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

BADHAM, REV. CHARLES DAVID (_brother of preceding_). _b._ London 1806; ed. at Eton and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; incorporated B.A. at Ox. as mem. of Pemb. coll. 1829, M.A. 1829, M.B. 1830, M.D. 1833; travelling fellow of Univ. of Ox. 1829; M.R.C.P., F.R.C.P.; practised at Rome and Paris long time; returned to England 1845; ordained deacon at Norwich by Bishop Stanley; C. of East Bergholt, Suffolk 1849–55; author of _Insect life_ 1845; _The esculent funguses of England_ 1847; _Prose Halieutics or ancient and modern fish tattle_ 1854; contributed much to _Blackwood_ and _Fraser_. _d._ East Bergholt 14 July 1857 in 52 year. _Fraser’s Mag. lvi_, 162–63 (1857). BAGEHOT, WALTER (_only son of Thomas Watson Bagehot of Herds Bill Langport, Somerset 1796–1881_). _b._ Langport 3 Feb. 1826; ed. at Bristol and Univ. coll. London, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1848, mathematical scholar 1846, gold medallist 1848; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1852; edited the _National Review_ with R. H. Hutton July 1855 to Nov. 1864; edited the _Economist_ 1860 to death; examiner in political economy in Univ. of London; author of _Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen_ 1858; _The English constitution_ 1867; _Physics and Politics_ 1872. (_m._ 21 April 1858 Eliza eld. dau. of James Wilson, M.P.) _d._ Herds Hill 24 March 1877. _Literary studies by the late W. Bagehot, edited by R. H. Hutton, 3 ed. i, ix-lxvii_ (1884), _portrait_; _Dictionary of Nat. Biog. ii_, 393–96 (1885). BAGG, WILLIAM. Surgical artist; illustrated many medical books. _d._ 20 Dec. 1869 in his 66 year. BAGGE, REV. HENRY THEODORE JAMES (_only son of the succeeding_). _b._ 28 Feb. 1824; ed. at Rugby and Downing coll. Cam., B.A. 1851; C. of Weyhill, Hants 1851–54; author of _Toleratio intolerabilis or the free development of the Romish system_ 1851; _St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians, the text revised and illustrated_ 1856. _d._ Munich 19 Nov. 1861. BAGGE, REV. JAMES. ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; R. of Crux-Easton near Newbury 1843 to death; author of _Twelve sermons_ 1835; _The Gawthorne correspondence and the Rev. W. B. Barter_ 1852, and other Sermons and Pamphlets. _d._ 1877. BAGGE, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Thomas Philip Bagge of Stradsett hall, Norfolk 1771–1827_). _b._ Stradsett hall 17 June 1810; ed. at the Charterhouse and Ball. coll. Ox.; M.P. for West Norfolk 1837–57 and 1865 to death; created baronet 13 April 1867. _d._ Stradsett hall 12 Feb. 1880. BAGGE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY ERNEST, 2 Baronet. _b._ Stradsett hall 9 Aug. 1840. _d._ Heatherside, Woking 23 Oct. 1881. BAGLEY, JAMES. _b._ Ireland 1822; went to the U.S.; commanded 69th Regiment 1862–66; alderman of New York; Sachem of the Tammany society to death. _d._ New York 21 Dec. 1876. BAGLEY, JOHN WOODHOUSE. Made many important improvements in the bobbin net machine for which he took out patents 1844, 1850 and 1851; his productions were shewn in the London exhibition of 1851 and the Paris exhibition of 1855. _d._ 1859 aged about 50. _W. Felkin’s History of hosiery_ (1867) 371–75. BAGNALL, CHARLES. _b._ West Bromwich, Staffs. 1827; an ironmaster; M.P. for Whitby 1865–68. _d._ Brighton 25 Feb. 1884. BAGNALL, JOHN NOCK. _b._ Hateley Heath, West Bromwich 30 May 1826; member of firm of John Bagnall and Sons of the Gold’s Hill Iron works (where most of the rails used on foreign lines were made) 1844–61; captain of Bilston rifle corps which he raised 26 Jany. 1860, commanded Wolverhampton battalion 9 Nov. 1868 to March 1884; pres. of South Staffordshire branch of the English Church Union; licensed by Bishop Selwyn as a lay deacon in diocese of Lichfield 1872, took charge of St. Mary’s, Hateley Heath; sheriff of Staffs. 1875–76; author of _A history of Wednesbury in the county of Stafford [anon.]_ 1854. _d._ The Moss Shenstone, Staffs. 18 Oct.