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- Arthur Henry Hallam
- '''Arthur Henry Hallam''' ([[1811]]-[[1833]]), subject of Tennyson's In Memoriam; elder son of Henry Hallam ; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he met Tennyson; studied at the Inner Temple; died suddenly at Vienna (buried at Clevedon). His l Remains issued, 1834.
- Henry Hallam
- '''Henry Hallam''' ([[1777]]-[[1859]]), historian ; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1799; barrister; commissioner of stamps; treasurer of the Statistical Society: vice-president of the Society of Antiquaries; occasionally contributed to Edinburgh Review; published State of Europe during the Middle Ages 1818,Constitutional History of England from Henry VII's Accession to the death of George II 1827, and Introduction to Literature of Europe 1837-9, besides a privately printed memoir of his son Arthur.
- Henry Pitzmaurice Hallam
- '''Henry Pitzmaurice Hallam''' ([[1824]]-[[1850]]), younger son of Henry Hallam; of Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; second chancellor's medallist; founder of theHistoricaldebating club, and one of the 'Apostles friend of Maine and Franklin Lushington: died suddenly at Rome; buried at Clevedon. t, JOHN (rf. 1537), conspirator; took part in Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536; rebel governor of Hull; hanged for participation in the second pilgrimage
- Hallam
- '''Hallam''' or HALLTJM, ROBERT (d. [[1417]]), bishop of Salisbury; prebendary of Salisbury, 1395, of York, 1400; archdeacon of Canterbury, 1400; chancellor of Oxford University, 1403; his nomination by the pope as archbishop of York disallowed by the king, 1405; bishop of Salisbury, 1407-17; one of the English representatives at council of Pisa, 1409; took lead of English nation at council of Constance, 1414, opposing John XXII and urging consideration of ecclesiastical reform before election of a new pope; died at Gottlieben Castle, and was buried in Constance Cathedral.
- Sir Charles Halle
- '''Sir Charles Halle''' (CARL HALLK) ([[1819]]-[[1895]]), pianist and conductor; born at Hagen, Westphalia; t.udied under Rinck and Gottfried Weber at Darmstadt; performed with Alard and Franchomme in Paris: visited England, 1843, and made it his home, 1848, settling at Manchester; fulfilled numerous engagements as conductor, Halle's orchestra, instituted 1857, at Manchester, becoming celebrated in north of England; began series of pianoforte recitals, 1850; first principal, Royal College of Music, Manchester, 1893; honorary LL.D. Edinburgh, 1880; knighted, 1888.
- John Halle
- '''John Halle''' (d. [[1479]]), merchant of Salisbury ; mayor of Salisbury, 1451, 1458, 1464, and 1466; M.P., Salisbury, 1453, 1460, and 1461; the ball of his house iu New Canal, Salisbury, still remains with its stained glass.
- Hallett
- '''Hallett''' or HALLET, JOSEPH, I ([[1628]] V-[[1689]]), ejected minister; held the sequestered living of West Chin nock, Somerset, 1656-63; fined and imprisoned under Conventicle Act, 1673; first presbyterian minister at Exeter.
- Hallett
- '''Hallett''' or HALLET, JOSEPH, II ([[1656]]-[[1722]]), nonconformist minister of Exeter; son of Joseph Hallett or Hallet (1628?-1689); pastor of James's meeting, 1713; his academy reputed Unitarian; James Foster ami ivt.-r King (afterwards lord chancellor) among hid pupils.
- Hallett
- '''Hallett''' or HALLET, JOSEPH, III ([[1691]]7-[[1744]]), nonconformist; son of Joseph Hallettor Hallet (1656-1722) ; corresponded with Whiston and adopted his form of unitarianiam; from 1722 pastor at Exeter; published Free and Impartial Study of the Holy Scriptures 1729-36, and controversial tracts.
- Edmund Halley
- '''Edmund Halley''' ([[1656]]-[[1743]]), astronomer: educated at St. Paul's School and Queen's College, Oxford; laid the foundation of southern astronomy during residence in St. Helena, 1676-8, and made the first complete observation of a transit of Mercury, 1677; published on his return Catalogue Stellarum Australium 1678; M.A. Oxford, 1678; F.R.8., 1678; arbitrated at Danzig between Hooke and Hevelius, 1679; made observations of the comet of 1680; travelled in Italy, 1681; originated (by his suggestions) Newton's Principia which he introduced to the Royal Society, and published (1687) at his own expense, correcting all the proofs; assistant-secretary to the Royal Society and editor of itsTransactions 1685-93, contributing first detailed description of trade winds; while deputycontroller of the mint at Chester, 1696-8, ascended Snowdon to test his method of determining heights by the barometer; in command of the Paramour Pink explored Atlantic, and prepared General Chart of variation of compass with the Halleyan lines 1699-1701; surveyed coasts and tides of British Channel and published map, 1702; inspected harbours of Adriatic for Emperor Leopold; Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford, 1703; D.C.L. Oxford, 1710; a leading member of committee which prepared Flamsteed's observations for the press, and editor of first (1712) version of Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis; predicted accurately total solar eclipse of 1715; observed eclipse and great aurora, 1715; secretary to Royal Society, 1713; astronomer royal, 1721: foreign member of Academic des Sciences, 1729. His lunar and planetary tables appeared posthumously, 1749,Astronomise Cometicse Synopsis (1705) being reprinted with them. He accurately predicted the return in 1758 of the comet of 1531, 1607, and 1682, first recommended employment of transits of Venus for ascertaining the sun's distance, and demonstrated (1686) law connecting atmospheric elevation with density. In addition be originated the science of life statistics byBreslau Table of Mortality and that of physical geography by his scientific voyages.
- Robert Halley
- '''Robert Halley''' ([[1796]]-[[1876]]), nonconformist divine and historian; classical tutor at Highbury College, 1826-39; D.D., 1834; minister of Mosley Street Chapel, Manchester, 1839 (Cavendish Street, 1848); chairman of Congregational Union, 1855; principal of New College, St. John's Wood, 1857-72; published Lancashire: its Puritanism and Nonconformity 1869.
- Halliday
- '''Halliday'''
- Sir Andrew Halliday
- '''Sir Andrew Halliday''' ([[1781]]-[[1839]]), physician; i M.D. Edinburgh, 1806; served with Portuguese in the Peninsula and with British at Waterloo; L.R.O.P., 1819; i knighted, 1821; domestic physician to Duke of Clarence; 1 inspector of West Indian hospitals, 1823; wrote on lunatic I asylums (1808 and 1828), the campaign of 1815, and the West Indies (1837).
- Andrew Halliday
- '''Andrew Halliday''' ([[1830]]-[[1877]]), essayist and dramatist; son of William Duff, but dropped his surname; educated at Aberdeen; contributed to the magazines; president of Savage Club, 1857, and editor of 'Savage Club Papers 1868-9; collaborated with William Brough in The Area Belle and other farces; produced also The Great City (1867), domestic dramas, and adaptations from Dickens and Scott.
- Michael Frederick Halliday
- '''Michael Frederick Halliday''' ([[1822]]-[[1869]]), amateur artist; one of the first English eight in the rifleshooting competition at Wimbledon for the Elcho shield, 1862: an early pre-Raphaelite; exhibited at the Royal Academy.
- Samuel Hallifax
- '''Samuel Hallifax''' ([[1733]]-[[1790]]), bishop of Gloucester and St. Asaph; third wrangler and chancellor's medallist at Cambridge, 1754: fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1766-60, of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1760-76; M.A., 1757; LL.D., 1764; D.D., 1775; held both proles
- Hallifax
- '''Hallifax''' 558
- Hamerton
- '''Hamerton''' sorships of Arabic, 1768-70, and chair of civil law, 17701882; letters of Erasmus in favour of continued subscription to Thirty-nine Articles attributed to him, 1772; chaplain to the king, 1774; rectorof Warsop, 1778; bishop of Gloucester, 1781-9, of St. Asapln 1789-90; his 'Analysis of the Roman Civil Law(1774) reissued with additions.
- Sir Thomas Hallifax
- '''Sir Thomas Hallifax''' ([[1721]]-[[1789]]), lord mayor of London; prime warden of GoldsmithsCompany, 17681769; knighted: as sheriff of London acted as returning officer when Wilkes was elected for Middlesex, 1769; one of the court nominees for the mayoralty against him, 1772; lord mayor, 1776-7; opposed press-gang system; M.P., Aylesbury, 1784-9.
- William Hallifax
- '''William Hallifax''' ([[1656]] ?-[[1722]]), divine; fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1682; M.A., 1678; D.D., 1695; chaplain at Aleppo, 1688-96; rector of Old Swinf ord, 1699, and vicar of Salwarpe; his account of Palmyra printed in Philosophical Transactions 1695; bequeathed books and collections to Corpus Christi College.
- Henry Halliwell
- '''Henry Halliwell''' ([[1765]]-[[1835]]), classical scholar ; M.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1789; fellow, 1790; rector of Olayton-cum-Keymer, 1803; assisted the Falconers with their edition of Strabo(1807) see FALCONER, THOMAS, 1772-1839; satirised by Heber in the Whippiad 1843.
- Halliwell
- '''Halliwell''' afterwards HALLIWELL-PKLL-
- James Orchard Lipps
- '''James Orchard Lipps''' ([[1820]]-[[1889]]), biographer of Shakespeare; scholar and librarian of Jesus College, Cambridge; publishedLife and Inventions of Sir Samuel Morland 1838, and an edition of Mandeville's Travels 1839; F.S.A. and F.R.S., 1839; in 1840-1 prepared for press twenty-three works, including three tracts on Cambridge manuscripts, Rara Mathematical and his earliest Shakespearean works; edited works for Camden Society, 18391844, Percy Society, 1842-50 (including Nursery Rhymes of England), and Shakespeare Society; catalogued Ghetham Library manuscripts, 1841-2; married Henrietta, daughter of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1842, whose surname he assumed thirty years later; LL.D. Edinburgh, 1883. His Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words appeared, 1846,Life of Shakespeare 1848,New Boke about Shakespeare and Stratford-on-Avon 1850; folio edition of Shakespeare, 1853-65, lithograph facsimiles of the Shakespeare quartos, 1862-71,Dictionary of Old English Plays 1860, Illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare pt. i. 1874, andOutlines of the Life(private issue), 1881; published, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1887. He arranged and described the Stratford-on-Avon archives, and wrote much on the history of the town, besides initiating the movement (1863) for purchase of the site of New Place, Shakespeare's residence there.
- Halloran
- '''Halloran''' or O'HALLORAN, LAWRENCE
- Hynes
- '''Hynes''' ([[1766]]-[[1831]]), author; published poems, [[1790]]-1, and 1801; chaplain to Earl of Northesk at Trafalgar, 1805; dismissed from chaplaincy to forces at Cape Town for hisCap- Abilities, or South African Characteristics 1811; transported for forging a frank, 1818.
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- Benjamin Hallowell
- '''Benjamin Hallowell''' ([[1760]]-1 [[834]]). SeeOAREW,
- Benjamin Hallowell Sir
- '''Benjamin Hallowell Sir''' .
- John James Halls
- '''John James Halls''' (ft. [[1791]]-[[1834]]), painter ; his Witch and full-length of Charles Kean in Richard III engraved by Charles Turner; published lives of Henry Salt, F.R.S. (1834) and Nathaniel Pearce (1831).
- Halpen
- '''Halpen''' or HALPIN, JOHN EDMOND (fl. [[1780]]), painter; son of Patrick Halpen
- Halpen
- '''Halpen''' or HALPIN, PATRICK (fl. [[1750]]-[[1790]]), line-engraver.
- Halpin
- '''Halpin''' or HALPINE, CHARLES GRAHAM (1829-1868), writer under name of Miles O'Reilly; son of Nicholas John Halpin: emigrated from Ireland, 1851; journalist at Boston, Washington, and New York, where he edited the Times and from 1851 the Leader: enlisted in federal army, 1861; assistant-adjutant-general to General David Hunter and General Henry W. Halleck; publishedLife and Adventures, fec., of Private Miles O'Reilly (1864) and Baked Meats of the Funeral... by Private M. O'Reilly (1866): registrar of New York county, 1867-8; died from an overdose of chloroform.
- Nicholas John Halpin
- '''Nicholas John Halpin''' ([[1790]]-[[1860]]), author; B.A. Dublin, 1815; edited Dublin Evening Mai!; pubI lushed three works of Shakespearean criticism and Observations on certain Passages in the Life of Edmund Spenser 1850.
- William Hals
- '''William Hals''' ([[1655]]-[[1737]]?), Cornish writer: grandson of Sir Nicholas Halse; made collections for History of Cornwall part ii., published about 1760.
- Sir Nicholas Halse
- '''Sir Nicholas Halse''' (d. [[1636]]), inventor of new mode of drying malt and hops by iron plates; knighted, I 1605; governor of Pendennis Castle, 1C08; left in manuscriptGreat Britain's Treasure
- Keeley Halswelle
- '''Keeley Halswelle''' ([[1832]]-[[1891]]), artist; engaged as book illustrator; exhibited at Royal Scottish ; Academy from 1857; A.R.S.A., 1866; subsequently exhibited many landscapes at Roval Academy; member of Institute of Painters in Oils, 1882.
- Halsworth
- '''Halsworth''' or HOLDSWORTH, DANIEL ! (1558 ?-155 ?), classical scholar; of the English colleges j of Douay and Rome; theologian to St. Charles Borromeo. made Greek translation of Virgil's Bucolics," 1591, and I Latin version of epigrams of Archias, 1596; died at I Rome.
- Immanuel Halton
- '''Immanuel Halton''' ([[1628]]-[[1699]]), astronomer; auditor to the household of Thomas, earl of Arundel; friend of Flamsteed, who communicated to Royal Society Halton's observations of a solar eclipse, 1675.
- Halton
- '''Halton''' or HALGHTON, JOHN OF (d. [[1324]]), bishop; prior of St. Mary's, Carlisle; bishop of Carlisle, 1292-1324; ambassador to King John of Scotland, 1295; excommunicated Bruce for murder of Comyn, 1309; sat in Lancaster's council, 1318; envoy to Scotland, 1320; his register still preserved.
- Timothy Halton
- '''Timothy Halton''' ([[1632]] ?-[[1704]]), provost of Queen's College, Oxford; probably brother of Immanuel Halton: fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, 1657; D.D., 1674; archdeacon of Brecknock, 1672, of Oxford, 1675; provost of Queen's College, Oxford, 1677-1704; vice-chancellor of Oxford, 1679-81 and 1685.
- George Halyburton
- '''George Halyburton''' (d. [[1682]]), Scots nonconformist minister; ejected, 1662.
- Halyburton
- '''Halyburton''' or HALIBTTRTON, JAMES ([[1518]]1589), provost of Dundee; M.A. St. Andrews, 1538; distinguished at capture of Broughty Castle, 1549; provost of Dundee, 1553-86; captured by the Grahams in Liddesdale, 1556, but soon rescued; a lord of the congregation; commander of musters of Fife and Forfar against the queen regent, 1559; took part in defence of Edinburgh, and signedlast band at Leith and (1561) first Book of Discipline; commissioner to administer Act of Oblivion, 1563; joined Moray's movement against Darnley marriage; present at Langside, 1568, and at Restalrig, 1571; afterwards captured by queen's forces and barely escaped execution, 1571; Morton's representative at conference of 1578; privy councillor, 1582; one of the king's commissioners to general assembly, 1682 and 1588.
- Thomas Halyburton
- '''Thomas Halyburton''' ([[1674]]-[[1712]]), theologian ; son of George Haly burton; educated at Rotterdam and St. Andrews: professor of divinity at St. Leonard's College, 1710-12; his writings against deists ! reissued, 1865, as Essay on the Ground or formal Reason of a saving Faith hisMemoirs(2nd ed., 1716) frequently reprinted; works collected, 1835.
- John Hamboys
- '''John Hamboys''' (fl. [[1470]]).
- Henry De Hambury
- '''Henry De Hambury''' (. [[1330]]), justice of common j pleas in Ireland, c. 1324; chief-justice, 1327; judge of the I king's bench (England), 1328.
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- '''Philip Gilbert Hamerton''' ([[1834]]-[[1894]]), artist j and essayist; studied art in London: resided on isle of Innistrynich, Loch Awe, 1858; publishedA Painter's Camp in the Highlands 1862; art critic toSaturday i Review; established with Mr Richmond Seeley, the publisher The Portfolio * periodical, 1869; directed Portfoliotill his death; LL.D. Aberdeen, 1894. He published two novels, besides numerous valuable contributions to art literature. His autobiography was completed and published by hia widow, 1897.
- Hamey
- '''Hamey'''
- Hamilton
- '''Hamilton'''
- Baldwin Hamey
- '''Baldwin Hamey''' , the elder ([[1568]]-[[1640]]), pbysi- I Christ Church, Oxford, [[1796]] ; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, cian to the czar of Muscovy, 1592-8: M.D. Leyden; ! 1799; M.P., Lanarkshire, 1802-27; pnblished pamphlet ! (1804) condemning Pitt's second ministry and that of Addington; moved vote of censure on Castlereagh as president of board of control, 1809; carried resolution for referring petition from Scottish royal burghs to select committee, 1819; moved insertion of Queen Caroline's name in the liturgy, 1820.
- Charles Hamilton
- '''Charles Hamilton''' (by courtesy LORD BINS- INC) (1697-1733), poet; son of Thomas Hamilton, sixth earl of Haddington; fought for government at Sheriffmuir, 1715; M.P., St. Germans, 1722; died at Naples;
- Dukes of Hamilton
- '''Dukes of Hamilton''' . See HAMILTON, JAMES, his pastoral Ungrateful Nanny ' in Ritoon's Scottish first DUKK, 1606-1649; HAMILTON, WILLIAM, second ! songs 1794 r xxiv 1391
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- Duke
- '''Duke''' [[1616]]-[[1651]] ; DOUGLAS, WILLIAM, third DUKK, [[1635]]- _ . ___ _ A _ 1694?DouGLAS, JAMES, fourth DUKE, 1658-1712; Dou- j HAMILTON CHARLES (1691-1754), historian: OLAS, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, tenth DUKE, 1767-1852; natural son of James Douglas, fourth duke of HamilDOUOLAS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER ANTHONY ARCHIBALD,, ton 1- V 0, and Lady _ Barbara Fiteroy; styled Count L.R.C.P., 1610.
- Baldwin Hamey
- '''Baldwin Hamey''' , the younger ([[1600]]-[[1676]]), physician; son of Baldwin Hamey the elder; M.D. Leyden, 1626, Oxford, 1629; visited Paris, Montpelier, and Padua; F.R.C.P., 1633; eight times censor; treasurer, 1664-6; Gulstonian lecturer, 1647; benefactor of the Royal College of Physicians; left manuscript account of contemporary physicians; his dissertation on the OOKOSIwjroirpaTovs edited 1693. eleventh DUKE, 1811-63. Arraii; accompanied his father in duel with Mobun, 1707, and himself fought General Macartney; settled in Switzerland; died at Paris; Transactions during the Reign of Anne (1790) attributed to him, but written by his son.
- Charles Hamilton
- '''Charles Hamilton''' ([[1753]]7-[[1792]]), orientalist: in military service of East India Company; published historical work on the Rohilla Afghans (1787), and translation of the Persian Hedaya 1791.
- Mrs Hamilton
- '''Mrs Hamilton''' . (fl. [[1745]]-[[1772]]), actress ; appeared for some years as Mrs. Bland, playing with Garrick at Covent Garden in Shakespearean parts. 1746; reappeared at Covent Garden, 1752-62; afterwards went to Ireland; her distresses the cause of the establishment of the Theatrical Fund.
- Alexander Hamilton
- '''Alexander Hamilton''' (d. [[1732]]?), merchant and author; published New Account of the tot Indies, jn, Bm CHARLE8, baronet (1767. L xxiv. loo j Ig49 jyjjjji,.. commanded the Dido at sieges of Bastia,
- Alexander Hamilton
- '''Alexander Hamilton''' ([[1739]]-[[1802]]), professor ' Calvi, and San Fiorenzo ([[1793]]), the Melpomene on Dutch of midwifery at Edinburgh University; deacon of the I coast, and at capture of Goree and in West Indies, 1799Edinburgh College of Surgeons; professor of midwifery, 1802; vice-admiral, 1814: admiral, 1830; M.P., Edinburgh, 1780-1800; chief founder of Lying-in Hospital, 1791; published treatises on midwifery.
- Alexander Hamilton
- '''Alexander Hamilton''' ([[1762]]-[[1824]]), orientalist ; while hostage in France drew up for Paris Library analytical catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, and taught the language to Schlegel and Fauriel; F.R.S., 1808; professor of Sanskrit and Hindoo literature at Haileybury; published works on Sanskrit..
- Andrew Hamilton
- '''Andrew Hamilton''' (d. [[1691]]), rector and prebendary of Kilskerry, 1666; raised troops against James II; published True Relation of the Actions of the Inniskilling Men 1690.
- Anne Hamilton
- '''Anne Hamilton''' , DUCHESS OF HAMILTON ([[1636]] gannon, 1801-7, Honiton, 1807-12; governor of Newfoundland, 1818-24.
- Charles William Hamilton
- '''Charles William Hamilton''' ([[1670]]-[[1754]]), painter at Augsburg; son of James Hamilton (fl. 16401680) of Murdieston.
- Claud Hamilton
- '''Claud Hamilton''' , BARON PAISLEY ([[1543]] 7-[[1622]]), known as LORD CLAUD HAMILTON; fourth sou of James Hamilton, duke of Cbatelherault; convoyed Mary Queen of Scots from Lochleven to Niddry and Hamilton, 1568, and (probably) led the van for her at Langside, 1568; concerned in plot by which Moray was assassinated, 1670; led attempt to capture Lennox and king's lords at Stirling, 1671; recovered his estates by pacification of Perth, 1573; privy to plot against Morton, 1578; denounced by council 1716), daughter of the first Duke of Hamilton; married j for murder of the regents; fled to England, 1579; took William Douglas (1635-1694), who became on her j part in Gowrie conspiracy, 1584; recalled from Paris by petition Duke of Hamilton. j James VI, 1686; with Huntly shared leadership of Scottish lady-in-; I land, 1820; herSecret History of the Court(1832), published in her name, but without her sanction.
- Anthony Hamilton
- '''Anthony Hamilton''' ([[1646]]7-[[1720]]), author of 'Memoires du Comte de Grammont third son of Sir George Hamilton; as governor of Limerick, 1685, openly went to mass; privy councillor, 1686; commanded I Jacobite dragoons at Enniskillen and Newtown Butler, 1689; present at the Boyne, 1690; spent the rest of his j life at St. Germain-en- Laye, being intimate with Berwick; j addressed letters and verses to the Duchess of Berwick and Laura Bulkeley, and wrote for Henrietta Bulkeley four satirical Contes in French. His Epistle to the Comte de Grammont (bis brother-in-law) announcing intention of writing bis memoirs was approved by Boileau, 1705. i The Memoires appeared anonymously, 1713, and were edited by Horace Walpole, 1772, Sir Walter Scott, 1811, and M. de Lescure, 1876; CEuvres Completes were issued, 1749-76.
- Archibald Hamilton
- '''Archibald Hamilton''' (d. [[1593]]), Roman catholic controversialist; disputed publicly with Knox; pnblished Latin works against Scottish Calvinists and a treatise on Aristotle; died at Rome.
- Archibald Hamilton
- '''Archibald Hamilton''' ([[1580]] 7-[[1659]]) ; archbishop of Cashel and Emly; D.D. Glasgow; bishop of Killala and Achonry, 1623; archbishop of Cashel and Emly, 1630; after rebellion of 1641 fled to Sweden, where he died.
- Lord Archibald Hamilton
- '''Lord Archibald Hamilton''' ([[1770]]-[[1827]]), poli urged on , 1587; became insane.
- Sir David Hamilton
- '''Sir David Hamilton''' ([[1663]]-[[1721]]), physician to Queen Anne; M.D. Rbeims, 1686; F.R.C.P., 1703; F.RJS., 1708; knighted; published religions and medical tracts.
- David Hamilton
- '''David Hamilton''' ([[1768]]-[[1843]]), architect ; designed many buildings in western Scotland, including Hamilton Palace, Lennox Castle, and the Glasgow Exchange.
- Sir Edward Hamilton
- '''Sir Edward Hamilton''' , first baronet ([[1772]]1851), admiral; brother of Sir Charles Hamilton; while in command of Surprise said to have taken or destroyed eighty privateers and merchantmen, 1797-9; knighted and awarded the freedom of the city for cutting out the Hermione at Puerto Gabello, 1799; captured by French, but exchanged; engaged in blockading northern French coast, 1801; dismissed the service for inflicting excessive punishment, 1802, but specially reinstated, 1802; commanded royal yacht and Prince Regent, 1806-19; created baronet, 1818; vice-admiral, 1837; admiral, 1846.
- Elizabeth Hamilton
- '''Elizabeth Hamilton''' , COMTESSK DK GRAMMONT (1641-1708),la belle Hamilton sister of Anthony Hamilton, who brought about her marriage with Philibert, comte de Grammont, 1663; lived in France from 1664.
- Elizabeth Hamilton
- '''Elizabeth Hamilton''' , DUCHESS OF HAMILTON, afterwards of ARGYLL (1734-1790).
- Elizabeth Hamilton
- '''Elizabeth Hamilton''' ([[1758]]-[[1816]]), author; tician; brother of Lady Anne Hamiltou; M.A. sister of Charles Hamilton (1753 ?-1792); published
- Hamilton
- '''Hamilton''' 560
- Hamilton
- '''Hamilton''' 'The Hiudoo Rajah 1796,Mi-moirs of Modern Philo- ! sophers 1800, and several educational works, besides The Oottagera of Glenburnie(1808) andMy ain Fireside! (song).
- Emma Hamilton
- '''Emma Hamilton''' , LADY ([[1761]] ?-[[1815]]), wife of Sir William Hamilton ( 1730-1803) the ambassador; n&Lyon; went to London, 1778, probably as a nursemaid to family of Dr. Richard Build; said to have been the -Goddess of Healthin exhibition of James Graham (1745-1794); lived under protection of Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh and Hon. Oharles Greville j as Emily Hart, 1780-4; refined by innocent intimacy with j Romney, 1782; became mistress of Sir William Hamilton ut Naples, 1786, and was married to him in England, 1791; intimate with Queen Maria Carolina at Naples; first saw Nelson, 1793: intimate with Nelson on his return from the Nile, 1798; together with her husband accompanied Nelson to Palermo, 1800, and afterwards to England, giving birth to Horatia, 30 Jan. 1801; received the cross of Malta from the czar for supposed services to the Maltese, 1799; claimed to have rendered important political services while at Naples, but these claims, although endorsed by Nelson, were ignored by British ministry; involved in debt by her extravagances, in spite of legacies from Nelson and Hamilton; assisted by Alderman Joshua J. Smith to escape from king's bench to Calais, where she died in obscurity.
- Ferdinand Philip Hamilton
- '''Ferdinand Philip Hamilton''' ([[1664]]-[[1760]]), painter to Charles V at Vienna; eldest sou of James Hamilton (. 1640-1680) of Murdieston.
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- Francis Hamilton
- '''Francis Hamilton''' ([[1762]]-[[1829]]). See BU-
- Chanan
- '''Chanan'''
- Gavin Hamilton
- '''Gavin Hamilton''' ([[1561]] ?-[[1612]]), bishop of Galloway; graduated at St. Andrews, 1584; minister of Hamilton; bishop of Galloway, 1605 (consecrated, 1610); dean of Chapel Royal, Holyrood, 1606.
- Gavin Hamilton
- '''Gavin Hamilton''' ([[1730]]-[[1797]]), painter and excavator: lived principally at Rome; during short residence in London member of committee for forming Royal Academy, 1755; occasionally exhibited at the Royal Academy; his Apollo seen at International Exhibition of 1862; published Schola Italica Picture 1773; carried on excavations at Hadrian's villa below Tivoli, Monte Cagnuolo, the district of the Alban hills and the territory of ancient Gabii, selling his finds to the Museo Pio-Clementino, the Tpwnley collection, Lord Lansdowne, and other collectors; hie marbles now in the Louvre.
- Gavin Hamilton
- '''Gavin Hamilton''' ([[1753]]-[[1805]]), friend of Burns ; prominent in New Light dispute in Mauchline: defended in Burns's theological satires.
- Sir George Hamilton
- '''Sir George Hamilton''' , first baronet (rf. [[1679]]), royalist; fourth son of James Hamilton, first earl of Abercorn; created an Irish baronet, 1660, for services during the rebellion.
- Lord George Hamilton
- '''Lord George Hamilton''' , EARL OP ORKNEY (1666-1737), general; fifth son of William Douglas, third duke of Hamilton; distinguished under William III in Ireland and Flanders; severely wounded at Namur, 1695, and promoted brigadier; married (1695) Elizabeth Villiers, William's mistress; created a Scottish peer, 1696; lieutenant-general, 1704; K.T., 1704; captured 12,000 men and 1,300 officers at Blenheim, 1704; saved citadel of Liege, 1705; led pursuit after Ramillies, 1706; prominent at Oudenarde, 1706, favouring immediate advance on Paris; commanded the van at passage of Scheldt, 1708; opened attack at Malplaquet, 1709; elected a Scottish representative peer, 1707; privy councillor, 1710; lord of the bedchamber, 1714; governor of Virginia, 1714; fieldmarshal, 1736.
- George Hamilton
- '''George Hamilton''' ([[1783]]-[[1830]]), biblical scholar; fourth son of Hugh Hamilton (1729-1805); M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1821; rector of Killermogh, 1809- j 1830; publishedIntroduction to Study of the Hebrew Scriptures 1813,Codex Criticus of the Hebrew Bible 1821, and controversial tracts.
- George Alexander Hamilton
- '''George Alexander Hamilton''' ([[1802]]-[[1871]]), politician; of Rugby and Trinity College, Oxford; B.A., 1821; D.O.L., 1853; elected on petition for Dublin, 1836; sat for Dublin University, 1843-59; formed Conservative j Society for Ireland; presented protestant petition of 1837; j financial secretary to treasury, 1852, and 1858-9: permanent secretary, 1859; privy councillor, 1869.
- Gdstavus Hamilton
- '''Gdstavus Hamilton''' , VISCOUNT BOYNK ([[1639]]1723), grandson of Claud Hamilton, baron Paisley; defended Enniskillen and Coleraine against Jacobites, 1689; commanded a regiment at the Boync, 1690, Athlone, 1691, and Vigo, 1707; major-general, 1703; privy councillor under William III. Anne, and George I; created Irish baron, 1715; created Viscount Boyue in Irish peerage, 1717.
- Henry Parr Hamilton
- '''Henry Parr Hamilton''' ([[1794]]-[[1880]]), dean of Salisbury; sou of Alexander Hamilton (1739 -1802); fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge: ninth wrangler, 1816; M.A., 1819; rector of Wath, Yorkshire, and incumbent (1833-44) of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge; F.R.S., 1828; contributed largely to restoration of his cathedral; published educational pamphlets and works on analytical geometry and conic sections,
- Hugh Hamilton
- '''Hugh Hamilton''' or HUGO, first BAKON HAMIL-
- Op Glknawlky Ton
- '''Op Glknawlky Ton''' (rf. [[1679]]), soldier ; having served in Swedish army was naturalised and ennobled; created an Irish peer, 1660; settled in Ireland.
- Hugh Hamilton
- '''Hugh Hamilton''' , BARON HAMILTON in Sweden (d. 1724), Swedish general; nephew of Hugh Hamilton (d. 1679); distinguished himself against the Danes, 1710, and Russians, 1719; ancestor of Swedish counts.
- Hugh Hamilton
- '''Hugh Hamilton''' ([[1729]]-[[1805]]), bishop of Olonfert and Ossory; M.A. Dublin, 1750; D.D., 1762; fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, 1751-64; professor of natural philosophy, 1759; dean of Armagh, 1768-96; F.R.S.; bishop of Clonfert, 1796-9, of Ossory, 1799; collected works issued, 1809.
- Hugh Douglas Hamilton
- '''Hugh Douglas Hamilton''' ([[1734]]?-[[1806]]); portrait-painter; exhibited with Incorporated Society (1771, and 1773-5) and Free Society of Artists, 1772; went to Rome, 1778; returned to Dublin, 1791.
- Sir James Hamilton
- '''Sir James Hamilton''' , of Cadzow, first BARON
- Hamilton
- '''Hamilton''' (d. [[1479]]), connected, with house of Douglas by his marriagewith widow of fifth earl and that of her daughter (Fair Maid of Galloway) with William, eighth earl; lord of parliament, 1445; accompanied the eighth Earl of Douglas to Rome, 1450, and attended him to his fatal meeting with James II at Stirling, 1452; joined James, ninth earl of Douglas, in renunciation of allegiance and subsequent submission, J453; advised another rebellion, but went over to the king owing to Douglas's weakness; commissioner for peace with England and sheriff of Lanarkshire, 1455; married Mary Stewart, sister of James III, 1469.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , second BARON HAMILTON and first EARL OP ARRAN (1477?-1529), son of Sir James 1 Hamilton, first baron Hamilton; made privy councillor by James IV, whose marriage with Margaret Tudor he negotiated, 1503: created Earl of Arran for skill in tournament, 1503; when lieutenant-general of Scotland helped to reduce Western Isles (1504) and tore-establish king of Denmark: detained in England by Henry VII after embassy to France, 1507; during minority of James V opposed Angus and the English party; plotted against the regent Albany; president of council of regency during Albany's absence in France, 1517-20: defeated in attempt to overpower Angus in Edinburgh, 1520: again member of council of regency, 1622, and lieutenant of the south; joined queen-dowager in ousting Albany and proclaiming James V, 1624; compelled by Henry VIII to re-admit Angus to council: supported Angus against Lennox, 1526, but on escape of James V from the Douglases received Both well from Angus's forfeited estates.
- Sir James Hamilton
- '''Sir James Hamilton''' , of Finnart (d. [[1640]]), royal architect; natural sou of James Hamilton, second baron Hamilton; prominent as the Bastard of Arran in his father's feuds with the Douglases, especially at Cleanse the Causeway 1620; assassinated Lennox when a prisoner after Linlithgow, 1526; legitimated by James V, as designer of Craignethan and restorer of Linlithgow and Falkland; executed for alleged plot to murder the king.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , second EARL OP AURAN and
- Op Ohatklherault Duke
- '''Op Ohatklherault Duke''' (d. [[1576]]), governor of Scotland: eldest son of James Hamilton, second baron Hamilton; chosen governor of Scotland (as second
- Hamilton
- '''Hamilton''' 561
- Hamilton
- '''Hamilton''' person iu the realm, 15-12: for n short time head of the English party, bat came to terms with Cardinal David Beaton, 1543: successfully resisted trans! power to queen-dowager, 1545; created Duke of Chatelherault, 1548; obliged to abdicate regency, 1654; returned to English alliance on capture of Edinburgh by lords of congregation, 1559; revived his project for marriage of his sou with Queen Mary on her arrival in Scotland: for his opposition to Darnley marriage banished to France, 1566; returned to Scotland, 1669, as supporter of the queen and was imprisoned with Moray.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , of Bothwellhaugh (ft. [[1666]]1580), assassin of the regent Moray: captured at Langside, 1568, but pardoned at Knox's intercession; shot the regent Moray at Linlithgow, 1570 see STEWART, LORD JAMES, 1531 V-157U; escaped to France and tried to obtain aid for Mary; exoepted from pacification of Perth: refused to assist in murder of Coligny, but acted as agent for the Spanish kinir in attempts on life of William the Silent, 1573 and 1575; disinherited; probably died abroad.
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- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , third EARL OP ARRAN ([[1530]]16U9), eldest son of James, second earl of Arran; proposed by Henry VIII as husband for Princess Elizabeth, 1643, but destined by his father for Mary Queen of Scots; served in Scots guards in France, 1550-8; distinguished at St. Quentin, 1557; styled Earl of Arran after 1553; became a protestant while in France, and by Knox's advice was brought to England to confer with the government, 1558; despatched secretly to Scotland, 1569; strengthened his father in protestant policy; with Lord James Stuart (Moray) attempted to capture Bothwell, and by defending Dysart saved Fife from the French; took part in siege of Lcith, and signed the last bandand the first Book of Discipline; again made proposals for hand of Elizabeth, 1560-1; on Knox's advice renewed also his suit to Mary; reconciled with Bothwell by Knox, 1562; revealed to latter alleged advice of Bothwell to him to carry off Mary, marry her, and murder Moray and Maitland, 1562; imprisoned till 1666, now almost insane; afterwards lived in retirement at Oraignethan till brought to Linlithgow by James VI, 1579.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , first EARL op ABERCORN (d. 1617), son of Olaud Hamilton, baron Paisley; gentleman of the bedchamber to James VI; privy councillor (as master of Paisley X 1598; sheriff of Linlithgow, 1600; created Baron Abercorn (Scotland), 1603; created earl for services as commissioner for union with England, 1606.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , second MARQUIS OP HAMILTON (1589-1625); succeeded his father, Lord John Hamilton , as marquis, 1604, and his uncle as Earl of Arran, 1609; privy councillor of Scotland, 1613, of England, 1617; created an English peer (Earl of Cambridge), 1619: advocated leniency to Bacon, 1621: as high commissioner to Scottish parliament, 1621, carried Five Articles of Perth; a commissioner for marriage of Prince Charles to the Spanish Infanta, 1623; lord-steward, 1624: opposed Buckingham's French policy, 1624; said to have been poisoned by Buckingham.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , first VISCOUNT OLANBBOYK in Irish peerage (1569-1643), Ulster planter: educated at St. Andrews University; despatched by James VI on secret mission to Ireland, 1587; carried on Latin school in Dublin, which Ussher attended: original fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, 1592; James VI's agent iu London, 1600: knighted and given large grants in Ulster, 1605: M.P., co. Down, 1613: commissioner for plantation of Longford, 1619; created Irish peer, 1622; granted dissolved monastery of Bangor, 1630; privy councillor, 1634; armed Scots in Ulster, 1641.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , third MARQUIS and first DUKE OF HAMILTON in the Scottish peerage, second EARL OP CAMBRIDGE in the English peerage (1606-1649), succeeded as third marquis, 1625; master of the horse, 1628: privy councillor, 1628; commanded British force under Gustavus Adolphus, 1630-4: as Charles I's adviser on Scottish affairs, persuaded him to revoke the prayer-book, canons, and high commission, and to call a parliament, 1638; commanded against covenanters, but resigned commissionership, 1639; carried on intrigues between Charles and covenanters, and opposed Strafford and Montroee: allied himself (1641) for a time with Argyll, but ( I-, W) endeavoured to prevent Soote from supporting English parliament: refused to take the covenant. i43, and joiiml the kin- m oxford, but was imprisoned, 1644; liberated by Fairfax, 1646; again attempted to mediate tx-nwt-ni Charles and the Scote, 1646: led Scottish army into England, but was defeated at Preston, 1648; condemned and executed, 1649.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' (d. [[1666]]), divine ; educated at Glasgow University; incumbent of Ballywalter, 1626-36; deposed for heresy after public disputation, 1636; afterwards minister at Dumfries and Edinburgh.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' ([[1610]]-[[1674]]), bishop 'of Galloway; graduated at Glasgow, 1628; minister of Oambusnethan, 1634; deposed, 1638, but restored, 1639; supported the Engagement 1648; bishop of Galloway, 1661-74.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , of Murdieston (ft. *[[164]](M[[680]]), painter of animals and still-life at Brussels,
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , sixth EARL op ABERCORX (1656-1734), grandson of Sir George Hamilton: assisted in defence of Derry, 1689; succeeded as Earl of Abercorn, 1701; created Viscount Strabane (Irish peerageX 1701; privy councillor.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , seventh EARL OP ABERCORN (d. 1744), second son of James Hamilton, sixth earl of Abercorn; privy councillor of England (1738) and Ireland (1739): F.R.S.; publishedCalculations and Tables relating to Attractive Power of Loadstones 1729.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , eighth EARL OF ARKRCOKN (1712-1789), eldest son of James Hamilton, seventh earl of Abercorn; summoned to Irish House of Peers as Baron Mountcastle, 1736; representative peer of Scotland, 1761-86; created British peer as Viscount Hamilton, 1786.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' ([[1769]]-[[1829]]), author of Hamiltonian linguistic system; derived rudiments of his system from D'Angeli, an emigre,; detained in Paris at rupture of peace of Amiens; began to teach his system at Philadelphia, 1816, and to print texts for use of pupils; very successful at Boston, the American universities, and in Canada; came to London, 1823, and taught hi chief cities of United Kingdom; was defended in Edinburgh Review 1826, by Sydney Smith, and inWestminster Keview
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , the elder ([[1749]]-[[1835]]), Edinburgh physician; noted for old-fashioned dress and manners and his works on purgative treatment.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , the younger (d. [[1839]]), professor of midwifery at Edinburgh, 1800, succeeding his father, Alexander Hamilton (1739-1802); recovered damages from Dr. James Gregory, 1753-1821 for assault, 1793; succeeded in getting obstetrics made compulsory in medical course of Edinburgh University, 1830; published medical works.
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' ([[1814]]-[[1867]]), presbyterian minister; graduated at Glasgow, 1835; Caudlish's assistant at St. George's, Edinburgh, 1838: minister of National Scottish Church, Regent Square, London, 18411867; published devotional and biographical works; ! hisBook of Psalms and Hymnsadopted by presbyterian churches,
- James Hamilton
- '''James Hamilton''' , first DUKK OF ABERCORN (1811-1885), succeeded his grandfather as second Marquis of Abercorn, 1818: groom of the stole to Prince Albert, 1846-59; lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1866-8 and ; 1874-6; created duke, 1868.
- James Alexander Hamilton
- '''James Alexander Hamilton''' ([[1785]]-[[1846]]), compiler of musical handbooks, including the Pianoforte Tutor (1728th ed. 1890).
- James Archibald Hamilton
- '''James Archibald Hamilton''' ([[1747]]-[[1815]]), astronomer; educated at Armagh and Trinity College, Dublin; B.A.: D.D., 1784; made observations on transit of Mercury from private observatory in Cookstown: archdeacon of Ross, 1790; dean of Cloyue, 1804: first astronomer at Armagh Observatory, 1790.
- Janet Hamilton
- '''Janet Hamilton''' ([[1795]]-[[1873]]), Scottish poetess : daughter of a Lancashire shoemaker; herPoems and Prose Works collected by her son, 1880. -r
- Hamilton
- '''Hamilton''' 562
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- '''Hamilton'''
- John Hamilton
- '''John Hamilton''' ([[1511]] 7-[[1571]]), archbishop of St. Andrews; natural *on of James Hamilton, first earl of Arrau: keeper of the privy seal, 1543: bishop of Dunkeld, 1545; archbishop of St. Andrews, 1546; reconciled Arran with Beaton; promulgated Hamilton's catechism at synod of 1552; endowed St. Mary's College, St. Andrews; persecuted protestants: accepted new confession, 1560; imprisoned for popish practices, 1563; member of councils of Mary Queen of Scots, 1666; divorced Bothwell from Lady Jane Gordon, 1567; present at Langside, 1668; hanged at Stirling on charge of being accessory to Daruley's murder and of complicity in that of Moray.
- John Hamilton
- '''John Hamilton''' , first MARQUIS OP HAMILTON (1532-1604), second son of James Hamilton, duke of Chatelherault; assisted Bothwell and negotiated with England for deliverance of Mary; furthered assassination of Moray (1570) in revenge for forfeiture; represented his family at pacification of Perth, 1573; head of his family after death of Ohatelherault, 1675; in constant danger of his life from Sir William Douglas (d. 1606) : escaped to France, 1679; joined his brother, Lord Claud Hamilton, in England, and thence went to Scotland, 1584; recovered his estates; in favour with James VI; went on embassy to Denmark, 1588; a lord of the articles, 1594; accompanied James VI against Huntly; sat on Huntly's trial; created marquis, 1599.
- John Hamilton
- '''John Hamilton''' (ft. [[1568]]-[[1609]]), anti-protestant writer; described himself as the queen's daily orator; probably Mary Stuart's messenger to Alva, 1568-9; tutor to Cardinal de Bourbon, 1576; rector of Paris University, 1584; prominent member of French Catholic League: adjutant of thirteen hundred armed ecclesiastics, 1590; on the entry of Henri Quatre (1594) escaped to Brussels; executed in effigy for murder of Tardif; returned to Scotland, 1600, with Edmund Hay, and secretly celebrated mass: captured, 1608; died in prison. He published at Paris(1581) tract in favour of trans ubstantiation, with appendix dedicated to James VI, and at Louvain (1600) a treatise, with prayers, also dedicated to the king.
- Sir John Hamilton
- '''Sir John Hamilton''' , first BARON BARGENY (rf. 1658), royalist; grandson of John, first marquis of Hamilton; created a Scottish peer, 1639.
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- John Hamilton
- '''John Hamilton''' , second BARON BARGKNY (rf. 1693), son of Sir John Hamilton, first baron Bargeuy ; imprisoned as disaffected, 1679-80; raised regiment for William of Orange, 1689.
- John Hamilton
- '''John Hamilton''' , second BARON BELHAVEN (1656-1708), imprisoned and compelled to apologise for remarks on Duke of York, 1681; contributed to settlement of Scottish crown on William III, 1689, and became privy councillor; strong supporter of Darien scheme; advocated Act of Security, 1703, and strongly opposed the union, his speech of 1706 becoming famous as Belha veil's Vision; imprisoned (1708) on suspicion of favouring French invasion.
- John Hamilton
- '''John Hamilton''' (rf. [[1755]]), captain in the navy : second sou of James Hamilton, seventh earl of Abercorn; distinguished at wreck of the Louisa, 1736; had the Kinsale fitted with nine-pounders and canvas screens, 1742: drowned near Spithead.
- John Hamilton
- '''John Hamilton''' ( ft. [[1765]]-[[1786]]), painter ; director of Incorporated Society of Artists, 1773.
- John Hamilton
- '''John Hamilton''' ([[1761]]-[[1814]]), Scottish songwriter; contributed to Johnson's Museum and helped Scott with Border Minstrelsy; composed songs, including Up in the MorninEarly and The Ploughman
- Sir John Hamilton
- '''Sir John Hamilton''' , first baronet ([[1755]]-[[1835]]), lieutenant-general; served In East Indian army in Outch He bar and against Mahrattas (1778), and in British against Tippoo Sahib, 1790-1; lieutenant-colonel of the 81st in San Domingo and Kaffir war of 1800; inspector-general of Portuguese army, 1809; commanded divisions at Albuera, 1811, and the Nivelle, 1813; lieutenant-general, 1814; created baronet, 1816.
- John George Hamilton
- '''John George Hamilton''' ([[1662]]-[[1736]]?), painter at Vienna; son of James Hamilton (ft. 1640-1680)
- Malcolm Hamilton
- '''Malcolm Hamilton''' ([[1635]]-[[1699]]), Swedish general; naturalised as Swedish noble, 1664; created Baron Hamilton de Hageby, 1693.
- Mary Hamilton
- '''Mary Hamilton''' , J)rrm-s K HAMILTON (Uil31638), lady of the bedchamber to Henrietta Maria; Wallei wrote Thyrsis Galatea in her praise.
- Lady Mary Hamilton
- '''Lady Mary Hamilton''' , ([[1739]]-[[1816]]), novelist ; nie Leslie; lived with her second husband in France, and was intimate with Sir Herbert Croft (1751-1816) q. v.j i and Charles Nodier; published four novels,
- Patrick Hamilton
- '''Patrick Hamilton''' ([[1504]]?-[[1528]]), Scottish martyr; grandson of Sir James Hamilton of Oadzow, lord Hamilton; M.A. Paris, 1520; M.A. St. Andrews, 1524; saw Luther and Melanchthon at Wittenberg; at Marburg, 1527, composed his Loci Communes Patrick's Pleas; after return to Scotland charged i with seven articles of heresy; sentenced by Archbishop I Beaton and burnt at St. Andrews; had previously converted Alexander Alesius
- Richard Hamilton
- '''Richard Hamilton''' (fl. [[1688]]), Jacobite lieui tenant-general; brother of Anthony Hamilton; served with distinction in French army; banished French j court for seeking Princess de Conti in marriage; despatched j by Tyrconnel with troops to help James II in England, 1688; sent by William in with offers to Irish catholics; deserted to Tyrconnel, 1689; commanded at siege of Derry, I 1689: captured at the Boyne; sent to the Tower, 1690; I rejoined James in France.
- Richard Winter Hamilton
- '''Richard Winter Hamilton''' ([[1794]]-[[1848]]), independent minister; minister of Albion (afterwards of Belgrave) Chapel, Leeds; LL.D. Glasgow, 1844; chairman of Congregational Union, 1847; published Horse et Vindiciae Sabbaticae 1847.
- Sir Robert Hamilton
- '''Sir Robert Hamilton''' , second baronet ([[1650]]1701), covenanting leader; educated under Burnet at Glasgow; one of the composers of Rutherglen declaration, 1679; showed cowardice in command at Drumclog and at Bothwell Brigg, 1679; fled to Holland; visited Germany and Switzerland as commissioner for Scottish presbyterian church; returned and succeeded as baronet, 1688; imprisoned on suspicion of having drawn up ! Sanquhar declaration, 1692-3.
- Robert Hamilton
- '''Robert Hamilton''' ([[1721]]-[[1793]]), physician : published work on scrofula, 1791.
- Robert Hamilton
- '''Robert Hamilton''' ([[1743]]-[[1829]]), professor of natural philosophy and mathematics at Aberdeen, 17791829; published Inquiry concerning the Rise and Progress, Reduction and Present State, and the Management of the National Debt 1813.
- Robert Hamilton
- '''Robert Hamilton''' ([[1749]]-[[1830]]), physician ; M.D. Edinburgh, 1780; served in the army; practised at Ipswich; published * Duties of a Regimental Surgeon 1788, and a book on the cure of hydrophobia.
- Robert Hamilton
- '''Robert Hamilton''' ([[1750]]?-[[1831]]), legal writer and genealogist; served in American war; sheriff of Lanarkshire; clerk of session; accompanied Scott on voyage (1814) as commissioner of northern lights; edited (1803)Decisions of Court of Session, from November 1769 to January 1772
- Hamilton
- '''Hamilton''' Sin ROBERT GEORGE CROOKi SHANK (1836-1895), governor of Tasmania; educated at University and King's College, Aberdeen; M.A., 1864: honorary LL.D., 1886; clerk in commissariat department in Crimea, 1855: in charge of finance of education de; partment, 1861; accountant, 1869, and assistant-secretary, 1872-8, to board of trade; accountant-general of navy, 1878; permanent secretary to admiralty, 1882; permanent undersecretary for Ireland, 1883-6; K.C.B., 1884; governor of Tasmania, 1886-93.
- Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton
- '''Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton''' , sixth baronet (1802-1887), Indian official; educated at Hailey bury; acting secretary in political department. Benares, 1830; resident with Holkar of Indore, 1844-57; succeeded i to baronetcy, 1853; viceroy's agent for Central India, I 1864-9; his plan for pacification of Central India adopted: K.O.B.; member of supreme council of India, 1859-60.
- Hamilton
- '''Hamilton'''
- Hamilton
- '''Hamilton'''
- Hamilton
- '''Hamilton''' Sin THOMAS, LORD DROMCAIRN,
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- Dington
- '''Dington''' ([[1563]]-[[1637]]); educated under his uncle, John Hamilton (fi. 1568-1609) at Paris; admitted advocate, 1587; lord of session as Lord Drumoiiru, 159*2; probably st wter and was a member of the Jctavians; favourite of James VI; king's advocate, 15%; knighted soon after James Vl's accession as James I of England: a commissioner for union, 1604; procured imprisonment of Andrew Melville and execution of Sprotfor connection with Gowrie conspiracy of 1600; one of the new Octavians, 1611; secretary of state, 1612-26; created Baron Binning and Byres, 1613; president of court of session, 1616-26; created Earl of Melrose, 1619, for obtaining adoption of episcopalianism by six articles of Perth, 1618; lord privy seal, 1626; his title changed to Earl of Haddington, 1626.Notes of the Charters, &c., by the Earl ofMelrose was issued in 1830, his State Papers in 1837.
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- Thomas Hamilton
- '''Thomas Hamilton''' , second EARL OP HADDING-
- Ton
- '''Ton''' ([[1600]]-[[1640]]), covenanter ; son of Sir Thomas Hamilton, first earl of Haddington; privy councillor, 1637; signed king's covenant 1638; drew up Glasgow proclamation, 1638; defended borders, 1640; perished in explosion at Dunglass Oastle.
- Thomas Hamilton
- '''Thomas Hamilton''' , sixth EARL op HADDINGTON (1680-1736), member of the squadrone volante; wounded at Sheriffmuir, 1715: elected a representative peer, 1716; caricatured as Simon the Skipper; his treatise on forest trees printed, 1761.
- Thomas Hamilton
- '''Thomas Hamilton''' ([[1789]]-[[1842]]), author; second son of William Hamilton (1758-1790); wounded at Albuera, 1811; settled in Edinburgh, c. 1818; one of the Blackwood writers praised in Noctea Ambrosiauae 1826; intimate with Scott at Chiefs wood and Wordsworth at EUeray; publishedCyril Thornton(1827),Annals of the Peninsular Campaign (1829), Men and Manners in America(1833); died at Pisa and was buried at Florence.
- Thomas Hamilton
- '''Thomas Hamilton''' , ninth EARL OP HADDINGTON C 1780-1858); educated at Edinburgh and Christ Church, Oxford? M.A. Oxford, 1816; tory M.P. for St. Germans, 1802-6, Oallington, 1807-14, Michael-Borough, 1814-18, Rochester, 1818-26, and Yarmouth (Isle of Wight), 1826; Indian commissioner, 1814-22; created Baron Melros of Tynuinghame, 1827; succeeded to Scottish peerage, 1828; lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1834-5; first lord of the admiralty, 1841-6; lord privy seal, 1846.
- Thomas Hamilton
- '''Thomas Hamilton''' ([[1784]]-[[1858]]), architect; designed Burns monuments at Alloway, 1818, and Edinburgh, 1830, Knox column at Glasgow, 1825, Edinburgh High School (opened 1829), and town buildings and spire at Ayr, 1828; a founder and first treasurer of R.S. A.; F.R.I.B.A., 1836-46.
- Walter Kerr Hamilton
- '''Walter Kerr Hamilton''' ([[1808]]-[[1869]]), bishop of Salisbury; nephew of William Richard Hamilton ; at Eton and as private pupil of Dr. Arnold of Rugby at Laletiam; student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1827; B.A., 1830; fellow of Merton College, 1832; vicar of St. Peter's-in-the-East, Oxford, 1837-41; canon of Salisbury, 1841; bishop of Salisbury, 1884-69, establishing theological college, 1861; published pamphlet on Cathedral Reform 1853.
- William De Hamilton
- '''William De Hamilton''' (d. [[1307]]), chancellor of England: vice-chancellor to the king, 1286; dean of York, 1298; chancellor of England, 1305-7.
- William Hamilton
- '''William Hamilton''' , second DUKE OP HAMILTON (1616-1651), brother of James Hamilton, firstduke: created Earl of Lanark, 1639 (so styled till 1649); secretary of state for Scotland, 1640-3 and 1646; fled with his brother (1641) after the Incident, but was at peace with the king till arrest at Oxford, 1643; escaped and made bis peace with Scottish estates, 1644; one of commissioners at Newcastle, 1646; again reconciled to Charles I, 1646; protested against his surrender to English army; concluded treaty with the king at Garisbrooke on basis of introduction of presbyterianism into England, 1647; commanded force against Westland whips, but had to submit to Argyll; succeeded to dukedom while in Holland: made K.G. and privy councillor by Charles II, whom he accompanied to Scotland, 1650; mortally wounded at Worcester. -r
- William Hamilton
- '''William Hamilton''' (d. [[1724]]), of Wisbaw ; antiquary; his Account of the Shyres of Renfrew and Lanark edited by William Motherwell, 1838.
- William Hamilton
- '''William Hamilton''' (d. [[1729]]), archdeacon of Armagh; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 16W; LL.B., 1700: archdeacon of Armagh, 1700-29; published life of James Bonnell, 170S.
- William Hamilton
- '''William Hamilton''' ([[1665]] ?-[[1761]]), of Gilbertfield; poet; corresponded in verse with Allan Ramsay in 'Seven Familiar Epistles which passed between Lieutenant Hamilton and the Author(1719); wrote elegy on his dog, Bonny Heck and Willie was a Wanton Wag; abridged and modernised Blind Harry's Wallace 1722.
- William Hamilton
- '''William Hamilton''' 17U4-[[1754]]), of Bangour; poet; contributed lyrics to Allan Ramsay'sTea-Table Miscellany," between 1724 and 1727; celebrated victory of Prestonpans inGladsmuir and while hiding after Culloden wroteSoliloquy... in June 1746 composed ballads and Episode of the Thistle; made the earliest Homeric translation into English blank verse; his poems issued by Foulis, 1749, and posthumously; died at Lyons.
- William Hamilton
- '''William Hamilton''' ([[1758]]-[[1790]]), surgeon; MJL Glasgow, 1775; professor of anatomy and botany at Glasgow, 1781.
- William Hamilton
- '''William Hamilton''' ([[1755]]-[[1797]]), naturalist and antiquary; fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, 1779; M.A., 1779; rector of Clondavaddpg or Fannet, Donegal, 1790; publishedLetters concerning the Northern Coast of Antrim 1786; murdered by banditti at Sharon, 1797.
- William Hamilton
- '''William Hamilton''' ([[1761]]-[[1801]]), painter: studied under Zucchi in Italy; R.A., 1789: exhibited from 1774 historical pictures, arabesques, and ornaments, scriptural and Shakespearean pictures, and portraits, including full-lengths of Mrs. Siddons and John Wesley.
- Sir William Hamilton
- '''Sir William Hamilton''' ([[1730]]-[[1803]]), diplomatist and archaeologist; grandson of William Douglas, third duke of Hamilton; M.P., Midhurst, 1761-4; plenipotentiary at Naples, 1764-1800; K.B., 1772; made twenty-two ascents of Vesuvius, witnessing 1776 and 1777 eruptions; visited Etna; F.R.S., 1766; published 'Campi Phlegraei 1776 (also a supplement, 1779), and other works describing observations of volcanoes and Calabrian earthquakes; sent account of Pompeian discoveries to Society of Antiquaries; sold collections of Greek vases and antiquities to British Museum, 1773: and to Thomas Hope, 1801; purchased from Gavin Hamilton (1730-1797) Warwick Vase and from Byres, the architect, Portland Vase; privy councillor, 1791; married Emma Hart, 1791; entertained Nelson at Naples, 1798; accompanied Neapolitan court to Palermo, 1798; travelled to England with Nelson; D.C.L. Oxford, 1802.
- William Hamilton
- '''William Hamilton''' ([[1780]]-[[1835]]), theological writer; minister of Strathblane, Stirlingshire, 1809-36; moved resolution against lay patronage in general assembly, 1834; published theological works, 1820-35.
- Sir William Hamilton
- '''Sir William Hamilton''' , baronet ([[1788]]-[[1856]]), metaphysician; educated at Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was intimate with J. G. Lockhart; M.A., 1814; established claim to baronetcy, 1816; introduced by Christopher North to De Quincey at Edinburgh, 1814; visited Germany, 1817 and 1820; elected professor of civil history at Edinburgh, 1821; had controversy with Combe on phrenology; solicitor of teinds, 1832; his philosophical reputation made by articles in 'Edinburgh Review 1829-36; elected to chair of logic and metaphysics at Edinburgh, 1836; made great impression by lectures (ed. Mausel and Veitch, 1*59); attacked non-intrusion principle in ecclesiastical controversy of 1843; partially paralysed after 1844; edited Reid's works, 1846 (completed by Mansel); Hamilton philosophical examination founded in his honour, 1866. His doctrine of the quantification of the predicatewas assailed by De Morgan, and that of the unknowability of the infinite by Calderwood. He contributed to psychology and logic the theories of the association of ideas, of unconscious mental modifications, and the inverse relation of perception and sensation. Posthumous criticism was led by Mill and Hutchison Stirling. oo2
- Hamilton
- '''Hamilton''' 564
- Hammond
- '''Hammond'''
- William Gerard Hamilton
- '''William Gerard Hamilton''' ([[1789]]-[[1796]]), ; Single-speech Hamilton; grandson of William Hamilton (d. 1724): educated at Winchester and Oriel College, Oxford; student of Lincoln's Inn, 1744; as M.P. for Petersfield made celebrated maiden speech, 1756 (the so-calledsinglespeech); a commissioner of trade, 1766: M.P., Pontefract, 1761, Killebegs (Irish parliament), 17611768; chief secretary for Ireland, 1761-4, and chancellor of Irish exchequer, 1763-84; spoke ably in Irish parliament, 1761-2; obtained, 1763, but subsequently appropriated, pension for Burke, who was for a time his private secretary; M.P., Old Sarum, 1768, Wareham, 1774, Wilton, 1780, and Haslemere, 1 790; his conversational powers highly praised by Dr. Johnson; Letters of Juniusattributed to him by some of his contemporaries; his works published after his death by Malone under title of Parliamentary Logick
- William John Hamilton
- '''William John Hamilton''' ([[1805]]-[[1867]]), geologist; son of William Richard Hamilton; educated at Charterhouse and Gottinpen; pupil of Murchison; F.G.S., 1831; secretary of Geological Society, 1832-54, president, 1854 and 1865; M.P., Newport (Isle of Wight), 1841-7; his tour in the Levant, 1835-7, described inResearches in Asia Minor, Pontus, and Armenia 1842; president of Royal Geographical Society, 1837, 1841, 1842, and 1847; made excursions in France and Belgium, and wrote papers on rocks of Tuscany and geology of the Mayence basin and Hesse-Cassel.
- William Richard Hamilton
- '''William Richard Hamilton''' ([[1777]]-[[1869]]), antiquary and diplomatist; cousin of William Gerard Hamilton; lamed for life at Harrow; as secretary to Lord Elgin prevented France carrying off Rosetta stone; superintended safe transportation to England of Grecian marbles, 1802; under-secretary for foreign affairs, 1809-22; minister at Naples, 1822-5; obtained restoration by France of works of art taken from Italy, 1815; trustee of British Museum, 1838-58; published Sgyptiaca(1809), containing first translations of Rosetta inscriptions.
- Sir William Rowan Hamilton
- '''Sir William Rowan Hamilton''' ([[1805]]-[[1865]]), mathematician; discoverer of science of quaternions; as a child competed with Zerah Colburn, the calculating boy at sixteen detected an error of reasoning in Laplace's Mecanique Celeste; at Trinity College, Dublin, obtained thedouble optimeand twice won vice-chancellor's prize for English verse; while an undergraduate predictedconical refraction appointed Andrews professor of astronomy, 1827; astronomer royal of Ireland; gold medallist of Royal Society for optical discovery and for (1834) theory of a general method of dynamics; knighted, 1835; president of Royal Irish Academy, 1837: published Lectures on Quaternions 1853. His Elements of Quaternions appeared posthumously, 1866.
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- Hamilton
- '''Hamilton''' -ROWAN, ARCHIBALD ([[1751]]-[[1834]]).
- Edward Hamley
- '''Edward Hamley''' ([[1764]]-[[1834]]), poet; fellow of New College, Oxford, 1786; B.C.L., 1791; rector of Cusop, 1805-34, and Stanton St. John, 1806-34; published poems (17*5), translations from Petrarch and Metastasio, 1795, and sonnets, 1795.
- Sir Edward Bruce Hamley
- '''Sir Edward Bruce Hamley''' ([[1824]]-[[1893]]), general; studied at Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; lieutenant, royal artillery, 1843; stationed at Gibraltar; adjutant to Colonel (Sir) Richard James Dacres q. v.j in Crimea; brevet lieutenant-colonel, 1865; contributed to Fraser's and Black wood's magazines; edited first series ofTales from Blackwood 1858; professor of military history, Sandhurst, 1869-64; publishedOperations of War 1866; lieutenant-colonel, 1864; member of council of military education, 1866-70; commandant of staff college, 1870-7; major-general, 1877; British commissioner for delimitation of Bulgaria, 1879, Armenian frontier, 1880, and Greek frontier, 1881: K.C.M.G., 1880; lieutenant-general, 1882; commanded division in Egypt, 1882; fought at Tel-el-Kebir; K.O.B., 1882; M.P. for Birkenhead, 1886, and 1886-92; colonel-commandant, royal artillery, 1886; general, 1890: published novels, Shakespeare's Funeral 1869, and military works.
- Try
- '''Try'''
- Hammee
- '''Hammee''' 8LEY, JAMES A8TBURY ([[1816]]-[[1869]]), painter; master of Manchester School of Design, 1849-62; first president, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1867-61.
- Hammick
- '''Hammick''' Sm STEPHEN LOVE, first baronet , (1777-1867), surgeon extraordinary to George IV and William IV; surgeon to Naval Hospital, Plymouth, 1803: created baronet, 1834; an original member of London University senate published Practical Remarks on... Strictures of the Urethra 1830.
- Hammond
- '''Hammond'''
- Anthony Hammond
- '''Anthony Hammond''' ([[1668]]-[[1738]]), poet and Ephleteer; grand-nephew of William Hammond v.; M.P., Huntingdonshire, 1695-8, Cambridge srersity, 1698-1701, Huntingdon, 1702-8; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1698; commissioner of public accounts, 1701; commissioner of the navy, 1702; declared incapable of sitting in parliament as holding the latter office, 1708; treasurer of forces in Spain, 1711; published pamphlets on finance and parliamentary practice; edited 'New Miscellany of Original Poems 1720; died debtor in the Fleet.
- Anthony Hammond
- '''Anthony Hammond''' ([[1758]]-[[1838]]), legal writer ; prepared draft of act of 1827 consolidating and amending the criminal law.
- Edmund Hammond
- '''Edmund Hammond''' , BAKON HAMMOND ([[1802]]1890), diplomatist; son of George Hammond; of Harrow and University College, Oxford: fellow, 1828-46; M.A., 1826; accompanied Stratford Canning to Constantinople, 1831, Madrid, and Lisbon, 1832; chief of the oriental department of foreign office; permanent undersecretary, 1854-73; privy councillor, 1866; created a peer, 1874; died at Men tone.
- George Hammond
- '''George Hammond''' ([[1763]]-[[1853]]), diplomatist: educated at Merton College, Oxford; fellow, 1787; M.A., 1788; secretary to David Hartley the younger at Paris, 1783; charge d'affaires at Vienna, 1788-90; first British minister at Washington, 1791-5; as undersecretary for foreign affairs (1796-1806 and 1807-9) intimate with Grenville and Canning; joint-editor of Anti-Jacobin; D.C.L. Oxford, 1810.
- Henry Hammond
- '''Henry Hammond''' ([[1605]]-[[1660]]), chaplain to Charles I; son of John Hammond (d. 1817); of Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford; fellow, 1626, M.A., 1625, D.D., 1639; incumbent of Penshurst, 1633; archdeacon of Chichester, 1643; became known to Charles I by Practical Catechism 1644; canon of Christ Church and pablic orator at Oxford, 1645; chaplain to royal commissioners at Uxbridge, 1645, and to Charles I, 1647; deprived and imprisoned, but afterwards allowed to live with Sir Philip Warwick and Sir John Pakington; publishedParaphrase and Annotations on the New Testament 1663; his collected works edited by William Fulman, 1674-84,Miscellaneous Theological Works by Nicholas Pocock, 1847-60.
- James Hammond
- '''James Hammond''' ([[1710]]-[[1742]]), poet; son of Anthony Hammond (1668-1738); educated at ! Westminster: equerry to Frederick, prince of Wales, 1733; M.P., Truro, 1741-2; said to have died for love of Kitty Dashwood; hisLove Elegies(1743) (with preface by Chesterfield) condemned by Dr. Johnson for 'frigid pedantry
- John Hammond
- '''John Hammond''' ([[1542]]-[[1589]]), civilian ; fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; LL.D., 1569; commissary of j deanery of St. Paul's, 1673; master of chancery, 1574; chancellor of London, 1675; delegate to diet of Smalkald, I 1678; M.P., Rye, 1585, St. Looe, 1586: as member of high I commission examined Campion (1581) and other Jesuits under torture.
- John Hammond
- '''John Hammond''' (d. [[1617]]), physician to James I : son of John Hammond (1542-1589); fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1573; M.A., 1577: M.D. Oxford, 1603; F.R.C.P., 1608; made post-mortem exami j nation of Henry, prince of Wales.
- Robert Hammond
- '''Robert Hammond''' ([[1621]]-[[1664]]), parliamentarian : grandson of John Hammond (rf. 1617); member of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1636; captain in parliamentary , army, 1642; distinguished himself at Tewkesbury, 1644; as colonel of foot in thenew model 1645, captured Powder ham Castle and St. Michael's Mount; taken by royalists at Basing House, 1646: governor of Isle of Wight, 1647; custodian of Charles I, who had mistakenly taken refuge with him in the Isle of Wight, November 1647 to November 1648; meuiticr of the Irish council 1654. I
- Hammond
- '''Hammond''' 565
- Hanbury
- '''Hanbury'''
- Samuel Hammond
- '''Samuel Hammond''' (d. [[1665]]), nonconformist divine; fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; chaplain to Sir Arthur llesilrige; while nr r castle (lGf~ -GO) assisted in exposing the impostor, Thomas Ramsay; assisted in writing a tract against quakers, 1664.
- William Hammond
- '''William Hammond''' (ft. [[1655]]), poet ; his 'Poems ' (1665) reprinted, 1816.
- Hamond
- '''Hamond'''
- Hamond
- '''Hamond''' Sin ANDREW SNAPE, first baronet([[1738]]1828), comptroller of the navy: present at Quiberou Bay, 1759; captain, 1770; knighted for services in Chesapeake expedition and defence of Sandy Hook, 1778; governor of Nova Scotia, 1780-2; created baronet, 1783; commander at the Nore, 1785-8; commissioner of the navy, 1793: M.P., Ipswich, 1796-1806; comptroller of the navy, 17941806.
- George Hamond
- '''George Hamond''' ([[1620]]-[[1705]]), ejected divine: M.A. Exeter College, Oxford; studied at Trinity College, Dublin; ejected from St. Peter's and Trinity, Dorchester, 1662; presbyterian minister and schoolmaster at Tauutou, 1672-85: pastor of ArmourersHall, London, and lecturer at SaltersHall.
- Sir Graham Eden Hamond
- '''Sir Graham Eden Hamond''' , second baronet (1779-1862), admiral; son of Sir Andrew Snape H union. 1 : midshipman on Howe's flagship at victory of 1794; commanded the Blanche at Copenhagen, 1801; captured Spanish treasure ships, 1804; at reduction of Flushing, 1809; commander on South American station, 1834-8; admiral, 1847; admiral of the fleet, 1862; G.C.B., 1855.
- Walter Hamond
- '''Walter Hamond''' (. [[1643]]), author of tracts on Madagascar, 1640 and 1643.
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- Matthew Hamont
- '''Matthew Hamont''' (d. [[1679]]), heretic ; burnt at Norwich. On his case Philip van Limborch corresponded with Locke, 1699.
- Viscounts Hampden
- '''Viscounts Hampden''' . See TREVOR, ROBERT
- Hampden
- '''Hampden''' -, first VISCOUNT, [[1706]]-[[1783]]; TREVOR, JOHN
- Hampden
- '''Hampden''' -, third VISCOUNT, [[1749]]-[[1824]]; BRAND, SIR
- Bouvehie William Henry
- '''Bouvehie William Henry''' , [[1814]]-[[1892]], first VISCOUNT of new creation,
- John Hampden
- '''John Hampden''' ([[1594]]-[[1643]]), statesman ; educated at Thame School and Magdalen College, Oxford; also studied at Inner Temple; M.P. for Grampound, 1621-6, and for Wendover in first three parliaments of Charles I; afterwards represented Buckinghamshire; imprisoned (1627) for refusing to pay forced loan of 1626; prominent in Charles I's third parliament; closely associated with Sir John Eliot, corresponding with him when Eliot was in prison; one of the twelve grantees of land in Connecticut, 1G32; by resisting second ship-money writ, 1635 (declared legal by exchequer court, 1638), caused it to be paid with increasing reluctance; most popular member in the Short parliament, 1640; led the opposition to the king's demand for twelve subsidies in exchange for the abandonment of ship-money, 1640; exercised great influence over Pym in the Long parliament, and proved a powerful debater and strategist; as one of the managers of Strafford's impeachment opposed the resolution for a bill of attainder, and (1641) obtained leave for Strafford's counsel to be heard; supported the. root-and-branch bill; attended the king to Scotland, 1641; calmed House of Commons after the carrying of the Grand Remonstrance, 1641; impeached by the attorney-general, 1642 (3 Jan.), but escaped the attempted arrest by the king next day; returned to move (20 Jan. 1642) the resolution giving control of the militia and the Tower to parliament; leading member of the committee of safety; raised i-egiment of foot and executed the militia ordinance in his own county after Edgehill, joining the main army (1642) under Essex, whose retreat after Edgehill he condemned; resisted acceptance of Charles I's overtures for peace, 1642-3, and urged an immediate attack on Oxford; mortally wounded in a skirmish with Prince liupert at Chalgrove Field; died at Thame, and was buried in Great Hampden Church.
- John Hampden
- '''John Hampden''' , the younger ([[1666]] ?- [[1696]]), politician; son of Richard Hampden; M.P., Buckinghamshire, 1679, Wendover, 1681-90; imprisoned and fined on charge of plotting uu insurrection, 1684; condemned to dentil for high treason after MonmouthV rifling, 1Gn. but briUt.lefTeries ami I'etre, and was pardoned; prominent in Convention parliament (168!) as:m rvtr.me whitf; opposed employment by William III of Halifax and other ex-ministers; committed suicide. xxiv. 88J
- Kknn Dickson Hampden
- '''Kknn Dickson Hampden''' ([[1793]]-[[1868]]), bUhop of Hereford; fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, 1814; double first, 1814; M.A., 1816; D.D., 1833; intimate with Arnold and Whately; Hampton lecturer, 1832; principal of St. Mary Hall, 1833; professor of moral philosophy, 1834: his appointment by Melbourne to the regius professorship of divinity (1836) oppoeed on ground of his unorthodoxy, as also his nomination to bishopric (1848); bishop of Hereford, 1848-68; publishedThe Scholastic Philosophy considered in its Relation to Christian Theology (Hampton lectures), 1833.
- Richard Hampden
- '''Richard Hampden''' ([[1631]]-[[1696]]), chancellor of the exchequer; son of John Hampden (1694-1643); M.P., Buckinghamshire, 1656, and 1681-90, Weudover, 1660-79, and 1690-5; member of Protector's Houae of Lords; entertained Baxter during the plague, 1666; moved Exclusion Bill of 1679; chairman of Commons committee that declared the throne vacant, 1689; privy councillor, 1689; commissioner of the treasury, 1689: chancellor of the exchequer, 1690-4; refused emoluments from William III.
- Hampden
- '''Hampden''' -TREVOE.
- William Hamper
- '''William Hamper''' ([[1776]]-[[1831]]), antiquary; F.S.A., 1821; contributed toGentleman's Magazine assisted John Britton and other topographical writers; published * Observations on certain Ancient Pillars of Memorial called Hoar-Stones 1820, and Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir W. Dugdale 1827.
- Richard Hampole
- '''Richard Hampole''' ([[1290]] ?-[[1349]]). See ROLLE, P-ICHARD.
- John Hampson
- '''John Hampson''' ([[1760]]-[[1817]] ?), author; M.A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1792; rector of Sunderlaud, 1801; published works including Memoirs of Rev. John Wesley 1791; translated The Poetics of Marcus Hieronymus Vida 1793.
- Hampton
- '''Hampton''' first BARON ([[1799]]-[[1880]]). See PAKINQ-
- Sir John Somerset Ton
- '''Sir John Somerset Ton''' .
- Christopher Hampton
- '''Christopher Hampton''' ([[1552]]-[[1625]]), archbishop of Armagh; probably fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1585: nominated to see of Derry, 1611, but not consecrated; archbishop of Armagh, 1613-25; restored Armagh Cathedral; maintained primacy of Armagh.
- James Hampton
- '''James Hampton''' ([[1721]]-[[1778]]), translator of Polybius; of Winchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford; M.A., 1747; rector of Mouktou Moor, 1762, and Folkton, Yorkshire, 1775; translated Polybius, first five books, 1756-61; issued extracts from sixth book of Polybius, 1764.
- Hanboys
- '''Hanboys''' or HAMBOYS, JOHN (fl. [[1470]]), doctor of music: his commentary on works of the two Francos printed by Coussemaker.
- Benjamin Hanbury
- '''Benjamin Hanbury''' (1 [[778]]-1 [[864]]), nonconformist historian; first treasurer of Congregational Union, 1831-64; publishedHistorical Memorials relating to the Independents... from their Rise to the Restoration (1839-44), and an edition of Hooker (1830).
- Daniel Hanbury
- '''Daniel Hanbury''' ([[1826]]-[[1875]]), pharmacist: treasurer of Liimeuu Society; F.R.S., 1867; visited Palestine with Sir Joseph Hooker, 1860; published Pharmacographia (with Professor FllickigerX 1874.
- Sir James Hanbury
- '''Sir James Hanbury''' ([[1782]]-[[1863]]), lieutenantgeneral; served with the 58th in Egypt, 1801; present at operations of Corufla, 1808-9: with the guards at Walcheren (1809) and in the Peninsular war; major-general, 1830; K.B.,1830; lieutenant-general, 1841.
- John Hanbury
- '''John Hanbury''' ([[1664]]-17S4), politician; developed his estate and ironworks at Pontypopl; M.P., Gloucester, 1701-15, Monmouthshire, 1720-34; director of the New South Sea Company, 1721; one of Marlborough's executors, 1722.
- Hanbury
- '''Hanbury''' 566
- Hankinson
- '''Hankinson'''
- William Hanbury
- '''William Hanbury''' ([[1725]]-[[1778]]), clergyman; B.A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1748; rector of Church Langton, Leicestershire, 1753-78; M.A. St. Andrews, 1769; issued (1758) Essay on Planting, and a Scheme for making it conducive to the Glory of God and the advantage of Society; his scheme carried out by court of chancery, 186-1; published Complete Body of Planting and Gardening (1770-1).
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- Henry Fletcher Hance
- '''Henry Fletcher Hance''' ([[1827]]-[[1886]]), botanist; vice-consul at Whampoa, 1861-78; consul at Canton, 1878-81 and 1883; acting consul at Amoy at his death; contributed papers on Chinese plants to Hooker's Journal of Botany and supplement to Beutham's Flora Hoiigkongensis
- Ambrose Godfrey Hanckwitz
- '''Ambrose Godfrey Hanckwitz''' (d. [[1741]]).
- Albany Hancock
- '''Albany Hancock''' ([[1806]]-[[1873]]), zoologist; received the royal medal of Royal Society for paper on The Organisation of Brachiopoda 1857; F.L.S., 1862; collaborated with Joshua Alder inMonograph of British Nudipranchiate Mollusca 1845-55; with Dr. D. Embleton investigated structure of genera oeolis and dorit.
- John Hancock
- '''John Hancock''' (d. [[1869]]), sculptor; exhibited at Royal Academy from 1843.
- Robert Hancock
- '''Robert Hancock''' ([[1730]]-[[1817]]), mezzotint engraver and draughtsman; engraver to Worcester porcelain works, 1757-74; executed small crayon portraits of Lamb, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey.
- Thomas Hancock
- '''Thomas Hancock''' ([[1783]]-[[1849]]), quaker physician ; M.D. Edinburgh, 1809; practised in London and Liverpool; published (1825)Principles of Peace exemplified in conduct of Society of Friends in Ireland during the Rebellion of 1798 and treatises on epidemics; edited Discourses from Nicole's Essays by John Locke 1828.
- Thomas Hancock
- '''Thomas Hancock''' ([[1786]]-[[1865]]), founder of the indiarubber trade in England; took out patent for applying indiarubber springs to articles of dress, 1820; first made vulcanised indiarubber, 1843; published 'Personal Narrative of the Origin and Progress of the Caoutchouc or Indiarubber Manufacture in England 1857.
- Walter Hancock
- '''Walter Hancock''' ([[1799]]-[[1852]]), engineer : brother of Thomas Hancock (1786-1865); invented steamengines for road traffic, 1824-36; described experiments inNarrative 1838; obtained patent for cutting indiarubber into sheets, and for a method of preparing solutions of indiarubber, 1843.
- Thomas Hand
- '''Thomas Hand''' (d. [[1804]]), painter; friend and imitator of Morland; exhibited at Royal Academy.
- Charles Handasyde
- '''Charles Handasyde''' (fl. [[1760]]-[[1780]]), miniaturepainter,
- George Frederick Handel
- '''George Frederick Handel''' , properly GEORO
- Haendel Friedrich
- '''Haendel Friedrich''' ([[1685]]-[[1759]]), musical composer; son of the town surgeon of Giebichenstein, Saxony; studied music under Zachau at Halle; presented to elector of Brandenburg at Berlin, c. 1696; went to Hamburg, 1703, and became conductor of the opera; fought a duel with Mattheson (first tenor); composed his first opera, Almira 1705; went to Italy, 1707; produced the operas Rodrigo at Florence and Agrippina at Venice, 1708; at Rome composed the oratorios II Trionfo del Tempo and La Resurrezione; visited Naples, 1708-9, composing songs and cantatas; went to Hanover and became kapellmeister, 1710; came to England, 1710; his opera Rinaldo produced with great success at the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket, 1711; returned to Hanover, but was again in England in 1712, where, breaking his pledge to the elector of Hanover (afterwards George I) to return to Hanover, he thenceforth remained; his operasPastor Ficlo and Teaeo and the Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate performed before the death of Anne, the composer receiving for the last an annuity of 200., increased by George I after Handel's reconciliation with him, effected through Burlington and Kielmanusegge by means of the Watermusic 1715; as director for the Duke of Chandos at Canons (1718-20) composed twelve anthems, Esther (his tint English oratorio, performed 1720), and Acis and tea (performed 1720 or 1721); director of the Royal Academy of Music, 1720-8, composing thirteen operas, besides collaborating inAfuzio Scevolawith Buononcini, thenceforth his rival in popular favour; naturalised, 1726; appointed court composer; produced coronation anthems on the accession of George II, 1727; carried on (1729-35) a second operatic undertaking at the King's Theatre, Coveiit Garden, producing several new operas, and giving performances of Esther and Acis and Galatea 1732, and Deborah 1733: Athaliah first heard at Oxford, 1733; ousted from the King's Theatre i by his rivals, 1735; gave more operas, and repeated his I oratorios in Lent at Rich's new theatre, Covent GarI den, 1735-7, when he became bankrupt and partially ! paralysed; composed a fine anthem for the funeral of Queen Caroline, 1737, and two new operas, 1738, when his debts were paid by a benefit concert; his statue by Roubilliac set up at Vauxhall, 1738; his last operas given at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1740-1, also setting of Dryden's shorter Ode on St. Cecilia's Day 1739; the first annual performance of Alexander's Feast for the Society of Musicians, with himself at the organ, given 1739; his 'SaulandIsrael in Egypt produced at the King's Theatre, 1739; his oratorio the Messiah (composed in twenty-three days) first heard at Dublin, 1741, in London, 1743 (Covent Garden), and in Germany (Hamburg), 1772; his Samson given at a subscription concert at Covent Garden, and the DettingenTe Deumat St. James's Palace, 1743; Joseph and his Brethren and Semele 1744 (Oovent Garden);HerculesandBelshazzar j (King's Theatre), 1744-6; Judas Maccabaeus 1747; I Alexander Balus and Joshua 1748 (Covent Garden); his oratorios Susanna and * Solomon produced, 1749; i his Music for the Fireworks performed at Vauxhall and ; the Green Park to celebrate the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, i 1749; his Theodora 1750, a failure; conducted a per! formance of the Messiah (with the organ presented by i himself) at the Foundling Hospital, 1750; his last oratorio, Jephthah produced at Covent Garden, 1752; his last composition,The Triumph of Time and Truth I 1757; buried in Westminster Abbey. His manuscript scores passed from John Christopher Smith to George III. He carried choral music to its highest point, but in instrumental did not advance beyond his contemporaries. His almost certain appropriation (notably in Israel in Egypt) of the work of others is in strong contradiction with his known character. A collection of his works, begun in Germany, 1856, with the help of the king of Hanover, was continued under the auspices of the Prussian government. Roubilliac executed his monument in Westminster Abbey and three busts.
- Robert De Handlo
- '''Robert De Handlo''' (ft. [[1326]]), writer on music ; author of ReguUe (printed by Coussemaker.
- William Handyside
- '''William Handyside''' ([[1793]]-[[1850]]), engineer; employed by the Russian government.
- George Hanger
- '''George Hanger''' , fourth BARON COLERAINE (1761 ?-1824), eccentric; educated at Eton and Gottingen; served during American war in Hessian Jager corps and in Tarleton's light dragoons; aide-de-camp to Sir Henry I Clinton at Charlestown, 1779; his Life, Adventures, and i Opinions issued by William Combe, 1801; suc ceeded his brother in peerage, 1814, but did not assume I title; caricatured by Gillray and George Cruikshank; pub I lished Lives and Adventures... of Eminent Gamesters 1804, and military pamphlets.
- Sir William Hankeford
- '''Sir William Hankeford''' (d. [[1422]]), judge; king's serjeant, 1390; justice of common pleas, 1398; K.B., 1399; chief-justice of king's bench, 1413-22.
- Thomson Hankey
- '''Thomson Hankey''' ([[1805]]-[[1893]]), politician; senior partner in his father's West Indian mercantile firm; elected a director of Bank of England, 1835; governor, 1851-2; liberal M.P. for Peterborough, 1853-68, and 18741 880; published works on questions of political economy.
- Edward Hankin
- '''Edward Hankin''' ([[1747]]-[[1835]]), author ; rector of West Chiltington, Sussex; published pamphlets on clerical grievances and political subjects.
- Thomas Edwards Hankinson
- '''Thomas Edwards Hankinson''' ([[1805]]-[[1843]]), poet; M.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1831; incumbent of St. Matthew's Chapel, Denmark Hill; won Seatouian prize at Cambridge nine times; his Poems collected, 1844.
- Hanmer
- '''Hanmer''' 567
- Hansell
- '''Hansell'''
- Hanmer
- '''Hanmer''' .[[1011]] N( [[1574]]-[[1629]]), bbbop of St. Asaph; matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, 1692; fellow of All SoulsCollege, Oxford, 1596; M.A., 1600; D.D., 1616: chaplain to James I: prebendary of Worcester, 1614; bishop of St. Asaph, 1624-9.
- John Hanmer
- '''John Hanmer''' ( lf.42-[[1707]]), nonconformist minister; son of Jonathan Hanmer; graduated at St. John's College, Cambridge, 1662; pastor at Barnstaple, 1692-1708.
- Sir John Hanmer
- '''Sir John Hanmer''' , BARON HANMER ([[1809]]-[[1881]]), poet; succeeded as third baronet, 1828: educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford: whig M.P. for Shrewsbury, 1832-7, Hull, 1841-7, and Flint, 1847-77; created a peer. 1872; published ( Fra Cipolla and other poems 1839, 'Sonnets 1840, andMemorials of Family and Parish of Hanmer 1877.
- Jonathan Hanmer
- '''Jonathan Hanmer''' ([[1606]]-[[1687]]), divine; M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1631; ejected from vicurage of Bishop's Tawton and lectureship of Barnstaple, 1662, where he founded, with Oliver Peard, the first non- I conformist congregation; published An Exercitation upon Confirmation 1657; and A View of Antiquity 1677.
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- Meredith Hanmer
- '''Meredith Hanmer''' ([[1543]]-[[1604]]), historian; chaplain of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1567; M.A., 1572: D.D., 1582; vicar of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, 1581-92; j vicar of Islington, 1583-90; accused of celebrating an illegal marriage; went to Ireland, becoming archdeacon of j Ro88(1691X treasurer of Waterford (1593), vicar choral and prebendary of Christ Church, Dublin (1594-5), chancellor: of Kilkenny (1603); published a translation of the his- j tories of Eusebius, Socrates, and Evagrius, 1577; his 'Chronicle of Irelandprinted by Sir James Ware, 1633.
- Sir Thomas Hanmer
- '''Sir Thomas Hanmer''' , fourth baronet ([[1677]]- I 1746), speaker: of Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; succeeded his uncle as baronet, 1701; tory M.P. for Thetford, 1701 and 1705-8, Flintshire, 1702-5, and Suffolk, I 1708-27; chairman of the committee which made the, 'representationof 1712; received in great state by Louis XIV at Paris, 1712; refused office from Harley and procured rejection of two articles of the commercial treaty, of 1713; speaker, 1714-15: chief of the Hanoverian tories; while in retirement, prepared sumptuous, but not critically very valuable, edition of Shakespeare, 1743-4: alluded to in ! the Dunciad as Montalto.
- James Hann
- '''James Hann''' ([[1799]]-[[1856]]), mathematician ; calcu- ! lator in Nautical Almanack office; mathematical master, at King's College School, London, till death; published works on mechanics and pure mathematics, including i Principles and Practice of the Machinery of Locomotive j Engines 1850, and, with Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, Tables for the Use of Nautical Men 1841.
- Samuel Hanna
- '''Samuel Hanna''' ([[1772]] 9-[[1852]]), presbyterian divine : M.A. Glasgow, 1789; D.D., 1818; minister of Rosemary Street, Belfast, 1799; professor of divinity, Belfast Presby- I terian College, 1817; first moderator of general assembly, 1840.
- William Hanna
- '''William Hanna''' ([[1808]]-[[1882]]), theological writer ; son of Samuel Hanna; colleague of Thomas Guthrie at Edinburgh, 1850-66; LL.D. Glasgow, 1852; D.D. Edinburgh, 1864; son-in-law of Chalmers, whose life he issued in 1849-52, afterwards editing his posthumous works; edited also Essays by Ministers of i the Free Church of Scotland 1858, and Letters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen 1877.
- John Hannah
- '''John Hannah''' , the elder ([[1792]]-[[1867]]), Wesleyan minister; delegate to United States of Wesleyan conference, 1824 and 1856; secretary to conference, 1840-2, and 1854-8, president, 1842 and 1851; tutor of Didsbury, 18431867; published works, including a defence of infant baptism, 1866.
- John Hannah
- '''John Hannah''' , the younger ([[1818]]-[[1888]]), archdeacon of Lewes; son of John Hannah the elder; scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1837; fellow of Lincoln, 1840; B.A., 1840; D.O.L., 1863; rector of the Edinburgh Academy, 1847-54: principal of Glenalmoud, 1854-70; Bampton lecturer, 1862; vicar of Brighton, 1870-87; archdeacon of Lewes, 1876-88; published, besides Bampton lectures, 1863,Courtly Poets from Raleigh to Montrose 1 870.
- Am Hann
- '''Am Hann''' . mril.YHD (d. [[1666]]), robber; ii for burglary: escaped from England, robbed the Danish treasury and the queen of Sweden; returned to England with money entrusted to him by Rotterdam broker merchants; broke prison at Paris and in London after being sentenced to death; hanged for murder at Smithfield. H ANNAN, WILLIAM (. 1775 ?X draughUman and decorative painter.
- James Hannay
- '''James Hannay''' ([[1827]]-[[1873]]), author and journalist; dismissal the navy for insubordination. 1845; edited Ivlinburgh Evening Courant 1860-4: consul at Barcelona, 1868-73; publishal Singleton Fontenoy 18W, and Eustace Conyers 1865, naval novels; published Satire and Satirist 1854, and Studies on Thackeray 1869.
- Patrick Hannay
- '''Patrick Hannay''' (d. [[1629]] ?), poet; master of chancery in Ireland, 1627; said to have died at sea; his 'Happy Husband* (1618-19) and Brathwalt'sGood Wife(1619) reissued withThe Nightingale and other poems, 1622; facsimile of 1622 collection printed, 1875.
- Adriaen Hanneman
- '''Adriaen Hanneman''' ([[1601]] ?-[[1668]] ?), portraitpainter; resided in England, c. 1625-40; returned to the Hague and became first director of the new guild of St. Luke, 1656: executed portraits of Charles II, the duke of Hamilton, Vaudyck, and William III and Mary.
- Sir James Hannen
- '''Sir James Hannen''' , BARON HANXKN ([[1821]]-[[1894]]), judge; educated at St. Paul's School and Heidelberg University; barrister, Middle Temple, 1848; bencher, 1878; joinel home circuit; junior counsel to treasury, 1863; judge of court of queen's bench, 1868; knightal, 1868; appointed serjeant-at-law, 1868; privy councillor, 1872; judge of courts of probate and divorce, 1872; president of probate, divorce, and admiralty division of high court, 1875-91; life baron and lord of appeal in ordinary, 1891; D.O.L. Oxford, 1888: president of Parnell commission, 1888; arbitrator in question of Behring Sea seal fisheries, 1892.
- Sir Edward Hannes
- '''Sir Edward Hannes''' (d. [[1710]]), physician ; of Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford: M.A., 1689; M.D. 1695; attended William, duke of Gloucester, 1700; physician to Queen Anne, 1702; knighted, 1706.
- Hanney
- '''Hanney''' or DE HANNEYA. THOMAS (. [[1313]]), author of Bodleian manuscript Memoriale Juuiorum (a work on grammar).
- Thomas Hannibal
- '''Thomas Hannibal''' (d. [[1531]]), master of the rolls: D.O.L. Oxford, 1513; LL.D. Cambridge; ambassador at Rome, 1522-4; master of the rolls, 1523-7; frequently employed as diplomatist.
- James Hannington
- '''James Hannington''' ([[1847]]-[[1885]]), bishop of Eastern equatorial Africa; M.A. St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1875; D.D., 1884; curate in charge of St. George's, Hurstpierpoint, 1875-82; went out for the Church Missionary Society to Uganda, 1882; visited Palestine on way to Africa as bishop (1884-5); led expedition which reached Lake Victoria Nyanza, 1885; murdered by order of king of Uganda, 1885.
- King Op Hanover
- '''King Op Hanover''' . See ERNEST AUGUSTUS, 1771-1851.
- Luke Hansard
- '''Luke Hansard''' ([[1752]]-[[1828]]), printer ; printed for the Dodsleys; printed House of CommonsJournals from 1774.
- Thomas Curson Hansard
- '''Thomas Curson Hansard''' ([[1776]]-[[1833]]), printer : eldest son of Luke Hansard; began to print parliamentary debates in 1803; imprisonal for libel as Cobbett's printer, 1810: patented improved hand-press; published Typographic1825.
- Morgan Joseph Hansbie
- '''Morgan Joseph Hansbie''' ([[1673]]-[[1760]]), Dominican: rector at Louvain, 1717; provincial, 1721; prior of Bornhem and vicar-provincial of Belgium: vicarprovincial in England, 1738-42: vicar-general, 1747; an ardent Jacobite; published theological treatises.
- Edward Halifax Hansell
- '''Edward Halifax Hansell''' ([[1814]]-[[1884]]X biblical scholar: alucated at Norwich and Oxford; fellow of Magdalen College Oxford, 1847-53; M.A., 1838; B.D.,
- Hansom
- '''Hansom''' 568
- Harcourt
- '''Harcourt''' 1847; afterward* divinity lecturer; Uriufleld lecturer, 1861-2: vicar of East Ilsley, 1865-84: editedNov. Test. Gnec.... Ace. CollatioCod. Sinaitici(1864).
- Joseph Aloysios Hansom
- '''Joseph Aloysios Hansom''' ([[1803]] - [[1882]]X nrchitect and inventor: erected tin- Hirrninu'ham town hall, 1833; registered 4 Patent Safety Cab 1834, differing in many respects from present hansom: established The Builder 1842.
- John Hanson
- '''John Hanson''' (fl. [[1604]]), poet : B.A. Pcterbouse, Cambridge, 1604; author of Time is a Turn-coate, or England's Threefold Metamorphosis (1604).
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- John Hanson
- '''John Hanson''' (fl. [[1668]]?), author of 'The Sabbatarians confuted by the New Covenant 1668; of Pembroke College, Oxford.
- Hanson
- '''Hanson''' ' Sm ' LEVETT ([[1764]]-[[1814]]), author ; schoolfellow of Nelson and friend of Warren Hastings; of Trinity and Emmanuel Colleges, Cambridge; councillor to the Grand Duke of Holstein and knight of St. Philip, 1780; knight vice-chancellor of St. Joachim, 1800; lived in many European states; imprisoned in Austria, 1794; published account of European orders of knighthood, 1803, and poems, 1811; died at Copenhagen.
- Hanson
- '''Hanson''' Sm RICHARD DAVIES ([[1805]]-[[1876]]), chief- justice of South Australia: edited theGlobein London: supported Edward Gibbon Wakefield's colonisation schemes: one of the founders of South Australia; accompanied Lord Durham to Canada, 1838: crown prosecutor in New Zealand, 1840-6; drafted constitution of South Australia, 1851-6: attorney-general, 1867-60: chief-justice of South Australia, 1861-74: knighted, 1869; sometime acting-governor: published works, including The Jesus of History 1869.
- Jonas Hanway
- '''Jonas Hanway''' ([[1712]] - [[1786]]), traveller and philanthropist; as partner of a St. Petersburg merchant made journey (1743-5) down the Volga and by the Caspian to Persia with a caravan of woollen goods, and returned after perilous adventures by the same route, 1746: left Russia and lived in London after 1760; published an account of his travels, 1763, an essay attacking tea-drinking (severely criticised by Johnson and Goldsmith) and other works mostly connected with his philanthropic undertakings; appointed commissioner of victualling office, 1762, as reward for public services. He is best known as one of the chief founders of the Marine Society (1766) and the Magdalen charity (1758) the reformer of the Foundling Hospital and the pioneer of the umbrella; a monument was erected to him in Westminster Abbey, 1788.
- Harbert
- '''Harbert'''
- George Harbin
- '''George Harbin''' (. [[1713]]), noujuror : B.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1686; chaplain to Bishop Turner of Ely and Viscount Weymouth; friend of Ken.
- Edward Harbord
- '''Edward Harbord''' , third BARON SUPPIBI.D (1781-1835), philanthropist; M.P., Great Yarmouth, 18061812, Shaftesbury, 1820-1: succeeded as peer, 1821; carried reforms concerning prison discipline and game-laws: abolitionist.
- William Harbord
- '''William Harbord''' ([[1635]] ?-[[1692]]), politician; secretary to Earl of Essex, 1672; took active part in attack on Danby in connection with popish plot; M.P., Thetford, 1679, Launceston, 1680 and 1681; volunteered in imperial army at Buda, 1686; accompanied William of Orange to England, 1688; privy councillor and paymaster-general, 1688-90: vice-treasurer of Ireland, 1690; sent as ambassador to Turkey to mediate between sultan and the emperor Leopold, 1691; died on his way at Belgrade.
- William Harborne
- '''William Harborne''' (d. [[1617]]), first English ambassador in Turkey, 1582-8; concluded treaty for the establishment of Turkey company, 1579; account of his return journey (1588) printed in Hakluyt's Voyages; manuscript account of his proceedings in Turkey in British Museum.
- Harcae
- '''Harcae''' 8E, LORD ([[1636]]?-[[1700]]). See Hoo, SIR
- Rochou
- '''Rochou'''
- Harcla Barclay
- '''Harcla Barclay''' , or HARTCLA, ANDREW,
- of Carlisle Kahi
- '''of Carlisle Kahi''' (d. [[1323]]), sheriff of Cumberland, warden of the west marches and of Carlisle Castle: summoned as a baron to parliament, 1321: defeated and captured Earl Tlionn- of Lancaster at Borouirl" iin.l executed him at Pontcfract, 1322; created earl by Kilwurd II, with patent specifying hi* service-; executed atCarlislr lor mak'ng compact with Bruce,
- Charles Harcotjrt
- '''Charles Harcotjrt''' ([[1838]]-[[1880]]), actor; real name Oi KI.I:S PAHKKR HILLIER; first appeared at St. James's Theatre, 1863; lessee of Marylebone Theatre, 1S71-2; best exponent of Mercutio after Vining's death.
- Edward Harcotjrt
- '''Edward Harcotjrt''' ([[1757]]-[[1847]]), archbishop of York; took name Harcourt on succession to family estates, 1831, being previously known as Vernon; educated at Westminster and Oxford; fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1777; D.O.L., 1786: canon of Christ Church, 1785, and vicar of Sudbury: prebendary of ; Gloucester, 1785-91; bishop of Carlisle, 1791-1807; ! ivrchbishop of York, 1807-47; privy councillor, 1808; member of Queen Charlotte's council; member of ec i clesiastical commission, 1835.
- Henry Harcourt
- '''Henry Harcourt''' ([[1612]]-[[1673]]), Jesuit ; real name : BEAUMONT: spiritual coadjutor, 1643: publishedEngland's Old Religioa faithfully gathered out of the Church ; of England 1650.
- Harcourt
- '''Harcourt''' alias PERSALL, JOHN ([[1632]]-[[1702]]).
- Leveson Vernon Harcourt
- '''Leveson Vernon Harcourt''' ([[1788]]-[[1860]]), chancellor of York: author of Doctrine of the Deluge i 1838; son of Edward Harcourt
- Octavius Henry Cyril Vernon Harcourt
- '''Octavius Henry Cyril Vernon Harcourt''' ! (1793-1863), admiral; son of Edward Harcourt; saw active service in Egypt and at Toulon and Tarragona; captured martello tower and convoy at Piombo, 1814; surveyed coast of Central America, 1834-6: vice-admiral, 1861; built several churches and Masham almshouses.
- Robert Harcourt
- '''Robert Harcourt''' ([[1574]] ?-[[1631]]), traveller: gentleman-commoner, St. Alban Hall, Oxford, 1590; went I to Guiana and took possession of land for the crown, 1609; obtained letters patent for colonisation of Guiana: : his company incorporated with Roger North's, 1626; his iRelation of a Voyage to Guiana(1613) reprinted in 1 Purchas.
- Sir Simon Harcourt
- '''Sir Simon Harcourt''' ([[1603]] ?- [[1642]]), soldier of i fortune; son of Robert Harcourt; knighted, 1627; served Prince of Orange against Spaniards; commanded regiment against Scots, 1639-40; governor of Dublin, 1641; mortally wounded by rebels at Kilgobbin Castle. .second son of Simon
- Simon Harcourt
- '''Simon Harcourt''' ([[1684]]-[[1720]]), i Harcourt, first viscount Harcourt; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1712; secretary to the society of Brothers; M.P.. Wallingford and Abingdon; wrote J verses in preface to Pope'sWorks(1717); his epitaph j composed by Pope.
- Simon Harcourt
- '''Simon Harcourt''' , first VISCOUNT HARCOURT (1661?-! 727), of Stantou Harcourt, Oxfordshire; B.A. Pembroke College, Oxford, 1678; D.C.L., 1702; barrit-ter, Inner Temple, 1683: recorder of Abiupdon, 1683; tory M.P. for Abiugdon, 1690-1705, Bossiney, 1705-8, Cardigan, 1710; directed impeachment of Somers, 1701: as solicitorgeneral (1702-7) took part in prosecuting Defoe.(1703) and asserting jurisdiction of the Commons in election petitions, 1704; as commissioner for the union drafted Ratification Bill, 1707; attorney-general, 1707-8; ably defeuded Sacheverell, 1710; privy councillor, 1710; lordkeeper, 1710; created Baron Harcourt. 1711; lord chancellor, 1713-14; obtained acquittal of Oxford and pardon of Bolingbroke;created viscount, 1721, re-admitted privy councillor, 1722: several times a lord justice; best speaker of his day; friend of Bolingbroke, Pope, and Swift.
- Simon Harcourt
- '''Simon Harcourt''' , first EART- HARCOURT ([[1714]]1777), son of Simon Harcourt (1684-1720): educated at Westminster: attended George. II at Dettingen, 1743: created Viscount Harcourt of Nuneham-Courtney and Earl Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, 1749; privy councillor. 1761; governor to Prince of Wales, 1761-2; envoy to Mecklenburg-Strelitz for the Prince of Wales's marriage with Princess Charlotte, 1761; ambassador at Paris, 1768
- Harcourt
- '''Harcourt''' 569
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- Hardinge
- '''Hardinge''' 1772; viceroy of Irelaud, 1772-7; recommended tax on absentees, and created numerous peers: drowned in attempt to extricate hi? dog from a well at Nuneuam.
- Thomas Harcourt
- '''Thomas Harcourt''' ([[1618]]-[[1679]]), Jesuit; real name WHITIWKAD: pn.ir-fl. 1652; on English mission thirty-two years; while provincial refused Titus Gates admission to the Jesuit order: was convicted of complicity in thepopish plot* on Oates's evidence, and was exe i-.Itnl.
- Harcourt
- '''Harcourt''' alia* WAIUXC, WILLIAM ([[1610]]-[[1679]]).
- William Harcourt
- '''William Harcourt''' ([[1625]]-[[1679]]), Jesuit: real name AYLWOKTH: missioner in England and Holland; died at Haarlem: manuscript account at Brussels of his escape duringpopish plot
- William Harcourt
- '''William Harcourt''' , third EARL HARCOURT (1743-1830), fleld-marshal; son of Simon Harcourt, first earl; succeeded his brother in peerage, 1809; aide-decamp to Lord Albemarle at Havaunah, 1762; M.P., Oxford, 1768-74: commanded 16th light dragoons in America, and captured General Charles Lee, 1776; lieutenant-general, 1793; commanded cavalry in Flanders under Duke of York, 1793-4, whom he succeeded in chief command; general, 1796; field-marshal and Q.O.B. at coronation of George IV.
- William Vernon Harcourt
- '''William Vernon Harcourt''' ([[1789]]-[[1871]]), general secretary to first meeting of British Association (York, 1831); son of Edward Harcourt; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1814; student of Christ Church; canon of York, 1824; rector of Wheldrake and Bolton Percy; F.R.S., 1824; carried on chemical experiments with Davy and Wollaston; president of British Association at Birmingham, 1839.
- Thomas Hardcastle
- '''Thomas Hardcastle''' (rf. [[1678]] ?), ejected minister; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1656; ejected from Bramley, Yorkshire, 1662; frequently imprisoned for nonconformity; baptist minister at Broad mead, Bristol, 1670-8.
- Geoffrey Hardest
- '''Geoffrey Hardest''' (. [[1360]]?), Austin friar; provincial of his order: confessor (and perhaps councillor) to Richard II; wrote treatise in answer to Archbishop Fitzralph's attack upon evangelical poverty
- Hardacnut Hardecanute
- '''Hardacnut Hardecanute''' , or HARTHA-
- Cnut
- '''Cnut''' ([[1019]]?-[[1042]]), king; younger son of Canute or Cnut and Emma; succeeded his father on throne of Denmark, 1035; chosen king of Wessex in absence, 1037; concerted measures for invasion of England at Bruges with Emma, 1039; chosen king of England on death of Harold, his reputed half-brother, 1040; disinterred and insulted the body of King Harold: levied heavy danegelds, 1041; invited his half-brother Edward (the Confessor) to court, 1041; died suddenly at a bridal feast.
- John Hardham
- '''John Hardham''' (d. [[1772]]), tobacconist ; employed by Garrick at Drury Lane; at his shop in Fleet Street sold the celebrated37snuff, which Reynolds used to take; left money to pay poor rates at his native place, Ohicbester.
- James Hardiman
- '''James Hardiman''' ([[1790]]?-[[1855]]), Irish writer: sub-commissioner of the records at Dublin, afterwards librarian of Queen's College, Galway; published works, includingHistory of County and Town of Galway 1820, andIrish Minstrelsy... with English Poetical Translations 1831.
- Simon Hardime
- '''Simon Hardime''' ([[1672]]-[[1737]]), flower-painter, of Antwerp; lived in London, 1720-37.
- Harding
- '''Harding''' or ST. STEPHEN (d. [[1134]]), abbot of Citeaux ; born and educated at Sherborue; visited Scotland, Paris, and Rome; received tonsure at Moleme in Burgundy; left it in order to observe a stricter rule: founded with Robert, abbot of Moleme, house at Citeaux, from which the Cistercian order derived its name; abbot, 1110-33; founded thirteen other abbeys (including Clairvaux, 1115, of which he made Bernard abbot) under the severe Cistercian rule; by his * charter of charity (confirmed by Calixtus II, 11 19) exempt from episcopal visitation; his constitutions approved at council of Troves (1127), and the white habit adopted; canonised; Cistercian houses exempted from episcopal jurisdiction and payment of tithe hy Innocent II, 1132.
