Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB Epitome 20

This listing page belongs to Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography, spun out of the “missing article” project, and is concerned with checking whether Wikipedia has articles for all those listed in the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), a 63-volume British biographical dictionary published 1885-1900 and now in the public domain. This page relates to volume 20 running from name Forrest to name Garner.

Scope of the subproject:

It is envisaged that the following work will be done:

  • Checks made that links on this page point to a wikipedia article about the same person;
  • Addition of new articles for all red-links based on DNB text;
  • Checking whether blue-linked articles would benefit from additional text from DNB.

Listings are posted as bulleted lists, with footnotes taken from the DNB summaries published in 1904. The listings and notes are taken from scanned text that is often corrupt and in need of correction. Not all the entries on the list correspond to actual DNB articles; some are “redirects” and there are a few articles devoted to families rather than individuals.

If you are engaged in this work you will probably find quite a number of unreferenced articles among the blue links. You are also encouraged to mention the DNB as a reference on such articles whenever they correspond to the summary, as part of the broader campaign for good sourcing. A suggested template is {{DNB}}.

Locating the full text:

DNB text is now available on Wikisource for all first edition articles, on the page s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Vol 20 Forrest - Garner. Names here are not inverted, as they are in the original: Joe Bloggs would be found at Wikisource s:Bloggs, Joe (DNB00). The text for the first supplement is available too: NB that this Epitome listing includes those supplement articles also.

List maintenance and protocols:

List maintenance tasks are to check and manipulate links in the list with piping or descriptive parenthetical disambiguators, and to mark list entries with templates to denote their status; whilst as far as possible retaining the original DNB names:

  • piping: [[Charles Abbot]] -> [[Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester|Charles Abbot]]
  • descriptive parenthetical disambiguators [[Charles Abbot]] -> [[Charles Abbot (botanist)]]
  • both combined [[Charles Abbot]] -> [[Charles Abbot (botanist)|Charles Abbot]]

The work involves:

  • Checking that bluelinks link to the correct person; if so, {{tick}} them. If not, try to find the correct article and pipe or disambiguate the link.
  • Check whether redlinks can be linked to an article by piping or disambiguation.
  • Create articles based on the DNB text for redlinks for which no wikipedia article can be found
  • Check whether existing blue-linked articles could benefit from an input of DNB text (e.g. the article is a stub), and if so, update the article from DNB

A number of templates are provided to mark-up entries:

  • {{mnl}} the link runs to a wrong person; - produces the text: [link currently leads to a wrong person]. It is preferable to amend the link by adding a disambiguator to make it red, if an article for the correct person cannot be found
  • {{dn}} the link runs to a dab page - produces the text [disambiguation needed]. It is preferable to amend the link by adding a disambiguator to make it red, if an article for the correct person cannot be found
  • {{tick}} the link has been checked and runs to the correct person - checkY
  • {{tick}} {{tick}} the text of the linked article has been checked against DNB text and would not benefit from additional DNB text - checkY checkY
  • {{tick}} {{cross}} the text of the linked article looks short enough to suggest it would benefit from additional DNB text - checkY ☒N

Note that before creating new articles based on DNB text you should undertake searches to check that the article's subject does not already have an article. It is easily possible that the disambiguation used in this page is not the disambiguation used in an existing wikipedia article. Equally, feel free to improve upon the disambiguation used in redlinks on this page by amending them.

Supplement articles:

Because of the provenance of the listing, a number of the original articles will not in fact be in the announced volume, but in one of the three supplement volumes published in 1901. Since the DNB did not include articles about living people, this will be the case whenever the date of death is after the publication date of the attributed volume. In due course there will be a separate listing.

General thoughts:

This project is intended as a new generation in “merging encyclopedias”, as well as being one of the most ambitious attempted. For general ideas of where we are, and some justification of the approach being taken, see the essay Wikipedia:Merging encyclopedias.

Helpful access templates:

helpful templates

There are two templates to help link to the correct page: {{Cite DNBIE}} and {{DNBIE}}. The page number automatically link to the correct url for the page at the Internet Archive site.

{{Cite DNBIE|title=Dove, John|page=358}}
Public Domain Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Dove, John". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 358.

and

{{DNBIE|title=Dove, John|page=358}}
Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Dove, John". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 358.

if a wstitle= parameter is used in place of title= then the templates also link the DNB article on Wikisource:

