introduction to clinical medicine_ 1849, _4 ed._ 1862; _The

pathology and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis_ 1853, _2 ed._ 1859; _Clinical lectures on principles and practice of medicine_ 1852, _5 ed._ 1868 which was translated into French, Russian and Hindoo. _d._ The Wilderness, Bracondale, Norwich 25 Sep. 1875. _bur._ Dean cemetery Edin. 30 Sep. _Edinburgh Medical Journal xxi_, 466–74 (1875); _British Medical Journal ii_, 473–78 (1875). BENNETT, JOHN JOSEPH. _b._ Tottenham 8 Jany. 1801; ed. at Enfield and at Middlesex hospital; assistant keeper of the Banksian herbarium and library British Museum Nov. 1827, keeper 1828–70; F.L.S. 1828, sec. 1840–60; F.R.S. 16 Dec. 1841; wrote part of T. Horsfield’s _Plantæ Javanicæ Rariores_ 1852–53. _d._ Maresfield, Sussex 29 Feb. 1876; bust by Weekes in botanical department British Museum. _Journal of botany British and Foreign v_, 97–105 (1876), _portrait_. BENNETT, SAMUEL. _b._ Cornwall 20 March 1815; went to Sydney 1841; superintendent of a printing office there 1842–59; purchased with Wm. Hanson the _Empire_ newspaper 1859, conducted it as a daily and weekly paper; started the _Evening News_ 29 July 1867, the _Australian town and country journal_ 8 Jany. 1870; author of _The history of Australian discovery and colonisation_ 1867. _d._ Mundarrah towers, Little Coogee, Sydney 2 June 1878. BENNETT, SAMUEL JAMES. Founder of the Mercantile Association; founded the _Commercial Gazette_ weekly paper 1853. _d._ The Firs, Staplecross, Sussex 23 May 1881. BENNETT, THOMAS. _b._ Hereford 22 Feb. 1785; captain R.N. 16 Sep. 1828; commodore on North America and West India station 7 Feb. 1848 to 29 April 1851; granted a service pension 2 Nov. 1863; admiral on h.p. 12 Sep. 1865; mayor of Hereford 1842. _d._ Broomy hill, Hereford 12 June 1870. BENNETT, THOMAS RANDLE (_youngest son of John Bennett of Manchester, timber merchant_). _b._ Manchester 1821; ed. at the gr. sch. and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846, special pleader 1848; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1855; lectured on law and history at London Working men’s college Bloomsbury; an original member of English Church Union 1859, one of its central council; examiner to the Inns of Court 1877–78; author of _A popular manual of the constitutional history of England_ 1862 and of several political pamphlets. _d._ Shrewbridge hall, Nantwich 23 Feb. 1885. _Law Times lxxviii_, 343 (1885). BENNETT, WILLIAM. _b._ Newmarket; enlisted into Cambridge militia 10 Oct. 1797 aged 20; enlisted into 46 Foot 18 March 1799, and into 32 Foot 15 June 1803, discharged 18 Aug. 1814; assisted at burial of Sir John Moore Jany. 1809. _d._ Inchicore, Ireland 23 Jany. 1872 aged 95, but generally reputed to be 105. _W. J. Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1873) 235–36. BENNETT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1798; made his début in London at Haymarket theatre as Jack Junk in _The birthday_ 15 May 1812; member of English opera company; played old men at Drury Lane about 1829; secretary to Drury Lane theatrical fund. _d._ Bellevue cottage, Walthamstow 8 Aug. 1875. _The Oddfellow i_, 77 (1839), _portrait_. BENNETT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1796; solicitor at Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire 1819 to death; clerk to county magistrates 1834 to death; author under pseudonym of Lee Gibbons of _The Cavalier 3 vols._ 1821; _Malpas 3 vols._ 1822; _The King of the Peak 3 vols._ 1823; _Owain Goch a tale of the Revolution 3 vols._ 1827; these books are also attributed to Thomas Roscoe jun.; contributed to the _Reliquary_ many papers on archæology of Derbyshire 1862–72. _d._ Chapel en le Frith 20 April 1879. BENNETT, WILLIAM MINEARD. _b._ Exeter 1778; pupil of Sir Thomas Lawrence; a painter of portraits and miniatures; exhibited at the R.A. 1812–16 and 1834–35; lived many