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

monthly mag. xlix_, 76–7 (1837), _portrait_. BURY, EDWARD. _b._ Salford near Manchester 22 Oct. 1794; manufacturer of machinery at Liverpool; introduced a series of improved engines for steamboats employed on river Rhone; managed locomotive department of London and Birmingham railway for some years after opening Sep. 1838; managed locomotive department of Great Northern railway; F.R.S. 1 Feb. 1844 for great improvements which he had introduced in adjusting dimensions of cylinder and driving wheels of steam engines. _d._ Scarborough 25 Nov. 1858. _Proc. of Royal Soc. x_, 12 (1860). BURY, GEORGE BUTT. Second lieut. RM. 10 Nov. 1804, colonel 10 Jany. 1852, col. commandant 21 June 1854 to 1 Aug. 1854 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 20 June 1855. _d._ 25 Athenæum st. Plymouth 4 Jany. 1873 aged 87. BURY, THOMAS TALBOT. _b._ 26 Sep. 1811; articled to Augustus Pugin, architect 1824; architect in Gerrard st. Soho, London 1830; very skilful in colouring architectural studies; designed with A. Pugin details of Houses of parliament; exhibited 18 drawings at the R.A. 1838–72; designed 35 churches and about 50 other large buildings; F.R.I.B.A. 1843, vice pres. 1876; F.S.A. 1863; author of _Remains of ecclesiastical woodwork_ 1847; _History and description of the styles of architecture of various countries_ 1849. _d._ 50 Welbeck st. London 23 Feb. 1877. _Sessional papers read at Royal Instit. of British Architects_ (1877) 152–4. BUSFEILD, WILLIAM. _b._ 12 Feb. 1773; M.P. for Bradford 25 July 1837 to 23 June 1841 and 16 Sep. 1841 to death. _d._ 15 Bury st. St. James’s London 11 Sep. 1851. BUSH, WILLIAM. Cornet 2 Dragoon guards 7 Jany. 1808; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 4 Sep. 1835 to 1 Jany. 1847; inspecting field officer of Leeds recruiting district 1 Jany. 1847, of London district 17 April 1852 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854; K.H. 1835. _d._ 66 Cadogan place, London 27 Aug. 1854. _H. S. Smith’s Military obituary for_ 1854, 10–12. BUSHNAN, JOHN STEVENSON (_son of Joseph Bushnan who d. 21 Feb. 1831, controller of the Chamber, City of London 1803–31_). _b._ The Guildhall, London 1810; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1839; M.R.C.P. Edin. 1830, M.D. Heidelberg 1836; practised at Castle Cary, Somerset 1837–41; travelled abroad 1841–8; practised in London 1848; edited _Medical times and gazette_ 1849–52; author of _Philosophy of instinct and reason_ 1847; _Miss Martineau and her master_ 1851; _Homœopathy and the homœopaths_ 1852 and other books. _d._ The Charterhouse, City of London 17 Feb. 1884. _Medical Circular ii_, 149–50 (1853). BUSK, HANS (_youngest son of Sir Wadsworth Busk 1730–1811, attorney general of Isle of Man_). _b._ 28 May 1772; lived in Russia some years where he was a member of Empress Catherine’s celebrated Chevalier Guard; sheriff of Radnorshire 1837–8; author of _Fugitive pieces in verse_ 1814; _The Vestriad or the Opera, a mock epic poem_ 1819; _The dessert, a poem to which is added The tea_ 1820; _The lay of life, a poem_ 1834. _d._ 22 Great Cumberland place, Hyde park, London 8 Feb. 1862. BUSK, HANS (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 11 May 1815; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; formed a model rifle club at Cam. 1837; barrister M.T. 7 May 1841; sheriff of Radnorshire 1847; joined Royal Victoria rifle club London 1858 only volunteer corps then existing, captain 1860; delivered lectures instrumental in extending volunteer movement over whole kingdom; devised a steam life boat service 1869, the Petronelle first of the class was launched 