Posthumous: 'Letters to Rev. J. W. Temple,' 1857; Boswelliana : the Common-place Book of J. Boswell,' published by Grampian Club, 1874. Life: by P. Fitzgerald, 1891. *BOYD (Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson), b. 1825. Born, at Auchinleck, Ayrshire, 3 Nov. 1825. Educated at King's Coll. School, London, Oct. 1840 | 1872; A Scotch Communion Sunday' (anon.), 1873; 'Landscapes, Churches and Moralists' (anon.), 1871; 'From a Quiet Place' (anon.), 1879; 'Our Little Life' (anon.), 1882; 2nd series, 1884; A Young Man' (anon.), 1884; 'Towards the Sunset' (anon.), 1883; 'What set him Right' (anon.), 1885; 'Our Homely Comedy and Tragedy' (anon.), 1887; East Coast Days and Memories' (anon.), 1887; 'The Best Last' (anon.), 1888; Church Life in Scotland,' 1890; The Mother of us Andrews,' 1882; 'St. Andrews and All,' 1890; Twenty-five Years of St. Immemorial Days,' 1895; 'The Last Elsewhere,' 1894; Occasional and Years of St. Andrews,' 1896. He has edited: 'Labourers in the 'Pastoral Counsels,' 1867. to Oct. 1841. Admitted to Middle Temple, 1842. At King's Coll., London, Oct. 1843 to July 1844. To Glas- Vineyard,' 1862; Dr. Robertson's gow Univ., Nov. 1844; B. A., April 1846. Ordained, 1851. Incumbent of Newton-on-Ayr, 18 Sept. 1851 to Jan. 1854; of Kirkpatrick-Irongray, Galloway, Jan. 1854 to April 1859; of St. Bernard's, Edinburgh, April 1859 to Sept. 1865. D.D., Edinburgh, April 1864. Incumbent of St. Andrews, Sept. 1865. Began literary career by contributing to Fraser's Magazine,' under initials 'A. K. H. B.' LL.D., St. Andrews, April 1889. Moderator of General Assembly of Church of Scotland, May 1890. Fellow of King's Coll., London, 1895. Works: Recreations of a Country Parson,' 1st series, 1859; 2nd series, 1861; 3rd series, 1878; 'Leisure Hours in Town' (anon.), 1862; The Graver Thoughts of a Country Parson' (three series), 1862, 1864, 1875; The Commonplace Philosopher' (anon.), 1862; 'People of whom more might have been made,' 1863; Counsel and Comfort,' (anon.), 1863; 'The Autumn Holidays of a Country Parson' (under initials: A. K. H. B.), (anon.), 1864; Critical Essays of a Country Parson,' 1865; Sunday Afternoons, etc. (anon.), 1866; Lessons of Middle Age' (anon.), 1868; 'The Place of Ritual,' 1869; Changed Aspects of Unchanged Truths' (anon.), 1869; 'Present Day Thoughts' (anon.), 1871; 'Seaside Musings' (anon.), *BRADDON (Mary Elizabeth) [Mrs. John Maxwell], b. 1837. Born, in London, 1837. Early contrib. to periodicals. Editor of Belgravia,' 1866. 'Loves of Arcadia ' produced at Strand Theatre, 1860. Married to John Maxwell, 1874. 'Married Beneath Him' produced, 1882 Editor of 'The Mistletoe Bough,' 1878. Works: 'Garibaldi,' 1861; "The Trail of the Serpent,' 1861; "The Lady Lisle' 1862 [1861]; Ralph the Bailiff' (anon.), 1862; 'The Captain of the Vulture,' 1862; 'Lady Audley's Secret,' 1862; 'Aurora Floyd,' 1863; Eleanor's Victory,' 1863; John Marchmont's Legacy' (anon.), 1863; Henry Dunbar' (anon.), 1864; 'The Doctor's Wife' (anon.) 1864; 'Only a Clod' (anon.), 1865; 'Sir Jasper's Tenant' (anon.), 1865; The Lady's Mile' (anon. ), 1866; 'Rupert Godwin' (anon.), 1867; 'Circe' (under pseud. of Babington White), 1867; 'Birds of Prey' (anon.), 1867; Charlotte's Inheritance' (anon.), 1868; DeadSea Fruit' (anon.), 1868; Run to Earth' (anon.), 1868; ‘Fenton's Quest' | (anon.), 1871; The Lovels of Arden' (anon.), 1871; 'The Summer Tourist,' 1871; Robert Ainsleigh' (anon.), 1872; To the Bitter End' (anon.), 1872; Milly Darrell' (anon.), 1873; BREWSTER 31 Tour FR.S., 4 Strangers and Pilgrims' (anon.), | tinued it alone as the Edinburgh 1873; 'Lucius Davoren (anon.), Journal of Science'). Ordained, 1873; Taken at the Flood' (anon.), March 1804. Tutor in family of Gen. 1874; Lost for Love' (anon.), 1874; Diroon of Mount Annan, 1804-07. 