AARON, BARNETT. b. Duke's place, Aldgate, London 21 Nov. 1800; a Jew pugilist known as Barney Aaron, the Star of the East; beat Edward Stockman 6 May 1823, John Lenny 5 Aug. 1823, Frank Redmond 30 Dec. 1823, Peter Warren 6 April 1824; matched to fight Richard Curtis for £100 a side, but forfeited his stake 23 Nov. 1824; beaten by Arthur Matthewson, £100 a side, 58 rounds in 70 minutes at Colnbrook, Bucks. 21 June 1824; beat Richard Hares, £50 a side, 41 rounds at No Man's Land near St. Albans 21 March 1826; beaten by R. Curtis, £100 a side, 9 rounds in 50 minutes at Andover 27 Feb. 1827; received £50 forfeit from F. Redmond 21 Aug. 1827; beat F. Redmond, £50 a side, 42 rounds in 72 minutes at No Man's Land 23 Oct. 1827; beat Marsh Bateman, £40 a side on Landsdowne racecourse 4 July 1828; beaten by Harry Jones, £50 a side, 18 rounds in 15 minutes at the Barge house, Woolwich marshes 11 Nov. 1828; beat James Raines, £50 a side, 13 rounds in 28 minutes at Navestock Green, Essex 26 May 1829; beaten by Tom Smith, £50 a side, 20 rounds in 26 minutes at Greenstreet Green, Kent 1 April 1834; a dealer in fish in East end of London from 1828. d. 3 Boar's Head yard, Whitechapel, London 11 July 1859. H. D. Miles's Pugilistica ii 487-94, 504-15, 530 (1880) prt. ; P. Egan's New series of Boxiana ii 153-94 (1829) prt.; Fistiana (1868) 1, 31, 67, 81, 113; Certificate of the registrar general, London.

ABBADIE, ANTOINE THOMPSON d' (son of a French father and Irish mother). b. Dublin

1810; educ. in France; explored with his brother, Ethiopia 1837-9 and 1839-49; knight of legion of honour; member of Académie des Sciences 1867, to which he gave in Jany. 1896 an estate at Abbadia in the Basses-Pyrénées with a sum yielding 40,000 francs a year on condition of its preparing within 50 years a catalogue of half-a-million stars; chief of the expedition sent out by the Académie to Haiti to observe the transit of Venus 1882; erected an observatory at his Chateau d' Abbadia, Hendaye, Basses-Pyrénées; F.R.A.S. 8 Nov. 1895; gave annual prizes for long-ball in the Basque parish of Urrugne, where he resided from 1850; author of Observations relatives à la physique du globe, faites au Brésil et en Ethiopia 1873 and other works. d. Paris 19 March 1897. Encyclopedia Britannica xxv 2-3 (1902); Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. lviii 128-30 (1898); Times 22 March 1897 p. 8; G.M. March 1859 p. 226.

ABBADIE, ARNAUD MICHEL d' (brother of preceding). b. Dublin 1815; educ. in France; explored with his brother, Ethiopia 1837-9 and 1839-49. d. 1893. Encyclopedia Britannica xxv 2-3 (1902).

ABBATT, RICHARD (son of Edward Abbatt, d. 1802). b. Burgess Hill, Sussex 1800; educ. at a boarding school in Yorkshire; apprenticed to a grocer, indentures cancelled on account of ill-health; a member of Society of Friends; mathematical master in a school at Hammersmith, and then at a school of Society of

ABBATT, R. (Con.)

