Sir William George Granville Vernon Harcourt

Sir William George Granville Vernon Harcourt, an English lawyer, born Oct. 14, 1827. He graduated at Oxford in 1851, was called to the bar in 1854, became queen's counsel in 1866, and professor of international law at Cambridge in 1869. In 1868 he was returned to parliament for the city of Oxford, and in November, 1873, became solicitor general and was knighted, going out of office with the Gladstone ministry in February, 1874. He has contributed to periodical literature, but as a writer is chiefly known by essays on the civil war in America and international law, published in the London "Times" under the signature of "Historicus."

Sir William Jenner

Sir William Jenner, an English physician, born in Chatham in 1815. In 1848 he was appointed professor of pathological anatomy in University college, London, in 1857 professor of clinical medicine, and in 1861 physician to the queen, in which capacity he attended Prince Albert in his last illness. He was created a baronet in 1868, and made K. C. B. in 1872 for his services during the illness of the prince of Wales. He is a fellow of the royal college of physicians and of the royal society. He published in 1852 his "Gulstonian Lectures," but his most important works relate to the "Identity and Non-Identity of Typhus and Typhoid Fevers."

Sir William Lawrence

Sir William Lawrence, an English surgeon, born at Cirencester, July 16, 1783, died in London, July 5, 1867. He received a classical education, and in 1799 was apprenticed to Abernethy. He became surgeon at St. Bartholomew's hospital and in other institutions, professor of anatomy in the royal college, sergeant surgeon to the queen, and a fellow of the royal society. His principal works relate to hernia and to venereal diseases of the eye.

Sir William Maxwell (Stirling)

Sir William Maxwell (Stirling), a Scottish author, born at Kenmure, near Glasgow, in 1818. He graduated at Cambridge in 1839, and resided several years in Spain. He has published "Annals of the Artists of Spain" (3 vols. 8vo, 1848), " The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles the Fifth" (1852), and "Velasquez and his Works" (12mo, 1855), and edited the marquis de Villars's Memoires de la cour d'Espagne sous le regne de Charles II. (4to, 18G2). From 1852 to 18G5 he was a member of parliament for Perthshire. In 1806 he succeeded to the baronetcy and estates of his uncle, Sir John Maxwell, and assumed the surname of Maxwell. He was elected rector of the universitv of St. Andrews in 1863, and of that of Edinburgh in 1872.

Sir William Palliser

Sir William Palliser, a British inventor, born in Dublin, June 18, 1830. He entered the army in 1855, and retired from it as major in 1871. He became known by the projectiles and guns which bear his name, the former used for piercing armor-plated ships, and the latter now generally introduced in the army. He improved the construction and rifling of cannon used in ironclads and on fortifications. He was knighted in 1873, and in 1875 received the cross of commander of the crown of Italy. - His brother John (born Jan. 29, 1817) explored western America, and published in 1853 "Sporting Adventures in the Prairies." He conducted an expedition to the Indian country in 1856-'7, and was employed in 1857-'60 in determining the British boundary line from Lake Superior to the Pacific. His report was published among the parliamentary papers of 1861.