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

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Sackville college, East Grinstead 1089.
Saddler 1229.
St. Andrew’s, rector of university Mill 875,
provost Playfair 1557,
St. Andrew’s golf club 1557.
St. George and the dragon on the English coins 1546.
St. Helena, observatory erected 108.
St. Paul’s cathedral, tablet in memory of murdered war correspondents 1612.
St. Paul, Horace, his son 133.
Salford, Lancashire, library and museum 1554,
Salford hundred court of record 162,
ancient market 1437.
Salt, process for refining 1354.
Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire, founded 1426.
Saltley, Warwickshire, diocesan training college 551.
Sams, William, publisher and peerage proprietor 16.
Sandwich islands held by Great Britain 1397.
Sanitary engineer, Jennings 82.
Saxon antiquities, Faussett’s collection of 813.
Scene painters, James 47,
Leitch 381,
Lancaster 288,
Marshall 755,
Morgan 967,
O’ Connor 1208,
Oliver 1237.
See also under Theatres.
Schools, first inspector of 962,
the Misses Lees’ school 351.
Scotland, black polled cattle 574,
cricket introduced 240,
Dick bequest for parochial schoolmasters 844,
Forbes Mackenzies’ act 634,
forty new churches erected 905,
Gaelic episcopal society 508,
grand master mason 731,
hangman, the public 1034,
herring fisheries 279,
keeper of judicial records 1349,
kelp trade 279,
island of Lewis, owner of 790,
famine in Lewis 790,
Lord Lyon, king of arms 241,
meteorological soc. founded 112,
MS. collections relating to 269,
royal company of archers, president 840,
Secession and Relief churches united 622,
Strathpeffer spa 727,
Sutherlandshire clearings 465,
tenant farmer a member of parliament 575,
tweed trade originated 591.
Scott, Sir Walter, d. 1832, author, his friend 696,
he sees Rob Roy acted 618.
Screw pile and ship mooring invented 901.
Sculptors, Chantrey 126,
Chenu 595,
Johnson 104,
Jones 135,
Keene 174,
King 225,
Ladeuil 275,
Ledward 349,
Legrew 372,
Leifchild 373,
Leyland 422,
Lough 500,
Lucas 525,
Lynn 545,
Macbridge 566,
Maccarthy 569,
Macdonald 584,
Macdowell 595,
Manning 723,
Marochetti 743,
Moffitt 912,
Montalba 930,
Monti 939,
Mossman 1000,
Munro 1028,
Nixon 1154,
Noble 1157,
O’ Doherty 1212,
Papworth 1330,
Park 1339,
Philip 1493.
Sea, deep sea dredging 71,
mean level determined 61,
Normandy’s apparatus for distilling sea water 1168.
Sea hath its pearls, The, a song 1544.
Seaweed imported from Sweden 225.
Seaham harbour, Durham opened 482.
Selby, Bishop of, an assumed title 1000.
Selkirkshire, lord lieutenant 468.
Serjeants at law, Jervis 91,
Jones, C. C. 123,
Jones, H. G. 128,
Keating 169,
Kelly 182,
Kinglake 232,
Law 324,
Ludlow 527,
Lush 533,
Lyndhurst 543,
Manning 723,
Mellor 837,
Merewether 848,
Miller 882,
Murphy 1038,
O’ Brien 1199,
Parry 1364,
Payne 1406,
Petersdorff 1478,
Pigott 1532,
Pollock 1575,
Pulling 1667,
Quain 1685.
Sewell, Elizabeth, d. 1879, linguist 790.
Shaftesbury, Anthony A., d. 1885, seventh earl, his successor 240.
Shakespeare, William, d. 1616, all his plays except six produced at Sadler’s Wells 1491,
Centurie of prayse 11,
Collier controversy 1362,
Perkin’s folio 1362,
Shakespeare fabrications 11,
Shakesperian jesting in the circus ring originated 751,
three hundredth anniversary celebration 766,
trustees of his birthplace 10.
Shakespeare, William, editions of his works, first folio edition 431,
Henry Irving edition of works 756,
Clark and Wright’s edition of works 519.
Sheehy, Eugene, Roman catholic priest, arrested in Limerick 456.
Sheep, Alpaca sent to Australia 349,
black faced 675,
breeders of 691, 1434, 1678,
farmer 752.
Sheffield, Yorkshire, botanic gardens 742,
birthday club 95,
Jessop hospital 95,
Mappin’s collection of pictures 731,
mayor and master cutler combined 798.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, d. 1822, poet, his executor 1414,
his friend 1653,
his works considered profane 1011.
