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

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Dalkeith, Edinburgh, gardens and conservatories 613.
Dame Europa school publications 1663.
Dancers, Cavallazzi 730,
Cushnie 870,
De Camp 186,
Duvernay 797,
Grisi 1469,
Kelsey 185,
Leclercq 348,
Lola Montez 479,
Louise 501,
Milano 870,
Perrot 1469,
Pitteri 1360,
Vestris 794.
Dancing, teachers of, Adelaide 401,
Michaud 401,
Nathan 1086,
Parkes 1351.
Dandies, Ponsonby 1578.
Darlington, the first mayor 1426.
Davies, David, d. 1861, shot at lord Palmerston 1325.
Deaf men, Kitto 248,
Lane 298.
Deaths under peculiar circumstances, at Junior Garrick club 789,
at a railway station 365,
at the dinner table 495,
burnt when experimenting on naptha 726,
by the road side 1165,
died on Wimbledon common 1608,
drowned in lake of Como 1621,
fall on a staircase 1507,
falling down stairs and fracturing skull 701, 1002,
falling from a precipice 375,
falling from Scafel, Cumberland 754,
falling into boiling liquid 129,
falling into the area of the house 1478,
falling two hundred feet over a precipice 957,
from alarm in a thunder storm 483,
from fumes of charcoal 407,
frozen to death 1177,
in a billiard room 283,
in a cab 109, 1160,
in a chemist’s shop 66,
in a hair dresser’s shop 607,
in lord Salisbury’s ante room 3,
in a police barracks 778,
in railway carriages 306, 561, 908,
in a Turkish bath 247,
judge stabbed by an assassin 1166,
jumping out of a window 551,
jumping over Dean bridge, Leith 26,
killed by an elephant 49,
not in Times till three years and a half after decease 95,
on a grouse moor 501,
overturned in a cab 339,
rib entering lungs 119,
rupture from taking a high jump as Miles in the Colleen Bawn 1421,
shot by his butler 102,
son while pheasant shooting shoots his father 1615,
stabbed by a newspaper correspondent 995,
struck by a wave 271,
struck with lightning while shooting 316,
swept off Filey Brigg 1305,
thrown from a tandem in Hyde park 1392,
upset in a jaunting car 152,
while addressing a meeting 462,
while hunting 1606,
while playing lawn tennis 1265,
while riding in a carriage 1524,
while writing a leading article 728,
wounded by an assassin 202.
Delany, Patrick, attempts to murder justice J. A. Lawson 334.
Dentist, Purland 1674.
Derby, Edward Smith, d. 1851, earl of, menagerie at Knowsley 342.
De Ros, Henry William, 19 Baron, d. 1839, card cheating case 1403.
Devil, devil among the tailors, a song 1051,
personality of the devil 77.
Devon, lord lieutenant 1176.
Dhuleep Singh, d. 1893, rajah of the Punjaub 267.
Diaries, Letts’ 401.
Dickens, Charles, d. 1870, novelist, acts in The Frozen deep 62,
Christmas carol, dramatised 162,
David Copperfield dramatised 23,
Dombey and daughter, a fiction by R. Nicholson 1143,
his amateur co. 552,
his manager in America 1269,
Mr. Squeers and his original 459,
Nicholas Nickleby dedicated to Macready 680,
Nicholas Nickleby, additional illustrations 1248,
Pickwick additional illustrations 1248,
serial works translated into German 970,
takes lessons in fencing and boxing 31.
Dictionaries, gradus and dictionary of ideas in one hundred and twenty eight volumes 86,
a pentecontaglossal dictionary 438.
Die sinker, Moore 951.
Dilatoriness, removed from a public office for 302.
Diners out, Luttrell 537,
Quin 1690.
Dinner party, long continued 1328.
Dioramas, See also Panoramas,
coronation of William the fourth 755,
queen’s visit to Ireland 1208, 1509.
Dipping needle constructed 148.
Disraeli, Benjamin, d. 1881, earl of Beaconsfield, copyright of his novels 489,
corbel likeness of at Chester 193,
sir J. A. Macdonald exactly like him 584.
Divorce, divorce commission 679.
Dodwell, rev. Henry John, shoots at master of the rolls 95.
Dogs, a clipper of poodles 1490,
Birmingham national show 498,
Crystal palace show 498,
dog breeder 1675,
Deerhounds of Colonsay 671,
Japanese pugs 60,
Kennel club 498,
Master M’Grath 532,
Persian greyhounds 60.