- Mk Hardinj
- '''Mk Hardinj''' . ANNK HA.IKE8 ([[1780]]-18*8), novelist and miscellaneous
- Edward Harding
- '''Edward Harding''' ([[1755]]-[[1840]]), librarian to Queen harlotti, 1803-18, and to the Duke of Cumberland, 18181840; brother of Silvester Harding
- Oeorgb Perfect Harding
- '''Oeorgb Perfect Harding''' (d. [[1853]]), portraitpainter and copyist; son of Silvester Harding; made water-colour copies of old portraits; exhibited at Royal Academy; helped to establish Granger Society, 1840; published portrait*, of deans of Westminster ( 181823), and supplied plates to J. H. Jeme (1840) and other writers.
- James Duffield Harding
- '''James Duffield Harding''' ([[1798]]-[[1863]]), land, scape-painter and lithographer; exhibited with Watercolour Society from 1818 (member, 1821): unsuccessfully tried oil-painting; abandoned exclusive UK of transparent colours. He brought lithography to perfection, invented lithotint, and introduced tinted paper for sketches: published Principles and Practice of Art and other manual*; 'Picturesque Selections(1861) his first achievement in lithography.
- John Harding
- '''John Harding''' ([[1378]]-[[1466]]?).
- John Harding
- '''John Harding''' ([[1805]]-[[1874]]), bishop of Bombay i of Westminster and Worcester College, Oxford; B.A., 1826; D.D., 1861; rector of St. Andrew's and St. Anne's, Blackfriars, 1836-51; bishop of Bombay, 1851-69; secretary of Pastoral Aid Society.
- Samuel Harding
- '''Samuel Harding''' (fl. [[1641]]), dramatist: B.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1638; his tragedy,Sicily and Naples issued 1640.
- Silvester Harding
- '''Silvester Harding''' ( [[1746]]-[[1809]] X artist and publisher; established with his brother, Edward Harding {, a book- and print-shop, 1786, and issued works illustrated by himself, includingThe Biographical Mirrour 1796.
- Thomas Harding
- '''Thomas Harding''' ([[1516]]-[[1572]]), divine ; educated I at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow of New College, 1536; M.A., 1542; Hebrew professor and chaplain to Henry Grey, marquis of Dorchester (afterwards ; Duke of Suffolk); named warden of New College by i Edward VI; abandoned protestantism and became chap! lain to Gardiner and (1556) treasurer of Salisbury; in reign of Elizabeth retired to Lou vain; carried on a long I controversy with John Jewel, 1564-8; died at Louvain.
- Thomas Harding
- '''Thomas Harding''' (d. [[1648]]), historian; B.D. Oxford; second master of Westminster, 1610; rector of Souldera, 1622-48; bis history of England to 1626 recommended for publication by parliament, 1641, but never issued.
- William Harding
- '''William Harding''' ([[1792]]-[[1886]]), author of 'History of Tiverton 1847: served in the Peninsular campaign from 1812: re-tired as lieutenant-colonel, 1841.
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- Sir Arthur Edward Hardinge
- '''Sir Arthur Edward Hardinge''' ([[1828]]-[[1892]]), general; second son of Sir Henry Hardinge, first viscount Hardinge: educated at Eton; ensign, 1844; served in first Sikh war; lieutenant, 1845: lieutenant and captain, 1849; served in Crimea on quartermaster-general's staff, 1854-6: lieutenant-colonel, 1855; C.B.,1857; brevet colonel, 1858; equerry successively to Prince Albert and Queen Victoria; major-general, 1871: general, 1883; commanded Bombay army, 1881-5; governor of Gibraltar, 1886-90; K.C.B. and C.I.E., 1886.
- Charles Stewart Hardinge
- '''Charles Stewart Hardinge''' , second Vis . COUNT HARDIXGB (1822-1894), son of Sir Henry Hard i inge, first viscount Hardinge; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1844; private secretary to his father in India from 1844: conservative M.P. for j Downpatrick, 1851-6: uuder-secretary for war, 1858-9; trustee of National Portrait Gallery, 1868-94, and chair ; man of board from 1876.
- George Hardinge
- '''George Hardinge''' ([[1743]]-[[1816]]), author; the Jefferies Hardsman of Byron'sDon Juan son of Nicholas Hardinge; of Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A. by royal mandate, 1769; barrister, Middle Temple, 1769; solicitor-general (1782) and attorney-general to Queen Charlotte, 1794: senior justice of Brecon, Glamorgan, and Radnor, 1787-1816; counsel for East India Company against Fox's India Bill, 1783; tory
- Harding
- '''Harding''' 570
- Hardy
- '''Hardy''' M.P. for Old Sarum, 1784-1807; friend of Horace Waipole: F.S.A., 1769; P.R.S., 1788; published Letters to Rt. Hon. E. Burke an impeachment of Hastings, 1791, Essence of Malone 1800 and 1801, andRowley and Ohatterton in tbe Shades 1782. HisMiscellaneous Works edited, 1818.
- George Nicholas Hardinge
- '''George Nicholas Hardinge''' ([[1781]]-[[1808]]), captain in the navy; nephew and adopted sou of George Hardinge; received post-rank for cutting out the Dutch Atalante in VHe Roads, Texel, 1804; took part in capture of the Cape; killed at capture of French cruiser Piedmontaise off Ceylon; voted public monument in St. Paul's Cathedral.
- Sir Henry Hardinge
- '''Sir Henry Hardinge''' , first VISCOUNT HARDINGK OF LAHORK (1785-1856), field-marshal; brother of George Nicholas Hardinge; deputy assistant quartermastergeneral of force under Brent Spencer, which joined Wellesley and fought at Rolica and Vimeira; with Moore in last moments at Ooruna, 1809; deputy quartermastergeneral of Portuguese army; urged final advance of Sir Galbraith Lowry Oole at Albuera, 1811; wounded at Vittoria, 1813; commanded Portuguese brigade at storming of Palais, 1814; K.O.B., 1815; watched Napoleon's movements for Wellington on escape from Elba, 1815 { British commissioner with Bliicher at battle of Quatre Bras; commissioner with Prussians in France till 1818; tory M.P. for Durham, 1820-30, Newport (Cornwall), 1830-4, Launceston, 1834-44; secretary at war, 1828-30 and 18411844; Irish secretary, 1830 and 1834-5; lieutenant-general, 1841; G.O.B., 1844; governor-general of India, 1844-7; served as second in command to Sir Hugh Gough in first Sikh war, 1845; created a peer, with pension for three lives, 1846; annulled Bentinck's order abolishing corporal punishment in native regiments; endeavoured to abolish suttee in native states; originated carrying of soldierskits at public expense. Though not a general till 1854, he was commander-in-chief, 1852-5; fieldmarshal, 1855.
- Nicholas Hardinge
- '''Nicholas Hardinge''' ([[1699]]-[[1758]]), clerk to the House of Commons; of Eton and King's College, Cambridge; fellow; M.A., 1726; clerk to House of Commons, 1731-52; M.P., Eye, 1748-58; joint secretary to the treasury, 1752; hisPoems, Latin, Greek, and English published, 1818.
- Edward Townley Hardman
- '''Edward Townley Hardman''' ([[1845]]-[[1887]]), geologist; accompanied Hon. J. Forrest's expedition to report on mineral resources of Kimberley. West Australia, and discovered goldfield near the Napier Range, 1883-5; a range of Australian mountains named after him.
- Frederick Hardman
- '''Frederick Hardman''' ([[1814]]-[[1874]]), novelist and journalist; joined British legion in Spain, 1834; foreign correspondent of the Times at Madrid, Constantinople, in the Crimea and Danubian provinces, Italy, France, and Paris; published stories, contributed to Black wood; died at Paris.
- Sir Thomas Hardres
- '''Sir Thomas Hardres''' ([[1610]]-[[1681]]), serjeant-atlaw; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1669; king's serjeant, 1675; M.P., Canterbury, 1679-81; knighted; hisReports of Oases in the Exchequer, 1655-70issued, 1693.
- Charles Hardwick
- '''Charles Hardwick''' ([[1821]]-[[1859]]), archdeacon of Ely; fellow of St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge, 1845; M.A., 1847; professor of divinity, Queen's College, Birmingham, 1853; divinity lecturer at King's College, Cambridge, 1855; archdeacon of Ely, 1857; edited catalogue of Cambridge University MSS. (vols. i-iii. 1856-8) and works for Percy Society and Rolls Series: published also history of the Articles of Religion (1851) and of the Christian Church (ed. Stubbs, 1872); killed by falling over a precipice in the Pyrenees.
- Charles Hardwick
- '''Charles Hardwick''' ([[1817]]-[[1889]]), antiquary ; published works, includingHistory... of Friendly Societies 1859 and 1869, Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk- Lore 1872, andOn Some Antient Battlefields in Lancashire 1882.
- John Hardwick
- '''John Hardwick''' ([[1791]]-[[1875]]), magistrate at Lambeth (1821) and Marlborough Street, 1841-66; eldest son of Thomas Hardwick; fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1808-22; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1816; D.C.L., 1830.
- Philip Hardwick
- '''Philip Hardwick''' ([[1792]]-[[1870]]), architect: youngest son of Thouias Hardwick; exhibited drawings at Academy, including his buildings at St. Katharine's Docks and Eustou Railway station, and designs for Lincoln's Inn; F.S.A., 1824; F.R.S., 1831; R.A., 1841; vice-president of Institute of British Architects, 1839 and 1841; treasurer of Royal Academy, 1850-C1.
- Thomas Hardwick
- '''Thomas Hardwick''' ([[1752]]-[[1829]]), architect: pupil and biographer of Sir W. Chambers; exhibited at Academy, 1772-1805; designed Galway Gaol, Marylebone Church, and other London buildings: F.S.A., 1781; advised J. M. W. Turner to abandon architecture.
- Kahlb of Hardwicke
- '''Kahlb of Hardwicke''' . See YORKK, PHILIP, first
- Earl
- '''Earl''' [[1690]]-[[1764]]: YORKE, PHILIP, second EARL, [[1720]]1790; YORKE, PHILIP, third EARL, 1757-1834; YORKE, CHARLES PHILIP, fourth EARL, 1799-1873.
- Sir Charles Hardy
- '''Sir Charles Hardy''' , the elder ([[1680]] ?-[[1744]]), vice-admiral; entered navy as volunteer, 1695; served under Norris and Wager in the Baltic and at Gibraltar: commanded royal yacht Carolina, 1730-42; knighted, 1742; vice-admiral and a lord of the admiralty, 1743.
- Sir Charles Hardy
- '''Sir Charles Hardy''' , the younger ([[1716]] ?-[[1780]]), admiral: son of Sir Charles Hardy the elder; entered navy as volunteer, 1731; tried for loss of convoy to Newfoundland, 1744, but acquitted, 1745; governor of New York, 1755-7; knighted, 1755: rear-admiral, 1756; second in command under Ha-wke at Brest and Quiberon Bay, 1759; admiral, 1770; governor of Greenwich, 1 771; M.P., Portsmouth, 1774; commander, Channel fleet, 1779.
- Elizabeth Hardy
- '''Elizabeth Hardy''' ([[1794]]-[[1854]]), novelist (anonymous); died in Queen's Bench Prison.
- Francis Hardy
- '''Francis Hardy''' ([[1751]]-[[1812]]), biographer ; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1771; barrister, 1777; M.P., Mullingar, in Irish parliament, 1782-1800; commissioner of appeals, 1806; friend of Grattan; published Memoirs ... of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemout 1810.
- John Stookdale Hardy
- '''John Stookdale Hardy''' ([[1793]]-[[1849]]), antiquary and ecclesiastical lawyer; F.S.A., 1826; his Literary Remainspublished by John Gough Nichols, 1852.
- Mary Anne Hardy
- '''Mary Anne Hardy''' , LADY ([[1825]] ?-[[1891]]), novelist and traveller; daughter of Charles MacDowell; married Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy; travelled in America and other countries; published novels and books of travel.
- Nathaniel Hardy
- '''Nathaniel Hardy''' ([[1618]]-[[1670]]), dean of Rochester; B.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1635; M.A. Hart Hall t Oxford, 1638; D.D., 1660; rector of St. Dionis Backchurch, Fenchurch Street, 1660; dean of Rochester, 1660; vicar of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, 1661; archdeacon of ! Lewes, 1667; active in restoring churches; his lectures on 1st Epistle of St. John (1656 and 1669) republished, 1865.
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- Samuel Hardy
- '''Samuel Hardy''' ([[1636]]-[[1691]]), nonconformist minister; B.A. Wadham College, Oxford, 1659; minister of peculiars at Oharminster, 1660-7, and Poole, 1667-82; i ejected by royal commission for nonconformity, 1682; Guide to Heaven attributed to him by Oalamy.
- Sir Thomas Hardy
- '''Sir Thomas Hardy''' ([[1666]]-[[1732]]), vice-admiral : cousin of Sir Charles Hardy the elder; first lieu ! tenant under George Churchill at Barfleur; ! knighted for services under Rooke at Vigo, 1702; present at Malaga, 1704; commander at the Nore, 1711; M.P., Weymouth, 1711; captured convoy in North Sea, 1712; I second in command under Norris in Baltic, 1715; said to have been dismissed for Jacobitism, but reinstated; viceadmiral; buried in Westminster Abbey.
- Hardy
- '''Hardy''' or HARDIE, THOMAS ([[1748]]-[[1798]]), Scottish divine; published Principles of Moderation (1782), advocating repeal of Queen Anne's acts (1712) and substitution of parochial committee for single patron: colleague of Hugh Blair in high church, Edinburgh, 1783-6; minister of New North Church (now west St. Giles), 17H6, and professor of church history at Edinburgh; moderator, 1793; dean of Chapel Royal, 1794.
- Hardy
- '''Hardy''' 571
- Harewood
- '''Harewood'''
- Thomas Hardy
- '''Thomas Hardy''' [[1752]]-l.SW), radical politician and bootmaker; foundedLondon Corresponding Societyto promote parliamentary reform, 1792: with high treason with Home Tooke and others, bat defended by Krskine, and acquitted, 1794; pensioned by Sir Francis Burdett; autobiographical memoir issued posthumously, 1832.
- Sir Thomas Duffur Hardy
- '''Sir Thomas Duffur Hardy''' ([[1804]]-[[1878]]), archivist; trained under Petrie; edited Modus tenendi Parliamentum 1846; as deputy-keeper of Record Office from 1861 to 1876 edited documents for Rolls Series; member of Historical MSS. Commission, 1869; knighted, 1873; D.O.L. and LL.D.
- Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy
- '''Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy''' , first baronet (1769-1839), vice-admiral; lieutenant in the Miner vc at her capture of the Sabiua, defending which prize be was made prisoner, 1796; exchanged in time to be present at St. Vincent, 1797; at Santa Cruz directed cutting out of the Mutine, which he commanded at the Nile, 1798; flagcaptain of Nelson in the Vanguard and Foudroyant, 1799, in the San Josef and the St. George, 1801, in the Amphion and the Victory, 1803-5: created baronet, 1806; commodore and commander on South American station, 1819-24: first sea lord at admiralty, 1830: G.C.B., 1831; governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1834; vice-admiral, 1837.
- Sir William Hardy
- '''Sir William Hardy''' ([[1807]]-[[1887]]), archivist; brother of Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy q. v.j; keeper of duchy of Lancaster records, 1830-68; deputy- keeper of public records, 1878-86; on Historical MSS. Commission, 1878; knighted, 1883; calendared Lancaster records; edited Charters of Duchy of Lancaster 1845, and Jehan de Waurin's Recueil des Crouiques (Rolls Series).
- Lucius Ferdinand Hardyman
- '''Lucius Ferdinand Hardyman''' ([[1771]]-[[1834]]), rear-admiral; midshipman at Dominica, 1782; first lieutenant of the Si by lie at her capture of the Forte, 1799; commanded the Unicorn at Monte Video, 1807, and at the Basque Roads, 1809; C.B., 1815; rear-admiral, 1830.
- John Hardyng
- '''John Hardyng''' ([[1378]]-[[1465]]?), chronicler ; in the service first of Hotspur (Sir Henry Percy), afterwards of Sir Robert Umfreville; present at battle of Homildou, 1402, and of Agincourt, 1415; constable of Kyme Castle, Lincolnshire; received grants of land for documents which he pretended to have procured in Scotland containing admissions of the feudal subordination of Scottish kings to English crown. His chronicle in its original form (Lancastrian) ended 1436; the version (Yorkist) presented to Edward IV reached 1461. Grafton printed two versions varying from these original forms and eacli other, 1543.
- Augustus William Hare
- '''Augustus William Hare''' ([[1792]]-[[1834]]), divine ; son of Francis Hare-Naylor; adopted by his aunt, widow of Sir William Jones, 1797; of Winchester and New College, Oxford; tutor of New College, 1818; incumbent of Alton-Barnes, 1829-34; joint author ofGuesses at Truth 1827; died at Rome.
- Francis Hare
- '''Francis Hare''' ([[1671]]-[[1740]]), bishop of Chichester ; of Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he was tutor of (Sir) Robert Walpole; M.A., 1696; D.D., 1708; chaplain-general in Flanders, 1704; a royal chaplain; defended Marlborough and answered Swift's Conduct of the Allies 1711; fellow of Eton, 1712; rector of Barnes, 1713-23; dean of Worcester, 1715-26; took part against Hoadly in Bangorian controversy, c. 1718; dean of St. Paul's, 1726-40; bishop of St. Asaph, 1727-31; bishop of Chichester, 1731-40; his preaching complimented in the Dunciad (iii. 204); rival of Bentley in Latin scholarship; patron of Warburton and Markland; bis Hebrew edition of Psalms attacked by Lowth, 1736; his Difflcultiea and Discouragements... in the way of Private Judgement(1714) censured by convocation, but often reprinted; published edition of Terence, forestalling Bentley, 1724.
- Henry Hare
- '''Henry Hare''' , second BARON COLERAINE ([[1636]]1708), antiquary; succeeded his father, Hugh Hare, first baron Coleraine, 1667; built vestry and family vault at Tottenham, of which he left manuscript account.
- Henry Hare
- '''Henry Hare''' , third BARON OOLERAINK ([[1693]]1749), antiquary: grandson of Henry Hare, second baron Ooleraine; of Corpus Cbristi College, Oxford; F.S.A., 1725 (frequently vlce-pres.., 1730; member of Spaldiug Society: patron of Vertue; M.P., Boston, 1730-4; visited luly wltfi Conyers Middlcton, collecting prints and drawings of antiquities.
- Hugh Hare
- '''Hugh Hare''' , first BARON COLERAINE Ui Iriih peerage (1606?-1667), eccentric royalUt; created Irish peer, 1625; supplied Charles I with money in the civil war, during which he lost 40,0007.: declined an English peerage: his translation of Loredano's paraphrases onThe Fifteen Psalms of Decreesissued 1681, andThe Situation of Paradise found out(spiritual romanceX 1683.
- Hugh Hare
- '''Hugh Hare''' ([[1668]]-[[1707]]), translator; son 'of Henry Hare, second baron Coleraine: took part in translation of Luciau (published 1710) and rendered from Italian Mascardi account of the conspiracy of Count de Fieschi against Genoa, 1693.
- James Hare
- '''James Hare''' ([[1749]]-[[1804]]), wit and friend of Charles James Fox; educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford; M.A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1791; M.P., Stockbndge, 1772-4, Knaresborougu, 1781-1804; ambassador at Warsaw, 1779-82; ruined by losses at cards.
- Julius Charles Hare
- '''Julius Charles Hare''' ([[1795]]-[[1855]]), archdeacon of Lewes: son of Francis Hare-Naylor; educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge: intimate with Whewelland Kenelm Digby: fellow of Trinity College, 1818; classical lecturer, 1822: incumbent of Hurstmonceaux, 1832, where John Sterling was his curate and Bunsen his neighbour; joint author of 'Guesses at Truth 1827; published translations (with notes) of Niebuhr'sHistory of Rome(with Thirl wall), 1828-32, and other German works, alsoThe Victory of Faith 1840, The Mission of the Comforter 1846, vindications of Niebuhr, Luther, and others, and Miscellaneous Pamphlets on Church Questions 1855; edited -Philological Museum 1833.
- Sir Nicholas Hare
- '''Sir Nicholas Hare''' (. [[1557]]), judge; educated at Gonville Hall, Cambridge; autumn reader of Inner Temple, 1532; M.P., Downton, 1529, Norfolk, 1539-40, Lancaster, 1544-5; defended Wolsey, 1530; recorder of Norwich, 1536; knighted, 1537; master of requests, 1537 (again, 1552); when speaker imprisoned for advising Sir John Skelton bow to evade Statute of Uses in bis will, 1540; chief-justice of Chester and Flint, 1540-5; instrumental in passing Treason Act of 1551-2; master of the rolls, 1 553; commissioner during vacancy of great seal, 1555.
- Robert Hare
- '''Robert Hare''' (. [[1611]]), antiquary; son of Sir Nicholas Hare; clerk of the pells, 1560-71: M.P., Dunwich, 1563; presented manuscripts and books to Caius College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and to the universities collections relating to their history and privileges,
- Thomas Hare
- '''Thomas Hare''' ([[1806]]-[[1891]]), political reformer; barrister, Inner Temple, 1833; bencher, 1872; reported in Vice-chancellor Wigram's court from 1841; inspector of charities, 1853, and assistant-commissioner, with seat on board, 1872; published works relating to a scheme to secure proportional representation in electoral assemblies of all classes in the kingdom, and other political questions.
- William Hare
- '''William Hare''' (fl. [[1829]]), criminal; accomplice of the murderer William Burke (1792-1829); indicted for the murder of James Wilson, one of the victims; t at liberty, 1829, from the Tolbootb, the law officers having decided that be could not legally be put on his trial.
- Hare
- '''Hare''' -NAYLOR, FRANCIS ([[1753]]-[[1816]]), author; grandson of Francis Hare; intimate with Fox and the Duchess of Devonshire, who gave him an annuity to enable him to marry her cousin: lived many years at Bologna in friendly intercourse with Clotilda Tambroni (female professor) and Mezzofauti, and afterwards at Weimar; published works, includingHistory of Germany from the landing of Gustavus to Treaty of Westphalia issued 1816; died at Tours.
- Harewood
- '''Harewood''' second EARL OF ([[1767]]-[[1841]]). See
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- Hkxry Lascelles
- '''Hkxry Lascelles''' .
- Harflete
- '''Harflete''' 572
- Harland
- '''Harland'''
- Henry Harflete
- '''Henry Harflete''' (.rf. [[1653]]), author ; member of Gray's Inn, 1630; published The Hunting of the Fox, or Flattery Displayed H532,Vox Coelorum (a defence of William Lilly), "and A Banquet of Esaayes, fetcht out of Famous Owens Confectionary 1653.
- John Soandrett Harford
- '''John Soandrett Harford''' ([[1785]]-[[1866]]), biographer; educated at Christ's College, Cambridge; one of the founders of Lampeter College; D.C.L. Oxford, 1822; F.R.S., 1823: theOoalebsof Hannah More, of whom he published reminiscences inRecollections of V. Wilberforce during nearly thirty years 1864; published also lives of Michael Angelo (1857, 2 vols.) and of Bishop Burgess, 1840.
- Sir William Hargood
- '''Sir William Hargood''' ([[1762]]-[[1839]]), admiral; served under Sir Peter Parker (1721-1811) in attack on Sullivan's island, 1776; captured by Spaniards at Pensacola, 1781; with Rodney at Dominica, 1782; captain, 1790; captured by the Concorde, 1792; commanded the Belleisle under Nelson at Toulon and Trafalgar, 1804-6; vice-admiral, 1814; admiral and G.O.B., 1831; corresponded with William IV.
- Francis Hargrave
- '''Francis Hargrave''' ([[1741]] ?-[[1821]]), legal antiquary; treasurer of Lincoln's Inn; prominent in the Sommersett habeas corpus case, 1772; recorder of Liverpool, 1797; edited State Trials (Henry IV to 19 George III), 1776, * Kale's Jurisdiction of the LordsHouse 1796, and (with Charles Butler) Coke upon Lyttleton 1775; published also Collection of Tracts relative to the Law of England 1787, Collectanea Juridica 1791-2, and other works.
- Edward Hammond Hargraves
- '''Edward Hammond Hargraves''' ([[1816]]-[[1891]]), pioneer of gold-mining in Australia; sheep-farmer in Sydney, 1834-49; began gold-mining at Lewis Ponds Creek, near Bathurst, 1851; temporary commissioner of crown lands, 1851; published Australia and its Goldfields 1855.
- Charles James Hargreave
- '''Charles James Hargreave''' ([[1820]]-[[1866]]), lawyer and mathematician; LL.D. London; hon. LL.D. Dublin, 1852; barrister, Inner Temple, 1844; bencher, 1851; reader, 1866; professor of jurisprudence at University College, London, 1843-9; F.R.S., 1844; commissioner of incumbered estates, 1849-58; judge of landed estate court, 1858-66; drew Record of Title BUI; gold medallist, Royal Society, for paperOn the Solution of Linear Differential Equations; wrote other important mathematical essays.
- James Hargreaves
- '''James Hargreaves''' (d. [[1778]]X inventor of the spinning- jenny; employed by Robert Peel (grandfather of the statesman) to construct improved carding-machine, e. 1760; supposed to have invented spinning-jenny, c. 1764 (patented, 1770); his house and machinery destroyed by mob, 1768; appropriated Arkwright's improved carding-machine,
- James Hargreaves
- '''James Hargreaves''' ([[1768]]-[[1845]]), baptist minister; at Bolton, Ogden (1798-1822), Wild Street, London, and Waltham Abbey Cross (1828-45); secretary to Peace Society; published Life and Memoir of the Rev. John Hirst of Bacup 1816, and Essays and Letters on important Theological Subjects 1833.
- Thomas Hargreaves
- '''Thomas Hargreaves''' ([[1775]]-[[1846]]), miniaturepainter; apprenticed to Sir Thomas Lawrence; original member of Society of British Artists; executed miniatures of Mr. Gladstone and his sister as children, of Mrs. Gladstone, and Sir Thomas Lawrence.
- Ely Hargrove
- '''Ely Hargrove''' ([[1741]]-[[1818]]), author of 'History of... Knaresborough 1769,Anecdotes of Archery with life of Robin Hood, 1792, and Yorkshire Gazetteer 1806.
- William Hargrove
- '''William Hargrove''' ([[1788]]-[[1862]]), topographer and journalist; son of Ely Hargrove; thirty-five years editor of the York Herald; sheriff of York, 1831; publishedHistory and Description of the ancient city of York 1818, and New Guide to York 1842, and other works.
- Harington
- '''Harington''' 8m EDWARD ([[1763]] ?-[[1807]]), author ; son of Henry Harington (1727-1816); knighted as mayor of Bath, 1795; published Excursion from Paris to Fontainebleau 1786, A Schizzo on the Genius of Man J793, and other works.
- Edward Charles Harington
- '''Edward Charles Harington''' ([[1804]]-[[1881]]); chancellor and sub-dean of Exeter; grandson of Sir Edward Harington; M.A. Worcester College, Oxford, 1833; chancellor of Exeter, 1847, and canon residentiary, 1856; gav money for repair of Exeter Cathedral; left bequest* to th chapter; published theological works.,
- Henry Harington
- '''Henry Harington''' ([[1765]]-[[1791]]), compiler of Nugae Antiqtue(family papers belonging to his father, Henry Harington, 1727-1816 ); M.A. Queen's College, Oxford, 1777; D.D., 1788; minor canon of Norwich: second enlarged edition of hisNu.Antique 1779.
- Henry Harington
- '''Henry Harington''' ([[1727]]-[[1816]]), musician and author; M.A. Queen's College, Oxford, 1752; M.D., 1762; physician at Wells and Bath; mayor of Bath; founded Bath Harmonic Society; published collections of songs, glees, trios, and duets, and separate compositions. His other works include Geometrical Analogy of the Doctrine of the Trinity 1806.
- John Harington
- '''John Harington''' ( fl, [[1550]]), treasurer to Henry
- Viii
- '''Viii''' 's camps and buildings ;" married the king's natural daughter, Etheldreda, 1546, and inherited monastic forfeitures in Somerset; imprisoned in the Tower with his second wife, in company with Princess Elizabeth, 1664.
- Sir John Harington
- '''Sir John Harington''' ([[1561]]-[[1612]]), wit and author; son of John Harington (fi. 1550); godson of Queen Elizabeth; educated at Eton and Christ's College, Cambridge; studied at Lincoln's Inn; compelled by Queen Elizabeth to translate Orlando Furioso (issued, 1591, with preface, An Apologie of Poetrie); as high sheriff of Somerset, 1592, entertained Elizabeth at Eelstou; forMetamorphosis of Ajaxand other satires, 1596, banished from court; accompanied Essex to Ireland, 1698; knighted by Essex, 1598; deputed by Essex to appease the queen's anger against him, but sent out of her presence; wrote and handed to the queen a journal of the proceedings of Essex; wrote an account of Elizabeth's last days, and a Tract on the Succession to the Crown in the interest of James VI (printed, 1880); offered to go to Ireland as chancellor and archbishop, 1605; for instruction of Henry, prince of Wales, wrote appendix to Godwin'sDe Pnesulibus AngliaeBriefe View of Church of England in Q. Elizabeth's and K. James his Reigne 1653); his collectedEpigramsissued, 1618; letters and miscellaneous writings inNugae Antiqute (first published, 1769
- John Harington
- '''John Harington''' , first BARON HARINGTON OP
- Exton
- '''Exton''' (d. [[1613]]), cousin of Sir John Harington ; created a peer at coronation of James 1, 1603; guardian of Princess Elizabeth at Combe Abbey; prevented her abduction by gunpowder plotters, 1605; escorted her to Germany on her marriage to the elector palatine, 1613; died at Worms on return journey: given (1613) three yearspatent for coming brass-farthings Haringtons).
- John Harington
- '''John Harington''' , second BARON HARINGTON OF
- Exton
- '''Exton''' ([[1592]]-[[1614]]), son of John Harington, first baron ; friend and correspondent of Henry, prince of Wales; benefactor of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; funeral ode on him written by Donne.
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- John Herbert Harington
- '''John Herbert Harington''' (d. [[1828]]), orientalist; chief judge of the Sudder Dewanuy and Nizamut Adawlut, 1811: governor-general's agent at Delhi, 1823; member of supreme council and president of board of trade, 1825; editedPersian and Arabic Works of Sa'dee 1791-6.
- Thomas Hariot
- '''Thomas Hariot''' ([[1560]]-[[1621]] ).
- Henry Harkeley
- '''Henry Harkeley''' (. [[1316]]), chancellor of Oxford University, 1313-16; author of theological works.
- Harkne
- '''Harkne''' 8S, ROBERT ([[1816]]-[[1878]]), geologist : educated at Dumfries and Edinburgh University; professor of geology, Queen's College, Cork, 1863-78: F.R.S.E., 1864: F.R.S., 1856; wrote papers on geology of south-western Scotland and English Lake district.
- John Harland
- '''John Harland''' ([[1806]]-[[1868]]), reporter and nntiquary; introduced improvements in stenography; edited works for Ohetham Society; published Lancashire Lyrics 'Lancashire Ballads andLancashire Folk-lore
- Harland
- '''Harland''' 573
- Harman
- '''Harman'''
- Sir Robert Harland
- '''Sir Robert Harland''' , baronet ([[1715]]?-[[1784]]X admiral; prominent in capture of Magnunime, 1748; second in command under Keppel at U.shant, 1778; a lord of the admiralty, 1782-3; admiral, 1782.
- Brilliana Harley
- '''Brilliana Harley''' , LADY ([[1600]] 7-[[1643]]), letterwriter; daughter of Edward, afterwards viscount, Conway; third wife of Sir Robert Harley, 1623; ! died while besieged at Brampton Bryan Castle, 1643; h r letters (1625-43) printed, 1854.
- Sir Edward Harley
- '''Sir Edward Harley''' ([[1624]]-[[1700]]), governor of Dunkirk; eldest son of Sir Robert Harley; dis- I tinguished as parliamentarian officer at Red Marley, ! 1644; general of horse for Herefordshire and Radnor, 1645; M.P., Herefordshire, 1646 and 1656; impeached I for supporting the disbanding ordinance, 1648; member of council of state, 1659; governor of Dunkirk, 1660-1; opposed sale of Dunkirk, 1661; K.B.; during reign of Charles II opposed in parliament legislation against nonconformists; sat also in first, third, and fourth parliaments of William III; published theological tracts,
- Edward Harley
- '''Edward Harley''' ([[1664]]-[[1735]]), auditor of the imprest; son of Sir Edward Harley; educated at Westminster: barrister, Middle Temple; acted in revolution of 1688: recorder of Leominster, 1692; M.P., Leominster, 1698-1722; published Harmony of the Four Gospels 1733 (anon.)
- Edward Harley
- '''Edward Harley''' , second EARL OP OXFORD (1689-1741), collector; son of Robert Harley, first earl , whom he succeeded, 1724; friend and correspondent of Pope and Swift: patron of Vertue and Oldys; circulated second edition of the Dunciad 1729; an assignee of the copyright of third edition; added to his father's collection of books and manuscripts; his books, i prints, and pamphlets sold to Thomas Osborne, 1742, and j manuscripts to the British Museum.
- George Harley
- '''George Harley''' ([[1791]]-[[1871]]), water-colour painter and drawing-master.
- George Harley
- '''George Harley''' ([[1829]]-[[1896]]), physician: M.D. Edinburgh, 1860: house surgeon and physician to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; studied physiology and chemistry at Paris; president of Parisian Medical Society, 1853: lecturer on practical physiology and histology at University College, London, 1855; fellow of Chemical Society and F.C.P. Edinburgh, 1858; professor of medical j jurisprudence at University College, 1859, and physician j to the hospital, 1860; F.R.S., 1865; published medical works.
- George Da Vies Harley
- '''George Da Vies Harley''' (d. [[1811]] ?X actor and author: known as theNorwich Roscius real name DA VIES; played Richard III and other Shakespearean parts at Covent Garden, 1789-91, and old men in the country; supported Mrs. Siddons at Dublin, 1802: published verse and biographical sketch of William Henry West Betty, the celebrated young Hoscins 1803.
- John Harley
- '''John Harley''' (d. [[1558]]), bishop of Hereford ; M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1540; probationer-fellow, 1537-42; master of Magdalen School, 1542-8; chaplain to John Dudley, earl of Warwick, 1648, to Edward VI, 1551; prebendary of Worcester, 1552; bishop of Hereford, 1563-4.
- John Pritt Harley
- '''John Pritt Harley''' ([[1786]]-[[1858]]), actor and singer; succeeded to John Bannister's parts; appeared at Drury Lane and the Lyceum, 1816-36, and under Bunn's management, 1841-8; at Covent Garden with Macready and Madame Vestris, 1838 and 1840; excelled in role of Shakespearean clowns; played Bobadil to Edmund Kean's Kitely, 1816; seized with paralysis while playing Lancelot Gobbo at the Princess's.
- Sir Robert Harley
- '''Sir Robert Harley''' ([[1579]]-[[1666]]), master of the mint; B.A. Oriel College, Oxford: K.B., 1603; M.P., Radnor and Herefordshire; master of the mint, 1626-35 and 1643-9: active in Long parliament against idolatrous monuments against Stratford, and in Scottish and Irish affairs; lent plate and money to parliament: organised the militia; his castle at Brampton Bryan captured by royalists, 1644; imprisoned, 1648-9, for voting to treat with the king.
- Robert Harley
- '''Robert Harley''' , first EARL OF OXFORD ([[1661]]1724), statesman; eldest son of Sir Edward Harley ; member of the Inner Temple, 1682; high sheriff of Herefordshire, 1689; M.P., Tregony, 1689-80; New Radnor, 1690-1711; a moderate tory, but always on terms with the whips; brought in Triennial Bill, 1694; established National Land Bank, 1696; carried reductions in the army, 1697, 1698; speaker, 1701-6: secretary of state for northern department, 1704; commissioner for union, 1706; intrigued against colleagues through Abigail Hill's influence with the queen; resigned, 1708; chancellor of the exchequer and head of solid tory ministry, 1710; his life attempted by Guiscard, 1711; initiated scheme for funding national debt through South Sea Company, 1711; created Baron Harley, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, and named lord treasurer, 1711; obtained dismissal of Marl borough and creation of twelve peer* to carry peace of Utrecht; K.G., 1712; ousted by BoUngbroke from favour of queen and tory party; dismissed for neglect of business and disrespect to queen, 1714: his impeachment (1717) on cliarges of making the peace, secretly favouring James Edward, the Old Pretender, and advising dangerous exercise of prerogative dismissed mainly on account of differences on the question of procedure between the two houses, 1717; exoepted from the Act of Grace; forbidden the court; continued to appear in the House of Lords, and to correspond with the Old Pretender, though refusing to lead the Jacobite tones. High characters of him are given by Pope and Swift; but he corresponded simultaneously with Hanoverians and Jacobites, and though a skilful party leader was an incapable statesman. He formed a great library, purchasing the manuscript collections of Foxe, Stow, and D'Ewes.
- Thomas Harley
- '''Thomas Harley''' ([[1730]]-[[1804]]), lord mayor of London; grandson of Edward Harley, second earl of Oxford; prime warden of GoldsmithsCompany, 1762-3; M.P., city of London, 1761; re-elected againt-t Wilkes, 1768: M.P., Herefordshire, 1776-1802; as sheriff of London and Middlesex caused No. 45 of the North Briton to be burnt, 1763: lord mayor of London, 1767-8; privy councillor for services during Wilkite riots, 1768: mobbed, 1770; senior alderman, 1786; lord-lieutenant of Radnorshire,
- Harli
- '''Harli''' 8TON, SIR RICHARD (fl. [[1480]]), governor of Jersey; captured Mont-Orgneil from the French, 1460 or 1467: captain-in-chief of Jersey, 1473; attainted for participating in Simnel's rising, 1486, and in that of Perkin Warbeck, 1495; in service of Duchess of Burgundy.
- George Henry Harlow
- '''George Henry Harlow''' ([[1787]]-[[1819]]X painter : eighteen months in Lawrence's studio; a declared opponent of the Academy; exhibited portraits and historical pieces at the Academy from 1804; attracted notice by group of portraits of Charles Mathews (1814) andTrial ScenefromHenry VIII containing portraits of Mrs. Siddons and the Kembles, 1817; while in Italy, 1818, made acquaintance with Canova; member of Academy of St. Luke, Rome: painted portraits of various artists; painted, by invitation, his own portrait for Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
- Sarah Harlowe
- '''Sarah Harlowe''' ([[1765]]-[[1852]]X actress ; wife of Francis Waldron; after making a name at Sadler's Wells, appeared at Covent Garden, 1790, Hay market, Drury Lane, English Opera House, and Royalty; retired. 1826; her best parts, Lucy Rivals, Widow Warren Road to Ruin'X Miss MacTabPoor Gentleman, and old Lady Lambert Hypocrite).
- Thomas Harlowe
- '''Thomas Harlowe''' (d. [[1741]] X captain in the navy : commanded the Burford at Barficur, 1692; engaged unsuccessfully French squadron carrying spoils from Oartbagena, 1697; acquitted by court-martial tinder Rooke: engaged at Vigo in the Graf ton, 1702; died senior captain.
- Sir George Byng Harman
- '''Sir George Byng Harman''' ([[1830]]-[[1891]]'). lien tenant-general; educated at Marlborongh; ensign, 1849; captain, 1856: served in Crimea, 1864; brevet major, 1855; served in Indian mutiny, 1857; on staff in West Indies, 1866-72: brevet colonel, 1871: on staff in expeditionary force in Egypt, 1882: deputy adjutant-general at headquarters, 1883; military secretary, 1886; K.C.B., 1887; lieutenant-general, 1890.
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- Harman
- '''Harman''' aliat VBTMT or VOYSEY, JOHN ([[146]] ?1664X
- Sir John Harman
- '''Sir John Harman''' (d. [[1673]]X admiral ; commanded the Welcome at battle of Portlaud, 1653, and in action
- Harman
- '''Harman''' 574
- Hakpsfield
- '''Hakpsfield''' off the Thames, 1653; in Worcester under Blake at Santa Cruz; flag-captain to Duke of York in Royal Charles in action with Dutch, 1665; knighted, 1665; rear-admiral, 1666; prominent in four daysfight off North Foreland, 1666; as commander-in-chief in West Indies destroyed French fleet at Martinique ami seized Cayenne and Surinam, 1667; rear-admiral of the blue at Solebay, 1672; vice-admiral in second action with De Ruyter, 1673; admiral, 1673.
- Thomas Harman
- '''Thomas Harman''' (fl. [[1567]]), writer on beggars ; hisA Oaueat, or Wareuing for commen cvrsetors Vvlgarely called Vagabones (first edition, 1566; reprinted, 1869); plagiarised by Dekker.
- Harmar
- '''Harmar''' or HARMER, JOHN ([[1555]] ?-[[1613]]), professor of Greek at Oxford; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow of New College; M.A., 1582; B.D., 1605; disputed at Paris with Romanists; patronised by Leicester; regius professor of Greek, Oxford, 1585; head-master of Winchester, 1588-95: warden of St. Mary's College, 1596; a translator of the New Testament, 1604; edited Chrysostom's Homilies 1586 and 1590.
- Harmar
- '''Harmar''' or HARMER, JOHN ([[1694]] 7-[[1670]]), professor of Greek at Oxford; nephew of John Harmar or Harmer (1555 ?-1613); educated at Winchester and Magdalen College, Oxford; M.A., 1617; M.B., 1632; master of free school, St. Albans, 1626; professor of Greek, Oxford, 1650 - c. 1660; translated Heinsius's 'Mirrour of Humility 1618, and published Life of Cicero 1662, withother works.
- Anthony Harmer
- '''Anthony Harmer''' (pseudonym). See WHAR-
- Henry Ton
- '''Henry Ton''' , [[1664]]-[[1695]].
- James Harmer
- '''James Harmer''' ([[1777]]-[[1853]]), alderman of London, 1833-40; sheriff, 1834-5; gave important evidence before the committee for reform of criminal law; a founder of Royal Free Hospital.
- Thomas Harmer
- '''Thomas Harmer''' ([[1714]]-[[1788]]), independent minister of Wattisfield, Suffolk, 1734-88; left manuscript accounts of Norfolk and Suffolk dissenting churches; published Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture ... from... Books of Voyages and Travels 1764, and 4 Outlines of New Commentary on Solomon's Song 1768; 4 Miscellaneous Works issued, 1823.
- Sir Henry Drdry Harness
- '''Sir Henry Drdry Harness''' ([[1804]]-[[1883]]), general; brother of William Harness; studied mining engineering in Mexico: instructor in fortification at Woolwich, 1834-40, professor, 1844-6; secretary to railway commission, 1846-50; deputy-master of the mint, 1860-2; commissioner of Irish works, 1852-4; lieutenantcolonel, 1855; chief-engineer under Lord Clyde in the mutiny; director at Chatham, 1860; K.O.B., 1873; general, 1878.
- William Harness
- '''William Harness''' ([[1790]]-[[1869]]), divine and author; brother of Sir Henry Drury Harness; of Harrow and Christ's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1816; friend and correspondent of Byron; Boyle lecturer at Cambridge, 1822; incumbent of Regent Square Chapel, 1826-44; perpetual curate of All Saints Knightsbridge, 1849-69; published an edition of Shakespeare with life 1825, plays of Massinger and Ford, Life of Mary Russell Mitford 1870; the Harness prize for a Shakespearean essay founded at Cambridge in his memory,
- Harold
- '''Harold''' called HAREFOOT (d. [[1040]]), king of the English; reputed son of Canute and Elfgifu of Northampton; elected by the witan through Danish support king north of the Thames, and (apparently) overking of all England, 1035; said to have lured to England by forged letter his half-brothers, and to have slain Alfred, 1037; chosen king of all England, 1037: banished his stepmother Emma from Wessex; buried in St. Clement Danes after disinterment by Hardicanute.
- Harold
- '''Harold''' ([[1022]] 7-[[1066]]), king of the English ; second son of Godwin or Godwine and Gytha; earl of East Anglia, 1045; received half of Swegen's earldom (1046), and opposed hia restoration; raised forces in Ireland, ravaged Somerset coast, and tailed with Godwin from Portland to London, 1062; succeeded his father in Wessex, 1063, and as head of the national party probably caused unjust banishment of Ifgar, earl of the East Angles, 1056; arranged peace between Gruffydd ab Llywelyn andthe English king, 1066; probably prevented meeting between Edward the confessor and bis intended heir, the setheling Edward, 1057; received earldom of Hereford, 1058; went on pilgrimage to Rome, and visited France, c. 1068: his church at Waltham dedicated by Cynesige of York, 1060: sailed round the Welsh coast, 1062-3, and, aided lay Tostig, subdued and dethronal Gruffydd, ravaged the land, and exacted tribute; wrecked on the coast of Ponthieu, and delivered by Count Guy to William of Normandy; after serving William against the Bretons, swore on the relics to be his man in England and to marry his daughter, c. 1064; on his return married Aldgyth and advised the outlawing of Tostig and his supersession in Northumbria by Morkere to gain Mercian support for his own succession to the English throne; chosen king, January 1066, by the nobles, as Edward the Confessor enjoined on his deathbed, and crowned; obtained recognition from the Northumbrians; sailed to the Isle of Wight, and for four months kept together an army for defence against Normandy; defeated Harold Hardrada of Norway and Tostig at Stamford Bridge (25 Sept. 1066); left York for London, and thence marched to Senlac or Battle near Hastings with men of the east and south; fortified a position on the hill, where he was attacked (14 Oct. 1066) by the Normans, and, after repelling one attack, was defeated and slain owing to the enemy's stratagem of pretended flight. His body is supposed first to have been buried by William's order on the sea-coast, and afterwards transferred to Waltham.
- Francis Harold
- '''Francis Harold''' (d. [[1685]]), chronographer of the order of St. Francis; nephew of Luke Wadding; chief works: epitome (1662) of Wadding's 4 Franciscan Annals withlife and (1683)lifeof Mogrobeio, archbishop of Lima; died at Rome.
- James Harper
- '''James Harper''' ([[1795]]-[[1879]]), theologian; educated at Edinburgh; sixty years secession minister of North Leith; chairman of the synod, 1840; secession church professor of pastoral theology, 1843, of systematic theology, 1848; hon. D.D. Jefferson College, America, 1843; effected union of secession and relief bodies; moderator of united presbyterian synod, 1860; honorary D.D. Glasgow, 1877.
- John Harper
- '''John Harper''' (d. [[1742]]), actor ; played at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1719-21,Dr. Caius and A jax, and several original parts; at Drury Lane, Falstaff, Sir Epicure Mammon, Jobson the Cobbler The Devil to Pay), Sir Wilful Witwould Way of the World), Cacafogo Rule a Wife and have a Wife; prosecuted in a test action for vagrancy, and discharged, 1733.
- John Harper
- '''John Harper''' ([[1809]]-[[1842]]), architect ; friend of Etty and Stanfield; with the Wyatte prepared designs for Apsley House and York House; died at Naples.
- Thomas Harper
- '''Thomas Harper''' ([[1787]]-[[1853]]), inspector of musical instruments to the East India Company; trumpet-player; engaged at Drury Lane and Lyceum English opera, 1806, at Ancient Concerts and Italian Opera, 1821, and at Philharmonic Concerts.
- Sir William Harper
- '''Sir William Harper''' ([[1496]]7-[[1573]]), lord mayor of London; master of Merchant TaylorsCompany, 1563; sheriff of London, 1557-8; lord mayor, 1561-2; knighted, 1662; helped to found Merchant TaylorsSchool; founded school at Bedford, 1566.
- William Harper
- '''William Harper''' ([[1806]]-[[1867]]), author and journalist; published two volumes of religious verse and 4 Memoir of Benjamin Braidley 1845.
- Harpsiteld
- '''Harpsiteld''' or HARPESFELD, JOHN ([[1516]]1578), chaplain to Bishop Bonner; of Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow of New College, 1634-c. 1551; M.A., 1538; D.D., 1654; archdeacon of London, 1664; dean of Norwich, 1658; zealous persecutor of protestants; disputed with Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer, at Oxford; active in convocation against Reformation, 1569; deprived and imprisoned in the Fleet; published homilies.
- Harpsfield
- '''Harpsfield''' or HARPESFELD, NICHOLAS (1519 7-1676); theologian; brother of John Harpsfield or Harpesfeld; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow, 1535; principal of Whitehall hostel. 1544; first regius professor of Greek, c. 1646; lived at Louvain during reign of Edward VI; D.C.L. Oxford, 1564; proctor in court of arches, 1654; vicar of Laindon. Essex, 1554; archdeacon of Canterbury and official ot
- Harpur
- '''Harpur''' 576
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- Nicholas Harpsfield
- '''Harris''' court of arcbes; as prolocutor of lower house of convocation piv-t'iitnl mnonstnuice against reformation, 1559; one of the eight Romanist disputants, 1559; imprisoned in the Tower. 1559-75; his Historia Anglicans Ecclesiiitioaedited by Richard Gibbons, 1662,Treatise on the pretended Divorce between Henry VIII and Catherine of Arrajron by Nicholas Pocock, 1878, and six Latin dialogues attackingpseudo-martyrsby Alan Cope, 1566 (Antwerp); left manuscript lives of Oranmer and More.
- Joseph Harpur
- '''Joseph Harpur''' ([[1773]]-[[1821]]), critic ; matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, 1790; deputy professor of civil law at Oxford, 1806 (D.C.L., 1813): publishedEssay on the Principles of Philosophical Criticism applied to Poetry 1810.
- Richard Harraden
- '''Richard Harraden''' ([[1756]]-[[1838]]), artist and engraver; publish**! views of Cambridge, 1797-8, and 1800, 'Costume of the various orders in the University 1803, and Cantabrigia Depicta 1811.
- Richard Bankes Harraden
- '''Richard Bankes Harraden''' ([[1778]]-[[1862]]), artist; son of Richard Harraden; made drawings forCantabrigia Depicta 1811, and published further Illustrations 1830.
- Margaret Harries
- '''Margaret Harries''' ([[1797]]-[[1846]]). See WILSON, ilRS. CORN-WELL BARON.
- Robert Harrild
- '''Robert Harrild''' ([[1780]]-[[1853]]), inventor of 'composition rollersfor inking types, 1810; preserved Benjamin Franklin's press, and left money for a Franklin pension for printers.
- John Harriman
- '''John Harriman''' ([[1760]]-[[1831]]), botanist: clergyman in Northumberland and Durham; F.L.S.; furnished plants for Smith's English Botany and discovered many species of lichens; the microscopic dot lichen named after him.
- Earls Op Harrington
- '''Earls Op Harrington''' . See STANHOPE, WIL-
- Liam
- '''Liam''' first EARL, [[1690]] ?-[[1756]] ; STANHOPE, WILLIAM, second EARL, 1719-1779; STANHOPE, CHARLES, third EARL, 1753-1829; STANHOPE, CHARLES, fourth EARL, 1780-1851; STANHOPE, LEICESTER FITZGERALD CHARLES, fifth Earl, 1784-1862.
- Harrington
- '''Harrington''' or HARINGTON, JAMES ([[1611]]1677), political theorist; great-nephew of John Harington, first baron Harington of Exton; studied at Trinity College, Oxford; some time in service of elector palatine; visited Rome and Venice; groom of the bedchamber to Charles I at Holmby and in the Isle of Wight; published The Commonwealth of Oceana 1656, the 4 Art of Lawgiving (abridgment of Oceana), 1659, and several tracts in defence of it; formed the Rota club for political discussion, 1659-60; imprisoned in the Tower, 1661, and afterwards at Plymouth; works edited by Toland, 1700.
- James Harrington
- '''James Harrington''' ([[1664]]-[[1693]]), lawyer and poet; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1690; barrister, Inner Temple; published Latin hexameter poem on the death of Charles II, Defence of the Rights and Privileges of the University of Oxford (1690), and other pamphlets; contributed preface and introduction to first edition of Athense Oxonienses
- Sir John Harrington
- '''Sir John Harrington''' ([[1561]]-[[1612]]). See HAR-
- Ington
- '''Ington'''
- Maria Harrington
- '''Maria Harrington''' , fourth COUNTESS OF. See
- Maria Foote
- '''Maria Foote''' , [[1797]] ?-[[1867]].
- Robert Harrington
- '''Robert Harrington''' (. [[1815]]), writer on natural philosophy; published, asRichard Bewley, M.D. a 'Treatise on Air(1791), and other works against Lavoisier's theory of combustion and in favour of phlogiston, Chemical Essay (against Priestley), 1794, and other works.
- William Harrington
- '''William Harrington''' (d. [[1523]]), divine: prebendary of St. Paul's, 1497; rector of St. Anne's, Aldersgate, 1505-10; published a work in commendation of matrimony.
- Thomas Harriot
- '''Thomas Harriot''' ([[1560]]-[[1621]]), mathematician and astronomer; B.A. St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1580; mathematical tutor to Sir W. Ralegh, who sent him, 1585, to survey Virginia; his Brief and True Report(1588) reproduced in De Bry'sAmericae Descriptioand in Hakluyt; pensioned by Henry, earl of Northumberland, one of whose three magi he became. His Artis Analytics Praxis ad Equationes Algebraic** resolvendas edited, 1631, by Walter Warner, embodies inventions which gave algebra it* modern form. He used telescopes simultaneously with Galileo: be observed sun-spots and the comets of 1607 and 1618. Collections of bis paper* are at the British Museum and.-ion House,
- John Harriott
- '''John Harriott''' ([[1745]]-[[1817]]), projector of the London Thames police; served in the navy and in the merchant service: also in military employ of East India Company; received gold medal from Society of Arts for reclaiming from the sea (1781-2) Rushley isle, E*sex; lived In America, 1790-6; patented improved ship's pump (1797) and other inventions; resident magistrate at Thames police court, 1798-1816; addressed (1797) letter to the Duke of Portland, secretary of state, broaching bis scheme of Thames police (marine police established, 1798); published 'Struggles through Life 1815.
- Augustus Gl Harris
- '''Augustus Gl Harris''' 08SOP ([[1825]]-[[1873]]X actor and manager; appeared on American utage when eight years old; managed Princess's Theatre, London, 1859-62: manager of Co vent Garden; introduced Fechter to London.
- Sir Augustus Henry Glossop Harris
- '''Sir Augustus Henry Glossop Harris''' ([[1853]]1896), actor, impresario, and dramatist; son of Augustas GloBsop Harris; manager at Covent Garden, c. 1876; became lessee of Drury Lane, 1879, and produced, in collaboration with various authors, a succession of highly popular melodramas and pantomimes, besides operas; sheriff of London and knighted, 1891.
- Charles Amyand Harris
- '''Charles Amyand Harris''' ([[1813]]-[[1874]]), bishop of Gibraltar; M.A. Oriel College, Oxford, 1837; fellow of All SoulsCollege, Oxford, 1836-7; rector of Wilton, 18401848; prebendary of Salisbury, 1841; archdeacon of Wilts, 1863; vicar of Bremhill-with-Highway, 1863-8; bishop of Gibraltar, 1868-73.
- Sir Edward Alfred John Harris
- '''Sir Edward Alfred John Harris''' ([[1808]]1888), admiral; brother of James Howard Harris, third earl of Malmesbury; M.P., Chippenham, 1844-62; consul-general in Denmark, 1852, Peru, 1862, Chili, 1883, and Austrian coasts of the Adriatic, 1858; minister at Berne and (1867) the Hague; K.O.B., 1872; admiral, 1877.
- Francis Harris
- '''Francis Harris''' ([[1829]]-[[1885]]), physician; BJL Caius College, Cambridge, 1862; M.D., 1869; studied at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and in Paris and Berlin: assistant-physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1861; published thesis on amyloid degeneration, 1859.
- George Harris
- '''George Harris''' ([[1722]]-[[1796]]), civilian; D.C.L. Oriel College, Oxford, 1750; chancellor of Durham, Hereford, and Llandaff; bequeathed 40,0007. to St. George's and 15,0002. to Westminster Lying-in hospitals; edited Justinian's Institutes with translation, 1756.
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- George Harris
- '''George Harris''' , first BARON HARRIS ([[1746]]1829), general; served with 6th fusiliers in America; wounded at Bunkers Hill, 1775; commanded grenadier battalion at capture of St. Lucia, 1778; second in command at defence of La Vigie; served against Tippoo Sahib, 1790-2; commanded troops in Madras, 1796-1800; captured Seringapatam and subdued Mysore, 1799; lieutenant-general, 1801; general, 1812; created a peer, 1815; G.O.B., 1820.
- George Harris
- '''George Harris''' ([[1794]]-[[1869]]), Unitarian minister ; studied at Glasgow University; secretary of Scottish Unitarian Association; minister at Liverpool, 1817-2S, Bolton, 1822-5, Glasgow. 1825-41, Edinburgh, 1841-5, and Newcastle, 1845-59; eager controversialist and successful preacher.
- George Harris
- '''George Harris''' ([[1809]]-[[1890]]), author; educated at Rugby: barrister, Middle Temple, 1843; deputy county court judgeof Bristol district, 1853; acting judgeof county court, Birmingham, 1861: registrar of court of bankruptcy, Manchester, 1862-8: beaded deputation to Palmerston suggesting formation of Historical Manuscript* CommisI sion, 1859: vice-president of Anthropological Society of Science 1861; and an Autobiography 1888.
- Harris
- '''Harris''' 576
- Harris
- '''Harris'''
- George Francis Robert Harris
- '''George Francis Robert Harris''' , third
- Harris Barox
- '''Harris Barox''' ([[1810]]-[[1872]]), governor of Madras ; graudson of George Harris, first baron; educated at Eton and Merton and Christ Church Colleges, Oxford: B.A., 1832; D.O.L., 1863; governor of Trinidad, 1846; governor of Madras, 1854-9; reinforced Earl Canning during the mutiny; G.O.S.I., 1859; chamberlain to Princess of Wales.
- Henry Habris
- '''Henry Habris''' (d. [[1704]] ?), chief engraver to the mint, 1690-1704; engraver of public seals.
- Howel Harris
- '''Howel Harris''' ([[1714]]-[[1773]]), Welsh methodist pioneer; worked with Daniel Rowlands till methodist disruption, 1751; foundedfamilyor community at Trevecca, 1762; served in Brecknockshire militia, 1759; visited and corresponded with Countess of Huntingdon ; preached at Whitefleld's tabernacle,
- James Harris
- '''James Harris''' ([[1709]]-[[1780]]), author of Hermes, or a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Universal Grammar 1751, and other works (collected, 1801); M.P., Christchurch, 1761-80; a lord of the treasury, 1763-5; secretary to George Ill's queen, 1774.
- James Harris
- '''James Harris''' , first EARL OF MALMKSBURY ([[1746]]1820), diplomatist; son of James Harris; educated at Winchester, Merton College, Oxford, and Leyden; when charge d'affaires at Madrid prevented Spanish expedition against Falkland isles, 1770; minister at Berlin, 1772-6; ambassador at St. Petersburg, 1777-82; named minister at the Hague by Pitt, 1784; promoted counterrevolution in favour of house of Orange; negotiated alliance with Prussia and Holland, 1788; created Baron Malmesbury, 1788; supported Fox on regency question, but (1793) left him withold whiga negotiated fresh alliance with Prussia, 1794, and match between the Prince of Wales and Princess Caroline of Brunswick; engaged in fruitless negotiations at Paris and Lille, 17961797; incapacitated by deafness, but much consulted by Pitt and Cannin? on foreign affairs; created Earl of Malmesbury and~Viscount Fitzharris, 1800;Diaries edited by grandson, 1844, family letters issued, 1870.
- James Howard Harris
- '''James Howard Harris''' , third EARL OF MALMES-
- Bury
- '''Bury''' ([[1807]]-[[1889]]), statesman ; grandson of James Harris, first earl of Malmesbury; educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford; B.A., 1827; during continental trips became acquainted with Louis Napoleon; M.P., Wilton, 1841; succeeded to peerage, 1841; protectionist whip in the Upper House; joined Disraeli in urging reform on Lord Derby; as foreign secretary (FebruaryDecember 1852) recognised Napoleon III, whom he interviewed in Paris, 1853: during second tenure of office (1858-9) re-established good relations with him, helped to compose dispute between France and Portugal, exacted reparation from Naples for Cagliari affair, 1858, delayed war between Austria and Sardinia, and strove to localise it when declared (1859), adopting policy of strict neutrality; created G.O.B. on retirement; offered support to Palmers ton against Russell, 1860; attempted to remove Napoleon's prejudices against the conservatives, 1861; carried vote of censure on Palmerston for policy on Danish question, 1864; lord privy seal in Lord Derby's last ministry, 1866-8, and under Disraeli, 1874-6; published Memoirs of an Ex-minister 1884.
- John Harris
- '''John Harris''' ([[1588]] ?-[[1658]]), warden of Winchester College; M.A. New College, Oxford, 1611; D.D.; fellow, 1606-22; regius professor of Greek, 1619-22; prebendary of Wells, 1622; member of Westminster Assembly; warden of Winchester College, 1630-58; published life of Bishop Arthur Lake.
- John Harris
- '''John Harris''' ([[1667]] ?-[[1719]]), divine and author: M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1691; D.D. Lambeth, 1706; prebendary of Rochester, 1708: incumbent of St. Mildred, Bread Street, London, with St. Margaret Moses; rector of East Banning, 1715: ridiculed inPicture of a High-flying Clergyman 1716; F.R.S., 1696 (secretary, 1709); lectured on mathematics in Birchin Lane, London; died a pauper. His works include defence of the Woodwardian system, 1697, Boyle lectures, 1698 Lexicon Technicum 1704, and Navigantium atque Itinerantium Biblio theca 1705.
- John Harris
- '''John Harris''' (fl. [[1737]]). organ-builder: son of Renatus Harris
- John Harris
- '''John Harris''' (fi. [[1680]]-[[1740]]), architectural and i topographical engraver.
- John Harris
- '''John Harris''' (d. [[1834]]), water-colour painter I exhibited at Royal Academy, 1802-15.
- John Harris
- '''John Harris''' ([[1756]]-[[1846]]), publisher; assisted I John Murray and F. Newbery, and succeeded to latter's business.
- John Harris
- '''John Harris''' ([[1802]]-[[1856]]), principal of New Col! lege, London; boy preacher near Bristol: theological professor at Oheshunt College, 1837; D.D. Brown University, Rhode Island, U.S.A., 1838; principal of New College, London, aud its professor of theology, 1851; chairman of Congregational Union, 1852; publishedThe Great Teacher 18S5, and theological prize essays,
- John Harris
- '''John Harris''' ([[1820]]-[[1884]]), Cornish poet ; worked in Dolcoath mine; won first prize for Shakespeare tercentenary poem, 1864: received grants from Royal Literary Fund and Royal Bounty Fund; publishedLays from the Mine, the Moor, and the Mountain (1853) and other verse.
- John Ryland Harris
- '''John Ryland Harris''' (!EUAN DDU o LAX TAWY) (1802-1823), writer in Welsh; son of Joseph Harris (Gomer); contributed to Seren Gomer news paper, 1818-23; made Welsh version of Paradise Regained; published Welsh guide to reading of music.
- Joseph Harris
- '''Joseph Harris''' (?)(. [[1661]]-[[1681]]), actor : played i in Sir William D'Avenant's company at Lincoln's Inn Fields and Dorset Garden; Romeo to Betterton's Mer : cutio, 1662; took original roles in plays by D'Avenant, ! Dryden, Etherege, and Otway; intimate with Pepys.
- Joseph Harris
- '''Joseph Harris''' (ft. [[1661]]-[[1702]]), actor and dramatist; member of king's company at Theatre Royal; engraver to the mint on accession of Anne; four plays ascribed to him.
- Joseph Harris
- '''Joseph Harris''' ([[1702]]-[[1764]]), assay master of the ! mint, 1748; author of mouometallist Essay on Money and Coins(two parts, 1756 and 1768), cited by Lord I Liverpool, 1805, and praised by McCulloch, and pos1 thumous (1775) treatise on optics.
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- Joseph Harris
- '''Joseph Harris''' (d. [[1814]]), organist of St. Martin's, ! Birmingham (1787); composed songs aud harpsichord j quartetts.
- Joseph Harris
- '''Joseph Harris''' (GOMER) ([[1773]]-1 R25), Welsh I author; baptist pastor at Swansea; edited Seren Gomer (first newspaper in Welsh), 1814-15, and afterwards as monthly magazine; published selection of Welsh hymns (Ychydig o hymnau), 1796, the bible in Welsh and English, 1825, Oofiant leuan Ddu (memoir of his son), 1823, and other works.
- Joseph John Harris
- '''Joseph John Harris''' ([[1799]]-[[1869]]), organist at ! Manchester, 1848-69; publishedThe Cathedral Daily : Service 1844, The Musical Expression 1845.
- Joseph Macdonald Harris
- '''Joseph Macdonald Harris''' ([[1789]]- [[1860]]), musician; arranged Burgoyne's Collection of Psalms 1827; published musical compositions.
- Joseph Thorns Harris
- '''Joseph Thorns Harris''' ([[1828]]-[[1869]]), pianist and composer; son of Joseph John Harris
- Moses Harris
- '''Moses Harris''' (. [[1766]]-[[1785]]), entomologist and artist; published with plates by himself The Aurelian or Natural History of English Insects 1766,English Lepidoptcra 1776, Exposition of English Insects 1776, and other works; his Natural System of Colours edited by Thomas Martyn, 1811.
- Paul Harris
- '''Paul Harris''' ([[1573]]-[[1635]] ?), Roman catholic divine ; banished from Dublin for attacking Franciscans: published tracts against Archbishop Thomas Fleming and against Francis Matthews.
- Renatus Harris
- '''Renatus Harris''' , or RE~Nfe ([[1640]]? - [[1715]]?), organ-builder: defeated byFather Smith(Bernard Smith, q. v.) in contest for building organ in Temple Church, 1684; afterwards built thirty-nine organs including those in King's College Chapel, Cambridge (1686), and in cathedrals of Ohichester (1678), Winchester (1681), Ely, Bristol (1 686), Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford (1686), St. Patrick 1697), and Salisbury (1710),
- Harris
- '''Harris''' 577
- Harrison
- '''Harrison'''
- Richard Harris
- '''Richard Harris''' (f. [[1613]]), theologian : fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1580; senior fellow, 1593; M.A., 1583; D.D.,1595; rector of Gestingthorp, 1597, and Bradvell-juxta-Mare, 16i:j; publishedCcnconlia Anu'licnna (1612) iii reply to Becauede dissidio Anglicauo
- Robert Harris
- '''Robert Harris''' ([[1581]]-[[1658]]), president of Trinity College, Oxford; B.A. Worri-nU-r College, Oxford, 1600; D.D., 1648; incumbeut of Hanwell, Oxfordshire, 1614-42; member of assembly of divines; visitor to the univi-rsitv, 1647-52 and 1654-8: president of Trinity College, Oxford, 1648-58; an rmiiirnt preacher; sometime incumbent of St. Botolph's, Bisbop?gate.
- Robert Harris
- '''Robert Harris''' ( [[1809]]-[[1865]]), captain in the navy ; brother of Sir William Cornwallia Harris; midshipman at Algiers, 1824, and at Navarino, 1827: promoted commander for services at capture of Bogue forts, 1841; captiiin, 1849: commanded Illustrious trainingship, 1854-9, and Britannia till 1862.
- Samuel Harris
- '''Samuel Harris''' ([[1682]]-1 [[733]]), first regius professor of modern history at Cambridge; M.A. Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1707; Craven scholar, 1701; fellow of Peterhouse; professor of modern history, 1724-33.
- Thomas Harris
- '''Thomas Harris''' ([[1705]]-[[1782]]), clothing contractor to the army; brother of Howel Harris
- Thomas Harris
- '''Thomas Harris''' (d. [[1820]]), proprietor and manager of Covent Garden; had violent dispute with Colman the elder as to management, 1769-70; stage-manager, 1774.
- Walter Harris
- '''Walter Harris''' ([[1647]]-[[1732]]), physician; M.D. Bourges and Cambridge; scholar of Winchester and (1666) fellow of New College, Oxford; B.A., 1670; P.R.O.P., 1682, five times censor and treasurer, 1714-17: physician to Charles II, 1683; physician to William III; Lumleian lecturer, 1710-32; Harveiau orator: attended Queen Mary on her deathbed, 1694; published medical works; admirer of Sydenham.
- Walter Harris
- '''Walter Harris''' ([[1686]]-[[1761]]), Irish historiographer; scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, 1707; hon. LL.D. Dublin, 1753: vicar-general of the protestant bishop of Meath, 1753; published translation with continuation of Sir James Ware's Works concerning Ireland 1739-46; also history of Irish writers, 1736, Hibernica 1747-50, and History of William III (1749).
- William Harris
- '''William Harris''' ( 1 [[546]] ?-[[1602]]), Roman catholic divine; fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford; M.A., 1570; left England and was ordained priest at Louvain; missi oner in England, 1575; wrote Theatrum, seu Speculum verissinue et autiquissimae Ecclesiee Magnae Britannia;
- William Harris
- '''William Harris''' ([[1675]]?-[[1740]]), presbyterian divine; hon. D.D. Edinburgh, 1728, and Aberdeen; minister of Crutched Friars from 1698; Friday evening lecturer at Weighhouse, Eastcheap, 1708: merchants lecturer at BaitersHall, 1727; a non-subscriber; original Williams trustee: published Exposition of Philippians and Colossians 1710, and other works.
- William Harris
- '''William Harris''' ([[1720]]-[[1770]]), biographical writer; hon. D.D. Glasgow, 1765. His collected works (1814) contain lives of Hugh Peters, James I, Charles I, Cromwell, and Charles II.
- William Harris
- '''William Harris''' ([[1776]]?-[[1830]]), independent minister at Cambridge and Stoke Newington, tutor at Hoxton and Highbury; author of Grounds of Hope for salvation of all dying in Infancy 1821.
- Harris
- '''Harris''' Sm WILLIAM CORN WALLIS ([[1807]]-[[1848]]), engineer and traveller; superintending engineer of northern provinces of India, 1848; with Richard Williamson made a big game expedition to country between Orange River and the Matabele chief Moselikatze's kraal, 1835-" (narratives published, 1838 and 1841): knighted, 1844, for negotiating treaty with Shoa: published Portraits of the Game Animals of South Africa 1840, and account of his Abyssinian expedition; died at Surwur.
- William George Harris
- '''William George Harris''' , second BARON
- Harris
- '''Harris''' ([[1782]]-[[1845]]), lieutenant-general: son of George, first baron Harris; served against Tippoo Sahib 1799, in the Copenhagen expedition (1801 ), and in Canada, 1802; volunteer at recapture of the Cape, 1805; commanded 2nd hattalion of 73rd in North Germany aiil tl lands, 1H13-14; wounded at Waterloo, 1815; lifUt.-iinntuirnil, lx;7; ommianded northern district, 1825-8; succeeded to peerage, 1829.
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- Sir William Snow Harris
- '''Sir William Snow Harris''' ([[1791]]-[[1867]]), electrician; knighted in 1847 for his improved lightningconductor; F.RS., 1831; Copley medallist, 18S5: gave Bakeriau lecture, 1839, on elementary laws of electricity; received government grant of 5.000.; appointed scientific referee, 1860.
- Benjamin Harrison
- '''Benjamin Harrison''' , the elder ([[1771]]-18*6), treasurer of Guy's Hospital, 1797-1856; P.R. and F.8.A.; deputy-governor of Hudson's Bay and South Sea companies; chairman, Exchequer Loan Board,
- Benjamin Harrison
- '''Benjamin Harrison''' , the younger ([[1808]]-[[1887]]), archdeacon of Maidstone; son of Benjamin Harrison the elder; student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1828; M.A., 1833: Ellerton, Kennicott, and chancellor's prizeman: Ellerton Hebrew scholar; chaplain to Archbishop Howley, 1843-8; archdeacon of Maidstone, 1845-87; a reviser of the Old Testament, 1885; presented his library to Canterbury Cathedral; edited Bishop Broughton's sermons, 1857. and Christianity in Egypt 1883.
- Sir George Harrison
- '''Sir George Harrison''' (d. [[1841]]), legal writer ; auditor for life of the duchy of Cornwall, 1823; of Lancaster, 1826; G.O.H., 1831; published Memoir respecting the hereditary revenues of the crown 1838, and other works.
- George Henry Harrison
- '''George Henry Harrison''' ([[1816]]-[[1846]]), watercolour painter; son of Mary Harrison; exhibited at Royal Academy and elsewhere, 1840-6; associate of Old Water-colour Society, 1845.
- John Harrison
- '''John Harrison''' (. [[1630]]), envoy to Barbary and author; groom of the privy chamber to Prince Henry; afterwards in service of electress palatine; sheriff of Bermuda, 1622; after several visits to Barbary obtained release of 260 British subjects, 1625-30; published work against Jews (3rd ed., 1656), and books relating to the elector palatine and Bohemia, and to Mvley Abdala Melek. the late king of Barbaric 1633.
- John Harrison
- '''John Harrison''' ([[1579]]-[[1656]]), philanthropist; first chief magistrate of Leeds, 1626, and again, 1634; built New Street or Kirkgate with St. John's % Church and almshouses and the market-cross, Leeds; removed Leeds grammar school to present site.
- John Harrison
- '''John Harrison''' ([[1613]] ?-[[1670]]), presbyterian divine; rector of Ashton-under-Lyne, 1642-62; active member of Manchester classis, 1646-60; imprisoned as royalist, 1651 and 1659-60.
- John Harrison
- '''John Harrison''' ([[1693]]-[[1776]]), horologist; sou of a carpenter; devised gridiron pendulum (1726), recoil escapement, going ratchet (secondary spring), and new musical scale; competed for board of longitude's prizes for determining longitude at sea within sixty, forty, and thirty geographical miles respectively with his first chronometer, 1736; Copley medallist for third chronometer, 1749; awarded 5,000. (part of the board of longitude's prize) by parliament for fourth chronometer, 1763; after the construction of fifth and interposition of George III received the whole reward, 1773: published narrative relating to his discovery of longitude at sea and other inventions: his tomb in Hampstead churchyard reconstructed by ClockmakersCompany, 1879.
- Joseph Harrison
- '''Joseph Harrison''' (d. [[1858]]?), horticulturist: edited Floricultural Cabinet(nowGardener's Magazine, 1833-55, and similar publications.
- Mary Harrison
- '''Mary Harrison''' ([[1788]]-[[1875]]), flower-painter: nee Rossiter; married William Harrison, 1814; an original member and exhibitor of New Water-colour Society, 1831.
- Ralph Harrison
- '''Ralph Harrison''' ([[1748]]-[[1810]]% nonconformist divine and tutor; minister at Cross Street, Manchester, 1771; professor of classics and belles lettres at Manchester Academy, 1786-9; published educational manuals.
- Robert Harrison
- '''Robert Harrison''' (d. [[1585]] ?), Brownist ; M.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1572; removed from mastership of Aylsham school for objections to the P P
- Harrison
- '''Harrison''' 578
- Harsnett
- '''Harsnett''' prnyer-book, 1574; when master of a hospital at Norwich, helped Hubert Browne to form a nonconformist congregation: migrated to Middelburg, 1581; published theological tracts; corresponded with Cartwright,
- Hobert Harrison
- '''Hobert Harrison''' ([[1715]]-[[1802]]), mathematician and linguist; master of Trinity House School, Newcastle, 1757; published (with Isaac Thomson)Short Account of a Course of Natural and Experimental Philosophy 1757.
- Samuel Harrison
- '''Samuel Harrison''' ([[1780]] - [[1812]]X vocalist ; soprano at Ancient Concerts and Society of Sacred Music, 1776; principal tenor at Gloucester festival, 1781; engaged for Handel Commemoration, 1784, at instance of George III: sang at Hereford, 1786-1808, and at Gloucester and Worcester, 1801-8, at the Ancient Concerts, 1785-91, and afterwards at the Vocal Concerts.
- Stephen Harrison
- '''Stephen Harrison''' (Jt. [[1603]]), joiner and architect; designed arches for entry of James I into London, 1604, described in rare work issued that year.
- Susannah Harrison
- '''Susannah Harrison''' ([[1752]]-[[1784]]), religious poet: sometime a domestic servant; published Songs in the Night 1780.
- Thomas Harrison
- '''Thomas Harrison''' ([[1555]]-[[1631]]), biblical scholar; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1576; fellow and viceprefect of Trinity College; a reviser of James I's bible.
- Thomas Harrison
- '''Thomas Harrison''' ([[1606]] - [[1660]]), regicide ; when a member of Inns of Court enlisted in Essex's bodj'guard, 1642; major in Fleetwood's horse at Marston Moor, 1644; entered the new model; present at Naseby, 1645, Langport, and captures of Winchester and Basing; M.P., Wendover, 1646; colonel of horse, 1647; opposed further negotiation with Charles I, 1647; distinguished himself under Lambert at Appleby, and was wounded, 1648; negotiated with levellers, 1648; zealous for trial of Charles I, whom he escorted from Hurst to London; regularly attended meetings of high court of justice; held chief command in England during Cromwell's absence, 1650-1; directed pursuit after Worcester, 1651; elected to council of state, 1651; a promoter of army petition of 12 Aug. 1652; assisted in expelling Long parliament, 1653; member of council of thirteen, and a leading spirit in Barebones parliament 1653; deprived of his commission under the instrument of government, 1653; reprimanded by Cromwell for relations with anabaptists, 1654; imprisoned, 1655-6 and 1658-9; refused flight or compromise at the Restoration; exempted from Act of Indemnity, 1660; justified his action against Charles I by the authority of parliament: showed great courage at his execution.
- Thomas Harrison
- '''Thomas Harrison''' ([[1619]]-[[1682]]), nonconformist divine; chaplain t governor of Virginia: succeeded Dr. Godwin at St. Dmistan's-in-the-East, c. 1650; accompanied Henry Cromwell to Ireland, 1667; D.D. Cambridge; founded dissenting church at Dublin: publishedTopica Sacra: Spiritual Logick 1658 (second part added by John Hunter of Ayr. 1712).
- Thomas Harrison
- '''Thomas Harrison''' ([[1693]]-[[1745]]), divine and poet; pastor of particular baptists in Little Wild Street, 1715-29: conformed and was vicar of Radcliffe-on-theWreke, 1729-45; published Poems on Divine Subjects 1719.
- Thomas Harrison
- '''Thomas Harrison''' ([[1744]] - [[1829]]), architect ; studied at Kouie; admitted to academy of St. Luke, and awarded medal? by Clement XIV: rebuilt Chester Castle, and (1829) erected the Grosvenor Bridge; built Broomhall, Fifeshire, 1796; suggested to Lord Elgin collection of Greek works of art.
- Thomas Elliott Harrison
- '''Thomas Elliott Harrison''' ([[1808]] - [[1888]]), civil engineer; worked with Robert Stephenson, and succeeded as chief engineer of York, Newcastle, and Berwick Hue; designed J arrow (1858) and Hartlepool docks; president of Institute of Civil Engineers, 1874.
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- William Harrison
- '''William Harrison''' ([[1534]]-[[1593]]). topographer and chrouulogiBt; educated at St. Paul's School and Westminster, Cambridge, and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1560; rector of Radwinter, 1589-93; canon of Windsor, 1586: his Description of England 1577, printed with floliushed, as also his version of Belleudeu's translation of Boece's 4 Description of Scotland; extracts from his Great Chronologic(unprinted) in Furnivall's edition of Description of England (1877).
- William Harrison
- '''William Harrison''' ([[1553]]-[[1621]]), last archj priest of England; D.D. Douay; professor of theology at 1 Douay, 1597-1603; arch-priest of England, Scotland, and I Ireland, 1615; obtained freedom of clergy from Jesuit control and restoration of episcopal government,
- William Harrison
- '''William Harrison''' ([[1685]]-[[1713]]), poet : educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow of New College, 1706; protege of Addison and Swift; secretary to Lord Raby at the Hague, 1711, afterwards to Utrecht embassy; continued theTatler (January to May 1711), with assistance of Swift and St. John; his Woodstock Park in Dodsley's collection.
- William Harrison
- '''William Harrison''' ([[1812]]-[[1860]]), commander of the Great Eastern steamship; selected in 1856 to command the Great Leviathan, afterwards called the Great Eastern; brought her into Portland after trial trip, 1859; capsized in ship's boat near Southampton dock.
- William Harrison
- '''William Harrison''' ([[1813]]-[[1868]]), opera singer and manager; appeared at Covent Garden, 1839: sang at Drury Lane in English operas: accompanied Louisa Pyue to America, 1854; with her directed English opera at Lyceum, 1857, and Covent Garden, 1858-64; sole manager of Her Majesty's, 1864-5, when he played Charles Surface.
- William Harrison
- '''William Harrison''' ([[1802]]-[[1884]]), antiquary; established Manx Society, 1858: published Bibliotheca Monensis 1861, and other works.
- William Frederick Harrison
- '''William Frederick Harrison''' ([[1815]]-[[1880]]), water-colour painter; eldest son of Mary Harrison
- William George Harrison
- '''William George Harrison''' ([[1827]]-[[1883]]), lawyer; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1850; barrister, Middle Temple, 1853; Q.O., 1877; part author of * Joint-Stock Companies Act 1856.
- Henry Harrod
- '''Henry Harrod''' ([[1817]]-[[1871]]), professional antiquary; secretary to Norfolk Archaeological Society; F.S.A., 1854; publishedGleanings among Castles and Convents of Norfolk (1857): arranged records of Norwich, Lynn, and other boroughs.
- William Harrod
- '''William Harrod''' (rf. [[1819]]), compiler of histories of Stamford, 1785, Mansfield (pt. i. 1786, pt. ii. 1801). and Market Harborough, 1808.
- Earls Op Harrowby
- '''Earls Op Harrowby''' . See RYDER, DUDLEY, first
- Earl
- '''Earl''' [[1762]]-[[1847]]; RYDER, DUDLEY, second EAUL, [[1798]]1874; RYDER, DUDLEY FRANCIS STUART, 1831-1900.
- Blind Harry
- '''Blind Harry''' (. [[1470]]-[[1492]]). See HENRY THE
- Minstrel
- '''Minstrel'''
- George Owen Harry
- '''George Owen Harry''' (fl. [[1604]]), Welsh antiquary; rector of Whitchurch, Pembrokeshire; assisted Camden in his Britannia and published a genealogy of King James (1604) and The Well-spryuge of True Nobility
- Nun Morgan Harry
- '''Nun Morgan Harry''' ([[1800]]-[[1842]]), congregational minister at Banbury, and (1832-42) New Broad Street; hou. secretary of Peace Society, 1837; editor of Herald of Peace
- Adam Harsnett
- '''Adam Harsnett''' (r. [[1639]]), divine ; B.A. Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1601: M.A. St. John's College, 1604; B.D., 1612; vicar of Huttou, 1609-39; rector of Crauli.-un, 1612-39; published religious works.
- Samuel Harsnett
- '''Samuel Harsnett''' ([[1561]]-[[1631]]), archbishop of York; scholar and fellow (1583) of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; M.A., 1584; D.D., 1606; master of Pembroke Hall, 1606-16; censured by Whitgift for sermon against predestination, 1 584: vicar of Chigwell, 1597-1605; chaplain to Bancroft when bishop of London; archdeacon of Ess-x, 1603-9; n-cLor of Stisted, 1609-19: vice-chancellor of Cambridge, 1606 and 1614: bishop of Chichester, 1609-19, of Norwich, 1619-28; archbishop of York, 1629-31: unpopular with puritans; published an exposure (1599) of the exorcist, John Darrel, and A Declaration of egregious
- Hart
- '''Hart''' 579
- Hartley
- '''Hartley''' Popish impostures 1603, from which Shakespeare took the named of the spirits inLear hisConsiderations for the better settling of Church government ordered by Charles I to be circulated among bishops, 1629; founded schools at Chigwell; bequeathed his library to corporation of Colchester.
- Aaron Hart
- '''Aaron Hart''' ([[1670]]-[[1756]]), chief rabbi ; rabbi of first synagogue of German and Polish Jews, Mitre Square, 1692, at Duke's Place, Aldgate, 1721-56; published Urim ve-Thumim the first Hebrew book printed in London, 1707.
- Aaron Hart
- '''Aaron Hart''' ([[1722]]-[[1800]]), first British merchant in Lower Canada.
- Adolphus Hart
- '''Adolphus Hart''' M. ([[1813]]-[[1879]]), Canadian writer Hampden; sou of Ezekiel Hart; published 4 History of Discovery of Valley of the Mississippi 1852.
- Andrew Hart
- '''Andrew Hart''' or ANDRO (d. [[1621]]), Edinburgh printer and publisher; issued works of Sir William Alexander and Drummoud of Hawthorudeu; published editions of the Bible (1610) and Barbour'sBruce imported many works; imprisoned as a leader of tumult of 17 Dec. 1596.
- Sik Andrew Searle Hart
- '''Sik Andrew Searle Hart''' ([[1811]]-[[1890]]), viceprovost of Trinity College, Dublin; fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, 1835; M.A., 1839; LL.D., 1840; senior fellow, 1858; vice-provost, 1876-90; knighted, 1886; contributed to mathematical journals, and published elementary treatises on mechanics (1844), hydrostatics, and hydrodynamics (1846).
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- Sir Anthony Hart
- '''Sir Anthony Hart''' ([[1754]] 7-[[1831]]), lord chancellor of Ireland; barrister, Middle Temple, 1781; K.C., 1807; solicitor-general to Queen Charlotte, 1816; vice-chancellor of England, 1827; privy councillor and knighted, 1827; lord chancellor of Ireland, 1827-30.
- Charles Hart
- '''Charles Hart''' (d. [[1683]]), actor; grand-nephew of Shakespeare: played the Duchess in Shirley'sCardinal 1641; lieutenant in Prince Rupert's regiment during rebellion: arrested while playing Beaumont and Fletcher's Bloody Brother 1646; after Restoration played at Vere Street house, and with Killigrew at Theatre Royal; his best tragic parts, Arbaces King and No King, Amiutor Maid's Tragedy, Alexander, Othello, and Brutus; his best comic parts, Mosca Volpone, Don John The Chances, Wildblood Mock Astrologer); said to have introduced Nell Gwyii to the stage.
- Charles Hart
- '''Charles Hart''' ([[1797]]-[[1859]]), organist and composer; gained Gresham prize with Te Deum 1831; published hymns, anthems, an oratorio, and other musical compositions.
- Ernest Abraham Hart
- '''Ernest Abraham Hart''' ([[1835]]-[[1898]]), medical journalist and reformer; educated at City of London School; Lambert Jones scholar, 1848; studied medicine at St. George's Hospital, and was surgical registrar and demonstrator of anatomy; M.K.O.S., 1856; surgeon, West London Hospital, 1860-3; ophthalmic surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital, 1863-8; dean of medical school, 1863-8; edited British Medical Journal 1886-98; adviser on medical publications to George Smith, head of firm of Smith, Elder & Co., to whom he suggested possibilities of developing the Apolliuaris spring; president of Harveiau Society, 1868; honorary D.O.L. Durham, 1893; organised numerous medical and sanitary reforms; published addresses, pamphlets, and other works.
- Ezekiel Hart
- '''Ezekiel Hart''' ([[1770]]-[[1843]]), Canadian Jew ; sou of Aaron Hart (1722-1800); established political rights of Jews in Lower Canada, 1831.
- George Vaughan Hart
- '''George Vaughan Hart''' ([[1752]]-[[1832]]), general ; served with the 46th in American war; present at Long Island, Brandy wine, 1777, and Monmouth; afterwards served in India (Bangalore, Seriugapatam, Mullavelly); lieutenant-general, 1811; MJP., co. Donegal, 1812-31.
- Henry Hart
- '''Henry Hart''' (fl. [[1549]]), author of devotional treatises.
- Henry George Hart
- '''Henry George Hart''' ([[1808]]-[[1878]]), lieutenantgeneral: editor and proprietor ofHart's Army List of the 49th foot; colonel, 1860; lieutenant-general, 1877; published first quarterly army list, 1839, first annual, 1840.
- James Hart
- '''James Hart''' (Jt. [[1633]]), physician; studied at Paris and in Germany; graduated abroad; practised at Northampton: published Anatomic of Urines 1625, and KAcoj, or Diet of the Diseased 1033.
- James Hart
- '''James Hart''' ([[1663]]-[[1729]]), minister of Greyfrians, Edinburgh; M.A. Edinburgh, 1687; minister of Botha 1692-1702, of Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 1702-29; opposed the union; called by Steele tire hangman of the Gospel; his Journal in 1714 edited, 1832.
- John Hart
- '''John Hart''' ((. [[1574]]), orthographer ; Chester herald, 1566; his Orthographic Con the phonetic system), 1569, reprinted by Pitman, 1850.
- John Hart
- '''John Hart''' (d. [[1586]]), Jesuit ; BJ). Douay, [[1577]] : priest, 1578; condemned to death as a priest; recanted on the hurdle; withdrew recantation and disputed with John Raiuoldes at Oxford: sent back to the Tower, where (1582) he became a Jesuit; banished, 1685; lauded in Normandy, 1585; died In Poland.
- John Hart
- '''John Hart''' ([[1809]]-[[1873]]), pioneer colonist and premier of South Australia; engaged in mercantile service to Tasmania; director of Adelaide Auction Company, 1840; member for Victoria district in old legislative council, 1851; member for Port Adelaide in first House of Assembly, 1857; treasurer, 1857; colonial secretary, 1863 and 1864-5; premier, 1865-6, 1868, and 1870-1; C.M.G., 1870.
- Joseph Hart
- '''Joseph Hart''' ([[1712]] ?-[[1768]]), Independent preacher at Jewin Street Chapel, London, 1760-8; author of hymns, 1759.
- Joseph Sinks Hart
- '''Joseph Sinks Hart''' ([[1794]]-[[1844]]), organist and composer; wrote songs when chorus-master and pianist at the English opera, 1818-21; composed dance music.
- Moses Hart
- '''Moses Hart''' ([[1676]]?-[[1756]]), builder of the great synagogue, Aldgate, 1721; brother of Aaron Hart (16701756)
- Philip Hart
- '''Philip Hart''' (d. [[1749]]), organist and composer ; played at Britton's with Handel and Pepusch: set Hughes'sOde in Praise of Music 1703, and Milton's Morning Hymn 1729; composed fugues, songs, and anthems.
- Solomon Alexander Hart
- '''Solomon Alexander Hart''' ([[1806]]-[[1881]]), painter; exhibited in Suffolk Street his Elevation of the Law 1830; R.A., 1840; professor of painting, Royal Academy, 1854-63; librarian from 1865; exhibited, 18261880; his Reminiscences edited, 1882.
- John Hartcliffe
- '''John Hartcliffe''' ([[1651]]-[[1712]]), schoolmaster; of Eton, Edmund Hall, Oxford, and King's College, Cambridge; M.A. King's College, Cambridge, 1676; fellow; D.D., 1689; head-master of Merchant TaylorsSchool, 1681-6; canon of Windsor, 1691-1712; chief work, Treatise of Moral and Intellectual Virtues, 1 1691.
- Henry Hickman Harte
- '''Henry Hickman Harte''' ([[1790]]-[[1848]]), mathematician; fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, 1819; incumbent of Cappagh, 1831-48; translated and added to La Place's Systemedu Monde and Poissou's Mecanique Celeste
- Walter Harte
- '''Walter Harte''' ([[1709]]-[[1774]]), author; M.A. St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1731; friend of Pope and Arthur Young; travelling tutor to Chesterfield's natural son; vice-principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1740; canon of Windsor, 1750; published History of the Life of Gustavus Adolphus 1759, Essays on Husbandry 1764, and religious poems.
- Hartoill
- '''Hartoill''' or HARTOYLL, GEORGE (. [[1594]]), author ofGenerall Calenders, or Most Easie Astrouomicall Tables 1594.
- David Hartley
- '''David Hartley''' , the elder ( [[1705]]-1 [[757]]), philosopher; educated at Bradford grammar school and Jesus College, Cambridge; fellow, 1727-30; MA., 1729; physician in Newark, Bury St. Edmunds, and London: supporter of Byrom's shorthand and Mrs. Stepheus's medicine for the stone; friend of Bishops Butler and Warburton; F.R.S.; acquaintance of Hales. HisObservations on Mant749 (abridged by Priestley, 1775), containing the doctrine of association, influenced Coleridge, xxv. 66 j PP?
- Hartley
- '''Hartley''' 580
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- '''Harvey'''
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- David Hartley
- '''David Hartley''' , tbc younger ([[1732]]-[[1813]]), statesmau ami inventor; sou of David Hartley the elder ; B.A. Corpus Ohristi College, Oxford, 1760; fellow of Morton College, Oxford;M.P.,Hull, 1774-80 and 1782-4; oposed American war and slave trade; with Franklin drew up and signed treaty between Great Britain and the United States, 1783; publishedletters on the American War, 1 1778-9, editions of bis father'sObservations on Man 1791, 1801, andAccount of a Method of Securing Buildings and Ships against Fire 1785.
- Hartley
- '''Hartley''' M us. ELIZABETH ([[1751]]-[[1824]]), actress; nee White; appeared at Haymarket inOroonoko 17G9; played at Ooveut Garden, 1772-80, in Mason'sElfrida and Oaractacus; played Lady Frances Touchwood Belle's Stratagem, Cleopatra All for Love, and Shakespearean parts; painted by Reynolds as Jane Shore, Oalista, and a Bacchante.
- James Hartley
- '''James Hartley''' ([[1745]]-[[1799]]), Indian officer; aide-de-camp to governor of Bombay, 1770; saved expeditionary force against the Koukan, 1779; repulsed Mahrattas at Doogaur, 1780; his promotion overruled by directors; appointed lieutenant-colonel, 75th regiment; quartermaster-general of Bombay army, 1788; defeated Hussein Ali at Calicut, 1790; captured French settlement of Mahe, 1793; major-general, 1796; supervisor and magistrate for province of Malabar; second in command of Bombay army against Tippoo Sahib, 1799; died at Canuauore.
- Jesse Hartley
- '''Jesse Hartley''' ([[1780]]-[[1860]]), engineer for Bolton and Manchester railway and canal.
- Thomas Hartley
- '''Thomas Hartley''' ([[1709]]7-[[1784]]), translator of Swedeuborg; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1745; rector of Wiuwick, 1744-70; paid frequent visits to Swedeuborg; translated Swedenborg'sDe Commercio Auimas et Oorporis 1769; author of Nine Queries concerning Swedenborg's doctrine of the Trinity (published 1785), and Paradise Restored against Warburton, 1764.
- Samuel Hartlib
- '''Samuel Hartlib''' (d. [[1670]]?), friend of Milton; came to England from Poland, c. 1628; introduced writings of Oomeuius; praised by Milton in treatise on education, 1644; received pension from parliament for works on husbandry, 1646; published pamphlets on education and husbandry, includingDescription of the famous Kingdom of Macaria 1641, andDiscours of Husbandrie used in Brabant and Flanders 1652.
- Numa Edward Hartog
- '''Numa Edward Hartog''' ([[1846]]-[[1871]]), senior wrangler and second Smith's prizeman, 1869; B.A. and B.Sc. London, 1864; scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1866; admitted B.A. by special grace as a Jew, 1869; gave evidence before select committee of House of Lords on university tests, 1871.
- Hartopp
- '''Hartopp''' Sm JOHN, third baronet ([[1637]]?-[[1722]]), nonconformist; succeeded to baronetcy, 1658; M.P., Leicestershire, 1678-81; heavily fined for nonconformity, 1682; alderman of London; member of Dr. John Owen's congregation and friend of Isaac Watts; left endowment for education of dissenting ministers.
- Malachy Haetry
- '''Malachy Haetry''' , alias JOHN (. [[1640]]), compiler of Latin works on Irish Cistercian houses (unpublished); died in Flanders.
- Charles Henry Hartbhorne
- '''Charles Henry Hartbhorne''' ([[1802]]-[[1865]]), antiquary; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1828; incumbent of Cogeuhoe, 1838-50; rector of Holdenby, 18501865; published Book Rarities of the University of Cambridge 1829, Ancient Metrical Tales 1829, and archaeological works.
- John Hartstonge
- '''John Hartstonge''' ([[1654]]-[[1717]]). bishop of Derry : M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1680; fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, 1681; chaplain to first and second dukes of Ormonde; bishop of Ossory, 1693; D.D. Oxford, 1693; bishop of Derry, 1714.
- Abraham Hartwell
- '''Abraham Hartwell''' , the elder (fl. [[1565]]), Latin poet; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; fellow, 1662-7; M.A., 1667.
- Abraham Hartwell
- '''Abraham Hartwell''' , the younger (ft. [[1600]]), translator and antiquary: M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1575; incorporated at Oxford, 15H8: sectary to Archbishop Whitgift; rector of Toddiug ton: member of old Society of Antiquaries; published translations of Italian works by Minadoi and Pigafetta, and the Ottoman of Lazaro Soranzo 1603.
- William Harty
- '''William Harty''' ([[1781]]-[[1851]]), physician : M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1804; M.D., 1830; K.K..., 1824-7; physician to Dublin prisons; published Dysentery and its Combinations 1805, and Historic Sketch of Contagious Fever Epidemic in Ireland in 1817-19
- John Harvard
- '''John Harvard''' ([[1607]]-[[1638]]), principal founder of Harvard College, Massachusetts; of humble origin; M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1635; settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1637; bequeathed half his estate and library for new college at Cambridge, Ma-s-achusetts.
- Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey
- '''Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey''' ([[1762]]-[[1798]]), politician; of Trinity College, Dublin; Irish barrister, 1782; presided at meetings of United Irishmen, 1793; appointed to command Wexford rebels, May 1798; deposed after repulse at Ross; arrested on island near Wexford; court-martialled and hanged.
- Christopher Harvey
- '''Christopher Harvey''' ([[1597]]-[[1663]]), poet and friend of Isaak Walton; M.A. Braseuose College, Oxford, 1620; rector of Whitney, 1630: vicar of Clifton, Warwickshire, 1639-63; chief work The Synagogue (devotional poems appended anonymously to 1640 edition of George Herbert's Temple).
- Daniel Whittle Harvey
- '''Daniel Whittle Harvey''' ([[1786]]-[[1863]]), radical politician; fellow of the Inner Temple, 1818; attorney at Colchester; twice refused admission to bar; M.P., Colchester, 1818-20, and 1826-34, Southwark, 1835-40; founded Sunday Times 1822; commissioner of London police, 1840-63.
- Edmond Harvey
- '''Edmond Harvey''' (. [[1661]]), regicide; colonel of horse under Essex, 1642; commissioner for trial of Charles I; refused to sign warrant, 1649; imprisoned for fraud as first commissioner of customs, 1656; sentenced to death, 1660; imprisoned in Peudeuuis Castle, 1661.
- Edmund George Harvey
- '''Edmund George Harvey''' ([[1828]]-[[1884]]), musical composer and author; sou of WiUiam Woodis Harvey ; B.A. QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1850; rector of St. Mary's, Truro, 1860; vicar of Mullyou, 1865; composed Gregorian chants, hymn-tunes, and waltzes; edited 'The Truro Use 1877; published History of Mullyou 1875.
- Sir Edward Harvey
- '''Edward Harvey''' Sm EDWARD ([[1783]]-[[1865]]), admiral; third sou of Captain John Harvey (1740-1794), with whom he served in action of 1 June 1794; present at Camperdowu, 1797, and bombardment of Acre, 1840: rearadmiral, 1847; commander at the Nore, 1857-60; admiral, 1860; G.O.B., 1865.
- Sir Eliab Harvey
- '''Sir Eliab Harvey''' ([[1758]]-[[1830]]), admiral ; M.P., Maldon, 1780, Essex, 1803-12; and 1820-6; a reckless gambler; commanded the Temeraire at blockade of Brest and at Trafalgar, after which he was promoted rearadmiral, 1805; with Gambier in Basque Roads, 1809; dismissed for abuse of Lord Cochraue, 1809; reinstated, 1810; K.C.B., 1815; admiral, 1819.
- Gabriel Harvey
- '''Gabriel Harvey''' ([[1545]] ?-[[1630]]), poet; B.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1570: M.A.,1573: as fellow of Pembroke Hall became acquainted with Spenser; the Hobbinol of The Shepheards Calender: claimed to be father of English hexameter; lectured on rhetoric; fellow of Trinity Hall, 1578; junior proctor, 1583; D.C.L. Oxford, 1585; published satirical verses which gave offence at court, 1579; attacked Robert Greene in Foure Letters 1592; wrote Pierce's Supererogation 1693, and Trimming of Thomas Nashe 1597, against Nashe, both HMDO and Harvey being silenced by authority, 1599: published Latin works on rhetoric, 1577; English works, including correspondence with Spenser (1579-80), edited by Dr. Grosart.
- Sir George Harvey
- '''Sir George Harvey''' ([[1806]]-[[1876]]), painter: an original associate, Royal Scottish Academy, and contributor (1827) to first exhibition: full member, 182'J; president, 1864-76; knighted, 1864; became known by figure-pictures; excelled later as. landscape-painter; published Notes on Early History of the Royal Scotti:-L Academy 1870.
- Harvey
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- Harwood
- '''Harwood'''
- Gideon Harvey
- '''Gideon Harvey''' , the elder ([[1640]]?-[[1700]] ?), physician; studied at Uxfonl, Leydea ami Itris: F.C.P., Hague; M.D.; doctor-general to king's army in Flanders after the Restoration: physician to Charles II, c. 1075; attacked College of Physicians in hisConclave of Physicians 1683; physician to the Tower, 1689: his 'Art of Curing Disease by Expectation 16K9, traii-l.u..! into Latin by Georu Krm-.-t Stalil, 17:50; published also l)i -course of the I'lague 1665, and Vanities of Philosophy and Physick 1699.
- Gideon Harvey
- '''Gideon Harvey''' , the younger ([[1669]]?-[[1754]]), physician: sou of Gideon Harvey the elder: M.D. Loydoii, lyo. Cambridge, 1698; F.R.C.P., 1708; king's physician to the Tower, c. 1702.
- Harvey
- '''Harvey''' or HERVEY, HENRY (rf. [[1586]]), master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge: LL.D. Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1542; vicar-general of London and Canterbury; commissioner for detection of heretical books at Cambridge, 155G: prebendary of Southwell, 1558, Salisbury, 1568; master of Trinity Hall on Elizabeth's accession; vicechancellor, 1560: canon of Ely, 1567: master in chancery, 1568; founded scholarships at Trinity Hall.
- Sir Henry Harvey
- '''Sir Henry Harvey''' ([[1737]]-[[1810]]), admiral; wrecked off Cape Francois in the Hussar, 1762; in Martin sloop at relief of Quebec: commanded the Convert at Dominica, 1782; in the Ramillies under Howe at action of 1 June, 1794; rear-admiral, 1794; took part in action off Lorient, 1796; captured Trinidad, 1796; K.B., 1800; admiral, 1804.
- John Harvey
- '''John Harvey''' ([[1563]]9-[[1592]]), astrologer: brother of Gabriel Harvey: M.A. QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1584; M.D.; physician at King's Lynn; published astrological works.
- John Harvey
- '''John Harvey''' ([[1740]]-[[1794]]), captain in the navy ; brother of Sir Henry Harvey; took part in defence of Gibraltar, 1779-82; mortally wounded as captain of the Brunswick in Howe's victory, 1 June, 1794; his monument in Westminster Abbey.
- John Harvey
- '''Harvey''' Sm JOHN ([[1772]]-[[1837]]), admiral : second son of John Harvey (1740-1794); flag-captain to his uncle, Sir Henry, at Lorieut, 1795; commanded the Agamemnon under Calder at Finisterre; rear-admiral, 1813: commander in West Indies, 1816-19; K.O.B., 1833; admiral, 1837.
- Margaret Harvey
- '''Margaret Harvey''' ([[1768]]-[[1868]]), poet ; published * Lay of the Minstrel's Daughter 1814, and Raymond de Percy 1822.
- Richard Harvey
- '''Richard Harvey''' (d. [[1623]] ?), astrologer ; brother of Gabriel Harvey; fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; M.A., 1581; incurred much ridicule for his predictions, 1583; with hisPlaine Percevall, the Peacemaker of England (. 1590) (in Martin Marprelate controversy), provoked Greene'sQuippe for an Upstart Courtier 1592; hisAstrological Discourse(1583) parodied (1592) by Nashe, who also ridiculed his 'Theologicall Discovrse of the Lamb of God and his Enemies 1590.
- Thomas Harvey
- '''Harvey''' Sm THOMAS ([[1775]]-[[1841]]), vice-admiral : fourth son of Sir Henry Harvey, under whom he served, 1794-5; captain, 1797: took part in destruction of Turkish squadron in Dardanelles, 1807; K.C.B., 1833; vice-admiral, 1837; died at Bermuda as comnmnderin-chief in West Indies.
- Thomas Harvey
- '''Thomas Harvey''' ([[1812]]-[[1884]]), quaker; accompanied Joseph Sturge to West Indies to inquire into condition of negroes, 1836; to Finland, 1856; visited Jamaica, 1866, and relieved sufferers from Gordon riots; removed Mennonites from South Ruesia to Canada; published theological works.
- Harvey
- '''Harvey''' or HEKVEY, WILLIAM (. [[1567]]), Clarenceux king-of-arms, 1557; as Norroy paid seven official visits to Germany and declared war on France, 1557; many of his visitations of English counties printed.
- William Harvey
- '''William Harvey''' ([[1578]]-[[1657]]), discoverer of circulation of the blood; educated at King's School, Canterbury, and Caius College, Cambridge: B.A., 1597; M.D. Padua and Cambridge, 1602 (Oxford, 1642): F.R.C.P., 1607; physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1609; Lumleian lecturer from 1C16, when no first publicly stated his theory of circulation; named physician extraordinary to James I, 1618; published at Frankfort 4 Exercitatio Anatoniica de Motn Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus 1628, describing his great discovery; with Charles I in Scotland, 1633; su peri iifem lei physical examination of women accused of witchcraft, 16::i; attended Lord Arundel in Germany and Italy, 1636; with Charles I at Edge-hill, 1642, and at Oxford, where he was made warden of Merton College, 1645; published at Cambridge Exercitatio Anatomicade Circulation Sangoinb 1649 (English version, 1663), in reply to Riolanns; hia la*t work, Exercitationes de Generatione Animalinm 1661; his statue erected at Royal College of Physicians in London, 1652, for whom to built a library; his collected works (Latin) edited by Dr. Lawrence, 1766; English edition (Sydt-nham Society), 1847. f xxv. 84
- William Harvey
- '''William Harvey''' ([[1796]]-[[1868]]), wood-engraver and designer; pupil of Bewick and Haydon; designed for Charles Knight; illustrations toNorthcote's Fables (1828-33) and Lane'sThousand and One Nights(18381840) his masterpieces.
- William Henry Harvey
- '''William Henry Harvey''' ([[1811]]-[[1866]]), botanif t : discovered Hnokeria fate virent at Killarney, 1831; colonial treasurer at Cape Town, 1836-42; hon. M.D. Dublin, 1844, and professor of botany, 1856; lectured in America, 1849: visited India, Australia, and the South Seas, 1853-6: published Genera of S. African Plant* 1838, and works on British and Australasian cUgce.
- William Wigan Harvey
- '''William Wigan Harvey''' ([[1810]]-[[1883]]), divine ; of Eton and King's College, Cambridge; fellow of King's, 1831; M.A., 1836; B.D., 1855; the equity of his appointment by Mr. Gladstone to rectory of Ewelme shortly after incorporation as M.A. at Oxford (1871) warmly discussed in parliament, 1872; published an edition of Irenaeus, 1857, and theological works.
- William Woodis Harvey
- '''William Woodis Harvey''' ([[1798]]-[[1864]]), author ; M.A. QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1835; vicar of Tmro, 1839-60; edited Wesley's minor works, and published Sketches of Hayti 1827, with other writings.
- Simon Harward
- '''Simon Harward''' (. [[1672]]-[[1614]]), divine and author: M.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1578; rector of Warrington, 1579-81; vicar of Banstead, 1604; published miscellaneous works.
- Sir Busick Harwood
- '''Sir Busick Harwood''' ([[1746]] ?-[[1814]]), professor of anatomy at Cambridge; after having practised as a surgeon in India graduated at Christ's College, Cambridge; M.B., 1786; M.D., 1790; F.S.A., 1783; F.R., 1784; knighted, 1806; professor of anatomy (1785) and Downing professor of medicine (1800) at Cambridge; celebrated for his experiments on transfusion of blood,
- Sir Edward Harwood
- '''Sir Edward Harwood''' ([[1586]] ?-[[1632]]), colonel: killed at Maestricht; Advice of Sir Edward Harwood issued with life by Hugh Peters, 1642.
