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# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Barnes, William

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​BARNES, The Rev. William, B.D., was born at Rushhay, Bagber, a hamlet of Sturminster Newton, in the vale of Blackmore, Dorset. He is descended from a family who, in the time of Philip and Mary, held Mageston, in the parish of Gillingham, and to one of whom (William Barnes) land in Gillingham was granted in the 31st of Henry VIII., though later generations (from 1732) had lost their lands and were farmers at East Stower and Manston. Most of his higher scholarship, with his university degree, has been won by a pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. Mr. Barnes kept, for some years, a school at Dorchester, and he had some pupils who studied for service in India, and whom he forwarded in the elements of Hindoostanée and Persian. He was appointed to the curacy of Whitcombe, Dorset, in 1847; and was instituted to the rectory of Winterbourne Came, Dorchester, in 1862. He is the author of three volumes of "Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect," "A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect," "A Philological Grammar, grounded upon English, and formed from a comparison of more than sixty Languages: being an Introduction to the Science of Grammars of all Languages, especially English, Latin, and Greek;" "Tiw; or, a View of the Roots and Stems of the English as a Teutonic Tongue;" "An Anglo-Saxon Delectus, including Extracts from Anglo-Saxon History and the Saxon Chronicle;" "Notes on Ancient Britain and the Britons," being the result of his collections for a course of Lectures on this subject; "Views of Labour and Gold;" "Early England and the Saxon English;" "Rural Poems in common English," of which a handsome illustrated edition has been printed in America; "An Outline of English Speechcraft," and "An Outline of Redecraft." In early life he contributed about twenty-five letters on topographical and other subjects to the Gentleman's Magazine, with some wood-cuts by his own hand. He has other works ready for the press, viz.:—another volume of Poems; an enlarged "Glossary of the Dorset Dialect;" "Studies in Early British History, with Notes on the Cause and Laws of the Changes of Initial Consonants in Welsh;" and "Ruth," a short drama from the Bible.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Barnett, John

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​BARNETT, John, musical composer, was born near Bedford, July 15, 1802. His father was a native of Hanau, in Prussia, and his mother an Hungarian. At the age of ten, being possessed of a wonderful contralto voice, he was articled to Mr. Samuel James Arnold, manager of Drury Lane, and sang in the "Shipwreck," and many other pieces, being alternately at that theatre and at Covent Garden for five successive years, and appearing in the company of the elder Kean, when the latter made his debut in "Macbeth." After the changing of his voice Mr. Barnett devoted himself exclusively to the study of the piano and composition, under Ferdinand Ries (the favourite pupil of Beethoven), Sento Perer, Kalkbrenner, William Huxley, and Xarcier Schneider. His operas are: the famous "Mountain Sylph" (produced at the Lyceum in 1834, and being the first real English opera); "Fair Rosamond" (a grand historical opera produced in 1836); and "Farinelli" (produced in 1839). In addition to these important works, he is the composer of a large number of once eminently popular vaudevilles, such as "The Pet of ​the Petticoats," "The Carnival of Naples," "Before Breakfast," "Mr. Mallett,"and "Win and Wear Her." His various canzonets and ballads number, perhaps, a thousand, amongst which figure the familiar titles of "The Light Guitar," "Rise, Gentle Moon," and "Not a Drum was Heard." He became director of the Olympic Theatre in 1832, under the management of Madame Vestria. In 1839 he married the youngest daughter of the late celebrated violoncellist, Robert Lindley, after which he retired to Cheltenham, where he has resided for many years, turning his attention to the study and cultivation of the voice, upon which he has published an important volume.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Barnum, Phineas Taylor

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​BARNUM, Phineas Taylor, born at Bethel, Connecticut, July 5, 1810. He began business at the age of thirteen, and in 1834 removed to New York, where in 1841 he purchased the American Museum, by which in a few years he acquired a fortune. In 1856 he engaged Jenny Lind to visit America, to give 150 concerts, but the engagement was cancelled when 93 performances had been given. In 1855 he took up his residence at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and engaged largely in real estate and manufacturing enterprises. These were unsuccessful, and he became bankrupt. Having effected a compromise with his creditors, he resumed the management of the Museum, and soon retrieved his fortunes. He was twice burnt out—in 1865, and again in 1868, when he announced his retirement from business. The instinct of the showman, however, was too strong, and after a few years he reentered the field on a larger scale than ever. Mr. Barnum served one term in the Connecticut Legislature (1865), and was a candidate for Congress in 1866, but was defeated by his Democratic opponent. He has lectured upon temperance and other topics, and besides some smaller works has published: "The Life of P. T. Barnum, written by Himself," 1855; "The Humbugs of the World," 1865; and a sort of autobiography entitled "Struggles and Triumphs," 1869.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Baroda, The Maharajah Gaekwar of

