Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

physiologist _b._ Nov. 1774 _d._ 28 April 1842). Granted a civil list pension of £100 for her husband’s services to science 14 Sep. 1843; published _The letters of Sir Charles Bell_ 1870. _d._ 47 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 9 Nov. 1876. BELL, MATTHEW. _b._ 18 April 1793; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Northumberland 1816; M.P. for Northumberland 1826–31 and for South Northumberland 1832–52; lieut. col. of Northumberland and Newcastle yeomanry cavalry 1826–63. _d._ Woolsington near Newcastle 28 Oct. 1871. BELL, OSWALD HOME. M.R.C.S. Edin. 3 Feb. 1863; professor of medicine in Univ. of St. Andrews 1863 to death; dean of the medical faculty. _d._ The Scores, St. Andrews 24 June 1875 in 39 year. BELL, REV. PATRICK (_son of George Bell of Mid Leoch farm, parish of Auchterhouse near Dundee_). _b._ Mid Leoch farm April 1799; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, LLD. 1867; ordained 1843; minister of Carmyllie, Arbroath Dec. 1843 to death; invented a reaping machine 1826 being 7 or 8 years before the earliest American inventors; presented by Highland Society with sum of £1000 1868. _d._ The manse of Carmyllie 22 April 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 473 (1869); _I.L.N. lii_, 225 (1868), _portrait_. BELL, ROBERT (_son of Benjamin Bell, surgeon_). _b._ 1782; ed. at high school Edinburgh; advocate 1809; sheriff of Berwickshire 1842–60; procurator to Church of Scotland 1842 to death; member of Bannatyne club; made a fine collection of Rembrandt etchings. _d._ 15 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 27 April 1861. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882), _portrait_. BELL, ROBERT (_youngest son of John Bell of Cork_). _b._ Cork 16 Jany. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin where he originated the Dublin Historical Society; settled in London 1828; edited the _Atlas_ weekly paper many years, the _Monthly Chronicle_ and the _Home News_ a monthly journal; author of _History of Russia 3 vols._ 1838; _Lives of the English poets 2 vols._ 1839; _Wayside pictures through France, Belgium and Holland_ 1849, _2 ed._ 1858; _Hearts and altars 3 vols._ 1852; _The ladder of gold 3 vols._ 1856; _The annotated edition of the English poets 24 vols._ 1854–57, and of 3 five-act comedies, _Marriage_ 1842; _Mothers and daughters_ 1843, _2 ed._ 1845 and _Temper_ 1847. _d._ 14 York st., Portman sq. London 12 April 1867. BELL, VENERABLE ROBERT. Ordained 1831; Inc. of Tipperary 1866 to death; archdeacon of Cashel 1872 to death; canon of St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin. _d._ rectory Tipperary 10 Jany. 1883 in 75 year. BELL, ROBERT CHARLES. _b._ Edinburgh 1806; Engraved a series of Scottish views and a number of vignette portraits, also many plates for the Royal Scottish Association; his largest and most important work was an engraving of Sir William Allan’s Battle of Preston Pans which he completed in 1872; several of his best plates appeared in the _Art Journal_ 1850–72. _d._ Edinburgh 5 Sep. 1872. _Art Journal_ (1872) 284. BELL, SIR SYDNEY SMITH (_9 son of Wm. Bell, of London, banker_). _b._ 1805; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839; puisne judge at Cape of Good Hope 7 Feb. 1851, and first puisne judge May 1858; chief justice of supreme court and pres. of legislative council of Cape of Good Hope 16 Dec. 1868 to 1879; knighted by patent 9 Oct. 1869; author of _Cases decided in the House of Lords on appeal from the courts of Scotland 7 vols._ 1843–52; _Colonial administration of Great Britain_ 1859. _d._ 42 Kensington park road, London 13 Sep. 1879. BELL, THOMAS (_son of Richard Bell of Newcastle_). _b._ Newcastle 16 Dec. 1785; land valuer and surveyor; an antiquary, assisted the local topographical authors in their works especially Rev. John Hodgson in his _History of Northumberland 6 vols._ 