by the judges and the principal members of the legal profession, was held in his honour. In Feb., 1882, he was raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Bramwell, of Hever, in the county of Kent.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Brackenbury, Charles Booth

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​BRACKENBURY, Charles Booth, born at Bayswater, Nov. 7, 1831, and educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, was appointed Second Lieutenant Royal Artillery, 19th Dec., 1850; First Lieutenant 27th Sept. 1852; Second Captain 17th Nov. 1857; First Captain 9th Feb. 1855. He has been an Assistant Instructor in Artillery at the Royal Military Academy, and Assistant Director of Artillery Studies, and is now in the Depot Brigade, R.A., at Sheerness. Captain Brackenbury was present at the siege of Sebastopol, and went through the Bohemian campaign of 1866, and the campaign of Le Mans with the army of Prince Frederick Charles in 1871. He is the author of "European Armaments in 1867;" "The Constitutional Forces of Great Britain;" "Foreign Armies and Home Reserves," 1871, being a collection of letters to the Times on the campaigns of 1866 and 1870–71; "The Winter Campaign of Prince Frederick Charles in 1870–71;" and "Reforms in the French Army," translated in the Intelligence Department, Horse Guards, War Office, 1874.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bradley, George Granville

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​BRADLEY, The Very Rev. George Granville, D.D., Dean of Westminster, is one of the sons of the Rev. Charles Bradley, who was for many years vicar of Glasbury, in the county of Brecon, and some time incumbent of St. James's Episcopal Chapel at Clapham, Surrey. He was born in 1821, and educated under Dr. Arnold at Rugby, from which school he was elected to an open scholarship at University College, Oxford, where he was a favourite pupil of Dean Stanley, who at that time was tutor. He took his bachelor's degree in Easter Term, 1844, as a First Class in Classical honours, and in 1845 obtained the Chancellor's prize for a Latin essay, his subject being "The Equestrian Order in the Roman Republic." Having been elected to a Fellowship in 1846, he proceeded M.A. in 1847. Mr. Bradley was one of the assistant masters of Rugby School for some years, under Dr. Tait and his successor, Dr. Goulburn, and was elected in 1858 to the Headmastership of Marlborough College, on the preferment of his predecessor, Dr. Cotton, to the bishopric of Calcutta. Mr. Bradley was ordained deacon in 1858 by the Bishop of London, and priest in the same year by the Bishop of Salisbury. At Marlborough he was remarkable for his successful administration, his sound scholarship, and his constant effort to make the education of a great public school wide, large, and many-sided, so as to meet the increasing wants of the age. He gave the best possible scope at Marlborough to the study of modern languages and science, and his examination before the Public School Commissioners was suggestive of many important reforms and improvements, which are in the course of being carried into effect. In Dec. 1870, he was elected to the mastership of University College, Oxford, in the place of the late Dr. Plumptre. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the University of St. Andrew's, Feb. 25, 1873. He was appointed examining chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1874; was Select Preacher at Oxford, 1874–75; and held the post of honorary chaplain to the Queen, 1874–76. In Oct. 1880, he was nominated a member of the Oxford University Commission, in the place of Lord Selborne resigned. He obtained a canonry in Worcester Cathedral in Feb. 1881; and in August the same year he was appointed by the Crown to the Deanery of Westminster, in succession to the late Dean Stanley. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him at Oxford, Oct. 28, 1881. In 1882 he delivered at Edinburgh a series of lectures, afterwards published under the title of "Recollections of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley" (London, 1883). Dr. Bradley married, in 1849, Marian Jane, fifth daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Philpot, formerly rector of Great Cressingham, Norfolk, by whom he has a family.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Brady, William Maziere

