BIDDULPH, Sir Theophilus William, 7 Baronet. b. Nursling, Hants 18 Jany. 1830; succeeded 15 July 1854. d. Mentone 1 March 1883.
BIDDULPH, Sir Thomas Myddelton (2 son of Robert Biddulph of Ledbury, Herefordshire who assumed name of Myddelton and d. 1843). b. 29 July 1809; ed. at Eton; cornet 1 Life Guards 7 Oct. 1826; captain 16 May 1834 to 31 Oct. 1851 when placed on h.p.; Master of the Queen’s household 16 July 1851 to 3 March 1866 and 16 July 1878 to death; one of joint keepers of Queen’s privy purse 3 March 1866, sole keeper 30 April 1867; receiver general of Duchy of Cornwall 31 March 1866; general 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 27 March 1863; P.C. 22 Dec. 1877. d. Abergeldie Mains near Balmoral 28 Sep. 1878. bur. churchyard of Clewer near Windsor 7 Oct. Queen Victoria’s More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands (1884) 375–78; Graphic xviii, 392 (1878), portrait.
BIDWELL, John. Superintendent of consular department in Foreign Office 15 Jany. 1826 to 30 Sep. 1851 when he retired on pension. d. Park place, St. James’s st. London 31 Oct. 1853 aged 70.
BIDWELL, John Carne (eld. child of Joseph Bidwell of Exeter, merchant). b. Exeter 1815; a merchant at Sydney N.S.W. 1838; made an exploring voyage to New Zealand 1839; comr. of crown lands and chairman of bench of magistrates for district of Wide Bay N.S.W.; discovered the Bunya Bunya tree (afterwards-named after him Araucaria Bidwelli) and the Nymphæa gigantea; author of Rambles in New Zealand 1841. d. Tinana, Maryborough, Australia March 1853.
BIGG, Henry Heather (son of Mr. Bigg of London, surgical instrument maker). b. Dean st. Southwark 23 July 1826; studied at St. George’s hospital; a surgical instrument maker in London; made the substitutes for lost limbs of our soldiers wounded in Crimean war; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1862; author of On artificial limbs 1855; Orthopraxy the mechanical treatment of deformities 1865, 3 ed. 1877; The gentle treatment of spinal curvature 1875. d. 56 Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 30 April 1881. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxviii, 317–20 (1882).
BIGG, John Stanyan. b. Ulverston, Lancashire 14 July 1828; editor of the Ulverston Advertiser 1848 to about 1854 and 1860 to death, and proprietor 1863 to death; editor of the Downshire Protestant about 1854–60; author of The sea King, a metrical romance in 6 cantos 1848; Night and the Soul, a dramatic poem 1854; Alfred Staunton, a novel 1860; Shifting scenes and other poems 1862. d. 7 Hoad terrace, Ulverston 19 May 1865. Ulverston Advertiser 25 May 1865 p. 4, col. 5.
BIGGAR, William. Editor and proprietor of The railway times weekly paper. d. Thorpe banks, Willow vale, Shepherd’s Bush 27 Dec. 1872 in 64 year.
BIGGE, Arthur (7 son of Charles Wm. Bigge of Linden, Northumberland). b. 18 May 1818; ed. at Rugby and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; fellow of All Soul’s college, bursar 1848–58; barrister I.T. 7 June 1844; stipendiary magistrate for Brighton (the first) 3 Feb. 1855 to 3 May 1884; started the plan of presenting to the deserving aged poor of Brighton on St. Thomas’s day annually sum of 10/- each. d. 23 Cambridge road Hove, Brighton 28 Aug. 1885.
BIGGE, Rev. John Frederic. Educ. at Univ. coll. Durham, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; V. of Ovingham 1841–47; V. of Stamfordham 1847 to death; author of many articles in Transactions of Tyneside Naturalists field club. d. Newcastle 28 Feb. 1885 in 71 year.
BIGGS, James. b. Canterbury; bookseller at 18 Strand, London, removed to 421 Strand; started 13 May 1843 The Family Herald or useful information and amusement for the million in weekly numbers and monthly parts, this paper in a few years attained a circulation of 260,000 copies per week; founded Biggs’s Charity 1863 for granting pensions of £10 a year to printers and their widows over 55 years of age. d. 421 Strand, London 22 May 1859 aged 64, leaving nearly £50,000 in legacies to about 300 charities and individuals.