(only son of Andrew Arcedeckne of Glevering hall, Suffolk 1780–1849). b. 1822; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; sent out a cargo of tobacco pipes to our soldiers in the Crimea; sheriff of Suffolk 1856, paid fine of £100 for not having javelin men; commodore of royal London yacht club 18 years. (m. 1870 Jane Elsworthy, an actress, she d. 5 Oct. 1879 aged 54). d. 45 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 31 May 1871 in 49 year.
Note.—Thackeray depicted him in language, manner and gesture as Harry Foker in Pendennis, where there is also an exact woodcut portrait of him.
ARCH, John (son of William Arch of 163 Fenchurch st. London, linen shirt maker). Apprenticed to George Robinson of 25 Paternoster row, the great publisher of his day; bookseller at corner of Lombard st. and Gracechurch st. 1792, with his brother Arthur Portsmouth Arch who d. 9 April 1839; at 61 Cornhill 1810–38; collected the Henry Perkins library, the George Hibbert library, also the London institution library; published many valuable books. d. Vassal road, Kennington 1853 aged 87.
ARCHBOLD, John Frederick. Barrister L.I. 5 May 1814; author of The practice of the court of King’s Bench in personal actions and ejectment, 2 vols. 1819, 14 ed. 1885; A summary of the law relating to pleading and evidence in criminal cases, 19 ed. 1878; The parish officer 1852, 6 ed. 1881, and many other legal works. d. 15 Gloucester st. Regent’s park, London 28 Nov. 1870 aged 85. J. G. Marvin’s Legal bibliography (1847) 66–70.
ARCHBOLD, Robert. M.P. for co. Kildare (radical) 11 Aug. 1837 to 23 July 1847. d. Davidstown house near Castle Dermot, co. Kildare 9 March 1855.
ARCHDALL-GRATWICKE, Rev. George. b. Derbyshire 21 April 1787; ed. at Em. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. 1825, D.D. 1835; fellow of his college; dean, bursar, prelector and steward; master May 1835 to death; vice chancellor of Cambridge 1835 and 1841; canon of Norwich 1842–67; took additional surname of Gratwicke by royal license 28 April 1863. (m. 1835 Jemima Elizabeth eld. dau. of Rev. Wm. Kinleside of Angmering, Sussex). d. the Lodge, Em. coll. Cambridge 16 Sep. 1871.
Note.—His personalty was sworn under £180,000 Oct. 1871, he left £6000 to his college.
ARCHER, Frederick Scott (2 son of Mr. Archer, of Bishop Stortford, butcher). b. 1813; assistant to Massey of Leadenhall st. London, silversmith; a sculptor; applied collodion to photography successfully 1850, first account of this process was in the Chemist, March 1851, it was in general use for 30 years till the gelatine process was discovered; photographer at 105 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury 1852 to death; invented a camera and a liquid lens; the first to use a triplet lens. d. 105 Great Russell st. 1 May 1857. Report of the jurors on class xiv (photography) of the International Exhibition 1862; N. and Q. 1 series vi, 277, 396, 426 (1852), vii, 92, 218 (1853).
ARCHER, Georgina (sister of James Archer). Went to Berlin 1859; Victoria Lyceum there was founded in 1867, mainly through her efforts. d. Montreux, Switzerland 22 Nov. 1882.
ARCHER, Henry. Invented and patented machine for perforating postage stamps 1848. d. Pau, France 2 April 1863.
ARCHER, John Wykeham. b. Newcastle 1808; apprenticed to John Scott of Coppice row, London, animal engraver; Engraver in London 1831 to death; Associate of New Society of Painters in Watercolours; author of Vestiges of old London 1851; Posthumous Poems 1873. d. Kentish town, London 25 May 1864. Pinks’s Clerkenwell (1865) 639–41.
ARCHER, Thomas Croxen. Clerk in Customs at Liverpool; collected, arranged and named the specimens of the imports into Liverpool for the Great Exhibition of 1851; a professor in the Liverpool institution; superintendent of Technological museum Edin. 26 June 1860, and director Jany. 1866 to death; joint executive comr. from Great Britain to American Centennial Exhibition 1876; F.R.S. Edin. d. London 19 Feb. 1885. Athenæum 28 Feb. 1885, p. 283. Graphic xiii, 542, 552 (1876), portrait.
ARCHIBALD, Charles Dickson (eld. son of Samuel George Wm. Archibald, Speaker of Assembly, Nova Scotia). b. Truro, Nova Scotia 31 Oct. 1802; author of A look towards the future of the British colonies 1854; F.R.S. 26 Nov. 1840. (m. 16 Sep. 1832 Bridget only child of Myles Walker of Rusland hall, Lancashire). d. 1868.