1873; founded _New Quarterly review_ 1874; author of _The rifleman’s manual_ 1858, _7 ed._ 1860; _Rifle volunteers how to organize and drill them_ 1859, _7 ed._ 1860; _The navies of the world their present state and future capabilities_ 1859; _Handbook for Hythe_ 1860; _Maiden-hours and maiden-wiles designed by Beaujolais_ 1869. _d._ 21 Ashley place, Victoria st. Westminster 11 March 1882. _I.L.N. lxxx_, 284 (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic xxv_, 313 (1882), _portrait_. BUSS, ROBERT WILLIAM (_son of Wm. C. Buss of 60 Jewin st. Cripplegate, London, engraver who d. 1832_). _b._ London 4 Aug. 1804; apprenticed to his father; painted 15 theatrical portraits for _Cumberland’s British Drama_ which were exhibited at Colosseum; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A., 20 at B.I. and 45 at Suffolk st. gallery 1826–59; contributed to Westminster competition a cartoon of Prince Henry and Judge Gascoigne; illustrated Charles Knight’s _London_, _Chaucer_, _Shakespeare_ and _Old England_; painted 71 pictures, 25 of which were engraved; painted large frescoes representing Origin and triumph of music for Earl of Hardwicke at Wimpole hall; privately printed _English graphic satire_ 1874; edited _The fine art almanac, or artist’s remembrancer_ 1850–2. _d._ 14 Camden st. Camden Town, London 26 Feb. 1875. _G. Everitt’s English Caricaturists_ (1886) 363–6; _People’s Journal vi_, 3 (1848); _Notes and Queries 5 S. iii_, 228, 257, 330, 419, 455, 473 (1875), _iv_, 15 (1875), _vii_, 138 (1877), 6 _S. vi_, 488 (1882), _vii_, 216 (1883). BUTCHER, MOST REV. SAMUEL (_eld. son of Samuel Butcher 1770–1849, vice admiral R.N._) _b._ Danesfort near Killarney 9 Oct. 1811; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1832, B.A. 1834, fellow 1837–52, tutor and lecturer, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1848, D.D. 1849; professor of ecclesiastical history in Univ. of Dublin April 1850, Regius professor of divinity Nov. 1852 to Aug. 1866; R. of Ballymoney, Cork 1854–66; bishop of Meath Aug. 1866 to death; P.C. Ireland 1866; author of _The ecclesiastical calendar its theory and construction_ 1877; cut his throat at Ardbraccan house, Navan near Dublin 29 July 1876. BUTE, SOPHIA FREDERICA CHRISTINA CRICHTON-STUART, Marchioness of (_2 dau. of 1 Marquis of Hastings 1754–1826_). _b._ 1 Feb. 1809; gave the Sophia gardens to town of Cardiff; edited _Poems of lady Flora Hastings_ 1841; _Private journals of 1 Marquis of Hastings 2 vols._ 1858. (_m._ 10 April 1845, John Crichton-Stuart, 2 Marquis of Bute 1793–1848). _d._ 120 George st. Edinburgh 28 Dec. 1859. BUTLER, CHARLES SALISBURY (_eld. son of John Butler of Hackney, London_). _b._ 1812; commissioner of taxes; M.P. for Tower Hamlets 8 July 1852 to 11 Nov. 1868; chairman of Quarter sessions of Tower Hamlets liberties to death. _d._ 48 Prince’s gate, Hyde park, London 11 Nov. 1870. BUTLER, SIR EDWARD (_5 son of 13 Baron Dunboyne 1780–1850_). _b._ 29 Oct. 1811; lieut. of corps of gentlemen at arms 1839 to May 1845; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Feb. 1840; contested Southampton, contest was protracted from Nov. 1856 to 11 Feb. 1857 when he was defeated by 32 votes; sheriff of Hants 1855. _d._ Marseilles 20 Oct. 1858. BUTLER, EDWARD. _b._ Kilkenny 1824; re-established _The Nation_ with C. G. Duffy 1849; went to New South Wales 1853; called to bar at Sydney 16 Oct. 1855, Q.C.; member of legislative assembly for Argyle 1869; attorney general 1872 to Nov. 1873; member of legislative council Oct. 1877 to death. _d._ Supreme court, Sydney 9 June 1879. _Times 18 July 1879 p. 5, col. 6_, _11 Aug. p. 11, col. 2_. BUTLER, FRANCIS (_son of