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

lxxix_, 272 (1881), _portrait_; _Graphic xxiv_, 389 (1881), _portrait_. BILLING, RICHARD ANNESLEY. _b._ 1814; called to bar in Ireland Nov. 1839; practised at Dublin; admitted to bar at Melbourne 23 Oct. 1856; lecturer in law at Melbourne Univ.; Q.C. 1878; county court judge for western division of Victoria April 1882 to death. _d._ Melbourne 21 June 1882. BILLINGE, MARY (_dau. of Charles Billinge of Eccleston near Prescot_). _b._ Eccleston 6 Nov. 1772. _d._ Edge lane, Liverpool 20 Dec. 1863 aged 91, but generally reputed to be 112 and so recorded in the 26th report of the Registrar General. _W. J. Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1873) 34–37, 105–13. BILLINGS, ELKANAH (_2 son of Bradish Billings, of Gloucester near Ottawa, then called Bytown, farmer_). _b._ Gloucester 5 May 1820; ed. at Ottawa and Potsdam in state of New York; admitted attorney at Toronto 1844; called to bar at Toronto 1845; practised at Ottawa 1845–48, and at Renfrew 1849–52; edited the _Citizen_ paper at Ottawa 1852–55; palæontologist to Geological survey of Canada at Montreal 1 Aug. 1856 to death; visited Europe 1858; F.G.S. April 1858; published the _Canadian Naturalist_ Feb. 1856, edited the first vol. and wrote 55 out of the 63 papers in it; contributed to _Silliman’s Journal_; presented his fine collection of Star fishes, Cystideans and Crinoids to museum of Geological survey of Canada. _d._ Montreal 14 June 1876. _Canadian Naturalist viii_, 251–61 (1878); _Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxxiii_, 48–50 (1877). BILLINGS, ROBERT WILLIAM. _b._ London 1813; pupil of John Britton, topographical draughtsman 1813–20; illustrated Godwin’s _History of St. Paul’s Cathedral_ 1837; _Illustrations of the Temple Church, London_, 1838; _Baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland 240 illustrations 4 vols._ 1845–52; restored the chapel of Edinburgh Castle; built Castle Wemyss, Renfrewshire. _d._ The Moulinère, Putney, Surrey 14 Nov. 1874. _Builder xxxii_, 982, 1035 (1874). BILLINGTON, WILLIAM (_son of a contractor for road making_). _b._ the Yew Trees, Samlesbury near Blackburn 1827; worked in cotton mills at Blackburn 1839; a beerseller at Blackburn; wrote a ballad called _Th’ Shurat Weyvur_ 14,000 copies of which were sold at time of Lancashire cotton famine; author of _Sheen and shade_ 1861; _Lancashire poems with other sketches_ 1883, some copies of which have a _portrait_ of him. _d._ 2 Bradshaw st. Blackburn 3 Jany. 1884 aged 56. BINDLEY, CHARLES. _b._ 1796; author of following books all written under pseudonym of Harry Hieover; _Stable talk and table talk, 2 vols._ 1845–46, _portrait_; _The pocket and the stud_ 1848, _portrait_; _The stud for practical purposes and practical men_ 1849; _Practical horsemanship_ 1850; _The hunting field_ 1850; _Bipeds and quadrupeds_ 1853; _Sporting facts and sporting fancies_ 1853; _The world how to square it_ 1854; _Hints to horsemen_ 1856; _Precept and practice_ 1857; _The sportsman’s friend in a frost_ 1857; _The sporting world_ 1858 and _Things worth knowing about horses_ 1859. _d._ at house of Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 7 Lewes crescent, Brighton 12 Feb. 1859. BINDON, SAMUEL HENRY. _b._ Ireland 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1835; called to Irish bar Nov. 1838; practised at Dublin; went out to Victoria 1855; called to bar at Melbourne 22 May 1855; member of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864–69; minister of justice 1866–1869; county court judge at Sale, Victoria 1869 to death except a short time, during which the Berry ministry took all the judges of county courts off the bench, the day when this was done 9 Jany. 1878 was known as _Black Wednesday_; had a prominent share