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

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СКАЧАТЬ author with Rev. David Bogue of History of dissenters from the Revolution in 1688 to the year 1808 4 vols. 1808, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1833; wrote much in the Eclectic Review and Evangelical Mag. d. 49 Gibson sq. Islington 4 Dec. 1862. Memorials of the late Rev. James Bennett 1863.

      BENNETT, James. Member of company of T.R. Birmingham many years; made his début in London at Lyceum theatre 18 March 1859 as Iago in Othello; acted in the provinces. d. London 9 March 1885. Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 41, portrait.

      BENNETT, James Gordon. b. New Mill, Keith, Banffshire 1 Sep. 1800; went to Halifax, Nova Scotia 1819; a printer’s reader, bookseller’s clerk and assistant in a newspaper office at Boston; went to New York about 1822; started the New York Globe Oct. 1832 a two cent paper which lived only 30 days; partner with Messrs. Anderson and Smith of New York, printers 1835; founded the New York Herald a one cent daily paper 6 May 1835 all of which he wrote; in 1841 the circulation was 20,000 and the receipts 100,000 dollars, during the civil war its circulation doubled; sent Henry M. Stanley to Central Africa in search of Dr. Livingstone at cost of £10,000 in 1871. (m. 6 June 1840 Henrietta Agnes Crean, she d. 31 March 1873). d. New York 1 June 1872. Memoir of J. G. Bennett by a Journalist 1855, portrait; F. Hudson’s Journalism in the United States 1873; J. Parton’s Famous Americans of recent times (1867) 259–305; Democratic Review xxxi, 409–19 1853, portrait; C. F. Wingate’s Views and interviews (1875) 275–86; Graphic v, 600, 611 (1872), portrait.

      BENNETT, John Hughes. b. London 31 Aug. 1812; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1837, LLD. Aug. 1875; founded in Paris the Parisian Medical Society 1837, pres. 1837; pathologist to Royal infirmary Edin. 1843; discovered a remarkable disease of the blood which he called Leucocythemia or white cell blood 1845; editor of Edinburgh Monthly Journal of medical science 1846; professor of Institutes of medicine in Univ. of Edin. July 1848 to July 1874; F.R.S. Edin. 1842, F.R.C.P. Edin. 1842; author of An introduction to clinical medicine 1849, 4 ed. 1862; The pathology and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis 1853, 2 ed. 1859; Clinical lectures on principles and practice of medicine 1852, 5 ed. 1868 which was translated into French, Russian and Hindoo. d. The Wilderness, Bracondale, Norwich 25 Sep. 1875. bur. Dean cemetery Edin. 30 Sep. Edinburgh Medical Journal xxi, 466–74 (1875); British Medical Journal ii, 473–78 (1875).

      BENNETT, John Joseph. b. Tottenham 8 Jany. 1801; ed. at Enfield and at Middlesex hospital; assistant keeper of the Banksian herbarium and library British Museum Nov. 1827, keeper 1828–70; F.L.S. 1828, sec. 1840–60; F.R.S. 16 Dec. 1841; wrote part of T. Horsfield’s Plantæ Javanicæ Rariores 1852–53. d. Maresfield, Sussex 29 Feb. 1876; bust by Weekes in botanical department British Museum. Journal of botany British and Foreign v, 97–105 (1876), portrait.

      BENNETT, Samuel. b. Cornwall 20 March 1815; went to Sydney 1841; superintendent of a printing office there 1842–59; purchased with Wm. Hanson the Empire newspaper 1859, conducted it as a daily and weekly paper; started the Evening News 29 July 1867, the Australian town and country journal 8 Jany. 1870; author of The history of Australian discovery and colonisation 1867. d. Mundarrah towers, Little Coogee, Sydney 2 June 1878.

      BENNETT, Samuel James. Founder of the Mercantile Association; founded the Commercial Gazette weekly paper 1853. d. The Firs, Staplecross, Sussex 23 May 1881.

      BENNETT, Thomas. b. Hereford 22 Feb. 1785; captain R.N. 16 Sep. 1828; commodore on North America and West India station 7 Feb. 1848 to 29 April 1851; granted a service pension 2 Nov. 1863; admiral on h.p. 12 Sep. 1865; mayor of Hereford 1842. d. Broomy hill, Hereford 12 June 1870.

