Behind the curtain (1848) 76–78; I.L.N. v, 193 (1844), portrait, xxiii, 460 (1853), portrait.
BARRY, William Whittaker (3 son of Rev. Henry Barry, R. of Draycott Cerne, Wilts who d. 10 Aug. 1850 aged 60). Gained first law studentship awarded by the Inns of Court Jany. 1853; barrister L.I. 30 April 1853; author of A treatise on the statutory jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery 1861; A walking tour round Ireland in 1865 by an Englishman 1867; A walking tour in Normandy [anon.] 1868. d. on the Krimmler Tavern pass in the Tyrol 1 Oct. 1875.
BARRY, William Wigram (brother of Sir Redmond Barry). b. 28 May 1827; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 May 1846; col. 1 Oct. 1877 to death; brigadier general Bombay 23 July 1877 to 4 April 1879; M.G. 1 May 1880; granted service reward 1 Oct. 1882; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861. d. Hotel Royal, Naples 19 April 1883.
BARRYMORE, Mrs. (dau. of Mr. Adams). b. 1783; dancer at the old Royal Circus now Surrey Theatre, London 1803; the most graceful dancer in London for some years; her power of pantomimic expression as the dumb girl Finella contributed much to success of Auber’s opera Massaniello when first produced at Drury Lane 4 May 1829; made her début in America at the Park Theatre, New York 21 Aug. 1831; taught dancing at Boston to 1846. (m. William Barrymore of London, dramatist who d. Boston 16 Feb. 1845). d. London 6 Jany. 1863.
BARSTOW, James Pulteney (eld son of Nathaniel Barstow, of Wetherby, Yorkshire). Barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1824; bencher 1 May 1854; treasurer 30 Jan. 1856. d. Sandgate, Folkestone 8 Sep. 1873.
BARTER, Charles. Worked in Royal botanic gardens, Kew 1849–51; foreman of Royal botanic society Regents Park 1851–57; botanist to Niger expedition under W. B. Baikie 1857 to death; author of The Dorp and the Veld or six months in Natal 1852. d. Rabba on the Niger 15 July 1859.
BARTER, Richard. b. Cooldaniel, co. Cork 1802; M.R.C.S. 1828; Physician of Dispensary Inniscana, Cork; opened St. Anne’s water cure establishment at Blarney; set up the first hot-air baths in Ireland, also the first hot-air baths without vapour—the so-called Turkish bath. d. Blarney 3 Oct. 1870. Recollections of the late Dr. Barter, Dublin 1875.
BARTER, Rev. Robert Speccott (youngest son of Rev. Charles Barter V. of Cornworthy near Totnes, Devon, 71 years who d. 26 April 1846 aged 97). b. Cornworthy 3 July 1790; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch. Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1815; commoner tutor at Winchester to Dec. 1814; tutor of New college 1815–30 when he resigned; Bursar 1817, Poser 1817, Sub-warden 1820; Warden of Winchester 18 May 1822 to death. d. College st. Winchester 8 Feb. 1861. Rev. H. C. Adams’s History of Winchester college (1878) pp. 322–42.
BARTER, Rev. William Brudenell (elder brother of the preceding). b. Jany. 1788; ed. at Tiverton, Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813; Fellow of Oriel coll. 1811; tutor in family of Lord Carnarvon; R. of Highclere, Hants 1825 to death; R. of Burghclere, Hants 1825 to death; published many letters and pamphlets on the topics of the day. d. Burghclere 16 Nov. 1858.
BARTH, Heinrich. b. Hamburg 16 Feb. 1821; ed. at Univ. of Berlin; a lecturer in the Univ.; went with James Richardson to Central Africa 1849, returned 1855; C.B. 17 Nov. 1858; foreign associate of Royal Geographical Society; pres. of Geographical society of Berlin; professor extraordinary at Univ. of Berlin; author of Travels in North and Central Africa 1857. d. Berlin 25 Nov. 1865. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxvi, 134–36 (1866); Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ii, 96–99 (1875).
BARTHELÉMY, Emanuel. Shot a gensdarme in Paris; condemned to the galleys for life, set free 1830; greatly distinguished himself in revolution of June 1848; fled to England 1848; shot Cournet a French political exile in a duel at Englefield Green near Egham 19 Oct. 1852; murdered George Moore and Charles Collard at 73 Warren st. Fitzroy square, London 8 Dec. 1854; tried at Central criminal court 4 Jany. 1855, found guilty and sentenced to death; executed at Newgate 22 Jany. 1855. A.R. (1852) 170, (1854) 206–212, (1855) 14–16; Central criminal court trials xli, 298–307 (1855).
