Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase
1873. _d._ 14 Arley hill, Bristol 16 Sep. 1885 aged 69.
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BENIOWSKI, BARTHOLOMEW. Educ. at Ecole d’etat major of Paris
1832–33; major in Polish army; attempted to revolutionise art of
printing by use of short words cast into one such as, and, but,
the; teacher of memory at the Royal Adelaide gallery, Strand,
London 1842; took out patents for machinery for printing and
composing type 1846, 47 and 49; author of _Phrenotypics_ 1842; _A
French vocabulary_ 1843; _The Anti-absurd or phrenotypic alphabet
and orthography_ 1844. _d._ 8 Bow st. Covent Garden 29 March 1867
aged 66.
BENISCH, ABRAHAM. _b._ Drosan, Bohemia 1811; ed. at Univ. of Vienna;
settled in England 1841; edited the _Jewish Chronicle_ 1854 to
death; one of chief founders of Society of Hebrew Literature 1870,
and of the Anglo Jewish Association 1871; author of _A translation
of the Old Testament_ 1851; _An essay on Colenso’s criticism of
the Pentateuch and Joshua_ 1863; _Judaism surveyed_ 1874. _d._ 13
Brownswood park, Green Lanes, London 31 July 1878.
BENJAMIN, GEORGE. _b._ Sussex 15 April 1799; went to Canada; founded
the _Intelligencer_ at Belleville 1834, edited it to 1848; member
of legislative assembly Canada 1856–61; grand master of the
Orangemen of British North America 1848; author of _Short lessons
for members of Parliament compiled from English and other
publications_ 1862. _d._ Belleville 6 July or 7 Sep. 1864.
BENJAMIN, JUDAH PHILIP. _b._ St. Croix, West Indies 1811; ed. at
Yale college, Connecticut 1825–28; called to the bar in New
Orleans 16 Dec. 1832; member of firm of Slidell, Benjamin and
Conrad 1840; counsellor of the supreme court New Orleans Dec.
1848; practised chiefly in Washington; a senator for Louisiana to
the Senate 1852 to 4 Feb. 1861 when he withdrew, expelled the
Senate 14 March 1861; attorney general of the Southern Confederacy
Feb. 1861; acting secretary of war Aug. 1861 to Feb. 1862; sec. of
state Feb. 1862 to April 1865 when the members of the cabinet left
Richmond; a student L.I. 13 Jany. 1866, called to bar at L.I. 6
June 1866, bencher 15 April 1875; Q.C. for county palatine of
Lancaster July 1869; Q.C. with patent of precedence 29 July 1872;
made £15,000 a year for several years; entertained on his
retirement, at a banquet in hall of Inner Temple 30 June 1883;
author of _Digest of decisions of supreme court of New Orleans_
1834; _Treatise of the law of sale of personal property_ 1868, _3
ed._ 1883. _d._ Avenue de Jena, Paris 6 May 1884. _J. Davis’s Rise
and Fall of the Confederate government i_, 242 (1881), _portrait_;
_Law Journal_ (1883) 100–103; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 465 (1884),
_portrait_; _Graphic xxix_, 484 (1884), _portrait_.
BENN, ANTHONY. _b._ 1814; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1832; col. 27 June
1864 to 6 March 1868; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._ Plumstead 22 Dec.
1875.
BENN, EDWARD (_son of John Benn of Belfast, brewer 1767–1853_). _b._
1798; purchased with his brother George, an estate at Glenravel
near Ballymena where they tried to create a new industry by
manufacture of potato spirit; formed a fine archæological
collection now in the Belfast Museum; contributed papers to Irish
antiquarian journals; founded 3 hospitals in Belfast, the Eye Ear
and Throat, the Samaritan and the Skin Diseases. _d._ 1874.
BENN, GEORGE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Tanderagee co.
Armagh 1 Jany. 1801; entered Belfast Academical institution 1816;
took gold medals in logic 1817 and moral philosophy 1818; author
of _The history of the town of Belfast_ [_anon._] 1823; _A history
of the town of Belfast 2 vols._ 1877–80. _d._ 8 Jany. 1882.
BENN, PIERCY. _b._ 1800; 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Feb. 1821; col. 7 June 1856
to 16 July 1862; M.G. 16 July 1862. _d._ Farringdon, Hants. 17
June 1876.
BENNETT, CHARLES FOX, formerly of Clifton, Bristol; late premier of
Newfoundland. _d._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 5 Dec. 1883.
BENNETT, CHARLES HENRY. Draughtsman on wood; contributed sketches
signed in the corner with the figure of an owl to _Diogenes_ comic
weekly paper 1853 and portraits of members of Parliament to
_Illustrated Times_; contributed sketches to _Fun_ down to 1866
and to _Punch_ 1866 to death; published _Fables of Æsop and others
translated into human nature_ 1858; _Proverbs with pictures_ 1858;
_London people sketched from life_ 1863; _Adventures of Young
Munchausen_ 1864. _d._ Caversham road, Kentish Town 2 April 1867
in 38 year. _Punch 13 April 1867 p._ 151.
