BICKNELL, HENRY EDGEWORTH (_younger son of John Bicknell of Lincoln’s Inn, barrister_). _b._ 1787; ed. at Greenwich; clerk to the registrars of high court of Chancery June 1809; senior registrar to 11 July 1859 when he retired on a superannuation allowance of £2,250; served under 14 Lord Chancellors. _d._ 28 Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 20 Feb. 1879 in 92 year. BICKNELL, HERMAN (_3 son of Elhanan Bicknell 1788–1861_). _b._ Herne hill 2 April 1830; ed. at Paris, Hanover, Univ. coll. London and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1854; assistant surgeon of 81 Foot 16 May 1855 and of 84 Foot 15 Feb. 1861; served during Indian mutiny; explored parts of Java, Thibet and the Himalayas; went to Cairo 1862; joined the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of Mohammed at Mecca May 1862, a dangerous exploit which no other Englishman had achieved without disguise of person or nationality; climbed nearly all the chief mountains in Switzerland; travelled over nearly the whole globe; author of _Hafiz of Shiraz, selections from his poems translated from the Persian by H. Bicknell_ 1875. _d._ 48 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 14 March 1875. _bur._ at Ramsgate. _H. Bicknell’s Hafiz of Shiraz_ (1875) _ix-xii_, 365–68. BIDDER, GEORGE PARKER (_son of Mr. Bidder of Moreton Hampstead, Devon, stonemason_). _b._ Moreton Hampstead 14 June 1806; was exhibited about England as the ‘calculating phenomenon’; ed. at Camberwell gr. sch. 1818–19 and Univ. of Edin. 1819–24; engaged on the ordnance survey 1824–25; civil engineer in London 1825–77; A.I.C.E. 1825, M.I.C.E. 1837, member of council 1847 to death, vice pres. 1854, pres. 1860 and 1861; a founder of Electric Telegraph company 1846; constructed Victoria docks. London 100 acres for less than £870,000 in 1853; engineer of Royal Danish railway opened 1855; originator of railway swing bridge, the first of which was erected at Reedham in Norfolk; lieut. col. commandant of Engineer and railway volunteer staff corps 1865. _d._ Ravensbury, Dartmouth 20 Sep. 1878. _I.L.N. xxviii_, 267–68 (1856), _portrait_; _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xv_, 251–80 (1856), lvii, 294–309 (1879), his contributions to these proceedings embrace the whole range of engineering and require no less than 16 columns of the general indexes for citation. BIDDER, SAMUEL PARKER. _b._ 10 Nov. 1843; assistant manager to Victoria Docks graving company; took out 2 patents for apparatus for breaking down coal, shale, stone and other minerals 1868; took out a patent for safety lamps 1869, which have come into very general use in South Wales; A.I.C.E. 1 Dec. 1868. _d._ Southsea 10 Jany. 1878.