Mr. Butler, trainer of horses to Duke of York who d. 1827_). _b._ Sep. 1817; professional jockey 1839–53; won the Oaks on Poison 1843 at odds of 40 to 1, on Princess 1844, on Lady Evelyn 1849, on Rhedycina 1850, on Iris 1851 and on Songstress 1852; won St. Leger on The Baron 1845; won Derby on Daniel O’Rourke 1852 and Two thousand guineas, Derby and St. Leger on West Australian 1853. _d._ Newmarket 1 Feb. 1856. _Sporting Review xxxi_, 143–8 (1854), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxii_, 416 (1853), _portrait_. BUTLER, FRANCIS. _b._ England 1810; professor of languages at several educational institutions in New York; a dog-trainer and fancier; author of _Breeding, training, management and diseases of dogs_ 1857; _The Spanish teacher and colloquial phrase book_, _8 ed._ 1857. _d._ from hydrophobia at Brooklyn, New York 17 June 1874. BUTLER, VERY REV. GEORGE (_2 son of Rev. Weeden Butler 1742–1823, Morning preacher at Charlotte st. Chapel Pimlico, London_). _b._ Pimlico 5 July 1774; foundation scholar of Sid. Sus. coll. Cam.; Senior Wr. and first Smith’s prizeman Jany. 1794; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797, B.D. 1804, D.D. 1805; Fellow of his college 1794, mathematical lecturer and classical tutor; kept his terms at Lincolns Inn; one of the 8 select preachers before Univ. of Cam. 1805; Head master of Harrow school April 1805 to Easter 1829; R. of Gayton, Northampton 1814 to death; chancellor of Peterborough 1836–42; dean of Peterborough 3 Nov. 1842 to death, admitted Dean 25 Nov. 1842; author of _Extracts from the communion service of the Church_ 1839, _2 ed._ 1842; _Statutes of Peterborough cathedral translated_ 1853; _Harrow, a selection of the lists of the School_ 1849. _d._ the deanery Peterborough 30 April 1853. Monument erected in Harrow church July 1854. _P. M. Thornton’s Harrow school_ (1885) 215–64. BUTLER, GEORGE SLADE (_son of Richard Butler of Rye, Sussex, surgeon_). _b._ Rye 4 March 1821; solicitor at Rye 1843 to death; town clerk 1875–81; registrar of county court; F.S.A. 6 March 1862; author of _Topographica Sussexiana_ 1866, originally printed in _Collections of Sussex Archæological Society_ to which he contributed many papers on antiquities of Rye. _d._ Rye 11 April 1882. BUTLER, HENRY EDWARD (_2 son of 2 Earl of Carrick 1746–1813_). _b._ 3 Dec. 1780; ensign 27 foot 15 Feb. 1800; major 2 garrison battalion 19 March 1812 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854; col. 94 foot 25 July 1854 and col. 55 foot 19 Jany. 1855 to death. _d._ Paris 7 Dec. 1856. BUTLER, JAMES ARMAR (_4 son of the preceding_). _b._ 1827; ensign 90 foot 13 Oct. 1843; captain Ceylon rifle regiment 6 May 1853 to May 1854 when placed on h.p.; conducted siege of Silistria, Turkey against the Russians May 1854 to death; gazetted brevet major 14 July 1854 and lieut. Coldstream guards 15 July 1854. _d._ Silistria of wounds received during the siege 22 June 1854 in 28 year. _E. H. Nolan’s War against Russia i_, 214–27 (1857); _G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea_ (1855) 141–3. BUTLER, JAMES ARTHUR. _b._ 1795; ensign 1 foot guards 23 June 1813, captain 18 April 1816 to 25 Dec. 1818, carried the colours at Waterloo; captain 80 foot 31 July 1823 to 19 Nov. 1825 when placed on h.p.; general 5 Dec. 1871. _d._ Holt lodge, Kintbury, Berkshire 26 Feb. 1881. BUTLER, REV. PIERCE (_brother of James Armar Butler 1827–54_). _b._ 27 Feb. 1826; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; explored peninsula of Sinai 1853–4; R. of Ulcombe, Kent 1861 to death; translated from the Danish _Öhlenschläger’s Axel and Valborg_, a tragedy in 5 acts 1874. _d._ Ulcombe rectory 8 Feb.