EASTHOPE, Sir John, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Easthope of Tewkesbury). b. Tewkesbury 29 Oct. 1784; stockbroker at 9 Exchange buildings, city of London 1818; made £150,000 in a few years; contested St. Albans 1821, Southampton 1835, Lewes 1837 and Bridgnorth 1847; M.P. for St. Albans 1826–30, for Banbury 1831–32 and for Leicester 1837–47; purchased Morning Chronicle in 1834 for £16,500; created baronet 24 Aug. 1841. d. Fir Grove near Weybridge, Surrey 11 Dec. 1865. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters i, 76–86 (1841); J. Sedgwick’s Letters (1845) pp. i-vi.
EASTLAKE, Sir Charles Lock (youngest son of George Eastlake of Plymouth, solicitor, who d. 1820). b. Plymouth 17 Nov. 1793; exhibited 51 pictures at R.A. and 18 at B.I. 1813–55; painted in Rome 1816–30, in London 1830–55; A.R.A Nov. 1827, R.A. 10 Dec. 1830, librarian 1842–44, pres. Nov. 1850 to death; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1838; sec. to commission of the Fine Arts 3 Dec. 1841 to 1861; keeper of National gallery Nov. 1843 to Oct. 1847, director 1855 to death, when the trustees bought his library for £2,100; knighted at Windsor Castle 13 Nov. 1850; author of Materials for a history of oil painting 2 vols. 1847–69; History of the Gothic revival 1871 and other books. d. Pisa 24 Dec. 1865. bur. English cemetery, Florence 27 Dec., reinterred Kensal Green cemetery 18 Jany. 1866. Sir C. L. Eastlake’s Contributions to the literature of the fine arts, second series with a memoir by Lady Eastlake 1870; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy, ii, 225, 280–87 (1862); W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 152–56; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, fourth series (1860), portrait; I.L.N. xvii, 357 (1850), portrait, xxxvi, 448, 450 (1860), portrait.
EASTLAKE, William (son of George Eastlake of Plymouth, solicitor). b. 1820; ed. at Repton school; articled to his father; admitted 1844; partner with his father; deputy judge advocate of the fleet 1851 to death. d. 3 Buckland terrace, Plymouth 12 Oct. 1881 in 61 year.
EASTON, John Alexander, b. India 1807; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 1836; surgeon of Glasgow police April 1840 to Nov. 1859; professor of materia medica in Univ. of Glasgow, Oct. 1855 to death. d. Blythswood sq. Glasgow 11 Nov. 1865.
EASTWICK, Edward Backhouse (2 son of Robert William Eastwick of Thurloe sq. London 1772–1865). b. Warfield, Berkshire 13 March 1814; ensign Bombay army 5 June 1836; professor of Urdú at Haileybury college, Aug. 1845, librarian 1850; sec. of legation at court of Persia 1860–62; barrister M.T. 6 June 1860; private sec. to Lord Cranbourne, sec. of state for India 1866–67; M.P. for Penryn and Falmouth 18 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; F.S.A. 17 March 1853; C.B. 6 Nov. 1866; translated Anvari Suhaili, The Fables of Pilpay 1854 and other books; author of Journal of a diplomate’s three years residence in Persia, 2 vols. 1864 and other books. d. Ventnor 16 July 1883.
EASTWICK, William Joseph (brother of the preceding). b. 1808; ed. at Winchester; ensign Bombay army 1826; acting resident at Hyderabad to 1841; a director of the H.E.I. Co. 30 June 1847, deputy chairman 1858; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1868; an original member of Cobden club 1866; author of Lord Lytton and the Afghan war 1879. d. 12 Leinster gardens, Hyde park, London 24 Feb. 1889. bur. Teddington churchyard 1 March.
EASTWOOD, Rev. Jonathan. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; C. of Ecclesfield near Sheffield 1847–54; C. of Eckington, Derbyshire 1854–62; P.C. of Hope near Hanley 1862 to death; author of History of the parish of Ecclesfield in the county of York 1862; author with W. A. Wright of Bible word-book, a glossary of old English Bible words 1866. d. St. Leonards on Sea 5 July 1864 aged 40.
EASTWOOD, Richard (son of Henry Eastwood, head keeper to Peregrine Edward Towneley of Towneley, Lanes). b. Burnley; admitted attorney 1824; partner with Anthony Buck of Burnley 1824–62, with A. B. Creeke and J. B. Sandy 1862 to death; bred race horses and short horns; won the Oaks with Butterfly 1860. d. Morecambe near Lancaster 28 May 1871. Saddle and Sirloin, By the Druid, Part North (1870) 345–57.
EBORALL, Cornelius Wilkes. b. Birmingham 1820; general manager of East Lancashire railway company 1850–56, of South Eastern railway company 1856 to death; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1865. d. 2 Lee park, Blackheath, Kent 15 Dec. 1874. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 287–89 (1875).
EBSWORTH, Joseph (son of Joseph Ebsworth of Islington, London). b. Islington 10 Oct. 1788; apprenticed to a watch jeweller; sec. to D. E. Morris proprietor of the Haymarket theatre; actor and prompter at T.R. Edinburgh 1826; teacher of music and singing at Edin. 1828 to death; bookseller at 23 Elm row, Edin. 1828–43; gave concerts at Hopetoun rooms, Queen st. 1830–68; leader of the choir at St. Stephen’s ch. Edin.; author of Crockery’s misfortunes or transmogrifications, a burletta produced at Royal Coburg theatre, London 11 July 1821 and 33 other dramatic pieces. d. Edinburgh 22 June 1868.