1827–40; one of the founders of Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society and of Society of antiquaries of Newcastle 1813. _d._ Newcastle 30 April 1860. BELL, THOMAS (_only son of Thomas Bell of Poole, Dorset, surgeon_). _b._ Poole 11 Oct. 1792; studied at Guys and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1815, F.R.C.S. 1844, F.L.S. 1815, pres. 1853–61; dental surgeon to Guy’s hospital 1817–61 where he lectured on comparative anatomy; F.R.S. 10 Jany. 1828, junior secretary 1848–53; professor of Zoology at King’s college London 1836 to death; pres. of the Ray Society 1843–59; purchased in 1866 from the grandnieces of Gilbert White The Wakes, Selborne where he lived to his death; author of _Monograph of Testudinata, parts 1–8, 1832–37, folio_; _History of British quadrupeds_ 1837, _2 ed._ 1874; _History of British reptiles_ 1839; _History of British Stalk-eyed Crustacea_ 1853; edited _White’s Natural history of Selborne 2 vols._ 1877. _d._ The Wakes, Selborne 13 March 1880. _Nature xxi_, 473, 499 (1880). BELL, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Bell of Ripon, Yorkshire_). _b._ 1788; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 23 Nov. 1804; served through Peninsular war; colonel R.A. 18 March 1852, colonel commandant 26 Dec. 1865 to death; general 31 Jany. 1872; K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ South lodge, Ripon 28 March 1873. BELLAIRS, REV. HENRY (_3 son of Abel Walford Bellairs of Uffington, Lincolnshire 1755–1839_). _b._ 29 Aug. 1790; midshipman on board H.M.S. Spartiate; wounded twice at Trafalgar; cornet 15 Hussars 25 Nov. 1808; lieut. 26 May 1809 to 1811; ed. at St. Mary hall Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Bedworth, Warws 1830; V. of Hunsingore, Yorkshire 1832 to death; hon. canon of Worcester Sep. 1853 to death. _d._ Paignton near Torquay 17 April 1872. BELLAIRS, SIR WILLIAM (_younger brother of the preceding_). _b._ Uffington 1793; cornet 15 Hussars 2 May 1811; captain 10 April 1817 to 10 Feb. 1820 when he sold out; exon of Yeomen of the Guard 19 Sep. 1837 to Dec. 1848; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s Palace 17 May 1848. (_m._ 1822 Cassandra dau. of Edmund Hooke of Mulbarton lodge, Norfolk, she _d._ 1876). _d._ London 2 Oct. 1863. BELLAMY, GEORGE. _b._ Plymouth 15 Nov. 1773; surgeon’s mate R.N. Feb. 1793; surgeon 19 May 1795; surgeon to the Bellerophon 74 guns 1796–1800; served at battle of the Nile; placed on retired list 1817; M.R.C.P.; mayor of Plymouth 1811–12. _d._ Plymouth 10 Oct. 1863. BELLAMY, REV. JAMES WILLIAM (_son of John Bellamy_). _b._ 25 Nov. 1788; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school and Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1816; Norrisian and Seatonian prizeman 1815; incorporated at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1820, B.D. 1821; head master of Merchant Taylors’ school 6 April 1819 to 23 July 1845; V. of Sellinge, Kent 1822 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s cathedral 10 March 1843 to death; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; edited _A concordance to the Holy Bible_ 1818. _d._ Sellinge 2 March 1874. BELLAMY, JOHN CREMER. _b._ Plymouth 7 Dec. 1812; L.S.A. 1833, M.R.C.S. 1834; Curator of Plymouth Institute and Devon and Cornwall Nat. Hist. Society; author of _The natural history of South Devon_ 1839; _The housekeeper’s guide to the fish market for each month of the year_ 1843, _new ed._ 1862; _A thousand facts in the histories of Devon and Cornwall_ 1850. _d._ George st. Plymouth 12 May 1854. BELLAMY, WILLIAM HOARE. _b._ Cork 5 Aug. 1800; made his début at Elmsworth 1825 as Sir Simon Rochdale in _John Bull_; went to the United States; made his début in New York 1838. (_m._ Mrs. A. W. Penson, she was _b._ Scotland and acted in the United States 1838 to her death May 1857). _d._ Greenpoint, Long Island 15 April 1866. BELLARS, HENRY JOHN. _b._ Chester; a