Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-HBoase, Frederic
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Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H
Boase, Frederic
Great Britain -- Biography -- Dictionaries
AMPTHILL, ODO WILLIAM LEOPOLD RUSSELL, 1 Baron (_youngest son of
Lord George Wm. Russell, G.C.B._) _b._ Florence 20 Feb. 1829; ed.
at Westminster; attaché at Vienna 15 March 1849; employed on
special service at Rome, Nov. 1860 to 9 Aug. 1870; ambassador
extraord. and plenipo. at Berlin 16 Oct. 1871 to death; P.C. 5
Feb. 1872, G.C.B. 21 Feb. 1874, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1879; created
Baron Ampthill of Ampthill, Beds. 7 March 1881. _d._ Potsdam 25
Aug. 1884. _bur._ in family vault in parish church of St. Michael,
Chenies, Bucks 3 Sep. _I.L.N. lxxxv_, 220 (1884) _portrait_.
AMSINCK, HENRY. _b._ 1798; served in navy 1811–44; retired commander
22 March 1876; sec. to the Railway commission 1844; went to
Melbourne 1853; M.P. for West Bourke. _d._ Hawthorne, Victoria 17
Dec 1878.
ANCELL, HENRY (_son of Mr. Ancell of Carshalton, Surrey, cotton
miller_). _b._ Croydon 23 Jany. 1802; walked through the United
States 1823–25; L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1831; surgeon to
Metropolitan police; lectured at Lane’s school next St. George’s
hospital 1837; sec. to National association of general
practitioners 1845–47; author of _A treatise on Tuberculosis_
1852; _Lectures on the blood and Commentaries on Liebig_. _d._ 3
Norfolk crescent Hyde Park 19 Nov. 1863.
ANDERDON, JAMES HUGHES. _b._ 1790; collected many pictures of
British School; bought Hogarth’s Sigismunda for £56 (which he
bequeathed to National Gallery), and his _portrait_ of Sarah
Malcolm the murderess. _d._ 23 Upper Grosvenor st. London 24 Jany.
1879.
ANDERDON, JOHN LAVICOUNT (_3 son of John Proctor Anderdon_). _b._
Bristol 5 April 1792; ed. at Ealing and Harrow; a West India
merchant in London 1816–54; contested Penryn 1818; author of _The
river Dove_ 1847; _The life of bishop Ken, by a Layman 2 vols._
1851; _The Messiah_ 1861. (_m._ 4 March 1816 Anna Maria 2 dau. of
Wm. Manning, M.P., she _d._ 1 May 1880 in 84 year). _d._ Brighton
8 March 1874. _Geron, the old man in search of paradise, by J. L.
Anderdon with a biographical notice, by Rev. G. Williams_ 1877.
ANDERDON, THOMAS OLIVER. Barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1822; equity
draftsman; Q.C. 1841; bencher of his inn 1841. _d._ Horsendon
house Bucks 31 July 1856 aged 70.
ANDERSON, ADAM, Lord Anderson (_2 son of Samuel Anderson of Moredun,
co. Edinburgh_). _b._ Edin. 1797; ed. at Univ. of Edin; advocate
1818; solicitor general Nov. 1834 to April 1835; sheriff of
Perthshire 1835–1842; solicitor general for Scotland 8 Nov. 1842
to 1846; Dean of Faculty of Advocates 28 Feb. 1852; Advocate for
Scotland 28 Feb. 1852; one of Lords of Session and of Justiciary
18 May 1852 to death. _d._ 55 Upper Brook st. London 28 Sep. 1853.
_bur._ under St. John’s episcopal chapel Edin. _B. W. Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882) 112, _portrait_.
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