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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ABINGER, ROBERT CAMPBELL SCARLETT, 2 Baron. _b._ London 5 Sep. 1794;
barrister I.T. 27 Nov. 1818; M.P. Norwich (conserv.) 7 Jany.
1835–17 July 1837, for Horsham 28 June 1841–7 April 1844, when he
succeeded; envoy ex. and min. plen. to Tuscany 13 Dec. 1859–22
March 1860, when mission was abolished on annexation of Tuscany to
Sardinia. _d._ Abinger hall near Dorking 24 June 1861.
ABINGTON, LEONARD JAMES. _b._ London 27 Nov. 1785; edited _The
Pottery Mercury_ at Hanley Staffordshire 1824; pastor of New st.
baptist chapel, Hanley 1836–63. _d._ Northwood, Hanley 7 Aug.
1867. _Personal recollections of late L. J. Abington 1868, pt._
ABRAHALL, THEOPHILUS BENNETT HOSKYNS (_2 son of Rev. John Hoskyns
Abrahall, C. of Badgworth, Somerset_). Barrister I.T. 25 June
1830; went western circuit; sec. of commissions of the peace to
lord chancellor; revising barrister S. Lancashire and
Northumberland; deputy registrar of London court of bankruptcy
1844–54, registrar 1854–14 Dec. 1861; comr. of Newcastle district
court of bankruptcy 14 Dec. 1861–31 Dec. 1869, when country
district courts were abolished, _d._ Wonford house lunatic asylum,
Heavitree, Exeter 2 Aug. 1874 aged 72.
ABRAHAM, GEORGE FREDERICK, admitted solicitor Nov. 1805; practised
in London to death; originated with Thomas Thompson of the Stock
Exchange the Home Missionary Society 11 Aug. 1819, the
Congregational Union was merged in it 1827. _d._ 3 Mansfield st.
Portland place, London 3 Jany. 1870 aged 88.
ABRAHAM, ROBERT, _b._ Cumberland; ed. for medical profession at
Univ. of Edin.; served on the press in Cumberland; edited a
leading Liverpool journal; went to Canada about 1843; Proprietor
of the _Montreal Gazette_, editor to Dec. 1848, when it was sold;
admitted an advocate of Lower Canada; edited the _Transcript_ 1849
to death; edited the _Lower Canada Agricultural Journal_ to death.
_d._ Montreal 10 Nov. 1854. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_
(1867) _pp._ 4–5.
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