Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 4), I-Q·by Frederic Boase

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Babil and Bijou, a spectacle 555, 1393.
Baking, bakers’ ovens, method of heating 1466,
hot water ovens 1112,
Nevill’s household bread 1112.
Ballet master, Milano 870.
Balloons, See also Aeronautics,
Nassau 784,
Saladin 1610,
Star balloon 30,
Wanderer which burst in the air and lieut. Mansfield was killed 726.
Bangor, training college established 1287.
Bankers, Jersey 90,
Kennard 194,
Kinnaird 240,
Lloyd 457,
Loyd 518,
Lubbock 520,
Majoribanks 737,
Marshall 756,
Martin 767,
Martin 770,
Miles 872,
Mills 889,
Overstone 1281,
Paul 1394,
Praed 1618,
Prescott 1627–8,
Smith 1404,
Whitehead 85.
Banking, engraving of bank notes 1466,
sir John Dean Paul’s fraudulent dealings 1394.
Bank of England, cashiers 760, 884,
governor 539,
liable to pay interest on bankruptcy deposits 928,
one pound notes abolished 716,
run on 1552.
Banks, bank of deposit founded 988,
bank of London founded 335, 1017,
city of Glasgow, liquidation of 609,
Clydesdale founded 529,
consolidated takes in Heywood and co. 194,
Huddersfield banking co. 336,
London and county, general manager 518,
London and eastern wound up 985,
national bank of Scotland founded 1580,
national security savings’ bank organized 702,
royal British opening and failure 200, 608.
Bankruptcy, dividend of three pence in the pound 325,
local courts established 1318,
messengers of the courts 118,
official assignee dismissed 632.
Bankrupts, duke of Newcastle 1117,
viscount Mandeville 716.
Banting, claims to inventions of system 943.
Barbers, literary 1654.
Barber, Benjamin, lessee of Alexandra palace 146.
Barefoot clerks of the sacred passion 1309.
Barnett, George, fires at Miss Kelly in Covent Garden theatre 182.
Barnsley, Yorkshire, Locke park 467,
Oaks pit colliery accident 67.
Barometers, barometers and thermometers, patents for 1094,
variations recorded by photography 148.
Baronetage, title declined 1408,
title assumed by Palmer 1324.
Barret, Joseph Morton, attorney, Leeds, libel on 760.
Barrister making £20,000 a year 95.
Barrow, Isaac, d. 1677, D.D., spurious writing attributed to 352.
Barry, Sir Charles, d. 1860, architect, and the houses of parliament 1664.
Barrymore, Henry Barry, d. 1824, eighth earl, his tiger the first who had that name 351.
Barttlot, Walter, African explorer 56.
Bascule bridges 1637.
Bassoon player, Leffler 367.
Bath, Prior park a Roman catholic college 1302,
school for daughters of officers 231.
Bath, Order of, G.C.B. first time given to any one in Indian civil service below a governor 79,
first coloured man made a C.B. 149.
Bathing, bathers all the year round 245,
shampooing baths 694.
Battle, Sussex, the deanery, a peculiar 448.
Bauer, Karoline, d. 188, actress, mistress of prince Leopold 392.
Bavaria, King Ludwig and Lola Montez 479.
Bayford, Augustus Frederick, LL.D., advocate in college of doctors of law, speaks in the spirit in Chelsea church 1286.
Bazaars, travelling 97.
Beards, first M.P. wearing a beard 1032.
Beauties, Jersey 90,
Prothero 1658,
Wyndham 1304.
Beavers, recent and fossil 463.
Bebington, Cheshire, Mayer’s Free library and garden 813.
Beethoven, Ludvig von, d. 1827, his concertos in C minor and G introduced into England 1601.
Belfast, botanic gardens founded 557,
natural history soc. founded 557.
Bell ringer, Lambert 285.
Belgium, Leopold king of the Belgians 391, 392.
Bender, Charles, actor 1144.
Benzol extracted from coal tar 726.
Bethell, Sir Richard, 1 baron Westbury, d. 1873, assaulted by C. Neate 1092.
Betting men, Cooke 1323,
Jackson 33.
