BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (_son of Mr. Bishop of London, Watchmaker_). _b._ Great Portland st. London 18 Nov. 1786; pupil of Francesco Bianchi the composer; composer of ballet music at Italian opera house 1806; produced his opera of _The Circassian bride_ at Drury Lane theatre 23 Feb. 1809, theatre was burnt down the next night; musical director and composer at Covent Garden theatre 1810–23, where he produced 50 musical dramas; director of music at King’s theatre, Haymarket 1816–17; received freedom of city of Dublin 2 Aug. 1820; composer at Drury Lane theatre 1825–28; musical director of Vauxhall gardens 1830–33; director of Her Majesty’s concerts of ancient music 1840–48; Reid professor of Music in Univ. of Edin. Nov. 1841 to Dec. 1843; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 June 1842, being the first musician who ever received that honour; professor of music in Univ. of Ox. Jany. 1848 to death; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1848, Mus. Doc. 1853; author of many songs and glees, best known being _Bid me discourse_, _Should he upbraid_, _The winds whistle cold_, _My pretty Jane_, _Mynheer Van Dunck_ and of the trio and chorus _The chough and crow_. _d._ 13 Cambridge st. Edgware road, London 30 April 1855. _I.L.N. xix_, 669–70 (1851), _portrait_; _Charles Mackay’s Forty years recollections ii_, 165–217 (1877); _Illust. news of the world iv_, 381 (1859), _portrait_. BISHOP, JAMES. _b._ Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1793; a cloth worker 1813; partner with Atkins and Gillman, proprietors of a menagery which became a formidable opponent to George Wombwell’s menagery; attended all the great fairs in England; proprietor of various exhibitions; father of 20 children; the oldest showman in England. _d._ Plymouth 19 Feb. 1881. BISHOP, JOHN (_4 son of Samuel Bishop of Pimperne, Dorset_). _b._ 15 Sep. 1797; studied at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; M.R.C.S. 1824, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1851, Hunterian orator 1859; member of Medical society of London 1839, councillor, trustee, orator and Lettsomian lecturer successively, and pres. 1852; F.R.S. 9 May 1844; very successful in treatment of impediments of speech; author of _On articulate sounds and on the causes and cure of impediments of speech_ 1851; _Researches into the pathology and treatment of deformities in the human body_ 1852; _The Lettsomian lectures on Bones_ 1855; _On the construction of hearing and speaking instruments_ 1856. _d._ Strangeways-Marshall, Dorset 29 Sep. 1873. _Proc. of royal society xxi_, 5–6 (1873); _British medical journal ii_, 450 (1873).