circuit; recorder of Preston 1819 to death; a magistrate for Lancashire 1821; chairman of Preston quarter sessions 1821 to March 1874; commissioner of Bankrupts for Preston district. d. 23 Winckley square, Preston 6 June 1874.
ADDISON, William, L.S.A. 1824, M.R.C.S. 1825, F.R.S. 29 Jany. 1846, F.R.C.P. 1858; Gulstonian lecturer 1859; physician Brighton and Hove dispensary; author of A dissertation on the Malvern water 1828; Cell therapeutics 1856. d. 10 Albert road, Brighton 26 Sep. 1881 in 80 year.
ADEANE, Henry John. b. Babraham, Cambs. 9 June 1833; M.P. for Cambs. (lib.) 6 April 1857 to 6 July 1865. d. 8 Seamore place, London 17 Feb. 1870.
ADEY, Reverend John. b. Painswick, Gloucs. 15 May 1793; in business at Winslow, Bucks; began first voluntary Sunday school in Gloucester; founded a Sunday school at Great Horwood; ordained congregational minister there 1820; moved to Cranbrook, Kent then to Ramsgate; minister at Horselydown, Surrey 1836–58; at Bexley Heath, Kent 1858–68 when he retired; author of The eleventh hour 1835; The convert from popery 1851. d. Bexley Heath 16 Dec. 1869. bur. Abney Park cemetery.
ADIE, Alexander James. b. Edinburgh 1775; an optician there; much employed by all kinds of inventors to give their schemes a practical form; erected on his house in Merchant court an observatory, long before any public observatory existed in Edin.; invented the sympiesometer 1818 which contributed much to the safety of shipping; F.R.S. Edin. d. Canaan near Edinburgh 4 Dec. 1858.
ADIE, Alexander James (son of the preceding). b. Edinburgh 1808; ed. at the high school and univ.; apprenticed to James Jardine, C.E.; resident engineer of Bolton Chorley and Preston railway 1836; engineer and manager of Edinburgh and Glasgow railway to about 1863; made a series of important experiments on the expansion of stone by heat; M.R.S. Edin. 1846. d. Rockville near Linlithgow 1879.
ADOLPHUS, John Leycester (only son of John Adolphus 1768–1845, barrister, F.S.A., by Martha Elizabeth only dau. of Rev. Ralph Leycester of White place, Berks). b. 11 May 1795; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school 1802–11, head monitor, elected to fellowship at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1811; Newdigate English verse prizeman 1814; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; visited Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford; barrister Inner Temple 21 June 1822; went northern circuit; Bencher of his inn 1851; reported in Court of King’s Bench, first with Richard Vaughan Barnewall 1831–35, then with Thomas Flower Ellis 1835–52; solicitor general of county palatine of Durham; judge of county courts circuit 44 Marylebone, Oct. 1852 to death; sat for the first time 14 Oct. 1852; author of Letters to Richard Heber, Esq., containing critical remarks on the series of novels, beginning with “Waverley,” and an attempt to ascertain their author; author with Richard Vaughan Barnewall, of Reports in court of King’s Bench 1830–34, 5 vols. 1831–35; with Thomas Flower Ellis, of Reports in court of King’s Bench and Queen’s Bench 1834–41, 12 vols. 1835–42 and Queen’s Bench reports, new series 1841–52, 18 vols., 1842–56; Letters from Spain 1858, and of many metrical jeux d’esprit. (m. 10 Sep. 1822 Clara dau. of Rowland Richardson of Streatham, Surrey). d. 12 Hyde park sq. London 24 Dec. 1862. G.M. xiv, 246 (1863).
