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

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СКАЧАТЬ b. 23 Nov. 1797; succeeded his father 27 Oct. 1830; sold his pictures at Christie’s 20 July 1850. d. Ashburnham place near Battle 22 June 1878.

      Note.—He was the collector of an extensive library of early and rare books and of a vast assemblage of MSS. which comprised 4 divisions, the Libri collection, the Barrois collection, the Stowe collection and a portion known as The Appendix comprising his miscellaneous collections. In July 1883 the Government purchased the Stowe collection for £45,000; and in May 1884 the Italian Government bought for the Laurenzian library at Florence the larger portion of the Libri collection and the Dante MSS. from the Appendix for the sum of £23,000. A very full account of the contents of the whole of the Ashburnham MSS. will be found in the 8th Report of the Historical Manuscript Commission (1881) Appendix part 3 pp. 127.

      ASHBURNHAM, Rev. Sir John, 7 Baronet. b. Scotland Yard Westminster 26 Dec. 1770; ed. at Clare hall Cam.; B.D. 1815; R. of Guestling, Sussex 1795 to death; Preb. of Chichester 2 May 1796 to death; Chancellor of Chichester 4 May 1796 to death; V. of Pevensey, Sussex 1816 to death; succeeded his brother the 6 Bart. 22 March 1843. d. Guestling rectory 1 Sep. 1854.

      ASHBURNHAM, Thomas (4 son of George Ashburnham, 3 Earl of Ashburnham 1760–1830.) ensign Coldstream guards 30 Jany. 1823; lieut. col. 62 foot 7 Jan. 1842 to 21 Sep. 1847; commanded a brigade in Sutlej campaign 1845–46; aide de camp to the Queen 3 April 1846 to 20 June 1854; lieut. col. 29 foot 22 Nov. 1849 to 20 June 1854; col. 82 foot 13 Dec. 1859 to death; general 19 April 1868; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. 104 Park st. Grosvenor sq., London 3 March 1872.

      ASHBURTON, William Bingham Baring, 2 Baron. (eld. son of Alexander Baring, 1 Baron Ashburton 1774–1848.) b. June 1799; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1836, hon. D.C.L. 1856; M.P. for Thetford 1826–30, for Callington 1830–31, for Winchester 1832–37, for North Staffs. 1837–41, and again for Thetford 1841–48; sec. of board of control 8 Sep. 1841 to 17 Feb. 1845; paymaster general of the forces and treasurer of the navy 25 Feb. 1845 to 12 July 1846; P.C. 30 June 1845; succeeded his father 13 May 1848; F.R.S. 27 April 1854; Commander of Legion of Honour 1855; pres. of geographical society 1860–62, vice pres. 1862 to death. d. the Grange, Alresford Hants 23 March 1864. Monographs by Lord Houghton (1873) 225–55; Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain ii, 97–112 (1854).

      ASHBURTON, Francis Baring, 3 Baron. b. 20 May 1800; M.P. for Thetford 1832–41 and 1848–57; succeeded 23 March 1864. d. Hazlewood near Watford 6 Sep. 1868.

      ASHBURY, John. b. 31 Jany. 1806; a wheelwright at Manchester; began the large works at Openshaw near Manchester for building railway carriages and wagons 1847; constructed a railway wagon in 13 hours for the great exhibition of 1862; sold his works to a limited liability company 1862. d. 9 Sussex place, Hyde Park, London 2 Sep. 1866. Personalty sworn under £400,000 27 Oct. 1866.

      ASHBY, Rev. John Eyre. b. 22 Jany. 1820; ed. at Univ. coll. school London, B.A. London 1840; a congregational minister in Arundel, Brighton and London; lectured on the higher mathematics in same places; kept a school at Enfield 1856 to death; F.R.A.S. 1843, LLD. Jena 1858. d. 22 Dec. 1863.

      ASHER, Adolphus. b. Stettin 3 Sep. 1801; spent 5 years in England 1820–25; diamond merchant at St. Petersburgh; bookseller in Russia 1827–30, at Berlin 1830 to death; introduced the English annuals into Germany and Russia; foreign bookseller to British museum 1841 to death; published Travels of Benjamin of Tudela, Berlin 1840. d. Venice 2 Oct. 1853.

      ASHLEY, Anthony John (4 son of Cropley Ashley, 6 Earl of Shaftesbury). b. 24 Grosvenor square, London 21 Dec. 1808; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1829; barrister I.T. 10 June 1836; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1866. (m. 17 March 1840 Julia eld. dau. of Henry John Conyers of Copt hall, Essex). d. Upper Brook st. London 1 Jany. 1867.

