Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 6), A-H (part 3 of 8)

Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 6), A-H (part 3 of 8)

BURDETT, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet. b. Piccadilly 26 April 1796; major 10th hussars 11 Oct. 1827 to 8 March 1831, when placed on h.p.; retired from army 1846; succeeded 23 Jany. 1844; sheriff of Derbyshire 1848. d. G. 2 Albany, Piccadilly, London 7 June 1880. Personalty sworn under £300,000 4 Sep. 1880.

BURFORD, ROBERT. b. 1791; exhibited 4 landscapes at Royal Academy 1812–16; exhibited panoramas with H. A. Barker on site of present Strand theatre to 1827 when he moved to Leicester square, where he exhibited a succession of panoramas of chief places of interest in Europe. d. 35 Camden road villas, London 30 Jany. 1861. T. Taylor’s Leicester Square (1874) 467–71.

BURGES, REV. GEORGE. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1787; V. of Halvergate, Norfolk 1812 to death; V. of Moulton, Norfolk 1813 to death; author of An address to the people of Great Britain 1798; Remarks on the leading arguments in favour of Catholic emancipation 1812, 2 ed. 1813; Reflections on the nature and tendency of the present spirit of the times in a letter to the freeholders of Norfolk 1819, 2 ed. 1820. d. Whittlesea 24 Jany. 1853 aged 89.

NOTE.—In Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica the classical publications of George Burges, M.A., of Trin. coll. Cam., who d. 11 Jany. 1864, are erroneously added to those of the Rev. George Burges.

BURGES, GEORGE. b. Bengal about 1786; ed. at Charter house and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1803, B.A. 1807; M.A. 1810; started two coaches which plied up and down the New Road London; constructed a machine for aerial conveyance of passengers from Dover to Calais; maker of a new kind of stays called ‘corsets à la Vénus’; gave a series of public lectures upon ancient and modern literature; kept a lodging house at Ramsgate 1856 to death; granted civil list pension of £100 per annum 7 June 1841; author of a play in 5 acts called The son of Erin or the cause of the Greeks by an Asiatic liberal 1823; published the Troades of Euripides 1807 and the Phœnissæ 1809; the Supplices and Prometheus of Æschylus 1831 and other classical works. d. Ramsgate 11 Jany. 1864 aged 78.

BURGES, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Burges of London, civil engineer). b. 2 Dec. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. London 1839–44; pupil of Edward Blore, architect 1844–9; gained first award in international competition for Lille cathedral 1856; Cantor lecturer at Society of Arts 1862; designed cathedral at Brisbane, Queensland 1859, cathedral at Cork 1862; rebuilt Cardiff Castle 1865; prepared designs for new law courts in Strand, London; F.R.I.B.A. 1860, A.R.A. 28 Jany. 1881; author of Art applied to industry, a series of lectures 1865; Architectural drawings with descriptive letterpress 1870. d. 9 Melbury road, Kensington, London 20 April 1881. Trans. of Royal Instit. of British Architects (1882) 17–30, 183–95; I.L.N. lxxviii, 429 (1881), portrait; Graphic xxiii, 456 (1881), portrait.

BURGESS, REV. HENRY. b. 1808; ed. at Stepney college; LLD. Glasgow 1851; Ph.D. Gottingen 1852; P.C. of Clifton Reynes, Bucks. 1854–61; V. of St. Andrew, Whittlesea, Cambs. 1861 to death; edited Journal of sacred literature 1848; Clerical journal 1854–68; author of Poems 1850; Select metrical hymns and homilies of Ephraem translated 1853; The festal epistles of St. Athanasius translated from the Syriac 1852. d. 10 Feb. 1886.

BURGESS, JOHN CART. b. 1798; painter of flowers and fruit in water colours; exhibited 31 pictures at the R.A., 7 at the B.I., and 15 at Suffolk st. gallery 1812–37; taught painting in London; author of A practical essay on the art of flower painting 1811; An easy introduction to perspective, 6 ed. 1835. d. Leamington 20 Feb. 1863.

BURGESS, JOSEPH TOM. b. Cheshunt, Herts. 1828; reporter on Leicester Journal 1844; edited Clare Journal at Ennis; edited Bury Guardian 7 years; Leamington Spa Courier 1865–78; Barrow’s Worcester Journal 5 years; F.S.A. 1 June 1876; author of Life scenes and social sketches 1862; Old English wild flowers 1868; Harry Hope’s holidays 1871; Historic Warwickshire 1876; A handbook to the cathedral of Worcester 1884. d. Leamington 4 Oct. 1886.

BURGESS, REV. RICHARD. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam, B.D. 1835; R. of Upper Chelsea 1836–69; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. 1851 to death; R. of Horningsheath, Suffolk 27 Dec. 1869 to death; lectured at early meetings of British Architects in Covent Garden and Grosvenor st. London; author of A treatise on the ludi circenses 1828; Topography and antiquities of Rome 2 vols. 1831; Greece and the Levant 2 vols. 1835. d. Brighton 12 April 1881 in 85 year. I.L.N. xxvi, 268 (1855), portrait.

BURGESS, RIGHT REV. THOMAS. b. near Preston 1 Oct. 1791; ed. at Benedictine college, Ampleforth where he was professed 13 Oct. 1807; prior of Ampleforth July 1818 to 1830 when he left Benedictine order and became secularized in order to raise up a new collegiate establishment at Prior park, Bath; opened Portland chapel, Queen st. Bath 26 May 1832; kept a school at Monmouth; bishop of Clifton 27 June 1851 to death; consecrated in St. George’s cathedral, Southwark 27 July 1851. d. the Convent, Westbury on Trym 27 Nov. 1854. Catholic Directory (1860) 258–61, portrait.

BURGESS, THOMAS HENRY. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. England 1835; M.D. Edin. 1837; practised in London 1838 to death; phys. to Blenheim st. dispensary 1841; fellow of Med. and Chir. Soc. 1839; author of The physiology and mechanism of blushing 1839; Eruptions of the face and hands 1849; The climate of Italy in relation to pulmonary consumption 1852; translated Cazenave and Schedel’s Practical treatise on diseases of the skin 1832. d. Southsea 17 Dec. 1865. Medical Circular i, 491 (1852).

BURGOYNE, HUGH TALBOT (only son of the succeeding). b. Dublin 19 July 1833; entered navy 18 Jany. 1853; captain of ‘Constance’ 35 guns 1867–9; captain of armour plated turret ship ‘Captain’ 6 guns 30 April 1870 to death; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; lost in the ‘Captain’ which foundered off Cape Finisterre about 2 a.m. 7 Sep. 1870. I.L.N. lvii, 302, 307, 312 (1870), portrait.

BURGOYNE, SIR JOHN FOX, 1 Baronet (elder natural son of John Burgoyne 1723–92, commander in chief in Ireland). b. Queen st. Soho, London 24 July 1782; ed. at Eton and Woolwich 1796–8; 2 lieut. R.E. 29 Aug. 1798; commanding engineer of expedition to New Orleans 1814; chairman of board of Public works in Ireland 1831–45; a founder of Instit. of Civil Engineers of Ireland and first pres. 5 Aug. 1835; inspector general of fortifications in England July 1845 to 1 Jany. 1868 when he retired on full pay; pres. of Irish famine relief commission 10 Feb. 1847; sent to Constantinople to report on defence of Turkey Jany. 1854; conducted siege of Sebastopol Oct. 1854 to Feb. 1855; col. commandant R.E. 22 Nov. 1854 to death; general 5 Sep. 1855; created baronet 18 March 1856; F.R.S. 6 June 1856; constable of Tower of London 8 April 1865 to death; field marshal 1 Jany. 1868; granted a pension of £1,500 a year; K.C.B. 19 July 1838; G.C.B. 6 April 1852; admitted to freedom of City of London 22 Oct. 1868; author of Our defensive forces 1869, 3 ed. 1870. d. 5 Pembridge sq. Bayswater, London 7 Oct. 1871. bur. in Tower of London 17 Oct. Life and correspondence of Sir J. F. Burgoyne 2 vols. 1873, portrait; A sketch of the life of Sir J. Burgoyne by Sir F. Head 1872; Papers on subjects connected with duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers n.s. xx, ix-xlii, (1872); Graphic iv, 387, 392 (1871), portrait.

BURGOYNE, SIR JOHN MONTAGU, 9 Baronet. b. Sutton park, Bedfordshire 17 Oct. 1796; ensign 68 foot 17 Oct. 1816; captain grenadier guards 5 June 1835 to 1847; succeeded 11 Aug. 1817; sheriff of Beds. 1852. d. 17 March 1858.

BURKE, JAMES SAINT GEORGE (2 son of John, French Burke). b. 1804; barrister M.T. 20 Nov. 1846; counsel to London, Chatham and Dover railway; Q.C. 2 Dec. 1862; bencher of his inn 27 April 1863; retired from practice about 1869. d. The Auberies near Sudbury 25 Feb. 1881. Personalty sworn under £250,000, 30 April 1881.

BURKE, SIR JOHN CHARLES, 4 Baronet. b. 7 Feb. 1858; succeeded 9 Dec. 1875. d. 16 April 1880.

BURKE, SIR JOHN LIONEL, 12 Baronet. b. Glinsk Castle, co. Roscommon 26 Nov. 1818; succeeded 30 Oct. 1865. d. 21 July 1884.

BURKE, SIR JOSEPH, 11 Baronet. b. Ardfry, co. Galway 31 Jany. 1786; succeeded 1845. d. 30 Oct. 1865.

BURKE, PETER (elder son of John Burke of London, genealogist 1787–1848). b. London 7 May 1811; ed. at Caen college, Normandy; barrister I.T. 7 June 1838; Q.C. of county palatine of Lancaster 1858; serjeant at law 11 Jany. 1860; director of Society of Antiquaries of Normandy 1866–7; author of Celebrated trials connected with the aristocracy 1849; The romance of the forum 4 vols. 1852–61; The public and domestic life of Edmund Burke 1853; Celebrated naval and military trials 1866. d. Coleherne road, South Kensington, London 26 March 1881.

BURKE, ROBERT O’HARA. b. St. Cleram near Galway 1820; entered Austrian army 1840; served in Irish constabulary 1848; emigrated to Australia 1853; inspector of Melbourne police; commanded expedition fitted out to explore centre of Australia which started from Melbourne 20 Aug. 1860; reached Cooper’s Creek 11 Nov. 1860; crossed the continent and reached Gulf of Carpentaria 10 Feb. 1861; returned to Cooper’s Creek 21 April 1861 where he d. of starvation 28 June 1861. bur. with a public funeral at Melbourne 21 Jany. 1863. Bronze statue erected in Collins st. Melbourne 1864 at cost of £4,000. The Burke and Wills exploring expedition 1861; W. Howitt’s History of discovery in Australia ii, 190–310 (1865); Illust. news of the world ix, 65 (1862), portrait.

BURKE, THOMAS. Ensign 83 foot 23 July 1794; major 4 foot 22 July 1813 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; colonel 10 foot 11 April 1860 to death; L.G. 18 Jany. 1861. d. Prospect villa, Ringaskiddy, Cork 4 Feb. 1863.

BURKE, THOMAS HENRY (2 son of Wm. Burke of Knocknagur, co. Galway). b. 25 May 1829; private secretary to Sir Thomas Redington under secretary for Ireland April 1851; under secretary for Ireland May 1869 to death; stabbed to death in Phœnix park, Dublin 6 May 1882 by members of a secret society called the Invincibles; memorial window in Dominican church, Dublin erected by Earl Spencer, Viceroy of Ireland. I.L.N. lxxx, 453 (1882), portrait; Graphic xxv, 464 (1882), portrait.

BURKE, SIR THOMAS JOHN, 3 Baronet. b. 7 June 1813; succeeded 14 Sep. 1847; M.P. for co. Galway 17 May 1847 to 6 July 1865. d. Marble hill, Loughrea, co. Galway 9 Dec. 1875. Burke’s Portrait gallery i, 92 (1833).

BURKE, VERY REV. THOMAS NICHOLAS (son of Walter Burke of Galway who d. 29 Nov. 1872). b. Galway 8 Sep. 1830; entered order of St. Dominic at Perugia 29 Dec. 1847; ordained priest 26 March 1853; superintendent of novices at Tallaght near Dublin 1857–64; rector of Irish Dominican college of San Clemente, Rome Sep. 1864; went to America as visitor of his order Oct. 1871 where he acquired extraordinary popularity as a preacher and lecturer; author of English misrule in Ireland 1873; Ireland’s case stated in reply to Mr. Froude 1873; Lectures and sermons 1873; Lectures on faith and fatherland 1874. d. Tallaght 2 July 1883. The life of the Very Rev. T. N. Burke by W. J. Fitzpatrick 2 vols. 1885, portrait.

BURKE, THOMAS WILLIAM ASTON HAVILAND. b. near London Aug. 1795; ed. at Westminster; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1819; chairman of Middlesex hospital 1848 to death; made a collection of prints supposed to be finest of its kind, it was very strong in works of Woollett, Strange and Sharpe, and in plates by and after Turner. d. 27 Gloucester place, Marylebone, London 3 April 1852. G.M. xxxvii, 624–6 (1852).

BURLTON, WILLIAM. b. 1793; entered Bengal army 1807; commissary general 12 April 1837 to 10 Feb. 1848; lieut. col. of 7 light cavalry 1843, of 10 light cavalry 1848, of 8 light cavalry 1849, of 2 light cavalry 1850 to 10 Aug. 1850; C.B. 3 April 1846; author of A few brief comments on Sir C. Napier’s letter to Sir J. Hobhouse, “On the baggage of the Indian army” 1849. d. Oaklands, Shepherd’s Bush, London 10 Nov. 1870.

BURMESTER, ARNOLD EDWARD. Ensign 59 foot 31 Aug. 1830, lieut. col. 12 Oct. 1860 to 23 Sep. 1862 when he retired on full pay with rank of M.G.; C.B. 1 March 1861. d. 11 St. Stephen’s sq. Bayswater, London 3 Oct. 1877.

BURN, GEORGE. Surgeon R.N. 21 April 1829; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 17 Sep. 1858 to 1 April 1870 when he retired; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. The Cedars, Shirley, Southampton 20 Feb. 1881 aged 70.

BURN, JACOB HENRY. Assistant to Wm. Hone the bookseller in London about 1820, helped to compile The every day book 3 vols. 1826–7; bookseller in Maiden lane, afterwards in King st. Covent Garden; edited Willis’s Current notes 7 vols. 1851–7; author of A descriptive catalogue of the London traders tavern and coffee-house tokens current in the seventeenth century presented to the Corporation library by H. B. H. Beaufoy 1853, 2 ed. 1855, these tokens were collected by him for Beaufoy; Catalogue of a collection of early newspapers and essayists presented to the Bodleian library by Rev. F. W. Hope 1865, formed chiefly by Burn 1830–4. d. St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington, London 19 Feb. 1869 aged 76. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 317–8 (1869).

