ALLEN, PETER. _b._ Dec. 1826; M.D. Aberdeen 1849; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. Eng. 1849; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1868; surgeon at Yealand Conyers 1856–68, and in London 1868 to death; aural surgeon to St. Mary’s hospital; author of _Practical observations on deafness_ 1853; _Aural Catarrh_ 1870. _d._ 117 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 18 Jany. 1874.
ALLEN, ROBERT (_3 son of Samuel Allen of Rue St. Honoré, Paris_). An actor; a schoolmaster; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1835; went Oxford circuit; serjeant at law 3 July 1845, received patent of precedence. _d._ Bessborough st. London 17 Feb. 1854.
ALLEN, REV. SAMUEL JAMES. _b._ near Tower of London 16 June 1798; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school 1808–16 and Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; University preacher at Cam.; V. of Easingwold, Yorkshire 1838 to death; completed _Whitaker’s History of Richmondshire_ 1823 in which some of the chapters were entirely written by him; author of _Lectures in defence of the church of England_. _d._ Easingwold vicarage 29 April 1856.
ALLEN, WILLIAM. _b._ Weymouth Nov. 1792; entered navy 2 Oct. 1805; accompanied Richard Lander’s expedition up the river Niger 1832; returned to England April 1834 being one of the nine survivors; commanded steamer Wilberforce in expedition to Niger 1840–42; captain 31 Jany. 1842, retired R.A. 12 April 1862; F.R.G.S. 1835, F.R.S. 18 April 1844; author of _The narrative of expedition sent to river Niger_ 1848; _The Dead Sea, a new route to India_ 1855; exhibited landscape paintings at the R.A. 1828–47. _d._ Bank house, Weymouth 23 Jany. 1864.
ALLEN, WILLIAM FERNELEY (_son of Wm. Houghton Allen of London, publisher who d. 22 Jany. 1855 aged 67_). _b._ 31 Oct. 1816; a publisher in London 1855 to death; sheriff 1857–58; alderman for ward of Cheap 1858 to death, and Lord Mayor 1867–68. _d._ 13 Waterloo place, London 22 May 1877. _bur._ in family vault at Sevenoaks, Kent 26 May. _I.L.N. li_, 517 (1867), _portrait_.
ALLEN, WILLIAM HENRY. Solicitor in London 1826 to death; principal of Clifford’s Inn 13 May 1833 to death. _d._ 20 Oct. 1854 aged 71.
ALLEN, WILLIAM PHILIP. _b._ near town of Tipperary April 1848; a carpenter in Cork, Dublin and Chester; helped to rescue Colonel Kelly the Fenian from a prison van at Manchester 18 Sep. 1867; in the mêlée, a police sergeant named Brett was killed; executed at the old prison Manchester 23 Nov. 1867. _Speeches from the dock._ _Dublin_ 1868.
ALLEYNE, SIR REYNOLD ABEL, 2 Baronet. _b._ 10 June 1789; ed. at Eton; succeeded his father 1801; member of council in Barbados 30 years; col. of 2 regiment of militia there. _d._ Burton under Needwood 14 Feb. 1870.
ALLEYNE, SARAH FRANCES. _b._ Clifton 15 Oct. 1836; organised courses of lectures for women; member of council of Clifton high school for girls; sec. of Oxford local examination at Clifton; translated E. Zeller’s _Plato and the older Academy_ 1876 and M. Duncker’s _History of Greece_ 1883. _d._ London 16 Aug. 1884. _bur._ Redland Green churchyard 21 Aug.
ALLIES, JABEZ (_2 son of Wm. Allies of Alfrick in Lusley co. Worcester_). _b._ Alfrick 22 Oct. 1787; a solicitor in London; author of _The causes of planetary motion_ 1838; _The antiquities and folk lore of Worcestershire_ _2 ed._ 1852, the best work on local field names ever published. _d._ Tivoli house, Cheltenham 29 Jany. 1856.
ALLIOTT, REV. RICHARD (_son of Rev. Richard Alliott, pastor of congregational church in Castle Gate, Nottingham_). _b._ 1 Sep 1804; ed. at Homerton college and Glasgow univ.; LLD. 1840; assistant minister to his father 1828; co-pastor with him 1830–40; ordained Jany. 1830; pastor of same church 1840; of church in York road, Lambeth, London 1843–49; pres. of Western college, Plymouth 1849–57; pres. of Cheshunt college 1857; chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales 1858; professor of dogmatic and general theology and philosophy at Spring Hill college, Birmingham, Sep. 1860 to death; pastor of church at Acock’s Green near Birmingham 1860 to death; author of _Psychology and Theology_ 1854. _d._ Acock’s Green 20 Dec. 1863.
ALLMAN, THOMAS. Bookseller in Princes st. Hanover sq. 1817; at Holborn hill 1830–59, when he retired. _d._ 2 Clifton villas, Maida hill, London 3 Dec. 1870 aged 78.
ALLOCK, JON JUNIM. _b._ China; brought to England by Andrew Ducrow the equestrian about 1819; a great attraction at Astley’s, London as a Chinese juggler; travelled with Ducrow all over Europe and America; fell from a horse and broke his thigh about 1841; lived at Glasgow about 1845 to death. _d._ Glasgow 9 Aug. 1859 aged nearly 80.
