A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
(male)
01/09/1811 - 08/30/1856
English
Proprietor of several periodicals; edited Figaro in London; staff member of Punch; wrote for Times and Morning Herald; barrister and magistrate; wrote The Comic Blackstone (1846) and other comic works; wrote over 50 plays. See Boase I: 4-5, ODNB.
Abraham, Robert John
(male)
English
Civil servant; of 38, Edmund Terrace, Bayswater, Middlesex; clerk in the Census Office up to 1863; appointed second clerk in Land Registry Office in 1863; wrote A Popular Explanation of the System of Land Registration Under Lord Westbury's Act (1865).
Adams, Charles Warren
(male)
1833 - 1903
English
Lawyer, publisher, and anti-vivisectionist; perhaps C. W. Adams, wrote for Cornhill Magazine in 1885, in Wellesley.
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.
Addis, John
(male)
1831 - 1876
English
Trinity College, Cambridge
Of Rustington, Sussex; wrote Elizabethan Echoes: or, Poems, Songs, and Sonnets (1879).
Alexander, George Gardiner
(male)
1821 - 05/16/1897
English
Colonel in the Royal Marine Artillery; served in China in the early 1840s; served in Crimea; wrote A Few Remarks on our Naval Organization (1858) and other works. See Boase IV: 73.
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.
André, P.F.
(unknown)
English
Journalist active in the 1860s; wrote for Victoria Magazine and Weldon's Register.
Andrews, E. J.
(unknown)
unknown
Andrews, John
(male)
02/02/1837 - 1906
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Lawyer and poet; born at Wolverhampton; wrote Day Dreams: a New Volume of Poems (1865), Precedents of Leases and Mortgages; appointed Estates Bursar Oct. 1893; death date uncertain.
Archer, John Wykenham
(male)
08/02/1806 - 05/25/1864
English
Artist, engraver, and writer; contributed to Gentleman's Magazine and the Illustrated London News; member of New Society of Painters in Water Colours. See Boase I: 31, ODNB.
Archer, Thomas Croxen
(male)
1817 - 02/19/1885
English
Botanist; professor in the Liverpool institution; first Director of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh; arranged imports for Great Exhibition. See Boase I: 81.
Armedroz, H. F.
(unknown)
unknown
Armstrong, A.
(male)
English
Wrote Mrs. Mountelephant, and Other Humorous Excursions in Prose and Verse (1876); of Holloway.
Arnold, Arthur
(male)
05/28/1833 - 05/20/1902
English
Radical politician and writer; involved in surveying for Thames Embankment; edited The Echo, a Liberal newspaper; wrote A History of the Cotton Famine, two sensation novels, and Through Persia by Caravan (1877); M.P. See ODNB.
Arnold, Edwin
(male)
06/10/1832 - 03/24/1904
English
University College, Oxford
Poet and journalist; wrote Poems Narrative and Lyrical (1853), The Light of Asia (1879); principal of Deccan Sanskrit College at Poona, India; mastered Eastern languages; leader writer and then editor for Daily Telegraph. See ODNB.
Auber, Rev. Charles
(male)
unknown
Austin, Wiltshire Stanton
(male)
1826 - 09/07/1875
English
Exeter College, Oxford
Barrister; one of the original contributors to Temple Bar; co-author of The Lives of the Poets-Laureate (1853), edited Weeds from the Isis (1856). See Boase IV: 209.
Aylmer, Isabella E. (Darling)
(female)
? - 12/27/1908
New Zealand
Married Captain Fenton John Aylmer on June 9, 1857; was widowed on April 9, 1862; wrote Distant Homes: Or the Graham Family in New Zealand (1862).
Bailey, John
(male)
1810 - 1867
English
Trinity College, Oxford
Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary of Ceylon; son in law of Sir Henry Ward, Governor of Ceylon; returned to England in 1865.
