AMHERST, WILLIAM PITT AMHERST, 1 Earl of (_only son of Wm. Amherst 1732–81, governor of Newfoundland_). _b._ Bath 14 Jany. 1773; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1793, M.A. 1797; succeeded his uncle as 2 Baron Amherst 3 Aug. 1797; envoy to Naples 1809–11; P.C. 30 Dec. 1815; ambassador extraordinary to China 8 Feb. 1816 to 30 July 1817; visited Napoleon at St. Helena 1817; governor general of India 23 Oct. 1822 to 10 March 1828; declared war against Burmah 24 Feb. 1824; created Viscount Holmesdale and Earl Amherst of Arracan in the East Indies 19 Dec. 1826; appointed governor general of Canada but never took office; granted a pension of £3,000 a year; G.C.H. 1834. _d._ Knole house near Sevenoaks 13 March 1857. _bur._ in Sevenoaks church. _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery vol. 1_ (1830), _portrait_; _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 337–41; _Ellis’s Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China_ 1817; _Mill’s History of British India, by H. H. Wilson, vol. iii_, 1848.
AMHERST, RIGHT REV. FRANCIS KERRIL (_eld. son of Wm. Kerril Amherst of Parndon, Essex, by Mary Louisa youngest dau. of Francis Fortescue Turvile of Bosworth hall co. Leicester_). _b._ London 21 March 1819; ed. at Oscott; ordained priest by bishop Wiseman 6 June 1846; professor at Oscott, Nov. 1855 to Oct. 1856; served the mission of Stafford, Oct. 1856 to May 1858; bishop of Northampton 14 May 1858 to 1879; consecrated 4 July 1858; assistant at pontifical throne 8 June 1862; preconised to titular see of Sozusa 1880; author of _Lenten thoughts_ 1873, _4 ed._ 1880. _d._ Fieldgate house, Kenilworth 21 Aug. 1883. _bur._ R.C. cathedral, Northampton 28 Aug.
AMHERST, G. A. _b._ London 1776; first appeared on the stage 14 July 1817 in _The blue devils_ at Haymarket theatre; visited United states as director of Cooke’s Equestrian company 1838; made his début in Philadelphia as the Castillian in _Mazeppa_ 2 April 1838; author of many plays. _d._ in the Philadelphia Almshouse 12 Aug. 1851.
AMOS, ANDREW (_son of James Amos of Devonshire sq. London, Russian merchant_). _b._ India 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; 5 wrangler 1813, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; fellow of his college 1815–23; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1818; went Midland circuit 1818–37; professor of English law in Univ. of London 1829–37; recorder of Banbury, Nottingham and Oxford; member of first criminal law commission 1834–43; 4th ordinary member of supreme council of India 11 Oct. 1837 to 15 Feb. 1843; judge of county courts for Brentford, Brompton and Marylebone, circuit 44, March 1847 to Sep. 1852; Downing professor of laws of England in Univ. of Cam. 1848 to death; author of _A treatise on the law of fixtures_ 1827, _3 ed._ 1883; _The English constitution in the reign of Charles ii_, 1857; _Martial and the Moderns_ 1858. (_m._ 1 Aug. 1826 Margaret eld. dau. of Rev. Wm. Lax Lowndes professor of astronomy at Cambridge, she _d._ 13 April 1882). _d._ Downing college, Cambridge 18 April 1860. _Law Times_ xxxv, 117–18 (1860).
NOTE.—There is a marble bust of him in University college, London.
AMOS, CHARLES EDWARDS. _b._ March, Cambs. 27 Nov. 1805; a millwright at Wandsworth, Surrey 1835–66; patented several inventions in manufacture of paper; invented dynamometer brought out and designed for Atlantic cable 1857; M.I.C.E. 22 May 1855. _d._ Cedars road, Clapham common 12 Aug. 1882. _Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. lxxi_, 387–95 (1883).
AMOTT, JOHN. Organist at Gloucester cathedral 1832 to death. _d._ College Green, Gloucester 3 Feb. 1865 in 67 year.
AMPHLETT, SIR RICHARD PAUL (_eld. son of Rev. Richard Holmden Amphlett, R. of Hadsor, Worcs., who d. 8 March 1842 in 60 year_). _b._ Salop 24 May 1809; ed. at Brewood gr. sch. and St. Peter’s coll. Cam.; 6 wrangler 1831, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of his college 1832–40; hon. fellow 6 Nov. 1882; student of L.I. 5 Feb. 1831, barrister 6 June 1834, bencher, Jany. 1858; Q.C. Jany. 1858; M.P. for East Worcester (Conserv.) 24 Nov. 1868 to Jany. 1874; pres. of Legal education association, Oct. 1872; serjeant at law, and baron of Court of Exchequer 24 Jany. 1874; knighted by the Queen at Osborne 27 Jany. 1874; judge of court of appeal 27 Oct. 1876 to Nov. 1877; P.C. 28 Nov. 1876; struck with paralysis 3 April 1877. _d._ 32 Wimpole st. London 7 Dec. 1883. _bur._ at Hadsor 13 Dec. _I.L.N. lxiv_, 120, 129 (1874) _portrait_.