BURN, JAMES. b. Darlington, Durham 15 March 1804; apprenticed to a skinman at Newcastle; fought and beat O’Neal £25 a side 26 July 1824; beaten by Ned Neale £100 a side 19 Dec. 1824 and by Philip Sampson £50 a side 14 June 1825; beat Pat Magee £100 a side 25 July 1826; beat Ned Baldwin £100 a side 24 April 1827, beaten by him 3 July 1827 after 85 rounds in 90 minutes; beaten by Ned Neale again 13 Nov. 1827; landlord of the Red Horse, Bond St., the Queen’s Head, Windmill st. Haymarket, and the Rising Sun, Air st. Piccadilly, London successively. d. The Rising Sun 29 May 1862. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica ii, 326–37 (1880); Illust. sporting news (1862) 265, portrait.

BURN, ROBERT. Second lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1812, colonel 6 Jany. 1855 to 27 June 1864, col. commandant 2 Aug. 1868 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Cheltenham 19 Dec. 1878 aged 86.

BURN, WILLIAM (son of Robert Burn of Edinburgh, builder). b. Edin. 20 Dec. 1789; pupil of Robert Smirke, architect; architect in Edin. 1816–44 and in London 1844 to death; consulting government architect for Scotland; designed mansions in nearly every county in United Kingdom. d. 6 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 15 Feb. 1870.

BURNABY, CHARLES HERRICK. b. 28 Oct. 1800; second lieut. R.A. 9 June 1825, lieut. col. 22 July 1853 to 28 Nov. 1854 when he retired on full pay; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 20 Regent’s park terrace, London 11 Jany. 1879.

BURNABY, EDWYN SHERARD (only son of Edwyn Burnaby of Baggrave hall near Leicester 1799–1867). b. 22 May 1830; ed. at Eton; ensign Grenadier guards 3 Nov. 1846, lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1877 to June 1880; served in Crimea Nov. 1854 to 28 July 1855; commanded British-Italian legion of 3500 men 1855–7; went on special duty to Syria 1861; commanded Metropolitan volunteers 1877–80; M.G. 29 April 1880; M.P. for North Leics. 12 April 1880 to death; author of An account of the right flank company of the third battalion Grenadier Guards at the battle of Inkerman 1857; John Bryant or the stag hunt by E. S. B. 1868. d. Palmeira sq. Hove, Brighton 31 May 1883. New monthly mag. cxviii, 421–5 (1880), portrait; Biograph iv, 510–3 (1880).

BURNABY, FREDERICK GUSTAVUS (son of Rev. Gustavus Andrew Burnaby of Somerby hall near Oakham 1802–72). b. Bedford 3 March 1842; ed. at Bedford gr. sch. and Harrow; cornet Royal horse guards 30 Sep. 1859, lieut. col. 6 April 1881 to death; correspondent of the Times at Carlist camp in Spain Aug. to Oct. 1874; agent of Stafford house committee in Russo-Turkish war 1877–8; commanded fifth Turkish brigade at battle of Tashkesan 31 Dec. 1877; contested Birmingham April 1880; went to Egypt as a volunteer 10 Jany. 1884; made 19 balloon ascents, crossed English channel in balloon Eclipse 23 March 1882; author of A ride to Khiva 1876, 11 ed. 1877; On horseback through Asia Minor 2 vols. 1877; A ride across the channel 1882; killed by a spear wound at battle of Abu Klea in Soudan 17 Jany. 1885; obelisk to his memory in St. Philip’s churchyard, Birmingham unveiled 11 Nov. 1885. Life and times of Col. F. Burnaby by J. R. Ware and R. K. Mann 1885, portrait; Vanity Fair 7 Feb. 1885, portrait; I.L.N. lxxxvi, 103 (1885), portrait.

BURNABY, JOHN DICK (eld. son of John Dick Burnaby of Evington, Leics. 1776–1852, captain Grenadier guards). b. Billesdon Coplow, Leics. 19 April 1802; ed. at Emm. coll. Cam., LLD. 1826; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1828; comr. of bankrupts for Leicester, Nottingham and district; judge of county courts circuit 34 (Leicestershire) March 1847 to death. d. Torquay 29 Dec. 1855.

BURNABY, RICHARD BEAUMONT (_2 son of Rev. Thomas Burnaby 1761–1830, preb. of Lincoln_). b. Misterton, Leics. 22 Feb. 1793; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1812, captain 9 Sep. 1834 to 9 April 1849; lieut. col. commandant Hampshire artillery 30 May 1853 to death; L.G. 10 Nov. 1868. d. Carlton crescent, Southampton 1 June 1871.

BURNABY, SIR WILLIAM CRISP HOOD, 3 Baronet (only son of Sir Wm. Chaloner Burnaby, 2 baronet who d. 19 Feb. 1794). Entered navy 11 Oct. 1806; commander of Ardent prison ship at Bermuda 26 May 1814 to May 1816. d. Bermuda 1 Aug. 1853.

BURNABY, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD, 4 Baronet. b. July 1824; ed. at Exeter coll. Ox.; succeeded 1 Aug. 1853. d. Boulogne 19 Aug. 1881.

BURNARD, NEVILL NORTHEY (son of George Burnard of Alternun, Cornwall, mason). b. Alternun 1818; a mason; a carver in London; employed by Bailey, Marshall, Foley and other sculptors; executed statue of Richard Lander erected on the column in Lemon st. Truro about 1850, and statue of Ebenezer Elliott erected in Market place, Sheffield; executed many portrait busts of eminent men. d. the Infirmary, Redruth, Cornwall 27 Nov. 1878.

BURNE, JOHN. b. Worcestershire; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1 Aug. 1821; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1823, a Fellow 4 July 1838; phys. to Westminster hosp. 1835–42; removed to Tiverton about 1843; removed to Bath about 1850; author of A practical treatise on the Typhus or adynamic fever 1828; A treatise on the causes and consequences of habitual constipation 1840. d. the United hospital, Bath 3 April 1880 aged 86.

BURNELL, ARTHUR COKE (eld. son of Arthur Burnell of East India Company’s navy). b. St. Briavel’s, Gloucs. 11 July 1840; ed. at King’s college London; entered Indian civil service 1860; served in Madras 1860–80; C.I.E.; author of Specimens of South Indian dialects collected by A. C. B. 1873–8; Elements of South Indian palæography 1874, enlarged edition 1878; Classified index to the Sanskrit MSS. in the palace at Tanjore 1880. d. West Stratton, Hampshire 12 Oct. 1882. His library was sold at Sotheby’s 14–17 Jany. 1884 for £1,566. Hobson-Jobson being a glossary of Anglo-Indian colloquial words and phrases by H. Yule and the late A. C. Burnell (1886) xiii, portrait.

BURNELL, GEORGE ROWDEN. b. 1814; civil engineer in America, Belgium and Holland; assistant engineer on Paris and Rouen railway 1842–8; built Equity and Law life office Lincoln’s Inn Fields London; author of The rudiments of hydraulic engineering 1852; wrote for Weale’s Rudimentary Series, treatises on Acoustics; Sound in public and private buildings; Well-sinking, boring and pump-work; Hydraulic engineering; River engineering; Fluids; and Limes, mortars and concrete; edited Engineer and Architect’s pocket book and Builder’s and contractor’s price book; contributed many articles to Arts and Sciences division of English Cyclopædia, Proc. of Instit. of British Architects, Journal of Gas-lighting and Builder. d. 23 Kensington gardens terrace, Hyde park, London 23 July 1868 in 54 year.

BURNES, JAMES (eld. son of James Burnes 1780–1852, town clerk of Montrose). b. Montrose 12 Feb. 1801; ed. at Montrose academy and Univ. of Edin.; entered Bombay medical service 1821; garrison surgeon of Bombay 1837; physician general in Bombay 15 Sep. 1848 to 20 Nov. 1849; provincial grand master of Western India 1836–46; grand master of Scottish lodge of Masons in India 1846–9; F.R.S. 2 April 1835; K.H. 1837; author of A narrative of a visit to the court of Scinde 1829; A sketch of the history of the Knights Templars 1837. d. Queen’s hotel, Manchester 19 Sep. 1862. Notes on his name and family by James Burnes 1851 PP.

BURNET, REV. JOHN. b. Methven st. Perth 13 April 1789; a shoemaker at Perth; Independent congregational minister at Cork 1815–30; pastor of Mansion house chapel Camberwell, London 12 Sep. 1830, of Camberwell Green chapel 1853 to death; took an active part in agitation for abolition of slave trade; one of committee of Bible Society; chairman of congregational Union of England and Wales 1845; author of Essay on the Deity of Christ 1835; The authority of pastors in the church. d. Camberwell 10 June 1862. W. H. Blanch’s Ye parish of Camberwell (1877) 234; Services on occasion of the death of Rev. John Burnet 1862.

BURNET, JOHN (son of George Burnet, surveyor general of excise for Scotland). b. Musselburgh near Edin. 20 March 1784; apprenticed to Robert Scott, landscape engraver 7 years; painter and engraver in London 1806–60; engraved many of Wilkie’s pictures; exhibited 1 picture at the R.A., 30 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1808–62; F.R.S. 16 March 1837 to 1849 or 1850; granted civil list pension of £75, 19 April 1861; author of A practical treatise on painting in three parts 1822–7, new ed. 4 parts 1880; An essay on the education of the eye 1837; Landscape painting in oil colours 1849, 2 ed. 1861; Turner and his works 1852, 2 ed. 1859 and many other books. d. Victoria road, Stoke Newington, London 29 April 1868. I.L.N. lii, 504 (1868), portrait.

BURNETT, SIR ALEXANDER, 9 Baronet. b. Crathes castle near Aberdeen 17 Dec. 1789; succeeded 16 Feb. 1849. d. Crathes castle 20 March 1856.

BURNETT, SIR JAMES HORN, 10 Baronet. b. Crathes Castle 22 June 1801; succeeded 20 March 1856; lord lieut. of Kincardineshire 5 Jany. 1864 to death. d. Crathes castle 16 Sep. 1876.

BURNETT, SIR WILLIAM (son of Wm. Burnett of Montrose). b. Montrose Jany. 1779; surgeon’s mate R.N. 1795, surgeon 1799; had charge of hospitals for prisoners of war at Portsmouth and Forton 1805–10; phys. and inspector of hospitals to Mediterranean fleet 26 May 1810 to 1813; a medical comr. of the navy 1822; L.R.C.P. 1825, F.R.C.P. 1836, consiliarius 1845–7; knighted at St. James’s palace 25 May 1831; K.C.H. 21 June 1831; F.R.S. 18 April 1833 to 1856 or 1857 when he withdrew; phys. general to the navy 1833 this designation was changed 1840 to that of inspector general of naval hospitals and fleets which gave way in 1844 to that of director general of medical department of the navy, a post which he held down to 1855 when he retired; phys. in ordinary to Wm. iv, 13 April 1835; K.C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; invented well-known disinfecting fluid 1838 and a fluid for preserving timber 1845; author of A practical account of the Mediterranean fever 1816. d. Chichester 16 Feb. 1861. Physic and physicians ii, 323–5 (1839); Munk’s Roll of physicians iii, 307–8 (1878); Lancet ii, 558–63 (1850), portrait.

BURNETT, WILLIAM FARQUHARSON. Entered navy 28 June 1838; captain 13 Nov. 1854; commodore on Australian station 21 July 1862 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855; lost in H.M.S. Orpheus off Manukan, New Zealand 7 Feb. 1863 when 190 lives were lost out of 260 on board, buried at Auckland. Annual Reg. (1863) 19–22.

BURNEY, VEN. CHARLES PARR (son of Rev. Charles Burney, preb. of Lincoln who d. 25 Dec. 1817). b. Chiswick, Middlesex 19 Oct. 1785; ed. by his father and at Merton coll. Ox., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, B.D. and D.D. 1822; kept school at Greenwich 1814–35; R. of Sible Hedingham, Essex March 1838 to 1848; archdeacon of St. Albans 16 Oct. 1840; archdeacon of Colchester 15 Aug. 1845 to death; R. of Wickham Bishops, Essex 1848 to death; gave sum of £6,000 to establish a Clergy relief fund for his diocese; F.R.S. 22 Dec. 1814; F.L.S. 21 Jany. 1823. d. Brighton 1 Nov. 1864.

BURNEY, JAMES. Entered navy 6 Jany. 1807; captain 10 Dec. 1835, retired 1 July 1851; retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867. d. 1 Montpellier terrace, Teddington, Middlesex 30 Oct. 1884 aged 91.

BURNEY, MARTIN CHARLES (only son of James Burney, rear admiral R.N.) b. 1788; solicitor in London; assisted in drawing up population and poor law returns; barrister I.T. 20 June 1828; reported in Master of the Rolls court for The Times; a great friend of Charles Lamb. d. James st. Buckingham gate, Westminster 20 Oct. 1852.

BURNEY, WILLIAM. Major Cape mounted riflemen 20 June 1834 to 16 Feb. 1844 when placed on retired full pay; K.H. 1837; colonel 28 Nov. 1854. d. Elgin crescent, Kensington park, London 1 Dec. 1879.

BURNS, REV. ISLAY (6 child of Rev. Wm. Hamilton Burns 1779–1859, minister of Kilsyth, near Glasgow). b. Manse of Dun, Forfarshire 16 Jany. 1817; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. at Marischal coll. and the Univ., D.D. 1864; ordained to charge of St. Peter’s Dundee June 1843; professor of Apologetics and systematic theology in free church college Glasgow 1864 to death; author of History of the Church of Christ 1862 and of a series of essays on Tractarian and other movements in Church of England in the British and foreign evangelical review. d. 4 Sardinia terrace, Glasgow 20 May 1872. Select remains of Islay Burns D.D. 1874, portrait.

BURNS, REV. JABEZ. (son of Mr. Burns of Oldham, chemist). b. Oldham 18 Dec. 1805; joined Methodist New Connexion 1821; pastor of Baptist congregation at Perth 1830–5; of Baptist congregation in New church st. Marylebone, London June 1835; became a pledged abstainer May 1836; delivered 35 annual temperance sermons beginning 16 Dec. 1839; one of earliest members of Evangelical Alliance formed 1845; author of The Christian sketch book 1828, second series 1835; The golden pot of Manna 2 vols. 1837, in the 5 ed. title was altered to The Christian’s daily portion 1848; Original sketches and skeletons of sermons 11 vols.; edited Journal of New British and Foreign Society 1839–42 when society was dissolved; edited Christian ministers companion 4 vols. 1844. d. 17 Porteus road, Paddington, London 31 Jany. 1876. A retrospect of 45 years Christian ministry by Jabez Burns 1875; D. Burns’s Temperance dictionary (1861) 527–30; Illust. news of the world viii, (1861), portrait; Graphic xiii, 182, 188 (1876), portrait.

