BRISCO, Sir Robert, 3 Baronet. b. Crofton hall, Carlisle 17 Sep. 1808; succeeded 1 Oct. 1862; became a pledged abstainer 1858, vice pres. of United Kingdom Alliance, lectured frequently on temperance. d. Crofton hall 23 Dec. 1884.
BRISCO, Sir Wastell, 2 Baronet. b. 17 May 1778; succeeded 27 Dec. 1806; sheriff of Cumberland 1813. d. Crofton hall 1 Oct. 1862.
BRISCOE, John Ivatt (son of John Briscoe of Cross Deep, Twickenham). b. Twickenham 1791; ed. at Ealing and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; M.P. for Surrey 1830–32, for East Surrey 1832–34, for Westbury 1837–41 and for West Surrey 1857 to death. d. 60 Eaton place, London 16 Aug. 1870.
BRISCOE, Joseph. b. Wilmount, co. Kilkenny; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; went to United States 1854; connected as civil engineer with many important public works in Pennsylvania coalfields; enlisted in First New York Volunteers at outbreak of the civil war; chief of the staff of Tenth army corps; colonel of 199 regiment Pennsylvania volunteers; commanded a brigade at capture of Petersburg; stormed Fort Gregg for which he was brevetted general; pres. of Examining board for officers in regular army. d. New York 24 May 1869 aged 35.
BRISTOL, Frederick William Hervey, 1 Marquis of (younger son of Right Rev. Frederic Augustus Hervey, bishop of Derry, 4 Earl of Bristol 1730–1803). b. 2 June 1769; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1788, LLD. 1811; ensign 1 Foot Guards 1788–92; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds 27 May 1796 to 8 July 1803 when he succeeded; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 20 Feb. 1801 to 8 Nov. 1803; F.R.S. 23 May 1805; created Marquis of Bristol and Earl Jermyn of Horning’s Heath, Suffolk 30 June 1826. d. 6 St. James’s sq. London 15 Feb. 1859. Doyle’s Official baronage of England i, 242 (1886), portrait.
BRISTOL, Frederick William Hervey, 2 Marquis of (eld. son of the preceding). b. Portland place, London 15 July 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1822, LLD. 1862; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds 12 June 1826 to 15 Feb. 1859 when he succeeded; treasurer of Royal household 9 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846; P.C. 6 Oct. 1841; colonel of West Suffolk militia 25 March 1846 to death. d. Ickworth park, Bury St. Edmunds 30 Oct. 1864.
BRISTOW, Alfred Rhodes (youngest son of Isaac Bristow of Greenwich, government contractor). b. Greenwich 20 Dec. 1819; ed. at King’s college London; admitted solicitor 1842, head of firm of Bristow and Tarrant of London and Greenwich; represented Greenwich and Deptford at Metropolitan Board of Works 1856–62; solicitor to the Admiralty 1862 to death; barrister G.I. 17 Nov. 1868; M.P. for Kidderminster 30 April 1859 to May 1862; treasurer of Westminster Chess Club Oct. 1870 to death; fell down dead on leaving railway station at Sydenham 5 April 1875. Westminster Papers viii, 14 (1876), portrait.
BRISTOW, Henry. b. 1786; cornet 1 Life Guards 14 Feb. 1805; major 11 Foot 20 Jany. 1814 to 27 April 1815 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Madrid 22 Nov. 1874.
BRISTOWE, Edmund (son of Mr. Bristowe of Windsor, heraldic printer). b. Windsor 1 April 1787; made sketches of public characters in Eton and Windsor; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1809–38; some of his works are in the royal collection at Windsor. d. Eton 12 Feb. 1876.
BRITTAIN, Thomas. b. Sheffield 2 Jany. 1806; a professional accountant; lived at Manchester about 1842 to death; lectured on natural science at mechanics’ and similar institutions; vice. pres. of Manchester Microscopical Society 1879, then pres.; author of Half a dozen songs by Brittannicus 1846 privately printed; Micro-fungi, when and where to find them 1882; Whist, how to play and how to win 1882. d. Manchester 23 Jany. 1884. Axon’s Field Naturalist (1882), p. 148; Unitarian Herald 1 Feb. 1884.
BRITTON, John (eld. son of Mr. Britton of Kington St. Michael near Chippenham Wilts., farmer). b. Kington St. Michael 7 July 1771; author of The beauties of Wiltshire 3 vols. 1801–25; The architectural antiquities of Great Britain 4 vols. 1805–14; Cathedral antiquities of England 14 vols. 1814–35; Dictionary of the architecture and archæology of the middle ages 4 parts 1830–8; edited with E. W. Brayley The beauties of England and Wales 10 vols. 1801–14; granted civil list pension of £75, 5 April 1852. d. Burton cottage Burton st. London 1 Jany. 1857. Autobiography of John Britton 1850; G.M. ii, 126, 185–92, 258 (1857).
