AILESBURY, 4 MARQUESS OF (Con.) jockey club (1891) 281-2; Cokayne's Complete peerage i 42, 405 (1887), viii 262 (1898); Baily's Mug. Nov. 1897 p. 216, May 1894 p. 351; Vanity Fair 7 April 1888 prt.; I.L.N. 14 April 1894 p. 466.

AINGER, GEORGE HENRY (son of rev. Wm Ainger 1785-1840, first principal of St. Bees theological college 1816-40). b. St. Bees 31 Aug. 1819; educ. Sedbergh sch. 1832-7 and St. John's coll. Camb., fellow April 1843 to April 1851; Bell scholar 1839, 19 wrangler 1842; ordained deacon 1845 and priest 1846; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845, D.D. 1859; C. of Alford, Somerset 1846-7; C. of St. Bees 1847-58, P.C. 1858-70; tutor of St. Bees

coll. 1847-58, principal 1858-71, full-length portrait by Samuel Sidley presented to him. by the students and hung up in the hall 12 Nov. 1862; hon. canon of Carlisle 1870-82 and of Newcastle 1882 to death; R. of Rothbury, Northumberland 1871 to death; rural dean of Rothbury 1872 to death; proctor for archdeaconry of Lindisfarne 1874 to death. d. Whetton tower, Rothbury 6 Oct. 1886. B. Wilson's Sedbergh school register (1895) 189; I.L.N. 6 Dec. 1862 p. 600 prt.

AINGER, THOMAS EDWARD. b. Southwark, London 1821 or 1822; educ. Sedbergh sch. 1836-8; a civil engineer; carried out much work for Stephenson in Egypt and elsewhere. d. of yellow fever at Rio de Janeiro 1857. B. Wilson's Sedbergh school register (1895) 195; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvii p. 107. AINSLIE, CHARLES PHILIP DE (only son of Charles Philip Ainslie, major 4 dragoons, d. Messina 19 Dec. 1811). b. 18 March 1808; educ. Charterhouse, Brighton and Sandhurst; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 10 April 1825; lieut. 4 dragoons 29 Jany. 1826; captain 1 dragoons 29 June 1830, major 14 Oct. 1842; fought a duel with lord Elibank at Wormwood Scrubbs 11 May 1832; A.D.C. to commander-in-chief in Scotland May 1840 to 1 April 1842; major 14 dragoons 3 Feb. 1843, placed on h.p. as lieut. col. 22 Oct. 1847; lient. col. 7 dragoon guards 23 Feb. 1849, placed on h.p. 8 Dec. 1854; lieut. col. 14 dragoons 25 Aug. 1857, placed on h.p. 28 Aug. 1860; brigadiergeneral Bombay 9 Jany. 1858 to May 1859; commanded troops in Windward and Leeward islands 10 June 1866 to 9 April 1869; colonel 1 dragoons 8 March 1869 to death; member of royal company of Scottish archers. about Feb. 1872; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 18 March 1878; assumed the de before his name Sept. 1879; author of Historical record of the first, or the royal regi

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ment of Dragoons: containing an account of its formation in the reign of king Charles the second and of its subsequent service to the present time 1887. d. London 23 March 1889, prt. of him in uniform of royal dragoons painted by Hurlston 1838 is at Angerton near Morpeth. General De Ainslie's Life as I have found it (1883); Times 30 March 1889 p. 13. AINSLIE, CHARLES ROWNTREE. b. 1820; articled to sir Charles Barry; an architect; member of British archæological association, member of council, contributed frequently to The Journal 1850 to death. d. 27 May 1863. Journal of British archæological assoc. xx 169-71 (1864).

AINSLIE, JAMES (only son of Robert Ainslie of Elvington, Gladsmuir, Haddingtonshire). Cornet 1 dragoons 13 Oct. 1848, lieut. col. 8 May 1867 to death; served the Eastern campaign of 1855, including the battle of Tchernaya and siege of Sebastopol. d. cavalry barracks, Fulford road, York 9 April 1876. bur. at Elvington, memorial window in chapel of cavalry barracks, York. De Ainslie's Historical record of the first dragoons (1887) 208, 219; Times 14 April 1876 p. 1.

