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

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Jacobite, the last 1030.
Jacotot, Joseph, d. 1840, French educational writer, his system of teaching 1405.
Jamaica, the William Gordon riots 1100.
Jameson, Anna Brownell, d. 1860, author 55,
befriended by Anne B. Proctor 1653.
Japan, butterflies 1602,
idols, collections of 60,
missionary bishop of 1581,
postal system 221,
the mint 221,
traders 913,
treaty with 1353.
Javasu, the princess of 64.
Jecks, Charles Albert, d. 12 York terrace, Ramsgate, 12 Feb. 1895, acting manager Adelphi theatre 67.
Jenny Jones, a song, 1363.
Jersey, Victoria college, St. Helier’s built 96.
Jerusalem the golden, a hymn, author of 1089.
Jews, first Jewish judge 95,
showmen at fairs 97.
Jockeys, Jacques 46,
Jones 124,
Kendall 192,
Lye 540,
Macdonald 586,
Marlow 742,
Marson 762,
Oliver 1239,
Osborne 226,
Percival 1462.
Jödler, A. Julian Von Joel 101.
Johnson, J., theatrical manager 356.
Johnson, Samuel, d. 1784, lexicographer, and queenie Thrale 176,
collection of Johnsoniana 1566,
his fir table 511,
his god daughter, A. E. Lowe 511,
his relics sold by Barber 480.
Judas Iscariot and the thirty pieces of silver 83.
Judge and jury society established 1143.
Juggler, Lee 356.
Jumper of long distances, Nightingale 1151.
Junius, his letters 580.
Jute introduced into Dundee 1099.

Kathleen Mavourneen, a song 1417.
Keats, John, d. 1821, poet, his friends 1653,
his sister 455.
Kensington, South, assistant director for science 25,
lace academy at 1313,
natural history museum 1290.
Kent, smugglers on the coast 1428.
Kent, Edward Augustus, d. 1820, duke of, his wife 205,
life of 1089.
Kent’s cavern, Torquay, ossiferous remains in 1177.
Kerry, lord lieutenant 193.
Kew gardens, Surrey, North gallery of flower paintings 1172.
Kildare, lord lieutenant 380.
Kincardineshire, lord lieutenant 242.
Knife cleaning machine invented 205.
Knights and knighthood, G.C.B. declined 1408,
knighted free of expense 1512,
knighthood declined 300, 557, 561, 950,
regulations against using foreign orders issued 6,
son of a baronet can ask to be knighted 1212.
Knights Bachelor, Collier 925,
Ingham 10,
Jackson, G. 31,
Jackson, L. S. 36,
James, H. 50,
James, J. K. 53,
James, W. B. 54,
Jardine 61,
Jarvis 63,
Jeffcott 68,
Jejeebhoy 73,
Jenner 82,
Jervis 91,
Jessel 95,
Johnson, E. 104,
Johnson, W. G. 111,
Johnston 116,
Jones, C. T. 123,
Jones, D. 123,
Jones, H. 128,
Kane 159,
Karslake 170,
Keating 169,
Kelly 182,
Kennedy 195,
Kincaid 220,
Kindersley 221,
King, E. D. 223,
King, H. 224,
Kingsmill 236,
Kirby 242,
Kirkland 245,
Knight 251,
Kortright 266,
Landseer 293,
Lanyon 305,
Latham 311,
Lauri 319,
Leake 341,
Le Breton 347,
Le Couteur 348,
Lee, G. P. 351,
Lee, H. I. 352,
Leeke 363,
Lees 365,
Le Marchant 385,
Lentaigne 390,
L’ Estrange 399,
Liddell 424,
Lillie 431,
Lloyd 463,
Logan 476,
Login 479,
Lowthrop 518,
Lumsden 530,
Lush 533,
Lycett 539,
Lyell 540,
Lyndhurst 544,
Lyons, E. L. 547,
Lyons, W. 549,
Mc Adam 557,
Mc Arthur 561,
Macaulay 564,
Macbain 564,
Maccarthy 569,
Mc Clure 573,
Mc Culloch 578,
Mc Donnel 588,
Macdonnell 590,
Mac Dougall 592,
Macfarren 599,
Mackenzie 630,
Maclaine 644,
Maclean 649,
Maclear 651,
Macleay 652,
Macleod, G. H. B. 656,
