_Kent House_, _B_. LISTER, Thomas Villiers, Esq.
Only s. of late Thomas Henry Lister, Esq., of Armitage Prk. Staffordsh., Regis.-Gen. of births, deaths, and marriages, by Lady Maria Theresa Villiers, sister of present Earl of Clarendon, and wife now of Sir G. C. Lewis (see preceding). B. 1832; M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, 1853. In the Foreign Office, of which he was appointed a clerk, 1853, having been previously assistant private secretary to Lord Clarendon. Attach. to Lord John Russell’s special mission to Vienna, 1855; Lord Clarendon’s special mission to Paris, 1856; Earl Granville’s special embassy to Russia, same year. Private secretary to Lord Clarendon, Dec., 1857 to Feb., 1858. Précis writer to Earl Russell, since 1859. App. dep.-lieut. for Radnorshire, 1856 (_Brooke’s and St. James’s Clubs_; _Armitage Park_, _Staffordshire_).
3. STERLING, Sir Anthony Conyngham, Colonel, K.C.B.,
S. of Capt. Edward Sterling. B. 1805; m. 1829, dau. of late Major-Gen. Joseph Baird. Entered the army, 1826; lieut., 1829; capt., 1833; major, 1846; lieut.-col., 1854; col., 1857. Was brig. major and assist. adjut. general of Highland division during Crimean campaign of 1854–5; present at Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, and siege of Sebastopol. For these services was nominated a companion of the Bath, and an officer of the Legion of Honor, and decorated with Crimean and Turkish medals, and 4th class of order of Medjidie; placed on half pay, Nov. 1855. Was military secretary to Lord Clyde, during the Indian Mutiny, for which he wears a medal; and was created a K.C.B., 1860.
A surveyor of the firm of Ifold and Hughes (38, _Manchester-street_, S.W.)
A royal academician and honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy (_Athenæum and Garrick Clubs_).
A solicitor; member of the Incorporated Law Society, and Solicitor’s Benevolent Institute. Perpetual commissioner for Kent (7, _Dane’s-inn_, _Strand_; _Chatham_).
S. of the late Mr. South, druggist, of Southwark. M. Ann, (she died, 1851) niece and sole heiress of the late Joseph Ellis, Esq., of South Lambeth. A member of the College of Surgeons. Formerly in practice in Blackman Street, Southwark; removed to Kensington, in 1823. Has devoted himself to astronomy; compiled, in conjunction with Sir J. Herschel, a catalogue of 380 stars; a founder of the Astronomical Society, in 1820. Has filled the presidential chair; knighted in 1830; enjoys a pension of £300 a year on the civil list, for his contributions to astronomy. His observatory contains many fine equatorial instruments, and is known among men of science throughout Europe. Author of “The Curiosities of Science.” A Fellow of the Royal Society of London and Edinburgh; Fellow of the Linnæan Society: hon. member of the Royal Irish Academy (_Athenæum Club_).