- Edward Harwood
- '''Edward Harwood''' ([[1729]]-[[1794]]), scholar and biblical critic; educated at Blackburn grammar school; presbyterian minister at Bristol, 1765; D.D. Edinburgh, 1768, for Introduction to New Testament Studies His works includeLiberal Translation of New Testament, with select Notes 1768, a reconstructed text of the Greek Testament, 1776, editions ot Tibullus, Propertius, and Catullus, 1774, Biographia Classica (2nd ed., 1778), and theological and devotional writings.
- Edward Harwood
- '''Edward Harwood''' (d. [[1814]]), numismatist; son of Edward Harwood (1729-1794); published 4 Populorum et Urbium selecta numiBmata Gneca ex acre descripta 1812.
- Isabella Harwood
- '''Isabella Harwood''' ([[1840]]7-[[1888]]), novelist and dramatist; daughter of Philip Harwood; published successful novels, 1864-70, and, as Ross Neil dramas, Including Inez (1871) and Pandora (1883).
- Philip Harwood
- '''Philip Harwood''' ([[1809]]-[[1887]]), journalist: in early life an Unitarian minister; when assistant to William Johnson Fox introduced to John Fon-ter: subeditor successively of theExaminerSpectator 'Morning Chronicle 1849-54, and Saturday Review 1855-68; editor of Saturday Review 1868-83; published 'Materialism in Religion 1840,German Anti-Superuaturalism 1841, and other works.
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- Habwood
- '''Habwood''' 582
- Hastings
- '''Hastings'''
- Thomas Harwood
- '''Thomas Harwood''' ([[1767]]-[[1842]]), author : educated at Eton, University College, Oxford, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge; D.D. Cambridge, 1822; head-master of Lichfield grammar school, 17il-1813; incumbent of Hammerwich and Burntwood: F.S.A.: publishedAlumni Etonenses 1797, History of Lichfield 1806, and other works.
- Thomas Haselden
- '''Thomas Haselden''' (rf. [[1740]]), mathematician; published Description and Use of... Mercator's Chart 1722.
- William Haseley
- '''William Haseley''' rE (. [[1266]]), sub-prior of Westminster; compiler of Consuetudinarium Monachorum Westmonasteriensium (Cotton. MSS. Otho C. xi.)
- Elizabeth Julia Hasell
- '''Elizabeth Julia Hasell''' ([[1830]]-[[1887]]), author ; published books on Calderon and Tasso, 1877, and devotional works.
- Thomas Haselwood
- '''Thomas Haselwood''' (. [[1380]]), author of ChroniconCompeudiariumCantuuriense; canon regular of Leeds, Kent.
- John Haslam
- '''John Haslam''' ([[1764]]-[[1844]]), medical writer; apothecary to Bethlehem Hospital; hon. M.D. Aberdeen, 1816; L.R.O.P., 1824; publishedObservations on Insanity 1798, and similar works.
- John Haslem
- '''John Haslem''' ([[1808]]-[[1884]]), china and enamel painter; exhibited at the Academy, 1836-65; published The Old Derby China Factory 1876.
- Sir Arthur Haslerio
- '''Sir Arthur Haslerio''' (d. [[1661]]). See HESIL
- Riqe
- '''Riqe''' HA8LETON, RICHARD (ft. 1595), traveller; published Strange and Wonderful Things (narrative of travel), 1595.
- Joseph Haslewood
- '''Joseph Haslewood''' ([[1769]]-[[1833]]), antiquary ; a founder of the Roxburghe Club, of which he left a manuscript account; F.S.A.; edited Tusser's Five Hundred Points 1810, the Mirror for Magistrates 1815, and other works; publishedGreen-Room Gossip 1809, and an account of Joseph Ritaon, 1824.
- Hassall
- '''Hassall''' or HALSALL, EDWARD (. [[1663]]), royalist; supposed author of diary of defence of Lathom House, 1644 (Draper'sHouse of Stanley; one of the assassins of Antony Ascham at Madrid, 1650; engaged in plot against Cromwell, 1655; equerry to Charles II's queen, 1663.
- James Hassail
- '''James Hassail''' (. [[1667]]), royalist; brother of Edward Hassall or Halsall; imprisoned in Tower for plot to murder Cromwell, 1655-60; corresponded with Aphra Behn; captain of foot at Portsmouth, 1667.
- Hasse
- '''Hasse''' CHRISTIAN FREDERICK ([[1771]]-[[1831]]), musical composer; native of Russia; organist at Fulneck (Moravian settlement near Leeds); arranged music for Polyhymnia (words by James Montgomery), 1822; compiledSacred Music
- Edward Hassell
- '''Edward Hassell''' (d. [[1852]]), water-colour painter : son of John Hassell; secretary to Society of British Artists: exhibited at Royal Academy and British Institution.
- John Hassell
- '''John Hassell''' (d. [[1825]]), water-colour painter and engraver; friend and biographer of George Morland ; published Speculum, or Art of Drawing in Water-colours 1809,Art of multiplying Drawings 1811, treatise on etching (posthumous.1836), and other works.
- Warner Hassells
- '''Warner Hassells''' (Jl. [[1680]]-[[1710]]), portraitpainter of the school of Kneller.
- Edward Hasted
- '''Edward Hasted''' ([[1732]]-[[1812]]), historian of Kent ; of Eton and Lincoln's Inn; F.R.S., 1766; F.S.A.; occupied for forty years in compilation of History and Topographical Survey of Kent(4 vols. 1778-99; 2nd ed. 12 vols. 1797-1801); published also genealogical tables, 1797; died master of Oorsham Hospital.
- James Hastie
- '''James Hastie''' ([[1786]]-[[1826]]), civil agent of Great Britain in Madagascar; served in the ranks during Mahratta war: as civil agent (181 7-26) negotiated treaty with Radama I, of Madagascar, whom he helped to conquer the eastern, northern, and western tribes.
- Hastings
- '''Hastings''' Sin CHARLES ([[1794]]-[[186]]C), founder of British Medical Association; M.D. Edinburgh, 1818; physician to Worcester Infirmary; formed Provincial Medical and Surgical Association 1832 (styled British Medical Association from 1856), and established its Journal 1840; knighted, 1850; Hastings medal and prize in his memory awarded annually by British Medical Association; published Illustrations of Natural History of Worcestershire 1834.
- Edmund Hastings
- '''Edmund Hastings''' , BARON* HASTINGS OP INCH-
- Mahomk
- '''Mahomk''' (d. [[1314]] ?) ; younger son of Henry Hastings, first baron Hastings; served in Scotland, 1298-1300; summoned to parliament, 1299; signed letter of remonstrance to the pope, 1301; warden between Forth and Orkney, 1308, of Berwick, 1312; last summoned, 1313.
- Hastings
- '''Hastings''' Sm EDWARD ([[1381]]-[[1437]]), claimant of the Hastings barony; descendant of John Hastings, second baron Hastings, through his second wife. The right to bear the family arms was contested by Reginald Grey, third baron Grey of Ruthin, and decided in favour of Grey, 1410. The barony was in abeyance till 1841.
- Sir Edward Hastings
- '''Sir Edward Hastings''' , first BARON HASTINGS OF LOUGHBOROUGH (d. 1673), third son of George Hastings, first earl of Huntingdon; knighted, 1546; M.P., Leicestershire, 1547 and 1552; a strong Romanist; created privy councillor and master of the horse by Queen Mary; opposed Mary's marriage with Philip of Spain: M.P., Middlesex, 1554 and 1555; K.G., 1555; accompanied Clinton against French, and became lord chamberlain, 1557; created a peer, 1558; imprisoned for hearing mass, 1561, but released on taking oath of supremacy.
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- Lady Elizabeth Hastings
- '''Lady Elizabeth Hastings''' ([[1682]]-[[1739]]), philanthropist and beauty; eulogised as Aspasia in the Tatler by Steele and Congreve: friend of William Law and Bishop Thomas Wilson; founded scholarships at Queen's College, Oxford, and endowed charities at Ledsham and in Isle of Man.
- Lady Flora Elizabeth Hastings
- '''Lady Flora Elizabeth Hastings''' ([[1806]]1839), lady of the bedchamber to Duchess of Kent; daughter of Francis Rawdon Hastings, first marquis of Hastings; subject of a court scandal, 1839; her poems published, 1841.
- Francis Hastings
- '''Francis Hastings''' , second EARL OP HUNTING-
- Don
- '''Don''' ([[1514]]?-[[1561]]), eldest son of George Hastings, first earl of Huntingdon; summoned to parliament as Baron Hastings, 1529; succeeded as earl, 1545; adherent of Dudley; K.G., 1549; chief captain of army and fleet abroad, 1549: privy councillor, 1550; attempted to save Boulogne, 1550: granted Leicestershire estates of John Beaumont (. 1550), 1552; captured with Northumberland at Cambridge, 1553, but released; as lord-lieutenant of Leicestershire arrested Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, 1554.
- Sir Francis Hastings
- '''Sir Francis Hastings''' (d. [[1610]]), puritan politician; fifth sou of Francis Hastings, second earl of Huntingdon; sheriff of Leicestershire, 1572 and 1681; M.P., Leicestershire, 1571, 1585, 1597, Somerset, 1692, 1604; knighted, c. 1589; cited before privy council for promoting petition in favour of nonconformists, 1605; issued anti-catholic pamphlets.
- Francis Rawdon Hastings
- '''Francis Rawdon Hastings''' -, first MARQUIS OP
- Hastings
- '''Hastings''' and second EARL OP MOIRA ([[1754]]-[[1826]]), soldier and statesman: educated at Harrow and University College, Oxford; distinguished himself at Bunker's Hill, 1775; fought in battles of Brooklyn and White Plains, 1776; adjutant-general to forces in America, 1778; commanded left wing at Camden, 1780; defeated Greene at Hobkirk's Hill, 1781; captured by French on voyage home; created Baron Rawdon, 1783; joined the opposition, 1789; intimate with Prince of Wales; championed his cause on regency question, 1789; assumed additional name of Hastings, 1790; succeeded as Irish Earl of Moira, 1793; commanded expedition to Brittany, 1793, and reinforcements for Duke of York in Flanders, 1794; spoke against Irish union, 1799; general, 1803: commander-inchief in Scotland, 1803; master of the ordnance, 1806-7; active in support of Prince of Wales, 1810-11; attempted, with Welleslcy, to form a ministry, 1812; governorgeneral of Bengal, 1813-22; carried on a successful war against Nepaul, 1814-16; created Marquis of Hastings,
- Hastings
- '''Hastings''' 583
- Hastings
- '''Hastings''' 1817; extirpated Pindaris, and by defeating Mahrattaestablishel British supremacy in Central India, 1817-18; secured cession of Singapore, 1H19; opened relations with Siani, 1822; pursmil liberal policy tovanls natives; granted HIM. by tlic Kast India Company, but resigned on account of the annulling by court of directors of his permission to banking IMHC of Palmer to lend money to Hyderabad; named governor of Malta, 1H24; died at sea in Baia Bay: published a summary of his Indian adminitration (1824): his statue, by Chantrey, is at Dalhousie Institute, Calcutta.
- Prank Abney Hastings
- '''Prank Abney Hastings''' ([[1794]]-[[1828]]), naval commander in Greek war of independence; fought at Trafalgar, 1 805: dismissed British navy for sending a challenge: joined Greeks, 1822; raised fifty men and purchased the steamer Karteria: attacked Turkish camp near Athens, 1827; captured several ships, destroyed fleet in Bay of Salona (1827) and took Vasiladi, 1827; died of wounds after attack on Anatolikon.
- George Hastings
- '''George Hastings''' , first EARL OP HUNTINGDON and third BARON HASTINGS OF HASTINGS (1488 ?-1545), favourite of Henry VIII: grandson of William Hastings, baron Hastings; succeeded as Baron Hastings, 1508; joined Suffolk's expedition against France, 1523; create*! Earl of Huntingdon, 1529; leader against rebels in the Pilgrimage of Grace.
- George Fowler Hastings
- '''George Fowler Hastings''' ([[1814]]-[[1876]]), viceadmiral; second son of HansFrancis Hastings, eleventh earl of Huntingdon; served in the Harlequin in Chinese war and against Sumatra pirates, 1841-5; captain of the Curacoa during Crimean war; O.B., 1857; vice-admiral, 1869; commanded in Pacific, 1866-9, at the Nore, 1873-6. ith EA
- Hans Francis Hastings
- '''Hans Francis Hastings''' , eleventh EARL OP
- Huntingdon
- '''Huntingdon''' ([[1779]]-[[1828]]), sailor ; wounded in Quiberon Bay expedition, 1795: first lieutenant of Thisbe in Egyptian expedition, 1800; tried for murder while superintending impressing of seamen in Weymouth Roads, 1803; right to peerage established, 1818; governor of Dominica, 1822-4; post-captain, 1824.
- Henry Hastings
- '''Henry Hastings''' , first BARON HASTINGS by writ (rf. 1268), baronial leader; supported Montfort in parliament of 1262; excommunicated as rebel, 1263; commanded Londoners at Lewes, 1264: summoned to parliament of 1265; captured at Eve-ham, 1265: joined Derby at Chesterfield and held Kenilworth against the king; leader ofthe disinherited at Ely; submitted, 1267.
- Henry Hastings
- '''Henry Hastings''' , third EARL OP HUNTINGDON (1535-1595), son of Francis Hastings, second earl of Huntingdon; married the Duke of Northumberland's daughter Catherine, 1553: summoned to parliament as Baron Hastings, 1559; succeeded to earldom, 1561; heirpresumptive to crown through mother; supporter of puritans; associated with Shrewsbury in custody of Mary Queen of Scots, 1569-70; lord-lieutenant of Leicester and Rutland, 1572; president of the north, 1572; assisted at trial of Norfolk, 1573; K.G., 1679; raised force in north, 1581; active against threatened Spanish invasion, 1588; benefactor of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; compiled family history.
- Henry Hastings
- '''Henry Hastings''' ([[1551]]-[[1650]]), sportsman ; nephew of Henry Hastings, third earl of Huntingdon, of Woodlands, Dorset; account of him written by his neiehbour, Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, first earl of Shaftesbury
- Henry Hastings
- '''Henry Hastings''' , first BARON LOUGHBOROUGH (rf. 1667), royalist; second son of Henry Hastings, fifth earl of Huntingdon; raised and commanded troop of horse at Edgehill, 1642; held Ashby House against parliament till 1646; calledRob-carrierfor frequent interception of communications between London and the north; created Baron Loughborough, 1643; distinguished at relief of Newark, 1644; governor of Leicester, 1645; escaped to Holland, 1649; royalist conspirator; received pension and lieutenancy of Leicester, 1661.
- Sir Hugh Hastings
- '''Sir Hugh Hastings''' ([[1307]] 9-[[1347]]), soldier ; elder son of John Hastings, second baron Hastings; summoned to parliament, 1342; served in Flanders, 1343, and Gascony, 1345-6.
- John Hastings
- '''John Hastings''' , second BARON H STINGS (eighth by tenure) and BARON BKRGAVRNNY (1262-1313), claimant to Scottish throne; married I -al n-lla de Valence, niece of H.-nry HI, 1275: served against Scots, 1285, and Ylsh. 1288; claimed (1290) Scottish succession through his grandmother, Ada, third daughter of David, earl of Huntingdon: served in Ireland, 1294: first niiniiimnnl to parliament, 1295; enmmandiil Durham contingent at siege of Caerlaveroek, 1300: at parliament of Lincoln, 1301, denied pope right to adjudicate on diputi- with Scotland; king's lieutenant in Aquitaine, 1302; seneschal, 1309; received grant of Menteith estates, 1306; signed baronial letter to the pope, 1306.
- John Hastings
- '''John Hastings''' , third BARON HASTINGS ([[1287]]1326), served in Scottish ware, 1311-19; sided flint with barons, but afterwards joined Edward II; governor of Kenilworth, 1323.
- John Hastings
- '''John Hastings''' , second EARL OP PKMBROKE (1347-1375), soldier and protector of Froireart; ron of Laurence Hastings, first earl of Pembroke q. v.j: K.d., 1369; served with Earl of Cambridge and Black Prince in France; when lieutenant of Aquitaine was defeated and captured by Spanish fleet at La Hochelle, 1372: imprisoned three years in Spain; died in France, having been, handed over to Duguesclin.
- Laurence Hastings
- '''Laurence Hastings''' , first EARL OP PKKBROKK (1318?-1348X warrior; son of John Hastings, third baron Hastings; succeeded as fourth Baron Hastings (by writ), 1325; created earl palatine as representative of Aymer de Valence, 1339, when first summoned to parliament; present at Sluys, 1340; according to Murimuth, a knight of Round Table, 1344: prominent in Gascon campaigns, 1345-6; with Northampton defeated French fleet near Crotoy, 1347.
- Selina Hastings
- '''Selina Hastings''' , COUNTESS OP HUNTINGDON (1707-1791), founder ofLady Huntingdon's Connexion: wife of Theophilus Hastings, ninth earl of Huntingdon: converted by her sister-in-law, Lady Margaret Hastings: intimate with the Wesleys: member of first met hodist society in Fetter Lane. 1739; first supporter of itinerant lay preaching; employed among her chaplains, Whitefield, Romame, and Venn: intimate also with Toplady, Doddridge, and Dr. Watts; established first regular chapel at Brighton, 1761; set up churches In London, Bath, Tunbridge, and other aristocratic centres; her chapels registered as dissenting meeting-houses after 1779; her training college at Trevecca opened, 1768, removed to Cbeshunt, 1792. She supported Whitefleld against the Wesleys, but attempted a reconciliation, 1749, and took an active part in protest against the antiCalvinistic minutes of Wesley's conference, 1770, and against relaxation of subscription, 1772.
- Theophilus Hastings
- '''Theophilus Hastings''' , seventh EARL OP HUNT-
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- Ingdon
- '''Ingdon''' ([[1650]]-[[1701]]), volunteer In French army, [[1672]]; privy councillor, 1683: ecclesiastical commissioner and lord-lieutenant of Leicester and Derby, 1687-8; imprisoned for attempt to seize Plymouth for James II, 1688; a manager of conference with Commons, 1689; imprisoned on suspicion of treason, 1692.
- Thomas Hastings
- '''Thomas Hastings''' ([[1740]]?- [[1801]]), itinerant bookseller; known as Dr. Green; author of political pamphlets,
- Thomas Hastings
- '''Thomas Hastings''' (.ft. [[1813]]-[[1831]]), amateur etcher; publishedEtchings from works of Richard Wilson 1825, and other works.
- Sir Thomas Hastings
- '''Sir Thomas Hastings''' ([[1790]]-[[1870]]), admiral: commanded gunboat in Walcheren expedition, 1809: first lieutenant of the Undaunted at Elba, 1814; captain of the Excellent (training ship), 1832-45, and superintendent of R.N. Collesre, Portsmouth; knighted, 1839; K.C.B., 1859: admiral, 1866.
- Warren Hastings
- '''Warren Hastings''' ([[1732]]-[[1818]]). governor-general of India: first king's scholar at Westminster. 1747; went to India, 1750; when member of council at Kasim-Bazar imprisoned by nawab of Bengal, 1756; as resident of Moorshedabad, 1 757-60, corresponded with Olive: member of Calcutta council, 1761: despatched on mission toPatna, 1762: returned to England, 1764: gave evidence on Indian affairs before parliamentary committee, 1766; sent out as second in council at Madras, 1769; governor of Bengal, 1772: reorganised the financial and judicial system of Bengal, Benar, and Orissa; investigated conduct of native deputy-governors; assisted, in accordance with treaty of
- Hastings
- '''Hastings''' 584
- Hatton
- '''Hatton''' alliance of 1764, nawabof Oude against the Rohillas. 1773; took measures against dacoity; created jrovcrnor-tri-neral by the Regulating Act, 1773; opposed by a majority of i his new council and accused by Nand Kumar ( Macauliiy's j Nuucomar) of corruption: sent home a conditional resignation and brought a countercharge of conspiracy I against Nand Kumar, who was condemned and hanged for forgery (1775) on a private suit before the case came on: had the opium trade farmed for a term of years, the proceeds being credited in the public accounts; supported by supreme court, which ignored the acceptance of his resignation by the directors, 1777; checked confederacy between Mahrattas and Haidar; freed him-elf from the opposition in council of Sir Philip Francis (17401818) by wounding him in a duel, 1780; drove Haidar Ali from the Caruatic; attacked the French settlements; deposed Chait Singh and appropriated (1781) Ins treasure; suspected of conniving at imprisonment of the Begums of Oude and the seizure of their land and money; concluded treaty of Salbai with Tippu Sultan, 1783; obtained reversal of vote of censure by directors on his treatment of Chait Singh; founded Asiatic Society of Bengal and Calcutta Madrisa, 1784; left India, 1785. His impeachment on ground of corruption and cruelty in his Indian administration, begun, 1788, and concluded, 1795, resulted, after a trial of 145 days, in an acquittal, but cost him 70,0007. The company gave him pecuniary assistance; he was created privy councillor and D.O.L. of Oxford, was presented by the prince regent to the allied sovereigns in London, and was enabled to repurchase the family estate of Daylesford.
- William Hastings
- '''William Hastings''' , BARON HASTINGS ([[1430]] ?1483), sheriff of Leicestershire and Warwickshire; a devoted Yorkist; created by Edward IV a peer, 1461; master of the mint, 1461; lieutenant of Calais. 1471; lord chamberlain, 1461-83: joint- ambassador with Warwick to Charles the Bold, 1465-6: assisted Edward IV's escape toHolland, 1470; acted for him in his absence and gained over Clarence; prominent at Barnet, 1471. and Tewkesbury, 1471: commanded English force in France, 1475; on accession of Edward V opposed Rivers, and, declining Gloucester's overtures, was beheaded.
- Edwin Hatch
- '''Edwin Hatch''' ([[1835]]-[[1889]]), theologian ; B.A. Pembroke College, Oxford, 1857; professor of classics at Toronto, 1859-62; rector of high school, Quebec, 18621867; vice-principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 18671885; first editor of universityGazette 1870; publised Bampton lectures (1880) onOrganisation of Early Christian Churches 1881; D.D. Edinburgh, 1883; Grinfield lecturer, 1882-4: reader in ecclesiastical history. 1884; Herbert lecturer onGreek Influence on Christianity 1888; published also Growth of Church Institutions 1887, Essays in Biblical Greek 1889, and Towards Fields of Light
- John Hatchard
- '''John Hatchard''' ([[1769]]-[[1849]]), publisher : issued Christian Observer 1802-45, and publications of Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor.
- Thomas Goodwin Hatchard
- '''Thomas Goodwin Hatchard''' ([[1817]]-[[1870]]), bishop of Mauritius; grandson of John Hatchard; M.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1845: D.D., 1869; rector of Havant, 1846-56, of St. Nicholas, Guildford, 1856-69; bishop of Mauritius, 1869-70; died of fever in Mauritius.
- Henry Hatcher
- '''Henry Hatcher''' ([[1777]]-[[1846]]), Salisbury antiquary; published translation, with commentary, of Richard of Cirencester'sDescription of Britain 1809, and Historical Account of Old and New Sarum 1834; contributed to Hoare's Modern Wiltshireand Britton's Beauties of Wiltshire 1825, and Picturesque Antiquities 1H30.
- Thomas Hatcher
- '''Thomas Hatcher''' (rf. [[1583]]), antiquary ; of Eton and King's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1563: admitted at Gray's Inn, 1665; friend and correspondent of Stow and Dr. John Caius; began catalogue of King's College, Cambridge, and edited Haddon'e Lucubrationes 1567, and Carr'sDe scriptorum Britannicorum paucitate 1576.
- Thomas Hatcher
- '''Thomas Hatcher''' ([[1589]] ?-[[1677]]), parliamentarian captain; grandson of Thomas Hatcher (rf. 1583); M.P., Lincoln, Grantham, Stamford (in Long parliament), and Lincolnshire, 1664-9; commissioner to Scotland, 1643; present at Marston Moor, 1644, and siege of York, 1644.
- Charles Hatchett
- '''Charles Hatchett''' ([[1765]]7-[[1847]]), chemist; F.H.S., 1797; treasurer of the Literary Club, 1814: chief works, treatise onSpikenard of the Ancients 183(5, and 'Analysis of the Magnctical Pyrites, 1804.
- Vincent Hatcliffe
- '''Vincent Hatcliffe''' ([[1601]]-[[1671]]). See SPRNCKR,
- John
- '''John''' '.
- John Hatfield
- '''John Hatfield''' ([[1758]] ?-[[1803]]), forger: married and deserted a natural daughter of Lord Robert Manners twice released from a debtor's prison by Duke of Rutland imprisoned seven years at Scarborough, from 1792; re leased and married by Miss Nation. 1800; deserted he and lived in Cumberland as brother of Lord Hopetoun married Mary Robinson, the Buttermere Beauty 1802 tried at Carlisle for forgery and hanged.
- Martha Hatfield
- '''Martha Hatfield''' (. [[1652]]), cataleptic; her case described in The Wise Virgin 1653.
- Thomas of Hatfield
- '''Thomas of Hatfield''' (d. [[1381]]), bishop of Durham; keeper of the privy seal, 1343: accompanied Edward III to France, 1346 and 1355; bishop of Durham, 1345-81; commissioner to treat for peace with Scotland, 1350-7 and subsequently; resisted visitations of archbishops of York: at Durham built part of south side of cathedral choir and hall of castle; founded Carmelite house of Northallerton and college at Oxford for Durham monks; his survey of Durham edited by W. Greenwell, 1857.
- Richard Hathaway
- '''Richard Hathaway''' (fl. [[1702]]), impostor ; sentenced to fine, pillory, and hard labour for impo.3v.ire, riot, and assault, 1702.
- Baron Hatherley
- '''Baron Hatherley''' ([[1801]]-[[1881]]). See WOOD,
- Page William
- '''Page William''' .
- Hatherton
- '''Hatherton''' first BARON ([[1791]]-[[1863]]). See
- Edward John Littleton
- '''Edward John Littleton''' .
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- Way Hath
- '''Way Hath''' , RIOHARD(. [[1602]]), dramatist : mentioned by Meres (1598) among best contemporary writers of comedy: part author of First Part of the True and Honorable Historic of the Life of Sir John Old-castle 1599, and of unprinted plays.
- Sir Henry Hatsell
- '''Sir Henry Hatsell''' ([[1641]]-[[1714]]), judge; B.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1659: barrister, Middle Temple, 1667; serjeant-at-law, 1689: knighted, 1697; baron of the exchequer, 1697-1702 (removed).
- John Hatsell
- '''John Hatsell''' ([[1743]]-[[1820]]), clerk of House of Commons; of QueensCollege, Cambridge, and Middle Temple; senior bencher; clerk of House of Commons, 1768-97; published A Collection of Cases of Privilege of Parliament... to 1628 1776, and Precedents of Proceedings in House of Commons 1781.
- William Hatteclyffe
- '''William Hatteclyffe''' (rf. [[1480]]), physician and secretary to Edward IV; original scholar of Kinir's College, Cambridge, 1440; physician to Henry VI, 1454; captured by Lancastrians, 1470; afterwards master of requests and royal councillor.
- William Hatteclyffe
- '''William Hatteclyffe''' (. [[1500]]), undertreasurer of Ireland, 1495.
- Hatton
- '''Hatton'''
- Sir Christopher Hatton
- '''Sir Christopher Hatton''' ([[1540]]-[[1591]]), lord chancellor: gentleman-commoner, St. Mary Hall, Oxford, r. 1555; took part in masque at Inner Temple, 1561; became one of Elizabeth's gentlemen-pensioners, 1664; received grant of estates, court offices, and an annuity; M.P., Higham Ferrers, 1571, Northamptonshire, 1572, 1684, and subsequently: captain of the body-guard, 1572; charged with being Elizabeth's paramour by Mary Queen of Scots, 1584; the bishop of Ely ordered to surrender fee-simple of Ely Place, Hplborn, for his benefit; made vice-chamberlain and knighted, 1578; the queen's mouthpiece in parliament; opposed the queen's match with the duke of Anjou, 1581: member of committees for trials of Babiugton, 1586, and Mary Queen of Scots, 1586; spoke strongly in parliament against Mary, and advised Davison to despatch warrant for her execution, 1587; lord chancellor. 1587-91; assisted by Sir Richard Swale, and had four masters in chancery as assessors; K.G., 1588; chancellor of Oxford, 1688; friend and patron of Spenser and Churchyard; wrote act iv. ofTancred and Gismund acted at Inner Temple, 1568; buried in St. Paul's cathedral; his correspondence printed, 1847.
- Hatton
- '''Hatton''' 585
- Havelock
- '''Havelock'''
- Christopher Hatton
- '''Christopher Hatton''' , first BAROX HATTOX (1605?-1670), royalist; relative of Sir Christopher Hatton; K.M., 1(520; M.I, Hiirliam l-Ynvrs, in Id; lion. D.C.L. Oxfonl, 1642; created Huron Hatton iin-l privy councillor, 1643; comptroller of Charles I's hou-elioM, l(i:5-ti; royal commissioner at Uxbridge, 1645; retired to Paris, 1648; allowed to return, 1656; privy councillor and governor of Guernsey, 1(562; published psalter with prayers, 1644.
- Chrlstophkk Hatton
- '''Chrlstophkk Hatton''' , first Vis, ursr NATION (1632-1706), governor of Guernsey: elder.-on oflm-upher, first barou Hattou; succeeded:i- -tvon.l baron, 1670; his mother and first wife killed by explosion of powder magazine in Guernsey, 1672; presented to Bodleian Anglo-Saxon Homilies, 1675; created Viscount Hattou, 1683: custos rotulorum of Northampton, 1681-9; hou. D.O.L. Oxford, 1683; selection from correspondence edited, 1878.
- Edward Hatton
- '''Edward Hatton''' ([[1701]]-[[1783]]), Dominican: provincial, 1754 and 1770; his Memoirs of the Reformation of England appeared with pseudonym Constantius Archaeophilus 1826 and 1841.
- Frank Hatton
- '''Frank Hatton''' ([[1861]]-[[1883]]), mineral explorer to British North Borneo Company, 1881-3; accidentally killed in jungle; left interesting letters and diaries.
- John Liptrot Hatton
- '''John Liptrot Hatton''' ([[1809]]-[[1886]]), musical composer; organist in three Lancashire churches at sixteen, afterwards at St. Nicholas, Chapel Street, Liverpool; appeared in London as an actor, 1832; directed opera choruses at Drury Lane, 1842-3; produced his 'Queen of the Thames 1843; hisPascal Brunogiven at Vienna for Staudigl's benefit, 1844; on return published trios and eighteen songs, includingTo An thea sang and played on tour and in America, 1848-50; conductor of Glee and Madrigal Union, c. 1850; conductor for Charles Kean at Princess's Theatre, London, 1853-9; his cantata Robin Hood produced at Bradford, 1856; his operaRoseat Covent Garden, 1864, and his oratorio Hezekiah at Crystal Palace, 1877; edited collections of old English songs; composed 300 songs and excellent partsongs,
- Sir Graves Champney Haughton
- '''Sir Graves Champney Haughton''' ([[1788]]1849), orientalist: served in Indian army and studied at Baraset and Fort William; professor of Sanskrit and Bengali, at Haileybury, 1819-27; hon. M.A. Oxfonl, 1819; F.R.S., 1821; foreign member of Paris Asiatic Society and Institute of France; hon. secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, 1831-2; K.H., 1833; issued Bengali grammar, glossaries, and texts, an edition of Institutes of Menu 1825, Bengali-Sanskrit dictionary, 1833, Prodromus 1839, and other metaphysical treatises; died of cholera at St. Cloud.
- James Haughton
- '''James Haughton''' ([[1795]]-[[1873]]), philanthropist; friend and supporter of Father Mathew and O'Connell; prominent in anti-slavery, temperance, and other social movements; president of Vegetarian Society; published 'Slavery Immoral 1847,Memoir of T. Clarksou 1847, and Plea for Teetotalism 1855.
- John Colpoys Haughton
- '''John Colpoys Haughton''' ([[1817]]-[[1887]]), lientenant-general; nephew of Sir Graves Champney Haughton; as adjutant of 4th Ghoorkas distinguished himself in defence of Char-ee-kar, 1841, publishing an account, 1867; escaped wounded to Cabul; commissioner at Cooch Bebar, 1865-73; O.S.I., 1866; lieutenant-general, 1882.
- Moses Haughton
- '''Moses Haughton''' , the elder ([[1734]]-[[1804]]), still life and enamel-painter; exhibited at Academy, 1788-1804. 1772 7-T
- Moses Haughton
- '''Moses Haughton''' , the younger ([[1772]]7-[[1848]]?), miniaturist and engraver; nephew of Moses Haughton the elder; friend of Fuseli; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1808-48.
- Samuel Haughton
- '''Samuel Haughton''' ([[1821]]-[[1897]]), man of science ; son of James Haughton; B.A. and fellow, Trinity College, Dublin, 1844; M.A., 1852; senior fellow, 1881; ordained priest, 1847; professor of geology, Dublin University, 1851-81; M.D. Dublin, 1862; registrar of medical school, subsequently chairman of medical school committee, and university representative on general medical council; member of council of Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, I860 (president, 1888): F.R.S, 1858; honorary D.C.L. Oxford, 1868; LL.D. Cambridge, 1881; honorary LL.D. Edinburgh, 1884; president of Royal Iri.-h Academy, 1887; published scientific work- U nd pap.
- William Haughton
- '''William Haughton''' ( it. LV.tK). dlMMtftrt: author of Knglish-Men for my Money. n,i.;:,-ollnborator with ix-kker, Cliettle, John Day, mid other*.
- Francis Hauksbee
- '''Francis Hauksbee''' , the el.ler (.. [[1713]]V). H.vtrician; F.H.S.. I7ti5; contrived firt electrical machine. 1706; publishedPhysico-Mechauical Experiment* 1709: suggested an improved air-pump; determined relative weight of water and air.
- Francis Hauksbee
- '''Francis Hauksbee''' , the younger ([[1687]]-[[1765]]), writer on science; perhaps son of Francis Hauksbee the elder: clerk and housekeeper to Royal Society, , 1723: published (with P. Sliaw) Essay for introducing a i Portable Laboratory 1731, and syllabus for courses of experimental lectures (which he was the first to give, c. 1714), also Course of Mechanical, Optical, and Pueumati j cal Experiments(with W. Whiston).
- Hau
- '''Hau''' 8TED, PETER (d. [[1645]]), dramatist: rector of Hadham, vicar of Gretton: D.D. Oxford, 1642: died at I Banbury Castle during the siege; published, among other ! works,The Rival Friends(comedy), 1632. andSenile ; Odium(Latin play), 1633; hisHymnus Tabaci by I Raphael Thorius appeared 1650.
- John De Hauteville
- '''John De Hauteville''' (ft. [[1184]]), Latin poet ; his 1 satire Architrenius first printed at Paris, 1517.
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- William Havabd
- '''William Havabd''' ([[1710]]7-[[1778]]), actor and I dramatist; appeared at Goodman's Fields, 1730-7; at j Drury Lane till retirement, 1769, playing generally secondary parts; depreciated in Rosciad; appeared i also in his own plays, King Charles I at Lincoln Inn Fields, 1737, Regulus Drury Lane, 1744, and The Elopement Drury Lane, 1763.
- Robert Havell
- '''Robert Havell''' , the elder (ft. [[1800]]-[[1840]]), engraver and art publisher; issued aquatint engravings from dra w 1 ings by W. Havell and others, 1812-28; published Audubon'sBirds of America Salt'sViews in Africa and other works.
- Robert Havell
- '''Robert Havell''' , the younger (ft. [[1820]]-[[1850]]), painter; son of Robert Havell the elder: settled ; in America as landscape-painter.
- William Havell
- '''William Havell''' ([[1782]]-[[1857]]), landscape-painter : original member of Old Water-Colour Society; visited China and India, 1816-25: after his return painted in oil, exhibiting (Italian subjects) at Royal Academy, British Institution, and Suffolk Street; died a Turner pensioner.
- Sir Henry Havelock
- '''Sir Henry Havelock''' , first baronet ([[1795]]-[[1857]]X major general; intimate at Charterhouse with Julius j Hare; studied at Middle Temple under Joseph i Chitty: entered army, 1815; went to India as subaltern in 13th, 1823; deputy assistant adjutant-general I in Burmese expedition, 1824-6, publishing narrative, i 1828; while stationed at Chinsurah became a baptist; I regimental adjutant, 1835-8; aide-de-camp to Sir WilI loughby Cotton in first Afghan campaign, 1839, of which he published an account; Persian interpreter to General William G. K. Elphinstone in Afghanistan, 1840; accompanied Sir R. Sale to the passes, and assisted him in holding Jellalabad, 1841: returned with Pollock to Cabul, and accompanied Hindoo Khoosh and Kohistan expedition; C.B. and brevet- major, 1842; interpreter to Sir Hugh Gough in Gwalior campaign, 1843: present at Mudki, 1845, Ferozeshah, 1845. and Sobraon, 1846; deputy adjutant-general. Bombay, 1847; visited England for last time, 1849-51; planned the operations at Mohumra in Persian war of 1867; during the Indian mutiny commanded a column which recaptured Cawnpore, after winning four victories and marching 120 miles in nine days, 17 July 1857: major-general, 1857; defeated the sepoys at Onao and thrice at Busseerutgunge, but owing to sickness and want of ammunition was compelled to fall back on Cawnpore, August 1857: reinforced by Outram; carried the Allumbagh and effected first relief of Lucknow, September, 1857; co-operated with Sir Colin
- Ock Havel
- '''Ock Havel''' 586 HA WES CamplK-ll in second relief. November 1857; died of diarrhoeft on morning of withdrawal. He had been created K.O.B. and a baronet, with a pension of l.OOO., November, 1857.
- William Havelock
- '''William Havelock''' ([[1793]]-[[1848]]), lieutenantcolonel: brother of Sir Henry Havelock; aide-decamp in Peninsula and at Waterloo to Count Alten: ilitinguished at Vera, 1813; aide-le-camp to Sir Charles Oolville at Bombay: military secretary to Lord Elphinstone at Madras; lieutenant-colonel, 14th dragoons, 1841; mortally wounded at Hamnuggur in second Sikh war, 1848.
- Havelock
- '''Havelock''' - ALLAN, Sm HENRY MARSHMAN, first baronet (183(1-1897), lieutenant-general; son of Sir Henry Havelock; ensign, 1846; adjutant, 10th foot, 1852; captain, 18th foot (royal Irish regiment), 1857; brevet lieutenant-colonel, 1859; unattached major, 1864; brevet-colonel, 1868; major-general, 1878: lieutenant-general, 1881; colonel of royal Irish regiment of foot, 1878; in Persian war and Indian mutiny, 1857-9; took part in defence of Lucknow; received Victoria cross, 1858; created baronet on death of his father, 1868: in Maori war, 1863-4: O.B., 1866; assistant quartermaster-general in Canada, 1867-9, and in Dublin, 1869: liberal M.P. for Sunderland, 1874-81, and south-east Durham county, 1885; assumed additional name of Allan, 1880; liberal-unionist M.P. for south-east Durham county, 1886-92 and 1895; K.O.B., 1897; killed while visiting British troops on Afghan frontier. BY (1836-1
- Frances Ridley Havergal
- '''Frances Ridley Havergal''' ([[1836]]-[[1879]]), writer of religious verse; daughter of William Henry Havergal; published Ministry of Song 1870, and other hymns and poems; Poetical Works issued, 1884; autobiography in Memorials(2nd edit. 1880). J-1890), author: ttAVERGAL, HENRY EAST (1820-1875), musician: of William Henry Havergal; M.A. Magdalen 1, Oxford, 1846: chaplain at Christ Church and New
- Francis Tebbs Havergal
- '''Francis Tebbs Havergal''' ([[1829]]son of William Henry Havergal: M.A. New College, Oxford, 1857; vicar-choral (1853-74) and prebendary of Hereford, 1877-90; published Fasti Herefordenses 1869, Herefordshire Words and Phrases 1887, and other works.
- Havergal
- '''Havergal''' son of Hall, Oxford, 1846: chaplain College, Oxford; while vicar of Cople, Bedfordshire, 18471875, constructed organ and chiming apparatus: vocalist and instrumentalist; author of musical publications.
- William Henry Havergal
- '''William Henry Havergal''' ([[1793]]-[[1870]]), composer of sacred music: educated at Merchant Taylors School and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; M.A., 1819; rector of Astley, 1829, of St. Nicholas, Worcester, 1845; vicar of Shareshill, 1860; gained Gresham prize for evening service in A, 1836, and for anthem,Give Thanks 1841; composedA Hundred Psalm and Hymn Tunes 1869; published Old Church Psalmody 1847, and other works.
- Alice Havers
- '''Alice Havers''' ([[1850]]-[[1890]]). See MORGAN MRS.
- Mary Alick
- '''Mary Alick''' .
- Clopton Havers
- '''Clopton Havers''' (d. [[1702]]), physician and anatomist; of Catharine Hall, Cambridge; M.D. Utrecht, 1685; L.R.C.P., 1687; F.R.S., 1686; his chief anatomical work,Osteologia Nova giving the first minute account of the structure of bone, printed, 1691; the Haversian canals named after him.
- Haversham
- '''Haversham''' first BARON ([[1647]]-[[1710]]). See
- Sir John Thompson
- '''Sir John Thompson''' . HA VERTY, JOSEPH PATRICK (1794-1864), painter; executed portraits of O'Connell and Bishop Doyle.
- Martin Haverty
- '''Martin Haverty''' ([[1809]]-[[1887]]), historian; brother of Joseph Patrick Haverty; educated at Irish college, Paris; sub-librarian of King's Inns, Dublin: published History of Ireland 1860, and Wanderings in Spain 1844.
- John Haviland
- '''John Haviland''' ([[1785]]-[[1851]]), professor of medicine at Cambridge: of Winchester and St. John's College, Cambridge: twelfth wrangler, 1807; fellow; M.A., 1810; professor of anatomy, Cambridge, 1814; regius professor of medicine, 1817-51; F.R.C.P., 1818; M.D., 1817; Harveian orator, 1837.
- William Haviland
- '''William Haviland''' ([[1718]]-[[1784]]), general : aidede-camp to Blakeney, 1745-6; lieutenant-colonel of 27th, 1762: served in North America, 1757-60, under Abercromby and Amherst, renderinir valuable as.-istance in capture of Montreal, 17iK); invented u pontoon for rapids: second in command,at reduction of Martinique: commanded brigade at capture of Havamia, 1762; general, 1783; friend and connection of Burke.
- Thomas Fiott Havilland
- '''Thomas Fiott Havilland''' IK (1 [[775]]-1 86G), lieutenant-colonel in Madras army: served at siege of Pondicherry, 1793, reduction of Ceylon, 1795-6, in operations against Tippoo Sahib. 1799, and in Egypt, 18U1; as architect of Madras, 1814-25, built cathedral and St. I Andrew's presbyterian church: lieutenant-colonel, 1824: I member of Guernsey legislature. HA WARD, FRANCIS (1759-1797), engraver: exhibited at Academy engravings after Reynolds and other I artists; associate engraver, 1783. HA WARD, NICHOLAS (ft. 1569), author: of Thavies Inn; published The Line of Liberalise dulie directinge the wel bestowing of Benefites &c., 1569.
- Simon Haward
- '''Simon Haward''' (fl. [[1572]]-[[1614]]). See HAR
- Ward
- '''Ward'''
- Edward Hawarden
- '''Edward Hawarden''' ([[1662]]-[[1735]]), Roman catholic controversialist; vice-president of Douay College, 1690-1707; head of Romanist colony at Oxford, 1688-9; disputed with Samuel Clarke on the Trinity before Queen Caroline, 1719; published against Leslie's The Case Stated'The True Church of Christ 1714-15, Charity and Truth 1728 (against Ohillingworth's Religion of Protestants), andAnswer to Dr. Clarke and Mr. Whiston concerning the Divinity of the Son and of the Holy Spirit 1729.
- Thomas Haweis
- '''Thomas Haweis''' ([[1734]]-[[1820]]), divine ; studied at Christ Church and Magdalen Hall, Oxford; assistant to Martin Madan at Lock Chapel: rector of Aidwinkle, Northamptonshire, 1764-1820: LL.B. Cambridge, 1772; manager of Trevecca College; trustee and executor of Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon, 1791; published, among other works, * Life of William Romaine 1797, and History of Rise, Declension, and Revival of the Church 1800; edited John Newton's Authentic Narrative 1764.
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- Sir Benjamin Hawes
- '''Sir Benjamin Hawes''' ([[1797]]-[[1862]]), nnder-secretary for war; whig M.P., Lambeth, 1832-47, Kinsale, 1848-52; caused appointment of fine arts commission and opening of British Museum on holidays; advocate of penny postage and electric telegraph: under-secretary for colonies, 1846: K.O.B., 1856; under-secretary for war, 1857-62; published narrative of ascent of Mont Blanc in 1827. HA WES, EDWARD (. 1606), poet; author, while at Westminster School, ofTrayterous Percyes and Catesj byes Prosopopeia 1606. HA WES, RICHARD (1603 ?-1668), puritan divine; M.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1627: when rector of Kentchurch tried by royalists for supposed conspiracy; ejected from vicarage of Leintwardine, 1662, but occasionally allowed to preach. HA WES, ROBERT (1665-1731), topographer; part of his manuscript history of Framlingham and LoesHondred printed by R. Loder, 1798. HA WES, STEPHEN (d. 1523 ?), poet; groom of the chamber to Henry VII: his Passetyme of Pleasure, or History of Grannde Amoure and la Bel Pucel first printed by Wynkyu de Worde, 1509 (reprinted by Sonthey, 1831); other works by him reprinted (ed. David Laing), 1865. HA WES, WILLIAM (1736-1808), founder of Royal Humane Society; educated at St. Paul's School: M.P.; physician to London Dispensary; founded Royal Humane Society, 1774; published account of Goldsmith's illness, 1774, examination ofJohn Wesley's Primitive Physic 1776, and tracts on premature interment and suspended animation.
- William Hawes
- '''William Hawes''' ([[1786]]-1R46), singer and composer: chorister, gentleman, and master of children (1817) at Chapel Royal: original associate of Philharmonic Society; almoner and vicar-choral at 8k Paul's, 1814;
- Hawford
- '''Hawford''' 587
- Hawkins
- '''Hawkins''' lay vicar of Westminster, 1817-20; assisted Arnold in BMUMgHMnt of English opera at Lyceum; conducted Madrigal Society ami directed oratorios; composed SOURS 10ft (fas and rafted, among other works,Triumphs of Oriana 1818.
- Edward Hawford
- '''Edward Hawford''' (d. [[1582]]), master of Christ's College, Cambridge; H.A. Jesus College, Cambridge, 1543; fellow of Christ's College; M.A., 1545: master of Christ's College, 15M)-2; D.D., 1564: vice-chancellor, 1563-4; took part in framing of university statutes (1570).
- Edward Hawke
- '''Edward Hawke''' , flrst BAROX HAWKE ([[1705]]1781), admiral of the fleet; brought up by his uncle, Martin Bladen; entered navy as volunteer, 1720: first saw lighting as commander of the Berwick in battle of Toulon, 1744; promoted rear-admiral of the white by special interposition of George II, 1747; defeated and captured great part of French squadron protecting convoy from Kochelle, 1747; K.B., 1747; M.P., Portsmouth, 1747; commanded home fleet, 1748-52: presided over court-martials (1750) on admirals Sir Charles Knowles and Thomas Griffin; commanded western fleet, 1755-6, Mediterranean fleet, 1756: admiral, 1757; co-operated with Sir John Mordaunt in the Rochefort expedition, 1757; succeeded in delaying, but failed to destroy, French convoy for America, 1758; struck his flag owing to his treatment by admiralty, but resuming his command blockaded Brest from May to November, 1759; in heavy weather defeated Conflans in Quiberon Bay, 20 Nov. 1759, capturing five ships and running others ashore; thanked by parliament and given a pension of 1,500J. for two lives; after capturing Spanish treasure-ships finally struck his flag, 1762; first lord of the admiralty, 1766-71; admiral of the fleet, 1768; created Baron Hawke of Great Britain, 1776.
- Edward Hawker
- '''Edward Hawker''' ([[1782]]-[[1860]]), admiral ; son of James Hawker; entered navy, 1793; successful in cruising against privateers in Mediterranean; flag-captain to Sir Richard Keats at Newfoundland," 1813-15, to Earl ofNortheskat Plymouth, 1827-30; admiral, 1853: correspondent of Times as A Flag Officer
- James Hawker
- '''James Hawker''' (d. [[1787]]), captain in the navy ; posted, 1768; with the Iris fought drawn battle with La Touche Treville in the Hermione off New York, 1780; commanded the Hero in Porto Praya under Commodore G. Johnstone, 1781.
- Peter Hawker
- '''Peter Hawker''' ([[1786]]-[[1853]]), soldier and author : served with 14th light dragoons in Peninsula; badly wounded at Talavera, 1809; retired, 1813: patented improvements in pianoforte, 1820: published military journal, 1810,Instructions to Young Sportsmen 1814.
- Robert Hawker
- '''Robert Hawker''' ([[1753]]-[[1827]]), divine and author ; member of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1778: curate of Charles, near Plymouth, 1778, vicar, 1784; D.D. Edinburgh, 1792; highly popular as extempore preacher; published numerous devotional works, alsoConcordance and Dictionary to Sacred Scriptures; collected works edited, 1831.
- Robert Stephen Hawker
- '''Robert Stephen Hawker''' ([[1803]]-[[1875]]), poet and antiquary; grandson of Robert Hawker; matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford, 1823; M.A. Magdalen Hall, 1836; Newdigate prizeman, 1827; vicar of Morwenstow, 1834, with Wellcombe, 1861; became Romanist in last days; published Quest of the Sangraal 1864, Cornish Ballads and other Poems 1869, and other verse, including And shall Trelawny die Records of the Western Shore 1832, 1836, and Footprints of Former Men m Far Cornwall 1870.
- Thomas Hawker
- '''Thomas Hawker''' (d. [[1723]] ?), portrait-painter.
- Hawkesbttry
- '''Hawkesbttry''' first BAROX ([[1727]]-[[1808]]). See
- Charles Jknkivson
- '''Charles Jknkivson''' , first EARL OP LIVERPOOL.
- John Hawkesworth
- '''John Hawkesworth''' ([[1715]]?-[[1773]]), author; said to have succeeded Johnson as compiler of parliamentary debates forGentleman's Magazine 1744; with him and Warton carried on theAdventurer 1752-4; edited Swift's works, 1755; LL.D. Lambeth, 1766; hi* 1 Edcrar and Emmeline produced at Drury Lane, 1761; published an account of voyages in the South Seas, 177S, when ho Iweame a director of the East India Company; early friend nud imitator of Johnson.
- Walter Hawkesworth
- '''Walter Hawkesworth''' (d. [[1606]]), dramatist ; major fellow Trinity College, Cambridge, 1595; M.A., 1595; acted in his own comedies, LeanderandPedautius," 1603; secretary to Sir Charles Cornwallis in Spain, c. 1605; died of the plague in Spain,
- John Hawkey
- '''John Hawkey''' ([[1703]]-[[1769]]), classical Bcbolar; graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, 1725; edited Virgil, 1745, Horace, 1745, and Terence, 1745, Juvenal and Persius, 1746, Sallust, 1747.
- Hawkins
- '''Hawkins''' 8m CAESAR, baronet ([[1711]]-[[1786]]), Burgeon; surgeon to St. George's Hospital, 1736-74; sergeant-surgeon to George II and George III; created baronet, 1778; Invented tlte cutting gorget,
- Hawkins
- '''Hawkins''' OffiSAIl HENRY ([[1798]]-[[1884]]X surgeon : grandson of Sir Caesar Hawkins; educated at Christ's Hospital and St. George's Hospital: surgeon to St. George's Hospital, 1829-61; consulting surgeon, 1861; Huuterian orator, 1849; president of College of Surgeons, 1852 and 1861; sergeant-surgeon to Queen Victoria, 1862: F.R.S.; first successful practiser of ovariotomy: collected works issued, 1874.
- Edward Hawkins
- '''Edward Hawkins''' ([[1780]]-[[1867]]), numismatist; keeper of antiquities at British Museum, 1826-60; F.RA, 1821, F.S.A., 1826 (vice-president of both); president of London Numismatic Society; publishedSilver Coins of England 1841, and Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland 1885; his collection of medals and political caricatures purchased by British Museum, 1860.
- Edward Hawkins
- '''Edward Hawkins''' ([[1789]]-[[1882]]), provost of Oriel College, Oxford; brother of Caesar Henry Hawkins; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and St. John's College, Oxford; M.A., 1814; D.D., 1828; fellow of Oriel, 1813; vicar of St. Mary's, 1823-8; provost of Oriel, 18281874; canon of Rochester, 1828-82; Bampton lecturer, 1840; first Ireland professor of exegesis, 1847-61; though a high churchman opposed tractariau movement and (1841) drew up condemnation of Tract XC; retired to Rochester, 1874; published an edition of Milton's poetry with Newton's life, 1824, 4 A Manual for Christians 1826, and sermons and pamphlets on university affairs,
- Ernest Hawkins
- '''Ernest Hawkins''' ([[1802]]-[[1868]]), canon of Westminster; M.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1827; B.D., 1839; fellow of Exeter College, 1831; sub-librarian of Bodleian, 1831; secretary of the S.P.G., 1843-64, canon of Westminster, 1864-8; minister of Curzon Chapel, Mayfair, 1850; vice-president, Bishop's College, Cape Town, 1859; published works relating to history of missions,
- Francis Hawkins
- '''Francis Hawkins''' ([[1628]]-[[1681]]), Jesuit; son of John Hawkins (f. 1635); professor of holy scripture at Liege College, 1676-81; translated, at age of eight, 4 Youth's Behaviour first printed, 1641.
- Francis Hawkins
- '''Francis Hawkins''' ([[1794]]-[[1877]]), physician; brother of Caesar Henry Hawkins; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and St. John's College, Oxford; fellow; Newdigate prizeman, 1813; B.O.L., 1819; M.D., 1823; F.R.C.P.,1824; first professor of medicine at King's College, London, 1831-6; physician to Middlesex Hospital, 1824-58, and to royal household; registrar of College of Physicians, 1829-58, of Medical Council, 1858-76.
- George Hawkins
- '''George Hawkins''' ([[1809]]-[[1852]]), lithographic artist.
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- Henry Hawkins
- '''Henry Hawkins''' ([[1571]] 7-[[1646]]), Jesuit ; studied at St. Omer and Rome; exiled from England, 1618: published translations from Latin, French, and Italian, and 4 Partheneia Sacra 1632; died at Ghent.
- James Hawkins
- '''James Hawkins''' , the elder ([[1662]]-[[1729]]), organist: Mus. Bac. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1719; organist of Ely Cathedral, 1682-1729; arranged Ely MS. choir-books, of which vol. vii. contains music by himself,
- James Hawkins
- '''James Hawkins''' , the younger (ft. [[1714]]-[[1760]]), organist of Peterborough Cathedral, 1714-50; son of James Hawkins the elder
- Hawkins
- '''Hawkins''' or HAWKYNS, SIR JOHN ([[1582]]-[[1595]]), naval commander; second sou of William Hawkyns ; freeman of Plymouth, 1556; made voyages to the Canaries before 1561; in three ships fitted out with assistance of his father-in-law and Sir William Wynter
- Hawkins
- '''Hawkins''' sailed to Sierra Leone, kidnapped negroes, and exchanged them with Spaniards in San Domingo (Hispauiola) for hides and other commodities, 1562-3; in second voyage, 1564-5, having loan of the Jesus (queen's ship) and support of Pembroke and Leicester, forced his negroes on Spaniards at Hio de la Mac ha-, and relieved French colony in Florida: his third expedition, delayed by Spanish remonstrances with Elizabeth, left Plymouth, October 15G7, with six ships (two queen's), took money from the Portuguese and negroes from Sierra Leone: brought some of the slaves to Vera Oruz; most of his ships destroyed and treasure seized in the harbour of San Juan de Lua by a Spanish fleet; forced by famine to land some of his men in Mexico; reached Vigo; arrived in England January 1569: pretended, with Burghley's connivance, to favour a Spanish invasion of England, thereby obtaining from Philip II the release of his captured sailors, 40,000;., and the patent of grandee of Spain; M.P., Plymouth, 1572; treasurer and comptroller of the navy; introduced many improvements in the construction of ships for the navy; member of council of war at Plymouth during fight with Armada, 1588; commanded rear squadron during fighting in Channel, 1588; knighted after action off Isle of Wight; commanded centre of Howard's division at Qravelines, 29 Nov. 1688; joint commander with Frobisher of squadron sent to Portuguese coast, 1590: while serving with Drake's expedition to West Indies died at sea off Porto Rico. He founded the hospital called after him at Chatham, 1592, where is a genuine portrait.
- John Hawkins
- '''John Hawkins''' (. [[1635]]), translator ; brother of Henry Hawkins; M.D. Padua: published Briefe Introduction to Syntax (1631) and translations of Andreas de Soto'sRansome of Timeand an Italian 4 Paraphrase upon the seaveu Penitential Psalms 1635.
- Sir John Hawkins
- '''Sir John Hawkins''' ([[1719]]-[[1789]]), author; claimed descent from Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595); Middlesex magistrate: knighted, 1772: became known to Dr. Johnson through connection withGentleman's Magazine: member of the club at King's Head, Ivy Lane, and of famous club of 1763; drew up Johnson's will, 1784; published Johnson's Life and Works 1787-9; edited Walton'sOompleat Angler 1760; hisGeneral History of Music issued, 1776.
- John Hawkins
- '''John Hawkins''' ([[1758]]?-[[1841]]), author; F.R.S.: travelled in Greece and the east: contributed to Walpole's Memoirs of European and Asiatic Turkey 1818. and Travels in... the East
- John Sidney Hawkins
- '''John Sidney Hawkins''' ([[1758]]-[[1842]]), antiquary ; son of Sir John Hawkins (1719-1789); F.S.A.; edited Ruggle'a Ignoramus 1787, and Rigaud's version of Da Vinci On Painting 1802; published work on Gothic architecture, 1813, Inquiry into... Greek and Latin Poetry 1817, and Inquiry into... Thorough Bass on a new plan.
- Major Rohde Hawkins
- '''Major Rohde Hawkins''' ([[1820]]-[[1884]]), architect to the committee of council on education: third son of Edward Hawkins (1780-1867); accompanied Sir Charles Fellows's expedition to Asia Minor, 1841.
- Nicholas Hawkins
- '''Nicholas Hawkins''' (d. [[1534]]), bishop-designate of Ely; of Eton and King's College, Cambridge: LL.D.; in youth imprisoned for Lutheranism; as archdeacon of Ely attended convocation of 1529; resident ambassador at imperial court, 1532; had interview with Clement VII at Bologna about Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Arragon, 1533; communicated to Charles V in Spain news of the divorce and Henry's private marriage with Anne Boleyn; bishop-designate of Ely, 1533; died at Balbase, Arragon.
- Hawkins
- '''Hawkins''' or HAWKYN8, Sm RICHARD ([[1562]]?1622), naval commander; sou of Sir John Hawkins or Hawkyns (1532-1595): captain of the Duck galliot in Drake's West Indian expedition, 1585-6; commanded the Swallow against Armada, 1588, and the Crane in hU father's Portuguese expedition, 1590; left Plymouth in the Dainty on roving commission against Spaniards, 1593; put in at Santos in Brazil, October 1593; passed Straits of Magellan, plundered Valparaiso, and took prizes: had to surrender, severely wounded, in bay of S;,n Mat o, 1594; taken to Lima and (1597) sent to Spain; imprisoned at
- Hawkshaw
- '''Hawkshaw''' Seville and Madrid till 1602; knighted, 1603; M.P., Ply. mouth, 1604; vice-admiral of Devon, 1604; vice-admiral under Sir Robert Mansell in expedition atrainst Alcrerine corsairs, 1620-1; published Observations in his Voiiiiru into the South Sea, A.n. 1593 1622; died suddenly in the council chamber.
- Susanna Hawkins
- '''Susanna Hawkins''' ([[1787]]-[[1868]]), Scottish poet ; daughter of a Dumfriesshire blacksmith; published and herself sold local and occasional verse, 1838-61.
- Thomas Hawkins
- '''Thomas Hawkins''' (. [[1577]]).
- Hawkins
- '''Hawkins''' Sm THOMAS (d. [[1640]]), translator: brother of John Hawkins (fl. 1635); knighted, 1618; friend of Edmund Bolton and James Howell ; published Odes and Epodes of Horace in Latin and English Verse 1625, and translations of Caus-hfs 'Holy Court 1626, andChristian Diurnal 1632, and other French works.
- Thomas Hawkins
- '''Thomas Hawkins''' ([[1810]]-[[1889]]), geologist; F.G.S., 1831; his collection of Devon, Somerset, and Dorset fossils bought by the nation; published Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri 1834, My Life and Works 1887, and poems.
- Hawkins
- '''Hawkins''' or HAWKYNS, WILLIAM (d. [[1554]] ?), sea-captain; made voyages to Guinea and Brazil, 1528-30; twice mayor of Plymouth; M.P., Plymouth, 1539, 1547, 1553.
- Hawkins
- '''Hawkins''' or HAWKYNS, WILLIAM (d. [[1589]]), sea-captain and merchant: son of William Hawkins or Hawkyns (d. 1554?); mayor of Plymouth, 1567, 1578, and 1587-8: partner with his brother, Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595) in ownership of privateers: with Sir Arthur Champernowne seized Spanish treasure at Plymouth, 1568; commanded West Indian expedition, 1582; fitted out ships against Armada. or HAWKYNS, WILLIAM (. 1595), sea-captain and merchant; son of William Hawkins or Hawkyns (d. 1589) q. v.j; served in Drake's voyage, 1577: lieutenant to Edward Fenton in his East Indian voyage, 1582; probably commander of the Advice on Irish coast, 1587, and of the Griffin against the Armada, 1588; not identical with the William Hawkyns who went to Surat and resided with Great Mogul.
- William Hawkins
- '''William Hawkins''' (d. [[1637]]), poet; M.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1626; master of Hadleigh School: publishedApollo Shroving 1627,Corolla Varia 1634, and Latin complimentary verses.
- William Hawkins
- '''William Hawkins''' ([[1673]]-[[1746]]), serjeant-atlaw; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1693; member of the Inner Temple, 1700: serjennt-at-law, 1723; chief work, Treatise of Pleas of the Crown 1716.
- William Hawkins
- '''William Hawkins''' ([[1722]]-[[1801]]), author ; son of William Hawkins (1673-1746); fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, 1742; M.A., 1744: professor of poetry, 1751-6; rector of Whitchurch, Dorset, 1764-1801; Bampton lecturer, 1787; published The Thimble 1743, Henry and Rosamond 1749, and The Siege of Aleppo and other plays: Poems 1781, and theological works; collected works issued, 1758.
- Benjamin Hawkshaw
- '''Benjamin Hawkshaw''' (d. [[1738]]), divine ; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1691: B.A. Dublin, 1693; M.A., 1695; incumbent of St. Nicholas-within-theWalls, Dublin; published Poems 1693, and Reasonableness of constant Communion with Church of England 1709.
- Hawkshaw
- '''Hawkshaw''' Sm JOHN ([[1811]]-[[1891]]), civil engineer: worked under Alexander Nimmo, 1821; engaged in mining work in Venezuela, 1832-4; employe*! by Jesse Hartley, 1834, engineer to Manchester and Leeds Railway, 1845; consulting engineer in London, 1850. His works include the railways at Cannon Street and Charing Cross, with bridges over Thames, East London Railway, Severn tunnel, 1887, and completion, with W. H. Barlow, of Clifton suspension bridin-: reported favourably on site of proposed Sue, canal, 1863; F.R.S., 1855; knighted, 1873; M.I.O.E., 1836, and president, 1862 and 1863: president of British Association, 1875; published professional papers. Suppl U. 4021
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- Hay
- '''Hay'''
- Thomas Hawksley
- '''Thomas Hawksley''' ([[1807]]-[[1893]]), civil i-u ginecr; architect and surveyor at Nottingham; engineer to water companies supplying Nottingham, 1845-80; engineer-in-chief to water supply works at Liverpool, 18741885, and Sheffield, 1864-93; planned Thornton Park and Bradgate reservoirs, Leiwstt-r, and carried out numerous other waterworks; M.I.C.E., 1840: president, 1872-3; president of Institution of Mivlumical Engineers, 1876-7; F.R.S., 1878; published professional reports.
- Nicholas Hawksmoor
- '''Nicholas Hawksmoor''' ([[1661]]-1 [[736]]), architect; employed by Wren as deputy-surveyor at Chelsea Hospital, 1682-90; clerk of the works at Greenwich Hospital, 1698, Kensington Palace, 1691-1715, and at Whiteliall, St. James's, and Westminster, 1716-18; secretary to board of works and deputy-surveyor; assisted Wren at St. Paul's, 1678-1710, and Vanbrugh at Castle Ho ward, 1702-14, and Blenheim, 1710-15; erected library, 1700-14, and south quadrangle, 1710-59, of Queen's College, Oxford, and part of north quadrangle (including towers) of All Souls, c. 1730; directed repairs at Beverlt-y Minstx-r, 1713; joint-surveyor of Queen Auiu.- now rhurchrs, 1716; designed numerous London churches; surveyor-general of Westminster Abbey, 1723; Published Short Historical Account of London Bridge 1736, with plates
- Sir John Db Hawkwood
- '''Sir John Db Hawkwood''' (d. [[1394]]), general; Froissart's Haccoude; said to have served under Edward III; with troop of free lances stormed Pau, 1359; with Bernard de la Salle levied contributions from Innocent VII, 1360; shared in English victory of Brignais, 1362; took service with Monferrato against Milan, his troops becoming known as the White Company; held to ransom the Count of Savoy; defeated Viscouti's Hungarian mercenaries, 1363; served unsuccessfully Pisa against Florence, 1363-4, and assisted Agnello to make himself doge of Pisa, 1364; with company of St. George ravaged country between Genoa and Siena, 1365-6, pillaged the Perugino; escorted Agnello to meet the Pope at Viterbo, 1367; took service with Milan, 1368; captured by the pope's mercenaries at Arezzo, but ransomed by Pisa, 1369; defeated at Rubiera the army of Monferrato, 1372; won a great victory for Pope Gregory XI over Gian Galeazzo Visconti at Gavardo, 1374; levied contributions on Florence, Pisa, Siena, Lucca, and Arezzo, 1375; received pension from Florence, 1375; obtained Cotignola and other places in Romagua in default of papal pay, but joine4 anti-papal league, 1377, marrying a natural daughter of Bernabo Viscouti; with Count Landau forced Verona to pay tribute to Milan, 1378; defeated by Stephen Laczsk, and proscribed by Visconti; generally served Florence from 1380, but won the victory of Castagnaro against Verona for Padua, 1386; joint-ambassador for England at Rome, 1382, and at Florence and Naples, 1385; as commanderin-chief at Florence carried on successful war against Milan, 1390-92; died at Florence and was buried in the Dnomo. At the request of Richard IIleave was given Ms widow to transfer his body to England; it was probably buried at Hedingham Sibil.
- Hawles
- '''Hawles''' Sm JOHN ([[1646]]-[[1716]]), whig lawyer ; rduoated at Winchester and Queen's College, Oxford; barrister, Lincoln's Inn; M.P., Old Sarum, 1689, Wilton, 1695, and 1702-5, St. Michael, 1698, Truro, 1700, St. Ives, 1702, Stockbridge, 1705-10; knighted, 1695; solicitor-general, 1695-1702; a manager of the Sacheverell impeachment, 1710; publishedRemarkson contemporary state trials, 1689, and other works.
- Frederick Hawley
- '''Frederick Hawley''' ([[1827]]-[[1889]]), Shakespearean scholar; as Frederick Haywell appeared with Wallack at Theatre aux Italiens, Paris, with Phelps at Sadler's Wells, and with Charles Calvert at Manchester; produced two plays at the Gaiety; as librarian at Stratford-onAvou, 1886-9, completed (1889) catalogue of editions in all languages of Shakespeare's plays.
- Henry Hawley
- '''Henry Hawley''' or HENRY 0. ([[1679]]?-[[1759]]), lieutenant-general; served with the (present) 4th hussars, 1706-17; present at Almauza, 1707; wounded at Dunblane, 1715, when lieutenant-colonel; colonel of 33rd foot, 1717, of 13th dragoons, 1730; lieutenantgeneral, 1744; present at Dettingen, 1743, and Fontenoy, 1745; when commauder-in-chief in Scotland defeated at Falkirk, 1746; commanded cavalry at Culloden, 1746, ami in Flanders; governor of Portsmouth, 1752; a severe disciplinarian, known as the chief-justice
- Hawley
- '''Hawley''' Sm JOSEPH HENRY, third baronet (1813-1875), patron of the turf; succeeded a* baronet. 1831; lieutenant. th luix-ers, 1833; left army, 1834; raced in partnership with J. M. Stanley in Italy and England; won the Oaks, 1847; cleared about 43.000. by hi* win (with Beadsman) of the Derby, 1858; again won the Derby, 1859 and 1868, and the St. Leger, 1869; advocated turf reform, 1870.
- Thomas Hawley
- '''Thomas Hawley''' (d. [[1557]]), Olarenceux king-ofarms; last Roseblauche pursuivant; as Rougecroix negotiated with Scots before Flodden; when Carlisle herald accompanied Henry VIII to Ardres, 1520: Norroy, 1534; Olarenceux king-of-aruis, 1536-57; employed to treat with northern rebels, 1536: accompanied Northumberland to Cambridge, 1553; induced Sir Thomas Wyatt to submit, 1 554; made visitations of Kent, Surrey, Hampshire, and Essex (printed, 1878). HA WORTH, ADRIAN HARDY (1767-1833), entomologist and botanist; F.L.S., 1798; founded Aureliau Society and Entomological Society of London, 1806; made large collection of lepidoptera; sub-division of aloe named after him; published works, including Lepidoptera Britannica (pt. i. 1803, pt ii. c. 1810, pt. iii. 1812), and Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarnm 1812.
- Samuel Haworth
- '''Samuel Haworth''' (. [[1883]]), empiric: MJ. Paris; author of True Method of curing Consumptions 1682.
- Edward Craven Hawtrey
- '''Edward Craven Hawtrey''' ([[1789]]-[[1862]]), provost of Eton; educated at Eton; scholar ( 1807) and fellow (1810) of King's College, Cambridge; B.A.; as assistantmaster at Eton under Keate, 1814-34, encouraged early efforts of Praed, Cornewall Lewis, and Arthur Hallam; as head-master of Eton, 1834-62, nearly doubled the numbers in twelve years, opened new buildings for foundationers (1846) and the sanatorium, suppressed montem (1847), introduced principle of competition for king's scholars, founded English essay prize; provost, 1852-62; last person buried in college chapel. He printed translations into Italian, German, and Greek verse, 1839, and translations from Homer into English hexameters, 1843; edited Goethe's lyrics, 1833 and 1834.
- Thomas Haxey
- '''Thomas Haxey''' (d. [[1425]]), treasurer of York minster; prebendary of Lichfield, 1391, Lincoln, 1395, and Salisbury; attended parliament of 1397 (according to Hallam as a member) and brought forward an article in bill of complaints directed against non-residence of bishops and a tax on clergy; tried and condemned to death, but claimed as a clergyman and pardoned, 1397; prebendary of York, 1405, of Southwell, 1406; treasurer of York minster, 1418-25.
- Alexander Hay
- '''Alexander Hay''' , LORD EASTKR KENXET (d. 1594), Scottish judge; clerk to Scots privy council, 1564; clerk-register and senator of College of Justice, 1579.
- Alexander Hay
- '''Alexander Hay''' , LORD NKWTOX (d. [[1616]]), clerkregister, 1612; son of Alexander Hay (d. 1594); author of Manuscript Notes of Transactions of King James VI written for use of King Charles
- Alexander Hay
- '''Alexander Hay''' (d. [[1807]] V), topographer ; M.A. of a Scottish university; chaplain of St. Mary's Chapel, Ohichester; vicar of Wisborough Green; published History of Chichester 1804.
- Alexander Leith Hay
- '''Alexander Leith Hay''' ([[1758]]-[[1838]]), general; assumed name of Hay, 1789; raised regiment called by his name, 1789; general, 1813.
- Andrew Hay
- '''Andrew Hay''' ([[1762]]-[[1814]]), major-general ; raised Banffshire fencible infantry, 1798; lieutenant- colonel, 3rd battalion 1st royals at Corufia; commanded a brigade at Walchereu, 1809, and in Peninsula; major-general, 1811; mortally wounded before Bayonue.
- Hay
- '''Hay''' Sm ANDREW LEITH ([[1785]]-[[1862]]), soldier and author; son of Alexander Ixith Hay; served in Peninsula, 1808-14, as aide-de-camp to Sir James Leith (his uncle); M.P., Elgin, 1882-8 and 1841-7; clerk of the ordnance, 1834; K.H., 1834; published Narrative of the Peninsular War 1831, and Castellated Architecture of Aberdeenshire 1849.
- Hay
- '''Hay''' 590
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- '''Hay'''
- Archibald Hay
- '''Archibald Hay''' (. [[1543]]), Scottish monk of 1'aris and Latin writer.
- Arthur Hay
- '''Arthur Hay''' , ninth MARQUIS OF TWKEDDALE (1824-1878), soldier and naturalist; son of George Hay, eighth marquis of Tweeddale; entered grenadier guards, 1841; aide-de-camp to Hardinge in Sutlej campaign, 1845; travelled in Europe and the Himalayas; served in Crimea; colonel, 1866; Viscount Walden, 18621876; marquis, 1876; president of Zoological Society; F.R.S.; F.L.S.; his papers on natural history collected, 1881.
- Lord Charles Hay
- '''Lord Charles Hay''' (d. [[1760]]), major-general; brother of John Hay, fourth marquis of Tweeddale; present at siege of Gibraltar, 1727; volunteer with Prince Eugene on the Rhine, 1734; M.P., Haddingtonshire, 1741; distinguished himself with first foot guards at Fontenoy, 1745, and was severely wounded; majorgeneral, 1757; court-martialled for reflections on conduct of Lord Loudouu in Nova Scotia.
- David Ramsay Hay
- '''David Ramsay Hay''' ([[1798]]-[[1866]]), decorative artist and author; employed by Scott at Abboteford; decorated hall of Society of Arts, c. 1846; Ninety Club founded by his pupils; published, among other works, Laws of Harmonious Colouring adapted to House Painting 1828, and Natural Principles of Beauty as developed ing 1828, and Natural Principl in the Human Figure 1852, &c. Beauty as developed HA,Y, EDMUND (rf. 1591), Scottish Jesuit; accompanied secret embassy from Pius IV to Mary Queen of Scots, 1562; first rector of Pont-a-Mousson, and provincial of French Jesuits; assistant for Germany and Franco to Aquaviva, general of the Jesuits,
- Edward Hay
- '''Edward Hay''' ([[1761]] ?-[[1826]]), Irish writer ; active in the cause of catholic emancipation; tried for treason but acquitted, 1798: published History of the Insurrection of County of Wexford, 1798 1803.
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- Francis Hay
- '''Francis Hay''' , ninth EARL OF EHROL (d. [[1631]]), succeeded to earldom, 1585; joined Huntly see GORDON, GKORGE, 1562-1636 in schemes for re-establishing Romanism in Scotland; his letter to Duke of Parma intercepted in England and forwarded to- James VI, 1589; joined in rebellion of Huntly and Crawford, and did not submit till king's second visit (1589) to the north; imprisoned on suspicion of complicity with Bothwell, 1591; again in rebellion after Spanish Blanks affair, 1592; excommunicated, outlawed, and exiled, 1593; defeated king's troops, but was severely wounded, 1594; his castle at Slains destroyed by the king, 1594; persuaded by Lennox to leave Scotland, 1594; detained at Middelburg; returned secretly, 1596; restored and absolved on abjuring popry, 1597; commissioner for union with England, 1602; excommunicated and imprisoned at Dumbarton, 1608; absolved, 1617.
- George Hay
- '''George Hay''' (d. [[1588]]), controversialist ; minister of Eddlestone and Rathven; preached with Kuox in Ayrshire, 1562; disputed with abbot of Crossraguel, 1562; moderator of the assembly, 1571; published work against the Jesuit Tyrie, 1576; deputy to council at Magdeburg, 1577.
- Sir George Hay
- '''Sir George Hay''' , first EARL OF KINNOULL ([[1672]]1634), lord chancellor of Scotland; gentleman of the bedchamber, 1596; knighted, c. 1609; clerk-register and a lord of session, 1616; supported five articles of Perth; lord high chancellor of Scotland, 1622-34; created Viscount Dupplin, 1627, Earl of Kinnoull, 1633: resisted king's regulations for lords of session (1626), and upheld precedency over archbishop of St. Andrews,
- George Hay
- '''George Hay''' , seventh EARL OP KINNOULL (d. 1758), as Viscount Dupplin M.P., Fowey, 1710; created peer of United Kingdom, 1711; succeeded as earl, 1719; suspected of Jacob! tisrn, 1715 and 1722; British ambassador at Constantinople, 1729-37: maintained right of presentation to parish of Madderty in ecclesiastical courts, 1739-40.
- Sir George Hay
- '''Sir George Hay''' ([[1715]]-[[1778]]), lawyer and politician; of Merchant TaylorsSchool and St. John's College, Oxford; D.O.L., 1742; chancellor of Worcester, 1751-64; dean of arches, judge of prerogative court of Canterbury, and chancellor of diocese of London, 1764-78; vicar-general of Canterbury and king's advocate, 1755-64; M.P., Stockbridjo, 1754, Calne, 1757, Sandwich, 1761, Newcastle-undcr-Lyme, 1768; a lord of the admiralty, 1756-65; judge of admiralty court, 1773-8; kuiphted, 1773; intimate with Hogarth and Garrick.
- George Hay
- '''George Hay''' ([[1729]]-[[1811]]), Roman catholic bishop of Daulis and vicar-apostolic of the lowland district of Scotland; imprisoned for Jacobitism, 1746-7; became a Romanist, 1748; entered Scots CoUege at Rome, 1751; despatched with John Geddes on Scottish mission, 1759; bishop of Daulis in partibus and coadjutor to Bishop James Grant, 1769; vicar- apostolic of lowland district, 1778; his furniture and library burnt in protestant riots at Edinburgh, 1779; went to Rome to get plan for reorganising Scots College sanctioned, 1781; had charge of Scalan seminary, 1788-93, and founded that of Aquhorties, whither he retired, 1802: published theological works, edited by Bishop Strain, 1871-3.
- George Hay
- '''George Hay''' , eighth MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876), field-marshal; succeeded to title, 1804; served in Sicily, 1806, the Peninsula, 1807-13, and America, 1813; wounded at Busaco, 1810, and Vittoria, 1813, also at Niagara, 1813, where he was captured; governor of Madras and commander of troops, 1842-8: general, 1854; field-marshal, 1875; K.T., 1820: G.C.B., 1867; representative peer of Scotland and lord-lieutenant of Haddingtoushire; agricultural reformer and president of Highland Society.
- Sir Gilbert Hay
- '''Sir Gilbert Hay''' (. [[1456]]), poet and translator; knighted; sometime chamberlain to Charles VII of France; afterwards resided with Earl of Caithness, and translated from French Bonnet's Buke of Battailes also The Buke of the Order of Kuyghthood; translated the spurious Aristotelian Secretum Secretorum as Buke of the Governaunce of Princes; rendered into Scottish verse Buke of the Conqueror Alexauuder the Great
- James Hay
- '''James Hay''' , first EARL OF CARLISLE, first VISCOUNT
- Doncaster
- '''Doncaster''' and first BARON HAY (d. [[1636]]), courtier; came from Scotland to England with James I; knighted, and became gentleman of the bedchamber; received numerous grants of land, and (1607) the hand of an heiress; K.B., 1610; master of the wardrobe, 1613; created baron for life, though without a seat in the Lords, 1606, Baron Hay, 1615, Viscount Doncaster, 1618, and Earl of Carlisle, 1622; married Lucy Percy see HAY, LUCY, COUNTESS OF CARLISLE, 1617; sent on missions to Heidelberg and the imperial court, 1619-20; recommended war on behalf of king of Bohemia; envoy to Paris, 1623, to Lorraine and Piedmont 1628: advised rejection of Richelieu's terms for marriage of Henrietta Maria; advocated war with Spain, 1624, and support of Huguenots, 1628; celebrated for splendid hospitality.
- John Hay
- '''John Hay''' ([[1546]]-[[1607]]), Scottish Jesuit ; disputed with protestants at Strasburg, 1576; ordered to leave Scotland, 1579; professor of theology and dean of arts at Tournon, 1581; rector of college at Pout-a-Mousson; published Oertaine Demandes concerning the Christian Religion and Disaipline, proposed to the Ministers of the new pretended Kirk of Scotlande 1580, alsoDe Rebus Japonicis, Indicis et Peruviauis Epistolae recentiores 1605; edited Sisto da Siena's Bibliotheca Sancta 1591.
- Sir John Hay
- '''Sir John Hay''' , LORD BARRA (d. [[1654]]), Scottish judge; town-clerk of Edinburgh; lord clerk register, 1633; ordinary lord of session, 1634; as provost of Edinburgh, 1637, tried to present petitions against new prayerbook; obliged to take refuge in England; imprisoned on his return, 1641; tried by a parliamentary committee, 1642; captured at Philiphaugh; his life saved by intervention of Lanark, 1646.
- John Hay
- '''John Hay''' , second EARL and first MARQUIS OF
- Twkkudale
- '''Twkkudale''' ([[1626]]-[[1697]]), lord chancellor of Scotland ; joined Charles I at Nottingham, 1642, but fought for parliament at Marstou Moor, 1644, on account of his attitude towards covenanters; held command in army ofthe engagement* party, 1648; succeeded as second Earl of Tweeddale. 1654; imprisoned for support of James Guthrie, 1660; president of the council, 1663; extraordinary lord of session, 1664; used influence as church commissioner to moderate proceedings against covenanters; dismissed from office and privy council by advice of Lauderdale, 1674; readmitted to treasury, 1680, ami the council 1682; chancellor of Scotland 1692-6;
- Hay
- '''Hay''' 591
- Haydon
- '''Haydon''' supported revplution in Scotland; created Marquis of Twi-fMalr, 1694; as high commissioner ordered inquiry into (Jleuooe massacre, 1695; dismissed from chancellorship for supporting Darieu scheme, 1696.
- Loud John Hay
- '''Loud John Hay''' (d. [[1706]]), brigadier-general: second son of John Hay, second marquis of Tweeddale ; commanded Scots dragoons (Scots Greys) under Marlborough; died of fever at Courtrai.
- John Hay
- '''John Hay''' , second M.vnyriM OK T"KKiiALK([[1645]]1713), eldest sou of John Hay, first marquie of Tweeddale ; created privy councillor, 1689; succeeded to title, 1697; high commissioner to Scottish parliament, 1704; lord chancellor, 1704-5; led xquadrone volatile, but ultimately supported the union; representative peer, 1707.
- John Hay
- '''John Hay''' , titular EARL OF I.VKRNEKS([[169]]l-[[1740]]), Jacobite; brother of George Hay, seventh earl of Kinnoull ; employed by his brother-in-law Mar in preparing Jacobite outbreak of 1715; made governor of Perth; vent to France to urge the Chevalier James Edward's immediate sailing, 1715; master of the horse to the Chevalier James Edward; joined St. Gerrnains court; revealed Mar's perfidy, and succeeded him as secretary, 1724 (removed, 1727); created Earl of Inverness, 1725.
- John Hay
- '''John Hay''' , fourth MARQUIS OP TWEEDIJALE (f. 1762), succeeded to title, 1716; extraordinary lord of session, 1721; representative peer, 1722; secretary of state for Scotland, 1742-6; lord justice-general, 1761.
- Lord John Hay
- '''Lord John Hay''' ([[1793]]-[[1851]]), rear-admiral; lost his left arm in Hyeres Roads, 1807; commanded squadron on north coast of Spain during civil war; O.B., 1837; rearadmiral, 1851; M.P., Haddiugton, 1826-30, Windsor, 1847; a lord of the admiralty, 1847-50.
- Hay
- '''Hay''' Sin JOHN ([[1816]]-[[1892]]), Australian statesman; M.A. University and King's College, Aberdeen, 1834; emigrated to New South Wales, 1838; member of legislative assembly for Murrumbidgee, 1856; secretary of lands and public works, 1866-7; member for Murray division, 1858-64, and Central Cumberland, 1864-7; speaker of legislative assembly, 1862-5; member of legislative council, 1867, and president, 1873-92; K.O.M.G., 1878. )ND- (1816
- Hay
- '''Hay''' Sm JOHN HAY DRUMMOND- ([[1816]]-[[1893]]).
- Lucy Hay
- '''Lucy Hay''' , COUNTESS OP CARLISLE ([[1599]]-[[1660]]), beauty and wit: daughter of Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland; married James Hay, first earl of Carlisle, 1617; praised and addressed by Carew, Herrick, Suckling, Waller, and D'Avenant; exercised great influence over Queen Henrietta Maria, and was intimate with Straff ord and Pym; revealed intended arrest of the five members; during civil wars acted with presbyterians; active in support of Holland's preparations for second civil war; intermediary between Scottish and English leaders; imprisoned in the Tower, 1649-50.
- Mary Cecil Hay
- '''Mary Cecil Hay''' ([[1840]]7-[[1886]]), novelist: her works (published, 1873-86) highly popular, especially in America and Australia; the best known beingOld Myddeltou's Money 1874.
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- Richard Augustine Hay
- '''Richard Augustine Hay''' ([[1661]]-[[1736]]?), Scottish antiquary; grandson of Sir John Hay of Barra; canon regular of Saiute-Genevieve's, Paris, 1678; attempted to establish the order in Great Britain; compelled to leave the kingdom, 1689; prior of Bernieourt, 1694, of St.-Pierremont-en-Argonne, 1695; published Origine of Royal Family of the Stewarts 1722, *Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale, including Memoirs of his own Times privately printed, 1835, and other works; died in Scotland.
- Robert Hay
- '''Robert Hay''' ([[1799]]-[[1863]]), of Linplum, egyptologist ; leading member of Egyptian expedition, 1826-38; published Illustrations of Cairo 1840; presented drawings and antiquities to British Museum.
- Thomas Hay
- '''Thomas Hay''' , eighth EARL OF KINNOULL ([[1710]]1787), statesman; eldest sou of George Hay, seventh earl of Kiuuoull; as Viscount Dupplin M.P., Cambridge, 1741-58: commissioner of Irish revenue, 1741; a lord of trade, 1746, of the treasury, 1754; joint-paymaster, 1755; chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, 1758; privy councillor, 1758; succeeded to earldom, 1758; ambtmdor extraordinary to Portugal, 1769; chancellor of St. Andrews, 1765.
- William Hay
- '''William Hay''' , fifth BARON YEHTKR (d. [[1576]]), succeeded as baron, 1669; subscribedBook of DIM -iplin. 1561, but commanded the van in raid against Moray, 1666; joined Mary and Bothwell on their flight to Dunbar; signed the baud for Mary's deliverance from Lochleven; fought for Mary at Laugside, 1668; after 167. king's party
- William Hay
- '''William Hay''' ([[1695]]-[[1755]]), author; of Glyndebourue, Sussex; matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 1712; barrister, Middle Temple, 1723; M.P., Seaford, 1734-55; commissioner for victualling the navy, 1738; introduced measure* for poor relief; keeper of Tower records, 1753. His collected works (1794) includeEssay on Civil Government Religio Philoftophi(reprinted 1831), and a translation of MartiaL
- Sir Gilbert Uk Haya
- '''Sir Gilbert Uk Haya''' (d. [[1330]]), lord high constable of Scotland, and ancestor of the earls of Errol; at first faithful to Edward I; joined Bruce in 1306, and was granted Slains, c. 1309, and the hereditary oonstableehip, 1309; his funeral inscription and effigy recently discovered at Cupar.
- James Hayday
- '''James Hayday''' ([[1796]]-[[1872]]), bookbinder : introduced Turkey morocco.
- George Hayden
- '''George Hayden''' (Jt. [[1723]]), musical composer.
- Joseph Haydn
- '''Joseph Haydn''' (d. [[1856]]), compiler of 'Dictionary of Dates(1841) and Book of Dignities (1861); received government pension, 1856.
- George Leo Haydock
- '''George Leo Haydock''' ([[1774]]-[[1849]]% biblical scholar; of Douay and Crook Hall, Durham; interdicted from saying mass at Westby Hall, 1831; restored, 1839; editor of the Douay Bible and Rheims Testament, 18121814.
- Haydock
- '''Haydock''' or HADDOCK, RICHARD ([[1562]] ?-l[[606]]), Roman catholic divine; assisted in foundation of English college at Rome, whither he returned as maestro di camera to Cardinal Allen, 1590; friend of Parsons; dean of Dublin; died at Rome; his Account of Revolution in English College at Rome printed in Dodd'sChurch History
- Richard Haydock
- '''Richard Haydock''' (Jl. [[1605]]), physician; of Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow, 1590; M.A., 1595: M.B., 1601; practised at Salisbury: translated from Jo. Paul Lomatius Tracte containing the Artes of Curious Paiutinge, Oarviuge, and Buildiuge 1598.
- Roger Haydock
- '''Roger Haydock''' ( [[1644]]-[[1696]] ),quaker; imprisoned and fined for preaching in Lancashire, 1667; disputed at Arley Hall with John Oheyuey, 1677; visited Scotlaud, Ireland, 1680, and Holland, 1681, and subsequently obtained protection for quakers in Isle of Man; collected writings edited by J. Field, 1700 (posthumous).
- Thomas Haydock
- '''Thomas Haydock''' ([[1772]]-[[1859]]), printer and publisher; brother of George Leo Haydock
- William Haydock
- '''William Haydock''' (d. [[1537]]), Cistercian, of Whalley; executed for participation in Pilgrimage of Grace; his body found at Cottuiu Hall early in nineteenth century.
- Haydon
- '''Haydon'''
- Benjamin Robert Haydon
- '''Benjamin Robert Haydon''' ([[1786]]-[[1848]]), hitorical painter; came to London, 1804; attended Academy schools and Charles Bell's lectures on anatomy; his first picture,Joseph and Mary well hung at the Academy, 1806; visited, with Wilkie, the Elgin marbles in Park Lane, and drew studies from them for hisDeutatus offended by position of Deutatusin Academy exhibition of 1809; awarded premium for it by British Gallery, 1810; attacked Payne Knight and the Academy in Examiner 1812; created sensation withJudgment of Solomon (Water-colour Society), 1814; did much by his letters on the Elgin marbles (1815) towards determining the national purchase; his Christ's Entry into Jerusalem exhibited ut Egyptian Hall, 1820, and hi Edinburgh and Glasgow: Lazarus(National Gallery) finished 1822; imprisoned for debt in King's Bench, 1822-3, and again three times before 1837; his scheme for government school of design
- Haybon
- '''Haybon'''
- Hay
- '''Hay''' tfE accepted, 1835; compelled introduction of models by starting rival school at Savile House; bej:uu lectures on art in northern towns, 1839; committed suicide after failure of exhibition of Aristides and Nero His later pictures include Punch Meeting of Anti-Slavery Society and Wdlinu'ton musinir at Waterloo Wonlsworth and Keats addressed sonnets to him. Among his pupils were Eastlake, the Laudseers, Lance, and Bewick. He published works on historical painting in England, 1829, the pernicious effect of academies on art, 1839, the relative value of oil and fresco (in connection with decoration of houses of parliament), 1842, and Lectures on Painting and Design 1844-6, and left part of an autobiography,
- Frank Soott Haydon
- '''Frank Soott Haydon''' ([[1822]]-[[1887]]), editor of 'Eulogium Historiarum(1868); eldest son of Benjamin Robert Haydon; committed suicide,
- Frederick Wordsworth Haydon
- '''Frederick Wordsworth Haydon''' ([[1827]]1886), inspector of factories (dismissed, 1867); son of Benjamin Robert Haydou; published Correspondence and Table-Talkof his father, 1876; died at Bethlehem Hospital.
- Mrs Hayes
- '''Mrs Hayes''' . CATHERINE ([[1690]]-[[1726]]), murderess ; executed for murder of her husband in Tyburn (Oxford Street); convicted of petty treason and sentenced to be burned alive.
- Catherine Hayes
- '''Catherine Hayes''' , afterwards MRS. BUSHXKLL (1825-1861), vocalist: first sang at Sapio's concert, Dublin, 1839; studied under Garcia at Paris and Ronconi at Milan; sang at La Scala, Milan, at Vienna, and Venice; made her debut at Covent Garden in Linda di Ghamouui 1849; sang in New York, California, South America, Australia, India, and the Sandwich islands, 1851-6; at Jullien's concerts, 1857.
- Charles Hayes
- '''Charles Hayes''' ([[1678]]-[[1760]]), mathematician and chronologist: sub-governor of Royal African Company till 1752; published Treatise on Fluxions 1704, Dissertation on Chronology of the Septuagint 1751, and similar works.
- Edmund Hayes
- '''Edmund Hayes''' ([[1804]]-[[1867]]), Irish judge; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1825; LL.D., 1832; Irish barrister, 1827; Q.O., 1852; law adviser to Lord Derby's first and second administrations; judge of queen's bench in Ireland, 1859-66; published treatise on Irish criminal law (2nd edit. 1843) and reports of exchequer cases.
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- Sih George Hayes
- '''Sih George Hayes''' ([[1805]]-[[1869]]), justice of the queen's bench; barrister, Middle Temple, 1830; serjeantat-law, 1856; recorder of Leicester, 1861; leader of Midland circuit; justice of the queen's bench, 1868; knighted, 1868; author of humorous elegy and song on the Dog and the Cock
- John Hayes
- '''John Hayes''' ([[1775]]-[[1838]]), rear-admiral ; commanded the Alfred at Corufia, 1809, Achille in Walchereu expedition, 1809, and Freya frigate at reduction of Guadeloupe, 1810; called Magnificent Hayes from hia handling of the Magnificent in Basque Roads, 1812; C.B., 1815; rearadmiral, 1837.
- John Hayes
- '''John Hayes''' ([[1786]] ?-[[1866]]), portrait-painter ; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1814-51.
- Sir John Maonamara Hayes
- '''Sir John Maonamara Hayes''' , first baronet (1760V-1809), physician: M.D. Rheims, 1784; army surgeon in North America and West Indies; L.R.C.P., 1786; physician extraordinary to Prince of Wales, 1791; physician to Westminster Hospital, 1792-4; created baronet, 1797; inspector-general at Woolwich.
- Michael Hayes
- '''Michael Hayes''' A XGKLO ([[1820]]-[[1877]]), painter; secretary to Royal Hibernian Academy, 1856; marshal of Dublin; exhibited with new Water-colour Society, London; painted military and equestrian pictures; accidentally drowned in a tank.
- Philip Hayes
- '''Philip Hayes''' ([[1738]]-[[1797]]), professor of music at Oxford; son of William Hayes the elder; Mus. Bac. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1763; member of Royal Society of Musicians, 1769; professor of music, Oxford, 1~" U7; Mus. Doc. and organist of Magdalen, 1777, of fct. John's, 1790; composed six concertos, eight anthems, songs, glees, an oratorio, and odes; edited and continued Jenkin Lewis's memoirs of Prince Willinin Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 1789, and Harmouia Wiccamica (1780). I, WILLIAM, the elder (1706-1777), professor of music at OxfortI; organist at Worcester Cathedral, 1731, and Magdalen College, Oxford, 1734; professor of music, Oxford, 1742-77; created Mus. Doc., 1749; conducted Gloucester festival, 1763; defended Handel against Avison; set Collius's Ode on the Passions; composed popular glees and canons.
- William Hayes
- '''William Hayes''' , the younger ([[1742]]-[[1790]]), musical writer; third son of William Hayes the elder; B.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1761; M.A. New College, 1764; minor canon of Worcester, 1765, of St. Paul's, 1766; musical contributor to Gentleman's Magazine 1765.
- William Hayes
- '''William Hayes''' ( fl. [[1794]]), ornithologist.
- John Haygarth
- '''John Haygarth''' ([[1740]]-[[1827]]), physician ; F.R.S. : M.B. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1766; as physician to Chester Infirmary, 1767-98, first carried out treatment of fever by isolation, 1783; afterwards practised at Bath; published Plan to Exterminate Small-pox and introduce General Inoculation 1793, and other medical works; his plan for self-supporting savings banks adopted at Bath, 1813.
- Robert Hayley
- '''Robert Hayley''' (d. [[1770]]?), Irish artist in black and white chalk.
- Thomas Alfonso Hayley
- '''Thomas Alfonso Hayley''' ([[1780]]-[[1800]]), sculptor; natural sou of William Hayley; modelled busts of Flaxmau (his master) and Thurlow, uud a medallion of Romney.
- William Hayley
- '''William Hayley''' ([[1745]]-[[1820]]), poet; of Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple; friend of Cowper, Romney, and Southey; published successful volumes of verse; his Triumphs of Temper 1781, and 'Triumphs of Music 1804, ridiculed inEnglish Bards and Scotch Reviewers; his Ballads founded on Anecdotes of Animals (1805) illustrated by Blake; published also lives of Milton, 1794, Cowper, 1803, andRomuey, 1809; his Memoirs (1823) edited by Dr. John Johnson (d. 1833)
- Hayls
- '''Hayls''' or HALES, JOHN (d. [[1679]]), portrait-painter and miniaturist; rival of Lely and S. Cooper; painted portraits of Pepys and Pepys's wife and father.
- Francis Hayman
- '''Francis Hayman''' ([[1708]]-[[1776]]), painter ; designed illustrations for Hanmer'sShakespeare 1744-6, and Smollett's Don Quixote; best known for ornamental paintings at Vauxhall; chairman of committee of exhibition of works by living British painters, 1760; president of Society of British Artists, 1766; an original academician, 1768, and librarian, 1771-6; friend of Hogarth and Garrick.
- Robert Hayman
- '''Robert Hayman''' (d. [[1631]] V), epigrammatist : B.A. Exeter College, Oxford; governor of Newfoundland, c. 1625; published volume of ancient and modern epigrams, 1628; died abroad.
- Samuel Hayman
- '''Samuel Hayman''' ([[1818]]-1 [[886]]), antiquarian writer; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1839; rector of Oarrigaline and Douglas, 1872-86; canon of Cork; assisted Sir Bernard Burke in genealogical works: editedUnpub ! lisbed Geraldiue Documents 1870-81; published works 1 dealing with Youghal.
- Haymo
- '''Haymo''' or HAIMO(rf. [[1054]]), archdeacon of Canterbury; often confused with Huymo, bishop of Halberstadt.
- of Favkhsham Haymo
- '''of Favkhsham Haymo''' (d. [[1244]]), fourth general of the Franciscans; one of the first Franciscans to come to England; envoy of Gregory IX for union with Greek church, 1233; general of Franciscans, 1240; called Speculum bouestatis; edited Brcviurium Romauum; I died at Auaguia.
- Thomas Hayne
- '''Thomas Hayne''' ([[1582]]-[[1645]]), schoolmaster ; M.A. Lincoln College, Oxford, 1612: master at Merchant TaylorsSchool (1605-8) and Christ's Hospital, 160; benefactor of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Thrussington, Leicestershire; publibhud theological works,
- Hayne
- '''Hayne''' 998
- Hazeldine
- '''Hazeldine'''
- Hayne
- '''Hayne''' or HAYNES, WILLIAM (. [[1631]] ?), schoolmaster; Nf.A. Christ's College. Cambridge: head-master of Men-hunt TaylorsSchool, 1599-1624; published grammatical treatises,
- Haynes
- '''Haynes'''
- Hopton Haynes
- '''Hopton Haynes''' ([[1672]] ?-[[1749]]), Unitarian writer ; intimate with Newton at the mint; his posthumous Scripture Account of... God and... Christfirab edited by John Blackburn, 1750.
- John Haynes
- '''John Haynes''' (.. [[1654]]), New England statesman ; sailed in the Griffin for Boston with Cotton; governor of Massachusetts, 1635-6; first governor of Connecticut, 1639, re-elected, 1641 and 1643; promoted confederation of the four colonies, 1643.
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- John Haynes
- '''John Haynes''' (. [[1730]]-[[1750]]), draughtsman and engraver.
- Joseph Haynes
- '''Joseph Haynes''' (d. [[1701]]).
- Joseph Haynes
- '''Joseph Haynes''' ([[1760]]-[[1829]]), etcher and engraver.
- Samuel Haynes
- '''Samuel Haynes''' (d. [[1752]]), historical writer ; son of Hopton Haynes; M.A. King's College, Cambridge, 1727, D.D., 1748; rector of Hatfleld, 1737-52, Clotball, 1747-52; canon of Windsor, 1743; edited Hatfield State Papers (1542-70).
- Wil Haynesworth
- '''Wil Haynesworth''' fcAM (. [[1659]]), early engraver,
- Ciiarleso Hayter
- '''Ciiarleso Hayter''' [[761]]-[[1835]]), miniature-painter ; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1786-1832; publishedIntroduction to Perspective 1813, and Practical Treatise on the three Primitive Colours 1826.
- Sir George Hayter
- '''Sir George Hayter''' ([[1792]]-[[1871]]), portrait and historical painter; son of Charles Hayter; studied at Rome; member of Academy of St. Luke; painted for Duke of Bedford, Trial of Lord William Russell 1825, portraits of Princess Victoria for King Leopold and the city of London; portrait and historical painter to the queen, 1837; painter in ordinary, 1841: knighted, 1842; exhibited, at British Institution, Moving of the Address in first Reformed Parliament 1848.
- Henry Heylyn Hayter
- '''Henry Heylyn Hayter''' ([[1821]]-[[1895]]), statistician; educated at Charterhouse; emigrated to Victoria, 1852; entered department of registrar-general, 1857, and became head of statistical branch; government statist, 1874-93; brought annual statistical returns of colony of Victoria into elaborate and perfect shape, which formed model for whole of Australian colonies; originated 'Victorian Year- Book published educational and other works.
- John Hayter
- '''John Hayter''' ([[1756]]-[[1818]]), antiquary ; of Eton and King's College, Cambridge: fellow: M.A., 1788; incorporated at Oxford, 1812; chaplain in ordinary to the Prince of Wales; superintended deciphering of Herculaneum papyri, 1802-6; his facsimiles with engravings of theCarmen Latinum andIlepi eovorov presented to Oxford University, 1810; died at Paris.
- Richard Hayter
- '''Richard Hayter''' ([[1611]]?-[[1684]]) theological writer; M.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1634; published The Meaning of Revelation 1675.
- Thomas Hayter
- '''Thomas Hayter''' ([[1702]]-[[1762]]), bishop of Norwich ', and of London: B.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1724; M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1727; D.D. Cambridge, I 1744; chaplain to Archbishop Blackburne of York, 1724; I sub-dean, 1730, and archdeacon of York, 1730-51; pre- j beudary of Westminster, 1739-49, Southwell, 1728-49; bishop of Norwich, 1749-61; preceptor to Prince of Wales ! (George III), 1751; supported JewsNaturalisation Bill, 1753; bishop of London, 1761-2; privy councillor, 1761;; published pamphlets.
- Hayter
- '''Hayter''' Sm WILLIAM GOODENOUGH, first j baronet (1792-1878), liberal whip; educated at Winchester, and Trinity College, Oxford; B.A., 1814; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1819, treasurer, 1863; Q.O., 1839; M.P., Wells, 1837-65; judge-advocate-general, 1847-9; patronage secre- I tary to the treasury, 1850-8; privy councillor, 1843; created baronet, 1858; found drowned at South Hill Park, Berkshire.
- Sir Edmund Haythorne
- '''Sir Edmund Haythorne''' ([[1818]]-[[1888]]), general ; ! served with 98th under Colin Campbell in China, 1841-8; his aide-de-camp in second Sikh war and in Momund expedition (1851); with Napier at forc'iiu of Kohat pass, 1850: lieutenant-colonel, 1K5J; commanded 1st royals in Crimra:.-hii-f of th.- staff in north China, 1869; adjutant-general in Bengal, 1860-5; K.U.B., 1873; general, 1879.
- Edward Haytley
- '''Edward Haytley''' (d. [[1762]] ?X painter of fulllength of Peg Wofflngton.
- Abraham Hayward
- '''Abraham Hayward''' ([[1801]]-[[1884]]), emayist : educated by Francis TwUs and at Tiverton school; studied at Inner Temple, 1824; edited Law Magazine,* 1828-44; visited Germany, 1831: published translation of Faust with critical introduction, 1833: gave liU-rary assistance to Prince Louis Bonaparte; Q.O., 1845; not elected bencher; contributed to Quarterly Edinburgh andPraser's supported Aberdeen's government in Morning Chronicle: his reply to De Bazancourt's Expedition de Criuiee circulated on thecontinent by Palmerston; contribute*! regularly to Quarterly 1869-83, and occasionally to theTimes publishedThe Art of Dining 1852, andSketches of Eminent Statesmen and Writers 1880; edited Mre.PiozziV Autobiography 1861, andDiaries of a Lady of Quality from 1797 to 1844 1864. His three series ofEssays(1858, 1873, 1874) include a vigorous attack on the theory identifying .Tunius with Sir Philip Francis Selections from his correspondence were issued, 1886.
- Sir John Hayward
- '''Sir John Hayward''' ([[1564]] ?-l [[627]]), historian ; M A Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1584; LL.D.: imprisoned for publishing First Part of the Life and Raigne of Henrie the IIII dedicated to Essex, 1599-1601; practised in court of arches under James I; historiographer of Chelsea College, 1610; knighted, 1619; published (1603) reply to Parsons'sConference about the Next Succession of 1594,Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England 1613, and tract in favour of union between England and Scotland, 1604, with devotional works; hisLife and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt* (posthumous), 1630, reprinted with Beginning of Reign of Elizabeth 1840.
- Thomas Hayward
- '''Thomas Hayward''' (rf. [[1779]] ?X editor of the 'British Muse(1738), reprinted asQuintessence of English Poetry (1740); F.S.A., 1756.
- Thomas Hayward
- '''Thomas Hayward''' (1 [[702]]-[[1781]] X barrister of Lincoln's Inn; M.P., Ludgershall, 1741-7 and 1764-61. i
- Sir Thomas Hayward
- '''Sir Thomas Hayward''' ([[1743]]- [[1799]]), clerk of the cheque to corps of gentlemen-pensioners; knighted, 1799.
- Mrs Haywood
- '''Mrs Haywood''' . ELIZA ([[1693]]?-[[1756]]X novelist; nte Fowler: employed by Rich to re-writeThe Fair Captive 1721; wrote and acted (at Drury Lane) A Wife to be Lett 1723: published Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Luneuburgh (tragedy), 1729; satirised in the Dunciad (1728) for her libellous Memoirs of a certain Island adjacent to Utopia (1725) and Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Cara mania (1727); retaliated in contributions to Curll's Female Dunciad 1729; issued Female Spectator 1744-6: publishedHistory of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy 1753; herSecret Histories, Novels, and Poems(1726) dedicated toSteele; doubtfully identified with Steele's Sappho
- Francis Haywood
- '''Francis Haywood''' ([[1796]]-[[1858]]X translator: published translation of Kant'sOritick of Pure Reason* (1828) and other works.
- William Haywood
- '''William Haywood''' ([[1600]] 7-[[1663]]X royalist divine ; fellow of St. John's College, Oxford; M.A., 1624; D.D., 1636; chaplain to Charles I and Laud; prebendary of Westminster, 1638: ejected from St. Giles-in- the- Fields, 1641, and imprisoned.
- William Haywood
- '''William Haywood''' ([[1821]]-[[1894]]), architect and civil engineer; pupil of Mr. George Aitchisou, R. A.; chief engineer to commissioners of sewers for city of London, 1846 till death; M.I.O.E., 1853; constructed Holborn Viaduct, 1863-9 published professional reports.
- William Hazeldine
- '''William Hazeldine''' ([[1763]]-[[1840]]X ironfounder; erected locks on Caledonian canal (1804-18) and supplied ironwork for Menai (1819-25) and Con way (18*3-) bridges. QQ
- Hazlehtjrst
- '''Hazlehtjrst''' 594
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- Hearn
- '''Hearn'''
- Thomas Hazlehurst
- '''Thomas Hazlehurst''' (yf. [[1760]]-[[1818]]), miniaturepainter, of Liverpool.
