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INDEX.

VOLUME IV.

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

ABBOTTABAD.

AERATED BREAD COMPANY.

838

A

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Abingdon, materials for a history of 294.
Aborigines, protection society, London, secretary of 650.
Absolution, book about 743.

Acacia plant, sprigs of, dropped into grave by free-
masons 505.

Academy royal, first professor of chemistry at 264, keeper
of, Calderon 578, Royal academicians, Ansdell, R.
139, Armitage, E. 161, Barlow, T. O. 270. Boehm,
Sir J. A. 443, Burgess, J. B. 543, Associates of royal
academy, Bates, H. 304, Birch, C. B. 403, Blomfield,
Sir A. W. 433, Burne-Jones, Sir E. C. 548.
Ackworth, principal of Friend's Flounders institute at
512.

Acrostics double, Reintroducer of 479.

Acting, an actress of 1800 parts 776, Actors, Alleyn 95,
Anderson 118, Appleby 147, Ashley 182, Astley 188,
Atherton 191, Barnard 272, Barrett 282, Barry 290,
Beck 332, Bernard 379, Betty 390, Blakely 422, Bou-
cicault 459, Bufton 536, Caulfield 618, Cavendish
621, Cecil 625, Chapman 641, Chart 646, Chester 650,
Chippendale, M. J. 657, Chippendale, W. H. 658,
Clarke 677, Clayton 684, Coghlan 701, Coleman, J.

ACTING, (Con.)

710, Coleman, M. J. 710, Cooper 750, Couldock, 770,
Courtney 774, Coveney Harriet 775, Coveney, Henry
776, Coveney, J. E. 776, Creswick, C. E. 801, Cres-
wick, W. 801, Crouch 814, Cullen, 819, Love 576.
Actors, Singers, and others, Stage names, Assumed
names, etc., see also Names.

Agoust, i.e. W. Bridges 47.

Blakeley, Wm., i.e. W. S. Baseley 422.
Bland, Harcourt, i.e. J. H. Beatty 426.
Cecil, Arthur, i.e. A. C. Blunt 625.
Clayton, John, i.e. J. A. Calthrop 684.
Blondin, i.e. J. F. Gravelet 434.

Cardono, Captain, i.e. Thomas Bridgeman 601.
Conrad. Henry, i.e. Henry Connor 729.
Courtney, John, i.e. John Fuller 774.

Miss Fortiscue, i.e. E. M. Finney 574.
Miss Paget, i.e. Elizabeth Page 801.
Swanborough, H. V., i.e. H. V. Smith 536.
Addiscombe military college, closed and sold 4, lieut.
governor of 4.

Adhesive stamp, the inventor of 630.
Advertisement for a wife by a murderer 758.

Advowsons, Introducer and passer of the Sale of Advow-
sons act 654.

Aerated bread company, chairman and manager of 656.

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Ailesbury, 4 marchionesses of, living at same time 48.
Akroyden near Halifax, village so called, founder of 59.
Alexander's horse, raiser of 79.

Alexandria, bombardment of 65.
Alpine club, first president of 250.

American society in London, founder of 632.
Anatomy, Cooke's school of, founded 742.

Andrewsite, the green mineral named after T. Andrews
133.

Apiarian society, founder of 769.

Arabian Nights, Burton's translation 557.

Archers, Caldecott, C. M. 577, Coulson, T. L. 771.
Archery, Grand national archery soc., pres. and judge
of 577.

Architects, Ainslie 50, Ancona 111, Angell 135, Austin
206, Barry 288, Blomfield 433, Boulnois 462, Buckler
533, Bucknall 534, Butterfield 565, Carpenter 607,
Christian 660, Clarke E. 667, Clark, J. F. 671,
Clarke, 680, Cole 707, Cundy 823, Currey 829.
Aristotle, the greatest Aristotelian scholar in England
636.

Armada, memorial at Plymouth unveiled 81.

Armour, a judge and collector of 553, collection of
ancient 491, collection of, given to British Museum
543.

Armour-plated frigate, the first 298.

Army, Father of the British army 314, first statistical
reports on health ever published 248.