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​BARODA, The Maharajah Gaekwar of. His Highness Maharajah Syaji Rao Gaekwar was born on the 10th of March, 1863, at the town of Kavalana in the Nassick District, and is the son of the late Rao Bhikaji Rao Gaekwar. He was educated in the "Maharajah's School" at Baroda, under the personal supervision and tuition of Mr. F. Elliot, of the Indian Civil Service. It will be in the memory of our readers how the late Gaekwar, Mulhar Rao, for his attempt to poison Colonel Phayre, the British Resident, and for continual and gross misgovernment, was, after being tried by a mixed commission of European officials and native chiefs, deposed from his government and sent into exile at Madras, where he died at the end of 1882. On Mulhar Rao's deposition, and with the consent of the Earl of Northbrook, then Viceroy of India, the Maharanee Jumna Bai adopted, on the 27th of May, 1875, the present Maharajah, who was on the same day installed on the guddee or throne. During the minority of the Maharajah the administration was carried on by a Council of Regency under the direction of the European representative; and Raja Sir Taujore Madhava Rao, Bahadoor, K.C.S.I., who was the Dewan to His Highness Maharajah Scindiah of Gwalior, was specially selected to fill the post of Prime Minister, together with a seat at the Regency Board. On the 28th December, 1881, and at the early age of 18, His Highness was invested with full and sovereign powers, and since he has held the reins of state he has, with the assistance of Sir Madhava Rao, whom he has retained as his Prime Minister, given the greatest satisfaction by his aptitude for work and desire to ​introduce reforms. His Highness is an excellent English scholar, and speaks the language as fluently as his own.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Barrot, Victorin Ferdinand

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​BARROT, Victorin Ferdinand, a brother of the late M. Odilon Barrot, and an advocate by profession, born at Paris, Jan. 10, 1806. became a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1845. He first attracted attention by his skill in dealing with the affairs of Algeria; and on the fall of Louis Philippe, in 1848, was elected to represent that colony in the Constituent Assembly. Having acted as counsel for Louis Napoleon in the legal proceedings that arose from the attempts upon Strasburg and Boulogne, that prince, on his election to the Presidency, made him his secretary, and he acted as one of his ministers from October, 1849, to March, 1850. He was then appointed Ambassador at Turin, a post he held till the famous coup d'état, which inaugurated the Second Empire. Under the new régime, he was successively appointed a Councillor of State and a Senator, but he did not take a very prominent part in either capacity. M. Ferdinand Barrot was made Commander of the Legion of Honour, Dec. 8, 1852, and Grand Referendary of the French Senate in Jan. 1867. The events of Sept. 1870 caused him to disappear from the political arena, but he came forward as the official and Bonapartist candidate for the arrondissement of Courbevoie in 1877, when he was defeated by the Republican candidate, M. Emile Deschanel. At the close of the same year, however, he was chosen a Senator for life, in the place of M. Pierre Lanfrey.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Barlow, Thomas Oldham

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​BARLOW, Thomas Oldham, R.A., was born at Oldham, near Manchester, Aug. 4, 1824. From a very early age his desire was to be a painter or an engraver. His father yielded to his wish, and placed him with Messrs. Stephenson and Royston, engravers, of Manchester. He became a student in the School of Design there, and gained the first prize for a design, exhibited under the title of "Cullings from Nature." At the Manchester Exhibition he saw a small picture, by the late John Phillip, entitled "Courtship," and endeavoured to persuade a friend to purchase it, that he might engrave it before going to London; but this he was reluctantly obliged to abandon. Soon after coming to London, he made the acquaintance of a gentleman, who suggested his engraving a picture, and offered to supply the necessary means. He therefore went to the first exhibition that was opened—that of the British Institution—where, to his delight, the first picture that caught his eye was the one he had desired to engrave in Manchester. This introduced him to the late John Phillip, whose first copyright Mr. Barlow purchased for £5, Mr. Phillip having at first refused to take anything for it; and thus began their well-known friendship. Indeed, their similarity of taste and feeling was so marked, that they seemed inseparable. This intimacy and sympathy naturally resulted in Mr. Barlow engraving most of Phillip's pictures. Mr. Barlow was elected an Associate Engraver of the Royal Academy by an almost unanimous vote in 1873. The following are some of the principal works engraved by Mr. Barlow:—After John Phillip, R.A., "Courtship," "Spanish Gipsy Mother," "Prayer in Spain," "Augustus Egg, R.A.," "H.R.H. the Prince Consort," "The House of Commons, 1860," " Doña Pepita," " Seville," "The Prison Window," "Prayer," "La Gloria, a Spanish Wake," "Dolores," "Faith," "Breakfast in the Highlands;" after James Sant, R.A., "Mother and Child;" after F. W. Topham, "Making Nets;" after W. P. Frith, R.A., "Charles Dickens;" after Henrietta Browne, "Sisters of Mercy;" after Sir G. Kneller, "Sir Isaac Newton;" after H. Wallis, "The Death of Chatterton;" and after J. E. Millais, R.A., "The Huguenot," "My First Sermon," "My Second Sermon," "Awake," "Asleep," "John Fowler, Esq., C.E.," "Sir James Paget, Bart.," "The Duke of Westminster," " Sir Sterndale Bennett," " Effie Deans," "A Jersey Lily," "Mr. Gladstone," "The Bride of Lammermoor," " Mr. John Bright," "Mr. Tennyson;" after Sir E. Landseer, R.A., "The Little Strollers;" after D. Maclise, R.A., "Dr. R. Quain, F.R.S." Mr. Barlow was elected a Royal Academician Engraver May 5, 1881.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter

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​BARNARD, Frederick ​Augustus Porter, D.D., LL.D., born at Sheffield, Massachusetts, May 5, 1809. He graduated at Yale College in 1828; became tutor there in 1829, and subsequently a teacher in the Deaf and Dumb Asylums in Hartford and New York. From 1837 to 1848 he was Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and afterwards, till 1854, of Chemistry, in the University of Alabama. In 1854 he became Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in the University of Mississippi, of which he was elected President in 1856, and Chancellor in 1858. In 1854 he took orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in 1861 resigned his Chancellorship and chair in the University of Mississippi. In 1864 he was chosen President of Columbia College, New York, a position which he still holds. In 1860 he was a member of the Astronomical Expedition to observe the total eclipse of the sun in Labrador, and was elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1862 he was engaged in the reduction of Gilliss's observations of the stars in the southern hemisphere, and in 1863 had charge of the publication of the charts and maps of the United States Coast Survey. In 1867 he was United States Commissioner to the Paris Exhibition. He is a member of various learned societies in Europe and America, and has received the honorary degrees of LL.D. (Jefferson College, 1855, Yale College, 1859), S.T.D. (University of Mississippi, 1861), and in 1872 that of Doctor of Literature from the Regents of the University of New York. He has published, "Treatise on Arithmetic," 1830; "Analytic Grammar," 1836; "Letters on Collegiate Government," 1855; "History of the United States Coast Survey," 1857; "Report on Machinery and Industrial Arts," 1869; "Recent Progress of Science," 1869; and "The Metric System," 1871. He has also contributed largely to scientific and educational journals. In conjunction with Professor Arnold Guyot, he edited Johnson's "Universal Cyclopædia," 1874–7.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Barnard, Henry

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​BARNARD, Henry, LL.D., born at Hartford, Connecticut, Jan. 24, 1811; A.B. (Yale College), 1830. After extensive travel in the United States, he made a two years' tour of Europe (1835–37), giving special attention to educational institutions and methods. He was from 1837 to 1840 a member of the Connecticut Legislature, and carried through that body a complete reorganization of the common school system, and was for four years (1838–42) a member and secretary of the Board of Education created by it. Displaced by a political change in 1842, he spent more than a year in an extensive educational tour through the United States, with a view to the preparation of a History of Public Schools in the United States. He was called from the prosecution of this work to take charge of the public schools of Rhode Island; and after five years returned to Hartford, 1849. In 1850 a State Normal School was established in Connecticut, and he was appointed Principal, with the added duties of State Superintendent of Public Schools. After five years of severe labour he retired from this work, but soon commenced the publication of the American Journal of Education, Hartford, in 1855, which is still continued. He has been President of the American Association for the Advancement of Education, was elected in 1856 President and Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, which office he resigned in 1859; was President in 1865–7 of the St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, and United States Commissioner of the Department of Education in 1868–70. His contributions to educational literature have been so numerous, that but few of them can be mentioned here:—"Education in Factories," ​1842; "National Education in Europe," 1851; "Normal Schools in the United States and Europe," 1851; "Tribute to Gallaudet with History of Deaf Mute Instruction," 1852; "School Libraries," 1854; "Hints and Methods for the Use of Teachers," 1857; "English Pedagogy," 1862; "National Education," 1872; "Military Schools," 1872; "American Pedagogy," 1875.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Barry, Charles Robert