- Colin Henry Hazlewood
- '''Colin Henry Hazlewood''' ([[1823]]-[[1875]]), dramatist and low comedian at City of London Theatre; author of popular dramas, farces, and burlesques.
- William Hazlitt
- '''William Hazlitt''' ([[1778]]-[[1830]]), essayist; educated for Unitarian ministry; heard Coleridge's last sermon and visited him at Stowey, 1798; studied painting; painted Lamb as a Venetian senator, 1805; defended Godwin against Malthus, 1807; married Sarah Stoddart, 1808; lectured on modern philosophy at Russell Institution, and wrote parliamentary reports; dramatic critic to Morning Chronicle 1814; contributed to Hunt's Examiner *: wrote for Edinburgh Review from November 1814; lectured at Surrey Institution, 1818-20; assisted Leigh Hunt in the Liberal; attacked Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey in theChronicle and Shelley in 'Table Talk; obtained divorce from first wife, 1822; his I Liber Amoris (1823) the outcome of amour with Miss Walker; married Mrs. Bridgewater, 1824, who left him on his return from continental tour of 1824-5; contributed to 4 London Magazine and (1826-7) Colburn's NewMonthly j where appeared hisConversations with Northcote appears as an investigator in Haydon's Christ's Entry I His writings include Essay on the Principles of Human Action 1805,The Round Table* (fromExaminer 1815-17), The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays 1817, ) 'Review of English Stage 1818,Lectures on English j Poets 1818, Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth 1821,Table Talk 1821-2, 'Spirit of the Age 1825,The Plain Speaker 1826, and 'Life of Napoleon Buonaparte(four vols. 1828-30); his Literary Remains issued 1836.
- Sir Edmund Walker Head
- '''Sir Edmund Walker Head''' , baronet ([[1805]]1868), colonial governor; fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1830-7; M.A., 1830; succeeded as baronet, 1838; poor-law commissioner, 1841; governor of New Brunswick, 1847; governor-general of Canada, 1854-61; P.O., 1857; D.O.L. Oxford, 1862; P.R.S. and K.O.B.; edited Sir O. 0. Lewis'sEssays on the Administrations of Great, Britain and Kugler's Handbook of Painting
- Sir Francis Bond Head
- '''Sir Francis Bond Head''' , first baronet ([[1793]]1875), colonial governor and author; brother of Sir I George Head; served in royal engineers, 1811-25, being present at Waterloo; travelled in South America as manager of Rio Plata Mining Association, 1825-6; as lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, 1835-7, quelled a rising; K.O.H., 1835; created baronet, 1836; privy councillor, 1867; contributed toQuarterly Review published, among other works, Rough Notes of Journeys in the Pampas and Andes and lives of Bruce the traveller, 1830, and Sir J. M. Burgoyue, 1872.
- Sir George Head
- '''Sir George Head''' ([[1782]]-[[1855]]), assistant commissary-general; brother of Sir Francis Bond Head; served in commissariat during Peninsular war; assistant commissary-general, 1814; served in North America; deputy marshal at coronations of William IV and Queen Victoria; knighted, 1831; published, among other works, A Home Tour... with Memoirs of an Assistant Commissary-general 1840, and translations of Apuleius and Cardinal Pacca's memoirs.
- Guy Head
- '''Guy Head''' (d. [[1800]]), painter ; copyist of works of Titian, Correggio, and Rubens.
- Richard Head
- '''Richard Head''' ([[1637]]?-[[1686]]?), author of first part of The English Rogue (1665); studied at New Inn Hall, Oxford; ruined by gambling; published also Proteus RediYivus, or the Art of Wheedling 1676; The Canting Academy 1673,Life and Death of Mother Sbipton 1677, and other works; drowned at sea.
- Saint Headda
- '''Saint Headda''' .
- Thomas Emerson Headlam
- '''Thomas Emerson Headlam''' ([[1813]]-[[1875]]), judge advocate-general; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1839; barrister, Inner Temple, 1839, treasurer, 1867; Q.C., 1851; chancellor of Ripon and Durham, 1854; liberal M.P., Newcastle, 1847-74; judge advocate-general, 1859-66; privy councillor, 1866; carried Trustee Act, 1850.
- Henry Headley
- '''Henry Headley''' ([[1765]]-[[1788]]), poet and critic: educated under Parr at Colchester and Norwich; friend of Bowles at Trinity College, Oxford; B.A., 1786; published Select Beauties of Ancient Kntrlish Poetry, with Remarks 1787; his Poems(1786) included in Davenport's and Parr's collections.
- James Heald
- '''James Heald''' ([[1796]]-[[1873]]), Wesleyan philanthropist; M.P., Stockport, 1847-52; founder of Stockport Infirmary.
- William Margetson Heald
- '''William Margetson Heald''' ([[1767]]-[[1837]]), surgeon and divine; M.A. Catharine Hall, Cambridge, 1798; vicar of Birstal, 1801-36: published The Brunoniad 1789.
- Thomas Healde
- '''Thomas Healde''' ([[1724]]?-! [[789]]), physician; M.D. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1754; F.R.C.P., 1760; Harveian orator, 1765; Gulstonian, 1763, Oroonian, 1770 and 1784-6, and Lumleiau, 1786-9, lecturer; F.R.S., 1770; physician to London Hospital, 1770; Gresham professor, 1771; translated New Pharmacopoeia 1788.
- William Heale
- '''William Heale''' ([[1581]] ?-[[1627]]), divine: chaplainfellow of Exeter College, Oxford, 1608-10: M.A., 1606; vicar of Bishop's Teignton, 1610-27; published Apologie for Women 1609.
- John Healey
- '''John Healey''' (d. [[1610]]), translator; friend of Thomas Thorpe (1570 7-1635 ?); published Philip Mornay, Lord of Plessis, his Teares 1609, Discovery of a Newe World (version of Bishop Hall's Mundns alter et idem, c. 1609,Epictetus his Manuall And Oebes his Table 1610, and St. Augustine of the Oitie of God with Vives's commentary, 1610.
- James Healy
- '''James Healy''' ([[1824]]-[[1894]]), Roman catholic divine and humorist: educated at Maynooth; curate in Dublin, 1852, and at Bray, co. Wicklow, 1858; administrator of Little Bray, 1867-93; parish priest of Ballybrack and Killiney, co. Dublin, 1893 till death.
- Charles Heaphy
- '''Charles Heaphy''' ([[1821]] ?-[[1881]]), New Zealand official; son of Thomas Heaphy the elder; assisted in purchase of Chatham islands, 1840-1; published 'Residence in New Zealand 1842; land surveyor of Auckland, 1858; chief surveyor of New Zealand, 1864; received Victoria Cross (1867) for conduct during third Maori war as guide at Mangapiko River, 1864; member of House of Representatives, 1867-70; commissioner of native reserves, 1869; judge of native land court, 1878; died at Brisbane.
- Thomas Heaphy
- '''Thomas Heaphy''' , the elder ([[1775]]-[[1835]]), watercolour painter; exhibited at Water-colour Society, 1804-12 (member, 1807); painted, on the spot, Wellington and his officers before an action in the Peninsula; established Society of British Artists, 1824.
- Thomas Heaphy
- '''Thomas Heaphy''' (FRANK), the younger ([[1813]]1873), painter; son of Thomas Heaphy the elder; exhibited at Royal Academy portraits and subject-pictures from 1831; member of Society of British Artists, 1867; investigated origin of the traditional likeness of Christ: hisLikeness of Christ with illustrations, edited by Mr. Wyke Bayliss, 1880; publishedA Wonderful Ghost Story
- Sir Isaac Heard
- '''Sir Isaac Heard''' ([[1730]]-[[1822]]), Garter king-ofarms; Blue-mantle pursuivant, 1759: Lancaster herald, 1761; Norroy, 1774; Clarenceux, 1780; Garter king-of14; knighted, 1794. arms, 1784
- William Heard
- '''William Heard''' (. [[1778]]), poet and dramatist.
- Jonathan Hearder
- '''Jonathan Hearder''' ([[1810]]-[[1876]]), electrician to South Devon Hospital; patented sub-oceanic cable and thermometer for lead-soundings at sea; assisted researches of Sir William Snow Harris
- William Edward Hearn
- '''William Edward Hearn''' ([[1826]]-[[1888]]), legal and sociological writer; of Trinity College, Dublin; professor of Greek, Queen's College, Galway, 1849-54; first professor of modern history and literature at Melbourne University, 1854-72, afterwards dean of the law faculty: as member of legislative council of Victoria devoted himself to codification; published The Government of England, its Structure and its Development 1867, The Aryan Household 1879, and other works,
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- Hearne
- '''Hearne''' 595
- Heatherington
- '''Heatherington'''
- Samuel Hearne
- '''Samuel Hearne''' ([[1745]]-[[1792]]), traveller; explored north-western America for Hudson's Bay Company, 17681770; captured by La Perouse, 1782; liisAccount of a Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort... to the NorthWestissued, 1795.
- Thomas Hearne
- '''Thomas Hearne''' ([[1678]]-[[1735]]), historical antiquary; educated at expense of Francis Cherry; M.A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1703; second keeper of Bodleian Library, 1712; deprived as a nonjuror, 1716: refused chief librarianship and other academical offices on political grounds; publishedReliquiae Bodleiimii1703, and editions of Latin classics, of Leland's Itimrary 1710-12, andCollectanea 1715, Oamden'sAnnales 1717, and many English chronicles; his diaries and correspondence printed by Oxford Historical Society; the Wormlus of Pope's Dunciad
- Thomas Hearne
- '''Thomas Hearne''' ([[1744]]-[[1817]]), water-colour painter; F.S.A.: made drawings during residence in Leewanl islands, 1771-5; executed fifty-two illustrations for Byrne's Antiquities of Great Britain 1777-81; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1781-1802; his drawings copied by Girtiu and Turner.
- Benjamin Heath
- '''Benjamin Heath''' ([[1704]]-[[1766]]), book-collector and critic; town clerk of Exeter, 1752-66; hon. D.O.L. Oxford, 1762; prominent in agitation for repeal of cider duty, 1763-6; published notes on Eschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (1762), andRevisal of Sbakespear's Text (1765, anon.); left manuscript notes on Latin poets and supplement to Seward's edition of Beaumont and Fletcher.
- Charles Heath
- '''Charles Heath''' (17G1-[[1831]]), topographer and painter; twice mayor of Monmouth; published histories of Monmouth, 1804, and neighbouring places of interest.
- Charles Heath
- '''Charles Heath''' ([[1785]]-[[1848]]), engraver and publisher of illustrated * Annuals; natural son of James Heath (1757-1834): executed small plates for popular English classics; engraved works after Benjamin West and other painters.
- Christopher Heath
- '''Christopher Heath''' ([[1802]]-[[1876]]), minister of catholic apostolic church, Gordon Square; succeeded Edward Irving at Newman Street Hall, and caused erection of new church, Gordon Square (opened 1853).
- Douglas Denon Heath
- '''Douglas Denon Heath''' ([[1811]]-[[1897]]), classical and mathematical scholar; senior wrangler, first Smith's prizeman, and fellow. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1832; barrister, Inner Temple, 1835; county clerk of Middlesex, 1838-46; county court judge, Bloomshury district, 18471865; edited Bacon's legal works for Spedding's edition of Bacon's works, 1859; published Doctrine of Energy 1874, and mathematical, legal, and classical writings.
- Dunbar Isidore Heath
- '''Dunbar Isidore Heath''' ([[1816]]-[[1888]]), heterodox divine; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; fifth wrangler, 1838; M.A., 1841; deprived of living of Brading, Isle of Wight, 1861, for Sermons on Important Subjects; editedJournal of Anthropology translated Egyptian Proverbs of Aphobis 1858.
- Henry Heath
- '''Henry Heath''' ([[1599]]-[[1643]]), Franciscan, of St. Bona venture, Douay; B.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1621; publishedSoliloquia seu Documenta Christianas Perfectionis 1651; executed at Tyburn as a recusant,
- James Heath
- '''James Heath''' ([[1629]]-[[1664]]), royalist historian ; of Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; deprived of studentship, 1648; published Brief Chronicle of the late Intestine War 1663, Flagellum (a book on Cromwell), and poems.
- James Heath
- '''James Heath''' ([[1757]]-[[1834]]), engraver; pupil of Joseph Collyer the younger; associate engraver of Royal Academy, 1791; historical engraver to George III, George IV, and William IV, 1794-1834; engraved designs for illustrations by Stothard and Smirke; engraved West'sDeath of Nelson Copley'sDeath of Major Pierson and pictures by foreign masters; re-engraved Hogarth's plates.
- John Heath
- '''John Heath''' (fl. [[1615]]), epigrammatist and translator; M.A. New College, Oxford, 1613; fellow, 1609-16; publishedTwo Centuries of Epigrammes 1610. Cxxv. 344
- Heath
- '''Heath''' JoHX ([[1736]]-[[1818]]), judge : M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1762; barrister, Inm-r Temple, 1762: rjeant-at-law and reconl.-r t Kx.-t.-r, 1775; judge of common pleas. 1780-1816.
- Nicholas Heath
- '''Nicholas Heath''' ([[1501]] 7-[[1578]]), archbishop of York and lord chancellor; fellow, Christ's College, 1521, and Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1524: M.A., 1522: D.D., 1535: archdeacon of Stafford, 1534; accompanied Edward Fox to Germany to negotiate with Smalcaldic League, 1635; king's almoner, 1537; bishop of Rochester. 1539. Worcester, 1543; imprisoned and deprived, 1551, but restored on accession of Mary, 1563; as archbishop of York (1555-9) procured restitution of Ripon, Southwell, and other manors to York, and built York House, Strand: as chancellor (1556-8) proclaimed Elizabeth in House of Lords; arranged preliminaries of disputation at Westminster; released from Tower on promise to abstain from public affairs.
- Richard Heath
- '''Richard Heath''' (d. [[1702]]), judge: barrister. Inner Temple, 1659; serjeant-at-law, 1683; judge of exchequer court, 1686-8; excepted from indemnity at revolution,
- Sir Robert Heath
- '''Sir Robert Heath''' ([[1575]]-[[1649]]), judge; of Tunbridge and St. John's College, Cambridge; barrister. Inner Temple, 1603, treasurer, 1625; clerk of pleas in king's bench, 1607; recorder of London, 1618-21, and M.P. for the city, 1620; solicitor-general, 1621; knighted. 1621; M.P., East Grinstead, 1623 and 1625; as attorneygeneral (1625-31) was engaged with cases of Sir T. Darnell, Felton, Eliot, and Star-chamber prosecutions of 1629-30; prepared answer to Petition of Right, 1628; chief-justice of common pleas, 1631: dismissed for supposed puritan sympathies, 1634; king's serjeant, 1636, puisne judge, 1641, and chief-justice of king's bench, 1642; tried Lilburne at Oxford and other parliamentarians at Salisbury, 1642; impeached by parliament and his place declared vacant, 1645; died at Calais; bis Maxims and Rules of Pleadingpublished, 1694, and autobiography in Philobiblon Society Miscellany
- Robert Heath
- '''Robert Heath''' (fl. [[1650]]), poet ; author of ' Clarastella and other poems, 1650.
- Robert Heath
- '''Robert Heath''' (. [[1779]]), mathematician ; edited 'LadiesDiary 1744-53; after supersession by Thomas Simpson (1710-1761) carried on rival publications; helped to popularise mathematics in periodicals; his 'History of the Islands of Scilly(1750) reprinted in Pinkerton.
- Thomas Heath
- '''Thomas Heath''' (fl. [[1583]] mathematician ; friend of John Dee; M.A. All SoulsCollege, Oxford, 1673.
- John Heathcoat
- '''John Heathcoat''' ([[1783]]-[[1861]]), inventor of lacemaking machines known as the horizontal pillow and the 'old Lough borough (1808-9); after Luddite riots at Loughborough in 1816 removed to Tiverton, which he represented, 1832-59; patented rotary self -narrowing stocking-frame and other inventions.
- Sir Gilbert Heathoote
- '''Sir Gilbert Heathoote''' ([[1651]]7-[[1733]]), lord mayor of London; M.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1673; chief founder of new East India Company, 1693; member of first board of directors of Bank of England, 1694; knighted, 1702; sheriff of London, 1703: lord mayor, 1710-11; senior alderman, 1724; president of St. Thomas's Hospital; commissioner for Georgia, 1732; whig M.P. for the city, 1700-10, Helston, 1714, New Lymington, 1722, St. Germans, 1727; his parsimony ridiculed by Pope.
- Ralph Heathcote
- '''Ralph Heathcote''' ([[1721]]-[[1795]]), divine and author: M.A. Jesus College, Cambridge, 1748; D.D., 1759; Boyle lecturer, 1763-5; vicar-general of Southwell, 1788: took part in Middletonian controversy, 1752, and that between Hume and Rousseau; publishedHistoria Astronomic 1746, and The Irenarch or Justice of the Peace's Manual 1771.
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- Heather
- '''Heather''' or KEYTHER, WILLIAM ([[1563]] ?-16i7 musician; friend and executor of Camden; gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1615; Mus. Doc. Oxford, 1622; founder of the music lectureship at Oxford, 1626.
- Alexander Heatherington
- '''Alexander Heatherington''' (d. [[1878]] mining agent: opened at Halifax, Nova Scotia, International Mining Agency. 1867; compiledThe Gold QQ!
- Heathfield
- '''Heathfield''' 596
- Heklowes
- '''Heklowes''' Yield of Nova Scotia 1860-9, reissued 1870-4 as Minim; Industries
- Heathfield
- '''Heathfield''' first BAUON ([[1717]]-[[1790]]). See
- Gkorge Augcstits Emott
- '''Gkorge Augcstits Emott''' .
- Clement Heaton
- '''Clement Heaton''' ([[1824]]-[[1882]]), glass-painter and church decorator; founded firm of Heaton t Butler. xxv. 3551
- Heaton
- '''Heaton''' Mils. MARY MARGARET ([[1836]]-1X83), writer on art; ntr Keymer; married Professor Charles William Heaton, 1863; contributed to Bryan'sDictionary of Painter* and Engravers; published Life of Dlirer 1870, Masterpieces of Flemish Art 1869, and Concise History of Painting 1873.
- Reginald Heber
- '''Reginald Heber''' ([[1783]]-[[1826]]), bishop of Calcutta ; of Braseuose College, Oxford; won prizes for the English essay, Latin poem, and English verse Palestine); fellow of All SoulsCollege, Oxford, 1805; incumbent of Hodnet, 1807; prebendary of St. Asaph, 1812; Bampton lecturer, 1815; preacher at Lincoln's Inn, 1822; bishop of Calcutta, 1832-6; completed establishment of Bishop's College, Calcutta; travelled in all parts of India; his hymns appeared first in Christian Observer 1811; published Poetical Works 1812, and also life and critical examination of works of Jeremy Taylor and accounts of journeys through India; died at Trichinopoly.
- Richard Heber
- '''Richard Heber''' ([[1773]]-[[1833]]), book- collector : halfbrother of Reginald Heber; M.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1797; intimate with Scott; candidate for Oxford University, 1806; M.P., 1821-6; D.C.L., 1822; a founder of the Athenaeum Club, 1824: travelled widely to collect books, spending on them about 100,0007.; his library rich in choice English works, the English portion being ultimately sold for 56,774Z.; edited Persius, 1790, Silius Italicus, 1792, and Claudian, 1793-6, and Cutwode's 'Caltha Poetarum 1815.
- William Heberden
- '''William Heberden''' , the elder ([[1710]]-[[1801]]), physician; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1728; senior fellow, 1749: M.D., 1739; contributed toAthenian Letters 1741 F.R.C.P., 1746; Gulstonian (1749) and Croonian lecturer (1760); Harveian orator (1 750) and censor; F.R.S., 1749; practised in London from 1748; first described angina pectoris; attended Johnson, Cowper, and Warburton; published at his own expense plays of Euripides edited by Markland, and Middletou's 'Appendix to his Dissertation on servile condition of Physicians among the Ancients His works (edited in Germany by Soemmering) include Commentarii de Morborum Historia et Curatione(transl., 1803), and contributions to Transactions of College of Physicians and Royal Society.
- William Heberden
- '''William Heberden''' , the younger ([[1767]]-[[1846]]), physician; son of William Heberden the elder; fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1788-96; M.A., 1791; incorporated M.A. Oxford; M.D. Oxford, 1795; physician at St. George's Hospital, 1793-1803; F.R.C.P., 1796; F.R.S.; physician in ordinary to the queen, 1806, and the king, 1809; published miscellaneous works, including a dialogue on education, 1818, translations of Cicero's Letters to Atticus 1825, and medical tracts. sical com
- Eduard Hecht
- '''Eduard Hecht''' ([[1832]]-[[1887]]), musical composer; born at Diirkheim-on-the-Haardt: settled at Manchester, 1854; conducted musical societies at Manchester, Bradford, and Halifax.
- Hjeddi Heddi
- '''Hjeddi Heddi''' , HEADDA, or .KTLA (d. [[705]]), bishop of Gewissas or West-Saxons, 676: fixed his see at Winchester; friend of Archbishop Theodore.
- Stephen Hedditjs
- '''Stephen Hedditjs''' (fl. [[669]]).
- Sir Charles Hedges
- '''Sir Charles Hedges''' (d. [[1714]]), politician and lawyer; B.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1670, M.A. Magdalen College, 1673; D.C.L., 1675; chancellor of Rochester, 1686: judge of admiralty court, 1689; knighted, 1689; M.P., Orford (1698-1700), Dover, 1701, Malmesbury, 1701 (November), Calne, 1702, West Looe, 1706, 1708, and 1710, East Looe, 1713-14: secretary of state, 1700-6; judge of prerogative court of Canterbury, 1711-14; reputed anthor ofReasons for Selling Admiralty Jurisdiction 1690.
- Sir William Hedges
- '''Sir William Hedges''' ([[1632]]-[[1701]]), governor of Bengal; cousin of Sir Charles Hedges; head of Levant Company's factory at Constantinople: jjovernor of Bengal, 1682-4; failed in effecting reforms in Bengal; knighted, 1688; sheriff of London, 1693; director of the Bank, 1694: his diary and other documents edited by Sir Henry Yule, 1887-8.
- William Hedley
- '''William Hedley''' ([[1779]]-[[1843]]). inventor ; patented smooth wheel and rails for locomotives, 1813; discovered principle of blast-pipe: introduced at Callerton colliery improved system of pumping water.
- Egbert Van Heemskerk
- '''Egbert Van Heemskerk''' ([[1645]]-[[1704]]), painter of subject-pictures; came to London from Haarlem.
- Lucas Vax Heere
- '''Lucas Vax Heere''' ([[1534]]-[[1584]]).
- Robert Heete
- '''Robert Heete''' , or ROBERT OP WOODSTOCK (d. 1428), canonist and civilian; fellow of New College, Oxford, 1417, of Winchester College, 1422; M.A. and LL.B.; lectured on first book of decretals, 1413; probably author of manuscript life of William of Wykehaui; benefactor of Winchester.
- William Hegat
- '''William Hegat''' (. [[1600]]), professor of philosophy at Bordeaux; native of Glasgow; friend of Robert Balfour (1550 ?-1625 ?); author of Latin poems and orations.
- Robert Hegge
- '''Robert Hegge''' ([[1599]]-[[1629]]), author ; M.A. Corpus Cbristi College, Oxford, 1620, probationer fellow, 1624; his treatises on St. Cuthbert's churches printed, 1777.
- John James Heidegger
- '''John James Heidegger''' ([[1669]] ?-[[1749]]), operatic manager: theSwiss Count of the Tatler and Count Uglyof Fielding'sPleasures of the Town managed Italian opera at Haymarket, 1713, for Royal Academy of Music, 1720-8: at the Haymarket in partnership with Handel, 1728-34,and alone, 1737-8; carried on masquerades and ridottos: entertained George II at Barn Elms; caricatured by Hogarth.
- Sir Clement Heigham
- '''Sir Clement Heigham''' (d. [[1570]]), judge ; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, autumn reader, 1638 and 1547, and governor; privy councillor and speaker of House of Commons under Queen Mary; knighted, 1655; lord chief baron of the exchequer, 1558-9.
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- John Heigham
- '''John Heigham''' (fl. [[1639]]), Roman catholic printer, writer, and translator; his Devout Exposition of the Holie Masse (1614), edited by A. J. Rowley, 1876; version of Luis de la Puente's Meditations on the Mysteries of our holie Faith reprinted, 1852.
- Musgrave Heighington
- '''Musgrave Heighington''' ([[1690]]-[[1774]]?), musical composer: of Queen's College, Oxford; organist at Yarmouth, Leicester, 1739, and the episcopal chapel, Dundee, before 1760; member of Spalding Society; composedThe Enchantressand odes of Anacreon and Horace.
- John Theodore Heins
- '''John Theodore Heins''' ([[1732]]-[[1771]]). engraver, draughtsman, and painter; painted miniature of Oowper's mother, which occasioned Cowper's poem On receipt of my mother's picture.*
- Sir John Hele
- '''Sir John Hele''' ([[1565]]-[[1608]]), serjeant-at-law ; Lent reader at Inner Temple; recorder of Exeter, 1592-1606, and M.P., 1592-1601; serjeant-at-law, 1694; queen's serjeant, 1602; knighted, 1603; employed at Ralegh's trial, 1603; founded boyshospital at Plymouth,
- Hele
- '''Hele''' or HELL, THOMAS D' ([[1740]] 7-[[1780]]). See
- Hales
- '''Hales'''
- Henry Hellier
- '''Henry Hellier''' ([[1662]] ?-[[1697]]), divine; M.A. Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1682, D.D., 1697, vicepresident at his death; publishedTreatise concerning Schism and Schismatsicks 1697; committed suicide.
- John Hellins
- '''John Hellins''' (d. [[1827]]), mathematician and astronomer; assistant in Greenwich Observatory; vicar of Potterspury, 1790; B.D. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1800; F.R.S., 1798; Copley medallist for solution of problem in physical astronomy, 1798; published Mathematical Essays 1788; made calculations for war office, 1806.
- Hellowe
- '''Hellowe''' 8, EDWARD (fl. [[1574]]-[[1600]]), translator; groom of the chamber, 1697; translated works of Guevara,
- Helme
- '''Helme''' 8 597
- Henchman
- '''Henchman'''
- Thomas Helmes
- '''Thomas Helmes''' (d. [[1616]]). See Tu.NSTALL,
- Thomas
- '''Thomas'''
- Thomas Helmore
- '''Thomas Helmore''' ([[1811]]-[[1890]]), musical writer and composor: M.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1845; viceprincipal (1 Hi) and precentor of St. Mark's College, Chelsea, 1846-77; priest-ordinary of Chapel Royal, St. James's, 1847; composed carols and hymn-tunes; translated Ft-tis on choral singing, 1855: published Catechism of Music and Plain-Song 1878, and other works.
- Sir Arthur Helps
- '''Sir Arthur Helps''' ([[1813]]-1 [[875]]), clerk of the privy council; of Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge: M.A., 1839; clerk of privy council, 1860-75; lion. D.C.L, Oxford, 1864; private secretary to Spring Uice and Lord Morpeth; K.C.B., 1872; revised works by Queen Victoria; published, among other works, Friends in Council (four series, 1847-59), Conquerors of the New World(1848), 4 Spanish Conquest in America(1855-61).
- Richard Helsham
- '''Richard Helsham''' ([[1682]] ?-[[1738]]), friend of Swift : B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1702, fellow, 1704, lecturer in mathematics, 1723-30, Erasmus Smith professor, 17241738; regtus professor of physic (1733-8) of Dublin University; his Lectures on Natural Philosophy edited by Bryan Robinson, 1739.
- Edward Helwys
- '''Edward Helwys''' (fl. [[1589]] X author of * A Marvell Deciphered 1589; member of Gray's Inn, 1550; brother of Thomas Helwrys
- Sir Gervase Helwys
- '''Sir Gervase Helwys''' ([[1561]]-[[1615]]), lieutenant of the Tower; nephew of Thomas Helwys; of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Lincoln's Inn; lieutenant of the Tower, 1613-15; conducted torture of Edmond Peacham, 1615; hanged on Tower Hill for complicity in murder of Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613)
- Thomas Helwys
- '''Thomas Helwys''' ([[1550]] ?-[[1616]] ?), puritan divine ; uncle of Sir Gervase Helwys; member of Brownist congregation at Amsterdam; formed at PinnersHall, London, first general baptist congregation; published tract against Persecution for Religion 1615.
- Hely
- '''Hely''' -HUTCHINSON, CHRISTOPHER ([[1767]]-[[1826]]), soldier and politician; fifth sou of John Hely-Hutchinson (1724-1794); Irish barrister, 1792; M.P., Taghmon (in Irish parliament), 1795; as a volunteer distinguished himself at Ballinamuck, 1798; on the Helder (1799) and Egyptian (1801) expeditions: lieutenant-colonel, 1801; M.P., Cork, 1801-12 and 1819-26, and co. Longford, 18121819; served (1807) in Russian army at Eylau and Friedlaud. O*v. 376
- Hely
- '''Hely''' -HUTCHINSON, JOHN ([[1724]]-[[1794]]), lawyer and statesman; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1744; Irish barrister, 1748; assumed additional name of Hutchmson, 1761; M.P. (in Irish parliament) for Lanesborough, 1759, Cork, 1761-90, and Taghmon, 1790-4; privy councillor and prime serjemit, 1760; secretary of state, 1778; provost of Trinity College, 1774; attacked for abusing his powers; founded modern languages professorship; advocated free trade inCommercial Restraints of Ireland 1779 (anon.), also home rule, catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform; supported commercial propositions of 1785, but joined opposition on regency question; friend of Burke and William Gerard Hamilton; his wife created Baroness Dououghmore, 1785.
- Hely
- '''Hely''' -HUTCHINSON, JOHN, first BARON HUTCHIX-
- Son
- '''Son''' afterwards second EAKL OF DONOUOHMORE ([[1757]]1832), general; second sou of John Hely-Hutchinson (1724-1794); educated at Eton and Dublin; lieutenant-colonel of Athole highlanders, 1783; served with Duke of York, 1793; major-general on Irish staff when troops at Castlebar fled from Humbert, 1798; represented Lanesborough, 1776-83, and Cork, 1790-1800, in Irish parliament; supported the union; severely wounded at Alkmaar while in charge of Craven's brigade, 1799; commanded first division under Abercromby in Egypt; succeeded to chief command, 1801: captured (1801) Cairo and Alexandria; created Baron Hutcninson, with a pension; general, 1813; G.C.B., 1814; undertook mission to Prussia and Russia, 1806-7; carried George IV's proposals to Queen Caroline at St. Omer, 1820; succeeded as Earl of Donoughmore, 1825.
- Hely
- '''Hely''' -HUTCHINSON. JOHN, third EARL OF lj.NOUtiiiMOK (1787-1851), soldier; grandson of John Hely-Hutchiuson (1724-17W): served with grenadiers in Peninsula and at Waterloo; captain, 1812: deprived of his commission for assisting escape (1816) of General Lavulette at Paris; subsequently reinstated; succeeded his uncle a third t-arl, 132; K.I, 1834.
- Hely
- '''Hely''' -HUTCHINSON, RICHARD, first EARL o
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- Domouormou
- '''Domouormou''' ([[1756]]-[[1825]]), advocate of catholic emancipation; eldest son of John Hely-Hutchinson (17241794); M.P., Sllgo and Taghmon in Iri-h parliament; created Viscount Suirdale, 1797; commanded Cork legion, 1798; supported the union; created earl, 1800; Irish representative peer, 1800; postmaster-general in Ireland, 1805-9.
- John Helyar
- '''John Helyar''' (ft. [[1535]]), classical scholar and friend of Erasmus; fellow of Corpus Christ! College, Oxford; M.A., 1525; B.D., 1532; bis Oarmiua In obitum Erasmi(Greek and Latin) inEpitaphs on Erasmus
- Charles Isidore Hemans
- '''Charles Isidore Hemans''' ([[1817]]-[[1876]]), antiquary; son of Felicia Dorothea Hemans; hon. secretary and librarian of English Archaeological Society at Rome; published works on Roman history and archaeology; died at Lucca.
- Felicia Dorothea Hemans
- '''Felicia Dorothea Hemans''' ([[1793]]-[[1835]]), poet ; nee Browne; married Captain Alfred Hemans, 1812, but separated from him, 1818; made acquaintance of Scott and Wordsworth, 1H29; intimate at Dublin with Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Whately, and Blanco White; her writings highly popular in America; theEgeria* of Maria Jane Jewsbury's Three Histories Her collected works (issued 1839) include Translations from Camoens and other Poets Lays of Many Lands The Forest Sanctuary,* and Songs of the Affections
- Edmund Heming
- '''Edmund Heming''' (. [[1695]]), projector.
- Heming
- '''Heming''' or HEMMINGE, JOHN (d. [[1630]]), actor and co-editor of the first folio of Shakespeare; played in King Henry IV, Part I (said to have been the original Falstaff ), and in plays of Ben Jonsou; before Elizabeth's death a chief proprietor of Globe Theatre and closely associated with Shakespeare; with Henry Condell (d. 1627) issued first folio, 1623.
- Heming
- '''Heming''' or HEMMINGE, WILLIAM (ft. [[1632]]), dramatist; son of John Heming or Hemminge; of Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1628; his extant plays,The Fatal Contract (1653), revived as 'Love and Revenge and reprinted asThe Eunuch (1687), and The Jewes Tragedy (1662).
- Hemingfoed
- '''Hemingfoed''' or HEMINGBURGH, WALTER DE, also WALTKR DE GISBURN (Jt. 1300), chronicler and subprior of St. Mary's, Gisburn; bis chronicle (1066-1348) printed in part by Gale and Hearne; fully edited by H. C. Hamilton, 1848.
- Hemming
- '''Hemming''' (ft. [[1096]]), chronicler ; sub-prior of Worcester; his Worcester chartulary edited by Heanie, 1723.
- Charles Hempel
- '''Charles Hempel''' or CARL FKKDEKICK (1811-1867), musical composer; sou of Charles William Hempel; Mus. Doc. Oxford, 1862; organist of St. Mary's, Truro, and St. John's episcopal church, Perth; published songs and part of The Seventh Seal (oratorio).
- Charles William Hempel
- '''Charles William Hempel''' ([[1777]]-[[1855]]), composer and poet; organist of St. Mary's, Truro, 1804-44; composed, among other work?,Sacred Melodies 1812, and a satirical poem; died in Lambeth workhouse.
- Barbara Hemphill
- '''Barbara Hemphill''' (d. [[1858]]), novelist; nte Hare; married John Hemphill; herLionel Deerhuret, or Fashionable Life under the Regency (18 16), edited by Lady Blessington. O* v - 387 3
- Samuel Hemphill
- '''Samuel Hemphill''' (d. [[1741]]), Irish presbyterian ; M.A. Glasgow, 1716, Edinburgh, 1726; minister of Castleblayney, Monaghan; published pamphlets in favour of subscription, 1722-6.
- Humphrey Henchman
- '''Humphrey Henchman''' ([[1592]]-[[1675]]), bishop of London- M.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1616; D.D., 1628; fellow of Clare Hall, 1616-23; canon and precentor of Salisbury, 1623, and rector of Isle of Portland: di prived.luring rebellion: assisted Charles II to escape after Worcester, 1651; bishop of Salisbury, 1660-3; took
- Henchman
- '''Henchman''' 598
- Heneage
- '''Heneage''' influential part in Savoy conference, 1661; bishop of London, 1663-75; restored cathedral and palace at Salisbury, and contributed to rebuilding of St. Paul's, Aldersgate palace, and Clare Hall.
- Humphrey Henchman
- '''Humphrey Henchman''' ([[1669]]-[[1739]]), civilian; grandson of Humphrey Henchman (1592-1676); M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1694; D.C.L., 1702; friend of Atterbury; chancellor of Rochester, 1714, London, 1716; counsel for Sacheverell and against Whiston.
- Lord Henderland
- '''Lord Henderland''' ([[1736]]-[[1795]]). See MURRAY,
- Alexander
- '''Alexander'''
- Henderson
- '''Henderson'''
- Alexander Henderson
- '''Alexander Henderson''' ([[1583]] ?-[[1646]]), presbyteriau divine and diplomatist; M.A. St. Andrews, 1603; minister of Leuchars, 1614, of the High Kirk, Edinburgh, 1639; opposed five articles of Perth, 1618; headed agitation against new prayer book, 1637; promoted remonstrance against episcopacy, 1637; one of presbyterian committee of four; prepared and read in Greyfriars, Edinburgh, the national covenant 1638; created burgess of Dundee for public services, 1638; moderator of Glasgow assembly (1638), which laid down lines of presbyterian organisation; commissioner at pacification of Berwick, 1639; ruling spirit at Edinburgh assembly which passed firstBarrier Act 1639; entered England with covenanting army, 1640; negotiated treaty of 1641; as rector of Edinburgh University (1640-6), introduced teaching of Hebrew and circles; as moderator of St. Andrews assembly (1641) proposed confession of faith, catechism, and directory of worship; chaplain to Charles I; at Oxford, 1643, urged him to call a Scottish parliament; drafted 'solemn league and covenanttaken by Westminster Assembly (September, 1643), and drew up the directory of worship; manager of proposed religious settlement at Uxbridge conference, 1645; corresponded with Charles I on episcopacy and the coronation oath, 1646; his Bishop's Doom* (1638) reprinted, 1762;Sermons, Prayers, and Addresses edited by R. T. Martin, 1867; his deathbed 4 Declaration of doubtful authenticity.
- Alexander Henderson
- '''Alexander Henderson''' ([[1780]]-1 [[863]]), physician ; M.D. Edinburgh, 1803; published, among other works, A Sketch of the Revolutions of Medical Science (translated from Oabanis), 1806, and History of Ancient and Modern Wines 1824.
- Andrew Henderson
- '''Andrew Henderson''' (fl. [[1734]]-[[1775]]), author and bookseller; M.A. of a Scottish university; published 'History of the Rebellion, 1746-6, by an impartial hand, who was an Eyewitness(1748), and biographical works; publishedLetters(1775) attacking Dr. Johnson for Tour in the Hebrides
- Andrew Henderson
- '''Andrew Henderson''' ([[1783]]-[[1835]]), Glasgow portrait-painter; exhibited at Scottish Academy, 1828-30; published Scottish Proverbs with etchings, 1832; contributed to the Laird of Logan
- Charles Cooper Henderson
- '''Charles Cooper Henderson''' ([[1803]]-[[1877]]), equestrian painter and etcher; brother of John Henderson (1797-1878)
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- Ebenezer Henderson
- '''Ebenezer Henderson''' , the elder ([[1784]]-[[1858]]), missionary; founded bible societies in Denmark, Scandinavia, Russia, and Iceland, acquiring many languages; went to Iceland, 1814; Ph.D. Kiel, 1816; printed the bible at St. Petersburg in ten languages; lived several years in Russia; tutor of Highbury College, 1830-50; published translations from Hebrew and accounts of visits to Iceland, Russia, and Piedmont; edited Buck'sTheological Dictionary 1833, and other works.
- Ebenezer Henderson
- '''Ebenezer Henderson''' , the younger ([[1809]]-[[1879]]), mechanician and author; nephew of Ebenezer Henderson the elder; constructed an orrery and astronomical clock, 1827, and wheels to show sidereal time, 1850; published treatises on horology and astronomy, also Annals of Duufennline 1879.
- Henderson
- '''Henderson''' SiR EDMUND YfiAMANS WALOOTT (1821-1896), lieutenant-colonel, royal engineers: educated at Woolwich; first lieutenant, royal engineers, 1841; lieutenant-colonel, 18G2: engaged on boundary survey between Canada and New Brunswick, 1846-8; comptroller of convict* in western Australia, 1850-63; chairman of directors of prisons aud inspector-general of military prisons, 1863; O.B., 1868; chief commissioner of metropolitan police, 1869-86; instituted criminal investigation department; K.C.B., 1878; resigned on fault being found with police arrangements at Trafalgar Square riots, 1886.
- George Hendersov
- '''George Hendersov''' ([[1783]]-[[1855]]), lieutenantcolonel, royal engineers; distinguished in Peninsular war, 1812-14; lieutenant-colonel, R.E., 1824; superintendent and director of London and South- Western Railway.
- James Henderson
- '''James Henderson''' ([[1783]] ?-[[1848]]), geographical writer; consul-general for Colombia; F.R.S., 1831: publishedHistory of the Brazil(1822), and works on Spain; died at Madrid.
- John Henderson
- '''John Henderson''' ([[1747]]-[[1785]]), 'the Bath Roscius; appeared under name of Courtney at Bath as Hamlet, 1772; played Shylock at Haymarket, 1777; appeared at Drury Lane, 1777-9, and subsequently at Oovent Garden, and chief provincial towns; considered second only to Garrick; regarded with jealousy by him; among his best parts, Shylock, Sir Giles Overreach, Hamlet, and Falstaff; drew, etched, and wrote poems; with Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) published Practical Method of Reading and Writing English Poetry 1796; buried in Westminster Abbey.
- John Henderson
- '''John Henderson''' ([[1757]]-[[1788]]), eccentric student : at twelve taught Greek and Latin at Trevecca; sent to Pembroke College, Oxford, at expense of Dean Tucker, 1781; a skilled linguist, with knowledge of medicine; accompanied Johnson and Hannah More over Pembroke College, 1782; B.A., 1786; refused to adopt any profession, and abandoned himself to solitary study of Lavater and spiritualism.
- John Henderson
- '''John Henderson''' ([[1804]]-[[1862]]), Scottish architect ; designed Trinity College, Glenalmoud, 1847.
- John Henderson
- '''John Henderson''' ([[1780]]-[[1867]]), philanthropist: drysalter and East India merchant; for twenty years contributed over 30.000Z. annually to religious and charitable schemes; founded Evangelical Alliance; active opponent of Sunday travelling.
- John Henderson
- '''John Henderson''' ([[1797]]-[[1878]]), art collector and archaeologist; M.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1820; bequeathed antiquities to Oxford University, water-colour collections, porcelain, glass, and manuscripts to British Museum, and pictures to National Gallery,
- Henderson
- '''Henderson''' or HENRYSON, ROBERT ([[1430]]?1506 ?).
- Thomas Henderson
- '''Thomas Henderson''' ([[1798]]-[[1844]]), astronomer; secretary to Earl of Lauderdale and Lord Jeffrey, 1819-31; as astronomer royal at the Cape (1832-3) observed Encke's and Biela's comets, and (1832) transit of Mercury; discovered first authentic case of annual parallax in a fixed star; F.R.A.S., 1832; F.R.S., 1840; first Scottish astronomer royal and professor of practical astronomy at Edinburgh, 1834-44; Edinburgh observations published, 1838-43, and (edited by Piazzi Smyth), 1843-52.
- William Henderson
- '''William Henderson''' ([[1810]]-[[1872]]), homceopathist; M.D. Edinburgh, 1831; studied also at Paris, ! Berlin, and Vienna; physician to Edinburgh Fever Hospital, 1832; pathologist to Royal Infirmary; professor of general pathology, 1842-69; adopted homoeopathy, 1845, and defended it against Sir John Forbes (1787-1861) and others.
- William Hendley
- '''William Hendley''' ([[1691]] ?-[[1724]]), divine ; B.A. Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1711; lecturer of St. James's, Clerkenwell, 1716, at St. Mary, Islington, 1718; his trial (1719) on charge of procuring unlawful gains under guise of collecting charities the subject of Defoe's Charity still a Christian Virtue
- George Heneage
- '''George Heneage''' (d. [[1649]]), dean of Lincoln, 1528-44; archdeacon, 1542-9; LL.B. Cambridge, 1510; incorporated at Oxford, 1522.
- Michael Heneage
- '''Michael Heneage''' ([[1540]]-[[1600]]), antiquary: brother of Sir Thomas Heneage (rf. 1595); fellow of St. John's College. Cambridge, 1563; M.A., 1566; M.P., Arundel, 1571, East Grinstead, 1572, Tuvistock, 1589, aud Wigan, 1593: joint-keeper of Tower records with his brother, c. 1578; assisted Robert Hare with Cambridge records.
- Heneage
- '''Heneage''' 599
- Anne Henrietta
- '''Anne Henrietta'''
- Heneage
- '''Heneage''' Sin THOMAS, the elder (t. [[1553]]), gentleman nshor to Wolsey, and of privy chamber; knighted, 1537.
- Sir Thomas Heneage
- '''Sir Thomas Heneage''' (d. [[1595]]), vice-chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth; nephew of George Heneage ; M.P., Stamford, 1553, Boston, 1562, Lincolnshire, 1571-2, and Kssex, 1585-05; treasurer of queen's chamber, 1570; knighted, 1577; keeper of Tower records,*. 1677; member of commissions to try Lopez, 1594, and otln-rs; built Copthall. Essex; sent to Low Countries, 1686; pitymaster of forces, 1588; vice-chamberlain, 1589; privy councillor, 1589; chancellor of Lancaster, 1690; friend of Sidney, Hattou, and John Foxe.
- Arthur Henfrey
- '''Arthur Henfrey''' ([[1819]]-[[1859]]), botanist : F.L.S., 1844; professor of botany at King's College, London, 1853: publishedElementary Course of Botany 1867, and several translations; edited (with Huxley)Scientific Memoirs 1837, Micrographic Dictionary,* 1854 (with J. W. Griffith) and Francis's Anatomy of British Ferns 1855.
- Henry William Henfrey
- '''Henry William Henfrey''' ([[1852]]-[[1881]]), numismatist; son of Arthur Henfrey; principal work, Numlsmata Gromwelliana 1877.
- Hengham
- '''Hengham''' or HINGHAM, RALPH DK (d. [[1311]]), judge; chancellor of Exeter, 1275-9; justice of king's bench, 1270, of common pleas, 1272; chief-justice of king's bench, 1274-90; dismissed and heavily fined; the fine traditionally applied to building a tower In Palace Yard; chief-justice of common pleas, 1301; puisne judge, 1307; reputed author of Hengham Mngna and Hengham Parva edited (1616) by Selden.
- Hengist
- '''Hengist''' (. [[488]]), joint-founder with his brother Horsa of the kingdom of Kent; said to have arrived at Ebbsfteet from Jutland, 449 (according to Nennius, 428), to have settled in Thanet, and, after defeat by Britons at Aylesford (455), to have founded Leydeu; returned and established himself in Kent.
- Frederick Charles Hengler
- '''Frederick Charles Hengler''' ([[1820]]-[[1887]]), circus proprietor; purchased Palais Royal, Argyll Street, London, 1871 (rebuilt, 1884).
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- Barons Henley
- '''Barons Henley''' . See EDEN, MORTOX, first
- Barox
- '''Barox''' [[1752]]-[[1830]] ; EDEX, ROBERT HEXLEY, second
- Barox
- '''Barox''' [[1789]]-[[1841]].
- Anthony Henley
- '''Anthony Henley''' (. [[1711]]), wit : of Magdalen College, Oxford: whig M.P., Audover (1698-1700), Weymouth (1702-11); contributed to theTatlerand Medley; member of Kit-Cat Club; patron of musicians and men of letters.
- John Henley
- '''John Henley''' ([[1692]]-[[1756]]), 'Orator Henley': M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1716; contributed to the SpectatorasDr. Qtiir; began his orations at Newport, 1726; established himself in Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1729; employed by Valpole to write In whig 'Hyp Doctor 1730-9; his claims as restorer of church oratory ridiculed in the Dunciad; caricatured by Hogarth; edited works of John Sheffield, duke of Buckingham, 1722; published works on oratory, theology, and grammar, and translations; his autograph lectures in British Museum.
- Joseph Warner Henley
- '''Joseph Warner Henley''' ([[1793]]-[[1884]]), conservative politician; M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1834 (hou. D.O.L., 1864; M.P., Oxfordshire, 1841-78; president of board of trade, 1852 and 1858-9; resigned on reform question, 1859; declined home office, 1866. , musical
- Phocion Henley
- '''Phocion Henley''' ([[1728]]-[[1764]] ), musical composer; nephew of Robert Henley, first earl of Northiugton; B.A. Wadham College, Oxford, 1749: rector of St. Andrew's and St. Anne's, Blackfriars, 1769-64: some of his compositions are in T. Sharp's Divine Harmony (psalms and hymns), 1798.
- Robert Henley
- '''Robert Henley''' , first EARI. op NORTHIMITON (1708 ?-1772), lord chancellor; second son of Anthony Henley; fellow of All SoulsCollege, Oxford: M.A., 1733; barrister, Inner Temple, 1732; practised on western circuit; M.P., Bath, 1747-57; K.O., 1751, and recorder of Bath; attorney-general, 1756; lord keeper (the last), 1757; speaker of House of Lords 1757-60, though not a peer till 1760; lord chancellor, 1761; created an earl, 1764; procured dismissal of Rockinpham; president of council under Uraftou, 17M-7; Intimate with lreonr- III.
- Robert Henley
- '''Robert Henley''' , second EARL OF NKI HIM, ION (1747-1786), lord-lieutenant of Ireland; of Westminster and Christ Church, "Kfonl; M.A.. 17t;.,; M.I 1.. Hampshin-, 1768; succeeded as earl, 1772; K.T., 1773; riceroy of Ireland (1783-4) during volunteer convention; advocate- 1 annual parliaments and promoted Irish Industrie*.
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- '''Henley''' S A MUKLO [[740]]-1 [[816]]), commentator: professor of moral philosophy at Williamsburg, Virginia; afterwards assistant-master at Harrow; PJ3.A., 1778; principal of East India College, Hertford, 1806-16; published English translation, with notes, of Vathek 1784, and works of scriptural exegesis and classical scholarship,
- Walter Dk Henley
- '''Walter Dk Henley''' (fi. [[1260]]), author of Hosebondrie (13th cent.)
- Henley
- '''Henley''' or HENLY, WILLIAM (ft. [[1776]]), electrician; F.R.S., 1773.
- William Thomas Henley
- '''William Thomas Henley''' ([[1813]]7-[[1882]]X telegraphic engineer: self-taught: made apparatus for wheat* stone and first Electric Telegraph Company; invenUil magnetic needle telegraph and formed company (1862) to take over patent; obtained medal at exhibition of 1H51; made electric light apparatus, and manufactured fourteen thousand miles of submarine cable.
- Thomas Rice Henn
- '''Thomas Rice Henn''' ([[1849]]-[[1880]]), lieutenant of I royal engineers; fell at Mai wand,
- Roger Kennedy
- '''Roger Kennedy''' ([[1809]]-[[1877]]), botanist; professor , at Anders.onian Institution, Glasgow, 1863-77; published Clydesdale Flora 1865.
- Charles Christian Hennell
- '''Charles Christian Hennell''' ([[1809]]-[[1860]]X , author of Inquiry concerning the Origin of Christianity* I (1838) andChristian Theism(1839); brother-in-law i of Charles Bray; with J. T. B. Beaumont established New Philosophical Institution, Mile End.
- Mary Hennell
- '''Mary Hennell''' ([[1802]]-[[1843]]), author of 'Outline ; of the various Social Systems and Communities which liave been founded on Principle of Co-operation(published 1844); sister of Charles Christian Hennell
- John Hennen
- '''John Hennen''' ([[1779]]-[[1828]]), army surgeon : serred in Peninsula and at Waterloo; staff -surgeon, 1812; principal medical officer for Scotland, 1817; M.D. Edinburgh, 1819; died medical officer at Gibraltar; published, ainom other work?,Observations on... Military Surgery I 1818.
- William Maunsell Hennessy
- '''William Maunsell Hennessy''' ([[1829]]-[[1889]]), Irish scholar; assistant deputy-keeper in Dublin Record Office; Todd professor at Royal Irish Academy, 1882-4; editedChronicon Scotormnof Dnbhaltacb MacFir i blsigh, 1866,Annals of Loch Co 1871, and other works: , translatedTripartite Life of St. Patrick 1871; wrote on Ossian.
- Sir Frederick Henniker
- '''Sir Frederick Henniker''' , baronet ([[1793]]-[[1826]]), traveller: of Eton and St. John's College, Cambridge; I B.A., 1815: succeeded us baronet, 1816; published Notes i during a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem 1823.
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- '''Henniker''' -MAJOR, JOHN, second BARON HEX-
- Xiker
- '''Xiker''' ([[1752]]-[[1821]]), antiquary; M.A. St John's College, Cambridge, 1772; LL.D., 1811: F.S.A., 1786; F.R.S., 1785; took additional name, 1792: succeeded to Irish peerage, 1803; M.P., Rutland, 1805-12, Stamford, 1812-18; publishedAccount of Families of Major and Henniker 1803, and antiquarian pamphlets.
- John Kenning
- '''John Kenning''' ([[1771]]-[[1851]]), modeller and sculptor; a founder of Society of British Artiste; modelled copies of Parthenon and Phigaleian friezes and Raphael's cartoons; executed busts of Mrs. Siddons and Princess Charlotte.
- Henrietta
- '''Henrietta''' or HENRIETTE ANNE, DUCHESS or MII.I-S (1644-1670), fifth daughter of Charles I: born at Exeter; secretly carried off from St. James's Palace to France, 1646; brought up as a Roman catholic by her mother; came to England at Restoration and became popular at court; married Philippe, duo d'Orleans
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- Ii Henry
- '''Ii Henry''' (brother of Loui XIV). 1661: patronised Molii-re, Corneille, ami Racine: intermediary between Louis XIV and Charles II; often consulted by former on state affairs; with Louise de Keroualle came to Dover, 1670, and negotiated the secret treaty of Dover, 1670; died suddenly soon after her return to France, being poisoned, according to St. Simon, with connivance of her jealous husband, by agents of his favourite, the Chevalier de Lorraine; her funeral oration delivered by Bossuet.
- Maria Henrietta
- '''Maria Henrietta''' ([[1609]]-[[1669]]), queen consort of Charles I; youngest daughter of Henri IV and Marie de Medicis; married by proxy and came to England, 1625: on indifferent terms with her husband during lifetime of Buckingham; at first abstained from politics, but attracted courtiers and poets; evokal Prynue's HistrioMastix by taking part in rehearsal of Shepherd's Pastoral 1632; under influence of George Conn thwarted Laud's proclamation against catholic recusants, 1636; obtained money from the catholics for Scottish war, 1639; after meeting of Long parliament carried on intrigues with the papal court, but could obtain no help for the royalists except on condition of Charles becoming a Romanist: after failure of overtures to parliamentary leaders, authorised Henry Jermyu and Sir John Suckling to carry out the army plot, 1641; tried to save Strafford; urged on attempted arrest of the five members, 1642; left England early in 1642, and bought munitions of war and obtained money in Holland; landed at Bridliugton, February 1643, under fire; impeached by parliament, 23 May 1643; failed to surprise Hull and Lincoln, 1643; entertained by Shakespeare's daughter at Stratford-onAvon; joined Charles at Edgehill awl accompanied him to Oxford, 1643; advised bringing in of foreign or Irish army; escaped from Fuluiouth to France, 1644; pawned her jewels: negotiated with Mazariu and obtained promise of ten thousand men from Duke of Lorraine, 1644-5; urged Charles to accept Scottish help on basis of presbyterianism, 1646; active in negotiations with Irish catholics and the anti-parliamentarian English fleet, 1648; in state of destitution at the Louvre, 1648; retired into Carmelite nunnery; alienated Charles II's advisers by attempts to convert to Roman Catholicism her younger son, Duke of Gloucester; came to England, 1660, to get portion for her daughter Henrietta Anne and to break off engagement between her second son Duke of York and Anne Hyde ; lived at Somerset House; finally left England, 1665; died at Colombes and was buried in St. Denis.
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- '''Henry''' I ([[1068]]-[[1135]]), king of England ; younger son of William I and Matilda; well educated in England; heir of his mother's possessions in England, 1083; bought the Avranchin and Cdteutin from his elder brother Robert, duke of Normandy; imprisoned by himatBayeux, 1088-9; helped to put down revolt of Rouen, 1090; attacked by both William II and Robert, and obliged to evacuate Mont St. Michel; became lord of Domfront, 1092, whence he carried on war against Robert and his vassals; visited William II in England, 1094, and returned to Normandy with money; received counties of Coutauces and Bayeux, 1096; on the news of William II's death (1100) secured the treasure at Winchester; chosen king by the witan and crowned at Westminster, issuing at his coronation (1100) charter which formed the basis of Magna Charta; invited Archbishop Anselm to return, 1100, and filled vacant sees; ruled by craft rather than force; agreed, on Anselm's refusal to do homage for his temporalities, to refer the question to the pope, but maintained his position till a compromise was agreed to (1105); married Eadgyth or Matilda (1080-1118), 1100, thereby introducing intermarriages between Normans and English, and becoming the re-founder of the English nation; chose his councillors and officials from lower ranks, and ennobled them as a counterpoise to the great barons; promised at Alton to give up all his Norman possessions (except Doinf rout) in return for a renunciation by D.uke Robert of the English crown and a pension, 1101; defeated and banished Robert of Belleme, llpl, and William of Mortain, 1104; compelled Robert to give up his pension and cede Evreux; with help of Anjou, Maim*, and Brittany, conquered the whole of Noriiiiimlyat Tinuhebrai, 1106, capturing Robert and Mortain returned to Englaixf und concluded the investiture agreement: developed the judicial ami ti.-.-al administration, sending out itinerant justices and organising the exchequer court; reformed the coinage, 1107, but levied heavy taxes; went to Normandy to teLde William Clito ( Kobert's SO n), 1108; began a war with Louis VI of France about the bonier fortress of Gisors, 1109; banished more barons, 1110; put down private war and restrained his mercenaries; captured Robert of Belleme, 1111; obtained acknowledgment of his ripht to Belleme, Maine, and Brittany; led an army into Wales, 1114; caused all barons to do homage to William, his heir, in Normandy, 1115, and England, 1116; began fresh war with Louis VI, who was aided by Baldwin of Flanders and Fulk of Anjou; detached Fulk from the confederacy, 1120, by marrying to Fulk's daughter his son Prince William (lost in the White Ship the same year); defeated Louis in an encounter of knights at Breuueville; subdued rebel barons and made peace at Gisors with Louis and Baldwin by mediation of Pope Calixtus II, 1120; made a second marriage with Adela of Louvaiu, 1121; exacted tribute from Welsh by second invasion, 1121; upheld rights of Canterbury against both the pope and Thurstan, archbishop of York; reduced fresh Norman rebellion, 1123-4; exacted from nobles (including Stephen of Boulogne) promise to support succession to crown of his daughter, the exempress Matilda, 1126; married her to Geoffrey of Anjou, 1128; engaged again in war with France; exacted fines from clergy for keeping wives; supported Pope Innocent II against anti-pope Anaclete; exacted oaths to Matilda, 1131; went to Normandy, 1133; had fresh trouble with tlfe Augevins and Normans; died at Angers; buried at Reading.
- Ii Henry
- '''Ii Henry''' ([[1133]]-[[1189]]), king of England; grandson of Henry 1, and son of Geoffrey of Aujou and Matilda (1102-1167); inherited Angevin territories, 1151; obtained Aquitaine by marriage with Eleanor (1122V1204), 1152; came to terms with Stephen, 1153: succeeded to crown, 1154; issued charter based on that of Henry I; expelled Flemish mercenaries and reduced rebellious barons, 1155; exacted homage and restoration of border counties from Malcolm of Scotland; acquired county of Nantes and recognition of overlordship of Brittany, 1158; re-established exchequer in England; developed curia regis: issued new coinage, 1158; extended in agreat assizethe system of inquest by sworn recognitors to settlement of laud disputes; broke down by the great scutage military dependence of crown on feudal tenants, 1159; gained possession of the Vexin by French marriage of eldest surviving sou Henry, 1160; helped Pope Alexander III against the emperor, 1162; made Thomas Becket archbishop, 1162, but was resisted by him, especially in his attempt to bring the clergy within civil jurisdiction, through the constitutions of Clarendon, 1164; caused Becket's condemnation at Northampton, 1164; on his flight enforced the constitutions; applied the principle of jury inquest to criminal matters by the assize of Clarendon, 1166, the first attempt in England to issue I a new code of laws, and to break down feudalism by subordinating independent jurisdictions to a central court; ! allied himself, through his daughtersmarriages, with I the emperor Frederick Barbarossa and the kings of Castile, 1168-9, and Sicily, 1169; defeated the Bretons, I 1166-9; by treaty of Montmirail (1169) obtained sanction of France to establishment of his sous Henry, Geoffrey, and Richard; had Prince Henry crowned by the arch j bishop of York, 1170; suspended, and, after inquiry into their conduct, replaced by exchequer officials most of the sheriffs, 1170; made formal pence with Becket and his ally, Louis of France; after Becket's murder (11 70) purged himself and abjured the customs which had been the chief cause of quarrel; by an expedition to Ireland (11711172) received the submission both of Normans in Ireland and natives, divided the laud into fiefs, and left Hugh de Lacy as royal vicegerent; drove Louis from Normandy, 1173; crushed Breton revolt, 1173, and (after doing penance at Canterbury) the baronial rising in England; exacted homage from his prisoner, William, king of Scots; checked by these successes combination headed by the young King Henry (crowned heir) and his mother (1173-4); issued assize of Northampton, 1176, including among its clauses theassize of mort d'ancester and a provision requiring an oath of fealty from all Englishmen; obtained partial recognition of his constitutions from the pope; ordered a return of all crown tenements, 1177; constituted inner tribunal for higher work of curia regis, 1178; established judicial circuits, 1176-80; issued assize of arms, 1181, making defensive service obligatory, and personal property subject to taxation; received homage from king of Couuaught, 1175; arbiter between Arragon and Toulouse
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- '''Iv Henry''' 1 173, and Oastile aud Navarre, 1177: mediator in France, Simon do Motitfort, 12fiO: dismissed the baronsjustieiar, 1180-2; was asked to deliver the Holy Land, 1185, but was t:iiLMtfed in war with his sons Henrv ami (iroffrey on behalf of Richard, 1183, and afterward- with Richard and Philip Augustus of } ranee, to whose claims he was reduced (1189) to submit nt Colombieres; died at Chinon; buried at Fontevraud, where i* his tomb and effigy. was a lover of learning and a great builder: his works of this kind including many palaces, the embankment of the Loire, and the Grand Pont at Angers.
- Iii Henry
- '''Iii Henry''' ([[1207]]-[[1272]]), king of England ; grandson of Henry II aud BOH of John; crowned at Gloucester, 1216, and did homage to Gualo, the Pope's legate; accompanied William Marshall, the regent, to siege of London and to negotiate peace with Louis of France and liis supporters, 1217: received homage from Alexander II of Scotland; crowned again nt Westminster, 1220, by direction of the pope: marched with the legate and the Earl of Chester to force William of Aumale to give up P.i ham Castle, 1221; agreed to confirm the Great Charter, 1::; compelled the Welsh to make peace; took Fulk de iJreaute's castle at Bedford, 1224; declared himself of full age, 1227, having during his minority had acontinual* council distinct from the court; lost most of his French possessions, 1224, but recovered Gascony, 1225; negotiated with Brittany, the emperor, and Bavaria; compelled by barons to restore the forest liberties; defeated by Welsh, 1228; secretly agreed to pope's demand for a tenth of all property, 1229; invaded Poitou and Gascony, 1230; obtained scutage in exchange for affirmation of liberties of church, 1231; refused aid for Welsh war; dismissed Hubert de Burgh and madeSegrave justiciar, 1232: replaced English officers by Poiteviu friends of Bishop Peter des Roches; compelled after a contest by Richard Marshall and Archbishop Edmund Rich to dismiss Poitevius and to be reconciled with De Burgh and the barons, 1234; thenceforth (1234) became his own minister; married his sister Isabella to the Emperor Frederic II, 1235; wedded 1261; seized Dover Castle, 1261: exhibited papal bull absolving him from keeping the provisions, 1261: ordered tin- knights of the shire to attend him at Windsor instead of the barons at St. Albans, 1261; decision given in Ins favour by Louis IX of France in the V whom the provisions had been referred for arbitr 1264, the award being upheld by Pope Urban IV; captured the youiiL'i-r df Montfort at Northampton, April 1264, i the barons having refused to accept the award, and allied tliem.-rlvi- with the Welsh; took IjeteesU-r. Nottingham, and Tonbridge; compelled to march into Suwex for provision*; routed at Lewes, 14 May, 1264: compelled to summon a parliament (inclndim: four knighto from each shire) and to forbid his queen to raise money for him, 1264; gave his assent to the constitution drawn up in the famous parliament of 1265: restored to power by his son Prince Edward's victory at Evesham, 1265, when be wai wounded, being at the time detained in Moutfort's army; revoked all his recent acts, declared the rebelsland* forfeited, fined the Londoners, reduced Kenil worth, and came to terms with Gloucester in London and Llywelyn in Wales; a t the Marlborough parliament (1267) granted many reforms, but retained the executive; awaited to statute forbidding the Jews to acquire debtorsland, 1269; completed (1269) and opened Westminster Abbey, the body of Edward the Confessor being translated; buried in Westminster Abbey before the high altar, his heart being sent to Fontevraud. Most of the troubles of his reign were due to his foreign sympathies.
- Iv Henry
- '''Iv Henry''' ([[1367]]-[[1413]]), king of England; son of John of Gaunt; sometimes called Henry of Boliugbroke from his birthplace: styled Earl of Derby in early life; K.G., 1377; married Mary de Bohuu, coheiress of Hereford, 1380; praised by Froissart; as one of the five lords appellant opposed Robert de Vere, who, marching on London, compelled Richard II to grant their demands, 1387; took part in proceedings of Mer Eleanor of Provence, 1236, in which year was passed the I ciless parliament 1388, but gradually regained Richard's as.siy.eof Merton; depended on guidance of his wife's uncle, favour; joined * crusade of the Teutonic knighte against William de Valence, and Provencal favourites; invited the legate Otho to England; favoured Simon de Montfort (husband of his sister Eleanor), but quarrelled with him, 1239; opposed by Richard, Earl of Cornwall and citizens of London; made concessions; entertained Baldwin II, emperor of the East, 1238; his life attempted by a crazy clerk, 1238; kept see of Winchester vacant, the monks refusing (1238) to elect William of Valence; founded Netley Abbey, 1239; gave the archbishopric of Canterbury to Boniface of Savoy, 1241, and see of Hereford to another foreigner; allowed the pope to take a fifth of the clergy's goods and many benefices, c. 1240; made Peter of Savoy Earl of Richmond; joined the Count of La Marche and others in an expedition to Gascouy, Lithuania, 1390; went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, 13921393, being entertained by the kings of Bohemia and Hungary, the Archduke of Austria, and the Venetians; one of the council during Richard's absence in Ireland, 1395; took a decided part for the king against hie former allies, and was created Duke of Hereford, 1397; appealed Norfolk of treason, but was not allowed to fight with him, being banished the realm for ten years, 1398; exiled for life, his Lancaster estates also being confiscated during his stay at Paris; with the two Aruudels and others, secretly left France and lauded near Bridlington, 1399; joined by northern nobles; held council at Doncaster, and with a large army marched to Bristol, where some of the royal officers were executed, July 1399; met King Richard, 1242, but was deserted by him and forced by LouU IX to who had been deserted by his army, at Flint; was pro retreat, 1243; brought back more foreigners, detaching his brother Richard "from the opposition by marrying him to Sanchia of Provence; compelled by Innocent IV to recall the banished bishop of Winchester; obliged, in order to get a scutage, to admit four guardians of liberties to his council; made other concessions to the baronage; with money furnished by Richard of Cornwall undertook successful Welsh campaign, 1245; joined in remonstrance against the pope's exactions, but gave way, and laid a heavy tallage on London, 1246; enriched his foreign half-brothers from church revenues; refused an aid, 1249; exacted more money from Londoners and Jews; received homage for mised restoration of his estates; took the king to London, where Richard resigned the crown, 29 Sept. 1399; obtained the throne by popular election; founded the order of the Bath before his coronation, 1399; condemned Richard, who soon died, possibly starved, to perpetual imprisonment, 1399; crushed rising of Richard's dispossessed supporters, 1400: made expeditious against the Scots (1400) and Welsh (1400 and 1401) and entertained the Greek emperor, Manuel Palaiologos, 1400; married as his second wife Joan, regent of Brittany, 1402; was attacked by the dukes of Orleans and Burgundy in France and by Franciscan conspirators in England, 1402; failed to subdue Lothian from Alexander III of Scotland on his marriage, the Welsh, 1402; defeated the discontented Percies at 1251; appointed Simon de Montfort governor of Gascony;, Shrewsbury. 1403; received submission of Northumber insulted de Montfort with accusations, 1252; was refused money for a crusade, 1252; confirmed the charters in return for money, 1253, and made a second expedition into Gascony; visited Pontiguy, Foutevraud, and Paris; agreed to bear cost of Pope Alexander II's war with Manfred in return for grant of Sicilian crown to his son Edmund; unable to obtain regular grants; demanded from parliament at Westminster (1258) a third of all property, the barons attending in armour and led by Roger Bipod, fourth earl of Norfolk; met barons in Mad Parliament at Oxford (1258), which drew up Provisions giving land, 1403; compelled to agree to expulsion of aliens; was strengthened by defeat of French at Dartmouth, 1404; received liberal supplies from Unlearned parliament at Coventry, 1404; escaped assassination at Eltham, 1404; suppressed revolt of Northumberland, Archbishop Scrope, and the earl marshal, 1406; captured the heir to the Scottish throne, 1405; compelled by parliament to nominate a constitutional council, to submit to an audit of accounts, and reform his household, 1406: debarred the Beauforts from the succession, 1407; finally defeated Northumberland and Bardolf at barons control of the executive and the nomination of half, Bramham Moor, 1408; declined in health and energy, but the council, a committee of twenty-four being appointed I interested himself in Archbishop ArnndePs attempt to to carry out reforms; made peace with France by giving heal the papal schism: supported the church party in preup Normandy and his hereditary possessions: on his re- venting proposed confiscation of their temporalities, but turn from France to England brought accusation against I was himself refused a revenue for life, 1410; defeated
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- '''Vii Henry''' attempt to force him to abdicate in favour of Prince Miiry, broke off Burgundian alliance, and undertook a progress, 1411-12; increased Chaucer's pension and patronised Gower: died in Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster; his tomb at Canterbury opened, 1832. V (1387-1422), king of England; eldest son of Henry IV, by Mary de Bohun; born at Moumouth; said to have been educated by his uncle Henry Beaufort (rf. 1447) at Queen's College, Oxford: attended Richard II, 1398-9; accompanied his father to Wales, 1400, where he represented him for the next three years, recovering Oonway, reducing Merioneth and Carnarvon, and checking Glendower; assisted his father at Shrewsbury, 1403: returned to the Welsh marches and relieved Ooyty Castle, 1405; after joining in petition against lollards, 1406, captured Aberystwith and invaded Scotland, 1407; warden of the Cinque ports and constable of Dover, 1409; probably governed in his father's name during chancellorship of Thomas Beaufort, 1410-11; sent an expedition to help Burgundy against the Armagnacs; withdrew from the council, 1412, his French policy being reversed; succeeded to the throne, 1413; the supposed wilduess of his youth unsupported by contemporary authority, while his traditional conduct towards Gascoigne (taken by Shakespeare from Hall) is improbable, and is first mentioned in Sir T. Elyot'sGovernonr(1531): appointed Henry Beaufort (rf. 1447) chancellor, and the Earl of Arundel treasurer; gave the remains of Richard II honourable burial; had Oldcastle arrested, and lollardy repressed, 1414; demanded the restoration of French territories ceded at Bretigny, together with the Norman and Angevin lands, as a condition of his marriage with Catherine of France; left Portsmouth to make war with France (August 1415), just after a conspiracy to proclaim the Earl of March king had been discovered; took Harfleur and challenged the dauphin to single combat, 1415; sent back Clarence in charge of many sick, and marched with the rest towards Calais; after futile negotiations attacked the greatly superior French army, himself commanding the centre, at Agincourt (25 Oct. 1415), where the French were routed with great slaughter; reached Calais a few days later, crossed the Channel within a fortnight, and after a triumphal entry into London was granted by parliament tonnage and poundage for life, the custom on wool, and other taxes, 1415; while in England restored the heirs of Mortimer, Percy, and Holland to their estates; made an alliance with Sigismund, king of the Romans, which led to the termination of the papal schism, 1416; came to an understanding with Burgundy, October, 1416; laid the foundations of a national navy and of military, international, and maritime law; took Caen, leading the assault in person, 1417; sent lieutenants against Cherbourg, Goutances, Avranches, and Evreux, subduing the greater part of Normandy; surrounded Rouen, cutting it off from the sea with the aid of a Portuguese fleet, and reduced it by famine after a long siege, 1419, while keeping open the feud between Armagnacs and Burguudians by alternate negotiations with each; after a short truce surprised Pontoise, 1419, and on the murder of John, duke of Burgundy, concluded an alliance with the new duke Philip; after more fighting and negotiation, accepted the treaty of Troyes (1420), by which Henry was declared heir of Charles VI, regent of France, and lord of Normandy, the dauphin being excepted from the arrangement; married Catherine of France, 1420; personally directed capture of Meluii, November 1420, meeting the Sire de Barbazan in single combat; entered Paris in triumph, December 1420: arranged for the government of Normandy; took his wife to England" to be crowned; reformed the Benedictine monasteries; sent back James I to Scotland; returned to France to reassert bis sway, 1421; relieved Chartres, 1421; drove the dauphin across the Loire; took Meaux, 1422; while on his way to succour Burgundy at Cosne died at Bois de Vincennes. After a funeral procession through France his body was buried in Westminster Abbey, a chantry being endowed in his honour. The silver head of his efflgy was stolen from the Confessor's chapel in 1545. He was a patron of the poets Lydgate and Hoccleve. Inflexible justice, affability, and religious spirit were among his chief characteristics, and he was the first of contemporary generals and an able diplomatist
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- '''Vi Henry''' ([[1421]]-[[1471]]), king of England; son of Henry Y; born at Windsor; ruled through a council during his minority, his uncle, Humphrey of Gloucester, being protector, and Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, his master; appeared in public functions in early childhood; crowned at Westminster, 1429, and at Paris, 1430: opened parliament in person, 1432; mediated at a great council between Gloucester and Bedford, 1434; his precocious interest in politics restrained by the council: admitted to share in government, 1437, but warned that he was exercising it unprofitably; identified himself with Cardinal Beaufort's peace policy; greatly interested in scheme for his marriage with a daughter of the Oomte d'Armagnac, 1441-3; attained legal majority, 1442; concluded two yearstruce with France, 1443; married Margaret of Anjou, daughter of the Duke of Lorraine, 1445; under influence of Beaufort and Suffolk, ordered Gloucester's arrest, 1447; surrendered Maine for prolongation of truce with France, 1448; made constant progresses through England; secretly supported Suffolk, but was obliged to exile him, 1450; attempted to suppress Cade's rising, but fled to Kenihvorth, leaving the work to Archbishop Kemp and Waynflete, 1450; lost Normandy; obliged to make Richard, duke of York, a councillor, and agree to arrest of Edmund Beaufort, duke of Somerset; made Somerset captain of Calais, and refused to remove him from court, 1451; lost Guienne, 1451; deeply in debt; attempted a general pacification and pardon, 1452; won back part of Guienne, 1452, but lost it all, 1453; temporarily lost his reason, 1453; on his recovery released Somerset and excluded York from the council, 1455: slightly wounded at first battle of St. Albans, 1455; again became ill; persuaded on recovery to remove York from office, 1456, but allowed him to remain in the council, and with the help of Buckingham maintained peace for two years; after Salisbury's victory (1459) at Bloreheath marched against Ludlow and drove York and the Nevilles from England, 1459, afterwards attainting them at Coventry; was defeated and captured by Warwick at Northampton, and compelled to acknowledge York as heir to the crown, 1460; in spite of the defeat of the Yorkists by his queen (Margaret) at Wakefield(1460) and St. Albans (1461). Henry fled northward after Edward, duke of York, was proclaimed king, 1461; at York while Towton Field was fought unsuccessfully by his friends, 1461; attainted by the Yorkists, 1461; took refuge with the Scots, 1461; granted charter to Edinburgh, 1464; narrowly escaped capture at Hexham, 1464; lurked disguised for a year on the Lancashire and Yorkshire border; was captured and imprisoned in the Tower for five years (1465-70); restored by Warwick, 1470; presided at a parliament, but (1471) fell into the hands of Edward IV, and was taken by him to Barnet; after battle of Baruet (1471) was recommitted to the Tower; murdered on the. night of Edward's return, Richard of Gloucester being held responsible; worshipped as a martyr by north countrymen; his canonisation proposed by Henry VII. Henry VI was too weak to rule men, but was genuinely pious, and a liberal patron of learning. Besides taking great interest in the universities of Oxford and Caen, he founded Eton (1440) and King's College, Cambridge (1441), and suggested to his queen Margaret the foundation of QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1448.
- Henry
- '''Henry''' Vn ([[1457]]-[[1509]]), king of England; son of Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond, and Margaret Beaufort , heiress of John of Gaunt; brought up in Wales by his uncle, Jasper Tudor; captured at Harlech by the Yorkist Herbert, 1468, but reclaimed by his uncle and presented to Henry VI, 1470; head of house of Lancaster on Henry VI's death, 1471; refugee in Brittany during reign of Edward IV; prevented by a storm from joining Buckingham's rebellion against Richard III, 1483; at council of refugees held at Rennes promised to marry Elizabeth of York on obtaining the English crown; after warning by Morton of contemplated betrayal to Richard, escaped from Brittany to France; with Oxford and some French troops landed at Milford Haven, 1485; joined by Welshmen and others; witli the help of Sir William Stanley (d. 1495) defeated and slew Richard at Bosworth, 1486; crowned, 1485; created peers and instituted a bodyguard; married Princess Elizabeth, 1486; defeated the conspirator Simnel at Stoke-on-Trent, 1487; failed to mediate between France and Brittany, 1488; employed Surrey to suppress discontent in the north, 1489: in alliance with Maximilian, king of the Romans, and Ferdinand and Isabella, besieged Boulogne (1492), but concluded the treaty of Etaples with Charles VIII, 1492; took
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- '''Henry''' prompt action against Yorkists, and delayed for three years the invasion of England by Perkiu Viirbt-ck: drove Warbeck from Ireland by the action of Sir I'M ward Poynings, 1494, and through Spanish diplomacy procured Warbeck's dismissal from the Scottish court; lenient in suppressing Cornish insurrection, 1497: executed Warwick and Warbeck after their attempted escape from the Tower, 1499; concluded treaties with Scotland, 1499, Burgundy, 1500, and the Emperor Maximilian, Iftu'j; lost his queen, 1503: arranged marriages of his children with Spain and Scotland; entertained Philip and Joanna of Castile, and made commercial treaty with Flanders, 1506; died at Richmond in the palace named and built by himself. Through his agents Empson and Dudley he practised much extortion. He was considered one of the wisest princes of his time, and was a great promoter of commerce aud learning. He built the chapel in Westminster Abbey called by his name.
- Viii Henry
- '''Viii Henry''' ([[1491]]-[[1547]]), king of England ; second son of Henry VII; nominal lieutenant of Ireland, 1494: created Prince of Wales, 1503, on the death of his elder brother Arthur (1486-1502), to whose widow, Catherine of Arragon, he was contracted, but marriage was delayed till his accession, 1509, owing to disputes about her dowry; had Empson and Dudley, the agents of his father's extortions, executed, 1510; helped his father-inlaw against the Moors, 1511, and the regent of the Netherlauds against Gueldres, 1611, joined the pope, Ferdinand, and Venice, in a league against France, 1511; some important naval victories won by his admirals, the Howards, one of whom captured Andrew Barton, 1611; sent an unsuccessful expedition for the recovery of Guieune, 1512; built the Henry Grace de Dieu (largest ship hitherto floated); with the help of the Emperor Maximilian wonthe battle of Spurs 1513 (the Scots being defeated at Floddeu in his absence); deserted by his allies; made separate peace with France on the basis of a marriage between his sister Mary and Louis XII, 1514; made Cardinal Wolsey chancellor; followed Wolsey's advice in helping Maximilian with money to check the French in Italy, and in keeping on good terms with him, in securing Charles in Castile, and (1518) in making peace with Francis I of France; became, against Wolsey's advice, a secret candidate for the empire, 1619; met Francis at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520, but had previous and subsequent interviews with the Emperor Charles V also: while pretending to mediate between them allied himself with Charles; next year at home had Buckingham executed on a vague charge of treason; his demand for a forced loan, in consequence of the threatened hostilities with France, successfully resisted by London, 1525; helped by Wolsey's negotiations to a secret understanding with France; began negotiations with the pope for a divorce from Catherine of Arragon, 1527; given a commission to hear the case in England, 1528, which met (1529), but was revoked to Rome unfinished, 1529; dismissed Wolsey, October 1529, and took Oranmer as his adviser on the divorce; consulted English, French, and Italian universities, 1530, eight decisions against the validity of marriage with a brother's wife and against the pope's power to dispense being obtained by bribery; wrung from the clergy a qualified acknowledgment of his title as supreme head of the church in exchange for a pardon for having incurred the penalties of prasmunire by recognising Wolsey as papal legate, 1531; separated from Catherine on her refusal of arbitration, 1531; secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyu, and, Oranmer having decided against the validity of the marriage with Catherine, had Anne crowned publicly, 1533; secretly encouraged the Commons to presentsupplication against the ordinaries 1532; took away independent powers of convocation; named Oranmer archbishop; provisionally withdrew first-fruits of benefices (annates) and abolished appeals to Rome; was excommunicated, 1533; confirmed abolition of anuates; caused Elizabeth Barton to be attainted, 1533; abolished Roman jurisdiction and revenues in England, 1534; obtained act of succession (1534) compelling all subjects to acknowledge Anne Boleyu's issue as heirs to the crown; imprisoned More and Fisher: executed the Nun of Kent and her adherents, 1534; suppressed the observants, and Imprisoned recusant friars; obtained severe treason law, parliamentary confirmation of headship of church, and transference of first-fruits and tenths to crown (1534-d); executed Fisher. More, and some Oliarterhouse monks for refusing to accept the king's headship, 1635; opened negotiations with German protestants; instituted visitations of monasteries and universities by royal officers under Thomas Cromwell ( 14H6{1540),and appropriated the revenue* of the smaller houses, 1635; beheaded Anne Boleyn and married his thirl wife, Jane Seymour, 1636; had succession act passed in interests of Jane Seymour, 1636; at first temporised with and then crushed rising in the north and east caused by religious changes and heavy taxation, 1636-7: lamented death of Jane Seymour, 1538; resumed dissolution of monasteries, but failed in negotiations with German protestants; maintained old doctrines; procured statute of the Six Articles, 1639; executed last descendant* of the Yorkist house; married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleveu, January 1540; executed Cromwell and divorced Anne of Cleves, July 1540; at once married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard; had Barnes and other protestante burned for heresy (1538-40); beheaded Queen Catherine Howard, 1542; proclaimed Ireland a kingdom, 1642; revived the feudal claim on Scotland, and defeated James V, 1642; concluded alliance with Emperor Charles V, 1643; married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, 1543; debased the currency; sent an army Into Scotland, which burned Lelth and Edinburgh, 1644; captured Boulogne, 1545; was granted the endowments of many colleges, chantries, aud hospital?, 1645; deserted by Charles V; made peace with France, 1546; gained possession of St. Andrews by aiding the conspiracy against Beaton, 1646; authorised many persecutions for heresy; caused the Earl of Surrey to be beheaded aud the Duke of Norfolk attainted, 1547. Henry was technically constitutional, but practically absolute, and a consummate statesman. He completed Wolsey's college at Oxford, calling it Henry VUI's College (Christ Church), erected six new bishoprics from monastical endowments, and established suffragans. He wrote Assertio Septem Sacramentorum against Luther (1521) and preface to revised edition king's book) of 'Institution of a Christian Manbishopsbook. Many portraits of him by Holbein are extant,
- of Scotland Henry
- '''of Scotland Henry''' ([[1114]] ?-[[1152]]), son of David I of Scotland; granted by Stephen the earldoms of Carlisle, Doncaster, and Huntingdon; fought at battle of the Standard, 1138; created Earl of Northumberland, 1139. fxxvi. 94
- Henry
- '''Henry''' 'the Young King' ([[1155]]-[[1183]]), second son of Henry II of England; married while a child to Margaret, daughter of Louis VII of France, 1160; educated by Becket; crowned at Westminster, 1170, and again with his queen at Winchester, 1172; on being refused lands by his father fled to the French court and joined his father's enemies; reconciled with his father, 1174; made war on his brother Richard in Aquitaine, 1182, and afterwards also on Henry II; struck down by fever, died penitent at Martel; buried at Rouen.
- of Cornwall Henry
- '''of Cornwall Henry''' or OF ALMAINE ([[1235]]-[[1271]]X sou of Richard, earl of Cornwall and king of the Romans , aud Isabella Marshall; accompanied his father to France, 1247 and 1250, and witnessed his coronation at Aachen, 1257; oue of the royal nominees to draw up constitution at Oxford, 1268; as partisan of Simon dc Montfort imprisoned at Boulogne, 1263; joined Prince Edward and fought for royalists at Lewes, 1264, when he gave himself up as a hostage; sent to France to treat with Louis IX, 1265; commanded expedition against Robert, earl Ferrers, 1266: co-opted referee under Dictum de Keuil worth, 1267; mediated between Henry III and Gloucester, 1267; took the cross, 12G8; followed Edward to Tunis and Sicily, 1270, but returned to settle the affairs of Gascony, where he had weight through bis marriage with the daughter of Gastou, vicomte de Beam; accompanied the kings of France aud Sicily through Italy to Viterbo; murdered at church by De Moutfort's sons and Count Rosso, though he had not even been present at Eveshain; bis heart deposited in Westminster Abbey.
- of Lancaster Henry
- '''of Lancaster Henry''' , EARL OF LANCASTER (1281 ?-1345), grandson of Henry III and second son of Edmund, earl of Lancaster see LANCASTER, EDMUND, EARL OF; lord of Monmouth aud Lancaster's Welsh estates, 1296; summoned as baron, 1299; served with Edward I In Flanders (1297-8) aud Scotland, 1298: helped to subdue Llywelyn Bren, 1315; created Earl of Lancaster
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- '''Henry''' and Leicester and steward of England on death of his brother Thomas (1277-1322), 1324; joined Queeu Isabella, 1326, and captured Edward II and the younger Despeuser, 1326: guardian and chief councillor of the young Edward III; formed confederacy against Mortimer, hut was obliged to submit, 1329; sent on embassy to France, 1330; became blind; devised overthrow of Mortimer; founded hospital near Leicester.
- Ok Lancaster Henry
- '''Ok Lancaster Henry''' , first DUKE OF LANCASTER (1299?-1361), son of Henry, earl of Lancaster (1281?1345); a crusader in his youth; distinguished at capture of Dalkeith, 1333: summoned as Henry de Lancaster, 1334; created Earl of Derby, 1337: sent with Sir Walter Manny against Oadsant, 1337; with Edward III in Flanders, 1338-9, lending him money: distinguished himself at Sluys, 1340; captain-general against Scotland, 1341-2, overcoming Sir William Douglas, knight of Liddesdale in a tournament; went on missions to the pope and Alfonso XI of Castile; served against the Moors at Algeciras, 1343; lieutenant of Aquitaine, 1345-7; succeeded to his father's earldoms, 1347; took Bergerac, 1345, and defeated a much superior French force at Auberoche, and stormed Lusignan and Poitiers, 1346; reinforced Edward at Calais, 1347; an original K.G.; negotiated with French and Flemish, 1348-9; created Earl of Lincoln and captain of Gascouy and Poitou, 1349; prominent in sea-fight called Espagnols-sur-mer, 1360; created Duke of Lancaster, with palatine jurisdiction, and admiral of western fleet, 1351; attacked Boulogne, 1351; weut to Prussia and Poland, 1351-2, and to Paris to fight Otto of Brunswick for an attempt to waylay him in Germany, 1352; head of embassy to king of Navarre, 1354; conducted campaigns in Normandy and Brittany, 1356-7; created Earl of Moray by David II, 1359; co-operated with Edward in France, 1359-60; chief negotiator at peace of Bretigny, 1360; died of the pestilence at Leicester, where he added to his father's foundation the collegiate church of St. Mary-the-Greater. He was Edward Ill's most trusted counsellor, and esteemed throughout western Europe as a perfect knight. His daughter Blanche (wife of John of Gaunt) was ancestress of the house of Lancaster,
- Frederick Henry
- '''Frederick Henry''' , PRINCE OF WALES ([[1694]]1612), eldest son of James VI of Scotland (James I of England); his guardianship by the Earl of Mar objected to by the queen but upheld by the king; came to England with Anne of Denmark; matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1605; a Spanish marriage proposed for him; friend of Ralegh; created Prince of Wales, 1610; died of typhoid fever; buried in Westminster Abbey.
- Duke of Gloucester Henry
- '''Duke of Gloucester Henry''' ([[1639]]-[[1660]]), third son of Charles I: styled HENRY OF OATLANDS; placed under care of Earl of Northumberland, and afterwards of Countess of Leicester: while in France pressed by his mother, Henrietta Maria, to become a Romanist, and disowned on his refusal; joined his brother Charles at Cologne; distinguished himself as a volunteer with the Spanish in Flanders, 1657-8; died of small-pox in London; buried in same vault as Mary Queen of Scots at Westminster; highly praised by Clarendon.
- Frederick Henry
- '''Frederick Henry''' , DUKE OF CUMBERLAND AND
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- Strathkakn
- '''Strathkakn''' ([[1745]]-[[1790]]), fourth son of Frederick, Prince of Wales; privy councillor and K.G., 1767: 10,000f. recovered against him for criminal conversation with Countess Grosvenor, 1770; alienated his brother, George III, by clandestine marriage with Mrs. Hortou, 1771; satirised by Junius
- Benedict Maria Clement Henry
- '''Benedict Maria Clement Henry''' , CARDI-
- York Nal
- '''York Nal''' ([[1725]]-[[1807]]), the Jacobite HENRY IX; second son of Chevalier de St. George, orJames III; came to England to support his brother Charles Edward, 1745; on return to Italy became bishop of Ostia and prefect of St. Peter's, Home, cardinal (1747), archbishop of Corinth (1759), and bishop of Tusculum (1761); assumed title Henry IX, 1788; his residence at Frascati sacked by French, 1799; fled to Padua and Venice; relieved by gift of money from George III; died at Frascati, leaving crown jewels (carried off by James II) to George IV.
- Maurice of Battenbero Henry
- '''Maurice of Battenbero Henry''' , PKINTK 1K5H189G), third son of Prince Alexander of Hesse (1823-1888); married Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, 1885; volunteered with Ashanti expeditionary force, 1895, and died of fever.
- Saint Henry
- '''Saint Henry''' (. [[1150]]), apostle of Finland: of English birth; as bishop of Upsala assisted (Saint) Eric IX of Sweden in his reforms, and accompanied him to Finland, remainm.* behind to found churches after its conquest: slain by one Lalli, whom he had reproved for homicide; his bones translated to St. Henry's Cathedral Abo, 1300.
- of Abendon Henry
- '''of Abendon Henry''' (d. [[1437]]), warden of Mertou College, Oxford; fellow of Mertou College, 1390; as delegate from Oxford to council of Constance defended priority of England over Spain, 1414; warden of Merton College, 1421; completed Mertou chapel and provided bells; attended council of Basle, 1432; prebendary of Wells.
- of Blois Henry
- '''of Blois Henry''' (d. [[1171]]), bishop of Winchester: son of Stephen, count of Blois, and younger brother of i King Stephen of England; educated at Olugny; abbot of ! Glastonbury, 1126-71, where he built a palace and abbey buildings; bishop of Winchester, 1129-71: procured the crown for Stephen by guaranteeing liberty of the church, and supported him at siege of Exeter; said to have failed to secure the papal sanction for his translation to Canterbury (1138) through the king's influence; named legate in England, 1139; rebuked Stephen for imprisoning bishops of Salisbury and Ely; persuaded Stephen to allow the Empress Matilda to join Gloucester at Bristol, 1139; negotiated for Stephen with Matilda at Bath, 1140; conf erred with Louis VII on English affairs, 1140; his proposals rejected by Stephen; joined Matilda, and advocated ! her claim on the ground of Stephen's treachery to the church, 1141: offended by her and won over by the queen; besieged by the empress and David of Scotland in Wolvesey Castle, Winchester, but receiving help from Stephen besieged her afterwards in Winchester; destroyed Hyde Abbey, and allowed the city to be sacked; formed scheme for making his see metropolitan: said to have received pall from Rome, 1142; held council to mitigate the evils of civil war, 1142; upheld election of his nephew, William Fitzherbert, to see of York, but lost legateship after death (1143) of Innocent II; opposed at Rome by Bernard of Clairvaux; suspended from his bishopric for advising Stephen to forbid Archbishop Theobald to attend papal council at Rheims, 1148; obtained absolution at Rome, 1151; active in forwarding treaty of Wallingford, 1163; left England (where Henry II destroyed three of his castles), 1156; stayed at Clugny, becoming its greatest benefactor; on his return consecrated Becket as primate, 1162; gave Becket some support against Henry II, though pronouncing judgment against Becket at Northampton, 1164; disapproved Becket's conduct after his flight, but sent him assistance; gave away all his goods in charity, c, 1168; on his deathbed rebuked the king for Becket's murder; probably buried before the high altar at Winchester, where he built a treasure-house, besides founding the hospital of St. Cross.
- of Ea Henry
- '''of Ea Henry''' .STKY (d. [[1331]]), prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, 1286-1331, of which he was a great benefactor; revived claim to exercise spiritual jurisdiction over Canterbury during vacancies; quarrelled with the citizens and abbot of St. Augustine's; supported Archbishop Robert de Winchelsea in resisting taxation, but was starved into submission by Edward 1, 1297; his letters to Archbishop Reynolds printed in Letter Books of Christ Church(ed. Dr. Sheppard, 1887): corresponded with Archbishop Meopham; died celebrating mass; earliest existing registers of the convent compiled by his direction; his MS. Memoriule Henrici Prioris in British Museum.
- of Huntingdon Henry
- '''of Huntingdon Henry''' ([[1084]] ?-[[1155]]), historian : archdeacon of Huntingdon from 1109; accompanied Archbishop Theobald to Rome, 1139, meeting at Bee the Norman historian Robert de Torigny. HisHistoria Anglorum compiled at request of Bishop Alexander (d. 1148) of Lincoln, extends in latest form to 1154. It was first printed inScriptores post Bedam 1596 (reprinted by Migne, 1854); a complete edition (including biographical epistleDe Conteinptu Mundi was published, 1879.
- De Lexinton Henry
- '''De Lexinton Henry''' (d. [[1258]]). See LEXINTON or LESSINQTON, HENRY DE.
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- Dk Henry
- '''Dk Henry''' LonNnRKS (d. [[1228]]). I-R;II ( fl. 1420), annalist: vicar of Balseaddan and Donabate, co. Dublin; bis Latin annals (1133-1421) of England and Ireland printed by Ware, 1633 (reprinted, 1809), artChronicle of Ireland
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- '''Henry''' the MINSTREL, or BLIND HARRY or HAHY(.. 1470-1492), Scottish poet; author of joem on Wallace; mentioned in DunbarV Lament for the Makp.rls(1608); probably a native of Lothian, writing under James III: his work largely a translation from John Blair; its chronology and general accuracy discredited by Hailes and others, but in some instances corroborated; complete manuscript (1488) in AdvocatesLibrary. The best printed editions are those of Jamieson and Moir (1885-6); William Hamilton of Gilbertfleld's modern version (1722) became more familiar than the original.
- Ok Nkwark Henry
- '''Ok Nkwark Henry''' or NKWERK (d. [[1299]]). See
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- Uk Nkwbdrqh Henry
- '''Uk Nkwbdrqh Henry''' , EARL OP WARWICK (d. 1123).
- of Saltrky Henry
- '''of Saltrky Henry''' (ft. [[1150]]), Cistercian of Saltrey or Sawtrey, Huntingdonshire; obtained from his friend, Gilbert of Louth, story of hisPurgatorium Sancti Patricii included in Matthew Paris'sOhrouica Majora and first printed in Mnsaingham's Florilegium insulas Sanctorum Hiberniae, 1 1624.
- James Henry
- '''James Henry''' ([[1798]]-[[1876]]), physician and classic ; gold medallist. Trinity College, Dublin: M.A., 1822; M.D., 1832; practised in Dublin till 1845, after which he travelled through Europe making Virgilian researches: published verse translation of.Eneid i. and ii., 1845, and ; his JJneideaappeared 1873-9.
- Matthew Henry
- '''Matthew Henry''' ([[1662]]-[[1714]]), commentator; son of Philip Henry; studied law at Gray's Inn; nonconformist minister at Chester, 1687-1712, afterwards at Mare Street, Hackney; his Exposition of the Old and New Testament(1708-10), completed by thirteen nonconformist divines after his death, edited (1811) by G. Burder and John Hughes, and often abridged; * Miscellaneous Writings edited, 1809 and 1830.
- Philip Henry
- '''Philip Henry''' ([[1631]]-[[1696]]), nonconformist divine ; played with princes Charles and James as a child; favourite pupil of Richard Busby at Westminster; student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1647; M.A., 1652; witnessed execution of Charles I, 1649; minister of Wortheubury, and tutor in family of Mr. Justice Puleston, 1653-60; refused re-ordination; imprisoned on suspicion of conspiracy, 1663; preached as a nonconformist, 1672-81; fined for keeping conventicles; disputed publicly with quakers and with Bishop William Lloyd and the elder Dodwell, 1682; confined at Chester, 1686; ministered at Broad Oak, Flintshire, after Toleration Act; his Life written by his son;Remainsedited by Sir J. B. Williams, 1848; Diaries published, 1882.
- Robert Henry
- '''Robert Henry''' ([[1718]]-[[1790]]), historian : studied at Edinburgh; D.D. Edinburgh, 1771: presbyterian minister successively at Carlisle, Berwick, New Grey Friars, Edinburgh (1768) and old Grey Friars, 1776-90; moderator of general assembly, 1774; received pension in 1781 for his History of England(5 vote. 1771-86, 6th voL 1793).
- Thomas Henry
- '''Thomas Henry''' ([[1734]]-[[1816]]), chemist; practised as a surgeon-apothecary in Manchester; secretary, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1781, and president, 1807; patented process for preparing calcined magnesia; issued Experiments and Observations 1773; F.R.S., 1775: member of American Philosophical Society; translated Lavoisier's chemical essays, 1776 and 1783; first observed use of carbonic acid to plants; published Memoirs of Albert de Haller 1783; assisted in foundation of College of Arts and Sciences at Manchester.
- Sir Thomas Henry
- '''Sir Thomas Henry''' ([[1807]]-[[1876]]), police magistrate at Lambeth Street, Whitechapel, 1840-6, chief magistrate at Bow Street, 1864; knighted, 1864; barrister, Middle Temple, 1829; drew Extradition Act and treaties connected therewith.
- William Henry
- '''William Henry''' i L7tt d.-jmof Killaloe; D.D. Dulilin, 17f.il; chaplain Hi Mi-hop Joi:ih Hort rector of Kill.-sher, 1731, of Urncy. 1734; dean of Killaloe, 1761-H; F.K.S., 1755; hisDescription of Lough Erneprinted, 1873.
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- William Henry
- '''William Henry''' ([[1774]]-[[1836]]), chemist; Mm of ThoMm- H.-nry: M.D. Edinburgh, 1807; published 'General View of Nature and Object* of Chemistry 1799, Ki.it..!.,-.. i Chemistry, 1 IHOI: expanded intoElement* of Experimental Chemistry (llth ed. 18M); F.RA, 1808, and Copley medallist.
- Henry
- '''Henry''' 80N, HOWARD ([[1510]] 1-[[1690]] ?), Scottish judge: graduate of Bonrgee and professor of Roman law there, 1564; defended Equiuar Baron's treatise on law of jurisdiction against Govea; published also CommenUtto in Tit. x. Libri Secundi Institutionum de TenUitnentU nnlinandig 1665; commissary in Scotland, 1668; extraordinary lord of session, 1666; edited revision of Scottish laws (1424-1564).
- Henryson
- '''Henryson''' or HENDERSON, ROBERT ([[1480]]?1606 ?), Scottish poet; original member of Glasgow University, 1462; probably a clerical schoolmaster attached to Dunfermline Abbey; his Tale of Orpheus first printed, 1508; his Testament of Cresseid attributed to Chaucer till 1721, though printed as his own in 1593; his Morall Fables of Esope the Phrygian printed, 1621: Poems and Fables collected and edited by Dr. D. Laing, 1868.
- Henryson
- '''Henryson''' or HENDERSON, SIR THOMAS, LORD
- Chkhtkiih
- '''Chkhtkiih''' (d. [[1638]]), lord of session, [[1622]]-37; knighted ; son of Edward Henryson , FLORENCE (fl. 1758), spy: M.D. Leyden; physician in Paris and London; supplied information to French foreign office during seven yearswar, contributing to failure of Roohefort expedition, 1757: convicted and condemned to death, 1758; pardoned, 1759.
- Samuel Henshall
- '''Samuel Henshall''' ([[1764]]?-[[1807]]), philologist: educated at Manchester and Brasenose College, Oxford (fellow): M.A., 1789; rector of Bow, 1802-7; published The Saxon and English Languages reciprocally illustrative (1798), The Gothic Gospel of St. Matthew 1807, and some topographical works.
- Joseph Henshaw
- '''Joseph Henshaw''' ([[1608]]-[[1879]]), bishop of Peterborough: educated at Charterhouse and Magdalen Hall, Oxford; B.A., 1624; D.D., 1639; chaplain to the Earl of Bristol and Duke of Buckingham; held benefices in Sussex; as delinquent had to compound for bis estate, 1646; precentor and dean of Chichester, 1660; dean of Windsor, 1660; bishop of Peterborough, 1603-79; his Hone Succissivte(1631) edited by W. Turnbull, 1839, andMeditations (1637) reprinted at Oxford, 1841.
- Nathaniel Henshaw
- '''Nathaniel Henshaw''' (d. [[1673]]), physician; M.D. Leyden and Dublin: F.R.S., 1663; practised in Dublin; published Aero-Chalinos: or a Register for the Air 1664 (second edition, 1677, printed by Royal Society).
- Thomas Henshaw
- '''Thomas Henshaw''' ([[1618]]-[[1700]]), author ; brother of Nathaniel Henshaw; of University College, Oxford, and Middle Temple; served in French army, re maining abroad some years; barrister; gentleman of the privy council and French nnder-secretary to Charles II, James II, and William III; an original F.R., 1668: envoy extraordinary in Denmark, 1672-5. His works include a translation of Samedo's history of China, 1686, and an edition of Stephen Skinner's Etymologicon Lingua; Anglicana; 1671.
- John Stevens Hznslow
- '''John Stevens Hznslow''' ([[1796]]-[[1861]]), botanist; educated at Rochester and St. John's College, Cambridge: sixteenth wrangler, 1818; M.A., 1821; F.L.8., 1818: assisted Sedgwick in founding Cambridge Philosophical Society; Cambridge professor of mineralogy, 1822-7, of botany, 1827-61; recommended his pupil Charles Robert Darwin as naturalist to the Beagle; vicar of Hitcham, Suffolk, 1839: published Letters to the Farmers of Suffolk on scientific agriculture, 1843; discovered phosphatic nodules in Suffolk Crag, 1843: member of London University senate and examiner in botany: presided over discussion onOrigin of Speciesat British Association, 1861; assisted Sir W. J. Hooker at Kew; works include 'Catalogue of British Plants 1829, Dictionary of Botanical Terms 1867.
- Henslowe
- '''Henslowe''' 606
- Hepburn
- '''Hepburn'''
- Philip Henslowe
- '''Philip Henslowe''' (d. 1C16), theatrical manager ; sottlod in Southwark, 1577, where he became a dyer, pawnbroker, and money-lender; groom of royal chamber, 1593, and sewer, 1603; rebuilt and managed the Hose playhouse on Bankside till 1603, and afterwards the theatre at Newington Butts and the Swan on Banksidc; associated with Kdward Alleyn in management of the Fortune in Golden Lane, Cripplegate Without, 1600-16, and in other enterprises: bought plays from Dekker, Drayton, Chapman, and other dramatists, most of which are lost: extracts from his diary (preserved at Dulwich) printed by Malone, and the whole (with forged interpolations) by J. P. Collier, 1845.
- John Hensman
- '''John Hensman''' ([[1780]]-[[1864]]), divine: fellow of Corpus Christi, Cambridge: ninth wrangler, 1801: assistant to Charles Simeon at Cambridge; brought about building of new parish church at Clifton, 1822: incumbent of Trinity, Hotwells, 1830-44; held living of Clifton, 1847-64; chapel of ease consecrated as a memorial of him, 1862.
- Gravener Henson
- '''Gravener Henson''' ([[1785]]-[[1852]]), author of a work on the frame-work knitting and lace trades (1831) and similar subjects: imprisoned for complicity in Luddite riots; expert in detection of smugglers.
- Daniel Henstridge
- '''Daniel Henstridge''' (d. [[1736]]), organist at Rochester and (1700-36) Canterbury, and composer.
- Henton
- '''Henton''' or HEINTON, SIMON (fl. [[1360]]), Dominican provincial in England and commentator.
- Edward Henty
- '''Edward Henty''' ([[1809]]-[[1878]]), pioneer of Victoria, forming Portland Bay settlement, 1834; member for Normanby in Legislative Assembly, 1856-61.
- William Jory Kenwood
- '''William Jory Kenwood''' ([[1805]]-[[1875]]), mineralogist: supervisor of tin for Cornwall, 1832-8; F.G.S., 1828; F.R.S., 1840: took charge of Gongo-Soco mines, Brazil, 1843; reported to Indian government on metals of Kumaon and Gurhwal, 1855: president of Royal Institute of Cornwall, 1869; Murchison medallist, 1874; his name given to hydrous phosphate of aluminium and copper.
- Francis Hepburn
- '''Francis Hepburn''' , or FRANCIS KER ([[1779]]1835), major-general; served with 3rd foot (now Scots) guards in Ireland, 1798, Holland, 1799, and Sicily; wounded at Barossa, 1811; present (1813) at Vittoria, Nivelle, and the Nive; commanded 2nd battalion "in Netherlands, 1814-15; commanded at Hougoumont, 1815; O.B.; major-general, 1821.
- Francis Stewart Hepburn
- '''Francis Stewart Hepburn''' , fifth EARL OP
- Bothwtjll
- '''Bothwtjll''' (d. [[1624]]), known by name of his mother (Lady Jane Hepburn), sister of James Hepburn, fourth earl of Bothwell, whose title and offices he received on the report of his death, 1576: his father a natural son of James V; supporter of the regent Morton; abroad at time of Morton's fall; on return posed as protestant champion and successor of his uncle Moray; a favourite with James VI till discovery of his complicity in raid of Ruthven, 1582; joined Patrick Gray's conspiracy against Arran, 1585; with Home fortified Kelso for the banished lords, 1585; killed Sir William Stewart at Edinburgh, 1588; urged James to take advantage of the Spanish Armada to invade England; his influence destroyed by rise of Maitland; joined catholic rebellion, but was pardoned by intercession of the kirk; during James's absence on his return accused of consulting witches and outlawed, 1591; attempted to capture the king and Maitland in Holyrood, 1591: denounced by James to parliament as a pretender to the throne, 1592; attempted to capture him in Falkland Palace, 1592; sentenced to forfeiture, but introduced by Maitland's enemies into James's presence disguised, 1593; temporarily pardoned, but soon denounced again: appeared with force at Leith and was unsuccessfully pursued by James, 1594; expelled from England: again joined the catholic lords in the north, 1694; fled from Caithness to Normandy, 1595; died in poverty at Naples.
- Hepburn
- '''Hepburn''' Sm GEORGE BUCHAN, first baronet (1739-1819), baron of the Scottish exchequer; solicitor to lords of session, 1767-90; judge of admiralty court, 1790-1; baron of Scottish exchequer, 1791-1814; created baronet, 1815; published work on agriculture of East Lothian, 1796.