{{cite DNBIE|wstitle=Dove, John (d.1665?)|page=358}}
Public Domain Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Dove, John (d.1665?)". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 358.
  1. ^ Arthur Forrest (d. 1770), commodore; served on West Indian and South American stations; captured merchant fleet off Petit-Goâve, 1768; died holding Jamaica command.
  2. ^ Ebenezer Forrest (. 1774), attorney; author of An Account of what seemed most remarkable in the five days peregrination of Messrs. Tothall, Scott, Hogarth, Thornhill, and F. (1782), illustrated by Hogarth.
  3. ^ Henry Forrest or Forres (d. 1533?), Scottish martyr; friar of the Benedictine order; burned as a heretic at St. Andrews for words spoken in approval of Patrick Hamilton.
  4. ^ John Forrest (1474?–1538). See Forest.
  5. ^ Robert Forrest (1789?–1852), sculptor ; stonemason in Clydesdale: executed the colossal figure of Lord Melville in St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, the statue of Knox in the Glasgow necropolis, and that of Mr. Ferguson of Raith at Haddiugton.
  6. ^ Theodosius Forrest (1728–1784), author and lawyer; son of Ebenezer Forrest; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1762-81; solicitor to Co vent Garden Theatre and friend of Garrick and Colman; committed suicide.
  7. ^ Thomas Forrest (d. 1540). See Forret.
  8. ^ Thomas Forrest (fl. 1580), translator of three orations of Isocrates, 1580.
  9. ^ Thomas Forrest (1729?–1802?), navigator; formed for the East India Company new settlement at Balambangau, 1770; surveyed coasts of New Guinea and Sulu Archipelago, being the first to place accurately Waygiou on the chart, 1774-6; discovered Forrest Strait, 1790: publishedJournal of the Esther Brig... from Bengal to Quedah 1783, and Voyage from Calcutta to the Mergni Archipelago 1792; also wrote Treatise on the Monsoons lu East India
  10. ^ William Forrest (fl. 1581), Roman catholic priest and poet; of Christ Church, Oxford; afterwards one of Queen Mary's chaplains; his compilation from the 'De Regimine Principumand his paraphrase of the Psalms dedicated to the Duke of Somerset. His Second Gresyld a narrative in verse of the divorce of Queen Catherine of Arragou, was printed, 1875.
  11. ^ Alfred Henry Forrester (1804–1872), artist; worked with his brother, Charles Robert Forrester, under name ofAlfred Crowquill exhibited pen-andink sketches at the Royal Academy; contributed sketches (1845) toPunchand theIllustrated London News and woodcuts to Chambers's Book of Days; published more than twenty humorous works written and illustrated by himself: illustrated his brother's works, also The Tour of Dr. Syntax 1838, Albert R. Smith's Beauty and the Beast 1843, the Bon GaultierBallads 1849, Cuthbert Bede's Fairy Tales 1858, The Travels of Baron Munchauseu 1859, and Six Plates of Pickwickian Sketches
  12. ^ Charles Robert Forrester (1803–1850), miscellaneous writer: elder brother of Alfred Henry Forrester; published, under the pseudonym Hal Willis Castle Baynard 1824, andSir Roland 1827, two novels; contributed to Beutley's Miscellany as A. Crowquill his chief articles being reissued (1643) as Phantasmagoria of Fun Absurdities in Prose and Verse byAlfred Crowquill(1827), was the joint work of the brothers Forrester.
  13. ^ David Forrester (1588–1633), Scottish divine; M.A. St. Andrews, 1608; deposed from pastorate of North Leith for opposition to the five articles of Perth; restored, 1627.
  14. ^ Joseph James Forrester, Baron de Forrester in Portugal (1809–1861), merchant and wineshipper: went to Oporto, 1831; published chart of the Douro from Vilvestre to its mouth, with geological survey and maps of the port-wine districts, 1848; exerted himself to obtain reforms in the making and exportation of the wine; published prize essay on Portugal, 1851; drowned in the Douro; still known as Protector of the Douro
  15. ^ Thomas Forrester (1588?–1642), satirist of covenanters; M.A. St. Andrews, 1608; minister of Ayr, 1623, of Melrose, 1627-38; deposed for Arminianism; his satire included in Maidment's Book of Scottish Pasquils 1828.
  16. ^ Thomas Forrester (1635?–1706), Scottish theologian; renounced episcopacy and became a field preacher; deposed and imprisoned, 1674: minister of Killearn and St. Andrews after the Revolution; principal of the new college at St. Andrews, 1698; wroteThe Hierarchical JMshop's Claim to a Divine Right tried at the Scripture Bar 1699.
  17. ^ Thomas Forret (d. 1540), Scottish martyr: studied at Cologne; canon regular in the monastery of Inchcolm; when vicar of Dollar, Clackmannanshire, was accused by the friars of heresy; eventually burned at Edinburgh with four others.
  18. ^ William de Fors , Earl of Albemarle (d. 1242).
  19. ^ William de Fors, Earl of Albemarle (d. 1260).
  20. ^ Edward Forsett (d. 1630?), political writer; active as justice of the peace in examination of the Gunpowder plot conspirators; published A Comparative Discovrse of the Bodies Natvral and Politiqve 1606, and 'A Defence of the Right of Kings 1624, in answer to Robert Parsons.
  21. ^ Josiah Forshall (1795–1863), librarian; fellow and tutor of Exeter College, Oxford; M.A., 1821; keeper of manuscript department, British Museum, 1827-37; F.R.S., 1828; secretary to the Museum, 1828-50; chaplain of the Foundling Hospital, 1829-63; edited catalogue of manuscripts (new series), the Description of the Greek Papyri and catalogues of some of the oriental and Sj'riao manuscripts; published editions of the Gospels.
  22. ^ Benjamin Forster (1736–1805), antiquary; fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1760: M.A., 1760; B.D., 1768; friend of Gray, Mason, and Gough; rector of Boconnoc. Broadoak, and Cherichayes, Cornwall, 1770.
  23. ^ Benjamin Meggot Forster (1764–1829), man of science; second son of Edward Forster the elder; published under initialsI ntroduction to the Knowledge of Funguses 1820; invented sliding portfolio and atmospherical electroscope; one of the first members of the anti-slave trade committee, 1788; framed the Child Stealing Act.