BURNS, JAMES (brother of Rev. Islay Burns 1817–72). b. Manse of Dun 8 Nov. 1808; employed by Whitaker and Co. publishers in London 1832; bookseller at Duke st. Manchester sq. 1834, and at 17 Portman st.; published The Englishman’s library; The Fireside library; Poems and pictures 1845, first of the illustrated Christmas books; joined Church of Rome 1847; edited The Missal; The Vespers book; The paradise of the Christian soul; The path to heaven; published The Dublin Review July 1863 to death; Annals of the propagation of the faith 1861 to death; The Rambler a weekly journal 1 Jany. 1848 to Nov. 1859. d. 17 Portman st. London 11 April 1871. J. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 346–8 (1885); Illustrated Catholic family annual (1884), portrait.

BURNS, JAMES (3 son of Rev. John Burns, minister of Barony church, Glasgow). b. Glasgow 9 June 1789; a shipowner with his brother George Burns; began to use steam navigation 1824; founded with Samuel Cunard and David Mac Iver, Cunard company for establishing a line of ocean steamers to America, first of which sailed from Liverpool 4 July 1840. d. Bloomhall, Dumbartonshire 6 Sep. 1871.

BURNS, REV. JAMES DRUMMOND. b. Edinburgh 18 Feb. 1823; ed. at High sch. and Univ. of Edin.; minister of Free church Dunblane near Stirling Aug. 1845 to 4 Oct. 1848; spent 5 years in Madeira 1847–53; minister of English Presbyterian chapel Well walk, Hampstead 22 May 1855; author of The vision of prophecy and other poems 1854, 2 ed. 1858; The heavenly Jerusalem or glimpses within the gates 1856; contributed a series of papers on cities of the Bible to Rev. A. Cameron’s Family treasury and article Hymns to Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 ed. xii, 188–90 (1856). d. Mentone 27 Nov. 1864. bur. Highgate cemetery Dec. Rev. J. Hamilton’s Memoir and remains of Rev. J. D. Burns 1869, portrait; Reminiscences of Rev. J. D. Burns from Weekly Review of Dec. 17, 1864.

BURNS, ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Burns the poet 1759–96). b. Tarbolton, Ayrshire Sep. 1786; ed. at Dumfries academy; clerk in Stamp office, London 1804; an accomplished scholar, musician and artist; edited The Caledonian musical museum 1809. d. Dumfries 14 May 1857.

BURNS, REV. ROBERT. b. Borrowstownness West Lothian 13 Feb. 1789; ordained to charge of Low church Paisley July 1811; sec. of Glasgow colonial society 1815–30; seceded with the Protestors 1843; sent by Free church to visit churches in U.S. and Canada 1844; pastor of Knox’s church Toronto 1845–56; Emeritus professor of church history in Knox college Toronto 1856; moderator of church in Canada twice; author of A historical dissertation on the law and practice of Great Britain with regard to the poor 1819; On Pluralities 1824; The Gareloch heresy tried 1830; edited Wodrow’s History of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland, new ed. 4 vols. 1828; edited Edinburgh Christian instructor 1838–40. d. Toronto 19 Aug. 1869. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 58–9.

BURNS, WILLIAM. b. Saltcoats, Ayrshire Dec. 1809; a procurator in Glasgow 1844; head of firm of Burns, Alison and Aitken; engaged much in consideration of public bills and legal education; author of What’s in a name 1861; War of Scottish independence 2 vols. 1874. d. Moffat, Dumfriesshire 2 Aug. 1876.

BURNS, REV. WILLIAM CHALMERS (brother of Rev. Islay Burns 1817–72). b. Manse of Dun 1 April 1815; licensed as a preacher by presbytery of Glasgow 27 March 1839; minister of St. Peters, Dundee; preached with great success in Scotland, north of England and Canada; sent to China as a missionary by Presbyterian church of England Nov. 1847, where he founded many native congregations of Christians; translated the Pilgrim’s Progress and many hymns into Chinese. d. at port of Nieu-chwang, China 4 April 1868. Memoir by Rev. Islay Burns, 3 ed. 1870, portrait; W. G. Blaikie’s Leaders in modern philanthropy (1884) 219–40, portrait.

BURNSIDE, HENRY EDWARD HILLMAN. Ensign 61 foot 20 Jany. 1843; chief instructor at school of musketry Hythe, Kent 1873 to 1 Aug. 1875 when placed on h.p. as lieut. col.; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Stogumber, Somerset 29 Nov. 1876.

BURR, DANIEL HIGFORD DAVALL (elder son of Daniel Burr, lieut. general H.E.I.C.S. who d. 19 Feb. 1828 aged 79). b. 24 March 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Hereford 25 July 1837 to 23 June 1841; contested Salisbury 10 July 1852, and Abingdon 3 Dec. 1852; sheriff of Berks. 1851. d. 23 Eaton place, London 29 Nov. 1885.

BURRARD, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet. b. Dorking, Surrey 2 March 1793; succeeded 18 Oct. 1813; entered navy 13 July 1805; captain 29 Jany. 1822; flag captain in the Revenge 76 guns 20 March 1823 to April 1827; placed on retired half pay 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 27 April 1863. d. Holmefield, Lyndhurst, Hants. 12 July 1870.

BURRARD, REV. SIR GEORGE, 3 Baronet. b. Lymington, Hampshire 6 April 1769; R. of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1801–41; Chaplain in ordinary 1801 to death; V. of Middleton-Tyas, Yorkshire 1804 to death; R. of Burton-Coggles, Lincs. 1822 to death; succeeded 7 Feb. 1840. d. Walhampton, Lymington 17 May 1856.

BURRARD, SIR GEORGE, 4 Baronet. b. 13 Oct. 1805; M.P. for Lymington 31 July 1828 to 3 Dec. 1832; succeeded 17 May 1856; drowned while bathing at Lyme Regis, Dorset 7 Sep. 1870.

BURRARD, SIR HARRY, 5 Baronet. b. 13 Oct. 1818; succeeded 7 Sep. 1870. d. Hastings 15 April 1871.

BURRELL, SIR CHARLES MERRIK, 3 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Wm. Burrell, 2 baronet 1732–96). b. Golden sq. London 21 May 1774; succeeded 20 Jany. 1796; M.P. for Shoreham 4 Nov. 1807 to death, the “father” of the House for some time before his death; Sussex agriculturists owe to him introduction of the white or Belgian carrot and valuable experiments in feeding and fattening cattle. d. Knepp castle, West Grinstead 4 Jany. 1862. Sporting Review xlvii, 108 (1862).

BURRELL, GEORGE. b. Long Houghton, Northumberland 26 Feb. 1777; ensign 15 foot 4 Feb. 1797; lieut. col. 18 foot 22 July 1830 to 22 Nov. 1841; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; colonel 39 foot 11 Feb. 1852 to death. d. Alnwick 4 Jany. 1853.

BURRELL, JOHN PALFREY (youngest son of Palfrey George Burrell of Alnwick). Barrister G.I. 2 July 1805, bencher 20 May 1829, treasurer 1833–4; police magistrate at Queen sq. office Westminster 1833–46 and at Vincent sq. office Westminster 1846–54. d. 1 Gray’s Inn sq. London 11 July 1859 aged 86.

BURRELL, SIR PERCY, 4 Baronet. b. Grosvenor place, London 10 Feb. 1812; succeeded 4 Jany. 1862; M.P. for Shoreham 5 Feb. 1862 to death. d. 44 Berkeley sq. London 19 July 1876.

BURRELL, SIR WALTER WYNDHAM, 5 Baronet. b. 26 Oct. 1814; barrister L.I. 1840; contested East Sussex 1865; M.P. for Shoreham 4 Aug. 1876 to 18 Nov. 1885; sheriff of Sussex 1871; succeeded 19 July 1876. d. West Grinstead park, Horsham 24 Jany. 1886. Law Times lxxx, 236 (1876).

BURRITT, ELIHU. b. New Britain, Connecticut 8 Dec. 1810; a blacksmith at Worcester, Massachusetts 1837; translated all the Icelandic Sagas relating to discovery of America and obtained name of the “learned blacksmith”; public lecturer 1841; started Christian Citizen a weekly journal 1842; co-operated in England with English peace advocates 1846–9; developed basis of an international association known as the League of universal brotherhood 1848; prominent organiser of first Peace Congress at Paris 22 Aug. 1849; editor of Citizen of the World in Philadelphia 1852; walked from London to John O’Groats 1863 and from London to Land’s End 1864; United States consul at Birmingham 1867 to June 1869. d. New Britain 9 March 1879. The world’s workers by J. W. Kirton (1885) 65–94, portrait.

BURROUGHES, HENRY NEGUS. b. 8 Feb. 1791; sheriff of Norfolk 1817; M.P. for East Norfolk 11 Aug. 1837 to 21 March 1857. d. 22 March 1872.

BURROUGHS, WATKINS. b. England 1795; Manager of Surrey theatre, London Oct. 1822; stage manager at Astley’s theatre; lessee of Belfast theatre; first appeared in America 1825, at Park theatre, New York as Harry Dornton in The road to ruin; acting and stage manager of Lafayette theatre N.Y.; acted at Philadelphia 1825. d. Liverpool 12 July 1869.

BURROW, VEN. EDWARD JOHN. Educ. at Magd. coll. Cam., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; incorporated M.A. at Trin. coll. Ox. 1820, B.D. and D.D. 1820; P.C. of Bempton, Yorkshire 1810–16; minister of Hampstead chapel near London 1816–23; domestic chaplain to bishop of Winchester 1823–35; principal of College school Mount Radford, Exeter July 1827 to Jany. 1828; civil chaplain of Gibraltar 1835–42; archdeacon of Gibraltar 1842–59; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1818; author of Elements of conchology 1815, 2 ed. 1818; The Elgin marbles with an account of Athens 1817; A summary of Christian faith and practice 3 vols. 1822; Questions on the memorial scripture copies 1829, 3 ed. 1854. d. Honiton, Devon 8 Aug. 1861. A statement of the manner in which E. J. Burrow became connected with Mount Radford and of his removal 1828.

BURROWES, JOHN FRECKLETON. b. London 23 April 1787; pupil of William Horsley, organist; organist of St. James’s church, Piccadilly, London about 1815 to death; an original member of Philharmonic Society 1813; author of The pianoforte primer containing the rudiments of music 1818, 48 ed. 1862; Thorough bass primer 1819, 37 ed. 1871; A companion to the thorough bass primer 1832. d. 13 Nottingham place, New road, London 31 March 1852.

BURROWES, ROBERT. b. Dublin 19 March 1810; sheriff of Cavan 1838; M.P. for co. Cavan 13 April 1855 to 21 March 1857. d. Stradone house, Cavan 30 Nov. 1881.

BURROWS. Sir John Cordy (eld. son of Robert Burrows of Ipswich, silversmith). b. Ipswich 5 Aug. 1813; M.R.C.S. 1836, F.R.C.S. 1852; practised at Brighton 1839 to death; projected Royal literary and scientific institution 1841, secretary 1841–57; mayor of Brighton 1857–9 and 1871–2; knighted at Osborne 5 Feb. 1873; a very great benefactor to town of Brighton. d. 62 Old Steyne, Brighton 25 March 1876. Statue of him in grounds of Royal Pavilion unveiled 14 Feb. 1878. Lancet i, 515, 548 (1876); I.L.N. lxii, 191 (1873), portrait, lxviii, 335 (1876), lxxii, 173 (1878).

BURSLEM, CHARLES. b. Manchester; a journalist; assistant editor of the North Eastern Daily Gazette some years; author of several serial tales in provincial journals; author of several successful pantomimes and of a farce entitled Third floor lodgers produced at Gaiety theatre West Hartlepool. d. Manchester Jany. 1886 aged 28.

BURSTAL, EDWARD. b. Devonport 1 Feb. 1818; entered navy Dec. 1832; commander 29 Sep. 1855; assisted in laying down first submarine telegraph cable between Dover and Calais 1852; laid cable from Orfordness to the Hague; secretary to conservators of river Thames 1857 to death; a member of Thames Embankment and other royal commissions; retired captain 29 Sep. 1870; F.R.G.S. 1857. d. Ramsgate 13 July 1886.

BURT, SIR ARCHIBALD PAUL (2 son of George Henry Burt, speaker of house of assembly St. Christopher, West Indies). b. St. Christopher 1810; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; attorney general of St. Christopher 1849–60, member of legislative and executive councils, speaker of house of assembly; comr. of civil court in Western Australia July 1860, chief justice there 1861 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1873. d. Strawberry hill, Perth, Western Australia 21 Nov. 1879.

BURTON, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM DESART. b. 1827; ensign 82 foot 8 Aug. 1845; major 7 dragoon guards 17 Sep. 1857 to 1863; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Pau 11 Feb. 1882.

BURTON, REV. CHARLES (youngest son of Daniel Burton of Rhodes hall, Middleton, Lancs. cotton manufacturer). b. Rhodes hall 18 Jany. 1793; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow and St. John’s coll. Cam., L.L.B. Cam. 1822, B.C.L. and D.C.L. Ox. 1829; Wesleyan minister; built church of All Saints, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester at cost of £18,000, R. of All Saints 1820 to death, greater part of church was destroyed by fire 6 Feb. 1850; F.L.S. for discovering in Anglesea a plant new to science; author of Horæ, Poeticæ 1815; The Bardiad, a poem in two cantos 1823, 2 ed. 1823; Lectures on the Millenium 1841; Lectures on the world before the flood 1844; Lectures on Popery 1851 and about 15 other books. d. Western lodge, Durham 6 Sep. 1866. Evans’s Lancashire authors and orators (1850) 47–51.

BURTON, CHARLES EDWARD (son of Rev. Edward Wm. Burton, B. of Rathmichael, co. Dublin). b. Barnton, Cheshire 16 Sep. 1846; assistant in Lord Rosse’s observatory at Parsonstown 1868–9; B.A. Dublin 1868; joined Sicilian expedition to observe total solar eclipse of 22 Dec. 1870; photographer to transit of Venus expedition 1874; worked at observatory of Dunsink near Dublin 1876–8; devised with Howard Grubb the ‘ghost micrometer’ described before Royal Dublin Society 15 Nov. 1880; F.R.A.S. 8 May 1874; author of numerous papers in scientific periodicals. d. Castle Knock church 9 July 1882. Astronomical Register xx, 173–4 (1883).

BURTON, DECIMUS (10 son of James Burton of London, builder). b. 30 Sep. 1800; architect in London 1821–69; designed the Colosseum in Regent’s Park 1823; carried out Hyde Park Corner improvements where he designed the facade and triumphal arch 1825; designed the Athenæum club 1827; laid out Calverley Park estate at Tunbridge Wells 1828–50; architect to Royal botanic society 1840–70; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1832, F.R.I.B.A. d. The Cottage, St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 14 Dec. 1881. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv, 8–10 (1883); Builder xli, 779–80 (1881); I.L.N. lxxix, 650 (1881), portrait.

BURTON, EDWARD FREDERICK (son of James Burton of London, solicitor who d. 1869). b. 1818; solicitor in London 1843 to death; member of council of Incorporated law society 1865 to death, vice pres. 1876–7, pres. 1877–8; member of judicature acts (legal offices) committee 1877. d. Eastbourne 11 July 1879.