Art, art college, founder of 85, Royal Hibernian acad
emy founded 801, St. John's Wood school 578.
Ashantee, King of, presents golden axe to Queen Victoria
288.

Associations for promoting the repeal of the taxes on
knowledge 714, Gold standard defence, chief founder
of 830, Health of towns assoc. dissolved 342, National
vigilance, a founder of 766, Palestine Archæological
51.

Astronomers, Abbatt 3, Adams 33, Airy 53, Baxendell
309, Brown 510.

Attorney general removed from office 462.

Auctioneers, Christie, G. H. 661, Christie, J. S. 661,
Manson, E. 661, Manson, W. 661.

Australia, first pack of foxhounds in 687.
Automaton, Psycho the card player 677.

B

Bach choir, first president of 711.
Badminton library, joint editors of 329.

Balfe, M. W., scholarship at R. A. of music founded 246.
Bangor cathedral reopened after restoration 593.
Bankers, Alexander 76, Antrobus 145, Arbuthnot 150,
Attwood 201, Baillie 229, Barclay, 262, Baring 265,
Barnato 273, Barnett 277, Beckett 333, Benas 356,
Bevan 391, Boase, H. 441, Boase, J. J. A. 441,
Brooks 507, Caithness 575, Campion, J. 595, Cam-
pion, R. 595, Chambers 632, Chapman 639, Cocks
700, Currie 830.

Bankers sentenced to transportation 305.

Bank of England governors of, Birch 404, Crawford 796.
Banks,

Ashtown, Stalybridge, Hyde and Glossop bank opened
772.

London and county bank founded 676.

Ransom, Morland and Co. managing partner in 441
Royal bank of England, Charing Cross 367.
Royal bank of Ireland founded 754.
Royal British bank 511, 586.

The City bank, founder of 601.

Baptist Missionary Society, bequest to 176.
Bar committee, originator of 818.

Baronets, assumers of title of, Alston 106, Clifton 690,
Cox 782.

Barristers, One disbarred at his own request 93.

Bath, Natural history and antiquarian field club, founder
of 432.

Battle Abbey bought and sold 688.

Bedford, high school at, founded 366.

Bees, death caused by sting of 238, the best book about
649.

Belfast, Campbell college at 592.

Bell Ringing, a bell ringer 76 years 602.

Benedictine order, only mitred abbot in England 541.
Bessemer, Sir Henry, county of Bessemer and six towns
named after 386.

Bible, collector of 1,000 editions of 682.
Bicyclists, Cortis 763, Keen 763, Keith-Falconer 763.
Bigamists, Baker 239, Cotton 769.

Big Game hunter, the greatest 240.
Billiard players, Bennett 739, Cook 739, Richards 740,
Roberts, John 739, Roberts, John, junior 739.
Birds eggs, finest collection of, in the world 817.
Birmingham, Birmingham proof house 104, founder of

literary institution 569, founder of the largest trade
482, governor of borough prison tried for cruelty 208,
new reference library opened 211.

Black and white work, master of a new school of 325.
Black Ball line of ships established 234.
Blackburn, first archdeacon of 404.

Blind, Braille method of writing, chief promoter of 161,
Typewriter for blind students invented 278.

Boats and boating, collapsible or folding portable, inven.
tor of 383, Colquhoun sculls founded 723, Leander
boat club, 464, 723.

Bombay University, Arnould scholarship founded 175.
Bonds, accumulative, a new form of security 285.
Bonny, king of, his poet laureate 692.
Books, author of 222 books 448, book translated into
most European languages, Arabic and some Indian
dialects 644, plates in a book costing over £200 each
301.

Booksellers, Amer 109, Bond 449, Boosey, 453, Bosworth
458, Bumpus 539.

Booksellers Association, account of 559.

Boroglycerine, Inventor of 264.

Bottle works, largest in Europe 597.

Bournemouth, St. Stephen's church erected 359.
Bovey Tracey, house of mercy at, founded 773.
Bowyer Bible, extended to 45 vols. 65.
Boycott, origin of the word 470.

