HEAD, Sir George (brother of the preceding). b. the Hermitage near Rochester 1782; ed. at the Charterhouse; captain West Kent militia 1808; a commissariat clerk 1809; served in the Peninsula 1809–14; asst. commissary general 25 Dec. 1814, placed on half pay 1823; deputy knight marshal at coronation of William iv. 1831; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Oct. 1831; deputy knight marshal to Queen Victoria; published Forest scenery and incidents in the wilds of North America 1829, 2 ed. 1838; A home tour through the manufacturing districts of England in the summer of 1835, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1840; A home tour through various parts of the United Kingdom 1832; Rome, a tour of many days 3 vols. 1849. d. Cockspur st. London 2 May 1855 aged 73. Sir G. Head’s Memoirs of an assistant commissary general (1832).
HEAD, Rev. Henry Erskine (brother of the preceding). b. 9 Jany. 1797; ed. at St. Mary hall, Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; R. of Feniton, Devon 1838 to death; had controversies with the bishops of Exeter and London and printed many books on these matters 1838–41; author of Observations on early rising and early prayer 1828; Sermons on spiritual comfort and assurance 1832; Sermons on the first principles of the oracles of God 1840; Dialogues on the Apocalypse 1841. d. Feniton 16 May 1860.
HEAD, John (eld. son of Jeremiah Head of Ipswich). b. Ipswich 8 Feb. 1832; erected pumping engines and pumps to supply city of Warsaw with water from the Vistula 1853; manager of works of Evans, Lilpop and Ran of Warsaw, engineers; when on outbreak of war in 1854 all Englishmen were ordered to leave Russia, an exception was made in his favour; partner of Messrs. Ransome at Ipswich 1857 to death; author of A few notes on the portable steam engine 1877. d. Ipswich 19 May 1881. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvii, 397–99 (1882).
HEAD, William. Huntsman to the Cheshire hounds to 1831 and the Donnington hounds from 1831; on retiring lived at Leicester and then at Kegworth, Leicestershire. d. Kegworth 19 Nov. 1865 in 85 year. Sporting Review, Dec. 1865 pp. 401–2.
HEADFORT, Thomas Taylour, 2 Marquis of (elder son of 1 Marquis of Headfort 1757–1829). b. 4 May 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1811; lord lieut. of Cavan 1831 to death; col. of Meath militia 1831 to death; cr. Baron Kenlis of Kenlis, co. Meath in peerage of U.K. 10 Sep. 1831; P.C. Ireland 1835; lord in waiting to the Queen 1837–41; K.P. 15 April 1839. d. Headfort house, Kells, co. Meath 6 Dec. 1870.
HEADLAM, Edward (3 son of the succeeding). b. 1824; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow, 12th wrangler 1847, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; barrister I.T. 30 April 1856; civil service comr. 1855; director of examinations 1876 to death. d. 24 Norfolk sq. Hyde park, London 26 Oct. 1882.
HEADLAM, Ven. John (son of Thomas Emerson Headlam of Gateshead). Matric. from Lincoln coll. Ox. 1 April 1786 aged 16, B.A. 1790, M.A. 1792; R. of Wycliffe, Yorkshire 1793 to death; archdeacon of Richmond 30 Dec. 1826 to death; chancellor of Ripon 1846 to death; author of Letters to the Rt. Hon. Robert Peel on prison labour 2 vols. 1823–4; Observations on church rates, tithes and church reform, Richmond 1838, and of charges and single sermons. d. Wycliffe, Yorkshire 4 May 1854 aged 85.
HEADLAM, Thomas Emerson (eld. son of preceding). b. Wycliffe rectory, Yorkshire 25 June 1813; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., 16 wr. 1836, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839, bencher 1851, reader 1866, treasurer 1867; M.P. for Newcastle-on-Tyne 1847–74; carried through parliament the Trustee act 1850; Q.C. 1851; chancellor of diocese of Ripon May 1854, of Durham 1854; judge advocate general June 1859 to July 1866; P.C. 18 June 1859; F.R.G.S.; edited The practice of the high court of chancery by E. R. Daniell, 2 ed. 1845, 3 ed. 1857; Pleadings and practice of the high court of chancery by E. R. Daniell, 2 ed. 1851; A supplement to Daniell’s Chancery practice 1851; author of The Trustees’ Act 1850, 3 ed. 1855. d. Calais 3 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. lxvii, 590, 629 (1875), portrait.
HEADLAND, Edward. b. Tonbridge 1803; ed. at St. George’s hospital; studied anatomy under Joshua Brookes; L.S.A. 1823, M.R.C.S. 1848; in practice at Featherstone buildings, Holborn, at Guilford st. and at 6 Upper Portland place; one of the first to claim payment for his services and not for physic; the leading general practitioner of his time; fellow and then president of Medical soc. of London where he took important part in the debates. d. 6 Upper Portland place, London 8 Dec. 1869. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical Recollections (1874), 393–8.
HEADLAND, Rev. Edward (younger son of Edward Headland of Portland place, London). b. 1831; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., 14 wrangler 1855 B.A. 1855, M.A. 1859, fellow of his coll.; C. of St. Mary’s, Bury St. Edmunds 1855–57; C. of St. Marylebone church, London 1857–61; R. of Bincombe with Broadwey, Dorset 1861; author of The happy sufferer. A narrative 1860; The epistles to the Thessalonians, Introduction by E. Headland 1863; The truth and office of the Christian ministry 1868. d. 6 Cavendish crescent, Bath 8 July 1876 aged 45.