HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND. 



HKARNi:, THOMAS. 



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In December 1841 ha wu appointed oat ot the three Poor- Law Com- 

 mwioocr*, having for *oui* time previously bera on* of the ucUtant- 

 ooniialtsinmri. In October 1M7 be wu appointed Lieutenant-Governor 

 of the British colony of Now Bruiwwiok, an office which he held till 

 September 1824, when be wu made Governor-G.-neral of Canada, with 

 a salary of 70001. Hi* on, John Head, born in 1840, U bis beir. 



Sir rMmund Head wrote the article ' Fainting ' for the ' Penny Cvolo- 

 Media.' Ha afterward* wrote a ' Hand-Bjok of the History of the 

 Spanish and French School* of Painting, intended aa a. Sequel to 

 Kugler'* Haud-Booki of the Italian, German, and Dutch School* of 

 Painting,' 12iuo, London, 1848, a work which, from it* portable size, 

 a* wrll at iti careful reaearcb and abundant information, U of groat 

 nrrice to the tourist who is desirous of studying the masterpiece* 

 of the painter* of Spain and France. Sir Edmund observe*, in the 

 Fre/aoe to hi* work, that hi* reason for writing it wu the brief and 

 imperfect manner in which Kugler had treated the Spanish, French, 

 aud Eugliah schools. Sir Kdumnd Head alto edited, and supplied with 

 note* aud a preface, the ' Hand-Book of Painting : the German, Fleuiuh, 

 Dutch, Spanish, and French Schools; partly translated from the 

 German of Kugler by a Lady,' 2 Tola. STO, London, 1854, illustrated 

 edition. 



HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, Baronet, brother of Sir George 

 Head, wu born in 1793, at the Hermitage, near Rochester, Kent, 

 where hU tarly year* were pasted. He entered the army, married the 

 daughter of Lord Somerville in 1816, and wu a captain in the corps 

 of engineers, on duty at Edinburgh, in 1S25, the year of mining 

 peculations, when it wa* proposed to him to take charge of an asso- 

 ciation for working the gold and silver mines of the South American 

 province* of Rio de la Plata. Ho accepted the offer, sailed from 

 Falmouth, and arrived at Buenos Ayrea. Accompanied by a surveyor, 

 an aiaayer, and seven miners from Cornwall, provided with suitable 

 mean* of conveyance, he proceeded to the gold mines of San Luis, and 

 thence to the silver mines of Upsallata, beyond Mendoza, about 1000 

 miles from Buenos Ayrea. Leaving his party at Mendoza, at the foot 

 of the Ande.*, he returned on horseback across the Pampas to Buenos 

 Ayres by himself, performing the distance in eight days. Letters 

 received at Buenos Ayres made it necessary that he should go imme- 

 diately to Chili, and accordingly he again crossed the Pampas, and 

 joining his party at Mendozi, they crossed the Andes to Santiago, 

 and thence proceeded in different directions about 1200 miles to 

 inspect gold and silver mines. Having concluded his report on the 

 last mine, the party recrossed the Andes, and Captain Head rode across 

 the Pampas to Buenos Ayres, leaving the rest to follow him. When 

 they arrived, be dismissed some of the miners and returned with the 

 rest to England. He rode in'this rapid manner upwards of 6000 

 miles, living chiefly on dried beef and water, and sleeping out on the 

 ground. After his return to London, he published ' Rough Notes 

 taken during some rapid Journeys across the Pampas and among the 

 Andes, by Captain F. B. Head,' 12mo, 1826. This lively and graphic 

 narrative attracted universal attention, and was read with great 

 interest. 



In December 1828 Captain Head attained the rank of Major. In 

 1880 appeared ' The Life of Bruce, the African Traveller, by Major F. 