Bradford, chamber of commerce, founder of 343, eye and
ear hospital, founder of 343.

Braehead, ancient tenure by which estate of held
794.

Breach of promise of marriage, highest sum for damages
ever paid 574.

Bridges, largest cantilever in the world 230.

Brighton, introducer of photography at 731, lessees of
theatre royal 646, 647, one of the three drapers at
731.

British and African steam navigation co., founders of
823.

British and foreign anti-slavery society, original number

of 95.

British and foreign bible society, one of the 36 founders

441.

British and North American royal mail steam packet
company founded 551.

British Guiana, first bishop of 209.

British Museum, catalogue of books first printed 450,
keeper of printed books 538, principal librarian 450,
readers ticket cancelled 628.

British pharmaceutical congress, originator of 481.
Browning society founded 593.

Buckinghamshire general infirmary, founders of 626.
Buddhist, Blavatsky, H. P. 428.

Burglars, Branigham 532, Edgell 532, Murphy 532,
Richardson 532.

Burial, curious directions as to coffin 371, in ecclesiasti-
cal vestments with chalice and paten 364.
Burns, Robert, the poet, his sons 551, 552.
Busts, Abbott 3, Acland 22, Acland 23, Adams 34, Airy
54, Armstrong 163, Arnold 172, Browning 521, Bu-
chanan 530, Burrows 554, Carden 601, Carlingford,
603, Carpenter 606, Cayley 624, Chard 643, Church-
hill 664, Clark 670, Clarke 680, Collins 718, Collins
719, Combe, 725, Coode 733.

Butterflies, a finder of 8000 new species 305, one of
largest collections of exotic butterflies 817.

C

Cabriolet, one of the last men to drive 583.
Caffraria, Jackals in, hunted with foxhounds 159.
Calcutta, founder and sec. of zoological gardens at 121.
Cambridge, Town, Cottage home for little orphan girls
at, founded 216.

Cambridge, University, Allen scholarship, founder of 88,
Bequest of herbarium to 216, Cavendish college, pro-
jector of 490, Clare college, donor of windows and
of legacy to 713, Downing college, master of 406,
first council of senate of 595, Girton college, founders
of 442, Newnham hall and college 692, Oldest mem-
ber of 617, Queen's college, president of 595, regius
professor of civil law, Abdy 8, St. John's college,
Lady Margaret boat club founded 833, pres. of college
802, strongest man at 342, the first Tyrwhitt Hebrew
scholar 106.

Cancer, treatment of, by Chian turpentine 683.
Canterbury, bequest of £10,000 to, 324, cricket week and

rural fetes, founder of 243, first primate buried in
Canterbury cathedral since Cardinal Pole 367, St.
Augustine's missionary college at 712.
Capodimonte or Buon Ritero china, collector of 645.
Cardiff, Bute docks opened 561.

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Caroline, Queen, adopted son of 208.

Cartoons, designer of several hundred 549.
Catamarans, an early introducer of 732.
Cattle, sale of herd of red polled 721.
Caxton, 450 works by, inspected 418.
Centenarians, Abbott 3, Adlam 43, Allcot 87, Allen 89,
Annesley 139, Bastard 300, Bayly 314, Bowron 468,
Buckler 533, Cartigny 613, Chapman 642, Colman
713

Cervantic library, collector of 178.

Chancery Reform association, the cause of it 629.
Channel railway proposed 302.
Channel tunnel 13, 527.

Chantilly, Chateau de, bequeathed by will of Duc d'
Aumale 204.

Charities, Friedenheim or home of peace, founder of
644, Home for little boys at Tottenham founded 644.
Charlies or parochial watchmen, the last of them 144.
Chartists, Alderson 69, Cooper 749, Cranston 792, Craw-
shay 799.

Cheltenham, ladies college at, founded 351.

Cheltenham college, one of the original 146 boys 392.
Chess players, Adamson 39, Avery 211, Blumberg 437,
Bower 466, Bruhl 526, Campbell 593, Cochrane 697,
Morphy 211, St. Amant 697, Chess problem composers
Beyer 393, Bolton 448, Campbell 593.