AINSLIE, MONTAGUE MORDAUNT (1 son of Montague Ainslie of Grizedale, Ambleside, Westmoreland 1792-1884). b. 1824; educ. Eton, in the cricket eleven 1839, 1840 and 1842, captain 1842, and at Ch. Ch. Oxford; played in the cricket eleven against Cambridge, at Oxford 8-9 June 1843 and at Lord's, London 4-5 July 1844 and 12-13 June 1845; captain of the Oxford eleven 1844-5; B.A. 1845; barrister G.I. 21 Nov. 1850; clerk to the speaker and examiner of election recognizances, house of commons 1858-67; resided at Crescent villa, Windermere. d. 22 March 1896. Foster's Men-at-the-bar (1885) 4; London Gazette 24 April 1896 p. 2484; I.L.N. 26. April 1884 p. 407.

AINSLIE, PHILIP BARRINGTON (youngest child of sir Philip Ainslie of Piltoun, Edinburgh 1729-1804). b. St. Andrew's sq. Edinburgh 13 March 1785; midshipman on board the Iris frigate, July 1799; studied at Edinburgh univ.; clerk in office of Messrs. Addison and Bagott, merchants, Liverpool 1805; canvassed the peers for the Liverpool and Manchester railway 1825; member of the Surrey Archæological society; author of Reminiscences of a Scottish gentleman, commencing in 1787. By Philo Scotus 1861. d. The Mount, Guildford 18 June 1869. bur. Lyne church, near Chertsey. De Ainslie's Life as I have found it (1883) 298.

AINSLIE, WILLIAM BERNARD. Ensign 93 foot 28 Sept. 1830, lieut. col. 21 Oct. 1853, placed on h.p. 25 Jany. 1856; in command of 93 foot throughout Crimean campaign 14 Sept. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1855; colonel 28 Nov. 1854; C.B. 5 July 1855; captain and lieut. col. Scots Fusilier guards 21 Nov. 1862, sold out san e day. d. 11 Chester st. Edinburgh 31 Oct. 1887. Burgoyne's Historical records of 93rd Sutherland Highlanders (1883) 92-136; Times 8 Nov. 1887 p. 7.

AINSLIE, WILLIAM GEORGE (brother of Montague Mordaunt Ainslie 1824-96). b. Hameerpore, North Bundlecund 9 Jany. 1832; educ. Sedbergh gr. sch. 1842-8; partner in firm of Harrison, Ainslie and Co. iron and steel manufacturers at Ulverston, head of the firm 1884 to death; chairman of North Lonsdale iron and steel co. limited at Ulverston 1873 to death; M.P. for North Lonsdale division of North Lancashire 5 Dec. 1885 to 28 June 1892. d. 10 Feb. 1893. Follett's Archers' Register (1893) 43-4; Wilson's Sedbergh school register (1895) 206; Times 16 Feb. 1893 p. 10. AINSWORTH, JOHN HORROCKS (younger son of Richard Ainsworth of Moss Bank, Halliwell near Bolton, d. 1 April 1833). b. 18 Aug. 1801; educ. Rugby; St. Peter's ch. Halliwell was erected mainly at his cost 1840; erected St. Paul's ch. Halliwell 1848; edited the Bolton Bee, published June 1851 to May 1852; author of some small tracts. d. April 1865. P. A. Whittle's Bolton-le-Moors (1855) 393. AINSWORTH, WILLIAM FRANCIS (3 son of John Ainsworth of Rostherne, Cheshire 17711849, captain 128th regiment 1799-1801). b. Exeter 5 Nov. 1807; adopted additional Christian name of Francis to avoid confusion with his cousin W. H. Ainsworth, the novelist; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1827; studied the cholera at Sunderland 1832; surgeon to cholera hospital, St. George's, Hanover sq. London 1833; surgeon at cholera hospitals at Westport, Ballinrobe, Claremorris, and Newport successively 1833-4; surgeon and geologist under F. R. Chesney to the Euphrates expedition 1835-6; commanded an expedition to the Christians of Chaldea 1840-1; settled at Hammersmith 1841 and assisted W. H. Ainsworth in conducting Ainsworth's Mag., Bentley's Miscellany, and the New Monthly mag., which last he edited 1871-9; hon. sec. for some years to the Syro-Egyptian society, founded 1844; last survivor of original fellows of the Geographical society of London, founded 16 July 1833; F.S.A. 14 April 1853; joint sec. of Palestine archæological association, formed Feb. 1854; president of Chronological

