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

iv_, 140–42 (1869). BARNES, REV. RICHARD WILLIAM. _b._ Comercolly, Bengal; matric. from Edmund hall Ox. 27 June 1829, B.A. of Queen’s coll. 1834, M.A. 1841; R. of Dunchideock, Devon 1841–45; P.C. of East and West Looe, Cornwall 1845–49; V. of Probus, Cornwall 1849 to death; Preb. of Exeter Nov. 1853 to death; author of _Public opinion considered in letters between one of his friends and R. W. Barnes_ 1855; _Let well alone or removal of blemishes from church and state, by Alazon_ 1860 and many sermons. _d._ The Sanctuary, Probus 27 May 1885 aged 74. BARNES, ROBERT. _b._ Manchester 1800; cotton spinner there with his brother Thomas Barnes; mayor 1851; gave £10,000 to Royal infirmary Sep. 1869; founded Convalescent hospital at Cheadle at cost of £40,000, and a certified industrial school at Heaton Mersey at cost of £20,000. _d._ Oakley, Fallowfield Manchester 25 Dec. 1871. BARNES, SAMUEL C. _b._ Ireland; went to the United States 1830; principal of a school at Brooklyn 1830–67; originator and secretary of East Brooklyn savings bank. _d._ Brooklyn 18 Feb. 1873 aged 60. BARNES, THOMAS. _b._ Wigton, Cumberland 1793; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1817; M.R.C.S. 1815; physician at Carlisle 1817; leading phys. in north of England down to 1850; founded Cumberland infirmary and Carlisle fever hospital; F.R.S. Edin. 1830. _d._ Bunker’s hill near Carlisle 31 March 1872. BARNES, THOMAS WILSON. The best chess player in London for a short period; an original whist player; reduced his weight from 16 stone to 7 stone 8 lbs. in 10 months Aug. 1873 to June 1874 by banting. _d._ Cambridge st. Eccleston sq. London 20 Aug. 1874 aged 49. _Westminster Papers vii_, 99–100 (1874), _portrait_. BARNES, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. Pantomimist in London; made his first appearance in America at Philadelphia 4 Dec. 1846 as Grimaldi in pantomime of Magic Pills; played clown in pantomime of William the Conqueror at Olympic theatre London 26 Dec. 1848; pantaloon at Drury Lane theatre; photographer at 6 North st. Smith sq. Westminster; committed suicide at 6 North st. by taking cyanide of potassium 17 May 1868 in 59 year. BARNETT, CHARLES (_only son of major general Charles Barnett 1758–1804_). _b._ Stratton, Beds. 31 Oct. 1796; ed. at Putney and Em. coll. Cam., fellow commoner 1815; sheriff of Beds. 1821; master of Cambridgeshire hounds many years from 1829; a great short horn breeder. _d._ Stratton park, Beds. 20 June 1876. _Baily’s Mag. xi_, 55–58 (1866), _portrait_. BARNETT, CHARLES JAMES. M.P. for Maidstone 1832–1835. _d._ 12 Chichester terrace, Brighton 31 Dec. 1882 in 85 year. BARNETT, CHARLES JOHN. Captain 3 Foot Guards 26 Oct. 1820 to 26 Oct. 1826; consul at Warsaw 31 May 1833; consul general in Egypt May 1841 to 17 Aug. 1846. _d._ Round Oak, Englefield 4 Aug. 1856 aged 66. BARNETT, EDWARD. _b._ 1799; entered navy 3 Feb. 1811; captain 20 June 1846; admiral on h.p. 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ 14 Woburn square, London 7 Sep. 1879. BARNETT, HENRY N. Dramatist and critic; edited _Sunday Times_ 13 years; occupied at one time the pulpit in South place vacated by J. W. Fox, M.P. _d._ Hammersmith 6 Jany. 1872 aged 42. BARNETT, HUMPHREY. Acting manager at Lyceum theatre London 1862; acting manager for J. C. M. Bellew at St. George’s hall, Regent’s st. _d._ 24 Loudoun road, St. John’s Wood 30 April 1874. BARNETT, JOHN. Ensign 71 foot 25 Nov. 1813; lieut. 23 foot 1819–22; lieut. col. of 3 West York militia 28 Feb. 1846 to death. _d._ the Linen hall barracks Dublin 24 Feb. 1855. BARNETT, MORRIS. _b._ London 16 Aug. 1799; lived in Paris; acted at Brighton and Bath; made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane 1833 as Captain O’Cutter; wrote and performed title rôle in _Monsieur Jacques_, a musical piece which created a furore at St. James’s theatre 1837; played at Princess’s theatre; musical critic of _Morning Post_ and _The Era_ nearly 7 years; gave a series of farewell performances at Adelphi theatre 1854; wrote many dramas best known being _The Serious family_, _Lilian Gervais_ and _Married and unmarried_. _d._ Montreal, Canada 18 March 1856. _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) _p._ 137, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxv_, 305 (1854), _portrait_. BARNETT, ROBERT. _b._ Macclesfield 1818; an industrious arranger of instrumental music. _d._ Windsor Oct. 1875. BARNHAM, HILDEBRAND BARRY. Ensign 15 foot 19 Nov. 1807; captain 28 Dec. 1832 to 1839 when he retired. _d._ 13 Camberwell park, London 12 July 1885 in 95 year. BARNINGHAM, WILLIAM. _b._ Arkingarthdale near Richmond, Yorkshire 1826; a blacksmith; employed on Paris and Rouen railway 1843; began a foundry at Manchester with 3 of his brothers which failed; a manufacturer of railway switches and crossings at Middlesborough; founded ironworks at Pendleton and Albert hill, Darlington; the latter were transferred to a limited liability company 1873. _d._ Pendleton 3 Nov. 1881. _Journal of iron and steel institute, No._ 2, 1882 657–58. BARNSTON, JAMES. M.D. Edin.; professor of botany in McGill college Montreal. _d._ Montreal 28 May 1858 aged 28. BARON, JAMES. _b._ Blackburn 1817; ed. at Stonyhurst; held professorships at Prior Park Bath and the Luso-British college Lisbon; kept a school at Lytham in the Fylde, Lancashire for many years from 1849. _d._ St. Helens 23 Feb. 1883. BARON, JOHN. _b._ St. Andrews 26 May 1786; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin., M.D. Edin. July 1805; physician at Gloucester 1807–33; phys. of Gloucester infirmary 1809 to 21 Feb. 1833; lived at Cheltenham 1833 to death; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1823; author of _Enquiry illustrating the nature of tuberculated accretions of serous membranes_ 1819 and 2 other books on Tubercle _Life of Edward Jenner, M.D. 2 vols._ 1838. _d._ 1 St. Margaret’s terrace, Cheltenham 2 Oct. 1851. _Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery vol. 2_ (1840) _12 pages, portrait_; _Taylor’s National portrait gallery iii_, 43–44 (1847), _portrait_. BARON, JOHN. _b._ Blackpool 2 Sep. 1807; entered the Society of Jesus at Hodder 21 Sep. 1827, master of the school in London 1831–32 and 1833–35; ordained priest at Stonyhurst 19 Sep. 1841; vice rector of Mount St. Mary’s college 17 Oct. 1848 and rector 17 Oct. 1851–1854; missioner at Wakefield 1854–70. _d._ Holywell 11 July 1878. BARR, DAVID. Entered Bombay army 1803; col. 24 Bombay N.I. 4 July 1844 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Cheltenham 21 Nov. 1862 aged 78. BARR, HENRY JAMES. _b._ 8 April 1815; ensign 8 Bombay N.I. 22 May 1834; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 18 Feb. 1861 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Apsleytown, East Grinstead 17 May 1881. BARR, REV. HUGH. _b._ Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire 2 April 1825; an apprentice tailor; studied at Univ. of Glasgow; an agent of Glasgow city mission; minister of United Presbyterian church at Kingskettle 28 Sep. 1854 to death. _d._ Kingskettle 9 Nov. 1873. _Too late for martyrdom Memorials of the Rev. Hugh Barr by Rev. T. Dunlop_ 1875, _portrait_. BARR, JAMES. _b._ Kilbarchan near Paisley 1779; a friend of Robert Tannahill the poet who has immortalized him as “Blithe Jamie Barr”; harmonized a few airs as glees; well known at various glee clubs in Glasgow; went to America 1834; living at Govan near Glasgow 1859. BARR, ROBERT. _b._ 3 Sep. 1794; attorney at Leeds 1823; coroner of Leeds 1824; clerk to the Leeds borough magistrates 3 Dec. 1836 to death. _d._ Mount Pleasant, Leeds 18 Oct. 1871. BARR, SAMUEL. _b._ Glasgow 1807; a self taught musician of strong native genius; his song “Naebody kens ye” possesses much merit; author of _Art of singing at first sight simplified_ 1847. _d._ Glasgow 16 May 1866. BARRALLIER, FRANCIS LOUIS. Ensign in New South Wales corps (afterwards 102nd foot) 14 Aug. 1800; surveyed Bass’s Straits in the Lady Nelson schooner 1801–1803; attempted to cross the Blue Mountains 1802; captain 101 foot 6 July 1809 to 7 Jany. 1817 when placed on h.p.; made an elaborate survey of island of Barbadoes 1812–17; captain 73 foot 4 Oct. 1831 to 9 Aug. 1833 when placed on h.p.; brevet lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ 24 Bedford square, Commercial road, London 11 June 1853 aged 80. _New South Wales general orders 1791–1806_; _Sydney 1802–1806 the first book printed in Australia_; _United Service Mag._ 1853 _part_ 2, _p._ 632. BARRATT, ALFRED (_eld. son of James Barratt of Manchester, solicitor_). _b._ Heald Grove near Manchester 12 July 1844; ed. at Sandbach and Rugby where he gained 29 prizes; a commoner of Balliol college Ox. 1862; won the first Balliol scholarship 1862; gained unprecedented distinction of 5 first classes 2 classical, 2 mathematical and 1 law and modern history; fellow of Brasenose coll. 1867; Eldon law scholar 1870; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1872; sec. to the Oxford university commission 1880; author of _Physical Ethics or the science of action_ 1869. _d._ 18 May 1881. _Physical Metempiric by the late A. Barratt_ 1883, _portrait_. BARRAUD, HENRY. _b._ 1811; painted many portraits with horses and dogs, also subject pictures such as ‘The Pope blessing the animals’ 1842; exhibited at British Institution and Society of British Artists 1831–68 and at R.A. 1833–59; his pictures ‘We praise thee O God’; ‘The London Season’; ‘Lord’s cricket ground’; and ‘The lobby of the House of Commons’ have all been engraved or autotyped. _d._ London 17 June 1874. BARRELL, JUSTINIAN. Entered navy Aug. 1791; commander 21 March 1815; captain 19 March 1852; the last surviving officer of Lord Howe’s victory of 1 June 1794. _d._ Holloway 23 Nov. 1869 aged 87. _O’Byrne_ (1861) _p._ 52. BARRETT, APOLLON MARIE ROSE. _b._ South of France 1804; pupil of Vogt at Conservatoire, Paris 1823; solo oboe player at the Odéon, and at Opéra Comique 1827, and at Italian Opera in London 1829–74; professor of the oboe at R.A. of music; author of _A complete method for the Oboe_. _d._ Paris 8 March 1879. BARRETT, REV. BASIL RICHARD (_7 child of John Briant Barrett of Milton house near Abingdon_). _b._ Milton house 11 May 1781; sent to St. Omer’s college Aug. 1790; joined the refugees from Douay college at Crook hall, Durham June 1795; ordained priest about July 1806; lived at Froidemont in Belgium an establishment for the care of invalid priests; author of _Pretensions to a final analysis of the nature and origin of sublimity, style, beauty, genius and taste_ 1812; _The life of Cardinal Ximenes_ 1813 and of a work in manuscript entitled _A mathematical treatise showing how the circle can be squared_. _d._ Froidemont 3 May 1858. _Gillow’s English Catholics i_, 144 (1885). BARRETT, GEORGE. _b._ Exeter 9 June 1794; made his début on the stage at Park theatre New York as one of the children in Dunlap’s version of The Stranger 10 Dec. 1798; stage manager of Bowery theatre N.Y. 1828; acting manager of Broadway theatre N.Y. 1847; the best light comedian in America, known as “Gentleman George”; took farewell of the stage at Academy of Music N.Y. 20 Nov. 1855. _d._ New York 5 Sep. 1860. BARRETT, HENRY MICHAEL. Member of company of T.R. Liverpool; made his début in London at Drury Lane theatre as Falstaff in Henry the Fourth 31 Dec. 1850; played at Sadlers Wells, Drury Lane and Princess’s theatres; played Polonius in Hamlet at the Princess’s 15 June 1871. _d._ in a cab on his way home from the theatre 15 June 1871 aged 68. BARRETT, JAMES WILLIAM (_brother of Rev. Basil Richard Barrett_). The first Roman catholic admitted a solicitor after passing of the act by which Roman catholics were enabled to practise as solicitors in England; one if not the last of the survivors of the English college at Douay. _d._ Speen hill near Newbury, Berks. 20 Feb. 1864 in 88 year. BARRETT, REV. JOHN CASEBOW. Ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; P.C. of St. Mary’s district parish, Birmingham 1837 to death; author of _God’s claims upon youth’s obedience_ 1838; _Minister’s trials_ 1846; _Papal aggression_ 1850; _Psalms and hymns for the church service_ 1853. _d._ St. Mary’s vicarage, Birmingham 26 Feb. 1881 aged 70. BARRETT, LUCAS (_eld. son of George Barrett, of London, ironfounder_). _b._ London 14 Nov. 1837; ed. at Royston, Univ. college school, Ebersdorf in Germany and Trin. coll. Cam.; curator of Woodwardian museum Cam. 1855; delivered many lectures for Professor Sedgwick at Cam. 1856–58; director of geological survey of Jamaica March 1859 to death; comr. for Jamaica at International Exhibition 1862; F.G.S. 1855 when only 18; F.L.S. 5 April 1860; author of 11 papers on natural history and geology; drowned while diving at the Caps outside Port Royal harbour, Jamaica 19 Dec.