Donaldson, John W. d. 1861, Greek scholar 345.
Down, lord lieutenant 482.
Drama, examiner of plays 1531,
inspector of plays 309,
plays refused licence 620,
tea-cup and saucer comedy 1674.
Dramatists, Agoust 620,
Allen 165,
Baylis 815,
Burnot 1352,
Clifton 545,
Conquest 1485,
Dance 794,
Edwards 815,
Fitzball 1432,
Grundy 620, 1485,
Harris 1485,
Hatton 799,
James, C. S. 47,
James, G. P. R. 49,
Jerrold, D. W. 88,
Jerrold, W. B. 89,
Johnstone 119,
Jodrell 100,
Kenny 203,
Kingdon 231,
Knowles 166,
Lacy 274,
Langford 301,
Levey 405,
Lewis 498,
Lister 417,
Logan 478,
Lovell 505,
Lover 506,
Lunn 531,
Lyne 545,
M’ Ardle 559,
Mc Kay 620,
M’ Lean 651,
Maddox 686,
Major 705,
Marchant 732,
Marshall 756,
Marston 763, 1269,
Matthison 799,
Mayhew, A. S. 815,
Mayhew, E. 815,
Mayhew, Henry 815,
Mayhew, Horace 816,
Mayhew, T. 816,
Maynard 817,
Merritt 1485,
Millingen 887,
Millward 893,
Milman 893,
Mitford 910,
Moncrieff 921,
Morgan 968,
Morton, J. M. 995,
Morton, T. 995,
Nightingale 1151,
O’ Neill 1247,
Ormonde 1259,
Owenson 968,
Oxberry 1294,
Oxenford 1296,
Parry, J. 1363,
Parry, T. 1366,
Pae 1301,
Pettitt 1485,
Phillipps 1512,
Pitt 1550,
Planché 794, 1553,
Poole, J. 1583,
Poole, W. H. 1585,
Powell 1609,
Reade 1485,
Reece 711, 1432,
Scott 799,
Sims 1485,
Talford 166,
Wills 756,
Wyndham 799.
Drapers, Fore street co. 987,
Halling 1424,
Marshall and Snelgrove 758,
Meeking 834,
Moore 947,
Morrison 987.
See also Hosiers 1720.
Drawing rooms, at Buckingham palace, name removed from list of presentations 639,
scene at a 90.
Drinking, drinking six tankards of strong ale a day 832.
Drinkwater, John Elliot, d. 1851, author 520.
Druids, Price the archdruid 1640.
Drummond, Edward, assassinated 25 Jany. 1843, sec. to sir R. Peel 668.
Dry earth closet system 1003.
Dublin, Alexandra college founded 74,
archbishop 689,
lord lieutenant 828,
Mountjoy prison erected 1287,
National gallery founded 1025,
order of sisters of charity established 1041,
Park st. school of medicine founded 41,
Peter st. sch. of medicine renamed Ledwich school 349,
star of Erin theatre built 516,
Trinity college first Roman catholic fellow 693,
Vartry waterworks 1113.
Dudley, William Ward, 1 earl of, d. 1885, and Her Majesty’s theatre 529.
Duelling, histories of 887.
Duels, Alvanley and O’ Connell 1205.
Battier and Londonderry 482.
Bentinck and Osbaldeston 1264.
Brown and Maclaren 585.
Colquhoun and Murray-Dunlop 1056.
D’ Esterre and O’ Connell 668.
Disraeli and O’ Connell 1205.
Fawcett and Munro 1028.
Grattan and Londonderry 482.
Hawkey and Seaton 1682.
Le Breton and Ste Croix 347.
Loftus and Harley 475.
Mahon and O’ Brien 695.
Mitchell and Donaldson 907.
Napoleon iii and Count Leon 1081.
O’ Brien and Steele 1200.
Payne and Another 1403.
Pickford and a Frenchman 1526.
Quillinan two duels 1689.
Smyth and O’ Grady 738.
Dulwich college act 749.
Dumfriesshire, lord lieutenant 1687.
Dundee, jute manufacture introduced 1099.
Durham, Lightfoot fund 429,
lord lieutenant 482,
St. Bees, first student at 33.
Dye works 225.
D’ye ken John Peel, a song 1433.

Ealing park gardens 331.
Earls, an earl a railway porter 316,
an earl’s daughter marries her father’s organist 1036.
Earls marshall of England 1164, 1165.
Earth, density of determined in Horton colliery 1567,
the rotation of the 1607.