BRIZZI, Signor, stage name of Francesco Achille Scipione Bisteghi (son of Giovanni Bisteghi, general in army of Napoleon I). b. Milan 16 April 1810; pupil at Royal Academy of Music, London Sep. 1828 to Dec. 1831; fought in Piedmontese army against the Austrians 1848; greatly assisted Benjamin Lumley in organising new company for Her Majesty’s theatre London 1855, director of the company on its Continental tour 1856. d. 47 Grove road, Regent’s park, London 24 Aug. 1884. Illust. sporting and dramatic news xxii, 27 (1884).
BROADBRIDGE, William, b. Duncton near Petworth, Sussex 1 Oct. 1790; a farmer there; played in cricket matches 1813–40; played his first match at Lords (Sussex v. Epsom) 2–6 July 1817 when 1047 runs were made altogether, being largest number ever made down to 1861 or later; a good batsman and wicket keeper; in a match Sussex v. Hampshire and Surrey 7 Aug. 1826 he performed extraordinary feat of stumping 7 men and catching 2. d. Duncton 19 April 1860.
BROADHEAD, Henry (6 son of Theodore Henry Broadhead of Holly Grove, Windsor, M.P. 1767–1820). b. 25 April 1806; entered navy 6 April 1820; captain 27 June 1846; admiral on half pay 1 Aug. 1877. d. Walton on Thames 20 May 1878.
BROADHEAD, William. Secretary of Saw Grinders Union at Sheffield from 1848 in connection with which a great many outrages were committed; treasurer of United Kingdom Alliance of organised trades; kept an inn in Carver st. Sheffield to 22 Aug. 1867 when magistrates refused to renew his license; went to America Nov. 1869 but failed to find employment there; lectured upon his own career; a grocer in Meadow st. Sheffield to death; he is the villain under name of Grotait of Charles Reade’s novel Put yourself in his place. d. Meadow st. Sheffield 15 March 1879 aged about 60. Sheffield Daily Telegraph 17 March 1879 p. 4, col. 2; Trades unions commission, Sheffield outrages inquiry vol. 2 Minutes of evidence (1867) 222–51.
BROADLEY, Henry, b. 1793; chairman of Hull and Selby railway 1836–43; M.P. for east riding of Yorkshire 10 Aug. 1837 to death. d. 3 Charles st. St. James’s square, London 8 Aug. 1851 in 58 year. bur. Holy Trinity church Hull 16 Aug.
BROCK, Thomas Saumarez. Entered navy 9 Feb. 1815; captain 13 Nov. 1850; held possession of Eupatoria against the Russians 15 Sep. 1854 to 25 Dec. 1854; superintendent agent of transports at Genoa 15 March 1855; retired R.A. 20 March 1867; C.B. 5 July 1855; knight of St. Maurice and Lazare 1856. d. The hermitage, Guernsey 28 April 1873 in 73 year.
BROCK, Rev. William (eld. child of Wm. Brock of Honiton, Devon, Unitarian baptist who d. 20 June 1811). b. Honiton 14 Feb. 1807; ed. at Culmstock and Honiton; apprenticed to a watchmaker at Sidmouth Sep. 1820 to March 1828; a journeyman watchmaker at Hertford 1828–29; studied at Derby and Stepney baptist college; pastor of baptist chapel in parish of St. Mary’s Norwich 1833–48; pastor of Bloomsbury chapel London 5 Dec. 1848 to 30 Sep. 1872; D.D. Harvard 1859; held his first service in London theatres, at the Britannia theatre Hoxton 18 Dec. 1859; pres. of London Baptist association Nov. 1865; went to the United States 1866; pres. of Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland 1869; author of Fraternal appeals to young men; Sacramental religion 1850; A biographical sketch of Sir Henry Havelock 1858; Midsummer morning sermons 1872. d. Orwell house, St. Leonards 13 Nov. 1875. Life of W. Brock by C. M. Birrell 1878, portrait; W. Brock by G. W. M’Cree 1876; Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London (1873) 81–88; I.L.N. lxvii, 537, 590 (1875), portrait; Graphic xi, 518, 533 (1875), portrait.
BROCK, Rev. William John (eld. son of John Brock of George st. Portman sq. London). b. about 1818; ed. at Magd. hall Ox.; C. of St. George’s, Barnsley 1852; P.C. of Hayfield, Derbyshire 1856 to death; author of Wayside verses 1848; Twenty seven sermons 1855, 2 ed. 1858; The rough