  24. ^ Edward Forster, the elder (1730–1812), banker and antiquary; while in Holland received from his relative, Benjamin Furly, some original letters of Locke; for nearly thirty years governor of the Russia Company; consulted by Pitt on paper currency.
  25. ^ Edward Forster (1769–1828), miscellaneous writer; son of Nathaniel Forster (1726?-1790); matriculated at Balliol College.Oxford, 1788; M. A. St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1797; morning preacher at Berkeley and Grosvenor chapels, and at Park Street and King Street, 1800-14; chaplain to the British embassy at Paris, 18181828, where he died; published the British Gallery of Engravings 1807-13, editions of Jarvis's Don Quixote 1801, Galland's Arabian Nights, Anacreon, Rasselas 1805, and various illustrated dramatic collections.
  26. ^ Edward Forster, the younger (1765–1849), botanist; third son of Edward Forster the elder; treasurer of the Linnean Society, 1816, and vice-president, 1828; died from cholera, after inspecting the Refuge for the Destitute founded by him in Hackney Road. Besides a catalogue of British birds, he printed a Supplement to English Botany 1834. His herbarium was presented to the British Museum.
  27. ^ George Forster (d. 1792), traveller in service of the East India Company; author of A Journey from Bengal to England through the Northern Part of India ... and into Russia by the Caspian Sea 1798, and Sketches of the Mythology and Customs of the Hindoos 1785.
  28. ^ Henry Pitts Forster (1766?–1815), orientalist in service of the East India Company; helped to in;ik. Bengali an official and literary language by his English and Bengalee Vocabulary 1799, 1802.
  29. ^ Johann Georg Adam Forster, known as George (1754–1794), naturalist; born near Dantzig ; came to England with his father, Reinhold Forster, 1766; assisted him as naturalist in Captain Cook's second voyage, and was made F.R.S. for his share in the description of the flora of the South Seas, 1775; published a general account of the voyage, 1777; afterwards succesively professor of natural history at Wilna and librarian at Mainz.
  30. ^ Sir John Forster or Foster (1520?–1602), warden of the marches; commander of Harbottlu Castle, 1542; fought at Solway Moss, 1642, and Pinkie, 1547; knighted by Protector Somerset, 1547; sheriff of Northumberland, 1549-50; captain of Bamboroogb Castle, 1565 till death: warden of middle marches, 1500-95; dismissed from office, 1586, on charges of maladministration; restored, 1588.
  31. ^ John Forster (1812–1876), historian and biographer; educated at Newcastle grammar school and University College, London; barrister, Inner Temple, 1843; made the acquaintance of Lamb and Leigh Hunt; dramatic critic to the Examiner 1833; contributed to Lardner's Cyclopaedia his Lives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth 1836-9, that of Sir John Eliot being issued separately in an enlarged form, 1864; edited 4 Foreign Quarterly Review 1842-3, Daily News 1846, and Examiner 1847-55; secretary to the lunacy commission, 1856-61, and a lunacy commissioner, 18(11-72; took part in dramatic performances in connection with Guild of Literature and Art; contributed to Quarterly and Edinburgh Review; published works, includingHistorical and Biographical Essays 1858, The Anest of the Five Members andThe Debates on the Grand Remonstrance 1860, lives of his friends Landor(l869) and Dickens, 1872-4,Life and Times of Goldsmith 1854, and the first volume of a Life of Swift 1876; bequeathed his valuable library and art treasures to the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington.
  32. ^ John Cooper Forster (1823–1886), surgeon; educated at King's College School and Guy's Hospital; M.B. London, 1847; F.R.C.S., 1849; surgeon at Guy's, 1870-80; president of the College of Surgeons, 1884-5; published The Surgical Diseases of Children 1860.
  33. ^ Nathaniel Forster (1718–1757), scholar; educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford; fellow, 1739; M.A., 1739: D.D., 1750; domestic chaplain to Bishop Butler from 1750 till Butler's death, and executor; chaplain to Archbishop Herring; vicar of Rochdale, 1754; prebendary of Bristol, 1755; F.R.S., 1755; chaplain to George III, 1756; published Reflections on the Natural Foundation of the high Antiquity of - Government, Arts, and Sciences in Egypt 1743, Appendix Liviana 1746, a defence of the genuineness of Josephus's account of Jesus, 1749, Biblia Hebraica sine punctis 1750, and other works.
  34. ^ Nathaniel Forster (1726?–1790), writer on political economy; cousin of Nathaniel Forster (17181757); M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1748; fellow of Balliol College, Oxford; D.D., 1778; rector of All Saints, Colchester, and of Tolleshunt Knights, Essex; friend of Samuel Parr the Latin scholar; chief works, An Enquiry into the Causes of the present High Price of Provisions 1767, and Answer to Sir John Dalrymple's pamphlet on the Exportation of Wool 1782.
  35. ^ Richard Forster (1546?–1616), physician; M.D. Oxford, 1573; president of the College of Physicians, 1601-1604 and 1615-16; Lumleian lecturer, 1602; published Epbemerides Meteorologicee 1575.
  36. ^ Sir Robert Forster (1589–1663). See Foster
  37. ^ Simon Andrew Forster (1801–1870), part author of the History of the Violin 1864: son of William Forster (1764-1824).
  38. ^ Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster (1789-1860), naturalist and astronomer; son of Thomas Fnrly Foreter; M.B. Cambridge, 1819; discovered a comet, : 1819; with Spurheim studied the brain at Fliubunrb. and subsequently wrote a sketch of tin- phrenological system; publishedResearches about Atmospheric Phenomena 1812, original letters of Locke Shaftesbury and Algernon Sydney to his ancestor, Benjamin Furlv 1, q - V,3W l* h ? reface 1830 Ob8 -vations sur Influence , des Cometes 1838, and Sati 1843, a Pythagorean 1"w, H WM the frlend of ay, Shelley, Hurechel,  ; and Whewell; lived at Bruges after 1833, dying at  ! Brussels. His Recueil de ma Vie 1835, and Epistolarium Forsterianum contain much biographical information.
