1830. _d._ Belmont, Herts 14 Jany. 1861.

ALEXANDER, REV. JOHN (_son of Rev. Wm. Alexander_). _b._ Lancaster 19 Dec. 1792; entered Hoxton academy 13 Aug. 1814; a chapel was built for him at Norwich which was opened 1 Dec. 1819; ordained 31 May 1820; pastor of this chapel to April 1866; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1853; author of sermons entitled _The preacher from the press, 2 vols._ 1838. _d._ Norwich 31 July 1868. _bur._ the Rosary cemetery, Norwich 4 Aug. _The Congregational year book 1869_, _pp._ 234–36. NOTE.—He was to Norwich what John Angell James was to Birmingham and Thomas Raffles to Liverpool. ALEXANDER, JOHN HENRY. _b._ Dunbar, July 1796; actor at Queen’s theatre, Glasgow 1810; member of Murray’s company in Edinburgh 1816; managed the Caledonian theatre, Edinburgh; Lessee of Dumfries and Carlisle theatres; stage manager at Newcastle; manager of Dunlop st. theatre, Glasgow and of theatres at Carlisle and Dumfries, and Adelphi theatre, Edin. 1822–29; proprietor of Dunlop st. theatre, Glasgow, the most elegant in Scotland (which he built) 1829–1851; the best actor of Scottish characters, except Charles Mackay. _d._ Glasgow 15 Dec. 1851. NOTE.—On 17 Feb. 1849, 65 persons were killed in attempting to escape from the gallery of his theatre, an alarm having spread that it was on fire. ALEXANDER, JOHN HOBHOUSE INGLIS. _b._ 1832; captain R.N. 16 Aug. 1863; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen 21 April 1875 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1864. _d._ Mentone 22 Nov. 1875. ALEXANDER, NATHANIEL. _b._ Hillsborough, co. Down, Aug. 1815; M.P. for co. Antrim (conserv.) 14 April 1841 to 1 July 1852. _d._ Ardimersey cottage, Islay 5 Jany. 1853. ALEXANDER, ROBERT. _b._ Paisley; ed. at Paisley gr. sch.; conducted _Clydesdale journal_ at Hamilton and at Glasgow; conducted the _Western luminary_ at Exeter, about 2 years; edited the _Watchman_ in London; managed the _Morning journal_ to 1830, when he was prosecuted for libel, and condemned to one year’s imprisonment in Newgate, and fined £300, 10 Feb. 1830; edited the _Liverpool Standard_; founded the _Liverpool Mail_ 1836, edited it 1836 to death. _d._ Great Crosby near Liverpool 9 Feb. 1854 in his 59 year. _G.M. xli_, 429–30 (1854). ALEXANDER, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet. _b._ 16 Dec. 1769; succeeded 1809. _d._ 35 St. James’s place, London 1 Dec. 1859. ALEXANDER, ROBERT. In the navy 1810–19; ensign Madras army 12 June 1819; adjutant general 24 Sep. 1839 to 15 Aug. 1849; col. 24 N.I. 16 Aug. 1851 to 1869; general 25 June 1870, retired 31 Dec. 1877. _d._ 6 Marloes road South Kensington 16 May 1879 in his 81 year. ALEXANDER, ROBERT. _b._ 2 July 1813; in the Bengal civil service 1832–61; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Schuls, Lower Engadine 16 Aug. 1882. ALEXANDER, THOMAS. _b._ Preston-pans near Edinburgh; entered army medical service 10 Oct. 1834; served in the west Indies, Nova Scotia, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, Turkey, the Crimea and Canada; had charge of the light division throughout the Crimean war; inspector general (local rank) 21 July 1856; director general of army medical department 22 June 1858 to death; hon. surgeon to the Queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. (_m._ Mary Alice eld. sister of T. Heath Haviland, lieutenant governor of Prince Edward island, she _d._ 12 April 1881). _d._ 26 Norfolk square Hyde Park, London 1 Feb. 1860. NOTE.