 B. Head,' ISino, London, which was followed by a series of humorous 

 sketche* under the title of ' Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau, 

 by an Old Man,' 8vo, 1833. In November 1835, while performing 

 the duties of assistant poor-law commissioner in the Kent district, he 

 received a summons at midnight from Lord Glenelg, then colonial 

 miuuter, requiring his immediate attendance in London. When he 

 waited upon the minister, he wu offered the situation of lieutenant- 

 governor of Upper Canada, u successor to Sir Johu Colborue, who 

 had been dismissed. With some reluctance he accepted the appoint- 

 ment, with the promise of a baronetcy. There was at that time much 

 dissatisfaction in the Canadaa, and differences of opinion Boon 

 occurred between the lieutenant-governor and the English ministry 

 a* to the measure* which ought to be adopted. He wu created a 

 laronet in the spring of 1837; in the same year an insurrection, 

 abetted and aided by the Americans, broke out in Upper Canada, 

 which after a short struggle, was suppressed by the colonial militia. 

 In September 1837 he sent in his resignation, which was accepted, 

 and on the 23rd of March 1888, he wu released from his duties by 

 the *wearing in of hi* lucceuor, Sir George Arthur. After his return 

 to England he published a 'Narrative,' 8vo, 1838, in justification of 

 hi* measures. He returned to the political state of the Canadas and 

 hi. own proceedings while there, in hi* 'Emigrant,' 12mo, 1846, of 

 which he *ay, "u the common crow is made up of a small lump ol 

 carrion and two or three handful* of feathers, so is tiiis volume com- 

 poed of political history, buoyed up by a few light sketches, solely 

 written to make a dull ubject fly." In 1850, after Louis Napoleon 

 had become president of the French Republic, and there were vague 

 rumour* of an invasion, Sir Francis Head published ' The Defenceless 

 State of Great Britain, 1 8vo, a work which, together with much that 

 wu true, contained many erroneous statement*, and a good deal ol 

 exaggeration. In the month of May 1851 be collected his ' Faggot ol 

 Freuch Sticks,' 2 vol.. Svo, an exceedingly interesting description of 

 place*, scene*, and modes of living in Paris and it* vicinity. In 1852 

 he publinhed 'A Fortnight in Ireland,' 8vo, of which about two-third, 

 comist of an account of bis residence in Dublin and his tour in th 



west of Ireland, lively and graphic u usual ; the other third is a 

 description of the degraded stato of the poor in Ireland, and an attack 

 on the Iri.h Roman Catholic priesthood. He has a pension of 100/. a 

 rear for his services to literature. Sir Francis Head U one of tho 

 nost amusing of tourist*. HU descriptions of scenes, objects, aud 

 characters, are distinct and striking; hi* stylo is full of vivacity, 

 sparkling; with illustrations and delicately tinted with humour. lln 

 if ir is Frank Somerville Head, his son, who U on the Bengal estab- 

 lishment of tho civil service of the East India Company. 



HI-: AD, SIR GEORGE, Knight, wu born in 1782 at tho Hermi- 

 tage, a few miles north from Rochester, in Kent. James Roper Head, 

 Father of Sir Ueorge Head and Sir Francis Bond Head, wu descended 

 from Fernando Mendez, a Jew, who came from Portugal to England, 

 and wu physician to King Charles II. The father of James Roper 

 Mead, married a daughter of the Rev. Sir Francis Head, Bart, and 

 assumed the name of his wife's father. 



George Head spent his early years at hU father's residence, the 

 Hermitage, and wu afterwards educated ut the Charter House School, 

 London. Early in 1803 he obtained a captain's commission in the 

 West Kent Militia, and having obtained leave of absence, in the 

 spring of 1809 went to Portugal, whore ho accepted the humblo 

 situation of a commissariat clerk, and joined the British army under 

 Lord Wellington at Badujoz. He wa* afterwards appointed to the 

 commissariat charge of a brigade. After Massena had retreated from 

 the lines of Torres Vedras, and the battle of Fueutes d'Onor had been 

 fought, May 5, 1811, he was appointed deputy assistant commissary 



fener.U, and attached to Sir Brent Spencer's division of the army. 

 u May 1813 he was directed to proceed to Momeuto da Beira to 

 .mdertake the commissariat department of the third division under 

 Sir Thomas Pic ton. He was present at most of the great battles iu 

 the Peninsula, as well as tho concluding victories iu France, after 

 which he returned to England. Of this active period of his life he 

 wrote an interesting narrative, which is attached to hi* second 

 ' Home Tour.' 