BURTON, JAMES RYDER. b. 1795; entered navy 12 May 1806; captain 23 Feb. 1824; granted good service pension 4 Nov. 1852; admiral on half pay 4 Nov. 1863; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837; invented a method for propelling ships of war during a calm 1819. d. 15 Park sq. east, Regent’s park, London 2 Aug. 1876.

BURTON, JOHN HILL (2 son of Wm. Kinnimont Burton of Aberdeen who d. 1820). b. the Gallowgate, Aberdeen 22 Aug. 1809; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; called to Scottish bar 1831; contributed articles to Blackwood’s Mag. 1842 to death; sec. to general board of directors of prisons in Scotland 24 July 1854; manager of Perth prison 4 Jany. 1861 to Jany. 1878; historiographer royal of Scotland 1867; author of Law of bankruptcy in Scotland 2 vols. 1845; Life of D. Hume 2 vols. 1846; Lives of Lord Lovat and Duncan Forbes 1847; Narratives from criminal trials in Scotland 2 vols. 1852; History of Scotland 9 vols. 1853–70, 2 ed. 9 vols. 1873; The book hunter 1862, new ed. 1882; History of the reign of Queen Anne 3 vols. 1880; The Scot abroad 2 vols. 1881. d. Morton house, Lothianburn 10 Aug. 1881. The Bookhunter by J. H. Burton (1882) i-civ, portrait; Blackwood’s Mag. cxxx, 401–4 (1881); Graphic xxiv, 269 (1881), portrait.

BURTON, SIR RICHARD (son of Sir John Burton of Wakefield, Yorkshire). b. Westminster 1773; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. d. Sackett’s hill house, Margate 3 Sep. 1855.

BURTON, WILLIAM EVANS (son of Wm. Burton of London, printer 1774–1825). b. London Sep. 1802; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; acted in Norwich circuit 7 years; first appeared in London at Pavilion theatre Feb. 1831 as Wormwood in The lottery ticket; acted at Haymarket 1833; first appeared in America at Arch st. theatre Philadelphia 3 Sep. 1834 as Doctor Ollapod in The Poor gentleman; lessee and manager of theatres in Philadelphia and Baltimore; leased Palma’s Opera house New York 1848 which he renamed Burton’s Theatre; manager of Metropolitan theatre Broadway which he renamed Burton’s New theatre Sep. 1856–8; wrote several plays best known being Ellen Wareham, a domestic drama, produced May 1833 when it was played at 5 London theatres at same time; edited Cambridge Quarterly Review and Philadelphia Literary Souvenir 1838–40; author of Waggaries and vagaries 1848; Cyclopædia of wit and humour 2 vols. 1857. d. 174 Hudson st. New York 9 Feb. 1860. Ireland’s Records of the New York stage ii, 235–8 (1867); Burton’s Cyclopædia (1857), portrait; T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 57, 66, portrait.

BURTON, WILLIAM MARTIN. Second lieut. Madras artillery 1798, colonel 26 Feb. 1840 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. at his residence near London 13 Aug. 1853.

BURTON, WILLIAM PATON (son of Wm. Paton Burton, captain Indian army). b. Madras 1828; ed. at Edinburgh; pupil of David Bryce, architect; a water colour painter; exhibited many landscapes at the R.A. and Suffolk st. gallery 1862–80. d. Cults, Aberdeen 31 Dec. 1883.

BURTON-PETERS, HENRY. b. 1792; M.P. for Beverley 31 July 1830 to 17 July 1837. d. Bath 24 Nov. 1874.

BURTT, JOHN. b. Fulbeck, Lincs.; published The young patriot and other poems by J. B. a friend of the Aborigines protection society 1846. d. Stockport, Cheshire 5 July 1859 aged 71. Annual Monitor for 1860 pp. 66–74.

BURTT, JOHN. b. Knockmarlock, Ayrshire 1789; apprenticed to a weaver; pressed into navy 1807; served on board the Magnificent 5 years; taught in Kilmarnock and Paisley 1816; went to United States; studied at Princeton college; Presbyterian minister at Salem; professor of theology 1835. d. 24 March 1866.

BURTT, JOSEPH. b. St. Pancras, London 7 Nov. 1818; worked under Sir Francis Palgrave at Chapter house, Westminster Abbey 1832–40; clerk in Record Office 1840, a second class assistant keeper of records Aug. 1851, a first class June 1859 to death; sec. to Royal Archæol. Instit. 1862 to death; edited Archæological Journal; edited Household expenses of John of Brabant, and of Thomas and Henry of Lancaster for the Miscellany of Camden Society. d. Crofton lodge, Upper Tulse hill, Surrey 15 Dec. 1876. Archæological Journal xxxiv, 90–2 (1877).

BURY, CHARLOTTE SUSAN MARIA (dau. of 5 Duke of Argyll 1723–1806). b. Argyll house, Oxford st. London 28 Jany. 1775; lady in waiting to Princess of Wales, afterwards Queen Caroline 1809; published anonymously Poems on several occasions by a Lady 1797; Love 3 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1860; Diary illustrative of the times of George the Fourth 4 vols. 1838–9; and with her name, The divorced 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1858. (m. (1) 14 June 1796 John Campbell, M.P. for Ayr burghs who d. 15 March 1809. m. (2) 17 March 1818 Rev. Edward John Bury, R. of Lichfield, Hants, who d. May 1832 aged 42). d. 91 Sloane st. Chelsea 31 March 1861. Burke’s Portrait gallery i, 103 (1833), portrait; New monthly mag. xlix, 76–7 (1837), portrait.

BURY, EDWARD. b. Salford near Manchester 22 Oct. 1794; manufacturer of machinery at Liverpool; introduced a series of improved engines for steamboats employed on river Rhone; managed locomotive department of London and Birmingham railway for some years after opening Sep. 1838; managed locomotive department of Great Northern railway; F.R.S. 1 Feb. 1844 for great improvements which he had introduced in adjusting dimensions of cylinder and driving wheels of steam engines. d. Scarborough 25 Nov. 1858. Proc. of Royal Soc. x, 12 (1860).

BURY, GEORGE BUTT. Second lieut. RM. 10 Nov. 1804, colonel 10 Jany. 1852, col. commandant 21 June 1854 to 1 Aug. 1854 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 20 June 1855. d. 25 Athenæum st. Plymouth 4 Jany. 1873 aged 87.

BURY, THOMAS TALBOT. b. 26 Sep. 1811; articled to Augustus Pugin, architect 1824; architect in Gerrard st. Soho, London 1830; very skilful in colouring architectural studies; designed with A. Pugin details of Houses of parliament; exhibited 18 drawings at the R.A. 1838–72; designed 35 churches and about 50 other large buildings; F.R.I.B.A. 1843, vice pres. 1876; F.S.A. 1863; author of Remains of ecclesiastical woodwork 1847; History and description of the styles of architecture of various countries 1849. d. 50 Welbeck st. London 23 Feb. 1877. Sessional papers read at Royal Instit. of British Architects (1877) 152–4.

BUSFEILD, WILLIAM. b. 12 Feb. 1773; M.P. for Bradford 25 July 1837 to 23 June 1841 and 16 Sep. 1841 to death. d. 15 Bury st. St. James’s London 11 Sep. 1851.

BUSH, WILLIAM. Cornet 2 Dragoon guards 7 Jany. 1808; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 4 Sep. 1835 to 1 Jany. 1847; inspecting field officer of Leeds recruiting district 1 Jany. 1847, of London district 17 April 1852 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854; K.H. 1835. d. 66 Cadogan place, London 27 Aug. 1854. H. S. Smith’s Military obituary for 1854, 10–12.

BUSHNAN, JOHN STEVENSON (son of Joseph Bushnan who d. 21 Feb. 1831, controller of the Chamber, City of London 1803–31). b. The Guildhall, London 1810; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1839; M.R.C.P. Edin. 1830, M.D. Heidelberg 1836; practised at Castle Cary, Somerset 1837–41; travelled abroad 1841–8; practised in London 1848; edited Medical times and gazette 1849–52; author of Philosophy of instinct and reason 1847; Miss Martineau and her master 1851; Homœopathy and the homœopaths 1852 and other books. d. The Charterhouse, City of London 17 Feb. 1884. Medical Circular ii, 149–50 (1853).

BUSK, HANS (youngest son of Sir Wadsworth Busk 1730–1811, attorney general of Isle of Man). b. 28 May 1772; lived in Russia some years where he was a member of Empress Catherine’s celebrated Chevalier Guard; sheriff of Radnorshire 1837–8; author of Fugitive pieces in verse 1814; The Vestriad or the Opera, a mock epic poem 1819; The dessert, a poem to which is added The tea 1820; The lay of life, a poem 1834. d. 22 Great Cumberland place, Hyde park, London 8 Feb. 1862.

BUSK, HANS (eld. son of the preceding). b. 11 May 1815; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; formed a model rifle club at Cam. 1837; barrister M.T. 7 May 1841; sheriff of Radnorshire 1847; joined Royal Victoria rifle club London 1858 only volunteer corps then existing, captain 1860; delivered lectures instrumental in extending volunteer movement over whole kingdom; devised a steam life boat service 1869, the Petronelle first of the class was launched 1873; founded New Quarterly review 1874; author of The rifleman’s manual 1858, 7 ed. 1860; Rifle volunteers how to organize and drill them 1859, 7 ed. 1860; The navies of the world their present state and future capabilities 1859; Handbook for Hythe 1860; Maiden-hours and maiden-wiles designed by Beaujolais 1869. d. 21 Ashley place, Victoria st. Westminster 11 March 1882. I.L.N. lxxx, 284 (1882), portrait; Graphic xxv, 313 (1882), portrait.

BUSS, ROBERT WILLIAM (son of Wm. C. Buss of 60 Jewin st. Cripplegate, London, engraver who d. 1832). b. London 4 Aug. 1804; apprenticed to his father; painted 15 theatrical portraits for Cumberland’s British Drama which were exhibited at Colosseum; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A., 20 at B.I. and 45 at Suffolk st. gallery 1826–59; contributed to Westminster competition a cartoon of Prince Henry and Judge Gascoigne; illustrated Charles Knight’s London, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Old England; painted 71 pictures, 25 of which were engraved; painted large frescoes representing Origin and triumph of music for Earl of Hardwicke at Wimpole hall; privately printed English graphic satire 1874; edited The fine art almanac, or artist’s remembrancer 1850–2. d. 14 Camden st. Camden Town, London 26 Feb. 1875. G. Everitt’s English Caricaturists (1886) 363–6; People’s Journal vi, 3 (1848); Notes and Queries 5 S. iii, 228, 257, 330, 419, 455, 473 (1875), iv, 15 (1875), vii, 138 (1877), 6 S. vi, 488 (1882), vii, 216 (1883).

BUTCHER, MOST REV. SAMUEL (eld. son of Samuel Butcher 1770–1849, vice admiral R.N.) b. Danesfort near Killarney 9 Oct. 1811; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1832, B.A. 1834, fellow 1837–52, tutor and lecturer, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1848, D.D. 1849; professor of ecclesiastical history in Univ. of Dublin April 1850, Regius professor of divinity Nov. 1852 to Aug. 1866; R. of Ballymoney, Cork 1854–66; bishop of Meath Aug. 1866 to death; P.C. Ireland 1866; author of The ecclesiastical calendar its theory and construction 1877; cut his throat at Ardbraccan house, Navan near Dublin 29 July 1876.

BUTE, SOPHIA FREDERICA CHRISTINA CRICHTON-STUART, Marchioness of (2 dau. of 1 Marquis of Hastings 1754–1826). b. 1 Feb. 1809; gave the Sophia gardens to town of Cardiff; edited Poems of lady Flora Hastings 1841; Private journals of 1 Marquis of Hastings 2 vols. 1858. (m. 10 April 1845, John Crichton-Stuart, 2 Marquis of Bute 1793–1848). d. 120 George st. Edinburgh 28 Dec. 1859.

BUTLER, CHARLES SALISBURY (eld. son of John Butler of Hackney, London). b. 1812; commissioner of taxes; M.P. for Tower Hamlets 8 July 1852 to 11 Nov. 1868; chairman of Quarter sessions of Tower Hamlets liberties to death. d. 48 Prince’s gate, Hyde park, London 11 Nov. 1870.

BUTLER, SIR EDWARD (5 son of 13 Baron Dunboyne 1780–1850). b. 29 Oct. 1811; lieut. of corps of gentlemen at arms 1839 to May 1845; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Feb. 1840; contested Southampton, contest was protracted from Nov. 1856 to 11 Feb. 1857 when he was defeated by 32 votes; sheriff of Hants 1855. d. Marseilles 20 Oct. 1858.

BUTLER, EDWARD. b. Kilkenny 1824; re-established The Nation with C. G. Duffy 1849; went to New South Wales 1853; called to bar at Sydney 16 Oct. 1855, Q.C.; member of legislative assembly for Argyle 1869; attorney general 1872 to Nov. 1873; member of legislative council Oct. 1877 to death. d. Supreme court, Sydney 9 June 1879. Times 18 July 1879 p. 5, col. 6, 11 Aug. p. 11, col. 2.

BUTLER, FRANCIS (son of Mr. Butler, trainer of horses to Duke of York who d. 1827). b. Sep. 1817; professional jockey 1839–53; won the Oaks on Poison 1843 at odds of 40 to 1, on Princess 1844, on Lady Evelyn 1849, on Rhedycina 1850, on Iris 1851 and on Songstress 1852; won St. Leger on The Baron 1845; won Derby on Daniel O’Rourke 1852 and Two thousand guineas, Derby and St. Leger on West Australian 1853. d. Newmarket 1 Feb. 1856. Sporting Review xxxi, 143–8 (1854), portrait; I.L.N. xxii, 416 (1853), portrait.

BUTLER, FRANCIS. b. England 1810; professor of languages at several educational institutions in New York; a dog-trainer and fancier; author of Breeding, training, management and diseases of dogs 1857; The Spanish teacher and colloquial phrase book, 8 ed. 1857. d. from hydrophobia at Brooklyn, New York 17 June 1874.

BUTLER, VERY REV. GEORGE (2 son of Rev. Weeden Butler 1742–1823, Morning preacher at Charlotte st. Chapel Pimlico, London). b. Pimlico 5 July 1774; foundation scholar of Sid. Sus. coll. Cam.; Senior Wr. and first Smith’s prizeman Jany. 1794; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797, B.D. 1804, D.D. 1805; Fellow of his college 1794, mathematical lecturer and classical tutor; kept his terms at Lincolns Inn; one of the 8 select preachers before Univ. of Cam. 1805; Head master of Harrow school April 1805 to Easter 1829; R. of Gayton, Northampton 1814 to death; chancellor of Peterborough 1836–42; dean of Peterborough 3 Nov. 1842 to death, admitted Dean 25 Nov. 1842; author of Extracts from the communion service of the Church 1839, 2 ed. 1842; Statutes of Peterborough cathedral translated 1853; Harrow, a selection of the lists of the School 1849. d. the deanery Peterborough 30 April 1853. Monument erected in Harrow church July 1854. P. M. Thornton’s Harrow school (1885) 215–64.