years in Paris; lived at Exeter 1844 to death; composed many glees and songs which were popular in Paris and Naples. _d._ Hill’s buildings, St. Sidwell’s, Exeter 17 Oct. 1858. BENNETT, SIR WILLIAM STERNDALE (_youngest child of Robert Bennett of Sheffield, organist of the parish church who d. 3 Nov. 1819_). _b._ 8 Norfolk Row, Sheffield 13 April 1816; ed. at Royal Academy of Music, London 1826–36, and at Leipsic 1836–37; member of Royal Society of Musicians 1838; taught music in London; founded the Bach Society 1849; professor of music at Univ. of Cam. 4 March 1856; Mus. Doc. Cam. 1856, M.A. 1867; D.C.L. Ox. 1870; a life member of St. John’s coll. Cam. 26 Sep. 1856; conductor of Philharmonic Society concerts 1856–68, Beethoven gold medallist 7 July 1867; principal of Royal Academy of Music 22 June 1866 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 24 March 1871; composed _The Naiads_, overture produced at Society of British Musicians 25 Jany. 1837; _The wood nymphs_, overture produced at the Gewandhaus concerts Leipzig 24 Jany. 1839; _The May Queen_, pastoral produced at Leeds musical festival 8 Sep. 1858; _The woman of Samaria_, oratorio produced at Birmingham musical festival 27 Aug. 1867. (_m._ 9 April 1844 Mary Anne only dau. of James Wood, commander R.N., she _d._ 17 Oct. 1862 aged 37.) _d._ 66 St. John’s Wood road London 1 Feb. 1875. _bur._ north aisle of choir Westminster Abbey 6 Feb. _Grove’s Dictionary of music i_, 224–29 (1879); _W. A. Barrett’s English Church composers_ (1882) 163–65; _Academy vii_, 154, 179, 388, 466 (1875); _I.L.N. xl_, 551 (1862), _portrait, lxvi_, 152, 326 (1875), _portrait_. BENNIS, GEORGE GEARY. _b._ Corkamore, Limerick 1790 or 1793; a grocer at Limerick; settled at Liverpool where he became a Quaker; went to Paris 1823; director of a libraire des étrangers in Paris 1830–36; an insurance agent and librarian to the British embassy, Paris; edited _Galignani’s Messenger_; chevalier of the Légion d’honneur 1854; author of _The principles of the one faith professed by all Christians, Liverpool_ 1816, _3 ed. Paris_ 1826; _Traveller’s pocket diary and Student’s journal_; _Treatise on life assurance_. _d._ Paris 1 Jany. 1866, left over 10,000 volumes to found a free library at Limerick. _J. Smith’s A descriptive catalogue of Friends books i_, 246 (1867). BENSON, CHARLES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1818, B.A. 1819, M.A. and M.B. 1822, M.D. 1840; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1821, F.R.C.S. 1825, pres. 1854; professor of practice of medicine in school attached to the college; M.R.I.A. 30 Nov. 1825; physician to City of Dublin hospital; contributed 4 articles to _Todd’s Cyclopædia of anatomy_ and a course of lectures on the Diseases of the digestive organs to _Dublin Medical Press_ 1840–42. _d._ 42 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 21 Jany. 1880 in 83 year. BENSON, REV. CHRISTOPHER (_son of Thomas Benson of Cockermouth, solicitor_). _b._ Cockermouth 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1809, M.A. 1815; select preacher 1817; Hulsean lecturer (the first) 1820–22; fellow of Magd. coll. Cam. 1820; preb. of Worcester cathedral 27 Dec. 1825 to death; R. of St. Giles’s-in-the-Fields, London 1824–26; V. of Cropthorne, Worcs. 1826–40; master of the Temple London 1827–45; author of _Discourses on powers of the clergy_ 1841; _Baptism and baptismal regeneration_ 1843. _d._ Woodfield, Ross, Hereford 25 March 1868. _The living and the dead by a country curate_ (_Rev. E. Neale_) 1827 _pp._ 81–98; _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 413–15. BENSON, SIR JOHN (_only son of John Benson of Collooney, co. Sligo_). _b._ Collooney 1812; architect and civil engineer; county surveyor to east riding of co. Cork 8 April 1846; surveyor of city of Cork 29 Jany. 1851; architect and builder of Dublin exhibition 12 Aug. 1852 which was opened 12 May 1853, knighted by Earl of St. Germans at the opening; engineer of Cork waterworks which cost £80,000; built 48 bridges in co. Cork; M.I.C.E. 4 March 1862. _d._ 15 Alexander sq. Brompton London 17 Oct. 1874. