DYSON, Rev. Francis (brother of Rev. Charles Dyson). Matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 13 Dec. 1802 aged 17, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; fellow of his college to 1817; R. of South Tedworth, Hants. 1816 to death; R. of North Tedworth 1829 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the sovereign 1819 to death; preb. of Salisbury 6 April 1847 to death. d. Cheltenham 30 Nov. 1858 aged 73.
DYSON, Jerry Francis. Entered Bombay army 1797; col. 18 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. 5 Lower Berkeley st. Portman sq. London 20 Feb. 1861.
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EADIE, Rev. John. b. Alva, Stirlingshire 9 May 1810; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, LLD. 1846; D.D. St. Andrews 1850; professor of hermeneutics in United Presbyterian Church of Scotland 1847; a temperance lecturer; licensed as a preacher by United Secession church 1835; minister of Cambridge st. ch. Glasgow, Sep. 1835; minister of Lansdowne ch. Glasgow, Dec. 1863 to death; professor of Biblical literature in United Secession divinity hall, Glasgow 1843 to death; moderator of the Synod 1857; edited Voluntary church mag. 1840; member of New Testament revision committee 1870; edited A Biblical cyclopædia 1849, 14 ed. 1873; author of A commentary on the Greek text of the epistle of Paul to the Ephesians 1854, 3 ed. 1883; The English Bible, an external and critical history of the English translations 2 vols. 1876 and many other books. d. Glasgow 3 June 1876. J. Brown’s Life of Rev. J. Eadie (1878); John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 95–102; Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxviii, 276–91, portrait; Good Words xix, 470–72 (1878).
EAGLE, Francis King (2 son of Robert Eagle of Lakenheath, Suffolk). Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., LLB. 1819; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1809, bencher; recorder of Thetford; judge of county courts, circuit 33. (Suffolk) March 1847 to death; F.L.S. 1807; author with Edward Younge of A collection of reports of cases relating to tithes 4 vols. 1826. d. Bury St. Edmunds 8 June 1856 aged 68.
EAGLE, George Barnardo (i.e. Barnard). Professor of Clairvoyance; known as the “Wizard of the South”; when giving a morning performance at the Assembly Rooms, St. Peters Port, Guernsey 1 May 1858 suddenly seized on the stage with vomiting of blood. d. at his residence Pollet st. St. Peters Port 5 May 1858 aged 51. bur. Abney park cemetery, London 10 May. Era 16 May 1858 p. 10.
EAGLES, Rev. John (eld. son of Thomas Eagles of Bristol, merchant and classical scholar 1746–1812). b. parish of St. Augustine, Bristol, baptised 8 Nov. 1783; ed. at Winchester and Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1818; C. of Halberton, Devon 1822–34; C. of Winford near Bristol 1834–41; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. 1831–55 chiefly on subjects connected with fine art; author of The Sketcher, Edin. 1856; Sonnets, ed. by Z. K. Edin. 1858; Felix Farley, rhymes, Latin and English, by Themaninthemoon, Bristol 1826. d. King’s Parade, Clifton 9 Nov. 1855. G.M. xliv, 661–62 (1855) xlv, 148 (1856); Bentley’s Miscellany xlvi, 594–605 (1859).
EARDLEY, Sir Culling Eardley, 3 Baronet (only son of Sir Culling Smith, 2 bart. 1768–1829). b. Lower Grosvenor st. London 21 April 1805; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox.; succeeded 30 June 1829; M.P. for Pontefract 1830–31; contested Pontefract 1837, Edinburgh 1846 and West Riding of Yorkshire 1848; founded Evangelical Alliance 1846; assumed surname of Eardley in lieu of Smith 14 May 1847; pres. of London Missionary Soc.; built All Saints ch. Belvedere, Kent 1861; took a prominent part in many religious and social movements; had a gallery of paintings at Belvedere near Erith. d. Bedwell park, Hatfield 21 May 1863. Waagen’s Galleries of Art (1857) 275–84.
EARDLEY-WILMOT, Frederick Marow (2 son of Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1 bart. 1783–1847). b. 29 May 1812; 2 lieut. R.A. 6 Nov. 1830, colonel 1 April 1860 to 6 March 1868; M.G. 6 March 1868; F.R.S. June 1863. d. Fox hills near Chertsey 30 Sep. 1877.
EARLE, Sir Hardman, 1 Baronet (4 son of Thomas Earle of Spekelands, Lancs., a Liverpool merchant, who d. 9 July 1822). b. 11 July 1792; a merchant at Liverpool; created Baronet 3 Nov. 1869. d. Allerton Tower, Woolton, near Liverpool 25 Jany. 1877. I.L.N. lxx, 156 (1877), portrait.