Frederic Boase - Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

AILESBURY, George Wm. Frederick Brudenell-Bruce, 2 Marquess of ( elder son of the preceding ). b. Lower Grosvenor st. London 20 Nov. 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch Ox.; lieut. col. commandant Wilts yeomanry cavalry 30 June 1837 and col. 1 April 1876 to death; summoned to house of Lords in his father’s barony of Bruce 10 July 1838; kept a racing stud 1840 to death; won the St. Leger with St. Albans 12 Sep. 1860; succeeded his father 4 Jany. 1856; aide de camp to the Queen with rank of colonel 13 March 1857 to death; P.C. 18 June 1859; master of the horse to the Queen 24 June 1859 to July 1866 and 16 Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874; lord lieut. of Wilts 25 March 1863 to death; K.G. 23 May 1864; succeeded his cousin as 8 Earl of Cardigan 28 March 1868. ( m. 11 May 1837 Mary Caroline 2 dau. of George Augustus Herbert, 11 Earl of Pembroke, she was b. 22 March 1813). d. Savernake park, Marlborough 6 Jany. 1878. Baily’s Mag. iv , 217–20 (1862) portrait .

AILSA, Archibald Kennedy, 2 Marquess of ( 1 son of Archibald Kennedy, styled Earl of Cassilis 1794–1832, by Eleanor only dau. of Alexander Allardyce of Dunottar, co. Kincardine, she d. 16 Nov. 1832 ). b. Dunottar, Aug. 1816; succeeded his grandfather 8 Sep. 1846; K.T. 7 March 1859; Lord. lieut. of Ayrshire 7 Dec. 1861 to death. ( m. 10 Nov. 1846 Julia 2 dau. of Sir Richard Mounteney Jephson, 1 baronet). d. Culzean castle, Maybole, N.B. 20 March 1870 from injuries received in the hunting field.

AINGER, Rev. Thomas ( youngest son of William Ainger of Whittlesea, Cambs. ) b. Whittlesea 1 Aug. 1799; ed. at Norwich gr. school and St. John’s Coll. Cam.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; C. of St. Giles ch. Reading 1 Sep. 1822; Asst. minister of St. Mary’s, Greenwich 1825; P.C. of Hampstead 28 March 1841 to death; founded in Hampstead, the Parochial Association in aid of the Society for the propagation of Gospel 1845; founded the Church Extension Association 1858; Preb. of St. Paul’s Cath., Aug. 1859; preached his last sermon Easter day 5 April 1863. ( m. 4 Aug. 1828 Frances only dau. of Wm. Barnard of Deptford Green). d. the Parsonage, Hampstead 15 Nov. 1863. bur. in churchyard of parish church 20 Nov. The last sermons of the Rev. Thomas Ainger, M.A., with a memoir of the author prefixed 1864.

AINSLIE, Frederick George. 2 lieut. 21 foot 24 April 1828; lieut. col. 23 April 1852 to death. d. on board the “Andes” in Scutari harbour 14 Nov. 1854 aged 45, of wounds received at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov.

AINSLIE, Rev. Gilbert ( youngest son of Henry Ainslie, M.D. of Hall Garth Lancashire, he was senior wrangler 1781 and d. 1834, by Agnes dau. of Wm. Ford of Coniston Water Head ). b. 1793; ed. at Charterhouse and Pemb. coll. Cam. 8 wrangler and B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; foundation fellow of his college 1816; treasurer, tutor, bursar and lecturer; laid first stones of university library at Cam. Sep. 1837, and of the Fitzwilliam museum 2 Nov. 1837; Master of his college 15 Aug. 1828 to death; Vice Chancellor of the Univ. 1828 and 1836. ( m. 2 Dec. 1829 Emily 2 dau. of Wm. Coxhead Marsh of Park hall, Essex). d. Pembroke college lodge 9 Jany. 1870. bur. at Over Kellet, Lancs. 14 Jany.

AINSLIE, Hugh. b. Bargeny Mains, parish of Dailly, Ayrshire 5 April 1792; emigrated to New York 1822; established several breweries, mills and factories in the western States; author of A pilgrimaqe to the land of Burns 1822; Scottish songs, ballads and poems 1855. d. Louisville Kentucky 11 March 1878.

AINSLIE, Sir Robert Sharp, 2 Baronet. b. 1777; M.P. for Mitchell, Cornwall 6 July 1802 to 24 Oct. 1806; succeeded 22 July 1812. d. Chingford, Essex 14 March 1858.

