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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BATHURST, WILLIAM LENNOX BATHURST, 5 Earl. _b._ George st.
Westminster 14 Feb. 1791; ed. at Eton and All Souls coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817; fellow of All Souls college 1812; M.P. for
Weobley 1812–16; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1821; joint sec. to Privy
Council 1827–60; succeeded his brother as 5 Earl 25 May 1866. _d._
38 Half Moon st. Piccadilly 24 Feb. 1878. _I.L.N. lxxii_, 245
(1878), _portrait_.
BATHURST, REV. WILLIAM HILEY. _b._ 28 Aug. 1796; author of _Roman
antiquities found at Lydney park, Gloucestershire_ 1879. _d._
Lydney park 25 Nov. 1877.
BATTERSBY, GEORGE (_eld. son of Thomas Battersby of Newcastle, co.
Meath 1767–1839_). _b._ 8 Sep. 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1824, LL.B. and LLD. 1832; called to Irish bar 1826; Q.C. 2
Nov. 1844, bencher of King’s Inns 1861; judge of Consistorial
court of Dublin 1862–67, and of Provincial court of Dublin
1867–71; chancellor of archdiocese of Dublin 1871 to death, _d._
20 Lower Leeson st. Dublin 9 June 1880.
BATTHYANY, GUSTAVUS THEODORE ANTHONY, Count. _b._ Hungary 8 Dec.
1803; naturalised in England by private act of parliament 1 and 2
Vict. cap. 48 (1838); won the Derby with Galopin 1875. _d._ in the
grand stand at Newmarket 25 April 1883. _bur._ Highland road
cemetery Portsmouth 2 May. _Graphic xxvii_, 477 (1883),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxii_, 432 (1883), _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag.
xl_, 371–72 (1883).
BATTINE, WILLIAM. Lieut. col. Bengal artillery 1 Dec. 1834, colonel
6 July 1843 to death; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; commander at Barrackpore
26 April 1850 to death; C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ Lahore 21 July
1851 aged 63.
BATTLEY, RICHARD (_2 son of John Battley of Wakefield, architect_).
_b._ Wakefield about 1770; studied at St. Thomas’s and Guy’s
hospitals; assist. surgeon in the Navy; apothecary in St. Paul’s
churchyard, London; assisted in founding the London Infirmary for
curing diseases of the Eye 1804; Pharmaceutical chemist in Fore
st. Cripplegate about 1812; introduced many important improvements
in pharmaceutical operations. _d._ Reigate 4 March 1856. _G.M.
xlv_, 534 (1856).
BATTY, GEORGE. Proprietor of a menagerie, retired about 1859; lived
in Jersey. _d._ Raune, France 5 June 1867 aged 64.
BATTY, WILLIAM (_only brother of the preceding_). Proprietor of a
large circus with which he travelled all over Great Britain and
Ireland; converted Lambeth baths, London, into a circus which he
opened Nov. 1841 as the Olympic Arena; opened the Surrey theatre
Whitsuntide 1842; rebuilt Astley’s and opened it 17 April 1843,
lessee 1843–55 and 1861–62. _d._ Neville lodge, Grove end road,
St. John’s Wood 7 Feb. 1868 in 68 year. _H. Valentine’s Behind the
curtain_ (1848) 73–76; _I.L.N. ii_, 222 (1843).
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