1849. _d._ 17 Lansdowne crescent, Cheltenham 4 May 1880 in 88

year. BOOTH, SIR WILLIAMSON, 2 Baronet. _b._ Stanstead Abbots, Herts. 15 July 1810; ed. at Eton; succeeded 24 Jany. 1850; sheriff of Cambridge and Hunts 1855. _d._ Paxton park, St. Neots 26 Aug. 1877. BOOTHBY, BENJAMIN (_eld. son of Benjamin Boothby of Cornwall place, Holloway, London_). _b._ Doncaster 5 Feb. 1803; barrister G.I. 28 April 1841; revising barrister for West Riding of Yorkshire 1845–52; judge of Court of Record of Pontefract and recorder 1848–53; second judge of supreme court of South Australia Feb. 1853, sworn in 17 Oct. 1853, presided as senior judge Dec. 1856 to July 1858; deputy judge of Court of Vice Admiralty 1856–61; removed from judgeship of Supreme Court by South Australian parliament July 1867 owing to his objections to the Real Property or Torrens act. _d._ Adelaide 21 June 1868. BOOTHBY, REV. SIR BROOKE WILLIAM ROBERT, 10 Baronet. _b._ Winchester 21 Jany. 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; fellow of All Souls’ college 1829; R. of Elmley, Kent 1846–52; R. of Welwyn, Herts. 17 Sep. 1852 to death; succeeded 21 April 1846. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 21 Sep. 1865. BOOTHBY, LADY LOUISA CRANSTOUN (_eld. dau. of Frederick Hayes Macnamara, ensign 52 Foot_). _b._ 1 April 1812; a juvenile theatrical wonder under name of Louisa Mordaunt, made her first appearance in London at Drury Lane theatre 16 Oct. 1829 as the Widow Cheerly in Cherry’s comedy of _The Soldier’s Daughter_; acted at the Haymarket 1830, 1837–39 and 1840–44; re-appeared at Drury Lane Oct. 1832; acted at the Queen’s 1835 and Strand; played Constance in _The love chase_ nearly 100 nights from 9 Oct. 1837 and Lady Gay Spanker in _London Assurance_ 4 March 1841 in both of which parts she was unequalled; played leading parts in genteel comedy at Covent Garden 1839–40. (_m._ (1) Jany. 1831 John Alexander Nisbett of Brettenham hall, Suffolk, Cornet 1 Life Guards, he _d._ 2 Oct. 1831. _m._ (2) 15 Oct. 1844 Sir Wm. Boothby, 9 baronet of Ashbourne hall, Derbyshire, he was _b._ 25 March 1782 and _d._ 21 April 1846). _d._ Rose Mount, St. Leonard’s on Sea 16 Jany. 1858. _C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses ii_, 66–88 (1844), _portrait_; _Theatrical Times ii_, 121, 130 (1847), _portrait_; _Dramatic and musical review iii_, 498, 527 (1844); _I.L.N. x_, 256 (1847), _portrait_. BOOTT, FRANCIS (_son of Kirk Boott of Boston, Massachusetts_). _b._ Boston 26 Sep. 1792; ed. at Univs. of Harvard and Edinburgh, M.D. Edin. 1824; surgeon in London 1825–31; lecturer on botany in Webb st. school of medicine 1825–31; member of senate and council of Univ. coll. London; F.L.S. 1819, sec. 1832–39, treasurer Nov. 1856 to May 1861; wore a blue coat with brass buttons and a yellow waistcoat the costume of 1830 down to his death; author of _Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong, M.D. 2 vols._ 1833–34; _Illustrations of the genus Carex 4 parts_ 1858–67. _d._ 24 Gower st. London 25 Dec. 1863. _Proc. of Linnæan Society_ (1864) 23–27. BORCHARDT, LOUIS. _b._ Landsburg on Warthe, Prussia 1813; ed. at Univ. of Berlin, M.D. 1838; practised as a physician at Zorbich and then at Breslau; imprisoned in fortress of Glatz 1848–50; practised at Bradford, Yorkshire 1850–52, and at Manchester 1852 to death, phys. to Childrens’ Dispensary June 1853, pres. of Manchester Medical Society. _d._ Swinton house, Fallowfield, Manchester 15 Nov. 1883. BORLAND, JAMES. _b._ Ayr April 1774; surgeon’s mate 42 Foot 20 Dec. 1792; surgeon to the forces in St. Domingo 1796–8; deputy inspector of army