Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 4), I-Q - Frederic Boase

INDEX.

VOLUME II.

This Index contains references to the most important, curious, and interesting facts, to be found in the pages of this work.

Abbot, mitred, the first since the Reformation [1320].
Aberdeen univ., lord rectors [12], [610], [702].
Aberdeenshire, lord lieutenant [242].
Aberystwith, university college founded [1132].
Abide with me, a hymn [924].
Abyssinia, king Theodore, his friend [113],
Parkyn’s travels in [1356],
war in [1072].
Accountants, Quilter [1690].
Accrington, Lancashire, the first mayor [428].
Achilli, Giacinto, Newman’s libel on [1124].
Ackworth school, Yorkshire, for sons of Friends [1670].
Acrobats, D’Ronde [1476],
Persivani [1476],
Van der Velde [1476].
Actors, Neilson fund for relief of [1098],
salary of two pounds a week [118].
Actors, see also [Ballet masters], [Circus proprietors], [Clowns], [Columbines], [Conjurers], [Dancers], [Dramatists], [Entertainers], [Equestrian performers], Gymnasts, [Harlequins], Jugglers, Lecturers, [Lion tamers], [Music halls], [Negro minstrels], [Panoramas], Pantaloons, [Pantomimists], [Singers], [Somersault throwers], [Theatres], [Theatrical managers], Tight-rope dancers, [Trapeze performers], [Ventriloquists], and [Wire walkers],
Apjohn [796],
Atkins [680],
Bender [1144],
Blanche [1295],
Borrow [298],
Brooke [122],
Castaglioni [812],
Cavendish [756],
Chatterley [1552],
Chute [679],
Cooper [273],
Coppin [365],
Coveney [67], [1550],
Cushman [686], [1062],
De Camp [186],
Déjazet [1360],
Desmond [679],
Dyke [954],
Edgar [747],
Elphinstone [258],
Faucit [652],
Featherstone [1393],
Fechter [348],
Fenton [1351],
Fisher [688],
Forrest [580],
Frankland [241],
Hudspeth [1489],
Hughes [1050],
Irving, J. H. [23],
Isaacs, J. [24],
Isaacs, R. [24],
Jackman [27],
Jackson [31],
James [48],
Jarman [62],
Jecks [67],
Jefferini [68],
Jefferson [69],
Jerrold [88],
Jervis [90],
Johnson [109],
Johnstone [118],
Jones, A. S. [122],
Jones, E. [124],
Jones, D. H. [124],
Jones, G. [126],
Jones, J. [131],
Jones, M. B. [138],
Jones, Mrs. [123],
Jones, R. [140],
Josephs, F. [149],
Josephs, P. [150],
Kean, C. J. [165],
Kean, Edmund [354],
Kean, Ellen [165],
Keeley, L. M. [171],
Keeley, M. A. [171],
Keeley, R. [165], [171],
Keene, [174],
Kelly, A. [179],
Kelly, C. [180],
Kelly, F. M. [182], [792],
Kelly, L. E. [183],
Kelsey, [185],
Kemble, C. [186],
Kemble, F. [186],
Kilner [219],
King, H. [225],
King, K. [226],
King, T. C. [226],
Kinnear [241],
Knight, E. [255],
Knight, S. [255],
Knowles, E. M. M. [258],
Knowles, J. S. [259] bis,
Lacy, F. [273],
Lacy, M. R. [274],
Lacy, S. [274],
Lacy, T. H. [273], [275],
Lacy, Mrs. W. [273],
Lacy, W. [273],
Lancaster [1295],
Lane [298],
Langtry [347],
Leclercq, A. [348],
Leclercq, C. [348],
Leclercq, M. [348],
Lee, John [351],
Lee, John [354],
Lee, T. [359],
Leonard [391],
Leslie [395],
Lester [398],
Levey [405],
Lewes [408],
Lingard [439],
Liston, J. [445],
Liston, M. [445],
Liston, S. [445],
Litchfield [446],
Litton [450],
Lloyd, A. [226],
Lloyd, H. F. [459],
Lockyer [69],
Lotta [32],
Loveday [503],
Lovell [506],
Lowrey [516],
Lucette [526], [1638],
Lynne [545],
Lyon [546],
Mc Cullough [579],
Macdonald [582],
M’ Ian [612],
M’ Intyre [614],