—A statue of him by Wm. Brodie was unveiled at Preston-pans by Lord Elcho Sep. 1862. ALEXANDER, WILLIAM. Lieut. col. 2 Bengal light cavalry 21 Aug. 1849 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ Dorundah, Bengal 2 Oct. 1851. ALEXANDER, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Chapel Rosan, parish of Stoneykirk, Wigtonshire 21 Feb. 1763; a carpenter in Lancaster 1783–1802; pastor of Independent ch. at Prescot near Liverpool 1802–10; ordained 23 Oct. 1805; pastor at Leigh 20 Jany. 1811; pastor at Church Town 1 May 1825 to death. _d._ Southport 23 Jany. 1855. _Memoir of Rev. W. Alexander, by Rev. John Alexander_ 1856; _Evangelical mag. March 1823_, _portrait_. ALEXANDER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1794; a writer to the signet in Edin. 1819; principal clerk and registrar of Commissary Court of Edin. 21 Dec. 1849 to death; author of _Abridgment of acts of Sederunt_ 1838; _An abridgment of acts of parliament of Scotland_ 1841; _Plan and description of the original electro-magnetic telegraph by the inventor_ 1851. _d._ 21 Dec. 1859. ALEXANDER, WILLIAM. In Nelson’s fleet 1805; surveyor of shipping to the underwriters and Mersey dock and harbour board, Liverpool nearly 50 years. _d._ 4 Mount Vernon Green, Liverpool 11 Feb. 1884, in 97 year. ALEXANDER, SIR WILLIAM JOHN, 3 Baronet _b._ 1 April 1797; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub. and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. Dub. 1817, incorp. B.A. Cam. 1825, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 8 Feb. 1825; went Oxford circuit; Q.C. 10 July 1844; Bencher of his inn 1844; attorney general to Prince of Wales 24 June 1853; succeeded as 3 baronet 1 Dec. 1859; one of council of Prince of Wales 27 Jany. 1864. _d._ 22 St. James’s place, London 31 March 1873. _I.L.N. xlii_, 400 (1863) _portrait_. ALEXANDER, REV. WILLIAM LINDSAY. _b._ Edinburgh 24 Aug. 1808; ed. at univs. of Edin. and St. Andrew’s; classical tutor in Lancashire college 1828; minister of Newington chapel, Liverpool 2 years; pastor of Augustine church, Edin.; principal of theological hall of Scottish congregational churches; member of Old Testament revision company 1870; author of the 3 articles _Moral philosophy, Scripture, and Theology in 8 ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica_; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ Pinkieburn near Edin. 20 Dec. 1884. _Our Scottish clergy, 2 series_ 1849, _pp._ 199–204. ALFORD, REV. HENRY (_3 son of Rev. Samuel Alford, Dean of St. Burian, Cornwall, who d. 15 Aug. 1799_). _b._ Curry Rivell Vicarage 3 Dec. 1782; ed. at Crewkerne, Bridgwater and Tiverton schools; entered Wad. Coll. Ox. 1800; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1811; Fellow of his college; barrister I.T. 22 Nov. 1811; ordained at Quebec chapel, Lon. to curacy of Steeple Ashton, Wilts 13 June 1813; R. of Ampton, Suffolk 1826–42; R. of Winkfield 1833–35; R. of Aston Sandford, Bucks July 1836 to 1850. (_m._ (1) 20 Dec. 1809 Sarah Eliza 3 dau. of Thomas Bradley Paget of Tamworth, Staffs. banker. _m._ (2) 11 Aug. 1831 Susanna eld. dau. of Thomas Barber of Stukeley, Hunts). _d._ Tunbridge 22 Sep. 1852. _Memorial of Rev. Henry Alford by Henry Alford, B.D._ 1855. ALFORD, VERY REV. HENRY (_only child of the preceding by his first wife_). _b._ 25 Alfred place Bedford sq. London 7 Oct. 1810; ed. at Charmouth in Dorset and Ilminster gr. school; matric. from Trin. coll. Cam. 13 Nov. 1828; scholar 1830, Bell scholar March 1831; 34 wrangler and 8 classic 1832; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.D. 1849, D.D. 1859; ordained at Exeter Cathedral to curacy of Ampton, Suffolk 27 Oct. 1833; fellow of his college 1 Oct. 1834; ordained priest at St. Margaret’s, Westminster 6 Nov. 1834; V. of Wymeswold Leics. 