hospitals 5 Dec. 1799; established existing system of regimental hospitals 1805; inspector general 22 Jany. 1807; head of medical department of the army in Mediterranean 1810–16 during which time he organised the hospitals of the Anglo-Sicilian contingent; retired on h.p. 25 May 1816; received order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare of Savoy; phys. extraord. to Duke of Kent. _d._ Bridgeman house, Teddington 22 Feb. 1863. _G.M. xiv_, 666 (1863). BOROUGH, SIR EDWARD RICHARD, 2 Baronet. _b._ Merrion sq. Dublin 20 June 1800; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; army agent in Dublin; succeeded 22 Jany. 1837. _d._ 61 Fitzwilliam sq. north, Dublin 3 Dec. 1879. BORRADAILE, EDWARD SIDNEY (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ Littlehampton 30 March 1845; assistant engineer Launceston and Western railway Tasmania 1868–9; wrote for the Press 1870–3; lost whilst exploring in North Australia June 1874, two mountains are named after himself and his companion Mr. Permain in memory of the event. BORRADAILE, HARRY (_son of Henry Borradaile of London 1759–1822_). _b._ 19 July 1800; in the Bombay civil service 1819–44; compiled for publication by Government _Reports of select suits decided in the Suddur Adawluts_ 1825; translated the _Muyook_ (Sanscrit Law book) into Mahratta and Goozerattee 1827; author of _Collection of the rules and customs of various castes as affecting civil rights_; and of _A table of a decimal system of accounts_ 1853; a member of the India law commission at Calcutta under T. B. Macaulay. _d._ London 7 Oct. 1876. BORRELL, HENRY PERIGALL. Learnt business in London; merchant at Smyrna 1818 to death; very successful in discovery of inedited Greek coins; author of _Notice sur quelques médailles grecques des Rois de Chypre_, _Paris 1836_ and of papers in _Revue Numismatique, Numismatic Chronicle_ and various German numismatic periodicals; his collection of coins, antiquities and gems was sold in London 1851. _d._ Smyrna 2 Oct. 1851 aged 56. BORRER, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Borrer of Parkyns manor, Hurstpierpoint 1753–1832_). _b._ Henfield, Sussex 13 June 1781; endeavoured to cultivate every critical British species and all the hardy exotic plants he could obtain, having no less than 6660 species; wrote descriptions of species of Myosotis, Rosa, and nearly all of Rubus for Sir W. Hooker’s _British Flora_ 1830 and subsequent editions; several plants were named after him and the genus Borreria of Acharius amongst lichens; his herbarium of British plants is kept at the Royal gardens, Kew; F.L.S. 1805, F.R.S. 4 June 1835. _d._ Barrow hill, Henfield 10 Jany. 1862. _Proc. of Linnæan Society_ (1862) 85–90; _Lower’s Worthies of Sussex_ (1865) 71–73. BORRIE, JOHN (_son of Peter Borrie, proprietor of the Dundee foundry_). _b._ Dundee 27 Nov. 1837; employed by Bolckow and Vaughan of Middlesbrough, engineers 1856–61; resident engineer at Cleveland iron works Eston 1866–71; a consulting engineer 1871 to death; designed and set to work the hopper-and-spout kilns for calcining ironstone 1869, which have become general, reducing cost of labour very considerably; M.I.M.E. 1869. _d._ Stockton-on Tees 8 Feb. 1884. _Engineering 26 Nov. 1869._ BORROW, GEORGE HENRY (_younger son of Thomas Borrow, captain in West Norfolk militia who d. 1823_). _b._ East Dereham, Norfolk 5 July 1803; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. 