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.)
Alcock, Thomas
(male)
1784 - 08/21/1833
English
Surgeon; contributed many papers to medical journals; surgeon to St. James's Workhouse in London.
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.
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.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Atkinson, Ernest George
(male)
1869 - 1955
unknown
Worked in Public Record Office; editor of various Calendars of State Papers relating to Ireland during the reign of Elizabeth
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).
Auden, Rev. John Ernest
(male)
1861 - 1946
English
Vicar of Tong; wrote A School History of Shropshire (1912)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Badham, Francis Pritchett
(male)
03/16/1864 - 07/26/1913
English
Exeter College, Oxford
Barrister and author; wrote The Formation of the Gospels (1891), Nelson in Naples (1900)
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Bain, Robert Nisbet
(male)
1854 - 1900
unknown
Historian and linguist; worked for British Museum; contributed to to the Encyclopædia Britannica; wrote The daughter of Peter the Great. A history of Russian diplomacy (1899) and other works.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Baker, Henry Frederick
(male)
07/03/1866 - 03/17/1956
English
St. John's College, Cambridge
Mathematician; fellow at St John's College; wrote Principles of Geometry (1923).
Baker, James
(male)
1847 - 1920
unknown
Traveller; wrote Pictures of Bohemia (1893).
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)