- Hepburn
- '''Hepburn''' .TAME*, fourth EARL OP BOTHWKU, (ir:i;: -157H), husband of Mary Queen of Foots: pon of Patrick Hepburn, third earl; succeeded to hereditary offices of his father, 1556; though nominally protestant, was strong supporter of the queen-dowager and the French party: intercepted money sent by the English to lords of the congregation, 1559; his castle at Crichton seized by Arran and Lord James Stuart after his escape with the treasure. sent on a foreign mission by the queen-dowager, 1560; visited Denmark; at Paris became gentleman of the royal chamber, 1560; returned to Scotland as a commissioner for Mary Queen of Scots, 1561; banished from Edinburgh for a brawl with the Hamiltons; reconciled to Arran by Knox at Kirk-o Field; charged by Arran with design to carry off the queen to Dumbarton; escaped from ward, 1562; detained by the English while escaping to France and sent to the Tower, 1564; allowed to go to France on representations of Mary and Maitland; on return to Scotland offered to meet his accusers, but failed to appear, 1665; by favour of Mary allowed to retire to France: recalled by the queen to help her against Moray, 1565: escaped capture by the English, and obtained great influence with Mary; married Lady Jean Gordon, but remained protestant, 1566: though in Holyrood, had no share in murder of Rizzio, 1566; joined Mary and Darnley on their escape to Dunbar, 1566: acquired Increasing influence over the queen, who granted him lands and Dunbar Castle; temporarily reconciled with Moray and Maitland; wounded by an outlaw near the Hermitage, 1566: entertained Mary at Dunbar; at Craigmillar said to have favoured Mary's divorce from Daruley, and afterwards signed the bond for his removal, 1566; failed to obtain Morton's help; superintended arrangements for Darnley's lodging at Kirk-o Field: escorted Darnley and Mary into Edinburgh (31 Jan. 1567); consulted subordinate plotters in apartments at Holyrood; had powder brought from Dunbar and placed in the queen's room below that of Darnley at Kirk-oField (9 Feb.); went above before Mary set out for a ball: appeared there, but left at midnight and directed the firing of the train; attributed the explosion to lightning; was generally suspected of Darnley's murder, but still favoured by Mary and (with Huntly) given cliarge of Prince James, 1567; accused by Lennox, but prevented Lennox's appearance, and obtained formal acquittal (12 April 1567): obtained written agreement of protestant lords to support his marriage with the queen ( 19 April): carried her off (perhaps by consent) to Dunbar (21 April): obtained an irregular divorce from his wife (7 May); married to Mary at Holyrood (15 May 1567); created Duke of Orkney and Shetland, 1567; threatened at Holyrood by the nobles: fled with the queen to Borthwick Castle; left her and fled to Dunbar; marched on Edinburgh, but when met by the lords at Carberry Hill was persuaded by Mary to leave her, 1567; rode to Dunbar and thence went north to join Huntly; escaped to Kirkwall; gathered together a pirate fleet, which was pursued by Kirkcaldy of Grange to the North Sea; landed in Norway, whence he was sent to Denmark, 1567; his surrender refused by the king of Denmark, who kept him in confinement: while at Copenhagen composed Les Affaires du Conte de Boduel: removed to Malmb; offered cession of Orkney and Shetland in exchange for release, 1568; his divorce from Mary passed by the pope, 1670; removed to closer prison at Drangholm, 1573: became gradually insane: buried in Faareveile Church; deathbed confession not authentic.
- James Hepburn
- '''James Hepburn''' ([[1573]]-[[1620]]), linguist ; in religion
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- Bonavknturk
- '''Bonavknturk''' ; travelled in Europe and the east ; entered order of Minims at Avignon: six years oriental keeper in Vatican Library; published nn Arabic grammar (1591), translation into Latin of Kettar Malcuth and other works; died at Venice.
- Sir James Hepburn
- '''Sir James Hepburn''' (d. [[1637]]), soldier: succeeded his cousin, Sir John Hepburn, as commander of Scots brigade; killed at Damvillers.
- John Hepburn
- '''John Hepburn''' (d. [[1522]]), prior of St. Andrews, 1482: brother of Patrick Hepburn, first earl of Bothwell ; founder of St. Leonard's College, 1512; sometime keeper of the privy seal of Scotland: unsuccessful candidate for archbishopric of St. Andrews, 1514.
- Sir John Hepburn
- '''Sir John Hepburn''' ([[1598]] ?-lf,36), soldier of fortune; though a Roman catholic, joined Scottish force in service of elector palatine, 1620; fought under Mansfeld,
- Hepburn
- '''Hepburn''' 607
- Herbert
- '''Herbert''' 1C22-3; colonel of Scottish regiment under Gustavus Adolphus, 1625: Swedish govenior of BUgenwak&B, 1630; commander of the Scots brigade, 1631; wounded at siege of Frankfort-on-Oder, 1631; took decisive part in capture of Landsberg and battle of Breitenfeld, i631; publicly thanked by Gu*tavus after capture of Donauworth, 1632; left the Swedish service and raised two thousand mm in Scotland for that of France, 1633; his recruits incorporated with Scots archery guard nicknamed Pontius Pilate's guards: took part as marechal-de-camp in conijin-t of Ix)rraine, 1634-5; captured by imperialists, but released; assisted in relief of Hagenau, 1636; obtained precedence for his brigade, aiu. r nientil by Scots in Swedish service, 1636; killed at siege of Saverue; his monument in Toul Cathedral destroyed at revolution.
- Patrick Hepburn
- '''Patrick Hepburn''' , third BARON HAII,KS and first KARL OF BOTHWKLL (d. 1508), succeeded his father as third Baron Hailes; defended Berwick against English, 1482; fought against James III at Sauchieburn, 1488; governor of Edinburgh, lord high admiral and master of the household, and created Earl of Both well, 1488; received grants in Orkney and Shetland, 1489, and Liddesdale, 1492; took part in various embassies; a commissioner for marriage of James IV and Margaret Tudor, 1501.
- Patrick Hepburn
- '''Patrick Hepburn''' , third EARL OF BOTHWKLL (1512 V-1656), grandson of Patrick Hepburn, first earl of Bothwell; succeeded on his father's death at Flodden, 1513; received share of Angus forfeited estates, 1529; imprisoned (1529) for protecting border marauders; offered his services to Northumberland against Scotland, 1531; imprisoned at Edinburgh and banished from Scotland, 1533; returned, 1542, and resumed possession of Liddesdale and Hermitage Castle: acted with Cardinal Beaton against English party, and brought queen-dowager and her daughter to Stirling, 1543; supported regency of Mary of Guise and divorced his wife to become a suitor for her hand; arrested George Wishart (1513 9-1546) , 1546, and was induced to hand him over to Beaton; imprisoned for intrigue with England, 1547-8; fled across the border; recalled by queen-dowager, 1553; lieutenant of the border, 1553.
- Patrick Hepburn
- '''Patrick Hepburn''' (d. [[1573]]), bishop of Moray; prior of St. Andrews, 1522; secretary to James V, 1524-7; one of those who condemned Patrick Hamilton, 1527; bishop of Moray and abbot of Scone, 1535; member of privy council, 1546; border commissioner, 1553: his palace and church at Scone burnt by townsmen of Dundee in revenge for execution of Walter Mylue, 1559; deprived of his rents for protecting Bothwell, and tried as accessory to Darnley's murder, 1567; notorious profligate.
- Robert Hepburn
- '''Robert Hepburn''' ([[1690]] 7-[[1712]]), author ; edited theTatler, by Donald MacStaff of the North 1711; three posthumous works by him.
- John Herapath
- '''John Herapath''' ([[1790]]-[[1868]]), mathematician; contributed to theAnnals of Philosophy rejection of his paper offered to Royal Society, 1820, followed by controversy; his Tables of Temperature controverted by Tredgold; corrected Brougham's mathematical works; proprietor and manager of Railway Magazine from 1836; published Mathematical Physics 1847.
- William Herapath
- '''William Herapath''' ([[1796]]-[[1868]]), analytical chemist: cousin of John Herapath; a founder of the London Chemical Society: professor of chemistry at Bristol Medical School, 1828; often called as an expert in poisoning cases; president of Bristol political union, 1831.
- John Abraham Heraud
- '''John Abraham Heraud''' ([[1799]]-[[1887]]), author and critic; assistant-editor of Fraser's Maga.ine 18301833; contributed to Quarterly; friend of the Oarlyles, Lock hart, and Southey; dramatic critic of Illustrated London News (1849-79) and Athenaeum; Charterhouse brother, 1873; published The Descent into Hell (1830), Judgment of the Flood (1834), and other poems, as well as plays and miscellaneous works.
- John Herault
- '''John Herault''' ([[1566]]-[[1626]]), bailiff of Jersey ; of All SoulsCollege, Oxford; as bailiff, 1615, vindicated against Sir John Peyton (1544-1630) right of crown to appoint and of bailiff to exercise civil and judicial power.
- De Losinoa Herbert
- '''De Losinoa Herbert''' ([[1054]]?-[[1119]]). See
- Lohixoa
- '''Lohixoa'''
- of Bobham Herbert
- '''of Bobham Herbert''' (fl. [[1162]]-[[1186]]), biographer of Becket; attended th.- arrhbiabop as special monitor and master in study of holy writ at ooiuictlH of Tour ( teraoooa 1 U;i, ami Northampton (1164), escaping with him from the hist; brought him money and plate, and secnrl his rv-,-ption abroad; shared hin exile, encouraging bin to hold his ground ut Montinirail, llti'J; n-turn.-l with him to England, 1170, but was sent on a mmairo to the French king and remained abroad till 1184; treated well by Henry II; hi Life of St. Thomas of Canterbury with letters and other works, printed In Dr. Giles's Sanctus Thomas CantuariensiB (1846), and edited by Canon J. 0. Robertson in Materials for History of Archbishop Becket
- Alfred Herbert
- '''Alfred Herbert''' (d. [[1861]]), water-colour painter ; son of a Thames waterman; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1847-60.
- Algernon Herbert
- '''Algernon Herbert''' ([[1792]]-[[1855]]), antiquary: educated at Eton and Oxford; fellow of Merton College, 1814, dean, 1828; M.A., 1825; published Nimrod, a Discourse upon Certain Passages of History and Fable 18281830, edition ofNennitw 1848, and other works.
- Anne Herbert
- '''Anne Herbert''' , COUNTKSW OF PEMBROKE AKD
- Montgomery
- '''Montgomery''' ([[1590]]-[[1676]]).
- Earl of Torrington Arthur
- '''Earl of Torrington Arthur''' (1647-1716), admiral of the fleet; second son of Sir Edward Herbert (1691 ?-1657); entered navy, 1663; served against the Dutch, 1666, and against Algerine corsairs, 1669-71; commanded the Dreadnought at Solebay, 1672, and the Cambridge, 1673-5: lost an eye in capture of a corsair in Mediterranean, 1678; as admiral in the straits relieved Tangier, 1680, and continued to command against the Algerines till 1683; rear-admiral and master of the robes, 1684; M.P., Dover, 1685; cashiered for refusing to support repeal of Test Act, 1687; commander of fleet which conveyed William of Orange to England, 1688; first lord of the admiralty and commander of Channel fleet, 1689; created Earl of Torrington, 1689, after indecisive action with French in Bantry Bay; resigned the admiralty, 1690; with insufficient squadron obliged by queen's order to engage whole French fleet off Beachy Head, 1690; his cautious tactics frustrated by Dutch contingent; charged before courtmartial with hanging back, 1690; acquitted, but never again held command; corresponded with William III.
- Arthur John Herbert
- '''Arthur John Herbert''' ([[1834]]-[[1856]]), historical painter; son of John Rogers Herbert; died in Auvergne. . CYRIL WISEMAN (1847-1882), painter: son of John Rogers Herbert; curator of antique school, Royal Academy, 1882; exhibited, 1870-5.
- Edward Herbert
- '''Edward Herbert''' , first BAROX HERBERT OF
- Oherbury
- '''Oherbury''' ([[1583]]-[[1648]]), philosopher, historian, and diplomatist; while at University College, Oxford, taught himself the Romance languages and became a good musician, rider, and fencer; went to court, 1600; sheriff of Montgomeryshire, 1605; during a continental tour became intimate with Casaubon and the Constable Montmoreucy, and fought several duels, 1608-10; volunteer at recapture of Juliers, 1610; joined Prince of Orange's army, 1614; visited the elector palatine and the chief towns of Italy; offered help to the Savoyards, but was imprisoned by the French at Lyons, 1615; stayed with Prince of Orange, 1616; on his return became intimate with Donne, Carew, and Ben Jonson; named by Buckingham ambassador at Paris, 1619; tried to obtain French support for elector palatine, and suggested marriage between Henrietta Maria and Prince Charles; recalled for quarrelling with the French king's favourite De Luynes, 1621, but reappointed on De Luynes's death, 1622; recalled, 1624, owing to his disagreement with James I about the French marriage negotiations; received in Irish peerage the barony of Onerbury, 1629, and seat in council of war, 1632; attended Charles I on Scottish expedition, 1639-40; committed to the Tower for royalist speech in House of Lords, 1642, but released on apologising: aimed at neutrality during the war; compelled to admit parliamentary force Into Montgomery Castle, 1644; submitted to parliament and received a pension, 1645; steward of duchy of Cornwall and warden of the Stannaries, 1646; visited Gasaendi, 1647; died in London, Sclden being one of his executors. His
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- Herbert
- '''Herbert''' 608
- Herbert
- '''Herbert''' autobiography (to 1624), printed hy Horace Walpole, 1764 (thrice reissued), and edited by Mr. Sidney Lee, 1886, scarcely mentions his serious pursuits. HisDeVeritate i Paris, 1624, London, 1645), the chief of his philosophical works, is the first purely metaphysical work by an Englishman. It wns unfavourably criticised by Baxter, Locke, ami others, but commended by ( lassendi and Descartes. Though named the father of English deism, Herbert's real affinity was with the Cambridge Platonists. His poems were edited by Mr. Churton Collins, 1881: his Life of Henry VIII (apologetic) first published, 1649.
- Sir Edward Herbert
- '''Sir Edward Herbert''' ([[1591]] ?-[[1657]]), judge; cousin of Edward Herbert, first baron Herbert of Cherbury; barrister. Inner Temple, 1618. treasurer, 1638; M.P., Montgomery, 1620, Downton, 1625-9, Old Sanim, 1641; a manager of Buckingham's impeachment, 1626: one of Selden's counsel, 1629: attorney-general to Charles I's queen, 1635: assisted in prosecution of Prynne, Burton, and Bastwick, 1637: solicitor-general, 1640; attorney-general, 1641; knighted, 1641; impeached, imprisoned, and incapacitated, 1642, for his share in abortive impeachment of six members: joined royalists; declined lord-keeperehip, 1645: sequestrated asdelinquent 1646: went to sea with Prince Rupert, 1648; attorney-general to Charles II while abroad: lordkeeper, 1653; died at Paris.
- Edward Herbert
- '''Edward Herbert''' , third BARON HKRBKRT OF
- Oherbury
- '''Oherbury''' (d. [[1678]]), grandson of Edward Herbert, first baron Herbert of Cherbury
- Sir Edward Herbert
- '''Sir Edward Herbert''' , titular EARL OP PORT-
- Land
- '''Land''' ([[1648]] ?-[[1698]]), judge; younger son of Sir Edward Herbert (1591?-1667); educated at Winchester And New College, Oxford; B.A., 1669: barrister, Middle Temple; K.O. in Ireland, 1677: chief-justice of Chester, 1683; knighted, 1684; attorney-general to the queen of James II: M.P. for Ludlow, 1685: privy councillor, 1685: chief-justice of king's bench, 1685; gave judgment for dispensing power in case of Goddeu t. Hales, 1686; transferred to common pleas, 1687; as member of ecclesiastical commission opposed James II in Magdalen College case, 1687: followed James into exile, and was created lord chancellor, but offended James by his protestantism; died at St. Germains.
- Edward Herbert
- '''Edward Herbert''' , second EARL OP Powis (1785-1848), tory politician: grandson of Robert Olive, first baron Clive of Plassey; assumed his mother's surname, 1807; educated at Eton and St. John's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1806; M.P., Ludlow, 1806-39; as lord-lieutenant, Montgomeryshire, active in suppressing Chartist riots, 1839; succeeded to peerage, 1839; his defeat of scheme for creation of see of Manchester by union of Bangor and St. Asaph celebrated by foundation of Powis exhibitions, 1847; president of Roxburghe Club, 1835; candidate for chancellorship of Cambridge, 1847; accidentally killed.
- George Herbert
- '''George Herbert''' ([[1593]]-[[1633]]), divine and poefc ; brother of Edward Herbert, first baron Herbert of Cherbury; of Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge: major fellow, 1616; M.A., 1616; public orator, 1619-27; induced to adopt religious life by Nicholas Ferrar; prebendary of Lincoln, 1626; while deacon accepted benefice of Bemerton, Wiltshire, by Laud's advice, 1630; ordained priest, 1630; * The Temple; Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (prepared for press by Ferrar, 1633), read by Charles I in prison, and highly commended by Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, Baxter, and Coleridge; his chief prose work, A Priest to the Temple first printed in his Remains 1652; complete works edited by Dr. Grosart, 1874. of Donne. His literary style was influenced by that
- George Augustus Herbert
- '''George Augustus Herbert''' , eleventh EARL OP PKMBROKE and eighth EARL op MONTGOMERY (17591827), general (son of Henry Herbert, tenth earl of Pembroke ); entered army, 1775, lieutenant-colonel, 2nd dragoon guards, 1783; vice-chamberlain, 1785; M.P., Wilton, 1784-94; served in Flanders, 1793-4; majorgeneral, 1795; K.G., 1805: governor of Guernsey, 1807; ambassador extraordinary to Vienna, 1807; general, 1812; said to have trebled value of his estates.
- George Robert Charles Herbert
- '''George Robert Charles Herbert''' , thirteenth BARL OP PKMBROKR and ninth EARL OP MoxrGOMKRT (1850-1895), son of Sidney Herbert, first baron Herbert of Lea, whom he succeeded, 1861: suem-dod his uncle in the earldoms, 1862; educated at Eton; travelled abroad with Dr. Hoorirc Henry Kingsley, i with whom he published South Sea Bubbles 1872; mider-secretary for war, 1H74-6. HisLetters and Speeches were published, 1896.
- Henry Herbert
- '''Henry Herbert''' , second EARL OK PKMMKMKK (1534 ?-160l), elder son of Sir William Herbert, first.-ar! ; educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge; styled Lord Herbert, 1551-70; K.B., 1553: married Catherine, sister of Lady Jane Grey, 1553; gentleman of the chamber to King Philip of Spain, 1554; succeeded as earl, 1570: prominent at trials of Norfolk (1572), Arundel (1589), and Mary Queen of Scots (1586); president of Wales and admiral of South Wales, 1586.
- Sir Henry Herbert
- '''Sir Henry Herbert''' ([[1595]]-[[1673]]), master of the revels: brother of George Herbert (1593-1633); ! knighted, 1623: introduced Baxter at court: as master of the revels claimed jurisdiction over all public entertainments, even licensing some books: his judgment in licensing Middletou'sGame of Chesse 1624, questioned: gentleman of privy chamber, attending Charles I in Scottish expedition, 1639; obliged to compound for his estates during rebellion; resumed his licensing functions at Restoration; his privileges confirmed, 1661, but his functions disputed by D'Aveuant and others; claimed to license plays, poems, and ballads, 1663: leased his office to deputies, 1663; M.P., Bewdley, from 1661: friend of Evelyn.
- Henry Herbert
- '''Henry Herbert''' , fourth BARON HKRBERT OP
- Ohkrbury
- '''Ohkrbury''' (. [[1691]]), cofferer of the household to William
- Iii
- '''Iii''' and Mary ; succeeded his brother Edward Herbert, third baron Herbert of Cherbury, 1678: served under Monmouth in France, and supported him in England, afterwards promoting the revolution.
- Henry Herbert
- '''Henry Herbert''' , created BARON HERBERT OP
- Cherbury
- '''Cherbury''' ([[1664]]-[[1709]]), son of Sir Henry Herbert ; of Trinity College, Oxford; M.P., Bewdley, 1673-94; promoted revolution in Worcestershire: created Baron Herbert, 1694, and Castleisland (Ireland), 1695; commissioner of trade, 1707; chairman of committees in House of Lords; a zealous whig.
- Henry Herbert
- '''Henry Herbert''' , second BARON HERBERT OP
- Cherbury
- '''Cherbury''' of the second creation (rf. [[1738]]), son of Henry i Herbert, baron Herbert of Cherbury (1654-1709); i educated at Westminster: M.P., Bewdley, 1707; committal suicide.
- Henry Herbert
- '''Henry Herbert''' , ninth EARL OP PEMBROKE and { sixth EARL OP MONTGOMERY (1693-1751), the architect I earl groom of the stole, 1735: thrice a lord justice; I F.R.S., 1743; lieutenant-general, 1742; promoted erection I of first Westminster Bridge (1739-50): designed improve! ments at Wilton House and elsewhere.
- Henry Herbert
- '''Henry Herbert''' , tenth EARL OP PEMBROKE and i seventh EARL OP MONTGOMERY (1734-1794), general: comj manded cavalry brigade in Germany, 1760-1; publishel 'Method of Breaking Horses 1762; lord of the bedchamber, 1769; deprived of lieutenancy of Wiltshire for voting against the court, 1780: restored, 1782; governor of Portsmouth, 1782; general, 1782.
- Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert
- '''Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert''' , fourth
- Op Carnarvon Earl
- '''Op Carnarvon Earl''' ([[1831]]-[[1890]]), statesman : eldest son of Henry John George Herbert, third earl; of Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1852; succeeded to earldom, 1849; with Lord Sandon visited the Druses, 1853; moved address in House of Lords, 1854; undersecretary for colonies in Lord Derby's second administration, 1858-9; high steward of Oxford University, 1859; as colonial secretary in Lord Derby's and Disraeli's administration (1866-7) brought in British North America Confederation Bill, 1867; resigned on the reform question before the Confederation Bill became law (March 1867): while in opposition, supported Irish disestablishment and the Land Bill of 1870; again colonial secretary in Disraeli's second administration, 1874-8; abolished slavery on the Gold Coast, 1874; sent Sir Ganiet Wolseley as governor of Natal to report on the native and defence questions, 1875; attempted the confederation of South Africa; arranged for purchase of Boer claims in Griqualaud West by Cape Colony, 1876; sent out Sir Theopbilus Shepstone and Sir Battle Frere to settle colonial and native differences, 1876; introduced a permissive confederation Bill, 1877; sanctioned and upheld annexation of Transvaal,
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- '''Herbert''' 1877: resigned (January 1878), being opposed to breach of neutrality in Russo-Turkish affairs: chairman of colonial defence commission, 1879-82; opposed Franchise Hill of 1K84 till concurrent redistribution of seats conceded: joined Imperial Federation League, 1884; as lordliruti-naiit. of In-hind under Lord Salisbury (1885-6) attempted poverninent by ordinary law, held coiilVn-Mi-twith Mr. l'arin-11. and privoiially'favoiirc.1 limited selfgovernment; afterwards opposed Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule and Land Purchase bills; suggested 1887) appointment of special commission for investigating charges of The Times against Parnell; visited South Africa and Australia, 1887-8; interested in questions of colonial defence: president of Society of Antiquaries, 1878-85: published versr translations of theAgamemnon(1879) and the Odyssey (1886); edited ( 1 869 ) his father's travels in Greece, Mangel'sGnostic Heresies 1875, and unpublished letters of Lord Chesterfield, 1889.
- Hkxry John George Herbert
- '''Hkxry John George Herbert''' , third EARL OP CARNARVON (1800-1849), traveller; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; styled Viscount Porchester till his succession to earldom, 1833; travelled in Barbary, Spain, Portugal, and (later) In Greece; his tragedy, Don Pedro acted by Macready and Ellen Tree at Drury Lane, 1828; published Last Days of the Portuguese Constitution 1830, andPortugal and Galicia 1830; tory M.P., Wootton Basset, 1831-2; his Reminiscences of Athens and the Morea In 1839 j issued, 1869.
- Henry William Herbert
- '''Henry William Herbert''' ([[1807]] - [[1858]]), author; son of William Herbert (1778-1847); educated at Eton and Oaius College, Cambridge; B.A., I 1830; became a classical tutor at New York, and establishedAmerican Monthly Magazine 1833; shot himself at New York; published as Frank ForesterField Sports of the United States and British Provinces (1848), and similar works; published, under his own name,The Roman Traitor 1846, and other historical novels, translations from Dumas and Eugene Sue, and popular historical works.
- John Rogers Herbert
- '''John Rogers Herbert''' ([[1810]]-[[1890]]), portrait and historical painter; won his first success with Italian subject-pictures, 1834-40; became a Romanist, and thenceforth chiefly devoted himself to religious studies; a master of design at Somerset House, 1841; R.A., 1846 (retired, 1886), his diploma work beingSt. Gregory the Great teaching Roman Boys to sing; painted for houses of parliament King Lear disinheriting Cordelia in fresco, and Human Justice series.
- Lady Lucy Herbert
- '''Lady Lucy Herbert''' ([[1669]]-[[1744]]), devotional writer; daughter of William Herbert, first marquis of Powis; prioress of English convent, Bruges, 1709-44: herDevotionsedited by Rev. John Morris, S.J., 1873.
- Mary Herbert
- '''Mary Herbert''' , COUNTESS OP PEMBROKE ([[1561]]1621), sister of Sir Philip Sidney; married Henry Herbert, second earl of Pembroke, 1577; the Urania of Spenser's Colin Clout; suggested composition of her brother Philip's Arcadia (first printed, 1590), which she revised and added to; collaborated with Philip in metrical psalms, first printed complete, 1823; her elegy on him appended to Spenser's Astrophel; translated from Plessis du Mornay A Discourse of Life and Death 1593; patron of Samuel Daniel, Nicholas Breton , Ben Jonson, and other poets; fine epitaph on her by Ben Jonson or William Browne, first printed, 1660.
- Sir Percy Egerton Herbert
- '''Sir Percy Egerton Herbert''' ([[1822]]-[[1876]]), lieutenant-general; second son of Edward Herbert, second earl Powis; at Eton and Sandhurst; promoted brevet lieutenant-colonel for services in the Kaffir war, 1851-3; assistant quartermaster-general of Sir de Lacy, Evans's division in Crimea; wounded at the Alma, 1854; I O.B. and aide-de-camp to the queen, 1855; commanded i left wing in Rohilcund campaign, 1858; deputy quarter- I master-general at Horse Guards, 1860-5; privy councillor, and treasurer of the household, 1867-8; major-general, 1868; K.C.B., 1869; M.P., Ludlow, 1854-60, South Shropshire, 1865-76; lieutenant-general, 1875.
- Philip Herbert
- '''Philip Herbert''' , EARL OP MONTGOMERY and fourth EARL OP PEMBROKE (1584-1650), parliamentarian; younger son of Henry Herbert, second earl of Pembroke: matriculated at New College, Oxford, 1593; favourite of James I, and gentleman of the bedchamber, 1605-25; created Earl of Montgomery, 1606; K.G., 1608; high steward of Oxford, 1615; privy councillor, 1624; lord-lieutenant of Kent, 1624: lord chamberlain, 1626-41: received grant of Trinidad, Tobago, and Barbados, 1628; succeeded his brotlu-r William Herbert (1580-1630) as Earl of Pembroke, and lord warden of the Stannaries, 1630; commissioner to negotiate with Scots, 1640; voted against Btrafford, 1641; member of committee of safety and parliamentary governor of the Isle of Wight, 1642; parliamentary commissioner at Oxford, 1643, and Uxbridge, 1646; received Charles I from the Scots, 1647; commissioner of the admiralty, 1645; as vice-chancellor of Oxford (1641-50) superintended visitation of the colleges and ejection of royalists; member of first council of state and M.P., Berkshire, 1649; a patron of Massinger and Vandyck; addicted to sport; rebuilt front of Wilton House, and laid oat gardens.
- Philip Herbert
- '''Philip Herbert''' , fifth EARL OF "KMMKOKK (1619-1669), eldest surviving son of Philip Herbert, fourth earl of Pembroke; M.P., Glamorgan, in Long parliament; succeeded to his father's seat for Berkshire, 1650; presidentof council of state (June, July), 1652; councillor for trade and navigation, 1660: sold Wilton collections. P, PHILIP, seventh EARL op PEMBROKE (1653-1683), son of Philip Herbert, fifth earl; convicted of manslaughter, 1678.
- Richard Herbert
- '''Richard Herbert''' , second BARON HERBERT OP
- Oherbuhy
- '''Oherbuhy''' ([[1600]] ? - [[1655]]), royalist ; son of Edward Herbert, first baron Herbert of Cherbury; conducted Henrietta Maria from Bridlington to Oxford, 1643.
- St Herbert
- '''St Herbert''' . LEGER ALGERNON ([[1860]]-[[1885]]), war correspondent; scholar of Wadham College, Oxford, 1869; in Canadian civil service, 1875-8; private secretary to Sir Garnet Wolseley in Cyprus and South Africa;The Timescorrespondent, 1878-9; O.M.G.; secretary to Transvaal commission, 1881-2; correspondent of Morning Post in Egypt, 1883-4: wounded at Tamai; killed at Gubat during Soudan war while on the staff of Sir Herbert Stewart.
- Sidney Herbert
- '''Sidney Herbert''' , first BARON HERBERT OP
- Lea
- '''Lea''' ([[1810]]-[[1861]]), statesman : second son of George Augustus, eleventh earl of Pembroke; educated at Harrow and Oriel College, Oxford; B.A., 1831; conservative M.P., South Wiltshire, 1832-60; secretary to board of control, 1834-5; secretary to admiralty, 1841-5: war secretary under Peel, 1845-6, Aberdeen, 1852-5 (during the Crimean war), and Palmerston, 1859-60: primarily responsible for Miss Florence Nightingale going to the Crimea; freed by Roebuck committee from suspicion of favouring Russia; led movement in favour of medical reform in the army and education of officers; encouraged volunteer movement; created peer, 1860; injured his health by administrative labour.
- Thomas Herbert
- '''Thomas Herbert''' ([[1597]]-[[1642]]?), seaman and author; brother of Edward Herbert, first baron Herbert of Cherbury; distinguished himself at Juliers, 1610; commanded East Indiamau against Portuguese, 1616; visited the Great Mogul at Mandow, 1617; served against Algerines, 1620-1; brought Prince Charles from Spain to England, 1623, and Count Mansfeldt to the Netherlands, 1625; published elegy on Straff ord, 1641, and pasquinades, includingNewes out of Islington 1641 (reprinted b$ Halliwell, 1849).
- Sir Thomas Herbert
- '''Sir Thomas Herbert''' , first baronet ([[1606]]-[[1682]]), traveller and author; studied at Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge; went to Persia, 1628, with Sir Dodmore Cotton and Sir Robert Shirley; travelled in Europe: commissioner with Fairfax's army, 1644, and for surrender of Oxford, 1646; attended Charles I, 1647-9, and received presents from him, including the Shakespeare second folio now at Windsor; created baronet, 1660; published * Description of the Persian Monarchy (1634), reprinted as Some Yeares Travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique(1638, &c.); collaborated with Dugdale; his reminiscences (1678) of Charles I's captivity reprinted asMemoirs of the last two years of the Reign &c., 1702 and 1813. R R
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- Herdman
- '''Herdman'''
- Thomas Herbert
- '''Thomas Herbert''' , eighth EARL OF PKMHKOKK (1656-1733), lord high admiral; third son of Philip Herbert, fifth earl; entered at Christ Church, Oxford, 1672: succeeded elder brothers in title, 1683; lieutenant of Wiltshire: dismissed, 1687; first lord of the admiralty, 1690; one of Queen Mary's council, 1690; lord privy seal, 1692; opposed Fen wick's execution, 1697, and Resumption Bill of 1700; first plenipotentiary at treaty of Ryswick, 1697; K.G., 1700; president of the council, 1702; If" 1 high admiral, 1702 and 1708: a commissioner for the union, 1706-7; lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1707: a lord justice, 1714-15; lord-lieutenant of Wiltshire, Monmouth, and South Wales; P.R.S., 1689-90.
- Sir Thomas Heebeet
- '''Sir Thomas Heebeet''' ([[1793]]-[[1861]]), rear-admiral ; promoted lieutenant for services at reduction of Danish West Indies, 1809; commander, 1814; as senior officer on Canton River commanded operations against Chuenpee and Bogue forts, and took part in capture of Amoy and Chusan and reduction of Ohinghae, 1840; K.O.B., 1841; junior lord of the admiralty, 1852; rear-admiral, 1862; M.P., Dartmouth, 1852-7.
- William Herbert
- '''William Herbert''' (rf. [[1333]]?), Franciscan; preacher and philosopher at Oxford.
- Sir William Herbert
- '''Sir William Herbert''' , EARL OF PEMBROKE of the first creation (d. 1469), Yorkist; knighted by Henry VI, 1449; taken prisoner at Formigny, 1450; during wars of the Roses did good service against Jasper Tudor; made privy councillor and chief- justice of South Wales by Edward IV, 1461; created Baron Herbert, 1461; K.Q., 1462: chief- justice of North Wales, 1467; after capture of Harlech Castle (1468) and attainder of Jasper Tudor (1468) was created Earl of Pembroke and guardian to Henry (afterwards Henry VII), 1468; defeated and captured by Lancastrians at Hedgecote and executed.
- William Herbert
- '''William Herbert''' , second EARL OP PEMBROKE, afterwards EARL OP HUNTINGDON (1460-1491), son of Sir William Herbert, earl of Pembroke of the first creation (rf. 1469); English captain in France, 1475; exchanged earldom of Pembroke for that of Huntingdon, 1479; chief-justice of South Wales, 1483.
- Sir William Herbert
- '''Sir William Herbert''' , first EARL OP PEM-
- Broke
- '''Broke''' of the second creation ([[1501]] ?-[[1570]]), grandson of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke of the first creation (rf. 1469): esquire of the body to Henry VIII, 1526; married a sister of Catherine Parr; granted the dissolved abbey of Wilton, where he built part of the present mansion; granted property in Wales, 1546; gentleman of the privy chamber, 1546: one of Henry VIII's executors: member of Edward VI's council; K.G. and master of the horse, 1548; helped to quell Cornish rising, 1549; supported Warwick against Somerset, and was made president of Wales, 1550; took part in Somerset's trial, 1551, and obtained Somerset's Wiltshire estates: created Earl of Pembroke, 1551; joined Northumberland in proclaiming Lady Jane Grey, but (19 July 1563) declared for Mary; commanded against Sir Thomas Wyatt, 1664; intimate with King Philip; an envoy to France, 1555: governor of Calais, 1556; captain-general of English contingent at St. Quentin, 1657; under Queen Elizabeth supported Cecil and the protestant party; lord steward, 1668; cleared himself when arrested for supporting scheme for Duke of Norfolk's marriage with Mary Queen of Scot*, 1569; buried in St. Paul's,
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- Herbert
- '''Herbert''' or HARBERT, SIR WILLIAM (d. [[1593]]), Irish * undertaker and author; of St. Julians, Monmouthshire; sole legitimate heir-male of William, first earl of Pembroke (d. 1469); knighted, 1578: friend of John Dee; an undertaker for plantation of Munster, being subsequently allotted Desmond property in Kerry, 1587; vice-president of Munster in absence of Sir Thomas Norris, c. 1689; bisCroftus; siue de HiberniA Liber(named in compliment to Sir James Croft (d. 1691) ) edited by W. E. Buckley, 1887; his Irish tracts and letters to Walsingham and Burgbley inCalendars of Irish State Papers
- Herbeet
- '''Herbeet''' or HAEBEET, WILLIAM (ft. [[1604]]), poet; of Christ Church, Oxford; author of A Propbesie of Oadwallader; 1604.
- William Heebeet
- '''William Heebeet''' , third EARL OF PEMBROKE of the second creation (1560-1630), eldest son of Henry Herbert, second earl of the second creation; educated by Samuel Daniel, of New College, Oxford; succeeded as earl, 1601; disgraced for an intrigue with Mary Fitton; patron of Ben Jonson, Philip Ma&singer. Inigo Jones, and William Browne(1591-1643 ?) ; thrice entertained James 1 at Wilton; lordwarden of the Stahnariea, 1604; member of the council of New England, 1620; interested in the Virginia, Northwest passage, Bermuda, and East India companies; lord chamberlain, 1615; opposed foreign policy of James I and Buckingham: commissioner of the great seal, 1621; member of the committee for foreign affairs and council of war under Charles I, 1626; lord steward, 1626; chancellor of Oxford University from 1617, Pembroke College being named after him; presented Barocci library to Bodleian; wrote poems which were issued with those of Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, 1660. To him as lord chamberlain and to his brother Philip the first folio of Shakespeare's works was dedicated in 1623, but there is no good ground for identifying him with the subject of Shakespeare's sonnets, or with the Mr. W. H noticed in the publisher Thorpe's dedication of that volume (1609). , WILLIAM (fl. 1634-1662), author of pious manuals and French conversation-books.
- William Heebeet
- '''William Heebeet''' , first MARQUIS and titular
- Op Duke
- '''Op Duke''' Powis ([[1617]]-[[1696]]), succeeded as third Baron Powis, 1667; created Earl of Powis, 1674; as chief of the Roman catholic aristocracy imprisoned in connection with the Popish plot 1679-84; privy councillor, 1686; created Marquis of Powis, 1687; commissioner to regulate corporations, 1687; lord-lieutenant of Cheshire, 1688, and vice-lieutenant of Sussex, 1688; created by James I, in exile, a duke and chamberlain of his household; his estates in England confiscated; died at St. Germains.
- William Heebeet
- '''William Heebeet''' , second MARQUIS and titular j DUKE OF Powis (d. 1745), son of William Herbert, first marquis of Powis; styled Viscount Montgomery till 1722, when his title as marquis and.his estates were restored; imprisoned, 1689 and 1696-7, on suspicion of : complicity in Sir J. Fenwick's plot; again arrested, 1715.
- William Herbert
- '''William Herbert''' ([[1718]]-[[1795]]), bibliographer; went to India, c. 1748, and drew plans of settlements foi the East India Company; published A new Directory for the East Indies 1758; issued second edition of Atkyns's Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire(rare), 1768, and an enlarged edition of Ames's Typographical Antiquities 1785-90.
- William Herbeet
- '''William Herbeet''' ([[1778]]-[[1847]]), dean of Manchester; editedMusse Etonenses 1795; B.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1798: M.A. Merton College, 1802, and D.C.L., 1808; M.P., Hampshire, 1806, Cricklade, 1811; dean of Manchester, 1840-7; published Select Icelandic Poetry(1804-6) and translations, alsoAttila, or the Triumph of Christianity an epic (1838), and other poems, English, Greek, and Latin; assisted in editions of White's Selborne(1833 and 1837); published monographs on Amaryllidaceae (1837) and crocuses (edited by J. Lindley, 1847); ferns named after him by Sweet; collected works issued, 1842.
- William Heebeet
- '''William Heebeet''' ([[1771]]-[[1851]]), antiquarian writer; librarian of the Guildhall, 1828-45; published j History of the Twelve great Livery Companies (1836 I 1837),Antiquities of the Inns of Court(1804), and 1 similar works.
- David Heebison
- '''David Heebison''' ([[1800]]-[[1880]]), Irish poet ; known asThe Bard of Dunclug chief work,The Fate of McQuillan, and O'Neill's Daughter and... other Poems (1841).
- David Heed
- '''David Heed''' ([[1732]]-[[1810]]), collector of 'Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads &c., 1776 (reprinted, 1869); president of the Cape Club, Edinburgh; literary adviser of A rchibald Constable.
- John Heed
- '''John Heed''' ([[1512]] ?-[[1588]]), author of 'Historia Anglicans in Latin verse; of Eton and King's College, Cambridge; fellow, 1632; M.A., 1546; M.D., 1658; prebendary of Lincoln, 1667, and York, 1559.
- John Heedman
- '''John Heedman''' ([[1762]] ?-[[1842]]), medical writer: M.D. Aberdeen, 1800; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge,
- Herdman
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- Heron
- '''Heron''' 1817; physician to Duke of Sussex and city dispensary; ordaiued; published Essay on the Causes and Phenomena of Animal Life 1795, and other works.
- Robert Herdman
- '''Robert Herdman''' ([[1829]]-[[1888]]), Scottish painter; studied at St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and in Italy; exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy from 1850, and at Royal Academy from 1861; R.S.A., 1863; painted portraits of Carlyle, Sir Noel Paton, principals Shairp and Tulloch, and others, and of many ladies. His other works comprise studies of female figures and figure-subjects from Scottish history.
- William Qawin Herdman
- '''William Qawin Herdman''' ([[1805]]-[[1882]]). artist and author; expelled from Liverpool Academy, 1857, for opposition to pre-Raphaelite artists; exhibited at Royal Academy and Suffolk Street, 1834-61; published Pictorial Relics of Ancient Liverpool 1843, 1856, technical treatises on art, Treatise on Skating and other works.
- Henry Herdson
- '''Henry Herdson''' (fl. [[1651]]), author of Ars Mnemonica 1651, andArs Memoriae 1651;professor of the art of memory at Cambridge.
- Herebert
- '''Herebert''' or HERBERT, SAINT (d. [[687]]), hermit of Derweutwater and friend of St. Cuthbert.
- Hereferth
- '''Hereferth''' (d. [[915]]).
- Duke of Hereford
- '''Duke of Hereford''' .
- Earls Ok Hereford
- '''Earls Ok Hereford''' . See FITZOSBERN, WILLIAM, d. 1071; FITZWILLIAM, ROGER, alias ROGER DE BRETKUIL, A. 1071-1075; GLOUCESTER, MILES DE, d. 1143; BOHUN, HENRY DE, first EARL (of the Bohun line), 1176-1220; BOHUN, HUMPHREY V, DE, second EARL, d. 1274; BOHUN, HUMPHREY VII, DE, third EARL, d. 1298; BOHUN, HUMPHREY VIIL, DE, fourth EARL, 1276-1322.
- Viscounts Hereford
- '''Viscounts Hereford''' . See DEVEREUX, WALTER, first VISCOUNT, d. 1558; DEVEREUX, WALTER, second VISCOUNT, 1541 ?-1576.
- Nicholas of Hereford
- '''Nicholas of Hereford''' (fl. [[1390]]). See
- Nicholas
- '''Nicholas'''
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- Roger of Hereford
- '''Roger of Hereford''' (fl. [[1178]]).
- Herewald
- '''Herewald''' (-. [[1104]]), bishop of Llandaff ; elected (1066) by Gruffydd ab Llywelyn, Meurig ab Hywel, and Welsh magnates; confirmed by Archbishop Kinsi of York, 1059; suspended by Anselm.
- Hereward
- '''Hereward''' (fl. [[1070]]-[[1071]]), outlaw; first called the Wake by John of Peterborough; mentioned in Domesday as owner of lauds in Lincolnshire; perhaps identical with owner of Marston Jabbett, Warwickshire, and Evenlode, Worcestershire; legendary account of his wanderings given by Ingulf of Orowland and inGesta Herewardi headed rising of English at Ely, 1070; with assistance of Danish fleet plundered Peterborough, 1070; joined by Morcar, Bishop Ethelwine of Durham, and other refugees; escaped when his allies surrendered to William the Conqueror; said to have been pardoned by William; slain by Normans in Maine, according to account of Geoffrey Gaimar
- Herfast
- '''Herfast''' or ARFA8T (d. [[1084]] ?), first chancellor of England; chaplain to William I before the Conquest; chancellor of England, 1068-70; bishop of Elmham, 1070; bishop of Thetford, 1078; tried to defeat monastic claims to exemption from episcopal jurisdiction.
- Hericke
- '''Hericke'''
- Hericke
- '''Hericke''' or HERRICK, SIR WILLIAM ([[1562]]1653), goldsmith and money-lender; uncle of Robert Herrick; went on mission from Elizabeth to the Grand Turk, 1580-1; M.P., Leicester, 1601; principal jeweller to James I; knighted, 1605; exempted from liability to serve as sheriff, 1605; refused to pay shipmoney,
- George Edwards Hebjng
- '''George Edwards Hebjng''' ([[1805]]-[[1879]]), landscape-painter; of German parentage; publishedSketches on the Danube, in Hungary, and Transylvania 1838; exhibited at Royal Academy from 1836; hisAmalfi* and 'Capripurchased by Prince Consort.
- George Heriot
- '''George Heriot''' ([[1563]]-[[1624]]), founder of Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh (opened, 1659); jeweller to James VI, 1601, to his queen, 1597, and to James VI on his accession as James I of England, 1603; was granted imposition on sugar for three years, 1620; theJingling Geordie of Scott's Fortunes of NigeL
- John Heriot
- '''John Heriot''' ([[1760]]-[[1833]]), author and journalist ; present as a marine in Rodney's action of 17 April, 1780; published two novels (1787 and 1789), andHistorical Sketch of Gibraltar 1792; edited theSonand the True Briton 1793-1806; deputy paymaster-general in West Indies, 1810-16; comptroller of Chelsea Hospital, 1816-33.
- Herk
- '''Herk''' 8, GARBRAND (Jt. [[1556]]).
- Herks
- '''Herks''' See GARBRAND, alias GARBRAND, JOHN (1*42-1 58V).
- Charles Herle
- '''Charles Herle''' ([[1598]]-[[1659]]), puritan divine; M.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1618; presented by Stanley family to rectory of Winwick, Lancashire, 1626; represented Lancashire in Westminster Assembly of Divines, 1643, and was appointed prolocutor, 1646; refused to pray for Commonwealth; his chief work,The Independency on Scriptures of the Independency of Churches 1643; friend of Fuller.
- William De Herle
- '''William De Herle''' (d. [[1347]]), judge ; as serjeantat-law summoned to assist parliaments of Edward II; judge of common pleas, 1320; chief -justice of common pleas, 1327-9 and 1331-7.
- Heriewin
- '''Heriewin''' (d. [[1137]]).
- Henry Herman
- '''Henry Herman''' ([[1832]]-[[1894]]), dramatist and novelist; fought in confederate ranks hi American civil war; produced independently and in collaboration with Mr. Henry Arthur Jones and other authors plays at London theatres from 1875.
- Lord Hermand
- '''Lord Hermand''' (d. [[1827]]). See FERQUSSOX,
- George
- '''George'''
- Hermann
- '''Hermann''' (ft. [[1070]]), hagiographer ; archdeacon of Thetford under Herfast; afterwards monk of Bury; wrote De Miraculis S. Kdmuudi printed in Memorials of St. Edmund's Abbey (ed. T. Arnold, 1890).
- Hermann
- '''Hermann''' (d. [[1078]]), first bishop of Old Saram (Salisbury); native of Lorraine; bishop of Ramsbury or Wilton, 1045; went to Rome for Edward the Confessor, 1050; monk of St. Berlin's Abbey at St. Omer, 1055-8; bishop of Sherborne with Ramsbury, 1058; removed his see to Old Sarum, 1075; assisted at Lanf ranc's consecration and several councils,
- John Herne
- '''John Herne''' (fl. [[1644]]), lawyer; barrister, Lincoln's Inn; bencher, 1637; defended, among others, Prynne, 1634, and Archbishop Laud, 1644.
- John Herne
- '''John Herne''' (fl. [[1660]]), son of John Herne(jT. [[1644]]) ; author, among other works, of The Pleader (collection of precedents), 1657; translated The Learned Reading of John Herne, Esq (his father), 1659. , THOMAS (d. 1 722), controversialist; scholar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1712; B.A., 1715; incorporated at Oxford, 1716; fellow of Merton College, 1716; tutor to third and fourth Dukes of Bedford; as 'Phileleutherus Cantabrigiensis publishedFalse Notion of a Christian Priesthood against William Law, 1717-18, and some tracts; issued account of the Bangorian controversy, 1720.
- Haly Heron
- '''Haly Heron''' ( ft. [[1566]]-[[1585]]), author of ' A new Discourse of Morall Philosophic entituled the Kayes of Counsaile 1579; B.A. QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1570.
- Sir Richard Heron
- '''Sir Richard Heron''' , baronet ([[1726]]-[[1805]]), chief secretary to lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1776-SO: created baronet, 1778; published genealogical table of Herons of Newark, 1798.
- Robert Heron
- '''Robert Heron''' ([[1764]]-[[1807]]), author; son of a Kirkcudbrightshire weaver; edited Thomson'sSeasons 1789 and 1793; wrote part of aHistory of Scotland (1794) while imprisoned for debt; ruling elder for New Galloway; edited theGlobeand other London papers; published, among other works, translations from the French, a life of Burns (1797), and an edition of Junius, 1802. R R 2
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- '''Heron''' 612
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- Herschel
- '''Herschel'''
- Sir Robert Heron
- '''Sir Robert Heron''' , baronet ([[1765]]-[[1854]]), whig politician; of St. John's College, Cambridge; succeeded his uncle, Sir Richard Heron, in the baronetcy, 1805; M.P., Grimsby, 1812-18, Peterborough, 1819-47; published political and social Notes 1851.
- Herrick
- '''Herrick'''
- Robert Herrick
- '''Robert Herrick''' ([[1691]]-[[1674]]), poet; apprenticed to his uncle, Sir William Hericke, for ten years; afterwards went to St. John's College, Cambridge, but graduated from Trinity Hall, 1617; M.A., 1620: incumbent of Dean Prior, Devonshire, 1629; ejected, 1647; lived in Westminster; restored, 1662; many of his poems published anonymously in Witts Recreations 1660; several of his pieces set to music by Henry Lawes and other composers; his Hesperides withNoble Numbersfirst issued, 1648; complete editions edited by Thomas Maitland (1823), Edward Walford (1859), W. Oarew Hazlitt (1869), and Dr. Grosart (1876). *wivxo, BARONS. See MAXWELL, SIR JOHN, fourth BARON, 1512 ?-1583; MAXWELL, WILLIAM, fifth BARON, d. 1603. 58, SIR CHARLES JOHN (1815-1883), financier; son of John Charles Herries; of Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1840; commissioner of excise, 1842; deputy -chairman of inland revenue, 1856; chairman of the board of inland revenue, 1877-81; K.O.B., 1880.
- John Charles Herries
- '''John Charles Herries''' ([[1778]]-[[1855]]), statesman and financier; educated at Leipzig; drew up for Pitt his counter-resolutions against Tierney's financial proposals, 1800; private secretary to Vansittart, 1801, and Perceval, 1807; translated Gentz's treatise On the State of Europe before and after the French Revolution 1802; defended financial policy of government, 1803; secretary and registrar of the Order of the Bath, 1809-22; cotnmissary-inchief, 1811-16; auditor of civil list, 1816; drew up second report of Irish revenue commission, 1822; M.P., Harwich, 1823-41; and financial secretary to treasury, 1823-7; privy councillor, 1827; chancellor of the exchequer in Goderich's ministry from 8 Aug. 1827 to 8 Jan. 1828; wrote a statement of events which led to dissolution of Goderich ministry; master of the mint, 1828-30; drew up fourth report of Sir Henry Parnell's finance committee, 1828, first making public accounts intelligible; president of board of trade, 1830; moved resolution against Russian-Dutch loan, 1832; secretary-at-war under Peel, 1834-5; his motion for return of public accounts carried against whig government, 1840; M.P., Stamford, 1847-53; protectionist; president of board of control in Lord Derby's first government, 1852 (February-December).
- Francis Herring
- '''Francis Herring''' (d. [[1628]]), physician; M.D. Christ's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1589; F.R.C.P., 1599, and seven times censor; published treatises on the plague and Latin poem on the Gunpowder plot Pietas Pontificia, 1609.
- John Frederick Herring
- '''John Frederick Herring''' ([[1795]]-[[1865]]), animalpainter; drove coaches between Wakefleld and Lincoln, Doncaster and Halifax, and London and York; painted winners of the St. Leger for thirty-twojyears, and many other sporting subjects: member of Society of British Artists, 1841; exhibited at Royal Academy and Society of British Artists.
- Jdlines Herring
- '''Jdlines Herring''' ([[1582]]-[[1644]]), puritan divine; M.A. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; ordained by an Irish bishop; incumbent of Calke, Derbyshire, c. 1610c. 1618; afterwards preached at Shrewsbury from 1618; suspended for nonconformity; co-pastor of English church at Amsterdam, 1637-44.
- Thomas Herring
- '''Thomas Herring''' ([[1693]]-[[1757]]), archbishop of Canterbury; B.A. Jesus College, Cambridge, 1713; fellow of Corpus Ohristi, 1716; M.A., 1717: D.D., 1728; preacher at Lincoln's Inn, and chaplain to George 1, 1726; rector of Bletchingley, 1731; dean of Rochester, 1732; bishop of Baugor, 1737-43: as archbishop of York (1743-7) raised a large sum for government during the rebellion; archbishop of Canterbury, 1747-57: repaired Lambeth and Croydon palaces, and left benefactions to the sons of the rlergy and Corpus Christi College; his letters (1728-57) to William Duncombe edited by John Duucombe, 1777.
- William Herring
- '''William Herring''' (d. [[1774]]X dean of St. Asaph, 1751-74; brother of Thomas Herring
- Caroline Luc Herschel
- '''Caroline Luc Herschel''' 11ETIA ([[1760]]-[[1848]]), astronomer; sister of Sir William Herschel; came to live with her brother at Bath, 1772, and became his assistant; discovered eight comets (five undisputed) between 1786 and 1797; received a salary from George III, 1787; herIndex to Flamsteed's Observations of the Fixed Stars with list of Flamsteed's errata, published by Royal Society, 1798; on Sir William's death went to Hanover, 1822; gold medallist of Astronomical Society for her catalogue in zones of Sir W. Herschel's starclusters and nebulae, 1828, and was created honorary member, 1836; awarded Prussian gold medal for science on ninety-sixth birthday; entertained crown prince and princess next year; minor planet Lucretia named after her by Palisa, 1889.
- Sir John Frederick William Herschel
- '''Sir John Frederick William Herschel''' , first baronet (1792-1871), astronomer; son of Sir WilliaA Herschel; senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman, 1813; subsequently fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge; M. A., 1816; helped to found Analytical Society, Cambridge, 1813; with George Peacock (1791-1858) translated Lacroix'sElementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus with appendix on finite differences, 1816; F.R.S., 1813; Copley medallist, 1821; first foreign secretary of Royal Astronomical Society; Lalande prizeman, Royal Astronomical Society, 1825, and gold medallist for revision of his father's double stars; secretary to Royal Society, 1824-7; received medals for catalogue of northern nebuUe, 1836; president of Astronomical Society, 1827-32; discovered and catalogued many double stars; described new graphical method of investigating stellar orbits, 1832; wrote article on LightinEncyclopaedia Metropolitana(1827), which gave European currency to undulatory theory; hisPreliminary Discourse on Study of Natural Philosophy(1830) translated into French, German, and Italian, hisOutlines of Astronomy 1849 (12th edit. 1873), into Russian Chinese, and Arabic; during residence (1834-8) at Feldhausen, near Cape Town, discovered 1,202 pairs of close double stars and 1,708 nebulae and clusters,monographedthe Orion nebula, prepared a chart of the Argo, made first satisfactory measure of direcfsolar radiation, and suggested (1836-7) relation between solar and auroral activity; initiated while at the Cape system of national education, and sent tidal observations to Whewell; created baronet, 1838; I assisted in royal commission on standards (1838-43); D.O.L. Oxford, 1839; lord rector of Aberdeen, 1842, and president of British Association, 1845; received many foreign orders; prepared charts of all the lucid stars; invented photographic use of sensitised paper, 1839; introduced use of hyposulphite of soda as a fixing agent; discoveredepipolic dispersion* of light, 1845; the results j of his Cape observations printed 1847, at expense of Duke of Northumberland; received the Copley medal. 1847, and a special testimonial from the Astronomical Society, 1848; master of the mint, 1850-5; assisted at the Great Exhibition and in the universities commission of 1850; his last great undertaking, a general and descriptive catalogue of double stars; buried in Westminster Abbey near the grave of Newton. His miscellaneous writings were collected in Essays (1857) and Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects (1867).
- Sir William Herschel
- '''Sir William Herschel''' ([[1738]]-[[1822]]),'astronomer ; born at Hanover; as a boy played the hautboy and violin in Hanoverian guards; secretly sent to England bv his parents, 1757; patronised by Dr. Edward Miller ; organist at Halifax, 1765, at Octagon Chapel, Bath, 1766; began to construct optical instruments, 177?, and to observe stars, 1774; discovered Uranus (Georgium Sidus), 1781; Copley medallist and F.R.S., 1781; exhibited his telescope to George III, and was appointed court astronomer, 1782; removed to Slough, 1786; his polishing machine perfected, 1788; visited by distinguished men of science; his great forty-foot mirror begun (aided by a royal grant), 1785, first used, 1789 (a sixth satellite of Saturn being discovered), finished (with further aid), 1811, and used till 1839; discovered Enceladus and Mimas 1789; received numerous degrees and decorations; first president of the Astronomical Society; had interviews with Bonaparte and Laplace, 1802; sent sixty-nine memoirs to Royal Society; discovered more than two thousand nebula?, and suggested their true nature; discovered
- Herschell
- '''Herschell''' 613
- Hervey
- '''Hervey''' mutually revolving stars, over eight hundred double -tars (measuring them with the revolving: wire und lamp micrometers), and (1783) the- translation of the solar system towards a point in Htn'i!--; invented method of sequences; published six memoirs relative to Saturn, 1790-1H08; suggestedtrade windexplanation of Jupiter's belts 1781; investigated rotation of Mars: made physical observations on comets of 1807 and 1H11; discovered infra-red solar rays, 18UO; K.H., 1816.
- Farrer Herschell
- '''Farrer Herschell''' , first BARON Hi (1837- IHtn ). lord chancellor; son of Ridley Haim Herschell ; educated at University College, London: B.A. London, 1857; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1860, bencher, 1872; took silk, 1872; liberal M.P., Durham, 1874-K5: knighted and appointed solicitor-general, 1880: created lord chancellor, with title of Baron Herschell of city of Durham, 1886: again lord chancellor, 1892-5; D.C.L. Durham: LL.D. Cambridge; G.C.B., 1893; died at Washington while at work on Anglo-American commission, 1898.
- Ridley Haim Herschell
- '''Ridley Haim Herschell''' ([[1807]]-[[1864]]), dissenting minister: born in Prussian Poland of Jewish parents: settled in England, 1830; took charge of Lady Olivia Sparrow's missions; opened a chapel in London, 1838; one of the founders of mission to Jews and of evangelical alliance: published works concerning relation of Judaism to Christianity.
- Solomon Herschell
- '''Solomon Herschell''' ([[1761]]-[[1842]]). See HIR-
- Schel
- '''Schel'''
- Paul Isaac Hershon
- '''Paul Isaac Hershon''' ([[1817]]-[[1888]]), hebraist; born in Galicia; director of House of Industry for Jews at Jerusalem and the model farm at Jaffa; published 1 Talmudic Miscellany 1880.
- Henry Hert
- '''Henry Hert''' (fl. [[1549]].
- Hertelpoll
- '''Hertelpoll''' or HABTLEPOOL, HUGH OP (d. 1302 ?).
- Marquises Op Hertford
- '''Marquises Op Hertford''' . See SEYMOUR, WIL-
- Liam
- '''Liam''' first MARQUIS, [[1588]]-[[1660]]; CONWAY, FRANCIS SEY-
- Mour
- '''Mour''' first MARQUIS of the second creation, [[1719]]-[[1794]] ;
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- Francis Seymour
- '''Francis Seymour''' (INGRAM), [[1743]]-[[1822]] ; SEYMOUR-CON-
- Francis Charles Way
- '''Francis Charles Way''' , third MARQUIS, [[1777]]-[[1842]].
- Earls of Hertford
- '''Earls of Hertford''' . See CLARE, GILBERT DE, seventh EARL (of the Clare family), 1243-1295; CLARE, GILBERT DK, eighth EARL, 1291-1314; CLARE, RICHARD DE, said to be first EARL, d. 1136?; CLARE, RICHARD DE, sixth EARL, 1222-1262; CLARE, ROGER DK, third EARL, d. 1173; MONTHERMER, RALPH DE, d. 1325?; SEYMOUR, EDWARD, first EARL of the second creation, 1606V-1552; SEYMOUR, SIR EDWARD, EARL of the third creation, 1539?-1621.
- Countess Op Hertford
- '''Countess Op Hertford''' . See SEYMOUR, CATHE-
- Rine
- '''Rine''' [[1538]]?-[[1568]].
- Lewis Hertslet
- '''Lewis Hertslet''' ([[1787]]-[[1870]]), librarian to the foreign office, 1810-57; published collections of treaties i between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, 1820 (con- I tinued by his son Edward), and between Turkey and Foreign Powers (1835-55), 1855.
- Hervey
- '''Hervey''' or HERVJETJS (d. [[1131]]), first bishop of Ely; made bishop of Bangor by William II, 1092, but driven from his diocese by the Welsh; confessor to Henry I; made administrator of the Abbey of Ely, 1107; bishop of Ely, 1109-31; attended council on clerical marriages, 1129.
- Lord Arthur Charles Hervey
- '''Lord Arthur Charles Hervey''' ([[1808]]-[[1894]]), bishop of Bath and Wells; fourth son of Frederick William Hervey, first marquis of Bristol; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1830; ordained priest, 1832; rector of Horringer and Ickworth, 1856; archdeacon of Sudbury, 1862; bishop of Bath and Wells, 18691894; on committee of revisers of authorised version of Old Testament, 1870-84; published Genealogies of our Lord 1853. , AUGUSTUS JOHN, third EARL OP
- Bristol
- '''Bristol''' ([[1724]]-[[1779]]), admiral : grandson of John Hervey, first earl of Bristol; married Elizabeth Chudlelgh , 1744, divorced by collusion, 1769: post-captain, J747; served under Byng in Mediterranean; gave evidence at Byng's trial, 1757; of great service to Hawke in the j Channel, 1759; served under Keppel at Belleisle, 1760: took part in capture of Martinique, St. Lucia, and the ! Havannab, 1762: M.P., Bury St. Edmunds, 1757-03 and 1768-75, Saltasb, 1763-8; groom of the bedchamber, 1763; chief secretary for Ireland, 1766-7; a lord of UK-.. nilty, 1771;; ~UCCI.-MJ.-I to earldom, 1775; rear-admiral. 1775; vice-admiral, 1778; supported Keppel and opposed San.Uuh, 1778-9; his correspondence with Lord Ha-vrke in Record Office, other journals In British Museum.
- Carr Hervey
- '''Carr Hervey''' , LORD HERVEY ([[1691]]-17*3). reputed father of Horace Walpole; elder eon of John H.Tv.-y, first earl of Bristol; M.A. CUre HaU, Cambridge, 1710; M.P., Bury St. Edmunds, 171S-2J.
- Frederick Augustus Hervey
- '''Frederick Augustus Hervey''' , fourth EARL OP BRISTOL and fifth BARON HOWARD DE WALDES ( 17801803), bishop of Derry; third eon of John Hervey, baron Hervey of Ick worth; educated at Westminster and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; M.A., 1754; D.D., 1770; principal clerk of privy seal, 1761: travelled In Italy and Dalmatia and studied volcanic phenomena; bishop of Cloyne, 1767-8, where he offered Philip SJcelton a chaplaincy, and reclaimed the great bog; as bishop of Derry (1768-1803) spent much money on public works and the see; succeeded his brother Augustas John in earldom, 1779; advocated relaxation of catholic, penal laws and abolition of tithe; took prominent part at volunteersconvention, 1783; favoured parliamentary reform and the admission of Roman catholics to House of Commons; travelled on the continent; imprisoned by the French at Milan; eucceeded to barony of Howard de Waldeu through his grandmother, 1799; died at Albano; buried at Ickworth.
- George William Hervey
- '''George William Hervey''' , second EARL OF
- Bristol
- '''Bristol''' ([[1721]]-[[1775]]), eldest son of John Hervey, baron Hervey of Ickworth; succeeded his father as third baron, 1743, and his grandfather as second Earl of Bristol, 1751; envoy extraordinary to Turin, 1755-8; ambassador at Madrid, 1758-61; nominated lord-lieutenant of Ireland, but did not go, 1766; privy councillor, 1766; lord privy seal, 1768-70; groom of the stole, 1770.
- James Hervey
- '''James Hervey''' ([[1714]]-[[1768]]). devotional writer; at Lincoln College, Oxford, while John Wesley was fellow; B.A.; M.A. Clare Hall, Cambridge 1752; incumbent of Weston Favell and Colling tree, 1762; his Meditations and Contemplations brought out in two parts, 1746-7; published also Dialogues between Theron and Aspasio 1765, attacked by Wesley, his reply being issued posthumously, 1766; collected works published, 1769 (6 vols.)
- James Hervey
- '''James Hervey''' ([[1751]] ?-[[1824]]), physician ; M.A. Queen's College, Oxford, 1774; M.D., 1781; physician to Guy's Hospital, 1779; F.R.C.P., 1782; Gulstonian lecturer, 1783; six times censor, 1783-1809; Harveian orator, 1785, Lumleian lecturer, 1789-1811.
- John Hervey
- '''John Hervey''' ([[1616]]-[[1679]]), treasurer to Catherine of Braganza; M.P., Hythe, 1661-79; patron of Cowley.
- John Hervey
- '''John Hervey''' , BARON HKRVEY OP ICKWOKTH (1696-1743), pamphleteer and memoir writer; younger son of John Hervey, first earl of Bristol: of Westminster and Clare Hall, Cambridge; M.A., 1716; styled Lord Hervey after death of elder brother Carr Hervey , 1723; M.P., Bury St. Edmunds, 1726: granted pension by George II on his desertion of Frederick, prince of Wales; vice-chamberlain and privy councillor, 1730; fought a duel with William Pulteney, 1731; summoned to House of Lords in his father's barony, 1733; exercised great Influence over Queen Caroline; lord privy seal, 1740-2; afterwards joined opposition; friend of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; attacked by Pope asLord Fanny 1733; replied in Verses addressed to the Imitator of Horace and Epistte to a Doctor of Divinity 1733; theSporusof Pope'sEpistle to Arbutbnof: wrote pamphlets in behalf of Sir Robert Walpole:Letters letween Lord Hervey and Dr. Middleton concerning the Roman Senate edited by T. Knowles, 1778: Hervey's Memoirs of Reign of George II edited by J. W. Oroker, 1848 (reprinted, 1884).
- John Hervey
- '''John Hervey''' , first EARL OP BRISTOL ([[168]]*1761), whig politician; LL.D. Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1705: M.P., Bury St. Edmunds, 1694-1703; created Baron Hervey of Ickworth, 1703, by Influence of the Marlboroughs; created Earl of Bristol, 1714; his portrait by Kueller at Guildhall, Bury.
- Hervey
- '''Hervey''' 614
- Heurtley
- '''Heurtley'''
- Mary Hervey
- '''Mary Hervey''' , LADY ([[1700]]-[[1768]]), daughter of brigadier-general Lepell; eulogised by Pope, Gay, Chesterfield, and Voltaire; married to John Hervey, baron Hervey of Ickworth, 1720; her letters to Rev. Edmund Morris (1742-68) published, 1821, and others in Lady Suffolk'sLetters(1824); epitaph composed by Horace Walpole.
- Thomas Hervey
- '''Thomas Hervey''' ([[1698]]-[[1775]]), eccentric pamphleteer; second son of John Hervey, first earl of Bristol ; M.P., Bury, 1733-47; equerry to Queen Caroline, 1728-37, and vice-chamberlain to her, 1733; eloped with wife of Sir Thomas Hanmer; published pamphlets, including Answer to a Letter he received from Dr. Samuel Johnson to dissuade him from parting with his Supposed Wife 1763.
- Thomas Kibble Hervey
- '''Thomas Kibble Hervey''' ([[1799]]-[[1859]]), poet and critic; entered at Trinity College, Cambridge, c. 1818; while at Cambridge published Australia a poem (3rd edit. 1829), editedFriendship's Offering 1826-7, and theAmaranth 1839; contributed to annuals; edited 'Athenaeum 1846-53.
- William Hervey
- '''William Hervey''' (d. [[1567]]).
- William Hervey
- '''William Hervey''' , BARON HKRVEY OP KID-
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- Brooke
- '''Brooke''' (d. [[1642]]), distinguished himself against the Spanish Armada, 1588; knighted for services at capture of Cadiz, 1596; created Irish peer for services in Ireland, 1620; promoted to English barony, 1628.
- James Heseltute
- '''James Heseltute''' ([[1690]]-[[1763]]), organist of Durham Cathedral, 1710-63, and composer.
- Hesilrige
- '''Hesilrige''' or HASELRIG, SIR ARTHUR, second baronet (d. 1661), parliamentarian; as M.P. for Leicestershire opposed Laud's religious policy: introduced bill of attainder against Stratford; promoted Root-and-Branch Bill and (1641) proposed Militia Bill; one of the five members impeached by Charles I, 1642; raised a troop of horse and fought at Edgehill, 1642; as Waller's second in command distinguished himself at Lansdowne, 1643; wounded at Lansdowne and Roundway Down, 1643; present at Cheriton, 1644; a leader of the independents after the self-denying ordinance; while governor of Newcastle recaptured Tynemouth, 1648; refused nomination as one of the king's judges; accompanied Cromwell to Scotland, 1648, and supported him with a reserve army, 1650; Lilburne's charges against him declared false by the House of Commons, 1652; purchased confiscated lands of see of Durham; member of every council of state during the Commonwealth; opposed Cromwell's government after dissolution of Long parliament, 1653; M.P., Leicester, 1654, 1656, and 1659; refused to pay taxes and to enter or recognise the new upper chamber, 1657; opposed in Commons recognition of Richard Cromwell, and intrigued with army leaders against him; became recognised leader of parliament; obtained cashiering of Lambert and others, 1659; gained over Portsmouth and raised troops against Lambert, 1659; was outwitted by Monck; arrested at the Restoration, but Monck interposed to save his life; died in the Tower.
- Harriet Hesketh
- '''Harriet Hesketh''' , LADY ([[1733]]-[[1807]]), cousin and friend of the poet Cowper; married Thomas Hesketh (created baronet, 1761).
- Henry Hesketh
- '''Henry Hesketh''' ([[1637]] ?-[[1710]]), divine; B.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1656; vicar of St. Helen, Bishopsgate, 1678-94: chaplain to Charles II and William III; published religious works.
- Sir Peter Hesketh
- '''Sir Peter Hesketh''' ([[1801]]-[[1866]]). See FLEET-
- Sir Pkter Hbsketh Wood
- '''Sir Pkter Hbsketh Wood''' .
- Richard Hesketh
- '''Richard Hesketh''' ([[1562]]-[[1593]]), Roman catholic exile; incited Ferdinando Stanley, fifth earl of Derby, to claim the crown; executed at St. Albans on the earl's information.
- Roger Hesketh
- '''Roger Hesketh''' ([[1643]]-[[1715]]), Roman catholic controversialist; vice-president of English college, Lisbon, 1678-86; came to England; wrote a treatise on transubstantiation.
- Hesketh
- '''Hesketh''' or BASKET, THOMAS ([[1561]]-[[1613]]), botanist; brother of Richard Hesketh
- Heskyns
- '''Heskyns''' or HESK3N, THOMAS (ft. [[1566]]), Roman catholic divine; fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge; M.A., 1540; D.D., 1557; rector of Hildersham, 1551-6; chancellor of Sarum, 1558-9, and vicar of Brixworth, 1658-9; retired to Flanders and became a Dominican, but returned to England secretly; published * The Parliament of Chryste 1565 (Brussels).
- Luke Heslop
- '''Luke Heslop''' ([[1738]]-[[1825]]), archdeacon of Buckingham; fellow (1769) of Corpus Ohristi College, Cambridge: senior wrangler, 1764: M.A., 1767; B.D., 1775; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1776; archdeacon of Buckingham, 1778; prebendary of Lincoln, 1778; rector of Adstock, Buckinghamshire, for twenty-five years; rector of Maryleboue, London, 1809; published economic pamphlets.
- Thomas Pretious Heslop
- '''Thomas Pretious Heslop''' ([[1823]]-[[1885]]), physician; M.D. Edinburgh, 1848; lecturer on physiology at Queen's College, Birmingham, 1863-8; physician to Queen's Hospital, 1853-60 and 1870-82; chairman of Mason's College. !, PRINCESS OF (1723-1772).
- Hesse
- '''Hesse''' -HOMBURG, LANDGRAVINE OP ([[1770]]-[[1840]]).
- Phcebe Hessel
- '''Phcebe Hessel''' ([[1713]]7-[[1821]]), reputed female soldier and centenarian; a Brighton character
- James Augustus Hessey
- '''James Augustus Hessey''' ([[1814]]-[[1892]]), divine ; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and St. John's College, Oxford; M.A., 1840; B.D., 1845; D.O.L., 1846; vicar of Helidon, Northamptonshire, 1839; head-master of Merchant TaylorsSchool, 1845-70; prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1860-75; examining chaplain to John Jackson (1811-1885), bishop of London, 1870; archdeacon of Middlesex, 1875-92; published theological writings.
- John Hester
- '''John Hester''' (d. [[1593]]), distiller, of St. Paul's Wharf; author and translator of medical works; mentioned in Gabriel Harvey'sPierces Supererogation 1593.
- Walter Heston
- '''Walter Heston''' (ft. [[1350]]), Carmelite of Stamford; Cambridge scholar and D.D.
- Henry Hetherington
- '''Henry Hetherington''' ([[1792]]-[[1849]]), printer and publisher of unstamped newspapers; drew up Circular for the Formation of Trades Unions 1 830; began to issue the weekly Poor Man's Guardian unstamped, July, 1831; twice imprisoned for defying the law; indicted for publication of Poor Man's Guardian and trade-union Poor Man's Conservative,* 1834, when the 'Guardianwas declared legal; imprisoned for publishingHaslam's Letters to the Clergy of all Denominations 1840; obtained conviction against Edward Moxon for publishing Shelley's works, 1841; died of cholera.
- William Maxwell Hetherington
- '''William Maxwell Hetherington''' ([[1803]]1865), divine and poet; studied at Edinburgh; joined Free church; became minister of Free St. Paul's, Edinburgh, 1848; professor of apologetics in New College, Glasgow, 1857; published, among other works, histories of the church of Scotland, 1843, and the Westminster Assembly, 1863 (ed. R. Williamson, 1878).
- Martin Heton
- '''Martin Heton''' ([[1552]]-[[1609]]), bishop of Ely : of Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1678; D.D., 1689; canon, 1582; vice-chancellor, 1588; dean of Winchester, 1689; bishop of Ely, 1699-1609; agreed to alienate to the crown richest manors of Ely.
- Thomas Heton
- '''Thomas Heton''' (ft. [[1573]]), London cloth-merchant and receiver of protestant refugees.
- Hugh Hettgh
- '''Hugh Hettgh''' ([[1782]]-[[1846]]), presbyterian divine : moderator of general associate synod, 1819; minister of Regent Place, Glasgow, 1821-46; D.D. Pittsburg, 1831; his life and works issued by Hamilton Macgill, 1850.
- Charles Abel Heurtley
- '''Charles Abel Heurtley''' ([[1806]]-[[1895]]), Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Oxford; worked in timber merchant's office at Liverpool, 1822; scholar of Corpus Christ! College, Oxford, 1823; M.A., 1831; fellow, 1832; D.D., 1863; vicar of Fenny Compton, 1840-72; Bampton lecturer, 1846; Margaret professor, 1853-95.
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- Heydon
- '''Heydon'''
- William Heveningham
- '''William Heveningham''' ([[1604]]-[[1678]]), regicide ; Mu-rilTof Norfolk, 1633: M.P., Stockbridge, 1640; served on committee of Eastern Association, 1646; member of bigb court, but refused to sign deatb- warrant of Charles I, 1649; member of council of state, 1649; vice-admiral of Suffolk, 1651; at the Restoration his life saved by the exertions of his wife's relations, 1661; imprisoned at Win.i-or.1664.
- Sik George Hewett
- '''Sik George Hewett''' , first baronet ([[1760]]-[[1840]]), general: with 70th foot In West Indies, 1764-74, and at siege of Charleston; exchanged with 43rd, and was deputy quartermaster-general to O'Hara; adjutant-general in Ireland, 1793-9; raised regiment in Ireland; major-geiKT.il, 1796; chief of recruiting department, 1799; inspectorgeneral of royal reserve, 1803; commander-tn-chief in East Indies, 1807-11, in Ireland, 1813-16; created baronet, 1818; colonel of 61st: general.
- Sir Presoott Gardner Hewett
- '''Sir Presoott Gardner Hewett''' , first baronet (1812-1891), surgeon; studied in Paris; M.R.O.S., 1836; lecturer on anatomy at St. George's Hospital, 1845; full surgeon, 1861, and consulting surgeon, 1875; F.R.O.S., 1843, and president, 1876; F.R.S., 1874: surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria, 1867; sergeant-surgeon, 1884; surgeon to Prince of Wales, 1875; created baronet, 1883; published surgical papers.
- Sir William Hewett
- '''Sir William Hewett''' (d. [[1567]]), lord-mayor of London; master of OlothworkersCompany, 1543; alderman of Vintry, 1550-4, afterwards of Candlewick; sheriff of London, 1563; lord mayor, 1559-60; knighted, ! 1660; a governor of Highgate school
- Sir William Nathan Wrighte Hewett
- '''Sir William Nathan Wrighte Hewett''' ' (1834-1888), vice-admiral; midshipman during Burmese j war, 1851; promoted for gallantry in the Crimea, 1854; one of the first recipients of Victoria cross, 1857; commanded on royal yacht, 1858; captain, 1862; served on China station, 1866-72; as commander-in-chief in West Africa had charge of naval operations in Ashantee war, 1873-4; K.C.B., 1874; rear-admiral, 1878: commander-inchief in East Indies, 1882, conducting naval operations in Red Sea; assisted in defence of Suakin, 1884; undertook successful mission to Abyssinia, 1884; vice-admiral, 1884; commanded Channel fleet, 1886-8.
- Hewtt
- '''Hewtt''' or HEWETT, JOHN ([[1614]]-1B58), royalist divine; of Pembroke College, Cambridge: D.D. Oxford, 1643; minister of St. Gregory's by St. Paul's, London; said to have harboured Ormonde, 1658; beheaded for royalist plot, though interceded for by Mrs. Claypoole; published devotional works.
- William Chapman Hewitson
- '''William Chapman Hewitson''' ([[1806]]-[[1878]]), naturalist; left to British Museum fine collection of diurnal lepidoptera, some birds and pictures; published British Oology (1833-42), and works on lepidoptera.
- James Hewitt
- '''James Hewitt''' , VISCOUXT LIFPORD ([[1709]]-[[1789]]), lord chancellor of Ireland; barrister, Middle Temple, 1742; M.P., Coventry, 1761; king's Serjeant, 1760; judge of the king's bench, 1766; lord chancellor of Ireland, 1768-89; created Baron Lifford in Irish peerage, 1768, and viscount, 1781; his decisions as chancellor printed, 1839.
- John Hewitt
- '''John Hewitt''' ([[1719]]-[[1802]]), mayor of Coventry, 1755, 1758, and 1760; publishedJournal 1779-90, 'Memoirs of Lady Wilbrihammon c. 1778, and Guide for Constables 1779.
- John Hewitt
- '''John Hewitt''' ([[1807]]-[[1878]]), antiquary; wrote under nameSylvanus Swanquill; published Ancient Armour and Weapons 1855-60,Old Woolwich 1860, handbooks on Lichfield, and other works.
- Ebenezer Hewlett
- '''Ebenezer Hewlett''' (fl. [[1747]]), writer against the deists. Fvi. 309
- James Hewlett
- '''James Hewlett''' ([[1789]]-[[1836]]), flower-painter.
- John Hewlett
- '''John Hewlett''' ([[1762]]-[[1844]]), biblical scholar; B.D. Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1796: rector of Hilgay, Norfolk, 1819; publishedVindication of the Authenticity of the Parian Chronicle 1789, The Holy Bible... with Critical, Philosophical, and Explanatory Notes 1812, and other works.
- Joseph Thomas James Hewlett
- '''Joseph Thomas James Hewlett''' ([[1800]]-[[1847]]), novelist; educated at Charterhouse and Worcester College, Oxford: M.A., 1826; published Peter Priggins, the College Scont 1841 (illustrated by Phiz and edited by Theodore Hook), Paraoni and Widows 1844, and other works.
- Sarah Hewley
- '''Sarah Hewley''' , LADY ([[1827]]-[[1710]]). founder of the Hewley trust; heiresw of Robert Wolrycb and wife of Sir John Hewley; left laud for support of dioaenting minister*.
- John Hewson
- '''John Hewson''' (d. [[1662]]), regicide : tome time a shoemaker; led forlorn hope at Bridg water, 1647; one of the commissioners to represent soldiersgrievances, 1647; signed Charles I's death-warrant, 1649; commander of foot under Cromwell in Ireland, and governor of Dublin: M.A. Oxford, 1649; favoured anabaptist*, and beaded faction against Henry Cromwell: represented Ireland. 1653, Dublin, 1654, and Guildford, 1666; member of Cromwell's House of Lords, 1657, of committee of safety, 1669; much satirised after suppression of London 'prentice riot, 1669; escaped at Restoration, and died abroad.
- William Hewson
- '''William Hewson''' ([[1739]]-[[1774]]), surgeon and anatomist: partner of Dr. William Hunter, 17621771; Copley medallist, 1789; F.RS., 1770; published 4 Experimental Inquiry into the Properties of the Blood, 1 in three parts, 1771, 1774, and 1777 (ed. Falconar): fatally wounded himself while dissecting; works edited for Sydenham Society, 1846.
- William Hewson
- '''William Hewson''' ([[1806]]-[[1870]]), theological writer: educated at St. Paul's and St. John's College, Cambridge: M.A., 1833: head-master of St. Peter's School, York, 1838-47: perpetual curate of Goatland, 1848-70; published works, including The Key of David 1855.
- Henry Hexham
- '''Henry Hexham''' ([[1585]] 7-[[1660]] ?), military writer : page in service of Sir Francis Vere at siege of Ostend, 1601, and till 1606; quartermaster under Sir Horace (afterwards baron) Vere in expedition to relieve Breda, 1626, and subsequently under George (afterwards baron) Goring (1608-1667); in Dutch service, c. 1642, till death. His works include an edition of Mercator's Atlas 1637, English-Dutch Dictionary 1648, and accounts of various military operations in which he took part.
- John Op Hexham
- '''John Op Hexham''' (Jl. [[1180]]).
- Richard Op Hexham
- '''Richard Op Hexham''' (fl. [[1141]]).
- John Hey
- '''John Hey''' ([[1734]]-[[1815]]), divine; brother of William Hey (1736-1819); M.A. Catharine Hall, Cambridge, 1758: fellow of Sidney Sussex College, 1758-79; Seatonian prizeman, 1763; Norrisian professor of divinity, 1780-96; bis lectures (1796) edited by Turton, 1841.
- Richard Hey
- '''Richard Hey''' ([[1745]]-[[1835]]), essayist; brother of John Hey; third wrangler and chancellor's medallist, Cambridge, 1768: fellow of Sidney Sussex College, 1771, of Magdalene, 1782-96; published, among other works, dissertation on gaming, 1783, on duelling, 1784, and on suicide, 1785.
- William Hey
- '''William Hey''' ([[1736]]-[[1819]]), surgeon ; brother of John Hey; senior surgeon to Leeds Infirmary, 1773-1812; F.R.S., 1775; friend of Priestley: mayor of Leeds, 1787-8 and 1801-2; president of Leeds Literary and Philosophical Society, 1783; devised operation of partial amputation of the foot; published medical works.
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- William Hey
- '''William Hey''' ([[1772]]-[[1844]]), author of 'Treatise on Puerperal Fever (1815); son of William Hey (1736-1819)
- William Hey
- '''William Hey''' ([[1796]]-[[1875]]), surgeon to Leeds Infirmary, 1830-51; son of William Hey (1772-1844)
- Sir Christopher Heydon
- '''Sir Christopher Heydon''' (d. [[1623]]), writer on astrology; M.P., Norfolk, 1588; knighted at capture of Cadiz, 1596; suspected of complicity in Essex rising, 1601; chief workDefence of Judiciall Astrologie 1602.
- Sir Henry Heydon
- '''Sir Henry Heydon''' (rf. [[1503]]), steward of the household of Cecilia, duchess of York; knighted, 1488.
- Sir John Heydon
- '''Sir John Heydon''' (d. [[1653]]), lieutenant of the ordnance; son of Sir Christopher Heydon: knighted, 1620: lieutenant-peneral of the ordnance to Charles I during civil war: D.C.L. Oxford, 1642.
- Heydon
- '''Heydon''' 616
- Heywood
- '''Heywood'''
- John Heydon
- '''John Heydon''' (rf. [[1667]]), astrologer : imprisoned for two years by Cromwell for foretelling his death by hanging, and for treasonable practices, 1663 and 1667: wrote many works on Rosicruciau mysticism, borrowing largely from anterior writers.
- John Heylyn
- '''John Heylyn''' ([[1685]]?-[[1759]]), divine; 'the Mystic Doctor; educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1714; D.D., 1728; first rector of St. Mary-hStrand, 1724-59; prebendary of St. Paul's and Westminster, and chaplain to George II; published 'Theological Lectures at Westminster Abbey 1749.
- Peter Heylyn
- '''Peter Heylyn''' ([[1600]]-[[1662]]), ecclesiastical writer : first cousin (once removed) of Rowland Heylyn; demy and fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; M.A., 1620; D.D., 1633; publishedGeography 1621, and 'Survey of France 1656; royal chaplain, 1630; prebendary of Westminster, 1631; incumbent of Alresford, Hants, 1633; controverted puritan views: assisted Noy (1633) in preparation of case against Prynue; proposed conference between convocation and Commons, 1640; obtained money grant from convocation for Charles I, 1640; asserted right of bishops to share in all proceedings of upper house; joined Charles I at Oxford and chronicled the war in Mercurius Aulicus; obliged to compound for his estate; attacked L'Estrange'sLife of Charles I 1656, and, inExamen Historicum(1658-9), Puller and William Sanderson; issuedOertamen Epistolare(1659) against Baxter, Nicholas Bernard, and others; sub-dean of Westminster at coronation of Charles II, 1661: disabled by infirmities from promotion; chief works 'Ecclesia Restaurata, or History of the Reformation 1661 (edited by J. C. Robertson, 1849),Cyprianus Anglicus(i.e. Archbishop Laud) (published 1668), in answer to Canterburies Doom and Aerius Redivivus, or History of Presbyteriauism published 1670.
- Heylyn
- '''Heylyn''' or HEYLIN, ROWLAND ([[1562]] V-[[1631]]), sheriff of London; master of IronmongersCompany, 1614 and 1625; alderman of Cripplegate, 1624; sheriff of London, 1624-5; published Welsh bible, 1630; left bequests to Shrewsbury, the IronmongersCompany, and London charities.
- Sir Peter Heyman
- '''Sir Peter Heyman''' ([[1580]]-[[1641]]), politician; knighted by James I for services in Ireland; M.P., Hythe, 1620-1, and subsequently; ordered to serve abroad at his own expense on account of opposition to the government, c. 1622; imprisoned, 1629; elected to Long parliament for Dover, 1640; money voted to his heirs, 1646, for his service to Commonwealth.
- Simon Heynes
- '''Simon Heynes''' (d. [[1562]]), dean of Exeter ; fellow of QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1516; M.A., 1519; president, 1528; D.D., 1531; vice-chancellor of Cambridge, 1533-4; vicar of Stepney, 1534; ambassador to France, 1535; dean of Exeter, 1537; joint-envoy to Spain, 1538; prebendary of Westminster, 1540; assisted in compilation of first liturgy.
- Richard Heybjcz
- '''Richard Heybjcz''' ([[1600]]-[[1667]]), warden of Manchester Collegiate Church; son of Sir William Hericke ; of Merchant TaylorsSchool and St. John's College, Oxford; M.A., 1622; fellow of All Souls Oxford, 1625; warden of Manchester Collegiate Church, 1635; attacked Romanists and high churchmen, 1641; member of Westminster Assembly; main establisher of presbyterianism in Lancashire; published Harmonious Consent of the Ministers within the County Palatine of Lancaster 1648; obtained restoration of church revenues: imprisoned for implication in movement of Christopher Love, 1615; conformed at Restoration.
- Thomas Heyricx
- '''Thomas Heyricx''' (d. [[1694]]), poet; grand-nephew of Robert Herrick; M.A. Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1675; curate of Market Harborough; published Miscellany Poems 1691.
- John Heysham
- '''John Heysham''' ([[1753]]-[[1834]]), physician; M.D. of Edinburgh, 1777; practised at Carlisle; his statistics (published 1797) used for Carlisle Table (1816): said to have assisted Paley on question of structural design in nature.
- Baron Heytesbury
- '''Baron Heytesbury''' ([[1779]]-[[1860]]). See A'Cowir,
- William
- '''William'''
- William Heytesbury
- '''William Heytesbury''' (fl. [[1340]]), logician; fellow of Mcrton College, Oxford, 1330; possibly original fellow (Heightilbury) of Queen's College, 1340; chancellor of university, 1371; works printed under name of Hentisberus or Tisberius at Pavia and Venice,
- William
- '''William''' ([[1563]] ?-l[[627]]). See HEA
- Thki
- '''Thki''' l.
- Sir Benjamin Heywood
- '''Sir Benjamin Heywood''' , first baronet ([[1793]]1865), banker; founder and president (1826-40) of Manchester MechanicsInstitution; created baronet, 1838; F.R.S., 1843.
- Eliza Heywood
- '''Eliza Heywood''' ([[1693]] ?-[[1756]]).
- Ellis Heywood
- '''Ellis Heywood''' or ELIZEDS ([[1630]]-[[1578]]), Jesuit; brother of Jasper Hey wood; fellow of All Souls Oxford, 1648; B.O.L., 1562; secretary to Cardinal Pole; Jesuit father at Antwerp: published (in Italian) fictitious conversations of Sir Thomas More (Florence, 1556); died at Louvain.
- James Heywood
- '''James Heywood''' ([[1687]]-[[1776]]), author : published Letters and Poems on several Occasions 1722.
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- Jasper Heywood
- '''Jasper Heywood''' ([[1535]]-[[1598]]), Jesuit; son of John Hey wood; page of honour to Princess Elizabeth; probationer-fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1654: fellow of All Souls 1558; M.A., 1558; became a jebuit at Rome, 1562; professor at Dilliugen seventeen years; superior of English Jesuit mission, 1581; deported to France, 1585; died at Naples; his translations from Seneca's tragedies reprinted in Thomas Newton's Seneca 1581; contributed poems toParadyse of Daynty Deuises (1576).
- John Heywood
- '''John Heywood''' ([[1497]] ?-l[[580]] ?), ' the old English epigrammatist under Henry VIII a singer and player on the virginals; wroteDescription of a most noble Ladye(on Princess Mary); publicly recanted his denial of the royal supremacy, 1544; in great favour with Queen Mary as a kind of superior jester: on accession of Elizabeth (1558) retired to Malines, where he probably died. He published interludes, includingThe Four P's first printed, 1569 (in Hazlitt'sDodsley 1874), The Play of the Wether 1533, and The Play of Love; published also Dialogue on Wit and Folly (reprinted, 1846), and another dialogue containing proverbs and epigrams, 1562 (reprinted, 1867), besides ballads, and The Spider and the Flie 1556.
- Nathaniel Heywood
- '''Nathaniel Heywood''' , the elder ([[1633]]-[[1677]]), ejected minister; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1650; minister of Onnskirk, Lancashire, 1656-62; compelled to desist from preaching, 1674.
- Nathaniel Heywood
- '''Nathaniel Heywood''' , the younger ([[1669]]-[[1704]]), nonconformist minister at Orinskirk; sou of Nathaniel Heywood the elder
- Oliver Heywood
- '''Oliver Heywood''' ([[1630]]-[[1702]]), nonconformist, divine; brother of Nathaniel Heywood the elder; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1650; minister of Ooley Chapel, Halifax, 1650; excommunicated for not using the prayer-book, 1662; licensed presbyterian teacher, 1672-5; imprisoned at York for riotous assembly 1685: his Northowram meeting-house licensed under Toleration Act; introduced into Yorkshire the happy union between presbyterians and congregationalists, 1691; his works collected by R. Slate, 1825-7: Diaries edited by J. Horsfall Turner, 1881-5 (4 vols.), as well as his Nonconformist Register
- Peter Heywood
- '''Peter Heywood''' ([[1773]]-[[1831]]), navy captain: sailed in the Bounty, 1786; confined by mutineers, 1789; remained with the party at Tahiti and joined the Pandora, 1791; treated as a mutineer; though in irons escaped when the Pandora went down in Endeavour Straits, 1791; convicted at Spithead with mutineers, 1792; obtained pardon by interposition of Lord Chatham, 1792; promoted lieutenant by Howe, 1794; attained post-rank, 1803; surveyed part of east coast of Ceylon.
- Robert Heywood
- '''Robert Heywood''' ([[1574]]?-[[1645]]), poet; of Heywood Hall, Lancashire: hisObservations and Instructions, Divine and Morall first edited by James Crossley, 1869.
- Samuel Heywood
- '''Samuel Heywood''' ([[1763]]-[[1828]]), chief-justice of Carmarthen circuit; of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; barrister, Inner Temple, 1772: serjeant-at-law, 1794; chief
- Heywood
- '''Heywood''' 017
- Hickman
- '''Hickman''' justice, Carmarthen circuit, 1807-28; friend of Charles James Fox; published Right of Protestant Dissenters to a Compleat Toleration asserted 1787, digests of el-law, and other works,
- Thomas Heywood
- '''Thomas Heywood''' (d. [[1650]]?), dramatist; said to have been a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge; member of the lord admiral's company, 1598; afterwards retainer of llcnr Vriot he.-k-y, earl of Southampton, ami !.: Somerset, earl of Worcester: one of the queen's players, 1619; composed lord mayor's pageants for many years; many of his plays lost; an ardent protestaut. His chief j plays wereThe Four I'n-nti.-es of London* (produced,; c. 1600, published, 1615), ridiculed in Fletcher'sKnight of; the Burning Pestle; Edward IV (two parts, 1600, 1606: ed. Barron Field. 1842);The Royal Kim: and the Loyal Subject 1637 (ed. J. P. Collier, 1850); A Woman Killed with Kindness(acted, 1603, printed, 1607; ed. Collier, 1850; revived, 1887);The Rape of Lucrece 1608; The Captives (ed. Sullen, 1885); and The Wise Woman of Hogsdon 1638. He also published An Apology for i Actors 1612 (reprinted, 1841), and poems (including 'Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels 1635), translations, and compilations.
- Thomas Heywood
- '''Thomas Heywood''' ([[1797]]-[[1866]]), antiquary : brother of Sir Benjamin Hey wood; of Hope End, Herefordshire; edited for Chetham Society, Norris Papers(1846),Diary of the Rev. Henry Newcome (1849), and other works; his library sold at Manchester, 1868.
- Hibbart
- '''Hibbart''' or HIBBERT, WILLIAM (fl. [[1760]]1800), etcher.
- Shirley Hibberd
- '''Shirley Hibberd''' ([[1825]]-[[1890]]), journalist and horticultural writer; edited Floral World 1858-75, and 'Gardener's Magazine 1861-90; published horticultural works.
- George Hibbert
- '''George Hibbert''' ([[1757]]-[[1837]]), West Indian merchant and collector; alderman of London, 1798-1803; M.P., Seaford, 1806-12; F.R.3., 1811; active in establishment of West India Docks and (1805) London Institution; edited for Roxburghe Club Caxton's version of Ovid's Metamorphoses 1819; his collections sold, 1829.
- Henry Hibbert
- '''Henry Hibbert''' ([[1600]] ?-[[1678]]), divine ; B.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1622; D.D. St. John's, Cambridge, 1665; vicar of Holy Trinity, Hull, 1651-60, of All Hallows-the-Less and St. Olave's Jewry, 1662; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1669: published Syntagma Theologicum 1662.
- Robert Hibbert
- '''Robert Hibbert''' ([[1770]]-[[1849]]), founder of the Hibbert trust: B.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1791; Jamaica merchant and slave owner, 1791-1836: author of radical pamphlets; his trust (designed for elevation of Unitarian ministry) widened in scope by efforts of Edwin Wilkius Field
- Hibbert
- '''Hibbert''' -WARE, SAMUEL ([[1782]]-[[1848]]), antiquary and geologist; M.D. Edinburgh; secretary, Scottish Society of Antiquaries, 1823-7; awarded gold medal by Society of Arts for discovery of chromate of iron in Shetland, 1820; assumed name of Ware, 1837; published, among other works, Description of the Shetland Islands and an account of Ashton-tmder-Lyne in the fifteenth century, 1822,Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions 1824,Lancashire Memorials of the Rebellion in 1716* (1845), and geological memoirs. J, RICHARD (1812 ?-1886), author; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1844; established New Church of England Chapel, St. Vincent Street, Edinburgh, 1855; afterwards chaplain at Lisbon, Rotterdam, and Utrecht; published Prussia and the Poor; or Observations upon the Systematised Relief of the Poor at Elberfield 1876.
- Thomas Db Hibernia
- '''Thomas Db Hibernia''' (d. [[1270]]), Franciscan; to be distinguished from Thomas Hiberuicus; wrote the Promptuarium Morale
- Hibernictj
- '''Hibernictj''' 8, DE HIBEBNIA, or DE ISERNIA, PETER (. 1224).
- Thomas Hibernicus
- '''Thomas Hibernicus''' ([[1306]]-[[1316]]).
- Hickeringill
- '''Hickeringill''' or HICKHORNGILL, EDMUND (1631-17U8), divine and pamphleteer; junior fellow of Oaius College, Cambridge, 1651-2; chaplain to Lilbarne'e regiment, 1C53: successively baptist, quaker, and deist; afterwards a soldier in Scotland and in Swedish service, and captain in Fleet wood's regiment; after residence in Jamaica published an account of it, 1661; ordained by p Robert Sanderson, 1661; vicar of All Saints Colchester, 1662-1708, and Boxted, 1662-4; quarrelled with Comptou, bishop of London, and was condemned to pay damages for slander, Jeffreys being counsel against him, 1'iH-:,,u.li.-ly recanted, 1684; excluded, 168*-8; convicted of forgery, 1707.
- Hickes
- '''Hickes''' , F I i A N ( ' ! .- ( 1 [[506]]-[[1631]] ), translator of Locian : i:. A. St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1583; his translation of Lu an published, 1634.
- Gaspar Hickes
- '''Gaspar Hickes''' ([[1605]]-[[1677]]), puritan divine; M.A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1628; held Cornish livings and was consulted by parliament; member of the Westminster Assembly, 1643; ejected from Landrake, 1662; fined under Conventicle Act, 1670.
- George Hickes
- '''George Hickes''' ([[1642]]-[[1715]]), nonjuror; B.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1663; fellow of Lincoln College, 1664; M.A., 1665: chaplain to Duke of Lauderdale, 1676; prebendary of Worcester, 1680; vicar of All Hallow* Barking, 1680; chaplain to the king, 1681; dean of Worcester, 1683; rector of Alvechurch, 1686; opposed declaration of indulgence; deprived for refusing to take oath of allegiance to William and Mary, 1690; in hiding till proceedings against him stopped, 1699; went to St. Germain, 1693, and was named suffragan of Bancroft, with title Bishop of Thetford; was consecrated in a private chapel by Bishops Turner, Lloyd, and White, 1694; his house on Bagshot Heath searched, 1696; with two Scottish bishops consecrated, in St. Andrew's, Holborn, Samuel Hawes, Nathaniel Spinckes, and Jeremy Collier, 1713. His chief works wereCase of Infant Baptism 1683, Records of the New Consecrations editions of the Imitatio Christi and of Feuelou'sInstructions for the Education of a Daughter," and Linguarum veterum septcntrioualium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archaeologicus 1703-5.
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- Hickes
- '''Hickes''' or HICKS, JOHN ([[1633]]-[[1685]]), nonconformist divine; brother of George Hickes; fellow of Trinity College, Dublin; ejected from Saltash, Cornwall, 1662; presented petition to Charles II in favour of nonconformists; joined Monmouth (1685) and was sheltered by Alice Lisle; tried and executed at Taunton.
- Thomas Hickes
- '''Thomas Hickes''' ([[1599]]-[[1634]]). son of Francis Hickes; M.A. Balliol College, Oxford. 1623; chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford.
- Antony Hickey
- '''Antony Hickey''' (d. [[1641]] X Irish Franciscan ; professor of theology and philosophy at Louvaiu and Cologne; definitorof the order at Rome, 1639; published (under pseudonymDermitius ThadaeusNitela Franciscanaa religionis 1627, and an edition, with commentary, of the works of Duns Scotus, 1639; died at Rome.
- John Hickey
- '''John Hickey''' ([[1756]]-[[1795]]), Irish sculptor.
- Thomas Hickey
- '''Thomas Hickey''' (fl. [[1760]]-[[1790]]), portrait-painter : brother of John Hickey; accompanied Macartney to China, 1792; probably visited India; published History of Painting and Sculpture(Calcutta, 1788).
- William Hickey
- '''William Hickey''' ([[1787]]?-[[1875]]), Irish philanthropist and author: B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1809, and Trinity College, Dublin, 1809; M.A. Dublin, 1832; incumbent of Banuow, Ferns, 1820; helped to found agricultural school at Bannow; with Thomas Boyce established South Wexford Agricultural Society: rector of Kilcormick, 1826, Wexford, 1831, Mulrankin, 1834; as Martin Doyle * published Hints to Small Farmers (1830) and similar works; editedIllustrated Book of Domestic Poultry 1854, and Irish Farmer's and Gardener's Magazine 1834-42; gold medallist of Royal Dublin Society; received pension from Royal Literary Fund.
- Charles Hickman
- '''Charles Hickman''' ([[1648]]-[[1713]]), bishop of Derry; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1674; D.D., 1688; chaplain to William III, Anne, and Lawrence Hyde, earl of Rochester; rector of Burnham, Buckinghamshire, 1698-1702; bishop of Derry, 1703-13.
- Hickman
- '''Hickman''' 618
- Higginson
- '''Higginson'''
- Francis Hickman
- '''Francis Hickman''' (!. [[1690]]), scholar; of Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1688; nonjaror; Bodleian orator, 1693; contributed to Musce Anglican*
- Henry Hickman
- '''Henry Hickman''' (d. [[1692]]), controversialist ; B.A. St. Catharine Hall, Cambridge; fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1648; M.A., 1649; ejected at the Restoration; retired to Holland; carried on controversies with Peter Heylyii, John Durel, and others; died at Leyden.
- Hickman
- '''Hickman''' subsequently WINDSOR, THOMAS, seventh BARON WINDSOR OP STANWKLL and first EARL OF PLYMOUTH (1627 7-1687).
- Hicks
- '''Hicks''' or HICKES, BAPTIST, first VISCOUNT
- Campdkn
- '''Campdkn''' ([[1551]]-[[1629]]), mercer and money-lender; contractor for crown lands, 1609; created baronet, 1620: M.P., Tavistock, 1620, Tewkesbnry, 1624, 1625, 1626, and 1628; built Hicks's Hall, Clerkenwell; purchased manor of Campden, from which he took his title when created viscount, 1628.
- Henry Hicks
- '''Henry Hicks''' ([[1837]]-[[1899]]), geologist: studied at Guy's Hospital; L.S.A. and M.R.O.S., 1862: practised as surgeon at St. David's and, from 1871, at Hendon; studied geology with John William Salter; president of GeologistsAssociation, 1883-5; secretary of Geological Society, 1890-3, and president, 1896-8; F.R.S., 1885; published geological papers.
- Sir Michael Hicks
- '''Sir Michael Hicks''' ([[1543]]-[[1612]]), secretary to Lord Burghley and Sir Robert Cecil; brother of Baptist Hicks or Hickes, first viscount Campden: of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Lincoln Inn; lent money to Bacon and Fulke Greville; knighted, 1604; ancestor of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, baronet, M.P.
- William Hicks
- '''William Hicks''' ([[1621]]-[[1660]]), puritan ; of Wadham College, Oxford: fought in parliamentarian army; published an exposition of Revelation, 1659.
- William Hicks
- '''William Hicks''' , 'Captain Hicks ' (. [[1671]]), editor and part writer of Oxford Drollery (1671), Grammatical Drollery (1682), and similar publications,
- William Hicks
- '''William Hicks''' ([[1830]]-[[1883]]), general in Egyptian army Hicks Pasha); saw service as British officer in India and Abyssinia, attaining rank of colonel, 1880; while in command of Egyptian army for suppression of Mahdi was led into an ambuscade and slain in the battle of Kashgil
- William Robert Hicks
- '''William Robert Hicks''' ([[1808]]-[[1868]]), humorist ; superintendent of Bodmin Asylum and auditor of metropolitan asylums; known as Yorick of the West; wrote stories in western dialect, the most famous being The Jury
- William Edward Hickson
- '''William Edward Hickson''' ([[1803]]-[[1870]]), educational writer; member of royal commission on unemployed hand-loom weavers, 1837, presenting a separate report, 1841; studied German, Dutch, and Belgian school systems, and published results in Westminster Review (edited by him, 1840-52); wrote also music manuals.
- Harry Hieover
- '''Harry Hieover''' ([[1795]]-[[1859]]). See BIXDLKY,
- Charles
- '''Charles'''
- Samuel Hebron
- '''Samuel Hebron''' ([[1576]]7-[[1617]]), puritan divine: of Eton and King's College, Cambridge; incumbent of Modbury, Devonshire; published thePreacher's Plea 1604, and other works, collected, 1614, reprinted, 1624-6, by Robert Hill.
- Paul Hiffernan
- '''Paul Hiffernan''' ([[1719]]-[[1777]]), author; M.B., Montpellier; published in Dublin The Ticklerin opposition to Charles Lucas (1713-1771), 1750; issued in LondonThe Tuner 1753, und composed farces acted at Drury Lane and Covent Garden; published Miscellanies in Prose and Verse 1760, andDramatic Genius 1770, dedicated to Garrick, who raised a subscription for him.
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- Higbert
- '''Higbert''' or HYGZBRYHT (. [[787]]), archbishop of Llchfield in 787, being bishop from 779. Lichfield was a Mercian see created by Pope Hadrian at request of Offa, but was soon subordinated to Canterbury,
- Henry Higden
- '''Henry Higden''' (fl. [[1693]]), author of a comedy, 'The Wary Widdow 1693, and essays on satires x. and xiii. of Juvenal, 1G86 and 1687; of the Middle Temple.
- Ranulf Higden
- '''Ranulf Higden''' (d. [[1364]]), chronicler ; Benedictine of St. Werburg's, Chester: his Polychronicon printed in English version (dated 1387) of John of Trevisa by Caxton, 1482, Wynkyn de Worde, 1495, and Peter Treveris, 1527; another translation made in the fifteenth century; the original Latin was issued in Rolls Series, with both English versions and continuation.
- William Higden
- '''William Higden''' (d. [[1715]]), divine ; M.A. King's College, Cambridge, 1688; D.D., 1710; prebendary of Canterbury, 1713; defended taking the oaths to the Revolution monarchy, 1709 and 1710; wrote also theological treatises.
- William Higford
- '''William Higford''' ([[1581]] 7-[[1657]]), puritan ; B.A. Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1599; his Institutions, or Advice to his Grandson first printed, 1658.
- Bryan Higgins
- '''Bryan Higgins''' ([[1737]]7-[[1820]]), physician and chemist: graduated at Leyden; established school of chemistry in Soho, 1774; invited to Russia by Tsarina Catherine, c. 1785: assisted in improvement of Muscovado sugar and rum in Jamaica, 1797-9; published Experiments and Observations relating to Acetous Acid, Fixable Air &c., 1786, and other works.
- Charles Longuet Higgins
- '''Charles Longuet Higgins''' ([[1806]]-[[1885]]), benefactor of Turvey, Bedfordshire; of Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A. 1834), Lincoln's Inn, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
- Francis Higgins
- '''Francis Higgins''' ([[1669]]-[[1728]]), archdeacon of Oashel; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1693: prebendary of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, 1705;the Irish Sacheverell; prosecuted for seditious preaching, 1707 and 1712; archdeacon of Cashel, 1725-8.
- Francis Higgins
- '''Francis Higgins''' ([[1746]]-[[1802]]), Irish adventurer : imprisoned for fraud in connection with his marriage, and became known as the Sham Squire; as owner of The Freeman's Journal supported the government; magistrate, 1788-91; exposed by John Magee: removed from the bench and law list; informed against Lord Edward Fitzgerald and others.
- Godfrey Higgins
- '''Godfrey Higgins''' ([[1773]]-[[1833]]), writer on the history of religion; of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Yorkshire magistrate and reformer: wrote, besides political and social pamphlets,Anacalypsis... Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions published, 1836 (reprinted, 1878), and other works.