'A Strange World' (anon.), 1875; Hon. LL.D., Aberdeen, 1807. Fellow 'Hostages to Fortune' (anon.), 1875; of Royal Soc. of Edinburgh, Jan. 'Dead Men's Shoes' (anon.), 1876; 1808. Edited Edinburgh Encyclo'Joshua Haggard's Daughter' (anon.), pædia,' 1808-30. Visit to London, 1876; 'Put to the Test' (anon.), 1809. Married Juliet Macpherson 1876; Weavers and Weft' (anon.), (daughter of 'Ossian' Macpherson), 1877; An Open Verdict (anon.), 31 July 1810. Contrib. first paper to 1878; 'Vixen' (anon.), 1879; 'The Royal Soc. of London, 1813. Cloven Foot' (anon.), 1879; The abroad for health, 1814. Story of Barbara' (anon.), 1880; May 1815; Copley Medal, 1815; Rum'Just as I am' (anon.), 1880; The ford Medal, 1818. Prize for scientific Missing Witness,' 1880; Asphodel' discoveries from French Institute, (anon.), 1881; 'Boscastle, Cornwall' 1816. Invented Kaleidoscope, 1816. (from The World'), 1881; 'Mount M.I.C.E., 1820. Founded Royal Royal' (anon.), 1882; Dross,' 1882; Scottish Soc. of Arts, and became 'Marjorie Daw,' 1882; 'Married Be- Director, 1821. Mem. of Royal Irish neath Him,' 1882; 'Married in Haste,' Acad. of Arts and Sciences, 1822. 1883; 'The Golden Calf' (anon.), Corresponding Member of French 1883; Phantom Fortune' (anon.), Institute, 1825. Assisted in organiz1883; Flower and Weed,' 1884; ing British Association, 1831. Hano'Ishmael' (anon.), 1884; Wyllard's verian Order of Guelph, and KnightWeird' (anon.), 1885; Under the hood, 1831. One of editors of 'London Red Flag,' 1886; One Thing Need- and Edinburgh Philosophical Mag.,' ful' (anon.), 1886; 'Mohawks from 1832. Hon. D.C.L., Oxford, (anon.), 1886; Cut by the County,' 21 June 1832. Hon. M.A., Trinity 1887; 'Like and Unlike' (anon.), Coll., Cambridge, 1833. Annual 1887; 'The Fatal Three' (anon.), grant of £100 from Government. 1888; 'The Day will Come' (anon.), Additional annual grant of £200, 1889; One Life, One Love' (anon.), 1836. Principal of St. Andrew's Uni1890; 'Gerard' (anon.), 1891; 'The versity, Jan. 1838 to Oct. 1859. Took part in secession of 'Free Church' from Church of Scotland, 1843. In consequence, unsuccessful attempt to eject him from position in St. Andrew's Univ., 1844. Chevalier of Order of Merit, 1847; Foreign Assoc. of French Institute, 1849. Pres. of Peace Congress, London, July 1851. Contrib. to Edinburgh Review,' 'North British Review,' and 'Quarterly Review,' Wife died, 27 Jan. Venetians' (anon.), 1891; All BREWSTER (Sir David), 17811868. Born, at Jedburgh, 11 Dec. 1781. Educated at Jedburgh Grammar School. To Edinburgh Univ. to study for Church, 1793. Tutor in family of Capt. Horsbrugh of Pirn, 1799-1804. Hon. M.A., Edinburgh, 12 April 1800; Hon. M.A., Camb., 1807. Contrib. to 'Edinburgh Magazine'; edited it from 1802 (from 1819-26 this was called the 'Edinburgh Philosophical Journal,' edited by Brewster and Prof. Jameson, 1819-24; from 1824-32 Brewster con 1850. Abroad with daughter, April 1850. Pres. of British Association at Edinburgh, 1851. Married Jane Kirk Purnell, 26 March 1857. ViceChancellor of Edinburgh Univ., 28 Oct. 1859, till death. Hon. M.D., Berlin, 1860. Pres. of Royal Soc. of Edinburgh, 1864. Died, at Allerly, 10 Feb. 1868. Buried at Melrose Abbey. Works History