ARNOTT, NEIL. _b._ Arbroath, Angusshire 15 May 1788; surgeon in H.E.I. Co’s. naval service 1807–11; practised in London 1811–55 when he retired; M.R.C.S. 1813; M.D. Aberdeen 15 Sep. 1814; L.R.C.P. 31 March 1817; invented his hydrostatic or water bed 1832; and Arnott stove and the ventilator; one of senate of Univ. of London 1836; founded an exhibition there for experimental physics 1875; phys. extraordinary to Queen Victoria 8 Aug. 1837; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1838, Rumford medallist 1854; F.G.S. 1847; founded scholarships of natural philosophy at the 4 Scottish universities 1869; author of _Elements of physics_ 1827, _7 ed._ 1876; _A survey of human progress_ 1861. _d._ Cumberland terrace, London 2 March 1874. _Proc. of Royal Society xxv_, 14–18 (1877); _Medical Circular i_, 92, 149 (1852), _portrait_; _Graphic ix_, 314, 328 (1874), _portrait_. ARNTZ, ROBERT RICHARD. _b._ Erefeldt, Prussia 1815; taken to England 1819; articled to W. Herbert of London, builder 1831; naturalised 15 May 1848; surveyor to Westminster district board of works; A.I.C.E. 1856; F.S.A. 18 Dec. 1862. _d._ 17 Feb. 1882. ARRAN, PHILIP YORKE GORE, 6 Earl of. _b._ Dublin castle 23 Nov. 1801; chargé d’Affaires at Buenos Ayres 17 Oct. 1832 to 18 Oct. 1834; succeeded his uncle 20 Jany. 1837; K.P. 6 May 1841. _d._ 27 Chesham st. London 25 June 1884. ARRINDELL, SIR WILLIAM. _b._ in one of the Virgin islands 1796; ed. in England; attorney general British Guiana 10 May 1845 to 1852; chief justice of Demerara 1852 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; knighted by patent 13 Dec. 1858. _d._ Demerara 27 Dec. 1862. ARROW, SIR FREDERICK (_2 son of Wm. Arrow, captain Indian Navy._) _b._ Calcutta 1818; ed. at Bath gr. sch.; in mercantile marine service June 1834 to Feb. 1859; an elder brother of Trinity House Feb. 1859, and deputy master June 1865 to death; knighted by patent 29 Aug. 1868; F.R.G.S. 1871; (_m._ 1850 Harriet 5 dau. of R. Stileman of the Friars, Winchelsea.) _d._ Pilgrims hall, South Weald, near Brentwood 17 July 1875; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 95, 100 (1875) _portrait_. ARROWSMITH, JOHN. _b._ Winston near Barnard Castle, Durham 23 April 1790; joined his uncle Aaron Arrowsmith of Soho Square London, geographer 14 Feb. 1810; one of founders of Royal geographical society 1830, gold medallist 1862; produced _London atlas of universal geography_ 1834, _3 ed._ 1858; illustrated with maps _Leichhardt’s journal of an overland expedition in Australia_ 1847, and many other books; bought 10 Soho Square 1839, carried on business there down to 1861 when he retired; F.R.A.S. _d._ 35 Hereford sq. Old Brompton 2 May 1873. _Journal of geographical society xliii_, 161–63 (1873.)