ANTRIM, Hugh Seymour MacDonnell, 4 Earl of. b. Portman square, London 7 Aug. 1812; succeeded 26 Oct. 1835. d. Glenarm castle, Larne, co. Antrim 18 July 1855.
ANTRIM, Mark MacDonnell, 5 Earl of. b. Portman square, London 3 April 1814; established his claim as an Irish peer 15 July 1858; captain R.N. 1 July 1864. d. Glenarm castle 19 Dec. 1869.
ANTROBUS, Sir Edmund, 2 Baronet. b. St. Martin’s in the Fields London 17 May 1792; succeeded 6 Feb. 1826. d. 146 Piccadilly 4 May 1870.
Note.—His personalty was sworn under £300,000 25 June 1870.
ANTROBUS, Gibbs Crawfurd. b. 27 May 1793; sec. of legation to the United States of America 18 June 1816, at Turin 8 Feb. 1823, and at court of the two Sicilies 1 Oct. 1824 to May 1826; M.P. for Aldborough, Yorkshire 1820–26 and for Plympton, Devon 1826–32. d. Eaton hall, Congleton 21 May 1861.
APLIN, John Guise Rogers. b. 7 Nov. 1819; ensign 28 foot 7 Oct. 1837; lieut. col. 48 foot 23 Nov. 1860 to 12 Nov. 1870 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 10 Edith road, West Kensington, London 10 April 1883.
APPERLEY, William Wynne (son of Charles James Apperley 1778–1843, author of sporting works under pseudonym of Nimrod). Cornet Bengal cavalry 1823; in charge of Poosah stud in Behar 1840–43 and 1845–52; superintended central division of stud department in Bengal 1854–55; major 3 European light cavalry 1854–61; remount agent at Cape of Good Hope 1857–60; left the service Dec. 1861. d. Morben near Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 25 April 1870 aged 62. Baily’s Mag. xviii, 253–55 (1870).
APPLEBY, John Frederick (son of John Appleby of Soberton, Hants, farmer). b. 18 Nov. 1795; captain R.N. 29 Jany. 1838; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869. d. Blackbrook lodge, Fareham 3 Feb. 1878.
APPLEGATH, Augustus (son of Augustus Joseph Applegath, captain of H.E.I. Co.’s ship Europa). b. parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney 17 June 1788; a printer in Nelson sq. Blackfriars road; constructed machines for printing bank notes 1818; erected a printing office in Duke st. Stamford st.; invented the composition ball and roller, and the steam printing press; the first book printed by steam was Waterton’s Wanderings; invented with Edward Cowper the four-cylinder machine, and erected it at the Times office 1827; patented vertical machine 1846; erected one at Times office, May 1848, which produced 10,000 impressions per hour; invented a machine for printing 6 colours at once; took out 18 patents for improvements in letterpress and silk printing; established large silk and print works at Crayford, and printing works at Dartford. d. Dartford 9 Feb. 1871. Bohn’s Pictorial handbook of London (1854) 76–86; N. and Q. 4 series iii, 485 (1869) vii, 153 (1871); Dartford Chronicle 25 Feb. 1871, p. 3, col. 1.
Note.—In the year 1818 Messrs. Applegath and Cowper constructed machines for the Bank of England to print in several colours in perfect register designs for the prevention of forgery; some millions of £1 notes were printed by them in the Bank, but were never issued, in consequence of the resumption of cash payment 1 May 1821.