1834. _d._ Ashelworth rectory 22 June 1877.

AUBIN, JOHN. One of the 11 judges of the Royal Court in Jersey 17 May 1862 to death. _d._ 27 Midvale road, St. Heliers 28 Jany. 1874 aged 78. AUBREY, THOMAS. _b._ Cefn-coed-y-cymer near Merthyr-Tydvil 13 May 1808; Wesleyan minister 1826 to death; chairman of North Wales district 1854–65. _d._ Rhyl 15 Nov. 1867. _Wesl. Meth. Mag. xci, pt._ 2 _p._ 845 (1868). AUBREY, SIR THOMAS DIGBY, 7 Baronet. _b._ Llanblythian, Glamorganshire 2 Dec. 1782; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1811; sheriff of Bucks 1815; succeeded 1 March 1826; chairman of Bucks quarter sessions some years, _d._ Oving house near Aylesbury 2 Sep. 1856. AUCHMUTY, SIR SAMUEL BENJAMIN (_2 son of Samuel Auchmuty of Bryanstown_). _b._ Ireland 1781; major 7 foot 28 Oct. 1813 to 1 Aug. 1822 when placed on h.p.; aide de camp to the Sovereign 1831–41; granted service reward 3 Aug. 1845; col. of 65 foot 31 Jany. 1851 and of 7 foot 18 Jany. 1855 to death; general 19 June 1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. (_m._ 1817 Mary Anne Buchanan, she _d._ 2 Jany. 1869 aged 69). _d._ Pau 30 April 1868. AUCKLAND, RIGHT REV. ROBERT JOHN EDEN, 3 Baron. _b._ Eden farm Beckenham, Kent 10 July 1799; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Cam., M.A. 1819, D.D. 1847; R. of Eyam 1823; R. of Huntingfordbury 1825; V. of Battersea 1835; chaplain to William iv 1831–37 and to Victoria 1837–47; Bishop of Sodor and Man 7 May 1847; consecrated 23 May 1847; installed at Castletown 29 June 1847; translated to see of Bath and Wells 2 June 1854; resigned his episcopal functions Oct. or Nov. 1869; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 1 Jany. 1849. _d._ The palace, Wells 25 April 1870. _I.L.N. lvi_, 489, 490 (1870), _portrait_. AUDLEY, GEORGE EDWARD THICKNESSE-TOUCHET, 20 Baron. _b._ 26 Jany. 1817; succeeded 14 Jany. 1837. _d._ Homburg 18 April 1872. _Burke’s Portrait gallery ii_, 41 (1833). AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, _b._ New Orleans 4 May 1780; arrived at Liverpool 20 July 1826; lived in England 1826–29, 1830–31, 1834–36 and 1838–39; author of _Birds of America_ published in 87 parts, elephant folio at price of 1000 dollars; F.L.S. 1828, F.R.S. 18 March 1830. _d._ New York Island 27 Jany. 1851. _R. Buchanan’s Life of J. J. Audubon_ 1868, 2 _portraits_. AUDUS, JAMES (_only son of John Audus of Selby, Yorkshire, merchant 1752–1809_). _b._ 28 July 1781; captain in York city militia 1808–33; began a coasting trade between Selby and London 1826, had 18 schooners so employed 1830; chairman of Yorkshire banking company 1843; erected and endowed St. James’s church Selby at cost of about £14000, laid the foundation stone 6 May 1866. _d._ Selby 14 May 1867. _W. W. Morrell’s History of Selby_ (1867) 186, 254–58. NOTE.—He was the oldest railway director in England, having been one of original board of Leeds and Selby railway which obtained its act 1830. AULDJO, JOHN. Ascended Mont Blanc 8 Aug. 1827, being the 14th ascent ever made; F.R.G.S. 1832; F.R.S. 7 May 1840; author of _Ascent of Mont Blanc_ 1827; _Sketches of Vesuvius_ 1832; _Journal of a visit to Constantinople_ 1835. _d._ 1857. AULSEBROOK, RICHARD. M.R.C.S. 1834, L.S.A. 1835; surgeon to Lambeth workhouse; resident medical officer of Hanwell lunatic asylum; author of _An inquiry into the physical condition of the working classes in the parish of St. James’s Westminster_. _d._ 50 King sq., Goswell road London 1855. AURIOL, REV. EDWARD. Ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; R. of Newton Valence, Hants 1838; R. of St. Dunstan in the West, London 1841 to death; Preb. of St. Paul’s April 1865 to death; commissary for Bishop of Nelson 1866. _d._ 35 Mecklenbergh sq. London 10 Aug. 1880 aged 75. AUSTEN, CHARLES JOHN. _b._ 1779; captain R.N. 10 May 1810; captain of Bellerophon 80 guns 1838–40; awarded good service pension 1840; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; commander in chief in East Indies 14 Jany. 1850 to death; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840; _d._ Prome, Burmah 8 Oct. 1852. AUSTEN, SIR FRANCIS WILLIAM (_4 son of Rev. George Austen R. of Steventon, Hants_). _b._ Steventon 23 April 1774; captain R.N. 13 May 1800; served in action off St. Domingo 1805, for which he received thanks of houses of parliament; colonel R.M. 27 May 1825; commander in chief on north American and West Indian station 27 Dec. 1844 to 12 Jany. 1848; admiral 1 Aug. 1848; R.A. of United Kingdom 5 June 1862; V.A. of U.K. 11 Dec. 1862; admiral of the fleet 27 April 1863 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 28 Feb. 1837, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Portsdown lodge, Portsmouth 10 Aug. 1865. AUSTEN, SIR HENRY EDMUND (_only son of Robert Austen of Shalford, Surrey who d. 3 Nov. 1797_). _b._ Shalford 20 May 1785; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox., M.A. 1807; sheriff of Surrey 1810; a gentleman of the Privy Chamber 26 Jany. 1832 to death; knighted by the king at St. James’s Palace 22 Feb. 1832. _d._ 2 Suffolk place Cheltenham 1 Dec. 1871. AUSTEN, REV. JOHN THOMAS. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; senior Wr. and senior Smith’s prizeman 1817; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1827; fellow of his college 1817; V. of Aldworth, Berks 1832–48; R. of West Wickham, Kent 1848 to death; hon. canon of Canterbury cathedral 1873. _d._ West Wickham rectory 10 June 1876 aged 82. AUSTEN, REV. ROBERT (_only son of Venerable Robert Austen 1723–92, archdeacon of Cork_). Treasurer of Cloyne 24 July 1810 to 10 June 1833 when he resigned. _d._ Southsea, Hants 4 Nov. 1854 in 83 year. AUSTEN, THOMAS. Lieut. col. of 60 regiment of foot 20 June 1805 to 1817; M.P. for West Kent 1845–47. _d._ Kippington, Sevenoaks 23 July 1859 aged 84. AUSTIN, ALFRED. _b._ 1805; assistant poor law comr. 1843–1854; sec. to Office of Works 1854–1868; C.B. 11 Oct. 1869. _d._ 67 Queen’s gardens, Bayswater 19 May 1884 in 79 year. AUSTIN, CHARLES (_2 son of Jonathan Austin of Creeting Mill, Suffolk, government contractor_). _b._ 26 March 1799; ed. at Bury St. Edmund’s gr. sch. and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; pupil of Sir Wm. Follett; barrister M.T. 25 May 1827; bencher 1841; Q.C. 1841; practised chiefly before committees of Houses of Parliament where he was the leading counsel; retired with a large fortune 1848; high steward of Ipswich; chairman of quarter sessions for East Suffolk. (_m._ 10 June 1856 Harriet Jane elder dau. of Ralph Mitford Preston Ingilby). _d._ Brandeston hall, Wickham Market 21 Dec. 1874. Personalty sworn under £140,000 19 Feb. 1875. _J. S. Mill’s Autobiography_ (1873) 76–79; _Fortnightly Review xxiii_, 321–38 (1875); _Public men of Ipswich_ (1875) 90–96. AUSTIN, SIR HORATIO THOMAS. Entered navy 8 April 1813; took part in Parry’s second Arctic expedition 1824–1825; commanded Salamander one of first steamers in the navy 1832–34; captain 28 June 1838; served in the Syrian war 1839–1843; commanded a squadron in search of Sir John Franklin 1850–1851; superintendent of Deptford dockyard 18 Oct. 1854 to 28 Nov. 1857; admiral superintendent of Malta dockyard 6 April 1863 to 26 Nov. 1864; V.A. 20 Oct. 1864; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. (_m._ 8 Nov. 1831 Anne Eliza only dau. of Thomas Hawkins of Pennance, Creed, Cornwall and widow of Rev. J. Rawlinson, she _d._ 7 July 1876). _d._ Leinster gardens, London 16 Nov. 1865 in 65 year. _O’Byrne’s Naval biography_ (1861) 30. NOTE.