HERBERT, William. b. 1771; librarian Guildhall library, city of London 1828–45; author of Antiquities of the inns of court and chancery 1804; Select views of London and its environs 2 vols. 1804–5; The history of the twelve great livery companies of London 2 vols. 1836–7; with E. W. Brayley he wrote Syr Reginalde or the Black tower, a romance 1803; History of Lambeth palace 1806; with Robert Wilkinson Londina illustrata 2 vols. 1819–25. d. 40 Brunswick st. Haggerston, London 18 Nov. 1851.
HERBISON, David (son of an innkeeper, d. 1827). b. Ballymena, co. Antrim 14 Oct. 1800; a hand loom linen weaver 1814–27 and 1830 to death; resided in Canada 1827–30; known as The Bard of Dunclug; author of The fate of Mc. Quillan and O’Neill’s daughter, poems, Belfast 1841; Midnight musings 1848; Woodland wanderings 1858; The Snow wreath 1869, with Autobiography of the author; The children of the year 1876. d. Dunclug near Ballymena 26 May 1880, monu. at Ballymena. Collected works of D. Herbison, ed. by Rev. D. Mc. Meekin (1883), with memoir.
HERDMAN, Robert (4 son of Rev. William Herdman, minister of Rattray, Perthshire, d. 1838). b. Rattray 17 Sep. 1829; ed. at Madras coll. St. Andrews 1838, and at Univ. of St. Andrews; studied art in Trustees’ acad. Edin. 1847 and in Italy 1854–6 and 1868; A.R. Scottish Acad. 1858, Academician 1863; portrait, figure and landscape painter; exhibited at R. Scottish Acad. 1850 to death; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A. Lond. and 2 at B.I. 1861–80; some of his paintings were, After the battle, a scene in covenanting times 1870, in National gallery, Scotland; Charles Edward seeking shelter in the house of an adherent 1876; Landless and homeless 1887; author of Address to the students of the Board of manufacturers’ Art School 1888; found dead in his studio from heart disease, Edinburgh 10 Jany. 1888. Times 12 Jany. 1888 p. 6.
HERDMAN, William Gawin (son of a corn merchant). b. Liverpool 13 March 1805; art teacher Liverpool; member of Liverpool academy till 1857 when he was expelled for his opposition to pre-Raphaeliteism; established an Art school in Liverpool 1857; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1834–61; the reformation of perspective occupied much of his time; the founder of shilling art-unions; F.S.A.; published Views of Fleetwood-on-Wyre 1838; Studies from the folio of W. G. H. 1838; Pictorial relics of ancient Liverpool 1843; A treatise on the curvilinear perspective of nature 1853; Thoughts on speculative cosmology and the principles of art 1870; found dead in his bed at 41 St. Domingo vale, Liverpool 29 March 1882. Bryan’s Dictionary of painters (1886) 645; Liverpool Mercury 1 April 1882 p. 5.
HERING, George Edwards (younger son of a German bookbinder). b. London 1805; studied in Munich art sch. 1829 and in Italy 1830 etc.; landscape painter; exhibited 88 pictures at R.A., 86 at B.I. and 10 at Suffolk st. 1836–80; among his paintings were The ruins of the palace of the Cæsars at Rome 1836; Amalfi 1841 and Capri 18—, both in the Royal collection; Bridge over a stream 1847, in South Kensington museum; published Sketches on the Danube, in Hungary and Transilvania 1838; The mountains and lakes in Switzerland, the Tyrol and Italy, twenty coloured lithographs 1847. d. 45 Grove end road, St. John’s Wood, London 18 Dec. 1879, his wife a well known painter, exhibited landscapes 1853–8. Art Journal, xxxii, 83; Clement and Hutton’s Artists (1879) 348.
HERIOT, Frederick Lewis Maitland. b. 6 Feb. 1818; barrister 1839, advocate depute; sheriff of Forfarshire 21 Feb. 1862 to death; edited The Scottish jurist, containing reports of cases decided in the courts of session. d. Paris 7 March 1881. Journal of Jurisprudence, xxv, 204 (1881).
HERMAN, George Frederic. Joined British auxiliary legion in Spain as a captain in the Rifle corps 11 July 1835 and was present during all the fighting 1835–8, lieut.-col. 1 Oct. 1836; went out to Syria as assistant adjutant general on staff of Sir Charles Smith 1840 and served through Syrian campaign, receiving Sultan’s gold medal; vice consul at Bengazi 31 March 1848; consul at Tripoli 1 Jany. 1852 and consul general there 26 March 1856 to 13 Jany. 1865, retired on a pension 18 July 1865. d. 2 Aug. 1873. Foreign Office List (1873) 111–12.
HERMON, Edward (son of Richard Hermon). b. London about 1821; member of firm of Horrocks, Miller and Co. cotton spinners, Preston; M.P. Preston 1868–81; gave money for prizes, for Essays on the prevention of explosions and accidents in coal mines 1874. d. Berkeley sq. London 6 May 1881, personalty sworn to be £588,000 on 25 June 1881, his pictures were sold for £37,116 4s. 6d. on 13 May 1882.
HERON, Denis Caulfield (eld. son of W. Heron). b. Dublin 1826; ed. at St. Gregory’s Downside and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, LL.B. and LLD. 1857; obtained a university scholarship 1845 but precluded from enjoying it on account of being a Roman Catholic; called to Irish bar 1848; professor of jurisprudence in Queen’s college, Galway 1849–59; Q.C. 4 July 1860; law adviser at Dublin Castle, April to July 1866; bencher of King’s Inns 1872; M.P. for Tipperary 1870–74; third serjeant at law Oct. 1880 to death; author of The constitutional history of the university of Dublin 1847; Should the tenant of land possess the property in the improvements made by him? 1852; An introduction to the history of jurisprudence 1860; The principles of jurisprudence 1873. d. while salmon fishing on the river Corrib at Galway 15 April 1881. bur. Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin 19 April. Case of D. C. Heron against the provost and senior fellows of Trinity college, Dublin (1846).
HERON, Sir Joseph (son of James Holt Heron, merchant). b. Manchester 1809; ed. at Moravian sch. at Fairfield; admitted attorney and solicitor 1830; town clerk of Manchester, Dec. 1838 to death, an able administrator, instrumental in obtaining the act for the Thirlmere water scheme for Manchester 1879; knighted at Windsor castle 9 July 1869. d. Cannes, France 23 Dec. 1889. Times 25 Dec. 1889 p. 4; Law Journal, xxv, 14 (1890).