EARLE, Ralph Anstruther (2 son of Charles Earle of Everton, Lancs. 1798–1880). b. Edinburgh 1835; ed. at Harrow; attaché at Paris 6 Oct. 1854; private sec. to Disraeli, when chancellor of the exchequer 1 March 1858–June 1859; M.P. for Berwick April 1859 to Aug. 1859, for Maldon July 1865 to Nov. 1868; parliamentary sec. to poor law board 14 July 1866 to 22 March 1867. d. Soden, Nassau 10 June 1879.
EARLE, Thomas. b. Hull 1810; exhibited 57 sculptures at R.A. and 24 at B.I. 1834–73; gained gold medal and book at R.A. for best historical group 1839; designer and modeller to Sir Francis Chantrey. d. of grief at his great sculpture being refused admission to R.A. 1876 at 1 Vincent st. Ovington square, London 28 April 1876. Athenæum 13 May 1876 p. 673; Times 3 May 1876 p. 12, col. 5.
EARLE, William (3 son of Sir Hardman Earle 1792–1877). b. 18 May 1833; ensign 49 foot 17 Oct. 1851; served in Crimean war; lieut. grenadier guards 20 March 1857, major 21 Aug. 1878 to 1 April 1880 when placed on h.p.; military sec. in British North America 1865–70, to viceroy of India 1872–76; C.S.I. 7 March 1876; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882; commanded garrison of Alexandria 1882–84; commanded column sent up the Nile to rescue of General Gordon at Khartoum 1884 to death; shot while leading on his troops against the Arabs at Kirbekan 10 Feb. 1885. bur. at Allerton, statue of him by C. B. Birch, A.R.A., erected at Liverpool. H. Brackenbury’s The river column (1885); I.L.N. 21 Feb. 1885 p. 200, portrait.
EARLY, Rev. John. b. co. Fermanagh 1814; went to United States 1832; entered Society of Jesus 1834; ordained priest 1844; professor of belles lettres in Georgetown college, Ontario; pres. of Worcester college Mass.; went to Baltimore 1852 where he built college and church of St. Ignatius; pres. of Georgetown college. d. Georgetown 1874.
EARNSHAW, Rev. Samuel. b. Sheffield 1805; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1831; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; a very successful coach at Cambridge 1831–47; chaplain in church and parish of Sheffield 1847 to death; author of Dynamics or a treatise on motion 1833, 3 ed. 1844; The theory of Statics 1834, 4 ed. 1856; The Tradition of the Elders 1860; The love of the world 1861. d. Earnscliffe 6 Dec. 1888.
EASBY, John. b. Deansgate, Manchester 1812; a green coat schoolboy 1820; journalist actor and local preacher; a frequent contributor to periodicals; Manchester correspondent of The Era. d. Lower Mosley st. Manchester 18 Nov. 1852. J. Easby’s Scenes from the life of a green-coated schoolboy 1851. R. W. Procter’s Manchester Streets (1874) 224–28.
EASSIE, Peter Boyd. b. Lochee, Dundee 17 April 1835; railway contractor at Gloucester; constructed part of Cornwall railway, opened 1859; brought out an elliptograph and other successful inventions; author of Wood and its use, Gloucester 1874. d. 26 June 1875.
EAST, Sir East George Clayton, 1 Baronet (2 son of Sir W. Clayton, 4 Bart. 1762–1834). b. 9 April 1794; ed. at Caius coll. Cam.; LLB. 1818, LLD. 1823; assumed name of East by royal sign manual 6 April 1829; created baronet 17 Aug. 1838. d. Hall place near Maidenhead 6 March 1851.
EAST, Sir James Buller, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Edward Hyde East, 1 Bart. 1764–1847). b. Bloomsbury, London 1 Feb. 1789; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1824, D.C.L. 1834; barrister I.T. 5 Feb. 1813; succeeded 8 Jany. 1847; bencher of his Inn 15 Jany. 1856, reader 1869; M.P. for Winchester 30 July 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832, and 10 Jany. 1835 to 10 Feb. 1864. d. Bourton house near Moreton in the Marsh, Gloucs. 19 Nov. 1878.
EASTBURN, Right Rev. Manton. b. Leeds 9 Feb. 1801; graduated at Columbia, U.S. 1817; ordained 1822; assistant minister in Ch. Ch. New York 1822–27; R. of church of the Ascension, New York 1827–42; assistant bishop of Protestant episcopal diocese of Massachusetts 29 Dec. 1842, bishop, March 1843 to death; author of Four lectures on Hebrew, Latin and English poetry 1825; Lectures on the Epistles to the Philippians 1833 and other books. d. Boston 11 Sep. 1872. H. G. Batterson’s sketch of American episcopate (1878) 136–37.