  39. ^ Thomas Forster (fl. 1695–1712), limner, known for his excellent pencil miniatures on vellum engraved by Van der Gucht and others.
  40. ^ Thomas Forster (1675?–1738), James Edward the Old Pretender's general; M.P., Northumberland, 1708-16; surrendered at Preston when in command of the rebel army; escaped from Newgate, 1716, to France; died at Boulogne.
  41. ^ Thomas Furly Forster (1761–1825), botanist; eldest son of Edward Forster the elder; an original member of the Linnean Society; published Flora Tonbrigensis 1816 (reissued 1842). I
  42. ^ William Forster (fl. 1632), mathematician; pupil of William Oughtred, wrote treatise on the horizontal instrument for delineating dials upon any plane he translated and published, 1632.
  43. ^ William Forster (1739–1808), musical instrument maker Old Forster); set up a violin shop near St. Martin's Lane, London, removing afterwards to the Strand. As a publisher he introduced Haydn to the London public.
  44. ^ William Forster (1764–1824), violin-maker; music-seller to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cumberland; son of William Forster (1739-1808)
  45. ^ William Forster (1788–1824), violin-maker ; son of William Forster (1764-1824)
  46. ^ William Forster (1784–1854), minister of the Society of Friends; helped his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Fry, in philanthropic work; visited United States, 1820-5; checked the spread of Unitarian views among quakers; averted a secession in Indiana caused by the slavery question, 1845; investigated the condition of the Irish distressed by the potato famine, 1846-7; travelled on the continent in the interests of abolitionism, 1849-52; died in East Tennessee; published Christian Exhortation to Sailors (1813).
  47. ^ William Edward Forster (1818–1886), , statesman; sou of William Forster (1784-1854); I educated at quaker schools in Bristol and Tottenham; I entered woollen trade at Bradford, 1842; accompanied his father to Ireland, 1846; did much to moderate the I chartists in Bradford, lecturing on Pauperism and its j Proposed Remedies 1848; reissued Clarkson'sLife of Peun with a preface defending the quakers from Macaulay's charges, 1849; left the society on his marriage in 1860 with a daughter of Dr. Arnold; liberal M.P. for Bradford, 1861-86: under-secretary for the colonies, 1865; took prominent part in reform debates, 1860-7; as vice-president of the council (1868-74), carried the Endowed Schools Bill, the Elementary Education Bill, and in 1871 had charge of the Ballot Bill; proposed as leader of the opposition, 1874; gave way to Lord Hartington: returned as an independent liberal, 1880; appointed by Mr. Gladstone chief secretary for Ireland, 1880; failed to carry the Compensation for Disturbance Bill and to obtain the conviction of the leaders of the land league; resigned office after two yearsstruggle with them and his opponents in the cabinet whose Kilmainham treaty he refused to sanction; again offered his services after the Phoenix Park murders (1882), but naver again held office; during his last four years generally opposed liberal foreign policy, but supported county franchise bill; first chairman of the Imperial Federation League and of the committee on the Manchester Ship Canal Mill.
  48. ^ Alexander John Forsyth (1769–1843), inventor of the percussion lock, for which he was awarded a pension, after declining 20,OOOJ. from Napoleon to reveal the secret; LL.D. Glasgow.
  49. ^ James Forsyth (1838–1871), Indian traveller and civilian; M.A.: published The Sporting Rifle and its Projectiles 1862, and a posthumous work describing his tour of the central provinces.
  50. ^ Joseph Forsyth (1763–1815), schoolmaster and author; M.A. King's College, Aberdeen, 1779; a prisoner in France, 1803-14: published valuableRemarks on Antiquities, Arte, and Letters, during an Excursion in Italy in the years 1802 and 1803 1813.
  51. ^ Robert Forsyth (1766–1846), miscellaneous writer; published, among other works, The Beauties of Scotland 1805-8, and Remarks on the Church of Scotland 1843, the latter being severely handled by Hugh Miller in the Witness
  52. ^ Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth (1827–1886), Indian civilian; educated at Sherborne, Rugby, Haileybury, and Calcutta; rendered valuable services at Umballa, 1857, and as special commissioner after the capture of Delhi; created C.B. for his conduct in the mutiny; commissioner of the Punjab, 1860-72; promoted trade with Turkestan, and obtained definition in favour of the amir of Kabul of territories in dispute betweeti him and the HiHsiau government; visited the amir of Yarkand; removed (1872) for measures taken to suppress Ram Singh's rebellion; as envoy to Kashgar, 1873, concluded commercial treaty with the amir; obtained from the king of Burmah agreement that the Karenee States should be acknowledged independent; K.C.S.I.
  53. ^ William Forsyth (1722–1800), merchant; made Cromarty, his native town, a great trading centre by introducing flax from Holland and coal from Leith (1770) and originating the manufacture of kelp; an agent of the British Linen Company; eulogised by Hugh Miller.
  54. ^ William Forsyth (1737–1804), gardener; succeeded Philip Miller in the ApothecariesGarden, Chelsea, 1771; superintendent of the royal gardens at St. James and Kensington, 1784; publishedObservations on the Diseases, &c., of Forest and Fruit Trees 1791, and 'Treatise on the Culture of Fruit Trees 1802; thanked by parliament for his tree-plaister.
  55. ^ William Forsyth (1818–1879), poet and journalist; sub-editor of the Inverness Courier under Carruthers; for thirty years editor of the Aberdeen Journal; assisted in preparation of Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature; published The Martyrdom of Kelavane 1861; and Idylls and Lyrics
