ALABASTER, HARRY. Interpreter in consulate Bangkok Siam 30 Nov. 1864 to 31 Dec. 1871; author of _The modern Buddhist, translated by H.A._ 1870; _The wheel of the law, Buddhism, illustrated from Siamese sources_ 1871. _d._ Bangkok Siam 8 Aug. 1884.
ALBANO, BENEDETTO. _b._ in kingdom of Naples about 1796; fled to England at the Bourbon restoration 1815; employed by Messrs. Rennie in London; naturalised by 1 & 2 Vict. cap. 42, 9 May 1838; converted Covent garden theatre into an opera house at a cost of nearly £30,000, 1846; A.I.C.E. 1831, M.I.C.E. 1840. _d._ 75 Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. 7 Nov. 1881.
ALBANY, LEOPOLD GEORGE DUNCAN ALBERT, 1 Duke of (_8 child and 4 son of Queen Victoria_). _b._ Buckingham palace 7 April 1853. K.G. 24 May 1869, K.T. 24 May 1871; matric. at Univ. of Ox. (Ch. Ch.) 1872; D.C.L. 1876; P.C. 1874; admitted by patrimony to freedom of city of London 25 Oct. 1875; a younger brother of the Trinity House 1875; an elder brother 1878; G.C.S.I. 25 Jany. 1877; a bencher of Lincoln’s Inn 18 June 1877; G.C.M.G. 24 May 1880; created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow 24 May 1881. _d._ Villa Nevada, Cannes at 2 a._m._ 28 March 1884. _bur._ royal tomb, St. George’s chapel, Windsor 5 April. _Graphic_, _xxix_, 317–22 and 341–61 (1884) 2 _portraits_; _I.L.N. lxxxiv_, 313–29 (1884), 4 _portraits_.
ALBEMARLE, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK KEPPEL, 5 Earl of. _b._ 2 June 1794; M.P. for Arundel (whig) as Viscount Bury 8 March 1820 to 2 June 1826; succeeded as 5 Earl 30 Oct. 1849, but never took his seat in House of Lords; declared to be of unsound mind on an inquisition Dec. 1849. _d._ Blacklands house asylum, King’s Road, Chelsea 15 March 1851.
ALBERT, PRINCE CONSORT OF QUEEN VICTORIA. _b._ the Rosenau near Coburg 26 Aug. 1819; baptised in the Marble hall at the Rosenau 19 Sep. 1819 when he received the following names in the order in which they are given, Franz Karl August Albrecht Immanuel; ed. at Brussels and Bonn 1836–38; invested with the order of the Garter at Gotha 23 Jany. 1840; received the title of Royal Highness by patent 6 Feb. 1840; naturalized by act of parliament 3 and 4 Vict. cap. 2, 7 Feb. 1840; Field Marshal 8 Feb. 1840. _m._ at the chapel royal, St. James’s Palace, London 10 Feb. 1840 Queen Victoria; G.C.B. 6 March 1840, acting great master 31 May 1843; Colonel 11 Hussars 30 April 1840 to 25 April 1842; appointed Regent 4 Aug. 1840; admitted to the freedom of city of London 28 Aug. 1840; P.C. 11 Sep. 1840; ranger of Windsor park 6 April 1841; pres. of fine arts commission 22 Nov. 1841; lord warden of the Stannaries, and chief steward of the Duchy in Cornwall and Devon 16 April 1842; colonel Scots Fusilier guards 25 April 1842 to 25 Sep. 1852; governor and constable of Windsor castle 18 May 1843 to death; captain general and colonel of the Artillery company 20 Sep. 1843; elected chancellor of Univ. of Cam. 27 Feb. 1847, by a majority of 112 over Earl Powis, installed chancellor 6 July 1847; organised the Great Exhibition of 1851; colonel in chief of 60th or King’s Royal rifle corps 15 Aug. 1850 to 23 Sep. 1852; of the Rifle brigade 23 Sep. 1852 to death; master of the Trinity house 19 Oct. 1852 to death; colonel of Grenadier guards 23 Sep. 1852 to death; created Prince Consort by patent 25 June 1857; pres. of British Association at Aberdeen 14 Sep. 1859; G.C.S.I. 25 June 1861; composed many songs and chorales; the “Athalie” and “Œdipus” of Mendelssohn were first performed in this country at Windsor castle by his command. _d._ at Windsor castle at 10.50 p._m._ 14 Dec. 1861. _The life of The Prince Consort by Theodore Martin 5 vols._ 1874–80, 5 _portraits_; _The early homes of Prince Albert by Alfred Rimmer_ 1883; _Medical Times and Gazette ii_, 638–42 (1861).
ALCHIN, WILLIAM TURNER. _b._ St. Mary-at-Hill Billingsgate, London 1790; a solicitor at Winchester; compiled indexes to ecclesiastical registers of Winchester and Salisbury; librarian of Guildhall library, London 1845 to death; compiled indexes to the ancient records of the corporation of London; and calendar of the wills enrolled in the court of Hustings of London. _d._ Chelsea 3 Feb. 1865.
