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burgh High School. He was thirty years old 

 when he appeared as nn exhibitor in the Royal 

 Academy. He gained a special reputation as 

 a painter of sporting scenes and of portraits of 

 the reigning beauties of the time. lie was 

 elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 

 1842, an Academician in 1851, and President 

 in 1866. In that year he was also knighted, 

 and in 1870 was created a D. 0. L. of Oxford 

 University. 



GREGG, JOHN, an Irish bishop, born in 1708, 

 died May 26, 1878. He was ordained in 1822, 

 after a successful collegiate course in Trinity 

 College, Dublin, and he acquired some fame as 

 a preacher while he was attached to the in- 

 cumbency of Holy Trinity Parish, Dublin. He 

 was appointed Archdeacon of Kildare in 1857, 

 and became Bishop of the Diocese of Cork, 

 Cloyne, and Ross in 1862. 



GRIFFITH, Sir RICHARD JOHN, a British civil 

 engineer, born September 20, 1784, died Sep- 

 tember 22, 1878. In 1825 he was appointed 

 commissioner for the general valuation of 

 lands and tenements in Ireland, and in 1851 

 chairman of the Board of Public Works of 

 that country, which office he held till 1864. 

 He was created a baronet in 1858, and was a 

 member of various learned societies. His cele- 

 brated geological map of Ireland was begun in 

 1812 and completed in 1857. 



GRUNEISEN, KARL vox, a German theologian 

 and scholar, born January 17, 1802, died Feb- 

 ruary 28, 1878. He was appointed court 

 preacher and consistorial councilor in Stutt- 

 gart in 1835, from which position he retired in 

 1868. He was equally distinguished as a wri- 

 ter on theology as on art, and also gained some 

 distinction as a poet. In 1858 he established, 

 with Schnaase and Schnorr von Karolsfeld, the 

 " Christliche Kunstblatt," of which he re- 

 mained one of the editors until his death. 



GUERICKE, HEINRICH ERNST FERDINAND, a 

 German theologian, born February 23, 1803, 

 died February 4, 1878. He was appointed a 

 Professor of Theology in the University of 

 Halle in 1829. Being one of the leaders of the 

 Old Lutherans, he opposed the union between 

 the two Protestant churches of Prussia, and 

 was in consequence removed from his profes- 

 sorship in 1835, but was reinstated in 1840. 

 He was the author of a considerable number 

 of theological works, the most important of 

 which are : " Handbuch der Kirchengeschich- 

 te" (2 vols., 1833; 9th edition, 1866); "All- 

 gemeine christliche Symbolik " (1839); "Lehr- 

 buch der christlichen Archaologie " (1847). He 

 was also from 1840 until his death one of the 

 editors of the quarterly "Zeitschrift fur Lu- 

 therische Theologie," one of the leading liter- 

 ary organs of the German Lutheran Church. 



GUBNEY, RUSSELL, an English lawyer, born 

 in 1804, died May 31, 1878. He was educated 

 in Trinity College, Cambridge, was called to 

 the bar at the Inner Temple in 1828, and was 

 elected Recorder of London in 1856, after 

 having previously filled various other impor- 



tant offices. In 1866 he went as a Commis- 

 sioner to Jamaica to inquire into the origin of 

 the rebellion there, and in recognition of his 

 services was created a Privy Councilor. In 

 July, 1871, he was one of the Commissioners 

 on behalf of Great Britain for the settlement 

 of British and American claims under the 

 treaty of Washington. lie had been a mem- 

 ber of Parliament for Southampton since 1865. 



HALL, Sir WILLIAM HUTCIIEON, a British 

 admiral, died June 25, 1878. He entered the 

 navy in 1811, and served with distinction in 

 the different wars in the East, particularly in 

 the first China war in 1841, and in the Baltic 

 in 1854-'55. In 1867 he was nominated a 

 Knight Commander of the Bath. He was 

 placed on the active list of rear-admirals in 

 1863, and of vice-admirals in 1869, and went 

 on the retired list of admirals in 1875. 



HALT, Sir WILLIAM O'GRADY, a British gen- 

 eral, died March 19, 1878. He entered the 

 army in 1823, became major-general in 1865, 

 lieutenant-general in 1873, and brevet major- 

 general in 1877. He served with distinction in 

 the Crimean war, was appointed to the com- 

 mand of the forces in Canada in 1873, and ad- 

 ministered the government there during the 

 absence of the Governor-General in 1875. 



HANEL, GUSTAV FRIEDRICH, a German jurist, 

 born October 5, 1792, died October 18, 1878. 

 He began to lecture at the University of Leip- 

 sic in 1817, was appointed extraordinary pro- 

 fessor in 1821, and ordinary professor in 1838. 

 He edited a large number of Latin MSS. hav- 

 ing reference to Roman law, the most impor- 

 tant of which are : " Codex Theodosianus " 

 (1837-'42), and " Lex Romana Visigothorum " 

 (1849). His great merits in behalf of a better 

 knowledge of the sources of the Roman law 

 are generally recognized. 



HARDY, Sir THOMAS DUFFUS, a British his- 

 torian, born in 1804, died June 15, 1878. At 

 the early age of fifteen he became a junior 

 clerk in H. M. Record Office, was appointed 

 Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in 1861, 

 and was knighted in 1869. Besides editing a 

 large number of ancient MSS. and records, h 

 wrote a biography of Lord Langdale, a " De* 

 scriptive Catalogue of Materials relating to 

 the History of Great Britain and Ireland to 

 the End of the Reign of Henry VII.," "The 

 Athanasian Creed in connection with the 

 Utrecht Psalter," and "A Farther Report on 

 the Utrecht Psalter." 



HARTMANN, JULIUS VON, a German general, 

 horn in 1817, died April 30, 1878. He entered 

 the Prussian army in 1835, commanded the 

 cavalry division of the Second Army in the war 

 with Austria in 1866 with the rank of major- 

 general, and was created a lieutenant-general 

 in 1867. In the war with France he was again 

 in command of a cavalry division, and in rec- 

 ognition of his services was created a general 

 of cavalry. He retired from the service in 

 1874. 



HEIMANN, BASILI ALEXANDEOVITCH, a Rus- 



