AMEUNEY, ANTONIUS GEORGE (_son of Georgius Ameuney of Latakia_). _b._ Latakia 1821; went to England 1840; studied at King’s college; went with J. B. Thompson, M.D. on a mission to Damascus 1844; surveyed the Jordan and Dead Sea with captain Lynch of the U.S. navy 1848; worked for the London Arabic literary fund 1859; professor of Arabic at King’s college, London Jany. 1865 to death; author of _Notes from the life of a Syrian, with an appeal on behalf of 80,000,000 of the human family_ 1860. _d._ 87 Seymour st. London 16 Sep. 1881. AMHERST, WILLIAM PITT AMHERST, 1 Earl of (_only son of Wm. Amherst 1732–81, governor of Newfoundland_). _b._ Bath 14 Jany. 1773; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1793, M.A. 1797; succeeded his uncle as 2 Baron Amherst 3 Aug. 1797; envoy to Naples 1809–11; P.C. 30 Dec. 1815; ambassador extraordinary to China 8 Feb. 1816 to 30 July 1817; visited Napoleon at St. Helena 1817; governor general of India 23 Oct. 1822 to 10 March 1828; declared war against Burmah 24 Feb. 1824; created Viscount Holmesdale and Earl Amherst of Arracan in the East Indies 19 Dec. 1826; appointed governor general of Canada but never took office; granted a pension of £3,000 a year; G.C.H. 1834. _d._ Knole house near Sevenoaks 13 March 1857. _bur._ in Sevenoaks church. _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery vol. 1_ (1830), _portrait_; _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 337–41; _Ellis’s Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China_ 1817; _Mill’s History of British India, by H. H. Wilson, vol. iii_, 1848. AMHERST, RIGHT REV. FRANCIS KERRIL (_eld. son of Wm. Kerril Amherst of Parndon, Essex, by Mary Louisa youngest dau. of Francis Fortescue Turvile of Bosworth hall co. Leicester_). _b._ London 21 March 1819; ed. at Oscott; ordained priest by bishop Wiseman 6 June 1846; professor at Oscott, Nov. 1855 to Oct. 1856; served the mission of Stafford, Oct. 1856 to May 1858; bishop of Northampton 14 May 1858 to 1879; consecrated 4 July 1858; assistant at pontifical throne 8 June 1862; preconised to titular see of Sozusa 1880; author of _Lenten thoughts_ 1873, _4 ed._ 1880. _d._ Fieldgate house, Kenilworth 21 Aug. 1883. _bur._ R.C. cathedral, Northampton 28 Aug. AMHERST, G. A. _b._ London 1776; first appeared on the stage 14 July 1817 in _The blue devils_ at Haymarket theatre; visited United states as director of Cooke’s Equestrian company 1838; made his début in Philadelphia as the Castillian in _Mazeppa_ 2 April 1838; author of many plays. _d._ in the Philadelphia Almshouse 12 Aug. 1851.