ARNOLD, SAMUEL JAMES (_only son of Samuel Arnold 1740–1802, organist and composer to George 3_). _b._ 1774; exhibited portraits at the R.A. 1800–1806; brought out a musical play called Auld Robin Gray at Haymarket theatre 1794; exhibited a panorama in Spring gardens; member of “Sublime society of beefsteaks” 15 April 1809; opened Lyceum theatre as an English opera house 26 June 1809; built new theatre on same site and opened it as the English opera house 15 June 1816, it was burnt down 16 Feb. 1830, he rebuilt it and opened it 14 July 1834; manager of Drury Lane theatre 1812–15; author of _The Creole or haunted island 3 vols._ 1796; _The shipwreck, a comic opera in 2 acts_ 1796; _Man and wife, comedy in 5 acts_ 1809, _8 ed._ 1809. (_m._ 18 May 1802 Matilda Catherine younger dau. of Henry James Pye, poet laureate). _d._ Walton upon Thames 16 Aug. 1852 in 78 year. _G.M. xxxviii_, 538 (1852). ARNOLD, THOMAS JAMES (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Downing st. Westminster 1803; ed. at St. Paul’s school and univ. of Gottingen; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1829; commissioner of bankruptcy at Liverpool; stipendiary magistrate at Worship st. police court 27 Jany. 1847 and at Westminster police court Aug. 1851 to death; member of Numismatic Society 1862; F.S.A. 1869; author of _A treatise on the law relating to municipal corporations_ 1852, _3 ed._ 1883; _Anacreon in English_ 1869; _Faust, a tragedy translated in the original metres_ 1877. _d._ 1 Greville place, Kilburn priory 20 May 1877. _Numismatic Chronicle xvii_, 13–15 (1877). ARNOLD, REV. THOMAS KERCHEVER (_eld. son of Thomas George Arnold of Stamford, M.D._) _b._ 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1821; M.A. 1824; fellow of his college; R. of Lyndon, Rutland 1830 to death; projected and edited _Churchman’s Quarterly magazine_ 1837, _Churchman’s Monthly Companion_ 1844 and _Theological Critic_ 1851; author of _Henry’s first Latin book_ 1839, _26 ed._ 1883; _The first Greek book_ 1849, _new ed._ 1883; _The first Hebrew book_ 1851, _7 ed._ 1883; _Anticleptic gradus ad Parnassum_ 1852 and many other educational books. _d._ Lyndon rectory 9 March 1853. _Fraser’s Mag. xlvii_, 173–83 (1853); _G.M. xxxix_, 667 (1853). ARNOLD, WILLIAM DELAFIELD (_2 son of Rev. Thomas Arnold, D.D. 1795–1842, head master of Rugby_). _b._ Laleham 7 April 1828; ed. at Rugby; student of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1847; ensign 58 Bengal N.I. 2 Dec. 1848; principal director of public education in the Punjab 1857 to death, where his name is perpetuated by an annual distribution of medals, bearing his likeness, to the best pupils in schools which he founded; author of a novel entitled _Oakfield or fellowship in the East, by Punjabee_, 2 vols. 1853; translated _Wiese’s Letters on English education_ 1854. _d._ Gibraltar 9 April 1859. _Prospective Review x_, 274–303 (1854).