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​BRADY, William Maziere, D.D., youngest son of the late Sir N. W. Brady, and nephew to Sir Maziere Brady, Baronet, late Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, was born at Dublin in 1825, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was a prizeman in classics. He was appointed Chaplain to Earl Clarendon, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, in 1851; was subsequently Chaplain to Earl St. Germans and to the Earl of Carlisle, during their respective vice-royalties, and was re-appointed to the same office by Earl Spencer. He became rector of Farrahy, co. Cork, in 1851; held afterwards the vicarage of Newmarket, in the same county, and became rector of Kilberry and vicar of Donoughpatrick, in the diocese and county of Meath. Dr. Maziere Brady has written much upon ​various historical, antiquarian, and political subjects in many of the newspapers and magazines of the day, and notably in Fraser and the Contemporary Review. His sermon preached in the Chapel Royal, Dublin, towards the end of Lord Carlisle's vice-royalty, in which he openly denounced the wickedness of the State Church in Ireland, which applied the whole of the ancient ecclesiastical revenues for the benefit of a mere fraction of the people, excited astonishment, and was strongly censured by the organs of the Conservative party, and led to Dr. Brady's omission from the list of chaplains under Lord Kimberley's lieutenancy. The works published by Dr. Brady are "Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross," 3 vols.; "Remarks on Irish Church Temporalities;" "Facts or Fictions;" "The McGillicuddy Papers;" "The Irish Reformation; or, the Alleged Conversion of the Irish Bishops at the Accession of Queen Elizabeth; and the assumed descent of the present Established Hierarchy in Ireland from the ancient Irish Church Disproved;" "State Papers concerning the Irish Church in the Time of Queen Elizabeth;" and "Essays on the English State Church in Ireland," 1869. Dr. Brady's writings undoubtedly facilitated the progress of Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church Abolition Bill, and were copiously quoted in and out of Parliament. His work on the Irish Reformation went through five editions, and provoked innumerable replies. Upon the passing of the Irish Church Act, Dr. Brady, whose health had been seriously affected by an attack of bronchitis, went to Rome, and from the archives there extracted many particulars concerning the ecclesiastical affairs of England, Scotland, and Ireland. He afterwards resigned his rectory of Donoughpatrick, and was received into the Catholic Church by Mgr. Kirby, of the Irish College at Rome, in May, 1873. He has since written a learned work on "The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland, and Ireland," the third volume of which was published at Rome in 1877.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Brahms, Johannes

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​BRAHMS, Johannes, musical composer, was born May 7, 1833, at Hamburg, where his father played the double-bass in the orchestra. He received his first instructions in music from his father, and then studied under Eduard Marxsen. Schumann's warm recommendation in the Neuen Zeitschrift für Musik (Oct. 28, 1853) called the attention of musicians, of the public, and of the publishers to the young man, who subsequently made slow but constant progress on the road to permanent artistic fame. After several years of activity as director of music at the court of Lippe-Detmold he devoted a considerable period of time to assiduous study and composition in his native town. Thence he proceeded, in 1862, to Vienna, which city became his second home, for although he quitted it after holding for one year the post of director of the Singing Academy (1864), he never felt comfortable in the other towns which he visited—Hamburg, Zürich, Baden-Baden—and accordingly, in 1869, he returned to the Austrian capital. He conducted from 1872 to 1874 the concerts of the Society of Amateur Musicians, until Herbeck, who had in the meantime resigned his post of Court Director of Music, resumed the functions of that office. Brahms then resided for some time away from Vienna, namely, at Heidelberg, but returned in 1878. Undoubtedly Brahms is entitled to rank among the greatest composers now living. At first he followed the "new German" school which had been inaugurated by Schumann in the journal already mentioned, but when the heat of youth had been replaced by calmer reflection, he inclined more to the classical school, so that now he is criticised by the Baireuther Blätter, and ​recognised by Conservative Institutes as a classical composer. In fact he combines in himself the different styles, and may be claimed both by musical progressists and by classicists as belonging to them. Although Brahms attracted public notice in consequence of Schumann's recommendation, the recognition of his genius in wider circles dates only from the year 1868, when his "Deutschen Requiem" (Op. 45) was produced. His later works are "Rinaldo," a cantata; the "Schicksalslied " of Hölderlin; "Triumphlied," "Rhapsodie" from Goethe's "Hartzreise;" three string-quartets; two symphonies; a great number of songs, duets, choruses, concertos, motets, &c.
# Men and Women (Browning)/Volume 2/Holy-Cross Day