—Austin channel between Byam Martin and Bathurst Isles and Cape Austin on the west coast of Cornwallis Isle are named after him. AUSTIN, JOHN (_eld son of Jonathan Austin of Creeting Mill, Suffolk_). _b._ 3 March 1790; in the army 1806–11 when he sold out; served in Sicily; barrister I.T. 5 June 1818; gave up practice 1825; professor of jurisprudence in Univ. of London 1826, lectured there 1828 to June 1832; member of Criminal law commission 1833; delivered a course of lectures on jurisprudence at Inner Temple 1834; went to Malta as Royal Comr. to inquire into grievances of which the natives complained 1836; lived in Paris 1844–48 and at Weybridge, Surrey 1849 to death; corresponding member of moral and political class of French Institute; author of _The province of jurisprudence determined_ 1832, _2 ed._ 1861; _A plea for the Constitution_ 1859. (_m._ 1820 Sarah Taylor.) _d._ Weybridge 17 Dec. 1859. _Dict. of national biography ii_, 265–68 (1885). AUSTIN, SARAH (_youngest child of John Taylor of Norwich, yarn maker_). _b._ Norwich 1793; translated _The story without an end_ by Carové 1834; _Ranke’s History of the Popes of Rome_, _2 vols._ 1840, _4 ed._ _3 vols._ 1866; author of _Germany from 1760 to 1814, or sketches of German life_ 1854; granted civil list pension of £100 13 Oct. 1849. (_m._ 1820 John Austin). _d._ Weybridge, Surrey 8 Aug. 1867. AVELAND, GILBERT JOHN HEATHCOTE, 1 Baron. _b._ Normanton park, Stamford 16 Jany. 1795; ed. at Westminster, Edinburgh and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Boston 1820–30 and 1831–32, for Lincolnshire 1832–41 and for Rutlandshire 1841–56; created Baron Aveland of Aveland, county Lincoln 26 Feb. 1856; lord lieutenant of Lincolnshire 12 March 1862. _d._ 12 Belgrave sq. London 6 Sep. 1867; Personalty sworn under £400,000 26 Oct. 1867. AVELING, THOMAS. _b._ Elm, near Wisbech 11 Sep. 1824; a farmer at Ruckinge in Romney Marsh; agricultural implement maker at Rochester; an engine builder there 1860 to death; the first to build a traction engine with a single cylinder; invented steam road rollers, now to be found in nearly every town in the kingdom; A.I.C.E. 1871; M.I.C.E. 1877; M.I.M.E. 1869; member of Iron and Steel institute; chevalier of Legion of Honour; knight of order of Francis Joseph. _d._ Boley hill house Rochester 7 March 1882. _Graphic xxv_ 289 (1882) _portrait_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiii_ 350–55 (1883). AVELING, REV. THOMAS WILLIAM BAXTER. _b._ Castletown, Isle of Man 11 May 1815; usher in a school at Wisbech; studied at Highbury college 1834–38; Congregational minister at Kingsland 10 June 1838 to death; hon. sec. to Asylum for fatherless children at Reedham, Surrey 1847–83, the chapel there is called after him, the “Aveling Memorial Chapel”; chairman of Congregational Board 1873 and of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1874; author of _Naaman or Life’s shadows and sunshine_ 1853; _Memorials of the Clayton family_ 1867; edited _the Jewish Herald 5 years_. _d._ Reedham orphanage asylum 3 July 1884. _Congregational year book_ (1885) 176–79. AVERY, JOHN. M.R.C.S. 1829, F.R.C.S. 1843; M.D. Paris 1831; surgeon in chief to the 5th Polish ambulance in Polish army; a prisoner many months; a consulting surgeon in London; surgeon to Charing Cross hospital; invented an apparatus for exploring internal cavities of the body which gained large silver medal of Society of Arts; a successful operator in cases of cleft palate. _d._ 3 Queen st. Mayfair 5 March 1855. _Medical directory_ 1856, 722–24. AVONMORE, BARRY JOHN YELVERTON, 3 Viscount. _b._ 21 Feb. 1790; succeeded 28 