HEBB, Christopher Henry. b. 1771; M.R.C.S.; surgeon and apothecary at Worcester; medical attendant to prince Lucien Bonaparte and his household at Thorngrove near Worcester; one of the originators of Provincial medical and surgical association 1832; the first mayor of Worcester after the municipal reform act 1833, chairman of the charity trustees there to 1846; founded almshouses at Worcester for decayed aldermen and councillors and their widows 1853; translated Corvisart’s Diseases of the heart; published An account of all the public charities in the city of Worcester that are under the management of the Worcester charity trustees 1842, 3 ed. 1860. d. Britannia sq. Worcester 26 Oct. 1861 aged 90.
HEBDITCH, Rev. Samuel (son of a manufacturer). b. Lopen, Somerset 22 March 1821; ed. at Highbury coll. 1843–8; congregational minister at Ashburton 1848–53, Woolwich 1853–5, Bristol 1855–72 and Clapton park, Hackney 1872–85; minister Collins’ st. congregational ch. Melbourne, Victoria 1880–81; organised the Young Christians’ Band, London 1881; minister Brougham palace ch. North Adelaide, South Australia 1885 to death; chairman Congregational union, S.A. 1887–8; a very successful preacher; author of Genuine revival, An address 1872. d. Adelaide 5 May 1888. Congregational Year Book (1889) 181–6.
HEBERT, Rev. Charles. Scholar of C.C.C. Cam. 1827; scholar of Trin. coll. 1828; 35 wrangler and first class in classics 1830; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, B.D. 1872, D.D. 1874; V. of Lechlade 1844–51; R. of Burslem 1851–58; V. and then R. of Lowestoft 1862–70; V. of Ambleside 1875–78; author of Neology not true and truth not new 1861; On clerical subscription 1862; Faith and doubt 1872; The Lord’s supper, uninspired teaching 2 vols. 1879; The New Testament scriptures, a translation of the six primary epistles 1882. d. 1 Marine ter. Silloth, Cumb. 23 June 1890 in 83 year.
HECHT, Edouard (son of Heinrich Hecht, musician, Frankfort). b. Dürkheim-on-the-Haardt, Rhenish Bavaria 28 Nov. 1832; came to England, Nov. 1854, settled at Manchester as a music master; conductor of Manchester Liedertafel 1859–78, of St. Cecilia choral soc. 1860 and of Stretford choral soc. 1879; chorus master for Sir Charles Hallé at his concerts 1870 and then sub-conductor; lecturer on harmony and composition, Owen’s coll. 1875; conductor of Bradford and Halifax musical soc.; wrote The charge of the light brigade, a chorus; Impromptu for the pianoforte 1872; Eric the Dane, a cantata 1882 and 23 other pieces of music. d. Ravenswood, Spath road, Palatine road, Didsbury, Manchester 6 March 1887. Grove’s Dict. of Music, iv, 670; Manchester Evening News 7 March 1887.
HECKFORD, Nathaniel (son of Capt. N. Heckford). b. Calcutta 24 April 1842; student London hospital 1859; M.R.C.S. 1863; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1865, L.S.A. 1867; consulting surgeon Broad st. buildings, City of London 1863; established and endowed East London hospital for children and Dispensary for women, Ratcliff Cross 28 Jany. 1868, where he was the active surgeon to his death; a good diagnoser and a brilliant operator; revived the operation of paracentesis capitis; sec. Beaumont medical soc.; author of very numerous medical papers. d. Ramsgate 14 Dec. 1871. bur. Woking. Medical Times 6 Jany. 1872 p. 25; The story of the East London hospital for children. By Mrs. N. Heckford 1887.
HEDLEY, Oswald Dodd (son of Wm. Hedley of Wylam-on-Tyne). Author of a work entitled Who invented the Locomotive engine 1858, in which he claimed that his father William Hedley who had the direction of the Wylam colleries and d. 184-, invented the locomotive and took out a patent 13 March 1813. d. Beckenham, Kent 1 April 1882.
HEDLEY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1805 or 1808; barrister G.I. 29 Jany. 1831, went Northern circuit; a coal owner at 75 Quay side, Newcastle. d. 66 Jesmond road, Newcastle-on-Tyne 5 Aug. 1877.
Note.—He left a legacy of £200,000 for purpose of founding and endowing the see of a bishop of the Reformed Anglican church for the county of Northumberland.
HEELIS, Stephen. b. 1811; solicitor at Manchester 1826 to death; promoted Manchester law association formed Dec. 1838, pres. of it 18—and 1867; alderman of Salford 1853–57, mayor 1855–57; declined knighthood 1857. d. Above Beck, Grasmere 26 Aug. 1871 aged 60. Law Times, li, 339, 356 (1871).
HEENAN, John Camel (son of Timothy Heenan, an Irishman). b. West Troy, New York 2 May 1835; a machinist at Benicia, California 1852–4; a miner 1854–7; went to New York 1857; fought John Morrissey for 5000 dollars a side and the championship of America at Long Point, Canada 20 Oct 1858 when Morrissey won in 11 rounds lasting 21 minutes; proclaimed champion of America as Morrissey declined to fight again; landed at Liverpool 16 Jany. 1860; fought Tom Sayers for £200 a side and the champion belt near Farnborough railway station on the borders of Hants and Surrey 17 April 1860, after fighting 37 rounds in 2 hours the referee left the ring, the battle was declared drawn and both men were presented with silver belts at the Alhambra, London 30 May 1860; sailed for New York 4 July 1860; returned to England 3 April 1862; fought Tom King for £1000 a side and the championship at Wadhurst, Kent 10 Dec. 1863 when King won in 24 rounds lasting 35 minutes; always known as the “Benicia Boy,” stood 6 feet 2½ inches, and weighed 260 pounds. (m. near New York 3 April 1859 Adah Isaacs Menken the actress, he obtained a divorce in Indiana 1862), he d. Green River Station, Wyoming Territory 28 Oct. 1873. Modern Boxing by Pendragon [Henry Sampson] (1878) 57–78; W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize ring (1888) 12–14, portrait; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica (1881) iii, frontispiece, and pp. 415–43, portrait; Illust. sporting news i, 29, 41, 193 (1862), 3 portrait.