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 - 04/20/1876
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 Wykeham
(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: 81, 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). Thanks to Levana Taylor for pointing out that this is the same person who is sometimes signed as "Isabella D. Fenton."
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.