      BENNETT, Thomas Randle (youngest son of John Bennett of Manchester, timber merchant). b. Manchester 1821; ed. at the gr. sch. and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846, special pleader 1848; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1855; lectured on law and history at London Working men’s college Bloomsbury; an original member of English Church Union 1859, one of its central council; examiner to the Inns of Court 1877–78; author of A popular manual of the constitutional history of England 1862 and of several political pamphlets. d. Shrewbridge hall, Nantwich 23 Feb. 1885. Law Times lxxviii, 343 (1885).

      BENNETT, William. b. Newmarket; enlisted into Cambridge militia 10 Oct. 1797 aged 20; enlisted into 46 Foot 18 March 1799, and into 32 Foot 15 June 1803, discharged 18 Aug. 1814; assisted at burial of Sir John Moore Jany. 1809. d. Inchicore, Ireland 23 Jany. 1872 aged 95, but generally reputed to be 105. W. J. Thoms’s Human longevity (1873) 235–36.

      BENNETT, William. b. 1798; made his début in London at Haymarket theatre as Jack Junk in The birthday 15 May 1812; member of English opera company; played old men at Drury Lane about 1829; secretary to Drury Lane theatrical fund. d. Bellevue cottage, Walthamstow 8 Aug. 1875. The Oddfellow i, 77 (1839), portrait.

      BENNETT, William. b. 1796; solicitor at Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire 1819 to death; clerk to county magistrates 1834 to death; author under pseudonym of Lee Gibbons of The Cavalier 3 vols. 1821; Malpas 3 vols. 1822; The King of the Peak 3 vols. 1823; Owain Goch a tale of the Revolution 3 vols. 1827; these books are also attributed to Thomas Roscoe jun.; contributed to the Reliquary many papers on archæology of Derbyshire 1862–72. d. Chapel en le Frith 20 April 1879.

      BENNETT, William Mineard. b. Exeter 1778; pupil of Sir Thomas Lawrence; a painter of portraits and miniatures; exhibited at the R.A. 1812–16 and 1834–35; lived many years in Paris; lived at Exeter 1844 to death; composed many glees and songs which were popular in Paris and Naples. d. Hill’s buildings, St. Sidwell’s, Exeter 17 Oct. 1858.

      BENNETT, Sir William Sterndale (youngest child of Robert Bennett of Sheffield, organist of the parish church who d. 3 Nov. 1819). b. 8 Norfolk Row, Sheffield 13 April 1816; ed. at Royal Academy of Music, London 1826–36, and at Leipsic 1836–37; member of Royal Society of Musicians 1838; taught music in London; founded the Bach Society 1849; professor of music at Univ. of Cam. 4 March 1856; Mus. Doc. Cam. 1856, M.A. 1867; D.C.L. Ox. 1870; a life member of St. John’s coll. Cam. 26 Sep. 1856; conductor of Philharmonic Society concerts 1856–68, Beethoven gold medallist 7 July 1867; principal of Royal Academy of Music 22 June 1866 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 24 March 1871; composed The Naiads, overture produced at Society of British Musicians 25 Jany. 1837; The wood nymphs, overture produced at the Gewandhaus concerts Leipzig 24 Jany. 1839; The May Queen, pastoral produced at Leeds musical festival 8 Sep. 1858; The woman of Samaria, oratorio produced at Birmingham musical festival 27 Aug. 1867. (m. 9 April 1844 Mary Anne only dau. of James Wood, commander R.N., she d. 17 Oct. 1862 aged 37.) d. 66 St. John’s Wood road London 1 Feb. 1875. bur. north aisle of choir Westminster Abbey 6 Feb. Grove’s Dictionary of music i, 224–29 (1879); W. A. Barrett’s English Church composers (1882) 163–65; Academy vii, 154, 179, 388, 466 (1875); I.L.N. xl, 551 (1862), portrait, lxvi, 152, 326 (1875), portrait.

      BENNIS, George Geary. b. Corkamore, Limerick 1790 or 1793; a grocer at Limerick; settled at Liverpool where he became a Quaker; went to Paris 1823; director of a libraire des étrangers in Paris 1830–36; an insurance agent and librarian to the British embassy, Paris; edited Galignani’s Messenger; chevalier of the Légion d’honneur 1854; author of The principles of the one faith professed by all Christians, Liverpool 1816, 3 ed. Paris 1826; Traveller’s pocket diary and Student’s journal; Treatise on life assurance. d. Paris 1 Jany. 1866, left over 10,000 volumes to found a free library at Limerick. J. Smith’s A descriptive catalogue of Friends books i, 246 (1867).

      BENSON, Charles. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1818, B.A. 1819, M.A. and M.B. 1822, M.D. 1840; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1821, F.R.C.S. СКАЧАТЬ