ABBOTT, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Cumberland 1789; ed. at Bampton sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen; Missionary of the S.P.G. at St. Andrew’s, Grenville, Lower Canada 1818–47, when he retired; wrote _The Emigrant to North America from memoranda of a settler in Canada_, first published in the Quebec _Mercury_ 1842, republished in many leading Canadian papers and in several English papers, including _Emigration Gazette_, and in pamphlet form by the Emigration agent. 2nd ed. 1843, it was also pub. in a more extended form by John Murray in the Home and Colonial library, under the title of _Philip Musgrave or the adventures of a Missionary in Canada_; contributed many tales to Canadian periodicals. _d._ Montreal, Jany. 1863. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) _pp._ 3–4.
ABBOTT, THOMAS EASTOE. _b._ East Dereham, Norfolk 1779; author of _Peace; a lyric poem_ 1814; _The triumph of Christianity_ 1819; _The soldier’s friend_ 1828. _d._ Darlington 18 Feb. 1854.
ABDY, MARIA. _b._ London; wrote in the _New Monthly_, _The Metropolitan_ and the Annuals; privately printed _Poems_ 8 series, _8 vols._ 1830–62; _An appeal on behalf of governesses_, her longest poem gained first prize offered for literary productions on that subject, (_m._ Rev. John Channing Abdy, R. of St. John’s Southwark who _d._ 27 Jany. 1845 aged 52.) _d._ 7 Upper Marine terrace, Margate 19 July 1867 aged 70. _bur._ St. Peter’s church yard Isle of Thanet.
ABDY, SIR THOMAS NEVILLE, 1 Baronet (_only son of Anthony Thomas Abdy, captain R.N. who d. 9 June 1838, by Grace dau. of admiral Sir Thomas Rich_). _b._ 21 Dec. 1810; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1833; M.P. for Lyme Regis, (lib.) 30 July 1847–1 July 1852; cr. baronet 8 Jan. 1850; sheriff of Essex 1875. (_m._ 19 Oct. 1841 Harriet 2nd dau. of Rowland Alston, M.P. of Pishiobury, Herts, she _d._ 8 July 1877.) _d._ 6 Grosvenor place, London 20 July 1877.
ABDY, SIR WILLIAM, 7 Baronet. _b._ 1779; succeeded 21 July 1803. _d._ 20b. Hill st. London 15 Apl. 1868.
A’BECKETT, ARTHUR MARTIN (_youngest son of Wm. A’Beckett of Golden square, London, long known as the Reform solicitor, who d. 23 Feb. 1855 aged 77, by his 1 wife Sarah who d. 25 Aug. 1817_). _b._ Golden square, London 1812; ed. at London univ. 1834 and at Paris; M.R.C.S. 9 March 1838, F.R.C.S. 13 Dec. 1855, M.D.; Staff surgeon to British legion in Spain; on staff of Sir De Lacy Evans 1835–37; arrived in Sydney 1838; practised there 1838–58; member of legislative council of N.S.W. to 1858; knight of San Ferdinand; F.R.G.S. 1860. (_m._ 15 May 1838 Emma Louisa 1 dau. of Marsham Elwin of Thirning, Norfolk, she was _b._ 26 Aug. 1814). _d._ Sydney 23 May 1871. _Medical Times and Gazette, ii_, 263 (1871); _Heads of the people, ii_, 83 (1848) _pt._
A’BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOT (_2 son of Wm. A’Beckett of Golden sq._) _b._ The Grange, Haverstock hill, London 9 Jany. 1811. ed. at Westminster school; sole proprietor of following periodicals, _The terrific penny magazine_, _The Ghost_, _The Lover_, _The gallery of terrors_, _The Figaro_ monthly newspaper, and _The Figaro_ caricature gallery; proprietor with Thomas Littleton Holt of following periodicals, _The evangelical penny magazine_, _Dibdin’s penny trumpet_, _The thief_, _Poor Richard’s journal_, and _The people’s penny pictures_; student at Gray’s Inn 25 Apl. 1828; dramatic critic of the _Weekly Despatch_; edited _Figaro in London_ comic weekly paper, 160 numbers 1 Dec. 1831 to 27 Dec. 1834; joint manager with Edward Mayhew of the Fitzroy theatre, Fitzroy st. Tottenham court road, London 1834 where he produced his first burlesque Glaucus and Scylla; edited _The