in establishment of technological classes in large places. _d._ Melbourne 1 Aug. 1879 in 67 year. BINFIELD, JOHN BILSON (_son of Mr. Binfield of Reading, organist who d. 1839_). _b._ Reading 1805; organist of St. Giles’s church Reading many years; author of _The choral service of the Church_ 1846; editor and compiler of _The Reading psalmody_ 1847; set Dean Milman’s _Martyr of Antioch_ to music. _d._ Devizes 28 June 1875. BINGE, JOHN BULL (_son of a Sheffield cutler_). First appeared in London May 1839 at Strand theatre in Lee’s adaptation of Auber’s opera _The fairy lake_; sang at Covent Garden theatre 1840–42; known as The singing mouse from his small voice; kept a toyshop in the Lowther Arcade; sec. to Covent Garden theatrical fund 1869 to death. _d._ New Malden, Surrey 21 Nov. 1878 aged about 63. BINGHAM, CHARLES. _b._ 1 June 1815; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 June 1832; brigade major at Woolwich 1849–54; deputy adjutant general to R.A. 1 April 1858 to death; colonel R.A. 20 Jany. 1863 to death. (_m._ 13 March 1841 Williamina Henrietta dau. of John Mackintosh, M.D. of Edinburgh, she was granted a civil list pension of £150, 19 June 1865). _d._ Brighton 6 April 1864. BINGHAM, REV. CHARLES WILLIAM (_youngest son of Rev. Wm. Bingham 1771–1810, R. of Cameley, Somerset_). _b._ 28 Sep. 1810; ed. at New coll. Ox., fellow, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; V. of Sydling St. Nicholas Dorset 1838–46; R. of Melcombe Horsey, Dorset 23 Feb. 1842 to death; preb. of Salisbury 1876 to death; author of _Commentaries on the four last books of the Pentateuch translated from the Latin of John Calvin 4 vols._ 1852–55; a frequent contributor to _Notes and Queries_ 1850 to death. _d._ Bingham’s Melcombe 1 Dec. 1881. BINGHAM, HENRY. Second lieut. 60 Rifles 30 April 1827, lieut. col. 19 June 1857 to 1865; inspecting field officer 1865–70; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._ Wolverton house, co. Dublin 1 Oct. 1878. BINGHAM, PEREGRINE (_elder son of Rev. Peregrine Bingham 1754–1826, R. of Edmundesham, Dorset_). _b._ 1788; ed. at Winchester and Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1818; recorder of Southampton 5 Nov. 1830 to July 1840; contested Southampton 9 Jany. 1835; police magistrate at Worship st. London 1841, at Great Marlborough st. 1846–60; lived at 35 Gordon square, London 1842 to death; author of _The law and practice of judgments and executions_ 1815; _The law of infancy and coverture_ 1816; _A system of shorthand_ 1821; _Reports of cases in Court of Common Pleas and other courts 10 vols._ 1824–34; _New cases in the Court of Common Pleas and other courts 6 vols._ 1835–41; one of chief contributors to _Westminster Review_, wrote 5 articles in the first number Jany. 1824. _d._ 35 Gordon sq. London 1 Nov. 1864. BINGHAM, REV. RICHARD (_son of Rev. Isaac Moody Bingham, R. of Runwell, Essex who d. 1807_). _b._ 1 April 1765; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow, B.A. 1787, B.C.L. 1801; P.C. of Trinity church, Gosport 1790 to death; V. of Great Hale, Lincs. 1796 to death; preb. of Chichester cathedral 22 July 1807 to death; sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in county gaol at Winchester 26 Nov. 1813 for having illegally obtained a license for a public house when no such house was in existence; published by subscription third ed. of Joseph Bingham’s _Origines Ecclesiasticæ_ 1829. _d._ Newhouse, Gosport 18 July 1858. _Proceedings in a trial, the King against Rev. Richard Bingham_ 1814. BINGHAM, REV. RICHARD (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1798; ed. at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; C. of Trinity church, Gosport 1821–43; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Harwood, Bolton 1844–52; C. of St. Mary’s