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
Great Britain -- Biography -- Dictionaries
BARBER, CHARLES. _b._ Birmingham; teacher of drawing in Royal
Institution, Liverpool; assisted to found the Architectural and
Archæological association; a landscape painter; exhibited 3
pictures at the R.A. and many pictures at local exhibitions; pres.
of the Liverpool Academy. _d._ Liverpool Jany. 1854.
BARBER, CHARLES CHAPMAN. ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 9 wrangler
1833, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; pupil of Lewis Duval the conveyancer;
barrister L.I. 3 May 1833; member of chancery procedure commission
1853; junior counsel for defendant in ejectment action of
Tichborne _v._ Lushington 11 May 1871 to 6 March 1872; junior
counsel for the Crown in prosecution of Roger Tichborne for
perjury 23 April 1873 to 28 Feb. 1874; engaged in court 103 days
in the ejectment case, and 188 days in the perjury case; judge of
county courts for circuit No. 6 East Riding of Yorkshire Feb. 1874
to March 1874 when he resigned and resumed practice. _d._ 71
Cornwall gardens London 5 Feb. 1882.
BARBER, FAIRLESS (_2 son of Joseph Barber of Brighouse, solicitor_).
_b._ Castle hill, Rastrick 11 Jany. 1835; ed. at St. Peter’s
school York; admitted a solicitor 1859; practised at Brighouse;
member of Huddersfield Archæological and Topographical Association
1866, sec. Sep. 1866, it became mainly through him in 1870 the
Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical Association; F.S.A. 26
May 1870; edited _The Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical
journal_ _6 vols._ 1876–81. _d._ Pinner 3 March 1881. _Yorkshire
Arch. and Topog. journal vii_, 1–5 (1882).
BARBER, JAMES. A very extensive proprietor of coaches between London
and Edinburgh; senior partner in firm of Barber and Co. of York,
wholesale jewellers; sheriff of York 1826; lord mayor 1833,
elected again 1844 but paid the fine to be excused serving. _d._
Tang hall near York 10 March 1857 aged 73.
BARBER, JAMES (_son of a cutlery manufacturer at Sheffield_). Made a
large sum of money by cards and billiards at Manchester; went to
Paris, where he purchased famous race horse Chanticleer which won
the Northumberland plate, Goodwood stakes, and Doncaster cup 1848;
in partnership with Joseph Saxon as racing men; won Great Northern
handicap at York with Ben Webster 1860, and the Oaks with Brown
Duchess 1861; at one period one of richest men on the turf. _d._
Sheffield 18 April 1885 in 69 year.
BARBER, JOHN. _b._ West Runham, Norfolk; drayman in firm of Truman
and Co., London 8 years; purveyor of pigeons and sparrows at 27
Sclater st. Bethnal Green 1821 to death; attended all the chief
shooting matches in England for 40 years; his blue rock pigeons
well known all over the world. _d._ 27 Sclater st. 18 June 1860
aged 71.
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