Wag_ 1837, and _The Squib_ 1842, comic weekly papers; one of the original staff of _Punch or the London Charivari_, which appeared 17 July 1841, wrote in it from number 4 to his death; wrote leading articles in _The Times_ one year, and in _Morning Herald_; wrote humorous articles in _Pictorial Times_; barrister G.I. 27 Jany 1841; poor Law comr. to inquire into iniquities practised in Andover union, March 1846; magistrate at Greenwich and Woolwich police court, Feb. 1849, and at Southwark, Dec. 1849 to death; went to Boulogne 17 July 1856; author of _Scenes from the rejected comedies_, a series of parodies upon living dramatists 1844; _The quizziology of the British drama_ 1846; _The comic Blackstone_ 1846; _The comic history of England_, _2 vols._ 1847–8; _The comic history of Rome_ 1852; wrote more than 50 plays; dramatised with Mark Lemon, Dickens’s novel “_The Chimes_,” produced at Adelphi theatre 19 Dec. 1844. (_m._ about 1836 Mary Anne eld. dau. of Joseph Glossop, she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 23 Oct. 1856. She _m._ (2) George Jones, barrister, and _d._ 11 Dec. 1863 aged 46). _d._ of typhus fever at Rue Neuve Chaussée, Boulogne 30 Aug. 1856, body removed to Highgate cemetery. _The Critic, xv._ 436 (1856); _Mr. Punch, his origin and career_ 1870; _Alfred Bunn’s A word with Punch_ 1847, _pp._ 5–7 _pt._; _I.L.N. xxx_, 570 (1857), _view of his tomb in Highgate cemetery_.
NOTE.—There is a portrait of him by Leech in his two page cartoon, called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in _Punch_ 9 Jany. 1847, where he is represented as playing the violin in the orchestra between the double bass and the clarionet. His first contribution to _Punch_, entitled “The above bridge navy,” appeared in No. 4, 7 Aug. 1841 with John Leech’s earliest cartoon, “Foreign Affairs.”
A’BECKETT, SIR WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. A’Beckett of Golden square_). _b._ London 28 July 1806; ed. at Westminster; barrister L.I. 30 June 1829; went to Sydney 1837; solicitor general of New South Wales 1841; a judge of court of N.S.W. 24 Nov. 1845; resident judge at Port Philip 3 Feb. 1846; chief justice and judge of admiralty court of Victoria 25 Aug. 1851; knighted by patent 19 Nov. 1852; returned to England 1858; author of great part of _The Georgian Era_ 4 vols. 1832–34; of _Universal biography_ _3 vols._ 1840; and of _The Earl’s choice and other poems_ 1863. (_m._ (1) 1832 Emily dau. of E. Hayley, she _d._ 1 June 1841. _m._ (2) 1849 Matilda dau. of E. Hayley, she _d._ 8 Aug. 1879 aged 64). _d._ Abbotsville, Upper Norwood, Surrey 27 June 1869.
NOTE.—He edited at Sydney from 1837–38 a periodical called the Literary News, of which no copies are supposed to be now in existence.
ABELL, LUCIA ELIZABETH (_2 dau. of Wm. Balcombe, navy agent, purveyor to Napoleon Bonaparte at St. Helena, and afterwards the colonial treasurer of N.S.W. who d. 19 March 1829_). Author of _Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon during the first three years of his captivity on the island of St. Helena_ 1848, including the time of his residence at her father’s house, “the Briars.” (_m._ Edward Abell). _d._ 18 Chester terrace, Eaton sq. London 29 June 1871. _Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon 3rd ed._ 1873, _pt._ Of Mrs. Abell.
ABERCROMBY, GEORGE RALPH ABERCROMBY, 3 Baron. _b._ Edinburgh 30 May 1800; M.P. for Clackmannan, (whig) 13 July 1824–2 June 1826, 10 Aug. 1830–23 April 1831, and 6 July 1841–18 Feb. 1842; M.P. for Stirlingshire 30 April 1838–23 June 1841; major 3 dragoon guards 22 June 1826–21 Nov. 1828; succeeded 14 Feb. 1843; lord lieutenant of Clackmannan 1843 to death; was blind. _d._ Airthney castle, Stirling 25 June 1852.