      ASHLEY, Anthony William (brother of preceding). b. 24 Grosvenor square 4 Oct. 1803; attaché to embassy at Vienna 31 March 1830; treasurer and vice chamberlain to Queen Adelaide 28 Oct. 1834 to her death 2 Dec. 1849; master governor and keeper of royal hospital of St. Katherine in the Regents’ Park, London 23 May 1859 to death. (m. 8 March 1831 Maria Anne eld. dau. of Col. Hugh Duncan Baillie, M.P. of Tarradaile). d. Mentone 18 April 1877.

      ASHLEY, Henry. b. 1790; an attorney in London 1816 to death; one of the 4 privileged attorneys of Lord Mayor’s court to 1853 when he received compensation on abolition of the privilege; erected independent chapel afterwards called Maberly chapel in Ball’s Pond road, Islington 1826; author of Doctrine and practice of attachment in Mayor’s court 1818. d. Greenhithe, Kent 20 May 1867.

      ASHMORE, Charles. Lieut. col. 36 foot 22 May 1845 to 15 May 1857 when placed on h. p.; col. 30 foot 6 Jany. 1867 to death; general 19 Oct. 1875. d. 10 Granville place, Portman sq. 2 March 1881 in 88 year.

      ASHPITEL, Arthur (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Hackney 15 Dec. 1807; ed. at Homerton; commenced practice as an architect in Crown Court Old Broad st. 1842; built church of St. Barnabas at Homerton 1845; partner with John Whichcord 1850; elected F.S.A. 7 Jan. 1847; F.R.I.B.A. 1841, Vice Pres. 1862; published with John Whichcord “Observations on baths and wash-houses with an account of their history” 1855; Town dwellings an essay on the erection of fire proof houses in flats 1855. d. 2 Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey 18 Jany. 1869. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i, 212–15 (1869); Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series iv, 299–301.

      ASHPITEL, William Hurst. b. 1776; pupil of Daniel Asher Alexander the architect of prisons at Dartmoor and Maidstone; assisted him in designs for the London docks; a pupil of John Rennie; largely concerned in Kenneth and Avon canal; partner with James Savage; J.P. for Middlesex; designed the first new church and extensive schools at South Hackney and many other buildings, besides several large engineering works. d. Clapton sq. London 23 April 1852 in 76 year.

      ASHTON, Henry. b. London 1801; employed by Sir Jeffrey Wyattville to 1840; erected stables at Windsor and kennels at Frogmore; erected summer palace at the Hague for king of Holland; architect for Victoria st. improvements in London, and designed Victoria st. opened 6 Aug. 1851. d. 18 March 1872.

      ASHTOWN, Frederick Mason Trench, 2 Baron. b. 25 Dec. 1804; succeeded 1 May 1840; his claim to the peerage was allowed 12 July 1855. d. Clonodfoy, co. Limerick 12 Sep. 1880. Personalty sworn under £350,000 April 1881.

      ASHURST, William (son of the succeeding). b. 1819; admitted solicitor Jany. 1843; partner with his father; partner with John Morris about 1855–62; solicitor to the Post Office 1862 to death; a great friend of Garibaldi and Mazzini. d. 7 Prince of Wales’s Terrace, Kensington, London 14 July 1879 in 60 year.

      ASHURST, William Henry. b. London 11 Feb. 1792; a solicitor in London; belonged to a small sect called ‘Freethinking Christians’; member of common council of city of London; undersheriff; a founder of the society of the ‘Friends of Italy,’ 1851 and of the ‘Peoples International League,’ 1852; took an active part in agitation against church rates; author of The Corporation Register 1832, which advocated reforms in the city. d. Wimbledon Park, Surrey 13 Oct. 1855.

      ASHWELL, Rev. Arthur Rawson. b. Cheyne Walk Chelsea 9 Dec. 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar of Caius coll. 1846; 15 Wr. 1847, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; C. of Speldhurst Kent 1848–49; C. of St. Mary the less, Cam. 1849–50; vice principal of St. Mark’s college Chelsea Jany. 1851 to Nov. 1852; principal of Oxford diocesan training college at Culham Nov. 1852 to 1862; minister of Holy Trinity church Hanover square London 1862–64; principal of Durham training college 1865–70; canon res. of Chichester and principal of Chichester theological college 1870; R. of St. Andrew’s Chichester 1871–75; R. of St. Martin’s Chichester 1872–75; chancellor of Chichester cath. 1879 to death, installed 19 June 1879; edited the Literary Churchman 1864–76 and Sep. 1879 to death, and the Church СКАЧАТЬ