She wore a wreath of roses, a song 254.
Sheridan, Thomas, d. 1817, his daughter Mrs. Norton 1179.
Ship builders, Elder 1416,
Fairfield co. 1416,
Kirk 243,
Laing 279,
Laird 280.
Shipowners, Inman 16,
Jenkins 76,
Pollok 1576.
Shipping Companies, African steam ship co. 280,
British and North American co. 280,
British India steam navigating co. 639,
Guion line 1416,
Inman line 16,
Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia co. 16,
North German Lloyd’s 1416,
New Zealand co. 1416,
Scottish Oriental 1416.
Ships and Shipping, anti-fouling composition for bottoms of 1412,
curves of stability 101,
international code of marine signals 908,
Manby’s rocket apparatus 715,
self holding brakes for windlasses 1079,
ship broker 439,
signal stations for ships 908,
unimmersible boats 715.
See also Steamships.
Shipwrecks, Alfonzo xii 473,
Athénienne 1683,
Brother Jonathan 14,
Elizabeth 715,
Great Britain 605,
Kent 607, 608,
Lady Elgin 14,
Liberia 514,
London 1222, 1317,
Northfleet 258,
Pacific 1252,
Rothsay castle 988,
Royal charter 473,
Victoria 986.
Shoeblack brigade founded 608.
Shoemakers, learned, Kendall 191,
Kennedy 197,
Kitto 248,
Knight 255,
Leatherland 345,
Lochore 466,
M’ Kay 619,
Mason, F. 781,
Mason, Sir J. 783,
Miller 876,
Mitchell 903,
Murray 1055,
Odger 1212,
Richardson 876.
Shoreham, Sussex, harbour constructed 539.
Shorthand, libraries of books on 415,
Lewis’ system 415,
Lloyd’s stenography 458,
shorthand writers 1548,
the only writer in Devonshire 314.
Shrewsbury school, Shropshire, head master 195.
Silk, manufacturer Nicholson 1141,
mercer Jeffery 70.
Silver, made from base metals 1329,
to separate silver from lead 1388.
Singh, Duleep, d. 1893, The Maharajah, his guardian 479.
Singers, See also Actors,
Amadi 504,
Andrews 1382,
Barnett 1506,
Bianchi 273,
Bolton 306,
Celli 1684,
Cole 1087,
Fillippi 1500,
Fisher 688,
Grisi 736,
Incledon 9,
Isaacs 25,
Jackson 273,
Jones 132,
Jonghmans 147,
Kennedy 196,
King 306,
Knight 254,
Knyvett, C. 265,
Knyvett, D. 265,
Knyvett, W. 265,
Lablache, F. 271,
Lablache, L. 271,
Lacy, J. 273,
Lacy, J. W. 273,
Land 289,
Lanza 306,
Lee 351,
Leffler 368,
Lind 433,
Linn 441,
Love 502,
Maas 555,
Maeder 688,
Manvers 730, 755,
Mario 736,
Marras 743,
Masson 788,
Miranda 900,
New 1114,
Orridge 1262,
Oudin 1276,
Parepa-Rosa 1334,
Parry 1364,
Pasta 1376,
Patey 1382,
Paton 1383,
Patti 1388,
Paul 1393,
Penna 1450,
Perkins 1467,
Piccolomini 1468,
Persiani 1475,
Phillipps 1499,
Phillips, H. 1506,
Potocki 1599,
Povey 254, 1607,
Purdy 1673,
Puzzi 1679,
Pyne, G. 1683,
Pyne, J. K. 1684,
Pyne, L. F. 1684,
Pyne, S. 1684,
Roze 1467,
Schulz 744,
Stephens 306,
Travis 265,
Tree 306, 1404,
Vestris 794,
Waylett 351,
Woods 1384,
Wyndham 271.
Singers, Comic, Leybourne 421,
Lloyd 226,
Maynard 816,
Moody 941,
Ogden 1217,
Pearce 1415,
Powell 1609,
Vance 421.
Skating, National skating association founded 1012,
skating rink 1644.
Slap Bang, the expression first used 1471.
Slavery, anti-slavery advocate, Lushington 535,
engagés libres system 656,
meeting in London 1616,
slave owner 1542.
Sleep, on going to sleep 945.
Sleigh, Burrowes Willcocks Arthur, colonel, d. Chelsea March 1869, proprietor of Daily telegraph 407.
Smith, Albert, d. 1860, entertainer, takes lessons in fencing and boxing 31,
writes an entertainment 1364.