  56. ^ William Forsyth (1812–1899), man of letter; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1834; major fellow and M.A., 1837; barrister, Inner Temple, 1839; bencher, 1857; treasurer, 1872; went Midland circuit; standing counsel for secretary of state for India, 1859-72; member of council of legal education from 1860; conservative M.P. for Marylebone, 1874-80; editor of Annual Register 1842-68; Q.C., 1857; commissary of Cambridge University. 1868; LL.D. Edinburgh, 1871. His works include Hortensius 1849,History of Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena 1853, Life of Cicero 1863, Novels and Novelists of Eighteenth Century 1871, and Essays Critical and Narrative 1874.
  57. ^ Fortescue of Credan, first Baron (1670–1746). See John Fortescue Aland.
  58. ^ Sir Adrian Fortescue (1476?–1539), knight of St. John; served against the French, 1513 and 1522; knighted, 1528; knight of St. John, 1532; attainted and executed on a charge of treason, probably on account of his relationship to Queen Anne Boleyn.
  59. ^ Sir Anthony Fortescue (ft. 1535?), conspirator; youngest son of Sir Adrian Fortescue; comptroller of the household to Cardinal Pole; arrested on accession of Elizabeth; imprisoned for life for a plot in conjunction with the Poles to proclaim Mary Queen of Scots ami restore Romanism by the aid of the Due de Guise, 1561; allowed to escape from the Tower.
  60. ^ Chichester Samuel Fortescue, afterwards Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron Carlingford (1823-1898), statesman; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1847; student, 1843-56: honorary ptudeut, 1867; assumed name of Parkinson; 1862; liberal M.P. for Louth, 1847-74; junior lord of treasury, 1854-5; under-secretary for colonies, 1857-8, and 1859-65; privy councillor, 1864; chief secretory for Ireland, 1866-6 and 1868-70; shared with Gladstone burden and credit of Irish church disestablishment and Irish Land Act of 1870: president of board of trade, 1871-4; raised to peerage, 1874; privy seal, 1881-5; assisted in framing, and conducted through House of Lords, Gladstone's second Irish Land Act; president of council, 1883-5; liberal unionist, 1886.
  61. ^ Sir Edmund Fortescue (1610–1647), royalist commander; when high sheriff of Devonshire defeated and captured at Modbury by Colonel Ruthven, 1642, and imprisoned in Windsor Castle and Winchester House; released, 1643; held Salcombe (Fort Charles) for the king, 1644-6; created baronet, 1644; died at Delft,
  62. ^ Sir Faithful Fortescue (1581?–1666), royalist commander; obtained grant of property in Antrim and seat in Irish parliament; frequently at issue with Strafford when lord deputy; named governor of Drogheda, 1641, but was in England during the siege; deserted at Edgehill, 1642, when commanding a troop of horse under Wharton, which was diverted from Ireland to serve the parliament; commanded royalist infantry regiment; went abroad after Worcester, 1651; gentleman of the privy chamber, 1660.
  63. ^ George Fortescue (1578?–1659), essayist and poet; grandson of Sir Anthony Fortescue; expelled the kingdom when secretary to the resident of the Duke of Lorraine in London, 1647; proposed by Bolton as member of projected royal academy; corresponded with Galilei, Strada, and Thomas Faruaby His works include Feriae Academicae (Latin essays), 1630, and The Sovles Pilgrimage 1650.
  64. ^ Sir Henry Fortescue (fl. 1426), lord chief-justice of the common pleas in Ireland, 1426-7; brother to Sir John Fortescue (1394?-1476 ?); M. P., Devonshire, 1421; twice deputed by the Irish parliament to make representations in England concerning their grievances,
  65. ^ James Fortescue (1716–1777), poetical writer ; fellow of Exeter College, Oxford: M. A., 1739; D.D., 1751: chaplain of Merton; senior proctor, 1748; rector of Wootton, Northamptonshire, 1764-77; chief work, Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous (1752 and 1754).
  66. ^ Sir John Fortescue (1394?–1476?), lord chiefjustice of the king's bench (1442) and author;gubernator of Lincoln's Inn, 1425, 1426, 1429: serjeant-at-law, 1430; member of commissions concerning disturbances at Norwich and in Yorkshire, 1443; trier of parliamentary petitions, 1445-55; though a member of the court party declined to be influenced by the crown or the peers in Kerver's and Thorpe's cases; attainted by Edward IV as Lancastrian, 1461; followed the deposed family to Scotland and Flanders and returned with Margaret, 1471; captured at Tewkesbury, 1471; pardoned, and made a member of the council on recognising Edward IV, 1471; wrote several treatises in defence of the title of the house of Lancaster, and a disavowal of them in 1471, besides the De Laudibus Legum Anglian (first printed, 1637), written for Edward, prince of Wales, and On the Governance of the Kingdom of England De Dommio Regali et Politico), first published, 1714.
  67. ^ Sir John Fortescue (1531?–1607), chancellor of the exchequer; eldest eon of Sir Adrian Fortescue; superintended the studies of the Princess Elizabeth, on whose accession he became keeper of the great wardrobe: M.P., Wallingford, 1672, and afterwards for the county and borough of Buckingham and Middlesex; chancellor of the exchequer and privy councillor, 1589; chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, 1601; deprived of the exchequer by James I, but continued in his other offices; intimate with Burghley, Bacon, Ralegh, and Essex. His disputed election for Buckinghamshire (1604) raised the important constitutional question whether the house or the law courts had jurisdiction over election petitions. He presented books and manuscripts to his friend Sir Thomas Bodley's library.
  68. ^ Sir Nicholas Fortescue , the elder (1575?–163H), chamberlain of the exchequer; harboured David Baker , the Benedictine, for several years at Cookhill, his residence; suspected of complicity in the Gunpowder plot, but cleared himself; commissioner of James I's household and of the navy, 1610; knighted, 1618; chamberlain of the exchequer, 1618-25.
