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BACON, SIR HENRY HICKMAN, 10 and 11 Baronet. _b._ Blundeston near Lowestoft 5 April 1820; succeeded 30 May 1864; sheriff of Lincoln 1867. _d._ Thonock hall, Gainsborough 14 Nov. 1872.

BACON, JOHN (_2 son of John Bacon, R.A. sculptor 1740–99_). _b._ Newman st. Oxford st. London March 1777; completed his father’s works; exhibited 64 sculptures at the R.A. 1792–1824; executed statue of Wm. iii in St. James’s sq. 1808; 6 monuments in St. Paul’s and 11 monuments in Westminster Abbey. _d._ Bathwick hill near Bath 14 July 1859.

BACON, REV. ROBERT. ed. at Univ. of Glasgow LLD. 1800, and Em. coll. Cam. LL.B. 1806; C. of Hunstanton 1802–42; C. of Sedgeford 1809–32; P.C. of Fring, Norfolk 16 Feb. 1809 to death; R. of Wolverton, Norfolk 1836 to death; author of _Poems_, 1790; _Treatise on Baptism_ 1827; _Theological essays_ 1829. _d._ 1861.

BACOT, JOHN. _b._ 29 May 1781; M.R.C.S. 1801, F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon Grenadier Guards 1803–20; practised in London 1820; edited with Roderick Mc Cleod _Medical and Physical journal_; chairman of Court of examiners of Society of Apothecaries 1832–38, master of the company 1845–46; member of General board of Health 1854; author of _Observations on the use and abuse of friction_ 1822 and _A treatise on Syphilis_ 1829. _d._ 4 Portugal st. Park lane 4 Sep. 1870. _Medical Circular i_, 130 (1852).

BADDELEY, JOHN. _b._ at sea in Bay of Bengal 22 Jany. 1846; taken to England 1851; ed. at Bonn and Univ. of Edin.; M.B. 1867; founded Athletic club of Univ. of Edin. May 1867, pres. 1867–68; fellow of Botanical society of Edin. 14 Dec. 1865; member of Royal Medical Society 23 Nov. 1866. _d._ Royal Infirmary Edin. 29 Feb. 1868. _Transactions of Botanical Society ix_, 304–12 (1868).

BADDELEY, WILLIAM. Civil engineer; made many improvements in manual fire engines 1820–62; invented portable cistern used by London Fire Brigade. _d._ March 1867 aged 61.

BADELEY, EDWARD LOWTH (_son of John Badeley M.D. of Leighs hall, near Chelmsford 1742–1831_). _b._ 1803; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1841; counsel for Bishop of Exeter in Gorham case before judicial committee of P.C. 17–18 Dec. 1849; joined Church of Rome 1850; author of _The privilege of religious confessions in English courts of justice_ 1865. _d._ 29 March 1868. _Memoir of J. R. Hope Scott 2 vols._ 1884.

BADELEY, JOHN CARR (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1794; ed. at the Charterhouse and Caius coll. Cam.; M.B. 1817, M.D. 1822; F.R.C.P.; phys. to Asylum for health Lisson Grove, London; phys. to Chelmsford dispensary 20 years; inspecting phys. to lunatic asylums of Essex; Harveian orator 1849; poisoned himself accidentally at Guy Harlings, Chelmsford 22 Sep. 1851.

BADEN, MAUDIT OR MARDIT. _b._ Pewsey, Wilts Feb. 1763 or 1773. _d._ Oare, parish of Wilcot, Wilts 11 May 1869. _Human longevity by W. J. Thoms_ (1873) 129–31.

BADGER-EASTWOOD, Thomas Smith (_eld son of Thomas Badger of Rotherham, solicitor 1793–1862_). _b._ 1823; ed. at Doncaster gr. sch. and Trin. hall Cam., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1847; reader on real property law to 4 Inns of Court 1856 to death; assumed surname of Eastwood 1863; edited _Concise forms of wills by W. Hayes and T. Jarman 5 ed._ 1860. _d._ 28 Gloucester place, Hyde park gardens 30 May 1866.

BADGLEY, FRANCIS. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1827, M.D. Edin. 1829, L.S.A. 1830; M.R.C.P. London 1860; a phys. at Kensington 1829–42, at Montreal 1842–59 and at Malvern 1860 to death; fellow of Royal medical and chirurgical society 1838; M.D. Univ. of Toronto 1851; professor of medical jurisprudence in Mc Gill college; professor of medicine in medical school of Montreal; professor of medicine in Univ. of Toronto 1851; founded _Montreal Medical Gazette_ 1844, edited it 1844–45. _d._ Holyrood house, Great Malvern 24 Dec. 1863 aged 56.

BADGLEY, W. _b._ Montreal 1801; called to Canadian bar 1823; sec. of Constitutional Association of Montreal district 1836–38; one of three delegates of this Association to England 1837–38; comr. of bankrupts for district of Montreal 1840 to April 1847; circuit judge July 1844 to April 1847; attorney general for Lower Canada April 1847; member of the provincial parliament May 1847 to 1855; puisne judge Lower Canada Jany. 1855 to 1876; Grand master of Freemasons for Montreal. _d._ 1876. _H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians_ (1862) 492–97.