East India Company, Addiscombe college dissolved 1448,
chairmen 79, 466, 535, 539, 718,
chairman, attempt to murder 466,
Haileybury college closed 838,
iron ship carrying guns 280.
Ecarté player, Idle 4.
Eccentric characters, Joey Jones 137,
Renton Nicholson 1142,
Lionel S. Pilkington 1537.
Edinburgh, Adelphi theatre lessee 1056,
buildings erected by Playfair 1557,
called the modern Athens 1557,
Crawley water introduced 61,
Dean bridge across the water of Leith 343,
Fettes college, first head master 1605,
Heriot free schools established 645,
lord provost 343,
Neill gold medalist of royal society 438,
parliament house in the castle restored 1105,
theatre royal lessee 1056.
Edinburgh university, chair of geology founded 1033,
chancellor 12,
graduation in law introduced 497,
lord rectors 3, 1176,
the only Englishman ever professor of physic 337.
Edinburgh, Alfred, duke of, b. 1844, now duke of Saxe-Coburg, his naval instructor 1101,
his treasurer 424,
his tutor 423.
Education, Frœbel’s system 1689,
Mimpris’s system of graduated instruction 898.
Egg hornpipe danced by baron Nathan 1086.
Eglinton tournament, jester at 612,
knight marshal 282,
knights at 1081,
knight visitor 1476,
lord high marshal 482.
Egremont, George O’ Brien Wyndham, d. 1837, third earl of, his natural son 348.
Egypt, exploration of the pyramids 1469,
first Englishman who acquired influence there 309,
Khedive’s yacht Mahroussa 32.
Eigg, island of, Invernesshire, the proprietor 676.
Electricians, Jenkin 76,
Lever 403.
Electricity, electric light exhibited at Dundee 437,
first used as a curative agent 1047,
mathematical theory of 808,
mercury contacts 1460,
Pulvermacher’s galvanic bands and electric belts 1669,
telegraphing without wires 437.
Electric endosmosis discovered 1589.
Electro platers and plating, Elkington and Mason 783, 1350,
inventions in 1350,
plating process introduced 813.
Electro-magnetism 150.
Electro-metallurgy 148.
Electrotyping, improvements in 962.
Elephant man, the 851.
Elliotson, John, d. 1868, mesmerist 1228.
Elocution, lecturer on 1561.
Eltham tragedy, The 1581.
Ely, monastery of, twelve hundreth anniversary of foundation 849.
Embalmed body exhibited 1377.
Encyclopædia Britannica, editor of 645.
Engineers, Jacomb 46,
Kitson 248,
Laxton 335,
Locke 467,
Low 510,
Mc Clean 572,
Macneill 672,
Manby 714,
Miller 879,
Mitchell 905,
Moorsom 958,
Murray 1048,
Mylne 1066,
Nasmyth 1085,
Oldham 1230,
Ormiston 1258,
Ormsby 1259,
Page 1304,
Piercy 1528,
Price 1637,
Punchard 1670.
Engine makers, Maudslay 800, 801,
Penn 1449.
English channel tunnel 510.
Engravers, Bartolozzi 794,
Heath 1681,
Jackson 35,
Jeens 67,
Jenkins 78,
Jewitt 98,
Jones 126,
Laing 278,
Landells 289,
Landseer, J. 294,
Landseer, T. 294,
Lane 297,
Le Keux 383,
Lowry 516,
Lewis, C. G. 410,
Lewis, F. C. 411,
Lizars 455,
Martin 769,
Meryon 856,
Miller 884,
Mitchell, J. 902,
Mitchell, R. 905,
Moses 998,
Mottram 1002,
Noble 1157,
Parry 1362,
Pistrucci 1546,
Prior 1647,
Pye, C. 1681,
Pye, J. 1681,
Quartley 1686,
Wyon 1547.
Engravings, collectors of 108, 218,
publishers of 651,
steel for mezzotint engravings 532.
Entertainers, Corri 226,
Jones 140,
Julian 155,
Kelly 182,
Kennedy 196,
Lloyd 226,
Love 503,
Lover 506,
Mathews, C. 792,
Mathews, C. J. 792,
Miller 876,
Newton 1180,
Parry 1364–5,
Phillips 1506,
Schultz 155,
Smith 1509.
Entomologists, King 229,
Pascoe 1374.
Eothen, or traces of travel 232.
Epping forest, Essex, litigation about 1105.
Epsom salts prepared from sea water 105.