  69. ^ Sir Nicholas Fortescue , the younger (1605?1644), knight of St. John, 1638; fourth son of Sir Nicholas Fortescue the elder; attempted to revive the order in England, as Queen Henrietta Maria desired, 1637; killed fighting for the king, probably at Marston Moor.
  70. ^ Richard Fortescue (d. 1655), governor of Jamaica; lieutenant-colonel in parliamentarian army, 1644; colonel in new model, 1645-7; commanded regiment in expedition to Vr-t Indies, 1654; coramander-in-chief in Jamaica. 1655.
  71. ^ Thomas Fortescue (1784–1872), Indian civilian : secretary to Henry Wellesley ( Lord Cowlrv) when liriitenant-governor of Oude; civil commissioner at Delhi, 1803.
  72. ^ William Fortescue (1687–1749), master of the rolls, 1741; introduced by his friend Gay to Pope; barrister, Inner Temple, 1715; private secretary to Walpole; M.P. for Newport (Isle of Wight), 1727-36; K.C., 1730; attorney-general to Frederick, prince of Wales, 1730; baron I of the exchequer, 1736; justice of common pleas, 1738; legal adviser to Pope, who addressed to him his first satire, i
  73. ^ Earl of Forth (1573?–1651). See Patrick Ruthven.
  74. ^ Charles Drury Edward Fortnum (1820-1899), art collector; conducted cattle ranch in South Australia, 1840-5; collected works of art in Europe; F.S.A., 1858; made liberal benefactions, 1892, to Oxford University for erection of suitable buildings for accommodating Ashmolean collections, to which he added his own collections, 1888; honorary D.C.L. Oxford, 1889; j published a treatise onMaiolica 1896, and other writings.
  75. ^ Samuel Fortrey (1622–1681), author of 'England's Interest and Improvement, consisting in the increase of the Store and Trade of this Kingdom 1663.
  76. ^ Robert Fortune (1813–1880), traveller and botanist; visited China for the Horticultural Society, j 1842, and the East India Company, 1848; sent home the double yellow rose, the Japanese anemone, and the i Chamatrops ortunei (fan-pulm), named after him; visited Formosa and Japan, 1853; published Report upon the Tea Plantations of the N.W. Provinces of India 1851,Two Visits to the Tea Countries of China and the British Plantations in the Himalayas 1853, and Yeddo j and Peking 1863.
  77. ^ Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (1770–1842), antiquary; educated at St. Paul's School and Pembroke College, Oxford: M.A., 1792; vicar of Walford, Herefordshire, 1830-42; F.S.A., 1799; publishedBritish Monachism 1802,Encyclopaedia of Antiquities 1825, and History of the City of Gloucester 1819, &c.
  78. ^ Edward Foss (1787–1870), biographer; member of the Inner Temple, 1822; one of the founders of the Incorporated Law Society, and president, 1842-3; undersheriff of London, 1827-8; F.S.A., 1822; published The Judges of England 1848-64, and an abridgment of Blackstone, 1820.
  79. ^ Sir Augustus John Foster (1780–1848), diplomatist; plenipotentiary to the United States, 1811-12; to Denmark, 1814-24; and to Turin, 1824-40; privy councillor, 1822; M.P., Cockermouth, 1812-14; G.C.H., 1825: created baronet, 1831; committed suicide, 1848.
  80. ^ Henry Foster (1796–1831), navigator; surveyed mouth of Columbia and north shore of La Plata, 1819; assisted Basil Hall, 1820; elected F.R.S. 1824, on return from Sabine's voyage to Greenland: astronomer to Parry's polar expeditions, 1824-5 and 1827; Copley medallist, 1826; given command of government sloop Chanticleer to determine specific ellipticitv of the earth, 1828; made pendulum experimente in the South Seas, 1828-9; measured the difference of longitude across the isthmus of Panama by rockets, 1830-1; drowned in the river Chagres.
  81. ^ James Foster (1697–1753), nonconformist divine: ministered successively at Exeter, Milborne Port, Colesford, Trowbridge, the Barbican chapel (1724), and PinnersHall (1744): a famous preacher; had controversies with Tindal and Henry Stebbing (1687-1763) ; visited Lord Kilmarnock in the Tower, 1746; D.D. Aberdeen, 1748; published Discourses on all the Principal Branches of Natural Religion and Social Virtue 1749, and other work*; refused the SaltersHall subscription,
  82. ^ John Foster (1731–1774), upper master of Eton 1765-73; fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Cniv.-n scholar, 1750; M.A., 1756; D.D., 1766: canon of Vii 1772; died hi Germany; published an essay in def-i: the prevailing accentuation of Greek against V~-iu- an l Gaily, 1762.
  83. ^ John Foster, Baron Oriel (1740–1828), last speaker of the Irish House of Commons, 1785-1800; student, Middle Temple: called t tin- Ir-h I ar. 1766: M.P., Dunleer, 1761; co. Louth, 1769-1821: chairman of committees and Irish privy councillor; chancellor of tin-Irish exchequer, 1784, when his corn law was passed, and after the union, 1804-6 and 1807-11: English privy councillor, 1786; opposed Roman Catholic Relief Bill, 173: and made able speeches against the union, 1799-1800; entered the imperial parliament; created peer of the United Kingdom, 1821.
  84. ^ John Foster (1770–1843), essayist and baptist minister; a republican and severe critic of the system of ecclesiastical institutions; published Essays 1804, contributions to the Eclectic Review and other works.
  85. ^ John Foster (1787?–1846), architect; studied under Wyatt; discovered sculptures of pediment of temple of Athene at Egina; designed Liverpool custom house.
  86. ^ John Leslie Foster (d. 1842), Irish judge; LL.D. Trinity College, Dublin, 1810; B.A., 1800; called to Irish bar, 1803; tory M.P. for Dublin university, 1807-12, Yarmouth (Isle of Wight), 1816-18, Armagh, 1818-20, Louth county, 1824-30; F.R.S., 1819; baron of the exchequer, 1830; judge of common pleas, 1842; publishedEssay on the Principles of Commercial Exchanges, particularly between England and Ireland 1804.