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institute of London 1857, founded Dec. 1850 probably ceased to exist 1858; edited a weekly paper entitled All round the world, an illustrated record of travels, voyages, and adventures Oct. 1860 to 1862, 4 vols.; author of Observations on the pestilential cholera. 1832; An account of the caves of Ballybunian in Kerry 1834; Researches in Assyria, Babylonia and Chaldæa; forming part of the labours of the Euphrates expedition 1838; Travels and researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia, 2 vols. 1842; The claims of the Christian aborigines of the Turkish or Osmanli empire upon civilized nations 1843 and other books; edited Wanderings in every clime 1870. d. 11 Wolverton gardens, Hammersmith 27 Nov. 1896. Biograph vi 350-2 (1881); Provincial medical journal viii 577 (1889) prt.; The medical circular 28 Jany, 1852 pp. 26-7; Lancet 19 Dec. 1896 p. 1798.

AIRD, ANDREW. A master printer at Glasgow many years. d. Sept. 1899. Andrew Aird's Reminiscences of editors, reporters, and printers during the last sixty years, printed for private circulation, Glasgow (1890) prt.

AIRD, MARION PAUL. b. Glasgow 1815; resided at Govan Hill, near Glasgow; author of The home of the heart and other poems 1846, new ed. 1863; Heart-histories in prose and verse 1853; Sun and shade: poems 1860 and other books of poetry; resided in Kilmarnock from about 1845 to death; wrote some hymns, one of which entitled, Had I the wings of a dove I would fly, is in common use. d. 30 Jany. 1888. C. Rogers's The modern Scottish minstrel v 258 (1857); J. G. Wilson's Poets and poetry of Scotland ii 389 (1876); Julian's Dict. of hymnology (1892) 33, 1550. AIREY, SIR JAMES TALBOT (son of general sir George Airey, K.C.H. 1760-1833). b. 6 Sept. 1812; ensign 30 foot 11 Feb. 1830, lieut. 3 May 1833; lieut. 3 foot 23 Aug. 1833, major 11 Nov. 1851, placed on h.p. 7 April 1854; A.D.C. to governor of Madras May 1834 to July 1837, and to governor of Ceylon April 1847 to March 1851; A.Q.M G. of the right division in Crimea 21 March 1854 to 15 June 1856; major 22 foot 16 July 1854; captain Coldstream guards 17 July 1854, major 22 May 1866 to 23 Oct. 1867; commanded brigade in Malta 21 Aug. 1875 to 31 Dec. 1878; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; colonel royal Inniskilling fusiliers 13 March 1886 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1877; knight of legion of honour; served in

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Afghan war 1841-2, Gwalior campaign 1843, and Crimean war 1854-5. d. 114 Victoria st. Westminster 1 Jany. 1898. Kinglake's Invasion of the Crimea i (1877); Times 3 Jany. 1898 p. 4; I.L.N. 8 Jany. 1898 p. 42 prt., 12 Feb. 232. p.

NOTE. He was the survivor of the six officers who volunteered to be given up as hostages in the first Afghan war 1841; they were made over to the chief of the rebellion 28 Dec. 1841 and eventually escaped to general Pollock's camp 22 Sept, 1842. The Cabool captives by J. T. Airey in United Service Mag. Nov. 1845 to April 1846.