- John Higgins
- '''John Higgins''' (fl. [[1570]]-[[1602]]), poet and compiler; revisedHuloet's Dictionarie 1572; published also Flowers (selections from Terence by himself and Nicholas Udall, 1575), and supplements to the Mirrour for Magistrates containing forty new poems (some of which were printed in 1574, and others in 1587), and other works.
- Matthew James Higgins
- '''Matthew James Higgins''' ([[1810]]-[[1868]]), journalist; of Eton and University College, Oxford; known as 'Jacob Omnium from title of first published article (1845); twice visited British Guiana, where he owned an estate; active on behalf of sufferers from Irish famine, 1847; contributed to the PeeliteMorning Chronicle also toThe TimesPall Mall Gazette andCornhill Magazine(under Thackeray), exposing many abuses; his Essays on Social Subjects edited, 1875.
- William Higgins
- '''William Higgins''' (d. [[1825]]), chemist: nephew of Bryan Higgins; librarian to Royal Dublin Society, 1795; in Comparative View of Phlogistic and Antiphlogistic Theories (1789) enunciated law of multiple proportions; claimed discovery of atomic theory against Dalton inExperiments and Observations 1814.
- Edward Higginson
- '''Edward Higginson''' ([[1807]]-[[1880]]), Unitarian divine; minister successively at Hull (1828-46), Wakefield (1846-58), and Swansea (1858-76); president of the Royal Institute of South Wales, 1877-9; published theological works.
- Francis Higginson
- '''Francis Higginson''' ([[1587]]-[[1630]]), puritan divine ; of Jesus and St. John's Colleges, Cambridge; M.A., 1613; deprived of preachership of St. Nicholas, Leicester, for nonconformity, 1627; when threatened with prosecution
- Higg
- '''Higg''' rttTSON 619
- Heldyard
- '''Heldyard''' by hii?h commission became assistant-minister at Salem, Massachusetts, 1629; published accounts of his voyage and of Massachusetts.
- Francis Higginson
- '''Francis Higginson''' ([[1617]]-[[1670]]), author of 'Relation of Irreligion of Northern Quakers 1663; son of Francis Higgiuson (1587-1630); studied at Leyden; vicar of Kirkby Stephen.
- John Higginson
- '''John Higginson''' ([[1616]]-[[1708]]), minister at Saybrook, Guilford (U.S.A.), and Salem, where he died; brother of Francis Higginson (1617-1670)
- Bevil Higgons
- '''Bevil Higgons''' ([[1670]]-[[1735]]), historian and poet; son of Sir Thomas Higgons; of St. John's College, Oxford, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; student of Lincoln's Inn; followed his family (Jacobites) into exile; arrested on charge of conspiracy against William III, 1696; published verses addressed to Dryden and Congreve, and a tragedy (acted, 1702); his * Historical Works (1736X consisted ofShort View of the English History(1723), and a criticism of Burnet's Own Time 1725.
- Theophilus Higgons
- '''Theophilus Higgons''' ([[1578]] ?-[[1659]]), divine; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1600; chaplain to bishop Ravis and lecturer of St. Dunstan'g, Fleet Street; converted to Romanism; retired to France: reconverted and given rectory of Hunton, Kent; published theological works.
- Sir Thomas Higgons
- '''Sir Thomas Higgons''' ([[1624]]-[[1691]]), diplomatist and author; of St. Alban Hall, Oxford; M.P., Malmesbury, 1661, St. Germans, 1685; knighted, 1663; envoy extraordinary to Saxony, 1669, to Vienna, 1673-6; published History of Isuf Bassa 1684; translated Busenello's 'Prospective of the Naval Triumph of the Venetians over the Turk 1658.
- Griffin Higgs
- '''Griffin Higgs''' or GRIFFITH ([[1589]]-1 [[659]]), dean of Lichfield; B.A. St. John's College, Oxford, 1610; fellow of Merton, 1611; M.A., 1616: senior proctor, 1622-3; chaplain to Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia, 1627-38; D.D. Leyden, 1630; dean of Lichfield, 1638; left bequests to South Stoke, the Bodleian, and Merton and St. John's Colleges; his Account of the Christmas Prince exhibited in the University of Oxford in 1607 printed by Bliss, 1816.
- John Higham
- '''John Higham''' (fl. [[1639]]).
- Thomas Higham
- '''Thomas Higham''' ([[1795]]-[[1844]]), line-engraver.
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- Anthony Highmore
- '''Anthony Highmore''' ([[1719]]-[[1799]]), draughtsman, son of Joseph Highmore
- Anthony Highmore
- '''Anthony Highmore''' ([[1758]]-[[1829]]), legal writer : sou of Anthony Highmore (1719-1799); friend of Granville Sharp; published Digest of the Doctrine of Bail 1783, Succinct View of History of Mortmain 1787, Treatise on the Law of Idiotcy and Lunacy 1807, and other works.
- Joseph Highmore
- '''Joseph Highmore''' ([[1692]]-[[1780]]), painter : nephew of Thomas Highmore; studied under Kneller; executed portrait-drawings for Installation of Knights of the Bath 1725; painted portraits of the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of Cumberland, the Gunnings, Samuel Richardson, General Wolfe and others, also conversation-pieces and subject-pictures; published pamphlets on perspective.
- Nathaniel Highmore
- '''Nathaniel Highmore''' ([[1613]]-[[1685]]), physician ; M.D. Trinity College, Oxford, 1642; practised at Sherburne, Dorset; endowed exhibition to Oxford from Sherburne school; friend of Harvey; published History of Generation 1651, and other works; the cavity in the superior maxillary bone named after him.
- Thomas Highmore
- '''Thomas Highmore''' (d. [[1720]]), Serjeant-painter to William in; cousin of Nathaniel Highmore
- Henry Highton
- '''Henry Highton''' ([[1816]]-[[1874]]), author; under Arnold at Rugby; M.A. Queen's College, Oxford, 1840, Michel fellow, 1841; principal of Cheltenham, 1859-62; published revised translation of the New Testament, 1862. translation of Victor Hugo's poems and theological pamplilets; silver medallist, Society of Arts, for Telegraphy without Insulation(1872); patented artificial stone for building.
- George Higinbotham
- '''George Higinbotham''' ([[1826]]-[[1892]]), chief-justice of Victoria; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1848; M.A., 1853; barrister, Lincoln's Inn. 1853: went to Victoria, and was admitted to the local bar, 1854: editor of the Argu; 1856-9; Independent liberal member for Hrightoo in legislative assembly, 1861 and 1883; attorney-general, 1863-8; chairman of education commiMion, 1866; ricepresident of board of work*, 1868-9; member for East Bourke borough, 1874-6; puisne judge of supreme court of Victoria, 1880; chief-justice, 1886.
- John Higson
- '''John Higson''' ([[1825]]-[[1871]]), topographer: compiled 4 Gorton Historical Recorder 1852, and hiatory of DroyUden.
- Hilary
- '''Hilary''' (. [[1125]]), Latin poet ; supposed to have been an Englishman; disciple of Abelard and canon of Ronceray; his poems printed by M. Ohampollion-Figeac, 1838; extracts in Wright'sBiographia Britannica Literaria
- Hilary
- '''Hilary''' (d. [[1169]]), bishop of Chicbester, [[1147]] ; elected archbishop of York, 1147, but not confirmed by the pope; reconciled King Stephen and Archbishop Theobald, 1148; failed to enforce jurisdiction over the abbot of Battle, 1157; urged Becket to accept the ancient custom*; included in embassy to the pope against Becket; granted absolution to those excommunicated by Becket.
- Hilda
- '''Hilda''' (or, more properly, HILD), SAINT ([[614]]-[[680]]), abbess of Whitby; baptised by Paulinns at York, 627: abbess of Hartlepool, 649; jElflaed, daughter of Oawy of Northumbria, entrusted to her care, 655; founded monastery of Whitby (657), and ruled it with great wisdom; adopted Roman rule after council of Whitby, 664,
- Hildersam
- '''Hildersam''' or HILDERSHAM, ARTHUR ([[1563]]1632), puritan divine; entered at Christ's College, Cambridge, 1678; disinherited for refusing to become a Romanist; M.A., 1586; fellow of Christ's College, 1586; vicar of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 1593; an active manager of 'millenary petition 1604; silenced by his bishop, 1606, but licensed in diocese of Lichfield; restored, 1009, but suspended by high commission, 1613, and imprisoned for refusing the ex officio oath, 1615; sentenced to imprisonment and fine as schismatic. 1616; returned to Ashby, 1625, again suspended, 1680, but restored next year; published Treatise on Ministry of the Church of England 1695; his OLII Lectures on Psalm LItranslated into Hungarian, 1672.
- Hudebsam
- '''Hudebsam''' or HILDERSHAM, SAMUEL ([[1594]] ?1G74), divine; son of Arthur Hildersam; fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge: B.A. and B.D.; member of Westminster Assembly; ejected from West Felton, Shropshire, 1662.
- John Hildesley
- '''John Hildesley''' (d. [[1538]]).
- Mark Hildesley
- '''Mark Hildesley''' ([[1698]]-[[1772]]), bishop of Sodor and Man; of Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge; fellow, 1723; M.A., 1724; rector of Holwell, Bedfordshire, 1735-67; prebendary of Lincoln, 1754; chaplain to Henry St. John, lord Bolingbroke, and John, viscount St. John; D.D. Lambeth, 1755; bishop of Sodor and Man, 1755-72: master of Christ's Hospital, Sberbuni, Durham, 1767; promoted Manx translations of the bible and the Book of Common Prayer.
- Thomas Hudeyard
- '''Thomas Hudeyard''' ([[1690]]-[[1746]]), Jesuit ; rector of thecollegeof St. Francis Xavier, 1743; made astronomical clocks.
- Saint Hildilid
- '''Saint Hildilid''' ( A. [[700]]), abbess of Barking.
- Sir Edward Hilditch
- '''Sir Edward Hilditch''' ([[1805]]-[[1876]]), inspectorgeneral of hospitals; on West Indian station, 1830-55; at Plymouth, 1855, Greenwich, 1861; inspector-general, 18541865; first honorary physician to Queen Victoria, 1859: knighted, 1865.
- John Heldrop
- '''John Heldrop''' (d. [[1756]]), divine : M.A. St John's College, Oxford, 1705; D.D., 1743; master of free grammar school, Marlborough, 1703-33; rector of Maulden. Bedfordshire, and, 1734, of Wath-juxta-Ripon; friend of Zachary Grey His Miscellaneous Works (1764) include satires against the deists.
- James Hudyard
- '''James Hudyard''' ([[1809]]-[[1887]]), classical scholar ; educated at Shrewsbury; Tancred student, afterwards fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; second classic and chancellor's medallist, 1833; M.A., 1836; D.D., 1846;
- Hill
- '''Hill'''
- Hill
- '''Hill''' senior proctor, 1843: preacher at Whitehall, 1843-4; incumbent of Ingoldsby, 1846-87; edited plays of Plant u-: issued pamphlets advocating revision of liturgy and reform of university education.
- Aaron Hill
- '''Aaron Hill''' ([[1685]]-[[1750]]), dramatist; educated at Westminster: travelled in the East; obtained patent for extracting oil from beecbmast, 1713; proposed colonisation of Georgia, 1718; addressed complimentary poems to Peterborough and Peter the Great; satirised by Pope; attacked Pope inProgress of Wit(1730) and other publications, but afterwards corresponded amicably with him; corresponded with Richardson: produced plays and operas, including words of Handel'sRinaldo(1711), 'Athelwoldl732),ZaraMerope and other translations from Voltaire; joint-author with William Bond (d. 1735) of the Plalndealer 1724.
- Abigail Hill
- '''Abigail Hill''' (d. [[1734]]). See MASHAM, ABIGAIL,
- Lady
- '''Lady'''
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- Abraham Hill
- '''Abraham Hill''' ([[1635]]-[[1721]]), treasurer of Royal Society, 1663-5 and 1679-1700; commissioner of trade, 1689; comptroller to Archbishop Tillotson, 1691; published life of Barrow, 1683; Pepys and Evelyn among his correspondents.
- Adam Hill
- '''Adam Hill''' (d. [[1595]]), divine; fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1568-73; M.A., 1672; D.D., 1591; prebendary of Salisbury, 1586.
- Hill
- '''Hill''' or HYLL, ALBAN (d. [[1559]]), physician; graduated at Bologna; P.R.O.P., 1552; censor, 1555-8.
- Alexander Hill
- '''Alexander Hill''' ([[1785]]-[[1867]]), professor of divinity at Glasgow; son of George Hill (1750-1819); graduated at St. Andrews, 1804; D.D., 1828; minister of Dailly, 1816; divinity professor, 1840-62; moderator of general assembly, 1845; published tracts.
- Arthur Hill
- '''Arthur Hill''' ([[1601]] ?-[[1663]]), parliamentarian colonel; formed manor of Hillsbo rough from grants in county Down; M.P., counties Down, Antrim, and Armagh, 1654; constable and Irish privy councillor, 1660.
- David Octavius Hill
- '''David Octavius Hill''' ([[1802]]-[[1870]]), landscape and portrait painter; secretary to Scottish Society of Arts, 1830-8, and after its incorporation in the Royal Scottish Academy; his Land of Burns series of pictures issued, 1841; painted many other Scottish landscapes, and 'Signing the Deed of Demission 1865; first artist to apply photography to portraiture: a commissioner of Scottish board of manufactures, 1850; originated Edinburgh Art Union.
- Sir Dudley St Hill
- '''Sir Dudley St Hill''' . LEGER ([[1790]]-[[1851]]), majorgeneral; served with 95th (rifle brigade) at Monte Video and Buenos Ayree, 1807, being captured wounded; also in the Peninsula, 1808-10; held Portuguese commands at Busaco, 1810, and succeeding battles, being seven times wounded; continued in Portuguese service after the peace; lieutenant-governor of Saint Lucia, 1834-8; major-general, 1841; K.O.B., 1848; died at Umballa, holding a Bengal command.
- Htt
- '''Htt''' T., EDWIN ([[1793]]-[[1876]]), inventor and author; brother of Sir Rowland Hill; supervisor of stamps at Somerset House, 1840-72; with Mr. De la Rue invented machine for folding envelopes, exhibited, 1851; published 1 Principles of Currency 1856.
- Htt
- '''Htt''' T., GEORGE ([[1716]]-[[1808]]), king's Serjeant, [[1772]] Serjeant Labyrinth): of Lincoln's Inn.
- George Hill
- '''George Hill''' ([[1750]]-[[1819]]), principal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews; graduated from St. Andrews, 1764; joint-professor of Greek, 1772-88, of divinity, 1788: D.D., 1787; principal of St. Mary's College. 1791-1819; dean of Chapel Royal, 1799; moderator of general assembly, 1789; his Lectures on Divinity published, 1821.
- Sir Hugh Hill
- '''Sir Hugh Hill''' ([[1802]]-[[1871]]), judge of the queen's bench; B.A. Dublin, 1821: barrister, Middle Temple, 1841, after being a successful special pleuder; Q.C., 1851; judge of queen's bench, 1858-61.
- James Hill
- '''James Hill''' (d. [[1728]]?), antiquary; F.S.A., [[1718]]; P.R.S., 1719; corresponded with William Stukeley; made collections for history of Herefordshire.
- James Hill
- '''James Hill''' (d. [[1817]]?), actor and vocalist; appeared at Bath and Coveut Garden, 1796-1806; said to have died in Jamaica.
- James John Hill
- '''James John Hill''' ([[1811]]-[[1882]]), painter ; exhibited with Society of British Artists; best known by his rustic figure-pictures.
- John Hill
- '''John Hill''' ? (d. [[1697]]?), lieutenant-colonel and governor of Inverl9chy (Fort William) at time of Glencoe massacre (1692), carried out by his second in command; both tried for murder and acquitted.
- John Hill
- '''John Hill''' (d. [[1735]]), major-general; brother of Abigail, lady Masham; made page to Queen Anne and (1703) officer in army through Marlborough influence; commanded brigade at Alinanza, 1707; wounded at Mons, 1709; brigadier-general in command of Quebec expedition, 1711; major-general, 1712; afterwards in charge of Dimkirk,
- John Hill
- '''John Hill''' , calling himself SIR JOHN ([[1716]]?1775), author; knight of Swedish order of Vasa; flourished as an apothecary and quack doctor in James Street, Covent Garden; patronised by Bute; conducted the 'British Magazine 1746-50; contributed toLondon Advertiser as The Inspector 1751-3; attacked Royal Society, Fielding, Christopher Smart (who replied with theHilliad, and Garrick, who composed on him a celebrated epigram; publishedThe Vegetable System (1759-75), for which he obtained his Swedish order, and translations and compilations dealing with medicine, botany, and horticulture, Naval History of Britain 1756, and other works; authorship of Mrs. Glasse's Art of Cookery (1747) erroneously ascribed to him.
- John Harwood Hill
- '''John Harwood Hill''' ([[1809]]-[[1886]]), antiquary; F.S.A., 1871; B.A. Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1834; librarian to Lord Cardigan at Deene; rector of Cranoe, 1837, and vicar of Welham, 1841; publishedHistory of Market Harborough 1875.
- Tttt
- '''Tttt''' L, JOSEPH ([[1625]]-[[1707]]), nonconformist divine and lexicographer; fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; M.A., 1649; his name removed for nonconformity, 1662; pastor of Scottish church at Middelburg, Holland, 1667-73, where he published pamphlet advocating English alliance; English presbyterian minister on Haringvliet, Rotterdam, 1678-1707; edited and enlarged Schrevelius's Greek-Latin lexicon, 1663.
- Joseph Hill
- '''Joseph Hill''' ([[1667]]-[[1729]]), presbyterian minister at Rotterdam, 1699-1718, and HaberdashersHall, London, 1718-29.
- Joseph Sidney Hill
- '''Joseph Sidney Hill''' ([[1851]]-[[1894]]), missionary bishop; studied at Church Missionary Society's College, Islington; deacon, 1876; joined mission at Lagos, 1876; appointed to New Zealand mission, 1878; priest, 1879; bishop in Western Equatorial Africa, 1893; died at Lagos.
- Matthew Davenport Hell
- '''Matthew Davenport Hell''' ([[1792]]-[[1872]]), reformer of criminal law; eldest sou of Thomas Wright Hill; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1819; defended John Oartwright (1740-1824), the Nottingham rioters (1831), the Canadian prisoners (1839), and Rebecca rioters (1843); counsel for Daniel O'Oonnell, 1844, and for Baron de Bode; took part in founding Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1826; as M.P. for Hull, 1832-5, had charge of colonisation of South Australia hill (1834) and caused scene between Lord Althorp and Richard Lalor Sheil; Q.C., 1834; first recorder of Birmingham, 1839; advocated, in charges (collected in Suggestions for Repression of Crime 1857), changes in treatment of criminals adopted in Penal Servitude Acts of 1853 and 1864: supported establishment of reformatories and industrial schools; commissioner of bankrupts (Bristol district), 1851-69.
- Nicholas Hell
- '''Nicholas Hell''' ([[1570]]?-[[1610]]). philosopher; of Merchant TaylorsSchool and St. John's College, Oxford; fellow, 1592; B.A., 1592; secretary to Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford; published Philosophia Epicurea, Democritiana, Theophrastica," 1601; died abroad.
- Pascoe Grenfell Hill
- '''Pascoe Grenfell Hill''' ([[1804]]-[[1882]]), author; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1836; chaplain in navy, 1836-45; to Westminster Hospital, 1852-7; rector of St. Edmund the King and Martyr, 1863; published Life of Napoleon 1869, and other works.
- Richard Hell
- '''Richard Hell''' ([[1655]]-[[1727]]), diplomatist ; educated at Shrewsbury and St. John's College, Cambridge, fellow
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- Hill
- '''Hill''' 621
- Hill
- '''Hill''' and benefactor; B.A., 1675; envoy extraordinary to elector of Bavaria, 1696; ambassador at the Hague and a lord of the treasury, 1G99; member of admiralty council, 1702; as envoy to Savoy, 1703-6, gained adhesion of the duke to grand alliance and toleration of Vaudois (correspondcm-c published, 1845); fellow of Eton, 1714; F.U.S. and lion. J. LL. of Oxford.
- Hill
- '''Hill''' Sin RICHARD, second baronet ([[1732]]-[[1808]]), controversialist; grand-nephew of Richard Hill; educated at Westminster: M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1754; attacked university for expelling methodist undergraduates, 1768; carried on controversies with Wesley, Charles Daubeny,and others; M.P., Shropshire, 1780-1806; succeeded as baronet, 1783.
- Hill
- '''Hill''' or HULL, ROBERT (d. [[1425]]), judge; king's serjeaut, 1399; judge of common pleas, 1408; chief justice of Isle of Ely, 1422.
- Robert Hill
- '''Robert Hill''' (d. [[1623]]), divine; M.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1588; fellow of St. John's College, 1589; perpetual curate of St. Andrew, Norwich, 16911602; rector of St. Margaret Moyses, Friday Street, London, 1607; of St. Bartholomew Exchange, London, 16131623; published devotional works.
- Robert Hill
- '''Robert Hill''' ([[1699]]-[[1777]]), learned tailor, compared by Joseph Spence with Magliabechi; acquired Qreek and Hebrew, and wrote theological treatises.
- Robert Gardiner Hill
- '''Robert Gardiner Hill''' ([[1811]]-[[1878]]), surgeon : brother of John Harwood Hill; M.R.C.S., 1834; as house-surgeon to Lincoln lunatic asylum (1835-40) dispensed with the restraint system; joint-proprietor of Eastgate House asylum. 1840-63; mayor of Lincoln, 1852; proprietor of Earl's Court House, Old Brompton, 1863-78; published works on treatment of lunatics.
- Roger Hill
- '''Roger Hill''' ([[1606]]-[[1667]]), judge; barrister, Inner Temple, 1632; bencher, 1649; junior counsel against Laud, 1644; M.P., Bridport, 1645; assistant to Commonwealth attorney-general; judge of assize, 1656; baron of exchequer, 1657; transferred to upper bench, 1660.
- Sir Rowland Hill
- '''Sir Rowland Hill''' ([[1492]] 7-[[1661]]), lord mayor of London; warden of MercersCompany, 1636, and four times master; sheriff, 1541; knighted; alderman, Castle Buy n a rd ward, 1542, and Walbrook, 1545; first protestant lord mayor, 1649-60; a commissioner against heretics, 1657; built Hodnet and Stoke churches, Shropshire; endowed school at Drayton and exhibitions to universities,
- Rowland Hill
- '''Rowland Hill''' ([[1744]]-[[1833]]), preacher ; brother of Sir Richard Hill; educated at Shrewsbury, Eton, and St. John's College, Cambridge; B.A., 1769; was refused priest's orders owing to his itinerant preaching; from 1783 preached in Surrey Chapel, London, where he had Sunday schools; published hymns,Village Dialogues 1810, and a tract in favour of inoculation.
- Rowland Hill
- '''Rowland Hill''' , first VISCOUNT HILL ([[1772]]-[[1842]]), general; nephew of Rowland Hill (1744-1833); studied at Strasburg military school while subaltern; aide-de-camp at Toulon, 1793; lieutenant-colonel, 90th foot (Graham's regiment), 1784; brevet-colonel, 1800; commanded regiment in Egypt, 1801 (wounded at Aboukir), and in Ireland, establishing regimental school and sergeantsmess; major-general, 1805; commanded brigades in Hanover, and at Rolica and Corufta; led second division at Talavera, 1809; invalided after campaign of 1810; resumed command, May 1811, and defeated Gerard at Merida (October 1811); lieutenant-general and K.B., 1812; stormed Almaraz (May); commanded right at Vittoria, 1813; blockaded Pampeluna; distinguished at Nivelle and the Nive, 1813; won victories of Bayonne (13 Dec. 1813) and Toulouse (10, 11 April, 1814); created Baron Hill and given pension of 2,000., and the freedom of the city of London. 1814; sent on mission to Prince of Orange, 1815; given command of army corps in Belgium; headed Adam's brigade at Waterloo before the last charge, 1815; second in command of army of occupation in France, 1815-18; general, 1825: commander-inchief in England, 1825-39; created viscount, 1842.
- Sir Rowland Hill
- '''Sir Rowland Hill''' ([[1795]]-[[1879]]), inventor of penny postage; son of Thomas Wright Hill; educated in his father's school at Hill Top, Birmingham, where he afterwards taught; established school on his own plan and self disciplined at Hazelwood (afterwards removed to Bruce Castle, Tottenham), as described In the 4 Public Education(18M)of hi- hew Daven port Hill; invented rotatory printing-press and other machines; secretary to South Australian commission, 1835: submitted to Lord Melbourne his Poet Office Reform: its Importance and Practicability 1837; described his invention of adhesive stamp before commission, 1837; obtained parliamentary committee which recommended twopenny pontage, 1838; secured adoption of penny postage in budget of 1839; was given appointment in the post office; his scheme of penny postage established, 1840; dismissed from post office, 1841; as chairman of Brighton railway, 1843-6, introduced express and excursion trains; received public testimonial, 1846; secretary to postmaster-general, 1846; as secretary to the post office, 1854-64, established promotion by merit; F.RJk, 1867: K.C.B., 1860; D.C.L. of Oxford, 1864; received freedom of the city of London, 1879; as member of railway commission published separate report (1867) recommending state purchase and working by companies holding leases; buried in Westminster Abbey.
- Rowley Hill
- '''Rowley Hill''' ([[1886]]-[[1887]]), bishop of Sodor and Man; of Christ's Hospital and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1863; D.D., 1877; vicar of St. Michael's, Chester Square, London, 1871, of Sheffield, 1873; bishop of Sodor and Man, 1877-87.
- Samuel Hill
- '''Samuel Hill''' ([[1648]]-[[1716]]), archdeacon of Wells ; B.A. St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1666; rector of Kilmington, 1687; archdeacon of Wells, 1705-16; published controversial works against Bishop Burnet and the nonjurors,
- Sir Stephen John Hill
- '''Sir Stephen John Hill''' ([[1809]]-[[1891]]), colonial governor; entered army, 1823; captain, 1842; served in West Africa; brevet major, 1849; governor and Commander-in-chief of Gold Coast, 1851; lieutenant-governor of Sierra Leone, 1864, and governor-in-chief, 1860-2; governor-in-chief of Leeward and Caribbee islands, 18631869, and of Newfoundland, 1869-76; colonel of West India regiment, 1854; K.C.M.G., 1874.
- Thomas Hill
- '''Thomas Hill''' (ft. [[1690]]), compiler and translator of horticultural and astrological works.
- Hill
- '''Hill''' alia* BUCKLAND, THOMAS ([[1664]]-[[1644]]), Benedictine; ordained at Rome, 1594, where be opposed the Jesuits; sent on English mission, 1597; condemned to death, 1612; reprieved; banished, 1613; published A Quartron of Reasons of Catholike Religion (1600); died at St. Gregory's monastery, Douay.
- Thomas Hill
- '''Thomas Hill''' (d. [[1653]]), master of Trinity College, Cambridge; scholar and fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; M.A., 1626; B.D., 1633; original member of Westminster Assembly of Divines, 1643; master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1646-63; vice-chancellor of Cambridge, 1646; Calvinist.
- Thomas Hill
- '''Thomas Hill''' ([[1628]] ?- [[1677]] ?), nonconformist minister; B.A. Corpus Ohristi College, Cambridge; presbyterian pastor at Orton, Leicestershire, 1653-60; perpetual curate of Shuttington, 1660-6.
- Thomas Hill
- '''Thomas Hill''' (rf. [[1720]]), nonconformist tutor; son of Thomas Hill (1628 ?-1677 ?).
- Thomas Hill
- '''Thomas Hill''' ([[1661]]-[[1734]]), portrait-painter.
- Thomas Hill
- '''Thomas Hill''' ([[1760]]-[[1840]]), book-collector; patron of Bloomfleld and Kirke White; entertained literary and theatrical celebrities at Sydenham; the Hull of Hook's 4 Gilbert Guruey; his collection, the basis of Longmans 4 Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica 1816.
- Htt
- '''Htt''' L, THOMAS ([[1808]]-[[1865]]), topographer; M.A. Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1832; incumbent of Holy Trinity, Queenhithe, 1850-65; author of History of Nunnery of St. Clare and Parish of Holy Trinity 188 J, andThe Harmony of the Greek and Latin Languages 1841.
- Thomas Ford Hill
- '''Thomas Ford Hill''' (J. [[1795]]), antiquary ; F.S.A. : 1792; travelled on continent; collected 4 Ancient Erse Songs 1784; died at Ariano.
- Hill
- '''Hill''' 622
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- Hincks
- '''Hincks'''
- Sir Thomas Noel Hill
- '''Sir Thomas Noel Hill''' ([[1784]]-[[1832]]), colonel; I brother of Rowland, viscount Hill; commanded Portuguese regiment, 1810-14; lieutenant-colonel, 1st foot- I guards, 1814; assistant adjutant-general in Waterloo campaign; deputy adjutant-general in Canada, 1827-30; I K.C.B.
- Thomas Wright Hill
- '''Thomas Wright Hill''' ([[1763]]-[[1851]]), schoolmaster and stenographer; a disciple of Priestley; kept school at Hill Top, Birmingham, 1803-19; his Remains issued, 1859, and Selection from his Papers 1860; they included his studies in letter-sounds, systems of shorthand and numerical nomenclature, and scheme of minority representation.
- William Hill
- '''William Hill''' (fl. [[1662]]), informer; of Merton College, Oxford; gave information of plot to seize Charles II, 1662.
- William Hill
- '''William Hill''' ([[1619]]-[[1667]]), classical scholar; fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1639; M.A., 1641; D.D. Dublin; master of Sutton Coldfleld school, 1640; afterwards of St. Patrick's, Dublin; edited Dionysius Periegetes 1658.
- William Noel Hill
- '''William Noel Hill''' , third BARON BKHWICK (d. 1842), ambassador at Naples, 1824-33; succeeded his brother in title, 1832; F.S.A.
- Wills Hill
- '''Wills Hill''' , first MARQUIS OF DOWNSHIRE ([[1718]]1793), statesman; M.P., Warwick, 1741-56; succeeded as second Viscount Hillsborough (Ireland), 1742; privy councillor of Ireland, 1746; created Irish earl, 1751; comptroller and treasurer to George n, 1754-6; created Baron Harwich (peerage of Great Britain), 1756; president of board of trade and plantations, 1763-5, and 1766; joint postmaster-general, 1766-8; as secretary of state for colonies, 1768-72,"and for northern department, 1779-82, pursued harsh policy towards America; attacked by Junius; created Irish marquis, 1789; recommended union with Ireland.
- Hill
- '''Hill''' -TREVOR, ARTHUR, third VISCOUNT DUN-
- Gannon
- '''Gannon''' of the second creation in peerage of Ireland (1798-1862).
- William Hillary
- '''William Hillary''' (d. [[1763]]), physician; M.D. Leyden, 1722, and pupil of Boerhaave; practised in Ripon, Bath, Barbados, and London; publishedObservations on Changes of the Air, and the concomitant Epidemical Diseases in Barbadoes 1759.
- Sir William Hillary
- '''Sir William Hillary''' , first baronet ([[1771]]-[[1847]]), j founder of Royal National Lifeboat Institution; equerry to Duke of Sussex; raised First Essex Legion of infantry and cavalry, 1803; created baronet, 1805; settled in Isle of Man, 1808; first proposed Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 1823, and became president of district associa- ! tion in Isle of Man; proposed schemes for public benefit in various pamphlets.
- Nicholas Hilliard
- '''Nicholas Hilliard''' ([[1537]]-[[1619]]), first English miniature-painter; as goldsmith, carver, and limner to Elizabeth engraved her second great seal, 1586; granted sole right to execute portraits of James I, 1617; praised by Donne in The Storm; painted miniature of himself i at thirteen, and drew portrait of Mary Queen of Scots at eighteen; executed miniatures of chief contemporaries, ! twenty-three of which were exhibited at the Royal Aca-; demy, 1879.
- Tttt
- '''Tttt''' T.rEtt, CHARLES PARKER ([[1838]]-[[1880]]). See
- Charles Harooubt
- '''Charles Harooubt''' .
- George Hlllter
- '''George Hlllter''' ([[1815]]-[[1866]]), topographer ; published works, including Topography of the Isle of Wight 1850, and a guide to Reading, 1859.
- Htt
- '''Htt''' T.S. HENRY (d. [[1713]]), printer to Cromwell, Charles II, and James II; provision in statute (8 Anne) directing that fine paper copies of all publications should be sent to public libraries occasioned by his piracies.
- Robert Hills
- '''Robert Hills''' [[0769]]-[[1844]]), water-colour painter and etcher; exhibited at Society of Painters in Watercolours, being many years secretary.
- Hillsborough
- '''Hillsborough''' first EAKL and second VISCOUNT (1718-1793).
- Htt
- '''Htt''' T.TAB, SIR JAMES ([[1769]]-[[1843]]), rear-admiral; midshipman under Lord Hood, 1793; as lieutenant under Captain Robert Stopford present in action of 1 June 1794; commanded armed boats at Barcelona and on Egyptian coast, 1800-1; commanded Niger cruiser in Mediterranean, 1800-7; recommended for post-rank by Nelson, 1804; assisted in reduction of Mauritius (1810) and Java (1811); captured American ship Essex, 1813; K.C.H., 1834; rear-admiral, 1837; K.C.B., 1840.
- Hllsey
- '''Hllsey''' or HILDESLEIGH, JOHN (d. [[1538]]), bishop of Rochester: B.D. Oxford, 1527, D.D., 1532; prior of Dominican house at Bristol, 1 533; appointed by Thomas Cromwell provincial and commissioner (with George Browne (d. 1566) ) to visit friaries, 1534; bishop of Rochester, 1536-8; censor of press, 1536; exposed the Boxley Rood and other impostures, 1538; compiled 4 Manuall of Prayers, or the Prymer in Englyshe published, 1539: assisted in compiling Institution of a Christian Man
- John Hilton
- '''John Hilton''' (d. [[1657]]), musical composer: Mus. Bac. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1626; parish clerk and organist of St. Margaret's, Westminster, 1628; published Ayres, or Fa La's for Three Voyces 1627; wrote elegy on William Lawes, 1645; contributed madrigals to 1 Triumphs of Oriana 1601, and canons and catches to Catch that catch can 1652.
- John Hilton
- '''John Hilton''' ([[1804]]-[[1878]]), surgeon at Guy's Hospital, 1849-70; professor of human anatomy and surgery at College of Surgeons, 1860-2; president, 1867; his treatise On Rest and Pain (1863) a surgical classic.
- Walter Hilton
- '''Walter Hilton''' (d. [[1396]]), religious writer ; Augnstinian canon at Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire; bis 'Scala Perfectionis (English) printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1494, and Pynson, 1 506 (translated into Latin by Thomas Fyslawe and edited by Robert Guy, 1869, and John Dobree Dalgairns, 1870).
- William Hilton
- '''William Hilton''' ([[1786]]-[[1839]]), historical painter ; exhibited at Royal Academy from 1803; R.A., 1818, and keeper, 1827; his works exhibited at British Institution, 1840; his Christ Crowned with Thorns purchased for Chantrey bequest. His paintings includeEdith discovering dead body of Harold 1834, and Sir Calepine rescuing Serena 1831.
- Hlnchinbroke
- '''Hlnchinbroke''' first VISCOUNT ([[1625]]-[[1672]]). See
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- Sir Edward Montagu
- '''Sir Edward Montagu''' .
- John Elley Hinchliff
- '''John Elley Hinchliff''' ([[1777]]-[[1867]]), sculptor ; assistant to Flaxman, for whom he finished statues of Hastings and John Philip Kemble; chiefly known for mural tablets and sepulchral monuments,
- John James Hinchliff
- '''John James Hinchliff''' ([[1805]]-[[1875]]), engraver ; son of John Elley Hinchliff
- Thomas Woodbine Hinchlltf
- '''Thomas Woodbine Hinchlltf''' ([[1825]]-[[1882]]), president of Alpine Club; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1852; barrister, Lincoln's Inn; took part in founding Alpine Club, 1867, and was first honorary secretary and president, 1874-7; published books relating to his travels.
- John Hinchliffe
- '''John Hinchliffe''' ([[1731]]-[[1794]]), bishop of Peterborough; educated at Westminster, where he was assistantmaster seven years and (1764") head for three months; scholar of Trinity, Cambridge, 1751; fellow, 1756; master, 1768-88; M.A., 1757; D.D., 1764; vice-chancellor, 1768; bishop of Peterborough, 1769-94; offended government by liberal speeches in House of Lords, and was made dean of Durham (1788) on condition of resigning the mastership of Trinity College.
- John Hincxley
- '''John Hincxley''' ([[1617]] ?-[[1695]]), controversialist: MA. St. Alban Hall, Oxford, 1640: D.D., 1679; rector of Northfield, Worcestershire, 1661-95; prebendary of Lichfield, 1673; published, among other works,Fasciculus Literarum(1680), containing controversy with Baxter
- Edward Hincks
- '''Edward Hincks''' ([[1792]]-[[1866]]), orientalist ; son of Thomas Dix Hincks; gold medallist and B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1811; rector of Killyleagh, 18251866; according to Brugscb first employed true method of deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics; simultaneously with Rawlinson discovered Persian cuneiform vowel system; contributed to Transactions of Royal Irish Academy.
- Hincks
- '''Hincks'''
- Hippisley
- '''Hippisley'''
- Sir Francis Hincks
- '''Sir Francis Hincks''' ([[1807]]-[[1885]]), Canadian statesman; brother of Edward Hincks: emigrated to Canada, 1831; joined liberals, 1837; entered parliament, 1841; inspector-general of public account* in first IuM win-Lafontaine ministry, 1842-4; started Montreal Pilot 1844; inspector-general in second Baldwin in m-try, 1848-51; as premier, 1851-4, developed Canadian mil way and commercial system, negotiated reciprocity treaty with United States and passed Parliamentary Representation Act; governor of Barbados and Windwsini isles, 1856-62, of British Guiana, 1862-9; K.O.M.G., 1869; finance minister, 1869-73; wrote on Canadian politics.
- Thomas Hincks
- '''Thomas Hincks''' ([[1818]]-[[1899]]), zoologist; B.A. London, 1840: minister at Mill Hill Unitarian chapel, Leeds, 1856-69; F.R.8., 1872; published History of British Hydroid Zoophytes 1868, and History of British Marine Polyzoa 1880.
- Thomas Dix Hincks
- '''Thomas Dix Hincks''' ([[1767]]-[[1867]]), Irish presbyterian divine; left Trinity College, Dublin, for Hackney New College, 1788; ordained by southern presbytery, 1792; lecturer at Royal Cork Institution and Fermoy academy; classical master of Belfast Academical Institution and professor of Hebrew, 1821-36; LL.D. Glasgow, 1834; contributed Irish articles to Rees's Cyclopaedia; wrote educational manuals.
- William Hincks
- '''William Hincks''' ([[1794]]-[[1871]]), professor of natural history at Queen's College, Cork, 849-63, and University College, Toronto, 1863-71; son of Thomas Dix Hincks .,..j
- James Hind
- '''James Hind''' (d. [[1652]]), royalist and highwayman ; escaped in woman's clothes from Colchester after its capture, 1648; served under Ormonde in Ireland, 1649; fought in Charles IPs army at Worcester, 1651; arrested in London, 1651; hanged for treason.
- John Hind
- '''John Hind''' ([[1796]]-[[1866]]), mathematician; second wrangler and Smith's prizeman, 1818; M.A. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1821; fellow, 1823-6; published works on the differential calculus and other mathematical subjects,
- John Russell Hind
- '''John Russell Hind''' ([[1823]]-[[1895]]), astronomer : entered magnetic and meteorological department of Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1840; director of observatory founded by George Bishop in Regent's Park, 18441895; superintended Nautical Almanack 1853-91; member of Royal Astronomical Society, 1844, president, 18801881; F.R.S., 1863; honorary LL.D. Glasgow, 1882; published astronomical works.
- William Hinde
- '''William Hinde''' ([[1569]] ?-[[1629]]), puritan divine ; of Queen's College, Oxford; fellow; M.A., 1594: perpetual curate of Bunbury, Cheshire, 1603-29; published devotional works; edited works by John Rainolds. and Cleaver's Bathshebaes Instructions 1614.
- Thomas Hinderwell
- '''Thomas Hinderwell''' ([[1744]]-[[1825]]), author of 4 History of Scarborough 1798; mayor of Scarborough 1781, 1784, 1790, and 1800; publishedAuthentic Narratives of Affecting Shipwrecks 1799.
- John Hindle
- '''John Hindle''' ([[1761]]-[[1796]]), vocalist and composer Mus. Bac. Magdalen College, Oxford; lay vicar of Westminster Abbey; sang at Worcester festival, 1788, and London Vocal Concerts, 1791 and 1792; composed glees for words of English poete. and songs.
- John Haddon Hindley
- '''John Haddon Hindley''' ([[1765]]-[[1827]]), orientalist M.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1790; chaplain of Man Chester Collegiate Church; Chetbam librarian, 1792-1804 publishedPersian Lyrics from the Diwan-i-Haflz, with paraphrases 1800; edited Pendeh-i- Attar 1807.
- Sir John Hindjkarsh
- '''Sir John Hindjkarsh''' (d. [[1860]]), rear-admira and colonial governor; saved the Bellerophon at battle of the Nile (1798), where be lost an eye; lieutenant of the Phcebe at Trafalgar, 1805: with the Beagle in Basque road, 1809; K.H., 1836; first governor of South Australia, 1836-7; lieutenant-governor of Heligoland, 1840-56 rear-admiral, 1856.
- Robert Hindmabsh
- '''Robert Hindmabsh''' ([[1769]]-[[1835]]), organiser of thenew church formed 3 wedenborcriau Society, 1783 opened chapel in Eastcheap, 1788, built another in Cross Street, Hatton Garden; organised hierarchy, 1793: tH wards preached at Salford; Rise and Progrew of New Jerusalem Church issued, 1861.
- Samuel Hinds
- '''Samuel Hinds''' ([[1793]]-[[1872]]), bishop of Norwich : M.A. Queen's College, Oxford, 1818; D.D., 1831; principal of Oodrington College, Barbados: vice-principal of St. Alban Hall, Oxford, 1827-31; chaplain to Archbishop Whately, and earls of Bessboroogh and Clarendon; dean of Carlisle, 1858; bishop of Norwich, 1849-67; published Inquiry into Proofs, Ac., of Inspiration and into the Authority of Scripture 1831, and other works.
- Henry George Hine
- '''Henry George Hine''' ([[1811]]-[[1896]]), landscapepainter; apprenticed as draughtsman to Henry Meyer ; practised as wood engraver at Brighton; on staff 'Punch 1841-4; subsequently contributed toIllustrated London Newsand other publications; exhibited landscapes at Royal Academy and Suffolk Street Gallery; member of Institute of Painters hi Water-colours, 1864.
- William Hine
- '''William Hine''' ([[1687]]-[[1730]]), organist of Gloucester Cathedral (1712-30), and composer.
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- John Kingston
- '''John Kingston''' (d. [[1683]]). composer and organist ; employed by Charles I, Cromwell, and Charles II.
- Thomas Kingston
- '''Thomas Kingston''' ([[1799]]-[[1837]]), physician; of QueensCollege, Cambridge: M.D. Edinburgh, 18J4; practised at Penzance and Truro; edited Harvey's De Motu Cordis(1824), and contributed to D. Gilbert's Parochial History of Cornwall
- James Hinton
- '''James Hinton''' ([[1822]]-[[1875]]), surgeon and philosophical writer; son of John Howard Hinton: made voyages to China, Sierra Leone, and Jamaica as medical officer; practised as aural surgeon in London, and became acquainted with Dr. (Sir William Withey) Gull : contributed to Holmes'sSystem of Surgery 1862: edited Year- Book of Medicine 1863, and published aural monographs; published Mystery of Pain 1866, and joined Metaphysical Society; died in the Azores. Hi 11 ton'sChapters on the Art of Thinking and other Essays were printed, 1879,Philosophy and Religion 1881, The Lawbreaker and the Coming of the Law 1884.
- Sir John Hinton
- '''Sir John Hinton''' ([[1603]] 7-[[1682]]), royalist physician ; studied at Leyden; present at Edgehill, 1642: M.D. Oxford, 1642; attended Henrietta Maria at Exeter. 1644; practised in London during Commonwealth; physician to Charles II and his qneen; knighted. 1665; his Memoires printed, 1814.
- John Howard Hinton
- '''John Howard Hinton''' ([[1791]]-[[1873]]), baptist minister: M.A. Edinburgh, 1816; minister of Devonshire Square Chapel, Bishopsgate, 1837-63: secretary of Baptist Union; edited History and Topography of United States and many theological, biographical, and educational works (collected, 1864).
- Hippisley
- '''Hippisley''' E., subsequently MRS. FITZMAURICE (fl. 1741-1766), actress; daughter of John Hip'pisley (d. 1748)
- Jane Hippisley
- '''Jane Hippisley''' , afterwards MBS. GREEK (d. 1791), actress; sister of E. Hippisley; Garrick's Ophelia at Goodman's Fields; original Mrs. Malaprop, 1747-8.
- John Hippisley
- '''John Hippisley''' (d. [[1748]]), actor and dramatist ; owned theatres at Bristol and Bath; at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1722-33, played Fondlewife Old Bachelor *X Polonius, and Sir Huuh Evans, and created Peachum: at Covent Garden played Shallow, Dogberry, Fluellen. and other characters; created Sir Simon Loveit ( Miw hi her Teens; also played in his ownJourney to Bristol (1731), and Drunken Man (1732
- Hippi
- '''Hippi''' 8LEY, JOHN (d. [[1767]]), actor and author: probably governor of Cape Coast Castle; son of John Hippisley (d. 1748)
- Hippi
- '''Hippi''' 8LEY, Sm JOHN COXE, first baronet ([[1748]]1826), politician; D.C.L. Hertford College, Oxford, 1776; barrister. Inner Temple, 1771; treasurer, 1816; agent of British government in Italy, 1779-80 and 1792-6; employed by East India Company. 1786-9; negotiated marriage of Princess Royal with Duke of WUrtemberg, and
- Hiraethog
- '''Hiraethog''' 624
- Hoare
- '''Hoare''' was created baronet, 1796; recorder of Sudbury and M.P., 1790-6 and 1802-19; wrote pamphlets in favour of catholic emancipation.
- Gruffydd Hiraethog
- '''Gruffydd Hiraethog''' (d. [[1568]]?), Welsh poet, named from Denbighshire mountains; manuscript poems by him in British Museum and at Peniarth House.
- Solomon Hirschel
- '''Solomon Hirschel''' ([[1761]]-[[1842]]), chief rabbi of German and Polish Jews in London, 1802-42.
- Thomas Archer Hirst
- '''Thomas Archer Hirst''' ([[1830]]-[[1892]]), mathematician; articled as land agent and surveyor at Halifax, Yorkshire; studied at Marburg and was Ph.D., 1852: lecturer in mathematics, Queenwood College, Hampshire 1853-6; mathematical master of University College School, 1860: F.R.S., 1861; F.R.A.S., 1866: professor of -I physics, University College, London, 1865, and of pure mathematics, 1866-70; director of naval studies, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 1873-83; fellow of London University, 1882; published mathematical writings.
- William Hirst
- '''William Hirst''' (d. [[1769]]?), astronomer; M.A. Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1764; F.R.S., 1755; naval chaplain at sieges of Pondicherry and Vellore; observed transit of Venus at Madras, 1761; while at Calcutta described two eclipses and an earthquake; described transit of Venus of 1769; lost at sea on a second voyage to India.
- James Hislop
- '''James Hislop''' ([[1798]]-[[1827]]).
- Stephen Hislop
- '''Stephen Hislop''' ([[1817]]-[[1863]]), missionary and naturalist; studied at Edinburgh and Glasgow; joined Free church of Scotland, 1843; went to India as missionary, 1844; founded school at Nagpore, near which he was drowned; his Papers relating to Aboriginal Tribes of Central Provinces edited by Sir R. Temple, 1866.
- Sir Thomas Hislop
- '''Sir Thomas Hislop''' , first baronet ([[1764]]-[[1843]]), general; with 39th at siege of Gibraltar (1779-83), commanding it at capture of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo, 1796; headed first division at capture of Guadeloupe (1809); lieutenant-governor of Trinidad, 1803-11; captured on way to India by American frigate, 1812; created baronet and commander-in-chief at Madras, 1813; led army of Deccan in Mahratta war, 1817-18; won victory of Mahidpore, 1817; incurred blame for severity at Talner; G.C.B., 1818; left Madras, 1820.
- Sir Robert Hitcham
- '''Sir Robert Hitcham''' ([[1572]] ?-[[1636]]), king's Serjeant; of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; barrister, Gray's Inn; M.P., West Looe, 1597, Lynn Regis, 1614, Orford, 1625; attorney-general to James I's queen, 1603; knighted, 1603; king's Serjeant, 1616.
- Richard Hitchcock
- '''Richard Hitchcock''' ([[1825]]-[[1856]]), Irish archaeologist,
- Robert Hitchcock
- '''Robert Hitchcock''' (ft. [[1580]]-[[1591]]), military writer; commissioned to raise volunteers in Buckinghamshire for service in Low Countries, 1586; published 'A Politiqne Platt 1580, expounding scheme for developing Newfoundland herring fisheries, and an edition of William Garrard'sArte of Warre 1591, and other works; left also military writings in manuscript.
- Robert Hitchcock
- '''Robert Hitchcock''' (d. [[1809]]), dramatic author ; publishedThe Macaroni 1773,The Coquette 1777, and Historical View of the Irish Stage 1788-94.
- Fortesoue Hitchins
- '''Fortesoue Hitchins''' ([[1784]]-[[1814]]), Cornish poet and historian: son of Malachy Hitchins
- Malachy Hitchins
- '''Malachy Hitchins''' ([[1741]]-[[1809]]), astronomer: B.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1781; M.A. St. John's Col- I lege, Cambridge, 1785; computer and comparer at Greenwich under Neville Maskelyne; vicar of St. Hilary and Gwinear, Cornwall; verified calculations for Nautical Almanack
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- Benjamin Hoadly
- '''Benjamin Hoadly''' ([[1706]]-[[1757]]), physician ; son of Benjamin Hoadly (1676-1761); M.D. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1728; F.R.S.,1728; F.R.O.P., 1736; Gulstonian lecturer, 1737; Harveian orator, 1742: physician toGeorge II, 1742: his comedy, The Suspicious Husband(1747), acted at CoventOarden, Garrick taking part.
- Benjamin Hoadly
- '''Benjamin Hoadly''' ([[1676]]-[[1761]]), bishop successively of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury, and Winchester; son of Samuel Hoadly; fellow of Catharine Hall, Cambridge, 1697-1701; M.A., 1699: lecturer of St. Mildred's, Poultry, London, 1701-11, rector of St. Peterle-Poor, Broad Street, London, 1704-21, of Streatham, 1710-23; chaplain to George I, 1715; opposed occasional conformity bill, but published against CalamyPersuasive to Lay Conformity 1704,Defence of Reasonableness of Conformity 1707, and similar treatises: upheld whig doctrine of resistance against Atterbury and Bishop Blackall, 1709-10; wrote satirical Dedication to Pope Clement XI for Steele's Account of state of Roman Catholic Religion 1715; bishop of Bangor, 1716-21; by his Preservative against Principles and Practices of the Nonjurors 1716, and sermon onNature of the Kingdom or Church of Christ 1717, caused Bangorian controversy (1717-20) and the silencing of convocation: his Reply to Representation of Convocation Hoadly's chief contribution; bishop of Hereford, 1721-3; as Britannicus attacked Atterbury in London Journal 1721; bishop of Salisbury, 1723-34; published pamphlets on foreign affairs, 1726, and Essay on Life and Writings of Dr. Samuel Clarke 1732: bishop of Winchester, 1734-61; Waterland's treatise on the Eucharist elicited by his Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament 1735; advocated repeal of Corporation and Test Acts, 1736; eulogised by Akenside, but derided by Pope and Swift.
- John Hoadly
- '''John Hoadly''' ([[1678]]-[[1746]]), archbishop successively of Dublin and Armagh; brother of Benjamin Hoadly (1676-1761); B.A. Catharine Hall, Cambridge, 1697; chaplain to Bishop Burnet; prebendary (1706), archdeacon (1710), and chancellor (1713) of Salisbury: friend of Chubb the deist; rector of Ockham, Surrey, 1717; bishop of Leighlin and Ferns, 1727; archbishop of Dublin, 1730; primate of Ireland; archbishop of Armagh, 1742; shared with Shannon chief direction of Irish politics.
- John Hoadly
- '''John Hoadly''' ([[1711]]-[[1776]]), poet and dramatist : son of Benjamin Hoadly (1676-1761); LL.B. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1735: chancellor of Winchester, 1735; chaplain to Frederick, prince of Wales, and princess dowager; LL.D. Lambeth. 1748: master of St. Cross, Winchester, 1760-76; friend of Garrick and Hogarth; had poems in Dodsley'sCollection wrote words to oratorios and musical plays: assisted his brother, Benjamin Hoadly (1706-1757) hi The Suspicious Husband; edited his father's works.
- Samuel Hoadly
- '''Samuel Hoadly''' ([[1643]]-[[1705]]), schoolmaster: studied at Edinburgh; head-master of Norwich school, 1700-5: publishedNatural Method of Teaching (1683), with school editions of Phaedrus and Publius Syrus, 1700.
- Sarah Hoadly
- '''Sarah Hoadly''' (d. [[1743]]), portrait-painter; n& Curtis; first wife of Bishop Benjamin Hoadly
- Leonard Hoar
- '''Leonard Hoar''' ([[1630]] ?-[[1675]]), president of Harvard College; emigrated to America and graduated at Harvard, 1650; returned to England, 1653; ejected from Wanstead, Essex, 1662; returned to Harvard; M.D. Cambridge, 1671; president of Harvard College, 1672-5; publishedIndex Biblicns(1668) andFirst Catalogue of Members of Harvard College (printed, 1864).
- Samuel Hoard
- '''Samuel Hoard''' ([[1599]]-[[1658]]), divine; M.A. St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1621; B.D., 1632; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1637; published theological works.
- Charles James Hoare
- '''Charles James Hoare''' ([[1781]]-[[1865]]), archdeacon of Surrey; second wrangler and Smith's prizeman, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1803; fellow, 1806; M.A., 1806; Seatonian prizeman, 1807: vicar of Blandford, 1807-21, of Godstone, 1821-66; archdeacon of Winchester, 1829, and canon, 1831; archdeacon of Surrey, 1847-60; published religious works.
- Clement Hoare
- '''Clement Hoare''' ([[1789]]-[[1849]]), vine-grower and writer on viticulture.
- Michael Hoare
- '''Michael Hoare''' (ft. [[1762]]). See HALFPENNY,
- William
- '''William'''
- Prince Hoare
- '''Prince Hoare''' ([[1765]]-[[1834]]), artist and author : son of William Hoare; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1781-6: made hon. foreign secretary of Academy, 1799; jm bl isOiedAcademic Correspondence 1804, andAcademic Annals of Painting 1806; best known of his plays,No Song, No Supper (Drury Lane, 1790).
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- '''Hobhouse'''
- Sir Richard Hoare
- '''Sir Richard Hoare''' ([[1648]]-[[1718]]), lord mayor of London; founded bank and raised government loans; knijrhted, 17U2: sheriff of London, 17U9: tory M.P. for th city, 1710-15; master of GoldsmithsCompany, 1712; lonl mayor, 1712.
- Hoare
- '''Hoare''' Sm RICHARD (d. [[1764]]), lord mayor of London; grandson of Sir Richard Hoare (1648-1718) ; journal of bin shrievalty (1741) printed by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 1815.
- Sir Richard Colt Hoare
- '''Sir Richard Colt Hoare''' , second baronet ([[1758]]1838), historian of Wiltshire; grandson of Sir Richard Hoare (d. 1754): published works, including History of Modem Wiltshire 18224, Ancient History of North and South Wiltshire 1812-21, journals of tours in Ireland (1807), Elba (1814), Italy and Sicily (1819), a topographical catalogue of the British isles (1815), and monographs on Wiltshire genealogy, topography, and archaeology; F.R.S. and F.S.A.
- William Hoare
- '''William Hoare''' ([[1707]] ?-[[1792]]), portrait-painter; reputed the first English artist who visited Rome to study; lodged with Scheemakers, and made acquaintance of Batoni; travelled in France and the Netherlands, 1749; one of those who attempted to form an academy in England, 1755; an original academician, 1768: exhibited till 1783, chiefly crayons; painted portraits of Chatham, Beau Nash, and others: executed also a whole length of Grafton, and crayons of Chesterfield and Pope.
- William Henry Hoare
- '''William Henry Hoare''' ([[1809]]-[[1888]]), divine; fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1833; M.A., 1834: took part in Colenso controversy; published 4 Outlines of Ecclesiastical History before the Reformation 1852.
- George Hobart
- '''George Hobart''' , third EARL OP BUCKINGHAM-
- Shirk
- '''Shirk''' ([[1732]]-[[1804]]), son of John Hobart, first earl ; M.P., St. Ives, 1754-61, Beeralstou, 1761-80; secretary of St. Petersburg embassy, 1762; succeeded as third earl, 1793; manager of the opera.
- Sir Henry Hobart
- '''Sir Henry Hobart''' , first baronet(d. [[1625]]),judge ; great-grandson of Sir James Hobart; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1584, governor, 1591; M.P., St. Ives, 1588, Yarmouth, 1597 and 1601, Norwich, 1604-10; serjeantat-law, 1603; attorney-general, 1606-13; appeared for plaintiffs in post-nati case; created baronet, 1611; chief-justice of common pleas, 1613-25; chancellor to Prince Charles, 1617; successfully opposed Coke in Suffolk case, 1619; his reports published, 1641.
- Sir James Hobart
- '''Sir James Hobart''' (d. [[1507]]), attorney-general, 1486-1507, of Lincoln's Inn; knighted, 1503; friend of John Paston.
- John Hobart
- '''John Hobart''' , first EARL OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE (1694 ?-1756), politician; of Clare Hall, Cambridge: M.P., St. Ives, 1715 and 1722-7, Norfolk, 1727-8; a commissioner of trade, 1721; treasurer of the chamber, 1727; created Baron Hobart, 1728, Earl of Buckinghamshire, 1746; lordlieutenant of Norfolk and privy councillor, 1745.
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- John Hobart
- '''John Hobart''' , second EARL OP BUCKINGHAM-
- Shire
- '''Shire''' ([[1723]]-1 [[793]]), lord-lieutenant of Ireland ; son of John Hobart, first earl of Buckinghamshire; of Westminster School and Christ's College, Cambridge; M.P., Norwich, 1747-56; comptroller of the household. 1755; lord of the bedchamber, 1756-67; ambassador to Russia, 1762-5; as viceroy of Ireland (1777-80) had to concede free trade and measures for relief of Romanists and dissenters,
- Sir Miles Hobart
- '''Sir Miles Hobart''' (d. [[1632]]), politician ; knighted, 1623; when M.P. for Great Marlow locked the door of the house during debate of 2 March, 1629; imprisoned for two year?; died by carriage accident; monument voted to him by parliament, 1647.
- Robert Hobart
- '''Robert Hobart''' , BARON HOBART, fourth EARL OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE (1760-1816), statesman; eldest son of George Hobart, third earl of Buckinghamshire; of Winchester College; served in American war; represented Bramber and Lincoln, 1788-94, and in Irish parliament Portarlington and Armagh; aide-de-camp to viceroy of Ireland, 1784-8; as chief secretary, 1789-93, acted with protestant party; English privy councillor, 1793; as governor of Madras, 1794-8, conducted expedition against Malacca; took part in war against Tippoo Suhib; recalled owing to difference with Sir John Shore (afterwards Lord Teignmouth), 1798; as Baron Hobart, 1798; assisted Auckland (1799) in arranging details of Irish union; secretary for war and the colonies, 1 80 1-4; Hobart Town named after him; chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, 1806 and 1812; postmaster-gem-ral under Orenville, 1807; president of board of control, 1812-16; killed by an accident while riding.
- Verb Henry Hobart
- '''Verb Henry Hobart''' , BARON HOBART ([[1818]]1 875 X governor of Madras; U.A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1840; clerk in board of trade, 1840-61; reported on Turkish finance, and became director-general of Ottoman Bank; governor of Madras, 1872-5, where he died of typhoid; his Essays and Miscellaneous Writings edited by Lady Hobart, 1885.
- Hampden Hobart
- '''Hampden Hobart''' , AUGUSTUS CHARLES, known as HURAHT PAHHA (1822-1886), vice-admiral; brother of Vere Henry Hobart, baron Hobart; entered British navy and distinguished himself on South American station against slavers; during Russian war did good service in Baltic (1854-5), and was promoted; retired as captain, 1863; ran blockade off North Carolina during American civil war; became naval adviser to soltan of Turkey, 1867; created pasha (1869) and musbir (1881) for services in reduction of Crete; commanded Black Sea fleet in Russian war, 1877-8; reinstated in British navy (as vice-admiral), 1886; died at Milan; Sketches of My Life issued, 1887.
- Hobbe
- '''Hobbe''' 8, ROBERT (d. [[1538]]), last abbot of Woburn, 1529-38; acknowledged royal supremacy, 1534, but proved recalcitrant and was executed.
- Thomas Hobbes
- '''Thomas Hobbes''' ([[1588]]-[[1679]]), philosopher; educated at Malmesbury and Magdalen Hall, Oxford; B.A., 1608; twenty years tutor and secretary to William Cavendish, afterwards second Earl of Devonshire, and his son; his translation of Thucydides published, 1629; at Paris with Sir Gervase Clifton's son, 1629-31; visiting Italy and Paris, 1634, met Galileo, Gassendi, and Merseune; said to have been Bacon's amanuensis; intimate with Harvey, Ben Jonson, Cowley, and Sidney Godolphin (1610-1643); resided at Paris, 1641-52; transmitted anonymous objections to Descartes's positions, published hisLeviathan* (1651), and acted as mathematical tutor to Charles II; on bis return to England submitted to council of state; saw much of Harvey and Selden; engaged in controversies with Bramhall in defence of his religion and philosophy, and with Seth Ward, Boyle, and John Wallis (1616-1703), on mathematical questions, the last exposing many of his blunders; received pension from Charles II, and was protected by him against Clarendon and the church party; his Behemoth suppressed; left London, 1675; wrote autobiography in Latin verse at eighty-four and completed translation of Homer at eighty-six; buried in Hault Hucknall church. In metaphysics a thoroughgoing nominalist; his political philosophy (chiefly in LeviathanX arguing that the body politic has been formed as the only alternative to a natural state of war, was attacked by Sir Robert Filmer, but mentioned with respect in Harrington's Oceana It influenced Spinoza, Leibnitz, and Rousseau, and was revived in England by the utilitarians. The chief critics of his metaphysical and ethical writings were Clarendon, Tenison, the Cambridge Platoniste, and Samuel Clarke. The standard edition of his works is that of Sir W. Molesworth (1839-45). His works include, besides those mentioned, De Give * (1642; English, 1651), Human Nature (1650),De Corpore Politico(originallyElements of Law), 1680, * De Homine(1658),Quadrntura Circuli and other geometrical treatises, andBehemoth, or the Long Parliament(edited by Dr. Ferdinand Tbnnies, 1889).
- William Armfield Hobday
- '''William Armfield Hobday''' ([[1771]]-[[1831]]), portrait-painter; exhibited many years at Academy; opened galleries in Pall Mall for sale of pictures on comuiission but failed; best work, pioture of Carolus the hermit Tong.
- Sir Benjamin Hobhouse
- '''Sir Benjamin Hobhouse''' , first baronet ([[1757]]1831), politician; M.A. Braseuose College, Oxford, 1781; barrister, Middle Temple, 1781; M.P., Bletchingley, 1797, Grampound, 1802, and Hindou, 1806-18; secretary to board of control under Addiugtou, 1803: chairman of committees, 1805; created baronet, 1812; published legal treatises. 85
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- '''Hodgkin'''
- Henry Hobhouse
- '''Henry Hobhouse''' ([[1776]]-1 [[854]]), archivist ; of Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford; M.A., 1799: D.C.L., 1827: barrister, Middle Temple, 1801; solicitor to the customs, 1806, to Treasury, 1812; permanent under-secretary for home department, 1817-27; privy councillor, 1828; keeper of state papers, 1826-54: superintended publication of 4 State Papers of Henry VIII
- John Cam Hobhouse
- '''John Cam Hobhouse''' , BARON BROCGHTON DK C.YKKORD (1786-1869), statesman: son of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse; of Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge; won Hulsean prize, 1808; M.A., 1811; founded Cambridge Whig Club; travelled with Byron in Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Turkey; wrote, from personal observation, Bonapartist account of theHundred Days 1816; visited Byron in Switzerland and Italy and wrote notes for Canto IV ofChilde Harold unsuccessfully contested Westminster as a radical, 1819: sent to Newpate for breach of privilege, 1819: returned for Westminster, 1820: as Byron's executor advised destruction of his Memoirs,* 1824; active member of Greek committee in London: succeeded as baronet, 1831; secretary at war, 1832-3; chief secretary for Ireland, March-April, 1833: resigned on house and window-tax, 1833; defeated when candidate for Westminster: elected for Nottingham, 1834; commissioner of woods and forests under Melbourne, 1834; president of board of control, 1835-41 and 1846-52; defeated at Nottingham, 1847: elected for Harwich, 1848; created peer. 1851; said to have invented phrasebis majesty's opposition: as Byron's best man drew up reply (unpublished) to Lady Byron'sRemarks left manuscriptDiaries, Correspondence, and Memoranda, &c., not to be opened till 1900 His works include Italy: Remarks made in several visits (1859), and * Recollections of a Long Life 1865.
- Richard Dennis Hoblyn
- '''Richard Dennis Hoblyn''' C[[1803]]-[[1886]]), educational writer; M.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1828: chief work, Dictionary of Terms used in Medicine
- Robert Hoblyn
- '''Robert Hoblyn''' ([[1710]]-[[1756]]), book collector; of Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford; B.C.L., 1734; M.P., Bristol, 1742-54; tf.R.S., 1745; twice speaker of Stannary parliament; his Bibliotheca Hobliniana printed, 1768; library sold, 1778.
- Edward Hobson
- '''Edward Hobson''' ([[1782]]-[[1830]]), botanist and entomologist; first president of Banksian Society, 1829; published Musci Britannici (1818-24).
- Richard Hobson
- '''Richard Hobson''' ([[1795]]-[[1868]]), physician ; of St. George's Hospital and QueensCollege, Cambridge: M.D., 1830; physician to Leeds Infirmary, 1833-43; attended Charles Waterton and wrote a book on him (1866).
- Thomas Hobson
- '''Thomas Hobson''' ([[1544]] ?-[[1631]] ), Cambridge carrier ; referred to in Spectator; presented to Cambridge site of Spinning House, and provided for a conduit; refused always to let out any horse out of its proper turn Hobson's choice this or none).
- Sir Edward Hoby
- '''Sir Edward Hoby''' ([[1560]]-[[1617]]), favourite of James I; son of Sir Thomas Hoby; of Eton and Trinity College, Oxford; M.A., 1576; knighted, 1582; accompanied his father-in-law, Lord Hunsdon, to Scotland, 1584; M.P. for Queenborougb, Berkshire, Kent, and Rochester; accompanied Cadiz expedition, 1596: constable of Queenborough, 1597: gentleman of privy chamber to James I; often entertained James I at Bisham; carried on controversies with Theophilus Higgons and John Floyd; translated from French and Spanish; friend and patron of Camden.
- Elizabeth Hoby
- '''Elizabeth Hoby''' , LADY (U28-[[1609]]), linguist; wife of Sir Thomas Hohy: afterwards married John, lord Russell, 1574.
- Peregrine Hoby
- '''Peregrine Hoby''' ([[1602]]-[[1678]]), natural son and heir of Sir Edward Hoby: M.P., Great Marlow, 1640, 1660, and 1661.
- Sir Philip Hoby
- '''Sir Philip Hoby''' ([[1505]]-[[1658]]), diplomatist: knighted after capture of Boulogne, 1544; ambassador to the Emperor Charles V, 1548; treated for marriage of Kiward VI with a French princess, 1551; employed financially in Flanders; privy councillor, master of the ordnance, and grantee of Bisham, 1552; ambassador in Flanders, 1563; brought message from Philip II to Qtiee Mary, 1556; friend of Titian and Arctino.
- Sir Thomas Hoby
- '''Sir Thomas Hoby''' ([[1530]]-[[1566]]), diplomatist anl translator; half-brother of Sir Philip Hoby; of St. John's College, Cambridge; knighted, 1566; translated Martin Bucer's Gratulatior. to the church of England, 1549, andThe Oourtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio 1561; died in Paris, while ambassador to France.
- Hoccleve
- '''Hoccleve''' or OCCLEVE, THOMAS ([[1370]] ?-[[1450]] ?), poet;.clerk in privy seal office; granted annuity by Henry IV: portrait of Chaucer contained in hisDe Regimine Priucipum written c. 1411-12 (English), edited by Thomas Wright, 1860; his Mother of God and La Male Regie (autobiography), printed, 1796; the former once attributed to Chaucer. H ODDER. JAMES (fl, 1661), arithmetician: author of Arithmetick 1661, The Penman's Recreation and 4 Decimal Arithmetick 1668.
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- Sir Christopher Hoddesdon
- '''Sir Christopher Hoddesdon''' ([[1534]]-[[1611]]), master of Merchants AdventurersCompany; accompanied Richard Chancellor on voyages to Russia; head of English factory at Moscow, 1557-62; sent to develop English trade in Baltic, 1567; chief of English factory at Narva, 1669; employed as financial agent to Queen Elizabeth in Germany from c. 1574; master of Merchants Adventurers at Hamburg, 1578: M.P., Cambridge, 1593; sheriff of Bedfordshire, 1691-2; master of Merchants AdventurersCompany before 1600; knighted, 1603.
- John Hoddesdon
- '''John Hoddesdon''' (. [[1650]]), religious writer; friend of Dryden; published Sion and Parnassus 1650, and biographical compilation on Sir Thomas More, 1652.
- Arthur Hodge
- '''Arthur Hodge''' (d. [[1811]]), West Indian planter : executed for causing death of negroes on his estate in Tortola.
- Charles Howard Hodges
- '''Charles Howard Hodges''' ([[1764]]-[[1837]]), mezzotint-engraver and portrait-painter; engraved portraits after Reynolds, Romney, C. G. Stuart, and Hoppner, and subject-pictures after old masters; settled at Amsterdam, 1794, and painted portraits of William I of the Netherlands, Louis, king of Holland, himself, and his daughter.
- Edward Hodges
- '''Edward Hodges''' ([[1796]]-[[1867]]), organist at Clifton, Bristol, and New York, 1839-63; Mus. Doc. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; composed and wrote works on church music, 1825.
- Edward Richmond Hodges
- '''Edward Richmond Hodges''' ([[1826]]-[[1881]]), orientalist; missionary to Jews in Palestine and Algeria; assisted George Smith (1840-1876) in cuneiform researches, and Gotch with Paragraph Bible; edited Craik's Principia Hebraica 1863, Cory's Ancient Fragments 1876, and revised Mickle's Lusiadas 1877.
- Nathaniel Hodges
- '''Nathaniel Hodges''' ([[1629]]-[[1688]]), physician; scholar of Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge; student of Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1654; M.D., 1659; attended patients throughout plague of 1665; published an account, 1672; F.R.C.P., 1672; censor, 1682; died while in prison for debt.
- Sir William Hodges
- '''Sir William Hodges''' , first baronet ([[1645]]?-[[1714]]) Spanish merchant; created baronet, 1697, for financial assistance to government; published pamphlets advocating relief of British seamen from extortion,
- William Hodges
- '''William Hodges''' ([[1744]]-[[1797]]), landscape-painter ; exhibited at Society of Artists, 1766-72: draughtsman in Captain Cook's second expedition. 1772-5; exhibited at Academy view of Otaheite, 1776; painted views in India under patronage of Warren Hastings, 1778-84; published 'Travels in India 1793; R.A., 1789; visited St. Petersburg, 1790.
- Sir William Hodges
- '''Sir William Hodges''' ([[1808]]-[[1868]]), chief- justice of Cape of Good Hope: barrister, Inner Temple, 1833: published reports of common pleas, queen's bench cases, and treatises on railway law; recorder of'Poole, 1846; drafted Public Health Act, 1848; knighted, 1857; chiefjustice of Cape of Good Hope, 1857-68.
- John Hodgkin
- '''John Hodgkin''' ([[1766]]-[[1845]]), calligraphist ; described in manuscript autobiography events during residence at Vincennes, 1792: tutor in London; works in. elude Calligraphia andPrcoiloraphia Gneca 1807, and Introduction to Writing(4th edit. 1811).
- Hodgkin
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- Hodson
- '''Hodson'''
- John Hodgkin
- '''John Hodgkin''' ([[1800]]-[[1875]]), barrister and quaker ; son of John Hodgkin (1766-1845); friend of John Stuart Mill; advocated register of titles; assisted in preparation of Encumbered Estates Act, 1849; visited q tinkers in ! ivlund, France, and America.
- Thomas Hodgkin
- '''Thomas Hodgkin''' ([[1798]]-[[1866]]), physician ; brother of John Hodgkin (1800-1875); M.D. Edinburgh, 1823; curator and pathologist at Guy's Hospital, 1825; member of London University senate: published Essay on Medical Education 1828,Lectures on Morbid Anatomy of Serous and Mucous Membranes 1836, and biographical works; glandular disease named after him; a founder of Aborigines Protection Society, 1838; died at Jaffa.
- Eaton Hodgkinson
- '''Eaton Hodgkinson''' ([[1789]]-[[1861]]), writer on the strength of materials; made experiments resulting in Hodgkinson's beam and gave theoretical expositions; F.R.S., with royal medal for paper on Strength of Pillars of Cast Iron and other Materials 1840; royal commissioner on application of iron to railways, 1847-9: professor of mechanical engineering of University College, London, 1847; president of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1848-50; published Experimental Researches on the Strength, etc. of Cast Iron 1846.
- George Christopher Hodgkinson
- '''George Christopher Hodgkinson''' ([[1816]]1880), meteorologist and educationalist: M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1842; principal of Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, of Diocesan Training College, York; head-master of Louth grammar school, 1864-76: secretary of National Society; made astronomical observations on Harthurn, 1833; published part of a large history of Northumberland, guide-book to Newcac: ount of the colliery TExplogion at Felling 1813, and other works; assisted Davy in invention of safety lamp; built Heworth Church (consecrated, 1822).
- John Hodgson
- '''John Hodgson''' ([[1757]]-[[1846]]), general : on of Studholme Hodgson; roved in North America; wounded in Holland, 1799; governor of Bermuda and Ouracoa; general, 1830.
- John Evan Hodgson
- '''John Evan Hodgson''' ([[1831]]-[[1895]]), painter; educated at Rugby: student at Royal Academy, 1853; exhibited at Royal Academy from 1856; R.A., 1879; librarian and professor of painting at Royal Academy, 1882 till death; published lectures and other writings.
- John Studholme Hodgson
- '''John Studholme Hodgson''' ( [[1805]]- [[1870]] ), majorgeneral in Bengal army; second son of John Hodgson (1757-1846); wounded at Sobraon, 1846: railed and commanded 1st Sikh regiment, 1848-9; promoted for capture of Ukrot: organised Punjab irregular force, 1850; major-general, 1861.
- Joseph Hodgson
- '''Joseph Hodgson''' ([[1756]]-[[1821]] X Roman catholic divine: when vice-president of Douay College, imprisoned by revolutionists; published an account; vicar-general to bishops Douglas and Poyuter in England.
- Joseph Hodgson
- '''Joseph Hodgson''' ([[1788]]-[[1869]]), surgeon ; studiol at St. Bartholomew's Hospital; surgeon to Birmingham Dispensary, 1818-48; president of Medico-Chirurgical - Surgeons, 1864; F.R.S.; pub Mont Blanc.
- Bernard
- '''Bernard''' ([[1745]]7-[[1805]]), principal of
- Hodgson
- '''Hodgson''' Hertford College, Oxford; captain of Westminster, 1764; student of Christ Church, Oxford: M.A., 1771: D.C.L., 177K; principal of Hertford College, 1775-1805; translated Solomon's Song, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes.
- Brian Houghton Hodgson
- '''Brian Houghton Hodgson''' ([[1800]]-[[1894]]), Indian civilian and orientalist; nominated to Bengal writership, 1816; studied at East India Company's College, Haileybury, and at college of Fort William; assistant-commissioner of Kumaon, c. 1818-20; assistant-resident at Kathmandu, 1820-9, acting resident, 1829-31, and resident, 18331843; came to England, 1843, but returned to India in private capacity to continue researches: studied ethnology at Darjiling; finally left India, 1858; F.R.S., 1877; honorary D.C.L. Oxford, 1889: while in India made valuable collections of original Sanskrit and Tibetan manuscripts, which he distributed among public libraries. His works lished treatise on diseases of arteries and veins, 1815.
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- Studholme Hodgson
- '''Studholme Hodgson''' ([[1708]]-[[1798]]), field-marshal ; aide-de-camp of Duke of Cumberland at Fontenoy, 1745, and Culloden, 1746; raised royal West Kent regiment (then 52nd), 1756: commanded brigade in Rochefort expedition, 1767; conducted siege of Belleisle, 1761; general, 1778; field-marshal, 1796.
- Studholme John Hodgson
- '''Studholme John Hodgson''' (rf. [[1890]]), general ; son of John Hodgson (1757-1846); commanded forces in Ceylon and Straits Settlements.
- William Hodgson
- '''William Hodgson''' ([[1745]]-[[1851]]), politician and author; imprisoned and fined for revolutionary speech, 1793; M.D.; published educational manuals and other works.
- William Ballantyne Hodgson
- '''William Ballantyne Hodgson''' ([[1815]]-[[1880]]), educational reformer; studied at Edinburgh; principal of Liverpool MechanicsInstitute, 1844: LL.D. Glasgow, and Religion of Nepal and Tibet 1874.
- Christopher Pemberton Hodgson
- '''Christopher Pemberton Hodgson''' ([[1821]]1865), traveller; vice-consul at Pau, 1851-5, Caen, and in Japan, 1859-61; published Reminiscences of Australia El Udaivar 1849, and other works; died at Pau.
- Edward Hodgson
- '''Edward Hodgson''' ([[1719]]-[[1794]]), flower-painter; treasurer to Associated Artists of Great Britain.
- Francis Hodgson
- '''Francis Hodgson''' ([[1781]]-[[1852]]), provost of Eton ; at Eton under Keate; fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 1802, tutor. 1807; M.A., 1807; B.D., 1840; archdeacon of Derby, 1836: provost of Eton, 1840-52; friend of Lord Byron; translated Juvenal (1807) and published English verse.
- James Hodgson
- '''James Hodgson''' ([[1672]]-[[1755]]), mathematician: master of Royal School of Mathematics, Christ's Hospital; F.R.S., 1703; helped to edit Flamsteed's Atlas Crelestis; published also Doctrine of Fluxions founded on Sir Isaac Newton's Method 1736, and other works.
- John Hodgson
- '''John Hodgson''' (d. [[1684]]), author of 'Memoirs' (published, 1806, with Sir Henry Sliugsby'sOriginal Memoirs); served under Fairfax in Yorkshire; taken by Newcastle at Bradford, 1643: present at sieges of Pontefract, 1645 and 1648, and battle of Preston, 1648; described battle of Dunbar, 1650; refused to fight against Lambert, 1659.
- John Hodgson
- '''John Hodgson''' ([[1779]]-[[1845]]), antiquary; schoolmaster nt Sedpefield, Lanchester, and other places; incumbent of Jarrow, 1S08, Kirk Whelpingtwu, 1823, and which he distributed among pub ibranes t i 1M8 principttl of chorlton High School, Manchester, include Illustrations of Literature and Religion of the 1847 _ 6 f. in inquiry into primary education, 1858; Buddhists 1841, and Essays on Language, Literature, leading member of &* University College, London: first professor of political economy and mercantile law at Edinburgh, 1871-80; president of Educational Institute of Scotland, 1875: published, among other works,Turgot (1870), and lectures and treatises on girlseducation and the study of economic science: joint-editor of William Johnson Fox's works; died at Brussels.
- Frodsham Hodson
- '''Frodsham Hodson''' ([[1770]]-[[1822]]), principal of Brasenose College, Oxford: M.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1793; D.D., 1809: principal of Brasenose, 1809-22; vice-chancellor. 1818; regius professor of divinity, 1820; edited Falconer's Chronological Tables 1796.
- Mrs Hodson
- '''Mrs Hodson''' . MARGARET ([[1778]]-[[1852]]), authoress : nte Holford; married Septimus Hodson. 1826; friend and correspondent of Southey; works include Wallace Margaret of Anjou(1815), and Lives of Vasco Nufiez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarrofrom the Spanish, 1832.
- Septimus Hodson
- '''Septimus Hodson''' ([[1768]]-[[1833]]), rector of Thrapston and chaplain to Prince of Wales; published Address on High Price of Provisions 1795.
- William Hodson
- '''William Hodson''' (fl. [[1640]]), theological writer : M.A. Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1624; published theological works.
- William Stephen Hodson
- '''William Stephen Hodson''' R A IKES (18*11858), cavalry leader: B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1844; entered Indian army, 1845: served with 2nd grenadiers in Sikh war: adjutant of the guides, 1847; assbtantcommissiouer under Sir Henry Lawrence in Punjab, 1849; commander of guides, 1852-4; removed on charge
- Hody
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- Hogg
- '''Hogg''' of dishonesty, 18fi5, but cleared by a second inquiry, 1856; served with 1st fusiliers till given commission during .Mutiny to raise Hodson's horse; after capture of Delhi seized the king in Humayoon's tomb and shot the Shahzadas when rescue attempted; did good service at Oawnpore and Liu-know; was shot at Lucknow and buried there.
- Humphrey Hody
- '''Humphrey Hody''' ([[1659]]-[[1707]]), divine: scholar, 1677, fellow, 1685, dean, 1688, and bursar, 1691 and 1692, of Wadham College, Oxford; M.A., 1682; D.D., 1692: chaplain to Bishop Stilliugfleet, and afterwards to Archbishops Tillotson and Tenisou; regius professor of Greek at Oxford, 1698; archdeacon of Oxford, 1704; founded Greek and Hebrew exhibitions at Wadham; attacked the genuineness of Aristeas's account of the Septuagint, 1684; assisted in editing Aristeas's History 1692; conducted controversy with Henry Dodwell the elder on nonjuring schism, 1691-9; published also Resurrection of the Body asserted 1694, De Bibliorum Textibus Originalibus 1706, and other works; his De Graecis Illustribus edited by Samuel Jebb, 1742.
- Sir John Hody
- '''Sir John Hody''' (d. [[1441]]), judge ; M.P., Sbaftesbury, 1423, 1425, 1428, and 1438, Somerset, 1434 and 1440; chiefjustice of the king's bench, 1440; assisted Lyttelton.
- Hody
- '''Hody''' Sra WILLIAM (d. [[1522]] ?), chief baron of the exchequer, i486; second son of Sir John Hody; attorney-general and serjeant-at-law, 1485.
- Barbara Hofland
- '''Barbara Hofland''' ([[1770]]-[[1844]]), authoress and friend of Miss Mitford; married, first, T. Bradshaw Hoole, 1796, and secondly (1808) Thomas Christopher Hoflaud ; published novels, including The Son of a Genius 1816.
- Thomas Christopher Hofland
- '''Thomas Christopher Hofland''' ([[1777]]-[[1843]]X landscape-painter; exhibited at Academy, 1799-1805; gained British Institution prize forStorm off Scarborough 1814; held exhibition in Bond Street, 1821; foundation member of Society of British Artists; published British Angler's Manual (1839).
- Hog
- '''Hog''' or HOGG, JAMES ([[1658]]?-[[1734]]), leader of Marrow men in church of Scotland; M.A. Edinburgh, 1677; declined oath of allegiance, 1693; minister of Carnock, 1699-1734; republished Marrow of Modern Divinity 1718; denounced by general assembly, 1720; published controversial pamphlets.
- Sir Roger Hog
- '''Sir Roger Hog''' , LORD HARCARSE ([[1635]] ?-l [[700]]), lord of session, 1677; knighted, 1677; lord of justiciary, 1678; removed, 1688; compiled Dictionary of Decisions, (1681-92) published, 1757.
- Thomas Hog
- '''Thomas Hog''' ([[1628]]-[[1692]]), Scottish divine ; M.A. Mar ischal College, Aberdeen; minister of Kiltearn, 16541661 and 1691-2; deposed as protester, 1661; imprisoned for keeping conventicles; fined and banished, 1684; chaplain to William of Orange in Holland and when king.
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- John Hogan
- '''John Hogan''' ([[1800]]-[[1868]]), Irish sculptor: during residence at Rome, 1824-49, executed his Eve Drunken Faun andDead Christ; statues of O'Connell and Thomas Drummond by him at Dublin.
- George Hogarth
- '''George Hogarth''' ([[1783]]-[[1870]]), musical critic; inserted in Evening Chronicle sketches of London life by Dickens, afterwards his son-in-law: musical critic of Daily News 1846-66, also of Illustrated London News; secretary of Philharmonic Society, 1850-64; published Musical History, Biography, and Criticism 1835, and other works on music.
- William Hogaeth
- '''William Hogaeth''' ([[1697]]-[[1764]]), painter and engraver; apprenticed to silver-plate engraver in Oranbourne Street, London; engraved and designed plates for booksellers and printsellers, including (1726) illustrations toHudibras painted conversation-pieces, including scenes from Beggar's Opera 1728-9: engraved Large Masquerade Ticket 1727, and Taste 1731: married clandestinely, at old Paddington Church, Jane Thornhill, 1729Sigismunda: assisted in decoration of Vauxhall and designed pass-tickets; his paintings of The Harlot's Progress engraved, 1732; took house in Leicester Square (then Fields) and executed portrait of Sarah Malcolm, murderess, 1733: his engraving of Rake's Progress and Southwark Fair issued complete, 1736, when Hogarth's Act protecting designers from piracy, became operative; apostrophised by Swift in the Legion Club; painted historical pictures at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1736; issued the prints The Distrest Poet Company of Undertakers andSleeping Congregation 1736; hisFour Times of the DayStrolling Actresses dressing in a Barn produced, 1738; his Enraged Musician praised by Fielding, 1741; his portraits of Captain Coram painted 1739, Murtiu Folkes, 1741; his Marriae-a-laMode 1745, engraved by French masters; etched Lord Lovat, 1746; painted himself and dog, 1749; engraved Industry and Idleness and Stage Coach 1747; visited France and revenged himself for arrest by his Gate of Calais 1749; painted The March to Finchley and Four Stages of Cruelty (partly engraved on wood), 1760-1, Moses and Pharaoh's Daughter and Paul before Felix 1752; published (with assistance) theAnalysis of Beauty with etched ticket, Columbus breaking the egg 1763; issued the four Election prints, 1755-8, 4 England and France 1756, The Bench 1758, Cockpit 1759, and Five Orders of Periwigs 1761; serjeantpainter, 1757; exhibited Picquet, or the Lady's Last Stakeand Sigismunda 1761; caricatured Wilkes and Churchill inThe Times 1762, and etched Fielding; his last plate,The Bathos 1764. His epitaph was written byGarrick. Many of his works are at the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, and Soane Museum. TheApprenticeandCrueltyseries,France and England Beer Street and Gin Lane were probably never painted. A large collection of his engravings was acquired by the British Museum, 1828. Hogarth hated foreigners, and attacked art connoisseurs for neglect of native talent. He excelled as a pictorial satirist in depicting both tragic and humorous scenes, always with a sincerely ethical intention.
- William Hogarth
- '''William Hogarth''' ([[1786]]-[[1866]]), Roman catholic bishop; professor and general prefect at Ushaw; vicarapostolic of northern district, 1848; first Roman catholic bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, 1850-66.
- Franz Hogenberg
- '''Franz Hogenberg''' (d. [[1590]]), engraver ; brother of Remigius Hogenberg
- Remigius Hogenberg
- '''Remigius Hogenberg''' (d. [[1680]]?), engraver; came to England, c. 1573; employed by Archbishop Parker in constructing genealogies; his engraving of Parker's portrait by Lyne said to be the first executed in England; engraved maps and portraits of Henri IV, Erasmus, and others.
- Henry Hogg
- '''Henry Hogg''' ([[1831]]-[[1874]]), Nottingham poet.
- Jabez Hogg
- '''Jabez Hogg''' ([[1817]]-[[1899]]), ophthalmic surgeon ; apprenticed to medical practitioner, 1832-7; joined staff of Illustrated London News; editor and subeditor in various publishing undertakings; studied at Hunterian School of Medicine and Charing Cross Hospital, 1845; M.R.C.S., 1850; surgeon to Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, 1871-8, and to hospital for women and children; F.L.S., 1866; published scientific works.
- James Hogg
- '''James Hogg''' ([[1770]]-[[1835]]), the Ettrick Shepherd ; shepherd at Willanslee, c. 1785; while employed by the father of William Laidlaw began to write verse; printed Donald M'Donald 1800, and Scottish Pastorals 1801; made acquaintance of Scott and gave material forBorder Minstrelsy his ballads published by Constable asThe Mountain Bard 1807; returned to Ettrick bankrupt, having failed as a farmer in Dumfriesshire; came to Edinburgh, 1810, and published the Forest Minstrel: obtained poetical reputation by The Queen's Wake 1813, and acquaintance, through Byron, of John Murray; formed friendships with Professor John Wilson, Wordsworth, and Southey; issued Pilgrims of the Sun 1816; The Poetic Mirror 1816; settled at Eltrive Lake, 1816; assisted in the Chaldee MS. for Blackwood's Magazine 1817, and began prose tales; published 'Jacobite Relics and Winter Evening Tales 1820, The Three Perils of Man 1822, Confessions of a Fanatic 1824,Queen Hynde 1826,Shepherd's Calendarand Songs 1829: was entertained publicly in London, 1832, and at Peebles, 1833: issued Domestic Manners and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott 1834. A monument to him was erected on St. Mary's Lake, 1860.
- James Hogg
- '''James Hogg''' ([[1806]]-[[1888]]), Edinburgh publisher; editedThe Weekly InstructororTitan 1846-59; published De Quincey'a and Gilfillan's works, and London Society
- Hogg
- '''Hogg'''
- Holden
- '''Holden'''
- Sir James Maonaohten Hogg
- '''Sir James Maonaohten Hogg''' McGAREL, first BARON MAGRKUMOBVl (1K23-1890), son of Sir James Weir Hogg; of Eton and Christ Church, Oxford: served in 1st life guards, 1843-59; conservative M.I, isuth, 1865-8, Truro, 1871-85, Hornsey, 1885-7; cbairnian of metropolitan board of works, 1870-89; created peer. 1887.
- Sir James Weir Hogg
- '''Sir James Weir Hogg''' , first baronet ([[1790]]1876), East India director; scholar and gold medallist of Trinity College, Dublin; B.A., 1810; registrar of Calcutta supreme court, 1822-33: a director of East India Company, 1839, chairman, 1846-7 and 1852-3: M.P., Beverley, 1835-47, Honiton, 1847-57; created baronet, 1846; member of Indian council, 1858-72: privy councillor, 1872.
- John Hogg
- '''John Hogg''' ([[1800]]-[[1869]]), scholar and naturalist ; brother of Thomas Jefferson Hogg; fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1827; M.A., 1827: foreign secretary and vice-president of Royal Society of Literature, 1866; F.R.S., 1839; publishedCatalogue of Sicilian Plants 1842, and other works of natural history.
- Thomas Jefferson Hogg
- '''Thomas Jefferson Hogg''' ([[1792]]-[[1862]]), friend and biographer of Shelley: at Univereit College, Oxford, with Shelley: sent down on the publication of Shelley's Necessity of Atheism; joined the poet and Harriet Shelley at Edinburgh; quarrel caused by his behaviour to Shelley's wife; published Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff 1813; called to bar, 1817; united himself to widow of Shelley's friend, Edward Elliker Williams; quarrelled with John Stuart Mill: contributed reminiscences of Shelley at Oxford to Bulwer's New Monthly Magazine 1832; municipal corporation commissioner, 1833; afterwards revising barrister; published two volumes of life of Shelley, 1858; contributed to Edinburgh Review and Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Miles Hoggarde
- '''Miles Hoggarde''' (fl. [[1557]]).
- Daniel Hoghton
- '''Daniel Hoghton''' ([[1770]]-[[1811]]), major-general: major, 1794; served in Jamaica and India; brevet lieutenant-colonel, 1796; lieutenant-colonel, 1804; brevetcolonel, 1805; brigadier at Cadiz, 1810; major-general, 1810; killed at Albuera. A public monument to him in St. Paul's Cathedral.
- Hohenlohe
- '''Hohenlohe''' -LANGENBTJRG, PKINCE VICTOR OP,
- Gleichen Count
- '''Gleichen Count''' ([[1833]]-[[1891]]).
- Holbeach
- '''Holbeach''' or RANDS, HENRY (d. [[1551]]), bishop of Lincoln; assumed name of birthplace (Holbeach) on entering Crowland monastery; D.D. Cambridge, 1534; prior of Buckingham College, 1535, of Worcester, 1536; bishop suffragan (Bristol) to Latimer, 1538; assisted in drawing up prayer-book (1548); first dean of Worcester, 1540; bishop of Rochester, 1544-7, bishop of Lincoln, 1547-51.
- Hans Holbein
- '''Hans Holbein''' ([[1497]]-[[1543]]), painter; born at Augsburg; went to Lucerne; at Basle designed marginal illustrations in copy of Erasmus's Encomium MoriaV 1515, and painted portraits of Jacob Meyer sirl Hans Herbster, 1516, and mural paintings and religious works, 1521-2; executed paintings and designs at Lucerne, 1618; painted, c. 1526, the Darmstadt Madonna with Meyer family; designed illustrations for Luther's German Testament and Pentateuch, 1522-3; painted three portraits of Erasmus, 1523; came to England, 1526, with introduction to Sir Thomas More: painted portraits of More, 1527, Warham, and others; designed I picture of More's household; during residence at (1528-32) completed mural paintings at the town-hall, and probably executed portraits of his wife and children and of Erasmus; many of his religious works destroyed in an iconoclastic outbreak; returned to England and executed portraits of merchant goldsmiths; drew Queen of Sheba before Solomon; painted The Ambassadors 1533, and the Morett portrait; designed title-pages to Coverdale's (1535) and Oranmer's (1540) bible and other protestant publications; painted Cromwell and Jane Seymour, 1536; his Henry VIII with Parents destroyed, 1698, but a copy preserved at Hampton Court; took part (1538) in negotiations for marriage of Henry VIII to Christina of Denmark and painted her portrait; publicly entertained at Basle, and brought out designs to Old Testament and The Dance of Death 1538; painted portraits of Anne of Cleves, 1539, Norfolk, Surrey, Sir John Russell, and others; began large picture at BarberSurgeonsHall, 1542; died of the plague in London. He was one of the earliest miniaturists, painting in that manner Catherine Howard and Anne of Oleves. Authentic pictures by Holbein are rare In England.
- Anthony Holborne
- '''Anthony Holborne''' (ft. [[1697]]), musical composer; published Oittharn Scboole 1597, andPa vans, Ualliards, Almains Ac., for wind instruments, 1599.
- Sir Robert Holborne
- '''Sir Robert Holborne''' (d. [[1647]]), lawyer; of Furnival's and Lincoln's Inn (bencher and reader in English law); counsel for Hampden in ship-money case; M.P. for Southwark in Short parliament and for St. Michael in Long parliament; attorney-general to Prince of Wales; knighted, 1643; published legal tracts.
- Ann Catherine Holbrook
- '''Ann Catherine Holbrook''' ([[1780]]-[[1837]]), actress; published * Memoirs of an Actress 1807, Memoirs of the Stage 1809, and tales.
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- John Holbrook
- '''John Holbrook''' (d. [[1437]]), master of Peterhouse, Cambridge; fellow of Peterhoune, 1412, D.D., 1418, master, 1418-31; chaplain to Henry V and Henry VI; chancellor of Cambridge, 1428 and 1429-31; vicar of Hintou, 1430; reputed mathematician.
- Francis Holburne
- '''Francis Holburne''' ([[1704]]-[[1771]]), admiral ; while commander in Leeward islands obtained dismantling of Martinique fortifications; rear-admiral, 1755; served with Biscay fleet, 1756; member of court-martial on Byng, 1757; his fleet almost destroyed before Louisbourg; admiral of the blue, 1767, of the white, 1770; eight years commander at Portsmouth; a lord of the admiralty, 1770-1; died governor of Greenwich.
- Henry Holcombe
- '''Henry Holcombe''' ([[1690]]?-! [[750]]?), musical composer; published collections of songs and instrumental pieces.
- Robert of Holcot
- '''Robert of Holcot''' (d. [[1349]]), divine ; Dominican and doctor in theology of Oxford; won repute for expositions of the bible; said to have died of the plague; author of subsequently published commentaries; Quaestiones on Peter Lombard's Sentences; Gonferentiaa and Moralitates Historiarum; perhaps author of 'Philobiblon sive de amore librorum
- Francis Holcroft
- '''Francis Holcroft''' ([[1629]] ?-[[1693]]), puritan divine ; M.A. and fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge; ejected from Bassingbonrne, 1662; imprisoned at Cambridge, 1663 1672, and in the Fleet; promoter of independency in Cambridgeshire.
- Thomas Holcroft
- '''Thomas Holcroft''' ([[1745]]-[[1809]]), dramatist and author; successively stable-boy, shoemaker, tutor in family of Granville Sharp, and actor; his first comedy, * Duplicity produced at Covent Garden, 1781; correspondent of Morning Herald in Paris, 1783; translated Mariage de Figaro from memory, and produced adaptation at Covent Garden, himself playing Figaro, 1784; producedThe Road to Ruin 1792 (nine editions printed within the year); indicted for high treason, 1794, but discharged; his musical adaptation, Tale of Mystery produced at Covent Garden, 1802, during his absence on continent; set up printing business in London, but failed; intimate with William Godwin the elder, and spoken highly of by Lamb; his Memoirs published 1816, mainly compiled by Hazlitt; published numerous comedies and comic operas, alsoHuman Happiness (poem), 1783, some novels, including Alwyn, or the Gentleman Comedian 1780; translations, including Life of Baron Trenck 1788, Lavater's Physiognomy 1793, and Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea 1801.
- George Holden
- '''George Holden''' ([[1783]]-[[1865]]), theological writer ; graduated at Glasgow; Incumbent of Maghull, Liverpool, 1811-65; his library bequeathed to Ripon clergy; published theological works.
- Henry Holden
- '''Henry Holden''' ([[1696]]-[[1662]]), Roman catholic divine; D.D. and professor at the Sorbonue and vicargeneral of Paris; petitioned for toleration of English catholics, 1647; engaged in controversy with Arnault, 1656; criticised writings of Thomas White (1593-1676) ; publishedDivinae Fidel Analysis(1652, Eng. translation, 1658); died at Paris, leaving bequests to English subjects in France.
- Holden
- '''Holden''' 630
- Holland
- '''Holland'''
- Hubert Ashton Holden
- '''Hubert Ashton Holden''' ([[1822]]-[[1896]]), classical scholar; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1845; fellow, 1847-54; LL.D., 1863; ordained priest, 1859; vice-principal of Cheltenham College, 1853-8; headmaster of Queen Elizabeth's school, Ipswich, 1868-83; fellow of London University, 1890; Litt. D. Dublin, 1892; edited classical works for students.
- Sir Isaac Holden
- '''Sir Isaac Holden''' , first baronet ([[1807]]-[[1897]]), inventor; worked in cotton mill; shawl weaver; assistantteacher at schools successively at Paisley, Leeds, Huddersfield, and Reading; book-keeper in Townend Brothers firm of worsted manufacturers, 1830-46; associated with Samuel Cunliffe Lister, afterwards first Baron Masham, with whom he obtained patent (1847) for new method of carding and combing and preparing genappe yarns; opened manufactory at St. Denis, near Paris, 1848; concentrated business at Bradford, 1864; M.P., Knaresborough, 1865-8, and Keighley division, 1882-96; created baronet, 1893.
- Lawrence Holden
- '''Lawrence Holden''' , the elder ([[1710]]-[[1778]]), dissenting divine; published Paraphrase on... Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes 1763, and A Paraphrase on... Isaiah 1776.
- Lawrence Holden
- '''Lawrence Holden''' , the younger ([[1762]]-[[1844]]), dissenting divine at Tenterdeu, 1774-1844; son of Lawrence Holden the elder
- Moses Holden
- '''Moses Holden''' ([[1777]]-[[1864]]), Preston astronomer; constructed large orrery and magic lantern; published small celestial atlas, 1818, and an almanack, 1835.
- William Holder
- '''William Holder''' ([[1616]]-[[1698]]), divine ; M.A. and fellow, Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1640; rector of Bletchington and North wold; taught a deaf-mute to speak; F.R.S., 1663; canon of St. Paul's; sub-dean of Chapel Royal, 1674-89; rector of Therfield, Hertfordshire, 1687; helped to educate Sir Christopher Wren; published Elements of Speech 1669, and treatises on harmony and the Julian calendar.
- Earls of Holderness
- '''Earls of Holderness''' . See RAMSAY, SIR JOHN, 1580?-1626; RUPERT, PRINCE, 1619-1682; D'ARCY, ROBERT, fourth EARL of the third creation, 1718-1778.
- Frederick Holding
- '''Frederick Holding''' ([[1817]]-[[1874]]), Manchester water-colour painter.
- Henry James Holding
- '''Henry James Holding''' ([[1833]]-[[1872]]), painter; brother of Frederick Holding
- Daniel Holdsworth
- '''Daniel Holdsworth''' ([[1558]] ?-[[1595]] ?). See
- Halsworth
- '''Halsworth'''
- Edward Holdsworth
- '''Edward Holdsworth''' ([[1684]]-[[1746]]), classical scholar; of Winchester and Magdalen College, Oxford; M.A., 1711; held Jacobite views; travelled in Italy and France; published Muscipula sive Cambro-muo-machia 1709, often reissued, and translated by Samuel Cobb and others; Remarks and Dissertations on Virgil with notes by Spence, issued 1768.
- Richard Holdsworth
- '''Richard Holdsworth''' ([[1590]]-[[1649]]), master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1607; fellow, 1613; B.A., 1610; incorporated M.A. Oxford. 1617; rector of St. Peter-lePoor, London, 1624; Gresham professor of divinity, 1629; archdeacon of Huntingdon, 1634; master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1637-43; president of Sion College, 1639; when vice-chancellor of Cambridge, 1640, resisted interference of parliament with Emmanuel fellowships; sequestrated from mastership and rectory and imprisoned (1643) for withholding aid from parliament and publishing royal proclamation; visited Charles I at Holmby House, and was made dean of Worcester,- 1647; his library bought by Cambridge University,
- Henry Fulke Plantagenet Wooli Hole
- '''Henry Fulke Plantagenet Wooli Hole''' -
- Oombe
- '''Oombe''' (d. [[1820]]), wood-engraver.
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- Matthew Hole
- '''Matthew Hole''' (d. [[1730]]), rector of Exeter College, Oxford; M.A., 1664; D.D., 1716: vicar of Stogursey, 1688-1730; rector of Exeter College, 1716-30; made bequests to his college and to Oxford charities; tracts by him on the liturgy republished, 1837-8.
- Richard Hole
- '''Richard Hole''' ([[1746]]-[[1803]]), poet; B.C.L. Exeter College, Oxford. 1771: vicar of Huckerell, 1777: rector of Faringdon, 1792, and of Inwanlleigh; publishedPoetical Translation of Fingal with Ode to Imagination 1772; his version ofHomer's Hymn to Ceres(1781) in many collections; his Essay on Character of Ulysses edited, 1807; many poeins by him in Richard Polwhele's collection,
- Hole
- '''Hole''' or HOLLE, WILLIAM (. [[1600]]-[[1630]]), earliest English engraver of music on copper plates; also engraved portraits and title-pages of maps for Camden's Britannia 1607.
- Margaret Holford
- '''Margaret Holford''' ([[1778]]-[[1862]]). See HODSON,
- Margaret Mrs
- '''Margaret Mrs''' .
- Holgate
- '''Holgate''' or HOLDEGATE, ROBERT ([[1481]] ?-[[1555]]), archbishop of York; master of the order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham and prior of Watton; chaplain to Henry VIII; bishop of Llandaff, 1537; assisted in composing Institutes of a Christian Man; president of the north, 1538-50; archbishop of York, 1545-54; impoverished his see; favoured reformed doctrines, and was deprived for being married, 1554; imprisoned, but released on submission; endowed hospital at Hemsworth.
- Holinshed
- '''Holinshed''' or HOLLINGSHEAD, RAPHAEL (d. 1580 ?), chronicler; came to London early in reign of Elizabeth; employed as translator by Reginald Wolfe, and to continue a chronicle of universal history, which Wolfe had begun; hisChroniclesof England (to 1575), Scotland (to 1571), and Ireland (to 1547) published in 1578 (expunged passages inserted in copy in Grenvillc Library, British Museum). The Chronicle was reissued, with continuation, edited by John Hooker, alias Vowell , 1586, and politically offensive passages again taken out; it was utilised by Shakespeare and other dramatists.
- Jean Louis Holker
- '''Jean Louis Holker''' ([[1770]]-[[1844]]), discoverer of the method of continuous combustion in vitriol manufacture; son of John Holker (1745-1822)
- John Holker
- '''John Holker''' ([[1719]]-[[1786]]), Jacobite; captured with Manchester volunteers at Carlisle, 1745; escaped from Newgate to France, 1746; in Irish brigade, 1747-51; accompanied Young Pretender on secret visit to England, 1750; engaged workmen from Manchester for Rouen cotton-mill, 1754; as inspector-general of manufactures established spinning schools and first French vitriol factory; knight of St. Louis, 1770; ennobled, 1775; buried at Rouen.
- John Holker
- '''John Holker''' ([[1745]]-[[1822]]), French consul-general at Philadelphia from 1777; son of John Holker (1719-1786)
- Sir John Holker
- '''Sir John Holker''' ([[1828]]-[[1882]]), lord justice; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1854, and treasurer, 1875; Q.O., 1866; knighted, 1874; had large practice in patent cases; M.P., Preston, 1872-82; solicitor-general, 1874; attorneygeneral, 1875-80; lord justice, 1882; carried Summary Procedure and Public Prosecution Acts, 1879.
- Francis Holl
- '''Francis Holl''' ([[1816]]-[[1884]]), engraver; son of William Holl the elder; engraved pictures for Queen Victoria, portraits by George Richmond, Frith's 'Railway Station and many chalk drawings; A.R.A., 1883.
- Francis Montague Holl
- '''Francis Montague Holl''' , known as FRANK
- Holl
- '''Holl''' ([[1846]]-[[1888]]), painter ; son of Francis Holl ([[1815]]-[[1884]]) ; educated at University College and Royal Academy schools; gold medallist, 1863; gained travelling studentship, 1868; exhibited at Academy from 1864; R.A., 1883: exhibited No Tidings from the Sea 1871, and Leaving Home 1873; painted 198 portraits, 1879-88, inolndiiiK the Duke of Cambridge, Sir William Jenner, Sir Henry Unwlinson, John Bright, Lord Roberts, and two of King Edward VII while Prince of Wales.
- William Holl
- '''William Holl''' , the elder ([[1771]]-[[1838]]), stippleengraver; noted for portraits.
- William Holl
- '''William Holl''' , the younger ([[1807]]-[[1871]]), stipple and line engraver; son of William Holl the elder; executed portraits, subject-pictures after Frith, and book illustrations.
- Holland
- '''Holland''' first EARL OF ([[1590]]-[[1649]]). Se RICH,
- Hknry
- '''Hknry'''
- Holland
- '''Holland''' C31
- Holland
- '''Holland'''
- Bakonb Holland
- '''Bakonb Holland''' . See Fox, HKNKY, [[1705]]-[[1774]], first BARON; Fox, HKNKY Un HAIID VASSAI.I., 1773-1840, third UAKON.
- Lady Holland
- '''Lady Holland''' ([[1770]]-[[1845]]). See Fox, ELIZABETH v -ALL.
- Abraham Holland
- '''Abraham Holland''' -. 12G), poet: son of Philemon Holland; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1617; author of Naumaohia, or Hollands SeaFight (1622), describing Lepanto; Hollundi Posthuma edited by his brother, 1626.