Friends at Tottenham; partner with Dr. Usmer in a school at Epping 1836-9, when school was removed to Stoke Newington; presented with 1,000 guineas by his old pupils when he retired; one of the party sent out to observe the eclipse of the sun at Gibraltar Dec. 1870; resided at Marlboro house, Lordship road, Stoke Newington, London 1860-5, and latterly at Burgess Hill; elected F. R. A.S. 8 Feb. 1833; author of The elements of plane and spherical trigonometry 1832, 2 ed. 1836; A treatise on the calculus of variations 1836; The principles and practice of linear perspective, divested of all difficulty 1853; General education: learning made easy, or teaching by reason and sight 1854; Orthographic projection of the globe on the plane of a given horizon: or perspective view of the earth 1857; A short introduction to the Principia; or the first steps in physical astronomy 1868; The elements of physical astronomy 1870; and Remarks on the infinitesimal calculus 1876; published also two Orthographic projections of the world representing the earth floating in space. d. Burgess Hill, Sussex 15 Sept. 1884. bur. Abney park cemet. Park st. Stoke Newington, London. Annual Monitor (1885) 1; Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. Feb. 1885 pp. 188-9. ABBOTT, CHARLES. b. Debenham, Suffolk 9 Feb. 1798; a grocer at Ipswich; admitted a Brother of the Charterhouse 3 Feb. 1876, having been nominated by sir Wm. Erle, one of the governors. d. the Charterhouse, city of London 13 March 1899 aged 101. bur. family vault, Norwood cemet., photograph of him taken Feb. 1898 in the library at Charterhouse. Times 10 Feb. 1899 p. 12; information from The Rev. Wm. Haig Brown. ABBOTT, CHARLES JAMES (1 son of Charles Thelwell Abbott of 8 New Inn, London, attorney, d. 9 Sept. 1853). b. London 1816; educ. Winchester coll.; partner in firm of Abbott, Jenkins and Abbott, solicitors, 8 New Inn, London 1841 to death; under-sheriff of county of Surrey 1851-86; senior ancient of society of New Inn to his death. d. Rydens, Walton-on-Thames 6 Jany. 1889. Law Times 30 March 1889 p. 415.

ABBOTT, FRANCIS. b. 1800; clerk in general post office, Lombard st. London 1822-46; secretary of general post office for Scotland 1846-68; m. 10 Dec. 1861 Frances Jane, 1 dau, of admiral sir Wm. Parker, 1 baronet, she d. 7 Nov. 1871. d. 25 Moray place, Edinburgh 11 Sept. 1893, bust in post office, Edinburgh. Baines's Forty years at the post office i 257 (1895); Times 15 Sept. 1893 p. 1.

ABBOTT, FRANCIS GEORGE. b. 1805 or 1806; attorney at 3 Rolls yard, Chancery lane, London 1829; partner with R. B. Wheatly as attornies and patent agents at same address 1845-8, at 22 Southampton buildings, Chancery lane, and at Staines, Middlesex 1848 to death; deputy clerk of Petty bag office, court of chancery, London 1842-8, clerk 1848 to death. d. Folkestone 25 June 1864. Solicitors' Journal 2 July 1864 p. 713.

ABBOTT, SIR FREDERICK (son of Henry Alexius Abbott of Calcutta, merchant, then of Blackheath, Kent). b. Littlecourt, Herts. 13 June 1805; educ. Warfield, Berkshire and Addiscombe; 1 lieut. Bengal engineers 1 May 1824, lieut. col. 11 Nov. 1846; superintending engineer of North-western provinces of Bengal June 1841 to Feb. 1842 and 30 Dec. 1842 to 1 Jany. 1846; chief engineer with general Pollock's force against Cabul 1842; lieut. governor of military college at Addiscombe 8 Jany. 1851 to June 1861, when college closed, it was sold to the British land company for £33,600, 30 Aug. 1861; retired from active list 1 Oct. 1847; C.B. 27 June 1846; knighted at St. James's palace 9 June 1854; M.G. 10 Sept. 1858; member of royal commission on defences of the U.K. 20 Aug. 1859 to May 1860; served in first Burmese war 1824-6, in Afghan war 1841-3, and in first Sikh campaign 1846; member of council of military education 1 July 1862 to 31 Dec. 1868; triennial member of Cheltenham college council 1871-85, life member 1885-7; author of Practical treatise on permanent bridges for Indian rivers, Agra 1847, 2 ed. 1850. d. Goshen, Branksome park, Bournemouth 4 Nov. 1892. Vibart's Addiscombe (1894) 190200, 311, 2 prts.; Thackeray's Biographical notices of officers of the Royal (Bengal) engineers (1900) 86-91; Times 7 Nov. 1892 p. 10; Daily Graphic 10 Nov. 1892 p. 13 prt.

