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

BROOKS, VINCENT. Purchased large establishment of Day and Sons, lithographers, Gate st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 1867, carried on the business under style of Vincent Brooks, Day and Son 1867 to death. _d._ of apoplexy in counting house of Spalding and Hodge, Drury Lane 29 Sep. 1885 in 70 year. BROOKS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (_son of Wm. Brooks of London, architect_). _b._ London 25 March 1802; engineer officer with Sir Robert Wilson in Spain 1822; resident engineer to Tees Navigation company 1828; engineer to corporation of Newcastle 1842–58; practised in London 1858 to death; made 4 journeys to Honduras 1870–6; sent out to investigate feasibility of a ship canal across Isthmus of Darien 1876; M.I.C.E. 10 June 1834, Telford medallist 1852; author of _Treatise on the improvement of the navigation of rivers_ 1841; _Honduras and the Inter-Oceanic railway_ 1874. _d._ Paya, in the Isthmus of Darien 26 Jany. 1877. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. l_, 172–5 (1877). BROOM, HERBERT (_only son of Herbert Broom of Kidderminster_). _b._ Kidderminster 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 40 wrangler 1837, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1854, LLD. 1864; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; professor of common law to council of legal education Jany. 1873 to 1875; author of _Practical rules for determining parties to actions_ 1843, _2 ed._ 1846; _A selection of legal maxims_ 1845, _6 ed._ 1884; _Commentaries on the common law_ 1856, _7 ed._ 1884; _Constitutional law_ 1866, _2 ed._ 1885, and of 2 novels _The missing will 3 vols._ 1877 and _The unjust steward 2 vols._ 1879. _d._ The Priory, Orpington, Kent 2 May 1882. BROOME, ARTHUR. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 13 Dec. 1827, colonel 29 April 1861 to death; controller general of military expenditure Bengal 1 April 1864 to death; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.S.I. 1869. _d._ at sea on passage from India 27 March 1871. BROOME, HENRY ALFRED. _b._ Birmingham 1826; beat Fred. Mason (the Bulldog) £50 a side 11 Oct. 1843; fought Joe Rowe £50 a side 10 Dec. 1844, beat him at renewed fight 13 May 1845; fought Ben Terry £100 a side 3 Feb. 1846; fought Wm. Perry (the Tipton Slasher) £200 a side and the championship at Mildenhall near Newmarket 29 Sep. 1851 and beat him; fought Harry Orme near Brandon 18 April 1853 £250 a side when Broome won after 31 rounds in 2 hours 18 minutes, this was the best fight for the championship ever seen; paid £180 forfeit to Tom Paddock 20 Feb. 1855 who beat Broome £200 a side 19 May 1856; landlord of the Opera tavern, Haymarket London 1851–56; kept the Albion tavern, Warblington st. Portsmouth 1856; kept the Crown and Cushion, Little Russell st. London; a public caterer at principal race meetings. _d._ 30 Frith st. Soho, London 2 Nov. 1865. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii_, 308–39 (1881), _portrait_; _Fights for the championship by Francis Dowling_ (1860) 234–55; _Illust. sporting news iv_, 561 (1865), _portrait_. BROOME, JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Birmingham 14 March 1818; fought 7 prize fights all of which he won 1834–40; fought Jack Hannan £500 a side at New park farm Oxfordshire 26 Jany. 1841 when he beat him after 47 rounds; fought Bungaree the Australian £300 a side at Mildenhall 27 April 1842 when Broome won after 42 rounds; presented with a golden belt at Castle tavern Holborn, London 27 Jany. 1842; landlord of the Rising Sun, Air st. Piccadilly 1841; invented a gun capable of carrying a ball of 50lb. weight 2 miles; cut his throat at the Wrekin tavern, Broad Court, Bow st. London 31 May 1855. _Fights for the championship by Francis Dowling_ (1860) 370–8; _The new Tom Spring’s Life in London_ (1844) 137, _portrait_. BROPHEY, REV. GEORGE (_son of Mr. Brophey who was executed after battle of Vinegar Hill 1798_). _b._ near Kilkenny Aug. 1775; ed. at Carlow college; studied theology in Paris; ordained priest 1798; went to America 1843; pastor of St. Paul’s R.C. church Harlem, New York 1853–66; settled in Iowa 1866. _d._ Mercy hospital, Davenport, Iowa 16 Oct. 1880 in 106 year. BROS, THOMAS. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1831; recorder of Abingdon 30 March 1852 to April 1878. _d._ Springfield, Upper Clapton, London 16 May 1883 aged 79. BROTHERHOOD, ROWLAND. Railway contractor; proprietor of large iron and wagon works at Chippenham where some of the best iron bridges ever sent to India were made; constructed Bristol and South Wales Union railway and piers; Assoc. Inst. C.E. 1 May 1866. _d._ Everton villa, Chertsey road, Bristol 5 March 1883. BROTHERTON, EDWARD. _b._ Manchester 1814; engaged in the silk trade; wrote letters on popular education in _Manchester Guardian_ which led to formation of Education Aid Society and paved the way for Education Act of 1870; author of _Mormonism its rise and progress_ 1846; _Spiritualism, Swedenborg and the New Church_ 1860; editor and chief writer of first vol. of a monthly periodical _The Dawn_ (Manchester 1861–2); wrote _Outlines of my mental history_ in the _Intellectual Repository_ 1849 and many articles under pseudonyms of Libra and Pilgrim in Swedenborgian periodicals. _d._ Cornbrook, Manchester 23 March 1866. BROTHERTON, JOSEPH (_son of John Brotherton of Manchester, cotton spinner_). _b._ Whittington, Derbyshire 22 May 1783; cotton spinner at Manchester 1802–19; joined Bible Christian church 1805, pastor about 1818; M.P. for Salford (the first) 20 Dec. 1832 to death, his expenses being paid by his constituents; chairman of private bills committee; active member of Anti-Corn law league. _d._ suddenly while travelling in an omnibus from his residence Rosehill, Pendleton into Manchester 7 Jany. 1857, his statue by M. Noble in Peel park was uncovered 6 Aug. 1858. _J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings_ (1866) 42–4, _portrait_; _Book-lore ii_, 78–82 (1885); _Illust. news of the world ii_, 117 (1858), _portrait_; _I.L.N. viii_, 309 (1846), _portrait, xxxiii_, 210 (1858). BROTHERTON, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM. _b._ 1785; ensign Coldstream Guards 24 Jany. 1800; captain 14 Dragoons 4 June 1807, major 26 March 1812 to Oct. 1820; served in Egypt 1801, in Germany 1805 and during Peninsular war 1808–14; lieut. col. 12 Lancers 26 Oct. 1820 to 24 May 1827 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 22 July 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; lieut. col. 16 Lancers 10 Feb. 1832 to 23 Nov. 1841; inspector general of cavalry 1844; colonel of 15 Hussars 18 May 1849, and of 1 Dragoon Guards 17 July 1859 to death; general 1 April 1860; C.B. 3 Feb. 1817, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; received the war medal with 8 clasps. _d._ at his son’s house near Esher 20 Jany. 1868. BROUGH, ANNIE (_dau. of Thomas Romer of Liverpool_). _b._ Liverpool 19 Dec. 1827; ed. at Royal academy of Music Sep. 1843 to June 1846; made her first appearance in London at Princess’s theatre as Adalgisa in _Norma_ 1847; sang at Haymarket theatre; prima donna at the Surrey theatre 1850. (_m._ April 1851 Wm. Brough the dramatist 1826–70). _d._ 71 Gower st. London 1 Feb. 1852. _Musical World xxx_, 94 (1852). BROUGH, BARNABAS. Brewer and wine merchant at Pontypool; one of the principal witnesses for the Crown in trial of John Frost the Chartist 1840, which made him very unpopular and ruined his business; auctioneer and accountant at Manchester 1843–5; accountant in office of _Illustrated London News_ London 1845 to death; author under name of Barnard de Burgh of several dramatic pieces, one of which _I wont go or how to keep a place_ was acted in London by Tyrone Power. _d._ 4 South Lambeth place, Lambeth, London 30 Oct. 1854 aged 59. BROUGH, JOHN CARGILL (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Pontypool, Monmouthshire 11 Feb. 1834; clerk in audit office of London and South Western railway 1852–8; wrote articles in many periodicals; an original member of the Savage club 1857; edited _The Chemist and Druggist_ 1860–70; F.C.S. 1864; started _The Laboratory, a weekly record of scientific research_ April 1867; published with two friends _Exeter Change_ a humourous brochure during meeting of British Association at Exeter Aug. 1869; librarian and superintendent of London Institution, Finsbury Circus July 1870 to death, started and edited _Journal of London Institution_, gave a course of lectures there on Philosophy of Magic 1871–2; author of _The fairy tales of science_ 1858, _2 ed._ 1865; one of the editors of _England’s Workshops_ 1864 and of _Year book of Pharmacy_ 1870–2. _d._ Esher 7 Sep. 1872. _Chemist and Druggist_ (1872) 287, 305, 340. BROUGH, MARY ANN. Nurse to Prince of Wales; murdered 6 of her children at Esher 9 June 1854 and attempted to destroy herself; tried for murder at Guildford assizes 9 Aug. 1854, when found not guilty on ground of insanity. _d._ Bethlem hospital, London about 20 March 1861. _Annual Register_ (1854) 93–7; BROUGH, REDMOND WILLIAM. Ensign 56 Foot 10 March 1807, lieut. 