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xl_, 251–53 (1875). BENSON, RICHARD. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel 11 Bengal N.I. 16 July 1849 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ at his residence on lake of Buttermere, Cumberland 26 Aug. 1858. BENSON, REV. SAMUEL. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; lecturer at St. John’s Horsleydown 1823–33; chaplain of Horsemonger lane gaol 1833–43; V. of St. Saviour’s Southwark 1868 to death; author of several sermons and tracts. _d._ 34 Borough high st. London 22 Feb. 1881 aged 82. _I.L.N. xxiv_, 401 (1851), _portrait_. BENT, JEFFERY HART (_eld. son of Robert Bent of Lancashire_). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1806; chief justice of New South Wales 1814, of Grenada 1820 to 1833, of St. Lucia 1833 to 1836 and of British Guiana 1836 to death. _d._ George Town Demerara 29 June 1852 aged 72. _I.L.N. xxi_, 155 (1852). BENT, SIR JOHN (_eld. son of Wm. Bent of Stoneyfield near Newcastle under Lyne_). _b._ Newcastle under Lyne 1793; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch.; a large brewer at Liverpool; alderman of Liverpool, mayor 1850–51; knighted by the Queen at Liverpool 9 Oct. 1851. _d._ Edge hill near Liverpool 13 Aug. 1857. BENT, JOHN. Assistant surgeon in the army 11 Sep. 1838; served in the Crimea 30 April 1855 to end of the war; deputy surgeon general 28 Jany. 1862; surgeon general 11 July 1874 to death. _d._ The Camp Aldershot 23 Nov. 1874 aged 57. BENT, ROBERT (_son of Wm. Bent who founded Bent’s Literary Advertiser 1802_). Edited _The London Catalogue of books_ 1839. _d._ 6 Dec. 1859. BENTHAM, GEORGE. _b._ June 1787; entered navy 1795; captain 16 Sep. 1816; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; knight of Sardinian order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare. _d._ Barton fields, Canterbury 24 Feb. 1862. BENTHAM, GEORGE (_2 son of Sir Samuel Bentham, naval architect 1757–1831_). _b._ Stoke near Plymouth 22 Sep. 1800; lived in France 1814–26; managed his father’s estate of 2000 acres near Montpellier; student at Lincoln’s Inn; worked for his uncle Jeremy Bentham 1826–32; F.L.S. 1828, vice pres. 1858, pres. 1861–74; hon. sec. of Horticultural Society 1829–40 which he raised to a flourishing condition; presented his collections and books valued at £6,000 to Kew Gardens 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1862, royal medallist 1859; LLD. Cambridge 4 June 1874; C.M.G. 1878; author of _Outlines of a new system of logic_ 1827 which set forth for the first time doctrine of quantification of the predicate, the most fruitful discovery in abstract logical science since Aristotle; _Handbook of the British flora_ 1858, _2 vols._ 1865; _Flora Hong-Kongensis_ 1861; _Flora Australiensis 7 vols._ 1863–78; author with Sir Joseph Hooker of _Genera Plantarum_, _6 parts in 3 vols._ 1862–83 which marks an epoch in botany. _d._ 25 Wilton place, London 10 Sep. 1884. _Nature xxx_, 539–43 (1884); _G. C. Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870), _portrait_. BENTINCK, ADOLPHE BARON VON. Secretary of legation for the Netherlands at Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin and Vienna successively; councillor of the legation in London 7 years; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. in London 25 Aug. 1851 to death. _d._ 26 Eaton sq. London 2 March 1868 aged 70. BENTINCK, ARTHUR CAVENDISH. _b._ 9 May 1819; ensign 84 Foot 2 Nov. 1838; lieut. col. 7 Dragoon guards 8 Dec. 1854 and 4 Dragoon guards 30 Aug. 1859 to 30 May 1862 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Thomas’s hotel, 25 Berkely sq. London 11 Dec. 1877. BENTINCK, CHARLES ANTHONY FERDINAND. _b._ 4 