Mackay [618],
Maclean [649],
Macleay [652],
M’ Neill [670],
Macready, S. [679],
Macready, W. C. [680],
Maeder [688],
Major [705],
Mandelbert [124],
Manders, L. [716],
Manders, T. [717],
Manning [723],
Marchant [732],
Mardyn [733],
Marriott [747],
Marshall, C. F. [755],
Marshall, Polly [759],
Marston, G. [763],
Marston, H. [763],
Mason [780],
Massey [786],
Mathews, A. [792],
Mathews, C. [792],
Mathews, C. J. [792],
Mathews, H. [793],
Mathews, J. I. [793],
Mathews, L. E. [794],
Matthews, E. [796],
Matthews, F. [796],
Matthews, J. T. [797],
Matthison [799],
May [810],
Maydue [567],
Maynard [817],
Maywood [822],
Mead [823],
Meadows [825],
Mellon, S. J. [836],
Mellon, H. [837],
Menken [843],
Miller [876],
Mitchell [907],
Moore [946],
Morelli [962],
Morgan [967],
Mowatt [1010],
Muir [1017],
Murray, C. [1055],
Murray, E. [1042],
Murray, G. [1044], [1051],
Murray, H. [1042],
Murray, H. L. [1046],
Murray, M. F. [1050],
Murray, M. [1051],
Murray, W. H. W. [1055],
Myers [1066],
Naylor [1087],
Nelson [1101],
Neville [1113],
Newcombe [1117],
Nickinson [1145],
Nicol [1146],
Noel [763],
Nunn [1188],
Oliver [1237],
Owen [1289],
Owens [1294],
Oxberry [1294],
Parkes [1351],
Parry, J. [1363],
Parry, T. [1366],
Parselle [1368],
Paul [1393],
Paumier [1399],
Pauncefort [1399],
Payne, H. E. [1403],
Payne, J. H. [1404],
Payne, L. [1405],
Payne, W. H. S. [1406],
Pearson [1421],
Penley [1449],
Pettifer [1483],
Phelps, E. [1489],
Phelps, S. [680], [1489],
Phillips, R. [1506],
Phillips, R. E. [1510],
Pierce [1528],
Pitt, C. D. [1550],
Pitt, G. D. [1550],
Place [1552],
Plowden [1560],
Pollock [1574],
Poole, A. [1581],
Poole, W. H. [1585],
Pope, Mrs. [1587],
Povey [254],
Powrie [1616],
Price [1636],
Purvis [1676],
Raymond [810],
Rayner [1586],
Robertson, Mrs. T. [273],
Robina [1528],
Robinson [1560],
Ryder [1574], [1636],
Sidney [870],
Simeon [1552],
Simpson [445],
Somerville [967],
Swanborough [546],
Taylor [273],
Ternan [62],
Terry [180],
Toole [503],
Tree [165],
Tyrer [445],
Vestris [794],
Woolgar [836],
Wyndham [271],
Yates [792].
Actors, Singers and others. Stage names, Given names, etc. See also [Names].
Adelaide, Madame, i.e. Sophie A. G. Le Thiere [401].
Amadi, Madame, i.e. Annie Creelman [504].
Andrews, Ellen, i.e. Janet M. Whytock [1382].
Augustus, Mr., i.e. Augustus A. C. Meves [859].
Celli, Frank, i.e. Frank H. Standing [1684].
Cooper, Fanny, i.e. Frances Dalton [273].
Dulcet, Mr., i.e. John Jones [131].
Dymont, Mr., from America, i.e. Henry Lyon [546].
Emery, Young, i.e. Richard Tomlinson [938].
Featherstone, Isabella, i.e. Isabella Hill [1393].
Frankland, Sarah, i.e. Sarah Kinnear [241].
Grant, Andalusia, i.e. Lady William Molesworth [916].
Hobbs, Owen, i.e, Frederick Hobson [395].
Jefferini, John, i.e. John Jeffreys [68].
Joannes, Count, i.e. George Jones [126].
Johnson, Joseph Towers, i.e. Edward Joseph Towers [109].
Kelly, Charles, i.e. Charles Clavering Wardell [180].
Lauri, Charles, i.e. Charles Lowe [318].
Lauri, John, i.e. John George Lowe [319].
Leathes, Edmund John, i.e. Edmund Donaldson [345].
Leclercq, Charles, i.e. Charles Clark [348].
Leslie, Frederick, i.e. Frederick Hobson [395].
Linn, Henry, i.e. Alexender C. R. Crawford [441].
Lola Montez, i.e. Marie Dolores E. R. Gilbert [479].
