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

BERKELEY, SACKVILLE HAMILTON. Ensign 16 Foot 1 May 1800, captain 25 Dec. 1804 to 26 Feb. 1824 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in West Indies 20 June 1811 to 15 March 1827; col. of 75 Foot 16 Sep. 1845 and of 16 Foot 22 March 1858 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ 4 York terrace, Regent’s Park, London 12 Feb. 1863. BERKLY, JAMES JOHN. _b._ Holloway near London 21 Oct. 1819; pupil of Robert Stephenson 1839; chief resident engineer of Great Indian Peninsula railway 1850–58; first 20 miles of the line from Bombay to Tanna were opened 16 April 1853 thus initiating the Indian railway system; comr. of Bombay municipal board 1857; member of senate of Bombay Univ. 1858; M.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1855, Telford medallist 1860. _d._ Sydenham, Kent 25 Aug. 1862. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxii_, 618–24 (1863). BERNAL, RALPH (_only son of Jacob Bernal of 7 Fitzroy square, London who d. 10 Nov. 1811_). ed. at Christ’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; student L.I. 13 June 1804, barrister 8 Feb. 1810; M.P. for Lincoln 1818–20, for Rochester 1820–41 and 1847–52 and for Weymouth 1841–47; spent sum of £66,000 in election contests; chairman of committees of House of Commons 1830–50; pres. of British Archæological association 1853 to death; made a splendid collection of works of art from the Byzantine period to that of Louis Seize and of furniture and plate which was sold for £63,000 in a 32 day sale 1855. _d._ 93 Eaton sq. London 26 Aug. 1854. _Annual Register_ (1855) 41–44; _G.M. xlii_, 628 (1854). BERNAL OSBORNE, Ralph (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 26 March 1808; ed. at the Charterhouse; matric. from Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1829; ensign 71 Foot 8 June 1830; captain 7 Foot 27 July 1838 to 1841 when he sold out; M.P. for Chipping Wycombe 1841–47, for Middlesex 1847–57, for Dover 1857–59, for Liskeard 1859–65, for Nottingham 1866–68 and for Waterford city 1870–74; took surname of Osborne in lieu of Bernal 19 Aug. 1844 but always known as R. Bernal Osborne; presided at banquet given to Lord Palmerston at Reform club 20 July 1850; secretary of the Admiralty Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1858; author of 2 poems called _The chaunt of Achilles_ 1838 and _A voice from Palace yard_. _d._ Bestwood lodge near Nottingham 4 Jany. 1882. _Bagenal’s Life of R. Bernal Osborne privately printed_ 1884; _Temple Bar, lxxii_, 34–49 (1884); _Fortnightly Review xxxvi_, 535–44 (1884); _I.L.N. xiv_, 397 (1849), _portrait, lxxx_, 61 (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic xxv_, 45 (1882), _portrait_. BERNARD, HERMANN. _b._ Uman or Human Poland 1785; a banker; went to England 1825; Hebrew teacher in Univ. of Cambridge 1830 to death; author of _The creed and ethics of the Jews_ 1832; edited _Guide of the Hebrew student_ 1839; author with Rev. P. H. Mason of _An easy practical Hebrew grammar_; in the title pages of all his works the name of Hedwig being that of a departed sister whom he wished to commemorate is joined to his own. _d._ Cambridge 15 Nov.