Nov. 1814; principal registrar of court of chancery in Ireland to 1826 when granted pension of £4,200 on abolition of office. _d._ Raglan road, Dublin 24 Oct. 1870. AVONMORE, WILLIAM CHARLES YELVERTON, 4 Viscount (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ 27 Sep. 1824; ed. at Woolwich; captain R.A. 16 July 1850 to 1 April 1861 when placed on h.p.; suspended from all military duties March 1861. (_m._ 26 July 1858 Emily Marianne youngest dau. of Sir Charles Ashworth, K.C.B. and widow of Edward Forbes, F.R.S.) _d._ Biarritz 1 April 1883. _The Yelverton correspondence by the Hon. Theresa Yelverton_ 1863, _portrait_; _J. J. Macqueen’s Reports in House of Lords iv_, 743–912 (1866). NOTE.—He went through marriage ceremonies with Maria Theresa eld. dau. of Thomas Longworth of Manchester, manufacturer (1) at 1 St. Vincent st. Edinburgh on 12 April 1857 and (2) in chapel of Kilbroney near Rostrevor, Ireland on 15 Aug. 1857. A great deal of litigation took place between them to settle the point whether they were married or not, the end of which was that on 28 July 1864, House of Lords decided in favour of Lord Avonmore and against the marriage, thus reversing the judgment of the Court of Session in Edinburgh which had decided in her favour. AVONMORE, BARRY NUGENT YELVERTON, 5 Viscount. _b._ 1 Randolph cliff, Edinburgh 11 Feb. 1859; 2 lieut. 37 foot 30 Jany. 1878; lieut. 20 Feb. 1879 to death; succeeded 1 April 1883. _d._ of enteric fever at Kerbekan in the Soudan 13 Feb. 1885. _I.L.N. lxxxvi_, 431 (1885) _portrait_. AVORY, HENRY. _b._ 1826; articled to John Clark of London, solicitor; clerk of indictments home circuit 1845; admitted a solicitor Nov. 1857; deputy clerk of assize home circuit 1858 to death; clerk of arraigns at central criminal court May 1860 to death. _d._ 26 Ladbroke gardens, London 5 April 1881. NOTE.—He figures in W. P. Frith’s series The race for wealth in the 4th picture “Judgment.” AWDRY, SIR JOHN WITHER (_2 son of John Awdry of Notton house, Chippenham 1766–1844_). _b._ Swindon 21 Oct. 1795; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, D.C.L. 1844; fellow of Oriel coll. 1820–1830; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1822; puisne judge and comr. of insolvent debtor’s court Bombay 1830–1839; knighted by patent 18 June 1830; chief justice of supreme court of Bombay 1839–1841 when he resigned; chairman of Wilts quarter sessions 1848 to 1866. _d._ Notton house 31 May 1878. AYCKBOURN, HUBERT (_youngest son of Thomas Harman Ayckbourn, barrister who d. 31 Dec. 1870 aged 94_). author of _The practice of the high court of Chancery_ 1844, _9 ed._ 1870; _The jurisdiction and practice of the supreme court of judicature_ 1874 _2 ed._ 1876; committed suicide 2 or 3 May 1880 aged 56. AYLEN, JONATHAN (_son of John Aylen of Portsea_). _b._ Portsmouth 22 May 1798; entered navy 13 Feb. 1813; master 5 Sep. 1823; master attendant at Sheerness dockyard 25 May 1849 to March 1856; examiner in navigation and seamanship at Hull May 1856; retired captain 25 May 1858; made several important inventions in anchors, his improvement on the Admiralty anchor was successfully tested at trial of anchors of all nations 1852. _d._ Welton near Brough, Yorkshire 9 Oct. 1874. _O’Byrne_ (1861) 31–32. AYLES, JOHN GEORGE AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1808; 2 lieut. R.M. 13 May 1828; col. commandant 16 May 1862 to 4 Nov. 1864; M.G. 4 Nov. 1864; _d._ Clevelands Basset, Southampton 25 Nov. 1883. AYLESFORD, HENEAGE FINCH, 5 Earl of, (_eld. son of Heneage Finch 4 Earl of Aylesford 1751–1812_). _b._ 24 April 1786; succeeded 20 Oct. 1812. _d._ Packington hall, Coventry 3 Jany. 1859. AYLESFORD, HENEAGE FINCH, 6 Earl of. _b._ Packington hall, 