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

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Galway, queen’s college built 167.
Gambling, gambling houses 68,
gaming tables at Heligoland 806.
Garden allotment system 215.
Gardeners, M’Intosh 613,
Mackay 620,
Major 706,
Marnock 742,
Munro 1029,
Neill 1095,
Parfitt 1335,
Paxton 1400.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, d. 1882, patriot, chairman of his English committee 327,
his Englishman 1417,
his visit to London 1094,
his friend Piercy 1529,
in England 1417.
Garter, knights of the, Alexander, emperor of Russia 483,
Lansdowne 304 bis,
Marlborough 740,
Newcastle 1117,
Norfolk 1164,
Northumberland 1177,
Palmerston 1325,
the garter declined 1165.
Gas, early experiments on 512,
india rubber tubes for 1460,
mercury gasometer invented 1460,
photometer 221,
pressure gauge 221,
Prussian blue produced from ammoniacal liquor 512,
reciprocating tort 512,
swallow-tail burners invented 1096,
use in cooking 221,
water gasholder invented 1460.
Gasses, Kinetic theory of, 808.
Gems, antique collection of 222,
gems and rings 814.
Geologists, Keddie 170,
King 229,
Lonsdale 495,
Lyell 540,
Miller 877,
Morton 994,
Murchison 1033,
Phillips 1507.
Geology, rhætic beds discovered 945.
George iii, d. 1820, king, George the third, a novel 717,
plot to shoot him with poisoned arrows 384.
George iv, d. 1830, king, coronation expenses 54,
died nine thousand guineas in debt to his doctor 168,
his boon companions 1328,
in Scotland 599,
marriage with Mrs. Fitzherbert 301.
German silver, manufactured and its use introduced into England 109.
Germany, Frederick William, German emperor, and Sir M. Mackenzie 630,
first Wesleyan missionary 550.
Gershom, the thirty three thousand words of Jesus Christ 633.
Giants, Kaley 158,
Marian 736,
Murphy 1036.
Gigelera player, Pratten 1623.
Gilbert, Davies, d. 1839, F.R.S., his History of Cornwall 17.
Gimlet, pointed wood screw 1110.
Gipsies, king of the 358.
Girl, massacre and eating of a 56.
Gladstone, William Ewart, b. 1809, statesman, corbel likeness of at Chester 193,
F. King’s letter to him 223,
publishes Ex voto communi 551.
Glasgow, Adelphi theatre rebuilt 876,
cathedral, western approach to 654,
fair at 876,
first steamers to Liverpool 892,
institute of accountants founded 596,
institute of fine arts 600,
Mc Lellan’s paintings 654,
Menzies’ omnibuses 844,
Mitchell library 906,
Richmond the spy 631,
royal infirmary 603,
St. Jude’s ch. withdrawn from episcopal jurisdiction 871.
Glasgow University, chancellor Montrose 940,
lord rectors 534, 552, 562, 653, 1035.
Glass, crackle glass 1441,
duty on repealed 1263,
glass blowers 99, 1094,
glass incrustation 1441,
glass painters 47,
heraldic windows 1608,
pressed glass 1441.
Glass manufacturers, Pellatt 1441,
Powell 1608.
Globe, the first illustrating physical geography 112.
Glove makers 539, 1129.
Glynn, Henry Carr, d. 1884, admiral 1098.
Godwin, William, d. 1836, novelist, proposes to Harriet Lee 351.
Gold and silver smith, Mayer 813.
Gold, Frederick Isaac, tradesman, d. 1881, murdered 369.
Golden lecturer 838.
Golden weddings, Parker 1360,
Philp 1517,
Picton 1526.
Goldschmidt, Otto, musical conductor, husband of Jenny Lind 434.
Golf and golfers, Melville 841,
Headingley club founded 1651,
St. Andrew’s club 841, 1557.
Gorham, George Cornelius, d. 1857, theologian, examined by Maskell 780,
his case 82, 946.
Gourmets, Kenyon 207,
Payne 1402.
Grammar, Lennie’s English grammar 388.
Granville, Augustus Bozzi, d. 1872, M.D., his daughter Julie 735.
Grasses, the best authority on 1030,
tussac grass introduced 941.
Gray’s inn, London, barrister ordered to give up his chambers 193.
Greece, Greek coins and medals 1178,
Leopold declines the throne 392,
Pacifico riots at Athens 1299,
tourists murdered near Athens 457.
Grecian statues performance 546.
Grenfell, Lydia, d. 1829, fiancée of H. Martyn, diary of 70.
Gretna Green marriages, Jersey 90.
Gretna Green priests, Laing 279, 486, 1048,
Long 486,
Murray 1048.
Grocer, Marshall 754.
Guest, Lady Charlotte, d. 1895, author 131.
Guild of literature and art 553.
