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

BUCKLEY, JOSEPH (_son of George Buckley of Maer, Staffs._) _b._ Maer 13 May 1804; joined Society of Friends 26 June 1829; a minister 9 Feb. 1843; a cotton spinner at Preston 1834, removed to Manchester 1837; went on a mission to Norway 1856 and 1866; travelled in Germany 1863. _d._ Sale near Manchester 27 Sep. 1868. _Memoirs of Joseph Buckley edited by his daughter_ 1874, _portrait_. BUCKLEY, R. BISHOP. _b._ England; entered the minstrel profession in Boston, U.S. 1843 in a band organised by his father under title of Buckley’s Minstrels; the chief performer in the band 1843 to death. _d._ of paralysis at Quincy, Massachusetts 6 June 1867. BUCKLEY, REV. THEODORE ALOIS WILLIAM. _b._ 27 July 1825; servitor at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1849; chaplain of his college; translated classics for H. G. Bohn; edited and wrote numerous works for Routledge; author of _The great cities of the ancient world_ 1852; _A history of the council of Trent_ 1852; _The great cities of the middle ages_ 1853; edited _L. Apuleii de Deo Socratis, liber singularis_ 1844. _d._ London 30 Jany. 1856. _G.M. xlv_, 314–6 (1856). BUCKLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ Moreton near Macclesfield, Cheshire 1780; brought up a bricklayer; served in the 4th Regt. the King’s Own 1799; sentenced to transportation for life for mutiny, he with 6 others having turned out to shoot the Duke of Kent at Gibraltar 24 Dec. 1802; escaped from Port Phillip, Victoria 27 Dec. 1803; resided among the natives of Port Phillip without ever seeing a white man for 32 years; received a pardon from Governor Arthur 28 Aug. 1835; resided in Tasmania 1837 to death; died from being thrown out of a cart at Hobart Town 2 Feb. 1856. _Morgan’s Life and adventures of Buckley, Hobart Town_ 1852, _portrait_; _Labilliere’s Early history of Victoria ii_, 64–87 (1878); _Progress iii_, 166, 238, 311, 273 (1884). BUCKLEY-MATHEW, SIR GEORGE BENVENUTO (_eld. son of George Mathew of Fabians, Essex 1760–1846_). _b._ 1807; ensign 52 foot 7 July 1825; lieut. Coldstream guards 26 July 1833; captain 85 foot 17 June 1836 to 23 Sep. 1836 when placed on h.p.; retired from army 9 April 1841; M.P. for Athlone 1835–7, for Shaftesbury 1837–41; governor of Bahama islands 1844–50; minister plenipotentiary to the republics in Central America 21 Aug. 1861, to Argentine republic 13 April 1866, to republic of Paraguay 6 Dec. 1866, to Brazil 19 Sep. 1867 to 1 April 1879 when he retired on pension; changed his Christian name from Byam to Benvenuto 1836; assumed additional surname of Buckley by r.l. 9 May 1865; C.B. 7 Aug. 1863; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879. _d._ Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 22 Oct. 1879 in 73 year. BUCKMAN, JAMES (_son of John Buckman_). _b._ Cheltenham 1814; curator and resident professor at Birmingham Philosophical Instit. 1842–8; professor of geology and botany at Royal Agricultural college Cirencester 1848–63; conducted a farm on scientific principles at Bradford Abbas near Sherborne 1863 to death; a recognised authority on all agricultural matters; presented collections of Roman antiquities and fossils to Cirencester; F.L.S.; F.G.S.; F.S.A.; author of _Remains of Roman art at Cirencester_ 1851; _Science and practice in farm cultivation_ 1865; edited _The practical farmer’s chronicle_ 1861; author of many papers on archæology, botany and geology. _d._ Bradford Abbas 23 Nov. 1884. BUCKSTONE, JOHN BALDWIN. _b._ Hoxton, London 14 Sep. 1802; made his début in London at Surrey theatre as Ramsay in _The fortunes of Nigel_ 30 Jany. 1823; acted at Coburg theatre 1824–7, at Adelphi theatre winter seasons of 1827–39 and at Haymarket theatre summer seasons of 1833–9; played in United States 1840–2; lessee and manager of Haymarket theatre 28 March 1853 to 1877; author of 150 comedies, dramas and farces best known being _The wreck ashore_, produced at Adelphi theatre 21 Oct. 1830, _The green bushes_, produced there 27 Jany. 1845 and _The flowers of the forest_, produced there 11 March 1847; one of the best low comedians of his time, his best parts were Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Bob Acres and Tony Lumpkin; cleared £20,000 by _Our American cousin_ 1861–2; adjudicated bankrupt 27 March 1878. _d._ Bell green lodge, Lower Sydenham 31 Oct. 1879. _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 411–6, _portrait_; _The Theatre iii_, 261–7 (1879); _Illust. Review n.s. i_, 161–3; _J. E. Mayall’s Celebrities of the London stage; Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 116–7, _portrait_; _Pascoe’s Dramatic list_, _2 ed._ (1880) 66–72; _I.L.N. i_, 384 (1842), _portrait_, _lxxv_, 457 (1879), _portrait_. BUDD, CORDELIA GEORGIANA (_youngest dau. of Wm. James Turquand of Bengal civil service_). Composed many musical pieces under nom de plume of “Dewdrop” and afterwards under initials C.B. (_m._ 4 May 1844 Samuel Budd of Exeter, physician who _d._ 21 May 1885 in 79 year). _d._ 1 Charleville road, West Kensington, London 3 May 1886 aged 61. BUDD, EDWARD HAYWARD. _b._ Great Missenden, Bucks. 