AIREY, JULIUS TALBOT (brother of preceding). b. 1 Jany. 1816; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; a master in court of Common Pleas April 1856, retired on pension of £935, 30 Oct. 1879; master appointed under Parliamentary elections act 1868, 1871-9; bought the mansion at Frognal, Hampstead, formerly the residence of lord Alvanley 1860 or 1861. d. Folkestone 16 Oct. 1895. Law Journal 2 Nov. 1895 p. 626; Law Times 26 Oct. 1895 p. 606; I.L.N. 18 Jany. 1896 p. 88. AIRLIE, DAVID STANLEY WILLIAM DRUMMOND OGILVY, 8 Earl of (1 son of 7 earl of Airlie 1826-1881). b. Florence 20 Jany. 1856; educ. Eton; sub-lieut. 1 foot 13 June 1874; ensign Scots guards 28 Aug. 1875; lieut. 10 hussars 3 May 1876, adjutant 1 April 1883 to 2 Sept. 1884, major 3 Aug. 1892 to 2 Jany. 1897; served in Afghan war 1878-9; succeeded his father as 8 Earl 25 Sept. 1881; a Scottish representative peer 10 Dec. 1885 to death; brigade major under sir Herbert Stewart in the Nile expedition 17 Dec. 1884 to 7 July 1885; adjutant Hampshire yeomanry cavalry 21 July 1889 to 5 June 1893; major 2 dragoon guards 2 Jany. 1897 to 7 Dec. 1897; lieut. col. 12 lancers 8 Dec. 1898 to death; hon. col. 3 or Dundee highland volunteer battalion of Black Watch 27 Nov. 1895 to death; served in South African war under lord Methuen 1899-1900; killed in action at Diamond hill, near Pretoria 11 June 1900. Dooner's The last post (1903) 3--4; Times 14 June 1900 p. 10; I.L.N. 23 June 1900 p. 840 prt., 1 Dec. p. 828.

AIRY, SIR GEORGE BIDDELL (1 child of Wm. Airy of Luddington, Lincolnshire, collector of excise in Essex 1810-3, d. 26 March 1827). b. Alnwick, Northumberland 27 July 1801; educ. Colchester gr. sch. 1814-9; a sizar at Trinity coll. Camb. Oct. 1819, scholar 1822, fellow Oct. 1824 to 1830, hon. fellow 1867 to death, assist. mathematical tutor 1824 to Dec. 1826; senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman 1823; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, LL.D.

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1862; D.C.L. Oxford 30 June 1844; LL.D. Edinb. 18 Dec. 1848; Lucasian professor of mathematics at Camb. 7 Dec. 1826 to 6 Feb. 1828; first drew attention in his lectures on light to the defect of vision, since called astigmatism; Plumian professor of astronomy and director of Cambridge observatory 6 Feb. 1828 to 1835; member of Astronom. soc. 1828, gold medallist 1833, 1846 and 1848, president 1835-7 and 1844-5; member of Geological society 1829; a correspondent of French. academy of sciences 9 Jany. 1835; granted civil list pension of £300 a year Feb. 1835, which was settled on his wife Richarda Airy, who d. 13 Aug. 1875; F.R.S. 21 Jany. 1836, Copley medallist 1831, royal medallist 1845, president 30 Nov. 1871 to Nov. 1873; astronomer royal 22 June 1835, resigned 15 Aug. 1881 on pension of £1,100; completely re-equipped the royal observatory with instruments designed by himself; created at Greenwich a magnetic and meteorological department 1838 and an altazimuth for observing the moon 1847; reduced all the planetary and lunar observations made at Greenwich between 1750 and 1830; organised a cosmopolitan expedition for the Spanish eclipse of 18 July 1860, which he observed from Herena; controlled the various British expeditions for the transit of Venus 9 Dec. 1874; chairman and working secretary of the commission of works and measures 183842; hon. M.I.C.E. 28 June 1842, Telford medallist 1867; presided over British association at the Ipswich meeting 2 July 1851; one of the 8 foreign members of French institute. 18 March 1872; C.B. 17 May 1871, K.C.B. 17 June 1872; voted freedom of city of London 29 April 1875, presented with it 4 Nov. 1875; author of Gravitation an elementary explanation of the principal perturbations in the solar system 1834, 2 ed. 1884; Astronomical observations made at the royal observatory Greenwich in the years 1841-7, 7 vols. 1843-9; Astronomical and magnetical and meteorological observations made at the royal observatory Greenwich in the years. 1848-56, 8 vols. 1853-8; Reduction of the observations of the moon made at the royal observatory Greenwich from 1750 to 1830, 2 vols. 1848; A treatise on magnetism designed for the use of students in the university 1870 and other books. d. the white house, Croom's Hill, Greenwich 2 Jany. 1892. bur. Playford churchyard, Suffolk, portrait engraved by C. H. Jeens published by Macmillan 1878, medallion bust placed by his daughter on north-east wall of parish ch. of St. Alphage, Greenwich about 1 Feb. 1902. Autobiography