In the autumn of 1814 George Head received orders to proceed to 

 Canada, and having landed at Quebec, was sent to Lake Huron to 

 superintend the commissariat department of a naval establishment 

 intended to be formed on the Canadian lakes. Peace however was 

 soon afterwards made with America, and iu ten months he was again 

 in England. In 181S he was sent to Halifax in Nova Scotia, and 

 remained there five years on the peace establishment. After his 

 return to England he described his experiences and adventures iu 

 America in his 'Forest Scenes and Incidents iu the Wilds of North 

 America, being a Diary of a Winter's Route from Halifax to tho 

 Canadas, and during Four Mouths' Residence in the Woods on the 

 Borders of Lakes Huron aud Simcoe, by George Head, Esq.,' 12mo, 

 London, 1829. In 1831 he received the honour of knighthood. Ku- 

 couraged by the favourable reception of his ' Forest Scenes,' he 

 published 'A Home Tour through the Manufacturing Districts of 

 England in the Summer of 1835, by Sir George Head,' 12ino, 1S36, 

 which was followed by another volume, 'A Home Tour tin 

 various Parts of the United Kingdom ; being a Continuation of the 

 Home Tour through the Manufacturing Districts : also Memoirs of an 

 Assistant-Commissary General, by Sir George Head,' 12uio, 1S37. The 

 first Tour includes most of the larger manufacturing towns of tho 

 northern port of England ; the second, the Isle of Man, part of Scotland, 

 the Channel Islands, aud part of Ireland. They contain a large amount 

 of information carefully collected and clearly stated concerning the 

 places visited and the manufactures carried on in them. Both Tours 

 were reprinted in one volume in 1810. In 1849 he published ' Rome, a 

 Tour of Many Days.' He was also the author of several articles in the 

 ' Quarterly Review,' aud translated from the Italian the ' Historical 

 Memoirs of Cardinal I'acca,' 1-nm, 1850, aud from the Latin, 'Tim 

 Metamorphoses of Apuleius,' Svo, 1851. He died in London, May 2, 

 1855, unmarried. 



UKAUNK, THOMAS, an eminent English antiquary and editor of 

 books and manuscripts, wu born at White Walthaui, iu I;, rkshiiv, iu 

 1678, where his father was the parish clerk. In 1092, under tho 

 patronage of Francis Cherry, Esq., of that place, with whom he had 

 lived an a servant, he was placed at the Free-school of Bray; and 

 subsequently, iu 1695, at that gentleman's expense, was entered of 

 Edmund Hall, Oxford, where Dr. White Kennel, afterwards bishop of 

 Peterborough, wu his tutor. Dr. John Mill, who wu principal of 

 the hall, aud Dr. Grabe, gave Hearne much employ in hi* younger 

 days iu the collation of manuscripts. He became B.A. iu 1699. In 

 1701 ho received his first employment in the Bodleian Library, of 

 which Dr. Hudnon had just been chosen keeper. He was afterward.* 

 made janitor of tho library, and in 1712 succeeded to the place of 

 second librarian. In January 1715 he wu elected architypograplms 

 and esquire beadle of civil law in the university, which post he held 

 with his uuder-librarianship till the month of November following, 

 when, finding the two places untenable together, he resigned the 

 beadle's place, and soon afterwards bis post iu the Bodleian Library, 

 on account of the oaths to the government, with which he could not 

 conscientiously comply. He continued a non-juror to the lost, muck 

 at the expense of his worldly interest. In tho latter part of his life ho 

 resided principally at Edmund Hall, preparing and publishing his 

 various works ; but his constant recurrence to Jacobite sentiments, 