NOTE.—His was the first instance of nomination of an equity practitioner to a common law judgeship since the appointment of Sir Robert Rolfe in Nov. 1839.
AMPTHILL, ODO WILLIAM LEOPOLD RUSSELL, 1 Baron (_youngest son of Lord George Wm. Russell, G.C.B._) _b._ Florence 20 Feb. 1829; ed. at Westminster; attaché at Vienna 15 March 1849; employed on special service at Rome, Nov. 1860 to 9 Aug. 1870; ambassador extraord. and plenipo. at Berlin 16 Oct. 1871 to death; P.C. 5 Feb. 1872, G.C.B. 21 Feb. 1874, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1879; created Baron Ampthill of Ampthill, Beds. 7 March 1881. _d._ Potsdam 25 Aug. 1884. _bur._ in family vault in parish church of St. Michael, Chenies, Bucks 3 Sep. _I.L.N. lxxxv_, 220 (1884) _portrait_.
AMSINCK, HENRY. _b._ 1798; served in navy 1811–44; retired commander 22 March 1876; sec. to the Railway commission 1844; went to Melbourne 1853; M.P. for West Bourke. _d._ Hawthorne, Victoria 17 Dec 1878.
ANCELL, HENRY (_son of Mr. Ancell of Carshalton, Surrey, cotton miller_). _b._ Croydon 23 Jany. 1802; walked through the United States 1823–25; L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1831; surgeon to Metropolitan police; lectured at Lane’s school next St. George’s hospital 1837; sec. to National association of general practitioners 1845–47; author of _A treatise on Tuberculosis_ 1852; _Lectures on the blood and Commentaries on Liebig_. _d._ 3 Norfolk crescent Hyde Park 19 Nov. 1863.
ANDERDON, JAMES HUGHES. _b._ 1790; collected many pictures of British School; bought Hogarth’s Sigismunda for £56 (which he bequeathed to National Gallery), and his _portrait_ of Sarah Malcolm the murderess. _d._ 23 Upper Grosvenor st. London 24 Jany. 1879.
ANDERDON, JOHN LAVICOUNT (_3 son of John Proctor Anderdon_). _b._ Bristol 5 April 1792; ed. at Ealing and Harrow; a West India merchant in London 1816–54; contested Penryn 1818; author of _The river Dove_ 1847; _The life of bishop Ken, by a Layman 2 vols._ 1851; _The Messiah_ 1861. (_m._ 4 March 1816 Anna Maria 2 dau. of Wm. Manning, M.P., she _d._ 1 May 1880 in 84 year). _d._ Brighton 8 March 1874. _Geron, the old man in search of paradise, by J. L. Anderdon with a biographical notice, by Rev. G. Williams_ 1877.
ANDERDON, THOMAS OLIVER. Barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1822; equity draftsman; Q.C. 1841; bencher of his inn 1841. _d._ Horsendon house Bucks 31 July 1856 aged 70.
ANDERSON, ADAM, Lord Anderson (_2 son of Samuel Anderson of Moredun, co. Edinburgh_). _b._ Edin. 1797; ed. at Univ. of Edin; advocate 1818; solicitor general Nov. 1834 to April 1835; sheriff of Perthshire 1835–1842; solicitor general for Scotland 8 Nov. 1842 to 1846; Dean of Faculty of Advocates 28 Feb. 1852; Advocate for Scotland 28 Feb. 1852; one of Lords of Session and of Justiciary 18 May 1852 to death. _d._ 55 Upper Brook st. London 28 Sep. 1853. _bur._ under St. John’s episcopal chapel Edin. _B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 112, _portrait_.
ANDERSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ near Stirling 1762; assistant surgeon R.N. 1784; served in North America and West Indies; surgeon 15 Oct. 1790; retired on h.p. 1803; practised at Knightsbridge, London 1803–35; the last medical officer who belonged to Lord Nelson’s fleet. _d._ Clarence terrace, New Hampton, Middlesex 6 Sep. 1859.
ANDERSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ 7 May 1807; 2 Lieut. R.M. 13 May 1823; col. commandant 21 Nov. 1859 to death; general 1 April 1870; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ St. Alban’s place, St. James’s London 21 Nov. 1877.
ANDERSON, REV. ALEXANDER. _b._ Peterhead 1808; ed. at St. Andrew’s; founder and head of Chanonry house school (the Gymnasium) Old Aberdeen. _d._ Aboyne 25 Oct. 1884.
ANDERSON, ALEXANDER DUNLOP (_son of Andrew Anderson of Greenock, merchant_). _b._ Greenock 1794; M.R.C.S. 1816, M.D. Edin. 1819; asst. surgeon 49 foot 22 June 1815 to 25 Dec. 1818, when placed on half pay; practised in Glasgow; surgeon to royal infirmary 1822 and phys. 1837; pres. of faculty of phys. and surgeons 1852–55; pres. of Med. Chir. society of Glasgow. _d._ 159 St. Vincent st. Glasgow 13 May 1871.
ANDERSON, ALFRED. Celebrated Australian pianist. _m._ at Sydney 29 Dec. 1875 Ilma de Murska, the “Hungarian nightingale.” _d._ Melbourne 22 March 1876 aged 28.