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​BARRY, The Right Hon. Charles Robert, born at Limerick, in 1834, received his academical education at Trinity College, Dublin, was called to the Irish bar in 1845, was made a Queen's Counsel in 1849, and was the first Crown Prosecutor in Dublin from 1859 to 1865. Mr. Barry was law adviser to the Crown from 1865 to 1869, during which period he represented Dungarvan in the House of Commons. He was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1869 and Attorney-General in Jan., 1870, succeeding, in the latter office, Mr. Sullivan, who had been appointed Master of the Rolls in Ireland. In Dec., 1871, he was appointed a Judge of the Queen's Bench in Ireland, in the room of the Right Hon. John George, deceased. In ​Aug., 1878, he was nominated a member of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the provisions of the draft Code relating to Indictable Offences. In June, 1883, he accepted the office of Lord Justice of Appeal, vacant by the death of Lord Justice Deasy.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Lawson, William Edward

​Lawson, William Edward, B.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1878, from Harrow, a member of the North-eastern circuit, J.P. Northumberland, a student of the Inner Temple 2 May, 1878 (then aged 23), called to the bar 29 June, 1881 (eldest son of late Rev. Edward Lawson, M.A., of Longhirst, Northumberland); born 4 April, 1855; married , 1881, Rose, youngest dau. of Major Blackburn, and has issue.
    Longhirst Hall, Morpeth; 3, King's Bench Walk, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Lawson, William

​Lawson, William, LL.M., Pembroke Coll., Camb., 1878, B.A. 1875, goes the South-eastern circuit, a student of Lincoln's Inn 11 Nov., 1871, went to the Inner Temple 26 May, 1875 (then aged 24), where he was called to the bar 7 June, 1875 (3rd son of Rt. Hon. James Anthony Lawson, judge common pleas Ireland); born , 1851.
    3, Tanfield Court, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Lawson, William Hastings

​Lawson, William Hastings, a member of the South-eastern circuit, a student of the Middle Temple 6 June, 1872, called to the bar 30 April, 1875 (son of John Lawson, of Kilkenny, solicitor); born , ; married 10 Dec., 1880, Katherine Louisa, 3rd dau. of late Charles William Gray, Esq., of London.
    10, Pembridge Villas, Bayswater, W.; 3, Plowden Buildings, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Layard, Charles Peter

​Layard, Charles Peter, M.A., St. John's Coll., Camb., 1877, member of Legislative Council Ceylon, late Government agent West Provinces Ceylon, a student of the Inner Temple 13 June, 1870 (then aged 20), called to the bar 7 June, 1873 (eldest son of Charles Peter Layard, Esq., of Colombo, Ceylon); bo , 1850; married, and has issue.
    The Priory, Colombo, Ceylon,
# Men-at-the-Bar/Layard, George Somes

​Layard, George Somes, B.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1880, from Harrow, goes the Western circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 16 Nov., 1877 (then aged 20), called to the bar 29 June, 1881 (3rd son of Rev. Charles Clement Layard, rector of Combe Hay, Somerset); born 4 Feb., 1857; unmarried.
    Turleigh House, Turleigh, Bradford-on-Avon; 1, Hare Court, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Lawson, John Grant

​Lawson, John Grant, M.A. Christ Church, Oxon, goes the North-eastern circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 8 Nov., 1878 (then aged 22), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1881 (2nd son of late Andrew Sherlock Lawson, of Aldborough Manor, Yorks); born 28 July, 1856 (see Foster's Yorkshire Collection).
    1, King's Bench Walk, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Lawson, William Norton

​Lawson, William Norton, recorder of Richmond since 1869, M.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1858 (B.A., twenty-sixth wrangler 1854), educated at King's Coll., London, a student of Lincoln's Inn 29 April, 1853 (then aged 23), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1856 (eldest son of William Lawson, late of Bourne Place, Kent, and of London, merchant, dec.); born , 1830; married 8 May, 1856, Frances, 4th dau. of George Smurthwaite, Esq., of Temple Lodge, Richmond, Yorkshire.
    19, Dorset Square, N.W.; 6, Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.; Constitutional Club.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Laxton, Messing Thomas

​Laxton, Messing Thomas, undergrad. Pembroke Coll., Oxon, a student of Lincoln's Inn 9 Nov., 1853 (then aged 25), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1857 (eldest son of Matthew Laxton, Esq., of Greetham, Rutland); born , 1828.
    Watford, Herts.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Laxton, William Frederick

​Laxton, William Frederick, F.S.A., F.R.G.S., a member of the South-eastern circuit, a student of the Middle Temple 2 May, 1851, called to the bar 26 Jan., 1854 (only son of William Laxton, of Whitehall, engineer); born , ; married 23 Dec., 1854, Elizabeth Searle, niece of William Webb, Esq., of Ipswich.
    Ivy House, Shepherd's Bush Green, W.; 4, Essex Court, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Lay, Horatio Nelson

