HAIG, Robert Wolseley. b. 1831; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec. 1848, captain 9 May 1855 to death; brevet major 22 Oct. 1870; sec. to R.A. institute on Woolwich common; F.R.S. 6 June 1867. d. Woolwich 6 June 1872 aged 41.
HAIGH, Rev. Daniel Henry (son of George Haigh, calico printer). b. Brinscall hall near Chorley 7 Aug. 1819; built great part of All Saints, Leeds at his own expense 1846; received into R.C. church 1 Jany. 1847, a priest 8 April 1848; spent £15,000 on erection and endowment St. Augustine’s R.C. ch. Erdington near Birmingham 1848–50, missioner there to 1876; chief authority in England on Runic literature; author of An essay on numismatic history of the East Angles., Leeds 1845; The Anglo-Saxon sagas 1861; The conquest of Britain by the Saxons 1861. d. Oscott coll. 10 May 1879. Gillow’s Bibl. Dict. of English Catholics iii, 84–7 (1887).
HAILSTONE, Edward (youngest son of Samuel Hailstone of Bradford, solicitor). b. 1818; solicitor at Bradford 1841; law clerk to Leeds and Liverpool canal co. 40 years; F.S.A. 6 April 1843; accumulated manuscripts, books, &c. relating to Yorkshire which he left to the library of dean and chapter, York; author of Catalogue of library of E. Hailstone 1858; Portraits of Yorkshire worthies with biographical notices 2 vols. 1869. d. Walton hall near Wakefield 24 March 1890.
HAILSTONE, Samuel. b. Hoxton, London 1768; solicitor with John Hardy at Bradford, Yorks. 1791; leading authority on flora of Yorkshire; collected minerals and books; contrib. list of rare plants to Whitaker’s History of Craven 1812, pp. 509–18; F.L.S. 1801. d. Horton hall, Bradford 26 Dec. 1851, his herbarium given to Yorkshire Philos. soc. is in the museum at York. John James’s Bradford (1866) 316–18.
HAINES, Rev. Herbert (son of John Haines, surgeon). b. Hampstead 1 Sept. 1826; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1851; C. of Delamere, Cheshire 1849; second master of College school, Gloucester 22 June 1850 to death; author of A manual for the study of monumental brasses, By H. H. 1848, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1861; A guide to the cathedral church of Gloucester 1867, 3 ed. 1885. d. College school, Gloucester 18 Sept. 1872.
HAINES, William Clarke. b. England 1807; a surgeon; a farmer near Geelong, Victoria 1848; member for South Grant in Victoria legislative council 1853, chief sec. 28 Nov. 1855 to 11 March 1857 and 29 April 1857 to 10 March 1858; spent 3 years in Europe 1858–61; member for Portland 1861 to death; treasurer of Victoria 14 Nov. 1861 to 27 June 1863. d. 1864.
HAINSSELIN, D. F. Sailor in British navy; supposed to be last survivor of Keppel’s action 1778; also at celebrated relief of Gibraltar 1782; in the action with the French fleet off Plymouth in the Royal George 29 May and 1 June 1794, for which he had medal with two bars. d. Chapel st. Devonport 3 Sep. 1852 aged 92.
HAIRE, Robert. Called to Irish bar 1793; K.C. 7 Feb. 1835; resided at Armagh, co. Fermanagh. d. 3 March 1851.
HAITE, John James. Member of Soc. of British musicians; author of The principles of natural harmony, founded upon the discovery of the true semitonic scale 1855; Violoncello tutor; composer of many musical pieces including Favourite melodies as quintets 1865, Abraham’s sacrifice a cantata 1871, David and Goliath an oratorio 1880, The song of the year. d. London, Oct. 1874.
HAKEWILL, Arthur William (1 son of James Hakewill 1778–1843, architect). b. 1808; member Architectural soc.; architect, writer and lecturer; lectured on James Barry’s painting at Soc. of Arts; author of An apology for architectural monstrosities of London 1835; Plans of Thorpe hall, Peterborough 1851; Modern tombs, or gleanings from the cemeteries of London 1851. d. 19 June 1856.