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

BRYCE, DAVID. _b._ Scotland; private secretary to Benjamin D’Israeli; a publisher in Paternoster Row, London; employed by W. H. Smith the bookseller; compiled _The confessional unmasked_ from Petrus Dens’s _Theologia moralis et dogmatica 8 tomes_ 1832. _d._ 1 May 1875 aged 56. BRYCE, DAVID (_son of Mr. Bryce of Edinburgh, builder_). _b._ Edin. 3 April 1803; partner with Wm. Burn leading architect in Edin. to 1844; became leading architect in Scotland; designed important works in all styles in most of chief towns in Scotland; revived the picturesque French Gothic now naturalised in Scotland under name of Baronial; A.R.S.A. 1835, R.S.A. 1836, F.R.I.B.A., F.R.S. Edin. 1856; grand-architect to grand lodge of Masons in Scotland 1850 to death; built Fettes College, Royal Infirmary, and Bank of Scotland, all in Edinburgh. _d._ Edinburgh 7 May 1876. _Builder xxxiv_, 508 (1876); _D. M. Lyon’s Lodge of Edinburgh_ (1873) 30, 341, _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix_, 216–8 (1878). BRYCE, REV. JAMES (_son of John Bryce of Airdrie, Lanarkshire_). _b._ Airdrie 5 Dec. 1767; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow; ordained minister of Scottish Antiburgher Secession church 1795; minister of Antiburgher congregation at Killaig, co. Londonderry 1805; founded a branch of the Presbyterian church which took name of the Associate Presbytery of Ireland; this body was ultimately united with Scottish united presbyterian church. _d._ Killaig 24 April 1857. BRYCE, REV. JAMES. Minister of Church of Scotland in Bengal 11 April 1814 to 30 May 1842; D.D. Edin. 12 Aug. 1818; author of _Sketch of the state of British India_ 1810; _On the ecclesiastical establishment of the Church of Scotland_ 1815; _Ten years of the Church of Scotland 2 vols._ 1850. _d._ Edinburgh 11 March 1866 in 82 year. BRYCE, JAMES (_3 son of Rev. James Bryce 1767–1857_). _b._ Killaig 22 Oct. 1806; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, B.A. 1828, hon. LLD. 1858; mathematical master in Belfast academy; master in high school Glasgow 1846–74; F.G.S., Dublin; pres. of Philosophical Soc. of Glasgow; author of _First principles of geography and astronomy_ 1848; _General gazetteer_ 1859; _Library gazetteer_ 1859; _Geology of Arran_ 1864; killed by accident at Inverfarigaig on shores of Loch Ness 11 July 1877. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix_, 514 (1878). BRYDGES, SIR JOHN WILLIAM EGERTON, 2 Baronet. _b._ Canterbury Nov. 1791; succeeded 8 Sep. 1837. _d._ Lee priory, Canterbury 15 Feb. 1858. BRYDON, WILLIAM. _b._ London 9 Oct. 1811; assistant surgeon Bengal army 9 July 1835, surgeon 14 Nov. 1849, retired 1 Nov. 1859; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. _d._ Westfield, Rossshire 20 March 1873. _Kaye’s History of war in Afghanistan_, _3 ed._ (1874) 389; _I.L.N. lxii_, 369 (1873), _portrait_; _J. McCarthy’s A history of our own times_, _new ed._ (1882) _i_, 161–95, _iii_, 8. NOTE.—He was the one solitary individual of the 13000 soldiers and camp followers composing the army of General Elphinstone who was neither killed nor taken prisoner in the terrible disaster of January 1842, it was also his singular fate to be shut up with Sir Henry Lawrence at Lucknow and to pass uninjured through that long and trying siege. Mrs. Thompson-Butler painted a _portrait_ of him appearing under the walls of Jellalabad in her picture “Remnant of an army” exhibited at Royal Academy 1881 and engraved 1883. BRYDSON, REV. THOMAS. _b._ Glasgow 1806; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow and Edin.; minister of Levern chapel near Paisley 1839–42; minister of Kilmalcolm 1842 to death; author of _Poems_ 1829; _Pictures of the past_ 1832; contributed to _Edinburgh Literary Journal and Republic of letters_, _Glasgow_. _d._ Kilmalcolm 28 Jany. 1855. _The modern Scottish minstrel by Charles Rogers iv_, 172–3 (1857). BRYMER, VEN. WILLIAM THOMAS PARR. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Charlton Mackrell, Somerset 1821 to death; archdeacon of Bath 6 March 1839 to death; canon res. of Wells 1840 to death; superintended affairs of the entire diocese during incapacity of Bishop Law. _d._ Charlton Mackrell 19 Aug. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_, 544 (1852). BRYSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 12 Oct. 1816; clock and watch maker at Edin. 1840 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1858; pres. of Royal Soc. of Arts 1860; pres. of Royal Physical Soc. 1863; F.G.S. London and Edin.; author of many papers on geology. _d._ Hawkhill 7 Dec. 1866. BRYSON, ALEXANDER. Assistant surgeon R.N. 7 Feb. 1827; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 30 June 1855; hon. physician to the Queen 1859 to death; director general of medical department of navy 1864–9; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; C.B. 7 June 1865. _d._ The Heritage, Barnes, Surrey 12 Dec. 1869 aged 67. BUCCLEUCH, WALTER FRANCIS MONTAGU-DOUGLAS-SCOTT, 5 Duke of. (_2 son of 4 Duke of Buccleuch 1772–1819_). _b._ Dalkeith house near Edinburgh 25 Nov. 1806; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1827, LLD. 1842, D.C.L. Ox. 1834; succeeded 20 April 1819; lord lieut. of Midlothian 5 March 1828 to death, of Roxburghshire 2 Dec. 1841 to death; K.T. 5 Nov. 1830; K.G. 23 Feb. 1835; pres. of Royal Archers 1837–9, captain general 1839 to death; lord privy seal 2 Feb. 1842 to 21 Jany. 1846; P.C. 2 Feb. 1842; colonel of Edinburgh militia 6 Jany. 1842 to death; lord pres. of the council 21 Jany. 1846 to 6 July 1846; chancellor of Univ. of Glasgow 24 April 1878; constructed harbour and port of Granton 1835. _d._ Bowhill house, co. Selkirk 16 April 1884, will proved in London 30 Oct. 1884, personalty in England £475,000 in Scotland £435,000. _Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of Queen Victoria_ (1845) 55–63; _J. B. Paul’s History of royal company of archers_ (1875), _portrait_; _R. C. Dudgeon’s History of Edinburgh militia_ (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic xxix_, 400 (1884), _portrait_. BUCHAN, HENRY DAVID ERSKINE, 12 Earl of. _b._ July 1783; succeeded 19 April 1829. _d._ 8 St. Agnes Villas, Bayswater, London 13 Sep. 1857. BUCHAN, PETER. _b._ Peterhead 1790; a printer there 1816 to death; author of _The recreation of leisure hours being songs and verses in the Scottish dialect_ 1814; _Annals of Peterhead_ 1819; _Treatise proving that brutes have souls and are immortal_ 1824; _Ancient ballads and songs of the North of Scotland hitherto unpublished 2 vols._ 1828 and many other works. _d._ London 19 Sep. 1854. _W. Anderson’s Scottish nation iii_, 691–3 (1863). BUCHANAN, SIR ANDREW, 1 Baronet (_only son of James Buchanan of Blairvadock Ardinconnal, co. Dumbarton 1776–1860_). _b._ 7 May 1807; attached to embassy at Constantinople 10 Oct. 1825; minister plenipotentiary to Swiss confederation 12 Feb. 1852; envoy extraordinary and min. plenipo. to king of Denmark 9 Feb. 1853; transferred to Madrid 31 March 1858; transferred to the Hague 11 Dec. 1860; ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to King of Prussia 28 Oct. 1862; P.C. 3 Feb. 1863; ambassador extraord. and plenipo. to Russia 15 Sep. 1864, to Austria 16 Oct. 1871 to 16 Feb. 1878 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 23 May 1857, K.C.B. 25 Feb. 1860, G.C.B. 6 July 1866; created a baronet 14 Dec. 1878. _d._ Craigend castle near Glasgow 12 Nov. 1882. BUCHANAN, GEORGE (_3 son of David Buchanan of Montrose, printer 1745–1812_). _b._ Montrose about 1790; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a land surveyor about 1812 then a civil engineer; engaged in all the important salmon fishing cases in Scotland; built chimney nearly 400 feet high for Edinburgh gasworks 1848; F.R.S. Edin.; pres. of Royal Scottish Society of Arts 1847–8; author of _Report on the theory and application of Leslie’s Photometer_ 1824 and of the article “Furnaces” in _8 ed._ of _Encyclopædia Britannica_. _d._ 30 Oct. 1852. BUCHANAN, GILBERT JOHN LANE. Second lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1831, colonel 16 July 1862 to 2 April 1870; commanded at Fort William, Bengal 10 Sep. 1867 to 2 April 1870; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._ Cambridge st. Hyde park sq. London 13 April 1875. BUCHANAN, REV. JAMES. _b._ Paisley 1804; minister of Roslin near Edin. 1827; minister of North Leith 1828; attained great fame as a preacher; D.D. Princeton college, New Jersey 1844; LLD. Glasgow; minister of high church Edin. 1840, of St. Stephens free church Edin. 1843; professor of apologetics in New college Edin. 1845 and of systematic theology 1847–68; author of _Comfort in affliction_ 1837; _Faith in God and