ALDIS, SIR CHARLES (_7 son and one of 22 children of Daniel Aldis of Hoxne, Suffolk, surgeon_). _b._ Dickleborough, Norfolk 1776; apprenticed to his father 1789; studied at Guy’s and Bartholomew’s hospitals; surgeon to the sick and wounded at the depôt for prisoners of war at Norman Cross, Hunts 1797–99; practised at Hertford 1800–1802; in London 1802; M.R.C.S. 1803; senior surgeon New Finsbury dispensary 1831; founded Glandular institution for the cure of cancer and scrofula in Clifford st. about 1820, surgeon there. _d._ 13 Old Burlington st. London 28 March 1863. _Biographical memoirs of Sir Charles Aldis and Dr. Aldis_, _privately printed_ 1852, _portrait_. ALDIS, CHARLES JAMES BERRIDGE (_eldest son and survivor of 14 infants of the preceding_). _b._ London 16 Jany. 1808; admitted into St. Paul’s school 9 May 1815; exhibitioner to Trinity coll. Cam. July 1827; B.A. 1831, M.B. 1832, M.A. and L.M. 1834, M.D. 1837; studied at St. George’s hospital, London; F.R.C.P. 1838, member of council, delivered Harveian oration 1859; physician to London dispensary 1839; lectured at Charlotte st. school of medicine 1841; phys. to Surrey dispensary 1843; physician to St. Paul and St. Barnabas dispensary which was founded 1848; medical officer of health for St. George’s Hanover square 1855 to death; superintended Hunterian school of medicine several years; invented an instrument for examination of the chest. (_m._ 9 Nov. 1835 Emily Arabella dau. of Rev. John Brome of Trinity college Cambridge). _d._ 45b Chester sq. London 26 July 1872. _Biographical memoirs of Sir C. Aldis_ 1852, _portrait_. ALDRIDGE, IRA FREDERICK, known as the African Roscius (_son of Rev. Daniel Aldridge, minister of Calvinistic chapel, Green st. New York who d. Sep. 1840_). _b._ Bell Air, Harford, Maryland 1804; ed. at Schenectady college near New York and the Univ. of Glasgow; made his first appearance on the stage at the Royalty theatre London as Othello 1826; played 7 weeks at the Coburg theatre London in 1826, then in the provinces Scotland and Ireland; acted Othello at Covent garden 10 April 1833; acted Aaron in Titus Andronicus at Britannia theatre 15 March 1852, first time acted since 1721; played with great success in Germany 1852–55; received large gold medal of Art and Science from the King of Prussia 25 Jany. 1853, the only other persons who had been so distinguished being Humboldt, Spontini and Liszt; played in Sweden 1857, made several tours in Russia; naturalised in England 7 Nov. 1863. _d._ Lodez, Poland 7 Aug. 1867. _Theatrical times iii_, 121–23 (1848), _portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 15–16, 2 _portraits_; _N. and Q. 4 series x_, 132, 373 (1872).