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

_Lord Campbell’s Lives of the Chancellors viii_, 213–596; _Law mag. and law review xxiv_, 177–236 (1868); _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery i_. 62–5 (1846), _portrait_; _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 81–7, _portrait_; _A bibliographical list of Lord Brougham’s publications, by the author of The handbook of fictitious names_ [_Ralph Thomas_] 1873. NOTE.—The result of Queen Caroline’s trial made him extraordinarily popular and the Brougham’s Head became a common tavern sign; at time of passing of the Reform bill plaster casts of his head were sold by tens of thousands. His quarrel with Canning in the House of Commons 17 April 1823 was paraphrased by Dickens in the opening chapter of Pickwick. All the morning papers except the Times of Tuesday 22 Oct. 1839 contained leading articles on the sudden death of Lord Brougham with biographical sketches of him. He is depicted by Disraeli as ‘Foaming Fudge’ in Vivian Grey 1827, and by T. L. Peacock as ‘the learned friend’ in Crotchet Castle 1831. BROUGHAM, WILLIAM BROUGHAM, 2 Baron (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 26 Sep. 1795; ed. at Edin. and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 9 May 1823; master in chancery 29 March 1831 to 2 Nov. 1852, when granted pension of £3225 on abolition of his office by 15 and 16 Vict. cap. 80; M.P. for Southwark 29 April 1831 to 29 Dec. 1834; contested Leeds 9 Jany. 1835; succeeded 7 May 1868. _d._ Brougham hall near Penrith 3 Jany. 1886. _Law Times lxxx_, 175 (1886). BROUGHAM, JOHN. _b._ Dublin 9 May 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.; made his début at Tottenham st. theatre London in extravaganza of _Tom and Jerry_ July 1830; played at Olympic and Covent Garden; manager of Lyceum 1840–2; managed Niblo’s Garden New York; opened a new theatre in Broadway N.Y. called Brougham’s Lyceum 15 Oct. 1850; lessee of Bowery theatre N.Y. 7 July 1856; played in London 1860–5 and in America 1865–79; opened Brougham’s theatre 25 Jany. 1869; edited a comic paper in New York called _The Lantern_ 1852; author of nearly 80 dramatic pieces; said to have been original of Harry Lorrequer in Lever’s novel. _d._ 60 East Ninth st. New York 7 June 1880. _Life of J. Brougham edited by W. Winter_ 1881, _portrait_; _Ireland’s Records of New York stage ii_, 178, 210, 384, 594, 655 (1867); _The Oddfellow i_, 65 (1839), _portrait_. BROUGHTON, JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 1 baronet 1757–1831_). _b._ Redland near Bristol 27 June 1786; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; visited Greece and Turkey with Lord Byron 1809–10 who dedicated to him fourth canto of _Childe Harold_ for which he wrote the explanatory notes; F.R.S. 19 May 1814; imprisoned in Newgate 14 Dec. 1819 to 29 Jany. 1820 for publishing a pamphlet called _The trifling mistake_; M.P. for Westminster 1820–33 for Nottingham 1834–47 and for Harwich 1848–51; active member of the Greek Committee in London 1823–24; one of the 6 founders of Royal Geographical Society 1830; sec. of state for war 1 Feb. 1832 to 4 April 1833; chief sec. for Ireland 28 March to 17 May 1833; first comr. of woods and forests 19 July to 31 Dec. 1834; pres. of Board of control 29 April 1835 to 9 Sep. 1841 and 10 July 1846 to Feb. 1852; P.C. 6 Feb. 1832; colonel of Wilts. militia 8 Feb. 1840 to death; created Baron Broughton of Broughton de Gyfford, Wilts. 26 Feb. 1851; G.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852; author of _Imitations and translations from the classics, with original poems_ 1809; _Journey through Albania and other provinces of Turkey with Lord Byron_ 1812, _2 ed._ 1818; _Substance of some letters written by an Englishman resident at Paris during the last reign of Napoleon 2 vols._ 1816. _d._ 42 Berkeley sq. London 3 June 1869. Personalty sworn under £250,000 14 Aug. 1869. _Recollections of a long life by the late Lord Broughton De Gyfford 5 vols. privately printed 1865_; _Edinburgh Review cxxxiii_, 287–337 (1871); _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 372–8, _portrait_; _I.L.N. liv_, 602, 624 (1869), _portrait_. BROUGHTON, REV. SIR HENRY DELVES, 8 Baronet. _b._ 10 Jany. 1777; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1805; P.C. of Broughton Staffs. 1803 to death; succeeded 9 Aug. 1847. _d._ Broughton hall, Staffs. 3 Nov. 1851. BROUGHTON, ROBERT EDWARDS. Barrister I.T. 6 May 1825; police magistrate at Worship st. London 1827–54, and at Marylebone 1854 to death; F.R.S. 17 Feb. 1842. _d._ 33 Dorset sq. London 29 June 1860 aged 79. BROUGHTON, WILLIAM EDWARD DELVES (_2 son of Thomas Broughton of Ham Common, Surrey who d. 24 Jany. 1846_). _b._ 30 April 1802; 2 Lieut. R.E. 6 Aug. 1825; comr. to survey northern boundaries of British possessions in North America June 1840 to 31 March 1845; colonel R.E. 18 April 1860; colonel commandant 19 June 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 8 Crescent, Surbiton, Surrey 5 April 1880. BROUGHTON, RIGHT REV. WILLIAM GRANT (_eld. son of Grant Broughton_). _b._ Bridge st. Westminster 22 May 1788; ed. at Barnet gr. sch. and King’s sch. Canterbury; clerk in treasury department of East India house 1807–12; resident member of Pemb. hall Cam. Oct. 1814, 6 wrangler 1818, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1823, D.D. 1836; C. of Hartley Wespall, Hants. 