Lotta, i.e. Lotta Crabtree [32].
Louise, Madame, i.e. Louise Miller [501].
Lizon, Lilian Adelaide, i.e. Elizabeth Ann Brown [1097].
Lullaby, Mrs., i.e. Margaret Jefferson [69].
Lumley, Benjamin, i.e. Benjamin Levy [528].
Lyons, Louisa, i.e. A. C. Lyons [548].
Manners, Charles Ward, i.e. Charles Ward Marshall [730], [755].
Marian, i.e. Marie Elizabeth Wedde [736].
Mario, i.e. Giovanni Battisto Matteo [736].
Marston, G. i.e. G. Marsh [763].
Marston, Henry, i.e. Richard Henry Marsh [763].
Maxwell, Mr., i.e. Henry James Mann [929].
May, Huntly, i.e. William Huntly May Macarthy [812].
Maynard, Ambrose, i.e. William Hill [816].
Maynard, Kate, i.e. Katherine Myers [1066].
Mead, Thomas, i.e. Thomas Prescott [823].
Milano, John, i.e. John Millingham [870].
Mite, Major, i.e. Henry Pleon [1558].
Moncrief, William Thomas, i.e. W. T. Thomas [921].
Montague, Henry James, i.e. Henry James Mann [929].
Montgomery, Walter, i.e. Richard Tomlinson [938].
Munroe, Kate, i.e. Katherine Lister [1030].
Murray, Gaston, i.e. Garstin Parker Wilson [1044].
Murray, Henry Leigh, i.e. Henry Leigh Wilson [1046].
Neilson, Lilian Adelaide, i.e. Elizabeth Ann Brown [1097].
Nesbitt, Francis, i.e. Francis Nesbitt Mc Cron [1108].
Nondescript, The, i.e. Julia Pastrana [1376].
Norton, Fleming, i.e. Frederic Mills [1180].
Oceana. i.e. Oceana Renz [1203].
Oliver, Pattie, i.e, Martha Cranmer Oliver [1237].
Olmar, i.e. James Chadwick [1242].
O’Neil, Mr., i.e. Denis Leonard [391].
Parepa, Euphrosyne, i.e. Euphrosyne de Boyesku [1335].
Parkes, Baron, i.e. George Parkes [1352].
Pasta, Giuditta, i.e. Giuditta Negri [1376].
Perdi, Lisa, i.e. Elizabeth Purdy [1673].
Perkins, Giulio, i.e. Julius E. Perkins [1467].
Perks, George, i.e. George William Reed [1467].
Phillippe, Monsieur, i.e. Phillippe Talon [1494].
Phillippi, Monsieur, i.e. Harry Graham [1499].
Picaninny Tommy, i.e. Tom Pleon [1558].
Pierce, James Hart, i.e. James Hart Glen [1528].
Pleon, Madame, i.e. Mrs. Whitehouse [1558].
Pleon, Tom, i.e. Frederick Pleon Whitehouse [1558].
Power, Ellen Maria, i.e. Ellen Maria Lingham [1611].
Power, T., i.e. Thomas Powrie [1616].
Price, Morton, i.e. Horton Rhys [526], [1638].
Proctor, Harry, i.e, Rowline Philp [1654].
Quinton, Mark, i.e. Mark Keogh [1692].
Rivolti, Felix, i.e. William Mitchell [908].
Swanborough, Henry Valentine, i.e. H. V. Smith [546].
Tom Dot, General, i.e. Tom Pleon [1558].
Tremaine, Annie, i.e. Annie Creelman [503].
Turner, Miss, i.e. A. C. Lyons [548].
Two Macs, The, i.e. Frank Hilton and J. P. Macnally [567].
Two Macs, The, i.e. Joseph Maccabe and others [567].
Veovide, i.e. Daniel Latham [311].
Whitlock, W. W., i.e. William Penna [1450].
Young Spaniard, i.e. Michael R. Lacy [274].
Zuchilli, Miss, i.e. Rebecca Isaacs [25].
Aczani in Phrygia, ruins of discovered [888].
Adelaide, Queen, d. 1849, her physician [75],
her solicitor general [848].
Admiralty, first lords, Melville [839],
Minto [899],
Northbrook [1175],
Northumberland [1177].
Adulteration of food, legislation concerning the [1599].
Advertisement agent, Mitchell [902].
Aeronautics, See also [Balloons],
ascent in a thunder storm [30],
ascents on backs of animals [1568],
Powell lost at sea [1610],
Poitevin’s ascents [1568],
voyage from Vauxhall to Nassau [784].