HOLY-CROSS DAY.
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME.
["Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, and now must my lord preach his first sermon to the Jews: as it was of old cared for in the merciful bowels of the Church, that, so to speak, a crumb at least from her conspicuous table here in Rome, should be, though but once yearly, cast to the famishing dogs, under-trampled and bespitten-upon beneath the feet of the guests. And a moving sight in truth, this, of so many of the besotted, blind, restive and ready-to-perish Hebrews! now paternally brought—nay, (for He saith, 'Compel them to come in') haled, as it were, by the head and hair, and against their obstinate hearts, to partake of the heavenly grace. What awakening, what striving with tears, what working of a yeasty conscience! Nor was my lord wanting to himself on so apt an occasion; witness the abundance of conversions which did incontinently reward him: though not to my lord be altogether the glory."—Diary by the Bishop's Secretary, 1600.]
Though what the Jews really said, on thus being driven to church, was rather to this effect:
[The present Pope abolished this bad business of the sermon.—R. B.]
# Men and Women (Browning)/Volume 2/In a Year

IN A YEAR.
# Men and Women (Browning)/Volume 2/One Way of Love

ONE WAY OF LOVE.
# Men of 1914

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# Men and Women (Browning)/Volume 2/Protus

PROTUS.
# Men and Women (Browning)/Volume 2/Women and Roses

WOMEN AND ROSES.
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Heneage Finch

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Heneage Finch
EARL OF NOTTINGHAM,
Son of the preceding was born at Eastwell in 1621. He was educated at Westminster School, at Christ Church, Oxford and at the Inner Temple. During the reign of ​Charles II. he was made a baronet, and was rapidly promoted till he reached the high position of Lord Keeper, with a peerage. In 1675 he became Lord Chancellor, and in 1681 was created Earl of Nottingham, but died in the following year. He was a man of great wisdom and eloquence, and of such distinguished prudence that he obtained and retained at once the good will of the court and the country. He is the character represented as Amri in "Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel"; and for his powers of oratory he acquired the name of the English Roscius and Cicero. Some of his speeches have been published. His son, Daniel, born in 1647, became the second Earl, and was a distinguished statesman in the time of William III.
[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon," by Bliss, "Parliamentary History," "Burnet's Own Times."]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/George Byng

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George Byng,
VISCOUNT TORRINGTON, ADMIRAL,
Was the eldest son of John Byng, Esq., of Wrotham Court, where he was born Jan. 27, 1683. At the age of fifteen he went to sea as a volunteer. After several promotions, he was in 1702 raised to the command of the Nassau, and was present at the taking and burning of the French fleet in Vigo Bay. In 1704 he served under Sir Cloudesley Shovel in the Mediterranean, as Rear-admiral of the Red, and reduced Gibraltar. He was in the battle of Malaga, and for his gallantry there received the honour of knighthood. In 1718 he was made admiral and commander-in-chief of the fleet, and was sent with a squadron into the Mediterranean, for the protection of Italy: he so conducted the campaign that the King of Spain was forced to accept the terms proposed to him. On his return to England he was made Rear-admiral of Great Britain, Baron Byng of Southill, a privy-councillor. Viscount Torrington, and a Knight Companion of the Bath. In 1727 he became first Lord of the Admiralty. He died, full of years and honours, 15th Jan. 1733. The unfortunate admiral, John Byng, shot on the 14th March, 1757, was his fourth son; but whether he was born in Kent, or not, does not appear.
[See "Charnock's Naval Biography," "Collin's Peerage (1779)]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/George Grote

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George Grote,
HISTORIAN,
Was born in 1794 at Clay Hill, near Beckenham. His ancestors came from Germany, and his grandfather was head of the banking house, in Threadneedle Street, of Grote and Prescott. He was educated at Charterhouse, on leaving which he entered as a clerk in his father's counting house. Devoting his leisure to study, he commenced in 1823 the compilation on which his fame chiefly rests, his well known "History of Greece." In 1832 he was elected Member for the City of London, on Reform principles, and he continued Member till 1841. While in the ​House he had charge of the Bill for establishing Vote by Ballot. His "History of Greece" was completed in 1866. He contributed at intervals several Essays in political and classical subjects to the Edinburgh, Westminster and other Reviews. Mr. Grote married a Kentish lady, Miss Harriet Lewis, herself a writer of repute, authoress of the "Life of Ary Scheffer" and other works. He died June 18, 1871, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. His personal life has been written by his wife, and was published in 1873, (q. v.)
[See also (for literary references) "Allibone's Dictionary of Authors."]