The Annual Register Of World Events (volume 131); A Review Of The Year

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1890. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... OBITUABY OF EMINENT PEESONS DECEASED IN 1889.1 JANUARY. James Orchard Halliwell-Fhillipps, F R.S., who died on Jan. 3, at bis residence, Hallingbury Copse, Brighton, was a son of Mr. Thomas Halliwell, of Sloane Street, Chelsea, where he was born on June 21, 1820. He received his early education under Mr. Charles Butler, author of The Introduction to the Mathematics. At an early age he devoted himself to antiquarian researches, chiefly directing his attention to the literary history and antiquities of this country as embodied in the various early works of prose and verse. Many rare and curious works on these arid cognate subjects were brought out under his supervision, and his name became favourably known to Shakespearian scholars as that of the author of more than twenty original papers and elaborate works on the writings of the great dramatist. His principal works were a Life of Shakespeare, 1848; a sumptuous edition of the works of Shakespeare, with a revised biography, published by subscription in sixteen folio volumes, 1853-65; a Calendar of the Records of Stratford-on-Avon, 1863; a History of New Place, 1864; and Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. He was mainly instrumental in the purchase of the poet's estate of New Place for the Corporation of Stratford-onAvon, and in the formation of the Shakespeare Museum of that town. He assumed the name of Phillipps by Royal licence in 1872, under a direction in the will of the late Mr. Thomas Phillipps, -of Broadway, the grandfather of his first wife. Francis Hueffer, who died at Bush Green, Hammersmith, on Jan. 19, was born at Munster in 1845, the son of a banker, and passed most of his youth in Germany, but came to England in 1869. 'These notices are in several cased adapted from the Timer. After studyin...