Bewick, Thomas, d. 1828, wood engraver, collection of his works 156.
Beys, Jackson Bey, i.e. Henry James Jackson 32.
Bible classes first established 218.
Bible, New Testament revisers 195, 360, 429, 887.
Bible, Old Testament revisers 66, 163, 1407, 1562.
Bibliotheca classica, twenty seven volumes 485.
Bicycle riders, Keith-Falconer 176.
Billiard players, Lloyd 459,
Marden 733,
Owen 1289,
Phelan 1489.
Binding, books bound in red cloth 1524.
Binny, John, author 816.
Biographical dictionary of Soc. for diffusion of useful knowledge 484.
Birds, collections of 1429,
Kid’s aviary 217.
Birkenhead, founders of 40.
Birmingham, books and maps relating to 710,
first cooperation society 1334,
first registrar of civil marriages 1334,
Mason scientific college opened 783,
musical festival planned 951,
oratory of St. Peter Neri established 1124,
queen’s college established 1347,
president 117,
and warden 323,
Shoeblack brigade formed 270,
Spring hill college now Mansfield college Oxford 51,
town hall opened 951,
town incorporated 1032,
Victoria law courts 777.
Birth, death on anniversary of birth 457.
Biscuit manufacturers, Palmer 1325,
Peek 1432.
Black-eyed Susan, a drama, had a long run 88, 1237.
Blacking manufacturers 392.
Blacksmiths learned 58, 99.
Blandford act, for subdivision of parishes 740.
Blindness, caused by grief 254,
blind lecturer 714,
blind musician 332,
blind poet 312,
blind postmaster general 1027,
machine to assist the blind in writing 714.
Blue ribbon movement, the first wearer of the ribbon 1325.
Board of control, president Lyveden 555.
Board of health, presidents Cowper 1009,
Hall 455.
Board of trade, president Northcote 3, 1175.
Board of works, president Lennox 389.
Boating, health of the university crews 966.
Bogle, Allan v. John Joseph Lawson, publisher of The Times 247, 334.
Bonaparte family, See also Napoleon,
art collection concerning 813.
Bonaparte, Louis Lucien, Prince, d. 1891, linguist, his Welsh tutor 141,
publishes Song of Solomon in various dialects 1669.
Bonaparte, Lucien, d. 1840, prince of Canino, a prisoner of war 625.
Bonaparte, Napoleon E. L. J. J., killed 1879, prince imperial, poem on death of 109.
Bone caves 1448.
Bonomi, Joseph, d. 1878, curator of Soane museum, assisted by Isabella Martin 769.
Book binders, Leighton 378.
Book binding, backing and trimming machine invented 379,
binders’ mistakes 520,
cloth binding invented 378,
printing on edges of books invented 379,
steam machinery used 379.
Books, written with blood 125,
first R.C. bookseller in Paternoster row 143.
Booksellers, Arch 417,
Baldwin 217,
Dulau 370,
Jack 27,
Kelly 180,
Kerslake 212,
Kidd 217,
Laing 277,
Leigh 375,
Lepard 392,
Lewis 417,
Lilly 431,
Mac Donald 582,
Maclehose 653,
Macmillan 663,
Martin 769,
Maynard 817,
Maxwell 810,
Menzies 845,
Merridew 851,
Metcalfe 857,
Miller 879,
Molini 917,
Mowbray 1011,
Newman 1123,
Nicholls 1136,
Nimmo 1152,
Nisbet 1152,
Nutt 1189,
Oates 1195,
Offor 1216,
Oliphant 1235,
Orme 1256,
Parke 1340,
Petherham 1478,
Poole 1584,
Priestly 1643,
Quaritch 212,
Rodwell 769.
Botanists, Ibbotson 2,
Jones 135,
Jorden 148,
Kelaart 177,
Kurz 268,
Loudon 500,
Miers 869,
Munby 1025,
Nowell 1185,
Nuttall 1190,
Pratt 1620.
Botany, herbariums 384,
victoria regia in flower 1401.
Botlasitsie, a Ratlapin chief 305.
Boulanger, George Ernest Jean Marie, d. 1891, general, a pretender to the French throne, in London 1336.
