BALLANTINE, JAMES. _b._ The West Port, Edinburgh 11 June 1808; a house painter at Edin. 1830; one of the first to revive the art of glass painting; executed the 12 stained glass windows in the House of Lords, Westminster, representing kings and queens both regnant and consort of the U.K.; sec. of committee of Burns centenary 1859; grand bard of Scottish Grand lodge of Freemasons about 1862 to death; contributed about 50 songs to _Whistle-Binkie or the piper of the party_ 1832; author of _The Gaberlunzie’s wallet_ 1843; _A treatise on painted glass_ 1845; _Poems_ 1856; _Chronicle of the hundredth birthday of Robert Burns_ 1859, which contains reports of 872 Burns’ centenary meetings held all over the world 25 Jany. 1859; _The Provost’s daughter_, a musical farce in 2 acts performed at T.R. Edin. 1855; _The Gaberlunzie_, a drama in 3 acts 1858. _d._ Warrender lodge, Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1877. _Whistle-Binkie ii, xiv-xxvii_ (1878); _History of the lodge of Edinburgh by D. M. Lyons_ (1873) 50, 363, _portrait_.
BALLANTINE, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 5 Feb. 1813; magistrate at Thames police court 1821–48. _d._ 89 Cadogan place, Chelsea 14 Dec. 1852 in 74 year. _I.L.N. ix_, 317 (1846), _portrait_.
BALLANTYNE, JAMES ROBERT. _b._ Kelso 13 Dec. 1813; ed. at Edinburgh new academy and college; teacher of Hindi and Sanskrit at Naval and military academy Edin. 1839; principal of College of Benares 1845–61; librarian of India office library Cannon row, Westminster 1861 to death; author of _Lectures on the sub-divisions of knowledge, Sanskrit and English_ 1848; _The Mahabhashya or great commentary on the aphorisms of Panini_ 1856; _Christianity contrasted with Hindu philosophy_ 1859 and 14 other works. _d._ 16 Feb. 1864. _Journal of Royal Asiatic Society i, v-vii_ (1865).
BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL. _b._ Edinburgh 24 April 1825; in the Hudson Bay Company’s service 1841–47; author of _Hudson’s Bay or every day life in the wilds of North America_ 1848, 3 ed. 1859; _Coral island, a tale of the Pacific ocean_ 1857; _Deep down, a tale of the Cornish mines_ 1868, and many other tales. _d._ 1871.
BALLANTYNE, THOMAS. _b._ Paisley 1806, a weaver there; edited _Bolton Free Press_; edited _Manchester Guardian_; printer, publisher and one of the 4 original proprietors of _Manchester Examiner_; editor of _Liverpool Journal_ and _Liverpool Mercury_; edited the _Leader_ in London; started the _Statesman_, edited it till its close; edited _St. James’s Chronicle_; author of _Passages selected from writings of T. Carlyle_ 1855; _Essays in mosaic_ 1870. _d._ Tufnell park, Holloway 30 Aug. 1871.
BALLARD, EDWARD GEORGE (_only child of Edward Bollard, alderman of Salisbury who d. 6 March 1827_). _b._ Salisbury 29 April 1791; clerk in the Stamp and Excise offices London 1809–17; wrote most of the poetry and critiques for the _Weekly Review_; author of _A new series of original poems_ [_anon._] 1825; _Microscopic amusements_ 1829; wrote part of a continuation of _Strype’s Ecclesiastical annals_ in _The Surplice_ weekly paper 1848. _d._ Compton terrace, Islington 14 Feb. 1860.
BALLARD, JOHN ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1829; 2 lieut. Bombay Engineers 8 Dec. 1848 and lieut. col. 10 Nov. 1869 to 31 Dec. 1878; lieut. col. Turkish army 1854; served in campaigns on the Danube 1854–55, in Crimea 1855, and in Mingrelia 1855–56; assistant quartermaster general of Persian expeditionary force 1856–57, and of Rajpootana field force and Malwa division in Indian mutiny 1858–59; C.B. 10 May 1856; mint master Bombay 1862–78; general 31 Dec. 1878. _d._ Pass of Thermopylæ near Livadia Greece 1 April 1880.
BALLARD, THOMAS. _b._ Mayfair London; studied at St. George’s hospital; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. society 1849; author of _New and rational explanation of the diseases peculiar to infants and mothers_ 1860; _On the convulsive diseases of infants_ 1863; _An enquiry into constitutional syphilis in the infant_ 1874. _d._ 10 Southwick place, Hyde park 11 Sep. 1874 aged 56.
BALLINGALL, DAVID JAMES. Midshipman R.N.; served at Copenhagen 1801; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 July 1803; col. commandant 19 Nov. 1851 to 10 Jany. 1852 when he retired on full pay. _d._ Southsea 31 March 1854.