BUTLER, GEORGE SLADE (son of Richard Butler of Rye, Sussex, surgeon). b. Rye 4 March 1821; solicitor at Rye 1843 to death; town clerk 1875–81; registrar of county court; F.S.A. 6 March 1862; author of Topographica Sussexiana 1866, originally printed in Collections of Sussex Archæological Society to which he contributed many papers on antiquities of Rye. d. Rye 11 April 1882.

BUTLER, HENRY EDWARD (2 son of 2 Earl of Carrick 1746–1813). b. 3 Dec. 1780; ensign 27 foot 15 Feb. 1800; major 2 garrison battalion 19 March 1812 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854; col. 94 foot 25 July 1854 and col. 55 foot 19 Jany. 1855 to death. d. Paris 7 Dec. 1856.

BUTLER, JAMES ARMAR (4 son of the preceding). b. 1827; ensign 90 foot 13 Oct. 1843; captain Ceylon rifle regiment 6 May 1853 to May 1854 when placed on h.p.; conducted siege of Silistria, Turkey against the Russians May 1854 to death; gazetted brevet major 14 July 1854 and lieut. Coldstream guards 15 July 1854. d. Silistria of wounds received during the siege 22 June 1854 in 28 year. E. H. Nolan’s War against Russia i, 214–27 (1857); G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) 141–3.

BUTLER, JAMES ARTHUR. b. 1795; ensign 1 foot guards 23 June 1813, captain 18 April 1816 to 25 Dec. 1818, carried the colours at Waterloo; captain 80 foot 31 July 1823 to 19 Nov. 1825 when placed on h.p.; general 5 Dec. 1871. d. Holt lodge, Kintbury, Berkshire 26 Feb. 1881.

BUTLER, REV. PIERCE (brother of James Armar Butler 1827–54). b. 27 Feb. 1826; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; explored peninsula of Sinai 1853–4; R. of Ulcombe, Kent 1861 to death; translated from the Danish Öhlenschläger’s Axel and Valborg, a tragedy in 5 acts 1874. d. Ulcombe rectory 8 Feb. 1868. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxviii, pp. cxliv-cxlvi, (1868).

BUTLER, PIERCE SOMERSET. b. 26 Jany. 1801; called to Irish bar 1832; M.P. for co. Kilkenny 1 Dec. 1843 to 1 July 1852. d. 28 July 1865. Annual Register (1854) 402–14.

BUTLER, VERY REV. RICHARD (eld. son of Rev. Richard Butler, V. of Burnchurch, co. Kilkenny who d. 1841). b. near Granard, co. Longford 14 Oct. 1794; ed. at Reading and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1817; V. of Trim, co. Meath 1819 to death; dean of Clonmacnois Dec. 1847 to death; one of founders of Irish archæological Society 1840 (united with Celtic Society 1854), for which he edited Clyn and Dowling’s Annals of Ireland 1849; author of Some notices of the Castle and of the Abbies at Trim 1835, 2 ed. 1840. d. 17 July 1862.

BUTLER, SIR RICHARD PIERCE, 9 Baronet. b. 4 March 1813; succeeded 8 Nov. 1861. d. 22 Nov. 1862.

BUTLER, SIR THOMAS, 8 Baronet. b. 23 Oct. 1783; succeeded 16 Jany. 1817. d. 8 Nov. 1861.

BUTLER-CLARKE-SOUTHWELL-WANDESFORD, CHARLES HARWARD (4 son of 17 Earl of Ormonde who d. 30 Jany. 1796). b. 9 Nov. 1780; M.P. for city of Kilkenny 1802–9 and 1814–20; M.P. for county Kilkenny 1820–30. d. Mount Juliet, Kilkenny 7 Nov. 1860.

BUTLER-JOHNSTONE, HENRY (3 son of 13 Baron Dunboyne 1780–1850). b. Dublin 28 Aug. 1809; M.P. for Canterbury 8 July 1852 to 21 Feb. 1853 when unseated on petition of the electors, M.P. again 1857–62; colonel commandant Dumfries militia 7 Feb. 1868 to 15 March 1873. d. 8 Seamore place, Mayfair, London 1 April 1879.

BUTT, GEORGE MEDD (2 son of John Butt of Sherborne). b. Sherborne 1797; practised as special pleader; barrister I.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 1845, reader 1858, treasurer 1859; Q.C. 1845; M.P. for Weymouth 10 July 1852 to 21 March 1857. d. 17 Eaton square, London 11 Nov. 1860.

BUTT, ISAAC (only son of Rev. Robert Butt R. of Stranorlar, co. Donegal). b. Glenfin, co. Donegal 6 Sep. 1813; ed. at Royal school Raphoe and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1832, B.A. 1835, LL.B. 1836, M.A. and LLD. 1840; Whately professor of political economy in Trin. coll. Dublin 1836–41; called to Irish bar Nov. 1838; alderman of Dublin 1840; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1859; carried on a counter agitation to that of the Repeal Association 1843; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; M.P. for Harwich 8 May 1852 to 1 July 1852, for Youghal 1852 to 1865 and for Limerick 1871 to death; leader of the Home Rule party 1871 to death; defended the Fenian prisoners 1865–9; pres. of Amnesty Association 1869; a founder of Dublin Univ. Mag. 1833, editor Aug. 1834 to 1838; established in Dublin a weekly newspaper called the Protestant Guardian afterwards amalgamated with the Warder; author of Ovid’s Fasti translated 1833; The history of Italy 1860; A practical treatise on the new law of compensation to tenants in Ireland 1871; Home government for Ireland 1874. d. Roebuck cottage near Dundrum, co. Dublin 5 May 1879. Dublin Univ. Mag. xciii, 710–15 (1879); Sullivan’s New Ireland (1877), ii, 306–10, 319; Graphic iv, 485 (1871), portrait, xix, 508 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. iv, 40 (1844), portrait.

BUTT, JAMES PALMER. Educ. at school established in Somers Town, London by Abbé Carron and at Stonyhurst college; kept a school with his brother Wm. Henry Butt at Baylis house, Salt hill near Windsor about 1828 to death. d. Baylis house, Salt hill 2 May 1873 aged 84.

BUTTER, DONALD. Surgeon Bengal army 28 Aug. 1833; superintending surgeon at Benares 31 Dec. 1854 to 23 April 1859 when placed on h.p. with rank of inspector general; author of Outline of the topography and statistics of the Southern districts of Oudh 1839; Snake bite curable and hydrophobia preventible 1873. d. Hazelwood, Upper Norwood 24 Dec. 1877 aged 78.

BUTTER, JOHN. b. Woodbury, Devon 22 Jany. 1791; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.; surgeon at Plymouth 1814–20, physician there 1820–56 when he became blind; M.D. Edin. 1820; originated Plymouth Eye Dispensary 1821; F.L.S. 1817; F.R.S. 21 March 1822; author of Remarks on irritative fever commonly called the Plymouth dockyard disease 1845. d. 7 Windsor villas, Plymouth 13 Jany. 1877.

BUTTERWORTH, HENRY (son of Henry Butterworth of Coventry, timber merchant). b. Coventry 28 Feb. 1786; law publisher at 7 Fleet st. London 1818 to death; representative of ward of Farringdon Without in Court of Common Council 1823–30; law publisher to the Queen 23 Nov. 1852 to death; F.S.A. 6 Jany. 1848. d. Upper Tooting, Surrey 2 Nov. 1860. Memoir of the late H. Butterworth (1861).

BUTTERWORTH, WILLIAM JOHN. Adjutant 38 Madras N.I. 1821; lieut. col. of 2 European regiment 1841–3 and 1846–51, of 10 Madras N.I. 1843–6; col. of 5 Madras N.I. 3 Dec. 1851 to death; C.B. 20 July 1838; governor of Prince of Wales island, Singapore and Malacca 14 June 1843 to 1855, presented with piece of plate value £700 by the inhabitants 1856; general 28 Nov. 1854. d. Millmead house, Guildford 4 Nov. 1856 aged 55. I.L.N. xxix, 105–6 (1856), portrait.

BUXTON, BERTHA H. (dau. of Wm. Lenpold or Leupold of London, merchant). b. 26 July 1844; ed. at Queen’s college, Tufnell park, London; travelled in Holland, Germany and America; published Jennie of “The Prince’s,” a novel by B. H. B. 3 vols. 1876; Won, by the author of Jennie of the Prince’s 3 vols. 1877; Rosabella, a doll’s Christmas story by Auntie Bee 1877; More dolls by Auntie Bee 1878; the following books have her name on them Fetterless though bound together 3 vols. 1879, Great Grenfell gardens 3 vols. 1879, Nell—On and off the stage 3 vols. 1880, From the wings 3 vols. 1880, Many loves 3 vols. 1880, Little Pops a nursery romance 1881, Sceptre and king 1881. (m. at Hanwell parish church 22 Dec. 1860, Henry Buxton of Hanwell, merchant son of Edward Buxton, merchant). d. 12 St. Mary’s terrace, Kensington, London 31 March 1881. Biograph iv, 159–62 (1880); Carisbrooke Mag. April 1881, portrait; Tinsley’s Mag. xxviii, 499–500 (1881).

BUXTON, CHARLES (3 son of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1 Baronet 1786–1845). b. Cromer 18 Nov. 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B. A. 1845, M.A. 1850; partner in firm of Truman, Hanbury and Co. of Spitalfields, London, brewers 1845; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 1857–9, for Maidstone 1859–65, for East Surrey 1865 to death; member of the Ritual commission 1867–8; his secretary Arthur White attempted to shoot him at 7 Grosvenor crescent, Hyde Park 29 April 1870; author of Slavery and freedom in the British West Indies 1860; The ideas of the day on policy Dec. 1865. d. Lochearnhead hotel near Killin, Perthshire 10 Aug. 1871. Personalty sworn under £250,000, 28 Feb. 1872. Notes of thought by the late C. Buxton, 2 ed. (1883) 5–52; Graphic iv, 219, 237 (1871), portrait.

BUXTON, SIR EDWARD NORTH, 2 Baronet (brother of the preceding). b. Earlham, Norfolk 16 Sep. 1812; succeeded 19 Feb. 1845; M.P. for South Essex 1847–52, for East Norfolk 6 April 1857 to death. d. Colne house, Cromer 11 June 1858.

BUXTON, FREDERICK. b. Bow lane, Cheapside, London; made his first appearance on the stage at York 1844 as Mr. Gillman in The happiest day of my life; made his début in London at Olympic theatre 1847 as David in The Rivals; first appeared in America at Louisville, Kentucky March 1850 as Peter in The Stranger. d. Chicago 17 Jany. 1858.

BUXTON, RICHARD (2 son of John Buxton of Sedgley hall farm, Prestwich, farmer). b. Sedgley hall farm 15 Jany. 1786; apprenticed to a bat maker 1798; botanised in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and North Wales; frequently cited in J. B. Wood’s Flora Mancuniensis 1840 as the authority for many localities of the rarer plants; author of Botanical guide to the flowering plants found within 16 miles of Manchester 1849, 2 ed. 1859. d. Manchester 2 Jany. 1865. J. Cash’s Where there’s a will there’s a way (1873) 94–107; Seemann’s Journ. of Bot. iii, 71 (1865).

BYAM, EDWARD (younger son of Edward Byam of Cedar hill, Antigua 1767–95). b. 1795; ensign 38 foot 11 Nov. 1811; major 15 Hussars 16 June 1825 to 26 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; colonel 18 Hussars 23 Feb. 1858 to death; L.G. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Byam house, Brighton 9 Sep. 1864.

BYAM, SIR WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. 1792; ed. at Eton; lieut. 15 Hussars 17 Sep. 1812 to 1817; served in Peninsula, south of France and Waterloo; pres. of local council in Antigua; colonel of regiment of dragoons raised in Antigua; knighted by patent 6 July 1859. d. Westwood, Southampton 5 July 1869.

BYLES, SIR JOHN BARNARD (eld. son of Jeremiah Byles of Stowmarket, Suffolk, timber merchant). b. Stowmarket 11 Jany. 1801; a special pleader; barrister I.T. 18 Nov. 1831; recorder of Buckingham 1840 to Jany. 1858; serjeant-at-law 14 Feb. 1843; leader of Norfolk circuit 1845; received a patent of precedence 1846; Queen’s serjeant with serjeants Shee and Wrangham 27 Feb. 1857, this was last appointment of queen’s serjeants of whom he was the survivor; judge of Court of Common Pleas Jany. 1858 to Jany. 1873 when he retired on pension of £3,500; knighted at St. James’s palace 14 April 1858; P.C. 3 March 1873; author of A discourse on the present state of the law of England 1829; A practical treatise on the law of bills of exchange 1829, 14 ed. 1885; Observations on the usury laws 1845; Free trade and its so called sophisms examined by a barrister 1850; Foundations of religion in the mind and heart of man 1875. d. Harefield house, Uxbridge 3 Feb. 1884, Will proved 25 March 1884, personalty upwards of £201,000. A. Pulling’s Order of the Coif (1884) 41, 105, 182; A generation of judges by their Reporter 1886; Law Journal xix, 115, 255 (1884); Times 5 Feb. 1884 p. 7, col. 1.

BYNG, GERALD FREDERICK (youngest son of 5 Viscount Torrington 1741–1813). Page of honour to Prince of Wales 1791; cornet 27 light dragoons 1800; ensign 53 foot 1801–2 when place on h.p.; clerk in Foreign office 5 Jany. 1801 to 5 Nov. 1839 when he retired on a superannuation allowance; ensign St. George’s volunteer infantry 1803; attended on King and Queen of Sandwich Islands during their visit to England May to July 1824; one of gentlemen ushers of privy chamber 23 March 1831 to death; a comr. for inquiring into Smithfield market 28 Nov. 1849; joined ranks of Queen’s rifle volunteers 1859; presented to that corps colours of the St. George’s volunteer infantry 1860; generally known as Poodle Byng, a soubriquet given him by George Canning on account of his curly hair; lived at 5 Cleveland court, afterwards called 37 St. James’s place, Pall Mall, London 1831 to death. d. there 5 June 1871 aged 87. Life of G. Brummell by captain Jesse i, 110 (1886), portrait.

BYNG, HENRY DILKES (brother of the preceding). b. 1784; entered navy March 1798; captain 9 March 1814; held a command on lakes of Canada 15 years; captain of the Ordinary at Portsmouth 1833–6; commodore at Jamaica 1842–3; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired V.A. 31 Jany. 1856. d. Queen’s terrace, Southsea 23 Sep. 1860.

BYRES, PATRICK (younger son of Robert Byres of London, merchant). b. about 1778; entered Bengal army 1794; major 11 Bengal N.I. 5 Aug. 1816; colonel 20 Bengal N.I. 3 June 1825; colonel 33 Bengal N.I. 9 July 1840 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Lonley, Aberdeenshire 1 Feb. 1854.