schoolmaster; sec. and curator of Chester Natural History Society; photographic artist in London 1862 to death; the best facsimilist in England; author of _Illustrated catalogue of British land and freshwater shells_ 1858; _The historical numismatic atlas of the Roman emperors_. _d._ 12 Bedford court, Covent Garden 22 June 1868 aged 44. BELLASIS, EDWARD (_only son of Rev. George Bellasis, V. of Basildon, Berkshire who d. 1814_). _b._ Basildon vicarage 14 Oct. 1800; ed. at Christ’s Hospital 1808–15; barrister I.T. 2 July 1824; employed in parliamentary practice 1836–66, counsel in 342 important cases; serjeant at law 10 July 1844; received into Roman Catholic Church 28 Sep. 1850; trustee with J. R. Hope-Scott Q.C. of Earl of Shrewsbury 1853–56; steward of manors of Duke of Norfolk in Norfolk and Suffolk 1863; one of the 3 comrs. who reported on College of Arms 1870; author of several anonymous pamphlets. _d._ Hyères, France 24 Jany. 1873. _The Tablet 1 Feb. 1873 p._ 138. BELLEW, PATRICK, 1 Baron (_elder son of Sir Edward Bellew, 6 baronet who d. 15 March 1827_). _b._ London 29 Jany 1798; succeeded 15 March 1827; lord lieut. of co. Louth 1832 to death; col. of Louth militia 17 Nov. 1843 to death; M.P. for Louth 1831–1832 and 1834–1837; P.C. Ireland 1838; created a peer of Ireland by title of Baron Bellew of Barmeath co. Louth 17 July 1848. _d._ Barmeath 10 Dec. 1866. BELLEW, REV. SIR CHRISTOPHER, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1818; succeeded 26 June 1855. _d._ at house of the Jesuit Fathers, Gardiner st. Dublin 18 March 1867. BELLEW, JOHN CHIPPENDALL MONTESQUIEU (_only child of Robert Higgin, lieutenant 12 Foot who d. 24 Jany. 1853_). _b._ Lancaster 3 Aug. 1823; ed. at Lancaster gr. sch. and St. Mary hall Ox.; assumed his mother’s name of Bellew Aug. 1844; C. of St. Andrew’s Worcester 1849; C. of Prescot Lancs. 1850; assistant chaplain in Bengal 1851; chaplain of St. John’s cathedral Calcutta Dec. 1852 to 1855; edited the _Bengal Hurkaru_; assistant minister of St. Philip’s Regent’s st. London 1855–57; P.C. of St. Mark’s St. John’s Wood 1857–62; minister of Bedford chapel Bloomsbury 26 Oct. 1862 to 1868; one of the most popular preachers in London; received into Church of Rome Oct. 1869; executed deed of relinquishment of holy orders 13 Aug. 1870; very successful as a public reader in England and the United States; author of _Shakespeare’s house at New Place_ 1863; _Blount Tempest a novel 3 vols._ 1866; _Poets Corner, a manual for students_ 1868. _d._ 16 Circus road, St. John’s Wood 19 June 1874. _Bentley’s Quarterly Review i_, 476–92 (1859); _Traits of character by a contemporary i_, 285–312 (1860); _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 50–51, _portrait_; _Graphic x_, 15 (1874), _portrait_; _E. Yates’s Recollections ii_, 66–69 (1884). BELLEW, SIR MICHAEL DILLON, 1 Baronet (_son of Christopher Dillon Bellew of Mount Bellew, co. Galway 1763–1826_). _b._ 29 Sep. 1796; created a baronet 15 Aug. 1838. _d._ Greenville lodge, Rathmines near Dublin 26 June 1855. BELLEW, RICHARD MONTESQUIEU (_younger son of Sir Edward Bellew 6 baronet who d. 1827_). _b._ 12 Feb. 1803; M.P. for co. Louth 21 Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852 and 16 May 1859 to 6 July 1865; a lord of the treasury 6 Aug. 1847 to 1852; member of Local government board, Ireland. _d._ Dublin 8 Jany. 1880. BELLEW, THOMAS ARTHUR GRATTAN. _b._ 1824; M.P. for co. Galway 26 July 1852 to 21 March 1857; assumed additional surname of Grattan by r.l. 19 March 1859. _d._ Mount Bellew, Duleek, co. Galway 24 July 1863. BELLHOUSE, EDWARD TAYLOR (_eld. son of David Bellhouse of Manchester_). _b._ Manchester 10 Oct. 1816; started firm of E. T. Bellhouse and Co., engineers, Eagle foundry, Hunt st. Manchester 1 July 1842; erected the Gas works for Buenos Ayres, Pernambuco and Athens; erected many large bridges for various railways and many iron buildings; pres. of Manchester Mechanics’ Institute; M.I.M.E.