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sumption, accelerated by dysentery, was sud- 

 den and unexpected. He was buried with 

 great pomp in the Escurial, the doors of which 

 had not been opened since they received the 

 body of Alfonso's grandfather, Ferdinand VII. 

 By his second marriage the King had two 

 (laughters Mercedes, born Sept. 11, 1880, and 

 Maria Theresa, born Nov. 12, 1882. By his 

 death his eldest daughter became Queen of 

 Spain, with his widow as Queen Regent. (See 

 portrait in "Annual Cyclopaedia" for 1883, 

 page 735.) 



Ansdell, Richard, an English painter, born in 

 ( Liverpool in 1816 ; died in Farnborough, April 

 20, 1885. His subjects were mostly animals 

 and hunting-scenes, and occasionally out-door 

 historical scenes. Among his best-known 

 paintings are "The Death," "Mary, Queen of 

 Scots, returning from the Chase to Stirling 

 Castle," "The Stag at Bay" and "The Com- 

 bat," "The Battle of the Standard," "Wolf- 

 slayer," " Turning the Drove," " Buy a Dog, 

 Ma'am?" and "The Water-Carrier," "Goat- 

 herds," and other Spanish subjects. 



August, Prince, of Wurtemberg, born Jan. 24, 

 1813 ; died Jan. 12, 1885. He was a general 

 in the Prussian army, and until his retirement 

 commanded the Army Corps of the Guards gar- 

 risoning Berlin. 



Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, an English 

 nobleman, bora in February, 1849 ; died on his 

 cattle-ranch in Texas in January, 1885. He 

 succeeded to the title in 1871. He wasted his 

 property in horse-racing, was separated from 

 his wife in 1882, and settled in Texas. 



Beanme, Joseph, a French painter, born in 

 Marseilles in 1798; died Sept. 14, 1885. In 

 1819 he produced "Eliezer and Naphthali," 

 which made him famous. He painted a large 

 number of historical pieces, among them the 

 "Battle of Ltltzen," the " Death of the Great 

 Dauphin," "The King drinks"; also "Hagar 

 in the Desert," and other biblical scenes, and 

 a number of portraits, sea-pieces, genre paint- 

 ings, and pastoral subjects. 



Becker, Hermann, a German political agitator, 

 born in Elberfeld, Sept. 15, 1820 ; died in Co- 

 logne, Dec. 9, 1885. He became a lawyer, took 

 a prominent part in the revolutionary move- 

 ment of 1848, and was condemned to impris- 

 onment in a fortress for high treason. When 

 released he settled at Dortmund, which place 

 he represented in the Prussian Diet and in the 

 ' German Reichstag, where he voted with the 

 Progressist party. Since 1875 he had lived in 

 Cologne, having been elected Chief Burgomas- 

 ter of that city. 



Blakesley, Joseph Williams, Dean of Lincoln, 



, born in London in 1808 ; died in Lincoln, April 



18, 1885. He published a " Life of Aristotle " 



i in 1839, and an edition of Herodotus in 1854; 



also a book of travel entitled "Four Months 



in Algeria." 



Bohnstedt, Ludwig, a German architect, born 

 . in St. Petersburg in 1823 ; died in Gotha, Jan. 

 , 15, 1885i He was appointed court architect 

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at St. Petersburg in 1851, and designed the 

 Monastery of the Resurrection and other pub- 

 lic buildings. In 18(51 he removed to Gotha. 

 His design for the Berlin Parliament buildings 

 was awarded the first prize in 1872. Among 

 other fine buildings he designed the Cathedral 

 of Sao Torquato, in Portugal. 



Bourget, Ignace, Archbishop of Martianopolis, 

 in partibus infidelium, born at Point Levi, 

 opposite Quebec, Oct. 30, 1799 ; died at Sault 

 au Recollet, near Montreal, June 8, 1885. He 

 was the oldest Roman Catholic bishop in 

 America, and the oldest but one in the world. 

 He was the eleventh son of Pierre Bourget, a 

 farmer. He was ordained priest Nov. 9, 1822, 

 and eleven years later became coadjutor to 

 Mgr. Lartigne ; on July 25, Bishop of felmessa, 

 in partibus infidelium, and on the death of Mgr. 

 Lartigne, in 1840, Bishop of Montreal. He re- 

 signed the bishopric of Montreal in 1876, and 

 was made Archbishop of Martianopolis. His 

 resignation was attributed to the adverse de- 

 cision of the Privy Council in the celebrated 

 Guibord case. Guibord was one of the direct- 

 ors of Pins ti tut Canadien who had been ex- 

 communicated by Mgr. Bourget on account of 

 the library's containing forbidden books. Gui- 

 bord owned a lot in the Roman Catholic ceme- 

 tery, and on his death permission to bury him 

 in consecrated ground having been refused, le- 

 gal proceedings were taken and ultimately ap- 

 pealed to the Privy Council in England, which 

 decided in favor of the friends of Guibord, and 

 the interment was accomplished with the as- 

 sistance of a military escort. The bishop re- 

 signed the same year. He was the leader of 

 the Ultramontane party in Canada, and was a 

 prolific author. He instituted the first chapter 

 of titular canons in Canada, and introduced into 

 the Dominion fifteen religious communities de- 

 voted to education and charities, and twenty 

 religious societies. 



Braamcamp, Anselmo Jose, a Portuguese states- 

 man, born Oct. 23, 1817 ; died in Lisbon in 

 November, 1855. He first came into office in 

 1862 as Minister of the Interior, was appointed 

 Minister of Finance in 1869, and rescued the 

 country from a financial crisis. He succeeded 

 the Duke of Louie as leader of the Progressist 

 party. In 1879 he was called upon to form a 

 ministry. 



Cairns, Hngh QfacCalmont, Earl, an English 

 statesman, born in County Down, Ireland, in 

 1819; died in Bournemouth, April 2, 1885. 

 He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. 

 He was called to the English bar in 1844, and 

 rapidly obtained a large equity practice. In 

 1852 he was returned to Parliament for Bel- 

 fast. In 1858 he became Lord Derby's So- 

 licitor-General. Sir Hugh Cairns began his offi- 

 cial career by proposing reforms in the land 

 laws, but his projects were interfered with by a 

 ministerial crisis. At a later period he carried 

 through Parliament the Landed Estates Bill 

 and other measures relieving land-owners from 

 feudal restrictions and legal formalities. When 