Aeronauts, Adams, [314],
Jackson [30],
Latour [314],
Lythgoe [551].
Africa, lake Ngami discovered [1273],
lake Nyassa expedition to [113],
lake Tchad surveyed [1282],
Soudan railway [60],
Zambesi discovered [1273],
Zambesi, first missionaries to [322].
African explorers, Barttlot [56],
Beecroft [59],
Jameson [56],
Kerr [210],
Hannington [617],
Laird [280],
Lander [280],
Livingstone, C. [452], [1273],
Livingstone, D. [453],
Lucas [524],
M’Call [568],
Macdonnell [589],
Mackay [617],
Mackenzie [624],
Mc William [682],
Nelson [1103],
Oates [1195],
Oswald [1273],
Overweg [1282],
Plowden [1560].
Agriculturalists, Jaffray [46],
Mahony [696].
Agriculture, agricultural implement makers [810],
ammonia absorbed in the soil [862],
Parkes’ system of draining land [1354],
reaping machine first used [1678].
Albany, Leopold, Duke of, d. 1884, his friend and adviser [194].
Albert, d. 1861, prince consort, Albert memorial coll. Framlingham [211],
bust of [135],
death predicted [989],
epitome in verse of his life [109],
his librarian [814],
painting of the landing of [251],
portrait of [1373],
statues of [500], [983],
taught his military duties [257].
Albert Edward, b. 1841, prince of Wales, at Exeter college [428],
at Glasgow [530],
at Salisbury [533],
attorney general to [233], [465],
bust of [15],
chancellor of his duchy [233],
Freya’s gift, a masque on his marriage [1296],
friend [61],
guards ball to [1183],
his tailor [1583],
lord warden of the Stannaries [1596],
march for his christening [718],
opens Mersey tunnel [24],
prince of Wales’ cantata [1288],
receiver general of his duchy [257],
sermon on his birth [905],
steward of his Norfolk manors [63],
surgeon in Egypt and Palestine [898],
treasurer [257].
Alchemist, Papaffy [1329].
Alderney, breakwater made [38].
Algoa bay colony organised [963].
Alice Gray, a song [832].
Alkali, manufacture founded [1062],
works [499].
Allen, R., dramatist [165].
Allotment grounds for labourers, originator of the system [169].
Almacks, lady patronesses of [90], [176],
quadrilles introduced [1327].
Almanacks, comic [815], [816],
Zadkiel’s [988].
Alpine climbers, Pelham [1439],
Pratt [1621].
Alum works [225].
Alumina, silicate of, when decomposed made aluminous cake [1565].
Aluminium bronze, invented [1463].
America, United States of, Alabama built [280],
sunk [288], [456],
American bible union [647],
an Americancitizen and also a British subject [1208],
animal vaccination introduced [767],
blockade runners to Southern States [24],
Ericsson steamship sinks [248],
fortnightly, weekly, and three times a fortnight lines of steamers [16],
Great western steamer [280],
first iron ship seen in [280],
Indian corn sent to England [611],
Inman line of steamers [16],
New Cambria town founded [135],
New Harmony model village [1291],
Pinkerton’s preventive watch [1541],
provision trade to Liverpool originated [611],
rich men [902],
Saratoga a summer resort [989],
treaty of Washington [1175].
America, U.S. of, Baltimore, Kelso orphan home founded [185],
printer to the pope [1039].
America, U.S. of, New York, attempt to introduce passion plays [991],
Cremorne mission [564],
helping hand mission [564],
Jerry Mc Auley’s newspaper [564],
Laura Keene’s theatres [174],
Macready riots at Astor place theatre [680],
Niblo’s gardens [1130],
University, first honorary M.D. [757].
Ammunition manufacturers [270].
Anderson, Robert, a Cumberland poet [1469].
Animals, wild, dealers in [60].
Aniline industry, colours produced [726], [1139].
Apothecary, Nussey [1189].
Apple dumplings, lecture on [1038].
Arabian Nights, The [296].
Archers and archery clubs [1594],
Pollock [1576].
Archil extracted from seaweed [225].
Archimedian screw applied to navigation [1042].
