FYDELL, Samuel Richard (elder son of Thomas Fydell 1740–1812, M.P. for Boston). b. Hardwicke hall near Chepstow 6 April 1771; receiver general for Lincolnshire 1794 to 1834 when office was abolished by Land tax amendment act 1834 and he declined pension offered him; sheriff of Rutland 1840; lieut. col. of South Lincoln militia. d. Morcott hall, Rutland 1 Feb. 1868. bur. in family vault St. Botolph’s church, Boston. G.M. v, 395 (1868).
FYFE, Andrew (eld. son of Andrew Fyfe of Edinburgh, anatomist 1754–1824). b. 18 Jany. 1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1814; fellow of college of surgeons Edin. 1818, pres. 1842–3; professor of chemistry in Univ. of Aberdeen 1844 to death; author of Elements of Chemistry 2 vols. 1827, 3 ed. 1833. d. 4 Windsor st. Edinburgh 31 Dec. 1861.
FYFE, James Hamilton (only son of John Fyfe of Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 1837; ed. at City of London school; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1863; a reporter on Edinburgh Express, Scotsman, Times; assistant editor of Pall Mall Gazette 1867–71, of Saturday Review 1871 to about 1878; author of Triumphs of invention and discovery 1860; British enterprise beyond the seas or our colonies 1863 and other books. d. 35 Cathcart road, West Brompton, London 5 June 1880.
FYFE, William Baxter Collier. b. Dundee about 1836; studied at R.S.A. and in Paris; painter in London 1863 to death; exhibited 23 pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. gallery 1866–79. d. 62 Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 15 Sep. 1882.
FYFE, William Wallace (eld. son of Peter Fyfe, R.N. of Dundee). A contributor to the newspaper press; promoter and manager of the Church and Country Newspaper Co., and of the Newspaper Press college at Dorchester about 1865, both schemes were unsuccessful and involved him in loss; edited The Provincial Souvenir, Paisley 1846; author of Agricultural science applied in practice 1859; Canada as a field for emigration 1861 and 8 other books. d. Houndsgate, Nottingham 25 Sep. 1867. Newspaper Press 1 Oct. 1867 p. 205.
FYNMORE, James. Midshipman R.N. at Trafalgar 1805 of which battle he was last survivor; captain R.M. 1836–1848, hon. lieut. col. 28 Nov. 1854 to death. d. Blenheim grove, Rye lane, Peckham 15 April 1887 in 94 year. Graphic xix, 217 (1879), portrait, xxxv, 448 (1887), portrait.
FYSH, Rev. Frederick. Ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; lived at 2 Duke st. Bath 1840–47, at 6 Lower terrace, Torquay 1856; author of Catechism of the Apocalypse 1844; A Lyrical version of the Psalms 2 vols. 1851; Historia Apodeixis Horæ historicæ et chronologicæ 5 vols. 1856 and 15 other books. d. 1867.
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GABRIEL, Mary Ann Virginia (dau. of the succeeding). b. Banstead, Surrey 7 Feb. 1825; composed several hundred songs, many of which became very popular; her operetta Widows Bewitched was performed at St. George’s hall, London 13 Nov. 1867; composed 3 cantatas Dreamland, Evangeline and Graziella. (m. Nov. 1874 George Edward March of the Foreign office, London, who wrote most of her librettos). d. St. George’s hospital, London 7 Aug. 1877 from compound fracture of the skull, result of carriage accident near Grosvenor hotel 5 Aug. Lennox’s Fashion then and now, ii, 92–4 (1878); Illust. sp. and dr. news vi, 597, 620 (1877), portrait.
GABRIEL, Robert Burd. Cornet 2 dragoon guards 1797, captain 1805–1822 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; col. 7 dragoon guards 18 March 1853 to death; K.H. 1834; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. 7 Connaught place west, London 15 April 1853 aged 74.