Smith, Thomas Assheton, yachtman, d. 1858, Pandora’s voyage to North Pole 498.
Smith, John, of the Pop Gun inn, a traitor 384.
Smoke-jack maker 513.
Snow, lost and buried for a night in the 64.
Snuff boxes, painting of 578.
Soap, hardened by sulphate of soda 1168,
resin used in manufacture 1565.
Societies, See also Associations, col. 1703
and Institutions, col. 1722.
Acclimatisation, secretary 513.
Alliance national land and building founded 1156.
Amalgamated society of railway servants, president 78.
Artists’ benevolent fund, secretary 769.
Arundel, their fictile ivories 1108.
Antiquaries, director 894.
Art union of London founded 1566.
Artists’ annuity fund founded 1681.
Askesian founded 1460, 1509.
Astronomical founded 142.
Artists’ annuity fund, president 532.
Bath and West of England agricultural 537, 1549.
Berwickshire naturalists’ club, founders 114.
Brighton and Sussex medico-chirurgical 80.
British gynæcological, first president 824.
British homœopathic founded 1690.
British mineralogical and geological founded 1460.
Cambrian promoted 1363.
Cambrian archæological association founded 127.
Cambridge Camden founded 1089.
Chemical founded 491, 885.
Chetham founded 1355.
Choral harmonists’ founded 1184.
Classical harmonists’ founded 1184.
Church of England protection, president 436.
City philosophical founded 1484.
Civil engineers, secretary 308.
Coffee tavern company originated 1586.
Cymmroderion founded 1287.
Devonshire association founded 1447.
Emancipation for slaves founded 525.
English church union founded 1286,
president 436.
Entomological founded 1122.
Entomological, New South Wales founded 652.
Epidemiological founded 897.
Ethnological originated 228.
Female emigration founded 1688.
Financial reform union founded 1156.
For improvement of religious condition of seamen originated 237.
Gaelic, the founder 476,
first chief of 675.
Geographical, president 1033.
Geological of Cornwall, founders 705, 1336.
Governesses asylum, founder 278.
Handel founded and ceased 598.
Hardwick’s debating founded 667.
Hermetic founded 234.
Highland and agricultural of Scotland, secretary 809.
Historic society of Lancashire and Cheshire 1527.
Horticultural, secretary 434.
Hunterian founded 1290.
Irish founded 782.
Jersey agricultural and horticultural founded 348.
Juridical founded 421.
Linnean, librarian 242.
Linnean, New South Wales, constituted 652.
London and Middlesex archæological, president 481.
London oratory founded 264.
London political union founded 1156.
London, for promoting christianity among Jews, mission to Poland 570.
London trade council formed 1212.
Lowtonian founded 514.
Martineau founded 774.
Meteorological, president 720.
Microscopical founded 444,
president 1687.
Miners’ national union, president 581.
National choral established 766.
National complete suffrage union founded 862.
National orphan home founded 233.
Owls commencement and ending 260.
Oxford Old college historical revived 1077.
Parliamentary candidate founded 1473.
Pharmaceutical, founder 8.
Philharmonic established 1184.
Philosophical of London founded 1484.
Political union founded 1032.
Ray, founders of 114.
Religious tract, book editor 724,
books of travels 724,
secretary 146.
Royal, Woollaston medals made of palladium 109.
Royal agricultural founded 861, 1678.
Royal Asiatic, last original member 672.
Royal astronomical, Lee bequests 354,
president 721.
Royal geographical, secretary 36.
Royal horticultural, scientific director 1041.
Royal microscopical founded 1290.
Royal society of literature founded 85.
Royal society for protection of life from fire, 509.
Royal toxophilite 1576.
Scottish corporation, secretary 914.
Sisterhood of Good Samaritans at Coatham 1389.
Smeatonian society of engineers, treasurer 1067.
Society for suppression of vice, secretary 1641.
Society of arts, the Swiney cup 659.
Society of English medallists founded 1585.
Society of reporters founded 415.
Sunday school union founded 1152.
Sussex archæological founded 515.
Torquay natural history founded 1447.
Tract, secretary 144.
Utilitarian founded 875.
Wernerian natural history founded 57.
Wetteravian, a member 359.
Women’s printing founded 1378.
Yorkshire agricultural founded 861.
Zoological, secretary 902.
Society men and women, Jersey 90,
Montagu 929.
Solicitors general, Collier 925,
Jervis 91,
Karslake 160,
Keating 169,
Kelly 182.
Soda water apparatus 1460.
