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Manager of the Temple Bar Branch of the London and Westminster Bank (217 and 218, _Strand_, W.C.)
4. HILLS, Capt. John.
Entered the Navy in 1808. While on the Spanish coast (181014) was frequently entrusted with the hazardous duty of landing arms for the use of the guerillas. He figured also as a volunteer in two cutting out expeditions; and, besides otherwise coming into contact with the enemy, a.s.sisted at the bombardment and capture of Bermeo and Castro. During the time of his servitude in the Coast Guard, was five times engaged with smugglers; in one of them his arm was broken, and in some of the others, had the misfortune to receive permanent injury.
4. HILLS, Octavius, Lelburne, Esq.
A solicitor; a member of the Incorporated Law Society (7, _Gray's Inn Square_, W.C.)
4. HILLS, Gordon Macdonald, Esq.
An architect and surveyor (12, _John-street_, _Adelphi_, W.C.)
5. BROWN, Archibald, Esq.
In the Secretary's Department of the Inland Revenue Office (_Somerset House_, W.C.)
7. GRAHAM, Major James Reginald Tovin.
Formerly attached to the 2nd Dragoons; fought at Waterloo; retired from the army in 1837.
8. MARTIN, John, Esq.
A member of the Middle Temple; c. to the Bar, 1855; a special pleader; attends the Western Circuit (2, _Plowden Buildings_, _Temple_, E.C.)
10. HANDLEY-O'FARRELL, Henry, Esq.
In the Chief Examiner's Department of the Inland Revenue Office (_Somerset House_, W.C.)
15. ROSS, Henry, Esq.
A sculptor.
15. BELL, John, Esq.
S. of Samuel Bell, Esq., of Hopton, Suffolk; b. 19 Aug. 1811, at Great Yarmouth; m. 1846, the only dau. of Robert Sullivan, Esq., a gentleman of fortune; has issue, a dau.; has been an exhibitor at the Academy since 1832; has devoted himself to sculpture, ornamental art, and literature.
Princ.i.p.al public works:-the City Wellington Memorial in Guildhall; Crimean Artillery Memorial, Woolwich; Guards Memorial, Waterloo-place; Falkland and Walpole, in the Houses of Parliament. Princ.i.p.al private works:-Dorothea, Eagle Slayer, Cromwell, Shakespeare, Armed Science, Australia, Babes in the Wood, &c. Various ornamental designs in metal and granite, marble, &c. Author of the drama of Ivan; handbooks of industrial art; lectures on various art subjects, on color, statues, the entasis applied to the obelisk, &c.
DURHAM VILLAS.
4. PEEL, Right Hon. Sir Laurence.
1st cousin of the late Sir Robert Peel; b. 1799; educ. at St. John's College, Cambridge; a member of Lincoln's Inn; c. to the Bar, 1824; went the Northern Circuit; M.P. for c.o.c.kermouth, 182730; advocate general in Bengal, 18402; chief justice at Calcutta (when knighted) 184255; vice president of the Madras Legislative Council, 185455; a director of the East India Company, 1857; a bencher of Lincoln's Inn; a governor of Guy's Hospital (_Athenaeum and Windham Clubs_; _Bonchurch_, _Ventnor_, _Isle of Wight_).
8. ABBOTT, William, Esq.
A draughtsman in the Copyhold Inclosure and t.i.the Commission Office (3, _St. James's-square_, S.W.)
EARL'S COURT TERRACE.
12. PHILLIPS, John Arthur, Esq.
A civil engineer.
15. TIPPETTS, James Berriman, Esq.
A solicitor of the firm of Tippetts and Son (2, _Sise-lane_, _Bucklersbury_, E.C.)
EARL'S TERRACE.
1. STOCK, Rev. John.
Educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; obtained his B.A. 1815; ordained, 1816; was formerly vicar of Finchingfield, Ess.e.x. Is author of a volume of sermons, published in 1841.
