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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Adams, William Henry Davenport
(male)
05/05/1828 - 12/30/1891
English
Journalist and general writer; edited an Isle of Wright newspaper; wrote for the Literary Gazette and other periodicals; prepared almost 140 compilations of various kinds of data.
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.
Airy, Osmund
(male)
1845 - 11/30/1928
English
Trinity College, Cambridge
Historian
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Allen, Charles Grant Blarfindie
(male)
02/24/1848 - 10/25/1899
Canadian
Merton College, Oxford
Science writer and novelist; supporter of evolution; wrote Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1886) and other scientific works; wrote The Woman Who Did (1895) and other novels
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Alston, Edward Richard
(male)
12/01/1845 - 03/07/1881
Scottish
Zoologist; authority on birds and rodents; in delicate health and self-educated.
Amyot
(male)
English
Either Thomas Edward Amyot or William Henry Amyot; both were sons of the antiquary Thomas Amyot and both wrote on legal matters.
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)