ABERCROMBY, THE HONBLE. ALEXANDER, _b._ 4 March 1784; ensign 52 foot 16 Aug. 1799; lieut. col. 28 foot 8 Dec. 1808–25 July 1814; commanded a brigade at battle of Albuera 16 May 1811; captain Coldstream guards 25 July 1814–25 Oct. 1821, when placed on half pay on reduction of regiment; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.M.T.; K.T.S.; K.S.G.; M.P. for co. Clackmannan 11 April 1817–10 June 1818. _d._ at his country seat in Scotland 27 Aug. 1853. _Napier’s Peninsular War, book xii, chapters 6 and 7._
ABERCROMBY, SIR GEORGE SAMUEL, 6 baronet. _b._ Edinburgh 22 May 1824; succeeded 6 July 1855. _d._ Forglen house, Turriff Banffshire 15 Nov. 1872.
ABERCROMBY, SIR ROBERT, 5 baronet. _b._ Forglen house, Banffshire 4 Feb. 1784; M.P. for Banffshire 2 Nov. 1812–10 June 1818; succeeded 18 July 1831. _d._ Forglen house 6 July 1855.
ABERDEEN, GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON, 4 Earl of (_1 son of George Gordon, styled Lord Haddo 1764–91, by Charlotte, youngest dau. of Wm. Baird of Newbyth, co. Haddington, she d. 8 Oct. 1795_). _b._ Edinburgh 28 Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow, and St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1804; succeeded his grandfather 13 Aug. 1801; visited Greece, Turkey and Russia; founded Athenian society 1804, of which no one might be a member who had not visited Athens; rep. peer Scotland 15 Dec. 1806–1 June 1814; K.T. 16 March 1808; ambassador to Vienna 29 July 1813–April 1814, when he prevailed with the Emperor to join the allied sovereigns against Napoleon by treaty of Toplitz 9 Sep. 1813; present at battles of Dresden and Leipsic; signed treaty of peace at Paris 1 June 1814; created a peer of the U.K. as Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen, co. Aberdeen 1 June 1814; P.C. 23 July 1814; took name of Hamilton before that of Gordon by royal license 13 Nov. 1818; chancellor of univ. of Aberdeen 1827; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 26 Jan. 1828–2 June 1828; sec. of state for foreign affairs 2 June 1828–2 Nov. 1830 and 2 Sep. 1841–5 July 1846; sec. of state for the colonies 5 June 1834–18 April 1835; ranger of Greenwich park 1 Feb. 1845; lord lieut. of Aberdeenshire 23 April 1846; first lord of the treasury 28 Dec. 1852–1 Feb. 1855; an elder brother of Trinity house Nov. 1853–54; a comr. for executing office of treasurer of exchequer of Great Britain, and lord high treasurer of Ireland 6 Mch. 1854; president of Society of Antiquaries 1812–46; F.R.S. 28 April 1808, F.R.G.S. 1830, K.G. 7 Feb. 1855; visited by the Queen at Haddo house, 15 Oct. 1857; author of _Inquiry into principles of beauty in Grecian architecture_, 1822. (_m._ (1) 28 July 1805 Catherine Elizabeth, 3 dau. of John James Hamilton, 1 Marquess of Abercorn, she was _b._ 10 Jan. 1784, and _d._ 29 Feb. 1812. _m._ (2) 8 July 1815 Harriet, 2 dau. of honble. John Douglas and widow of James Hamilton, eld. son of 1 Marquess of Abercorn, she was _b._ 8 June 1792, and _d._ 26 Aug. 1833). _d._ 7 Argyll st. Regent st. London 14 Dec. 1860. _bur._ in family vault at Stanmore 21 Dec. _Correspondence of Earl of Aberdeen 1850–53_, _privately printed_ 1880; _Edinburgh Review_, _clviii_, 547–77 (1883); _Thirty years of foreign policy_ 1854; _Proc. of Royal Society of Edin. iv_, 477–83 (1862); _The British cabinet in 1853_, _pp._ 7–43, _pt._; _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _vol._ 3, _pt._; _I.L.N. i_, 461 (1842), _xx_, 1, (1853) _xxxvii_, 635 (1860) _pts._; _A.R._ (1860) 376–83.