FRENCH, George Russell. b. London 1803; surveyor and architect to Ironmonger’s Company; mem. of council and vice pres. of London and Middlesex Archæological Soc.; author of Ancestry of Victoria and Albert 1841; Genealogical and biographical history of England 1847 and other books. d. London 1 Nov. 1881.
FRENCH, Gilbert James (son of James French of Edinburgh, shawl manufacturer). b. 4 Nicholson square, Edinburgh 18 April 1804; apprenticed to a draper in Edinburgh; partner with John Cross, draper of Bolton, Lancashire; a church furnisher in Manchester road, Bolton; pres. of Bolton mechanics institution 1857–58; life member of Society of Antiquaries 9 Feb. 1860; author of Practical remarks on some of the minor accessories to the service of the church 1844; The life and times of Samuel Crompton 1859 and 9 other books. d. Newport sq. Bolton 4 May 1866.
FRENCH, Henry John. Ensign 90 foot 27 Aug. 1812; major 85 foot 23 May 1836 to 31 July 1846 when placed on h.p.; col. 80 foot 3 Sep. 1867 to death; L.G. 9 Aug. 1870. d. 17 Belgrave road, Eccleston sq. London 25 Jany. 1874 aged 77.
FRENCH, Sydney. Edited Weekly Despatch; acting editor of Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette to death. d. Alresford house, Stansfield road, Stockwell 27 Oct. 1878 aged 42. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 1 Nov.
FRENCH, Thomas. A jockey; rode St. Albans in the Great Metropolitan stakes 1861; won the Derby on Kingcraft 1870, on Favonius 1871; accomplished unprecedented feat of riding 6 winners in one day at Newmarket July meeting 1869. d. Newmarket 30 Aug. 1873 in 29 year. Illust. sp. and dramatic news i, 255, 256 (1874), portrait; Baily’s mag. xviii, (1870), portrait.
FRERE, Bartholomew (5 son of John Frere of Roydon, Norfolk, F.R.S. 1740–1807). b. 30 Nov. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1806; sec. of legation at Lisbon 1801; sec. of legation at Constantinople 1807–8, 1811–15 and 1817–20, minister plenipotentiary ad interim there 1815–17 and 1820–21; retired on pension Aug. 1821. d. 23 Old Burlington st. London 29 May 1851.
FRERE, George Edward (2 son of Edward Frere of Llanelly, Brecknockshire). b. 29 Jany. 1807; ed. at Charterhouse and Univ. of Edin.; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1851; F.R.S. 8 June 1837. d. Roydon hall near Diss, Norfolk 3 Dec. 1887.
FRERE, Sir Henry Bartle Edward, 1 Baronet (6 son of Edward Frere of Llanelly). b. Clydach, Brecknockshire 29 March 1815; entered Indian civil service 15 Jany. 1834; resident at Sattara 1 May 1847; comr. to Scinde 2 Dec. 1850; member of council at Calcutta 21 Dec. 1859; governor of Bombay 24 April 1862 to 6 March 1867; member of council of India 12 Nov. 1866; P.C. 4 Aug. 1873; presented with freedom of city of London 16 July 1874; baronet 19 May 1876; governor of Cape of Good Hope 5 March 1877 to July 1880; K.C.B. 20 May 1859, G.C.B. 17 May 1876; G.C.S.I 12 Feb. 1866; F.R.S. 3 May 1877; author of Eastern Africa as a field for missionary labour 1874 and other books. d. Wressil lodge, Wimbledon 29 May 1884. bur. St. Paul’s cath. 5 June, statue erected on Thames embankment 1888. G. B. Malleson’s Recreations (1872) 388–437; Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 92–7; Army and navy mag. i, 474–78 (1881), portrait.
FRERE, James Hatley (brother of Bartholomew Frere 1776–1851). b. 1779; introduced a phonetic system for teaching the blind to read about 1838; author of A combined view of the prophecies of Daniel, Esdras and S. John 1815; The art of teaching to read by elementary sounds 1840 and 10 other books. d. Shillington vicarage, Beds. 8 Dec. 1866.
FRERE, Rev. John Alexander (3 son of James Hatley Frere of army pay office 1779–1866). b. 9 May 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; fellow, tutor and senior dean of his college 1840–47; Whitehall preacher 1847–8; Christian advocate of Univ. of Cam. 1848–50; V. of Shillington, Beds. 1853 to death; author of On the incarnation 1853 and other books. d. Achenkirch, Austrian Tyrol 27 Aug. 1877.