OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



ploraatist, born October 6, 1799 ; died Septem- 

 ber 4, 1876. He studied law in the Universi- 

 ties of Freiburg, Landshut, and Heidelberg, 

 entered the service of Baden in the Foreign 

 Department in 1824, was secretary of legation 

 in Vienna from 1826 to 1830 and from 1832 to 

 1835 ; went to Munich as minister resident in 

 1838, to Paris in 1843, and to Vienna as ex- 

 traordinary embassador in 1846, and retired 

 from the service in 1856. He was the author 

 of " Erinnerungsblatter aus den Papieren eines 

 Diplomaten" (1857), "Mein Tagebuch, 1811- 

 '61 " (2 vols., 1862), "Die Frauen in der Ge- 

 S3hichte"(2 vols., 1861), and "Die Byzanti- 

 nischen Kaiser, ihre Palast- und Familienge- 

 schichten " (1868). 



ANDRASSY, ETELKA, Countess, born in 1800; 

 died November 10, 1870. She was the mother 

 of Count Julius Andrassy, the celebrated Aus- 

 trian statesman. 



ANGELIN, NILS PETER, a Swedish naturalist ; 

 died February 13, 1876. He was the superin- 

 tendent of the paleontological collections in 

 the Royal Swedish Museum, and the author of 

 numerous works on paleontology. 



APFALTERN, I WAN, Freiherr APFALTER VON, 

 an Austrian peer and jurist, born in 1803 ; died 

 July 17, 1876. He was a life-member of the 

 Austrian Herrenhaus, and substitute of the 

 President of the Imperial Court, and had been 

 President of the Senate of the Supreme 

 Court. 



APPONYI, RUDOLF, Count, an Austrian di- 

 plomatist, born in 1812; died June 2, 1876. 

 He was successively secretary of legation in 

 Paris, envoy extraordinary in Turin, Munich, 

 and London, and embassador in London. In 

 1872 he was appointed embassador, which 

 position he resigned a short time before his 

 death. He was a Privy Councilor, Imperial 

 Chamberlain, and Knight of the Golden Fleece. 



AEBUTHNOT, WILLIAM, a British general, 

 born in 1786; died December, 1876. He was 

 a son of the seventh Viscount of Arbuthnot, 

 entered the army in 1804, was present at the 

 passage of the Douro, and the battles of Opor- 

 to, Talavera, and Busaco. He retired on full 

 pay as lieutenant-colonel. At the time of his 

 death he was a Deputy-Lieutenant of Kincar- 

 dineshire. 



ARCHIBALD, Sir THOMAS DICKSON, a British 

 jurist, born in 1817 ; died in London, October 

 18, 1876. He was educated in Nova Scotia, 

 where his father held an office. He was called 

 to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1852, hav- 

 ing for some years previously practised as a 

 special pleader. He first joined the Northern, 

 but shortly after changed to the Home Circuit, 

 of which he remained a member until the date 

 of his appointment to a judgeship in the Court 

 of Queen's Bench in November, 1872. In 

 February, 1875, on a vacancy occurring in the 

 Court of Common Pleas, he was, at his own 

 request, transferred from the Queen's Bench 

 to that court. He held the appointment of 

 Counsel to the Treasury from 1868 to 1872, 



and in that post, as well as in the office of 

 judge, he succeeded Sir James Hannen. 



ARCONATI-VISCONTI, Marquis, an Italian ge- 

 ographer, born in 1840; died February 25, 

 1876. He had contributed much to the pro- 

 motion of the study of geography in Italy. He 

 was the last of his family. 



ARDMILLAN, JAMES CRAWFURD, Lord, a Brit- 

 ish lawyer, born in 1805 ; died in September, 

 1876. He was called to the bar in Scotland in 

 1829, and was Solicitor-General for Scotland 

 from 1853 to 1855. 



ARMITAGE, Sir ELKANAH; died November 

 26th. He had held the offices of Mayor of 

 Manchester, and High-Sheriff of Lancashire, 

 where he was one of the leaders of the Lib- 

 eral party. 



ARNDT, HARTMUTH, the son of the German 

 poet Ernst Moritz Arndt, born March 26, 1824; 

 died March 26, 1876. He showed in early 

 years a decided taste for farming, and in 1853 

 emigrated to the United States, where, after 

 living for a time in Texas and Florida, he 

 finally settled in Wyandotte County, Kansas. 



BAGRATION-MOTJCHRANSKY, Prince, a Rus- 

 sian nobleman; died January 29, 1876. He 

 was the representative of a noble family, the 

 members of which have been conspicuous in 

 the armies and cabinets of Russia. 



BAKER, THOMAS, a British naval officer, born 

 in 1807 ; died October 10, 1876. He had been 

 many years in the service, and had held the 

 office of Chief Inspector of Machinery at Chat- 

 ham Dock-Yard. He retired from the service 

 on July 6, 1869. On June 2, 1869, he was 

 created a C. B. He was also a Knight of the 

 Legion of Honor, and of the fifth class of the 

 Turkish order of the Medjidie. 



BARDSLEY, Sir JAMES LENNOX, a British phy- 

 sician, born in 1801 ; died July 10, 1876. Hav- 

 ing graduated M. D. at Edinburgh, he settled 

 at Manchester, where he became consulting 

 physician to the Manchester Infirmary. He 

 was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians of London. At the time of his death 

 he held the offices of deputy-lieutenant and 

 magistrate for Lancashire. He was the author 

 of " Hospital Facts and Observations," and 

 had contributed several articles to the "Cyclo- 

 pedia of Practical Medicine." 



BARROW, Sir GEORGE, a British baronet, 

 born in London, October 22, 1806 ; died Feb- 

 ruary 27, 1876. He was educated at the Char- 

 terhouse, and was appointed assistant junior 

 clerk in the Colonial Office in 1825. He was 

 promoted to be assistant clerk in 1836, senior 

 clerk in 1843, and chief clerk in 1870. He was 

 appointed registrar and secretary of the order 

 of St. Michael and St. George on the recon- 

 struction of the order in 1869. He succeeded 

 to the baronetage on the death of his father in 

 1848, and was created a C. M. G. in 1874. 



BATTMSTARK, ANTON, a German philologist, 

 born April 14, 1800; died March 28, 1876. 

 He studied in the University of Heidelberg, 

 was appointed professor in the gymnasium in 



