BARTHOLOMEW, WILLIAM. _b._ London 1793; chemist, violin player and flower painter; translated or adapted the words of most of Mendelssohn’s vocal works; received gold medal of merit from king of Prussia for the Antigone; wrote English words for Méhul’s Joseph, Spohr’s Jessonda, and Costa’s Eli, Naaman, and The Dream, (_m._ 1853 Ann Sheppard Mounsey, vocal composer). _d._ London 18 Aug. 1867. BARTLETT, JOHN SHERREN. _b._ Dorset; surgeon R.N. 1812; a prisoner of war at Boston U.S. 1812–13; surgeon at Boston 1813; removed to New York; founded _The Albion_ weekly paper 1822; edited it 1822–47; founded _The Anglo-Saxon_ weekly paper at Boston 1847; published _The European_ at Liverpool; British consul at Baltimore 1857. _d._ New Jersey 24 Aug. 1863 aged 73. BARTLETT, LAVINIA STRICKLAND. _b._ Preston Andover 27 Nov. 1806; a baptist 26 Oct. 1828; a teacher of the New Park st. chapel Sunday schools London 1859 to death. _d._ 2 Aug. 1875. _Mrs. Bartlett and her class by her son E. H. Bartlett_ 1877, _portrait_. BARTLETT, ROBERT. _b._ Patcham near Brighton 1782; huntsman to the Brookside harriers, to Duke of Dorset’s hounds at Knowle in Kent, on the Duke’s death in 1815 they were sold to Charles Shard of Winkfield, Berks where Bartlett was huntsman several seasons; huntsman to Colonel Wyndham at Singleton, Sussex to 1825; whip to the Royal hounds 1825–53. _d._ near the royal kennels, Ascot Heath 12 Nov. 1856. BARTLETT, REV. SYMEON TAYLOR. Ed. at Clare coll. Cam., LL.B. 1840, LLD. 1846; R. of Everley, Wilts 1857 to death; edited _Cicero’s Letters to his friends, Xenophon’s Anabasis, Horace’s Satires, Cicero de Oratore_ and _Cicero de Senectute_. _d._ 1877. BARTLETT, THOMAS. _b._ 7 July 1818; worked under Thomas Brassey the railway contractor; constructed the Victor Emmanuel railway between France and Italy; executed works on Bilboa railway, Spain; invented an automatic tunnel boring machine, preceding in date that used in the Mont Cenis tunnel; A.I.C.E. 1845, M.I.C.E. 1852. _d._ Lisbon 23 July 1864. BARTLETT, REV. THOMAS. _b._ 1789; ed. at St. Edmund’s hall Ox.; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; R. of Kingstone, Kent 1816–51; R. of Chevening, Kent 1851–54; V. of Luton, Beds. 1854–57; R. of Burton Latimer 1857 to death; author of _Memoir of Bishop Butler_ 1839; _An index to Butler’s Analogy_ 1842, and of many pamphlets, letters and sermons maintaining evangelical tenets. _d._ Burton Latimer 28 May 1872.