BYRNE, RIGHT REV. ANDREW. b. Navan, Ireland 5 Dec. 1802; went to America 1820; deacon April 1827, priest 11 Nov. 1827; stationed at various places in Carolina; pastor of St. Mary’s R.C. church at Charleston 1830; vicar general of Bishop of Charleston; pastor of St. James’s church N.Y. 1 Sep. 1836, of St. Andrew’s church N.Y. 19 March 1842, of Church of the Nativity N.Y. 5 June 1842; bishop of Little Rock comprising state of Arkansas 1844 to death; consecrated at St. Patrick’s cath. N.Y. 10 March 1844; attended sixth provincial council at Baltimore, May 1846 and first provincial council at New Orleans 1856. d. 1862. R. H. Clarke’s Lives of deceased bishops ii, 264–71 (1872).

BYRNE, JOHN. Ensign 22 foot 1 Oct. 1808; lieut. col. 31 foot 8 Oct. 1844 to 15 April 1846; lieut. col. 53 foot 15 April 1846 to 9 May 1851 when he sold out; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. 21 July 1851.

BYRNE, MILES. b. Monaseed, co. Wexford 20 March 1780; joined society of United Irishmen 1797; joined insurgents under Rev. John Murphy at Corrigua, co. Wexford 3 June 1798; clerk in timber yard in Dublin 1798–1803; lieutenant of infantry in Napoleon’s Irish legion Nov. 1803, commanded a bataillon d’elite of Irish troops 1810, chevalier of Legion of honour 18 June 1813, received cross of that order 1832; chef de bataillon in 56 regiment of the line 1830–5; served in Greece 1828–30; lived in Paris 1835 to death. d. Rue Montaigne, Paris 24 Jany. 1862. Monument in Montmartre cemetery. Memoirs of Miles Byrne 3 vols. 1863, portrait.

BYRNE, OSCAR (son of James Byrne, dancer who d. 5 Burton crescent, London 4 Dec. 1844 aged 85). Made his first appearance as a dancer in a ballet at Drury Lane theatre 1803; spent some years in Ireland and abroad; ballet master at Princess’s theatre 1850–9, at Drury Lane 1862, at Her Majesty’s Nov. 1866; had an inexhaustible invention in designing new dances; taught most of the English dancers who gained distinction during his time. d. 22 Islip st. Kentish Town, London 4 Sep. 1867 aged 72.

NOTE.—His father James Byrne introduced in Powell’s pantomime Harlequin Amulet or the Magic of Mona at Drury Lane theatre Christmas 1799 an entirely new dress for the harlequin consisting of a white silk shape fitting without a wrinkle into which 308 variegated silk patches were woven, the whole being profusely covered with 48,000 spangles. He completely altered the manner of playing harlequin by making him a graceful and agile dancer instead of merely posturing on the stage in 5 positions. Harlequins before that time wore loose dresses.

BYRON, ANNE ISABELLA, Baroness Wentworth (only child of Sir Ralph Milbanke, 6 Baronet who d. 19 March 1825 aged 78). b. Ellemore hall, Durham 17 May 1792 being first child after a marriage of 15 years. (m. 2 Jany. 1815 George Gordon Byron, 6 Baron Byron he was b. 22 Jany. 1788 and d. 19 April 1824, they separated by mutual consent Feb. 1816). Founded an industrial school for boys at Ealing on system of Fellenberg 1834, another at Leicester, a reformatory for girls and some village schools; became baroness Wentworth at decease of her cousin Lord Scarsdale 12 Nov. 1856 when abeyance of the barony ceased. d. 11 St. George’s terrace, Regent’s park, London 16 May 1860. Macpherson’s Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson 1878 pp. 94, 163, 187, 188, 209 and 280; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. 1876 316–25; Lady Byron vindicated by H. B. Stowe 1870; Quarterly Review Oct. 1869, Jany. 1870 and July 1883.

BYRON, GEORGE ANSON BYRON, 7 Baron (only son of George Anson Byron 1758–93, captain R.N.) b. Bath 8 March 1789; entered navy as a volunteer Dec. 1800; captain 7 June 1814; admiral on h.p. 20 May 1862; succeeded his cousin the poet 19 April 1824. d. 44 Eaton place, London 2 March 1868.

BYRON, GEORGE ANSON BYRON, 8 Baron. b. Cheltenham 30 June 1818; succeeded 2 March 1868. d. 28 Nov. 1870.

BYRON, HENRY JAMES (eld. son of Henry Byron 1804–84, British consul at Port au Prince, Hayti). b. Manchester 8 Jany 1835; ed. at St. Peter’s College Eaton sq. London; admitted student at M.T. 14 Jany 1858; edited Fun from first number 21 Sep. 1861; edited Comic News 13 July 1863 to May 1864; edited Mirth Nov. 1877 to Oct. 1878 12 numbers only; manager with Marie Wilton of Prince of Wales’s theatre London 15 April 1865 to 1867; manager of Alexandra theatre Liverpool 1867, of the T.R. and Amphitheatre Liverpool; manager of Criterion theatre London when it opened 21 May 1874; made his début in London at Globe theatre 23 Oct. 1869 as Sir Simon Simple in his own comedy Not such a fool as he looks; author of about 120 burlesques, farces and comedies produced at West-end theatres, Cyril’s success was played at Globe theatre 28 Nov. 1868 to 27 March 1869 being longest run of any original 5 act play in modern times, and Our Boys a 3 act comedy was played at Vaudeville theatre from 16 Jany. 1875 to 18 April 1879 an unbroken run of 1362 times; author of Paid in full 3 vols. 1865. d. Rockelemont, Queen’s road, Clapham, London 12 April 1884. Illustrated Review vi, 441–3 (1874), portrait; Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1879) 61–68; W. Archer’s English dramatists of to-day (1882) 119–47; London Society xxvi, 121–9 (1874); Biograph (1880) 360–8; Theatre i, 212 (1878), portrait, v, 345–50 (1882), iii, 268–72 (1884).

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CABBELL, BENJAMIN BOND (4 son of George Cabbell of 17 Wigmore st. London, apothecary). b. Vere st. Oxford st. London 1781; ed. at Westminster; matric. from Oriel coll. Ox. 19 June 1800; migrated to Exeter college 25 Feb. 1801; barrister M.T. 9 Feb. 1816, bencher 1850; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1837; contested Marylebone July 1841; M.P. for St. Albans 1846–7 and for Boston 1847–57; sheriff of Norfolk 1854; provincial grand master of freemasons of Norfolk; a well-known patron of art. d. 39 Chapel st. Marylebone road, London 9 Dec. 1874. John Pye’s Patronage of British art (1845) 358, 365, portrait.

CABRERA, RAMON, Condé de Morella (son of José Cabrera of Tortosa, Catalonia, mariner who d. 1812). b. Tortosa 27 Dec. 1806; head of a body of guerillas in service of Don Carlos on breaking out of civil war in Spain 1833; commandant general of Lower Arragon Nov. 1835; mariscal de campo 15 Aug. 1836; received grand cross of S. Fernando June 1837; captured fortress of Morella Jany. 1838; created Condé De Morella by Don Carlos 1838; routed by Espartero July 1840 when he took refuge in France; lived at Lyons 1841–5; made two attempts to effect risings in Spain 1846 and 1848; created Marquis del Ter 1848; defeated at Pasteral 27 Jany. 1849 when he fled to France and thence to England; lived in London Aug. 1849, in Naples 1850–1. (m. 29 May 1850 Marianne Catherine only child of Robert Vaughan Richards Q.C.) d. Wentworth, Virginia Water, Surrey 24 May 1877. A life in 4 vols. by Don Buenaventura de Cordoba; F. Duncan’s English in Spain (1877) 109–23; Blackwood’s Mag. lx, 293–308 (1846); Pall Mall Gazette 2 June 1877; Echo 29 May 1877.

CACHEMAILLE, REV. JAMES LOUIS VICTOR. Ordained deacon 1834 and priest 1835 by bishop of Winchester; incumbent of Island of Sark 1834 to death; author of Essai sur la resurrection 1850; Le palais de Crystal 1852; Quelques signes des dernier temps 1853 and many other pamphlets. d. Sark 30 Jany. 1877 aged 71.

CADBURY, RICHARD TAPPER. b. Exeter 1768 or 1769; mercer and draper in Bull st. Birmingham 1794 to about 1828; overseer of Birmingham 1800, one of board of guardians 1801, a comr. of Birmingham streets acts 1822, chairman of that board 1836–51 when it was abolished by 14 and 15 Vict. cap. xciii, 24 July 1851; member of Society of Friends who generally spoke of him as “King Richard.” d. 57 Calthorpe road, Birmingham 13 March 1860. Edgbastonia i, 2–3 (1881), portrait.

CADDELL, CECILIA MARY (2 dau. of Richard O’Ferrall Caddell of Harbourstown, co. Meath 1780–1856). Author of A history of the missions in Japan and Paraguay 1856; Blind Agnese or the little spouse of the Blessed Sacrament 1855, 5 ed. 1873; Home and the homeless, a novel 3 vols. 1858; Nellie Netterville, a tale of the times of Cromwell 1867; Wild times, a tale of the days of Queen Elizabeth 1872 and of many articles in The Irish Monthly 1874–7. d. Kingstown near Dublin 11 Sep. 1877 in 64 year. The Irish monthly v, 772–4 (1877).

CADELL, FRANCIS (2 son of Hew Francis Cadell of Cockenzie near Preston Pans, Haddingtonshire 1790–1873). b. Cockenzie Feb. 1822; ed. at Edinburgh and in Germany; midshipman in navy of H.E.I. Co. 1835; served in first Chinese war 1840–1; proved that the river Murray in Australia was navigable by descending that river in a boat from Swan Hill station to Lake Victoria 1851; promoted the Murray Steam navigation company 1853, commander Company’s steamers 1853–60; explored South Australia, discovered mouth of river Roper and fine pastoral country in latitude 14° South, Nov. 1867; murdered by his crew while on a voyage from Amboyna to the Kei islands June 1879. A. Forster’s South Australia (1866) 68–74; Once a week viii, 667–70 (1863); I.L.N. xxvi, 173 (1855), xxvii, 176 (1855); The Times 7 Nov. 1879 p. 5.

CADELL, JESSIE. b. Scotland 23 Aug. 1844; went to India where she resided chiefly at Peshawur; author of Ida Craven 2 vols. 1876 and of an article in Fraser’s Mag. for May 1879, entitled The true Omar Khayyam. d. Florence 17 June 1884. Athenæum 28 June 1884.

CADELL, WILLIAM ARCHIBALD (eld. son of Wm. Cadell of Carron park near Falkirk). b. Carron park 27 June 1775; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; member of faculty of advocates 1798; F.R.S. 28 June 1810; F.R.S. Edin.; F.G.S.; detained prisoner in France several years; author of On the lines that divide each semidiurnal arc into six equal parts 1816; A journey in Carniola, Italy and France in the years 1817, 1818 2 vols. 1820. d. Edinburgh 19 Feb. 1855.

CADOGAN, GEORGE CADOGAN, 3 Earl (2 son of 1 Earl Cadogan 1728–1807). b. St. James’s sq. London 5 May 1783; entered navy 15 Dec. 1795; captain 23 March 1807; commanded naval forces at destruction of Zara Dec. 1813; placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1813; Austrian order of Maria Theresa conferred on him 22 July 1814; C.B. 4 June 1815; created Baron Oakley of Caversham 10 Sep. 1831; succeeded as 3 Earl 23 Dec. 1832; admiral 9 July 1857. d. 138 Piccadilly, London 15 Sep. 1864.

CADOGAN, HENRY CHARLES CADOGAN, 4 Earl (eld. son of the preceding). b. South Audley st. London 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1832; M.P. for Reading 1841–7, for Dover 1852–7; applied for the Chiltern hundreds 1 Aug. 1842 but was refused by Henry Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer on account of disclosures relating to borough of Reading; hon. colonel 3 Middlesex militia 6 Dec. 1841 to death; succeeded as 4 Earl 15 Sep. 1864; captain of yeomen of guard 10 July 1866 to 22 Dec. 1868; P.C. 10 July 1866. d. Woodrising hall, Norfolk 8 June 1873.

CADOGAN, SIR GEORGE (brother of the preceding). b. 2 Dec. 1814; ed. at Eton; ensign 1 foot guards 22 Feb. 1833, captain 6 Aug. 1847 to 17 July 1857 when placed on h.p.; colonel 106 foot 9 Aug. 1870 to 17 May 1874; colonel 71 foot 17 May 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; K.C.B. 29 May 1875. d. 13 Park place, St. James’s, London 27 Jany. 1880.

CAFFIN, SIR JAMES CRAWFORD (3 son of Wm. Caffin of royal laboratory, Woolwich). b. Woolwich common 1 March 1812; entered navy 12 Aug. 1824; captain 11 Oct. 1847; director general of naval artillery 29 Aug. 1855 to Dec. 1868 when he retired on pension; director of stores and clothing at War office 2 Feb. 1857 to Dec. 1868; a naval aide de camp to the Queen 11 April 1863; admiral on half pay 1 Aug. 1877; C.B. 5 July 1855; K.C.B. 7 Dec. 1868; the centre of a religious society at Blackheath, Kent of very pronounced views. d. Woodlawn, Vanbrugh park, Blackheath 24 May 1883.

CAHILL, REV. DANIEL WILLIAM (3 son of Daniel Cahill, civil engineer of Ashfield, parish of Arless, Queen’s county). b. Ashfield 28 Nov. 1796; ed. at Carlow and Maynooth; professor of natural philosophy in Carlow college 1826; kept a school at Seapoint, Williamstown 1835–41, at Prospect, Black Rock near Dublin 1841–6; edited Dublin Telegraph; arrived in New York 24 Dec. 1859; lectured and preached in United States and Canada. d. the Carney hospital, Boston 28 Oct. 1864. bur. Boston, body removed to Glasnevin cemetery Dublin 9 March 1885. Comerford’s Collections (1883) 198–200; The Lamp ii, 361–392 (1851), portrait.

CAHILL, PATRICK. Ensign 56 foot 10 Aug. 1854; carried regimental colour at battle of the Alma; captain 2 Dec. 1859 to 27 April 1870 when he retired on full pay; military knight of Windsor 1874 to death. d. Lower ward, Windsor castle 25 March 1881.

CAIRD, ALEXANDER M’NEIL. b. Scotland 1814; admitted a procurator 1835; procurator fiscal of Wigtonshire about 1838; provost of Stranraer 1852–8; author of The cry of the children, 2 ed. 1849; The poor law manual for Scotland, 6 ed. 1851; Mary Stuart, her guilt or innocence 1866; The land tenancy laws 1871; Special evils of the Scottish poor law 1877. d. Genoch near Stranraer 14 Feb. 1880.

