Assistant keeper of her Majesty’s records (_Public Record Office_, _Rolls House_, W.C.)
In the accountant general’s department of the War Office (_Pall Mall_, S.W.)
B. at Oxford, Feb. 1828. In Office of Emigration Commissioners (8, _Park-street_, _Westminster_, S.W.)
A professor of German, French, and Mathematics.
A wine merchant of the firm of Hamilton, Aplin, & Co. (26, _Bucklersbury_, E.C.)
Of a very respectable family, seated for centuries in Lancashire, now represented by Col. Rawstorne of Penwortham in that county. Second s. of the late Capt. Rawstorne who fought in the American and Peninsular wars; cousin of Sir Wm. Pilkington, Bart. of Chevet Hall, co. York; m. dau. of Capt. Atkins, R.N. Ent. the navy 1806; witnessed, in 1807, the flight of the royal house of Portugal to the Brazils; contributed, in 1811, to the capture of the Medes Islands; in 1814 captured several vessels off the North American coast; obtained his present rank in 1855.
B. in Yorkshire; a sculptor; member of the Society of Arts and Royal Institution (13, _Bruton-st._)
In the office of the Committee of Council on Education (_Downing-street_, S.W.)
B. in Edinburgh; member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1816, England, 1820; a Fellow of the latter since 1843; retired from the profession 1844; was formerly demonstrator of anatomy, and conservator of the Anatomical Museum University of Edinburgh.
S. of the late George Thomson, Esq. of Freswick; b. in Edinburgh; m. Barbara Madeline Gordon Sinclair, eld. dau. of the late William Sinclair, Esq. of Freswick. A deputy commissary-general on half-pay. Is a J.P. and dep.-lieut. for Caithness. Served, while on full pay, on expedition to Stralsund, in Canada, Portugal, Bermuda, West Indies, &c. Lately in charge of the commissariat in Nova Scotia and Canada (_Dunbrath Castle_, _Caithness_).
The family of Woodyear is of Kentish origin, the earliest mention of the name being that of William Woodier, of Chatham, co. Kent, who lived in 1454.
A wine merchant (2, _Brabant Court_, _Philpot Lane_, E.C.)
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons; formerly Surgeon to the Merchant Seamen’s hospital, Lisbon; late assistant surgeon 1st regiment, Derbyshire militia; now lieut. 4th Royal South Middlesex militia. A member of the Royal East India Institution, Whitehall.