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uniyersity offioes^ was appointed to the rectory of Brandesburton, Yorkshire, in 1852. Dr. Hymers, who is a Fellow of the Boyal and Geological Societies, has written Eeyeral Cambridge text-books, in- cluding " The Elements of i^e Theory of Astronomy ; " " Treatise on the Theory of Algebraical Equa- tions?" "lieatise on Analytical Geometry of three Dimensions ; '* "Treatise on Differential Equations and the Calculus of Finite Differ- ences ; '' " Treatise on Trigono- metry, Plane and Spherical ; ** "Treatise on the Integral Calcu- lus ; ** and a " Treatise on Conic Sections." He published, in 1840, with notes and an appendix, " Bishop Fisher's Funeral Sermons on Lady Margaret and her Son, Henry VII."

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IBBETSON, SiE Hbnbt John Selwin, Bart., M.P., only son of the late Sir John Thomas Ibbetson- Selwin, the sixth baronet, by Isa- bella, daughter of the late General John Leveson-Gower, was born Sept. 26, 1826, and received his academical education at Cambridge, in St. John's College. He twice contested Ipswich in the Conserva- tive interest, before being returned for South Essex in July, 1865, and after the county was further divided by the second Eeform Act, he was elected in 1868 for the western division of it, which he still repre- sents in the House of Commons. He brought in and passed the Bills dealing with the Licences for the sale of Boer and Wine in 1869 and 1870. Sir H. Selwin-Ibbetson was appointed Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department on Mr. Disraeli taking office in the spring of 1874. He was Chairman of the departmental commission appointed in 1877 to inquire into the detective branch of the metropolitan police. In April, 1878, he was appointed |

Secretary to the Treasury, and he held that office until the resignation of the Conservative Government in April, 1880. He assumed the name of Ibbetson (which his father had formerly borne) in addition to that of Selwin in 1867.

IGNATIEFF, Nicholas Pavlo- YiTCH, a Bussian general and diplo- matist, born in 1832. He is the son of Count Paul Ignatieff, a cap- tain of infantry, who, at the time of the military insurrection that occurred at St. Petersburg in con- sequence of the somewhat forcible accession of the Grand-Duke Nicholas to the throne of Bussia in 1825, was the first to pass over, with his company, to the side of the new Czar — ^a defection which ensured the triumph of the latter, and gained for Captain Ignatieff and lus family the powerful protec- tion of Nicholas I. The subject of this notice had at the very outset of his career the Emperor for his god-father. He was educated at the Corps des Pages, and, according to custom, quitted that select estab- lishment for young aristocrats to enter the Guard. At the com- mencement of the Crimean war he served with his regiment at Bevel, in the Baltic provinces, under Count Berg, to whose staff he was attached. Towards the end of the war Ignatieff followed his general to Finland. He then passed from the military to the diplomatic ser- vice, finding his point of transitiim in the military attach^ship to the embassy at London. BUs chief performance in this capa<^ity was a report on England's military posi- tion in India, which so pleased the Emperor that he summoned Cap- tain Ignatieff to Warsaw for a per- sonal interview. In 1858 Ignatieff, now a colonel and aide-de-camp to the Emperor, wste sent on a special mission to Khiva and Bokhara. He was afterwards made a major- general in the Imperial suite, and sent as plenipotentiary to Pekin (1860), where h© concluded a treaty