AVELING, THOMAS. _b._ Elm, near Wisbech 11 Sep. 1824; a farmer at Ruckinge in Romney Marsh; agricultural implement maker at Rochester; an engine builder there 1860 to death; the first to build a traction engine with a single cylinder; invented steam road rollers, now to be found in nearly every town in the kingdom; A.I.C.E. 1871; M.I.C.E. 1877; M.I.M.E. 1869; member of Iron and Steel institute; chevalier of Legion of Honour; knight of order of Francis Joseph. _d._ Boley hill house Rochester 7 March 1882. _Graphic xxv_ 289 (1882) _portrait_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiii_ 350–55 (1883). AVELING, REV. THOMAS WILLIAM BAXTER. _b._ Castletown, Isle of Man 11 May 1815; usher in a school at Wisbech; studied at Highbury college 1834–38; Congregational minister at Kingsland 10 June 1838 to death; hon. sec. to Asylum for fatherless children at Reedham, Surrey 1847–83, the chapel there is called after him, the “Aveling Memorial Chapel”; chairman of Congregational Board 1873 and of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1874; author of _Naaman or Life’s shadows and sunshine_ 1853; _Memorials of the Clayton family_ 1867; edited _the Jewish Herald 5 years_. _d._ Reedham orphanage asylum 3 July 1884. _Congregational year book_ (1885) 176–79. AVERY, JOHN. M.R.C.S. 1829, F.R.C.S. 1843; M.D. Paris 1831; surgeon in chief to the 5th Polish ambulance in Polish army; a prisoner many months; a consulting surgeon in London; surgeon to Charing Cross hospital; invented an apparatus for exploring internal cavities of the body which gained large silver medal of Society of Arts; a successful operator in cases of cleft palate. _d._ 3 Queen st. Mayfair 5 March 1855. _Medical directory_ 1856, 722–24. AVONMORE, BARRY JOHN YELVERTON, 3 Viscount. _b._ 21 Feb. 1790; succeeded 28 Nov. 1814; principal registrar of court of chancery in Ireland to 1826 when granted pension of £4,200 on abolition of office. _d._ Raglan road, Dublin 24 Oct. 1870. AVONMORE, WILLIAM CHARLES YELVERTON, 4 Viscount (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ 27 Sep. 1824; ed. at Woolwich; captain R.A. 16 July 1850 to 1 April 1861 when placed on h.p.; suspended from all military duties March 1861. (_m._ 26 July 1858 Emily Marianne youngest dau. of Sir Charles Ashworth, K.C.B. and widow of Edward Forbes, F.R.S.) _d._ Biarritz 1 April 1883. _The Yelverton correspondence by the Hon. Theresa Yelverton_ 1863, _portrait_; _J. J. Macqueen’s Reports in House of Lords iv_, 743–912 (1866).