Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase
1857. _Report of the jurors on class xiv (photography) of the
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International Exhibition_ 1862; _N. and Q. 1 series vi_, 277, 396,
426 (1852), _vii_, 92, 218 (1853).
ARCHER, GEORGINA (_sister of James Archer_). Went to Berlin 1859;
Victoria Lyceum there was founded in 1867, mainly through her
efforts. _d._ Montreux, Switzerland 22 Nov. 1882.
ARCHER, HENRY. Invented and patented machine for perforating postage
stamps 1848. _d._ Pau, France 2 April 1863.
ARCHER, JOHN WYKEHAM. _b._ Newcastle 1808; apprenticed to John Scott
of Coppice row, London, animal engraver; Engraver in London 1831
to death; Associate of New Society of Painters in Watercolours;
author of _Vestiges of old London_ 1851; _Posthumous Poems_ 1873.
_d._ Kentish town, London 25 May 1864. _Pinks’s Clerkenwell_
(1865) 639–41.
ARCHER, THOMAS CROXEN. Clerk in Customs at Liverpool; collected,
arranged and named the specimens of the imports into Liverpool for
the Great Exhibition of 1851; a professor in the Liverpool
institution; superintendent of Technological museum Edin. 26 June
1860, and director Jany. 1866 to death; joint executive comr. from
Great Britain to American Centennial Exhibition 1876; F.R.S. Edin.
_d._ London 19 Feb. 1885. _Athenæum 28 Feb. 1885_, _p._ 283.
_Graphic xiii_, 542, 552 (1876), _portrait_.
ARCHIBALD, CHARLES DICKSON (_eld. son of Samuel George Wm.
Archibald, Speaker of Assembly, Nova Scotia_). _b._ Truro, Nova
Scotia 31 Oct. 1802; author of _A look towards the future of the
British colonies_ 1854; F.R.S. 26 Nov. 1840. (_m._ 16 Sep. 1832
Bridget only child of Myles Walker of Rusland hall, Lancashire).
_d._ 1868.
ARCHIBALD, SIR EDWARD MORTIMER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 10
May 1810; chief clerk and registrar of supreme court of
Newfoundland 8 Nov. 1832; attorney general 5 Nov. 1846; advocate
general 15 April 1847 to May 1855; consul in state of New York 1
Oct. 1857; judge in mixed court New York for suppression of
African slave trade 14 Oct. 1862 to 1 Oct. 1870; consul general
for states of New York, &c. 9 Feb. 1871 to 1 Jany. 1883; C.B. 17
March 1865; K.C.M.G. 12 Aug. 1882. (_m._ 1834 Katherine dau. of A.
Richardson of Halifax, Nova Scotia). _d._ 11 St. John’s terrace,
Brighton 8 Feb. 1884.
ARCHIBALD, SIR THOMAS DICKSON (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Truro, Nova Scotia 1817; attorney and barrister province of Nova
Scotia 1837; a special pleader in London 1844–52; student of M.T.
11 Nov. 1840, barrister 30 Nov. 1852; drew Petition of Right act
usually called Bovill’s act 1860; junior counsel to Treasury
otherwise called Attorney general’s Devil Feb. 1868 to Nov. 1872;
serjeant at law 20 Nov. 1872; judge of Court of Queen’s Bench 22
Nov. 1872 to Feb. 1875; knighted by the Queen at Osborne 5 Feb.
1873; judge of Court of Common Pleas Feb. 1875 to death. (_m._
1841 Sarah only dau. of Richard Smith of The Priory Dudley). _d._
7 Porchester gate, Hyde Park 18 Oct. 1876 in 60 year. _Law
magazine and law review ii_, 177–88 (1877); _I.L.N. lxii_, 11, 13
(1873), _portrait_.
ARDEN, HENRY THOMAS, the assumed name of Henry Thomas Arnold; author
of _Princess Charming_, _The belle of the Barley-mow_, _The
armourer’s daughter_, _The right-fall heir_ and many other
burlesques and extravaganzas. _d._ 25 Nov. 1876 aged 36.
ARDEN, JOSEPH (_eld. son of Joseph Arden of Islington_). _b._ 10 May
1799; ed. at Merchant Taylors; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840,
bencher 1 March 1875; principal of Cliffords Inn 5 Feb. 1855 to
death; F.S.A. 10 June 1847; author of _The orations of Hyperides
for Lycophron and Euxenippus now first printed in facsimile with a
short account of the discovery of the original manuscript at
Western Thebes in Upper Egypt in 1847_. _Cambridge_ 1853. _d._ 1
Cliffords Inn 30 Jany. 1879.
ARGUIMBAU, LAWRENCE. Captain 1 foot 1809–16 when placed on h.p.;
Col. 80 foot 30 April 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 22
June 1815. _d._ Mahon, Minorca 18 Aug. 1854.
ARKWRIGHT, GEORGE. _b._ 20 Aug. 1807; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1833;
M.P. for Leominster 1842 to death. _d._ 2D The Albany Piccadilly,
London 5 Feb. 1856.
ARKWRIGHT, HENRY. _b._ 16 Dec. 1837; captain 84 foot 18 April 1865
to death; killed by fall of an avalanche when ascending Mont Blanc
13 Oct. 1866.
ARKWRIGHT, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ 9 Aug. 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin.
coll. Cam., B.A. 1812; master of Essex foxhounds 1861 to death;
built new kennels at Harlow; a celebrated horseman; one of largest
farmers in Essex. _d._ 29 Feb. 1864. Personalty sworn under
£400,000 April 1864.
ARKWRIGHT, PETER. _b._ 17 April 1784; sheriff of Derbyshire 1855.
_d._ Willersley, Derbyshire 19 Sep. 1866. Personalty sworn under
£800,000 Nov. 1866.
ARMENI, SIR PETER BRAILA. Greek envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. in
London 24 April 1882 to death; G.C.M.G. 1882. _d._ 18 Queen’s gate
terrace, South Kensington 15 Sep. 1884.
ARMISTEAD, WILSON. Author of _A tribute for the Negro_ 1848; _Select
Miscellanies_, _2 vols._ 1851; _The Anti-slavery pilot_, 22
_numbers_ 1855; _Tales and legends of the English lakes and
mountains, by Lorenzo Tuvar_ 1855. _d._ Virginia house, Leeds 18
Feb. 1868 aged 49. _Joseph Smith’s Friends books i_, 124–31
(1867); _Annual Monitor for 1869 pp._ 2–8.
ARMITAGE, SIR ELKANAH (_3 son of Elkanah Armitage of Newton,
Lancs._) _b._ Failsworth Sep. 1794; a handloom weaver; founded
firm of Armitage and Co. of London and Manchester, cotton spinners
1827, retired 1873; member of the first town council Manchester
1838; alderman 1841–65; mayor 1846–48; knighted by the Queen at
Buckingham Palace 31 Jany. 1849 for his services during Chartist
riots 1848; contested Salford March 1857; sheriff of county
palatine of Lancaster 1866. _d._ Hope hall, Pendleton near
Manchester 26 Nov. 1876. _Graphic xiv_, 592, 595 (1876),
_portrait_.
ARMITAGE, GEORGE. Took a point net machine to Antwerp 1801,
introducing manufacture of point net lace into Belgium; went to
Paris where he effected many alterations in the stocking frame;
invented the circular hose frame; went to Prussia then to Cambray;
sent or took lace machines to Moscow; went to Australia about
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