Somersault throwers, Lee 356,
Lees 365,
Myers 1065.
Somersetshire, lords lieutenant 5, 1596.
Song writers, Kenny 203,
Mackay 619,
Mitchell 903,
Perry 1470,
Roberts, Mrs. V. 274.
Sothern Edward Askew, d. 1881, actor, Our american cousin produced 174.
South Kensington museum, catalogue compiler 212,
Jones collection 133,
Percy’s metallurgical specimens 1464.
Southey, Robert d. 1843 poet, an acquaintance 1409,
Mason corresponds with him 782.
Southwark, Surrey, borough court of record 1406,
high steward of 1406.
Spain, Jameson created a caballero of 57,
Lorca outrage on H. D. Jencken 75,
St. Sebastian forlorn hope at 127.
Spelling, J. Jones system of Welsh spelling 130,
Mavor’s spelling book 806.
Spiral ascensionist, Ethardo 1203.
Spiritualists, Moses a medium 998,
Mountford 1008.
Spithead, Hants. sea forts constructed 344.
Split ring makers 783.
Spirits, sale of spirits amendment act 772.
Spurgeon, Charles Hadden, d. 1892, preacher, his sermon on baptismal regeneration 1669,
sermons and books printed 1376.
Stafford, first mayor 779.
Staffordshire, lord lieutenant 423.
Stained glass, designer of Oliphant 1233.
Stanhope, Lady Hester Lucy, d. 1839, her medical attendant 855.
Stanley, Arthur Penryn, d. 1881, dean of Westminster his great friend 1423.
Stanley, Henry Morton i.e. John Rowlands b. 1841, expedition for relief of Emin Pacha 56.
Stationers, Key 214, 401,
Parkins 1354.
Stationery, cheap paper and envelopes introduced 1355.
Statues and Busts, Akroyd 1493,
Albert 135, 1157,
Carpenter 1154,
Clyde 743,
Crosby 1154,
Derby 1157,
Franklin 1157,
Gilpin 104,
Gough 104,
Iddesleigh 1176,
Ingram 14,
Jacob 43,
Jefferies 68,
Jesse 94,
Jessel 95,
Jones 141,
Key 215,
Kiallmark 216,
Lane 296,
Lander 316,
Lawrence 330,
Leeman 363,
Lewis 413,
Lloyd 460,
Liardet 422,
Locke 467,
Logan 476,
Louis Philippe 135,
Macaulay 563,
Macdonald 584,
Macleod 657,
Mc Niell 672,
Maning 719,
Marsh 751,
Marshall 759,
Mary, Queen 1028,
Mason 783,
Mathew 791,
Maurice 805,
May 813,
Mayer 813,
Mayo 819,
Moffat 104,
Moor 914,
Mort 992,
Murray, D. 1042,
Napier, C. J. 1074,
Napier, W. F. P. 1080,
Napier, R. C. 1072,
Neill 1095,
Napoleon iii 135,
Oastler 1195,
O’Brien 1201,
O’Hagan 1224,
Outram 1157, 1279,
Owen 1287,
Parkes 1353,
Peabody 1408,
Pease 1427,
Peel L. 1434,
Peel W. 1435,
Phayre 1488,
Pierce 1528,
Plowden 15,
Pond 1577,
Pugin 1665,
Quain, J. R. 1685,
Quain, R. 1686,
Richard Cœur de Lion 743,
Sadler 1339,
Tennant 1339,
Victoria, Queen 135, 1157,
Vincent 104,
Wales, prince of 15,
Wallace 1339,
Watt 1028,
Wellington 1157,
William iv 1154.
Steam hammers 989, 1085.
Steam locomotives, competition at Rainhill 198,
Field’s boiler 855,
high pressure 1466, 1467,
Rocket, The 1521.
Steam ships, boomerang propeller 907,
direct acting annular cylinder screw engine 800,
double cylinder engine 800,
feathering screw propeller 800, 801,
first screw steamer to the Levant 923,
inventors of steam navigation 886,
iron boats built 889,
iron first used in building 280, 1079,
iron plating in alternate strakes 1077,
Jackson’s propeller 32,
Manby’s oscillating engines 1449,
marine engine improvements 58,
oscillating engines first used 1099,
oscillating engine, slide valves worked by an eccentric 800,
paddles used instead of wheels 502,
propellers 801,
screw propellers 513, 1536,
steeple engine invented 1075,
surface condenser for engines 1075,
twin screw invented 375.
See also Ships.
Steam vessels, Atlantic greyhound, i.e. City of Rome 101,
City of Berlin 16,
La Normandie 101.