Bournemouth, Hants, sanatorium originated 699.
Bowdich, Thomas Edward, d. 1824, naturalist 359.
Bowling alley 219.
Boxing, teacher of 31.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, b. 1837, Aurora Floyd and Lady Audley’s secret dramatised, injunction obtained against their being played 275.
Bradfield reservoir, Yorkshire, bursting of 1281.
Bradford, first ragged school 1643.
Brain, a very large 252.
Brambles, the forms of 364.
Brass founder 710.
Breakwater constructed on sloping-block system 1354.
Brewers, Bradley 730,
Lacon 272,
Mappin 730,
Marrian 745,
Matthews 795,
Meux 859,
Perkins 1466,
Phipps 1521,
Plews 1558.
Bridges, Ordish’s straight chain suspension bridge 1251.
Briggs, Thomas, murdered in 1864 by Franz Müller 1022.
Brighton, aquarium 352, 496,
fictitious German mineral waters 80,
Hove laid out 19, 336,
Kemp-town founded 189,
Mahmoud’s baths and gymnasium 31, 694,
musical conductor on chain pier 267,
Orleans club 1183,
Preston and Hove districts built 19,
Struve’s mineral waters 230.
Bristol, Ashton court claimed by T. Provis 1660,
bishoprick revived 1170,
cathedral nave built 1170,
French prisoners at 1172,
riots at 230, 1542.
British Museum, Blacus gems 1128,
Castellani bronzes 1128,
cataloguer 1633,
coins and medals, keeper of 1585,
commission for enquiring into 386,
Greek and Roman antiquities, keeper of 1127,
guide to 213,
Lee fossils 355,
Mantell’s fossils 729,
museum removed from Montague house 136,
natural history department, keeper of 266
and superintendent of 1290,
Nimroud ivories 1627,
Swiney lecturer 665,
zoological department, assistant in 1269.
British museum, Library, assistant in 425,
attendant 606,
catalogue, compilers of 327, 571, 1364 and
and transcribers in 212, 476, 308,
cataloguing ninety one rules 136,
librarians principal 136, 1327,
librarian assistant 317,
manuscripts, keeper of the 683,
and assistant 406,
maps and plans, keeper of 706,
reading room 136,
Stephen Poles’ attack on the principal librarian 1571.
Brock, Charles Thomas, pyrotechnist 146.
Broughton archers 457.
Browning, Robert, d. 1889, poet, his acquaintances 1653, 1682,
his connection with John Kenyon 207.
Brushmaker 108.
Buckhounds, the Royal, huntsman 224,
master of 239.
Buggin, Sir George, d. 1825, his widow m. duke of Sussex 18.
Building ventilated on a new principle 82.
Bunn, Alfred, d. 1860, operatic manager, and Jenny Lind 434,
assaulted by Macready 680.
Bunyan, John, d. 1688, baptist minister, collection of his works 1216, 1217,
memorial in Bunhill fields 1330,
Pilgrim’s progress in Welsh 130.
Burgess, William, d. 1881, architect, his work completed by Pullan 1666.
Burials at night 499.
Burns, Robert, d. 1796, poet, bibliography concerning 636,
Burns library Glasgow 906,
dinner in hall of his cottage 643,
his friends 332, 466,
his MSS. and relics 1104,
his residence at the hermitage 1104,
his widow and her executor 580,
Kidd’s illustrations of his poems 217,
Tam O’Shanter as a pantomime 162.
Burnt in effigy, Nicholson 1142,
Prodgers 1655.
Bushrangers wearing armour, 181.
Byerley, Thomas the Reuben of the Percy Anecdotes 433.
Byron, Anne Isabella, d. 1860, Lady, her friends 55, 1040.
Byron, George Gordon, d. 1824, Lord, and Mrs. Mardyn 734,
and Elizabeth B. Pigot 1532,
daughter Ada 504,
his friends 831, 1653,
his half sister, 374,
his memoir’s destroyed 954,
his surgeon 888,
his will 374,
writes Werner, a drama 352.

Cabinet cyclopædia, one hundred and thirty three volumes 307.