- Charles Holland
- '''Charles Holland''' ([[1733]]-[[1769]]), actor: appeared at Drury Lane, 1765-69; played lago, lachlmo, Jaffler, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo, Ohamout: praised by Chatterton, but satirised by Churchill for imitation of Garrick; intimate with Powdl; inscription written by Garrick for his monument in Chiswick Church.
- Charles Holland
- '''Charles Holland''' ([[1768]]-[[1849]] ?), actor ; nephew of Charles Holland (1733-1769): appeared at Drury Lane, 1796-1820, at Haymarket, 1809-10: played Horatio to Elliston's Hamlet at Lyceum, 1812, Mendlzabel to Kean's Manuel, 1817, Buckingham to his Richard III, 1819, Gloucester to his Lear, 1820.
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- Cornelius Holland
- '''Cornelius Holland''' (fl. [[1649]]), regicide: of Merchant TaylorsSchool and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; B.A., 1618; clerk-comptroller to Prince of Wales, 1635; M.P., New Windsor, 1640; a commissioner for Scottish treaty, 1643: as member of council of state, 1649, said to have drawn up charges against the king, but did not sign warrant: liberally rewarded by parliament; escaped to Holland, 1660; said to have died at Lausanne.
- Edmund Holland
- '''Edmund Holland''' , fourth EARL OF KENT (. 1408): second son of Sir Thomas Holland, second earl ; mortally wounded at Briant.
- George Calvert Holland
- '''George Calvert Holland''' ([[1801]]-[[1865]]), physician; M.D. Edinburgh, 1827; B.-es-Lettres Paris; practised at Manchester and Sheffield; defended the corn laws; abandoned practice to direct banks and railway companies, and failed; adopted homoeopathy, 1851: studied mesmerism; published Experimental Enquiry into Laws of Animal Life 1829,Physiology of the Foatus 1831, and other scientific works.
- Guy Holland
- '''Guy Holland''' , sometimes known as HOLT ([[1587]] ?1660), Jesuit; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1605; entered English College, Valladolid, 1608; joined Jesuits in England, 1615; arrested in London, 1628; forty-five years on English mission; attacked Falkland's Discourse of the Infallibility of the Church of Rome 1645: defended immortality of the soul, 1653.
- Henry Holland
- '''Henry Holland''' (. [[1604]]), divine; B.A. Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1580: vicar of Orwell, 1580-94, of St. Bride's, London, 1594-1604; works include Treatise against Witchcraft(1590) andSpirituall Preseruatiues against the Pestilence(1593).
- Henry Holland
- '''Henry Holland''' (. [[1625]]), Roman catholic divine; of Eton and St. John's College, Oxford: B.A., 1569; B.D. Douay, 1578; on English mission, 1582; divinity reader at Marchiennes and Anchine: published Urna Aurea 1612, and Latin life of Thomas Stapleton, 1620; died at Anchine.
- Henry Holland
- '''Henry Holland''' ([[1583]]-[[1660]] ?), compiler and publisher; son of Philemon Holland; free of Stationers Company, 1608; issued his own Monumenta Sepulchraria Sancti Pauli 1614 (continued and reissued, 1633), and Baziliwlogia with engravings by Elstracke, Pass, and Francis Delaram, 1618, andHerwologia Anglica* (with portraits), 1620; edited Philemon Holland's Baudcron'sPharmacopoeia 1639, andRegimen Sanitatis Salerni 1649; served in parliamentary army, 1643.
- Henry Holland
- '''Henry Holland''' ([[1746]] 7-[[1806]]), architect: designed Claremont House, Esher, for Olive, 1763-4, Battersea Bridge, 1771-2, Brooks's Club, 1777-8, and Brighton Pavilion, 1787; altered and enlarged Carlton House, 1788; designed Drury Lane for Sheridan, 1791, and new East India House, demolished in 1862; laid out Sloane Street; member of committee to report on houses of parliament, 1789; F.S.A., 1797; drew up architectsreport on fires, 1792.
- Sir Hknry Holland
- '''Sir Hknry Holland''' , flrst baronet ([[1788]]-[[1873]]), physician; M.D. Edinburgh, 1811; Htudii-d:.t Cuy's and St. Thomas's hospitals: viaited Iceland and eontribuU-d to Sir (Joorge 8. Mackenzie's account, 1810; medical attendant to Princess of Wales (Caroline) on t nent, 1814; gave evidence in her favour, 1820: 1816; F.R.C.P., 1828; physician in ordinary to I'rimv Albert, 1840, to Queen Victoria, 18*2: created baronet, 1863; travelled much on continent: publUbed Travels 1815,Chapters on Mental Physiology 1862,Essays,* 1862, and Recollections 1872.
- Hezekiah Holland
- '''Hezekiah Holland''' (. [[1688]]-[[1661]]), puritan divine; rector of Sutton Valence, Kent: author ofExposition or... Epitome of... Commentaries upon... Revelations 1650.
- Hugh Holland
- '''Hugh Holland''' (rf. [[1633]]), poet; queen's scholar at Westminster and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge: converted to Romanism; travelled as far as Jerusalem; patronised by Buckingham: a member of Mermaid Club; wrote sonnet prefixed to first folio Shakespeare; publishedPancharis 1603, and A Cypres Garland 1625.
- James Holland
- '''James Holland''' ([[1800]]-[[1870]]), water-colour painter ; exhibited at Water-colour Society, Royal Academy, Society of British Artists, and British Institution; drew for illustrated annuals, visiting France, Venice, Geneva, Portugal, and Italy.
- John Holland
- '''John Holland''' , DUKK OF EXETER AND EARL OF HUNTINGDON (13527-1400), third son of Sir Thomas Holland, first earl of Kent, and half-brother to Richard II; K.G., 1381; justice of Chester, 1381: murdered Ralph Stafford, 1385; married Elizabeth, daughter of John of Gaunt, under whom he distinguished himself in Spain, 1386; created Earl of Huntingdon, 1387; chamberlain of England, 1389: made pilgrimage to Palestine, 1394: commissary, west marches towards Scotland, 1393; rewarded by dukedom for activity against Gloucester and Arnndel, 1397: accompanied Richard II to Ireland, 1399; conspired against Henry IV; executed.
- John Holland
- '''John Holland''' , DUKJS OK EXETKR and EARL OF
- Huntingdon
- '''Huntingdon''' ([[1395]]-[[1447]]), second son of John Holland, duke of Exeter (1352 7-1400); K.B., 1413; distinguished at Agincourt, 1415; restored to earldom, 1416, and created K.G.; commanded fleet against Genoese off Harfleur, 1417: took part in sieges of Caen and Rouen; distinguished at surprise of Pontoise, 1419; won victory of Fresney, 1420; took part in capture of Melun, 1420; constable of Tower of London, 1420; captured by dauphinists, 1421; exchanged, 1425; English representative at Arras, 1435; commanded expedition for relief of Guisnes, 1438; governor of Aquitaine, 1440; restored to dukedom, 1443.
- John Holland
- '''John Holland''' (d. [[1722]]), founder of Bank of Scotland and first governor, 1695; with his eon, Richard Holland (1688-1730), projected Irish bank: published financial pamphlets.
- John Holland
- '''John Holland''' ([[1766]]-[[1826]]), nonconformist minister: nephew of Philip Holland
- John Holland
- '''John Holland''' ([[1794]]-[[1872]]), poet and miscellaneous writer; editedSheffield Iris 1825-32; jointeditor of Sheffield Mercury 1835-48 published Sheffield Park 1820, and Diurnal Sonnets 1861; friend of James Montgomery; joint-editor of Memoirs of Life and Writings of James Montgomery 1864-6: completed NewsamV 'Poets of Yorkshire 1845; published alsoHistory of Worksop 1826,Cruciana 1835, and other works.
- Sir Nathaniel Dance Holland
- '''Sir Nathaniel Dance Holland''' -, first baronet (1735-1811), painter; third son of the elder George Dance ; original member of Royal Academy, to whose first exhibition he sent full lengths of George III and Queen Charlotte; assumed additional name; M.P., Bast Griustead; created baronet, 1800.
- Philemon Holland
- '''Philemon Holland''' ([[1552]]-[[1637]]), translator: M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1574, major fellow, 1674; claimed degree of M.D.: master of free school, Coventry, 1628; received pension from city, 1632: epitaph by himself in Holy Trinity Church: his chief translations those of Livy, 1600, Pliny'sNatural History 1601,
- Holland
- '''Holland''' G32
- Holles
- '''Holles''' Plutarch's Morals 1603, Suetonius, 1606, Ammianus Marcellinus, 1609, Oamden*s Britannia,* 1610, and Xenophon's Cyropaedia 1632; praised by Fuller, Hearne, and Southey.
- Philip Holland
- '''Philip Holland''' ([[1721]]-[[1789]]), nonconformist divine; minister of Bank Street Chapel, Bolton, 1755-80: assisted Seddon in establishment of NVarriugton academy; active in agitation against subscription.
- Holland
- '''Holland''' Sm RICHARD (Jf. [[1450]]), Scottish poet and adherent of the Douglases; author of the Buke of the Howlat edited by David Laiug, 1823; praised by Blind Harry, Dunbar, and Lyndsay.
- Richard Holland
- '''Richard Holland''' ([[1596]]-[[1677]]), mathematician ; educated at Oxford; author of astronomical manuals.
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- Riohakd Holland
- '''Riohakd Holland''' ([[1688]]-[[1730]]), medical writer ; son of John Holland (d. 1722); M.A. Catharine Hall, Cambridge, 1712; M.D., 1723; F.R.C.P., 1725; F.R.S., 1726; published Observations on Smallpox 1728.
- Robert Holland
- '''Robert Holland''' ([[1557]]-[[1622]]?), Welsh poet: M.A. Jesus College, Cambridge, 1581; incumbent in Pembrokeshire and rector of Llauddowror, Carmarthen.
- Saba Holland
- '''Saba Holland''' , LADY (d. [[1866]]), second wife of Sir Henry Holland; published memoir of her father, Sydney Smith, 1855.
- Seth Holland
- '''Seth Holland''' (d. [[1561]]), dean of Worcester ; M.A. All Souls College, Oxford, 1539: fellow; warden, 1555: dean of Worcester, 1557-9; chaplain to Cardinal Pole; died in prison.
- Holland
- '''Holland''' Sm THOMAS, first EARL OF KENT of the Holland family (d. 1360), soldier; present at Sluys, 1340: an original K.G., 1344; prominent at siege of Caen, and at Crecy, 1346; royal lieutenant in Brittany, 1354; governor of Channel islands, 1356; summoned to parliament as Baron Holland, 1353-6; captain-general in France and Normandy, 1359; Earl of Kent in right of his wife Joan, daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent
- Sir Thomas Holland
- '''Sir Thomas Holland''' , second EARL OF KENT of the Holland family (1350-1397), favourite and halfbrother of Richard II; son of Thomas Holland, first earl of Kent; succeeded as Baron Holland, 1360; knighted in Castile, 1366; K.G., 1375; earl-marshal, 1380-5; ambassador to the Emperor Wenceslaus, 1380; Earl of Kent, 1381; constable of the Tower and privy councillor, 1389.
- Thomas Holland
- '''Thomas Holland''' , DUKE OF SURREY and EARL OF KENT (1374-1400), eldest sou of Sir Thomas Holland, second earl of Kent; K.G., 1397; active in arrest and execution of Arundel; created Duke of Surrey, 1397; marshal and lieutenant of Ireland, 1398; deprived of dukedom, 1399; conspired against Henry IV, holding Maidenhead bridge three days; executed by men of Cirencester.
- Thomas Holland
- '''Thomas Holland''' (d. [[1612]]), regius professor of divinity at Oxford; M.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1575; D.D., 1584; chaplain to Leicester in Netherlands, 1585; regius professor of divinity at Oxford, 1589-1612; rector of Exeter College, 1592; one of the six translators of the prophets in authorised version, 1611.
- Thomas Holland
- '''Thomas Holland''' ([[1600]]-[[1642]]), Jesuit; addressed Prince Charles at Madrid, 1623: prefect and confessor at St. Omer; came to England, 1635; executed.
- Thomas Holland
- '''Thomas Holland''' ([[1659]]-[[1743]]). See ECCLKSTON,
- Thomas
- '''Thomas'''
- Thomas Agar Holland
- '''Thomas Agar Holland''' ([[1803]]-[[1888]]), poet; of Westminster and Worcester College, Oxford; M.A., 1828; rector of Poynings, 1846-88; published Dryburgh Abbey and other Poems 1826.
- Wenceslaus Hollar
- '''Wenceslaus Hollar''' , in Bohemian VACLAV
- Holar
- '''Holar''' ([[1607]]-[[1677]]), engraver; native of Prague; lived at Frankfort, Cologne, and Antwerp; came to England with Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel, 1636; teacher of drawing to Prince Charles; engraved Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus 1640, Charles I and his queen (after Vandyck), 1641, andTheatrum Mulierum 1643; captured by parliamentarians at Basing; escaped to Antwerp; returned, 1652: illustrated Dugdale'sSt. Paul Ogilby's Virgil, and Stapleton's Juvenal; as Hill's designer produced Coronation of Charles II; executed fine map of London after the fire of 1666; sent to Tangier, 1669; engraved pioture of Kempthorne's fight with Algerine pirates: illustrated Thorpton's * Antiquities of Nottinghamshire; 2,733 of his prints enumerated.
- Denztl Holles
- '''Denztl Holles''' , first BAROX HOLLES OF IKIKI.M (1599-1680), statesman: second son of John Holies, first earl of Clare; M.P., St. Michael, 1624, Dorchester, 1628, and in Long parliament; opposed Buckingham's foreign policy; held the speaker in his chair, 2 March, 1629; imprisoned and fined; escaped abroad; compensated by Long parliament, 1641; tried to save his brotherin-law, Strafford; carried up impeachment of Laud; supported Grand Remonstrance and impeachment of Digby and Bristol, 1641: impeached among the five members, 3 Jan. 1642; advocated Militia Bill and impeachment of royalist peers; member of committee of safety 4 July, 1642; led regiment at Edgehill and Brentford; advocated peace, 1643; parliamentary representative at negotiations of 1644, 1645 (Oxbridge), and 1648 (Newport); headed presbyterians against independents and (1644) projected impeachment of Cromwell; charged with intrigues with Charles 1, 1645 and 1647; impeached by the army among the eleven members, 1647; disabled from sitting, but restored, 1648; escaped to France under threat of another impeachment; readmitted by Monck and appointed to council of state, 1660; commissioner to Charles II at the Hague; privy councillor and created peer, 1661; ambassador at Paris, 1663-6: a negotiator of treaty of Breda, 1667; protested against the Test Act, 1675; supported impeachment of Danby, 1678, and disbandment of army, 1678; opposed Exclusion Bill; one of the new privy councillors, 1679; his Memoirs, 1641-8 printed, 1699.
- Sir Frescheville Holles
- '''Sir Frescheville Holles''' ([[1641]]-[[1672]]), captain in the navy; son of Gervase Holies; volunteer in naval campaign, 1665; knighted, 1666; commanded the Henrietta, 1666; abused by Pepys; M.P., Grimsby, 1667; commanded the Cambridge under Sir Robert Holmes , 1672; killed in battle of Solebay; buried in Westminster Abbey.
- Gervase Holles
- '''Gervase Holles''' ([[1606]]-[[1675]]), antiquary ; comptroller of Middle Temple, 1635; royalist mayor and M.P. for Grimsby; suspended and disabled from sitting for denunciation of Scots, 1641-2; fought at Edgehill, Banbury, Brentford, Newbury; captured at Colchester; allowed to retire to France, 1649; in Holland till 1660: master of the requests and M.P., Grimsby, 1661-75; some of his Lincolnshire collections in British Museum.
- Gilbert Holles
- '''Gilbert Holles''' , third EARL OF CLARE ([[1633]]1689), member of the country party, 1660-88: sou of John Holies, second earl of Clare q. v.j
- John Holles
- '''John Holles''' , first EARL OF CLARE ([[1564]] ?-[[1637]]), soldier and politician; served against Armada, 1588, and in Azores expedition, 1597; fought against Turks in Hungary; comptroller to Henry, prince of Wales, 1610-12; friend of Somerset and enemy of Coke and Gervase Markham; created Baron Holies, 1616, and Earl of Clare, 1624; opposed Buckingham; advocated compromise on Petition of Right; reprimanded for implication in proceedings of Sir Robert Dudley, 1629.
- John Holles
- '''John Holles''' , second EARL OF CLARE ([[1595]]-[[1666]]), son of John Holies, first earl; represented East Retford as Lord Haughton, 1624-9; volunteer at Bois-leDuc, 1629; succeeded to peerage, 1637; took part in negotiations with Scots, 1640; sided with five popular peers, 1641, but defended Strafford, 1641; changed sides several times during the rebellion.
- John Holles
- '''John Holles''' , DUKE OF NEWCASTLE ([[1662]]-[[1711]]), son of Gilbert Holies, third earl of Clare: known as Lord Haughton till father's death; M.P. for Nottinghamshire; gentleman of bedchamber to William III: married Margaret Cavendish, coheiress of Duke of Newcastle, 1690; created duke, 1694; K.G., 1698; lord privy seal, 1705-11.
- Thomas Pelham Holles
- '''Thomas Pelham Holles''' -, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE-
- Upon
- '''Upon''' -TYNE and NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME ([[1693]]-[[1768]]).
- Es Holl
- '''Es Holl''' 588
- Holme
- '''Holme'''
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- Holles
- '''Holles''' or HOLLIS, Sm WILLIAM ([[1471]] 7-[[1572]]), lord mayor of London: master of MercersCompany, 1538; sheriff of London, 1527; knighted, 1633; lord mayor, 1539-40; left bequests to Coventry, the Mercers Company, and St. Helen's, Bishopsgate; ancestor of earls of Clare and dukes of Newcastle.
- John Holuday
- '''John Holuday''' ([[1730]]7-[[1801]]), author; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1771; practised as conveyancer: 1 and F.S.A.; publishedLife of Lord Mansfield* (1797) and poems.
- Edmund Hollings
- '''Edmund Hollings''' ([[1556]]7-[[1612]]), physician: B.A. Queen's College, Oxford, 1575; studied at Rheims and Rome; intimate with Pits; professor of medicine at Ingolstadt; published medical works; died at Ingolstadt.
- John Hollings
- '''John Hollings''' ([[1683]]7-[[1739]]), physician-general and physician in ordinary; M.D. Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1710; F.R.S., 1726; F.R.C.P., 1726; Harveian orator, 1734.
- Richard Hollingworth
- '''Richard Hollingworth''' ([[1639]]7-[[1701]]), controversialist; M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1662; D.D., 1684; vicar of West Ham, 1672-82, of Chigwell, 1690-1701; published pamphlets in defence of Charles I's authorship of Elxiav 3ao-iAt*) and reissued Edward Symmons's Vindication 1693.
- John Hollins
- '''John Hollins''' ([[1798]]-[[1855]]), painter ; A.R.A., [[1842]] ; exhibited portraits and historical subject-, and, later, figure-pieces and landscapes.
- Peter Hollins
- '''Peter Hollins''' ([[1800]]-[[1886]]), sculptor : son of William Hollius; exhibited at Royal Academy. His works include statues of Peel and Sir Rowland Hill for Birmingham.
- William Hollins
- '''William Hollins''' ([[1754]]-[[1843]]), architect and sculptor; cousin of John Holllns; designed public buildings at Birmingham and plans for St. Petersburg mint.
- Hollinworth
- '''Hollinworth''' or HOLLINGWORTH, RICHARD (1607-1656), divine; educated at Manchester and Magdalene College, Cambridge; M.A., 1630: minister of Trinity Chapel, Salford, 1636; fellow of Manchester Collegiate Church; assisted Richard Heyrick in establishing Lancashire presbyterianism, which he also defended controversially: imprisoned on charge of implication in Love's plot, 1651; one of Ohetham's feoffees; his Mancuniensis printed, 1839.
- Aiskew Paffard Hollis
- '''Aiskew Paffard Hollis''' ([[1764]]-[[1844]]), viceadmiral; present in; battle off Ushant, 1778; lieutenant, 1781; wounded In action of 1 June, 1794; brought Crescent Into Table Bay, 1797; commanded Thames frigate at action off Gibraltar, 1801; served In Baltic, 1809; vice-admiral, 1837.
- George Hollis
- '''George Hollis''' ([[1793]]-[[1842]]), topographical engraver; pupil of George Cooke
- Thomas Hollis
- '''Thomas Hollis''' ([[1720]]-[[1774]]), ' republican ' ; entered at Lincoln's Inn, 1740; travelled much on continent: gave books to Harvard, Berne, and Zurich, and portraits I of Newton and Cromwell to Trinity and Sidney Sussex Colleges, Cambridge; F.R.S., 1757; edited Toland's Milton 1761, Algernon Sidney's works, 1772, and other publications,
- Thomas Hollis
- '''Thomas Hollis''' ([[1818]]-[[1843]]), son and assistant of George Hollis
- Ellen Julia Hollond
- '''Ellen Julia Hollond''' ([[1822]]-[[1884]]), authoress and philanthropist; nb Teed; as wife of Robert Hollond, M.P., held liberal salon in Paris; published Les Quakers 1870; and a work on Cbauning, 1857; established first creche in London, 1844, and nurseshome at Paris and Nice.
- Hollond
- '''Hollond''' or HOLLAND, JOHN (fl. [[1638]]-[[1659]]), naval writer; paymaster of navy before 1635 till c. 1642; one of commissioners for navy, 1642 till c. 1645; member of 'committee of merchants for regulation of navy and customs 1649; surveyor of the navy, 1649; member of parliament's commission of navy, 1649-52: wrote First Discourse of the Navy 1638, andSecond Discourse 1659.
- Benjamin Holloway
- '''Benjamin Holloway''' ([[1691]]7-[[1759]]), divino; of minster and St. John's College, Cambr 1713; F.H.S., i:_;{ -. n -.-tr ol Bladon, 1736-9; translated Woodwu.. - Hta toria Telluris 1726; published work 1'rim sevtty and Pre-emlnenoe of Hebrew 1754, and Original* .! and theological 1761.
- Holloway
- '''Holloway''' 8m CHARLES ([[1749]]-[[1827]]), majorgeneral, royal engineers; second-lieutenant, royal engineers, 1776; lieutenant, 1783; captain-lieutenant, 1793: captain, 1795; lieutenant-colonel. 1804: rolom-l, 1811; major-general, 1814; at Gibraltar, 1779-83, during siege; brigade-major, 1781; assisted Major-general William Roy In survey triangulationa, 1784-87: commanding royal engineer in military mission to assist Turks In reorganisation of army, 1798; commander of Turkish army in Syria and Egypt against French, 1801-2; knighted, 1803; commanding royal engineer at Gibraltar, 1807-17.
- Jamks Holloway
- '''Jamks Holloway''' (. [[1684]]), conspirator; formed scheme for improvement of linen manufacture; engaged in extensive plot against government, himself undertaking (1682) to secure Bristol; escaped by France to West Indies; betrayed by his factor in Nevis; while in Newgate wrote confession; refused trial and was executed at Tyburn.
- Holloway
- '''Holloway''' Sm RICHARD (d. [[1695]] ?), judge ; barrister, Inner Temple, 1658; recorder of Wallingford, 1666; counsel against Stephen College, 1681; knighted; judge of king's bench, 1683; member of courts that tried Sidney and condemned Gates and Devonshire for assaulting Thomas Colepepper; dismissed by James II, 1688, for action in trial of seven bishops, excepted from indemnity after revolution.
- Thomas Holloway
- '''Thomas Holloway''' ([[1748]]-[[1827]]), engraver ; exhibited seals at Academy; engraved gems and miniatures; executed plates for Lavater's * Physiognomy 1789-98: engraved portraits after Pine and West and five of Raphael's cartoons. xxvii. 180J
- Thomas Holloway
- '''Thomas Holloway''' ([[1800]]-[[1883]]), patent medicine vendor; son of Peuzance innkeeper; obtained idea of his ointment from Felix Albinolo; set up in the Strand as medicine vendor, 1839; advertised extensively in all languages, but failed to introduce medicines Into France; made large fortune: bought pictures; endowed ladies college at Egbam and sanatorium at Virginia Water.
- William Cuthbert Holloway
- '''William Cuthbert Holloway''' ([[1787]]-[[1850]]).
- Samuel Hollyday
- '''Samuel Hollyday''' ([[1685]]-[[1739]]). See HALI-
- Day
- '''Day'''
- Hollywood
- '''Hollywood''' or SACROBOSCO, CHRISTOPHER (1562-1616).
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- Francis Holman
- '''Francis Holman''' (fl. [[1760]]-[[1790]]), marine painter ; exhibited with Free Society, 1767-72, and Royal Academy, 1774-84.
- James Holman
- '''James Holman''' ([[1786]]-[[1857]]), blind traveller; travelled unattended in Europe, Siberia, Africa, America, and Australasia; publishedVoyage round the World (1827-32) 1834-6, and other narratives.
- Joseph George Holman
- '''Joseph George Holman''' ([[1764]]-[[1817]]), actor and dramatist; of Queen's College, Oxford; at Covent Garden, 1784-1800, played Romeo, Macbeth, Chamont The Orphan, Hamlet;createdHarry Dornton inRoad to Ruin 1792; drew up statement of grievances of chief actors, 1800: acted in his ownWhat a Blunderat Haymarket, 1800 (produced at Covent Garden, 1803); reappeared at Haymarket, 1812; with his daughter played at New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston in "The Provoked Husband died in Long island; published comedies and comic operas.
- William Holman
- '''William Holman''' (d. [[1730]]), Essex antiquary; his collections used by Morant; compiled catalogue of Jekyll MSS.
- Benjamin Holme
- '''Benjamin Holme''' ([[1683]]-[[1749]]), quaker; visited 'Friendsand preached in Ireland, Holland (1714), the West Indies (1719), Jersey, and America; published Tender Invitation and Call 1713, with other religious works; A Serious Call in Christian Love (1725), and an autobiography, published in 1763.
- Holme
- '''Holme''' 634
- Holt
- '''Holt'''
- Edwakd Holme
- '''Edwakd Holme''' ([[1770]]-[[1847]]), physician; M.D. i. 17i3: phyiri;u to Manchester infirmary: presi t of Literary and Pbilosopbical Society (1844), Natural History and Chetbam societies; first presidentof medical section at British Association, 1831; left large bequest and library to University College, London,
- Handle Holme
- '''Handle Holme''' ([[1571]]-[[1655]]), deputy to College of Arms for Cheshire, Shropshire, and North Wales; mayor of Chester, 1633-4.
- Handle Holme
- '''Handle Holme''' ([[1601]] ?-[[1659]]), genealogist; son of Handle Holme (1571-1655); sheriff of Chester, 1633-4; mayor, 1643-4; added to Holme collection of
- Mss
- '''Mss'''
- Handle Holme
- '''Handle Holme''' ([[1627]]-[[1699]]), principal contributor to Holme MSS.; son of Handle Holme (1601 ?-1659) ; deputy Garter for Cheshire, Shropshire, Lancashire, and North Wales; published The Academy of Armory 1688.
- Handle Holme
- '''Handle Holme''' (d. [[1707]]), completer of family manuscripts; son of Handle Holme (1627-1699); manuscripts acquired by British Museum, 1753.
- Abraham Holmes
- '''Abraham Holmes''' (d. [[1685]]), rebel ; anabaptist major in Monck's army: arrested for conspiracy against Charles II, 1660; imprisoned at Windsor, 1664-7; engaged in Argyll's plot, 1681-3; accompanied Monmouth to England and commanded battalion at Sedgemoor, 1685; executed.
- Alfred Holmes
- '''Alfred Holmes''' ([[1837]]-[[1876]]), violinist and composer; with his brother Henry played Kalliwoda's double concerto, 1853, and distinguished himself by rendering of Spohr's music during concert tours in Belgium, Germany (1856X Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, and Paris, where he settled, 1864; produced at St. Petersburg symphonyJeanne d'Arc 1868,Jeunesse de Shakespeare and other works given in Paris; died at Paris.
- Charles Holmes
- '''Charles Holmes''' ([[1711]]-[[1761]]), rear-admiral; commanded Stromboli in Carthagena expedition, 1741; took part in action with Spanish in Gulf of Florida, 1748; member of court-martial on Byng, 1757; cut enemy's communications in the Ems, 1768; rear-admiral, 1758; third in command under Sir Charles Saunders in St. Lawrence, 1769; commander-in-chief at Jamaica, 1760-1; monument in Westminster Abbey.
- Edward Holmes
- '''Edward Holmes''' ([[1797]]-[[1859]]). writer on music; friend of Keats and Charles Cowden Clarke; with Vincent Novello raised subscription for Mozart's widow; published Ramble among Musicians of Germany (1828), and lives of Mozart (1845) and Purcell; composed songs.
- George Holmes
- '''George Holmes''' (fl. [[1673]]-[[1715]]), organist at Lincoln, 1704-15; grandson of John Holmes (fl. 1602); contributed toMusical Companion 1673; composed anthems and songs.
- George Holmes
- '''George Holmes''' ([[1662]]-[[1749]]), deputy-keeper of the Tower records; F.R.S. and F.S.A.; prepared first seventeen volumes of Rymer's Foedera 1727-35.
- James Holmes
- '''James Holmes''' ([[1777]]-[[1860]]), water-colour painter and miniaturist; exhibited with Society of British Artiste, 1829-59; his two miniatures of Byron engraved.
- John Holmes
- '''John Holmes''' (fl. [[1602]]), composer; organist of Winchester and Salisbury ( 1602-10).
- Sir John Holmes
- '''Sir John Holmes''' ([[1640]] ?-[[1683]]), admiral ; brother of Sir Robert Holmes; commanded the Paul at Lowestoft, 1665, and in fight of June, 1666: commanded the Bristol in flght of 25 July, 1666; served under Sir Edward Spragge in Algerine war, 1670-1; wounded in flght with Dutch Smyrna fleet, 1672, and knighted; commanded the Rupert at Solebay, 1672, and in battles of 1673; commander in the Downs, 1677-9; M.P., Newtown (Isle of Wight), 1677-83.
- John Holmes
- '''John Holmes''' ([[1800]]-1 [[854]]), antiquary; adviser of Bertram, earl of Ashburnham, collector of manuscripts; compiled catalogue of manuscripts, maps, and plans in British Museum, 1844: edited Evelyn'sLife of Mrs. dodolphin 1847, Cavendish's Wolsey 1862, and Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography 1863.
- John Beck Holmes
- '''John Beck Holmes''' ([[1767]]-[[1843]]), Moravian bishop of Fulneck; published historical works concerning his church.
- Holmes
- '''Holmes''' or HOMES, NATHANIEL ([[1599]]-[[1678]]), puritan divine; B.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1620: M A j Magdalen Hall, 1623; D.D. Exeter College, 1637; joined Henry Burton in founding independent congregation, 1643; published millenarian works.
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- Sir Robert Holmes
- '''Sir Robert Holmes''' ([[1622]]-[[1692]]), admiral ; served : under Prince Rupert in civil war; governor of Sandown Castle, 1660; seized Dutch possessions on ( } uinea coast and in North America, 1664; captain of the Revenge at battle i of Lowestoft, 1665; knighted, 1666; rear-admiral of the ! red, 1666; distinguished in fight of 1-4 June, 1666; j fought duel with Sir Jeremiah Smith or Smyth arising out of his conduct in fight of 25 July, 1666; destroyed shipping and stores at VlieandSchelling; admiml at Portsmouth, 1667; one of Buckingham's seconds in i duel with Shrewsbury; governor of Isle of Wight, 1669; attacked Dutch Smyrna fleet in Channel, 1672; took part in battle of Solebay, 1672; M.P., Winchester, i Yarmouth (Isle of Wight), and Newport,
- Robert Holmes
- '''Robert Holmes''' ([[1748]]-[[1805]]), biblical scholar; of Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow; M.A., 1774; D.D., 1789; first winner of chancellor's prize for Latin verse, 1769; rector of Stanton St. John; ; Bampton lecturer, 1782; professor of poetry, 1783; 1 collated Septuagint, 1788-1805; prebendary of Salisbury, Hereford, and Christ Church; dean of Winchester, 1804; I F.R.S., 1797; published poems, theological works, and ! annual accounts of his collections.
- Robert Holmes
- '''Robert Holmes''' ([[1765]]-[[1859]]), Irish lawyer; : brother-in-law of Robert Emmet; B.A. Trinity 1 College, Dublin, 1787; imprisoned on suspicion of rebellion, 1803; defended John Mitchel, 1848; published antij union pamphlets.
- Thomas Holmes
- '''Thomas Holmes''' (d. [[1638]]), musical composer: gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1633.
- William Holmes
- '''William Holmes''' ([[1689]]-[[1748]]), dean of Exeter; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool; fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, 1710; M.A., 1716; proctor, 1721; B.D.; president of St. John's College, Oxford, 1728; vicechancellor, 1732-5; revived the act and invited Handel to play at Oxford, 1733"; regius professor of history, 17361742; dean of Exeter, 1742-8; left estates to his college.
- William Holmes
- '''William Holmes''' (d. [[1851]]), thirty years tory whip; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1795; served in the army: M.P., Grampound, 1808-12, Tregony, 1812-18, Totnes, 1819-20, Bishop's Castle, 1820-30; Haslemere, 1830-2, Berwick, 1837-41; treasurer of the ordnance, 1820-30.
- William Anthony Holmes
- '''William Anthony Holmes''' ([[1782]]-[[1843]]), chancellor of Cashel; scholar of Trinity College, Dublin; B.A., 1803; D.D., 1834; incumbent of Holywood, Down, 1810, of Ballyroan, 1818, and Core Abbey, 1822; chancellor of Cashel, 1832; helped to found Mendicity Institution, Belfast; published pamphlets,
- Sir George Sowley Holroyd
- '''Sir George Sowley Holroyd''' ([[1758]]-[[1831]]), judge; educated at Harrow; special pleader, 1779-87; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1878; appeared for Burdett against Speaker Abbott, 1811; commissioner to Guernsey, 1815; judge of king's bench, 1816-28.
- John Baker Holroyd
- '''John Baker Holroyd''' , first EARL OP SHKF-
- Kield
- '''Kield''' ([[1735]]-[[1821]]), statesman and friend of Gibbon; purchased Sheffield Place, Sussex, 1769; raised and commanded dragoon regiment; M.P., Coventry, 1780-3, Bristol, 1783-1802; active in suppressing Gordon riots, 1780; created Irish baron, 1781; created Earl of Sheffield and Viscount Pevensey in peerage of Ireland, 1816: British peer, 1802: president of board of agriculture, 1803; privy councillor, 1809; lord of board of trade, 1809; published pamphlets on social and commercial questions; edited Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works 1796, and Memoirs 1826..
- Theodore von Holst
- '''Theodore von Holst''' ([[1810]]-[[1844]]). See VON
- Holst
- '''Holst'''
- Francis Ludlow Holt
- '''Francis Ludlow Holt''' ([[1780]]-[[1844]]), legal writer; of Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford;
- Holt
- '''Holt''' 635
- Home
- '''Home''' barrister, Middle Temple, 1809; K.C., 1831: trcnuivr f Inner Temple, 1840; vice-chancellor of Lancaster, 18261844; publish,, i L:IW of Libel(1812-1816), nisi priii-* reports 1815-17, shipping hi-.vs, 1820, bankrupt laws, IH-JU, ind'Tba L:.n 1 ve live in(comedy), 1804.
- Guy Holt
- '''Guy Holt''' ([[1587]] ?-[[1660]]).
- John Holt
- '''John Holt''' (rf. [[1418]]), judge ; king's serjeaut, 1377; judge of common pleas, 1383; knight-banneret, 1384: banished to Ireland, 1388, for decision against legality of permanent council; recalled, 1397.
- Sir John Holt
- '''Sir John Holt''' ([[1642]]-[[1710]]), judge; of Winchester and Oriel College, Oxford; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1663; ( -1.1111-1 ! for Dauby and Lords Powis and Arundell, 1679; appeared for crown against Slingsby Bethel, for Lord Kussell, and for East India Company against Sandys, 1683: recorder of London, 1686-7; knighted, 1686: king's serjeant, 1686; M.P. Beeralston; manager of conference with peers on vacancy of throne, 1689; lord chief-justice of king's bench, 1689-1710; pronounced dispensing power legal; decided in favour of bankers, 1700; against House of Commons in case of Ashby r. White, 1701; declined great seal, 1700; the Verus of the 'Tatler his judgment in Coggs v. Bernard, chief authority on law of bailments; edited reports of cases in pleas of the crown under Charles II, 1708. As judge he discouraged prosecutions for witchcraft, and put liberal construction on statute compelling attendance at church, but took high view of treason and seditious libel.
- John Holt
- '''John Holt''' ([[1743]]-[[1801]]), author: master of Walton grammar school, near Liverpool; published Characters of Kings and Queens of England 1786-8, and a survey of Lancashire agriculture, 1794.
- Joseph Holt
- '''Joseph Holt''' ([[1756]]-[[1826]]), Irish rebel; headed rebellion in co. Wicklow, 1798: joined Edward Roche and won victory at Ballyellis, 1798; separated from him and was defeated at Castle Carberry; held out in Wicklow three months; transported to Botany Bay, 1799; successful farmer in New South Wales; banished to Norfolk island on suspicion of rebellion, 1804; pardoned, 1809; wrecked on Eagle island during voyage to England, 1813.
- Thomas Holt
- '''Thomas Holt''' ([[1578]]7-[[1624]]), architect ; designed Wadbam College, Oxford, and great quadrangle of the examination schools (now part of the Bodleian).
- William Holt
- '''William Holt''' ([[1545]]-[[1599]]), Jesuit ; B.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1566: fellow of Oriel, 1568; M.A., 1572; studied at Douay, 1574-6; Jesuit novice, 1578; intrigued with Lennox in Scotland, 1581-2; arrested through English influence, 1583, but allowed to escape; rector of English college, Rome, 1588-7; Spanish agent at Brussels, 1588-98; died at Barcelona.
- Richard Holtby
- '''Richard Holtby''' ([[1553]]-[[1640]]), Jesuit ; of Cambridge and Hart Hall, Oxford; on English mission in north, 1579-81; joined Jesuits, 1583; superior of Scots college at Pont-a-Mousson, 1587-9; vice-prefect of English mission, 1606-9; though fifty years in England never imprisoned; his account of persecution in the north in Morris's Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers
- John Holte
- '''John Holte''' (Jl. [[1495]]), author of first Latin grammar in England (printed by Wynkyn de Worde, c. 1510, and Pynson, 1520); fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1491; M.A,, 1494.
- John Holte
- '''John Holte''' (d. [[1540]]), bishop of Lydda, and suffragan to Fitzjames, bishop of London, 1506-22.
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- Sir Thomas Holte
- '''Sir Thomas Holte''' , first baronet ([[1571]]-[[1654]]), royalist; sheriff of Warwickshire, 1599; created baronet, 1612; built Aston Hall; entertained Charles I before EdgehilL
- Charles Holtzapffel
- '''Charles Holtzapffel''' ([[1806]]-[[1847]]), mechanician; published Turning and Mechanical Manipulation 1843.
- John Holwell
- '''John Holwell''' ([[1649]]-[[1686]]?), astrologer and mathematician; said to have surveyed New York, and been poisoned there; author of works, including A Sure Guide to the Practical Surveyor 1678, and Trigonometry made easy 1685.
- John Zbphaniah Holwell
- '''John Zbphaniah Holwell''' ([[1711]]-[[1798]]), .ov.-ni..r of ifeim'iil; grandson of John Holwell (16491686 ?); surgeon in Bast India Company,. drew up scheme for reform of zemindar's court, Cul.-uttH: .rmm.l.irof the Twcnty-four Parganas, Calcutta, 1761; as member of council defended Calcutta againstSuraj ad iniwhih, 1756, an.l was one of the survivors: Black Hole; succeeded Olive aa temporary governor; dismissed from council for remonstrating against Vansittart's appointment, 1761; first European who studied Hindoo antiquities: publUhed narrative of Black Hole (1758), and works on Indian politics and mythology.
- William Holwell
- '''William Holwell''' ([[1726]]-[[1798]]), classical oompiltr; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1748; B.D., 1760; vicar of Thornbury and chaplain to George III: compiled Beauties of Homer 1775.
- James Holworthy
- '''James Holworthy''' (d. [[1841]]), water-colour painter and friend of Turner.
- Holyday
- '''Holyday''' or HOLIDAY, BARTBN ([[1593]]-[[1661]]), divine and translator; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1615; chaplain to Sir Francis Steuart in Spain, 1618, and afterwards to Charles I; archdeacon of Oxford before 1626; D.D., per lileras region, 1642; translated Persius, Juvenal (published, 1673), and Horace.
- John Holyman
- '''John Holyman''' ([[1495]]-[[1558]]), bishop of Bristol; of Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow of New College, 1512; B.C.L., 1514; M.A., 1618; D.D., 1531; preached against LutheranUm and opposed divorce of Queen Catherine; bishop of Bristol, 1554-8; helped to try the Oxford martyrs.
- Francis Holyoake
- '''Francis Holyoake''' ([[1567]]-[[1653]]), lexicographer ; studied at Queen's College, Oxford; rector of Southam, 1604; ejected by parliamentarians, 1642; hisDictionarium Etymologicum Latinum (1633) enlarged by his son, 1677.
- Henry Holyoake
- '''Henry Holyoake''' ([[1657]]-[[1731]]), head-master of Rugby; son of Thomas Holyoake; chaplain of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1681-90; M.A., 1681; headmaster of Rugby, 1687-1731; held three Warwickshire livings; left money to poor of Rugby and to Magdalen College.
- Thomas Holyoake
- '''Thomas Holyoake''' ([[1616]] ?-[[1676]]), divine; son of Francis Holyoake; M.A., 1639, and chaplain, Queen's College, Oxford; captain of undergraduate royalists; practised meilicine till Restoration; prebendary of Wolverhampton.
- Christopher Holywood
- '''Christopher Holywood''' ([[1562]]-[[1616]]), Jesuit ; joined Jesuits, 1582; professor of divinity at Dole and Padua; imprisoned by English government, 1599; denounced by James I when superior of Jesuitsmission in Ireland, 1604-16; published controversial works.
- Holywood
- '''Holywood''' or HALIFAX, JOHN, in Latin
- De Sacro Johannes
- '''De Sacro Johannes''' Bosco (. [[1230]]), mathematician ; died at Paris; author ofTractatus de Sphaera(first printed at Ferrara, 1472, and frequently translated; his 4 Algorismusedited by J. 0. Halliwell, 1838.
- Home
- '''Home'''
- Home
- '''Home''' or HUME, SIR ALEXANDER (d. [[1456]]), of Home; warden of the marches, 1449; accompanied William, earl of Douglas, to Rome, 1450, and founded collegiate church of Dunglass.
- Home
- '''Home''' or HUME, SIR ALEXANDER, first BARON Hu. MI-:. 1491), eldest son of Sir Alexander Home(d. 1456); created lord of parliament, 1473; joined the Hepburns in driving Albany from Scotland; conspired against James III, 1482 and 1484; in the van at Sauchieburn, 1480; hod great influence under James IV.
- Home
- '''Home''' or HUME, ALEXANDER, second BAROK
- Homr
- '''Homr''' ( . [[1506]]), lord chancellor of Scotland ; grandson of Sir Alexander Home or Hume, first baron; joined conspiracy against James HI; privy councillor, 1488; lord chancellor of Scotland, 1488-1506; succeeded to barony, 1491; made pilgrimage to Canterbury, 1493: made raid in support of the pretender Per kin Warbeok, 1496-7.
- Home
- '''Home'''
- Homer
- '''Homer'''
- Alexander Home
- '''Alexander Home''' , third BARON HOME (d. [[1516]]), lord high chamberlain of Scotland; son of Alexander Home or Hume, second baron: lord high chamberlain, 1506: as warden of the borders invaded Northumberland, 1513; with Huntly commanded van at Flodden, 1513: as chief-justice south of Forth, 1514, proposed to recall Albany: joined Angus against him and intrigued with England and Arran; pardoned, but arrested at Edinburgh, and beheaded by the regent Albany.
- Alexander Home
- '''Alexander Home''' , fifth BARON HOMK (rf. [[1676]]) ; succeeded his father, George Home, fourth baron, 1547, while prisoner after Pinkie; recaptured his castle, 1548; assisted French at Haddington; warden of east marches, 1650; commissioner for treaty of Upsettlington, 1559; made privy councillor by Mary Queen of Scots, 1561; supported her till the Both well marriage; tried to capture Bothwell at Borthwick, 1567; prominent at Carberry Hill, 1567; prevented Mary's escape at Edinburgh; member of regent's council on Mary's abdication; fought in van at Langside, 1568; saved Moray from capture, 1569; rejoined queen's party after his death; Kirkcaldy's lieutenant during siege of Edinburgh Oastle; died in prison.
- Home
- '''Home''' or HUME, ALEXANDER, sixth BARON and first EARL OF HOME (1566 ?-1619), son of Alexander, fifth baron Home; warden of the east marches, 1582-99; engaged in raid of Ruthven, 1582; imprisoned, 1583-4, for brawl with Francis Stewart Hepburn, fifth earl of Bothwell; co-operated with Bothwell against Arran and befriended him in disgrace; as captain of James VI's bodyguard aided him against Bothwell: excommunicated as a papist, but absolved on subscribing confession of faith, 1593; lord of the articles, 1694; with James in the Tolbooth, 1596; accompanied James to England and became lieutenant of the marches, 1603; created Earl of Home, 1605.
- Daniel Dunglas Home
- '''Daniel Dunglas Home''' ([[1833]]-[[1886]]), spiritualist medium; related to the earls of Home; while in Connecticut claimed to be warned by telepathy of his mother's death; turned out of the house by his aunt on account of alleged spiritualistic rappings; his stances attended by well-known Americans, including William Cullen Bryant and Judge Edmonds; said to have been levitated 1862, at house of Ward Cheney; came to England, 1855; phenomena attested by Sir David Brewster; seances attended by Sir Edward Bulwer and the Brownings; while in Italy became a Roman catholic; held stances before sovereigns of France, Prussia, and Holland, 1857-8; held stances in London at houses of Thomas Milner-Gibson and other well-known persons, 1860-1; expelled from Rome as a sorcerer, 1864; secretary of Spiritual Athenaeum in London, 1866; his levitations in England attested by Lord Lindsay (earl of Crawford), Lord Adare (earl of Dunraven), and Mrs. Samuel Carter Hall; followed German army from Sedan to Versailles, 1870; convinced (Sir) William Crookes, F.R.S., by submitting to tests in full light, 1871; publishedIncidents of My Life(1863 and 1872), and, with William Howitt, Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism (1877); died at Auteuil.
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- Home
- '''Home''' SiREVERARD, first baronet ([[1756]]- [[1832]]), sur gion: king's scholar at Westminster, 1770: pupil of John unter; F.R.S., 1785; lecturer on anatomy, 1792, and surgeon to St. George's Hospital, 1793-1827; keeper of Huuterian collection: master (1813) and first president (1821) of Royal College of Surgeons; Huuterian orator, 1814 and 1822; created baronet, 1813; surgeon to Chelsea Hospital, 1821-32; destroyed Hunter's manuscripts after utilising them: edited Hunter's Treatise on the Blood prefixing short life, 1794; published * Lectures on Comparative Anatomy 1814, and other medical works.
- Francis Home
- '''Francis Home''' ([[1719]]-[[1813]]), professor of materia medica at Edinburgh; studied medicine at Edinburgh; surgeon of dragoons in seven yearswar; M.D. Edinburgh, 1760; professor of materia medica, 1768-98; published Principia Medicine 1758, and other works.
- George Home
- '''George Home''' , fourth BARON HOMK (d. [[1547]]), brother of Alexander Home, third baron; wan restored to title and lands, 1522: frustrated Scott of Buccleugh's attempt on James V, 1526: joined Argyll against Angus, 1528: helped to defeat English at Haddeurig, 1542; rooted by Grey, 1547.
- Home
- '''Home''' or HUME, SIR GEORGE, EARL OF DUNRAR (df. 1611), lord high treasurer of Scotland; of Primroknows, afterwards of Spott; accompanied James VI to Denmark, 1589; master of the wardrobe, 1590; ally of Maitland and opponent of Bothwell; special privy councillor, 1598: lord high treasurer, 1602; created an English baron, 1604, and Scottish earl, 1605; commissioner of the border for both kingdoms, 1606; managed for James the Linlithgow trial (1606), Glasgow assembly (1610), ami measures for introduction of episcopacy in Scotland; K.G., 1608; obtained confession from George Sprott, 1608, and James Elphinstone, first baron Balmerino
- Henry Home
- '''Henry Home''' , LORD KAMES ([[1696]]-[[1782]]), Scottish judge and author; called to Scots bar, 1724; published 'Remarkable Decisions of Court of Session(1716-28), 1728; lord of session as Lord Kames, 1752; lord of justiciary, 1763-82; charged with heresy on account of his Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion(1751), written against Hume: hisElements of Criticism(1762) praised by Dugald Stewart; published also Sketches of History of Man 1774, The Gentleman Farmer 1776, and many legal and historical works.
- Sir James Home
- '''Sir James Home''' , OF COLDIXGKNOWS, third EARL OF HOME (d. 1666), succeeded as earl, 1633; at first a covenanter; signed band at Cumbernauld, 1641, and thenceforth supported the king; served under Hamilton at Preston, 1648; his estates seized by Cromwell; reinstated, 1661, and named privy councillor of Scotland; member of high commission, 1664.
- James Home
- '''James Home''' ([[1758]]-[[1842]]), professor of materia medica, Edinburgh, 1798, in succession to his father, Francis Home; professor of medicine at Edinburgh, 1821-42.
- John Home
- '''John Home''' ([[1722]]-[[1808]]), author of 'Douglas': educated at Leith grammar school and Edinburgh University; volunteer, 1745; captured at Falkirk, 1746; minister of Athelstaneford, 1747; intimate with Hume, Robertson, and the poet Collins; his Douglas (rejected by Garrick) performed in Edinburgh, 1756, and produced by Rich at Oovent Garden, 1757: resigned his ministerial charge, owing to proceedings of presbytery, 1757; private secretary to Bute and tutor to Prince of Wales; his Agis (previously rejected) produced by Garrick at Drury Lane, 1758: hisSiege of Aquileia (1760) andFatal Discovery(1769) failures; received pension from George III and sinecure from Bute; his Alouzoplayed successfully by Mrs. Barry, 1773, but Alfred (1778) a failure; settled at Edinburgh, 1779, and was visited by Scott; publishedHistory of Rebellion of 1745 1802; works edited by Henry Mackenzie, 1822.
- Robert Home
- '''Robert Home''' (d. [[1836]] ?), painter: brother of Sir Everard Home; exhibited at the Academy and at Dublin; chief painter to king of Oude; died at Calcutta.
- Robert Home
- '''Robert Home''' ([[1837]]-[[1879]]), colonel of royal engineers; ably reported on defence of Canadian frontier, 1864; deputy-assistant;quartermaster-general at Aldershot, 1866; secretary to royal engineerscommittee, 1870; commanded royal engineers in Ashanti war, 1873; assistant quartermaster-general at headquarters, 1876; reported on defence of Constantinople; published Precis of Modern Tactics 1873.
- William Home
- '''William Home''' , eighth EARL OF HOME (d. [[1761]]), soldier; served under Cope (1745) and commanded Glasgow volunteer regiment, 1745; lieutenant-general; governor of Gibraltar, 1757-61; Scottish representative peer.
- Arthur Homer
- '''Arthur Homer''' ([[1758]]-[[1806]]), author of ' Bibliographia Americana 1789; son of Henry Homer the elder; fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 17821802; M.A., 1781; D.D., 1797.
- Henry Homer
- '''Henry Homer''' , the elder ([[1719]]-[[1791]]), author of works on enclosures; M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1743; rector of Birdingbury.
- Henry Homer
- '''Henry Homer''' , the younger ([[1753]]-[[1791]]), classical i scholar and friend of Dr. Parr; eldest son of Henry i Homer the elder: fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1778-88; M.A., 1776; B.D., 1783; edited Tacitus ! (1790), Livy (1794), Ovid'sHeroides(1789), Persius I (1789), Sallust (1789), and Caesar (1790).
- Homer
- '''Homer''' 637
- Hood
- '''Hood'''
- Philip Braoebridge Homer
- '''Philip Braoebridge Homer''' ([[1765]]-[[1838]]), assist ant- master at Rugby; brother of Henry Hoiner the younger; fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1803-6, of Kugby, 1826: M.A., 1788; B.D., 1804; published original poems, translations from Metastaeio, and the Eton Greek grammar, with notes (1825); completed his brother Henry's classics.
- Hondius
- '''Hondius''' (UK HONDT), ABRAHAM ([[1638]] 7-[[1691]]), painter.of animals and hunting scenes; in England, 1665-91.
- Jodocd Hondius
- '''Jodocd Hondius''' 8 (1563-1611), engraver; came to England from Ghent; made large globes, illustrated voyages of Drake and Cavendish, and engraved portraits; at Amsterdam, 15941811.
- Horace Hone
- '''Horace Hone''' ([[1756]]-[[1825]]), miniature-painter ; son of Nathaniel Hone; exhibited at Academy, 17721782, and in Dublin; A.R.A., 1799.
- John Oamillus Hone
- '''John Oamillus Hone''' (rf. [[1837]]), miniaturepainter in London and the East Indies; brother of Horace Hone
- Nathaniel Hone
- '''Nathaniel Hone''' ([[1718]]-[[1784]]), portrait-painter ; studied in Italy; excelled in enamel-painting: exhibited with Society of Artists; an original H.A.; caricatured Reynolds inThe Conjuror 1775; painted also Whitefield, John Wesley, Sir John Fielding, and his son, John Camillus Hone, aa David and * Spartan Boy
- William Hone
- '''William Hone''' ([[1780]]-[[1842]]), author and bookseller; commenced publishing (1817) political satires on the government (includingJohn Wilkes's Catechism and The Sinecurist's Creed), illustrated by Cruikshauk; prosecuted for hisPolitical Litany but acquitted, 1817; aided by public subscription, set up shop in Ludgate Hill, where Cruikshank illustrated hisPolitical House that Jack Built 1819, Man in the Moon 1820, Bank-Restriction Barometer 1820, Political Showman 1821, Facetiae and Miscellanies 1827; hisApocryphal New Testament(1820) attacked inQuarterly Review; published sixpenny reprints,Ancient Mysteries 1823,Every Day Book 1826-7 (dedicated to Lamb and praised by Scott and Southey), andTable Book 1827-8; edited Strutt's 'Sports and Pastimes 1830;Early Life and Conversion of William Hone, by Himself edited by his son, 1841.
- George Honey
- '''George Honey''' ([[1822]]-[[1880]]), actor and vocalist; played in opera till 1863; afterwards took eccentric roles, such as Eccles in Robertson'sCaste and Cheviot Hill in W. S. Gilbert's Engaged
- Laura Honey
- '''Laura Honey''' ([[1816]]?-[[1843]]), actress; very successful as Psyche in Cupidand aa Lnrline (Adelphi); at the City of London played inThe Watermanand 'Riquet with the Tuft and sang My beautiful Rhine. xxvn. 24 J
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- Mrs Honker
- '''Mrs Honker''' . MARIA ([[1812]]-[[1870]]), actress; nte Macarthy; excelled in pathetic parts; played Rosalie Somers with Edmund Kean; played Julia in The Hunchback 1835; married Robert William Homier, 1836; filled place of Mrs. Yates.
- Robert William Honner
- '''Robert William Honner''' ([[1809]]-[[1852]]), actor and manager; played under Andrew Ducrow, Gnmaldi, Ellistou, Benjamin Webster, and Davidge; lessee of Sadler's Wells, 1835-40; manager of the Surrey,,1835-8, and 1842-6.
- Saint Honoritjs
- '''Saint Honoritjs''' (d. [[653]]), fifth archbishop of Canterbury; consecrated by Pauliuus at Lincoln, 628; exercised jurisdiction over Kent and East Auglia.
- Sir George Essex Honyman
- '''Sir George Essex Honyman''' , fourth baronet (1819-1875), judge; barrister, Middle Temple, 1849; Q.O., 1866; eerjeant-at-law, 1873; juatice of common pleas 1873-5. C vil - 2J9 3
- Mrs Honywood
- '''Mrs Honywood''' . MARY ([[1527]]-[[1620]]), daughter of Robert Waters of Lenham: celebrated for longevity niety, and number of lineal descendants (367). v 3
- Michael Honywood
- '''Michael Honywood''' ([[1597]]-[[1681]]), dean of Li coin; grandson of Mrs. Mary Hony wood; felow of Christ's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1618; D.D., 1601 with Henry More and Edward King Lyc.das ) as fellows and Milton when student; rector of keg worth Protectorate lived at Utrecht; dean of Lincoln, 660-81; at Lincoln built cathedral library and tfave xx)kR.
- Honywood
- '''Honywood''' 8m ROBERT ([[1601]]-[[1686]]), of Charing : ranslator of Battista Kant's History of the Affairs of Europe 1673; served In Palatinate; knighted as steward to queen of Bohemia, 1625; member of council of t-tate, .659; went on embassy to Sweden.
- Sir Thomas Honywood
- '''Sir Thomas Honywood''' ([[1586]]-[[1666]]X parliamentarian; of Marks Hall, Ensex; knighted, 1632; joined Fairfax before Colchester, 1648; commanded regiment at Worcester, 1651: knight of the shire for Eerex, 1C64, 1666; sat in Cromwell's House of Lords, 1667.
- Lady Hood
- '''Lady Hood''' ([[1783]]-[[1862]]). See STKWART-MAC-
- Maria Eliza Bktii Fueuekica Kkxxik
- '''Maria Eliza Bktii Fueuekica Kkxxik''' .
- Alexander Hood
- '''Alexander Hood''' ([[1768]]-[[1798]]) navy captain ; brother of Sir Samuel Hood (1762-1814); served on he Resolution In Captain Cook's second voyage, 1772; captain of the Barfieur off Cape Henry, 1781, and St. Kitts, 1782; fought at battle of Dominica, 1782; captured the Ceres; put ashore by Spit head mutineers, 1797, captured the Hercule off the Bee du Raz, but was killed; epitaph by Southey on monument at Butleigh.
- Alexander Hood
- '''Alexander Hood''' , first VISCOUNT BRIDPORT ,1727-1814), admiral; brother of Samuel Hood, first viscount Hood; flag-captain to Sir Charles launders 'q. v. in Mediterranean, 1766-9; took part in Hawke's victory of 2U Nov. 1759; captured the Warwick in Bay of Biscay, 1761; treasurer of Greenwich, 1766; commanded the Robust at Ushant, 1777, and gave evidence in favour of Palliser against Keppel; assisted in relief of Gibraltar, 1782; entered parliament, 1784; K.B., 1787: admiral of the blue, 1794; second in command to Lord Howe on 1 June 1794, and was created Baron Bridport (Iri* h peerage); defeated Villaret-Joyeusc and captured three French ships, 1795; vice-admiral of England, 1796: created a British baron, 1796; as commander of Channel fleet blockaded Brest almost continuously, 1797-1800; created viscount, 1801; cfteii confused with his brother; portraits of him by Reynolds at Greenwich.
- Charles Hood
- '''Charles Hood''' ([[1826]]-[[1883]]), major-general; led attack on Redan, 1855; commanded the buffs on entry into Sebastopol, and 58th in Bengal, I860; major-general, 1870.
- Edwin Paxton Hood
- '''Edwin Paxton Hood''' ([[1820]]-[[1885]]), congregational divine and author; minister in London, Brighton, and Manchester; benefactor of Hospital for Incurables; publishedSelf-Education 1851, andThe Peerage of Poverty (1st ser. 3rd ed., 1859): published also popular works on great writers, statesmen, and preachers; died in Paris.
- Francis Grosvenor Hood
- '''Francis Grosvenor Hood''' ([[1809]]-[[1855]]), lieutenant-colonel of grenadier guards, 1841; grandson of Samuel Hood, first viscount Hood; led (as major 3rd battalion) 3rd battalion of grenadiers at the Alma, 1884; shot in trenches before Sebastopol.
- John Hood
- '''John Hood''' ([[1720]]-[[1783]] ?), surveyor ; invented Hood's compass theodolite; said to have anticipated Hadley'a quadrant.
- Robin Hood
- '''Robin Hood''' , legendary outlaw ; the name, which originally represented a mythical forest-elf, Hodekeu is part of the designation of places and plants in every part of England. Hk* historical authenticity is ill-supported. As an historical character Robin Hood appears in Wyntoun's Chronicle of Scotland (c. 1420), and is referred to as a ballad hero by Bower, Major, and Stow. The first detailed history, Lytell Geste of Robyn Hoode(printed, c. 1495), locates him in south-west Yorkshire; later writers placing him in Sherwood and Plumpton Park (Cumberland), and finally making him Earlot Huntingdon. Plays dealing with his exploits were written by Miuuiay, ChettJc, and others (1600-1784). The True Tale of Robin Hood (verse) was issued, 1632,Robin Howl's Garland 1670, and prose narrative, 1678. Major first assigned him to the reign of Richard I. A date ( 18 Nov. 1247; was given for his death by Martin Parker True Tale c. 1682) and by Thoresby, and his pedigree was supplied by Stukeley. According to Joseph Hunter he was a contemporary of Edward II and adherent of Thomas of Lancaster. xxvii. 258J
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- '''Hooke'''
- Hood
- '''Hood''' Sin SAMUEL, first baronet ([[1762]]-[[1814]]), viceadmiral; brother of Alexander Hood (1758-1798); on the Courageux, 1776: fought off Ushant, 1778; lieutenant at actions off Martinique, 1781, Cape Henry, 1781, and St. Kitts, 1782, Dominica, 1782, and Mona Passage, 1782; commanded Juno in Me liter ranean, 1793-5; with the Zealous under Nelson at Santa Cruz, 1797; distinguished at the Nile, 1798; as Commander-inchief on Leeward station captured St. Lucia and Tobago and Dutch South American settlements, 1803-4; took French ships off Rochefort, but lost an arm, 1805; under Gambier at Copenhagen, 1807; reduced Madeira, 1807; second in command under Saumarez in Baltic, 1808; created baronet after Corufia, 1809; vice-admiral, 1811; commanded in East Indies, 1812-14; died at Madras.
- Samuel Hood
- '''Samuel Hood''' , first VISCOUNT HOOD ([[1724]]-[[1816]]), admiral; entered navy, 1741; saw junior service under captains Thomas Smith (d. 1762), Thomas Grenville (1719-1747), and Rodney; while in temporary command of the Antelope captured French privateers, 1757; commanded the Vestal in Basque roads, 1758; captured the Bellona off Finisterre, 1759; commander on North American station, 1767-70; created baronet, 1778; joined Rodney in expedition against St. Eustatius, 1781; while blockading Martinique engaged by superior French force; commanded rear in Graves's action off the Chesapeake, September, 1781; repulsed De Grasse off Basseterre, 1782; second in command under Rodney at Dominica (12 April); created Baron Hood of Catheriugton (Irish peerage), and given freedom of the city, 1782; M.P., Westminster, 1784; vice-admiral, 1787; a lord of the admiralty, 1788-93; as commander in the Mediterranean occupied Toulon, and when abandoning it took away antirevolutionary refugees; captured Corsica, 1794; recalled for political reasons; admiral, 1794; created Viscount Hood and governor of Greenwich, 1796; G.C.B., 1815.
- Samuel Hood
- '''Samuel Hood''' ([[1800]] ?-[[1876]]), author of treatise On the Law of Decedents 1847; member of Philadelphia bar, 1836-75; grandson of John Hood
- Thomas Hood
- '''Thomas Hood''' (fl. [[1582]]-[[1598]]), mathematician; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1578; M.A., 1581; first Thomas Smith lecturer in mathematics in London, 1582; translated Ramus's Elements of Geometry 1590; published works on mathematical appliances.
- Thomas Hood
- '''Thomas Hood''' ([[1799]]-[[1845]]), poet; contributed to 'London Magazine 1821-3, becoming acquainted with Lamb, Hazlitt, and De Quincey; collaborated with John Hamilton Reynolds in * Odes and Addresses to Great People 1826; issuedWhims and Oddities 1826-7; became editor of theGem 1829 (in whichEugene Aram's Dream appeared); beganComic Annual 1830: lived at Coblentz, 1835-7, and Ostend, 1837-40; published 4 Hood's Own 1838, and Up the Rhine 1839; returned, 1840, and editedNew Monthly Magazine 1841-3, writing for itMiss Kilmansegg hisSong of the Shirt published anonymously inPunch 1843; established Hood's Magazine 1844; issued Whimsicalities 1844; received pension; collected works issued, 1882-4.
- Thomas Hood
- '''Thomas Hood''' , the younger ([[1835]]-[[1874]]), known as
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- '''Hood Tom''' , humorist; son of Thomas Hood ([[1799]]-[[1845]]) ; of Pembroke College, Oxford; became editor of Fun 1866; began Tom Hood's Comic Annual, 1 1867; works includePen and Pencil Pictures 1857, and Captain Masters's Children 1865.
- James Hook
- '''James Hook''' ([[1746]]-[[1827]]), organist at Vauxhall Gardens, 1774-1820, and composer; composed over two thousand songs, including Within a Mile and The Lass of Richmond Hill also dramatic and concerted pieces; died at Boulogne.
- James Hook
- '''James Hook''' ([[1772]] ?-[[1828]]),dean of Worcester; son of James Hook (1746-1827); while at Westminster edited The Triner; graduated from St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1796; private chaplain to Prince of Wales; archdeacon of Huntingdon, 1814; rector of Whippiugham, 1817; dean of Worcester, 1825-8; published novels and other works.
- John Hook
- '''John Hook''' ([[1634]]-[[1710]]), master of Savoy Uo-piul, 1699-1702; son of William Hook
- Theodore Edward Hook
- '''Theodore Edward Hook''' ([[1788]]-[[1841]]), novelist and wit; son of James Hook (1746-1827); educated at Harrow; as a boy wrote words for his father's comic operas and melodramas; early entered Prince of Wah-s's set and became. Igiown as an improviser and practical i joker; went to Mauritius as accountant-general, 1813; j dismissed for deficiencies in accounts, 1817; imprisoned, i 1823-5, and his property confiscated; published, as JRichard JonesExchange no Robbery(farce) and Tentamen (satire on Queen Caroline), 1819-20-; began to edit the toryJohn Bull 1820; publishedSayings and Doings(nine novels), 1826-9,Maxwelll8;(, 'Gilbert Gurney 1836,Gurney Married 1838, Jack Brag 1836, and Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1839; editedNew Monthly Magazine 1836-41; his effects seized by the crown; the Lucian Gay of Couingsby and Mr. Wagg of Vanity Fair
- Walter Farquhar Hook
- '''Walter Farquhar Hook''' ([[1798]]-[[1875]]), dean of Chichester; son of James Hook (1772 ?-1828) ; educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1824; D.D., 1837; curate at Whippingham; incumbent of Holy Trinity, Coventry, 1828-37; preached at Chapel Royal his sermonHear the Church 1838, affirming apostolical succession of English bishops; as vicar of Leeds, 1837-59, built new parish church (1841) and many others, with schools and parsonage houses; obtained act of parliament for subdivision of parish (1844); propounded in letter to Bishop Thirlwall (1846) scheme of I rate-paid schools with separate religious instruction; dean of Ohichester, 1859-75. His works includeChurch Dictionary 1842,Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Biography 1845-52, and Lives of Archbishops of Canterbury, 1 18601875 (index, 1876).
- William Hook
- '''William Hook''' ([[1600]]-[[1677]]), puritan divine ; M.A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1623; vicar of Axmouth; emi ! grated to New England, 1640, and became minister at ! Taunton, Massachusetts, andteacherat Newhaven; I sent description of affairs in New England to Cromwell, 1653; Cromwell's chaplain in England, 1666; published New England's Teares for Old England's Feares 1640, and with John Davenport A Catechisme... for the... Church... at New Haven
- John Hooke
- '''John Hooke''' ([[1655]]-[[1712]]), serjeant-at-law; of Trinity College, Dublin; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1681; serjeant-at-law, 1700; chief-justice of Carnarvon, Merioneth, and Anglesey, c. 1703 and 1706; removed for receiving a present, 1707, but subsequently cleared.
- Luke Joseph Hooke
- '''Luke Joseph Hooke''' ([[1716]]-[[1796]]), Roman catholic divine; son of Nathaniel Hooke (d. 1763); D.D. Sorboune, 1736; professor of theology, 1742; virtually compelled to resign by Archbishop de Beaumont; when librarian at the Mazarin Library visited by Dr. Johnson, 1776; dismissed from librarianship by Paris Directory, 1791; edited Memoirs of Duke of Berwick 1778; died at St. Cloud.
- Nathaniel Hooke
- '''Nathaniel Hooke''' , the elder ([[1664]]-[[1738]]), Jacobite; brother of John Hooke; of Dublin and Glasgow Universities and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; sent by Monmouth to raise London, 1685; pardoned by James II; joined Dundee and was captured, 1689; served with Jacobites in Ireland and with French in Flanders; undertook secret missions to Scottish Jacobites, 1706 and 1707; corresponded with Marlborough and Stair; his correspondence (1703-7) edited by the Bev. W. D. Macray, 1870-1.
- Nathaniel Hooke
- '''Nathaniel Hooke''' or NATHANAEL, the younger (d. 1763), author; nephew of Nathaniel Hooke the elder; friend of Pope and Martha Blount and disciple of Fenelon; admitted at Lincoln's Inn, 1702; wrote 'Account of Conduct of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough(1742) at her dictation; publishedRoman History 1738-71, translation of Sir Andrew Michael Ramsay's Travels of Cyrus 1739, and a work denouncing Chesterfield's Letters published, 1791.
- Robert Hooke
- '''Robert Hooke''' ([[1635]]-[[1703]]), experimental philosopher; educated at Westminster under Busby and at Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1663; assisted Thomas Willis in his chemistry and Robert Boyle with his air-pump; elected curator of experiments to Royal Society, 1662; F.R.S., 1663; secretary, 1677-82; Gresham professor of geometry, 1666; aa surveyor of London designed Montague House, Bethlehem Hospital,
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- Hooton
- '''Hooton''' and College of I'hysii-iuns; in his Micrographia (1665) pointed out real nature of combustion; proposed to measure force of gravity by swinging of pendulum, 1: showed experimentally that centre of gravity of earth and moon is the point describing an ellipse round the sun; in a-timiomv discovered fifth star in Orion, 1GG-I, inferred rotation of Jupiter, 1664, firstobserved a star by daylight, ami m.-uk- earliest attempts (1669) at telescopic determination of parallax of a fixed star; in optics helped Newton by bints; first applied spiral spring to regulate watches; expounded true theory of elasticity ami kim-tir hypothesis of gases, 1678; his anticipation of law of inverse squares admitted by Newton: first asserted true principle of the arch; constructed first Gregorian telescope, 1674: described a system of telegraphy, 1684; invented marine barometer and other instruments; posthumous works edited by R. Waller, 1705, and Derham, 1726.
- Hooker
- '''Hooker''' or HOKER, JOHN (fl. [[1540]]), of Maidstone ; poet and dramatist: fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1530; M.A., 1635; B.D., 1540.
- Hooker
- '''Hooker''' alias VOWELL, JOHN ([[1526]]P-[[1601]]), antiquary; educated at Oxford; visited Cologne and Strasburg; first chamberlain of Exeter, 1555; M.P., Athenry (Irish parliament), 1568; contributed to new edition of Hoi lushed, 1586; wrote also The Lyffe of Sir Peter Oarewe and works concerning Exeter.
- Richard Hooker
- '''Richard Hooker''' ([[1554]] ?-[[1600]]), theologian; nephew of John Hooker alias Vowell q. v. j; admitted at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, by influence of Bishop Jewel; scholar, 1573; M.A. and fellow, 1577; deputy Hebrew professor, 1579; intimate at Oxford with (Sir) Edwin Sandys and George Oranmer; incumbent of Drayton-Beauchamp, 1584-5; master of the Temple, 1585; rector of Boscombe, Wiltshire, and (1595-1600) of Bisbopsbourne, Kent, where the inscription on bis monument first calls himJudicious Five books (four books, 1694, fifth book, 1597) ofThe Laws of Ecclesiasticall Politic appeared in his lifetime, the so-called sixth and the eighth in 1648. The seventh was first included in Gauden's edition, 1662. The sixth book is demonstrably spurious. The whole was reissued, with life by Izaak Walton, 1666, and frequently re-edited. It was attacked by the puritans in * A Christian Letter to certaine English Protestants (1599) and defended by William Covell, admired by James I and Charles I, and praised for its style by Fuller and Swift. Other works by Hooker were issued at Oxford, 1613.
- Thomas Hooker
- '''Thomas Hooker''' ([[1586]] ?-[[1647]]), New England divine; fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; M.A., 1611; rector of Esher, 1620; as lecturer at Ohelmsford cited for nonconformity, 1629; withdrew to Holland (1630) to avoid citation of high commission; sailed for New England, 1633; pastor of the eighth church in Massachusetts, till removal to Hartford, Connecticut, 1636; published theological works, includingA Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline issued 1648.
- William Dawson Hooker
- '''William Dawson Hooker''' ([[1816]]-[[1840]]), eldest sou of Sir William Jackson Hooker; privately printed Notes on Norway 1837.
- Sir William Jackson Hooker
- '''Sir William Jackson Hooker''' ([[1785]]-[[1865]]), director of Kew Gardens: formed collection of Norfolk birds; visited Iceland ami printed Recollections 1811; became acquainted with foreign botanists during tour of 1814; regius professor of botany at Glasgow, 1820; K.H., 1836; greatly extended and threw open to the public Kew Gardens, where, with John Stevens Hcnslow, he founded a museum of economic botany, 1847; his herbarium purchased by the nation; F.L.S., 1806; F.R.S., 1812; LL.D. Glasgow; D.C.L. Oxford, 1845. His works include Muscologia Britannica 1818-27, Flora Boreali- Americana 1833-40, Species Filicum 1846-64.
- Hooke
- '''Hooke''' 8, NICHOLAS ([[1628]]-[[1712]]), poet; scholar of W stmiuster and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1653; publishedAmanda (1653) and other verges.
- Charles Hoole
- '''Charles Hoole''' ([[1610]]-[[1667]]), educational writer ; M.A. Lincoln College, Ox ford, 1636; master of Rot her ham school; rector of Great Pontoti, 1642; sequestrated; became known as teacher in London; prebendary of Lincoln and rector of Stock, Essex: published Termination* et Kxempla 1650, and other school manuals,
- Elijah Hoole
- '''Elijah Hoole''' ([[1798]]-[[1878]]), orientalist; while Wesleyan missionary in Southern Indian wa member of committee for revising Tamil versions of the bible: .! translation* into Tamil. Penonal Narrative - 1. ami,.t 1,,-r works; aecreUry of Wealeyan Mi* si.jn.iry Sx-u-ty, 1KJ6.
- John Hoole
- '''John Hoole''' ([[1727]]-[[1803]]), translator ; principal auditor at India House: visited Johnson in bit last illness; his translations of Tanao's Jerusalem Delivered (1763) and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1783) frequently reprinted; published also version* of Metartak DramasLife of John Scott of Amwell(1784). and three tragedies, acted at Covent Garden. HOpPER, EDMUND (1563 V - 1621), organist of Westminster Abbey, 1606-21, and composer of church music; gentleman of the Chapel Royal. 1603.
- George Hooper
- '''George Hooper''' ([[1640]]-[[1727]]), bishop of Bath and Wells; scholar of St. Paul's and Westminster and student of Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1663: D.D., 1 677; classical, Hebrew, and Arabic scholar; chaplain to Bishop Morley and Archbishop Sheldon; rector of Lambeth, 1675; precentor of Exeter; as almoner to Princess Mary confirmed her in Anglican principles and offended William of Orange; dean of Canterbury, 1691; prolocutor of the lower house of convocation, 1701; bishop of St. Asapb, 1702-3; accepted see of Bath and Wells, 1703 at importunity of his friend Ken, who dedicated to him his Hymuarium; collective edition of hi* works, issued 1757, includes Calculation of the Credibility of Human Testimony and treatise on Tertullian's De Valentinianorum Heeresi.*
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- John Hooper
- '''John Hooper''' (d. [[1555]]), bishop of Gloucester and Worcester; B.A.Oxford, 1519; said to have been a Cis tercian: adopted protestnnt views and disputed with Gardiner; fled from England, 1539, to avoid persecution; while at Zurich, 1547-9, adopted views of John 4 Lasco as chaplain to Somerset, 1649, led advanced reformers and denounced Bonner; when nominated to see of Gloucester (1550) refusal to wear vestments, and only gave in after committal to the Fleet, 1551; showed great 1 zeal in his diocese and was liberal to the poor; followed Zurich usage in appointingsuperintendents; member of commission to report on ecclesiastical laws, 1551; bishop of Worcester, I'M commentam, 1552, Gloucester j being subsequently made an archdeaconry: opposed , attempt to set aside Mary; deprived by Queen Mary and ; sentenced for heresy: burned at Gloucester. His works consist mainly of homilies and biblical expositions (col lected edition issued, 1855).
- Robert Hooper
- '''Robert Hooper''' ([[1773]]-[[1835]]), medical writer; M.A. and M.B. Pembroke College, Oxford, 1804: M.I). St. Andrews, 1805: practised in Savile Row, making special study of pathology. His works include Compendious Medical Dictionary 1798, andAnatomist's VadeMecum 1798.
- William Hulme Hooper
- '''William Hulme Hooper''' ([[1827]]-[[1854]]), lieutenant in the navy; shared in expedition of the Plover, 1 HIM- 5d, in search of Sir John Franklin, publishing an account, 1853.
- Robert Eli Hooppell
- '''Robert Eli Hooppell''' ([[1833]]-[[1895]]), antiquary ; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1858; LLD., 1865; ordained priest, 1859: English chaplain at Menai Bridge, 1859-61; first bead - master of Dr. Winterbottom's nautical college, South Shields, 1861-75; rector of Byers Green, co. Dublin, 1875; published writings relating to excavated Roman camp at South Shields and other antiquarian subjects.
- Elizabeth Hooten
- '''Elizabeth Hooten''' (d. [[1672]]), first female quaker minister; imprisoned at Derby, 1051, York, 1668, and Lincoln, 1654; went to Boston, Massachusetts, 1662; harbarou-ly treated at Cambridge, U.S.A.: returned to England; accompanied George Fox to Jamaica, 1670, and died there.
- Charles Hooton
- '''Charles Hooton''' ([[1813]] ?-[[1847]]). novelist; lived savage life in Texas; journalist in New Orleans, New York, and Montreal; publishedColin Clink(in BentIt -y's Mi-cellany and republbhed, 1841),St. Louis Isle 1847, and other works.
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- Sir Alexander Hope
- '''Sir Alexander Hope''' ([[1769]]-[[1837]]), general: second son of tbe second Earl of Hopetoun; served in Flanders and Holland, 1794-5, as aide-de-camp to Sir Ralph Abercromby; wounded while commanding the 14th in attack on Guelderinasen, 1795: major-general, 1808; governor of Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1812; undertook mission to Sweden, 1813: honorary D.C.L. Oxford, 1824; lieutenant-governor of Chelsea Hospital, 1826: M.P., Dumfries, 1796, Liulitbgowshire, 1802-34; general and G.O.B.
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- '''Hope''' (afterwards BERESFORD-HOPE), ALEX-
- James Beresford Ander
- '''James Beresford Ander''' ([[1820]]-[[1887]]), politician and author; son of Thomas Hope (1770?-1831); of Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1844; D.C.L., 1848; tory M.P., Maidstone, 1841-52 and 1857-9, Stoke, 1865-8, and Cambridge University, 1868-87; inherited Marshal Lord Beresford's English estates, 1854; prominent opponent of Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, 1859, abolition of church rates, Reform Bill of 1867, and Burials Bill, 1873; privy councillor, 1880; founded missionary college at Canterbury, and built All SaintsChurch, Margaret Street, London; established Saturday Review 1855, with John Douglas Cook as editor; president of Institute of Architects, 1865-7; trustee of British Museum and National Portrait Gallery; published Hymns of the Church literally translated (1 844 ) The English Cathedral of the Nineteenth Century(1861), works on the American civil war and on church politics, and two novels.
- Mr Hope
- '''Mr Hope''' 8. ANNE ([[1809]]-[[1887]]), authoress; nie Fulton; wife and biographer of James Hope (1801-1841) ; converted to Romanism, 1850; published Acts of the Early Martyrs 1855, lives of St. Philip Neri (1859) and St. Thomas Becket (1868),Conversion of the Teutonic Race 1872, and Franciscan Martyrs in England 1878.
- Archibald Hope
- '''Archibald Hope''' , LORD RANKEILLOR ([[1639]]1706), lord of session, 1689, and of justiciary, 1690; second son of Sir John Hope, lord Craighall
- Charles Hope
- '''Charles Hope''' , first EARL OP HOPETOUN* ([[1681]]1742); supported union with England; created Scots peer, 1703; representative peer from 1722; lord high commissioner of church of Scotland, 1723.
- Charles Hope
- '''Charles Hope''' , LORD GRANTON ([[1763]]-[[1851]]), president of court of session; eldest son of John Hope ( 1739-1785); studied law at Edinburgh University; admitted advocate, 1784; sheriff of Orkney, 1792; lord advocate, 1801; M.P., Edinburgh, 1803; lord justice clerk, 1804; president of court of session, 1811-41; privy councillor, 1822; lord justice general from 1836; active colonel of Edinburgh volunteers.
- Frederick William Hope
- '''Frederick William Hope''' ([[1797]]-[[1862]]), entomologist and collector; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1823; presented to the university his collection of insects and prints, and founded professorship of zoology; president of Entomological Society, 1835 and 1846; published tbe Coleopterlst'a Manual 1837-40.
- George Hope
- '''George Hope''' ([[1811]]-[[1876]]), Scottish agriculturist ; his holding at Fenton Barns, Haddingtonshire, regarded as model farm: wrote against corn laws and game laws; contributed to Sir A. Grant's Recess Studies 1870.
- Sir Henry Hope
- '''Sir Henry Hope''' ([[1787]]-[[1863]]), admiral; served under his cousin (Admiral Sir James Hope (1808-1881) ) in tbe Kent; captured in Swiftsure, 1801; commanded cruisers in Mediterranean, 1808-12; while in command of the Endymiou captured tbe U.S. ship President off Sandy Hook, 1816; rear-admiral, 1846; K.C.B., 1855; admiral, 1868.
- Henry Philip Hope
- '''Henry Philip Hope''' (d. [[1839]]), picture and diamond collector; brother of Thomas Hope (1770?1831)
- Sir James Hope
- '''Sir James Hope''' ([[1614]]-[[1861]]), of Hopetoun ; lawyer and lead-worker; sixth son of Sir Thomas Hope, first baronet (d. 1646); general of tbe cunzie-house, 1642; a lord of session, 1649; member of committee of estates; commissioner of justice, 1662; member of English council of state, 1653.
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- '''Hope''' (afterwards HOPE JOHNSTONE), .(AMI'S. third EARL or HOPETOUN (1741-1816), with foot-guards at Minden; succeeded to earldom, 1781; representative peer, 1784 and 1794; succeeded to estates of Marquis of AnnaiuhiU: and assumed name of Johnstone, 1792; created British baron, 1809, for raising Hopetoun fenoiN.s.
- James Hope
- '''James Hope''' ([[1801]]-[[1841]]), physician; studied at Edinburgh, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and on the continent.; early practised auscultation; physician to.Marylebone Infirmary, 1831; assistant at St. George's Hospital, 1834, full physician, 1839; F.R.C.P., 1840; F.R.S., 1832; published Treatise on Diseases of the Heart 1832, and a work on morbid anatomy, 1833-4.
- James Hope
- '''James Hope''' ([[1764]]-[[1846]] ?), United Irishman : cotton-weaver; supported union between Romanists and presbyterians in Ulster; joined Roughford volunteer corps and (1795) the reconstructed United Irish Society; founded branch at Dublin; present at Ballinahincb, 1798; assisted Robert Emmet and organised rising in co. Down, 1803, but was amnestied.
- Sir James Hope
- '''Sir James Hope''' ([[1808]]-[[1881]]), admiral of the fleet ; cousin of Sir Henry Hope; distinguished in engagement with Obligado batteries, 1845; C.B., 1846; commanded the Majestic in the Baltic, 1854-6; rearadmiral, 1857; commander-in-chief in China, 1859; repulsed and wounded in attempt to force passage of the Peibo, 1859; tookTaku forts, 1860: created K.C.B., 1860; wounded while serving against Taepings, 1862; commander in North America, 1863; G.C.B., 1865; commander at Portsmouth, 1869-72; admiral, 1870; admiral of the fleet, 1879.
- Sir James Archibald Hope
- '''Sir James Archibald Hope''' ([[1785]]-[[1871]]), general; served with 26th in Hanover. 1805-6, and at Copenhagen, 1807; on staff of Sir John Hope (17651836) in Spain, 1808-9, and Walcheren expedition, 1809; aide-de-camp to Graham at Baroesa, 1811, Ciudad Rodrigo, 1812, and Badajoz, 1812; assistant adjutantgeneral at Salamanca, Vittoria, and St. Sebastian, and with Beresford in France; exchanged into Scots Guards, 1814: major-general in Lower Canada, 1841-7; G.O.B.; general, 1859.
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- Sir John Hope
- '''Sir John Hope''' , LORD CRAIGHALL ([[1605]] ??[[1654]]), eldest son of Sir Thomas Hope, first baronet (d. 1646) ; lord of session, 1632; knighted, 1632; member of committee of estates, 1640, of Cromwell's judicial committee, 1652; represented Scotland in English parliament, 1653.
- Sir John Hope
- '''Sir John Hope''' ([[1684]] ?-[[1766]]). See BRUCE, Sm
- Hope John
- '''Hope John''' .
- John Hope
- '''John Hope''' ([[1739]]-[[1785]]), author; grandson of Charles Hope, first earl of Hopetoun; M.P., Linlithgowsbire, 1768-70; published Letters on Credit 1784, and other works.
- John Hope
- '''John Hope''' ([[1725]]-[[1786]]), professor of botany at Edinburgh; grandson of Archibald Hope, lord Rankeillor; M.D. Glasgow, 1750; professor of botany and materia medica, Edinburgh, 1761; regius professor of medicine and botany, 1768; president, Edinburgh College of Physicians; F.R.S.; founded new Edinburgh botanic gardens, 1776; genus Hopea named after him by Linnaeus, whose Genera Animalium he edited, 1781.
- John Hope
- '''John Hope''' , fourth EARL OP HOPKTOUN ([[1765]]-[[1823]]), general; M.P., Linlithpowshire, 1790; adjutant-general under Abercromby in West Indies, 1796, and in Holland, 1799; wounded at Alexandria, 1801; lieutenant-general, 1808; second in command under Sir John Moore in Sweden and in the Peninsula; commanded left wing at Corufia and directed embarkation; beaded division in Walcheren expedition, 1809; succeeded Graham in tbe Peninsula; led first division at Nivelle and the Nive, 1813; conducted blockade of Bayonne; wounded and captured in final sortie of Bayonne garrison, 1814; created Baron Niddry; succeeded his half-brother James, third Earl of Hopetoun, 1816; general, 1819.
- Sir John Hope
- '''Sir John Hope''' ([[1788]]-[[1836]]), lieutenant-general: son of John Hope (1739-1785); in Dutch service, 1778-82; aide-de-camp to Sir William Erskine in Flanders and Germany, 1792-3; commanded 28th, 1796-9, and 37th, 1799-1804; deputy adjutant-general under Cathcart at Hanover, 1806, and Copenhagen, 1807; commanded brigade at Salamanca, 1812; lieutenant-general, 1819; knighted, 1821; G.O.H.
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- '''Hopkinson'''
- John Hope
- '''John Hope''' ([[1794]]-[[1858]]), Scottish judge : eldest son of Charles Hope (1763-1851); advocate, 1816; summoned to Commonsbar for breach of privilege, 1822; solicitor-ireneral for Scotland, 1822-30: dean of Faculty of Advocates, 1830; lord justice clerk, 1841-58; privy councillor, 18 11; edited diary of Sir David Hume of Crossrigg, 1828. xxvii.
- John Williams Hope
- '''John Williams Hope''' ([[1757]]-[[1813]]), banker'and men-limit; sou of William Williams: assumed name of Hope ou marriage; banker at Amsterdam; one of the eight statesmen of Holland, 1794-1806.
- Hope
- '''Hope''' Sin THOMAS ([[1606]]-[[1643]]), of Keree ; son of Sir Thomas Hope, first baronet; admitted advocate, 1631; knighted, 1633; commissioner for Clackmannan, 1639-41; colonel of Leslie's bodyguard, 1639-40; negotiated compromise between Charles I and the estates; lord justice-general, 1041-3; wrote the Law Repertorie
- Sir Thomas Hope
- '''Sir Thomas Hope''' , first baronet (d. [[1648]]), lordadvocate of Scotland; advocate, 1605; made reputation by defence of John Forbea (1568 ?-1634), and other ministers at Linlithgow, 1606: prepared deed revoking James I's grants of church property, 1625; lord advocate, 1626; created Nova Scotia baronet, 1628; conducted case against Balmerino, 1634; as lord high commissioner to general assembly maintained the king's temporising policy, 1643; his 4 Minor Practicks published by Bayne, 1726.
- Thomas Hope
- '''Thomas Hope''' ([[1770]] ?-[[1831]]X virtuoso and author ; of the Hopes of Amsterdam; settled in England, c. 1796; collected marbles and sculptures, and deposited them in Duchess Street, London, and at Deepdene, Surrey; patron of Canova, Thorwaldsen, and Flax man; caricatured with his wife by Dubost as Beauty and the Beast 1810; publishedAnastasius(anonymously), 1819,Household Furniture 1807, and other works.
- Thomas Charles Hope
- '''Thomas Charles Hope''' ([[1768]]-[[1844]]), professor of chemistry at Edinburgh; third son of John Hope (17251786); professor of chemistry at Glasgow, 1787-9; professor of chemistry, Edinburgh, 1799-1843; proved that strontian contained a peculiar earth; estimated maximum density point of water; founded chemical prize at Edinburgh.
- Sir William Johnstons Hope
- '''Sir William Johnstons Hope''' ([[1766]]-[[1831]]), vice-admiral; son of John Hope (1739-1785); lieutenant of the Boreas under Nelson, 1787; flagcaptain to Rear-admiral Pasley in action of 1 June, 1794, to Duncan in the Venerable and the Kent, 1795-6, and 1798-9; served in Egypt, 1800-1; M.P., Dumfries, 1800-4, Dumfriesshire, 1804-30; a lord of the admiralty, 1807-9; vice-admiral, 1819; member of admiralty board, 1820-8; G.O.B., 1825.
- William Williams Hope
- '''William Williams Hope''' ([[1802]]-[[1855]]), man of fashion and virtuoso; son of John Williams Hope q. v.l
- Hope
- '''Hope''' -SCOTT, JAMES ROBERT ([[1812]]-[[1873]]), parliamentary barrister; third son of Sir Alexander Hope ; travelled in Germany and Italy before going to Eton; at Christ Church, Oxford, became the friend of William Ewart Gladstone and Roundell Palmer, afterwards Earl of Selborne: fellow of Merton, 1833; D.C.L., 1843; barrister, Inner Temple, 1840; named chancellor of Salisbury, 1840, after arguing before House of Lords against Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill, 1840; joined tractarians, becoming Newman's chief adviser; with Manning received into Roman church, 1851; soon obtained immense parliamentary practice; Q.C., 1849; married John Gibson Lockhart's daughter, and assumed additional name of Scott, 1853, on becoming possessor of Abbotsford; wrote against Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 1867.
- Earls Op Hopetottn
- '''Earls Op Hopetottn''' . See HOPE, CHARLES, first
- Earl
- '''Earl''' [[1681]]-[[1742]]; HOPE, JAMES, third EARL, [[1741]]-[[1816]];
- John Hopk
- '''John Hopk''' , fourth EARL, [[1765]]-[[1823]].
- Hopkin Hopkin
- '''Hopkin Hopkin''' ([[1737]]-[[1754]]), famous dwarf : son of Lewis Ilopkin
- Lewis Hopkin
- '''Lewis Hopkin''' ([[1708]]-[[1771]]), Welsh poet ; registered bard, 1760; with Edward Evans (1716-1798) made rhymed version of Ecclesiastes, 1767: translated Chevy Chase 1770: collected works Y Fel Gafod edited by J. Miles, 1813.
- Charles Hopkins
- '''Charles Hopkins''' ([[1664]]?- [[1700]]?), poet; son of Ezekil Hopkins; friend of Drydeu and Congreve: of Trinity College, Dublin, and QueensCollege, Cambridge; B.A. Cambridge, 1688; published Epistolary Poems 1694, Whitehall 1698, and three tragedies.
- Ed Ward Hopkins
- '''Ed Ward Hopkins''' ([[1800]]-[[1657]]), governor of Connecticut; emigrated, 1637; governor of COM 1640-52 (alternate years); helped to form unim. England colonies, 1643; navy commissioner in England, 1053: M.P., Dartmouth, 1656; Hopkiuton bought from his donation to Harvard.
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- Ezekikl Hopkins
- '''Ezekikl Hopkins''' ([[1634]]-[[1890]]), bishop of Derry ; of Merchant TaylorsSchool and Magdalen Collet, Oxford; M.A., 1656; chaplain to Lord Robartes (viceroy of Ireland); archdeacon of Waterford, 1669; bishop of Raphoe, 1670-81; bishop of Derry, 1681-90; left Ireland at Revolution; works edited by Josiah Pratt, 1809.
- George Hopkins
- '''George Hopkins''' ([[1620]]-[[1666]]), rector of Evesham (ejected, 1662), and author ofSalvation from Sin (1666).
- John Hopkins
- '''John Hopkins''' (rf. [[1570]]), contributor to metrical Psalms; B.A. Oxford, 1544; Suffolk schoolmaster; rector of Great Waldingfield, 1561-70; theOld Hundredth psalm often attributed to him
- John Hopkins
- '''John Hopkins''' (fl. [[1700]]), verse-writer ; brother of Charles Hopkins; M.A. Jesus College, Cambridge, 1698; chief works,Milton's Paradise Lost imitated in Rhyme 1699, and Amasia 1700.
- John Larkin Hopkins
- '''John Larkin Hopkins''' ([[1819]]-[[1873]]), organist of Rochester (1841) and Trinity College, Cambridge (1846): Mus. Doc. Cambridge, 1857; composed Five Glees and a Madrigal 1842, and church music; publishedNew Vocal Tutor 1855.
- Matthew Hopkins
- '''Matthew Hopkins''' (d. [[1647]]), witch-finder ; said to have been a lawyer at Ipswich and Manningtree: made journeys for discovery of witches in eastern counties and Huntingdonshire, 1644-7; procured special judicial commission (1645) under John Godbolt by which sixty women were hanged in Essex in one year, nearly forty at Bury, and many at Norwich and in Huntingdonshire; published Discovery of Witches 1647; exposed by John Gaule; hanged as a sorcerer; referred to in 4 Hudibras
- Richard Hopkins
- '''Richard Hopkins''' (d. [[1694]] ?), translator ; of St. Alban's Hall, Oxford, and Middle Temple; studied at Spanish universities, Louvain, Rheims, and Paris; translated Spanish religious works.
- William Hopkins
- '''William Hopkins''' (. [[1674]]), stenographer : published The Flying Pen-Man 1670.
- William Hopkins
- '''William Hopkins''' ([[1647]]-[[1700]]), divine; son of George Hopkins; M.A. St. Mary Hall, Oxford. 1668; D.D., 1692; chaplain to Henry Coventry (1619 1686) in second embassy to Sweden, 1671; prebendary of Worcester, 1676, and master of St. Oswald's Hospital, 1697; published Book of Bertram or Ratrammw concerning the Body and Blood of the Lord 1686; I assisted Gibson with edition ofSaxon Chronicleand Camdeu in Britannia
- William Hopkins
- '''William Hopkins''' ([[1706]]-[[1786]]), theological writer: B.A. All Souls College, Oxford, 1728; master of Cuckfield School, 1756; as vicar of Bolney, made alterations in the liturgy; published Arian pamphlets attacking liturgy.
- William Hopkins
- '''William Hopkins''' ([[1793]]-[[1866]]), mathematician and geologist; of Peterhouse, Cambridge; seventh wrangler, 1827: M.A., 1830; as coach, hud Stok. Thomson, Fawcett, and Todhunter among his pupils; studied geology; Wollastoii medallist, 1850; president of Geological Society, 1851, and of British Association, 1863; prize founded in his honour by Cambridge Philosophical Society; published works, including Elements of Trigonometry 1833, and Theoretical Investigations on Motion of Glaciers 1842.
- John Hopkinson
- '''John Hopkinson''' ([[1610]]-[[1680]]), antiquary; of Lincoln's Inn; secretary to Dugdale during visitation of Yorkshire; made large collections for history of Yorkshire, T T
- Hopkinson
- '''Hopkinson''' 642
- Hornby
- '''Hornby'''
- John Hopkinson
- '''John Hopkinson''' ([[1849]] -[[1898]]), electrical eugiueer; educated at the Oweus College, Manchester, and Trinity College, Cambridge; senior wrangler, 1871; Smith's prizeman: fellow; D.Sc. London, 1871; manager and engineer iu lighthouse and optical department of Messrs. Chance Brothers, Birmingham, 1872-8; consulting engineer in London, 1878; F.R.S., 1878, and member of council, 1836-7 and 1891-3; patented three-wire system of distributing electricity, 1882; published, with his brother, Edward Hopkinsou, paper describing improvements iu dynamos, which was foundation of accurate design of dynamos in accordance with theory, 1886; professor of electrical engineering, King's College, London, 1890; consulting engineer to contractors of City and South London Railway; member of council of Institute of Civil Engineers, 1895; member of Institution of Electrical Engineers; killed in Alpine accident. A collection of his scientific papers was published, 1901.
- William Hopkinson
- '''William Hopkinson''' ( fl. [[1583]]), divine; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1567; published translation from Beza's vindication of Calvin's predestination.
- Thomas Hopkirk
- '''Thomas Hopkirk''' ([[1790]] ?-[[1851]] ?) Glasgow botanist; F.L.S., 1812; published Flora Auomoia 1817.
- Edward William John Hopley
- '''Edward William John Hopley''' X ( [[1816]]-[[1869]]), painter; exhibited at British Institution and Royal Academy; invented trigonometrical system of facial measurement,
- Humphrey Hopper
- '''Humphrey Hopper''' (ft. [[1799]]-[[1834]]), sculptor.
- Thomas Hopper
- '''Thomas Hopper''' ([[1776]]-[[1856]]), architect and surveyor; built Arthur's Club and various mansions.
- John Hoppner
- '''John Hoppner''' ([[1758]]-[[1810]]), portrait-painter ; born in London of German parentage; chorister in Chapel Royal; exhibited at Royal Academy (1780-1809) 168 pictures, mostly portraits, includingA Sleeping Nymph R.A., 1795; portrait-painter to Prince of Wales, 1789; Lawrence's chief rival; Lady Culling (Eardley) Smith and Children and Mrs. Lascelles among his finest works.
- John Hoppus
- '''John Hoppus''' ([[1789]]-[[1875]]), professor at University College, London; M.A. Glasgow; LL.D., 1839; independent minister at Carter Street Chapel, London; first professor of philosophy and logic, University College, London, 1829-66; F.R.S., 1841; published Account of Bacon's " Novum Organon," 1827, Thoughts on Academical Education 1837, and other works.
- Charles Rivington Hopson
- '''Charles Rivington Hopson''' ([[1744]]-[[1796]]), physician to Fiusbury Dispensary; educated at St. Paul's School and Leyden; M.D., 1767; published Essay on Fire 1782, and translations from German of J. G. Zimmermann and Wiegleb.
- Hopsonn
- '''Hopsonn''' or HOPSON, EDWARD (d. [[1728]]), viceadmiral
- Sir Thomas Hopsonn
- '''Sir Thomas Hopsonn''' ([[1642]]-[[1717]]), vice-admiral: served against Dutch, 1672-3; commanded the York at Beachy Head, 1690, and the St. Michael at Barfleur, 1692; rear-admiral, 1693; commanded squadron off French coast, 1694-5, and Channel squadron, 1699; vice-admiral, 1702; as second in command under Rooke forced boom protecting French and Spanish fleet at Yigo, 1 702, and was knighted and pensioned; M.P., Newtown (Isle of Wight), 1698-1705.
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- Hopt
- '''Hopt''' pN, ARTHUR ([[1588]] ?-[[1614]]), astrologer and mathematician; of Clement's Inn; friend of Selden: published prognostications for years, 1607-14, Bacvlum Geodajticum 1610, and similar works.
- Hopton
- '''Hopton''' Sm ARTHUR ([[1588]] ?-[[1650]]), diplomatist ; of Lincoln College, Oxford; secretary to Lord Oottington's embassy in Spain, 1629, ambassador, 1638, and throughout civil wars; knighted, 1638.
- John Hopton
- '''John Hopton''' (d. [[1558]]), bishop of Norwich ; prior of Oxford Dominicans; D.D. Oxford, 1532; rector of St. Anne's, London, 1539, of Fobbing, Essex, 1548; chaplain to Princess Mary at Copt Hall; bishop of Norwich, 15541558; persecuted the protestants.
- Ralph Hopton
- '''Ralph Hopton''' , first BARON HOPTON ([[1598]]-[[1652]]), royalist commander; nephew of Sir Arthur Hoptou ; of Lincoln College, Oxford; served under elector palatine and Mansfeld; K.B., 1625; M.P., Bath, in first parliament of Charle.- 1, and Somerset in Short parliament; M.P., Wells, 1628-9, and in Lonjr parliament; sup j ported Strafford's attainder and pre.-enu-d Grand Remonstrance to kiijg, 1641, but was sent to Tower by parlia , mi-lit for denouncing militia ordinance, 1642; expelled the house; defeated parliamentarian* at Bradoek Down;md Strattou, Cornwall, 1643; joined Maurice's attack on Waller atLansdown, 1643, and, though wounded, directed defence of Devizes, 1643; created Baron Hoptou on resignation I of governorship of Bristol to Rupert, 1643; defeated at i Cheriton, 1644; succeeded to command of Gpring's undisciplined force in the west; routed at Torringtou, 1646; capitulated at Truro, 1646; left England with Prince Charles, 1648; opposed concessions to prebyterians and i retired to Wesel, 1650; died at Bruges.
- Susanna Hopton
- '''Susanna Hopton''' ([[1627]]-[[1709]]), devotional writer; nte Harvey; wife of Richard Hopton, Welsh judge.
- James Hopwood
- '''James Hopwood''' , the elder ([[1752]] ?-[[1819]]), engraver ; : secretary, ArtistsBenevolent Fund.
- James Hopwood
- '''James Hopwood''' , the younger (fl. [[1800]]-[[1850]]), i stipple-engraver; son of James Hopwood the elder ,
- William Hopwood
- '''William Hopwood''' ([[1784]]-[[1853]]), engraver; brother of James Hopwood the younger
- Matthew Horbery
- '''Matthew Horbery''' ([[1707]] ?-[[1773]]), divine; M.A. Lincoln College, Oxford, 1733; fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1733; defended Waterland against John Jackson (1686-1763); published treatise onScripture Doctrine of Eternal Punishment 1744; canon of Lichfield, 1736; vicar of Hanbury, 1740, of Standlake, 1756; collected works issued, 1828.
- Hildebrand Horden
- '''Hildebrand Horden''' (d. [[1796]]), actor : member of Drury Lane and Dorset Garden Company, 1696-6; said to have written Neglected Virtue; killed in tavern brawl.
- William Horman
- '''William Horman''' (d. [[1535]]), vice-provost of Eton; fellow of New College. Oxford, 1477-85; master of Eton, 1485, and fellow, 1502; his Latin aphorisms Vulgaria printed by Pynsou, 1619, and De Worde, 1540; in Autibossicou (1521) attacked grammatical works of Robert Whitynton.
- Andrew Horn
- '''Andrew Horn''' (d. [[1328]]), chamberlain of London, 1320-8; compiled Liber Horn; author or editor of La Somme appelle Mirroir des Justices (printed, 1624).
- Charles Edward Horn
- '''Charles Edward Horn''' ([[1786]]-[[1849]]), vocalist and composer; made reputation as Caspar in Der Frei schlitz at Drury Lane, 1824; subsequently music pub i lisher at New York; director at Princess's, London, 1843 i 1 847; conductor of Handel and Haydn Society,Boston, 1848; composed popular airs, including Cherry Ripe and I know a bank operas and oratorios, and glees and pianoforte music; edited Hindustani Melodies 1813.
- Jabez Carter Hornblower
- '''Jabez Carter Hornblower''' ([[1744]]-[[1814]]), engineer; son of Jonathan Hornblower; employed by Dutch and Swedish governments; patented machine for glazing calicoes.
- Jonathan Hornblower
- '''Jonathan Hornblower''' ([[1717]]-[[1780]]), engineer.
- Jonathan Carter Hornblower
- '''Jonathan Carter Hornblower''' ([[1753]]-[[1815]]), , engineer; son of Jonathan Hornblower; employed I'V Vatt; his steam engine on the expansion principle (1781) declared infringement of Watt's patent, 179'J; contributed to Nicholson's Journal
- Jos Hornblower
- '''Jos Hornblower''' 1AH ([[1729]]7-[[1809]]), speaker of New Jersey assembly; brother of Jonathan Hornblower
- Sir Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby
- '''Sir Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby''' (1825-1895), admiral of the fleet; son of Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby; entered navy, 1837; lieutenant, 1844; flag-lieutenant to his father in Pacific, 1846; com I mander, 1850; captain, 1852; at Vancouver's island, 1 1868; under Sir William Faushawe Martin in Mediterranean, 1861-2; flag-captain to Rear-admiral Sidney Colpoys Dacres in Channel, 1862-5; first ; class commodore on west coast of Africa, 1866-7; rear admiral, 1869; commanded flying squadron, 1869-71, and
- Hornby
- '''Hornby''' 643
- Hornsby
- '''Hornsby''' i, 1871-4; lord of admiralty, 1875-7; ! (1818: Suppl. 1821) frequently reissued and enlarged; fifth ; commander-in-chief in Mediterranean, volume of seventh edition published separately as Manual d fleet through Dardanelles to Con- of Bihlk-al Bibliography, 1 1839: published also Introduc Channel squadron, 1871-4; lord of admiralty, 1875-7; vice-admiral, 1875 1877-80; conducted stantinople during Russo-Turkish war, 1878; K.C.B., 1878; admiral, 1879; president of Royal Naval College, 1881-2; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, 1882-5; commanded evolutionary squadron, 1885; G.C.B., 1885; principal naval aide-de-camp to the queen, 1886; admiral of the fleet, 1888.
- Hornby
- '''Hornby''' Sm PHIPPS ([[1785]]-[[1867]]), admiral ; midshipman in the Victory, 1804; while commanding the Duchess of Bedford engaged two privateers off Gibraltar, 1806; in the Volage took part In action off Lissa, 1811; C.B., 1815; commander in Pacific, 1847-50; a lord of tinadmiralty, 1851-2; admiral, 1858; G.C.B., 1861.
- Hornby
- '''Hornby''' VILLIAM (;*. [[1618]]), poet; author of 'The Scovrge of Drvnkennes," 1618, andHornbyes Hornbook 1622.
- George Horne
- '''George Horne''' ([[1730]]-[[1792]]), bishop of Norwich ; B.A. University College, Oxford, 1749; fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1750, and president, 1768-90; M.A., 1752; royal chaplain, 1771-81; vice-chancellor, 1776; dean of Canterbury, 1781: bishop of Norwich, 1790-2; allowed John Wesley to preach in his diocese: defended Hutchinsonian views against Newton; published " Commentary on the Psalms, 1 1771: and wrote against Law, Swedenborg, and Kennicott.
- John Horne
- '''John Horne''' ([[1614]]-[[1676]]), puritan divine; of Trinity College, Cambridge; incumbent of Sutton St. James and All Hallows, Lynn Regis; attacked quakers, independents, and presbyterians; publishedThe Open Door 1650, and other devotional works.