March 1792; ensign Coldstream guards 16 Nov. 1808, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 25 April 1848 when placed on h.p.; colonel 12 Foot 14 April 1857 to death; L.G. 15 Jany. 1858. _d._ Bergheim in principality of Waldeck 28 Oct. 1864. BENTINCK, SIR HENRY JOHN WILLIAM (_youngest son of Major general John Charles Bentinck 1763–1833_). _b._ 8 Sep. 1796; ensign Coldstream guards 25 March 1813, lieut. col. 22 Aug. 1851 to 20 June 1854; aide de camp to the Queen 23 Nov. 1841 to 20 June 1854; commanded the brigade of Guards in the Crimea 22 Feb. to 8 Nov. 1854 and the fourth division 1 June to 10 Oct. 1855; colonel 28 Foot 11 Oct. 1854 to death; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; groom in waiting to the Queen Nov. 1859 to June 1867; general 8 Dec. 1867. _d._ 35 Grosvenor st. London 29 Sep. 1878. BENTINCK, HENRY WILLIAM CAVENDISH (_youngest son of 4 Duke of Portland 1768–1854_). _b._ 9 June 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for North Notts. 6 March 1846 to 21 March 1857; invented the call for trumps at whist, known as Blue Peter, at Graham’s club house 87 St. James’s st. about 1836, an explanation of which first appeared in print in _The laws and practice of whist by Cælebs, M.A. [E. A, Carlyon], 2 ed._ 1856; master of the Rufford hounds 1835–36, of the Burton hounds 1842–64, when he sold the pack for £3,500, had over 100 horses in his stable at one time. _d._ Tathwell hall near Louth 31 Dec. 1870. _Baily’s Mag. xix_, 288–93 (1871). BENTINCK, VENERABLE WILLIAM HARRY EDWARD. (_elder son of Lord Edward Charles Bentinck 1744–1819_). _b._ 2 Feb. 1784; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; R. of Sigglesthorne near Hull 1808 to death; Canon of Westminster 7 Oct. 1809 to 1864 and Archdeacon 1854–64; rural dean 1842 to death; built at his own expense church of Holy Trinity, Vauxhall bridge 1852. _d._ Sigglesthorne rectory 29 Sep. 1868. _I.L.N. xxiv_, 401 (1854), _portrait_. BENTLEY, CHARLES. Member of the old water-color Society 1844; painted many pictures chiefly of coast and river scenery, four of which are in the South Kensington Museum. _d._ of cholera at Mornington place London 4 Sep. 1854 aged 48. BENTLEY, EDWARD (_eld. son of John Bentley 1786–1860_). _b._ 31 Dec. 1817; an operative chemist; gained credit for his method of obtaining the more powerful vegetable preparations for medical use; studied at Guy’s Hospital; L.R.C.P. 1845; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; very instrumental in founding City of London hospital for diseases of the chest 1848; hon. sec. to Pathological Society of London. _d._ 8 St. Thomas sq. Hackney 2 Feb. 1861. BENTLEY, JAMES. _b._ 1785; purchased Wood Green park, Cheshunt, Herts 1839 and the manor of the rectory of Cheshunt 1855; sheriff of Herts 1860; treasurer of St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841–55. _d._ Wood Green park 26 Oct. 1880 in 96 year. BENTLEY, JOHN (_son of Edward Bentley, principal of accountants office bank of England who d. 24 July 1838 aged 85_). _b._ 12 Nov. 1786; ed. at St. Paul’s school; secretary to Bank of England 1850–60. _d._ Park crescent, Brighton 20 Dec. 1860. BENTLEY, JOSEPH. Lecturer and writer on education; promoted two assurance companies 1855–56; author of _Manual of life insurance_ 1862; _Financial position of life offices_ 1865. _d._ Feb. 1872 aged 67. BENTLEY, JOSEPH CLAYTON. _b._ Bradford, Yorkshire 1809; a landscape painter; went to London 1832; exhibited landscapes chiefly views in Yorkshire at Royal Academy and other exhibitions; a line engraver; executed many plates for publications of Messrs. Fisher and Messrs. Virtue especially for the _Gems of European Art 2 vols._ 1847; some of his best works are in the Vernon Gallery at the National Gallery. _d._ Sydenham, Kent 9 Oct. 1851. BENTLEY, RICHARD (BROTHER OF JOHN BENTLEY 1786–1860). _b._ Oct. 1794; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; publisher