Cabs, cabdrivers funeral 1039,
peer sued by cabman 236.
Cabmen’s terror, The 1656.
Calico Printer, Potter 1600.
Cambridge, Apostles club 804, 808,
esquire bedel 342,
first eight oared boat 1470,
Jeremie prizes 86,
Lawrence Dundas drowned 556,
licensed lodgings 556,
Le Bas prize instituted 346,
Lightfoot scholarships founded 429,
senate house riders 56,
senior regent presents address to queen 890,
undergraduate challenges his tutor to a duel 916.
Cambridge, Queen’s college, president not in holy orders 226.
Cambridge, Trinity hall, master 82.
Camlet, manufacturer 776.
Canada, bishopricks in 1006,
confederation act 108,
dominion of Canada formed 584,
Mackenzie’s rebellion 634,
Nelson’s insurrection 1106,
Papinean’s rebellion 664, 1330.
Canada, Montreal, Mr. Gill, univ. Logan chair of Geology 478.
Canada, Quebec, Morrin college founded 980.
Canal boat traction 672.
Cannabis Indica introduced 421.
Cannon, rifled cannon invented 287.
Canterbury, Archbishop of 489, principal registrar of prerogative court 953.
Cape colony, British Kaffraria 649.
Cape Town, observatory 720,
university endowment 1594.
Cardiganshire, lord lieutenant 1611.
Caricaturists, Leech 361,
Pellegrini 1441.
Carlisle, Rose castle restored 1463.
Carlow, lord lieutenant 161.
Carlyle, Thomas, d. 1881, historian, his first lecture managed by Harriet Martineau 776,
his friends 98, 1112.
Carnac, Brittany excavations at 895.
Caroline, d. 1821, queen of Great Britain, Lushington’s defence of 535.
Carpet manufacturer, Laverton 321.
Carrington, Charles Robert, b. 1843, third baron, horsewhips, Grenville Murray 1043.
Carter, Thomas Thellusson, d. 1880, rector of Clewer, bishop of Oxford, refuses to allow proceedings to be taken against him 616.
Casamicciola, earthquake at 626.
Casinos See Theatres.
Castleknock college, county Dublin, founded 667.
Catalytic action 846.
Caterers, public, Spiers and Pond 1577.
Cats, Madagascar cats 60.
Cattle, black polled 574,
cattle breeders 61,
judges of 536,
foreign cattle markets, Victoria docks 1211,
pure highland breed 675.
Cattle breeders, Peel 1434,
Pinckard 1539,
Quartly 1686.
Cavendish, Ada, d. 1895, actress 756.
Cavan, lord lieutenant 444.
Celluloid or zylonite manufactured 1350.
Cement, Keene’s invented 174.
Centenarians, Ingram 100,
Kerry 211,
Langley 302,
Lapiletiere 306,
Larbusch 307,
Lawrence 330,
Longmore 490,
Markham 739,
Miller 881,
Montefiore 932,
Nolan 1161,
Peverell 1486,
Plank 1554,
Power 1614,
Puckle 1663,
Purser 1675.
Challenger expedition round the world 997.
Chamberlain, Joseph, b. 1836, M.P., screw manufacturer 1110.
Chancery, Court of, bag bearer to the registrars 1682,
daily cause list 1682,
the sworn clerks 891.
Charlotte Augusta d. 1817, princess, married prince Leopold 392,
poem on death of 199.
Chartists, Frost 1512,
Jones 125,
Lovett 507,
Lowe 512,
Moore 952,
O’Brien 1197,
O’Connor 1207,
Peacock 1413,
Philp 1517,
Pinkerton 1541,
Sturge 1517,
Price 1639,
meeting on Kennington common 1207,
monster petition 1517,
people’s charter 507.
Chatham, Jezreelite temple at 99,
Magnus memorial synagogue 691.
Chatsworth, Derbyshire, gardens, conservatories and fountains at 1401.
Chemists, Morson 991,
Muspratt, J. 1061,
Muspratt, J. S. 1062,
Nesbit 1107,
Penny 1455,
Phillips 1509.
Cheques crossed, act of parliament on 1441.
