Frederic Boase

Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H


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(younger son of R. M. Bacon of Norwich, editor of the Norwich Mercury). Bought the Sussex Advertiser 1843, wrote all the leading articles and edited the paper to his death; sec. of Hop excise duty repeal association 1858 to April 1862 when duty which yielded £750,000 a year was taken off. d. 64 High st. Lewes 15 March 1878 in 72 year. I.L.N. xlii, 641 (1863).

      BACON, Sir Henry Hickman, 10 and 11 Baronet. b. Blundeston near Lowestoft 5 April 1820; succeeded 30 May 1864; sheriff of Lincoln 1867. d. Thonock hall, Gainsborough 14 Nov. 1872.

      BACON, John (2 son of John Bacon, R.A. sculptor 1740–99). b. Newman st. Oxford st. London March 1777; completed his father’s works; exhibited 64 sculptures at the R.A. 1792–1824; executed statue of Wm. iii in St. James’s sq. 1808; 6 monuments in St. Paul’s and 11 monuments in Westminster Abbey. d. Bathwick hill near Bath 14 July 1859.

      BACON, Rev. Robert. ed. at Univ. of Glasgow LLD. 1800, and Em. coll. Cam. LL.B. 1806; C. of Hunstanton 1802–42; C. of Sedgeford 1809–32; P.C. of Fring, Norfolk 16 Feb. 1809 to death; R. of Wolverton, Norfolk 1836 to death; author of Poems, 1790; Treatise on Baptism 1827; Theological essays 1829. d. 1861.

      BACOT, John. b. 29 May 1781; M.R.C.S. 1801, F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon Grenadier Guards 1803–20; practised in London 1820; edited with Roderick Mc Cleod Medical and Physical journal; chairman of Court of examiners of Society of Apothecaries 1832–38, master of the company 1845–46; member of General board of Health 1854; author of Observations on the use and abuse of friction 1822 and A treatise on Syphilis 1829. d. 4 Portugal st. Park lane 4 Sep. 1870. Medical Circular i, 130 (1852).

      BADDELEY, John. b. at sea in Bay of Bengal 22 Jany. 1846; taken to England 1851; ed. at Bonn and Univ. of Edin.; M.B. 1867; founded Athletic club of Univ. of Edin. May 1867, pres. 1867–68; fellow of Botanical society of Edin. 14 Dec. 1865; member of Royal Medical Society 23 Nov. 1866. d. Royal Infirmary Edin. 29 Feb. 1868. Transactions of Botanical Society ix, 304–12 (1868).

      BADDELEY, William. Civil engineer; made many improvements in manual fire engines 1820–62; invented portable cistern used by London Fire Brigade. d. March 1867 aged 61.

      BADELEY, Edward Lowth (son of John Badeley M.D. of Leighs hall, near Chelmsford 1742–1831). b. 1803; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1841; counsel for Bishop of Exeter in Gorham case before judicial committee of P.C. 17–18 Dec. 1849; joined Church of Rome 1850; author of The privilege of religious confessions in English courts of justice 1865. d. 29 March 1868. Memoir of J. R. Hope Scott 2 vols. 1884.

      BADELEY, John Carr (brother of the preceding). b. 1794; ed. at the Charterhouse and Caius coll. Cam.; M.B. 1817, M.D. 1822; F.R.C.P.; phys. to Asylum for health Lisson Grove, London; phys. to Chelmsford dispensary 20 years; inspecting phys. to lunatic asylums of Essex; Harveian orator 1849; poisoned himself accidentally at Guy Harlings, Chelmsford 22 Sep. 1851.

      BADEN, Maudit or Mardit. b. Pewsey, Wilts Feb. 1763 or 1773. d. Oare, parish of Wilcot, Wilts 11 May 1869. Human longevity by W. J. Thoms (1873) 129–31.

      BADGER-EASTWOOD, Thomas Smith (eld son of Thomas Badger of Rotherham, solicitor 1793–1862). b. 1823; ed. at Doncaster gr. sch. and Trin. hall Cam., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1847; reader on real property law to 4 Inns of Court 1856 to death; assumed surname of Eastwood 1863; edited Concise forms of wills by W. Hayes and T. Jarman 5 ed. 1860. d. 28 Gloucester place, Hyde park gardens 30 May 1866.

      BADGLEY, Francis. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1827, M.D. Edin. 1829, L.S.A. 1830; M.R.C.P. London 1860; a phys. at Kensington 1829–42, at Montreal 1842–59 and at Malvern 1860 to death; fellow of Royal medical and chirurgical society 1838; M.D. Univ. of Toronto 1851; professor of medical jurisprudence in Mc Gill college; professor of medicine in medical school of Montreal; professor of medicine in Univ. of Toronto 1851; founded Montreal Medical Gazette 1844, edited it 1844–45. d. Holyrood house, Great Malvern 24 Dec. 1863 aged 56.