Guildford, fifth of November riots stamped out 43,
Guildford farce 226.
Guitar player, Pratten 1623.
Guns, Armstrong guns 361,
firing under water 1304,
Perkin’s steam gun 1449,
rifle with oval bore 287,
Whitworth’s factory 361.
Guy Fawkes, A 1656.
Gymnasium proprietors, Mac Laren 644,
Mahmoud 31.

Hadrian, d. 138, Roman emperor, his address to the soul, ninety-eight translations of 114.
Halicarnassus, the mausoleum at 1665.
Hamilton, Lady Emma, d. 1815, mistress of lord Nelson 1102.
Hammond, W. J., theatrical manager 88.
Hampton court, Middlesex, gardener at 306,
paintings restored 854.
Hand writing, experts in, Neale 1089,
Netherclift 1110.
Hanover, George, F. A. C. E. A., d. 1878, king of, his tutor 73.
Harlequins, Lee 356,
Marshall 759,
Milano 870,
Payne 1403.
Harpist, Lockwood 470.
Harris, Thomas Lake, leader of the brotherhood of the New Life 1233.
Harrogate, Yorkshire, Muspratt’s chalybeate 1062.
Hartlepool, Durham, made a port 439,
Hartlepool West founded 36.
Hastings, Sussex, Alexandra park laid out 742,
pier orchestra 745.
Hastings, Lady Flora Elizabeth, dau. of Francis marquess of Hastings, d. 1839, lady of bedchamber to duchess of Kent, the case of 1050, 1597.
Havers, Mary Alice, d. 1890, painter 963.
Hawthorn hill, Windsor, fashionable yearly meetings at 1298.
Haydon, Julius, proprietor of a portable theatre 356.
Hazlitt, William, d. 1830, essayist, his friend 1382.
Headaches, bisulphide of carbon a cure for 204.
Hemmings, Henry, d. 1849, tavern keeper 354.
Heralds’ College, clarencieux king of arms 320,
rouge croix pursuivant 1553,
Somerset herald 1553,
York herald 229.
Heraldry, supporters to arms granted 932.
Hertford, Lady Lytton exposes her husband at the hustings at 554.
Holland, route from Harwich to Hook of Holland 1351.
Holland, James, d. Feb. 1870, painter 1509,
Athenæum 19 Feb. 1870, p. 267.
Hollow ware trade 205.
Holyoake, George Jacob, b. 1813, author, his friend Merritt 854.
Home department, secretaries of state for Lansdowne 304,
Lewis 413,
Normanby 1167,
Palmerston 1325.
Home, sweet home, a song 1404.
Home, Daniel Dunglas, d. 1886, spiritualist, case of Lyon v. Home 54.
Homœopathy introduced into England 1690,
homœopathic home 969,
practitioners 502, 1690.
Honiton manor, Devon, purchased 467.
Horizon, an artificial, for use at sea 852.
Horn player, Puzzi 1679.
Horse breeders, Jackson 33, 691.
Horse dealers, Phillips 1506.
Horse trainers, See also Jockeys 1724,
I’Anson, 1,
Nightingall 1151,
Osborne 1267,
Peck 1429,
Prince 1644.
Horses, bridle, bit, stirrup and spur maker 311,
female horse buyer 967,
judges of 537,
long leap, a 256,
noted horseman 1162,
Palmerston breeding association 819.
Hosiers, See also Drapers 1714,
Morley 977.
Hospitals, Cancer established 750.
Charing Cross founded 1484.
City of London for diseases of chest founded 1413.
King’s college hospital founded 494.
London temperance originated 577.
Middlesex, medical school founded 821.
Royal Free established 750.
St. Georges’ hospital, £100,000 left to 230, 568.
Morley convalescent home 975,
Powell ward 1609.
Royal orthopædic hospital founded 493.
University college hospital and mesmerism 1239–40.
West London founded 1494.
Household, lord steward of the, Liverpool 451.
Hounds, masters of, Josselyn 150,
Kerrison 211,
Kesteven 213,
Knightley 256,
Leigh 376,
Leslie 397,
Lichfield 423,
Lonsdale 493,
Lowther 518,
Lucy 527,
Maher 807,
Mainwaring 699,
Majoribanks 737,
Maxse 807,
Melville 841,
Meynell, H. C. 861,
Meynell, H. F. 861,
Middleton, H. W. 867,
Middleton, W. G. 868,
Moore 807,
Morrell 980,
Morrogh 990,
Mortimer 993,
Musgrave 807,
Naas 819,
Newcomen 1118,
Osbaldeston 1264, 1610,
Payne 1403,
Peel 1433,
Persse 1476,
Pitman 1549,
Petre 1481,
Peyton 1487,
Portsmouth 1598,
Powell 1610,
Pryse 1663,
Queensberry 1687,
Sutton 841,
Sykes 867.
