Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase
1858. _d._ Warrender lodge, Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1877.
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_Whistle-Binkie ii, xiv-xxvii_ (1878); _History of the lodge of
Edinburgh by D. M. Lyons_ (1873) 50, 363, _portrait_.
BALLANTINE, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 5 Feb. 1813; magistrate at
Thames police court 1821–48. _d._ 89 Cadogan place, Chelsea 14
Dec. 1852 in 74 year. _I.L.N. ix_, 317 (1846), _portrait_.
BALLANTYNE, JAMES ROBERT. _b._ Kelso 13 Dec. 1813; ed. at Edinburgh
new academy and college; teacher of Hindi and Sanskrit at Naval
and military academy Edin. 1839; principal of College of Benares
1845–61; librarian of India office library Cannon row, Westminster
1861 to death; author of _Lectures on the sub-divisions of
knowledge, Sanskrit and English_ 1848; _The Mahabhashya or great
commentary on the aphorisms of Panini_ 1856; _Christianity
contrasted with Hindu philosophy_ 1859 and 14 other works. _d._ 16
Feb. 1864. _Journal of Royal Asiatic Society i, v-vii_ (1865).
BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL. _b._ Edinburgh 24 April 1825; in the
Hudson Bay Company’s service 1841–47; author of _Hudson’s Bay or
every day life in the wilds of North America_ 1848, 3 ed. 1859;
_Coral island, a tale of the Pacific ocean_ 1857; _Deep down, a
tale of the Cornish mines_ 1868, and many other tales. _d._ 1871.
BALLANTYNE, THOMAS. _b._ Paisley 1806, a weaver there; edited
_Bolton Free Press_; edited _Manchester Guardian_; printer,
publisher and one of the 4 original proprietors of _Manchester
Examiner_; editor of _Liverpool Journal_ and _Liverpool Mercury_;
edited the _Leader_ in London; started the _Statesman_, edited it
till its close; edited _St. James’s Chronicle_; author of
_Passages selected from writings of T. Carlyle_ 1855; _Essays in
mosaic_ 1870. _d._ Tufnell park, Holloway 30 Aug. 1871.
BALLARD, EDWARD GEORGE (_only child of Edward Bollard, alderman of
Salisbury who d. 6 March 1827_). _b._ Salisbury 29 April 1791;
clerk in the Stamp and Excise offices London 1809–17; wrote most
of the poetry and critiques for the _Weekly Review_; author of _A
new series of original poems_ [_anon._] 1825; _Microscopic
amusements_ 1829; wrote part of a continuation of _Strype’s
Ecclesiastical annals_ in _The Surplice_ weekly paper 1848. _d._
Compton terrace, Islington 14 Feb. 1860.
BALLARD, JOHN ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1829; 2 lieut. Bombay Engineers 8 Dec.
1848 and lieut. col. 10 Nov. 1869 to 31 Dec. 1878; lieut. col.
Turkish army 1854; served in campaigns on the Danube 1854–55, in
Crimea 1855, and in Mingrelia 1855–56; assistant quartermaster
general of Persian expeditionary force 1856–57, and of Rajpootana
field force and Malwa division in Indian mutiny 1858–59; C.B. 10
May 1856; mint master Bombay 1862–78; general 31 Dec. 1878. _d._
Pass of Thermopylæ near Livadia Greece 1 April 1880.
BALLARD, THOMAS. _b._ Mayfair London; studied at St. George’s
hospital; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. society 1849; author of
_New and rational explanation of the diseases peculiar to infants
and mothers_ 1860; _On the convulsive diseases of infants_ 1863;
_An enquiry into constitutional syphilis in the infant_ 1874. _d._
10 Southwick place, Hyde park 11 Sep. 1874 aged 56.
BALLINGALL, DAVID JAMES. Midshipman R.N.; served at Copenhagen 1801;
2 lieut. R.M. 1 July 1803; col. commandant 19 Nov. 1851 to 10
Jany. 1852 when he retired on full pay. _d._ Southsea 31 March
1854.