  87. ^ Sir Michael Foster (1689–1763), judge; entered Exeter College, Oxford, 1705; barrister, Middle Temple, 1713; recorder of Bristol, 1735; serjeantat-law, 1736; judge of king's bench, 1745; established right of the city of Bristol to try capital offences committed within its jurisdiction in case of Samuel Goodere; at trial of ! Broadfoot pronounced impressment to be legal; eulogised 1 in the Rosciad; published legal works.
  88. ^ Myles Birket Foster (1825–1899), painter; engaged independently as illustrator, 1846-58; executed : illustrations for editions of poets and prose-writers; devoted himself to painting from 1858; exhibited at Royal Academy from 1859; R.A., 1862. His pictures, chiefly in water-colour, were principally studies of roadside and woodland scenery.
  89. ^ Peter Le Neve Foster (1809–1879), secretary to the Society of Arts (1853-79); educated at Norwich grammar school and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; B.A., 1830: tellow, 1830; barrister, 1836; helped to organise exhibitions of 1851 and 1862; secretary to mechanical science section of British Association; a chief founder of the Photographic Society.
  90. ^ Sir Robert Foster (1589–1663), lord chief-justice, 1660-3; barrister, Inner Temple, 1610; serjeant-at-law, 1636; justice of common plea?, 1640-3; D.C.L. Oxford, 1643: removed after trial of Captain Turpin, 1644: during Commonwealth practised as chamber counsel; restored, 1660, and made chief-justice for zeal in trial of regicides; procured execution of Sir Harry Vane.
  91. ^ Samuel Foster (rf. 1652), mathematician ; M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1623; Gresham professor of astronomy, 1636, and 1641-52; one of the company which preceded the Royal Society; published The Use of the Quadrant 1624, and The Art of Dialling 1638; other works by him published posthumously.
  92. ^ Thomas Foster (1798–1826), painter; intimate with Lawrence andNollekens; executed a portrait of H. R. Bishop q. v.; and exhibited at the Academy Mazeppa 1823, and Paul and Virginia before their Separation 1825; committed suicide.
  93. ^ Thomas Campbell Foster (1813–1882), legal writer: barrister, Middle Temple, 1846; Q.C. and bencher, 1875; recorder of Warwick, 1874; leading counsel for the crown at the trial of Charles Peace; published Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland 1846: various legal works, and (with N. F. Finlason) law reports.
  94. ^ Vere Henry Lewis Foster (1819–1900), philanthropist; son of Sir Augustus John Foster: euucated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; attache at Rio do Janeiro, 1842-3, and at Monte Video, 1846-7; did much to promote emigration to United States ami British colonies: greatly benefited cause of education in Ireland; published series of drawing copy-books.
  95. ^ Walter Foster (fl. 1652), mathematician : rldrr brother of Samuel Foster q. v.; fellow of Emmanuel College. Cambridge; M.A., 1621; B.D., 1628; rector of Allerton, Somerset; communicated to Twysden his brother's papers.
  96. ^ William Foster (1591–1643), divine; of Merchant Taylors' and St. John's College, Oxford; B.A.; chaplain to the Earl of Carnarvon and rector of Hedgerley. Buckinghamshire; published a treatise against the use of 'weapon-salve 1629 and 1641.
  97. ^ Martin Fotherby (1549?–1619), bishop of Salisbury: fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; archdeacon of Canterbury, 1596: dean, 1615; his Atheomastix published, 1622.
  98. ^ Anthony Fothergill (1685?–176l), author of Wicked Christians Practical Atheists 1754, and similar works.
  99. ^ Anthony Fothergill (1732?–1813), physician : M.D. Edinburgh, 1763; studied also at Leyden and Paris: practised at Northampton, London, and Bath: F.R.S., 1778; lived at Philadelphia, 1803-12; received gold medal of Royal Humane Society, 1794, for his essay on the revival of persons apparently dead from drowning.
  100. ^ George Fothergill (1705–1760), principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1751-60: fellow of Queen's College, Oxford; M.A., 1730; D.D., 1749; vicar of Bramley; author of sermons.
  101. ^ Jessie Fothergill (1851–1891), novelist; published, from 1876, novels, chiefly depicting Lancashire and Yorkshire factory life.
  102. ^ John Fothergill (1712–1780), physician ; M.D. Edinburgh. 1736; began to practise in London, 1740: L.R.C.P., 1744; F.R.S., 1763; fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine at Paris, 1776; kept up at Upton, Essex, one of the finest botanical gardens in Europe, his collection of shells and insects passing to Dr. W. Hunter, and his natural history drawings being bought by the empress of Russia; assisted Benjamin Franklin in drawing up scheme of reconciliation with American colonies, 1774; a chief founder of the quaker school at Ackworth. His works (edited by J. C. Letteom, 1783-4) included Account of the Sore Throat 1748 (the first recognition of diphtheria in England); and a pamphlet advocating the repeal of the Stamp Act. His portrait by Hogarth is at the College of Physicians,
  103. ^ John Milner Fothergill (1841–1888), medical writer; M.D. Edinburgh, 1866; practised in Leeds and London; wrote valuable essays upon the Action of Digitalis; and The Antagonism of Therapeutic Agents 1878.
  104. ^ Samuel Fothergill (1715–1772), quaker; brother of John Fothergill: undertook missions to Wales, 1739, Ireland, 1744 and 1762, the United States, 1754-6, and Scotland, 1764.
  105. ^ Andrew Foulis , the elder (1712–1775), brother and partner of Robert Foulis; undertook the strictly business side of the printing-house.
  106. ^ Andrew Foulis , the younger (. 1829), printer ; son of Robert Foulis; printed editions of Virgil and a Cicero de Offlciis
  107. ^ Sir David Foulis , first baronet (rf. 1642), politician ; great-grandson of Sir James Foulis (d. 1549); came to England with James I; naturalised, 1606; created an English baronet, 1620; the recipient of the letter of advice to.lame? 1 from Sir Robert Dudley: titular Duke of Northumberland, 1614; dismissed from the council, and imprisoned for charges against Wentworth as president of the north, 1633-40; testified against Wentworth, 1641
