Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase
1879. _St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports xv_, _pp. xxix-xl_
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(1879).
BLACK, THOMAS. _b._ Wemyss 1819; surgeon at Anstruther 1839 to
death; his body was found floating in the harbour of Anstruther 29
Feb. 1864. _Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife_ (1866)
64.
BLACK, WILLIAM. _b._ Anstruther 1770; entered navy 13 April 1793;
captain 7 June 1814; retired R.A. 9 Oct. 1846. _d._ Ormsby,
Norfolk 6 Nov. 1852 in 82 year. _Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent
men of Fife_ (1866) 62.
BLACK, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Auchinairn parish of Cadder 1801; ed. at
Univ. of Glasgow; licensed by presbytery of Hamilton Aug. 1824;
minister of Shettleston April 1826; minister of Barony church
Glasgow Sep. 1828 to death; D.D. Glasgow April 1834. _d._ Florence
15 Jany. 1851 in 50 year. _Smith’s Our Scottish clergy, 2 series_
(1849) 17–26.
BLACK, WILLIAM HENRY (_eld. son of John Black of Kintore,
Aberdeenshire_). _b._ 7 May 1808; a tutor among families residing
at and near Tulse Hill, Surrey 1825; clerk in the Public Record
Office, assistant keeper; founder and sec. of Chronological
institute of London Dec. 1850, registrar 21 Dec. 1853; founded
Palestine archæological association 13 Sep. 1853 and
Anglo-biblical institute; F.S.A. 9 Dec. 1858; pastor of the
Seventh Day Baptists (one of smallest sects in England) in Mill
yard, Leman st. Whitechapel 1840 to death; prepared an edition of
the British part of the _Itinerary of Antoninus_ (never issued);
contributed to Samuel Bentley’s _Excerpta Historica_ 1831;
catalogued the manuscripts of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, the
Arundel MSS. in the library of the Heralds’ College, and Colfe’s
library at Lewisham. _d._ 15 Mill yard, Whitechapel 12 April 1872.
_Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London_ (1872) 227–37; _J. E.
Ritchie’s Religious life of London_ (1870) 159–66.
BLACKADDER, ROBERT BARNES. _b._ Scotland; came to London 1834,
employed by Roake and Varty and other booksellers; edited and
published _Chronological Bible_ 1867 and _Chronological New
Testament_ 1867. _d._ Booksellers’ provident retreat Abbot’s
Langley 26 June 1883 aged 71.
BLACKALL, JOHN (_6th son of Rev. Theophilus Blackall, Preb. of
Exeter cath. who d. 4 Aug. 1781_). _b._ St. Paul’s st. Exeter 24
Dec. 1771; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Ox.; B.A.
1793, M.A. 1796, M.B. 1797, M.D. 1801; studied medicine at St.
Bartholomew’s hosp. London; practised at Exeter 1797–1801 and
1807–52; physician to Devon and Exeter hosp. 1 June 1797–1801 when
he resigned, and June 1807; practised at Totnes 1801–1807;
physician to St. Thomas’s lunatic asylum Exeter 1812; candidate of
R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814; fellow 22 Dec. 1815; the chief physician in
the West of England 1822–52; author of _Observations on the nature
and cure of dropsies_ 1813 _4 ed._ 1818 which at once placed him
in the rank of the first physicians of his day and acquired for
him an European reputation. _d._ Southernhay Exeter 10 Jany. 1860.
_Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians iii_, 138–41 (1878),
abridged from _British Medical Journal i_, 75–76 (1860).
BLACKALL, ROBERT. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel of 43 N.I. 18
July 1848, of 2 European Fusiliers 7 April 1851, and of 13 N.I. 19
Aug. 1859 to death; L.G. 18 Dec. 1860. _d._ 20 April 1863.
BLACKALL, SAMUEL WENSLEY (_eld. son of Robert Blackall of Colamber
manor, co. Longford who d. 1855_). _b._ 1809; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin; ensign 85 Foot 26 June 1827, lieut. 17 Feb. 1832 to 1 Feb.