BALLINGALL, SIR GEORGE (_son of Rev. Robert Ballingall, minister of
Forglen, Banffshire_). _b._ in the manse of Forglen 2 May 1780;
ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1803, M.R.C.S.
Edin. 15 Aug. 1820; assistant surgeon 1 foot 10 July 1806; surgeon
of 33 foot 1815–18 when placed on h.p., retired 1831; professor of
military surgery in Univ. of Edin. 18 Jany. 1823 to death;
knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830; F.R.S.;
author of _Introductory lectures to a course of military surgery_
1830; _Outlines of military surgery, 5 ed._ 1855. _d._ Altamont
near Blairgowrie 4 Dec. 1855.
BALNEAVIS, HENRY. Ensign 16 foot 3 Jany. 1797; captain 27 foot
1805–24 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel 65 foot 18
Jany. 1855 to death; C.M.G. 17 July 1833; K.H. 1836. _d._ Malta 17
July 1857 aged 77.
BALVAIRD, WILLIAM. Major Rifle brigade 1814–18; major 99 foot
1824–26, retired from the army 27 Aug. 1841; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831.
_d._ Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1853.
BALY, WILLIAM. _b._ Lynn, Norfolk 1814; L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1834;
studied in Paris, Heidelberg and Berlin; M.D. Berlin 1836;
practised in London 1836; L.R.C.P. 1841, F.R.C.P. 1846, a censor
1858; phys. to Milbank penitentiary 1841–60; lecturer on forensic
medicine at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841–54, assistant phys.
there 1854 and lecturer on medicine 1855; Gulstonian lecturer Feb.
1847; F.R.S. 15 April 1847; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 18
April 1859; member of general council of medical education and
registration 1 Aug. 1860 to death; author with W. S. Kirke of
_Advances in physiology of motion_ 1848, and with W. G. Gull of
_Reports on epidemic cholera_ 1854; killed in the train on the
South Western railway about 7 miles from London at the junction
with the Epsom line 28 Jany. 1861. _Medical Critic ii_, 334–40
(1861); _I.L.N. xxxviii_, 111, 122 (1861), _portrait_.
BAMFORD, SAMUEL. _b._ Middleton 28 Feb. 1788; ed. at Manchester gr.
sch.; a handloom weaver at Middleton; secretary to the Hampden
club at Middleton 1816; examined before Privy Council on a charge
of high treason April 1817 when set free with a warning; took part
in reform meeting at Peterloo 16 Aug. 1819, tried at York assizes
March 1820 when found guilty of a seditious misdemeanour,
sentenced in Court of King’s Bench, London 15 May 1820 to 1 year’s
imprisonment in Lincoln gaol; employed in Inland Revenue Office
London 1849–58; author of _Miscellaneous poetry_ 1821; _Passages
in the life of a Radical 2 vols._ 1840–44; _Early days_ 1849 _2
ed._ 1859; _Walks in South Lancashire 2 vols._; _Talk o Seawth
Lankeshur by Samhul Beamfort_ 1850, in this volume he professes to
correct the dialect in Tim Bobbin; _Life of Amos Ogden of
Middleton_ 1853. _d._ Moston, Harpurhey near Manchester 13 April
1872; monument in Middleton cemetery, unveiled 6 Oct. 1877. _F.
Espinasse’s Lancashire Worthies 2 series_ 1877, _pp._ 462–91;
_Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester_ (1881) 220–25.
BAMFORD, WILLIAM. Surgeon at Rugely Staffs 1803 to death; one of
principal witnesses at trial of Wm. Palmer the poisoner 1856. _d._
Rugely 17 April 1859 in 84 year.