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of sir G. B. Airy, edited by W. Airy (1896) prt.; Ball's Great astronomers (1895) 289-302 prt.; Maunders's The royal observatory Greenwich (1900); Yates's Celebrities at home, 3rd series (1879) 13-24; Portraits of men of eminence iv 101-7 (1866) prt.; Men of mark, 2nd series (1877) 15 prt.; Maguire's Portraits (Ipswich) 1851-2 prt; Proc. of royal soc. li pp. i-xxi (1892); Illust. Review iv 65-8 prt.; Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. lii 212–29 (1892); Vanity Fair 13 Nov. 1875 prt.

AISLABIE, RAWSON (1 son of rev. Wm. John Aislabie, R. of Alpheton, Suffolk 1848-76, d. 1876). b. 19 July 1835; educ. Addiscombe 1852-4; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 June 1854, lieut. 28 Sept. 1857; captain R.A. 11 Nov. 1863, lient. col. 31 Dec. 1878; retired on pension 11 March 1885; M.G. 11 March 1885; served in Indian mutiny 1857-9. d. 90 Piccadilly, London 24 April 1890. I.L. N. 10 May 1890 p. 598; Times 29 April 1890 p. 1. AITCHISON, SIR CHARLES UMPHERSTON (son of Hugh Aitchison of Edinburgh, who d 1835). b. Edinburgh 20 May 1832; M.A. Edinb. 22 April 1853, LL.D. 1877; student at univs. of Berlin and Halle 1853-4; entered Bengal civil service 1855; arrived in Calcutta 24 Sept. 1856; acting secretary to government of India foreign department Nov. 1859 to July 1868, secretary Sept. 1869 to March 1878; chief comr of British Burmah 30 March 1878 to 3 April 1882; lieut. governor of the Punjaub 3 April 1882 to 2 April 1887; provisional member of council of governor general of India 12 July 1880 to 30 Dec. 1880, member 2 April 1887 to 17 Nov. 1888; secretary of order of star of India 1869-78; C.S.I. 3 June 1870, K.C.S.I. 24 May 1881; C.I.E. 2 Jany. 1882; chairman of Church of England zenana society 1889; author of A manual of the criminal law of the Punjab 1860; A collection of treaties, engagements and sunnuds relating to India and neighbouring countries. Revised and continued by lieut. A. C. Talbot, Calcutta 11 vols. 1862-92; The native states of India 1875; Lord Laurence 1892, in Rulers of India series; privately printed at Belfast, Passages in the lives of Helen, Alexander and James Currie of Pentland and other papers 1869. d. St. Christopher's, 100 Banbury road, Oxford 18 Feb. 1896. George Smith's Twelve Indian statesmen (1897) 287-307; Birks's Life of T. V. French, bishop of Lahore, 2 vols. (1895); I.L.N. 29 Feb. 1896 p. 262 prt., 2 May p. 568. AITCHISON, DAVID (son of Wm. Aitchison of Preston Pans, Lothian). b. 1801 or 1802; educ. Queen's coll. Oxford, B.A. 1824, M.A.

