FLEMING, Edward Cary. Ensign 31 foot 1803; lieut. col. of 2 Ceylon regiment 12 Aug. 1819, of 53 foot 24 Feb. 1820, of 24 foot 6 Nov. 1823 to 1 March 1833; C.B. 19 July 1838; col. 27 foot 19 Sep. 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 23 April 1860.
FLEMING, Henry. Assistant sec. poor law board 3 Feb. 1848 to 5 July 1859, permanent sec. 5 July 1859 to 19 Aug. 1871. d. 2 Charles St. Berkeley sq. London 28 Feb. 1876.
FLEMING, James (eld. son of Valentine Fleming of Tuam, co. Galway). Barrister M.T. 10 June 1836; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1858; chief comr. of West Indian incumbered estates court 17 Feb. 1865 to death; chancellor of county palatine of Durham 21 March 1871 to death; author of Rules and orders Chancery Court, Durham 1878. d. 12 Dorset sq. London 23 July 1887.
FLEMING, Rev. John (son of Alexander Fleming). b. Kirkroads farm near Bathgate in Linlithgowshire 10 Jany. 1785; ordained 22 Sep. 1808; minister of Flisk, Fifeshire 1810; the best zoologist in Scotland; D.D. of univ. of St. Andrews 1814; minister of Clackmannan 1832–34; professor of natural philosophy in Univ. and King’s coll. Aberdeen 1834; joined the Free ch. 1834; professor of natural science Free ch. coll. Edin. 1845; studied the old red sand stone and its fossils; author of The Philosophy of Zoology 2 vols. 1822; The temperature of the seasons 1851 and other books and articles in scientific journals. d. Llangwym, Monmouthshire 18 Nov. 1857. Fleming’s Lithology of Edinburgh, with memoir by Rev. John Duns 1859 pp. i-civ.
FLEMING, John Gibson. b. Glasgow 1809; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 1830; member of faculty of phys. and surgeons Glasgow 1833, pres. 1865–71; represented the faculty in general medical council 15 years; surgeon to Royal asylum for lunatics; F.R.S. Edin.; author of Medical statistics of life assurance, Glasgow 1862. d. 155 Bath st. Glasgow 2 Oct. 1879.
FLEMING, Sir Valentine (brother of James Fleming, who d. 23 July 1887). b. Ashby de la Zouch 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1832; barrister G.I. 21 Nov. 1838; comr. of Insolvent Court for Hobart Town 1841; solicitor general of Tasmania 1844 to Jany. 1848, attorney general Jany. 1848 to Aug. 1854; chief justice of supreme court of Tasmania Aug. 1854 to May 1870 when he resigned; knighted by patent 2 July 1856. d. Holbrook, Redhill 25 Oct. 1884 in 75 year.
FLETCHER, Rev. Alexander (son of Rev. Wm. Fletcher of Bridge of Teith, Downe, Perthshire, minister of the associate synod). b. Bridge of Teith 8 April 1787; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.A.; co-pastor with his father at Bridge of Teith 16 Sep. 1807; minister of Miles’s lane chapel, London, Nov. 1811, of Albion chapel, London Wall 7 Nov. 1816 to 1824; prosecuted in a breach of promise case by Eliza Dick, April 1824; separated from the Secession church 1824, minister of Finsbury chapel, London 1824–59; author of A guide to Family Devotion 1834 of which 50,000 copies were sold in England, The Sabbath School Preacher and Juvenile Miscellany 1848–50, 2 vols., and other works. d. 4 Portland place, Lower Clapton, London 30 Sep. 1860. Macfarlane’s Altar-Light, a tribute to the memory of the Rev. A. Fletcher 1860; Blair’s The prince of preachers, Rev. A. Fletcher 1860; The Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1860 p. 31, portrait; Trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher before the United Associate synod 1824.
FLETCHER, Eliza (dau. of Mr. Dawson of Oxton near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, land surveyor). b. Oxton 15 Jany. 1770; educ. Manor sch. York; wrote her autobiography. (m. 16 July 1791 Archibald Fletcher, advocate, who died at Auchindinny house near Edinburgh 20 Dec. 1828). d. Edinburgh 5 Feb. 1858. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, edited by Lady Richardson 1875, 2 portraits.
FLETCHER, George (son of Joseph Fletcher). bapt. Clarborough, Nottinghamshire 15 Oct. 1764; enlisted in Welsh fusiliers 2 Nov. 1785, deserted 16 March 1792; enlisted 3 foot guards 14 March 1793 when he stated that his original enlistment took place in Oct. 1773; pensioned 18 April 1803 on 1s. 2½d. a day; worked in West India dock 1803–39; local Wesleyan preacher, gave out that his birth took place on 2 Feb. 1747 and had large congregations to see him. d. 41 Wade st. Poplar, London 2 Feb. 1855. Thom’s Human Longevity (1873) 64,164–70; I.L.N. 10 March 1855 p. 221, portrait.
FLETCHER, Isaac (2 son of John Wilson Fletcher of Tarnbank, Cumberland 1788–1857). b. Greysowthen, Cumberland 22 Feb. 1827; a coal owner and ironmaster; M.P. for Cockermouth, Nov. 1868 to death; chairman of Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith railway; F.R.A.S. 11 May 1849; F.R.S. 7 June 1855; shot himself at Morley’s hotel, Trafalgar sq. London 3 April 1879.