modern atheism compared 2 vols._ 1855; _Analogy considered as a guide to truth_, _2 ed._ 1867. _d._ 1870. BUCHANAN, ROBERT. _b._ Ayr 1813; a schoolmaster, a lecturer advocating socialistic views of Robert Owen and a journalist successively; author of _The religion of the past and present society_ 1839; _The origin and nature of ghosts_ 1840; _Concise history of modern priestcraft_ 1840; _The past, the present and the future_ 1840. _d._ Bexhill, Sussex 4 March 1866. BUCHANAN, REV. ROBERT. _b._ Callander 1785; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, LLD. 1869; licensed as a preacher of Church of Scotland 1812; minister of parish of Peebles 1813; assistant professor of logic Univ. of Glasgow 1824, professor 1827–64, the Buchanan prizes were instituted 1866 in commemoration of his services, he bequeathed by his will £10,000 for founding of Buchanan bursaries; author of _Fragments of the table round_ 1860; _Vow of Glentreuil and other poems_ 1862; _Tragic dramas from Scottish history_ 1868 and _Wallace, a tragedy_ 1856 performed twice at Prince’s theatre Glasgow March 1862. _d._ Ardfillayne, Dunoon 2 March 1873. BUCHANAN, REV. ROBERT (_son of Mr. Buchanan of St. Ninians near Stirling, brewer and farmer_). _b._ St. Ninians 15 Aug. 1802; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; licensed by presbytery of Dunblane; minister of Gargunnock near Stirling Oct. 1826; ordained 6 March 1827; minister of Salton, East Lothian 1829; minister of Tron church Glasgow 22 Aug. 1833; D.D. Glasgow 1840; minister of Free college church Glasgow 26 December 1857; pres. of Sustentation fund committee 1847–75; moderator of the Assembly 1860; presented with sum of £4,200 in Queen’s hotel, Glasgow 8 Aug. 1864; member of Glasgow school board 1872 to death; author of _History of the ten years conflict 2 vols._ 1849; _Notes of a clerical furlough_ 1859; _Book of Ecclesiastes_ 1859. _d._ 25 Via dell’ Angelo Custode Rome 31 March 1875. _Robert Buchanan, D.D. an ecclesiastical biography by the Rev. L. N. Walker_ 1877, _portrait_; _Good Words xix_, 15–20 (1878), _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1878) 17–23. BUCHANAN, WALTER. _b._ Glasgow 1797; a merchant in Glasgow; M.P. for Glasgow 1 April 1857 to 6 July 1865. _d._ Plas Newton, Chester 21 May 1883. BUCHANAN, WILLIAM (_son of David Buchanan of Montrose, printer and publisher 1745–1822_). _b._ Montrose 1781; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; called to Scottish bar 1806; an elder of the Glasite church 1823 to death; Queen’s advocate and solicitor of teinds or tithes 1856; author of _Reports of certain remarkable cases in the court of session and trials in the high court of justiciary_ 1813; _Treatise on the law of Scotland on the subject of teinds_ 1862. _d._ Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1863. BUCHANAN, WILLIAM. _b._ Glasgow 1777; picture dealer in London; author of _Memoirs of painting with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French revolution 2 vols._ 1824. _d._ Glasgow 19 Jany. 1864 aged 86. BUCHANAN, REV. WILLIAM. Licentiate of Church of Scotland; editor of _Ayr Observer_ and subsequently of _Edinburgh Courant_ and _Glasgow Courier_; author of _Verses serious, humorous and satirical_ 1866. _d._ Ayr July 1866. BUCK, HENRY. _b._ Yorkshire; wrote on racing in the _Sportsman_ in London and on billiards under pseud. of “Spot Stroke”; wrote on racing in _Daily Telegraph_ under pseud. of “Hotspur”; a large betting commission agent. _d._ 25 Jany. 1884. BUCK, LEWIS WILLIAM (_2 son of George Stucley Buck of Moreton, Devonshire_). _b._ 1784; M.P. for Exeter 1826 to 1832, and for North Devon 1839 to 1857; sheriff of Devon 1826. _d._ 12 Norfolk st. Park lane, London 25 April 1858. BUCK, ZACHARIAH. _b._ Norwich 10 Sep. 1798; teacher of the pianoforte; assistant organist of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich 1818–21; organist of Norwich cathedral and master of the choristers 1819–77; Mus. Doc. by Abp. of Canterbury 1853; composed many services, anthems and chants. _d._ Newport, Essex 5 Aug. 1879. BUCKINGHAM, RICHARD PLANTAGENET TEMPLE NUGENT BRYDGES-CHANDOS-GRENVILLE, 2 Duke of (_only child of 1 Duke of Buckingham 1776–1839_). _b._ Pall Mall, London 11 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Bucks. 