Chess automation, the hidden player 420.
Chess players, Kennedy 196,
Kenny 204,
Kling 249,
Lewis 420,
Lowe 512,
Löwenthal 514,
Lloyd 459,
Lyttleton 551,
Mackenzie 627,
Mc Donnell 420,
Murray 1042,
Newham 1120,
Potter 1604,
Sarratt 420.
Chester training college established 1617.
Chickens hatched by steam 325.
Chichester theological college 745.
Chili and Peru, revolutions in 884.
Chimney sweepers and climbing boys 535.
China, Jewitt’s collection of 98,
manufacturer of Minton 900,
Wedgwood ware, collections of 149.
China, Hongkong ceded to England 1604,
Hongkong mint suppressed 221,
imperial encyclopædia of literature in five thousand and twenty volumes 814,
peace of Nankin 1349,
war at Canton 1353.
Chloroform, early use of 1037.
Cholera, investigations concerning 419.
Christian year, the, by John Keble 170.
Church rates refused and illegal 1643.
Cigar divan 1644.
Ciphers, Penn’s cipher for despatches 1450.
Circus proprietors, Barnum 1065,
Manders 716,
Myers 1065,
Nixon 1065,
Newsome 1126,
ring masters, Rivolti 908.
Cirencester, royal agricultural college 327.
Civil list pensions, Inglis 12,
Jackson 29,
Jameson 55,
Jerdan 85,
Jewitt 98,
Jewsbury 98,
Jones, J. 134,
Jones, T. R. 143,
Jones, T. W. 144,
Joule 150,
Keightley 174,
Kingsley 235,
Kitto 248, 249,
Knowles F. 258,
Knowles, J. S. 259,
Laing 278,
Lane 296,
Latham 313,
Lee, J. C. 357,
Lee, S. 359,
Leech 362,
Lemon 387,
Lindsay 437,
Livingstone 454,
Llanos 455,
Lloyd 461,
Long 485,
Loudon 500,
Lover 507,
Lucas 525,
Lucy 527,
Maccarthy 569,
Mc Culloch 579,
Mackay 619,
Maclagan 643,
Maclean 649,
Maclear 651,
Maconochie 673,
Maguire 693,
Mann 720,
Mansell 729,
Martin 765,
Mathew 791,
Meadows 826,
Melvill 839,
Menzies 845,
Merrifield 852,
Meteyard 858,
Miller 881,
Milroy 897,
Mitford 910,
Moir 914,
Mongredian 923,
Montagu 928,
Montgomery, E. 935,
Montgomery, J. 936,
Moore, B. 955,
Moore, W. 957,
Morgan, E. 965,
Morgan, S. 968,
Motteram 1002,
Mulock 1023,
Nash 1084,
Newport 1126,
Noble 1157,
O’Donovan 1215,
Ogilvie 1219,
Owen 1290,
Page 1303,
Palgrave 1312,
Palmer 1316,
Pardoe 1333,
Pater 1378,
Patey 1382,
Pearson 1422,
Petrie 1481,
Philip 1493,
Phipps 1520,
Planché 1553,
Poole 1583,
Portal 1589,
Porter 1593,
Powell 1607,
Pugin 1665.
Clanricarde, Hubert, b. 1832, Second marquess of, land owner in Ireland 152.
Clare, lord lieutenant 8.
Claremont house, Surrey, granted to prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg 392.
Clarionet player, Pape 1329.
Clergyman’s sore throat 641.
Clewer, Berks., House of mercy at 927.
Clocks, helix lever clock 593,
tell tale clock 1120.
Clog dancer, Linn 441.
Cloisonné ware collection 1600.
Close, John, d. 1891, poet 513.
Clowns, See also Actors,
col. 1697,
Batty 751,
Gomery 937,
Holloway 751,
Jefferini 68,
Lauri 318,
Mac 1528,
Marsh 751,
Matthews 797,
Nelson 1101,
Payne, H. E. 1403,
Payne, W. H. S. 1403,
Persivani 1476,
Phillips 1499,
Pierce 1528,
Purvis 1676.
Clubs, Alpine, president 490.