24 Dec. 1824; M.P. for south Warwickshire 7 June 1849 to 21 March 1857. _d._ Grosvenor st. London 10 Jany. 1871. AYLESFORD, HENEAGE FINCH, 7 Earl of. _b._ Upper Brook st. London 21 Feb. 1849; entertained Prince of Wales at Packington hall Nov. 1874; a prize fight and a cock fight took place there in 1876; effected 56 policies of insurance on his life to amount £204,830. _d._ the Big Springs cattle ranch, Texas 13 Jany. 1885. AYLMER, FREDERICK WHITWORTH AYLMER, 6 Baron. _b._ Twyford near Southampton 12 Oct. 1777; captain R.N. 18 May 1805; commanded Severn 50 guns at battle of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; naval aide-de-camp to Wm. iv 1830–37; V.A. 9 Nov. 1846, pensioned 1 July 1851; admiral on half pay 11 Sep. 1854; C.B. 19 Sep. 1816, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, K.F.M.; succeeded as 6 Baron 23 Feb. 1850. _d._ 20 Dawson place, Westbourne grove 5 March 1858. _O’Byrne_ (1861) p. 32. AYLMER, SIR GERALD GEORGE, 9 Baronet. _b._ Carnarvon 15 Sep. 1798; succeeded 23 May 1816. _d._ Donadea castle Kilcock, co. Kildare 8 Feb. 1878. AYLMER, SIR GERALD GEORGE, 10 Baronet. _b._ Dublin 26 May 1830. _d._ 25 June 1883. AYLMER, SIR JUSTIN GERALD, 11 Baronet. _b._ 17 Nov. 1863; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cambridge. _d._ Trinity college 15 March 1885 the result of a fall from a bicycle 3 days before. AYLMER, SIR ARTHUR PERCY, 12 Baronet. _b._ 31 Aug. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; student L.I. _d._ Cork 7 May 1885. AYLMER, THOMAS BRABAZON. Ensign 20 foot 9 Aug. 1797; major 9 foot 4 Sep. 1807 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; general 25 Sep. 1856; colonel 45 foot 25 Sep. 1856 to death. _d._ Worthing 19 July 1858 aged 76. AYLWARD, WILLIAM. A student at R.A. of Music, gained a King’s scholarship; professor of violoncello there; member of Philharmonic society and of Royal Italian opera band; taught music at Slough. _d._ 12 March 1878. AYRE, REV. JOHN. _b._ Feb. 1801; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827; Incumbent of St. John’s chapel, Downshire hill Hampstead; dom. chap. to Earl of Roden; general secretary and librarian of Parker Society 1840–53; edited for Parker Society _Sermons of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York_ 1841; _Works of Thomas Becon 3 vols._ 1843–44; _Works of John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury 4 vols._ 1845–50; _Works of John Whitgift, archbishop of Canterbury 3 vols._ 1851–53; author of _Treasury of Bible knowledge_ 1866. _d._ Church row, Hampstead 20 May 1869. AYRE, JOSEPH. _b._ Lynn, Norfolk 1781; sent to sea 1800; studied medicine at Guy’s hospital and Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 24 June 1807; practised at Hull 1808–24, in London 1824–31, and at Hull again 1831 to death; L.R.C.P. 1824, F.R.C.P. 1859; author of _Practical observations on bilious complaint_ 1821; _Researches into the nature and treatment of dropsy_ 1825. _d._ Hull 15 Jany. 1860. AYRES, JOHN. _b._ 1807; clerk of the Royal Society of Literature more than 30 years. _d._ 4 St. Martin’s place, London 9 July 1881. AYRES, PHILIP BURNARD. _b._ Thame, Oxon 12 Dec. 1813; entered Univ. college London Oct. 1833; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 25 April 1836; M.D. London 9 Dec. 1841 where he won 7 medals; practised nearly 10 years at Thame; lecturer on chemistry at Charing Cross hospital; phys. to Islington dispensary 1851; edited _Pharmaceutical Times_; patented a method of utilising sewage as manure 1847; superintendent of quarantine in Mauritius 5 Jany. 1856 to death. _d._ Champ de Mars, Port Louis, Mauritius 30 April 1863. NOTE.