BILLINGS, ROBERT WILLIAM. _b._ London 1813; pupil of John Britton, topographical draughtsman 1813–20; illustrated Godwin’s _History of St. Paul’s Cathedral_ 1837; _Illustrations of the Temple Church, London_, 1838; _Baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland 240 illustrations 4 vols._ 1845–52; restored the chapel of Edinburgh Castle; built Castle Wemyss, Renfrewshire. _d._ The Moulinère, Putney, Surrey 14 Nov. 1874. _Builder xxxii_, 982, 1035 (1874). BILLINGTON, WILLIAM (_son of a contractor for road making_). _b._ the Yew Trees, Samlesbury near Blackburn 1827; worked in cotton mills at Blackburn 1839; a beerseller at Blackburn; wrote a ballad called _Th’ Shurat Weyvur_ 14,000 copies of which were sold at time of Lancashire cotton famine; author of _Sheen and shade_ 1861; _Lancashire poems with other sketches_ 1883, some copies of which have a _portrait_ of him. _d._ 2 Bradshaw st. Blackburn 3 Jany. 1884 aged 56. BINDLEY, CHARLES. _b._ 1796; author of following books all written under pseudonym of Harry Hieover; _Stable talk and table talk, 2 vols._ 1845–46, _portrait_; _The pocket and the stud_ 1848, _portrait_; _The stud for practical purposes and practical men_ 1849; _Practical horsemanship_ 1850; _The hunting field_ 1850; _Bipeds and quadrupeds_ 1853; _Sporting facts and sporting fancies_ 1853; _The world how to square it_ 1854; _Hints to horsemen_ 1856; _Precept and practice_ 1857; _The sportsman’s friend in a frost_ 1857; _The sporting world_ 1858 and _Things worth knowing about horses_ 1859. _d._ at house of Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 7 Lewes crescent, Brighton 12 Feb. 1859. BINDON, SAMUEL HENRY. _b._ Ireland 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1835; called to Irish bar Nov. 1838; practised at Dublin; went out to Victoria 1855; called to bar at Melbourne 22 May 1855; member of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864–69; minister of justice 1866–1869; county court judge at Sale, Victoria 1869 to death except a short time, during which the Berry ministry took all the judges of county courts off the bench, the day when this was done 9 Jany. 1878 was known as _Black Wednesday_; had a prominent share in establishment of technological classes in large places. _d._ Melbourne 1 Aug. 1879 in 67 year. BINFIELD, JOHN BILSON (_son of Mr. Binfield of Reading, organist who d. 1839_). _b._ Reading 1805; organist of St. Giles’s church Reading many years; author of _The choral service of the Church_ 1846; editor and compiler of _The Reading psalmody_ 1847; set Dean Milman’s _Martyr of Antioch_ to music. _d._ Devizes 28 June 1875.