1818–27; C. of Farnham 1827; chaplain of Tower of London 6 Oct. 1828 to 24 June 1829; archdeacon of New South Wales 7 Dec. 1828, sworn into office 17 Sep. 1829; bishop of Australia 18 Jany. 1836, consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 14 Feb. 1836; installed in St. James’s church Sydney 2 June 1836; bishop of Sydney and metropolitan of Australasia 25 June 1847 to death. _d._ 11 Chester st. Belgrave sq. London 20 Feb. 1853. _bur._ south aisle of Canterbury cath. 26 Feb. _Sermons on the Church of England by the Right Rev. W. G. Broughton edited with prefatory memoir by B. Harrison_ 1857; _G.M. xxxix_, 431–6 (1853); _J. Bonwick’s Curious facts of old colonial days_ (1870) 34–56. BROUN, JOHN ALLAN (_son of Mr. Broun of Dumfries, schoolmaster who d. about 1837_). _b._ Dumfries 21 Sep. 1817; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; director of Sir T. M. Brisbane’s magnetic observatory at Makerstoun, co. Dumfries 1842–9; director of observatory at Trevandrum, South India Jany. 1852 to April 1865; built an observatory on the Agustia Malley 6200 feet above the sea 1855; discovered that changes in daily mean horizontal force are nearly the same all over the globe, his researches contributed largely to establish meteorology on a scientific basis; F.R.S. 2 June 1853, Royal medallist 1878; author of _Observations of magnetic declination made at Trevandrum and Agustia Malley_ 1873 and of more than 50 papers in scientific journals. _d._ 9 Abercorn place, London 22 Nov. 1879. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxx_, 3–6 (1880). BROUN, SIR RICHARD, 8 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir James Broun of Colston park, Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, 7 Baronet who d. 30 Nov. 1844_). _b._ Lochmaben 22 April 1801; a knight of St. John of Jerusalem 28 July 1835, registrar 8 March 1837, sec. of the Langue of that order in England 24 June 1839, K.C.J.J. and G.C.J.J. 24 June 1841; hon. sec. of Committee of the baronetage for sustaining rights and privileges of the Order 15 July 1840 to death; demanded inauguration as a knight on account of being eldest son of a baronet, on the Lord Chamberlain’s refusal to present him to the Queen for this purpose, he assumed title of Sir and addition of “Eques auratus” June 1842; projected The London Necropolis and national mausoleum at Woking 1849 which was incorporated 1852. _d._ Sphinx lodge, Chelsea, London 10 Dec. 1858. BROUN, SIR WILLIAM, 9 Baronet. _b._ July 1804; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; admitted procurator 1829; dean of Faculty of procurators for county of Dumfries; succeeded 10 Dec. 1858. _d._ 7 Irving st. Dumfries 10 June 1882. BROWELL, REV. WILLIAM ROBERT. Educ. at Pemb. coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, fellow and tutor of his college; public examiner 1834; R. of Beaumont-cum-Mose Essex 1839 to death; translated _Count Carnot’s Reflexions on the metaphysical principles of the infinitesimal analysis_ 1832; edited _Carwithen’s History of the Church of England_ 1849. _d._ Beaumont rectory 15 Aug. 1867. BROWN, REV. ANDREW MORTON. _b._ parish of Loudown, Ayrshire 12 March 1812; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; Congregational minister at Overton, Hants.; minister at Poole 1837–43; minister of Highbury chapel Cheltenham 8 Jany. 1843 to death; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1854; author of _The leader of the Lollards, his times and trials_ 1848; _Salvation and the way to secure it_, _3 ed._ 1851; _Evenings with the prophets, a series of memoirs and meditations_ 1854; _Peden the prophet a tale of the covenanters founded on fact_ 1859. _d._ Bridport 17 July 1879. _Waddington’s Congregational history v_, 596–8 (1880); _Congregational year book_ (1880) 310–12. BROWN, CHARLES PHILIP (_son of Rev. David Brown 1763–1812, provost of Calcutta College_). _b._ Calcutta 1798; ed. at Haileybury college; entered Madras civil service 1817; Persian translator to Madras government 1838; postmaster general and Telugu translator 1846–55; presented his fine collection of manuscripts including over 2000 Sanskrit and Telugu works to Madras Literary Society 1845; one of the foremost South Indian scholars; author of _Prosody of the Telugu and Sanskrit languages_ 1826; _Dictionaries of Telugu-English and English-Telugu 2 vols._ _Madras_ 1852; _Grammar of the Telugu language_ 1840, _2 ed._ 1857, and many other works some of which were translated into Tamil, Canarese and Hindustani. _d._ 22 Kildare gardens, Paddington, London 12 Dec.