11 March 1835; Hulsean lecturer in Univ. of Cam. 1841–42; examiner in logic and moral philosophy in Univ. of London 1841–57; minister of Quebec chapel Portman sq. 1853; lived at 6 Upper Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood 26 Sep. 1853 to 19 June 1857; dean of Canterbury 18 March 1857 to death; one of the revisers of the New Testament; edited _Contemporary Review_ Dec. 1866; author of _Poems and poetical fragments_ 1831; _Chapters on the poets of Greece_ 1841; _Greek Testament_ _5 vols._ 1849–61, and 40 more volumes besides 104 articles in reviews. (_m._ 10 March 1835 Frances Oke dau. of Rev. Samuel Alford, P.C. of Muchelney, Somerset, she _d._ 18 Nov. 1878 aged 67). _d._ The Deanery, Canterbury 12 Jany. 1871. _bur._ churchyard of St. Martin’s, Canterbury 17 Jany. _Life of Henry Alford edited by his widow_ 1873, _portrait_; _Illustrated Review i_, 295–98, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxvi_, 269 (1855), _lviii_, 67 (1871), _portrait_. NOTE.—The statue erected to his memory in a niche of the west front of Canterbury Cathedral was unveiled 17 Oct. 1871. ALFORD, STEPHEN SHUTE. M.R.C.S. 1843, F.R.C.S. 1858, L.S.A. 1844; hon. sec. to Society for promoting legislation for control and cure of habitual drunkards; author of _A few words on drink craving_; _Dipsomania its prevalence, causes and treatment_. _d._ 61 Haverstock hill, London 5 July 1881 aged 60. ALICE MAUD MARY, Princess of the United kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (_3 child and 2 dau. of Queen Victoria_). _b._ Buckingham palace 25 April 1843. _m._ at Osborne 1 July 1862 Frederick Wm. Louis Charles afterwards Louis iv grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, he was _b._ 12 Sep. 1837; founded the Women’s Union for nursing the sick and wounded in war called after her name. _d._ the palace Darmstadt 14 Dec. 1878. _bur._ in the mausoleum at Rosenhohe near Darmstadt 18 Dec. _Alice grand duchess of Hesse, biographical sketch of_ 1884, _2 portraits_; _Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort v_, 252 (1880), _portrait_. ALISON, SIR ARCHIBALD, 1 Baronet (_younger son of Rev. Archibald Alison 1757–1839 prebendary of Sarum_). _b._ Kenley, Salop 29 Dec. 1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; advocate 8 Dec. 1814; advocate depute 1823–30; wrote his History of Europe 1 Jany. 1829 to 7 June 1842; sheriff of Lanarkshire Dec. 1834 to death; lived at Possil house near Glasgow 1835 to death; lord rector of Marischal college, Aberdeen March 1845, beating Macaulay by 48 votes; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 15 Jany. 1852; created baronet 25 June 1852; D.C.L. at Oxford July 1852; author of _History of Europe during the French revolution_, _10 vols._ 1833–42, _7 ed._ _20 vols._ 1847–48; in 1853 the book was stereotyped; _The military life of John Duke of Marlborough_ 1848, _2 ed._ _2 vols._ 1852. _d._ Possil house at 11.30 p._m._ 23 May 1867. _bur._ Dean cemetery, Edinburgh 30 May. _Some account of my life and writings by Sir A. Alison, edited by Lady Alison_, _2 vols._ 1883, _2 portraits_. NOTE.—He is drawn by Disraeli in Coningsby as Mr. Wordy. ALISON, CHARLES. Envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. at Tehran, Persia 7 April 1860; C.B. 28 Nov. 1860. _d._ Tehran 29 April 1872. ALISON, SOMERVILLE SCOTT. _b._ Edin. 1812; M.D. Edin. 1833; M.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1859; practised at Tranent 1833–40, in London 1840 to death; author of _Inquiry into propagation of contagious poisons_ 1839; _Medication of the larynx and trachea_ 1853; _Morbid throat and pulmonary consumption_ 1869. _d._ 85 Park st. Grosvenor sq. 11 June 1877. ALISON, WILLIAM PULTENEY (_elder son of Rev. Archibald Alison 1757–1839_). _b._ Boroughmuirhead near Edin. 1790; M.D. Edin. 1811; ascended Mont Blanc 1814; professor of medical jurisprudence in Univ. of Edin. 1820–22, of institutes of medicine 1822–42; and of