23 Feb. 1785; a clerk in War Office 1801 to Dec. 1817 when he retired on pension of £180 a year; played his first cricket match at Lord’s 13 Sep. 1802; played in all the great matches of Marylebone cricket Club 1805–25; played his last cricket match 16 June 1852; one of the best batsmen, bowlers and amateur boxers of his time; lived at Wroughton, Wilts. 1825 to death. _d._ Rose cottage Wroughton 29 March 1875. _C. A. Wheeler’s Sportascrapiana_, _2 ed._ 1868, _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. xxvii_, 9–16 (1875). BUDD, GEORGE (_3 son of Samuel Budd of North Tawton, Devon, surgeon_). _b._ North Tawton Feb. 1808; ed. at St. John’s and Caius colleges Cam., 3 wrangler 1831, B.A. 1831, M.B. 1835, M.D. 1840; fellow of Caius coll. 1831–54, hon. fellow 1880; studied at Middlesex hospital London; practised in London 1840–67; F.R.S. 21 Jany. 1836; F.R.C.P. 1841, Gulstonian lecturer 1843, Croonian lecturer 1847, censor 1845–7; physician to Dreadnought hospital ship 1837–40; professor of medicine in King’s college London 1840–63; phys. to King’s college hospital 1840–63; author of _On diseases of the liver_ 1845, _3 ed._ 1857; _On the organic diseases and functional disorders of the stomach_ 1855. _d._ Ashleigh, Barnstaple 14 March 1882. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv_, 1–3 (1883); _Medical Circular i_, 458–9 (1852); _Van Kaathoven’s Collection vol._ 2, _portrait_. BUDD, REV. HENRY (_son of Richard Budd of London, physician 1746–1821_). _b._ Newbury, Berkshire 25 Sep. 1774; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801; chaplain of Bridewell hospital 1801 to April 1831 when he resigned; R. of White Roothing, Essex 18 March 1808 to death; a founder of Prayer book and homily society 21 May 1812; author of _Infant baptism the means of national regeneration_ 1827, _3 ed._ 1841; _Helps for the young 2 vols._ 1832–9. _d._ White Roothing rectory 27 June 1853. _A memoir of Rev. Henry Budd_ 1855; _Christian Observer lvi_ 194–211 (1856). BUDD, RICHARD. _b._ 1795; ensign 16 Madras N.I. 11 June 1812; commandant of Southern division 10 May 1857 to 1862; colonel of 2 European regiment 27 Jany. 1858, of 32 Madras N.I. 1860 to 1869; general 8 July 1874. _d._ Belfont, The Park, Cheltenham 22 Jany. 1885. BUDD, WILLIAM (_brother of George Budd 1808–82_). _b._ North Tawton Sep. 1811; ed. in London, Edinburgh, and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1838; practised at Bristol 1842–73; physician to Bristol royal infirmary 1847–62; F.R.S. 8 June 1871; the greatest authority on zymotic diseases; author of _Scarlet fever and its prevention_ 1869, _4 ed._ 1870; _Typhoid fever its nature, mode of spreading and prevention_ 1873 and of many articles in medical papers. _d._ Clevedon, Somerset 9 Jany. 1880. _British Med. Jour._ (1880) _i_, 163–6. BUDGE, REV. EDWARD (_son of John Budge_). _b._ Devonshire 1800; ed. at Saffron Walden and Ch. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824; C. of Launcells, Cornwall 1834–9; V. of Manaccan, Cornwall 1839–46; R. of Bratton Clovelly, Devon 1846 to death; author of _The mirror of history_ 1851; translated the _Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the statues_ for Dr. Pusey’s Library of the Fathers; supplied many articles to Geol. Soc. and Royal Instit. of Cornwall. _d._ Bratton Clovelly 3 Aug. 1865. _Life prefixed to Rev. E. Budge’s Posthumous gleanings_ 1866. BUDGETT, SAMUEL. _b._ Wrington, Somerset 27 July 1794; provision dealer at Kingswood near Bristol 1816 to about 1838 and at Bristol about 1838 to death; founded greatest house in provision trade in West of England; gave £2,000 a year in charity for some time before his death. _d._ Kingswood 29 April 1851. _The Successful merchant by W. Arthur_ 1885. BUIST, GEORGE (_eld. son of Rev. John Buist, minister of Tannadice, Forfarshire who d. 8 Dec. 1845 in 92 year_). _b._ Tannadice 17 Nov. 1805; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ. 