ARCHIBALD, Sir Edward Mortimer (brother of the preceding). b. 10 May 1810; chief clerk and registrar of supreme court of Newfoundland 8 Nov. 1832; attorney general 5 Nov. 1846; advocate general 15 April 1847 to May 1855; consul in state of New York 1 Oct. 1857; judge in mixed court New York for suppression of African slave trade 14 Oct. 1862 to 1 Oct. 1870; consul general for states of New York, &c. 9 Feb. 1871 to 1 Jany. 1883; C.B. 17 March 1865; K.C.M.G. 12 Aug. 1882. (m. 1834 Katherine dau. of A. Richardson of Halifax, Nova Scotia). d. 11 St. John’s terrace, Brighton 8 Feb. 1884.
ARCHIBALD, Sir Thomas Dickson (brother of the preceding). b. Truro, Nova Scotia 1817; attorney and barrister province of Nova Scotia 1837; a special pleader in London 1844–52; student of M.T. 11 Nov. 1840, barrister 30 Nov. 1852; drew Petition of Right act usually called Bovill’s act 1860; junior counsel to Treasury otherwise called Attorney general’s Devil Feb. 1868 to Nov. 1872; serjeant at law 20 Nov. 1872; judge of Court of Queen’s Bench 22 Nov. 1872 to Feb. 1875; knighted by the Queen at Osborne 5 Feb. 1873; judge of Court of Common Pleas Feb. 1875 to death. (m. 1841 Sarah only dau. of Richard Smith of The Priory Dudley). d. 7 Porchester gate, Hyde Park 18 Oct. 1876 in 60 year. Law magazine and law review ii, 177–88 (1877); I.L.N. lxii, 11, 13 (1873), portrait.
ARDEN, Henry Thomas, the assumed name of Henry Thomas Arnold; author of Princess Charming, The belle of the Barley-mow, The armourer’s daughter, The right-fall heir and many other burlesques and extravaganzas. d. 25 Nov. 1876 aged 36.
ARDEN, Joseph (eld. son of Joseph Arden of Islington). b. 10 May 1799; ed. at Merchant Taylors; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840, bencher 1 March 1875; principal of Cliffords Inn 5 Feb. 1855 to death; F.S.A. 10 June 1847; author of The orations of Hyperides for Lycophron and Euxenippus now first printed in facsimile with a short account of the discovery of the original manuscript at Western Thebes in Upper Egypt in 1847. Cambridge 1853. d. 1 Cliffords Inn 30 Jany. 1879.
ARGUIMBAU, Lawrence. Captain 1 foot 1809–16 when placed on h.p.; Col. 80 foot 30 April 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Mahon, Minorca 18 Aug. 1854.
ARKWRIGHT, George. b. 20 Aug. 1807; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1833; M.P. for Leominster 1842 to death. d. 2D The Albany Piccadilly, London 5 Feb. 1856.
ARKWRIGHT, Henry. b. 16 Dec. 1837; captain 84 foot 18 April 1865 to death; killed by fall of an avalanche when ascending Mont Blanc 13 Oct. 1866.
ARKWRIGHT, Rev. Joseph. b. 9 Aug. 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1812; master of Essex foxhounds 1861 to death; built new kennels at Harlow; a celebrated horseman; one of largest farmers in Essex. d. 29 Feb. 1864. Personalty sworn under £400,000 April 1864.
ARKWRIGHT, Peter. b. 17 April 1784; sheriff of Derbyshire 1855. d. Willersley, Derbyshire 19 Sep. 1866. Personalty sworn under £800,000 Nov. 1866.
ARMENI, Sir Peter Braila. Greek envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. in London 24 April 1882 to death; G.C.M.G. 1882. d. 18 Queen’s gate terrace, South Kensington 15 Sep. 1884.
ARMISTEAD, Wilson. Author of A tribute for the Negro 1848; Select Miscellanies, 2 vols. 1851; The Anti-slavery pilot, 22 numbers 1855; Tales and legends of the English lakes and mountains, by Lorenzo Tuvar 1855. d. Virginia house, Leeds 18 Feb. 1868 aged 49. Joseph Smith’s Friends books i, 124–31 (1867); Annual Monitor for 1869 pp. 2–8.
ARMITAGE, Sir Elkanah (3 son of Elkanah Armitage of Newton, Lancs.) b. Failsworth Sep. 1794; a handloom weaver; founded firm of Armitage and Co. of London and Manchester, cotton spinners 1827, retired 1873; member of the first town council Manchester 1838; alderman 1841–65; mayor 1846–48; knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace 31 Jany. 1849 for his services during Chartist riots 1848; contested Salford March 1857; sheriff of county palatine of Lancaster 1866. d.