BALLINGALL, SIR GEORGE (_son of Rev. Robert Ballingall, minister of Forglen, Banffshire_). _b._ in the manse of Forglen 2 May 1780; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1803, M.R.C.S. Edin. 15 Aug. 1820; assistant surgeon 1 foot 10 July 1806; surgeon of 33 foot 1815–18 when placed on h.p., retired 1831; professor of military surgery in Univ. of Edin. 18 Jany. 1823 to death; knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830; F.R.S.; author of _Introductory lectures to a course of military surgery_ 1830; _Outlines of military surgery, 5 ed._ 1855. _d._ Altamont near Blairgowrie 4 Dec. 1855.
BALNEAVIS, HENRY. Ensign 16 foot 3 Jany. 1797; captain 27 foot 1805–24 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel 65 foot 18 Jany. 1855 to death; C.M.G. 17 July 1833; K.H. 1836. _d._ Malta 17 July 1857 aged 77.
BALVAIRD, WILLIAM. Major Rifle brigade 1814–18; major 99 foot 1824–26, retired from the army 27 Aug. 1841; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. _d._ Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1853.
BALY, WILLIAM. _b._ Lynn, Norfolk 1814; L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1834; studied in Paris, Heidelberg and Berlin; M.D. Berlin 1836; practised in London 1836; L.R.C.P. 1841, F.R.C.P. 1846, a censor 1858; phys. to Milbank penitentiary 1841–60; lecturer on forensic medicine at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841–54, assistant phys. there 1854 and lecturer on medicine 1855; Gulstonian lecturer Feb. 1847; F.R.S. 15 April 1847; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 18 April 1859; member of general council of medical education and registration 1 Aug. 1860 to death; author with W. S. Kirke of _Advances in physiology of motion_ 1848, and with W. G. Gull of _Reports on epidemic cholera_ 1854; killed in the train on the South Western railway about 7 miles from London at the junction with the Epsom line 28 Jany. 1861. _Medical Critic ii_, 334–40 (1861); _I.L.N. xxxviii_, 111, 122 (1861), _portrait_.
BAMFORD, SAMUEL. _b._ Middleton 28 Feb. 1788; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; a handloom weaver at Middleton; secretary to the Hampden club at Middleton 1816; examined before Privy Council on a charge of high treason April 1817 when set free with a warning; took part in reform meeting at Peterloo 16 Aug. 1819, tried at York assizes March 1820 when found guilty of a seditious misdemeanour, sentenced in Court of King’s Bench, London 15 May 1820 to 1 year’s imprisonment in Lincoln gaol; employed in Inland Revenue Office London 1849–58; author of _Miscellaneous poetry_ 1821; _Passages in the life of a Radical 2 vols._ 1840–44; _Early days_ 1849 _2 ed._ 1859; _Walks in South Lancashire 2 vols._; _Talk o Seawth Lankeshur by Samhul Beamfort_ 1850, in this volume he professes to correct the dialect in Tim Bobbin; _Life of Amos Ogden of Middleton_ 1853. _d._ Moston, Harpurhey near Manchester 13 April 1872; monument in Middleton cemetery, unveiled 6 Oct. 1877. _F. Espinasse’s Lancashire Worthies 2 series_ 1877, _pp._ 462–91; _Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester_ (1881) 220–25.
BAMFORD, WILLIAM. Surgeon at Rugely Staffs 1803 to death; one of principal witnesses at trial of Wm. Palmer the poisoner 1856. _d._ Rugely 17 April 1859 in 84 year.
BAMPTON, AUGUSTUS HAMILTON. _b._ London 13 March 1823; civil engineer at Plymouth 1844; chief surveyor to the corporation 1849–54; engineer to South Devon and Tavistock railway 1852 to death; M.I.C.E. 1849; author of _The drainage of towns_ 1849. _d._ North hill Devon 4 March 1857. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvii_, 92–94 (1858).
BANCALARI, PETER. _b._ 1806; a noted cricket, umpire at Oxford many years. _d._ Oxford 31 Oct. 1869.
BANDINEL, REV. BULKELEY (_eld. son of Rev. James Bandinel V. of Netherbury Dorset who d. 25 Nov. 1804 aged 92_). _b._ Oxford 21 Feb. 1781; ed. at Reading and Winchester; scholar of New college Ox. 1800, fellow, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1823; chaplain in the Victory 1808; under librarian Bodleian library Ox. 1810, librarian 25 Aug. 1813 to Sep. 1860; published Catalogue of the printed books _4 vols._ 1843–50; proctor Univ. of Ox. 1814; R. of Haughton-le-Skerne, Durham 1823–60; author of _Catalogue of books relating to British topography and Saxon and Norman literature bequeathed to the Bodleian library by Richard Gough_ 1814; author with John Caley and Henry Ellis of new editions of _Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum_ 1817–30 crown folio 6 vols. in 8, and 1846, folio, _8 vols;_ edited _Clarendon’s History of the rebellion_ 1826. _d._ Oxford 6 Feb. 1861.