Children, the pioneer of superior books for 822.
China, a mutiny of 20,000 Chinese put down 572.
Chloral hydrate, introducer of, into England 78.
Chlorodyne, discoverer of 519.

Chodowiecki, the German Cruikshank, collection of

books illustrated by him 178.

Christmas card, designer of the first 479, publisher of
the first 822.

Christy minstrels 542, 804.

Churches, the man who built the most churches 373.
Church protection society founded 364.

Church Rates, historical name in connection with 234,
Non-payer of 254.

Circumcision, book on Jewish rite of 181.
Cirencester, principal of royal agricultural college 730.
Civil list pensions, Absolon 18, Alabaster 60, Allingham,
98, Arnold 171, Atkinson 197, Barkly, F. A. 268,
Barkly, Lady, A. M. 269, Barnes 276, Bates 304,
Berkeley 378, Best 387, Bettany 390, Blanchard 125,
Bonaparte 448. Brewer 491, Browne 517, Burton
556, Cameron 587, Capern 598, Carpenter 607, Cook
735, Cory 764.

Clairvoyance, book about 408.
Clarinettist, finest in the world 690.
Cleopatra's Needle, saver of 75.

Clinical thermometer, bringers into general use of 615.
Clowns, Agoust 47, Austin 789, Bibb, 393.
Clubs,

Alpine, a founder of 114, 286.

Autonomie frequented by anarchists 463.
Berkeley club house, a gambling house 43.

Breakfast, a founder of 13.

Coaching, founder of 329.

Conservative, member expelled from 356.

Gresham founded 386.

Grillion, book about 24.

Hogarth founded 469.

Ray founded 215, 455.

The black and tan 405.

White's, London, lease of, purchased 652.

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Coaches, The Age 600, The Railroad C00, The Victoria
600.

Coaching, driving from London to Brighton in 4 hours
and 21 minutes 613.

Coachmen, Carter 612, Clements 686.
Cockfighting, greatest authority on 188.
Coffin, carried by a storm ten miles 702.

Coins, finest collection of, ever formed 824, collectors of,
Acton 24, Allan 84, Boase 441, Cochran 696.
Collections, Brenchley's at Maidstone 490, Cosens's
pictures and drawings 765, Cosier's pictures 765,
Japanese artistic works and curios 467.
Colleen Bawn, drama of 460.

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Commission of the peace, name erased from 511.
Commons and footpaths preservation society 100.
Commons, House of, action against the speaker 628,

action against the serjeant-at-arms 628, chaplain to
130, leader of fourth party in 663, M.P. swearing
himself in 478, M.P., expulsion of 477-8, M.P.
known as member for India 478.

Composers, musical, Allen 90, Allon 101, Andrews 132,
Atkins, F. P. 192, Atkins, R. A. 192, Banister 257,
Barnard 272, Barnby 273, Barnett, J. 277, Barnett,
N. G. 278, Barrett 283, Bartholomew 292, Bates 303,
Bedsmore 339, Bergson 376, Birch 404, Blair 421,
Blamphin 425, Bliss 431, Bradford 476, Burnett 550,
Caldicott 579, Carte 611, Cellier 626, Cherry 648,
Clay 683, Clay, Lila 683, Colborne 704, Collet 714,
Crouch 813, Crowe 815, Cruse 818, Cusins 833.
Concertina quartet formed 419.

Confessional, The priest, the woman and the confess-
ional 657.

Congregationalism, oldest minister in the world 718.
Cook, James, the circumnavigator, memorial obelisk of
595.

Corduroy, inventor of cloth so called 358.
Cornwall, Bibliotheca Cornubiensis and Collectanea
Cornubiensia 441, great authority in on banking,
smelting, fisheries and land 446.

Coroner, the oldest in England 613.
Cottleites, a religious sect 767.

County court judges, Abdy 8, Atkinson 196, Barker 260,
Barron 285, Barrow 286, Bayley 313, Bedwell 339,
Bere 374, Beresford 376, Blake 422, Bristowe 500,
Caillard 572, Carson 611, Colquhoun 722, Cooke 743,
Cox 783.