15 July 1808 to 10 Jany. 1822 when placed on h.p.; captain 2 Foot 7 Oct. 1824, lieut. col. 27 Nov. 1841 to 2 March 1846 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858. _d._ Charles st. St. James’s London 29 Feb. 1860 aged 68. BROUGH, RICHARD SECKER. First lieut. R.A. 2 Sep. 1794, colonel 21 Nov. 1833 to 1841, col. commandant 17 Aug. 1846 to death; general 16 Dec. 1856. _d._ Onslow sq. London 15 Jany. 1859 aged 85. BROUGH, RICHARD SECKER (_younger son of Thompson Brough, M.D. of Kiltegan, co. Wicklow_). _b._ Kiltegan 17 Oct. 1846; a fourth grade assistant superintendent Indian telegraph service 30 Oct. 1869; assistant to superintendent electrician at Calcutta March 1871 to death; author of _Telegraph construction_; edited Schwendler’s _Instructions for testing lines, batteries and instruments_. _d._ from cholera at Calcutta 3 April 1879. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix_, 315–17 (1880). BROUGH, ROBERT BARNABAS (_brother of John Cargill Brough_). _b._ London 10 April 1828; ed. at Newport; started the _Liverpool Lion_ comic weekly paper 1847, edited it 1847–8; wrote burlesques with his brother William first of which _The enchanted isle_ was produced at Amphitheatre Liverpool 1848 and reproduced at Adelphi theatre London 20 Nov. 1848; edited the _Atlas_ a short time and the _Welcome Guest_; author of _Life of Sir John Falstaff_ 1858; _Miss Brown, a romance and other tales_ 1860. _d._ Boundary st. Manchester 26 June 1860. _Marston Lynch by R. B. Brough with portrait, and a memoir of the author by G. A. Sala_ 1860 this work contains the story of Brough’s own life; _E. Yates’s Recollections i_, 312–18 (1884). BROUGH, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London 28 April 1826; apprenticed to a printer at Brecon; author of a series of papers called _Hints upon heraldry_ in the _Liverpool Lion_; wrote with his brother Robert the Christmas and Easter pieces for Adelphi and Haymarket theatres 1848–54; author of many “Entertainments” for Mr. and Mrs. German Reed and John Parry; wrote many burlesques including _The field of the cloth of gold_ which was produced at Strand theatre 11 April 1868 and played till 27 March 1869, 298 times. _d._ 37 Maitland park road, Haverstock hill 13 March 1870. BROUGH, WILLIAM FRANCIS. _b._ Wexford 1798; made his first appearance on the stage in Sussex 1818; acted at Haymarket theatre London 3 years; first appeared in America at Park theatre New York 4 Sep. 1835; made his début in Philadelphia 18 Jany. 1836, at Chestnut st. theatre as Cedric in opera of _The Maid of Judith_. _d._ while on his passage to England 21 May 1867. _bur._ in Brooklyn cemetery New York Feb. 1868. BROUGHAM, HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Henry Brougham of Brougham near Penrith 1742–1810_). _b._ 19 St. Andrew’s sq. Edin. 19 Sep. 1778; ed. at high sch. and univ. Edin.; admitted advocate 10 June 1800; one of founders of _Edinburgh Review_ Oct. 1802, chief contributor to it; F.R.S. 3 March 1803; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1808; M.P. for Camelford 1810–12, for Winchelsea 1815–30 and for West Riding of Yorkshire 5 Aug. 1830 to 23 Nov. 1830; attorney general to Queen Caroline 22 April 1820 to her death 7 Aug. 1821; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1825; K.C. 1827, received patent of precedence 1827; lord chancellor 22 Nov. 1830 to 22 Nov. 1834; created Baron Brougham and Vaux of Brougham, Westmoreland 22 Nov. 1830 and by another patent dated 22 March 1860, created Baron Brougham and Vaux of Brougham and of Highhead Castle, Cumberland; foreign associate of Institute of France 1833; pres. of Social science association 1857 and 1860–5; chancellor of Univ. of Edin. 1859. _d._ Chateau Eleanor Louise, Cannes 7 May