BAMPTON, AUGUSTUS HAMILTON. _b._ London 13 March 1823; civil
engineer at Plymouth 1844; chief surveyor to the corporation
1849–54; engineer to South Devon and Tavistock railway 1852 to
death; M.I.C.E. 1849; author of _The drainage of towns_ 1849. _d._
North hill Devon 4 March 1857. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xvii_, 92–94 (1858).
BANCALARI, PETER. _b._ 1806; a noted cricket, umpire at Oxford many
years. _d._ Oxford 31 Oct. 1869.
BANDINEL, REV. BULKELEY (_eld. son of Rev. James Bandinel V. of
Netherbury Dorset who d. 25 Nov. 1804 aged 92_). _b._ Oxford 21
Feb. 1781; ed. at Reading and Winchester; scholar of New college
Ox. 1800, fellow, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1823;
chaplain in the Victory 1808; under librarian Bodleian library Ox.
1810, librarian 25 Aug. 1813 to Sep. 1860; published Catalogue of
the printed books _4 vols._ 1843–50; proctor Univ. of Ox. 1814; R.
of Haughton-le-Skerne, Durham 1823–60; author of _Catalogue of
books relating to British topography and Saxon and Norman
literature bequeathed to the Bodleian library by Richard Gough_
1814; author with John Caley and Henry Ellis of new editions of
_Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum_ 1817–30 crown folio 6 vols. in
8, and 1846, folio, _8 vols;_ edited _Clarendon’s History of the
rebellion_ 1826. _d._ Oxford 6 Feb. 1861.
BANDON, JAMES BERNARD, 2 Earl of (_eld. son of Francis Bernard 1
Earl of Bandon 1755–1830_). _b._ Castle Bernard, Bandon co. Cork
14 June 1785; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; M.A. 1806; M.P. for
Bandon 1820–26 and 1830; succeeded as 2 Earl 26 Nov. 1830;
recorder of Bandon; a representative peer of Ireland 31 July 1835;
lord lieutenant of Cork 1842; F.R.S. 5 June 1845. _d._ Castle
Bernard 31 Oct. 1856.
BANDON, FRANCIS BERNARD, 3 Earl of (_eld. son of the preceding_).
_b._ Grosvenor st. London 3 Jany. 1810; ed. at Eton and Oriel
coll. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Bandon 1831–32 and
1842–56; a representative peer of Ireland 21 Aug. 1858; lord
lieutenant of Cork 2 Nov. 1874. _d._ Castle Bernard 17 Feb. 1877.
BANGOR, EDWARD WARD, 4 Viscount. _b._ London 23 Feb. 1827; succeeded
1 Aug. 1837; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1848;
representative peer for Ireland 9 Jany. 1855. _d._ Brighton 14
Sep. 1881.
BANIM, MICHAEL (_eld. son of Michael Banim of Kilkenny,
shopkeeper_). _b._ Kilkenny 5 Aug. 1796, postmaster there 1852–73;
contributed _Crohoore_, _The Croppy_, _The ghost hunter_, _The
mayor of Windgap_, _Father Connell_ and other tales to _The tales
by the O’Hara family 24 vols._ _d._ Booterstown, co. Dublin 30
Aug. 1874. _P. J. Murray’s Life of John Banim_ 1857.
BANKES, GEORGE (_3 son of Henry Bankes of Kingston hall, Dorset
1757–1834_). _b._ 1788. Ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam.;
fellow; LL.B. 1812; bankruptcy comr. 1822; recorder of Weymouth 25
Aug. 1823; cursitor Baron of the Exchequer 6 July 1824 to death
when office abolished; M.P. for Corfe Castle 1816–23 and 1826–32
and for Dorset 1841 to death; sec. to Board of control 2 May 1829
to 16 Feb. 1830 and comr. of same board 24 Feb. 1830 to 6 Dec.
1830; a junior lord of the Treasury 24 April to 24 Nov. 1830; P.C.
27 Feb. 1852; judge advocate general 28 Feb. to Dec. 1852; author
of _The story of Corfe Castle and of many who have lived there_
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