of Free Masonry' | (anon.), 1804; 'Examination of the Letter addressed to Principal Hill' (anon.), 1806; Treatise on New Philosophical Instruments,' 1813; 'On the Optical Properties of Sulphuret of Carbon' [1814]; 'On a new species of Coloured Fringes,' 1815; 'On the action of Transparent Bodies,' 1815; 'Description of a New Darkening Glass,' 1815; 'On a new... property of Calcareous Spar.' 1816; On the Optical Properties of Muriate of Soda,' 1816; On the Effect of Compression, etc.,' 1818;On the Laws which regulate the distribution of the Polarising Force, etc.,' 1818; Treatise on the Kaleidoscope,' 1819; Edinburgh Encyclopædia,' 1830; Life of Sir Isaac Newton,' 1831 ; "Treatise on Optics' (in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia), 1831; Letters on Natural Magic, 1832; Treatise on Magnetism' (reprinted from Encyclopædia Britannica '), 1837;The Martyrs of Science,' 1841; More Worlds than One,' 1854; 'Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton,' 1855; Contribution to The British Empire,' 1856; "The Stereoscope,' 1856; Memorial on the new system of Dioptric Lights,' 1859; Reply to Messrs. D. and T. Stevenson's pamphlet on Lighthouses,' 1860. He edited Ferguson's 'Lectures on Select Subjects,' 1806; Robinson's 'System of Mechanical Philosophy,' 1822; Legendre's 'Elements of Geometry,' 1824; Euler's 'Letters,' 1846. (selections from previous, with additions; priv. ptd.), 1884; Eros and Psyche,' 1885; Eight Plays' (containing Nero,' pts. i., ii.; Palicio,' 'Return of Ulysses,' 'Christian Captives,' Achilles in Scyros,' 'Humours of the Court,' 'Feast of Bacchus'), 1885-94; Essay on the Elements of Milton's Blank Verse,' Lost,' 1887; 'Feast of Bacchus' (priv. in H. C. Beeching's edn. of 'Paradise ptd.), 1889; 'On the Prosody of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes' (anon.), 1889; Shorter Poems,' 1890; Eden,' 1891; 'Milton's Prosody,' 1893; 'John Keats' (priv. ptd.), 1895. He has edited: Keats' Poems, 1896. * BRONTË (Anne), 1820 - 1849. Born, at Thornton, 1819; baptized 25 March, 1820. Early life spent at Haworth, near Bradford. Educated at Miss Wooler's school at Roehead, 1835-37. Governess, April 1839 to 1845. Published poems with her sisters, 1846. To Scarborough for health, 24 May 1849. Died there, 28 May 1849. Works: Contribution to 'Poems: by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell,' 1846; Agnes Grey,' 1847; 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,' 1848; both the latter Life: by his daughter, Mrs. Gordon, under pseud. of Acton Bell.' (3rd edn.)1881. At *BRONTE (Charlotte), 1816-1855. * BRIDGES (Robert Seymour), b. Born, at Thornton, 21 April 1815. 1844. Born, at Walmer, Kent, 23 Early life spent at Haworth. Oct. 1844. At Eton Coll., 1854 to School at Cowan's Bridge, Sept. 1824 July 1863. Matric. Corpus Coll., to autumn of 1825. At Miss Wooler's Oxford, 19 Oct. 1863; B.A., 1867. school at Roehead, Jan. 1831 to 1832. Travelled abroad, and subsequently Returned there as teacher, 29 July studied Medicine at St. Bartholomew's 1835 to spring of 1838. Situation as Hospital. First vol. of poems pub., governess in 1839. At home, 1840. 1873. M.B. and M. A., Oxford, 1874. Governess, March to Dec. 1841. То For a time on staff of St. Bartholo- school at Brussels with her sister mew's Hospital, and of Children's Hos- | Emily, Feb. 1842. Returned to Haworth, Nov. 1842. Returned to | University Mag.,' 1865. Twelve years : Brussels school as teacher, Jan. 1843. Returned to Haworth 2 Jan. 1844. Published poems with her sisters, 1846. 'Jane Eyre' published, 1847. Visits to London with Emily, June 1848; Nov. 1849 (when she made acquaintance of Thackeray); 1850; 1851; 1853. Married to Arthur Nicholls, 29 June 1854. Visited Ireland with her husband, and returned with him to Haworth. Died there, 31 March 1855. Works: Contrib. to 'Poems: by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell,' 1846; 'Jane Eyre,' 1847; 'Shirley,' 1849; 'Villette,' 1853; all under pseudonym of Currer Bell. Posthumous: The Professor: by Currer Bell,' 1857; 'Emma' (a fragment), pub. in Cornhill Magazine,' April 1860. She edited (under pseud. of 'Currer Bell') a new edition of Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey,' with selections and prefaces, 1850. Collected Works: with those of her sisters Anne and Emily (7 vols.), 1872-73. Life: by Mrs. Gaskell, 4th edn., 1858; by Clement K. Shorter, 1896. *BRONTË (Emily Jane), 1818-1848. Born, at Thornton, 1818; baptized 20 Aug. Early life spent at Haworth. At School at Cowan's Bridge, Sept. 1824 to autumn of 1825. At Miss Wooler's school at Roehead, July to October, 1835. Returned to Haworth. Teacher for six months at a school in Halifax, 1836. To school at Brussels with her sister Charlotte, Feb. 1842. Returned to Haworth at end of same year. Published poems with her sisters, 1846. Visit to London with her sister Charlotte, June 1848. Died, at Haworth, 19 Dec. 1848. Works: Contrib. to 'Poems: by Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell,' 1846; 'Wuthering Heights' (under pseud. of Ellis Bell), 1847. *BROUGHTON (Rhoda), b. 1840. Born at Segrwyd Hall, Derbyshire, 29 Nov. 1840. Early life spent there. First novel pubd. as serial in Dublin recently spent in Oxford. Resides at Richmond. Well' (anon.), 1867; Cometh up as a Works: 'Not Wisely, but Too Flower' (anon.), 1867 ;' Red as a Rose is She' (anon.), 1870; 'Good-Bye, Sweetheart,' 1872; Tales for ChristTwilight Stories,' 1876); 'Nancy, mas Eve,' 1872 (another edn., entitled 1873; Joan,'1876; 'Second Thoughts,' 1880; 'Belinda,' 1883; Betty's Visions,' 1886; Doctor Cupid,' 1886 'Alas!' 1890; 'A Widower Indeed (with E. Bisland), 1891; 'Mrs. Bligh,' 1892; A Beginner,' 1894; 'Scylla or Charybdis,' 1895. 1810. 1824-26. BROWN (John), 1810-1882. Born, at Biggar, Lanarkshire, 22 Sept. At private school in Edinburgh, 1822-24; at High School, To Edinburgh Univ., Nov. Began to study medicine, May 1827. Apprenticed to James Syme, surgeon, 1828-33. M.D., EdinEdinburgh, where he lived till his burgh, 1833. Started practice in 1826. death. Married Catharine Scott M'Kay, 4 June 1840; she died 6 Jan. 1864. F.R.C.P., 1847. Fellow of Roy. Soc. of Edinburgh, 1859. Assessor to Rector of Edinburgh Univ., 1861-62. Hon. LL.D., Edinburgh, 22 April 1874. Crown Pension, 1874. Died, in Edinburgh, 11 May 1882. Buried in New Calton cemetery. Works: Horæ Subsecivæ,' ser. i., 1858; ser. ii., 1861; ser. iii., 1882; Rab and his Friends' (extracted from preceding), 1859; 'On the deaths of Rev. J. M'Gilchrist, J. Brown, J. Henderson,' 1860; With Brains, Sir! (anon.), 1860; Health,' 1862; Marjorie Fleming' (from 'North Brit. Rev.'), 1863; 'Jeems, the Doorkeeper,' 1864; Minchmoor,' 1864; 'Thackeray,' 1877; 'John Leech,' 1877; 'Something about a Well,' 1882. Life: by E. T. Maclaren, 1890; by A. Peddie (with selected letters), 1893. BROWNE (Sir Thomas), 1605-1682. Born, in London, 19 Oct. 1605. Edu 34 BROWNE-BROWNING cated at Winchester Coll., as Scholar, 1616-23 To Broadgate Hall (now Pembroke Coll.), Oxford, 1623; B.A., | 31 June 1626; M.A., 11 June 1629. Practised medicine for a short time. Tour in Ireland, France, Italy, Holland. Returned to practice near Halifax. Religio Medici' probably written 1635. To Norwich, 1637. M.D., Oxford, 10 July 1637. Married Dorothy Mileham, 1641. 