Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-HBoase, Frederic
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Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H
Boase, Frederic
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BADGER-EASTWOOD, Thomas Smith (_eld son of Thomas Badger of
Rotherham, solicitor 1793–1862_). _b._ 1823; ed. at Doncaster gr.
sch. and Trin. hall Cam., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; barrister M.T. 29
Jany. 1847; reader on real property law to 4 Inns of Court 1856 to
death; assumed surname of Eastwood 1863; edited _Concise forms of
wills by W. Hayes and T. Jarman 5 ed._ 1860. _d._ 28 Gloucester
place, Hyde park gardens 30 May 1866.
BADGLEY, FRANCIS. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1827, M.D. Edin. 1829, L.S.A. 1830;
M.R.C.P. London 1860; a phys. at Kensington 1829–42, at Montreal
1842–59 and at Malvern 1860 to death; fellow of Royal medical and
chirurgical society 1838; M.D. Univ. of Toronto 1851; professor of
medical jurisprudence in Mc Gill college; professor of medicine in
medical school of Montreal; professor of medicine in Univ. of
Toronto 1851; founded _Montreal Medical Gazette_ 1844, edited it
1844–45. _d._ Holyrood house, Great Malvern 24 Dec. 1863 aged 56.
BADGLEY, W. _b._ Montreal 1801; called to Canadian bar 1823; sec. of
Constitutional Association of Montreal district 1836–38; one of
three delegates of this Association to England 1837–38; comr. of
bankrupts for district of Montreal 1840 to April 1847; circuit
judge July 1844 to April 1847; attorney general for Lower Canada
April 1847; member of the provincial parliament May 1847 to 1855;
puisne judge Lower Canada Jany. 1855 to 1876; Grand master of
Freemasons for Montreal. _d._ 1876. _H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of
eminent Canadians_ (1862) 492–97.
BADHAM, REV. CHARLES. ed. at Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1846;
V. of All Saints Sudbury, Suffolk 1847 to death; author of
_Selections from Robert Hall_ 1840; _Aids to devotion_ 1843;
_History of All Saints, Sudbury_ 1852. _d._ All Saints vicarage,
Sudbury 15 April 1874.
BADHAM, REV. CHARLES (_son of Charles Badham 1780–1845, Regius
professor of physics in Univ. of Glasgow_). _b._ Ludlow 18 July
1813; ed. by Jean Henri Pestalozzi; at Eton 1826; scholar of
Wadham coll. Ox. 1830, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1839; studied in Germany
and Italy 7 years; incorporated M.A. at Cam. as member of St.
Peter’s college 1847, D.D. Cam. 1852; headmaster of Birmingham
proprietary school 1854–67; professor of classics and logic in
Univ. of Sydney 1867 to death; one of greatest scholars of his
time; author of _Criticism applied to Shakespeare_ 1846; published
editions with notes of the _Ion of Euripides_ 1851, 1853 and 1861;
and of the _Philebus of Plato_ 1855 and 1878. _d._ Sydney 26 Feb.
1884. _Saturday Review lvii_, 540 (1884).
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