practice of physic 1842–56; physician to the Queen in Scotland 3 Feb. 1847; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1850; granted civil list pension of £100, 10 Nov. 1856; presided over meeting of British Medical Association at Edin. Aug. 1858; author of _Outlines of physiology_ 1831; _Outlines of pathology_ 1833; _Observations on the management of the poor in Scotland_ 1840, this book caused the appointment of the Board of Supervision under the act of 1845. (_m._ 11 Aug. 1832 Margaret dau. of James Gregory, M.D. of Edinburgh). _d._ Woodville, Colington, Edinburgh 22 Sep. 1859. _Edin. Medical Journal v_, 469–86 and 597–603 (1860). ALLAN, ALEXANDER STEWART. _b._ 1822; employed in financial department, Bengal 1859–73; supplied many of the notes to the publications of the Grampian club; wrote many articles in _Notes and Queries_, signed A.S.A. _d._ Kincardine, Richmond, Surrey 20 Dec. 1881. ALLAN, BRYCE. _b._ Greenock; founded at Liverpool a branch of the Allan shipping company with his brothers Alexander and James (who _d._ Skelmorlie 1 Sep. 1880 aged 71). _d._ 16 Holly road Fairfield, Liverpool 24 May 1874. NOTE.—His personalty was sworn under £250,000 Sept. 1874. ALLAN, SIR HUGH (_2 son of Alexander Allan, commander of ships trading between the Clyde and Montreal_). _b._ Saltcoats, Ayrshire 29 Sep. 1810; clerk in house of Wm. Kerr and Co. Montreal 1826–29; partner in firm of Millar and Edmonstone of Montreal, shipowners 1835; partner with Edmonstone 1 May 1839; established April 1856 a line of steamers from Montreal to Liverpool, called the Montreal Ocean steamship company, afterwards the Allan line; knighted by patent 24 July 1871. (_m._ 13 Sep. 1844 Matilda Caroline 2 dau. of John Smith of Montreal, she _d._ 11 June 1881 aged 63). _d._ 27 St. Andrew sq. Edinburgh 9 Dec. 1882. _bur._ Montreal 27 Dec. _H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of celebrated Canadians_ 1862, _pp._ 669–74; _W. S. Lindsay’s History of merchant shipping iv_, 260–64 (1876). ALLAN, JAMES. Major 94 foot 20 July 1809 to 25 Dec. 1818, when placed on h. p. regiment being disbanded; served in Peninsular war 1810–14; lieut. col. 57 foot 20 March 1828 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; col. 50 foot 11 Oct. 1852 to death; C.B. 19 July 1838. _d._ Cheltenham 17 Feb. 1853. ALLAN, JAMES. _b._ Aberdeen; sec. to Peninsular steam navigation company when first formed 1837; this was first company which ran steamers to distant foreign ports, the Iberia first steamer despatched with Peninsular mails in Sep. 1837; the first sec. of Peninsular and Oriental company 1840; one of the 3 managing directors 1848 to death; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1849. _d._ Camp’s hill, Lewisham near London 15 Sep. 1874 aged 63. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_, 283–85 (1875). ALLARDICE, ROBERT BRIDGES BARCLAY, known as Captain Barclay (_eld. son of Robert Barclay of Ury, Kincardineshire 1731–97, founder of town of Stonehaven, who assumed name of Allardice 1776_). _b._ Ury 25 Aug. 1779; kept a pack of fox hounds at Ury 1807; walked from London to Birmingham viâ Cambridge 150 miles in 2 days Dec. 1799; walked 100 miles in 19 hours Dec. 1801; captain 71 foot 13 March 1806; major 20 Jany. 1814 to 31 March 1814 when he resigned; lieut. col. Kincardineshire militia; walked 1000 miles in 1000 successive hours at the rate of a mile in each and every hour at Newmarket 1 June to 12 July 1809, when about £100,000 changed hands on the result; trained Tom Cribb at Ury July-Aug. 1811 for his great fight with Tom Molineaux the Black, which Cribb won 28 Sep. 1811; a great agriculturist and cattle breeder; claimed the Earldom of Airth 1839 and the Earldoms of Strathern and Monteith