ADY, Joseph (son of John Ady of London, recording clerk of the Society of Friends, who d. 17 Nov. 1812 aged 68). b. London 1775 or 1776; a hatter and hosier at 6 Charlotte st. Wapping; hatter at 11 Circus, Minories 1831–33; accountant at same address 1833; was accustomed to examine lists of unclaimed dividends, estates and bequests, and to send letters always unstamped to all persons he could find who were called by any of the names mentioned in the lists, stating to each person that on his remitting a fee of 20/– he would be informed of something to his advantage. The Lord Mayor, Sir Peter Laurie, in 1833, publicly advertised people to be cautious of him, and the Court of Aldermen the same year directed measures to be taken against him. His lucrative trade was at last stifled by a new section in the Post Office Act, which made the writers of letters that were refused, liable for the postage; he then resorted to a new device, this was to post his letters really unstamped, but bearing marks on them as of stamps removed, so as to furnish ground for his asseveration that stamps had really been put on them. In the year 1835 he was indicted by the Rev. Francis Tebbutt for a misdemeanour, under statute 7 & 8, George iv, cap. 29 sec. 53, for obtaining a sovereign by various false pretences, he was tried at the Central criminal court 7 Feb. 1835, found guilty and sentenced to 7 years transportation, which was commuted to 1 year’s imprisonment in the House of Correction. He was sent to prison again in the year 1851 for a similar offence, but was released early in 1852 by order of the Home Secretary in consequence of his declining health. d. 89 Fenchurch st. London 17 July 1852 aged 77. bur. Friend’s burial ground, Whitechapel 22 July. Central criminal court minutes of evidence, by Henry Buckler, i, 646–52 (1835); De Quincey’s Works, vi, 258, 327 (1862). The epistle of which the following is an exact copy, was received by the Duke of Wellington 5 Dec. 1833, and sent by him to the Lord Mayor the next day:
My Lord,
The undersigned is able to inform you of something considerably to your advantage on receipt of 20 shillings, by post office order or otherwise for his trouble.
Yours respectfully,
Joseph Ady, Accountant,
11 Circus, Minories,
London.
Nov. 29th, 1833.
No letters received unless postpaid.
To His Grace The Duke of Wellington,
Strathfieldsaye, Hants.
The annexed is copied from a letter of his, which was received by a gentleman in the country.
“The undersigned is able to inform you of something considerably to your advantage (value £100 and upwards), on receipt of 20/– by order on Whitechapel post office as an equivalent for his trouble and costs generally.
Respectfully
Joseph Ady, Accountant,
No. 5 York St Charlotte St.
¼ mile East of Whitechapel Chh.
London.
Personally known to each of the Aldermen of London, having been a Freeman and Housekeeper 50 years.
April 5th, 1847.
Should you find any difficulty in getting the money, the Rt. Hon. Sir Peter Laurie, Deputy Lord Mayor, will frank you from all Expenses except Postage, which you must pay both ways. In your reply be pleased to copy the Marks of Reference, F. 1847, Page 6.”
ADY, Venerable William Brice (son of Wm. Ady, comr. of the Gun Wharf, Devonport). b. 1816; ed. at Eton; entered Ex. coll. Ox. 29 Oct. 1834, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; V. of Little Baddow, Essex 1842–57 and Rector 1857 to death; archdeacon of Colchester Dec. 1864 to death. (m. 10 April 1844 Emilia 3 and youngest dau. of Rev. Brook Henry Bridges, R. of Danbury, Essex). d. Little Baddow 21 April 1882. bur. Little Baddow churchyard 27 April. Statute 29 & 30 Vict. cap. 111, sections 15 and 16.
AFFLECK, Sir Gilbert, 5 Baronet. b. 9 June 1804; succeeded 7 May 1851. d. Calverley park, Tunbridge Wells 18 Nov. 1854.
AFFLECK, Rev. Sir Robert, 4 Baronet. b. 27 Jany. 1765; ed. at Westminster, captain of the school 1782; and at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1787, M.A. 1790; Preb. of York cathedral 8 May 1802 to death; V. of Doncaster 1807–17; V. of Silkstone near Barnsley 1817–37; succeeded 10 Aug. 1833. d. Dalham hall near Newmarket 7 May 1851.
AFFLECK, Sir Robert, 6 Baronet. b. Retford Notts 28 July 1805; succeeded 18 Nov. 1854; sheriff of Suffolk 1875. d. Dalham hall 9 Oct. 1882.
AGAR, Sir Emanuel Felix, lieutenant 1 life guards 15 Nov. 1804; major 2 life guards 28 April 1814 to April 1815; M.P. for Sudbury (lib.) 5 May 1807 to 29 Sep. 1812; knighted by the Prince Regent at Carlton house 18 July 1812. (m. 21 Aug. 1811 Margaret youngest dau. of Edward George Lind of Stratford place, London, she d. 10 Aug. 1863). d. 6 Langham st. Marylebone, London 28 Aug. 1866 aged 85.
AGAR, Honorable George Charles (2 son of Most Rev. Charles Agar 1736–1809, 1 Earl of Normanton Abp. of Dublin,