Equestrian performers, Cooke 366,
Lees 365,
Macarte 560,
Madigan 688,
Pearson 1424,
Perks 1467,
Powell 1608,
Quaglieni 1685.
See also Circus proprietors col. 1709.
Etching, for book plates 455,
with a brush on stone and zinc 99.
Eton, eighty boys flogged 168,
Keate master 168,
organist 904.
Eugénie, empress of the French, b. 1826, visits England 1081.
Evans, Mary Ann, d. 1880, Mrs. Cross ‘George Eliot,’ lives with G. H. Lewes 408,
her residuary legatee 408,
Liggins’ claim to authorship of Adam Bede 427.
Exchequer, chancellors of, Lewis 413,
Monteagle 931,
Northbrook 1175,
Northcott 3, 1175,
Petty 304.
Executioner, Marwood 778.
Exhibition of 1851, The Great, castings for 100,
decoration of 139,
Paxton’s design for 1401,
sir John Kelk’s gift to 177.
Exhibition of 1862, The, erected 177,
Paxton superintends the erection 1401.

Fairfax manuscripts published 105.
Falsely convicted, Habron 1409.
Families large, fifteen children 531,
twenty one children 342,
one hundred children and grand children 350.
Farming, Whitfield example farm 994,
Uley cultivator 994.
Fashion, leaders of, Jaraczewski 61,
O’ Brien 1199.
See also Dandies col. 1712.
Fasting girl, Jacob 43.
Fastnet rock lighthouse built 712.
Fat people, Mansfield 726–27,
Price 1634.
Fat monger butchering children to use fat of entrails 75.
Fathers, Library of the 745.
Fencing, teachers of 31, 768.
Fenians, Barrett 1022,
Kickham 216,
Meagher 826,
O’ Mahony 1243,
O’ Reilly 1253,
O’ Sullivan 1272,
Pigott 1533,
Stephens 215, 1232,
a Fenian shoots Mc Gee 601.
Fereek, an Egyptian title 637.
Fergusson, Sir Robert Alexander, d. 1860, baronet, statue of 135.
Ferrocyanic acid discovered 1589.
Fires, annihilator invented 1513,
extincteur suggested 715,
fire engine makers 855,
fire plug system invented 1566,
inquests concerning fires revived 1406,
Milner’s patent safes 896,
portable fire stations 1566,
the art of stirring a fire 373.
Fish and fishing, artificial flies 1668,
hatching at Lunesdale 451.
Fishermen, Johnson 107,
Livesey 451.
Flageolet player, Parry 1363.
Flax, mill described in Disraeli’s Sybil 758,
spinning machinery 647,
yarn manufacturer 1021.
Flint prehistoric weapons 1176.
Floating graving dock invented 1087.
Flooring, the buckled plate flooring invented 712.
Flowers, white flowers coloured with aniline dyes 1107.
Flute players, Mason 784,
Pratten 1623.
Food preservation, Arktos cold chamber 1467.
Foreign affairs, secretaries of state for, Malmesbury 713,
Northcott 1176,
Palmerston 1325,
dismissed from his office 1326.
Foreign office, a consul general dismissed the service 1043,
Marvin discloses the secret treaty with Russia 778.
Forged letters, C. S. Parnell and The Times 1358.
Forget me not, a ballad 1384.
Fortresses, earthen for protection of London 1314.
Fossils, collections of 2, 6, 419, 729,
discovery of 1410,
eozoon canadense 477,
Pengelly’s collection 1447.
France, deputation from peace society to Napoleon 1426,
Dubois wrestler 58,
English establishment at Calais 198,
Englishman a citizen of the republic 1109,
iron steamers on the Seine 1073,
legion of honour, first Englishman a member 660,
Mc All non-sectarian mission in Paris 558.
Franklin, Sir John, d. 1847, Arctic explorer, Collinson’s expedition 46,
expeditions in search of 179, 201.
Frederick, Empress of Germany, b. 1840, at Venice 707.
Freemasons, Jack 27,
Little 447,
Phillips 1493,
grand master in Ireland 380,
grand master mason for Scotland 731,
Logic club founded 650,
Urban lodge, master 763.
Friendly societies, registrar of 1622.
Frœbel, Friedrich, d. 1852, schoolmaster, founder of kindergartens 1689.
Froude, John Anthony, d. 1894, historian, a visitor at Dromore 696.
Furrier, Nicholay, 1132.
Fust, Sir John, d. 1841, master of Trinity hall 82.
Fustian cutter, 138.