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
ARCHIBALD, SIR THOMAS DICKSON (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Truro, Nova Scotia 1817; attorney and barrister province of Nova
Scotia 1837; a special pleader in London 1844–52; student of M.T.
11 Nov. 1840, barrister 30 Nov. 1852; drew Petition of Right act
usually called Bovill’s act 1860; junior counsel to Treasury
otherwise called Attorney general’s Devil Feb. 1868 to Nov. 1872;
serjeant at law 20 Nov. 1872; judge of Court of Queen’s Bench 22
Nov. 1872 to Feb. 1875; knighted by the Queen at Osborne 5 Feb.
1873; judge of Court of Common Pleas Feb. 1875 to death. (_m._
1841 Sarah only dau. of Richard Smith of The Priory Dudley). _d._
7 Porchester gate, Hyde Park 18 Oct. 1876 in 60 year. _Law
magazine and law review ii_, 177–88 (1877); _I.L.N. lxii_, 11, 13
(1873), _portrait_.
ARDEN, HENRY THOMAS, the assumed name of Henry Thomas Arnold; author
of _Princess Charming_, _The belle of the Barley-mow_, _The
armourer’s daughter_, _The right-fall heir_ and many other
burlesques and extravaganzas. _d._ 25 Nov. 1876 aged 36.
ARDEN, JOSEPH (_eld. son of Joseph Arden of Islington_). _b._ 10 May
1799; ed. at Merchant Taylors; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840,
bencher 1 March 1875; principal of Cliffords Inn 5 Feb. 1855 to
death; F.S.A. 10 June 1847; author of _The orations of Hyperides
for Lycophron and Euxenippus now first printed in facsimile with a
short account of the discovery of the original manuscript at
Western Thebes in Upper Egypt in 1847_. _Cambridge_ 1853. _d._ 1
Cliffords Inn 30 Jany. 1879.
ARGUIMBAU, LAWRENCE. Captain 1 foot 1809–16 when placed on h.p.;
Col. 80 foot 30 April 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 22
June 1815. _d._ Mahon, Minorca 18 Aug. 1854.
ARKWRIGHT, GEORGE. _b._ 20 Aug. 1807; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1833;
M.P. for Leominster 1842 to death. _d._ 2D The Albany Piccadilly,
London 5 Feb. 1856.
ARKWRIGHT, HENRY. _b._ 16 Dec. 1837; captain 84 foot 18 April 1865
to death; killed by fall of an avalanche when ascending Mont Blanc
13 Oct. 1866.
ARKWRIGHT, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ 9 Aug. 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin.
coll. Cam., B.A. 1812; master of Essex foxhounds 1861 to death;
built new kennels at Harlow; a celebrated horseman; one of largest
farmers in Essex. _d._ 29 Feb. 1864. Personalty sworn under
£400,000 April 1864.
ARKWRIGHT, PETER. _b._ 17 April 1784; sheriff of Derbyshire 1855.
_d._ Willersley, Derbyshire 19 Sep. 1866. Personalty sworn under
£800,000 Nov. 1866.
ARMENI, SIR PETER BRAILA. Greek envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. in
London 24 April 1882 to death; G.C.M.G. 1882. _d._ 18 Queen’s gate
terrace, South Kensington 15 Sep. 1884.
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