CAIRNES, JOHN ELLIOT (6 child of Wm. Cairnes of Drogheda, brewer). b. Castle Bellingham, co. Louth 26 Dec. 1823; ed. at Kingstown, Chester and Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1854, LLD. 1874; called to Irish bar Nov. 1857; Whately professor of political economy in Trin. coll. Dub. 1856–61; professor of political economy and jurisprudence in Queen’s college Galway 1861 to July 1870; professor of political economy in Univ. coll. London 1866–72, emeritus professor 1872 to death; author of The character and logical method of political economy 1857, 2 ed. 1875; The slave power, its character, career and probable designs 1862, 2 ed. 1863; Political essays 1873; Some leading principles of political economy newly explained 1874. d. Rasay, Kidbrook park road, Blackheath 8 July 1875. Fortnightly Review xxiv, 149–54 (1875); Athenæum ii, 83–5 (1875); I.L.N. lxvii, 70 (1875), portrait; Graphic xi, 99, 102, 104 (1875), portrait; Times 9 July 1875 p. 5, col. 4.

CAIRNS, HUGH MC. CALMONT CAIRNS, 1 Earl (2 son of Wm. Cairns of Cultra, co. Down, captain 47 foot). b. Belfast 27 Dec. 1819; ed. at Belfast academy and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838, LL.B. and LLD. 1862; LLD. Cam. 1862; D.C.L. Ox. 1863; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1844; M.P. for Belfast July 1852 to Oct. 1866; introduced two bills 1859, one to simplify titles to real estate and another to establish a land registry; Q.C. 7 April 1856, bencher of L.I. 15 April 1856; solicitor general 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 March 1858; attorney general 10 July to 29 Oct. 1866; lord justice of appeal 29 Oct. 1866 to Feb. 1868; P.C. 10 Nov. 1866; created Baron Cairns of Garmoyle Antrim 26 Feb. 1867, Viscount Garmoyle and Earl Cairns in peerage of the U.K. 27 Sep. 1878; chancellor of Univ. of Dublin 20 Dec. 1867; lord chancellor 29 Feb. to 9 Dec. 1868 and 21 Feb. 1874 to 28 April 1880. d. Lindisfarne, Bournemouth 2 April 1885. Law quarterly review i, 365–8 (1885); C. Brown’s Life of Lord Beaconsfield ii, 114 (1882), portrait; The bench and the bar, part 3; Drawing room portrait gallery 2 series 1859, portrait; I.L.N. xlix, 413 (1866), portrait, lxiv, 364 (1874), portrait, lxxxvi, 481 (1885), portrait; Pump Court ii, 8–9 (1884), portrait; Belgravia xxix, 54–9 (1867); St. James’s Mag. xxiv, 171–6 (1869); Law mag. and review, Feb. 1886 pp. 133–53.

CAITHNESS, ALEXANDER SINCLAIR, 13 Earl of. b. Barrogill castle, Thurso 24 July 1790; succeeded 16 July 1823; lord lieut. of Caithnessshire 1823 to death. d. Rutland square, Edinburgh 24 Dec. 1855.

CAITHNESS, JAMES SINCLAIR, 14 Earl of (eld. child of the preceding). b. 16 Dec. 1821; succeeded 24 Dec. 1855; a lord in waiting to the Queen April 1856 to Feb. 1858 and June 1859 to July 1866; lord lieut. of Caithness March 1856 to death; a representative peer of Scotland June 1858 to Dec. 1868; created Baron Barrogill of Barrogill castle, Thurso 1 May 1866; F.R.S. 20 Nov. 1862; took out patents for working stone and for machine belts 1856 and for permanent way of railways 1859; invented a steam car to travel on ordinary roads, an improved tape loom and the Caithness gravitation compass. d. Fifth avenue hotel, New York 28 March 1881. bur. chapel royal Holyrood, Edin. 19 April.

CALCRAFT, JOHN HALES (elder son of John Calcraft of Rempstone near Wareham, Dorset 1766–1831, M.P. for Dorset). b. Rempstone 13 Sep. 1796; M.P. for Wareham 1820–26, 1832–41 and 1857–59; sheriff of Dorset 1867. d. Rempstone 13 March 1880.

CALCRAFT, JOHN HALES MONTAGU (eld. son of the preceding). b. 4 May 1831; entered navy March 1844; served in Crimean war; retired commander 25 Feb. 1862; M.P. for Wareham 13 July 1865 to death. d. Rempstone 1 Dec. 1868.

CALCRAFT, JOHN WILLIAM, stage name of John William Cole. Second lieut. 21 foot 16 July 1807, first lieut. 1809–17 when placed on h.p.; made his début at T.R. Dublin 23 Oct. 1824 as Joseph Surface in The school for scandal; lessee of T.R. Dublin 21 Aug. 1830 to 1851; secretary to Charles Kean; translated Memoirs of H. M. de Latude 1834; author of The bride of Lammermoor, a drama in 5 acts 1823; A defence of the stage 1839; The life of Charles Kean 2 vols. 1859, and of articles on the drama in Dublin Univ. Mag. d. Winchfield, Hants. 12 Feb. 1870 aged 77. History of T.R. Dublin (1870) 59, 61, 65, 83–130.

CALCRAFT, WILLIAM. b. Baddow near Chelmsford 1800; a shoemaker; watchman in Reid’s brewery in Liquorpond st. Gray’s Inn road, London; butler to a gentleman at Greenwich; executioner to City of London 4 April 1829 to 25 May 1874 when he retired on pension of 25/- a week; hanged Greenacre 1837, Courvoisier 1840, Good 1842, Tawell 1845, Mr. and Mrs. Manning and Rush 1849, Dove 1856, Catherine Wilson 1862, the 5 Flowery Land pirates and Muller 1864; lived in Poole st. New North road, Hoxton 1854 to death, where he d. 13 Dec. 1879. Life of Wm. Calcraft the celebrated hangman 1880, portrait; Daily Telegraph 17 Dec. 1879 p. 5, col. 1.

CALCUTT, FRANCIS MACNAMARA. b. Limerick 1819; M.P. for co. Clare 16 April 1857 to 23 April 1859 and 13 April 1860 to death. d. 16 July 1863.

CALDCLEUGH, ALEXANDER. Author of Travels in South America 2 vols. 1825; F.R.S. 10 March 1831. d. Valparaiso, Chili 11 Jany. 1858.

CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH (son of Mr. Caldecott of Chester, accountant). b. Chester 22 March 1846; clerk in a bank at Whitchurch, Shropshire, afterwards at Manchester; began drawing for London Society and other periodicals 1872; a popular book illustrator 1876 to death; published John Gilpin 1878; The house that Jack built 1878 and 14 other childrens books; contributed illustrations to the Graphic; member of Institute of Painters in water colours Feb. 1882, exhibited there, at Grosvenor gallery and the R.A. d. St. Augustine, Florida 12 Feb. 1886. R. Caldecott a personal memoir of his early art career by H. Blackburn 1886, portrait; G.M. xxiv, 629–35 (1880); International Mag. Oct. 1885 pp. 100–3; The Queen almanack 1887, portrait.

CALDECOURT, WILLIAM HENRY. b. Blisworth, Northamptonshire 28 Sep. 1802; played his first cricket match at Lord’s 16–18 July 1821; a hard hitter and a splendid field; a practice bowler to Marylebone club 1818 to death; brought out more gentlemen cricketers from Harrow and Cambridge than any other professional; umpire in the best matches many seasons; kept a cricket bat shop many years at 14 Townsend road, St. John’s Wood, London where he d. 21 June 1857.

CALDER, SIR HENRY RODDAM, 5 Baronet. b. 15 March 1790; succeeded 3 Feb. 1792. d. Muirtoun, Elginshire 13 Aug. 1868.

CALDER, JAMES TAIT. b. Castletown, Caithness about 1794; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; parish teacher at Canisbay, Wicklow; author of Sketches from John O’Groats in prose and verse 1842; The soldier’s bride 1846 a volume of poems; Sketch of the civil and traditional history of Caithness 1861. d. Elwickbank, Shapinshay, one of the Orkney islands 15 Jany. 1864.

CALDERBANK, VERY REV. LEONARD (son of Richard Calderbank of Standish near Wigan). b. Standish 3 June 1809; ed. at Ampleforth college, Yorkshire and Prior park near Bath; ordained priest at Rome 11 Nov. 1832; vice pres. of Prior park and professor of theology at St. Paul’s college 1849–50; missionary rector of St. Peter’s, Gloucester 9 Oct. 1850 to death; canon of Clifton 28 June 1852 to death. d. Gloucester 25 June 1864. Tablet 9 July 1864 p. 439, col. 1.

CALDICOTT, REV. THOMAS FORD. b. Buckby, Northamptonshire 1803; emigrated to Canada 1824; Baptist pastor at Hamilton, Madison, co. New York 1831, at Lockport, N.Y. Boston and Brooklyn successively; pastor of Baptist church, Bond st. Toronto 1860 to death; wrote much for periodical religious press; author of H. Corcoran, an authentic narrative of her conversion from Romanism 1853. d. Toronto 9 July 1869.

CALDWELL, GEORGE (son of Ralph Caldwell of Hilborough hall, Norfolk, who d. 5 Jany. 1831 aged 53). Author of many articles on sporting in The Field and Bell’s Life in London, under pseudonym of Childers and in New York Spirit of the times, under that of Censor, d. Ramsgate 5 March 1863 aged 56. Sporting Review xlix, 463–4 (1863).

CALDWELL, HENRY (youngest son of Charles Andrew Caldwell of New Grange, co. Meath 1785–1859). b. 24 Feb. 1815; entered navy 22 April 1828; captain 12 Aug. 1853; captain of Duke of Wellington 131 guns 19 Feb. 1855 to 1857; captain of the Asia 16 Feb. 1864 to 9 April 1866; aide de camp to the Queen 2 April 1866 to death; commodore Cape of Good Hope station 9 April 1866 to 3 Sep. 1867; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. d. Leamington 7 April 1868.

CALDWELL, SIR HENRY JOHN, 6 Baronet. b. 22 Oct. 1801; succeeded his father as 6 baronet and as Count of Milan in the Holy Roman empire 22 Oct. 1842. d. Marlborough buildings, Bath 13 Oct. 1858.

CALDWELL, HUGH. Entered Bengal army 10 Sep. 1806; major 49 Bengal N.I. 27 May 1830 to 9 Aug. 1836 when he retired; lived at Rome 1836 to death. d. Palazzo Titoni, Via Rassella, Rome 21 Feb. 1882 aged 96. Times 27 Feb. 1882 p. 5, col. 5 and p. 7, col. 3.

CALDWELL, JAMES H. b. Manchester 1793; made his début in America at Charleston as Belcour in The West Indian Nov. 1816; opened St. Charles theatre New Orleans 30 Nov. 1835; last appeared 14 Jany. 1843 as Vapid in The Dramatist; introduced gas in New Orleans 1834 and in many other southern cities. d. New York 11 Sep. 1863.

CALDWELL, SIR JAMES LILLYMAN (son of Arthur Caldwell, major Bengal engineers). b. Greenwich 1770; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 27 July 1789; colonel commandant 1 May 1824 to death; general 20 June 1854; served at first siege of Seringapatam 6 Feb. 1792 and at second siege and capture 4 May 1799; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 10 March 1837, G.C.B. 25 Aug. 1848. d. Beachlands, Ryde, Isle of Wight 28 June 1863. H. M. Vibart’s Madras Engineers ii, pp. iii-vi, (1883), portrait.

CALDWELL, JAMES STAMFORD (only son of James Caldwell, recorder of Newcastle under Lyme who d. 16 Jany. 1838 aged 78). Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1813; author of A treatise on the law of arbitration 1817, 2 ed. 1825; A digest of the laws relating to the poor 1821; Results of reading 1843. d. Linley wood near Newcastle under Lyme 18 Nov. 1858 aged 72.

CALDWELL, JOHN. Opened a room for dancing at 83 Dean st. Soho, London 1840; removed to 19, 20 and 21 Dean st. 1845, which he rebuilt 1850; lessee of Royalty theatre; lessee of Surrey gardens. d. Starcross, Devon 16 May 1880. bur. Kensal Green cemetery, London 24 May.

CALEDON, JAMES DUPRÉ ALEXANDER, 3 Earl of (only child of Dupré Alexander, 2 Earl of Caledon 1777–1839). b. London 27 July 1812; ensign Coldstream guards 31 May 1833, lieut. 1839–46, when he retired from army; M.P. for co. Tyrone 7 Aug. 1837 to 8 April 1839 when he succeeded; an Irish representative peer 10 May 1841 to death; colonel of Tyrone militia. d. 5 Carlton house terrace, London 30 June 1855. Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 147–52; G.M. xliv, 193–4 (1855).

CALEY, HENRY FRANCIS. Entered Bengal army 1820; col. 64 Bengal N.I. 7 Nov. 1854 to death; M.G. 18 March 1856. d. Rawul Pindee, Punjab, India 21 Dec. 1866.

CALKIN, JAMES, b. London 1786; one of earliest members and directors of Philharmonic Society; organist of Regent square chapel, Gray’s Inn road, London 1824; a successful teacher of music; his compositions include an overture and symphony for orchestra, string quartets and much pianoforte music. d. 12 Oakley sq. Camden Town, London 1862.

CALL, SIR WILLIAM BERKELEY, 3 Baronet. b. Whiteford house near Callington, Cornwall 10 May 1815; partner in banking house of Call, Marten and Co. Old Bond st. London; succeeded 3 Dec. 1851; special deputy warden of the Stannaries 1852; sheriff of Cornwall 1856. d. 25 Old Bond st. London 22 Dec. 1864.

CALL, SIR WILLIAM PRATT, 2 Baronet. b. 28 Sep. 1781; succeeded 1 March 1801; sheriff of Cornwall 1807; partner in banking house of Call, Marten and Co. d. Whiteford house near Callington 3 Dec. 1851.

CALLAGHAN, JEREMIAH THOMAS FITZGERALD. b. about 1830; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar, Jany. 1854; acting consul general at Labuan 27 May 1861; governor of Labuan 10 April 1862 to Nov. 1866; administrator of government of Gambia 10 May 1871; governor of Falkland islands 18 May 1876; governor of the Bahamas 11 Sep. 1880 to death; C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. New York 9 July 1881.

CALLAGHAN, THOMAS. b. Dublin 18 Sep. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1836; called to the Irish bar 1839; emigrated to New South Wales 1840; crown prosecutor 1841; chairman of quarter sessions, Dec. 1844; a district court judge 1859 to death, held his first court at Yass 19 July 1859; published Acts and ordinances of New South Wales with notes and index 3 vols. 1844–52. d. Braidwood, N.S.W. 28 Nov. 1863. Heads of the people i, 161 (1847), portrait.

CALLCOTT, MARIA. Author of Home among strangers a tale 2 vols. 1848; The singers alphabet 1849; The power of meekness 1853; The two firesides a tale of 90 years ago 1859. (m. Wm. Hutchins Callcott 1807–82). d. 1 Campden house road, Kensington 19 Aug. 1881 aged 73.

