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.
Alcock, Thomas
(male)
1784 - 08/21/1833
English
Surgeon; contributed many papers to medical journals; surgeon to St. James's Workhouse in London.
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.
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.
Arnold, Walter
(male)
1835 - 1893
English
Younger brother of Matthew Arnold.
Atherstone, Edwin
(male)
04/17/1788 - 01/29/1872
English
Poet and writer; wrote The Fall of Nineveh, a Poem (1828-68), The Sea Kings in England, an Historical Romance (1830), Israel in Egypt [a poem] (1861). See Boase I: 101, ODNB.
Atkinson, John Augustus
(male)
1775 - 03/25/1830
English
Painter; spent many years in Russia; published A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians (1803).
Austin, Sarah (Taylor)
(female)
04/01/1793 - 08/08/1867
English
Translator of works from German; worked for several periodicals; translated Ranke's History of the Popes of Rome; wrote Germany from 1760 to 1814 (1854). See Boase I: 190, ODNB.
Barlow, Henry Clark
(male)
11/12/1806 - 1876
English
University of Edinburgh
Dantologist; spent several years in Italy; wrote Francesca da Rimini her lament and vindication (1859) and other works. See Boase I: 167-8.
Barrère, Camille Eugene Pierre
(male)
1851 - 1940
French
Diplomat, critic; French general consul at Cairo; ambassador to Bern and to Rome.
Barry, William Whittaker
(male)
? - 10/01/1875
English
Barrister; wrote A Treatise on the Statutory Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery (1861), A Walking Tour of Ireland in 1865 by an Englishman (1867). See Boase I: 183.
Bates, Henry Walter
(male)
02/08/1825 - 02/16/1892
English
Naturalist; Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society; identified butterfiles in the Amazon; edited Transactions of the Royal Geographical Society; wrote The Naturalist o the river Amaxons (1863) and other works. See Boase IV: 304-5.
Baynes, Thomas Spencer
(male)
03/24/1823 - 05/31/1887
English
University of Edinburgh
Philosopher and journalist; assistant editor of the Daily News; Professor of Logic and English Literature at St Andrews University; contributed to Edinburgh Review and Fraser's Magazine; superintended ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Becher, Alexander Bridport
(unknown)
06/12/1796 - 02/15/1876
English
Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy; edited the Nautical Magaziine; wrote The Landfall of Columbus on his first Voyage to America (1856). See Boase I: 214-5.
Beke, Charles Tilstone
(male)
10/10/1800 - 07/31/1874
English
Tubingen
Abyssinian explorer; acting consul at Leipzig; secretary to National Association for protection of industry and capital throughout British Empire; wrote The Sources of the Nile (1860), The British Captives in Abyssinia (1865) and other works. See Boase I: 223.
Bell, Robert
(male)
01/16/1800 - 04/12/1867
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Started Dublin Historical Society; edited the Atlas, the Morning Chronicle, and the Home News; wrote History of Russia (1838), Lives of the English Poets (1839), other works; wrote 3 5-act comedies. See Boase I: 231, ODNB.
Bell, Thomas
(male)
10/11/1792 - 03/13/1880
English
Surgeon; Professor of Zoology at King's College, London; wrote History of British Quadrepeds (1837) and other works. See Boase I: 232.
Bell, William Abraham
(male)
04/26/1841 - 06/06/1920
English
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Physician, photographer, and businessman; photographed American West; wrote New Tracks in North America (1869)
Bergne, John Brodribb
(male)
1800 - 1873
English
Official, numismatist and antiquary; member of the Foreign Office (1817 - 1873); wrote articles for the Numismatic Chronicle.