BADHAM, REV. CHARLES. ed. at Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1846; V. of All Saints Sudbury, Suffolk 1847 to death; author of _Selections from Robert Hall_ 1840; _Aids to devotion_ 1843; _History of All Saints, Sudbury_ 1852. _d._ All Saints vicarage, Sudbury 15 April 1874.

BADHAM, REV. CHARLES (_son of Charles Badham 1780–1845, Regius professor of physics in Univ. of Glasgow_). _b._ Ludlow 18 July 1813; ed. by Jean Henri Pestalozzi; at Eton 1826; scholar of Wadham coll. Ox. 1830, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1839; studied in Germany and Italy 7 years; incorporated M.A. at Cam. as member of St. Peter’s college 1847, D.D. Cam. 1852; headmaster of Birmingham proprietary school 1854–67; professor of classics and logic in Univ. of Sydney 1867 to death; one of greatest scholars of his time; author of _Criticism applied to Shakespeare_ 1846; published editions with notes of the _Ion of Euripides_ 1851, 1853 and 1861; and of the _Philebus of Plato_ 1855 and 1878. _d._ Sydney 26 Feb. 1884. _Saturday Review lvii_, 540 (1884).

BADHAM, REV. CHARLES DAVID (_brother of preceding_). _b._ London 1806; ed. at Eton and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; incorporated B.A. at Ox. as mem. of Pemb. coll. 1829, M.A. 1829, M.B. 1830, M.D. 1833; travelling fellow of Univ. of Ox. 1829; M.R.C.P., F.R.C.P.; practised at Rome and Paris long time; returned to England 1845; ordained deacon at Norwich by Bishop Stanley; C. of East Bergholt, Suffolk 1849–55; author of _Insect life_ 1845; _The esculent funguses of England_ 1847; _Prose Halieutics or ancient and modern fish tattle_ 1854; contributed much to _Blackwood_ and _Fraser_. _d._ East Bergholt 14 July 1857 in 52 year. _Fraser’s Mag. lvi_, 162–63 (1857).

BAGEHOT, WALTER (_only son of Thomas Watson Bagehot of Herds Bill Langport, Somerset 1796–1881_). _b._ Langport 3 Feb. 1826; ed. at Bristol and Univ. coll. London, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1848, mathematical scholar 1846, gold medallist 1848; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1852; edited the _National Review_ with R. H. Hutton July 1855 to Nov. 1864; edited the _Economist_ 1860 to death; examiner in political economy in Univ. of London; author of _Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen_ 1858; _The English constitution_ 1867; _Physics and Politics_ 1872. (_m._ 21 April 1858 Eliza eld. dau. of James Wilson, M.P.) _d._ Herds Hill 24 March 1877. _Literary studies by the late W. Bagehot, edited by R. H. Hutton, 3 ed. i, ix-lxvii_ (1884), _portrait_; _Dictionary of Nat. Biog. ii_, 393–96 (1885).

BAGG, WILLIAM. Surgical artist; illustrated many medical books. _d._ 20 Dec. 1869 in his 66 year.

BAGGE, REV. HENRY THEODORE JAMES (_only son of the succeeding_). _b._ 28 Feb. 1824; ed. at Rugby and Downing coll. Cam., B.A. 1851; C. of Weyhill, Hants 1851–54; author of _Toleratio intolerabilis or the free development of the Romish system_ 1851; _St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians, the text revised and illustrated_ 1856. _d._ Munich 19 Nov. 1861.

BAGGE, REV. JAMES. ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; R. of Crux-Easton near Newbury 1843 to death; author of _Twelve sermons_ 1835; _The Gawthorne correspondence and the Rev. W. B. Barter_ 1852, and other Sermons and Pamphlets. _d._ 1877.

BAGGE, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Thomas Philip Bagge of Stradsett hall, Norfolk 1771–1827_). _b._ Stradsett hall 17 June 1810; ed. at the Charterhouse and Ball. coll. Ox.; M.P. for West Norfolk 1837–57 and 1865 to death; created baronet 13 April 1867. _d._ Stradsett hall 12 Feb. 1880.

BAGGE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY ERNEST, 2 Baronet. _b._ Stradsett hall 9 Aug. 1840. _d._ Heatherside, Woking 23 Oct. 1881.

BAGLEY, JAMES. _b._ Ireland 1822; went to the U.S.; commanded 69th Regiment 1862–66; alderman of New York; Sachem of the Tammany society to death. _d._ New York 21 Dec. 1876.

BAGLEY, JOHN WOODHOUSE. Made many important improvements in the bobbin net machine for which he took out patents 1844, 1850 and 1851; his productions were shewn in the London exhibition of 1851 and the Paris exhibition of 1855. _d._ 1859 aged about 50. _W. Felkin’s History of hosiery_ (1867) 371–75.

BAGNALL, CHARLES. _b._ West Bromwich, Staffs. 1827; an ironmaster; M.P. for Whitby 1865–68. _d._ Brighton 25 Feb. 1884.

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