      BADGLEY, W. b. Montreal 1801; called to Canadian bar 1823; sec. of Constitutional Association of Montreal district 1836–38; one of three delegates of this Association to England 1837–38; comr. of bankrupts for district of Montreal 1840 to April 1847; circuit judge July 1844 to April 1847; attorney general for Lower Canada April 1847; member of the provincial parliament May 1847 to 1855; puisne judge Lower Canada Jany. 1855 to 1876; Grand master of Freemasons for Montreal. d. 1876. H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians (1862) 492–97.

      BADHAM, Rev. Charles. ed. at Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1846; V. of All Saints Sudbury, Suffolk 1847 to death; author of Selections from Robert Hall 1840; Aids to devotion 1843; History of All Saints, Sudbury 1852. d. All Saints vicarage, Sudbury 15 April 1874.

      BADHAM, Rev. Charles (son of Charles Badham 1780–1845, Regius professor of physics in Univ. of Glasgow). b. Ludlow 18 July 1813; ed. by Jean Henri Pestalozzi; at Eton 1826; scholar of Wadham coll. Ox. 1830, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1839; studied in Germany and Italy 7 years; incorporated M.A. at Cam. as member of St. Peter’s college 1847, D.D. Cam. 1852; headmaster of Birmingham proprietary school 1854–67; professor of classics and logic in Univ. of Sydney 1867 to death; one of greatest scholars of his time; author of Criticism applied to Shakespeare 1846; published editions with notes of the Ion of Euripides 1851, 1853 and 1861; and of the Philebus of Plato 1855 and 1878. d. Sydney 26 Feb. 1884. Saturday Review lvii, 540 (1884).

      BADHAM, Rev. Charles David (brother of preceding). b. London 1806; ed. at Eton and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; incorporated B.A. at Ox. as mem. of Pemb. coll. 1829, M.A. 1829, M.B. 1830, M.D. 1833; travelling fellow of Univ. of Ox. 1829; M.R.C.P., F.R.C.P.; practised at Rome and Paris long time; returned to England 1845; ordained deacon at Norwich by Bishop Stanley; C. of East Bergholt, Suffolk 1849–55; author of Insect life 1845; The esculent funguses of England 1847; Prose Halieutics or ancient and modern fish tattle 1854; contributed much to Blackwood and Fraser. d. East Bergholt 14 July 1857 in 52 year. Fraser’s Mag. lvi, 162–63 (1857).

      BAGEHOT, Walter (only son of Thomas Watson Bagehot of Herds Bill Langport, Somerset 1796–1881). b. Langport 3 Feb. 1826; ed. at Bristol and Univ. coll. London, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1848, mathematical scholar 1846, gold medallist 1848; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1852; edited the National Review with R. H. Hutton July 1855 to Nov. 1864; edited the Economist 1860 to death; examiner in political economy in Univ. of London; author of Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen 1858; The English constitution 1867; Physics and Politics 1872. (m. 21 April 1858 Eliza eld. dau. of James Wilson, M.P.) d. Herds Hill 24 March 1877. Literary studies by the late W. Bagehot, edited by R. H. Hutton, 3 ed. i, ix-lxvii (1884), portrait; Dictionary of Nat. Biog. ii, 393–96 (1885).

      BAGG, William. Surgical artist; illustrated many medical books. d. 20 Dec. 1869 in his 66 year.

      BAGGE, Rev. Henry Theodore James (only son of the succeeding). b. 28 Feb. 1824; ed. at Rugby and Downing coll. Cam., B.A. 1851; C. of Weyhill, Hants 1851–54; author of Toleratio intolerabilis or the free development of the Romish system 1851; St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians, the text revised and illustrated 1856. d. Munich 19 Nov. 1861.

      BAGGE, Rev. James. ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; R. of Crux-Easton near Newbury 1843 to death; author of Twelve sermons 1835; The Gawthorne correspondence and the Rev. W. B. Barter 1852, and other Sermons and Pamphlets. d. 1877.

      BAGGE, Sir William, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Philip Bagge of Stradsett hall, Norfolk 1771–1827). b. Stradsett hall 17 June 1810; ed. at the Charterhouse and Ball. coll. Ox.; M.P. for West Norfolk 1837–57 and 1865 to death; created baronet 13 April 1867. d. Stradsett hall 12 Feb. 1880.

      BAGGE, Sir William Henry Ernest, 2 Baronet. b. Stradsett hall 9 Aug. 1840. d. Heatherside, Woking 23 Oct. 1881.

      BAGLEY, James. b. Ireland 1822; went to the U.S.; commanded 69th Regiment 1862–66; alderman of New York; Sachem