- Richard Henry Horne
- '''Richard Henry Horne''' or HENGIST ([[1803]]1884), author; educated at Sandhurst; in Mexican navy against Spain; travelled in America and Canada; advocated establishment of Society of Literature and Art, 1833; editedMonthly Repository 1836-7; published 'Cosmo de Medici 1837,Death of Marlowe 1837, and other tragedies; corresponded with Mrs. Browning (Miss Barrett), 1839-46; collaborated with her in New Spirit of the Age 1844; his epic,Orion published at a farthing, 1843; issued Ballad Romances 1846, andThe Poor Artist 1860; in Australia, 1852-69, as commissioner for crown lands, and magistrate; granted civil list pension, 1874; published Australian Facte and Prospects 1859.
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- Robert Horne
- '''Robert Horne''' ([[1519]] 7-[[1580]]), bishop of Winchester; fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1537; tion to Study of Bibliography 1814, Deism Refuted 1819, Manual of Parochial Psalmody 1829, and treatises against Romanism, catalogues, and compilations; contributed toEncyclopedia Metropolitana; edited Btebop Beveridge's Works 1824, and other publications.
- Sir William Horne
- '''Sir William Horne''' ([[1774]]-[[1860]]), master in chancery; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1798; K.O., 1818; attorney-general to Queen Adelaide, 1830; M.D., Heteton, 1812-18, Bletchingley, Newtown (Isle of Wight), 1831-2, and Marylebone, 1833-4; solicitor-general, 1830; knighted, 1830; attorney-general, 1832; having scruple* against pronouncing death-sentence, resigned exchequer judgeehip rather than go on circuit; master in chancery, 1839-53.
- Tooke Horne
- '''Tooke Horne''' , JOHN ([[1736]]-[[1812]]).
- Hornebolt
- '''Hornebolt''' or HORNEBATTD, HORENBOUT.
- Horebout Hoorenbault
- '''Horebout Hoorenbault''' , GERARD ([[1480]]?1540), painter to Henry VIII; came to England from Ghent about 1528.
- Hornebattd Hornebolt
- '''Hornebattd Hornebolt''' , or HOORENBATTLT,
- Lucas
- '''Lucas''' (d. [[1644]]), king's painter, [[1534]] ; relative of Gerard Hornebolt; instructed Holbein in miniaturepainting,
- Susanna Hornebolt
- '''Susanna Hornebolt''' ([[1503]]-[[1545]]), illuminator ; daughter of Gerard Hornebolt
- Henry Horneby
- '''Henry Horneby''' (d. [[1518]]), master and benefactor of Peterbouse, Cambridge; D.D. Clare Hall, 1491; dean of Wimborne; held various prebends; master of Peterhouse, 1509-18; as secretary and chancellor to Margaret, duchess of Richmond, assisted in opening of St. John's College.
- Anthony Hornecz
- '''Anthony Hornecz''' ([[1641]]-[[1697]]), divine ; came to England from Germany, c. 1661; M.A. Heidelberg (incorporated at Queen's College, Oxford, 1664); chaplain of Queen's College, Oxford, and vicar of All Saints Oxford; preacher at the Savoy, 1671; king's chaplain, 1689; prebendary of Westminster, 1693, and Wells, 1694; popular as preacher and casuist: gave offence by supporting social reform; ancestor of Goldsmith's Jessamy Bride; devotional works frequently reprinted.
- Francis Horner
- '''Francis Horner''' ([[1778]]-[[1817]]), politician ; studied at Edinburgh; member of Edinburgh Speculative Society; called to Scottish bar, 1800: joined English bar, 1807; contributed to first number of Edinburgh Review," 1802: M.A., 1540; D.D., 1549; rector of ~A11 Hallows, Bread M.P., St. Ives, 1806, Wendover, 1807; as chairman of Street, 1560; dean of Durham, 1551; removed St. Cuth- j bullion committee (1810) recommended early resumption bert's tomb with his own hands; helped in preparation refused see of Durham, 1552 of forty-five articles; deprived of deanery on accession of Mary; fled to Zurich; chief minister at Frankfort, 1556, at Strasburg, 1557-8;: restored at Durham, 1559; led disputations against the Romanists at Westminster; bishop of Winchester, 15601580; had custody of Feckenham, and John Leslie (1527- ! 1596), bishop of Ross; vigorous enforcer of confermity; purged Corpus Christi, Christ's, and St. John's Col- i leges, Cambridge, of Romanism; pulled down tabernacle work at New College, Oxford; silenced organs and tried to abolish vestments; assisted in drawing up Book of Advertisements 1564, canons of 1571; in BishopsBible (1568), revised Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Lamentations.
- Robert Horne
- '''Robert Horne''' ([[1565]]-[[1640]]), divine; probably chaplain of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1585-%: M.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1587; published theological works.
- Thomas Horne
- '''Thomas Horne''' ([[1610]]-[[1654]]), master of Eton; M.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1633; master of Tunbridge, 1640-8, of Eton, 1648-54; author of classical manuals. xxvii.
- Thomas Hart Well Hohne
- '''Thomas Hart Well Hohne''' ([[1780]]-[[1862]]), bi cal scholar, bibliographer, and polemic; at Christ's Hospital with Samuel Taylor Coleridge; at Record Office, 1817-19; honorary M.A. Aberdeen, 1818; rector of St. Edmund and St. Nicholas Aeons, London, 1833; sublibrarian at Surrey Institution, 1809-23; senior assistant in printed books department, British Museum, 1824-60; F.S.A., 1828; B.D. Cambridge, 1829; hisIntroduction to Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures of cash payments; returned for St. Mawes, 1813: took part in debates on corn law? and negro slavery, 1813-15; thanked by common council of the city, 1815; proposed measure to regulate proceedings of Irish grand juries, 1816; spoke ably against ministerial foreign policy, and again advocated'cash payments; translated Euler's Elements of Algebra 1797; publishedShort Account of a late Short Administration 1807; died at Pisa and was buried at Leghorn.
- Leonard Horner
- '''Leonard Horner''' ([[1785]]-[[1864]]), geologist and educationalist; studied at Edinburgh University; brother and biographer of Francis Homer; secretary of Geological Society, 1810; president, 1846; F.R.&, 1813; organised whig meetings at Edinburgh, 1821-6; founded Edinburgh School of Arts, 1821; helped to organise London Institution, 1827; warden of London University, 1827-31; commissioner to inquire into employment of children in factories, 1833, and a chief inspector under Factories Act; anticipated some of Murchison and Sedgwick's work on palaeozoic rocks.
- William George Horner
- '''William George Horner''' ([[1786]]-[[1837]]), mathematician; head-master of Kingswood school (1806-9), and afterwards of Grosvenor Place, Bath (1809-37); discovered method of solving numerical equations by continnous approximation.
- Thomas Hornsby
- '''Thomas Hornsby''' ([[1733]]-[[1810]]), astronomer: fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; M.A., 1757; Savillan professor of astronomy and F.R.S., 1763; first Radcliffe observer, 1772: Radcliffe librarian, 1783; Sedleian professor, 1782; D.D., 1785; observed transit of Venus in T T 2
- Horrocks
- '''Horrocks''' 644
- Hort
- '''Hort''' 1761 and 1769, and deduced solar parallax: edited vol. i. of Bradlcy's Astronomical Observations 1798.
- Jeremiah Horrocks
- '''Jeremiah Horrocks''' ([[1617]] 7-[[1641]]), astronomer: sizar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1632-5: commenced acquaintance with William Crabtree, 1636; observed partial solar eclipse of 1639 with half-crown telescope at Toxteth Park; when curate of Houle predicted and observed transit of Venus across the sun, 24 Nov. (O.S.) 1639; began first tidal observations, 1640; obligations for his ascription to moon of an elliptic orbit acknowledged by Newton; detectedlong inequality* of Jupiter and Saturn, and probably identified solar attraction with terrestrial gravity; marble scroll in his memory, with inscription by Bean Stanley, in Westminster Abbey, 1875; hisVenus in Sole visa first printed by Hevelius at Danzig, 1662; Opera Posthuma issued by Royal Society, 1672 and 1678.
- John Horrocks
- '''John Horrocks''' ([[1768]]-[[1804]]), manufacturer; erected cotton-spinning mill at Preston, 1786; acquired large fortune as muslin-manufacturer; as M.P. for Preston consulted by Pitt on commercial matters,
- John Ainsworth Horrocks
- '''John Ainsworth Horrocks''' ([[1818]]-[[1846]]), Australian explorer and pioneer; grandson of John Horrocks
- Horsa
- '''Horsa''' (d. [[455]]), joint-founder of Kent ; brother of Hengist; a Jute; arrived with his brother at Ebbsfleet, Thanet, 449; resisted by Vortigern; killed at Aylesford.
- James Horsburgh
- '''James Horsburgh''' ([[1762]]-[[1836]]), hydrographer ; when first mate on a trading ship wrecked on Diego Qarcia from error in chart, 1786; made charts of Straits of Macassar, of western Philippines, and track from Dampier's Strait to Batavia; publishedDirections for Sailing to and from East Indies, China, New Holland, Gape of Good Hope, and interjacent Ports 1809-11; F.R.S., 1806; hydrographer to East India Company, 1810.
- John Horsburgh
- '''John Horsburgh''' ([[1791]]-[[1869]]), historical engraver; executed plates after Turner; illustrated Scott's works; engraved Scott's portraits by Lawrence and Wateon Gordon.
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- Sir Edward Horsey
- '''Sir Edward Horsey''' (d. [[1583]]), naval and military commander; served under the emperor; implicated in Throgmorton and Dudley conspiracy, 1556; confidant of Leicester: served under Warwick at Havre, 1562-3; captain of Isle of Wight, 1566-83; commanded horse against northern insurgents, 1569; negotiated pacification between French king and Huguenots, 1573; ambassador in Netherlands; knighted, 1577; privy councillor; died in Isle of Wight of the plague.
- Sir Jerome Horsey
- '''Sir Jerome Horsey''' (fl. [[1573]]-[[1627]]), traveller; probably nephew of Sir Edward Horsey; went to Moscow as clerk in Russia company, 1573; sent by Cxar Ivan to purchase munitions of war in England, 1580; became esquire of the body to Queen Elizabeth; after return was sent by Czar Feodor with despatches to Elizabeth, 1585; obtained monopoly of trade for English company, 1587: obliged to leave Russia, 1587; charged with malversation and illegal trading, and refused audience by the czar, 1590; knighted, 1603; high sheriff of Buckinghamshire, 1610; M.P. for Cornish boroughs, 1593-1622; account of Russian travels edited by E. A. Bond, 1856.
- Thomas Horsfield
- '''Thomas Horsfield''' ([[1773]]-[[1859]]), naturalist; born and educated in Pennsylvania; served in East Indies under Dutch and English, 1799-1819; keeper of East India Company's Museum, Leadeuhall Street, 1820-59; published Plants Javanicro rariores 1838-52, and (with Sir W. Jardine) Illustrations of Ornithology 1830.
- Thomas Walker Horsfield
- '''Thomas Walker Horsfield''' (d. [[1837]]), topographer; K.s. A., 1826; published History and Antiquities of Lewes 1824-7, and (with William Durrant Cooper ) History and Topography of Sussex 1835.
- Sir Alfred Hastings Horsford
- '''Sir Alfred Hastings Horsford''' ([[1818]]-[[1885]]), general; served with 1st battalion rifle brigade in Kaffir war, 1847-8, and commanded it in war of 1K52-3 and the Crimea; led 3rd battalion at Cawnpore aud advance on Luukuow; commanded brigade at siege of Lucknow, 1858, and in subsequent operations; deputy adjutantgeneral at Horse Guards, 1860-6; military secretary, 1874-80; lieutenant-general, 1874; represented England at Brussels conference, 1874; G.C.B., 1875; general, 1877.
- Sir John Horsford
- '''Sir John Horsford''' ([[1751]]-[[1817]]), major-general in Bengal artillery; of Merchant TaylorsSchool and St. John's College, Oxford: fellow, 1768-71; enlisted under false name; received commission, 1778; served in second Mysore war, 1790-1; commanded artillery under Lake, 1803-5, and brigade at siege of Komanur, 1807; head of Bengal artillery from 1808; major-general, Bengal artillery, 1811; directed siege of Hathras, 1817: K.O.B., i 1815; died at Cawnpore.
- Charles Edward Horsley
- '''Charles Edward Horsley''' ([[1822]]-[[1876]]), musical composer; son of William Horsley; studied under Moscheles, Hauptmann, and Mendelssohn; comi posed instrumental works in Germany, in England three oratorios, ode for opening of Melbourne Town Hall i (1870), music toComus and other music while in 1 America; died at New York; hisText-book of Harj mony published, 1876.
- John Horsley
- '''John Horsley''' ([[1686]]-[[1732]]), archaeologist; M.A. ! Edinburgh, 1701; presbyterian minister and schoolmaster at Morpeth; lectured on natural science at Newcastle: F.R.S., 1730: published Britannia Romana 1732; his Materials for History of Northumberland printed in Inedited Contributions 1869.
- Samuel Horsley
- '''Samuel Horsley''' ([[1733]]-[[1806]]), bishop of St. Asaph; LL.B. Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1758; rector of Newington Butts, 1769-93: F.R.S., 1767; secretary, Royal Society, 1773: D.C.L. Oxford, 1774; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1777, Gloucester, 1787; archdeacon of St. Albans, 1781; vicar of South Weald, 1782; bishop of St. Davids, 1788, of Rochester, 1793 (with Westminster); member of Johnson's club at Essex Head, 1783; left Royal Society after dispute of 1783-4; carried on controversy with Priestley on the Incarnation, 1783-90; edited Sir Isaac Newton's works, 1779-85; preached impressive sermon on revolutionary spirit before House of Lords, 1793; spoke against peace of Amiens, 1801; bishop of St. Asaph, 1802-6; published mathematical and theological works.
- William Horsley
- '''William Horsley''' ([[1774]]-[[1858]]), musical composer; organist of Ely Chapel, Hoi born, 1794; of Female Orphans Asylum, 1802-54, of Charterhouse, 1838; Mus. Bac. Oxford, 1800; assisted in founding Philharmonic Society, 1813: published five collections of glees (includingBy Celia's Arbour, 1801-37, andThe Musical Treasury 1853; edited Calcott'sMusical Grammar 1817, and Glees, with Memoir 1824, and Byrd's Cantiones Sacra
- Edward Horsman
- '''Edward Horsman''' ([[1807]]-[[1876]]), whig politician; educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge: M.P., Cockermouth, 1836-62, Stroud, 1853-68, and Liskeard, 1869-76; junior lord of treasury, 1841; chief secretary for Ireland, 1855-7; attacked ecclesiastical commissioners, 1847, and the bishops, 1850; with Lowe formed Cave of Adullam against Reform Bill of 1866; died at Biarritz.
- Nicholas Horsman
- '''Nicholas Horsman''' (I. [[1689]]), divine; fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; M.A., 1659; B.D., 1667; published The Spiritual Bee 1662.
- Fenton John Anthony Hort
- '''Fenton John Anthony Hort''' ([[1828]]-[[1892]]), scholar and divine; educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1853; B.D., 1876; D.D., 1876; fellow of Trinity College, 1852-7; assistant-editor of 'Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology from 1854; ordained priest, 1856; examiner for natural sciences tripos, 1856; held living of St. Ippolyts cum Great Wymondley, Hertfordshire, 1857-72; Hulsean lecturer, 1871; one of revisers of New Testament, 1870-80; fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1871, and lecturer in theology, 1872-6; contributed to Smith'sDictionary of Christian Biography (vol. i. published, 1877); Hulseau professor of divinity, 1878; published, with Dr. Westcott, edition of text of Greek New Testament, 1881; Lady Margaret reader, 1887; honorary D.O.L. Durham, 1890; published religious writings. His Life and Letters appeared, 1896.
- Hort
- '''Hort''' J08IAH ([[1674]] ?-[[1751]]), archbishop of Tuam ; educated by nonconformists; friend of Isaac att: chaplain to John Hampden, M.P.; chaplain to Lord
- Horton
- '''Horton''' 645
- Hotham
- '''Hotham''' Wbarton in Ireland, 1709; dean of Cloyne, 1718, of Ardagb, 1720; bishop of Ferns, 1721, Kiluiore and Ardagh, 1727; archbishop of Tuam, 1742-51; mentioned in Swift's Great Storm of Christmas, 1722
- Christiana Horton
- '''Christiana Horton''' ([[1696]]?-[[1756]]?X actress; taken by Barton Booth from Southwark fair to Drury Lane, 1714; moved to Covent Garden, 1734; reappeared at Drury Lane, 1752, in benefit performance; distinguished as Millamant Way of the World and Belinda Old Bachelor; praised by Steele.
- Horton
- '''Horton''' Sm ROBERT JOHN WILMOT, third baronet (1784-1841), politician; assumed name of Hortou on death of father-in-law, 1823; of Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1815; M.P., Newcastle-under-Lyine, 18181830; took additional name of Horton, 1823; under-secretory for war and colonies, 1821-8; privy councillor, 1827; supported repeal of Test Act, 1828, and catholic emancipation, 1829; governor of Ceylon, 1831-7; knighted, 1831; succeeded as baronet, 1834; as Lady Leigh's representative destroyed Byron's Memoirs; published letters and pamphlets.
- Thomas Horton
- '''Thomas Horton''' (d. [[1649]]X regicide ; originally falconer to Sir Arthur Hesilrige; colonel in Fairfax's army, 1643; defeated Stradling and Lingen in South VaU-: 1648; signed Charles I's death-warrant; died in Ireland.
- Thomas Horton
- '''Thomas Horton''' (rf. [[1673]]), president of Queens' College, Cambridge; fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; M.A., 1630; D.D., 1649; president of Queens College, 1638-60; Gresham professor of divinity, London, 1641; petitioned for presbyterianisrn; preacher at Gray's Inn, 1647-67; vice-chancellor of Cambridge, 1660; named a trier, 1653; conformed in 1662, and was vicar of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate Street, London, 1666-73; his works issued posthumously.
- Job Hortop
- '''Job Hortop''' Of. [[1591]]), seaman : with Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595), 1567; escaped in the Minion from San Juan de Lua, and travelled from the river Panuco to Mexico; imprisoned at Seville and sent to the galleys at San Lucar; escaped to England, 1590; his narrative in Hakluyt.
- Bernard Horwitz
- '''Bernard Horwitz''' ([[1807]]-[[1885]]), author of Chess Studies and End-games (1884), and joint-author of Chess Studies(1851); came to England from Mecklenburg, 1845.
- John Hosack
- '''John Hosack''' (d. [[1887]]), police magistrate at Clerkenwell (1877) and author; of the Middle Temple; legal treatises and books by him defending Mary Queen of Scots published 1869 and 1888.
- Francis Hosier
- '''Francis Hosier''' ([[1673]]-[[1727]]), vice-admiral ; lieutenant in Rooke's flagship at Barfleur, 1693; captured the Heureux off Cape Clear, 1710; distinguished in action with Spanish off Cartagena, 1711; suspended as suspected Jacobite, 1714-17; vice-admiral, 1723; died of fever in Jamaica while commanding squadron in West Indies; the event misrepresented in Glover's ballad.
- James Hosken
- '''James Hosken''' ([[1798]]-[[1885]]), pioneer of ocean steam navigation; served in royal navy; took Great Western steamship from Bristol to New York in fifteen days, 1838, and in thirteen days, 1839; commanded the Great Britain, 1844-6; chief magistrate at Labuan, 1848-9; commanded Belleisle hospital ship in Baltic, 1864-5; captain, 1857; vice-admiral, 1879.
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- William Hosking
- '''William Hosking''' ([[1800]]-[[1861]]), architect and civil engineer; worked as builder in Sydney: came to England, 1819; exhibited drawings made in Italy and Sicily at Academy and Suffolk Street, 1826-8; F.S.A., 1830; F.R.I.B.A., 1835; engineer to West London railway; professor of architecture and engineering construction at King's College, London, 1840-61; published Theory, Practice, and Architecture of Bridges 1843; claimed to have originated design for British Museum reading-room; contributed to l Encyclopaedia Britaunica (7th and 8th editions).
- Anthony Hoskins
- '''Anthony Hoskins''' ([[1568]]-[[1615]]), Jesuit; joined Jesuits, 1593; vice-prefect of English mission in Belgium, 1609, and Spain, 1611; modernised Richard Wbytford's version ofDe Imitationc Christi 1613; translated French works; died at Valladolid.
- John Hoskins
- '''John Hoskins''' , the younger ([[1579]]-[[1631]]), brother of John Hoskine (1566-1638); fellow of New College, Oxford, 1600-13: D.C.L., 1613; prebendary of Hereford, 1612; chaplain to James I, and master of St. Oswald's Hospital, Worcester, Itf 14.
- John Hoskins
- '''John Hoskins''' ([[1566]]-16S8), lawyer and wit; of Westminster, Winchester, and New College, Oxford: fellow of New College, 1586; M.A., 1592; when M.P. for Hereford committed to Tower, 1614. for reflections on Scottish favourites; serjeant-at-law, 1623; Welsh judge; said to have revised Ralegh's History of the World and Ben Jonson's poems; intimate with Camden. Donne, and Seldeu; gave information to Aubrey,
- John Hoskins
- '''John Hoskins''' (d. [[1664]]), miniature-painter ; painted many contemporary celebrities, including Falkland, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Selden.
- Hoskins
- '''Hoskins''' or HOSKYNS, SIR JOHN, second baronet (1634-1705), of Westminster: barrister, Middle Temple; president of Royal Society, 1682-3, and secretary. 1685-7; knighted; master in chancery and friend of Lord-keeper Guilford; M.P., Herefordshire, 1688.
- Samuel Elliott Hoskins
- '''Samuel Elliott Hoskins''' ([[1799]]-[[1888]]), ' sician; of Guy's Hospital; F.R.8., 1843; F.R.C.P., 1 practised in Channel islands; published Stethoscopic Chart 1880 Tables of Corrections for Temperature to Barometric Observations 1842, and works on Channel islands.
- Chandos Wren Hoskyns
- '''Chandos Wren Hoskyns''' - ([[1812]]-[[1876]]), writer on agriculture; of Shrewsbury and Balliol College, Oxford; B.A., 1834; assumed additional name (1837) on marriage with descendant of Wren; barrister, Inner Temple, 1838; M.P., Hereford, 1869-74; published works, including Land in England, Ireland, and other Lands 1869, and Land Laws of England 1870.
- Sir George Charles Hoste
- '''Sir George Charles Hoste''' ([[1786]]-[[1846]]), colonel, royal engineers; educated at Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; lieutenant, royal engineers, 1802: captain, 1812; brevet-major, 1814; lieutenant-colonel, 1825; brevet-colonel, 1838; colonel, 1841; served under Lieu tenant-general Sir James Henry Craig, in Italy, 1805-6; in Egypt, 1807, Sicily, 1808-9, and Holland, 1813; at bombardment of Antwerp, and assault of Bergen-opZoom, 1814; commanding engineer of 1st army corps under Prince of Orange at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, assault of Peronne and occupation of Paris, 1815; C.B., 1816; gentleman usher of privy chamber to Queen Adelaide, 1830.
- Sir William Hoste
- '''Sir William Hoste''' , first baronet ([[1780]]-[[1828]]), captain in the navy; served under Nelson in actions off Toulon (1795), at St. Vincent and Santa Cruz; promoted to Mutine brig after the Nile, 1798; attained post rank, 1802; with the Ampbion and other ships (1808-9) took or destroyed two hundred French or Venetian vessels in Adriatic; captured Grao, 1808-9, and destroyed forty-six sail in 1810; defeated greatly superior squadron at Lissa and took many prizes, but was severely wounded, 1811; with the Bacchante captured many gunboats, and assisted Austrians in taking Cattaro and Ragusa, 1813-14; created baronet, 1814; K.C.B.,1816.
- Beaumont Hotham
- '''Beaumont Hotham''' , second BARON HOTHAM in Irish peerage (1737-1814), educated at Westminster; barrister, Middle Temple, 1758; baron of the exchequer, 1775-1805; M.P., Wigan, 1768-75; commissioner of great seal, 1783; succeeded his brother, William Hotbam, first baron, in Irish peerage.
- Beaumont Hotham
- '''Beaumont Hotham''' , third BARON HOTHAM in Irish peerage (1794-1870), general; grandson of Beaumont Hotham, second baron Hotham; wounded at Salamanca, 1812; present at Waterloo, 1816; tory M.P n Leomiuster, 1820-41, East Riding, Yorkshire, 1841-68.
- Charles Hotham
- '''Charles Hotham''' ([[1615]]-[[1672]] ?), divine ; son of Sir John Hotbam; M.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1639; fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1640-61; i deprived by parliament, 1661; rector of Wigan, 1663-62; F.R.S., 1667; minister in the Bermudas; translated Boehme's Consolatory Treatise of the Four Complexions 1664.
- Hotham
- '''Hotham''' 646
- Houg
- '''Houg''' -HTON
- Hotham
- '''Hotham''' Sm CHARLES ([[1806]]-[[1855]]), naval commander; as captain in the navy took part in Para expedition against Rosas, 1845: K.C.B., 1846: governor of Victoria, 1864-5; died ut.Melbourne.
- Durant Hotham
- '''Durant Hotham''' ([[1619]]?-[[1691]]), author of 'Life of Jacob Boehme(1654); translated, 1650,Ad Philosopliiam Teutouicam Mauuductio of his brother Charles Hotham
- Hotham
- '''Hotham''' Sin HENRY ([[1777]]-[[1833]]), vice-admiral: youngest son of Beaumont Hotham, second baron Hotham: served in Mediterranean operations, 1793-8; commanded Immortalite in Bay of Biscay, 17991801; with Sir Richard Strachau, 1805: with the Defiance drove ashore three French frigates at Les Sables d'Olonne, 1809; destroyed two frigates and a brig off Lorient, 1812; K.C.B., 1815; by knowledge of Biscay coast prevented Napoleon's escape to America: a lord of the admiralty, 1818-22 and 1828-30; vice-admiral, 1825; died at Malta as commander in Mediterranean.
- Hotham
- '''Hotham''' or HOTHUN, JOHN (rf. [[1337]]), bishop of Ely and chancellor; chancellor of Irish exchequer, 1309; dismissed as one of Gaveston's stewards, 1311; as chancellor of English exchequer accompanied Edward II to France, 1312; sent to Ireland, 1314, and Rome, 1317; bishop of Ely, 1316-37; treasurer of exchequer, 1317-18; lord chancellor, 1318-20 and 1327-8; joined Queen Isabella, 1326: built octagon tower at Ely.
- Sir John Hotham
- '''Sir John Hotham''' , first baronet (d. [[1645]]), parliamentarian: served under elector palatine and Mansfeld, knighted, 1617; created baronet, 1622; M.P., Beverley: as sheriff of Yorkshire levied ship-money; after removal from governorship of Hull (1639) went into opposition; committed to the Fleet, 1640; a chief contriver of Yorkshire petition, 1640: as parliamentary commander of Hull refused to admit Charles I, 1642; recovered Scarborough for parliament, 1643; while negotiating with Newcastle with a view to rejoining royalists was arrested, expelled from parliament, and sent to the Tower, 1643; condemned by military commission and executed.
- John Hotham
- '''John Hotham''' (d. [[1645]]), parliamentarian ; son of Sir John Hotliam; served in Netherlands; M.P., Scarborough, 1640; secured Hull for parliament, 1642; joined Fairfax, 1642; fought at Tadcaster and Sherburn; defeated at Ancaster Heath, 1643; imprisoned at Nottingham on charges of misconduct and suspicion of treachery, 1643; opened negotiations with Charles I's queen and escaped; arrested with his father; tried by court-martial and beheaded.
- William Hotham
- '''William Hotham''' , first BAROX HOTHAM in Irish peerage (1736-1813), admiral; educated at Westminster and Naval Academy, Portsmouth; promoted captain for capture of French privateer, 1757; cruised in North Sea, 1758-9; served at Belleisle, 1761; as commodore on North American station shared in action off St. Lucia, 1778, and in action under Rodney in April-May, 1780; under Howe at relief of Gibraltar and battle of Cape Spartel, 1782; vice-admiral, 1790; second in command under Lord Hood, 1793-4; commander in Mediterranean, twice engaging inferior French fleet without result, 1796; created Irish peer, 1797.
- Sir William Hotham
- '''Sir William Hotham''' ([[1772]]-[[1848]]), admiral: nephew of William, first baron Hotham; under Nelson at Bastia, 1794; commanded the Adamant at Oamperdown, 1797, and blockade of Mauritius; K.O.B., 1816; admiral, 1837; G.C.B., 1840.
- John Hothby
- '''John Hothby''' (d. [[1487]]), Oarmelite and writer on music; lived many years at Ferrara; went to Lucca, 1467: invited to England by Henry VII, 1486; works by him in British Museum and at Lambeth; his treatises on 'ProportionCautus Figuratus andCounter point printed by Coussemaker.
- Hothum
- '''Hothum''' or HODON or ODONE, WILLIAM OP (. 1298), archbishop of Dublin; graduated in theology at Paris; Dominican prior and provincial in England, 1282-7; employed by Edward 1 on mission to Rome, 1289; provincial of England and Scotland, 1290; summoned to parliament at Norham, 1291; advised the king on Scottish succession; archbishop of Dublin, 1296-8; accompanied the king to Flandor*, 1297, and negotiated with French; represented him at Rome when Boniface VIII mediated truci- between England and France; wrote scholastic works; died at Dijon.
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- Hoton
- '''Hoton''' or HOGHTON, RICHARD OF (d. [[1307]]), prior of Durham;probable founder of Durham College, 1289; deposed and imprisoned for resisting visitation of Bishop Antony Bek I, 1300; reinstated by the pope, 1301, but again suspended; died at Rome.
- Hotspur
- '''Hotspur''' ([[1364]]-[[1403]]).
- John Camden Hotten
- '''John Camden Hotten''' , originally JOHN WIL-
- Hottex Liam
- '''Hottex Liam''' ([[1832]]-[[1873]]), publisher and author: in America, 1848-66; established himself in Piccadilly on his return; first published in England the Biglow Papers 1864, and other works of American humour; compiled slang dictionary, 1859; published Handbook of Topography and Family History 1863, and other compilations,
- Sir James Houblon
- '''Sir James Houblon''' (d. [[1700]]), alderman; ! knighted, 1692; deputy-governor of the Bank of England, I and M.P. for the city (1698-1700); brother of Sir John Houblon
- Sir John Houblon
- '''Sir John Houblon''' (d. [[1712]]), first governor of the Bank of England, 1694; sheriff of London, 1689: knighted, 1689; lord mayor, 1695; lord of the admiralty, 1694-9; master of GrocersCompany, 1696; commissioner of accounts, 1704.
- John Hough
- '''John Hough''' ([[1651]]-[[1743]]), bishop of Worcester: M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1676; D.D., 1687; fellow: elected president, 1687, but ejected by James II; reinstated. 1688; resigned, 1699; bishop of Oxford, 1690-9, of Lichfleld and-Coventry, 1699-1717, of Worcester, 17171743; refused primacy, 1715; benefactor to Magdalen College, Lichfield, and Worcester.
- Houghton
- '''Houghton'''
- Houghton
- '''Houghton''' first BAROX ([[1809]]-[[1885]]). See MILXES,
- Moncktox Richard
- '''Moncktox Richard''' .
- Houghton
- '''Houghton''' or HOUTONE, ADAM DE (d. [[1389]]), bishop of St. David's and chancellor of England; LL.D. Oxford; bishop of St. David's, 1362-89; trier of parliamentary petitions; lord chancellor, 1377; chief negotiator of peace with France, 1377, and with Sir Simon Burley of marriage of Richard II, 1380; established cathedral school at St. David's and founded college or chantry of St. Mary's, 1365.
- Arthur Boyd Houghton
- '''Arthur Boyd Houghton''' ([[1836]]-[[1875]]), bookillustrator and painter: exhibited at Academy, 1860-70, and afterwards at Water-colour Society; illustrated Dalziel's Arabian Nights 1865, and Don Quixote 1866.
- Daniel Houghton
- '''Daniel Houghton''' ([[1740]] ?-[[1791]]), African traveller; left England in employ of African Association, 1790: journeyed from Gambia, 1790, to Medina (capital of Wolli); crossed uninhabited country between Wolli and Bondou and reached Bambouk, where he negotiated a commercial treaty; set out for Timbuctoo, but was not again heard of.
- Henry Hall Houghton
- '''Henry Hall Houghton''' - ([[1823]]-[[1889]]), jointfounder (with Canon Hall) of biblical prizes at Oxford, 1868-71; of Sherborne School and Pembroke College, Oxford; M.A., 1848; benefactor of Church Missionary Society.
- John Houghton
- '''John Houghton''' ([[1488]] ?-[[1535]]), prior of the 1 London Charterhouse; B.A. and LL.B. Cambridge: prior 1 of Beauvale, 1630; prior of Charterhouse, 1531; imprisoned for refusing oath of allegiance to Princess Elizabeth ! as heir-apparent, 1634; executed for refusing to accept ; royal headship of the church: beatified, 1886.
- John Houghton
- '''John Houghton''' (d. [[1705]]), writer on agriculture ! and trade: F.R.S., 1680; first noticed potato plant as j agricultural vegetable.
- Sir Robert Houghton
- '''Sir Robert Houghton''' ([[1648]]-[[1624]]), judge; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1577: governor of Lincoln's Inn, 1588-1603; serjeant-at-law, 1603; judge of king's bench, 1613-24; knighted, 1613.
- Houghton
- '''Houghton''' or HOGHTON, WILLIAM HYACINTH (1736-1823), Roman catholic divine; prefect at Bornhem
- Houljng
- '''Houljng''' f,47
- Howard
- '''Howard''' ( Dominican) College, 1758-62, and afterwards procurator; professor of philosophy at Louvain, 177i; returned to England; edited Catholic Magazine and Reflector 1801. fxxvii. 423
- John Houling
- '''John Houling''' * ([[1539]]7-[[1599]]), Irish jesuit; established Irish colletre at Lisbon, 1593, where he died of the plague; his Kli.ubethan catholic martyrology printed by Cardinal.Mor.m in Spicilegium Ossoriense
- Robert Houlton
- '''Robert Houlton''' (Jl. [[1801]]), dramatist and journalist; demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1767-65; M.A., 1762; practised Inoculation in Ireland: M.I. Trinity College, Dublin; wrote librettos for operas; editor ofMorning Herald with James Hook (1746-1827) produced Wilmore Oastle (comic opera) at Drury Lane, 1800.
- Jacob Houseman
- '''Jacob Houseman''' ([[1636]] ?-[[1696]]). See HUYS
- Mans
- '''Mans'''
- Robert Housman
- '''Robert Housman''' ([[1759]]-[[1838]]), divine; intimate when at Cambridge with Charles Simeon and Henry Venn; B.A., 1784: minister of church built by himself at Lancaster, 1795-1836; known adthe evangelist published sermons.
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- John Houston
- '''John Houston''' ([[1802]]-[[1846]]), anatomist ; curator of Dublin College of SurgeonsMuseum, 1824-41; M.D. Edinburgh, 1826; surgeon to Dublin Hospital, 1832; lecturer at Park Street School of Medicine, 1837; contributed to medical journals.
- Richard Houston
- '''Richard Houston''' ([[1721]] ?-[[1775]]), mezzotint engraver; pupil of John Brooks; engraved portraits after Reynolds, Zoffany, and William Hoare, and subject-plates after old masters, especially Rembrandt.
- Houston
- '''Houston''' or HOUSTOUN, WILLIAM ([[1695]]?1733), botanist; M.D. Leyden, 1729; with Van Swieten investigated animal respiration; F.R.S.; collected plants in West Indies and Venezuela Reliquiae Houstouianae catalogue, 1781); died in Jamaica.
- Sir William Houston
- '''Sir William Houston''' , first baronet ([[1766]]1842), general; commanded 19th foot in Flanders, 1794, and 58th at Minorca and in Egypt, 1798-1801: brigadier in Egypt, 1801, and Walcheren, 1809; commanded 7th division in Peninsula, 1811-12; governor of Gibraltar, 1831-35; created baronet, 1836.
- John De Houton
- '''John De Houton''' (d. [[1246]]), justice : archdeacon of Bedford, 1218, of Northampton, 1231-46; represented Henry III in negotiations with Falkea de Breaute, and at Rome, 1224 and 1228.
- John Hoveden
- '''John Hoveden''' (d. [[1275]]), Latin poet ; chaplain of Queen Eleanor and prebendary of Hoveden or Howden, where he built choir; reverenced as saint: his chief poem, Philomela sive meditacio de nntivitate, &c., Domini nostri Jesu Christi printed at Ghent, 1516, at Luxemburg asChristias 1603; his prose treatisePractica Chilindri translated by E. Brock.
- Hoveden
- '''Hoveden''' or HOWDEN, ROGER OP (. [[1201]]?), chronicler; envoy to Henry II to chiefs of Galloway, 1174; justice for northern forests, 1189; hisCronica ( 732-1201 ), first printed, 1 596, and edited by Bishop Stubbs, 1868-71.
- Hovell
- '''Hovell''' -THURLOW, EDWARD, second BARON
- Thurlow
- '''Thurlow''' ([[1781]]-[[1829]]).
- Hovenden
- '''Hovenden''' or HOVEDEN, ROBERT ([[1544]]-[[1614]]), warden of All Souls College, Oxford; fellow of All Souls College, 1565: M.A., 1570; D.D., 1581; warden, 1571-1614; chaplain to Archbishop Parker; prebendary of Lincoln, Bath, and Canterbury; vice-chancellor, 1582; admitted poor scholars to the college and recovered property from crown; wrote life of Archbishop Chichele.
- How
- '''How'''
- William Walsham How
- '''William Walsham How''' ([[1823]]-[[1897]]), first bishop of Wakefield; M.A. Wadhain College, Oxford, 1847; ordained priest, 1847; rural dean of Oswestry, 1854; honorary canon of St. Asaph, 1860: suffragan to bishop of London, with title of bishop of Bedford, 1879; prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral; D.D. Canterbury, 1879, and Oxford, 1886: bishop of Wakefleld, 1888; published religious writings; widely known for his work in connection with the poor in Fast End of London.
- Lady Vn Howard
- '''Lady Vn Howard''' 'XE ([[1476]]-[[1513]]), third daughter of Kdward IV, and first wife of Thomas, third duke of Norfolk.
- Bernard Edward Howard
- '''Bernard Edward Howard''' , twelfth Dncu OF
- Norfolk
- '''Norfolk''' ([[1765]]-[[1842]]), succeeded his third cousin Charles Howard, eleventh duke (1746-1816), in d ! 1815; though Roman Catholic, he was made earl; by parliament, 1824; privy councillor, 1830; K.G., 1834; supported Reform Bill.
- Catherine Howard
- '''Catherine Howard''' , QL-KKN (. [[1542]]). s!
- Cathkkink
- '''Cathkkink'''
- Charles Howard
- '''Charles Howard''' , second BARON HOWARD or
- Am Kkkinch
- '''Am Kkkinch''' , first EARL OF NOTTINGHAM ([[1536]]-[[1624]]), lord high admiral; eldest son of William Howard, first baron ; Howard of Efflngham; ambassador to France, 1669; M.P., Surrey; commander of horse against northern rebels, ! 1569, of squadron to watch Spanish fleet, 1570; knighted; succeeded to peerage, 1573; lord chamberlain, 1574-86: lord high admiral, 1585-1618; commtaioucr for trial of Mary Queen of Scots, 1586; held chief command against Spanish Armada, 1688, leading mid-channel squadron and ordering and directing attack on the San Lorenzo: officially organisedthe chest at Chatham 1690; col league of Essex in Cadiz expedition, 1596; created Earl : of Nottingham, 1596; commander both by land and sea I during alarm of 1599; commissioner at Essex's trial, 1601; ! commissioner for James I's coronation, 1603; ambas i sador extraordinary to Spain, 1605; commissioner for union with Scotland, 1604, and trial of gunpowder plot ters, 1606; improbably supposed of recent years to have been a Roman catholic.
- Charles Howard
- '''Charles Howard''' , first EARL OF CAUI.IM.I: (1629-1685), great-grandson of Lord William Howard (1563-1640); rendered distinguished service to parliamentarians at Worcester, 1651; member of council of state, 1653: M.P., Westmoreland, 1653, Cumberland, 1654, 1656, and 1660; commanded against Scots, 1664; councillor of state for Scotland, 1655; captain of Cromwell's bodyguard; major-general of Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland: member of Cromwell's House of Lords, 1657: imprisoned by army leaders, 1659: privy councillor, 1660; lord-lieutenant of Cumberland and Westmoreland, 1660: created earl of Carlisle, 1661; ambassador extraordinary to Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, 1663-4; governor of Jamaica, 1677-81; lieutenantgeneral, 1667.
- Charles Howard
- '''Charles Howard''' , third EARL OF CARLISLE (1674-1738), statesman; as Viscount Morpeth, M.P. for Morpetb, 1690-2; succeeded to peerage, 1692; deputy earl-marshal, 1701-6; lord-lieutenant of Cumberland and : Westmoreland, 1694-1712; first lord of the treasury, 1701-2 and 1715 (May-October); commissioner for Scot ! tlsh union; a lord justice, 1714-15.
- Sir Charles Howard
- '''Sir Charles Howard''' (d. [[1765]]), general ; second son of Charles Howard, third earl of Carlisle; colonel of 19th foot Green Howards, 1738; com manded brigade at Dettiugen, 1743, and Fontenoy, 1745, ! and the infantry at Val and Roucoux; K.B., 1749; presi dent of court-martial on Lord George Sackville sec -61. N, GEOROK SACKVILLK: M.P., Carlisle, 1727
- Charles Howard
- '''Charles Howard''' , tenth DUKE OF NORFOLK (1720-1786), author of Historical Anecdotes of some of j the Howard Family 1769; a Roman catholic; succeeded his second cousin, Edward Howard, ninth duke, 1777; F.S.A. and F.R.
- Charles Howard
- '''Charles Howard''' , eleventh DUKE OF NORFOLK (1746-1815), son of Charles Howard, tenth duke of Nor folk; became protestant and a whig; F.R.S., 1767; F.S.A., 1779: M.P., Carlisle, 1780-6; a lord of the treasury under Portland, 1783; dismissal from lord lieutenancy of the West Riding for democratic speech at Crown and Anchor banquet, 1798; friend of Prince of ! Wales (George IV): lord-lieutenant of Sussex, 107; pre j sidentof Society of Arts, 1794.
- Sir Edward Howard
- '''Sir Edward Howard''' ([[1477]] ?-[[1513]]), lord high I admiral; second son of Thomas Howard, second duke of Norfolk; knighted while serving in Scotland, 1497; standard-bearer, 1509; said to have assisted in capturing Robert and Andrew Barton, 1611; as admiral of the fleet landed and ravaged coast of Brittany,
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- '''Howard''' 648 HOWARD 1512, afterwards defeating and burning many French ship-; confirmed as lord high admiral, 1513; lost his life while attempting to cut out French galleys from Whitsand Bay; nominated K.G. just before his death.
- Edward Howard
- '''Edward Howard''' (fl. [[1669]]), dramatist : brother of Sir Robert Howard (1626?-1698); published 'The Usurper(tragedy), 1668,Six DaysAdventure and The Women's Conquest (comedies), 1671; his United Kingdom ridiculed in The Rehearsal and 'The British Princesby Rochester.
- Edward Howard
- '''Edward Howard''' , first BARON HOWARD OF
- Esckick
- '''Esckick''' (. [[1675]]), parliamentarian; son of Thomas Howard, first earl of Suffolk; K.B., 1616; created peer, 1628; one of the twelve petitioning peers, 1640; represented Carlisle after abolition (1649) of upper house; member of council of state, 1650; convicted of taking bribes from delinquents, 1651.
- Edward Howard
- '''Edward Howard''' (rf. [[1841]]), novelist; served in the navy with Marryat, for whom he sub-edited the 'Metropolitan Magazine afterwards wrote for Hood's New Monthly; his Rattlin the Reefer (1836) wrongly attributed to Marryat; published other maritime novels.
- Edward George Fitzalan Howard
- '''Edward George Fitzalan Howard''' , first
- Baron
- '''Baron''' - HOWARD OP GLOSSOP ([[1818]]-[[1883]]), second son of Henry Charles Howard, thirteenth duke of Norfolk ; liberal M.P. for Horsham, 1848-53, Arundel, 1853-68; vice-chamberlain, 1846-52; created Baron Howard, 1869; chairman of Catholic Poor Schools Committee, 1869-77.
- Edward Henry Howard
- '''Edward Henry Howard''' ([[1829]]-[[1892]]), cardinal ; ordained priest in English college, Rome, 1854; archbishop of Neocaesaria in pariibus infldelium, 1872, and coadjutor bishop of Frascati; cardinal-priest, 1877; archpriest of basilica of St. Peter, and prefect of congregation of St. Peter, 1881; cardinal-bishop of Frascati, 1881.
- Elizabeth Howard
- '''Elizabeth Howard''' , DUCHESS OF NORFOLK (1494-1558), daughter of Edward Stafford, duke of Buckingham; second wife of Thomas Howard, third duke of Norfolk.
- Frank Howard
- '''Frank Howard''' ([[1805]] ?-[[1866]]), painter; son of Henry Howard (1769-1847); assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence; exhibited at British Institution, 1824-43, at the Academy, 1825-33, and later; gained prize for cartoon in Westminster Hall competition, 1843; publishedSpirit of Plays of Shakspeare (plates), 18271833, and art manuals.
- Frederick Howard
- '''Frederick Howard''' , fifth EARL OF CARLISLE (1748-1825), statesman; succeeded to earldom, 1758; of Eton and King's College, Cambridge; friend of Charles James Fox; treasurer of the household, 1777; head of commission to treat with Americans. 1778; president of board of trade, 1779; viceroy of Ireland, 1780-2; lord steward, 1782-3; resigned and (1783) moved amendment against the peace; lord privy seal in coalition ministry, 1783; opposed Pitt on Regency question (1788-9), but went over to him with the old whigs; K.G., 1793; chancery guardian to Lord Byron; attacked in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; his tragedy The Father's Revenge 1783, praised by Johnson and Walpole;Tragedies and Poems issued, 1801.
- Sir George Howard
- '''Sir George Howard''' ([[1720]] ?-[[1796]]), field-marshal ; commanded 3rd buffs at Fontenoy, 1745, Falkirk, 1746, Culloden, 1746, Val, and the Rochefort expedition; commanded brigade in Germany during seven yearswar; K.B., 1763; M.P., Lostwithiel, 1762-6, Stamford, 1768-96; governor of Minorca, 1766-8, afterwards of Jersey and Chelsea Hospital; field-marshal, 1793.
- George Howard
- '''George Howard''' , sixth EARL OF CARLISLE ([[1773]]1848), statesman; son of Frederick Howard, fifth earl ; of Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1792; D.C.L., 1799; M.P., Morpeth (while Viscount Morpeth), 1795-1806. Cumberland, 1806-28; commissioner for affairs of India in ministry of All the Talents, 1806: advocated catholic emancipation, 1812; lord-lieutenant of East Riding, 1824; chief commissioner of woods and forests in Canning's cabinet, 1827; lord privy ueal, 1827-8 and 1834; trustee of British Museum; contributed to AntiJacobin
- George William Frederick Howard
- '''George William Frederick Howard''' seventh EARL OF CARLISLE (1802-1864), statesman eldest son of George Howard, sixth earl of Carlisle won prizes for English and Latin verse at Oxford, 1821 M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1827; as Viscount Morpeth M.P., Morpeth, 1H26-30, Yorkshire, 1830-2, the West Riding, 1832-41 and 1846-8; as Irish secretary under Melbourne, 1835-41, carried Irish Tithe, Irish Municipal Reform, and Irish Poor Law bills; admitted to cabinet, 1839; chief commissioner of woods and forests under Russell, 1846-50; carried Public Health Bill, 1848; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster, 1850-2; viceroy of Ireland, 1855-8 and 1859-64; presided at Shakespeare tercentenary, 1864; published poems, travels, and lectures.
- Gorges Edmond Howard
- '''Gorges Edmond Howard''' ([[1715]]-[[1786]]), author ; educated under Thomas Sheridan; given freedom of Dublin for public services, 1766; ridiculed for worthless tragedies and occasional verse; published valuable legal works.
- Henrietta Howard
- '''Henrietta Howard''' , COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK (1681-1 767), mistress of George II; daughter of Sir Henry Hobart, baronet; married to Charles Howard (afterwards ninth earl of Suffolk), with whom she lived at Hanover; followed George I to England and became bedchamber woman to Princess of Wales; her house at Marble Hill, Twickenham, the resort of Pope, Arbuthnot, and Swift; admired by Lord Peterborough; much courted as mistress of George II; became countess, 1731; retired from court, 1734; married Hon. George Berkeley, 1735; selection from her letters edited by Croker, 1824.
- Henry Howard
- '''Henry Howard''' , EARL OF SURREY (by courtesy) (1517 ?-1547), poet; son of Thomas Howard (afterwards third duke of Norfolk); educated by John Clerk (. 1552); proposed as husband for Princess Mary: married Frances Vere, 1532: in France, 1532-3; earl marshal at Anne Boleyn's trial, 1536; accompanied his father against Yorkshire rebels, 1536; K.G. and steward of Cambridge University, 1541; imprisoned for a quarrel, 1542, and for annoying London citizens, 1543; with imperial troops at Landrecy, 1543; wounded when marshal before Montreuil, 1644; when commander of Boulogne (1545-6) defeated at St. Etienne, 1546; superseded by his enemy, Lord Hertford, 1546; condemned and executed on frivolous charge of treasonably quartering royal arms and advising his sister to become the king's mistress; his body discovered at Framlingham Church, Suffolk, 1835. Forty poems by Surrey, includingDescription and Praise of his love Geraldine were printed in Tottel's Songes and Sonettes 1657 (reprinted, 1867 and 1870). His translations of the JEueid (books ii. and iii.), reprinted 1814, introduced blank verse in five iambic feet. The poems (with those of Wyatt) were edited by Dr. George Frederick Nott, 1815-16, and others, and for Aldine poets by James Yeowell, 1866. Surrey first imitated Italian models, especially Petrarch, and (with Wyatt) introduced the sonnet from Italy into England.
- Henry Howard
- '''Henry Howard''' , first EARL OF NORTHAMPTON* (1540-1614), second son of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey ; M.A. King's College, Cambridge, 1564; went to court, c. 1570; received pension, but failed to gain secure position owing to his relations with Mary Queen of Scots; sent to the Fleet after publishing work against judicial astrology, 1583; suspected of intrigues with Spain; attached himself to Essex; gained goodwill of Sir Robert Cecil; re-admitted to court, 1600; corresponded with James VI of Scotland, advising toleration of Romanists; created Earl of Northampton, 1604; warden of Cinque ports, 1604; K.G., 1605; lord privy seal, 1608; chancellor of Cambridge University; commissioner for trials of Ralegh, 1603, Guy Fawkes, 1605, and Garnett, 1606; accused of having secretly apologised to Bellarmine for speech against catholics; a commissioner of the treasury, 1612; supported divorce of grand-niece from Essex, 1613, and procured imprisonment of Sir Thomas Overbury; opposed summoning of parliament, 1614; drew up James I's edict against duelling, 1613; erected monument of Mary Queen of Scots at Westminster; lived and died a Roman catholic; the most learned noble of his day; built Northumberland House,
- Henry Howard
- '''Henry Howard''' , sixth DUKE of NORFOLK ([[1628]]1684), friend of Evelyn; second son of Henry Frederick Howard, third earl pf Arundel fq. v.; visited Evelyn ftt
- Howard
- '''Howard''' 649
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- '''Howard''' Padua, 1645; entertained by Leopold I at Vienna, 1664; F.K.S., 1666; presented library to Royal Society and Anmdel marbles to Oxford University, 1667; D.O.L. Oxford, 1668; created Baron Howard of Castle Rising, 1669; envoy to Morocco, 1669; succeeded bis brother as duke, 1677.
- Henry Howard
- '''Henry Howard''' , seventh DI;KK OK NORFOLK (1655-1701), son of Henry Howard, sixth duke: M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1668: summoned as Baron Mowbray, 1679; styled Earl of Anmdel, 1678-84; lordlieutenant of Norfolk, Berkshire, and Surrey; brought over eastern counties to William III; privy councillor, 1689.
- Henry Howard
- '''Henry Howard''' ([[1684]]-[[1720]]), coadjutor-elect of Bishop Bouaventure Giffard in London districts, 1720; grandson of Heury Howard, sixth duke of Norfolk
- Henry Howard
- '''Henry Howard''' , fourth EARL OF CARLISLE (1694-1758), son of Charles Howard, third earl of Carlisle ; M.P., Morpeth, 1722, 1727, and 1734-8; K.G., 1756.
- Henry Howard
- '''Henry Howard''' ([[1757]]-[[1842]]), of Corby Castle, author of Memorials of the Howard Family 1834; friend and correspondent of Louis Philippe.
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- Henry Howard
- '''Henry Howard''' ([[1769]]-[[1847]]), painter; went to Italy with introduction from Reynolds, 1791; exhibited Dream of Cainat Royal Academy, 1794; R.A., 1808; secretary, Royal Academy, 1811, and professor of painting, 1833; his finest works, Birth of Venus 1819, and 'Fairies 1818; executed portraits, among others, of Flaxman and James Watt.
- Henry Charles Howard
- '''Henry Charles Howard''' , thirteenth DCKE OF
- Norfolk
- '''Norfolk''' ([[1791]]-[[1856]]), son of Bernard Edward Howard, twelfth duke; as Earl of Aruudel and Surrey, M.P., Horsham, 1829-41, and treasurer of the household, 1837-41; master of the horse, 1846-52; K.G., 1848; lord steward. 1853-4; though a Romanist, supported Ecclesiastical Titles BilL
- Henry Edward John Howard
- '''Henry Edward John Howard''' ([[1795]]-[[1868]]), dean of Lichfield; youngest sou of Frederick Howard, fifth earl of Carlisle; of Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1822; succentor of York, 1822; dean of Lichfleld, 1833-68; published translations from Claudiau and the Septuagint.
- Henry Frederick Howard
- '''Henry Frederick Howard''' , third EARL OF
- Arcxdel
- '''Arcxdel''' ([[1608]]-[[1652]]) ; K.B., [[1616]] ; son of Thomas Howard, second earl of Aruudel; as Lord Maltravers, M.P., Arundel, 1628 and 1640; Irish privy councillor, 1634; created Baron Mowbray, 1640; committed for quarrel with Philip Herbert, fourth earl of Pembroke , 1641; fought as royalist in civil war; succeeded his father as third earl of Arundel and earl-marshal, 1646.
- Henry Granville Fitzalan Howard
- '''Henry Granville Fitzalan Howard''' -, fourteenth DUKE OF NORFOLK (1815-1860), son of Henry Charles Howard, thirteenth duke; of Trinity College, Cambridge; as Lord Fitzalan (Earl of Arundel from 1842) represented Arundel, 1837-50, Limerick, 1850-2; opposed Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, 1850: friend of Montalembert and a zealous catholic; edited Lives of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel. and... his wife 1857.
- Hugh Howard
- '''Hugh Howard''' ([[1675]]-[[1737]]), portrait-painter and art collector; son of Ralph Howard (1638-1710); keeper of state papers and paymaster of works belonging to crown; some of his portraits and drawings acquired by British Museum.
- James Howard
- '''James Howard''' (fl. [[1674]]), dramatist ; brother of Sir Robert Howard (1626-1698), and brother-inlaw of Dryden; his comedy All Mistaken, or the Mad Couple (1672), first acted, 1667; his English Mounsieur (1674) played in by Nell Gwyu and Hart, 1666.
- James Howard
- '''James Howard''' , third EARL OF SUFFOLK and third BAROX HOWARD DE WALDEX (1619-1688), eldest son of Theophilus Howard, second earl of Suffolk; K.B., 1626; joint-commissioner of the parliament to Charles 1, 1646: lord-lieutenant of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire and gentleman of the bedchamber, 1660-82.
- James Howard
- '''James Howard''' ([[1821]]-[[1889]]), agriculturist ; took out patents for agricultural nm.-liim-, including first iron wheel plough (1H41; president of FarmersAlli:n mayor of Bedford, 1868-4; M.P., Bedford, 1868-74, BdfonMiire, 1880-5; wrote on scientific farming.
- John Howard
- '''John Howard''' , first DUKK OF NORFOLK of the Howard family (143u?-1485), present at battle of Chatillon, 1453; entered service of bis relative, John Mowbray, duke of Norfolk; knight of the shire for Norfolk, 1455, Suffolk, 1466; named sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk by Edward IV; constable of Norwich, 1462: nerved against Lancastrians and in Brittany; envoy to France and Flanders; created Baron Howard by the restored Henry VI, 1470; commanded fleet against Lancastrians 1471; deputy-governor of Calais, 1471: accompanied ward IV to France and received pension from Louis XI, 1475; again employed in France, 1477, 1479, and 1480: privy councillor, 1483; created Duke of Norfolk and earl-marshal by Richard III, 1483; admiral of England, Ireland, and Aquitalne, 1483; commanded vanguard at Bosworth and was slain.
- John Howard
- '''John Howard''' ([[1726]]7-[[1790]]), philanthropist ; captured on the way to Lisbon and imprisoned in France, 1756; high sheriff of Bedfordshire, though a dissenu-r, 1773; visited county and city gaols and bridewells and obtained acts for abolition of gaoler's fees and for sanitary improvements, 1774; inspected Scottish, Irish, French, Flemish, Dutch, German, and Swiss, and revisited British prisons, 1775-6; published State of the Prisons 1777, 'Appendix to State of Prisons 1780, translation of Historical Remarks on the Bastille 1774; visited Denmark, Sweden, and Russia, 1781; LL.D. Dublin, 1782; made third inspection of British prisons, 1783; inspected penal institutions of Spain and Portugal, 1783; issued third enlarged edition of State of the Prisons 1784; visited lazarettos in France, Italy, and Turkey, purposely underwent quarantine at Venice, 1785-6, and published an Account 1789; died of camp fever while with Russian army at Kherson.
- John Howard
- '''John Howard''' ([[1753]]-[[1799]]), mathematician ; selfeducated; kept schools at Carlisle and Newcastle; published Treatise on Spherical Geometry 1798.
- John Eliot Howard
- '''John Eliot Howard''' ([[1807]]-[[1883]]), author of Illustrations of the " Nueva Quinologia " of Pa von, and Observations on the Barks described (1862), andQuinology of the East Indian Plantations (1869): son of Luke Howard (1772-1864); F.R.S., 1874.
- Kenneth Alexander Howard
- '''Kenneth Alexander Howard''' , first EARL OF i EFFIXGHAM of the second creation (1767-1845), general: ! served with Coldstream guards in Flanders, 1793-5, j Ireland, and Holland, 1799: inspector-general of foreign troops in British service; aide-de-camp to the king, 1805; major-general, 1810: commanded brigades in the Peninsular war from 1811, and first division of army of occupation after Waterloo: K.C.B., 1815; succeeded as eleventh Baron Howard of Efflngham, 1816; deputy earlmarshal at coronation of George IV, 1821; general, 1837; created earl, 1837.
- Leonard Howard
- '''Leonard Howard''' ([[1699]] ?-[[1767]]), compiler of 'A Collection of Letters from original Manuscripts of many I Princes, great Personages and Statesmen 1753: D.D.: rector of St. George's, Southwark, 1749-67; chaplain to Augusta, princess dowager of Wales.
- Luke Howard
- '''Luke Howard''' ([[1621]]-[[1699]]), quaker ; previously a baptist; imprisoned at Dover, 1660, 1661, and 1684; wrote against baptists; bisJournalprefixed to works U-u.-a, 1704.
- Luke Howard
- '''Luke Howard''' ([[1772]]-[[1864]]), pioneer in meteorology: chemist in London in partnership with William Allen (1770-1843): began to keep meteorological register, 1806; publishedClimate of London 1818-20 (enlarged, 1830), containing current classification of clouds: F.R.S., 1821; edited The Yorkshireman (quaker journal), 183J 1837; corresponded with Goethe and John Daltou.
- Philip Howard
- '''Philip Howard''' , first EARL OF ARUXDEL of tl Howard family (1657-1595), eldest son of Thomas Howard III, fourth duke of Norfolk: went Cambridge with courtesy title Earl of Surrey: M.A., 1576; court profligate; succeded to earldom of Arundel,
- Howard
- '''Howard''' 650
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- '''Howard''' 1580, in right of his mother, Mary Fitzalan (daughter of Henry, twelfth earl); under influence of his wife (Anne Dacre) became Roman catholic, 1584; after attempting to escape from England (1585) was fined and rigorously imprisoned for life: condemned to death (1589) on charge of saying mass for success of the Armada, but, although not executed, remained in Tower till death.
- Philip Thomas Howard
- '''Philip Thomas Howard''' ([[1629]]-[[1694]]), known as
- Op Norfolk Cardinal
- '''Op Norfolk Cardinal''' , third son of Henry Frederick ! Howard, third earl of Aruntlel; educated at Utrecht and Antwerp: became a Dominican; studied at j Naples and Rennes: ordained priest, 1652; first prior of his own English foundation at Boruhem, East Flanders, 1657; went on secret royalist mission to England, 165'J; promoted marriage of Charles II, 1662, and was first chap- 1 lain to Queen Catherine, and afterwards grand almoner; his appointment as vicar-apostolic in England withdrawn; driven from England by popular feeling, 1674; i created cardinal- priest by Clement X, 1675; thenceforth j lived at Rome; as cardinal-protector of England and: Scotland, 1679, obtained restoration of the episcopate; j remonstrated against policy of James II.
- Ralph Howard
- '''Ralph Howard''' ([[1638]]-[[1710]]), regius professor of physic at Dublin, 1670-1710; M.D. Dublin, 1667.
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- Ralph Howard
- '''Ralph Howard''' , VISCOUNT WICKLOW and first
- Olonmorb Baron
- '''Olonmorb Baron''' (d. [[1786]]), grandson of Ralph Howard (1638-1710); M.P., co. Wicklow, 1761-75; Irish ! privy councillor, 1770; created Baron Clonmore, 1776, Viscount Wicklow, 1785.
- Richard Baron Howard
- '''Richard Baron Howard''' ([[1807]]-[[1848]]), Man- I Chester physician: M.D. Edinburgh: published Inquiry into Morbid Effects of Deficiency of Food 1839.
- Sir Robert Howard
- '''Sir Robert Howard''' ([[1585]]-[[1653]]), royalist ; fifth son of Thomas Howard, first earl of Suffolk; K.B., 1616; imprisoned by high commission and publicly excommunicated, 1 625, for intrigue with Frances, viscountess Purbeck (Buckingham's brother's wife); M.P., Bishop's j Castle, 1624-40; voted compensation by Long parliament, ! 1640, but expelled for royalism, 1642; his estates se-; questered.
- Sir Robert Howard
- '''Sir Robert Howard''' ([[1626]]-[[1698]]), dramatist: nephew of Sir Robert Howard (1586-1653); rescued Wilmot from parliamentarians at Cropredy Bridge and was knighted, 1644; whig M.P., Stockbridge, 1660, Castle Rising, 1679-98; auditor of the exchequer; built Ashtead House, Surrey, 1684; privy councillor, 1689; i commander of militia horse, 1690; ridiculed as Sir Posi-; tive At-All in Shadwell's Sullen Lovers; perhaps the Bilboa of The Rehearsal; author of The Committee (revived at Covent Garden asThe Honest Thieves ! 1797), published with four other plays, 1692 and 1722, in one of which, the Indian Queen Dryden assisted: op- j posed use of rhyme in drama; published also historical works and poems.
- Robert Howard
- '''Robert Howard''' ([[1683]]-[[1740]]), bishop of Elphin : ! sou of Ralph Howard (1638-1710); fellow of I Trinity College, Dublin, 1703; bishop of Killala, 1726, of ! Elphin, 1729-40.
- Samuel Howard
- '''Samuel Howard''' ([[1710]]-[[1782]]), organist and j composer; Mus.Doc. Cambridge, 1769; best known by j his musettes
- Theophilus Howard
- '''Theophilus Howard''' , second EARL OF SUFFOLK j and second BARON HOWARD DB WALDEN (1684-1640), i succeeded his father, Thomas Howard, first earl of Suffolk, 1626; M.A. Oxford, 1605; M.P., Maldon, 1605-10; summoned as Baron Howard de Walden, 1610: governor of Jersey, 1610; quarrelled with Lord Herbert of Cherbury at Jnliers, 1610: joint lord-lieutenant of northern counties, 1614; lord-lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and Dorset, 1626; K.Q., 1627; warden of Cinque ports, 1628.
- Thomas Howard
- '''Thomas Howard''' I, EARL OF SURREY and second
- of Norfolk Duke
- '''of Norfolk Duke''' of the Howard house ([[1443]]-[[1524]]), warrior; only son of Sir John Howard, afterwards first duke of Norfolk; fought for Edward IV at Barnet, 1471; knighted, 1478: Earl of Surrey from 1483; hecame K.G., 14H3; fought for Richard III at Bosworth, 1485; imprisoned in the Tower by Henry VII, but ultimately recovered his estates; subdued Yorkshire rising, 1489; as lieutenant-general of the north compelled the Scots to retreat, 1497, and negotiated marriage treaty: lord-treasurer, 1601-22; earl marshal, 1510; ousted from power by Wolsey; -vhen again lieutenant-general of the north won battle of Flodden, 1513, and was created Duke of Norfolk, 1514; vainly opposed Wolsey's foreign policy; put down London apprentices on * evil May-day," 1517: guardian of the kingdom, 1520; presided as high steward at trial of his friend and connection, Buckingham, 1521.
- Thomas Ii Howard
- '''Thomas Ii Howard''' , EARL OF SURREY and third
- of Norfolk Duke
- '''of Norfolk Duke''' of the Howard bouse ([[1473]]-[[1554]]), eldest sou of Thomas Howard I; as Lord Thomas Howard with his brother, Sir Edward Howard, captured Andrew Barton, 1511; lord admiral, 1513; led vanguard at Flodden, 1513; as Earl of Surrey (15141524) strongly opposed Wolsey; lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1620-1; raided French coast, 1521-22; lord-treasurer, 1522; as warden-general of the marches devastated Scottish border and forced Albany to retreat, 1523; pacified Suffolk insurgents, 1525: as president of the privy council incensed Henry VIII against Wolsey; earlmarshal, 1533; acquiesced in execution of his niece, Anne Boleyn, 1536; put down Pilgrimage of Grace; beaded opposition to Cromwell and brought forward the six articles, 1539; again commanded against the Scots, 1542; lieutenant-general of army in France, 1644; ousted from favour by Hertford, and condemned to death, but saved by Henry VIII's death; remained in the Tower till accession of Mary (1553), when he was released and restored; presided at Northumberland's trial, 1553; showed great rashness when commanding against Wyatt, 1554.
- Thomas Hi Howard
- '''Thomas Hi Howard''' , fourth DUKE OF NORFOLK of the Howard house (1536-1572), son of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey; pupil of John Foxe; K.B., 1553; succeeded his grandfather as duke and earl-marshal, 1554; employed in Scotland, 1559-60; K.G., 1559: privy councillor, 1562: contributed largely towards completion of Magdalene College, Cambridge; quarrelled with Leicester in Elizabeth's presence, 1565; one of the commissioners to inquire into Scottish affairs at York, 1568; formed project of marriage with Mary Queen of Scots; imprisoned, 1569-70; involved in Ridolfi's plot; executed for treason; denied having been a papist,
- Lord Thomas Howard
- '''Lord Thomas Howard''' , first EARL OF SUFFOLK and first BARON HOWARD DK WALDEN (1561-1626), second sou of Thomas Howard ITT, fourth duke of Norfolk: as Lord Thomas Howard distinguished himself against Armada, 1588; commanded in attack on Azores fleet, 1591; admiral of the third squadron in Cadiz expedition, 1696; K.G. and Baron Howard de Walden, 1597; marshal of forces against Essex and constable of Tower, 1601; created Earl of Suffolk by James I, 1603; lord chamberlain, 1603-14; M.A. Oxford and Cambridge, 1606; lordlieutenant of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and Dorset; chancellor of Cambridge University, 1614; lord high treasurer, 1614-18; fined and imprisoned for embezzlement, 1619.
- Thomas Howard
- '''Thomas Howard''' , second EARL OF ARUNDEL AXP
- Surrey
- '''Surrey''' ([[1586]]-[[1646]]), art collector: only son of Philip Howard, first earl of Aruudel; restored in title and blood, 1604; made first continental tour, 1609-10; K.G., 1611; became protestant, 1615; privy councillor, 1616; president of committee of peers on Bacon's case, 1621; joint-commissioner of great seal, 1621; earl-marshal, 1621; imprisoned for hostility to Buckingham, 1626 1628; attempted mediation in debates on petition of right, 1628; sent to Vienna to urge restitution of palatinate to Charles I's nephew, 1636; general of army against Scots, 1639: presided at Strafford's trial, 1641; escorted Queen Henrietta Maria to the continent, 104:; thenceforward lived at Padua, contributing large sums to royal cause. He formed at Arundel House the first considerable art collection in England, including statues, busts, pictures, and the marbles (described in Selden's 'Marmora Arundeliana 1628), presented to Oxford university, 1667.
- Walter Howard
- '''Walter Howard''' ([[1759]]-[[1830]]?), 'The Heir of Poverty claimed kinship with tlu Duke-* of Norfolk and received allowances from several; his claim found fictitious; imprisoned, 1812, for importuning tin- prim-.regent and the eleventh Duke of Norfolk.
- Howard
- '''Howard''' 60 1
- Howe
- '''Howe''' , SIR WILLIAM (d. 1308), judge; justice of assize for northern counties, 1293; summoned to parliament as a justice, 1295; justice of common pleas, 1297.
- Lord William Howard
- '''Lord William Howard''' , first BAKON HMW.VKH
- Ofeffixcjham
- '''Ofeffixcjham''' ([[1510]]7-[[1573]]), lord high admiral: son of Thomas Howard I, second duke of Norfolk; of Trinity College, Cambridge: employed on embaScotland, 1531, 1535, and 1536, ami in France, 1537 ami 1541; convicted of misprision of treason in connection with Queen Catherine Howard, but pardoned, 1541: governor of Calais, 1552-3; privy councillor, 1553: lord high admiral, 1554-73; K.G., 1554; created peer fur defence of London against Wyatt, 1554; remonstrated against harsh treatment of Princess Elizabeth; lord chamberlain, 1558; a negotiator of treaty of Gateau C:uubresis, 1559; lord privy seal, 1572.
- Lord William Howard
- '''Lord William Howard''' ([[1563]]-[[1640]]), Scott's 'Belted Will third son of Thomas Howard III, fourth dnke of Norfolk; married Elizabeth Dacre Bessie with the braid apron), 1577; became a Romanist, 1584; twice imprisoned; restored Na worth Castle; active as commissioner of the borders, being known to contemporaries as Bauld Willie *; formed large library, and published edition of Florence of Worcester's chronicle, 1592; assisted Camden inBritannia intimate with Cotton aud other antiquaries.
- William Howard
- '''William Howard''' , first VISCOUXT STAFFORD (1614-1680), fifth son of Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel and Surrey; K.B., 1626; created Viscount Stafford, 1640; remained abroad during rebellion; allowed to return, 1656; discontented with the king, who ref used his petition (1664) for restoration of Stafford earldom to his wife; member of council of Royal Society, 1672; accused by Gates of being paymaster of catholic army, and by others of persuading them to murder Charles II; beheaded for treason, 1680; attainder reversed, 1824.
- William Howard
- '''William Howard''' , third BARON HOWARD OF
- Escrick
- '''Escrick''' ([[1626]] ?-[[1694]]), second son of Edward Howard, first baron Howard; served in parliamentary army: imprisoned for republican plots, 1657; M.P., Winchelsea, in Convention parliament; succeeded his brother in peerage, 1678; imprisoned, 1674 and 1681; informed against Russell and Sidney, 1683.
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- De Waldkx Howard
- '''De Waldkx Howard''' , BARONS. See HOWARD,
- Thomas Lord
- '''Thomas Lord''' , first BARON, [[1561]]-[[1626]] ; HOWARD, THKO-
- Philus
- '''Philus''' second BARON, [[1584]]-[[1640]]; HOWARD, JAMKS, third BARON, 1619-1688; GRIFFIN (formerly WHITWELL), JOHN GRIFFIN, fourth BARON, 1719-1797; HERVKY, FREDERICK AUUUBTUS, fifth BARON, 1730-1803; ELLIS, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, sixth BARON, 1799-1868.
- Howard
- '''Howard''' -VYSE, RICHARD WILLIAM ([[1784]]1853).
- Barons Howden
- '''Barons Howden''' . See CARADOC, SIR JOHN
- Francis
- '''Francis''' first BARON, [[1762]]-[[1839]]; OARADOC, Sm JOHN
- Hobart
- '''Hobart''' second BARON, [[1799]]-[[1873]].
- Charles Howe
- '''Charles Howe''' ([[1661]]-[[1742]]), author of 'Devout Meditations published, 1751; brother of John Grubham Howe
- Emanuel Sorope Howe
- '''Emanuel Sorope Howe''' (d. [[1709]]), diplomatist ; brother of Scrope Howe, first viscount Howe; groom of the bedchamber to William III; M.P., Morpeth, 1701-5, Wigan, 1705-8; envoy-extraordinary to Hanover, 1705-9; lieutenant-general, 1709.
- George Howe
- '''George Howe''' ([[1655]] ?-[[1710]]), physician ; son of John Howe (1630-1705); M.D. Leyden; censor, Royal College of Physicians, 1707; the Querpo of Garth's 4 Dispensary
- George Augustus Howe
- '''George Augustus Howe''' , third VISCOUXT
- Howe
- '''Howe''' ([[1725]] ?-[[1758]]), grandson of Scrope Howe, first visconnt Howe, in Irish peerage; succeeded to title, 1735: M.P., Nottingham, 1747 and 1754-66; served in Flanders, 1747: colonel, 1757; commanded 60th foot in Halifax, 1757; killed in skirmish with French at Trout Brook, Lake George.
- Henry Howe
- '''Henry Howe''' ([[1812]]-[[1896]]), actor : his real name
- Howe Hutchix Henry
- '''Howe Hutchix Henry''' .SOX ; appeared at Victoria Theatre, London, 1834; with Macready atCovent Ganl.-n, 1837; at Haymarket for forty years, his parts including Sir Peter Teazle, Malvolio, Jaques, aud MacdufT: in 1896 accompanied Sir Henry Irving to America, where he died.
- Howe
- '''Howe''' .1 A M KS " [[1780]]-[[1836]]), Scottish animal-painter ; exhibited at Royal Academy (1816) picture of Waterloo.
- John Howe
- '''John Howe''' ([[1630]]-[[1705]]), ejected minister : nephew of Obadiah Howe: B.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1648, where be was intimate with Henry More (1614-1687); M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1652; fellow and chaplain of Magdalen College; perpetual curate of Great Torrington, 1664-62; as domestic chaplain to Cromwell preached against fanaticism; befriended Fuller and Seth Ward: chaplain to Richard Cromwell; preached at houses in the west after ejection; joint pastor at HaberdashersHall, London, 1676; began controversy on pit-destination, 1677; answered sermon on schism by Stilliugtieet, 1680; expostulated with Tillotoon, 1680; refused to support dispensing power; advocated mutual forbearance of conformists and dissenters, 1689; prominent in happy union of presbyterians and oongregationalists, 1690: had controversy with Defoe on occasional conformity, 1700; conferred privately with William III before his death; visited by Richard Cromwell in last illness; chief work, The Living Temple of God 1675: included in works collected, 1724 (enlarged, 1810-22, 1862-3).
- John Howe
- '''John Howe''' , fourth BARON CHEDWORTH ([[1754]]1804), of Harrow and Queen's College, Oxford; succeeded his uncle Henry Frederick Howe in title and estates, 1781; left 3,000;. to Charles James Fox; his Notes upon some of the Obscure Passages in Shakespeare's Plays issued, 1805.
- Howe
- '''Howe''' or HOW. JOHN GRUBHAM ([[1657]]-[[1722]]), politician Jack How; forbidden court for slandering Duchess of Richmond, 1679; a strong whig and vicechamberlain to Queen Mary, 1689-92; after dismissal a violent tory, especially denouncing William Ill's partition treaty (1698) and Dutch favourites; M.P., Cirencester, 1689-98, Gloucestershire, 1698-1701 and 1702-5; privy councillor and joint-clerk of privy council under Anne.
- Joseph Howe
- '''Joseph Howe''' ([[1804]]-[[1873]]), Nova Scotian statesman; from 1828 edited the Nova Scotian; vindicated liberty of the press in successful defence against crown prosecution, 1835; as member for Halifax agitated for responsible government, 1837; member of executive council and speaker, 1840; frequently delegate to Ensrland; secretary of state for Nova Scotia in Dominion government, 1870; governor of Nova Scotia, 1873.
- Josias Howe
- '''Josias Howe''' ([[1611]] ?-[[1701]]), divine; fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, 1637-48, restored, 1660; M.A., 1638; B.D., 1646.
- Michael Howe
- '''Michael Howe''' ([[1787]]-[[1818]]), Tasmanian bush-' ranger; transported for highway robbery, 1811; killed while resisting arrest after six yearsoutlawry.
- Obadiah Howe
- '''Obadiah Howe''' ([[1616]] ?-[[1683]]), divine ; M.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1638; incumbent of Stickney, Horncastle, and Gedney; vicar of Boston, 1660-83: published controversial works.
- Richard Howe
- '''Richard Howe''' , EARL HOWE ([[1726]]-[[1799]]), admiral of the fleet: grandson of Scrope Howe, first viscount Howe; educated at Eton: sailed in the Severn as far as Cape Horn with Anson, 1740; present at attack on La Guayra, 1743; wounded in action with French frigates off west of Scotland, 1746; by capture of i the Alcide off month of St. Lawrence opened seven years war, 1765; M.P., Dartmouth, 1757-82; took leading part in Rochefort expedition, 1767: succeeded brother as fourth Viscount (Irish) Howe, 1758; commanded covering squadron in attacks on St. Malo and Cherbourg, 1768; distinguished at blockade of Brest and battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759: a lord of the admiralty, 1762-5: treasurer of the navy, 1765-70: rear-admiral, 1770: vice-admiral, 1775; as commander-in-chief on North American station cooperated with his brother. Sir William Howe; forced passage of Delaware, 1777, and watched French fleet under D'Estaing off Sandy Hook, 1777; resigned command owing to discontent with ministry, 1778, remaining four years in retirement: admiral, 1782: commander in the Channel, 1782; created a British peer,
- Howe
- '''Howe''' 652
- Howells
- '''Howells''' 1782; effected relief of Gibraltar against superior forces, 1782: as first lord of the admiralty (1783-8) was much attacked in parliament and the press; created Earl Howe, 1788; commanded Channel fleet, 1790; vice-admiral of England, 1792-6; with Channel fleet won the great victory of 1 June 1794, capturing six French ships; incurred some unpopularity owing to insufficient mention of distinguished officers; admiral of the fleet and general of marines, 1796; E.G., 1797; presided over courtmartial on Vice-admiral Cornwallis, 1796; after retirement pacified mutineers at Portsmouth, 1797. The signalling code was perfected and refined by him.
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- Sorope Howe
- '''Sorope Howe''' , first VISCOUNT HOWE ([[1648]]-[[1712]]), whig politician; brother of Charles Howe; knighted, 1663; M.P., Nottinghamshire, 1673-98 and 1710-12; active at the revolution; groom of the bedchamber, 1689-1702; comptroller of the exchequer; created Irish viscount, 1701.
- Howe
- '''Howe''' or HOW, WILLIAM ([[1620]]-[[1656]]), botanist ; of Merchant TaylorsSchool and St. John's College, Oxford; M.A., 1644; published Phytologia Britannica (anonymous, 1650), the earliest work exclusively on British plants.
- Sir William Howe
- '''Sir William Howe''' , fifth VISCOUNT HOWE ([[1729]]1814), general; brother of Richard, earl Howe; educated at Eton; commanded 58th (now 1st Northampton) regiment at capture of Louisbourg and defence of Quebec, 1759-60; led forlorn hope at Heights of Abraham, 1769; commanded brigade in Montreal expedition, 1760, and at siege of Belleisle, 1761; adjutant-general at conquest of Havana, 1762; major-general, 1772; lieutenantgeneral, 1776; M.P., Nottingham, 1758-80; commanded at battle of Bunker HOI, 1776; K.B., 1775; succeeded Gage as commander in American colonies; evacuated Boston and took up position at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1776; associated with his brother in American conciliation commission, 1776; defeated Americans on Long Island, 1776; captured New York and won battles of White Plains and Brandywine, 1776; repulsed attack on Germantown, 1776; railed to draw Washington into further action, 1777; resigned command, 1778; spoke in parliament on American affairs, and obtained (1779) committee of inquiry; published Narrative 1780; lieutenant-general of ordnance, 17821803: general, 1793; commanded northern, and afterwards eastern, district; succeeded brother in Irish viscountcy, 1799.
- Vychan Howel
- '''Vychan Howel''' , or THE LITTLE (d. [[825]]), Welsh prince; fought with Oynan for Anglesey,
- Dda Howel
- '''Dda Howel''' , or THE GOOD (d. [[950]]), early Welsh king: doubtfully said to have become king of Gwynedd and all Wales, 915; became directly subject to Edward the elder, c. 918; attested many charters at witenagemots in reign of Athelstan and Eiulr'ed; made pilgrimage to Rome, 928. His Laws survive in Latin manuscripts at Peniarth (twelfth century) and the British Museum (thirteenth century), and the WelshBlack Book of Chirk (Peniarth, thirteenth century); they exist only as amended by later rulers, and show traces of English and Norman influence. They were in operation till Edward I's conquest.
- Ab Ieuav Howel
- '''Ab Ieuav Howel''' , or HOWEL DDRWO, the BAD (d. 984), North Welsh prince; expelled lago from Gwynedd, and (979) slew his son; slain by Saxon treachery.
- Ab Edwin Howel
- '''Ab Edwin Howel''' (d. [[1044]]), South Welsh prince; descended from Howel Dda; succeeded in Deheubarth, 1033: expelled by Gruffydd ab Llywelyn, 1039, and finally defeated and slain by him.
- Ab Owain Gwynedd Howel
- '''Ab Owain Gwynedd Howel''' (d. [[1171]]?), warrior and poet; seized part of Ceredigion, 1143; ravaged Cardigan, 1144; with Gruffydd ab Rhys took Carmarthen Castle, 1145, but afterwards joined the Normans; lost his territory, 1150-2; took part hi Henry II's defeat at Basingwerk, 1157; killed by his brother David in Ireland, or in Anglesey; eight of his odes in Myvyrian Archaeology
- Howel
- '''Howel''' Y PWYALL (ft. [[1366]]), ' Howel of the Battleaxe*; fought gallantly at Poitiers, 1356; knighted by the Black Prince, 1356; a mess of meat served before his axe and given to the poor till Queen Elizabeth's time.
- Francis Howell
- '''Francis Howell''' ([[1625]]-[[1679]]), puritan divine: M.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1648, fellow, 1648-58; senior proctor, 1662; one of the visitors; professor of moral philosophy, 1654; principal of Jesus College, 16571660.
- James Howell
- '''James Howell''' ([[1594]] 7-[[1666]]), author ; B.A. Jesus College, Oxford, 1613; fellow, 1623; travelled through Holland, France, Spain, and Italy; went on diplomatic missions to Spain and Sardinia, and while at Madrid wrote accounts of Prince Charles's courtship of the infanta, 1622-4; M.P., Richmond, 1627; secretary to Leicester's embassy to Denmark, 1632; employed by Strafford in Edinburgh and London; intimate with Ben Jonson; corresponded with Lord Herbert of Cherbury and Sir Kenelm Digby; published Dodona's Grove(political allegory), 1640 (2nd part, 1650), and Instructions for Forreine Travel 1642 (enlarged, 1650; reprinted, 1868); royalist prisoner in the Fleet, 1643-51; wrote in prison royalist pamphlets, England's Tears for the present Wars a description of Scotland and the Scots (reprinted by Wilkes, 1762), and Survey of the Seignorie of Venice (1651); defended Cromwell against Long parliament, 1653; advocated Restoration, 1660; historiographer-royal, 1661; his Cordial for Cavaliers (1661) attacked by Roger L'Estrange;Poemsedited by Payne Fisher, 1663. His reputation rests on Epistolte Ho-elianae: Familiar Letters mostly written in the Fleet, and generally to imaginary correspondents (collected, 1665, frequently reissued; edited by Mr. Joseph Jacobs, 1890-1). His other works include political and historical pamphlets, a revision of Cotgrave'sFrench j and English Dictionary 1650, an English-Frenchj Italian-Spanish dictionary (1659-60), with appendix of Welsh proverbs, translations, and an edition of Sir Robert Cotton'sPosthuma 1657.
- John Howell
- '''John Howell''' ([[1774]]-[[1830]]), Welsh poet (loAN AB
- Hywel
- '''Hywel''' ), fife-major in Carmarthenshire militia ; schoolmaster at Llandovery; published Blodau Dyfed 1824.
- John Howell
- '''John Howell''' ([[1788]]-[[1863]]), polyartist, invented plough for cutting edges of books; introduced manufacture of Pompeian plates; published Life of Alexander Selkirk," 1829; contributed to Wilson's Tales of the Borders
- Laurence Howell
- '''Laurence Howell''' ([[1664]] ?-[[1720]]), nonjuror; M.A. Jesus College, Cambridge, 1688; ordained by George Hickes, 1712; sentenced to fine, imprisonment, and whipping for his Case of Schism in the Church of England stated 1717; died in Newgate. His works include 'Synopsis Canouum SS. Apostolorum, et Concilioruin CEcumenicoruiu et Provincialium &c., 1708, Synopsis Canonum Ecclesiae Latinae 1710, View of the Pontificate 1712.
- Thomas Howell
- '''Thomas Howell''' (fl. [[1568]]), author of ' The Arbor of Amitie (1568), Newe Sonets and pretie Pamphlets (1567-8), and H. His Denises (1581).
- Thomas Howell
- '''Thomas Howell''' ([[1588]]-[[1646]]), bishop of Bristol ; brother of James Howell; fellow of Jesus College, Oxford; M.A., 1612; D.D., 1630; chaplain to Charles I; canon of Windsor, 1636; rector of Fulham, 1642; bishop of Bristol, 1644-6; died of effects of maltreatment at siege(1645) of Bristol.
- Thomas Bayly Howell
- '''Thomas Bayly Howell''' ([[1768]]-[[1815]]), editor ofState Trials(vols. i.-xxi.), 1809-15; of Christ Church, Oxford; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1790.
- Thomas Jones Howell
- '''Thomas Jones Howell''' (d. [[1858]]), contiuuer of 'State Trials(vols. xxii.-xxxiii.); son of Tbomaa Bayly Howell; of Lincoln's Inn.
- William Howell
- '''William Howell''' ([[1638]] 7-[[1683]]), historian ; fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; M.A., 1666; chancellor of Lincoln; published An Institution of General History (1661) andMedulla Historia) Anglicauie 1679.
- William Howell
- '''William Howell''' ([[1656]]-[[1714]]), devotional writer ; M.A. New Inn Hall, Oxford, 1676; curate and schoolmaster of Ewelme.
- William Howells
- '''William Howells''' ([[1778]]-[[1882]]), minister at Long Acre Chapel, London, 1817; of Wadham College, Oxford; his Remains edited, 1833.
- Howes
- '''Howes''' 668
- Hoyle
- '''Hoyle'''
- Edmund Howes
- '''Edmund Howes''' (Jt. [[1607]]-[[1631]]), oontinuator of DW'S Abridgement (1607 and 1611) and Stow'sAn Chronicle(1615 and 1631).
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- Edward Howes
- '''Edward Howes''' Of. [[1660]]), mathematician ; rector of Goldangcr, Essex, 1659; sent John Winthrop (16881649) tract defining locality of North- West Passage; publishedA Short Arithinctick, 1 1659.
- Francis Howes
- '''Francis Howes''' ([[1776]]-[[1844]]), translator of Persius and Horace; of Trinity College, Cambridge; eleventh wrangler, 1798; M.A., 1804; minor canon of Norwich, 1815; rector of Alderford, 1826-9, Framingham Pigot, 1829-44; his translations collected, 1845.
- John Howes
- '''John Howes''' Of. [[1772]]-[[1793]]), miniature and enamel painter.
- Thomas Howes
- '''Thomas Howes''' ([[1729]]-[[1814]]), author of ' Critical Observations on Books, Ancient and Modern(1776); B.A. Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1746; rector of Morningthorpe, 1756-71, Thorndon, 1771-1814.
- Francis Howoill
- '''Francis Howoill''' ([[1618]]-[[1669]]), quaker; successively churchman 1, independent, and anabaptist; with Anthony Pearson held first quaker meetings in London, 1653; preached in Ireland till banished by Henry Cromwell; sentenced to perpetual imprisonment for refusing oath of allegiance, 1664; published quaker works.
- William Howgill
- '''William Howgill''' ( Jl. [[1794]]), musical composer.
- Viscoont Howick
- '''Viscoont Howick''' , afterwards second EARL GREY ( 1764-1845).
- John Howie
- '''John Howie''' ([[1735]]-[[1793]]), author of 'Scots Worthies(1774 and 1781-5); farmer of Lochgoin, Ayrshire; publishing works concerning the covenanters.
- William Howison
- '''William Howison''' (fi. [[1823]]), author and friend of Sir Walter Scott.
- Howison
- '''Howison''' or HOWIESON, WILLIAM ([[1798]]-[[1850]]), line-engraver; the only engraver ever elected A.R.S.A.; best known for engravings of Sir George Harvey's pictures,
- Mary Howitt
- '''Mary Howitt''' ([[1799]]-[[1888]]), author ; n& Botham : married William Howitt, 1821, and collaborated with him in many works; published translations from Fredrika Bremer and Hans Andersen and successful children's books; other works include Popular History of the United States(18 59); received civil list pension, 1879; died at Rome.
- Richard Howitt
- '''Richard Howitt''' ([[1799]]-[[1869]]), poet ; brother of William Howitt; druggist at Nottingham; lived in Australia, 1839-44; publishedImpressions of Australia Felix 1845, Wasp's Honey 1868.
- Samuel Howitt
- '''Samuel Howitt''' ([[1765]]?-[[1822]]), painter and etcher; brother-in-law of Rowlandson; exhibited at Academy, 1785-94, chiefly sporting subjects; published 4 Miscellaneous Etchings of Animals 1803, and other works.
- William Howitt
- '''William Howitt''' ([[1792]]-[[1879]]), author ; educated at FriendsSchool, Ackworth; published a poem at thirteen; published, with bis wife, The Forest Minstrel and other poems; chemist at Nottingham; published 'Book of the Seasons 1881,Popular History of Priestcraft 1833, first series of Visits to Remarkable Places 1840, second series, 1842, Rural and Domestic Life of Germany 1842, when at Heidelberg; after three years in Australia issuedHistory of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand(1865), and Australian tales; became spiritualist; received civil list pension, 1866; wrote for CasselTs Popular History of England 1856-62; died at Rome.
- Richard Howland
- '''Richard Howland''' ([[1540]]-[[1600]]), bishop of Peterborough; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1561; fellow of Peterhouse, 1562: M.A., 1564; rector of Stathern, 1569; at first an adherent of Thomas Cartwright (1535-1603), but afterwards a strong opponent; chaplain to Lord Burghley; master of Magdalene (1576-7), and (1577-86) St. John's Colleges, Cambridge; vice-chancellor of Cambridge, 1578 and 1683; bishop of Peterborough, 1584-1600; friend of Whitgift; attacked by Martin Mar-Prelate.
- John Howlet
- '''John Howlet''' ([[1648]]-[[1689]]), Jesuit ; fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, 1566; B.A., 1666; resided at Douay; died at Wilna.
- Bartholomew Howlett
- '''Bartholomew Howlett''' ([[1767]]-[[1827]]X topographical and antiquarian draughtsman and engraver.
- John Howlett
- '''John Howlett''' ([[1731]]-[[1804]]), political economist ; M.A. St. John's College, Oxford, 1795; B.D., 1796; incumbent of Great Dunmow and Great Badow; published works on enclosures and population combating the views of Price.
- Samuel Burt Howlett
- '''Samuel Burt Howlett''' ([[1794]]-[[1874]]), military surveyor and inventor; invented an anemometer and method of construction for large drawing-boards; published treatise on perspective, 1828.
- Henry Howley
- '''Henry Howley''' ([[1776]] 7-[[1803]]), Irish insurgent; took part in rebellion of 1798, and Robert Emmet's rising; executed.
- William Howley
- '''William Howley''' ([[1766]]-[[1848]]), archbishop of Canterbury; of Winchester and New College, Oxford (fellow and tutor); M.A., 1791; D.D., 1806; vicar of Audover, 1802; rector of Bradford PeverelL, 1811; canon of Christ Church, Oxford, 1804; regius professor of divinity, Oxford, 1809-13; bishop of London, 1813-28; supported bill of pains and penalties against Queen Caroline, 1820; archbishop of Canterbury, 1828-48; opposed catholic emancipation, 1829, parliamentary reform, 1831, and.Jewish relief, 1833; carried vote of censure on Lord John Russell's education scheme, 1839.
- John Howman
- '''John Howman''' , or FECXENHAM, JOHN IK ( 1618 ?-1585).
- How
- '''How''' 80N, JOHN ( [[1667]] ?-[[1632]]), bishop of Durham; of St. Paul's School and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1582; D.D n 1601; prebendary of Hereford, 1587, Exeter, 1592; chaplain to Queen Elizabeth and James I; canon of Christ Church, 1601; vice-chancellor, 1602; bishop ot Oxford, 1619-28, of Durham, 1628-32; buried in St. Paul's.
- John Saul Howson
- '''John Saul Howson''' ([[1816]]-[[1885]]), dean of Chester ; wrangler, Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1841; D.D., 1861; principal of Liverpool College, 1849-66; Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge, 1862; vicar of Wisbech, 1866; dean of Chester, 1867-85; did good service in restoration of Chester Cathedral; active on behalf of Chester educational institutions; with W. J. Conybeare published 'Life and Epistles of St. Paul 1852; publishedCharacter of St. Paul 1862, and other Pauline studies; Bohlen lecturer at Philadelphia, 1880; contributed to Smith's 'Dictionary of the Bibleand biblical commentaries; wrote also controversial and archaeological works.
- Barons Howth
- '''Barons Howth''' . See ST. LAWRENCE, ROBERT, third
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- Baron
- '''Baron''' d. [[1483]] ; ST. LAWRENCE, SIR CHRISTOPHER, eighth
- Baron
- '''Baron''' d. [[1689]] ; ST. LAWRENCK, SIR CHRISTOPHER, tenth
- Baron
- '''Baron''' [[1568]] ?-[[1619]] ; ST. LAWRENCE, NICHOLAS, fourth
- Baron
- '''Baron''' d. [[1526]].
- Thomas Hoy
- '''Thomas Hoy''' ([[1659]]-[[1718]] ?), physician and author ; fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, 1675; M.A n 1684; M.D., 1689; regius professor of physic, 1698; published essay on Ovid'sDe ArteAmandi* and Musseus'sHero and Leauder 1682, and Agathocles (poem), 1683; possibly died in Jamaica.
- Francis Hoyland
- '''Francis Hoyland''' (Jl. [[1763]]), poet; B.A. Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1748; introduced by Mason to Horace Walpole, who printed his Poems at Strawberry Hill, 1769; published Odes 1783.
- Gilbert Op Hoyland
- '''Gilbert Op Hoyland''' (d. [[1172]]).
- John Hoyland
- '''John Hoyland''' ([[1783]]-[[1827]]), organist at St. James's, Sheffield, and at Loutb, Lincolnshire; composed sacred music.
- John Hoyland
- '''John Hoyland''' ([[1760]]-[[1831]]), quaker author of 'Historical Survey of Customs, Habits, and Present State of the Gypsies (1816), and euhemeristicEpitome of History of the World 1812.
- Edmond Hoyle
- '''Edmond Hoyle''' ([[1672]]-[[1769]]), writer on cardgames: gave lessons on whist in Queen Square, London, 1741; issued first edition of bis Short Treatise on Whist (.1 742) at a guinea, second edition (1743) at two shillings;
- Hoyle
- '''Hoyle''' 654
- Hudson
- '''Hudson''' in.-orporated in eighth edition (1748) treatises ou quadrille, piquet, and backgammon, and in the eleventh edition treatise on chess: Hoyle'sLawsof 1760 ruliM whist till 1864. His book on chess was reissued, 1808.
- John Hoyle
- '''John Hoyle''' (d. [[1797]] ?), author of dictionary of musical terms (1770 and 1791).
- Joshua Hoyle
- '''Joshua Hoyle''' (rf. [[1654]]), puritan divine ; fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, 1609; D.D.; master of UnivcrMtv College, Oxford, and regius professor of divinity, 1648-54: vicar of Stepney, 1641; member of Westminster Assembly of Divines.
- William Hoyle
- '''William Hoyle''' ([[1831]]-[[1886]]), Lancashire cottonspinner and temperance reformer: publishedOur National Resources and how they are wasted,* 1871, and other works, including temperance hymus and songs.
- John Gellibrand Hubbard
- '''John Gellibrand Hubbard''' , first BARON
- Addinoton
- '''Addinoton''' ([[1805]]-[[1889]]), director of Bank of England, 1838; chairman of public works loan commission, 18531889; conservative M.P., Buckingham, 1859-68, London, 1874-87; privy councillor, 1874; created Baron Addington, 1887; obtained inquiry into assessment of income tax, 1861; built and endowed St. Alban's, Holborn, 1863.
- William Hubbard
- '''William Hubbard''' ([[1621]] ?-[[1704]]), New England historian; left England, 1635; graduated at Harvard, 1642 (acting president, 1688); pastor of congregational church, Ipswich, Massachusetts; hisHistory of New England printed, 1815 and 1848.
- Richard Hubberthorn
- '''Richard Hubberthorn''' ([[1628]]-[[1662]]), quaker writer; officer in parliamentary army; accompanied Fox in his journeys in Lancashire and the eastern counties, and with him had interview with Charles II; collaborated with Fox and James Nayler; died in Newgate,
- William Hubbock
- '''William Hubbock''' (. [[1605]]), chaplain of the Tower; B.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1581; fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; M.A., 1585; cited for puritanical sermon, 1590; published Apologie of Infants 1595.
- Hubert
- '''Hubert''' Sm FRANCIS (d. [[1629]]), poet ; clerk in chancery, 1601: author of; Historic of Edward the Second 1629, andEgypt's Favorite 1631.
- Walter Hubert
- '''Walter Hubert''' (d. [[1205]]), archbishop of Canterbury and statesman; trained under Glanville; a baron of exchequer, 1184-5; dean of York, 1186; justice of the curia regis, 1189; bishop of Salisbury, 1189; accompanied Richard I to Palestine and negotiated for him with Saladiu; led back English crusaders to Sicily; visited the king in prison and came back to collect ransom; justiciar, 1193; suppressed Prince John's attempt at revolt; archbishop of Canterbury, 1193-1205; officiated at Itichard's second coronation, 1194; developed Henry II's judicial and financial system: maintained good relations with Scotland; as legate held council at York, 1195, and London, 1200; unpopular with the clergy for forcing William Fitzosbert from sanctuary, 1196; negotiated alliance with Flanders, truce with France, and pacification of Richard's quarrel with Archbishop of Rouen, 1 197; settled succession dispute in South Wales, 1197; caused laud-tax to be assessed by help of locally elected landowners and representatives of townships and hundreds, 1198; compelled by Innocent III to resign justiciarship, 1198; joined Richard In Normandy; returned as member of regency after his death; asserted elective character of the monarchy at John's coronation, 1199; chancellor, 1199-1205; on missions to France, 1201 and 1203; dissuaded John from expedition against France, 1205; recovered for his see right of coining money. His bones were identified in Canterbury Cathedral, 1890.
- Huchown
- '''Huchown''' (fl. 14th cent), author of romances in alliterative verse.
- Richard Hucz
- '''Richard Hucz''' ([[1720]]-[[1785]]). See SAUNDBRS,
- Huck Richard
- '''Huck Richard''' -.
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- John Huckell
- '''John Huckell''' ([[1729]]-[[1771]]), poet; B.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1751; curate of Houuslow; his Avon printed by Baskerville, 1758.
- Joseph Huddart
- '''Joseph Huddart''' ([[1741]]-[[1816]]), hydrographer and manufacturer; during ten yearsservice in the East linlia Company constructed charts of Sumatra and the Indian coast from Bombay to the Godavery; F.R.S., 1791; nui-io fortune by manufacture of patent cordate.
- George Huddesford
- '''George Huddesford''' ([[1749]]-[[1809]]), satirical poet ; fellow of New College, Oxford, 1771-2; M.A., 1780; pupil j of Sir Joshua Reynolds, who painted his portrait in Two Gentlemen (National Gallery); vicar of Loxley and inj cuuibeut of Wheler's Chapel, Spital Square, London political satirist; contributed to Salmagundi (1791). 72)
- William Huddesford
- '''William Huddesford''' ([[1732]]-[[1772]]), antiquary ; brother of George Huddesford; fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, 1757; M.A., 1756; B.D., 1767; keeper of the Ashmoleau, 1755-72; vicar of Bishop's Tachbrook, 1761; edited Edward Lhuyd's Lithophylacii Britaunici Ichnographia 1760, Martin Lister's Synopsis Methodica Conchyliorum," 1760, and catalogue of Anthony a Wood's manuscripts, 1761.
- Huddleston
- '''Huddleston''' or HUDLESTON, JOHN ([[1608]]-[[1698]]), Benedictine; of Lancashire; while on the English mission was one of those who watched over Charles II at Moseley after Worcester, 1651; joined Benedictines; after Restoration received quarters in Somerset House; chaplain to Queen Catherine, 1669; received Charles II into Roman church on his deathbed; his account of Charles II's death reprinted in Foley's Jesuit records.
- Huddleston
- '''Huddleston''' alias DORMER, JOHN ([[1636]]-[[1700]]).
- Sir John Walter Huddleston
- '''Sir John Walter Huddleston''' ([[1815]]-[[1890]]), last baron of the exchequer; educated in Ireland; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1839 (treasurer, 1859 and 1868); defended Cuffy the chartist, 1848; with Cockburn in Rugeley poisoning case; Q.O., 1857: M.P., Canterbury, 1865-8, Norwich, 1874-5; judge-advocate of the Fleet, 1865-75; judge of common pleas, 1875-80; last baron of the exchequer, 1875: judge of queen's bench, 1880-90.
- Huddleston
- '''Huddleston''' or HUDLESTON, RICHARD ([[1583]]1655), Benedictine; uncle of John Huddlestone; converted many Yorkshire and Lancashire families; his Short and Plain Way to the Faith and Church published by his nephew, 1688 (reprinted, 1844 and I860).
- George Hudson
- '''George Hudson''' ([[1800]]-[[1871]]), 'railway king'; sou bf a Yorkshire farmer: made fortune as a draper at York; founded a banking company, and became mayor of York, 1837 and 1846: manager of York and North Midlane Railway Company, opened 1839, of the Newcastle and Darlington, 1842, and of the newly formed Midland Railway; M.P., Sunderland, 1845-59; chairman of Sunderlaud Dock Company; owing to questionable business and over-speculation resigned chairmanship of Midland, Eastern Counties, Newcastle and Berwick, and York and North Midland companies, and retired to continent, 1854; annuity bought for him, 1868.
- Henry Hudson
- '''Henry Hudson''' (d. [[1611]]), navigator ; made voyage in the Hopeful for Muscovy Company to realise Thome's scheme of passage across North Pole toislands of spicery 1607; searched for north-east passage by the Waigatz or Kara Strait, 1608; in a voyage for the Dutch East India Company reached Novaya Zemlya, and, by examining the coast from Nova Scotia to Sandy Hook, discredited the notion of a strait across North America in low latitude; afterwards ascended the Hudson River to Albany, 1609; in final expedition to attempt northwest passage (1610), reached Hudson's Strait, and spent some time in the bay beyond; ice-bound hi south of James's Bay; after struggle with mutineers was sent adrift in.a small boat with his sou and others, and lost, 1611. Though he explored further than his predecessors, Hudson actually discovered neither the bay, nor straits, nor river called after him.
- Henry Hudson
- '''Henry Hudson''' (ft. [[1784]]-[[1800]]), mezzotintengraver,
- Sir James Hudson
- '''Sir James Hudson''' ([[1810]]-[[1885]]), diplomatist ; as private secretary to William IV sent to summon Peel from Rome, 1834; envoy to Rio Janeiro, 1850, and at Turin. 1851-63; showed great sympathy with the Italian cause; G.C.B., 1863; died at Strasburg.
- Jeffery Hudson
- '''Jeffery Hudson''' ([[1619]]-[[1682]]), dwarf; eighteen inches high till thirty; served up in a pie at dinner to
- Hudson
- '''Hudson'''
- Hugh
- '''Hugh''' Charles I; afterwards reached three feet ix or nine inches; entered service of Queen Henrietta Maria; his capture by Flemish pirates, 1630, celebrated in D'Aveuant's Jeffreidos; captain of horse in Hvil.u-: unit t Paris, 1G49; captured by pirates while of! the coast of France and curried to Barbary as a slave; managed to escape ami return to England; Imprisoned for supposed complicity in Popish plot 1679; released.
- John Hudson
- '''John Hudson''' ([[1602]]-[[1719]]), classical M.A. Queen's College, Oxford, 1684; fellow and tutor of University College, 1686; Bodley's librarian, 17ul: principal of St. Mary Hall, 1712: patron of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735): edited Thucydidcs (with Latin vrrsion of.milius Port us), 1696, Diouysius Halicornassus, 1704,Geographic veteris Scriptofes Grwci miuores 1698-1712, and other classical works.
- Sir John Hudson
- '''Sir John Hudson''' ([[1833]]-[[1893]]), lieutenant-general ; lieutenant, 64th regiment, 1855; served in Persia, 1856-7,: and Indian mutiny, 1857-8; captain, 43rd light infantry,, 1858; in Abyssinia, 1867-8; in Afghan war, 1878-80; I lieutenant-colonel, 1879; C.B., 1881; commanded Indian contingent in Soudan, 1885; K.O.B., 18S5; lieutenantgeneral, 1892; Commander-in-chief in Bombay, 1893.
- Mahy Hudson
- '''Mahy Hudson''' (d. [[1801]]). organist and composer ; daughter of Robert Hudson (1731-1815)
- Michael Hudson
- '''Michael Hudson''' ([[1605]]-[[1648]]), royalist divine ; M.A. Queen's College, Oxford, 1628; fellow, c. 1630; tutor to Prince Charles, who, when king, gave him various; livings; his chaplain at Oxford; scout-muster to northern army, 1643-4; attended Charles I to Newark, 1646; escaped from prison, but was again captured, 1647, and sent to the Tower; again escaped, 1648, and promoted royalist rising in eastern counties; wrote treatise in defence of divine right (printed, 1647), and * Account of King Charles I (printed, 1731); killed while defending Woodcroft, Northamptonshire.
- Robert Hudson
- '''Robert Hudson''' (fl. [[1600]]), poet; Chapel Royal j musician of James VI; friend of Alexander Moutgomerie; j four of his sonnets extant.
- Robert Hudson
- '''Robert Hudson''' ([[1731]]-[[1815]]), vicar-choral ([[1756]]) ! and master of the children (1773) at St. Paul's Cathe dral; Mus.Bac. Cambridge, 1784; published The Myrtle (songs), 1762, and church music.
- Thomas Hudson
- '''Thomas Hudson''' (Jl. [[1610]]), poet; probably brother of Robert Hudson (fl. 1600); master of I James VI's Chapel Royal, 1586: author of a version of; Du Bartas's Historic of Judith 1584; contributor to 'England's Parnassus 1600.
- Thomas Hudson
- '''Thomas Hudson''' ([[1701]]-[[1779]]), portrait-painter; j pupil and son-in-law of Jonathan Richardson the elder ; for two years Reynolds's master; painted Handel and George II.
- William Hudson
- '''William Hudson''' (d. [[1635]]), lawyer; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1605; bencher, 1623, Lent reader, 1624; opened case against Prynne, 1633; hisTreatise of the Court of Star Chamber printed, 1792.
- William Hudson
- '''William Hudson''' ([[1730]]9-[[1793]]), botanist; sublibrarian, British Museum, 1757-8; F.H.S., 1761;praefectus horti Chelsea, 1765-71; original member of Linneau Society, 1791; publishedFlora Anglica 1762 (enlarged, 1778); genus Hudsonia named after him.