1833 when he sold out; sheriff of co. Longford 1833, of co. Tyrone
1862; M.P. for co. Longford 13 Aug. 1847 to April 1851; lieutenant
governor of Dominica 1 April 1851 to 1857; governor of Sierra
Leone 1862; governor of West African Settlements 23 Feb. 1866;
governor of Queensland 4 May 1868 to death. _d._ Brisbane 21 Jany.
1871.
BLACKBOURN, JOHN (_son of James Blackbourn of Billingsgate, London,
fish salesman_). One of the singing boys of St. Paul’s cathedral
1800–1808, apprenticed to John Sale the master of the boys 1811;
organist of Wandsworth parish church 1818–21 and of Clapham parish
church 1821 to death; member of Royal Society of Musicians 1818,
of the Madrigal Society 1819, of the Glee Club 1819, and secretary
to 1825. _d._ Clapham 18 Dec. 1854 aged 62.
BLACKBURN, REV. JOHN. _b._ the Minories, London 1791; ed. at Stepney
and Hoxton; a missionary in the Irish Evangelical society; pastor
of Church of Christ at Finchingfield, Essex 25 Sep. 1815 to 1822;
pastor of Claremont chapel Pentonville, London 1822 to death;
editor of _Congregational Magazine_; originated and edited
_Congregational Calendar_, afterwards merged in the
_Congregational year book_; a projector and sec. of Congregational
Union of England and Wales 1831; originator of the Christian
Instruction society 1825; edited _The Biblical educator_. _d._ 17
Holford sq. Pentonville 16 June 1855. _Congregational year book_
(1856) 208–10; _J. Waddington’s Congregational history v_, 198–202
(1870).
BLACKBURN, PETER (_eld. son of John Blackburn of Killearn near
Glasgow_). _b._ Levenside, Dumbartonshire 1811; ed. at Eton;
cornet 2 Life Guards 29 Jany. 1830, lieut. 4 May 1832 to 1836;
M.P. for Stirlingshire 5 March 1855 to 6 July 1865; a lord of the
Treasury 15 March 1859 to June 1859; chairman of Edinburgh and
Glasgow railway Sep. 1846 to death. _d._ Killearn house, Killearn
20 May 1870.
BLACKBURNE, FRANCIS (_eld. son of Richard Blackburne of Great
Footstown, co. Meath who d. 1798_). _b._ Great Footstown 11 Nov.
1782; entered Trinity college Dublin July 1798, scholar 1801, B.A.
1803, LL.B. and LLD. 1852; called to bar in Ireland Jany. 1805;
went the Home circuit; K.C. 1822; administered the Insurrection
act in Limerick and Clare 1822–24; serjeant at law July 1826,
king’s second serjeant at law 19 April 1830 to Jany. 1831;
attorney general in Ireland 11 Jany. 1831 to April 1835 and 23
Sep. 1841 to Oct. 1842; P.C. Ireland 1831; master of the Rolls 1
Nov. 1842 to 23 Jany. 1846; chief justice of Queen’s Bench 23
Jany. 1846 to Feb. 1852; lord chancellor of Ireland Feb. 1852 to
Dec. 1852 and 24 July 1866 to March 1867; vice chancellor of Univ.
of Dub. Dec. 1851; one of Commissioners of National education
1852–53; lord justice of Appeal in Ireland Oct. 1856 to July 1866;
offered the Lord Chancellorship by Earl of Derby 24 Feb. 1858 but
declined; refused a Baronetcy May 1867. _d._ Rathfarnham Castle
near Dublin 17 Sep. 1867. _Life of the Right Hon. Francis
Blackburne by his son Edward Blackburne_ 1874, _portrait_; _O. J.
Burke’s History of lord chancellors of Ireland_ (1879) 277–93;
_Dublin univ. mag. xxiv_, 470–78 (1844), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_,
323 (1848), _portrait_.