Arts, Hanover square 147.
Athenæum founders 367,
Dr. Quinn blackballed 1690.
Ayrshire Naturalists founded 292.
Bannatyne secretary 277.
Bath literary founded 739.
Burlington fine art established 796.
Conservative built 1480.
Dandy, the last member 1529.
Decemviri founded 1674.
Dick originated 622.
Dr. Johnson’s, president of 13.
Elizabethan, president 1035.
Entomological founded 1122.
Four in hand driving club started 990.
Friday founded 1049.
Garrick founded 889,
built 743.
Glasgow Shakespeare instituted 162.
Grove park rowing founded 113.
Literary president 13.
London chess, president 923.
London press, president 1333.
Manchester Athenæum founded 303.
Mulberries founded 88.
Museum founded 88.
National founded 642, 715.
Newbury district field founded 1322.
Ottoman club started 1644.
Political economy founded 1166.
Prince’s racket and tennis 1644.
Quekett microscopical founded 1687.
Raleigh originated 1644.
Reform built 1480,
secretary 1182,
founders 1662,
last survivor of original members 1634.
Roxburgh founded 1580.
Socials at Clunn’s 738.
Star revived 1235,
secretary 83.
Travellers’ founded 625.
Wittington founded and ceased 88,
president 533.
YZ at Liverpool 1526.
Coach drivers, Morritt 990,
Paul 1395,
Peer 1436,
Peyton, A. 1487,
Pusey 1678.
Coaching, driving whips 1487,
coach builders 319, 343, 653,
coach proprietors 1101,
revival of 397,
Old Times coach 397.
Coal, anthracite used for blast furnaces and steam boilers 1556,
children and women working in mines 581,
colliery proprietors 261, 503,
resources of the coal fields 154.
Cobden, Richard, d. 1865, M.P., opposes the Crimean war 1643.
Cock fighting 854.
Coffee, Napier’s glass coffee apparatus 1077.
Coins, collectors of, Kerrick 210,
Lewis 418,
Lindsay 438,
Martin 771,
Mayer 813,
Mitford 909,
Moore 957.
Colenso, John William, d. 1883, bishop of Natal, his counsel 54,
his friends 107,
his mathematical works 857,
his trial 853.
Coleoptera, collection of 665.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, d. 1834, poet, his friends 373, 1404, 1409,
reminiscenses of 373,
travels in the Harz 1561,
Colleges, College of naval architecture, principal of 1674.
Kelly college, Tavistock, built 180.
Morden college, Blackheath, for tradesmen 531.
Queen’s college, London, founded 805.
Spring hill college, Birmingham 51.
University college, Parkes’ museum 1352.
Working men’s college started 805.
Cologne choir in London 904.
Colonies, Secretaries of state for colonies, Lytton 552,
Monteagle 931,
Newcastle 1117,
Normanby 1167.
Columbines, Marshall 759,
Parkes 1351.
Comic almanac 815, 816.
Commons, House of, first quaker member 1427,
long sitting 1357,
speaker declines a pension 1271,
speaker Denison 1271.
See also Parliament.
Compasses, Napier’s diagram for correcting a ship’s compass 1077.
Confectioners 175.
Conjurers, Anderson 44,
Gyngell 356,
Jacobs 44,
Matthews 797,
Miller 876,
Phillippe 1494,
Phillipi 1499.
Conjuring, bowls of water from under a shawl 44,
Chinese ring trick 44,
gold fish trick 1494,
hat of Fortunatus 1495,
kitchen of Parafaragaramus 1495,
ring puzzle 1494.
Contagious diseases act, inspector general 391.
Contractors, Jackson, R. W. 36,
Jackson, Sir W. 40,
Jay 64,
Kelk 177.
Cook, Flavell Smith, vicar of Ch. Ch. Clifton 77.
Cooperation, advocates of, Neale 1088,
Pare 1334,
cooperative movement 138, 507,
cooperative stores, the first founded 1088.
Copper smelter, Nevill 1112.
Coprolites, beds of 1107.
Corn, Anti corn law league,
founded 1625,
promoters of the 26, 953, 1643,
Struggle, a weekly paper 452.