Humber estuary, Yorkshire, land reclaimed in 1230.
Hunting, improved hunting saddles 1229.
Huntsmen, King 224,
Long 486,
Luther 536,
M’Bridge 566,
Maiden 696, 699,
Morgan 965,
Oxtoby 1298,
Parker 1345,
Payne 1402,
Powlett 1615.
Hygiene, founder of science of 1352,
Parkes’ museum 1352.
Hylo-idealism, the doctrine of 1068.
Hymns, ancient and modern, musical editor 924,
tune writers 131, 151,
words, writers of 936, 1369, 1452.

Ice, artificial for skating rinks 1645.
Ignatius, Father, i.e. the rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne. b. 1837, founded Llanthony abbey 1186.
Impostors, Arthur Orton, calling himself sir Roger Tichborne 1248.
Thomas Provis, calling himself sir Richard Hugh Smyth 1318, 1660.
Mary Willcocks, calling herself Princess of Javasu 64.
Improvisatore, Jacobs 44.
Income tax, exemptions 1175.
Index of every human name known 704.
India, Appa Sahib deposed at Nagpore 79,
Banda and Kirwee booty 238, 886,
Bengali newspaper, the first 762,
Berar annexed 625,
Cabul massacres 81,
Cawnpore memorial garden 289,
citrate of limes sent to England 72,
cultivation of cotton 616,
Engineers’ institution founded 91,
English weekly newspaper, the first 762,
Euphrates route explored 541, 542,
first military officer a member of supreme council 974,
freemasonry 974,
Ganges, first steamers on 115,
Gumsur Khond county conquered by moral influence 677,
health stations 72,
human sacrifices and female infanticide suppressed 677,
Hyder Khan captured 607,
first competition Wallah 1681,
Khotan plains first visited 111,
Kishangunga valley triangulation 111,
king of Oude’s son installed 509,
Lahore, Dhuleep Singh 329,
Lahore, the maharanee of 267, 329,
Lahore, Runjeet Singh 267,
Niladarpana Nataka, a drama 485,
paper mill, the first 762,
president of board of control, Dundas 839,
queen Victoria proclaimed empress 553,
Mc Nair reprimanded for crossing Afghan frontier 666,
Runjeet Singh 267,
secretary of state for, Northcott 2, 1175,
Serampur college 762,
sergeant Lilley’s case 430,
tea plants introduced 58,
trial of Gaekwar of Baroda 1443,
trigonometrical survey 934,
viceroy Mayo 819,
officer visiting Kafiristan disguised as a native 666.
India, Bombay, cotton spinning mills introduced 72,
fire insurance introduced 72,
Grant medical college 961,
hospitals established 72,
Jacob’s horse raised 42,
medical schools established 72,
Parsee benevolent institution 73,
Perry professorship of law founded 1473,
poor debtor’s debts payed 72,
Poonah Jejeebhoy school 72,
Poonah observatory 44.
India, Calcutta, bishop of, with diocese of a million square miles 894,
bishop’s college first principal 875.
India rubber, capsules 82,
endless elastic bands 82,
tube taps introduced 82,
valves 82.
Infant schools founded 1291.
Initialism, See also Names and Pseudonyms.
A., C., i.e. Constance C. W. Naden 1068.
C., i.e. Newton Crosland 1581.
H. B., i.e. John Doyle 651.
I., A. E., i.e. Adelaide Eliza Ironside 20.
J., R., i.e. John Richard Jefferies 68.
J., R. D., i.e. Robert Dwyer Joyce 153.
J., Th. R., i.e. Thomas Robert Joliffe 121.
K., A. H., i.e. Arthur Henry Kenney 203.
K., M. A., i.e. Mary Ann Kelty 185.
K., M. P., i.e. Morgan Peter Kavanagh 162.
K., T. F., i.e. Thomas Francis Knox 264.
L., E., i.e. Edwin Lankester 303.
L., E., i.e. Edward Lear 343.
L., J., i.e. James Lamsden 530.
L., J, H., i.e. Francis Henry Laing 278.
L., R. J., i.e. Richard James Lane 298.
M., i.e. Thomas D’Arcy McGee 601.
M., D. F., i.e. Denis Florence Maccarthy 569.
M., E., i.e. Edward Mangin 717.
M., J., i.e. John Mitford 909.
M., W., i.e. William Martin 774.
M., W., i.e. William Maskell 780.
M., Y., i.e. William Pengelly 1448.
Mc G., J., i.e. John Mac Gilchrist 603.
N., C., i.e. Constance C. W. Naden 1068.
N., G., i.e. George Nugee 1186.
N., J. B., i.e. John Bowyer Nichols 1136.
N., J. B., i.e. John Bruce Norton 1136, 1181.