with his brother Samuel in Salisbury st. Fleet st. Jany. 1819 to 1829; publisher with Henry Colburn 1829–32; started _Bentley’s Miscellany_ 1837; founded with George Smythe and the Young England party a newspaper called _Young England_ Jany. 1845 which collapsed April 1845; started with John Douglas Cook _Bentley’s Quarterly Review_ 1859 of which only 4 numbers appeared; published _Standard Novels_ 127 volumes the copyright and stock of which he sold 27 Feb. 1856 for £11,000; publisher in ordinary to the Queen 1838 to death. _d._ Ramsgate 10 Sep. 1871. _Graphic iv_, 375, 381 (1871), _portrait_. BENTLEY, SAMUEL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 10 May 1785; ed. at St. Paul’s school; apprenticed to John Nichols, printer and publisher; partner in firm of Nichols, Son and Bentley April 1812 to Dec. 1818; publisher with his brother Richard Jany. 1819 to 1829; carried on business at Bangor house, Shoe lane under firm of Samuel and John Bentley, Wilson and Fley 1829 to April 1853 when he retired; an antiquary, musician and artist; edited the _Concio de puero Jesu of Erasmus_ 1816; author of _Excerpta Historica_ 1831; indexed _Nichols’s Literary anecdotes_ and _Surtees’s History of Durham_. _d._ Croydon 13 April 1868. _G.M. i_, 127 (1868). BENTLEY, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1788; ed. at St. Paul’s school; principal of the Bank stock office, Bank of England; master of the Leathersellers Company 1857–58. _d._ Colfe lodge, Lewisham 28 Jany. 1877. BENTON, MARY (_dau. of Ralph Lodge_). _b._ Raby Moor house near Keverstone, Durham 12 Feb. 1751. (_m._ John Benton of Longnewton, butcher). Lived at hamlet of Elton near Stockton on Tees many years. _d._ Elton 7 Jany. 1853, aged 102. _I.L.N. xviii_, 324 (1851), _portrait_. BEOR, HENRY ROGERS (_4 son of Richard White Beor of Swansea_). Barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1870; admitted to Queensland bar 7 Dec. 1875; member of Queensland parliament for Bowen; attorney general for Queensland 1880. _d._ on his voyage from Sydney to Auckland 25 Dec. 1880. BERE, MONTAGU BAKER. _b._ 15 July 1798; barrister L.I. 21 June 1825; commissioner of Court of bankruptcy at Leeds 21 Oct. 1842 to 1844 and at Exeter 1844 to death. _d._ Barley near Exeter 13 Dec. 1858. BERENS, VENERABLE EDWARD (_son of Joseph Berens of Hextable, Kent_). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 17 Jany. 1794 aged 17; B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801; fellow of Oriel coll.; V. of Shrivenham, Berks. 1804 to death; R. of Englefield, Berks. 1818–55; Preb. of Salisbury 23 Oct. 1829 to death; archdeacon of Berks. 7 Sep. 1832 to 1855; author of _A discourse on parochial psalmody_ 1825; _Advice to a young man upon first going to Oxford_ 1832, _6 ed._ 1853; _The history of the Prayer Book of the Church of England_ 1839, _2 ed._ 1854; _A memoir of the life of Bishop Mant_ 1849; _Lectures on the Liturgy_ 1850 and other books. _d._ Shrivenham vicarage 7 April 1859. BERENS, HENRY HULSE (_son of Joseph Berens of Kevington, Kent_). _b._ 1804; deputy chairman of Public works loan office 1849–52; a director of Bank of England many years. _d._ Sidcup, Kent 23 Aug. 1883 aged 78. BERENS, OTTO ALEXANDER. Linen draper in St. Paul’s churchyard, London; originated the fancy trade; moved to Cannon st. 1854. _d._ Raleigh hall, Brixton-rise London 15 April 1860 aged 63. BERESFORD, WILLIAM CARR BERESFORD, 1 Viscount (_natural son of George de la Poer Beresford, 1 Marquis of Waterford 1735–1800_). _b._ Ireland 2 Oct. 1768; ed. at Strassburg; ensign 6 Foot 27 Aug. 1785; lieut. col. of 124 or Waterford Foot (a regiment raised by his father) 11 Aug. 1794; lieut. col. 88 Foot 1 Sep. 1795 to 9 Feb. 1807; commanded first brigade in Egypt June 1801 to 1802 and first brigade at Cape of Good Hope 1806; captured Buenos Ayres 27 June 1806 but lost it 12 Aug.; colonel 88 Foot 9 Feb. 