Steel, Bessemer process used 843,
steel smelters 95.
Steel pen makers, Mason 783,
Perry 783, 1472.
Stereoscopic and photographic company 1183.
Stephenson, George, d. 1848, engineer, his connection with E. Pease 1426.
Stirlingshire, lord lieutenant 940.
Stock exchange, London, the twelve jewish brokers 932.
Stockport, Lancashire, chartist disturbances 1447,
Jennison’s gardens established 83.
Stone throwing 442.
Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, d. 1896, author and lord Byron 374.
Street dramatic reciter 1126.
Street making, concrete for 905.
Strickland, Agnes, d. 1874, author, her sister 941.
Strikes, dock labourers 1182.
Strutt, Mr., theatrical manager 171.
Struve, Dr., prepares mineral waters at Brighton 230.
Stuart, Charles Edward, d. 1788, The Young Pretender, his widow 1690.
Sudburry, Suffolk, disfranchised 123.
Suez, Egypt, first Englishman residing there 406.
Sugar, duties abolished 1175,
machine for cutting 1019,
sugar refiners 599.
Suicides, Jackson, Arthur Gregory, hanged himself 28.
Jones, John, died from attempted suicide 132.
Jullien, Louis G. A. J., wounded himself with a knife 156.
Lardner, Leopold James, threw himself from a window 308.
Le Grew, James, committed suicide 373.
Levy, Amy, inhaled fumes of charcoal 407.
Lingard, James W., committed suicide 439.
Low, Walter, took paregoric 510.
Lowndes, Jefferson, shot himself 515.
Lyttleton, George W. L., Baron, jumped out of a window 551.
Martin, G., cut his throat 765.
Matthiessen, A., took prussic acid 798.
Mercer, George, shot himself in bed 846.
Montgomery, W., shot himself 938.
Morris, R., shot himself 985.
Mowat, J. L. G., hanged himself Oxford 1010.
Moxon, Walter, drank hydrocyanic acid 1012.
Owen, G., took poison 1285.
Patton, George, cut his throat and threw himself into Almond river 1391.
Paul, Wentworth F. D., took prussic acid 1395.
Peace, W., shot himself St. Mary’s hospital 1416.
Perceval, Arthur Philip, took laudanum 1461.
Perry, Richard Davis, shot himself 1472.
Pigott, Richard, shot himself at Madrid 1534.
Price, David, shot himself 1636.
Sulphate of ammonia produced from gasses of blast furnaces 1099.
Sun, bright line spectrum of the cornea first seen 1567.
Sunday, Strome ferry case 198,
Sunday receptions 1653.
Surgeons, College of, diploma returned 630,
president 168.
Surgery, abdominal aorta tied for aneurism of the iliac 52,
anatomical museums 148, 158,
bleeding, last advocates of 312,
Cæsarean operation 11,
double stethoscope invented 343,
external iliac artery tied 1115,
ether inhaling apparatus 1263,
excision of varicose veins, operation for 759,
flexible cautery invented 338,
galvano cautery introduced 759,
hospitals, circular wards for 759,
hernia, operation for 528,
hydrocele, cure of 459,
instrument for removal of uterine polypi 1223,
Kiernan’s anatomy classes suppressed 218,
knee joint, excision of 126,
Lane’s medical school 586,
larynx, operations on the 630,
lithotomy operations 39, 459,
liver discoveries respecting its structure 218,
Lizar’s lines 454,
membrane of the eye discovered 41,
nævi, injection of with liquor ammoniæ 459,
Pagan’s obstetric forceps 1302,
patent truss 399,
pure rubber bandage for ulcers 767,
screw lithotrite tourniquet 399,
strabismus, cure of 633,
syphon douche invented 144,
tissue paper for dressing wounds 603,
tongue removed for cancer 1189,
tracheotomy without tubes 767,
upper jaw removed 454.
Sussex, duke of, d. 1843, his wife the duchess of Inverness 18.
Sweden, seaweed sent to England 225,
steamboats introduced 1292.
Swell, a broken down 1199.
Sweeney Todd, the barber of Fleet st., a drama 1629.
Swimmers, Drumlanrig 1687,
Johnson 109,
Kirkpatrick 245,
Leverell 404,
Lort 498,
Pearce 1415.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, b. 1837, poet, ode by 8,
Queen Mother published 1523.
Swinfen v. Swinfen, a barrister suing for his fees 196.
Swordsman, M’ Ian 612.
Sydenham, See Crystal palace, col. 1712.