The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-08 00:00:00

TILE DEAD OF 1860.

During the year just closed death has been more
than usually busy in the ranks of the aristocracy,
the clergy, and men of letters, science, and art.
The naval and military professions too have both
lost several distinguished members. The following
is a list of some of the most prominent among them
—On Jan. 3 Lord John Scott died, aged 51; on the
9th of the same month the remains of Lord Macau-
lay, the historian, were interred in Westminster
Abbey ; on the 15th Lord Londesborough died,
aged 55; on the 20th Sir W. C. Ross, one of our
most distinguished minature paintsrs, aged 66; on
the following day Capt. Harrison, commander of
the Great Eastern, was drowned ; on the 23d the
Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P. for Leeds, aged
60 ; and on the 30th Dr. Todd, the celebrated sur-
geon, aged 66. On Feb. 1 Dr. Alexander,Director
General of the Army, died ; on the 2d Dr. T. Fos-

ter, writer on natural philosophy, aged 70 ; on the
3d Sir T. S. Brisbane, astronomer, aged 86; on the
4th Capt. Moorsom, inventor of the celebrated
shells ; on the 12th Sir William Napier, the mili-
tary historian, aged 74; on the 16th the Bishop of
Rochester, aged 76 ; on the 20th Mr. H. Drum-
Inond, M.P. for West Surrey, aged 73. On March
12 Mr. Baron Watson died suddenly while pre-
siding at the Montgomery Assizes at Welshpool,
aged 64 ; on the 14th the Countess Granville ; on
the 16th M. Jullien ; on the 17th Mrs. Jameson,
the authoress, aged 66 ; and on the 27th the Earl
of Longford. On April 1 Colonel Mure, author of
" The Literature of Greece," &c., died ; on the
13th Mr. John Finlaison the actuary, :aged 77 ;
and on the 18th Dr. Andrew Amos, Professor of
Law at Cambridge. On the 4th of May Dr. Mus-
grove, Archbishop of York, died, aged 72 ; on the
12th Sir Charles Barry, aged 65 ; on the 19th Lady
Byron, widow of the poet ; on the 23d Mr. Albert
Smith ; on the 30th Mr. S. G. Goodrich, known as
" Peter Parley ;" and on the 31st Lord Hey, tesbury,
aged 81. On the ad of June Field Marshal the Earl
of Strafford died, aged 82; on the 9th Mr. G. P.
R. James, the novelist ; on the 11th the Rev. Baden
Powell ; and on the 26th Mr. R. B. Brough, the
author. On the 19th of July, Lord Elphinstone,
late Governor of Bombay, died, aged 53, and on
the.3lst Miss Vandenhoff, the celebrated actress.
On the 2d of August Sir George K. Ward died,
aged 64 ; on the 3d General Sir H. Wyndham,
M.P. for West Cumberland, aged 70; on the
11th the Right Hon. James Wilson, Finance Mi-
nister of India, aged 55 ; on the 24th Mr. Jesse
Hartley, engineer, aged 80; and on the 27th
the Dowager Countess of ;Craven, formerly
known in the theatrical world as Miss Brunton,
aged 78. On the Ist of September Mrs. Yates, the
actress, aged 61, having survived her aunt, the
Dowager Countess of Craven, only three days ; on
the 7th Sir G. Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's
Bay Company ; on the Bth Mr. Herbert Ingram,
M.P., proprietor of the Illustrated London Alews,
in consequence of the steamer Lady Elgin being
run into by a schooner on Lake Superior; on the
13th Mr. Jardine, magistrate at Bow-street ; on the
18th Mr. Joseph Locke, civil engineer and M.Y. for
Honiton ; and on the 29th the Rev. Alexander
Fletcher, the eminent Dissenting minister. On the
Ist of ctober Mr. Ebenezer Landelle, the wood
engraver ; on the 4th Mr. A. E. Chalon, R.A., aged
80 ; on the 12th General Sir Harry Smith, aged
72; on the 21st the Duke of Richmond, aged 69,
and on the same day Lord Manvers, aged 82, and
on the 31st the Earl of Dundonald, aged 84. On
the 6th of November Admiral Sir Charles Napier,
aged 74 ; on the Bth the Bishop of Worcester, aged
77, and Sir Charles Fellows, the archceologist ; on
the following day Alderman Wire; on the 11th
Mr. George Scharf, the artist, :wed 72, and General
Lygon, Colonel of the 13th Light Dragoons; on 1
the 24th Dr. Croly ; and on the following day the '
Duke of Norfolk. On the Ist of December Sir H.
Marsh, M.D., and Lord Rossmore ; on the 6th Lady
A. K. Murray; on the 10th Sir T. D. Legard ; on
the 12th Major-General Freke Williams, aged 68 ;
on the 14th the Earl of Aberdeen, aged 76; on the
18th Alderman Sir G. Carroll, aged 76 ; on the
following day the Marquis of Dalhousie; on the
20th Mr. Alfred Bunn, for many years lessee of
Drury-lane Theatre, and Lieutenant-General Willes,
aged 71; on the 25th the Earl of Alexborough, aged
77 ; on the 26th the Rev. Dr. Thompson, rector of
Lincoln College; and on the 31st the Countess of
Eglinton,