1817–24, and at Univ. of Edin.; edited _Dundee Courier_ 1834; established _Dundee Guardian_ 1834; edited _Perth Constitutional_ 1835, and _Fifeshire Journal_ 1837–9, and _Bombay Times_ at Bombay 1840–58; started _Bombay Standard_ 1858; F.R.S. 29 Jany. 1846; founded Bombay Reformatory School of Industry 1850; superintendent of government printing press Allahabad 1859 to death; author of _Index to books and papers on the physical geography antiquities and statistics of India_ 1852. _d._ Calcutta 1 Oct. 1860. _Memoir of G. Buist, Cupar_ 1846; _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 190–2. BULL, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of John Bull of Oxford, surgeon_). _b._ Oxford; ed. at Ruthin gr. sch. and Westminster; student at Ch. Ch. Ox. 1808, Rhetoric reader, censor, and librarian of his house; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1821, D.D. 1825; public examiner 1817–8, Proctor 1820; preb. of Fenton in York cathedral 1 June 1826 to death; V. of Staverton, Northamptonshire 1830 to death; canon of Exeter 26 March 1823 to death; archdeacon of Cornwall 6 Feb. 1826 to 6 May 1826, of Barnstaple 6 May 1826 to 10 March 1830; canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 15 March 1830 to death; endowed vicarage of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford with £2,000. _d._ at his lodgings in Ch. Ch. Oxford 21 Feb. 1858 aged 68. BULLAR, HENRY (_son of John Bullar, of Basset Wood near Southampton_). _b._ 25 Feb. 1815; a special pleader 1839–53; barrister L.I. 6 June 1853; recorder of Poole Oct. 1864 to death; a judge of Court of record of Poole Oct. 1864 to death; published with Joseph Bullar _A winter in the Azores 2 vols._ 1841; _Prætors or pleaders_. _d._ Basset Wood 5 Jany. 1870. BULLEN, SIR CHARLES (_son of John Bullen, surgeon general R.N._) _b._ Newcastle 10 Sep. 1769; entered navy 16 Feb. 1779; captain 29 April 1802; commodore on coast of Africa 12 Dec. 1823 to 1827; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard and captain of Royal Sovereign yacht 22 July 1830 to 10 Jany. 1837; admiral 30 July 1852; C.B. June 1815, K.C.B. 18 April 1839, G.C.B. 6 April 1852, K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 25 Feb. 1835; granted 12 July 1843 good service pension of £300. _d._ Shirley near Southampton 2 July 1853. Portrait of him in painted hall at Greenwich. BULLEN, EDWARD (_son of Robert Bullen of Taunton, solicitor_). _b._ Taunton 3 April 1813; ed. at Benedictine college, Douay; law student at Lincoln’s Inn; practised in London as a certificated special pleader 1836 to death; author of _A practical treatise on the law of distress for rent and of things damage feasant_ 1842; author with S. M. Leake of _Precedents of pleadings in common law_ 1860, _3 ed._ 1868. _d._ 82 Belsize park gardens, London 19 July 1868. BULLEN, JOSEPH (_2 son of Rev. John Bullen, R. of Kennet, Cambs._) _b._ 14 April 1761; midshipman on board “Pallas” 36 guns 1774; commanded Lynn Regis district of Sea Fencibles 26 Sep. 1804 to 1810 when corps was disbanded; admiral on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841. _d._ Bath 17 July 1857. BULLER, SIR ANTHONY (_youngest son of John Buller of Morval, Cornwall 1744–90_). _b._ Antony house, Torpoint 26 July 1780; ed. at Westminster; barrister L.I. 12 May 1803; M.P. for West Looe 1812–16 and 1831–32; appointed a puisne justice at Madras 6 Sep. 1815, but was transferred to Calcutta March 1816 and it is believed never took his seat on the Madras bench; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 23 April 1816. _d._ Marytavy rectory, Devon 27 June 1866. BULLER, SIR ARTHUR WILLIAM (_2 son of Charles Buller of Bengal civil service 1774–1848_). _b._ Calcutta 5 Sep. 1808; ed. at Edin. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; pupil of Thomas Carlyle; barrister L.I. 10 June 1834; Queen’s advocate in Ceylon 19 Oct. 1840 to July 1848; judge of supreme court at Calcutta July 1848 to 1858 when he retired; M.P. for Devonport 17 Aug. 1859 to June 1865, and for Liskeard 21 June 1865 to death. _d._ 6 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 30 April 1869. BULLER, FREDERICK WILLIAM. Ensign 37 foot 20 Jany. 1790; lieut. col. 88 foot 28 Aug. 1804 and 1 foot 27 Feb. 1806 to 1 Dec. 1808; captain Coldstream guards 1 Dec. 1808 to 1814; aide de camp to George iii, 25 July 1810 to 4 June 1813; L.G. 27 May 1825; retired