BARTHOLOMEW, Anne Charlotte (dau. of Arnol Fayerman) b. Loddon, Norfolk 28 March 1800; member of Society of Female artists and of Society of Water colour painters; exhibited 29 pictures at the R.A. and 39 at Suffolk St. gallery 1841–62; author of Its only my aunt, a farce 1825, first acted at Marylebone theatre May 1849; Songs of Azrael 1840 and The ring or the farmer’s daughter, a drama 1845. (m. (1) 1827 Walter Turnbull, musical composer, he d. 1838. m. (2) 30 July 1840 Valentine Bartholomew). d. 23 Charlotte st. Rathbone place 18 Aug. 1862. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists i, 398–400 (1876).
BARTHOLOMEW, Ven. John (son of Rev. John Bartholomew, head master of Exeter Gr. Sch.) b. Exeter Oct. 1790; ed. at Exeter Gr. Sch., Winchester and C. C. Coll. Ox.; Scholar, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1820; P.C, of Withycombe Rawleigh, Devon 1817; P.C. of Sowton 1819; R. of Lympstone 1820; R. of Morchard Bishop, Devon 1831; Preb. of Exeter Cath. 9 May 1831; Canon Res. of Exeter Cath. Sep. 1840 to death; Archdeacon of Barnstaple 3 Aug. 1847 to death. d. Morchard Bishop Rectory 24 Sep. 1865.
BARTHOLOMEW, Valentine (son of Josiah Bartholomew of Clerkenwell, watchmaker 1766–1847). b. 18 Jany. 1799; flower painter; member of Water Colour Society 1835 to death; exhibited 20 pictures at the R.A. and 27 at Suffolk st. gallery 1826–56; flower painter in ordinary to Duchess of Kent and to Queen Victoria, (m. (1) 1827 Evelina Charlotte Adelaide only dau. of Joseph Nicholas Hullmandel, musician, she d. 1 Jany. 1839. m. (2) 30 July 1840 A. C. Turnbull). d. 23 Charlotte st. Rathbone place 21 March 1879.
BARTHOLOMEW, William. b. London 1793; chemist, violin player and flower painter; translated or adapted the words of most of Mendelssohn’s vocal works; received gold medal of merit from king of Prussia for the Antigone; wrote English words for Méhul’s Joseph, Spohr’s Jessonda, and Costa’s Eli, Naaman, and The Dream, (m. 1853 Ann Sheppard Mounsey, vocal composer). d. London 18 Aug. 1867.
BARTLETT, John Sherren. b. Dorset; surgeon R.N. 1812; a prisoner of war at Boston U.S. 1812–13; surgeon at Boston 1813; removed to New York; founded The Albion weekly paper 1822; edited it 1822–47; founded The Anglo-Saxon weekly paper at Boston 1847; published The European at Liverpool; British consul at Baltimore 1857. d. New Jersey 24 Aug. 1863 aged 73.
BARTLETT, Lavinia Strickland. b. Preston Andover 27 Nov. 1806; a baptist 26 Oct. 1828; a teacher of the New Park st. chapel Sunday schools London 1859 to death. d. 2 Aug. 1875. Mrs. Bartlett and her class by her son E. H. Bartlett 1877, portrait.
BARTLETT, Robert. b. Patcham near Brighton 1782; huntsman to the Brookside harriers, to Duke of Dorset’s hounds at Knowle in Kent, on the Duke’s death in 1815 they were sold to Charles Shard of Winkfield, Berks where Bartlett was huntsman several seasons; huntsman to Colonel Wyndham at Singleton, Sussex to 1825; whip to the Royal hounds 1825–53. d. near the royal kennels, Ascot Heath 12 Nov. 1856.
BARTLETT, Rev. Symeon Taylor. Ed. at Clare coll. Cam., LL.B. 1840, LLD. 1846; R. of Everley, Wilts 1857 to death; edited Cicero’s Letters to his friends, Xenophon’s Anabasis, Horace’s Satires, Cicero de Oratore and Cicero de Senectute. d. 1877.
BARTLETT, Thomas. b. 7 July 1818; worked under Thomas Brassey the railway contractor; constructed the Victor Emmanuel railway between France and Italy; executed works on Bilboa railway, Spain; invented an automatic tunnel boring machine, preceding in date that used in the Mont Cenis tunnel; A.I.C.E. 1845, M.I.C.E. 1852. d. Lisbon 23 July 1864.
BARTLETT, Rev. Thomas. b. 1789; ed. at St. Edmund’s hall Ox.; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; R. of Kingstone, Kent 1816–51; R. of Chevening, Kent 1851–54; V. of Luton, Beds. 1854–57; R. of Burton Latimer 1857 to death; author of Memoir of Bishop Butler 1839; An index to Butler’s Analogy 1842, and of many pamphlets, letters and sermons maintaining evangelical tenets. d. Burton Latimer 28 May 1872.
BARTLETT, William Henry. b. Kentish town, London 26 March 1809; articled to John Britton the architect 1822–29; made 6 journeys to the East 1834–54, and 4 journeys to America 1836–52; edited Sharpe’s London Magazine