AINSWORTH, James ( son of Jeremiah Ainsworth of Manchester ). b. Manchester 5 March 1783; ed. at Manchester free gr. sch. and by Rev. Joshua Brookes; apprenticed at the infirmary Manchester 1798; studied at Univ. of Edin.; surgeon to the infirmary Manchester 1806; the first to commence anatomical lectures in Manchester; one of the ablest operators of his day, and the first who tied the internal iliac artery successfully; one of the founders of Natural history society, and of Botanical and horticultural society; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society Jany. 1805 to death; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843. d. Cliff point, Higher Broughton near Manchester 28 Oct. 1853. Admission Register of Manchester school ii , 202–204 (1868).

AINSWORTH, Peter, b. 24 Nov. 1790; M.P. for Bolton, (radical) 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. d. Smithills hall, Bolton 18 Jany. 1870.

AINSWORTH, William Harrison ( elder son of Thomas Ainsworth of Manchester, solicitor 1778–1824, by Ann Harrison 1778–1842 eld. dau. of Rev. Ralph Harrison of Manchester, Presbyterian minister ). b. King st. Manchester 4 Feb. 1805; ed. at the free gr. sch. 1817–22; articled 1821 to Alexander Kay of Manchester, solicitor; a publisher in London 1826–27; edited Bentley’s Miscellany , March 1839 to Dec. 1841; author of Jack Sheppard , 3 vols. 1839 which was produced in dramatic form simultaneously, at Adelphi, Queen’s, Sadler’s Wells, Victoria and Pavilion theatres in London, Oct. 1839; received £1000 from the ‘ Sunday Times ’ for ‘ Old St. Paul’s ’ 1841, and another £1000 for the ‘ Lancashire Witches ’ 1848; edited Ainsworth’s Magazine , Feb. 1842 to 1854; purchased New monthly magazine from Henry Colburn 1845; purchased Bentley’s Miscellany 1854 and combined with it Ainsworth’s Magazine, Jany. 1855; gave the flitch of bacon at Dunmow in Essex 19 July 1855 and 25 July 1857; granted a civil list pension of £100 a year 10 Dec. 1868; entertained at a banquet in the town hall, Manchester by the mayor, Thomas Baker 15 Sep. 1881; lived at the Elms, Kilburn; at Kensal manor house; at Brighton; at Tunbridge Wells; at Reigate. ( m. 11 Oct. 1826 Anne Frances younger dau. of John Ebers of John st. London, publisher, she d. 6 March 1838). d. St. Mary’s road, Reigate 3 Jany. 1882. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 9 Jany. Manchester quarterly , i , 136–55 (1882) portrait ; Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 256–62, portrait ; J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 257–72; Illustrated Review , ii , 321–23 (1872) portrait ; Horne’s New spirit of the age , ii , 215–22 (1844).

Note.—His novel Mervyn Clitheroe is autobiographical; in March 1878 he presented a life size portrait of himself, painted by H. W. Pickersgill, about 1841 to the Chetham Library Manchester; the best portrait of him is the figure in the vignette by Cruikshank, which forms the standing title to monthly editorial gossip in early numbers of Ainsworth’s magazine. He was caricatured unmercifully by Thackeray in Punch. His books and the MSS. of 18 of his novels were sold by Sotheby in London for £463, 21–22 Aug. 1882. He was the author of upwards of 40 works of fiction.

AIRD, David Mitchell. Compositor at The Sun newspaper office, London; started a bimonthly magazine called The Student which lasted 6 months; edited The Mirror 1843; printed for the Countess de Brunetiere Tallien the first daily French paper published in England 1851 which failed; barrister M.T. 11 June 1867; wrote several books under pseudonym of Pamphilius. d. 2 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 15 June 1876. Head and Heart legacy by Pamphilius 1861, portrait .

AIRD, Thomas ( 2 child of James Aird of Bowden, Roxburghshire, portioner or farmer who d. aged 86, by Isabella Paisley, she d. aged 86 ) b. Bowden 28 Aug. 1802; ed. there, at Melrose and at Univ. of Edinburgh; edited Edinburgh Weekly Journal 1833; Dumfriesshire and Galloway herald at Dumfries 1835–63; presided at Scott centenary at Dumfries 9 Aug. 1871; author of The old bachelor in the Scottish village 1845; Poetical works 1848, 5 ed. 1878; contributed poetry and prose to Blackwood’s Magazine , d. Dumfries 25 April 1876. bur. near Robert Burns in St. Michael’s churchyard 1 May. Poetical works of T. Aird with a memoir by Rev. J. Wallace , 5 ed. 1878, portrait .