BLACK, PATRICK (_2 son of colonel Patrick Black of the Bengal cavalry who d. about 1819_). _b._ Aberdeen 1813; ed. at Eton 1828–30 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.D. 1836; F.R.C.P. 1845, censor 3 times, Croonian lecturer 1855: assistant phys. to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1842, warden of the medical school 1851–56, physician and clinical lecturer 1860–78, lecturer on medicine 1861–78; author of _Chloroform how shall we ensure, safety in its administration_ 1855; _Essay on the Spleen_ 1876; revised the Latin part of the _Nomenclature of diseases_ for Royal College of Phys. 1867. _d._ 11 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 12 Oct. 1879. _St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports xv_, _pp. xxix-xl_ (1879). BLACK, THOMAS. _b._ Wemyss 1819; surgeon at Anstruther 1839 to death; his body was found floating in the harbour of Anstruther 29 Feb. 1864. _Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife_ (1866) 64. BLACK, WILLIAM. _b._ Anstruther 1770; entered navy 13 April 1793; captain 7 June 1814; retired R.A. 9 Oct. 1846. _d._ Ormsby, Norfolk 6 Nov. 1852 in 82 year. _Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife_ (1866) 62. BLACK, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Auchinairn parish of Cadder 1801; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow; licensed by presbytery of Hamilton Aug. 1824; minister of Shettleston April 1826; minister of Barony church Glasgow Sep. 1828 to death; D.D. Glasgow April 1834. _d._ Florence 15 Jany. 1851 in 50 year. _Smith’s Our Scottish clergy, 2 series_ (1849) 17–26. BLACK, WILLIAM HENRY (_eld. son of John Black of Kintore, Aberdeenshire_). _b._ 7 May 1808; a tutor among families residing at and near Tulse Hill, Surrey 1825; clerk in the Public Record Office, assistant keeper; founder and sec. of Chronological institute of London Dec. 1850, registrar 21 Dec. 1853; founded Palestine archæological association 13 Sep. 1853 and Anglo-biblical institute; F.S.A. 9 Dec. 1858; pastor of the Seventh Day Baptists (one of smallest sects in England) in Mill yard, Leman st. Whitechapel 1840 to death; prepared an edition of the British part of the _Itinerary of Antoninus_ (never issued); contributed to Samuel Bentley’s _Excerpta Historica_ 1831; catalogued the manuscripts of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, the Arundel MSS. in the library of the Heralds’ College, and Colfe’s library at Lewisham. _d._ 15 Mill yard, Whitechapel 12 April 1872. _Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London_ (1872) 227–37; _J. E. Ritchie’s Religious life of London_ (1870) 159–66. BLACKADDER, ROBERT BARNES. _b._ Scotland; came to London 1834, employed by Roake and Varty and other booksellers; edited and published _Chronological Bible_ 1867 and _Chronological New Testament_ 1867. _d._ Booksellers’ provident retreat Abbot’s Langley 26 June 1883 aged 71.