BLACKBURNE, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ London 4 June 1815; articled to Wm.
Dunn of Oldham, surveyor 31 May 1828, partner with him 5 June 1835
to 27 June 1840 when he died; practised at Oldham 1835 to death;
M.I.C.E. 1 May 1855; F.G.S. 1835; pres. of Manchester district
society of surveyors and valuers 1866. _d._ Dryclough, Oldham 30
Sep. 1871. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_, 206–209
(1872).
BLACKBURNE, JOHN IRELAND. _b._ 26 May 1783; M.P. for Newton,
Lancashire 8 May 1807 to 10 June 1818 and for Warrington 7 Jany.
1835 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Hale hall near Warrington 27 Jany.
1874.
BLACKER, REV. GEORGE (_elder son of James Blacker of Dublin, police
magistrate_). _b._ 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; scholar 1809,
B.A. 1811, M.A. 1858; C. of St. Andrew’s, Dublin 1811–38; V. of
Maynooth 1838 to death; Preb. of St. Patrick’s cathedral 28 Dec.
1840 to death; author of _Castle of Maynooth_ 1853, _2 ed._ 1860;
_Castle of Kilkea_ 1860; _A record of the history of Maynooth
church_ 1867, all privately printed. _d._ the Rectory, Maynooth 23
May 1871 in 80 year. _Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette xiii_, 131
(1871).
BLACKER, WILLIAM. Ensign 60 Foot 3 July 1801; lieut. col. Armagh
militia 5 Nov. 1812 to 6 May 1846; vice treasurer of Ireland
1817–1829. _d._ Carrick house, Armagh 25 Nov. 1855 aged 80.
BLACKETT, SIR EDWARD, 6 Baronet. _b._ London 23 Feb. 1805; ed. at
Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 27 Oct. 1816; sheriff of
Northumberland 1833; married 4 times. _d._ Matfen hall,
Northumberland 23 Nov. 1885.
BLACKETT, HENRY. Publisher in London with Daniel Hurst (who _d._ 6
July 1870 aged 67). _d._ The Green, Ealing 7 March 1871 in 45
year.
BLACKIE, JOHN (_son of John Blackie of Glasgow, publisher who d. 17
June 1874 aged 92_). _b._ Glasgow 29 Sep. 1805; ed. at the high
school; head of the publishing firm of Blackie and Son in Glasgow
and London, with branches in every important town in Scotland;
member of Glasgow town council 1857; lord provost 1863; originated
the City Improvement scheme. _d._ Hillhead, Lillybank, Glasgow 11
Feb. 1873. _Bookseller_ 1873 _p._ 205.
BLACKLEY, REV. WILLIAM. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1835,
M.A. 1852; chaplain to Viscount Hill 1837 to death; V. of
Stanton-upon-Hine-Heath, Salop 1855–72; author of _Expository
lectures on the first four chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel_ 1842;
_Diplomatic correspondence of the Right Hon. Richard Hill 2 vols._
1845; _Scriptural teaching_ 1847; _The Gospel history between the
death of Christ and the day of Pentecost_ 1855. _d._ Garforth
house, Upper Sydenham 29 March 1885 aged 87.
BLACKLOCK, AMBROSE. _b._ Dumfries 1816; Assistant surgeon Madras 8
Feb. 1840; professor of surgery and surgeon of the General
hospital Madras 1851, and professor of medicine and physician 1858
to 28 April 1867; went to England on sick leave 29 Aug. 1865;
returned to Madras 1868; deputy inspector general of Presidency,
Circle and Northern, divisions 4 Aug. 1870 to death; author of _A
treatise on sheep_ 1838, _12 ed._ 1853. _d._ of enteritis at
Chittoor, Madras 11 Feb. 1873.
