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
ARTOM, REV. BENJAMIN. _b._ Asti near Pimont, Genoa 1835; minister of
Jewish synagogues at Saluzzo, Genoa and Naples; Haham of Spanish
and Portugese congregation of London 9 Aug. 1866 to death;
inducted 16 Dec. 1866. (_m._ 10 Feb. 1875 Henrietta Hahaba widow
of Solomon David of Bombay). _d._ 3 Marine parade Brighton 6 Jany.
1879. _Jewish Chronicle 10 Jany. 1879_ 9–12; _Graphic xix_, 52
(1879), _portrait_.
ARUNDALE, FRANCIS. _b._ London 9 Aug. 1807; articled to A. Pugin the
elder; spent nine years in the East 1831–40; author of _Edifices
of Palladio_ 1832; _Illustrations of Jerusalem and Mount Sinai_
1837. _d._ Brighton 9 Sep. 1853.
ARUNDELL, HENRY BENEDICT, 11 Baron Arundell of Wardour. _b._ Irnham
hall, co. Lincoln 12 Nov. 1804; the only R.C. peer who voted
against the Reform bill 1832; succeeded 21 June 1834; a count of
the Holy Roman Empire. _d._ Wardour castle. Wilts 19 Oct. 1862.
ARUNDELL, REV. THOMAS, formerly called Thomas Arundell Tagg. Ed. at
Merchant Taylor’s, St. Bees and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1868;
C. of Ch. Ch. Blackfriars 1853–54; C. of All Saint’s Gordon square
and Reader of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. Lond. 1854–56; P.C. of St. Peter
Hammersmith 1856–60; V. of Hayton with Bielby, Yorks 1860; V. of
St. John’s, Whetstone, Finchley Feb. 1876; author of _Historical
reminiscences of the City of London_ 1869; and of sermons and
articles in periodicals. _d._ the vicarage Whetstone 5 Nov. 1880
in his 64 year.
ASBURY, JACOB VALE (_son of Mr. Asbury of Stone, Staffs._) Surgeon
at Enfield 1820 to death; invented a surgical instrument for
puncture of the tympanum; took out patents for railway buffers
1853 and 1855. (_m._ 1820 Dorothy 3 dau. of Charles Jacomb of
Guildford st. Russell square). _d._ Enfield 21 June 1871 in his 80
year. _Medical times and gazette ii_, 87 (1871).
NOTE.—Charles Lamb his friend and patient bore witness to his
successful treatment of cholera in a witty acrostic on his
name.
ASCHER, JOSEPH. _b._ London 1831; pupil of Ignaz Moscheles; court
pianist to Empress Eugénie in Paris; composed above 100 mazurkas,
gallops, nocturnes, études, and transcriptions. _d._ London 3 June
1869.
ASH, EDWARD. A minister of Society of Friends; M.D.; lived at
Bristol; author of _An inquiry into some parts of Christian
doctrine and practice_ 1841; _Four lectures on the Apocalypse_
1848; _Explanatory notes and comments on the New Testament_, _3
vols._ 1849–50. _d._ Cotham, Bristol 23 Dec. 1873 aged 76.
ASHBROOK, HENRY FLOWER, 5 Viscount. _b._ 17 June 1806; succeeded his
father 4 May 1847. _d._ Castle Durrow, co. Kilkenny 3 Aug. 1871.
ASHBROOK, HENRY JEFFERY FLOWER, 6 Viscount. _b._ 26 March 1829; ed.
at Eton; sheriff of Queen’s county 1856; succeeded 3 Aug. 1871.
_d._ Castle Durrow 14 Dec. 1882.
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