Architects, I’Anson [1],
Johnson, J. [107],
Johnson, R. J. [109],
Jones [128],
Keane [167],
Lamb [282],
Lapidge [306],
Little [448],
Lockwood [470],
Marrable [743],
Murray [1046],
Nesfield [1109],
Newman [1123],
Papworth, G. [1330],
Papworth, J. W. [1331],
Papworth, W. A. V. S. [1331],
Peddie [1430],
Peebles [1431],
Picton [1526],
Pink [1541],
Playfair [1557],
Poynter [1617],
Pugin, A. W. N. [1664],
Pugin, E. W. [1665].
Architecture, revival of gothic [1582].
Arctic explorers, Jago [46],
Mc Clure [573],
Mc Cormick [576],
Macgahan [600],
Moore [955],
Nias [1130],
Osborn [1265],
Parry [1367],
Pearse [1420],
Pim [1538],
Pullen [1667],
Smith [498],
north west passage discovered [573].
Argentine republic, first English dramatic co. appearing there [311].
Armagh, lord lieutenant [532].
Arms and armour, collection in the Tower [1553],
Johnstone collection [120],
Meyrick collection [1553].
Army, agents [244],
Albuera, charge at [642],
army works corps constituted [1401],
Badajoz, the forlorn hope at [513],
balloons and parachutes for use in [726],
charge of light brigade [521], [1162],
chill casting projectiles [1314],
clothiers [133],
cordite discovered [1159],
cross belts abolished [154],
eighteenth dragoons disbanded [1046],
eighteenth hussars raised [263],
Enfield rifle factory [471],
field instruction at Chatham [1375],
field marshals [392], [521], [1072], [1574],
fifth dragoons disbanded for insubordination [481],
guards’ ball to prince of Wales [1183],
gunpowder, prismatic [1159],
investigation into sickness of [756],
lance, use of the [519],
Lancaster carbine [287],
left on field of battle forty eight hours [431],
lieutenant in charge of an army [281],
lieutenant sold all his possessions and gave proceeds to charities [1309],
light steel mountain guns [897],
Maclaren’s gymnasia [644],
major receiving twenty four wounds [1149],
mineral water establishments for [1540],
museum of natural history at Fort Pitt, Chatham [610],
non-pivot drill [84],
plough boy becomes a captain [335],
private becomes a lieutenant [658], [1028],
privates become captain [713], [1131],
private becomes a lieut.-col. [194],
private becomes a major general [620],
privates first mentioned in despatches [1075],
Redan, the first assault on [119],
rifle, Jacob’s [42],
rifle, the Enfield-Pritchett [92],
sensitive base percussion fuse [545],
sergeant Lilley’s case [430],
seventy times under fire [557],
solid Martini cartridge [270],
surgeons’ claims [153], [1020],
topographical and statistical depôt originated [92],
topographical corps, the first [92],
valise which displaced the knapsack [1352].
Art dealer, King [230].
Artists’ models [548].
Artificial flower maker [793].
Ashton court estates, Somerset, trials concerning [1318].
Assayer [109].
Associations, See also [Institutions] and [Societies],
British Archæological first meeting [481],
British Women’s temperance founded [524],
Cabdrivers’ benevolent founded [1039],
complete suffrage founded [1364],
Devonshire founded [1680],
drinking fountain, manager [354],
economic, chairman [419],
free and open church founded [814],
London Baptist founded [421],
London young women’s Christian association [240],
magna charta founded [193],
metropolitan conservative working men’s founded [814].
Assyrian excavation explorer, Loftus [475].
Astley, Sir Jacob, his gold chronometer [99].
Astronomers, Lamont [283],
Lawson [333],
Mc Kim [637],
Maclear [651],
Main [697],
Mann, H. [720],
Mann, W. [720],
Peill [1438],
Perry, J. G. [1472],
Perry, S. J. [1472],
Pogson [1567],
Pritchard [1648],
Pullen [1666].
Astronomy, astronomical instruments invented [142],
observing chair invented [333],
planets discovered [1567],
Uranium system [310],
Uranus, satellites of [310],
the wedge photometer [1648].
Atherstone, Edwin, d. 1872, poet [124].
Attorneys general, Collier [925],
Kelly [182],
Lyndhurst [544],
Pollock [1575].
Auctioneers, Phillips [1237],
Puttick [1679].
Australia, Burke and Wills’ expedition [271],
bush ranging suppressed [659],
English team of cricketers [1577],
the first K.C.B. invested in the colony [1623],
first man of war passing through Torres straits [114],
Gippsland discovered [663],
meat, freezing of [536],
merino wool industry established [560],
squatter interested in forty stations [650],
survey of [154],
vine growing [561].