Marylebone 1853–56; P.C. of Queenborough, Kent 1856–70; edited _The works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham 10 vols., Clarendon Press Oxford_ 1855; author of _Liturgia Recusa or suggestions for revising the services of the United church of England and Ireland_ 1860; _Liturgiæ recusæ exemplar, The Prayer book as it might be_ 1863; _The Gospel according to Isaiah_ 1870; _Hymnologia Christiana Latina_ 1871. _d._ Sutton, Surrey 22 Jany. 1872. BINGHAM, RICHARD CAMDEN. _b._ 2 May 1801; chargé d´affaires at Venezuela 23 Nov. 1852 to 31 Aug. 1858. _d._ 23 Jany. 1872. BINNEY, EDWARD WILLIAM. _b._ Morton, Notts. 1812; solicitor at Manchester 1836; conducted the case for the Claimant in the great Chadwick law suit Nov. 1847; a paraffin oil manufacturer in Scotland; chief founder and sec. of Manchester geological society Oct. 1838, pres. 1857–59 and 1865–67, contributed 33 papers to the Transactions 1839–72; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society Jan. 1842, president to death; F.G.S. 1853, F.R.S. 5 June 1856; possessed the most exact knowledge of coal fields of Lancashire and Cheshire and of the geology of the whole district. _d._ Cheetham hill, Manchester 19 Dec. 1881. _Trans. of Geol. Soc. of Manchester xvi_, 256–59 (1882); _Proc. of Manchester Lit. and Philos. Soc. xxi_, 142–48 (1882). BINNEY, REV. THOMAS. _b._ Newcastle-on-Tyne April 1798; apprenticed to Mr. Angas of Newcastle, bookseller 1813–20; ed. at Wymondley college Herts 1820–23; minister of the New meeting, Bedford 1823; minister of St. James’s st. chapel Newport, Isle of Wight Aug. 1824 to July 1829; ordained 29 Dec. 1824; minister of King’s Weighhouse Chapel Eastcheap, London July 1829 to 4 July 1869, where foundation stone of new chapel was laid 16 Oct. 1833; went to the United States and Canada 1845 and to Australia 1857; LLD. Univ. of Aberdeen 1852; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1848; founded the Colonial Missionary Society 1836; author of _Illustrations of the practical power of faith_ 1830, _3 ed._ 1856; _Conscientious clerical nonconformity_ 1839, _5 ed._ 1860; _Is it possible to make the best of both worlds, a book for young men_ 1853, this book sold at the rate of 100 a day for many months, it was translated into several languages; _St. Paul his life and ministry_ 1866; author of three Letters under pseud. of _Fiat Justitia_ 1831, and of _The Great Gorham case_ 1850, and several other pamphlets under pseud. of _John Search_; author of a pamphlet called _Leicester Gaol by A. Balance, Esq. of the Middle Temple_ 1841. _d._ Doric lodge, High road, Upper Clapton 24 Feb. 1874. _Sermons by T. Binney second series, edited by Henry Allon_ (1875) _xiii-lxvi_, _portrait_; _A memorial of the late Rev. T. Binney, edited by Rev. J. Stoughton_ 1874; _T. Binney, his mind, life and opinions by Rev. E. P. Hood_ 1874; _The lamps of the temple 3 ed._ (1865) 146–87; _Contemporary Review xxiii_, 884–97 (1874); _Graphic ix_, 218 (1874), _portrait_. He is introduced as Canon Burney into the novels called _The master of Marton_ 1864 and _Diary of a novelist_ 1870 _by Eliza Tabor_. BINNS, EDWARD. M.D.; author of _The anatomy of sleep or the art of procuring sound and refreshing slumber at will_ 1842; _Prodromus towards a philosophical inquiry into the intellectual powers of the negro_ 1844. _d._ Lucca, Jamaica 10 Feb. 1851. BINNS, JOHN (_son of Mr. Binns of Dublin, ironmonger who d. 1774_). _b._ Dublin 22 Dec. 1772; apprenticed to a soapboiler 1786; a member of the London Corresponding Society 1794 which became the greatest political association in Great Britain, chairman of its general committee 6 months in 1795; connected with the United Irishmen; left London for France 21 Feb. 1798 but arrested at Margate 27 Feb. and after an examination by the Privy