Macleod, J. 656,
Macmahon 660,
Macnamara 666,
Macnee 669,
Macneill 672,
Madden 684,
Maddock 686,
Magrath 692,
Maitland 317,
Malcolm 707,
Malins 711,
Mallet 712,
Manisty 719,
Mansell 726,
Mantell 720,
Marett 734,
Marshall, A. M. 754,
Marshall, C. 754,
Marshall, J. 758,
Martin, J. 768,
Martin, J. R. 768,
Martin, S. 773,
Martin, W. 775,
Martineau 777,
Martins 777,
Mason 783,
Maule, J. B. 802,
Maule, W. H. 802,
Maxwell 809,
May 812,
Medhurst 830,
Meek, J. 833,
Mellish 836,
Mellor 838,
Melville 841,
Meredith, 847,
Milton 897,
Mitchell, T. L. 907,
Mitchell, W. 908,
Mitchell, W. H. F. 908,
Molesworth 916,
Monro 925,
Montagu 929,
Montefiore 932,
Montresor 940,
Morgan 968,
Morison 972,
Morland 974,
Morley 977,
Morphett 979,
Morris, B. 980,
Morris, E. 981,
Morris, G. 982,
Morris, J. 983,
Morrison 987,
Muggeridge 1017,
Munro 1029,
Murchison 1033,
Murphy, F. 1037,
Murray, J. 1047,
Murray, J. A. 1049,
Murray, T. A. 1053,
Musgrove 1061,
Need 1093,
Nelson 1105,
Newbigging 1115,
Newton 1130,
Nickle 1146,
Nisbet 1152,
Norris 1170,
Nugent, E. 1186,
Nugent, O. 1188,
O’Connell 1205,
O’Donel 1212,
O’Donnell 1213,
Officer 1216,
Oldknow 1231,
Oliphant 1232,
Olliffe 1241,
Ommanney 1245,
Ord 1250,
Orpen 1261,
Orr 1261,
O’ Shaughnessy 1270,
Otway 1275,
Owden 1282,
Owen, H. 1287,
Packer 1299,
Palgrave 1311,
Palliser 1314,
Palmer 1319,
Parish 1337,
Parke 1340,
Parker, Henry Watson 1343,
Parker, James 1344,
Parry, L. P. J. 1365,
Parry, W. E. 1368,
Patteson 1387,
Paxton 1401,
Peacock 1411,
Pearson, E. 1422,
Pearson, J. 1423,
Pedder 1430,
Peel 1434,
Pell 1440,
Pellew 1442,
Pendlebury 1447,
Pennethorne 1453,
Perrier 1468,
Perry, T. E. 1473,
Perry, W. 1474,
Phillimore 1498,
Phillips, B. S. 1502,
Phillips, B. T. 1503,
Phillips, T. 1512,
Picton 1526,
Pierson 1530,
Pigott 1532,
Pine 1540,
Pinsent 1543,
Piozzi 1545,
Pitcairn 1547,
Pittis 1551,
Platt 1556,
Playfair 1557,
Pocock 1566,
Poland 1569,
Pollock 1575,
Porter 1590,
Potter 1601,
Prendergast 1624,
Preston, G. 1630,
Preston, J. 1630,
Prestwich 1631,
Prior 1647,
Pym 1683,
Pynn 1684,
Quain 1685,
Quentin 1688.
Knight marshall of royal household 282.
Knockabout performers 567.
Knowles, James Sheridan, d. 1862, dramatist 259,
befriended Ann Kelly 180,
his dramas 166.
Koenig, Hermann Louis, d. 1857, composer of the Post horn galop 1844, H. Koenig’s First selection of solos for cornet à piston, forty numbers 1853–7, Koenig’s Journal for the cornet à piston 1846–58, and upwards of 50 other pieces of music 1846–58, col. 266.

Lace, academy at South Kensington 1313,
makers of 978.
Ladder, a burglar’s 1409.
Lady of Lyons, a drama 552.
Lah-di-dah, a song 1612.
Lalla Rookh, a poem 954.
Lamb, Charles, d. 1834, essayist, god father to Charles Lamb Kenney 203,
his adopted daughter 1011,
his friends 207, 373, 1382, 1404, 1653.
Lampeter, Cardigan, St. David’s college 1511.
Lamp manufacturer, Phillips 1511.
Lancashire, blast furnaces 288,
bow-bearer of the forest of Bowland 1348,
Chat Moss drained 1354.
Lancaster, duchy of, chancellors of, Montrose 940,
Nisbet-Hamilton 1153,
court of county palatine 447.
Landed proprietors, second largest in United Kingdom 790.
Lander, Richard Lemon, d. 1834, African explorer 280.
Langley, J. B., had a discussion with Robert Maguire 692.