Australia, New South Wales, Alpaca sheep imported [349],
chief grain grower [1037],
experiments on freezing meat [992],
first bishop consecrated in the colony [1569],
first Methodist minister [377],
first newspaper in Sydney [727],
governor general [444],
Morgan the bushranger [964].
Australia, North, Port Essington settlement formed [268].
Australia, South, Adelaide laid out [979],
R.C. cathedral at Adelaide [1037].
Australia, Victoria, Ballarat rioters [19], [282],
ballot, vote by [1145],
bush rangers wearing armour [181],
first public loan [1269],
Garrick club, Melbourne opened [1051],
Lola Montez horsewhips Seekamp [480],
Melbourne, first bishop of [1470],
murder of John Price [1637],
Ormond college, Melbourne erected [1258],
Royal society [557],
Spiers and Pond, refreshment contractors [1577].
Australian explorers, King [224],
Landsborough [293],
Mc Kinlay [637],
Mackinnon [638],
Macleay [652],
Macmillan [662],
Mitchell [907],
Sturt [652].
Austria, empress of, hunting in England and Ireland [868].
Aylesford, countess of and the marquess of Blandford, afterward duke of Marlborough [741].

Babil and Bijou, a spectacle [555], [1393].
Baking, bakers’ ovens, method of heating [1466],
hot water ovens [1112],
Nevill’s household bread [1112].
Ballet master, Milano [870].
Balloons, See also [Aeronautics],
Nassau [784],
Saladin [1610],
Star balloon [30],
Wanderer which burst in the air and lieut. Mansfield was killed [726].
Bangor, training college established [1287].
Bankers, Jersey [90],
Kennard [194],
Kinnaird [240],
Lloyd [457],
Loyd [518],
Lubbock [520],
Majoribanks [737],
Marshall [756],
Martin [767],
Martin [770],
Miles [872],
Mills [889],
Overstone [1281],
Paul [1394],
Praed [1618],
Prescott [1627–8],
Smith [1404],
Whitehead [85].
Banking, engraving of bank notes [1466],
sir John Dean Paul’s fraudulent dealings [1394].
Bank of England, cashiers [760], [884],
governor [539],
liable to pay interest on bankruptcy deposits [928],
one pound notes abolished [716],
run on [1552].
Banks, bank of deposit founded [988],
bank of London founded [335], [1017],
city of Glasgow, liquidation of [609],
Clydesdale founded [529],
consolidated takes in Heywood and co. [194],
Huddersfield banking co. [336],
London and county, general manager [518],
London and eastern wound up [985],
national bank of Scotland founded [1580],
national security savings’ bank organized [702],
royal British opening and failure [200], [608].
Bankruptcy, dividend of three pence in the pound [325],
local courts established [1318],
messengers of the courts [118],
official assignee dismissed [632].
Bankrupts, duke of Newcastle [1117],
viscount Mandeville [716].
Banting, claims to inventions of system [943].
Barbers, literary [1654].
Barber, Benjamin, lessee of Alexandra palace [146].
Barefoot clerks of the sacred passion [1309].
Barnett, George, fires at Miss Kelly in Covent Garden theatre [182].
Barnsley, Yorkshire, Locke park [467],
Oaks pit colliery accident [67].
Barometers, barometers and thermometers, patents for [1094],
variations recorded by photography [148].
Baronetage, title declined [1408],
title assumed by Palmer [1324].
Barret, Joseph Morton, attorney, Leeds, libel on [760].
Barrister making £20,000 a year [95].
Barrow, Isaac, d. 1677, D.D., spurious writing attributed to [352].
Barry, Sir Charles, d. 1860, architect, and the houses of parliament [1664].
Barrymore, Henry Barry, d. 1824, eighth earl, his tiger the first who had that name [351].
Barttlot, Walter, African explorer [56].
Bascule bridges [1637].
Bassoon player, Leffler [367].
Bath, Prior park a Roman catholic college [1302],
school for daughters of officers [231].
Bath, Order of, G.C.B. first time given to any one in Indian civil service below a governor [79],
first coloured man made a C.B. [149].
Bathing, bathers all the year round [245],
shampooing baths [694].
Battle, Sussex, the deanery, a peculiar [448].
Bauer, Karoline, d. 188, actress, mistress of prince Leopold [392].
Bavaria, King Ludwig and Lola Montez [479].
Bayford, Augustus Frederick, LL.D., advocate in college of doctors of law, speaks in the spirit in Chelsea church [1286].
Bazaars, travelling [97].