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1826; C. of Exhall, near Coventry 1846-8; archdeacon of the Isles 1857-62; author of Strictures on the Duke of Argyll's Essay on the ecclesiastical history of Scotland: in a letter to his Grace 1849; A free inquiry into the duties of the bishops of the Church of Scotland, missionary as well as episcopal 1853; Scottish presbyterianism not presby terian a letter, 2 ed. 1857; The despot and his rule 1866. d. 16 May 1879. Year-book for episcopal church in Scotland (1901) 150. AITCHISON, DAVID. b. 1816; resided at 5 Pembridge sq. Bayswater, London 1872 to death; F.R.G.S. 1873; gave by his will dated 19 Sept. 1895 at decease of his niece Eliza Cave Hickman, £10,000 to Melbourne univ. for foundation of scholarships, and £10,000 to the Aged and infirm ministers fund of the church of Scotland, and £5,000 each to the Gordon boys' home and the Edinburgh infirmary. d. 5 Pembridge sq. London 25 Nov. 1898. I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1899 p. 136. AITCHISON, JAMES EDWARD TIERNEY (son of James Aitchison, captain 28 Bengal N.I., d. 27 Dec. 1848). b. Neemuch, Central India 28 Oct. 1835; educ. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1856, LL D. 1889; L.R.C.P. 1856; assist. surgeon Bengal army 27 Jany. 1858; F.R.C.S. Edinb. 1863; F.L.S. 3 Dec. 1863; British comr. in Ladak 1872; botanist with Kuram field force in Afghan war under Roberts 1878; scientific officer with Afghan delimitation commission 1884-5; his Afghan and Central Asian collections of more than 20,000 specimens of plants were distributed to Kew and the other principal herbaria of the world; brigade surgeon 29 March 1885; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1883; F.R.S. Edinb. 1881; F.RS. 7 June 1883; contested Clackmannan and Kinross July 1892: author of A catalogue of the plants of the Punjab and Sindh 1869; Flora of the Hushiarpur district of Punjab 1869; Handbook of the trade products of Leh. Calcutta 1874. d. Priory terrace, Kew Green 30 Sept. 1898. Proc. of Linnean soc. of London Oct. 1899 p. 40; Times 3 Oct. 1898 p. 5, 8 Oct. p. 7. AITCHISON, ROBERT (son of Wm. Aitchison of Drummore, East Lothian). b. 1798; entered navy 3 Dec. 1808: lieut. of the Leander, 60 guns 1 May 1816, served at bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; commander 17 July 1819; commander of the Clio, 18 guns, the North sea 3 April 1826; captain 30 April 1827, retired 30 April 1847; retired R. A. 7 Aug. 1854. d. at his residence, Shrub's Hill, Lyndhurst 13 Feb. 1861. O'Byrne's Naval biog. dict., new ed. (1861) 7; London Gazette 25 June 1861 p. 2642.

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AITKEN, JOHN (son of James Aitken, minister of Kirremuir, Forfarshire). b. Kirremuir 13 Dec. 1789; entered divinity hall 1807; licensed 25 July 1809; called to Kelso, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen, the Presbytery having decided in favour of Aberdeen he was ordained at Aberdeen 25 July 1811; the first licentiate of the constitutional presbytery; at time of his ordination he privately entered into a personal covenant with God dated 29 July 1811; adhered to the minority and headed the protest made at period of the disruption of United original secession synod 1 June 1852; edited his father's Sermons 1836. d. 21 July 1857. David Scott's Annals of the original secession church (1886) 245, 537-40, with copy of his covenant with God.

AITKEN, ROBERT HOPE MONCRIEFF. Ensign Bengal army 2 Sept. 1847; ensign 13 Bengal N.I. 14 July 1848, captain 1 Jany. 1862; member of Oude military police 1859, inspector general 13 Oct. 1863 to 1876; captain Bengal staff corps 1 Jany. 1862, lieut. col. 2 Sept. 1873 to retirement 25 April 1876; hon. col. 12 Aug. 1876; V.C. 16 April 1863, for various acts of gallantry during the defence of the residency at Lucknow 30 June to 25 Nov. 1857. d. Pilmour cottage, St. Andrews 18 Sept. 1887. Toomey's Heroes of the Victoria cross (1895) 99 prt.; Times 21 Sept. 1887 p. 1, 22 Sept. p. 7.