ALLOM, THOMAS. _b._ London 13 March 1804; articled to Francis Goodwin, architect; furnished the drawings for many illustrated works published by Virtue & Co. and Heath and Co.; exhibited drawings at the R.A.; made for Sir Charles Barry the drawings of new Houses of Parliament which were presented to Nicholas Czar of Russia. _d._ 1 Lonsdale road, Barnes, Surrey 21 Oct. 1872.
ALLSOP, THOMAS. _b._ Stainsborough hall near Wirksworth, Derbyshire 10 April 1795; a stockbroker in London; the favourite disciple of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; great friend of Charles Lamb, Robert Owen and other eminent men; author of _Letters, conversations and recollections of S. T. Coleridge, 2 vols._ 1836; _California and its gold mines in 1852–3_. _d._ Exmouth, Devon 12 April 1880. _bur._ Woking cemetery 17 April. _Dictionary of national biography i_, 337–39 (1885).
ALMOND, EMMA (_dau. of Mr. Romer_). _b._ 1814; first appeared on stage at Covent Garden 16 Oct. 1830 as Donna Clara in _The Duenna_; the original Zerlina in Auber’s opera _Fra Diavolo_ at C.G. 3 Nov. 1831; original singer of title parts in Barnett’s _Mountain Sylph_ and _Fair Rosamond_; chief singer at English opera house; sang at Westminster Abbey festival 1834; sang at Drury Lane 1836; manager of the Surrey theatre 1852, where she brought out a series of operas in English. (_m._ 1836 George Almond of Bond st. hatter, he _d._ Nov. 1863). _d._ Clifton terrace, Margate 14 April 1868. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 21 April. _Actors by daylight ii_, 57 (1839), _portrait_.
ALSBURY, GEORGE. Stipendiary magistrate and pres. of island of Anguilla, Caribbee islands 26 Nov. 1863 to 28 Jany. 1868. _d._ St. Heliers, Jersey 10 Nov. 1879.
ALSTON, EDWARD GRAHAM. Ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1855; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1857; registrar general of Vancouver island Feb. 1861, of British Columbia 1 June 1870; attorney general of Sierra Leone 13 May 1871 to death, and Queen’s advocate July 1871 to death. _d._ Sierra Leone 12 Sep. 1872 in 40 year.
ALSTON, EDWARD RICHARD. _b._ Stockbriggs near Lesmahagow 1 Dec. 1845; zoological sec. of Linnæan society 1880 to death; contributed to the _Proceedings of Zoological society_ 1874–80; author of the division Mammalia in Salvin and Godman’s _Biologia Centrali-Americana_ 1879. _d._ 14 Maddox st. London 7 March 1881.
ALTHANS, JOHN (_son of Henry Althans the friend of popular education_). Connected with Religious tract society 47 years and trade manager the last 6 years. _d._ West lodge, White Hart lane, Tottenham 15 Dec. 1882 aged 66.
ALVANLEY, RICHARD PEPPER ARDEN, 3 Baron. _b._ the Rolls house, Chancery lane, 8 Dec. 1792; major 84 foot 26 Sep. 1822 to 30 Oct. 1823 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his brother 9 Nov. 1849. _d._ 12 Bruton st. London 24 June 1857.
NOTE.—His library was sold by Sotheby 15–20 Feb. 1858.
ALVES, JOHN. _b._ Elgin 1787; captain 74 foot 2 Nov. 1830 to 17 Aug. 1841 when placed on half pay; granted a service reward 27 Jany. 1854; M.G. 5 Dec. 1856; sergeant at arms to the Queen 1855 to death. _d._ 14 King st. St. James’s, London 18 Sep. 1860.
AMBROSE, GEORGE JAMES. Lieut. col. 3 Foot 31 Dec. 1857 to death; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ Brislington 19 July 1862 aged 38.
AMCOTTS, WESTON CRACROFT. _b._ 9 March 1815; ed. at Eton; sheriff of Lincolnshire 1861; M.P. for Mid-Lincolnshire (Lib.) 1868–74. _d._ Harrogate 14 July 1883.
AMESBURY, JOSEPH (_youngest child of Joseph Amesbury of Huntspill, Somerset who d. about 1802_). _b._ Huntspill 15 Oct. 1795; M.R.C.S. 4 Aug. 1820; a surgeon in London 1820–58; opened a private spinal establishment at 59 Burton crescent 1838; lived at 26 Fitzroy sq. 1847–58; invented apparatus for cure of stiff joints, spinal curvature, and other deformities for which he took out 3 patents; author of _Practical remarks on nature and treatment of fractures of the trunk and extremities_ 2 vols. 1831. _d._ 93 Lansdowne place, Brighton 27 March 1864.
AMEUNEY, ANTONIUS GEORGE (_son of Georgius Ameuney of Latakia_). _b._ Latakia 1821; went to England 1840; studied at King’s college; went with J. B. Thompson, M.D. on a mission to Damascus 1844; surveyed the Jordan and Dead Sea with captain Lynch of the U.S. navy 1848; worked for the London Arabic literary fund 1859; professor of Arabic at King’s college, London Jany. 1865 to death; author of _Notes from the life of a Syrian, with an appeal on behalf of 80,000,000 of the human family_ 1860. _d._ 87 Seymour st. London 16 Sep. 1881.