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

International Exhibition_ 1862; _N. and Q. 1 series vi_, 277, 396, 426 (1852), _vii_, 92, 218 (1853). ARCHER, GEORGINA (_sister of James Archer_). Went to Berlin 1859; Victoria Lyceum there was founded in 1867, mainly through her efforts. _d._ Montreux, Switzerland 22 Nov. 1882. ARCHER, HENRY. Invented and patented machine for perforating postage stamps 1848. _d._ Pau, France 2 April 1863. ARCHER, JOHN WYKEHAM. _b._ Newcastle 1808; apprenticed to John Scott of Coppice row, London, animal engraver; Engraver in London 1831 to death; Associate of New Society of Painters in Watercolours; author of _Vestiges of old London_ 1851; _Posthumous Poems_ 1873. _d._ Kentish town, London 25 May 1864. _Pinks’s Clerkenwell_ (1865) 639–41. ARCHER, THOMAS CROXEN. Clerk in Customs at Liverpool; collected, arranged and named the specimens of the imports into Liverpool for the Great Exhibition of 1851; a professor in the Liverpool institution; superintendent of Technological museum Edin. 26 June 1860, and director Jany. 1866 to death; joint executive comr. from Great Britain to American Centennial Exhibition 1876; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ London 19 Feb. 1885. _Athenæum 28 Feb. 1885_, _p._ 283. _Graphic xiii_, 542, 552 (1876), _portrait_. ARCHIBALD, CHARLES DICKSON (_eld. son of Samuel George Wm. Archibald, Speaker of Assembly, Nova Scotia_). _b._ Truro, Nova Scotia 31 Oct. 1802; author of _A look towards the future of the British colonies_ 1854; F.R.S. 26 Nov. 1840. (_m._ 16 Sep. 1832 Bridget only child of Myles Walker of Rusland hall, Lancashire). _d._ 1868. ARCHIBALD, SIR EDWARD MORTIMER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 10 May 1810; chief clerk and registrar of supreme court of Newfoundland 8 Nov. 1832; attorney general 5 Nov. 1846; advocate general 15 April 1847 to May 1855; consul in state of New York 1 Oct. 1857; judge in mixed court New York for suppression of African slave trade 14 Oct. 1862 to 1 Oct. 1870; consul general for states of New York, &c. 9 Feb. 1871 to 1 Jany. 1883; C.B. 17 March 1865; K.C.M.G. 12 Aug. 1882. (_m._ 1834 Katherine dau. of A. Richardson of Halifax, Nova Scotia). _d._ 11 St. John’s terrace, Brighton 8 Feb. 1884. ARCHIBALD, SIR THOMAS DICKSON (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Truro, Nova Scotia 1817; attorney and barrister province of Nova Scotia 1837; a special pleader in London 1844–52; student of M.T. 11 Nov. 1840, barrister 30 Nov. 1852; drew Petition of Right act usually called Bovill’s act 1860; junior counsel to Treasury otherwise called Attorney general’s Devil Feb. 1868 to Nov. 1872; serjeant at law 20 Nov. 1872; judge of Court of Queen’s Bench 22 Nov. 1872 to Feb. 1875; knighted by the Queen at Osborne 5 Feb. 1873; judge of Court of Common Pleas Feb. 1875 to death. (_m._ 1841 Sarah only dau. of Richard Smith of The Priory Dudley). _d._ 7 Porchester gate, Hyde Park 18 Oct. 1876 in 60 year. _Law magazine and law review ii_, 177–88 (1877); _I.L.N. lxii_, 11, 13 (1873), _portrait_. ARDEN, HENRY THOMAS, the assumed name of Henry Thomas Arnold; author of _Princess Charming_, _The belle of the Barley-mow_, _The armourer’s daughter_, _The right-fall heir_ and many other burlesques and extravaganzas. _d._ 25 Nov. 1876 aged 36. ARDEN, JOSEPH (_eld. son of Joseph Arden of Islington_). _b._ 10 May 1799; ed. at Merchant Taylors; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840, bencher 1 March 1875; principal of Cliffords Inn 5 Feb. 1855 to death; F.S.A. 10 June 1847; author of _The orations of Hyperides for Lycophron and Euxenippus now first printed in facsimile with a short account of the discovery of the original manuscript at Western Thebes in Upper Egypt in 1847_. _Cambridge_ 1853. _d._ 1 Cliffords Inn 30 Jany. 1879. ARGUIMBAU, LAWRENCE. Captain 1 foot 1809–16 when placed on h.p.; Col. 80 foot 30 April 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ Mahon, Minorca 18 Aug. 1854. ARKWRIGHT, GEORGE. _b._ 20 Aug. 1807; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1833; M.P. for Leominster 1842 to death. _d._ 2D The Albany Piccadilly, London 5 Feb. 1856. ARKWRIGHT, HENRY. _b._ 16 Dec. 1837; captain 84 foot 18 April 1865 to death; killed by fall of an avalanche when ascending Mont Blanc 13 Oct. 1866. ARKWRIGHT, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ 9 Aug. 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1812; master of Essex foxhounds 1861 to death; built new kennels at Harlow; a celebrated horseman; one of largest farmers in Essex. _d._ 29 Feb. 1864. Personalty sworn under £400,000 April 1864. ARKWRIGHT, PETER. _b._ 17 April 1784; sheriff of Derbyshire 1855. _d._ Willersley, Derbyshire 19 Sep. 1866. Personalty sworn under £800,000 Nov. 1866. ARMENI, SIR PETER BRAILA. Greek envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. in London 24 April 1882 to death; G.C.M.G. 1882. _d._ 18 Queen’s gate terrace, South Kensington 15 Sep. 1884. ARMISTEAD, WILSON. Author of _A tribute for the Negro_ 1848; _Select Miscellanies_, _2 vols._ 1851; _The Anti-slavery pilot_, 22 _numbers_ 1855; _Tales and legends of the English lakes and mountains, by Lorenzo Tuvar_ 1855. _d._ Virginia house, Leeds 18 Feb. 1868 aged 49. _Joseph Smith’s Friends books i_, 124–31 (1867); _Annual Monitor for 1869 pp._ 2–8. ARMITAGE, SIR ELKANAH (_3 son of Elkanah Armitage of Newton, Lancs._) _b._ Failsworth Sep. 1794; a handloom weaver; founded firm of Armitage and Co. of London and Manchester, cotton spinners 1827, retired 1873; member of the first town council Manchester 1838; alderman 1841–65; mayor 1846–48; knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace 31 Jany. 1849 for his services during Chartist riots 1848; contested Salford March 1857; sheriff of county palatine of Lancaster 1866. _d._ Hope hall, Pendleton near Manchester 26 Nov. 1876. _Graphic xiv_, 592, 595 (1876), _portrait_. ARMITAGE, GEORGE. Took a point net machine to Antwerp 1801, introducing manufacture of point net lace into Belgium; went to Paris where he effected many alterations in the stocking frame; invented the circular hose frame; went to Prussia then to Cambray; sent or took lace machines to Moscow; went to Australia about