Landguard fort, Suffolk, superintendent of 127.
Languages, crude form system of teaching 215,
Ollendorff’s system of learning 1240,
the mastery system of learning 1625.
Laths and machine tools 1019.
Law, barristers disbarred 193, 1681,
barrister’s income £25,000 a year 182,
barrister’s name never in law list 1417,
barrister of only nine years standing becomes a judge 1387,
barrister unsuccessfully sues for his fees 196,
call to bar vacated 48,
city law library 508,
county courts, rules for 723,
Jervis’s acts 91,
justice of queen’s bench dies without taking his seat 33,
law stationer 1681,
long cases, Small v. Attwood 544,
Lovell’s infringement on Ludlow’s joint stock companies act 504,
master of rolls shot at 95,
Midland circuit, barrister not allowed to join 195,
queen’s counsel removed 48, 193.
Law, Incorporated Law Society, presidents, Lawrance 325,
Leman 384,
Maynard 817,
Middleton 868,
Nelson 1102,
Ouvry 1279,
Parker 1343,
Pemberton 1444,
Pickering 1523.
Law stationers 1509, 1681.
Lead, oxychloride of lead 1388.
Leaders of society, Lady Cowper 1327,
Lady Palmerston 1327.
Leamington, Warwickshire, Jephson gardens 84,
Jephson, a physician at 84,
waters, use of 84.
Leapers of distances, pole leaper 58.
Leeches, sellers of 64.
Leeds, Yorkshire, St. Saviour’s church founded 1677.
Leek, Staffordshire, Nicholson institute 1142.
Leicester, British camp on Beacon hill 1603.
Leitrim, lord lieutenant 383.
Leopold i, d. 1865, king of the Belgians, his gardener at Claremont 613,
his godson 771,
his mistress 392,
his physician 1690.
Leslie, Stewart, vagrant verse writer 597.
Lewins, Robert, M.D., positivist 1068.
Leybourne, George, d. 1884, comic singer 421,
imitated by Nelly Power 1612.
Librarians, Irving 21,
Jackson 34,
Jamieson 59,
Jenkins 78,
Jewitt 97,
Jones, J. W. 136,
Jones, T. 142,
Kidd 216,
Kippist 242,
Laing, D. 277,
Laing, J. 279,
Lapworth 307,
Lawton 335,
Lee 352,
Lewis 418,
M’Bean 565,
Macray 679,
Maitland 704,
Malet 709,
Maltby 714,
Martin, J. 769, 771,
Martin, J. E. 771,
Mason 782,
Masson 788,
Maturin 799,
Mayer 814,
Mazzinghi 822,
Napier 1072,
Nicholls 1135,
Nicholson 1141,
Ornsby 1260,
Ouseley 1276,
Overall 1280,
Panizzi 1327,
Parfitt 1335,
Plant 1554,
Platt 1556,
Power 1614,
Pratt 1620,
Pryce 1663,
Purnell 1674.
Libraries, Cardiff 843,
Darlington 1426,
Duke of Sussex 1484,
first free library in Wales 1638,
Guildhall, London 1280,
Hoare 1136,
Huth 431,
Incorporated law society 842,
Jackson 34,
Jacob 41,
Jenkins 77,
King 228,
Kirkup 246,
Lacy 275,
Laing 278,
Lee, J. P. 353,
Lee, John 353,
Libri 423,
Lightfoot 429,
Lilly 431,
Macdonald 586,
Mac Douall 591,
Madden 684,
Maidment 667,
Maitland 704,
Maltby 713,
Marlborough 741,
Maskell 780,
Mason 784,
Melvin 842,
Mendham 842,
Mexborough 860,
Mitford 909,
More 960,
Mudie 1016,
Muirhead 1020,
Nicholls, J. B. 1137,
Nichols, J. G. 1137,
Offer 1216,
Ormerod 1258,
Ouvry 1280,
Pagan 1302,
Patent office library 1453,
Pattison 1390,
Perkins, F. 1466,
Perkins, H. 1466,
Phillips 1500,
Phillpotts’ at Truro 1516,
Priaulx 1634,
Price 1637,
Puller 1667,
Purland 1674,
Pusey 1678,
Pym 1682,
Quain 1685,
Sunderland 741,
circulating libraries 1016,
fires in 59,
stealing from 423.
Library association, president 136.
Lichens, collections of 379.
Lifeboats, lifeboats premiums for 1177,
Newbon lifeboats 1115,
Orton’s lifeboat 1263,
Palmer’s lifeboat 1317.