Council committed to Tower of London; tried for high treason at Maidstone May 1798 when acquitted; confined in Clerkenwell prison, then in Gloucester prison till March 1801; sailed for America July 1801; started a newspaper called _The Republican Argus_ at Northumberland, Pennsylvania March 1802; edited at Philadelphia March 1807 to 1829 _Democratic Press_ which soon became leading paper in the state; alderman of Philadelphia Dec. 1822 to 1844. _d._ Philadelphia 16 June 1860. _Recollections of the life of John Binns_ 1854, _portrait_. BINNS, THOMAS. Head master of the Friends’ school, Grove house, Tottenham 1828; member of Committee of British and Foreign Bible Society 1852–68, chairman of the Editorial Sub-Committee. _d._ Rockley near Bristol 2 Dec. 1872 aged 74. _Annual Monitor for 1874_ 6–10. BINSTEAD, CHEESMAN HENRY. _b._ 1797; entered navy 10 June 1810; agent for transports afloat 1828–34; captain 7 March 1853; retired V.A. 30 July 1875. _d._ South parade, Wakefield 26 Nov. 1876. BINYON, EDWARD. _b._ Manchester 1828; landscape painter both in oil and water colours; contributed to exhibitions of Royal Academy and Dudley Gallery 1857–76; his picture ‘The bay of Mentone’ has frequently been reproduced; lived in island of Capri many years. _d._ 5 Via Piazza, Capri 18 July 1876. BIRCH, REV. HENRY MILDRED (_eld. son of Rev. Wm. Henry Rous Birch, R. of Southwold, Suffolk_). _b._ Bedfield rectory, Suffolk 1820; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., scholar 1839, Craven scholar 1841, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; fellow of his college 1843, members prizeman 1844; assistant master at Eton; tutor to Prince of Wales 6 Aug. 1848 to 1851; R. of Prestwich, Lancs. 1852–84; chaplain in ordinary to the Queen 27 Feb. 1852; B.D. Lambeth 1862; hon. chaplain to Prince of Wales 16 Feb. 1863; canon of Ripon 29 June 1868 to death; proctor in convocation 1868, 1874 and 1880 to death, _d._ St. Leonard’s lodge, Windsor 29 June 1884. _I.L.N. xlii_, 456 (1863), _portrait_. BIRCH, JAMES WHEELER WOODFORD (_eld. son of Rev. James Wheeler Birch, V. of All Saint’s, Hertford_). member of Ceylon civil service 1846–70; colonial sec. of the Straits Settlements May 1870; British resident in Malay state of Perak Nov. 1874 to death; assassinated by the Malays at Perak 2 Nov. 1875. BIRCH, JOHN FRANCIS. Second lieut. R.A. 18 Sep. 1793; second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany. 1794, colonel R.E. 29 July 1825, colonel commandant 19 Oct. 1847 to death; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; general 20 June 1854; served in Flanders, Holland, Egypt and Spain. _d._ Folkestone 29 May 1856 aged 79. BIRCH, SIR RICHARD JAMES HOLWELL (_son of Richard Comyns Birch, of Bengal civil service_). _b._ Calcutta 1803; entered Bengal army 1821; studied at Trin. coll. Cam. 1823–24; judge advocate general to the forces in Bengal 1841–52; military secretary to government of India 1854 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired; M.G. 4 May 1858; C.B. 5 June 1849, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Venice 25 Feb. 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_, 259 (1875). BIRCH, ROBERT HENRY. _b._ 1771; second lieut. R.A. 9 March 1795; colonel 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 12 Aug. 1849 to death; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Dublin 29 June 1851. BIRCH, SAMUEL (_eld. son of Rev. Samuel Birch, R. of St. Mary Woolnoth, City of London who d. 1848_). _b._ London 3 Nov. 1813; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1826–31; employed in Public record office 1834; assistant in department of Antiquities of British Museum Jany. 1836, assistant keeper 1844; keeper of the Oriental Mediæval and British antiquities and Ethnographical collections 1861 to