ABBOTT, HENRY. b. Salonica, Turkey 1842 or 1843; consul for Germany at Salonica; murdered by the Turks in council room in grounds of the mosque at Salonica 6 May 1876. I.L.N. 27 May 1876 p. 509, 17 June p. 584 prt.

ABBOTT, HENRY DYETT. b. 15 Sept. 1816; ensign Madras army 9 Feb. 1836; ensign 31 Madras N.I. 6 Dec. 1836, captain 15 Nov. 1853; major Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 18 Feb. 1863; M.G. 3 Nov. 1878; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889; served through the Indian mutiny 1857-9; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. 61 Nevern sq. Earl's court, London 13 Nov. 1892. Times 17 Nov. 1892 p. 10; I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1892 p. 670.

ABBOTT, HERBERT EDWARD STACY. b. 19 Nov. 1814; educ. Addiscombe 1829-31; ensign 74 Bengal N.I. 6 Oct. 1832, major 11 Nov. 1854; lieut. col. Bengal infantry 22 Aug. 1858, colonel 9 Dec. 1867; M.G. 13 June 1870, L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; served with Joudpore field force 1839-40; commanded Bundelcund auxiliaries with Saugor field force 1858. d. 29 Powis sq. Bayswater, London 17 May 1883. I.L.N. 26 May 1883 p. 534.

ABBOTT, JAMES. Resided in Sussex; pensioner Queen's coll. Camb. 17 June 1822, fellow commoner 1 March 1827 to 1835; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1840; author of The handbook of idiotcy: showing the idiot's condition, the numerous causes of idiotcy and the most experienced methods of training and educating the idiot as successfully adopted by the continental governments of Europe and America 1856; Logical arguments and metaphysical verities proving that man has free will in religious and spiritual things; also showing the origin of evil, as taught by the most learned, and now presented for the candid consideration of every seeker after truth 1856; The book for training children, for the mothers of England, 2 ed. 1864. ABBOTT, SIR JAMES (brother of sir Frederick Abbott 1805-92). b. 12 March 1807; educ. Blackheath and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 6 June 1823, colonel 18 Feb. 1861; col. commandant R. A. 27 Feb. 1877 to death; sent to negotiate between Khiva and Russia 29 Dec. 1839, concluded terms in St. Petersburg 1840; comr. of Hazara 1845-53, held it during the Sikh war 1849-50, received thanks of both houses of parliament 1849; Abbottabad was named after him as a memorial of his work; commanded centre column in an expedition into the Black mountain Dec. 1852 to 1853; general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 24 May 1873, K.C.B. 26 May 1894; author of The T' Hakoorine, a tale of Maandoo 1841; Narrative of a journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow and St. Petersburg, during the late Russian invasion of Khiva, 2 vols. 1843, portrait, 3 ed. 1884; Prometheus's daughter: a poem 1861. d. Ellerslie, Swanmore, Ryde, Isle of Wight 6 Oct. 1896. bur. Guildford. Journal of Augustus Abbott, by C. R. Low (1879) 3-18; Vibart's Addiscombe (1894) 368-72; Times 8 Oct. 1896 p. 4. ABBOTT, SIR JOHN JOSEPH CALDWELL (1 son of rev. Joseph Abbott 1789-1863, first Anglican incumbent of St. Andrews, Argenteuil, Canada). b. St. Andrews 12 March 1821; educ. Mc Gill univ., Montreal, B.C.L. 1847, hon. D.C.L.; barrister Lower Canada Oct. 1847;

ABBOTT, SIR J. J. C. (Con.)