BENNETT, GEORGE (_2 son of John Bennett, Judge of Irish court of
King’s Bench who d. 25 Dec. 1791_). _b._ Cork 20 Sep. 1777; called
to Irish bar 1800; went Munster circuit; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; crown
prosecutor for Munster circuit Feb. 1832; bencher of King’s Inns
Dublin 1836, retired about 1849. _d._ Sodylt hall, Shropshire 26
May 1856. _Dublin univ. mag. xxxiv_, 526–32 (1849), _portrait_.
BENNETT, GEORGE JOHN (_son of George Bennett of Norwich, comedian_).
_b._ Ripon 9 March 1800; served in the navy 1813–17; first
appeared on the stage at Lynn 1818, and in London at Covent Garden
27 Jany. 1823 as Richard iii; acted at Covent Garden 1830–38, at
Drury Lane 1841–43 and at Sadler’s Wells 27 May 1844 to 15 March
1862 when he left the stage, his best parts were Bossola in the
_Duchess of Malfi_, and Caliban in _The Tempest_; author of a five
act play called _Retribution or love’s trials_ produced at Sadlers
Wells 11 Feb. 1850, and of a drama called _The Justice_ produced
at Birmingham. _d._ Edmonton 21 Sep. 1879. _Theatrical times i_,
241 (1847), _portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book, parts
8, 10, 17 and 21_, _4 portraits_; _The Players iv_, 17 (1861),
_portrait_.
BENNETT, JAMES. _b._ Falfield, Thornbury, Gloucs. 10 May 1785;
apprenticed to George Robbins of Bath, printer; printer and
bookseller in Tewkesbury 1810–52; published _History of
Tewkesbury_ 1830; _Tewkesbury Register and Magazine_ 1830–49. _d._
Tewkesbury 29 Jany. 1856.
BENNETT, REV. JAMES. _b._ London 22 May 1774; preached his first
sermon 24 Dec. 1792; Congregational minister at Romsey Feb. 1796;
ordained 5 April 1797; theological tutor and pastor at Rotherham
22 Aug. 1813; pastor of Silver st. church, London Nov. 1828, and
of Falcon sq. church, London 1843 to Nov. 1860; one of foreign
secs. to London Missionary society May 1830 to 1832; chairman of
Congregational Board 1840; author of _Lectures on preaching of
Christ_ 1836; _Lectures on Acts of the Apostles_ 1846; author with
Rev. David Bogue of _History of dissenters from the Revolution in
1688 to the year 1808 4 vols._ 1808, _2 ed. 3 vols._ 1833; wrote
much in the _Eclectic Review_ and _Evangelical Mag._ _d._ 49
Gibson sq. Islington 4 Dec. 1862. _Memorials of the late Rev.
James Bennett_ 1863.
BENNETT, JAMES. Member of company of T.R. Birmingham many years;
made his début in London at Lyceum theatre 18 March 1859 as Iago
in _Othello_; acted in the provinces. _d._ London 9 March 1885.
_Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 41, _portrait_.
BENNETT, JAMES GORDON. _b._ New Mill, Keith, Banffshire 1 Sep. 1800;
went to Halifax, Nova Scotia 1819; a printer’s reader,
bookseller’s clerk and assistant in a newspaper office at Boston;
went to New York about 1822; started the _New York Globe_ Oct.
1832 a two cent paper which lived only 30 days; partner with
Messrs. Anderson and Smith of New York, printers 1835; founded the
_New York Herald_ a one cent daily paper 6 May 1835 all of which
he wrote; in 1841 the circulation was 20,000 and the receipts
100,000 dollars, during the civil war its circulation doubled;
sent Henry M. Stanley to Central Africa in search of Dr.
Livingstone at cost of £10,000 in 1871. (_m._ 6 June 1840
Henrietta Agnes Crean, she _d._ 31 March 1873). _d._ New York 1
June 1872. _Memoir of J. G. Bennett by a Journalist_ 1855,
_portrait_; _F. Hudson’s Journalism in the United States_ 1873;
_J. Parton’s Famous Americans of recent times_ (1867) 259–305;
_Democratic Review xxxi_, 409–19 1853, _portrait_; _C. F.
Wingate’s Views and interviews_ (1875) 275–86; _Graphic v_, 600,
611 (1872), _portrait_.
BENNETT, JOHN HUGHES. _b._ London 31 Aug. 1812; ed. at Exeter gr.
sch. and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1837, LLD. Aug. 1875; founded in
Paris the Parisian Medical Society 1837, pres. 1837; pathologist
to Royal infirmary Edin. 1843; discovered a remarkable disease of
the blood which he called Leucocythemia or white cell blood 1845;
editor of _Edinburgh Monthly Journal of medical science_ 1846;
professor of Institutes of medicine in Univ. of Edin. July 1848 to
July 1874; F.R.S. Edin. 1842, F.R.C.P. Edin. 1842; author of _An
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