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 1 I'ANSON, EDWARD (eld, son of Edward l'Anson

1775-1853, sarveyor and architect). 5. St. Laurence, Pountney bill, London 25 July 1812; ed. at Merchant Taylors'; exhibited 18 designs at R.A. 1830–80; architect in city of London 1837 to death; surveyor for St. Bartholomew's hospital 18 Dec. 1871; designed British and Foreign Bible Society's buildings, Queen Victoria st. 1866, Merchant Taylors' school at the Charterhouse opened 1875, and greater part of the fine buildings in the City built exclusively for offices; restored Dutch church in Austin Friars and that of St. Mary, Abchurch; F.R.I.B.A. 1840, pres. 1886 to death, wrote many papers for its Transactions; author of Detached essays and illustrations, Architectural Publication soc. 1853. d. 28 Clanricarde gardens, Bayswater, London 30 Jany. 1888. hur. at Headley in Hampshire. Builder, triz 189, 1006 (1871), portrait.

l'ANSON, WILLIAM. b. Middlebam, Yorkshire 1810; horse trainer; trainer to A. Johnstone at Malton 1849; trained Blipk Bonny winner of the Derby 1857, Caller Ou winner of the St. Leger 1861 and Blair Athol winner of the Derby and St. Leger 1864; had a yearly sale of horses on Friday after the Št. Leger; owner of numerous race horses; golf player; captain of Malton curling club; his Blink

Bonny stud farm was very well known. d. Hungerford house, Norton, Malton 10 Jany. 1881. Must. sp. and dram. news, div 453, 466 (1881), portrait, Bell's Life in London 15 Jany. 1881 pp. 6, 7.

IBBETSON, LEVETT LANDEN BOSCAWEN. Captain; gave his valuable collections of fossils and cretaceous mollusca to Museum of practical geology, Jermyn st. London 1853–61; F.G.S.; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; knight of the orders of the Red Eagle and Hohenzollern of Prussia ; resided at Biebrich for several years; author of Notes on the geology and chemical composition of the various strata in the Isle of Wight 1849. d. Biebrich, Prussia 8 Sep. 1869. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. vi p. ali (1870).

IBBOTSON, HENRY. b. about 1816; school-master at Mowthorpe near Castle Howard,at Dunnington and at Grimthorpe near Whit-well all in Yorkshire; distributed sets of the rarer plants of the northern counties; con-tributed to Baines's Flora of Yorkshire 1840 and to Baker's North Yorkshire 1863; author of A catalogue of the Phonogamous plante of Great Britain 1848; The ferns of York 1884. d. in great poverty at York 12 Feb. 1886.