BLACKLOCK, WILLIAM JAMES. _b._ Cumwhitton near Carlisle about 1815;
landscape painter; exhibited pictures at Royal Academy, British
Institution and Society of British Artists 1836–55. _d._ Dumfries
12 March 1858 aged 42. _Carlisle Journal 19 March 1858._
BLACKMAN, WILLIAM. _b._ Arundel 27 Nov. 1862; ed. at Ardingley
college, captain of the cricket eleven 1880, an assistant master
1880; in the Sussex county eleven 17 July 1881 to 1884; one of the
best all-round cricketers in South of England. _d._ 4 Royal
terrace, Fitzroy, Melbourne 2 June 1885. _Cricket 28 Jany. 1886
p._ 1, _portrait_.
BLACKMORE, REV. RICHARD WHITE. Educ. at Merton coll. Ox., B.A. 1813;
chaplain to the Russia company 1819–47; R. of Donhead St. Mary
near Salisbury 1847 to death; author of _History of the church of
Russia_ 1842; _The doctrine of the Russian church_ 1845. _d._
Donhead St. Mary rectory 28 June 1882 in 91 year.
BLACKMORE, WILLIAM. _b._ Salisbury; admitted solicitor 1849;
practised at Liverpool 1856–69; presented his very valuable
collection of stone implements and other objects of art of
aboriginal inhabitants of America to city of Salisbury 1863 which
formed nucleus of the Blackmore museum, Salisbury; member of
Ethnological society of London 1866; member of council of
Anthropological society 21 Jany. 1871 on its amalgamation with
Ethnological society, and vice pres. 1872. _d._ Belgrave mansions,
Grosvenor gardens, London 12 April 1878.
BLACKSTONE, WILLIAM SEYMOUR. _b._ 30 Oct. 1809; M.P. for
Wallingford, Berkshire 11 Dec. 1832 to July 1852. _d._ 6 Jany.
1881.
BLACKWALL, JOHN (_son of Mr. Blackwall of Manchester, importer of
Irish linen_). _b._ St. Anne’s square, Manchester 20 Jany. 1790;
partner with his father to 1833; lived at Llanrwst, North Wales
1842 to death; member of Manchester literary and philosophical
society; F.L.S. April 1827; author of _Researches in Zoology_
1834, _2 ed._ 1873; _A history of the spiders of Great Britain and
Ireland_, _2 parts_ 1861–64, published by the Ray Society; wrote
82 papers in natural history periodicals 1821–71. _d._ Hendre
house, Llanrwst 11 May 1881. _Entomologist xiv_, 145–50, 190
(1881).
BLACKWELL, THOMAS. Partner with E. Crosse as oilmen at 11 King st.
Soho, London 1829, this was oldest house of the kind in London
having been founded 1706; moved to Soho square 1840; began
manufacture of jams 1841 and of table jellies 1850. _d._
Brookshill, Harrow Weald 16 Dec. 1879. Will proved 6 March 1880,
Personalty sworn under £160,000. _H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i_,
174–88 (1865).
BLACKWELL, THOMAS EVANS (_son of John Blackwell, civil engineer who
d. 1840_). _b._ Devizes 28 July 1819; engineer to Kennet & Avon
canal co. 1840; engineer to Bristol docks 1852–57; vice pres. and
general manager of grand trunk railway 1857–62; F.G.S., F.R.G.S.;
A.I.C.E. 1843, M.I.C.E. 1849. _d._ 25 June 1863.
BLACKWOOD, ARTHUR JOHNSTONE (_2 son of Sir Henry Blackwood, admiral
R.N., 1 Baronet 1770–1832_). _b._ 25 April 1808; clerk in Colonial
office April 1824 to May 1867; groom of the privy chamber 1836 to
death. _d._ Oakham, Rutland 2 Jany. 1874.
BLACKWOOD, FRANCIS PRICE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 25 May
1809; entered navy 6 Dec. 1821; captain 28 June 1838; commanded
the Fly surveying vessel on East India station 17 Nov. 1841 to
1846; F.R.A.S. _d._ of cancer in the throat at Richmond 22 March
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