Court, presentation at, cancelled 628.

Cremation, persons cremated, Allen 89, Allingham 98,

Ashbee 179, Aveling 210, Baker 240, Barber 260,
Bedford, duchess of 337, Bedford, duke of 336,
Bellew 354, Bernays 381, Blavatsky 428, Blind 431,
Bramwell 484, Broughton 508, Cecil 625, Cock 697,
Crackanthorpe 788.

Cricket, ball thrown nearly 100 yards 17, founders of I.
Zingari, printing of 246, I. Zingari cricket club
founded 385, president of 20 cricket clubs 569, Surrey
cricket club founded 385, twelve Cæsars of Godalm-
ing 571.

DEVON AND SOMERSET STAGHOUNDS. 844

Cricketers, Abercrombie 11, Absolom 17, Adams 36,
Ainslie 50, Anderson 116, Anson 141, Arnold 169,
Baker 243, Balston 255, Barclay 261, Barnes 276,
Barratt 280, Barrow 288, Bates 305, Bentley, H. 372,
Bentley, J. 372, Bere 374, Bessborough 385, Boldero
446, Boudier 461, Bowen 465, Buchanan 529, Burbidge
540, Buxton 566, Cæsar 571, Calverley 584, Calvert
585, Cherry 648, Chitty 659, Clissold, 691, Coleridge,
C. E. 712, Cooke 740, Coote 751, Cordery, 758, Cur-
teis 831.

Crockford's clerical directory, founder and publisher of
804.

Croydon granted a court of quarter sessions 705, sewage
farm of 560 acres 506.

Crustacea, greatest authority on 300.
Cryptographer, a very successful 396.
Crystal palace concerts, founder of 322.
Cunard steamship co. established 551.

Curling, Grand Caledonian curling club founded 776.

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Dancing, introducer of English character dancing 601,
Irish jig dancing champion 602.

Darbyites, sect of, founded 353.

Darlingism, misnamed electro-biology 529.

Daylight reflector manufacturer, Chappuis 643.

Deaf and dumb. teachers of, Arnold, T. 172, Baker, C.
237.

Deaths, an author killed by The Athenæum ten years
before he really died 198, leave granted to swear a
death 332.

Deaths under peculiar circumstances, at a county ball
47, at a railway station 342, at Royal Alhambra pal-
ace 668, by fall from balloon 63, 299, by fall from
bicycle 632, by falling down a precipice 492, dropping
dead in the street at Melbourne 681, drowned in
a collision at sea 732, drowned in Lake of Ontario
624, drowned in the Seine 788, drowned while bath-
ing 156, 395, falling into the fire 317, 782, found
dead in a summer house 705, found dead in his cell
at Newgate 707, found dead in the Serpentine 617,
found dead on beach at Folkestone 444, from acci-
dental discharge of gun 330, from accidental poison-
ing 471, from being knocked down by a derrick or crane
17, from being stung by a bee 238, from bomb ex-
ploding in pocket 463, from hysterical catalepsy 408,
from taking an overdose of morphia 807. from taking
chloral 698, in an omnibus 665, in a refreshment
room 500, in a workhouse infirmary 394, in St. Pan-
cras workhouse 628, in stepping from a railway car-
riage 782, in the act of demonstrating 742, in the
rostrum of a Wesleyan chapel 382, in the street 610,
in the train 467, 474, in the water while performing
the Moute Cristo trick 309, killed by a train 334,
killed by lightning 150, killed by natives of Swan-
gwara 200, killed in battle 658, massacred with wife
and daughters at Delhi 375, murdered by Indians
272, murdered by Turks 4, on the roof of a house
749, shot by an Arab 296, suffocated in a fire 271,
while crossing the Furca pass 326, while driving 573,
while riding 511.

Deer stalking in the Highlands, a six guinea book on 699.
Dentists, head of the profession in Canada 340, leading
dentist in the provinces 300.
Denver univ., benefactor of 632.

Derby, Midland deaf and dumb institution, chairman of
226, Railway servants orphanage, founder of 226.
Devon and Somerset staghounds, Reorganiser of 721.

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