signed the Annexation manifesto 1849; represented Argenteuil in Canadian assembly 185974 and 1881-7, contested Argenteuil 1874, 1878, and 1880; Q.C. May 1862; solicitorgeneral for Lower Canada May 1862 to May 1863; chairman of standing committee of the assembly on banking and commerce several years; author of many important measures, including the Insolvent act 1864, and the Jury law consolidation act; associated with sir Hector Langevin on the Letellier de St. Just mission to home government 1879; member of the Senate for division of Inkerman in Quebec 13 May 1887 to death; leader for the government in the Senate without portfolio 1887-91; P.C. Canada May 1887, president June 1891 to 5 Dec. 1892; premier of the Dominion June 1891, resigned 5 Dec. 1892; professor of commercial law and dean of faculty of law of Mc Gill college 10 years and then a governor; raised the 11th battalion of volunteers or Argenteuil Rangers during the Trent difficulty 1861, lieut. col. 21 March 1862 to 4 Jany. 1884; promoted CanadianPacific railway 1872, standing counsel 1880 till 1886, a director 1886-91; mayor of Montreal 1887-9; K.C.M.G. 25 May 1892; author of The Argenteuil election case 1860; The insolvent act of 1864, with notes, together with the rules of practice and the tariff of fees for Lower Canada, Quebec 1864. Montreal 30 Oct. 1893. Dent's Canadian portrait gallery iii 229-30 (1881); Todd's Parliamentary government in the British colonies (1880) 601-20, 665; St. James's Budget 3 Nov. 1893 p. 20 prt.; I.L.N. 4 Nov. 1893 p. 567 prt. ABBOTT, JONAS ARCHER (son of Thomas Abbott of Dublin, alderman). b. 1806; entered navy 2 March 1819; lieut. 1 Oct. 1830; first lieut. of the Trinculo 8 May 1838 to 7 Sept. 1841; commander on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841; inspecting commander in the Coast guard at Westport 11 April 1850 and at Ballycastle, co. Antrim 15 Aug. 1850 to April 1855; captain 5 Feb. 1858, retired 7 Oct. 1870; retired R.A. 11 Dec. 1875, V.A. 20 Jany. 1880, admiral 1 July 1885. d. The Elms, Apley, Ryde, Isle of Wight 24 March 1887. O'Byrne's Naval biog. dict. new ed. (1861) 1. ABBOTT, PHILIP. Usher or writing master of Clitheroe gr. sch. 29 Dec. 1812; incumbent of Colne, Lancs. Sept. 1817 to 1821; P.C. of Downham, near Whalley, Lancs. 1818 to death; P.C. of Newchurch in Rossendale, Lancs. 1825 to Dec. 1833; head master of Clitheroe gr. sch. Oct. 1841 to death. Clitheroe 4 Sept. 1852. Baines's History of Lancaster iii 361(1890); G.M. Nov. 1852 p. 545.

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ABBOTT, ROBERT LAMB (1 son of Evelyn Abbott of Calverton, Notts.) b. Calverton 7 Oct. 1840; educ. Lincoln gr. sch.; matric. at Oxford as a non-collegiate student 11 Oct. 1873; B.A. 1877, M.A. 1880; tutor of noncollegiate students 1877, senior tutor 1880 to death; found drowned in the river Thames near Iffley lock 21 Jany. 1900, inquest held 22 Jany., verdict suicide in a fit of temporary insanity following upon a severe attack of influenza. Foster's Oxford men (1893) 637; Times 23 Jany. 1900 p. 6.

ABBOTT, SAUNDERS ALEXIUS (brother of sir James Abbott 1807-96). b. about 1812;

educ. Addiscombe 1826-8; ensign 42 Bengal N.I. 3 June 1829; ensign 51 Bengal N.I. 2 Aug. 1832, captain 2 Aug. 1850, major 1 Jany. 1862 to 27 Oct. 1864; superintendent Khytul 27 Nov. 1845 to 16 March 1846; deputy comr. Cis-Sutlej territory 16 March 1846 to 1857; hon. A.D.C. to governor-general of India 19 Jany. 1846 to 1863; comr. Oude 29 April 1858 to 27 Oct. 1864; colonel 25 Jany. 1861; retired 27 Oct. 1864; M.G. 24 Jany. 1865; severely wounded at battle of Firozeshah 21 Dec. 1845; manager of Scinde and Punjaub railway 1863-72, a director 1872 to death; resided at 2 Petersham ter. Queen's gate, South Kensington. d. Hove, Brighton 7 Feb. 1894. Times 13 Feb. 1894 p. 10; I.L.N. 7 April 1894 p. 432.