AITKEN, SIR WILLIAM (1 son of Wm. Aitken of Dundee, surgeon). b. Dundee 23 April 1825; educ. Dundee high school; apprenticed to his father; matric. in Edinb. univ. Nov. 1842, M D. and gold medallist 1848; L.R CS. Edinb. 1848; demonstrator of anatomy univ. of Glasgow Oct. 1848 to 1855; pathologist to royal infirmary Glasgow Oct. 1848 to 1855; sent out to the Crimea as assistant pathologist to commission appointed to investigate diseases from which our troops were suffering 1855; professor of pathology in newly constituted army medical school at Fort Pitt Chatham 27 March 1860 to 1863 and at Netley 1863 to April 1892, when he retired; secretary to senate of army medical school March 1876; FR.S. 12 June 1873; knighted at Osborne 12 Aug. 1887; hon. LL.D. Edinb. and Glasgow 1888; author of Manual of the science and practice of medicine 1857; The science and practice of medicine, 2 vols. 1863, 7 ed. 2 vols. 1880; A complete hand-book of treatment; arranged as an alphabetical index of diseases, to facilitate reference and containing nearly one thousand formulæ, New York 1882; On the growth of the recruit and young soldier, with a view to a judicious selection of growing lads for the army and a

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regulated system of training for recruits 1887; Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the museum of the army medical department, 3 ed. 1892 and other books. d. Grove cottage, Woolston, Southampton 25 June 1892, prt. at army medical school, Netley. Men and women of the time (1891) 15-6; Provincial medical journal viii 513 (1889) prt.; Proc. of Royal soc. of London lv pp. xiv-xvi (1894); I.L.N. 2 July 1892 p. 6, 17 Sept. p. 380.

AITKEN, WILLIAM DAVID (Son of John Aitken of Hadley, Middlesex). b. 10 Dec. 1822; educ. Addiscombe 1839-40; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 11 Dec. 1840, lieut. col. 18 Feb. 1861; A.A.G. R.A. Bombay Feb. 1863 to July 1864; inspector general of ordnance and magazines Bombay July 1864 to June 1873; colonel R.A. 3 Aug. 1865 to 31 Aug. 1876, col. commandant 27 Nov. 1885 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary list I July 1881; general 31 March 1883; served in Persian expedition 1856-7 and Indian mutiny 1857-8. d. 27 Brunswick place, Brighton 18 Nov. 1897. Times 22 Nov. 1897

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AITON, WILLIAM. b. about 1820; civil engineer at 57 St. Vincent crescent, Glasgow and at Boddam, Aberdeenshire; completed the contract for the Maybole and Girvan railway 1859; constructed a railway near Darlington; had a large contract on the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway; one of the largest contractors under the Clyde navigation trust; obtained contract to construct half the Suez canal, or 46 miles from the Port Said end, which he relinquished for sum of £20,000, the terms of the contract being too expensive for the company; purchased estate of Boddam from earl of Aberdeen 1865; constructed a harbour at Boddam. d. Feb. 1893. Times 23 Feb. 1893 p. 5.

AIYAR, SIR TIRUVARUR MUTHUSWAMI. Served in Madras educational, revenue, and judicial departments from 1 May 1854; deputy collector July 1859; magistrate of police Nov. 1868; judge of court of small causes, Madras May 1871; fellow of Madras univ. April 1872; puisne judge of high court of Madras 11 Aug 1883 to death; acted as chief justice 1891; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878, K.C.I.E. 25 May 1892; marble statue of him by C. F. Wade completed in clay in England Dec. 1896. d. Madras 25 Jany. 1895. India office list (1895) 356; Law Times 2 Feb. 1895 p. 337; Times 26 Jany. 1895 p. 10.