Beards, first M.P. wearing a beard [1032].
Beauties, Jersey [90],
Prothero [1658],
Wyndham [1304].
Beavers, recent and fossil [463].
Bebington, Cheshire, Mayer’s Free library and garden [813].
Beethoven, Ludvig von, d. 1827, his concertos in C minor and G introduced into England [1601].
Belfast, botanic gardens founded [557],
natural history soc. founded [557].
Bell ringer, Lambert [285].
Belgium, Leopold king of the Belgians [391], [392].
Bender, Charles, actor [1144].
Benzol extracted from coal tar [726].
Bethell, Sir Richard, 1 baron Westbury, d. 1873, assaulted by C. Neate [1092].
Betting men, Cooke [1323],
Jackson [33].
Bewick, Thomas, d. 1828, wood engraver, collection of his works [156].
Beys, Jackson Bey, i.e. Henry James Jackson [32].
Bible classes first established [218].
Bible, New Testament revisers [195], [360], [429], [887].
Bible, Old Testament revisers [66], [163], [1407], [1562].
Bibliotheca classica, twenty seven volumes [485].
Bicycle riders, Keith-Falconer [176].
Billiard players, Lloyd [459],
Marden [733],
Owen [1289],
Phelan [1489].
Binding, books bound in red cloth [1524].
Binny, John, author [816].
Biographical dictionary of Soc. for diffusion of useful knowledge [484].
Birds, collections of [1429],
Kid’s aviary [217].
Birkenhead, founders of [40].
Birmingham, books and maps relating to [710],
first cooperation society [1334],
first registrar of civil marriages [1334],
Mason scientific college opened [783],
musical festival planned [951],
oratory of St. Peter Neri established [1124],
queen’s college established [1347],
president [117],
and warden [323],
Shoeblack brigade formed [270],
Spring hill college now Mansfield college Oxford [51],
town hall opened [951],
town incorporated [1032],
Victoria law courts [777].
Birth, death on anniversary of birth [457].
Biscuit manufacturers, Palmer [1325],
Peek [1432].
Black-eyed Susan, a drama, had a long run [88], [1237].
Blacking manufacturers [392].
Blacksmiths learned [58], [99].
Blandford act, for subdivision of parishes [740].
Blindness, caused by grief [254],
blind lecturer [714],
blind musician [332],
blind poet [312],
blind postmaster general [1027],
machine to assist the blind in writing [714].
Blue ribbon movement, the first wearer of the ribbon [1325].
Board of control, president Lyveden [555].
Board of health, presidents Cowper [1009],
Hall [455].
Board of trade, president Northcote [3], [1175].
Board of works, president Lennox [389].
Boating, health of the university crews [966].
Bogle, Allan v. John Joseph Lawson, publisher of The Times [247], [334].
Bonaparte family, See also [Napoleon],
art collection concerning [813].
Bonaparte, Louis Lucien, Prince, d. 1891, linguist, his Welsh tutor [141],
publishes Song of Solomon in various dialects [1669].
Bonaparte, Lucien, d. 1840, prince of Canino, a prisoner of war [625].
Bonaparte, Napoleon E. L. J. J., killed 1879, prince imperial, poem on death of [109].
Bone caves [1448].
Bonomi, Joseph, d. 1878, curator of Soane museum, assisted by Isabella Martin [769].
Book binders, Leighton [378].
Book binding, backing and trimming machine invented [379],
binders’ mistakes [520],
cloth binding invented [378],
printing on edges of books invented [379],
steam machinery used [379].
Books, written with blood [125],
first R.C. bookseller in Paternoster row [143].
Booksellers, Arch [417],
Baldwin [217],
Dulau [370],
Jack [27],
Kelly [180],
Kerslake [212],
Kidd [217],
Laing [277],
Leigh [375],
Lepard [392],
Lewis [417],
Lilly [431],
Mac Donald [582],
Maclehose [653],
Macmillan [663],
Martin [769],
Maynard [817],
Maxwell [810],
Menzies [845],
Merridew [851],
Metcalfe [857],
Miller [879],
Molini [917],
Mowbray [1011],
Newman [1123],
Nicholls [1136],
Nimmo [1152],
Nisbet [1152],
Nutt [1189],
Oates [1195],
Offor [1216],
Oliphant [1235],
Orme [1256],
Parke [1340],
Petherham [1478],
Poole [1584],
Priestly [1643],
Quaritch [212],
Rodwell [769].
