HAAS, Ernst Anton Max. b. Coburg 18 April 1835; ed. at Univ. of Berlin, Ph. D.; assistant department of printed books British Museum 1866 to death; professor of Sanskrit Univ. coll. London, April 1876 to death; Alma his widow granted civil list pension of £80, 29 Jany. 1883; compiler of Catalogue of Sanskrit and Pali books in the British museum 1876. d. 11 Westbourne park road, London 3 July 1882.
HAAST, Sir John Francis Julius Von (son of Mathias Haas of Bonn, Prussia, merchant). b. Bonn 1 May 1824; ed. at Bonn univ. and Cologne univ.; Ph. D. of Tübingen univ. 1862; D. Sc. Cambridge 1886; explored S.W. part of Nelson, New Zealand 1859; government geologist of province of Canterbury 1861; discovered the Southern Alps of N.Z.; founded Canterbury museum at Christchurch 1866, director 1866 to death; professor of geology Canterbury coll. Christchurch to death; F.R.G.S., gold medallist 1884; F.R.S. 6 June 1867; C.M.G. 24 May 1883, K.C.M.G. 28 June 1886; author of New Zealand scenery 1877; Geology of the provinces of Canterbury and Westland, Auckland 1879. d. Wellington, N.Z. 15 Aug. 1887. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. ix, 687–8 (1887).
HABERFIELD, Sir John Kerle (son of Andrew Haberfield of Devonport). b. Devonport 1785; attorney at Bristol 1810 to death; mayor of Bristol 1838, 39, 46, 49, 50 and 51; knighted at St. James’s Palace 26 March 1851 for zeal in promoting local subscriptions for Great Exhibition. d. 23 York crescent, Clifton 1 Jany. 1858. I.L.N. xviii, 618 (1851), portrait.
HABERSHON, Matthew. b. 1789; designed churches in Yorkshire 1824 &c.; built Derby town hall; went to Jerusalem to arrange for building the Anglican cath. 1842; received great gold medal for science and literature from king of Prussia 1844; author of A dissertation on the prophetic scriptures 1834, 2 ed. 1840 and other fanciful works on prophecy; The ancient half-timbered houses of England 1836 and 6 other books. d. Bonnner’s hall, Victoria park, London 5 July 1852. Dict. of Architecture, iv, 1–2.
HABERSHON, Samuel Osborne. b. Rotherham 1825; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.B. London 1848, M.D. 1851; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1848; M.R.C.P. 1851, F.R.C.P. 1856, Lumleian lecturer 1876, Harveian orator 1883, and V.P. 1887; pres. of Medical soc. of Lond. 1873; lecturer on materia medica at Guy’s hospital 1856–73, on medicine 1873–7, physician 1866, resigned 1880; did much to elucidate abdominal diseases; author of Observations on diseases of alimentary canal, oesophagus, stomach, caecum and intestines 1857, 3 ed. 1878; On the diseases of the stomach 1866, 3 ed. 1879. d. 70 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 22 Aug. 1889. Lancet, ii, 445, 880–82, 979 (1889).
HACK, Daniel Pryor (elder son of Daniel Hack, high constable of Brighton). b. Brighton 1794; apprenticed to a draper at Chelmsford 1808; imprisoned at Chelmsford for refusing to serve in militia 1814; a draper at Brighton 1815–26; a minister among The Friends 1823 to death; gave £500 to Brighton free library. d. 99 Trafalgar st. Brighton 7 March 1886. The Annual Monitor for 1887 pp. 99–122.
HACKBLOCK, William. M.P. for Reigate, Surrey 28 March 1857 to death. d. at his brother’s house, Brockham Warren, Betchworth, Surrey 2 Jany. 1858 aged 52.
HACKETT, James Thomas. b. in south of Ireland 1805; surveyor; member and sec. of London Astrological soc. 1826, the last survivor of the society; reporter on Herapath’s Railway Journal nearly 40 years; railway correspondent to The Times; author of The student’s assistant in astronomy and astrology 1836. d. Park villa, Alexandra road, Friern Barnet 13 Feb. 1876. Herapath’s Railway Journal 6 May 1876 p. 518; Athenæum 15 Apl. 1876 pp. 535–6.
HACKETT, John (son of John Hackett, vice admiral). b. 2 Oct. 1819; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 70 foot 17 Nov. 1837; deputy assistant Q.M.G. in Crimea 8 March 1854 to March 1855; major 76 foot 1866, lieut. col. 1872–76; commander of troops in West Indies 11 May 1878 to 1 April 1882; hon. M.G. 1 April 1882. d. West Brighton 1 Nov. 1890. I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1890 p. 680, portrait.
HACKETT, Sir William (son of Bartholomew Hackett of Cork). b. 1824; ed. at Stonyhurst and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845; called to Irish bar 1845; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1851; Queen’s advocate Gold Coast 1861, chief justice 1863, lieut. governor 1864; recorder of Prince of Wales Island 1866–75; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1866; chief justice of Fiji 1875–76; chief justice of Ceylon 20 Nov. 1876. d. Colombo, Ceylon 17 May 1877.