ARTHINGTON, Maria. Author of The little scholar’s first grammar 1828; Rhymes for Harry and his nursemaid 1851; Poetry of bye-gone days and other selected pieces not published 1861. d. 5 Oct. 1863.
ARTHUR, Sir Frederick Leopold, 2 Baronet. b. West Indies 20 Dec. 1816; captain 4 foot 8 June 1838 to 13 Dec. 1850, when placed on h.p.; retired from the army 1863; succeeded 19 Sep. 1854. d. United Service club Pall Mall London 1 June 1878.
ARTHUR, Sir George, 1 Baronet (3 and youngest son of John Arthur of Plymouth 1733–88.) b. 21 June 1784; governor of Honduras 1814–1822; lieut. col. 7 West India foot 1 June 1815; lieut. col. 5 West India foot 29 Aug. 1816, and lieut. col. York Chasseurs 8 May 1817 to 25 Oct. 1819, when placed on h.p.; governor of Van Diemen’s Land 14 May 1824 to 30 Oct 1836; lieut. governor of Upper Canada 23 March 1838 to April 1841; suppressed the rebellion Nov. 1838; governor of Bombay 27 April 1841 to 6 Aug. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; col. 50 foot 28 Feb. 1853 to death; K.C.H. 1837; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837; created baronet 5 June 1841; P.C. 17 June 1847; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 5 July 1848. d. Gloucester square, Hyde Park, London 19 Sep. 1854. J. Mac Mullen’s History of Canada 2 ed. 1868, pp. 461–94.
ARTHUR, Rev. John. b. Houston, Renfrewshire 1794; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow; Congregational minister at Helensburgh 1824 to 1866, this district was the scene of several movements that attracted much attention, such as “The Speaking with Tongues,” “Miraculous healing,” and the “Row Heresy case.” d. 17 May 1884.
ARTHUR, Richard. b. 10 Jany. 1779; captain R.N. 11 Jany. 1810; superintendent of Sheerness dockyard 23 Sep. 1844 to 9 Nov. 1846; V.A. 17 Sep. 1853; C.B. 28 July 1838. d. Plymouth 26 Oct. 1854.
ARTLETT, Richard Austin. b. 9 Nov. 1807; pupil of Robert Cooper and James Thomson; engraved in the dotted manner a few figure subjects and several portraits; distinguished as an engraver of sculpture, his plates of which in the Art Journal are executed with great taste and delicacy. d. 1 Sep. 1873.
ARTOIS, The Flying Wonder, stage name of John Lilley. b. Liverpool 12 July 1848; a performer on the flying trapeze 1866 to death; held a foremost rank in his profession; fell from his trapeze at the Star music hall Dublin 21 March 1882 and fractured his skull. d. Mercer’s hospital Dublin 21 March 1882. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery 24 March.
ARTOM, Rev. Benjamin. b. Asti near Pimont, Genoa 1835; minister of Jewish synagogues at Saluzzo, Genoa and Naples; Haham of Spanish and Portugese congregation of London 9 Aug. 1866 to death; inducted 16 Dec. 1866. (m. 10 Feb. 1875 Henrietta Hahaba widow of Solomon David of Bombay). d. 3 Marine parade Brighton 6 Jany. 1879. Jewish Chronicle 10 Jany. 1879 9–12; Graphic xix, 52 (1879), portrait.
ARUNDALE, Francis. b. London 9 Aug. 1807; articled to A. Pugin the elder; spent nine years in the East 1831–40; author of Edifices of Palladio 1832; Illustrations of Jerusalem and Mount Sinai 1837. d. Brighton 9 Sep. 1853.
ARUNDELL, Henry Benedict, 11 Baron Arundell of Wardour. b. Irnham hall, co. Lincoln 12 Nov. 1804; the only R.C. peer who voted against the Reform bill 1832; succeeded 21 June 1834; a count of the Holy Roman Empire. d. Wardour castle. Wilts 19 Oct. 1862.