ARCHER, FREDERICK SCOTT (_2 son of Mr. Archer, of Bishop Stortford, butcher_). _b._ 1813; assistant to Massey of Leadenhall st. London, silversmith; a sculptor; applied collodion to photography successfully 1850, first account of this process was in the _Chemist_, March 1851, it was in general use for 30 years till the gelatine process was discovered; photographer at 105 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury 1852 to death; invented a camera and a liquid lens; the first to use a triplet lens. _d._ 105 Great Russell st. 1 May 1857. _Report of the jurors on class xiv (photography) of the International Exhibition_ 1862; _N. and Q. 1 series vi_, 277, 396, 426 (1852), _vii_, 92, 218 (1853). ARCHER, GEORGINA (_sister of James Archer_). Went to Berlin 1859; Victoria Lyceum there was founded in 1867, mainly through her efforts. _d._ Montreux, Switzerland 22 Nov. 1882. ARCHER, HENRY. Invented and patented machine for perforating postage stamps 1848. _d._ Pau, France 2 April 1863. ARCHER, JOHN WYKEHAM. _b._ Newcastle 1808; apprenticed to John Scott of Coppice row, London, animal engraver; Engraver in London 1831 to death; Associate of New Society of Painters in Watercolours; author of _Vestiges of old London_ 1851; _Posthumous Poems_ 1873. _d._ Kentish town, London 25 May 1864. _Pinks’s Clerkenwell_ (1865) 639–41. ARCHER, THOMAS CROXEN. Clerk in Customs at Liverpool; collected, arranged and named the specimens of the imports into Liverpool for the Great Exhibition of 1851; a professor in the Liverpool institution; superintendent of Technological museum Edin. 26 June 1860, and director Jany. 1866 to death; joint executive comr. from Great Britain to American Centennial Exhibition 1876; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ London 19 Feb. 1885. _Athenæum 28 Feb. 1885_, _p._ 283. _Graphic xiii_, 542, 552 (1876), _portrait_. ARCHIBALD, CHARLES DICKSON (_eld. son of Samuel George Wm. Archibald, Speaker of Assembly, Nova Scotia_). _b._ Truro, Nova Scotia 31 Oct. 1802; author of _A look towards the future of the British colonies_ 1854; F.R.S. 26 Nov. 1840. (_m._ 16 Sep. 1832 Bridget only child of Myles Walker of Rusland hall, Lancashire). _d._ 1868. ARCHIBALD, SIR EDWARD MORTIMER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 10 May 1810; chief clerk and registrar of supreme court of Newfoundland 8 Nov. 1832; attorney general 5 Nov. 1846; advocate general 15 April 1847 to May 1855; consul in state of New York 1 Oct. 1857; judge in mixed court New York for suppression of African slave trade 14 Oct. 1862 to 1 Oct. 1870; consul general for states of New York, &c. 9 Feb. 1871 to 1 Jany. 1883; C.B. 17 March 1865; K.C.M.G. 12 Aug. 1882. (_m._ 1834 Katherine dau. of A. Richardson of Halifax, Nova Scotia). _d._ 11 St. John’s terrace, Brighton 8 Feb. 1884.