​Lay, Horatio Nelson, C.B., inspector-general of customs Chinese Government 1859–64, civil service in China 1849–55, in military service of Chinese Government in 1862, C.B. 15 June, 1863, a student of the Middle Temple 10 June, 1871, called to the bar 6 June, 1874 (eldest son of late George Tradescourt Lay, of H.M.'s civil service China); born , .
# Men-at-the-Bar/Foulkes, William Decimus Inglett

​Foulkes, William Decimus Inglett, a member of the Western circuit, Law Journal reporter, joint editor of Lely and Foulkes' Licensing Acts and Judicature Acts, edited Smith's Action at Law, 12th edition, author of Elementary View of the Proceedings in an Action, common law lecturer to Incorporated Law Society 1877, a student of the Middle Temple 13 Jan., 1868, called to the bar 6 June, 1871 (10th son of Rev. Peter Davy Foulkes, of Shebbear, Devon, dec.); born , .
    25, Half Moon Street, W.; 1, King's Bench Walk, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Fowke, Villiers de Saussure

​Fowke, Villiers de Saussure, under-grad. Exeter Coll., Oxon, a student of Lincoln's Inn 7 Nov., 1876 (then aged 25), called to the bar 25 June, 1879 (eldest son of William Villiers Fowke, of Saling Grove, Essex, and of Lincoln's Inn, bar.-at-law); born 8 Dec., 1850.
    62, Eaton Terrace, S.W. 25, Old Square, W.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Foulkes, William Langford

​Foulkes, William Langford, a member of the North Wales and Chester circuit, a student of the Middle Temple 31 Oct., 1840, called to the bar 24 Nov., 1843 (2nd son of John Foulkes, Esq., of Wrexham, co. Denbigh, dec.); born , .
    5, Paper Buildings, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Fowke, Sir Frederic Thomas, bart.

​Fowke, Sir Frederic Thomas, bart., constable Leicester Castle, hon. col. Leicestershire militia 1881-2, lt.-col. 1869-81, J.P., D.L. co. Leic., and late chairman quarter sessions, a student of the Middle Temple 9 Nov., 1838, called to the bar 28 Jan., 1842 (eldest son of late Sir Frederic Gustavus Fowke, of Lowesby Hall, co. Leic., Bart.); born 29 June, 1816; married 10 May, 1849, Sarah Mary, elder dau. and co-heir of late Henry Leigh Spencer, Esq., of Banstead Park, Surrey, and has issue (see Foster's Baronetage).
    Lowesby Hall, Leicester; Conservative Club.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Fowke, William Villiers

​Fowke, William Villiers, M.A., Caius Coll., Camb., 1844, J.P. Essex, lord of the manor and patron of Saling, a student ot Lincoln's Inn 2 Nov., 1840 (then aged 21), called to the bar 7 May, 1844 (youngest son of late Admiral George Fowke, of Sible Hedingham, Essex); born , 1819; married , 1850 Ellen Hume, dau. of late John T. Kelsall, Esq. R.N., and has issue.
    The Grove, Great Saling, Braintree, Essex.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Fowler, John Coke

​Fowler, John Coke, S.C.L. Pembroke Coll., Oxon, stipendiary magistrate Swansea since 1876, Merthyr Tydfil 1853-76, vice-chairman Glamorgan quarter sessions, J.P. cos. Glamorgan and Brecon, educated at Rugby, author of Church Pews, their Origin and Legal Incidents, Collieries and Colliers and the Law thereon, a student of the Inner Temple 12 Nov., 1836 (then aged 21), called to the bar 31 Jan., 1840 (2nd son of William Tancred Fowler, of Derby, surgeon); born 16 Sept., 1815; married 1st, 17 Aug., 1844, Augusta Maria, youngest dau. of late John Bacon, Esq., of Mount Radford, Exeter; she died , ; he married 2ndly, 26 Aug., 1850, Anna, 2nd surviving dau. of late Evan Thomas, Esq., of Llwyn Madoc, Breconshire.
    The Hill, Swansea.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Fowke, Anthony Henderson

​Fowke, Anthony Henderson, major Notts militia, retired, a student of the Middle Temple 9 Nov., 1838, called to the bar 25 Nov., 1846 (3rd son of Sir Frederic Gustavus Fowke, of Lowesby Hall, co. Leic., Bart.); born 25 Sept., 1819; unmarried.
    Scraptoft, near Leicester.