death; corresponding member of Archæological Institute of Rome 1839, of Berlin Academy 1851, of Academy of inscriptions of French Institute 1861; LLD. St. Andrews 1862; determined the ancient Cypriote to be a Greek language 1872; presided over Congress of Orientalists held in London 14 Sep. 1874; received German order of the Crown Nov. 1874; Rede lecturer Univ. of Cam. for 1876; LLD. Cam. 1875; hon. fellow of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1875; D.C.L. Ox. 1876; author of _Gallery of antiquities_ 1842; _Introduction to the study of hieroglyphics_ 1857; _History of ancient pottery_ 1857, _2 ed._ 1873; edited _Records of the past 12 vols._ 1873–77; _The manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians by Sir J. G. Wilkinson_, _new ed. 3 vols._ 1878. _d._ 64 Caversham road, Kentish Town, London 27 Dec. 1885. _Times 29 Dec. 1885 p._ 8, _col._ 3; _Athenæum 2 Jany. 1886 pp._ 34–35; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xc_, 53–60 (1877), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxviii_, 64 (1886), _portrait_. BIRCH, SYLVESTER DOUGLAS. A writer in Madras civil service 1830; secretary and treasurer of Bank of Madras 1843; accountant general at Bombay, pres. of the mint committee and government director of Bank of Bombay 1859 to 28 Feb. 1865 when he retired on an annuity. _d._ San Remo, Italy 4 Feb. 1881. BIRCH, SIR THOMAS BERNARD, 2 Baronet. _b._ 18 March 1791; succeeded 22 Aug. 1833; sheriff of Lancs. 1841; M.P. for Liverpool 30 July 1847 to 1 July 1852. _d._ The Hazles Prescot near Liverpool 3 March 1880. BIRCH, THOMAS JACOB (_2 son of Wyrley Birch of Wretham hall near Thetford, Norfolk 1781–1866_). _b._ 15 Oct. 1806; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 18 Nov. 1831; recorder of Thetford March 1839 to Dec. 1866; judge of Norfolk county courts (circuit 32) March 1847 to death. _d._ Ballycroy, Mayo 26 April 1868. BIRCHALL, REV. JOSEPH (_son of John Birchall of Prescot, watchmaker_). _b._ Prescot 1805; ed. at Manchester school and Brasn. Coll. Ox., Somerset scholar 1825, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; C. of Newbury, Berks. 1831–38; R. of Church, Lancashire 1840 to death; proctor in Convocation for Archd. of Manchester; author of _Occasional Sermons_ 1840; _Ecclesiastical Synods_ 1868. _d._ Church rectory 27 Oct. 1878. BIRCHAM, FRANCIS THOMAS (_youngest son of Samuel Bircham of Booton hall, Norfolk_). _b._ Booton hall 1810; admitted solicitor 1833; practised in London to 1882; solicitor to London and South Western railway 1834–82; pres. of Incorporated law society 1874–75. _d._ Burhill near Walton-on-Thames 25 Nov. 1883. Personalty sworn upward of £161,000 3 March 1884; his correct name was Thomas Francis Bircham, but he always called himself Francis Thomas Bircham. BIRD, REV. CHARLES SMITH (_5 child of William Bird of Liverpool, West Indian Merchant, who d. 1814_). _b._ Union st. Liverpool 28 May 1795; articled to Stanistreet and Eden of Liverpool, solicitors Feb. 1812, released from articles 1814; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1816, scholar 1818, 3 Wr. and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1820, Fell. of his coll. Sep. 1820; C. of Burghfield, Berks. 1823–44; took pupils 1823–44; F.L.S. 4 March 1828; C. of Sulhamstead 1840; V. of Gainsborough 1843–59; preb. of Lincoln 16 June 1843; chancellor of Lincoln June 1859 to death, instituted and installed 16 July 1859; edited a monthly periodical called _The Reading church guardian_ 1839–40; author of _For ever and other devotional poems_ 1833; _Transubstantiation tried by Scripture and reason_ 1839; _The baptismal privileges, the baptismal vow, and the means of grace considered in 6 Lent lectures_ 1841, _2 ed._ 1843; _The eve of the Crucifixion_ 1858. _d._ The Chancery, Lincoln 9 Nov.