BIDDULPH, SIR THOMAS MYDDELTON (_2 son of Robert Biddulph of Ledbury, Herefordshire who assumed name of Myddelton and d. 1843_). _b._ 29 July 1809; ed. at Eton; cornet 1 Life Guards 7 Oct. 1826; captain 16 May 1834 to 31 Oct. 1851 when placed on h.p.; Master of the Queen’s household 16 July 1851 to 3 March 1866 and 16 July 1878 to death; one of joint keepers of Queen’s privy purse 3 March 1866, sole keeper 30 April 1867; receiver general of Duchy of Cornwall 31 March 1866; general 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 27 March 1863; P.C. 22 Dec. 1877. _d._ Abergeldie Mains near Balmoral 28 Sep. 1878. _bur._ churchyard of Clewer near Windsor 7 Oct. _Queen Victoria’s More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands_ (1884) 375–78; _Graphic xviii_, 392 (1878), _portrait_. BIDWELL, JOHN. Superintendent of consular department in Foreign Office 15 Jany. 1826 to 30 Sep. 1851 when he retired on pension. _d._ Park place, St. James’s st. London 31 Oct. 1853 aged 70. BIDWELL, JOHN CARNE (_eld. child of Joseph Bidwell of Exeter, merchant_). _b._ Exeter 1815; a merchant at Sydney N.S.W. 1838; made an exploring voyage to New Zealand 1839; comr. of crown lands and chairman of bench of magistrates for district of Wide Bay N.S.W.; discovered the Bunya Bunya tree (afterwards-named after him Araucaria Bidwelli) and the Nymphæa gigantea; author of _Rambles in New Zealand_ 1841. _d._ Tinana, Maryborough, Australia March 1853. BIGG, HENRY HEATHER (_son of Mr. Bigg of London, surgical instrument maker_). _b._ Dean st. Southwark 23 July 1826; studied at St. George’s hospital; a surgical instrument maker in London; made the substitutes for lost limbs of our soldiers wounded in Crimean war; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1862; author of _On artificial limbs_ 1855; _Orthopraxy the mechanical treatment of deformities_ 1865, _3 ed._ 1877; _The gentle treatment of spinal curvature_ 1875. _d._ 56 Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 30 April 1881. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxviii_, 317–20 (1882). BIGG, JOHN STANYAN. _b._ Ulverston, Lancashire 14 July 1828; editor of the _Ulverston Advertiser_ 1848 to about 1854 and 1860 to death, and proprietor 1863 to death; editor of the _Downshire Protestant_ about 1854–60; author of _The sea King, a metrical romance in 6 cantos_ 1848; _Night and the Soul, a dramatic poem_ 1854; _Alfred Staunton, a novel_ 1860; _Shifting scenes and other poems_ 1862. _d._ 7 Hoad terrace, Ulverston 19 May 1865. _Ulverston Advertiser 25 May 1865 p._ 4, _col._ 5. BIGGAR, WILLIAM. Editor and proprietor of _The railway times_ weekly paper. _d._ Thorpe banks, Willow vale, Shepherd’s Bush 27 Dec. 1872 in 64 year.