BEXLEY, NICHOLAS VANSITTART, 1 Baron (_younger son of Henry Vansittart 1732–70, governor of Bengal_). _b._ 29 April 1766; ed. at Cheam, Surrey and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1787, M.A. 1791, D.C.L. 1841; barrister L.I. 26 May 1791, bencher 12 Nov. 1812; M.P. for Hastings 1796–1802, for Old Sarum 1802–12 and for Harwich 1812–23; joint sec. of the Treasury 1801–1804 and 1806–1808; lord of the Treasury in Ireland 1804; P.C. 14 Jany. 1805; chief sec. for Ireland 23 March 1805 to Sep. 1805; chancellor of the Exchequer 9 June 1812 to Jany. 1823; created Baron Bexley of Bexley, Kent 1 March 1823; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 31 Jany. 1823 to Jany. 1828; author of many political and financial pamphlets 1793–1818. _d._ Footscray place, Kent 8 Feb. 1851. _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery i_, 91 (1846), _portrait_; _G.M. xxxv_, 431–32 (1851); _S. Walpole’s History of England, 2 ed. vols. 1 and 2_ (1879). BEYER, CHARLES FREDERICK. _b._ Plauen, Saxony 14 May 1813; head of the mechanical works of Messrs. Sharp, Roberts & Co. of Manchester, engineers 1843–53; naturalised in England 5 Nov. 1852; established with Richard Peacock locomotive works of Beyer, Peacock & Co., Gorton foundry Manchester 1854; designed and adapted many special tools for making locomotive engines; one of founders of Institution of Mechanical engineers 1847; M.I.C.E. 7 March 1854; left a large bequest for foundation and endowment of professorships of science at Owen’s college Manchester. _d._ Llantysilio hall, Denbighshire 2 June 1876. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlvii_, 290–97 (1877). BIANCONI, CARLO (_2 son of Pietro Bianconi of Tregolo, Lombardy, farmer who d. 1833_). _b._ Tregolo 24 Sep. 1786; went to Ireland as a picture seller 1802; opened a carver and gilder’s shop at Carrick-on-Suir 1806, removed to Waterford and then to Clonmel; started a one-horse two-wheeled car for conveyance of passengers from Clonmel to Cahir 6 July 1815; started cars all over Ireland where they were known as “Bians”; in 1864 his passenger traffic realised £27,700 and his mail contracts £12,000; gave up his shop at Clonmel 1826 and his car business 1865; received letters of Naturalisation from Irish Privy Council 31 Aug. 1831; mayor of Clonmel 1844–46; purchased Longfield, Tipperary for £22,000 23 March 1846, where he lived 16 Sep. 1846 to death; D.L. for Tipperary June 1863. (_m._ 14 Feb. 1827 Eliza, dau. of Patrick Hayes of Dublin, stockbroker). _d._ Longfield 22 Sep. 1875. _Charles Bianconi, a biography 1786–1875 by his daughter Mrs. Morgan John O’Connell_ 1878, _portrait_; _Dublin univ. mag. lxxxv_ 16–24 (1875), _portrait_.