ALCOCK, THOMAS SAINT LEGER. Major 95 foot 2 Feb. 1844 to 21 April 1846 when placed on half pay; lieut. colonel 1 or royal East Middlesex militia 30 Jany. 1851 to 21 July 1871; colonel 21 July 1871 to death. _d._ 22 Somerset st. Portman sq. 7 Aug. 1882.
ALDBOROUGH, BENJAMIN O’NEALE STRATFORD, 6 Earl of. _b._ Dublin 10 June 1808; succeeded 4 Oct. 1849; took out 5 patents for Improvements in aerial navigation 1854–57. _d._ Alicante, Spain 19 Dec. 1875.
ALDER, JOSHUA (_son of Mr. Alder of Newcastle, provision merchant who d. Nov. 1808_). _b._ Dean st. Newcastle 7 April 1792; ed. at Tanfield school; member of Literary and Philosophical society of Newcastle Feb. 1815; a provision merchant at Newcastle to 1840; collected the large museum of shells and zoophytes which with his library was presented by Sir Wm. Armstrong to Natural history society of Northumberland and Durham; this society founded in 1839 and the Tyneside Naturalists Field Club founded in 1846 owed very much to Alder, pres. of this club 1849; granted a civil list pension of £70 18 June 1863; author with Albany Hancock of the great monograph _On the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca_ 1845–55 (Ray, Society); wrote more than 50 papers all zoological in the chief natural history periodicals. _d._ Newcastle 21 Jany. 1867. _Natural history trans. of Northumberland and Durham i_, 324–37 (1867), _portrait_.
ALDERSON, SIR EDWARD HALL (_eld. son of Robert Alderson, recorder of Norwich who d. 4 Dec. 1833 aged 80, by a dau. of Samuel Hurry of Yarmouth, she d. 1791_). _b._ Yarmouth 11 Sep. 1787; ed. at Scarning Norfolk, the Charterhouse, and Caius coll. Cam.; Browne’s medallist 1807; senior wrangler, first Smith’s prizeman and first chancellor’s medallist Jany. 1809; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; fellow of his college 1809–23; barrister I. T. 28 June 1811; a comr. for amendment of the law 1828; sergeant at law 11 Nov. 1830; justice of court of Common Pleas 12 Nov. 1830; knighted by William iv at St. James’s palace 17 Nov. 1830; baron of court of Exchequer 29 April 1834 to death; published with R. V. Barnewall _Reports of cases in court of King’s Bench_, _5 vols._ 1818–22. (_m._ 1823 Georgina 3 dau. of Rev. Edward Drewe of the Grange near Honiton, Devon, she _d._ 1871). _d._ Beechwood park Hemel Hempstead, Herts 27 Jany. 1857. _bur._ churchyard of Risby near Bury, Suffolk. _Selections from the charges of Baron Alderson by C. Alderson_ 1858.
ALDERSON, SIR JAMES (_son of John Alderson, M.D. of Hull 1758–1829 by Sarah dau. of Christopher Scott_). _b._ Hull 1800; ed. at Hull and Pembroke coll. Cam.; 6 wrangler 1822; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; fellow of his college 1823; incorporated M.A. at Magdalen hall, Ox. 1826; B.M. 1826, D.M. 1829, D.C.L. 1870; inceptor candidate college of physicians 26 June 1826; candidate 30 Sep. 1829; fellow 30 Sep. 1830; senior censor 1848 and 1856; treasurer 1854–67; pres. 1867–70; physician at Hull 1829–45; in London 1845 to death; F.R.S. 17 June 1841; senior physician of St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1851–67; consulting physician 1867; representative of Royal college of physicians at the general medical council 27 Jany. 1864 to 13 May 1867; knighted by the Queen at Windsor castle 11 Nov. 1869; one of Her Majesty’s physicians extraordinary 30 Aug. 1875; _Lumleian_ lecturer 1852 and 1853; delivered Harveian oration 1854 and 1867; author of _Diseases of the Stomach and alimentary canal_ 1847. (_m._ 24 June 1828 Mary Anne dau. of Peter Berthon of Glenadda, Carnarvon, she _d._ 5 March 1877). _d._ 17 Berkeley sq. London 13 Sep. 1882. _Medical Circular i_, 27 (1852) _portrait_.
ALDHAM, WILLIAM CORNWALLIS. _b._ 21 Sep. 1809; Captain R.N. 9 May 1853; captain Greenwich hospital 12 Jan. 1863 to 1 Oct. 1865; retired V.A. 30 July 1875; C.B. 22 Sep. 1858. _d._ Assoint Upper Nile 27 Feb. 1878.
ALDIS, SIR CHARLES (_7 son and one of 22 children of Daniel Aldis of Hoxne, Suffolk, surgeon_). _b._ Dickleborough, Norfolk 1776; apprenticed to his father 1789; studied at Guy’s and Bartholomew’s hospitals; surgeon to the sick and wounded at the depôt for prisoners of war at Norman Cross, Hunts 1797–99; practised at Hertford 1800–1802; in London 1802; M.R.C.S. 1803; senior surgeon New Finsbury dispensary 1831; founded Glandular institution for the cure of cancer and scrofula in Clifford st. about 1820, surgeon there. _d._ 13 Old Burlington st. London 28 March 1863. _Biographical memoirs of Sir Charles Aldis and Dr. Aldis_, _privately printed_ 1852, _portrait_.