Abbott, Rev. Thomas Kingsmill
(male)
03/26/1829 - 12/18/1913
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Cleric, scholar, and educator; translated Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (1878).
Abdy, Maria Smith
(female)
02/25/1797 - 07/19/1867
English
A niece of the humorists James and Horace Smith; wrote for the annuals and for the New Monthly Magazine and the Metropolitan Magazine. See Boase I: 3, ODNB.
Acland, Thomas Dyke
(male)
03/29/1787 - 07/22/1871
English
Christ Church, Oxford
Politician and Baronet; friend of Pusey. See Boase I: 11-12, ODNB.
Acton, John Emerich Edward Dahlberg
(male)
01/10/1834 - 06/19/1902
English
St. Mary's College, Oscott
Historian and moralist; born in Naples; proprietor of The Rambler and its successor, The Home and Foreign Review; leader of liberal Catholic movement; friend of Gladstone. See ODNB.
Adams, Henry Gardiner
(male)
1811 - 05/01/1881
English
Druggist, chemist, naturalist, and author; secretary of Mechanics Institute of Chatham; wrote books about flowers, birds and butterflies; wrote juvenile literature under the pseudonym nemo; edited collections of poetical quotations. See Boase IV: 32.
Adams, William Bridges
(male)
05/26/1797 - 07/23/1872
English
Railway engineer; manufactured railway vehicles and tracks; wrote technical books and numerous memoirs and articles; wrote radical political pamphlets and for the Monthly Repository in the 1830s. See Boase I: 19, ODNB.
Airy, George Biddel
(male)
07/27/1801 - 01/02/1892
English
Trinity College, Cambridge
Astronomer Royal; professor of mathematics at Cambridge; wrote Gravitation an elementary explanation of the principal perturbations in the Solar System (1834) and other works; re-equipped the royal observatory. See Boase IV: 53-55.
Albert, Francis Charles, Prince Consort
(male)
08/26/1819 - 12/14/1861
German
University of Bonn
Consort of Queen Victoria; managed royal household, supported Great Exhibition of 1851. See Boase I: 38-9, ODNB.
Alcala Galiano, Antonio
(male)
07/22/1789 - 04/11/1865
Spanish
Spanish politician and writer; went into exile in 1823; professor of Spanish at the new London University.
Alcock, Thomas
(male)
1784 - 08/21/1833
English
Surgeon; contributed many papers to medical journals; surgeon to St. James's Workhouse in London.
Alexander, William
(male)
04/13/1824 - 09/12/1911
Irish
Exeter College, Oxford
Archbishop of Armgh; held tractarian views; published theological works and verse. See ODNB.
Alison, Archibald
(male)
12/29/1792 - 05/23/1867
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
Historian and lawyer; wrote at least 50 articles for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; noted high Tory, opposed to Parliamentary reform; wrote History of Europe during the French Revolution (1833-1842); attacked Malthus. See Boase I: 47, ODNB.
Allingham, William
(male)
03/19/1824 - 11/18/1889
Irish
Poet, diarist, and editor; customs clerk; editor of Fraser's Magazine 1874-9; wrote Poems (1850), Peace and War, an ode (1854), many other works of poetry and songs. See Boase IV: 97-8, ODNB.
Anderson, John
(male)
05/23/1805 - 03/25/1855
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
The "Rev. Dr. Anderson" cited in the Calcutta Review is likely the scholarly Church of Scotland missionary John Anderson who was based in Madras; he published the Native Herald, started schools, and wrote. See Boase I: 63, ODNB.
Angus, Joseph
(male)
01/16/1816 - 08/28/1902
English
University of Edinburgh; King's College, London
Baptist divine; wrote on Egyptian history and biblical subjects.
Apjohn, James
(male)
1795 - 06/02/1886
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Professor of applied chemistry, mineralogy. See Boase IV: 146.
Armstrong, Edward
(male)
03/03/1846 - 04/04/1928
English
Exeter College, Oxford
Teacher and scholar; taught at Rugby, and at Queen's College, Oxford; was leading English authority on the Italian Renaissance and Dante. See ODNB.
Armstrong, John Rutherford
(male)
08/22/1813 - 05/16/1856
English
Lincoln College, Oxford
Bishop of Grahamstown; influenced by Oxford Movement; wrote The Pastor in his Closet (1847), Sermons on the Festivals (1845), Tracts for the Christian Seasons (1848–9, 1849–50), Sermons for the Christian Seasons (1852–3), Tracts for Parochial Use (1852–3), and Parochial Sermons (1854); worked for church penitentiaries. See Boase I: 84-5, ODNB.
Arnold, Walter
(male)
1835 - 1893
English
Younger brother of Matthew Arnold.
Arnould, Sir Joseph
(male)
11/12/1813 - 02/16/1886
English
Wadham College, Oxford
British judge in India and writer; wrote articles for the Daily News; wrote Law of Marine Insurance; promoted study of Mohammaden and Hindu law. See Boase IV: 175, ODNB.
