COMMITTEE. Chairman - The Rt. Hon. LORD BROUGHAM, F.R.S., Mem. of the Nat. Inst. of France. W. Allen, Esq., F.R. and R. A.S. The Rt. Rev. the Bishop of St. David's, D.D. J. F. Davis, Esq., F.R.S. Sir Henry De la Beche, F.R.S. The Right Hon. Lord Denman. The Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Durham, D.D. John Forbes, M.D. and F.R.S. Sir I. L. Goldsmid, Bart., F.R. and R.A.S. B. Gompertz, Esq., F.R. and R.A.S. G. B. Greenough, Esq., F.R. and L.S. M. D. Hill, Esq., Q.C. Rowland Hill, Esq., F.R.A.S. The Rt. Hon. Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Bart., M.P. Thomas Hodgkin, M.D. David Jardine, Esq., A.M. Henry B. Ker, Esq. Professor Key, A.M. Sir Denis Le Marchant, Bart. R. I. Murchison, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. P. M. Roget, M.D., Sec. R.S., F.R.A.S. Sir Martin A. Shee, P.R. A., F.R.S. Professor A. T. Thomson, M.D. Jacob Waley, Esq., B.A. James Walker, Esq., F.R.S., Pr. Inst. Civ. Henry Waymouth, Esq. Thomas Webster, Esq., A.M. Right Hon. Lord Wrottesley, A.M., F.R.A.S. THOMAS COATES, Esq., Secretary, 59. Lincoln's Inn Fields. LONDON: ADVERTISEMENT то THE FIRST VOLUME. IN completing the First Volume of this Work, the Committee think it only just towards those engaged in it to express their satisfaction that a task so extensive and difficult as that which the Society has undertaken has hitherto been accomplished with a far greater share of success than they had reason to hope for. The labour of preparing a Biographical Dictionary according to the plan laid down in the Editor's Preface may be estimated by the fact that in this volume are contained 1661 Memoirs. To each, with scarcely an exception, are added the authorities on which it is founded. And when it is observed that many of these Memoirs, whether from the inadequacy of materials or from the want of interest in the personal incidents of the life, occupy only a few lines, the preparation of which must have cost, in almost all cases, much research and required the exercise of discretion, the Committee think it not unfitting that they should express how deeply they feel indebted to those Gentlemen who have assisted them in this undertaking, and of whose names they now give a list. By order of the Committee. 59. Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1st November, 1842. THOMAS COATES, Secretary. |