22 June 1818 to 17 Jany. 1839 when he succeeded; introduced into reform act 1832 the tenant at will clause; G.C.H. 1835; lord privy seal 3 Sep. 1841 to 2 Feb. 1842; P.C. 3 Sep. 1841; K.G. 1842; D.C.L. Cam. 1842; received Queen Victoria at Stowe 15 Jany. 1845; Stowe was taken possession of by bailiffs 31 Aug. 1847; sold part of his estates 10 May 1848 for £263,000; author of _Memoirs of the court and cabinets of George iii 3 vols._ 1853–5; _Memoirs of the court of England during the Regency 1811–20 2 vols._ 1856; _Memoirs of the court of George iv 2 vols._ 1859; _Memoirs of the courts and cabinets of William iv and Victoria 2 vols._ 1861. _d._ Great Western railway hotel, Paddington 29 July 1861. _G. Lipscomb’s History of Bucks, iii_, 87–108 (1847); _G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age_ (1847) 217–23; _I.L.N. i_, 496 (1842), _portrait_. BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (_youngest child of Christopher Buckingham of Barnstaple who d. 1794_). _b._ Flushing near Falmouth 25 Aug. 1786; commander of merchant ships 1807–13; established _Calcutta Journal_ at Calcutta which appeared 2 Oct. 1818 to 26 April 1823 when it was suppressed and he was expelled from India; started Jany. 1824 _Oriental herald and colonial review_ which ceased Dec. 1829; edited _The Sphynx_ a weekly journal 1827–9; started _The Athenæum_ 2 Jany. 1828; M.P. for Sheffield 15 Dec. 1832 to 17 July 1837; travelled in America 1837–41; resident director of British and foreign institute Hanover sq. London 1843–6; pres. of London temperance league 1851; granted civil list pension of £200 per annum 1 Sep. 1851; travelled through the country delivering lectures many years; author of _Travels in Palestine_ 1822; _America historical descriptive and statistic 3 vols._ 1841; _The eastern and western states of America 3 vols._ 1842 and 16 other books, also about 40 pamphlets on social and political subjects. _d._ Stanhope lodge, Upper Avenue road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 June 1855. _Autobiography of J. S. Buckingham 2 vols._ 1855, _portrait_; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 44–8 (1874), _iii_, 1098–9 (1882). BUCKINGHAM, LEICESTER SILK (_youngest son of the preceding_). _b._ 11 Cornwall terrace, Regent’s park, London 29 June 1825; wrote and delivered explanatory description of views of various countries at the Panopticon Leicester sq. 1854; manager of Strand theatre short time; dramatic and musical critic of the _Morning Star_ 1857–67; author of Memoir of _Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland_ 1844 and other books and of about 35 burlesques, comedies and farces. _d._ Margate 15 July 1867. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 48–9 _iii_, 1099. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, REV. AUGUSTUS EDWARD HOBART-HAMPDEN, 6 Earl of. _b._ Ripon 1 Nov. 1793; ed. at Westminster and Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; R. of Bennington, co. Lincoln 14 Dec. 1817; R. of Walton-on-the-Wolds Leics. 5 July 1820 to 1847; preb. of Wolverhampton 1844 to death; succeeded 1 Feb. 1849; assumed additional name of Hampden by r.l. 5 Aug. 1878. _d._ Hampden house, Great Missenden, Bucks. 13 Oct. 1885. BUCKLAND, FRANCIS TREVELYAN (_eld. son of Very Rev. Wm. Buckland 1784–1856_). _b._ Christ Church, Oxford 17 Dec. 1826; ed. at Winchester 1839–44 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1848; studied at St. George’s hospital London 1848–51, house surgeon May 1852 to June 1853; assistant surgeon 2 life guards 14 Aug. 1854 to 1863; discovered coffin of John Hunter in vaults of St. Martin’s church, Charing Cross 22 Feb. 1859, the remains were buried in Westminster Abbey 28 March 1859; wrote largely in the _Field_ newspaper 1856–65; started _Land and Water_ 27 Jany. 1866; inspector of salmon fisheries for England and Wales 6 Feb. 1867 to death; the highest authority on subject of pisciculture; scientific referee to South Kensington Museum May 1865, where he established a large collection of fish-hatching apparatus and the like which expanded into International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883; author of _Curiosities of natural history_, _4 vols._ 1857–72; _Logbook of a fisherman and zoologist_ 1875; _Natural history of British fishes_ 1881; _edited White’s Natural history of Selbourne with original notes_ 1875. _d._ 37 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 19 Dec.