Cornet player, Kœnig 266.
Costa, Sir Michael A. A., d. 1884, musical conductor, seceded from Her Majesty’s 521.
Cotton manufacture, double speed invented 198,
fixing orange sulphide of antimony on cloth 846,
hydraulic presses 536,
jack frame improved 198,
Mendel’s table of cotton exports 842,
mules improved 375,
self stripping carding engine 375,
spinners 375.
Coursing, first Waterloo cup 1151,
a judge of 1151,
Master M’ Grath 532.
Court beauties, Jersey 90,
Wyndham 1304.
Courtesan, Cora Pearl 1417.
Council, lord president of, Portland 1595.
Craik, George Lillie, d. 1866, professor, m. Dinah Mulock 1024.
Crape manufacturer 383.
Cremation, Persons cremated, Kinglake 232,
Levy 407,
Longden 487,
Macnaught 668,
Marnock 742,
Pickersgill 1525,
Pigott 1531,
Price 1640.
Cricket, balista invented 1154,
cane handled bats introduced 1154,
cork pads introduced 1154,
cricket ball maker 993,
cricket practice at the Lambeth baths 993,
introduced into Scotland 240,
Lillywhite’s cricket scores 431, 877,
making one hundred runs twice in same match 285,
money paid to prevent report of a match 285,
new round hand bowling introduced 1535,
open pads introduced 1154,
Pardon’s cricket reporting agency 1333,
round arm bowling introduced 252, 432,
score printing on cricket grounds 431,
Parr’s team of eleven won five matches against the Canadian twenty two 1359,
Prince’s cricket club 1644,
two men beat eleven without any fieldsmen 891.
Cricketers, Blackham 1538,
Clarke 1535,
Edwards 250,
Esrom 990,
Grace, G. F. 614,
Iddison 4,
Jeffery 69,
Jupp 157,
Keate 168,
Killick 219,
King, G. W. 223,
King, R. T. 228,
Kingscote 233,
Knight 252,
Kynaston 270,
Lambert 285,
Lanaway 287,
Lane 295,
Letby 400,
Liddell 424,
Lillywhite 431–2,
Linsell 442,
Lockyer 471,
Long 485,
Lowther 518,
Mc Intyre, M. 614,
Mc Intyre, W. 615,
Mackay 617,
Mantle 730,
Marcon 733,
Marsden 1535,
Martin 765,
Micklethwaite 865,
Middleton 868,
Midwinter 869,
Miller 877,
Mills, R. 891,
Mills, W. 892,
Morley 976,
Morse 990,
Mortlock 993,
Mycroft 1064,
Mynn, A. 1067,
Mynn, W. P. 1068,
Nixon 1154,
North 1173,
Norton 1180,
Osbaldeston 1263,
Oscroft 1268,
Ottaway 1273,
Parr 1359,
Parry 1362,
Paunceforte 1399,
Pell 1440,
Penn 1449,
Pickering 1523,
Picknell, G. 1526,
Picknell, R. 1526,
Piercy 1529,
Pilch, F. 1535,
Pilch, W. 1535,
Pilling 1537,
Powys 1617,
Preston 1630,
Price 1639,
Pullin, 1667,
Pycroft 1680.
Cromarty, lord lieutenant 658.
Cromwell house, Chelsea, tableaux vivants at 1208.
Crossing sweeper 603.
Crouch, Frederick William Nicholls, composer of Kathleen Mavourneen 1417,
he d. America Aug. 1896.
Crystal palace, Sydenham palace erected 1251,
decoration of 139,
first balloon ascent from 551,
literary director 1511.
Crystallography, Miller’s system of 886.
Cudbear extracted from seaweed 225.
Cumberland, fatal fall from Scafell 754,
Pillar rock, Ennerdale 33.
Cumberland and Westmoreland, lords lieutenant 492, 493.
Cuneiform inscriptions, deciphering of 1169.
Curiosity dealer 149.
Curling songs 1045.
Cutlers, Mechi 829,
Pepys 1460.
Cyclone, the word first used 1527.
Cypher interpreted 387.
Cyprus, the eleven currencies of 1246.