O., F., i.e. Frederick Oakeley 1192.
O., S. G., i.e. Sidney Godolphin Osborne 1268.
P., A. P., i.e. Arthur Philip Perceval 1461.
P., C., i.e. Coventry Patmore 1654.
P., E. B., i.e. Edward Pleydell-Bouverie 1559.
P., P., i.e. Peter John Martin 771.
R., H., i.e. Henry Reeve 490.
S., M. E., i.e. F. D. Legard 371.
S., N. R., i.e. John Bowyer Nichols 1136.
Y., i.e. John Percy 1463.
Y., S. E., i.e. Dennis Florence Maccarthy 569.
Ink, indelible 1168.
Inquisition at Rome, three children detained by 888.
Institutions, Actuaries, president 74.
Architects, presidents 1.
Architectural institute of Scotland originated 1349.
Artists’ general benevolent, secretary 1507.
British archæological founded 1479.
Boy’s home, Wandsworth founded 422.
Chronological ceased 354.
Civil engineers, founders 129,
secretary 714.
College of organists, secretary 433.
Dublin law founded 201.
Dramatic, equestrian and musical sick fund founded 1510.
Egyptian exploration fund founded 1585.
Institution of accountants, president 1690.
International literary association founded 89.
Iron and steel, founder of 132.
Langham sketching club, secretary 360.
Law institution founded 801.
Law writers’ founded 1509.
London founded 444, 1460.
Mechanical engineers, president 1449.
Midland institute of mining and mechanical engineers 1604.
Order of St. John of Jerusalem 1494.
St. John’s training school instituted 1641.
Surrey industrial school founded 422.
Women’s protective and provident league, founded 1378.
Worcester literary and scientific 364.
Insurance offices, Alliance British and foreign fire and life foundation 22.
Eagle amalgamated with Protector life 74.
Equitable actuary 963,
large bonus 531.
European arbitration 54.
Independent West Middlesex company exposure of 631.
Marine, manager of 473.
Phœnix, secretary 505.
Royal at Liverpool manager 645.
Sun actuary 895.
Inverness, lord lieutenant 501.
Ireland, boycotting 145,
Derry cathedral built 183,
disestablished church the first bishop 393,
eighty-two club 661,
Enniscorthy cathedral built 1664,
father Mathew and temperance 791,
and the decrease in the consumption of spirits 791,
fenianism denounced 970,
first agitation for repeal of union 695,
hereditary chief butler 1259,
Irish board of education 588,
Killarney cathedral built 1664,
Leinster directory 1206,
Leinster leases 380,
lord chancellor, the first Roman catholic since time of James ii 1224,
lord Leitrim refuses admission to the lord lieutenant 383,
lord Leitrim shot 383,
Marlborough relief fund 740,
Mitchelstown evictions 1565,
national league established 770,
O’Donnell shoots James Carey 1214,
Oldhamia fossils 1230,
Orange association dissolved 1460,
Parnell’s career 1357,
Phœnix park murders 1214,
Pigott’s career 1538,
plan of campaign 1243,
Ponsonby estates 1565,
poor law act 1134,
poor laws, chief commissioner 1611,
Queenstown cathedral 1665,
queen’s univ., the first doctor of science 230,
remonstrant synod of Ulster founded 935,
repeal association 1204,
Smith O’Brien’s insurrection 1201,
survey great triangulation completed 1596,
tenant right movement 949,
Thurles cathedral built 341,
united Irishmen 1206.
Ireland, Cork historical society founded 570.
Ireland, Dublin, archbishop 567,
battle axe guards dissolved 286,
eighty two club 569,
museum of Irish industry originated 159,
royal college of science established 159.
Ireland, Sligo disfranchised 262,
lord lieutenant 265.
Ireland, chief secretaries, Dundas 839,
Lincoln 1117,
Peel 1435.
Ireland, Lord Chancellors, O’Hagan 1224,
Plunkett 1563.
Ireland, Lords lieutenant, Marlborough 740,
Normanby 1167.
Iron, art iron work 1121,
Bessemer process perfected 1061,
chilling pivots 811,
coal first used in making steel 843,
hot blast used for iron stone 1097,
iron founders 107, 248, 712,
manufacture of by superheated steam 1466,
on the strength of iron 810,
ships made from 280,
special steel invented 1061,
Spiegeleisen, experiments with 1061,
Walker iron works founded 499.
Ironmasters, Kennard 194,
Merry 854.
Irving, Edward, d. 1834, presbyterian, his chapel in Cross street 1158.
Isle of Man, clerks of the rolls 1687,
Runic inscriptions 157,
vicar general, office abolished 66.
Isle of Wight, Roman remains 178.
Italy, Carlo Ferrari murdered 1373,
Humbert, b. 1844, king of, English governess of his son 350.
Ivory carvings, models made from 1108.