1807 to 11 March 1819; governor of Madeira 24 Dec. 1807 to July 1808; marshal commanding Portugese army 1 March 1809 to 1819; captain general of Spain 1811; commander in chief at battle of Albuera 16 May 1811; voted the thanks of Parliament 7 June 1811; received a cross with 7 clasps for 12 actions July 1815; governor of Jersey 29 Jany. 1820 to death; col. 69 Foot 11 March 1819 to 15 March 1823; col. 16 Foot 15 March 1823 to death; lieutenant general of the ordnance 8 Feb. 1823 to 3 May 1824, master general 29 Jany. 1828 to 22 Nov. 1830; general 27 May 1825; col. in chief 60 Rifles 23 Sep. 1852 to death; K.C.B. 18 Oct. 1810, G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; knighted at Whitehall 23 Oct. 1810; Conde de Trancoso in peerage of Portugal 1810; Duke of Elvas in peerage of Spain; M.P. for co. Waterford 28 June 1811 to 17 May 1814 but never took his seat; created Baron Beresford of Albuera and Dungarvan, co. Waterford 17 May 1814; G.C.H. 1818; P.C. 6 Feb. 1821; created Viscount Beresford of Beresford, co. Stafford 22 April 1823. _d._ Bedgebury park, Goudhurst Kent 8 Jany. 1854. _J. W. Cole’s Memoirs of British generals i_, 165–217 (1856); _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv_, 96 (1848), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxi_, 545 (1852), _portrait, xxiv_ 38, 58 (1854), _portrait_; _Napier’s Peninsular War vol. iii_. BERESFORD, DENIS WILLIAM PACK. _b._ London 7 July 1810; M.P. for co. Carlow 7 Aug. 1862 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ 28 Dec. 1881. BERESFORD, SIR GEORGE DE LA POER, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1 March 1811; M.P. for Athlone 8 July 1841 to 13 June 1842; succeeded 2 Oct. 1844. _d._ Glasgow 11 Feb. 1873. BERESFORD, MOST REV. JOHN GEORGE (_2 son of George Beresford, 1 Marquis of Waterford 1735–1800_). _b._ Tyrone house, Dublin 22 Nov. 1773; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796, D.D. 1805; ordained deacon 1795, priest 1797; R. of Clonegam and Newtown Lenan; dean of Clogher 23 Dec. 1799; R. of Termonmaguirk 1801; bishop of Cork and Ross 20 Feb. 1805; consecrated 24 March 1805; translated to Raphoe 10 Aug. 1807; translated to Clogher 25 Sep. 1819; created Archbishop of Dublin 21 April 1820; enthroned 6 May 1820; P.C. Ireland 23 May 1820; archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland 17 June 1822; vice chancellor of Univ. of Dublin 1829, chancellor 19 Nov. 1851; founded the chair of Ecclesiastical history 1853; gave £6000 to college of St. Columba; restored Armagh cathedral at expense of nearly £30,000. _d._ Woburn near Donaghadee 18 July 1862. _bur._ in crypt of Armagh cathedral 30 July. _Creasy’s Memoirs of eminent Etonians new ed._ 1876, 568–89; _I.L.N. xli_, 128, 138 (1862), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xvi_, 86–89 (1840), _portrait_. NOTE.—He presided over the church in Ireland for 40 years, a longer period than any primate for nearly 1000 years; on completing the 50th year of his episcopate, 29 March 1855 he received an address of congratulation signed by all the Irish bishops and by 1980 out of the entire body of 2100 Irish clergy. BERESFORD, MARCUS (_2 son of Hon. George Beresford 1776–1842_). _b._ 28 July 1800; 2 lieut. 21 Foot 4 Sep. 1817; lieut. col. 3 Foot 25 Dec. 1835 to 13 May 1842 when placed on h.p.; colonel 20 Foot 22 Sep. 1858 to death; general 4 March 1866. _d._ Leamington 16 March 1876. BERESFORD, WILLIAM (_younger son of Marcus Beresford 1764–97, M.P. for Dungarvan_). _b._ 17 April 1797; ed. at Eton and St. Mary’s hall Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1824; captain 12 Lancers 6 April 1826 to 16 July 1830 when placed on h.p.; served in Portugal 1827; master of the Tennis Court, Hampton Court 1823 to death; contested Waterford 1837; M.P. for Harwich 1841–1847 and for North Essex 1847–65; secretary at war 28 Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb.