EPPS, Ellen (dau. of John Frederick Elliott). b. 1809; author of Labour and live, a story 1848, anon.; Practical Observations on health and long life 1855; Blenham, a story, By the author of Labour and live 1858; Living among the dead, a story, By the author of Blenham 1860. (m. 24 Aug. 1831 John Epps 1805–69), she d. 7 July 1876.
EPPS, George Napoleon (son of John Epps of Ashford, Kent, who d. 1835). b. 22 July 1815; pupil and assistant of his brother John Epps; M.R.C.S. 1845; surgeon to Homœopathic hospital in Hanover sq. London 1845; very successful in treating spinal curvatures and deformities; author of Spinal curvature, its theory, its cure 1849; On deformities of the Spine and on Club Foot 1859. d. 28 May 1874.
EPPS, John (half-brother of the preceding). b. Blackheath, Kent 15 Feb. 1805; ed. at Mill Hill school and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1826; practised in London 1827 to death, latterly as a homœopath; lecturer on materia medica at Homœopathic hospital 1851; joint editor of the London Medical and Surgical Journal 1828–9; published The Christian physician and Anthropological magazine 1835–9; edited Journal of health and disease 1845–52; Notes of a new truth 1856–69; contested Northampton as a Chartist 30 July 1847; author of The Devil 1842, anon.; Constipation, its theory and cure 1854; Consumption, its nature and treatment 1859. d. 89 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 12 Feb. 1869. Diary of the late John Epps, edited by Mrs. Epps 1875; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical Recollections (1874) 137–40.
ERCK, John Caillard. Ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland; author of The Irish ecclesiastical register for the year 1817 By J. C. E. Dublin 1817; Records of patent rolls of Chancery, Ireland 2 vols. 1847–50. d. Dublin 2 June 1851.
ERLE, Peter (4 son of Rev. Christopher Erle of Gillingham, Dorset). b. 1795; ed. at New college, Ox., fellow 1812–25, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1821; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; chief charity estate comr. 24 Oct. 1853 to 1872; Q.C. 10 July 1854; bencher of his inn 22 Nov. 1854, treasurer 1864; P.C. 27 Nov. 1872. d. 12 Park crescent, Regent’s park, London 29 Jany. 1877.
ERLE, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. Fifehead-Magdalene, Dorset 1 Oct. 1793; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1818, D.C.L. 1857; fellow of his college 1811–34, hon. fellow 1870 to death; barrister M.T. 26 Nov. 1819; admitted barrister at I.T. 11 June 1822, bencher 18 Nov. 1834, reader 1843, treasurer 1844; K.C. 1834; M.P. for city of Oxford 26 July 1837 to 23 June 1841; counsel for Bank of England 1844; serjeant-at-law 7 Nov. 1844; justice of Court of Common Pleas 6 Nov. 1844; transferred to Court of Queen’s Bench, Oct. 1846; chief justice of Court of Common Pleas 24 June 1859 to 26 Nov. 1866; knighted 23 April 1845; P.C. 6 July 1859; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1860; member of Trades Union commission 1867–8; author of The law relating to Trades Unions 1869. d. Bramshott Grange near Liphook, Hants. 28 Jany. 1880. I.L.N. lxxvi, 157 (1880), portrait.
ERLE-DRAX, John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge- (eld. son of Samuel Elias Sawbridge of Olantigh tower, Ashford, Kent). b. 6 Oct. 1800; captain in East Kent militia 35 years; maintained a troop of yeomanry known as the Charborough troop; assumed name of Erle-Drax 1828; M.P. for Wareham 1841–57, 1859–65 and 1868–80; contested Wareham 1857 and 1865. d. Holnest park, Sherborne 5 Jany. 1887. The book of sports ii, 61 (1843), portrait; New sporting mag. xiii, 262 (1837), portrait.
ERRINGTON, Most Rev. George (2 son of Thomas Errington of Clintz near Richmond, Yorkshire). b. Clintz 14 Sep. 1804; ed. at Ushaw 1814–21 and English college, Rome 1821–24; sub-deacon 1825, deacon 1826, priest 22 Dec. 1827; D.D. cum præmio 1827; vice rector of English college, Rome 29 May 1832 to 1843; travelled in France and Spain 1832–40; presided over the studies in St. Mary’s coll. Oscott 1843–47; employed at Liverpool and Salford 1848–51; bishop of newly created see of Plymouth 27 June 1851 to March 1855; consecrated in church of St. John, Salford by Abp. Wiseman 25 July 1851; coadjutor to Cardinal Wiseman with title of Archbishop of Trebizond in partibus March 1855 to 2 July 1862; administrator of diocese of Clifton, Oct. 1855 to Feb. 1857; assistant at pontifical throne 5 Dec. 1869; held charge of missions in Isle of Man 1865–8; undertook tuition of young theological students at St. Paul’s college, Prior Park, Bath, Oct. 1870 to death; author of Four lectures on the hierarchy of the Catholic Church 1850; The Irish land question 1880. d. Prior Park 19 Jany. 1886. M. Brady’s Episcopal Succession, iii, 376, 436, 437, 473 (1877).
ERRINGTON, John Edward (eld. son of John Errington). b. Hull 29 Dec. 1806; a resident engineer on Grand Junction railway to 1837; joint engineer with Joseph Locke of Lancaster and Carlisle railway 1843; constructed Caledonian railway 1848; engineer to London and South Western railway 1856–60; A.I.C.E. 1831, M.I.C.E. 22 Jany. 1839, mem. of council 1850, vice pres. 1861–62. d. 6 Pall Mall east, London 4 July 1862. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxii, 626–29 (1863).
ERSKINE, David Montagu Erskine, 2 Baron (eld. son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1797, LLD. 1811; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1802; M.P. for Portsmouth 19 Feb. to July 1806; min. plenipo. to United States, July 1806 to 1809, at Stuttgard 1825–28; ambassador at Munich, Feb. 1828 to Nov. 1843 when he retired on pension. d. Butler’s Green near Lewes 19 March 1855 aged 79.