  108. ^ Henry Foulis (1638–1669), author; grandson of Sir David Foulis: M.A. Queen's College, Oxford, 1659: B.A. Cambridge, 1G58: fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, 1660; friend of Anthony a Wood; published works against presbyterians and Romanists.
  109. ^ Sir James Foulis (. 1549), Scottish judge: acquired Colinton estates, 1519; lord of session, 1526; pri vansecretary to James V, 1629: knighted, 1539; clerk-register of the College of Senators, 1532-46; member of the secret council, 1542.
  110. ^ Sir James Foulis, Lord Colinton (d. 1688), lord justice clerk; M.P. Edinburgh, 1645-8 and 1651 -.member of committee of estates, 1646-7: imprisoned as royalist: lord of session, 1661; lord of the articles; lord commissioner of justiciary and a peer. 1672; privy councillor, 1674; lord justice clerk, 1684.
  111. ^ James Foulis, Lord Reidfurd (1645?-1711), Scotj fish judge: eldest son of Sir James Foulis, lord Oolinton ; lord of session, 1674; nonjuror: privy councillor, 1703; opposed the union.
  112. ^ Sir James Foulis (1714–1791), fifth baronet of Colinton: contributed to Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland a dissertation on the origin{Vf the Scots, 1781.
  113. ^ Sir James Foulis , seventh baronet of Colinton (1770-1842); painter and sculptor: executed portrait of founder of Gillespie's Hospital, Edinburgh.
  114. ^ Robert Foulis (1707–1776), printer (originally named Faulls); whilst a barber's apprentice at Glasgow attended the lectures of Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746 : with his brother Andrew visited Oxford and France, collecting rare books, 1738-40: bookseller and printer at Glasgow, 1741: printed for the university their first Greek book Demetrius Phalereus de Elocutione), i 1743, and theimmaculateHorace, 1744; issuedCatai logue of Books lately imported from France the fine iIliad 1747, and the Olivet Ciceroni 749: founded art i academy, 1753; gained silver medal of the Edinburgh Select Society for his small folio Callimachus, 1755, for the Ih'ad, 1756, and Odyssey, 1758, with Flaxman's designs; issued quarto edition of Gray, 1768, and Paradise Lost 1770. The Foulis books were sold in 1777. Most of them are now in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.
  115. ^ Peter Foulkes (1676–1747), scholar and divine : educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1701: canon of Exeter, 1704; sub-dean, 1725-33; published (with John Freind) an edition of Eschines and Demosthenes de Corona (with Latin translation), 1696.
  116. ^ Robert Foulkes (d. 1679), murderer; servitor of Christ Church, Oxford; vicar of Stanton Lacy, Shropshire; executed at Tyburn for the murder of his illegitimate child.
  117. ^ Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676–1753), virtuoso; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1700: knighted, 1699: vicechamberlain to Queen Caroline and tutor to Prince William; warden of the mint, 1727-53: formed, while travelling in France and Italy, collections of china, pictures, j and antiquities (much of the former sold at Christie's, 1884); the Annius of Pope's Dunciad
  118. ^ John Fountaine (1600–1671), commissioner of the great seal, 1659-60: barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1629; imprisoned for refusing to pay the parliament's war tax, 1642; assisted in forming royalist association of western counties, 1645: pardoned, 1662, and placed upon parliamentary commissions; serjeant-at-law, 1658.
  119. ^ Lord Fountainhall (1646–1722). See John Lauder.
  120. ^ John Fountains (d. 1225). See John de Fontibus.
  121. ^ John Fountayne (1714–1802), dean of York, 1747-1802: great-grandson of John Fountaine: M.A. St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge, 1739; D.D., 1751; canon of Salisbury, 1739, of Windsor, 1741.
  122. ^ Henry Fourdrinier (1766–1854), inventor ; with his brother, Sealy Fourdrinier, patented in 1807 a continuous paper-making machine at a cost of £60,000; received a parliamentary grant, 1840.
  123. ^ Paul Fourdrinier (d. 1758), engraver.
  124. ^ Peter Fourdrinier (fl. 1720–1750), engraver of portraits, book illustrations and architectural works.
  125. ^ Sealy Fourdrinier (d. 1847), inventor ; brother of Henry Fourdrinier; shared with him in parliamentary compensation for losses sustained.
  126. ^ Daniel Fournier (d. 1766?), engraver and draughtsman; publishedTreatise of the Theory and Practice of Perspective 1761.
  127. ^ Francis Fowke (1823–1865), captain of royal engineers and architect; secretary to the British commission at Paris Exhibition, 1854; with Kedgrave designed the Sheepshanks Gallery; as architect of the Science and Art Department designed the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, the enlarged Dublin National Gallery, the buildings for the Exhibition of 1862, and began the South Kensington Museum; invented a military fireengine and patented a photographic camera.
  128. ^ John Fowke (d. 1662), lord mayor, 1652-3 ; imprisoned for refusing to pay tonnage and poundage, 1627-9; sheriff of London and leader of city parliamentarians, 1643; fined and imprisoned for conduct as commissioner of customs, 1645; presented a petition for peace to parliament, 1648; M.P. for the city, 1661; benefactor of Bethlehem and Christ's hospitals.
  129. ^ Phineas Fowke (1638–1710), London physician; fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 1658; B.A., 1658; M.D., 1668; F.R.C.P., 1680.
  130. ^ Abraham Fowler (fl. 1577), verse-writer; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford.
  131. ^ Christopher Fowler (1610?–1678), ejected minister; B.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1632; M.A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1634; took covenant and held sequestrated living of St. Mary's, Reading, 1643-62; preached in London; fellow of Eton; wrote against the quakers, 1656, and the astrologer John Pordage.