BINNS, JOHN (_son of Mr. Binns of Dublin, ironmonger who d. 1774_). _b._ Dublin 22 Dec. 1772; apprenticed to a soapboiler 1786; a member of the London Corresponding Society 1794 which became the greatest political association in Great Britain, chairman of its general committee 6 months in 1795; connected with the United Irishmen; left London for France 21 Feb. 1798 but arrested at Margate 27 Feb. and after an examination by the Privy Council committed to Tower of London; tried for high treason at Maidstone May 1798 when acquitted; confined in Clerkenwell prison, then in Gloucester prison till March 1801; sailed for America July 1801; started a newspaper called _The Republican Argus_ at Northumberland, Pennsylvania March 1802; edited at Philadelphia March 1807 to 1829 _Democratic Press_ which soon became leading paper in the state; alderman of Philadelphia Dec. 1822 to 1844. _d._ Philadelphia 16 June 1860. _Recollections of the life of John Binns_ 1854, _portrait_. BINNS, THOMAS. Head master of the Friends’ school, Grove house, Tottenham 1828; member of Committee of British and Foreign Bible Society 1852–68, chairman of the Editorial Sub-Committee. _d._ Rockley near Bristol 2 Dec. 1872 aged 74. _Annual Monitor for 1874_ 6–10. BINSTEAD, CHEESMAN HENRY. _b._ 1797; entered navy 10 June 1810; agent for transports afloat 1828–34; captain 7 March 1853; retired V.A. 30 July 1875. _d._ South parade, Wakefield 26 Nov. 1876. BINYON, EDWARD. _b._ Manchester 1828; landscape painter both in oil and water colours; contributed to exhibitions of Royal Academy and Dudley Gallery 1857–76; his picture ‘The bay of Mentone’ has frequently been reproduced; lived in island of Capri many years. _d._ 5 Via Piazza, Capri 18 July 1876. BIRCH, REV. HENRY MILDRED (_eld. son of Rev. Wm. Henry Rous Birch, R. of Southwold, Suffolk_). _b._ Bedfield rectory, Suffolk 1820; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., scholar 1839, Craven scholar 1841, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; fellow of his college 1843, members prizeman 1844; assistant master at Eton; tutor to Prince of Wales 6 Aug. 1848 to 1851; R. of Prestwich, Lancs. 1852–84; chaplain in ordinary to the Queen 27 Feb. 1852; B.D. Lambeth 1862; hon. chaplain to Prince of Wales 16 Feb. 1863; canon of Ripon 29 June 1868 to death; proctor in convocation 1868, 1874 and 1880 to death, _d._ St. Leonard’s lodge, Windsor 29 June 1884. _I.L.N. xlii_, 456 (1863), _portrait_. BIRCH, JAMES WHEELER WOODFORD (_eld. son of Rev. James Wheeler Birch, V. of All Saint’s, Hertford_). member of Ceylon civil service 1846–70; colonial sec. of the Straits Settlements May 1870; British resident in Malay state of Perak Nov. 1874 to death; assassinated by the Malays at Perak 2 Nov. 1875.