'Religio Medici' privately published, 1642. Sided with Royalists in Civil Wars. Hon. Fellow of Coll. of Physicians, 6 July 1665. Knighted, on State visit of Charles II. to Norwich, 28 Sept. 1671. Died, 19 Oct. 1682; buried at Norwich. Works: Religio Medici,' privately printed, 1642; authorized version, 1643; Pseudodoxia Epidemica,' 1646; 'Hydriotaphia,' 1658. Posthumous: 'Certain Miscellany Tracts,' 1684; 'Works,' 1686; 'Posthumous Works,' 1712; 'Christian Morals,' 1716. Collected Works: including Life and Correspondence, ed. by S. Wilkin (4 vols.), 1835-36. BROWNE (William), 1591-1643 [?]. Born, at Tavistock, 1591. Educated at Tavistock Grammar School. To Exeter Coll., Oxford; took no degree. Entered at Clifford's Inn; and at Middle Temple, Nov. 1611. Married daughter of Sir Thomas Eversfield. Tutor to Hon. Robert Dormer, at Exeter Coll., 1624. Created M. A., Oxford, 16 Nov. 1624. Lived in country; for some time at Dorking. Died, March 1643 [?]. 1613; Works: 'Two Elegies,' 'Britannia's Pastorals,' bk. i., 1613; bk. ii., 1616 (bks. i. and ii. together, 1625); The Shepherd's Pipe,' 1614. Posthumous: Britannia's Pastorals,' bk. iii., 1852; 'Original Poems, never before published,' ed. by Sir S. E. Brydges, 1815. Collected Works: in 3 vols., ed. by T. Davies, 1772; in 2 vols., ed. by W. C. Hazlitt, 1868; in 2 vols., ed. by G. Goodwin, 1894. *BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett), 1806-1861. Born [Elizabeth Barrett Moulton - Barrett], at Coxhoe, co. Durham, 6 March 1806. [Date disputed, but this probably correct.] Early life at Hope End, Herefordshire. Delicate health owing to accident to spine while at Hope End. Poem, Battle of Marathon,' printed for her by her father, 1820. First publication, 1826. At Sidmouth, 1831-33. First contrib. to Athenæum,' 1 July 1837. Contrib. to Finden's Tableaux,' same year. To Torquay for health, 1838; brother drowned there, 11 July 1840. Returned to London, summer of 1841. Married to Robert Browning, 12 Sept. 1846. To Paris and Italy. Settled in Florence, winter of 1847. Son born, 9 March 1849. Visit to Rome, 1850; to England, 1851; winter and spring in Paris; to London summer of 1852; return to Florence in autumn. Winter of 1853-54 in Rome. Visit to Normandy, July 1858. To Rome, winter of 1859-60, and 1860-61. Died, at Florence, 29 June 1861. Works: An Essay on Mind' (anon.), 1826; 'Prometheus Bound,' 1833; 'The Seraphim,' 1838; 'Poems' (2 vols.), 1844 (reprinted at New York as 'A Drama of Exile, etc.,' 1845); 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point,' 1849; Casa Guidi Windows,' 1851; 'Two Poems: by E. Barrett and R. Browning,' 1854; 'Aurora Leigh,' 1857 [1856]; 'Poems before Congress,' 1860. 6 6 Posthumous: 'Last Poems,' 1862; The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets,' 1863; 'Selected Poems,' ed. by Robert Browning (2nd series), 1866, 1880; Letters to R. H. Horne (2 vols.), 1877 [1876]; Earlier Poems, 1826-33,' 1878 [1877]; The Battle of Marathon' (in typefacsimile, privately printed), 1891. 6 She edited: Chaucer's Works (with R. H. Horne and others), 1841. Collected Works: (2 vols.), New York, 1871; London, 1890. Women' series), 1888. *BROWNING (Robert), 1812-1889. |