ABBOTT, WILLIAM. b. 1833; stock and share broker at 10 Tokenhouse yard, city of London and the Stock exchange 1863, then at 16 Tokenhouse yard 1881 to death; upset the board of the Great Western of Canada; nearly turned sir Edward Watkin out of chairmanship of South Eastern railway co. at half-yearly meeting 26 Jany. 1888; issued half-yearly analyses of the joint-stock banks; resided at the Abbey, Campden hill road, Kensington. d. 23 March 1888. Pall Mall Budget 19 Jany. 1888 p. 10; Financial World 28 Jany. 1888 p. 5 prt.; Times 24 March 1888 p. 14, 28 March p. 1.

ABBOTT, WILLIAM. b. Woolpit, Suffolk 31 March 1817; left the Church of England and became a Baptist 1834; pastor of the church at Wetherden, Suffolk 17 March 1844; pastor at Blunham, Beds. May 1852 to 28 Dec. 1890; resided at Bedford 1891 to death; ministered at the villages round Bedford nearly every Sunday 1891-8; wrote many tracts on baptism and other religious subjects; contributed many articles to Baptist magazines. d. 25 Argyle st. Bedford 24 Jany. 1899. The Baptist hand-book for 1900, edited by rev. W. J. Avery (1899) 202.

ABDALE, GEORGE. Employed in the stable of John Howe Osborne the trainer at Ashgill, Cumberland about 1844-53; a good jockey but heavy; rode Maid of Masham for all her races as a five and six year old; trained earl of Zetland's horses at Aske, near Richmond, Yorkshire 1853-9; trained Ivan who ran second for the St. Leger 1854, Fandango who won the Metropolitan and Ascot cup 1855, and Vedette who won the Two thousand guineas 1857 and Great Ebor handicap 1858; m. 1856 Sarah, 1 dau. of John Howe Osborne, horse trainer, she d. 28 March 1895 aged 64. d. 11 July 1859, his brother Wm. Abdale was the crack light-weight jockey of his day, he went abroad to ride for count Henckell. Radcliffe's Ashgill (1900) 10, 92, 94, 107; Kent's Racing life of lord G. C. Bentinck (1892) 146, 171, 180. ABDY, CHARLES HAYES (younger son of James Nicholas Abdy, colonel E.I.C.S. 1789-1855). b. 19 Sept. 1823; ensign Indian army 22 Sept. 1840; cornet 5 Madras cavalry 25 March 1841, captain 13 June 1857; major Madras staff corps 12 Sept. 1866, lieut. col. 22 Dec. 1866; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 19 Sept. 1885; general 31 March 1892; served in the South Mahratta campaign 1843-4. d. 2 Marlborough buildings, Bath 9 April 1898. Hardwicke's Annual biog. (1856) 173; Times 14 April 1898 p. 4. ABDY, JOHN THOMAS (brother of preceding). b. Madras 5 July 1822; educ. proprietary school, Kensington and Trin. hall, Camb., fellow 1850-4; the only first-class of the civil law classes 1844-5; LL.B. 1847, LL D. 1852; regius professor of civil law Camb. Oct. 1854, being the 12th member of Trinity hall who held the professorship without interruption from 1666 to 1873, resigned Dec. 1873; examiner for the Law triposes 1858-69 and law and history triposes 1870-3; revising barrister Norfolk circuit July 1864 to April 1871; recorder of Bedford 8 July 1870 to April 1893; judge of county courts, circuit 38, Essex 1 April 1871, retired on pension of £1,000 a year April 1893; presented by the registrars of the County courts in Essex with his portrait in chalk 26 Dec. 1893; professor of civil law at Gresham coll. London 1858–96; author of Historical sketch of civil procedure among the Romans, Cambridge 1857; edited Kent's Commentary on international law 1866, 2 ed. 1878; edited with Bryan Walker The commentaries of Gaius, with a translation and notes 1870, new ed. 1874; translated with Bryan Walker The Institutes of Justinian, with notes 1876. d. Rottingdean near Brighton 25 Sept. 1899. Law Journal 30 Sept. 1899 p. 508, 16 Dec. p. 707; Times 27 Sept. 1899 p. 8.