Botanists, Ibbotson [2],
Jones [135],
Jorden [148],
Kelaart [177],
Kurz [268],
Loudon [500],
Miers [869],
Munby [1025],
Nowell [1185],
Nuttall [1190],
Pratt [1620].
Botany, herbariums [384],
victoria regia in flower [1401].
Botlasitsie, a Ratlapin chief [305].
Boulanger, George Ernest Jean Marie, d. 1891, general, a pretender to the French throne, in London [1336].
Bournemouth, Hants, sanatorium originated [699].
Bowdich, Thomas Edward, d. 1824, naturalist [359].
Bowling alley [219].
Boxing, teacher of [31].
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, b. 1837, Aurora Floyd and Lady Audley’s secret dramatised, injunction obtained against their being played [275].
Bradfield reservoir, Yorkshire, bursting of [1281].
Bradford, first ragged school [1643].
Brain, a very large [252].
Brambles, the forms of [364].
Brass founder [710].
Breakwater constructed on sloping-block system [1354].
Brewers, Bradley [730],
Lacon [272],
Mappin [730],
Marrian [745],
Matthews [795],
Meux [859],
Perkins [1466],
Phipps [1521],
Plews [1558].
Bridges, Ordish’s straight chain suspension bridge [1251].
Briggs, Thomas, murdered in 1864 by Franz Müller [1022].
Brighton, aquarium [352], [496],
fictitious German mineral waters [80],
Hove laid out [19], [336],
Kemp-town founded [189],
Mahmoud’s baths and gymnasium [31], [694],
musical conductor on chain pier [267],
Orleans club [1183],
Preston and Hove districts built [19],
Struve’s mineral waters [230].
Bristol, Ashton court claimed by T. Provis [1660],
bishoprick revived [1170],
cathedral nave built [1170],
French prisoners at [1172],
riots at [230], [1542].
British Museum, Blacus gems [1128],
Castellani bronzes [1128],
cataloguer [1633],
coins and medals, keeper of [1585],
commission for enquiring into [386],
Greek and Roman antiquities, keeper of [1127],
guide to [213],
Lee fossils [355],
Mantell’s fossils [729],
museum removed from Montague house [136],
natural history department, keeper of [266]
and superintendent of [1290],
Nimroud ivories [1627],
Swiney lecturer [665],
zoological department, assistant in [1269].
British museum, Library, assistant in [425],
attendant [606],
catalogue, compilers of [327], [571], [1364] and
and transcribers in [212], [476], [308],
cataloguing ninety one rules [136],
librarians principal [136], [1327],
librarian assistant [317],
manuscripts, keeper of the [683],
and assistant [406],
maps and plans, keeper of [706],
reading room [136],
Stephen Poles’ attack on the principal librarian [1571].
Brock, Charles Thomas, pyrotechnist [146].
Broughton archers [457].
Browning, Robert, d. 1889, poet, his acquaintances [1653], [1682],
his connection with John Kenyon [207].
Brushmaker [108].
Buckhounds, the Royal, huntsman [224],
master of [239].
Buggin, Sir George, d. 1825, his widow m. duke of Sussex [18].
Building ventilated on a new principle [82].
Bunn, Alfred, d. 1860, operatic manager, and Jenny Lind [434],
assaulted by Macready [680].
Bunyan, John, d. 1688, baptist minister, collection of his works [1216], [1217],
memorial in Bunhill fields [1330],
Pilgrim’s progress in Welsh [130].
Burgess, William, d. 1881, architect, his work completed by Pullan [1666].
Burials at night [499].
Burns, Robert, d. 1796, poet, bibliography concerning [636],
Burns library Glasgow [906],
dinner in hall of his cottage [643],
his friends [332], [466],
his MSS. and relics [1104],
his residence at the hermitage [1104],
his widow and her executor [580],
Kidd’s illustrations of his poems [217],
Tam O’Shanter as a pantomime [162].
Burnt in effigy, Nicholson [1142],
Prodgers [1655].
Bushrangers wearing armour, [181].
Byerley, Thomas the Reuben of the Percy Anecdotes [433].
Byron, Anne Isabella, d. 1860, Lady, her friends [55], [1040].
Byron, George Gordon, d. 1824, Lord, and Mrs. Mardyn [734],
and Elizabeth B. Pigot [1532],
daughter Ada [504],
his friends [831], [1653],
his half sister, [374],
his memoir’s destroyed [954],
his surgeon [888],
his will [374],
writes Werner, a drama [352].