—His widow presented his herbarium of Mauritius plants to royal gardens at Kew. AYRIS, HENRY. _b._ 12 Dec. 1805; whipper-in to the Berkeley hounds 1826; huntsman of same pack down to Dec. 1865, when presented with a purse of 500 guineas, and granted an annuity of £100 by Lord Fitzhardinge; the best huntsman of his day. _d._ Ham near Berkeley 28 April 1874. AYRTON, EDWARD NUGENT. _b._ Richmond, Surrey 1815; ed. at Ealing and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1845; wrote in the Law Times. _d._ Bexhill, Sussex 28 Nov. 1873. AYRTON, FREDERICK (_elder brother of preceding_.) _b._ London 20 March 1812; ed. at Ealing and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 1828; captain June 1843 to 11 Sep. 1843, when he retired on a pension; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1846; sec. to Abbas Pasha viceroy of Egypt 1851 to 13 July 1854 when he died, educated Ilhami Pasha his only son, sec. to him 1854 to his death 1861; A.I.C.E. 9 June 1835; received title of Bey from the Khedive. _d._ Arundel gardens, Notting hill London 20 June 1873. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii_, 306–308 (1874). NOTE.—He formed a magnificent collection of Arabic calligraphs and MSS. which he bequeathed to the nation, but unfortunately the conditions with which the bequest was accompanied, prevented the Trustees of the British Museum accepting it. AYRTON, MATILDA (_dau. of Mr. Chaplin._) _b._ Honfleur 1846; passed preliminary examination at the Apothecaries’ Hall 1869 but was refused admission to the later examination on ground of her sex; matriculated at Univ. of Edin.; completed her education at Paris; lived in Japan 1873–77; taught midwifery to a class of Japanese women; M.D. Paris Dec. 1879; a licentiate of the King and Queen’s College of Physicians in Ireland, when she came out first in the examination; author of _Child life in Japan_ 1879; contributed many articles to periodicals. (_m._ 1872 Wm. Edward Ayrton professor in Imperial college of engineering, Japan). _d._ Sloane st. London 19 July 1883. _The Englishwoman’s Review 15 Aug. 1883._ AYRTON, WILLIAM (_younger son of Edmund Ayrton 1734–1808, Master of the chapel royal to George iii_). _b._ London 22 Feb. 1777; Captain in Queen’s royal volunteers Westminster; musical and literary critic of the _Morning Chronicle_ 1813–1826; chief originator of Philharmonic society 1813; manager of Opera house London 1817 and 1821; produced Mozart’s Don Giovanni for first time in England 12 April 1817; edited and wrote much in the _Harmonicon_ 1823–33; wrote the musical articles in the _Penny Cyclopædia_ 1833–44; edited the _Sacred Minstrelsy_ 1834–35 and the _Musical library_ 1834–36; one of the original members of Royal institution and of the Athenæum club; F.R.S. 1 June 1837; _d._ 9 Bridge st. Westminster 8 May 1858. AYRTON, WILLIAM SCROPE (_only son of the preceding_). _b._ 28 April 1804; ed. at Loughborough house school; barrister M.T. 26 Nov. 1830; a registrar of Court of Bankruptcy Aug. 1838 to July 1847; comr. of Leeds district Court of Bankruptcy 5 July 1847 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted sum of £1800 on abolition of his office; F.S.A. 21 May 1840; author with Basil Montagu of _Reports of cases in Bankruptcy 3 vols._ 1834–39 and of _The law and practice in Bankruptcy 2 vols._ 1837. _d._ Cliffden, Saltburn-by-the-Sea 3 May 1885. AYSCOUGH, JOHN (_son of John Ayscough, Capt. R.N._) _b._ on board H.M.S. “Swan” during an action on the way from North America 1775; captain R.N. 18 April 1806; protected Sicily against invasion of Joachim Murat 1810; superintended the ordinary at Plymouth 1822–25; Comr. of dockyards at Jamaica and Bermuda; admiral 3 Oct. 1855; awarded good service pension, _d._ Norwood, Surrey 2 Dec.