1815–18; articled in office of Simpson and Rackham solicitors Norwich 1818–23; worked for Sir Richard Phillips the publisher in London; travelled in France, Germany, Russia, the East and Spain 1833–39, acting as agent for the British and Foreign Bible Society; sent letters to the _Morning Herald_ 1837–39, being the first of the newspaper correspondents; travelled in Albania, Wallachia, Hungary and Turkey 1844; author of _Romantic ballads translated from the Danish_ 1826; _Targum or metrical translations from 30 languages and dialects_ 1835; _The Zincali, or an account of the Gypsies of Spain 2 vols._ 1841, _4 ed. 1846_; _The Bible in Spain 3 vols._ 1843, _new ed._ 1873; _Lavengro the scholar, the gypsy, the priest 3 vols._ 1851, _3 ed._ 1872 which is in a great degree an autobiography; _The Romany Rye 2 vols._ 1851, _3 ed._ 1872; _Wild Wales 3 vols._ 1862, _2 ed._ 1865. _d._ Oulton near Lowestoft, Norfolk 26 July 1881. _Lavengro vol. i_, (1851), _portrait_; _The Norvicensian April 1882, pp._ 109–14. BORROWES, REV. SIR ERASMUS DIXON, 8 Baronet. _b._ Portarlington, Queen’s county 21 Sep. 1799; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; succeeded 7 March 1834; R. of parish of Ballyroan, Queen’s county. _d._ Lauragh near Portarlington 27 May 1866. BORROWS, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Derby 15 Nov. 1781; ed. at Quorn, Derbyshire, Winkfield, Wilts, and St. Edmund Hall Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; C. of Over, Oxon 1812–15; P.C. of St. Paul’s chapel, Clapham 1815 to 1 July 1851; author of _Reformation from Popery two sermons_ 1818; _Sacred maxims collected from the discourses of W. B. by an attached member of his congregation_ 1852. _d._ 3 April 1852. _bur._ Derby churchyard 10 April. _Select sermons by the late Rev. Wm. Borrows with a brief memoir edited by Rev. Philip Gell_ (1852). BORTHWICK, CUNNINGHAME BORTHWICK, 12 Baron (_2 son of Patrick Borthwick who d. 12 April 1840 aged 60_). _b._ Edinburgh 6 June 1813; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; head of firm of Borthwick, Wark and Co. of London, stockbrokers; established his claim to this barony (which had been dormant since 1772) before a committee of House of Lords 5 May 1870; bought Ravenstone castle, Wigtonshire in 1874 for £85,000; a representative peer for Scotland April 1880. _d._ Ravenstone castle 24 Dec. 1885. _P. H M’Kerlie’s Lands in Galloway ii_, 445–50 (1877). BORTHWICK, MICHAEL ANDREWS. _b._ Dunbar, East Lothian 30 Oct. 1810; A.I.C.E. 1833, M.I.C.E. 1845; resident engineer of Northern and Eastern railway 1837 and subsequently manager; engaged with Stephenson carrying out Egyptian railway between Alexandria and Cairo. _d._ Pernambuco 3 June 1856. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi_, 108–13 (1857). BORTHWICK, PETER (_only son of Thomas Borthwick of Edinburgh_). _b._ Cornbank, parish of Borthwick, Mid Lothian 13 Sep. 1804; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; entered Jesus coll. Cam.; fellow commoner of Downing coll.; contested Evesham 1832 and St. Ives, Penryn and Falmouth 1847; M.P. for Evesham 6 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847; barrister G.I. 28 April 1847; edited the _Morning Post_ 1850 to death; author of _A brief statement of Holy Scriptures concerning the second Advent_ 1830; _A Lecture on slavery_ 1836. _d._ 11 Walton villas, Brompton, London 18 Dec. 1852. _G.M. xxxix_, 318–20 (1853); _I.L.N. ii_, 8 (1843), _portrait, xxi_, 563 (1852), _xxii_, 11 (1853). BORWICK, REV. W. B. _b._ Orkney; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach 1834; pastor of the United Secession church in the Overgate, Dundee May 1835, and of United presbyterian church in Bell st. Dundee 1850 to May 1866. _d._ Newport 15 June 1870 aged