Life buoy, a reel life buoy 1263.
Life insurance, Milne’s improved tables 895.
Lime merchant 360.
Limerick, patentee comptroller of port 661.
Linen merchant 244.
Linguists, Ibrahim 3,
Jacob 43,
Jarrett 63,
Jenkins 79,
Jenkyns 81,
Jervis 91,
Johnson 104,
Keene 173,
Kesson 212,
Lane 296,
Lee 358,
Lees 366,
Lefevre 367,
Lowe 474,
Löttner 500,
Macdonald 586,
Mather, C. 789,
Mather, R. C. 790,
Muir 1018,
Munro 1029,
Neale 1089,
Nesbitt 1108,
Nicholson 1141,
Ouseley 1277,
Oxlee learnt one hundred and twenty languages 1298,
Palmer 1315,
Patteson 1387,
speaking twenty three languages 1387,
Payne-Smith 1407,
Peacock 1411,
Peebles 1431,
Plowden 1560,
Poole 1581,
Prevost, knew 40 languages 1633,
Sewell 790.
Lion and the bear, a comic song 110.
Lion tamers, Macarthy 562,
Maccomo 575,
Manders 716,
Martin 766,
Moltano 918,
Newcomb 1117,
Newsome 1126.
Lithography, Paton’s lithographic machines 1383,
multi-colour machine 1383.
Lithotomist 820.
Little Salem controversy 544.
Live stock, judge of 498.
Liverpool, Albert dock opened 950,
arts and antiquities, Mayer’s collection 813,
bishopric founded 45,
college of chemistry founded 1062,
Compton house burnt 70,
court of passage 48,
Malakoff music hall built 516,
Mayer’s art collections 813,
public library established 1526,
Saxon antiquities, Faussett collection 813,
sewage 1121.
Liverpool, Charles Jenkinson, d. 1851, 3 earl of, his successor 79.
Living costing a few pence a day 726.
Livingstone, David, d. 1873, explorer, Moffat persuades him to undertake Bakwana mission 911.
Lizars, Messrs., engravers, Edinburgh, business sold 116.
Llandovery, Carmarthen, Welsh educational institution at 1511.
Locomotive engines, axle boxes improved 1371,
bolts improved 1371,
manganese bronze for propellors 1371,
switches improved 1371,
white brass for shaft bearings 1371.
Lodge, Edmund, d. 1839, Norroy king at arms, his peerage 16.
London, About London, lectures 387.
Agricultural hall built 362,
wrestling at 58.
Albert embankment completed 1304.
Albert hall erected 1251.
Albert memorial constructed 177,
sculptures on 595, 1493.
Albion tavern, a regular frequenter of 1549.
Alexandra palace built 177,
burnt 834.
Architect to the city 128.
Barnard’s inn, antient of 1354.
Battersea park laid out 1453.
Billingsgate rebuilt 128.
Bishop of, Jackson 34.
Botanic gardens laid out 742.
Bow street horse patrol 289.
Bryanston square laid out 1355.
Buckingham palace, ball room built 1453,
paintings at 441,
Moresque Turkish divan at 1002.
Bull inn dismantled 1102.
Burlington hotel, proprietor 975.
Café de l’ Europe, manager of 354.
Chamber of commerce, first president 691.
Claridge’s hotel, proprietor of 910.
City of London college founded 624.
City temple built 471.
Commercial street opened 1453.
Congregational memorial hall built 977.
Cranbourne street opened 1453.
Criterion restaurant opened 1577.
Crockford’s bazaar in St. James’ street built 1453.
Diorama, Regent’s park converted into a Baptist chapel 1480.
Doré gallery of paintings 484.
Duchy of Cornwall office built 1453.
Duke street, Westminster, chapel 785.
Dutch church restored 1.
Endell street made 1453.
Epping forest, superintendent of 623.
Executions in Old Bailey 1022.
Fair at Bayswater in 1851, col. 876.
Fleet prison, prisoners in 1194.
Four common pleaders of the City 1598.
Freedom of city granted to Jung 156,
Lawrence 33,
Livingstone 453,
Lushington 535,
Lyons 547,
Napier of Magdala 1072,
Napier, C. 1073,
Nicholson 1139,
Outram 1279,
Pasley 1375,
Peabody 1408,
Pollock 1573,
Pottinger 1604.
Fruit and vegetable markets in city built 1431.
Garrick street made 1453.
Giltspur st. Compter, secondary of the 50.
Gliddon’s divan, Covent garden, proprietor of 219.
Guildhall council chamber built 128.
Guildhall library and museum built 128.
Hackney coaches commissioner 93.
Hampstead heath preserved 347,
extended 408.
Holborn viaduct railway station built 109.
Holy Trinity church Conduit street pulled down 668.
Hornsey Wood house wrestling 58.
Hungerford market constructed 1480.
Hyde Park, fair in 356,
riots in 818.
Inns of court hotel built 471.
King’s college, professor J. F. D. Maurice dismissed 805.
King William street opening 1453.
Lambeth baths used for religious services 1038.
Lambeth street police court and Lambeth police court 1181.
Law society building, Chancery lane opened 801.
Leadenhall market rebuilt 128.
Lions in Trafalgar square erected 293.
London bridge built 141.
London coffee house, proprietor of 361.
London labour and London poor, two volumes 816.
London vocal academy founded 233.
London university, Gower street opened 215,
founders of 218.
Lord mayors, Johnson 107,
Kelly 184,
Key 215,
Laurie 319,
M’Arthur 561,
Magnay 690,
Marshall 754,
Moon 942, 1235,
Musgrove 1061,
Nottage 1183,
Owden 1282,
Phillips 1502,
Pirrie 1545.
Manchester warehouse, the first established 978.
Meat market, Smithfield built 128, 177.
Merchant Taylors’ school opened at the Charterhouse 1.
Metropolitan board of works formed 455,
chairman 690,
offices built 743.
Metropolitan railway opened 65.
Millwall docks made 177.
Mivart’s hotel, proprietor 910.
Morley’s hotel, proprietor 975.
Museum of economic geology built 1453.
Mysteries of London by G. W. Reynolds 883.
Nelson column built 1480.
Newgate prison, governor of 121.
New Oxford street opened 1453.
Northumberland street tragedy 1055.
Old Cheshire cheese chop house 944.
Old street made 1453.
Opera hotel, landlord of 1155.
Palace court, steward of the 484.
Parliament hill, Hampstead purchased 408.
Patent office library opened 1453.
Peabody donation for the poor 1408.
Plan for girdling London with a glass arcade 1401.
Prince’s cricket club 1644.
Quadrant, Regent street, colonnade removed 1453.
Queen’s college for females, Harley street founded 805.
Record office built 1453.
Remembrancer of the city 1105.
Residence of Napoleon iii 1081.
Royal exchange built 141,
opened 691, 1061.
St. Andrew’s Holborn consecrated 641.
St. Etheldreda’s church, Ely place, Holborn restored 470.
St. James’ hall built 139.
St. John’s chapel, Bedford row, fell in 1289.
St. Paul’s, Thornhill’s pictures repainted 1360.
Secondary of the city, a purchased office 1601.
Smithfield meat market built 128, 177.
Soane museum, curator 1331.
Somerset house completed 1453.
Southwark cathedral built 1664.
Southwark street made 1453.
Special constables in 1848 riot 491.
Stationers’ company, master 83.
Stationery office built 1453.
Temple bar memorial built 128.
Town clerk of the city 848.
University of London designed 1453.
Victoria docks constructed 1480.
Victoria park laid out 1453.
Victoria railway station built 177.
Water colour gallery, Pall Mall built 107.
Waterloo house, Halling, Pearce and Stone 1424.
Westminster bridge completed 1304.
West Strand improvement 1453.
Londonderry, lord lieutenant 541.
Long, John St. John, d. 1834, a medical rubber 457.
Longford, lord lieutenant 488.
Longitude, method of finding 852.
Looking glasses, an immense mirror 1183,
makers of 1182.
Lord Chancellor, Lyndhurst 544.
Lord lieutenant, a lord lieutenant dismissed 1116.
Lords, house of, queen’s ancient serjeant sitting in 723.
Lottery broker 688.
Louis xvii, d. 1795, king of France, Meves’ claim to the title 859.
Louis xviii, d. 1824, king of France, at Verona 807,
his entry into London 1692.
Louis Philippe, d. 1850, king of the French, bust of 135,
his daughter 392,
his physician 1062.
Louise, Princess, b. 1848, marchioness of Lorn, opened the parliament house in Edinburgh castle 1105.
Lumley, Benjamin, d. 1875, manager of Her Majesty’s theatre 528, 1475.
Lunatics, falsely accused and confined 1438,
instrument to feed patients trying to starve themselves 1120,
keepers of lunatics 1120.
Lundy island, Devonshire, proprietor of 795.
Lyskamm near Zermatt, fatal accident on the 1380.
Lyons, Augusta Louisa, d. 1852, novelist 547.