CALLCOTT, WILLIAM. b. Kensington near London 1800; violinist in orchestra of King’s theatre (now Her Majesty’s), Pall Mall; repetiteur for the ballet there; musical director of Adelphi, Olympic and Astley’s Amphitheatre where he composed for Andrew Ducrow music for his representation of “The Grecian Statues”; his musical compositions for pantomimes and melodramas were the best since those of Wm. Henry Ware. d. Gravesend 6 Nov. 1878.

CALLCOTT, WILLIAM HUTCHINS (son of John Wall Callcott, musical composer 1766–1821). b. Kensington, London 1807; member of Royal society of musicians 4 July 1830; organist of Ely place chapel; his arrangements and transcriptions for the piano amount to many hundred pieces; author of The child’s own singing book 1843; A few facts on the life of Handel 1859. d. 1 Campden house road, Kensington 5 Aug. 1882.

CALLENDER, GEORGE WILLIAM. b. Clifton 24 June 1830; student of St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1849, registrar 1854, assistant surgeon 1861, surgeon 1871 to death, lecturer on anatomy 1865, lecturer on surgery 1873; surgical editor of St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports 1865–74; M.R.C.S. 1852, F.R.C.S. 1855, F.R.S. 8 June 1871; sec. of Clinical Soc. 1867–70, pres. 1877–9; author of Anatomy of the parts concerned in femoral rupture 1863 and of many papers in Transactions of Medical Chirurgical, Clinical and Pathological Societies. d. on board the Gallia on his way home from Australia 20 Oct. 1879. bur. Norwood cemetery 29 Oct. St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports xv, pp. xli-xlvii, (1879); Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii, 480–2 (1880).

CALLENDER, WILLIAM ROMAINE (eld. son of Wm. Romaine Callender of Manchester who d. 1872). b. Manchester 2 June 1825; cotton spinner and merchant at Bolton and Manchester; member of Manchester school board 24 Nov. 1870, vice chairman Dec. 1870 to death; M.P. for Manchester 7 Feb. 1874 to death; F.S.A. 2 June 1859; author of Education statistics of Manchester 1852; The commercial crisis of 1857 its causes and results 1858. d. Eversfield place, St. Leonard’s on Sea 22 Jany. 1876. Graphic xiii, 182, 188 (1876), portrait.

CALLOW, JOHN. b. London 19 July 1822; studied art in Paris 1835–44; a landscape painter in water colours; professor of drawing in royal military academy at Addiscombe, July 1855 to 1861; sub.-professor of drawing at Woolwich 1861; a teacher in London; several of his studies have since his death been printed in colours as a series of progressive lessons in art of water-colour painting; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1844–67. d. Lewisham near London 25 April 1878.

CALTHORPE, GEORGE GOUGH-CALTHORPE, 3 Baron. b. 22 June 1787; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 5 June 1807. d. Lyons Sep. 1851.

CALTHORPE, FREDERICK GOUGH, 4 Baron (3 son of 1 Baron Calthorpe 1749–98). b. London 14 June 1790; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Hindon, Wilts. 1818–26, for Bramber, Sussex 1826–31; a metropolitan comr. in lunacy; assumed name of Gough in lieu of Calthorpe 14 May 1845; sheriff of Staffs. 1848; succeeded Sep. 1851; gave to town of Birmingham, Calthorpe park opened 15 April 1857. d. Elvetham park, Winchfield, Hants. 2 May 1868.

CALVERLEY, CHARLES STUART (younger son of Rev. Henry Blayds 1794–1874, V. of South Stoke near Bath 1839–74). b. Martley, Worcs. 23 Dec. 1831; ed. at Harrow and Balliol coll. Ox.; scholar 25 Nov. 1850; chancellor’s prizeman 1851; migrated to Christ’s coll. Cam. Oct. 1852, Craven scholar 1854; B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; fellow of his coll. 1858–63; prepared examination paper on Dickens’s Pickwick Papers at Cam. Dec. 1857; barrister I.T. 1 May 1865; resumed 1852 old family name of Calverley which his grandfather had changed to Blayds 1807; author of Verses and translations 1862; Translations into English and Latin 1866; Theocritus translated into English verse 1869; Fly leaves 1872. d. 17 Devonshire terrace, Hyde park, London 17 Feb. 1884. C. S. Calverley’s Literary remains 1885, portrait; Fortnightly Review xxxv, 736–53 (1884); J. Payn’s Some literary recollections (1884) 180–3; Temple Bar, Jany. 1887.

CALVERT, CAROLINE LOUISA WARING (youngest dau. of James Atkinson, principal clerk in Colonial secretary’s office, Sydney N.S.W.) b. Oldbury, Argyle county N.S.W. 25 Feb. 1834; author of Gertrude the emigrant, a tale of colonial life by an Australian lady 1857; Cowanda the veteran’s grant 1859; wrote many articles in Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Mail and Town and country journal; collected many specimens of plants, the genus Atkinsonia was named after her also the species Epacris Calvertiana. (m. 1870 James Snowden Calvert 1825–74). d. Sutton Forest N.S.W. 28 April 1872. G. B. Barton’s Literature of N.S.W. (1866) 111–2.

CALVERT, CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Calvert of Glossop hall, Derbyshire, agent for Duke of Norfolk 1754–97). b. Glossop hall 23 Sep. 1785; cotton merchant in Manchester, landscape painter there; a founder of Manchester Royal Institution 1823, Heywood gold and silver medallist. d. Bowness, Westmoreland 26 Feb. 1852. Art Journal (1852) 150.

CALVERT, CHARLES ALEXANDER. b. London 28 Feb. 1828; ed. at King’s college school; articled to a solicitor; acted in the provinces 1852–5; first appeared in London at Surrey theatre, Sep. 1855 as Leonardo Gonzago in The Wife; stage manager and principal actor at T.R. Manchester 1859; manager of Prince’s theatre, Manchester 1864 to Jany. 1875; produced a series of Shakespearian revivals which eclipsed all previous representations on provincial stage 1864–74; went to New York, Jany. 1875 when he reproduced play of Henry the fifth at Booth’s theatre; returned to England 1876; produced Henry viii at T.R. Manchester 1877; head of a travelling company. d. at private asylum, Sussex house, Hammersmith 12 June 1879. bur. Brooklands cemetery near Sale, Cheshire 18 June. Illust. sporting and dr. news v, 609, 614 (1876), portrait, xi, 351, 353 (1879), portrait.

CALVERT, EDWARD (son of Roland Calvert of Appledore, Devon who d. 1811 or 1812). b. Appledore 20 Sep. 1799; midshipman R.N.; landscape painter in London 1825; exhibited 5 pictures at the R.A. 1825–36; produced many woodcuts and plates, privately printed by himself at Brixton and Paddington. d. Hackney 14 July 1883. Athenæum ii, 218, 250 (1883); Gilchrist’s Life of W. Blake (1880) i, 343, 407.

CALVERT, EDWIN. A dwarf 36 inches in height (3 inches less than Tom Thumb), weighing only 24½ pounds; clever violinist and dancer, and mimic of birds and animals. d. Skipton, Yorkshire July or Aug. 1859 aged 17.

CALVERT, FELIX. b. 16 Oct. 1790; ensign 52 foot 1 Oct. 1807; major 32 foot 11 May 1815; lieut. col. 72 foot 9 Aug. 1821 to 25 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; colonel 90 foot 14 June 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 19 July 1831. d. 30 Cavendish sq. London 3 March 1857.

CALVERT, FREDERIC BALTIMORE (brother of Charles Calvert 1785–1852). b. 10 April 1793; alternated leading parts with Edmund Kean, Macready and Vandenhoff; elocutionary lecturer at King’s college, Aberdeen 1829; lectured in England and America on literary subjects; master of English language and literature in Edinburgh academy about 1846; lecturer on elocution to free church colleges of Edin. and Glasgow; author of A defence of the acted drama in a letter to T. Best, Hull 1822; Principles of elocution by T. Ewing, revised and improved 1852, another ed. 1870; translated Cicero’s De Oratore 1870. d. 2 West Newington, Edin. 21 April 1877.

CALVERT, FREDERICK CRACE (son of Colonel Calvert). b. London 14 Nov. 1819; lived in France 1836–46; démonstrateur de chimie appliquée under M. E. Chevreul the eminent chemist in Paris 1841–6; consulting chemist at Manchester 1846; professor of chemistry at Royal Instit. Manchester 1846; lecturer on chemistry at School of medicine in Pine st. Manchester; the first person in this country to manufacture phenic or carbolic acid in a pure state, its use as a disinfectant is due entirely to him, established large works at Manchester for its production 1865; F.R.S.; delivered 5 courses of ‘Cantor’ lectures at Society of Arts on applied chemistry; contributed largely to English and French scientific literature. d. Clayton vale house near Manchester 24 Oct. 1873. F. C. Culvert’s Dying and calico printing, 3 ed. (1878) ix-xiv; Journal of Society of arts xxi, 919 (1873).

CALVERT, GEORGE. b. Denholme Gate, Thornton, parish of Bradford 26 Dec. 1809; decorative painter at Huddersfield; portrait painter at Almondbury; author of Universal restoration, a poem in ten epochs 2 vols. 1861; Thoughts for thoughtful minds 1865; Redemption, a poem in ten epochs, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1875. d. Hall Bower near Castle hill, Almondbury 10 June 1878. C. A. Hulbert’s Supplementary annals of Almondbury (1885) 51–3.

CALVERT, HENRY HUNTER. Clerk in R.N. 1834–5; cancelliere to consulate at Erzeroom, Turkish Armenia 1837–55; acting consul at Alexandria 1859–60, 1864, 1868–9, 1870, 1872, 1876–7 and 1878–9; acting consul at Cairo 1860–2, at Jeddah 1864–5 and 1867. d. the Dardanelles 29 July 1882. I.L.N. lxxxi, 197 (1882), portrait.

CALVERT, JAMES SNOWDEN. b. on the Borders of Scotland 13 July 1825; went to New South Wales 1840; went with Ludwig Leichhardt in his expedition from Moreton Bay Settlement to Fort Essington on north coast of Australia which was reached 17 Dec. 1845 after a journey of 3000 miles extending over 15 months; awarded a silver medal at London International Exhibition 1862 for his collection of Australian paper making materials. d. at his residence near Sydney 22 or 29 July 1874.

CALVERT, JOHN. b. Preston; mechanical and consulting engineer; founded Calvert’s Mechanic’s almanac and workshop companion 1873, edited it 1873 to death; author of Calvert’s Pocket wages table 1875; Calvert’s Mechanic’s and builder’s time book, 2 ed. 1876. d. Cornbrook, Manchester 6 July 1883 aged 47.

CALVERT, MICHAEL. b. Knaresborough; baptised 2 Feb. 1770; a chemist at Knaresborough, churchwarden 1808 and 1809; author of An account of the Knaresborough Spaw, 2 ed. 1831; History of Knaresborough 1844. d. Knaresborough 3 Dec. 1862. Boyne’s Yorkshire library 1869 p. 142.

CALVERT, REV. WILLIAM. b. 1819; Educ. at Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1853; C. of Longdon, Worcs. 1842–6; minor canon of St. Paul’s cathedral 1848 to death; R. of St. Antholin’s, city of London 1849–58; V. of St. John the Baptist’s, Kentish Town, London 1858 to death; author of The wife’s manual, or prayers, thoughts and songs on several occasions of a matron’s life 1854, 4 ed. 1882; Pneuma or the wandering soul, a parable in rhyme and outline 1856. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 1 Feb. 1880.

CAMDEN, GEORGE CHARLES PRATT, 2 Marquis (only son of 1 Marquis Camden 1759–1840). b. Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 2 May 1799; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1819, LLD. 1835; M.P. for Ludgershall, Wilts. 1821–6, for Bath 1826–30, and for Dunwich 1831–2; a lord of the Admiralty 19 Sep. 1828 to 15 July 1829; summoned to House of Lords in his father’s barony of Camden 8 Jany. 1835; succeeded as 2 Marquis 8 Oct. 1840; K.G. 19 Jany. 1846; lord lieut. of Brecknockshire 31 Oct. 1865; pres. of British archæological society, and of Kent archæological society. d. Bayham abbey, Sussex 6 Aug. 1866.

CAMDEN, JOHN CHARLES PRATT, 3 Marquis. b. Belgrave sq. London 30 June 1840; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1860; M.P. for Brecknock 27 Feb. 1866 to 6 Aug. 1866, when he succeeded. d. 96 Eaton sq. London 4 May 1872.

CAMERON, ALEXANDER. Ensign 42 foot 24 Feb. 1842, lieut. col. 9 Oct. 1855 to death; C.B. 27 July 1858. d. Bareilly, Rohilcund, India 9 Aug. 1858 aged 43.

CAMERON, REV. CHARLES. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; Incumb. of St. James’s Dudley 1840–4; Incumb. of Worsley, Manchester 1844–53; Incumb. of donative of Oxhey Watford, Herts. 1853–6; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Longlane, Trusley Derbyshire 1860 to death; author of The tyranny of popery by an Eye Witness as seen in Italy 1853 and of various parochial sermons and addresses; edited The infallible way to contentment 1849; The British workman 1855–62. d. in Heckington church during divine service 2 Dec. 1861 aged 54.

CAMERON, CHARLES DUNCAN (son of Charles Cameron, captain 3 foot). Ensign 45 foot 12 June 1846 to July 1851; commanded Kaffir Irregulars sent from Natal to Cape Colony 1851–2; served on staff of Sir Fenwick Williams during Russian war 1854–6; consul in Abyssinia 30 June 1860, imprisoned by King Theodore 2 Jany. 1864 to 17 April 1866 when he was handed over to Hormuzd Rassam but reimprisoned with Rassam 12 July 1866, released 11 April 1868; returned to England 25 July 1868, retired on a pension of £350 per annum 7 Dec. 1868; F.R.G.S. Nov. 1858. d. Geneva 30 May 1870. C. R. Markham’s History of Abyssinian expedition 1869; H. M. Hozier’s Narrative of Abyssinian expedition 1869; Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xli, 153 (1871).

CAMERON, CHARLES HAY (son of Charles Cameron, governor of Bahama Islands). b. 11 Feb. 1795; barrister L.I. 16 June 1820; a disciple of Jeremy Bentham; a charity comr., prepared a report on poor laws April 1833; member of law commission at Calcutta 1834; fourth member of supreme council of India 1843 to 1848; pres. of council of education for Bengal 1843–8; author of Two essays on the sublime and beautiful and on Duelling, privately printed 1835; Address to Parliament on the duties of Great Britain to India 1853. d. Ceylon 8 May 1880. Mackenzie’s History of the Camerons 1884.

CAMERON, REV. CHARLES RICHARD (eld. son of Charles Cameron, M.D. of Worcester). b. 1781; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803; P.C. of Donnington Wood, Salop 1806–50; P.C. of Wombridge, Salop 1808–56; R. of Swaby, Lincs. 1831 to death; author of The Antichrist of St. John, St. Paul’s man of sin and the Little Horn of Daniel identified in their application to the Papacy in its present aspect 1844; The doctrine of infant baptism briefly stated 1850; The beginning of the end 1854. d. Swaby rectory 10 Jany. 1865.

CAMERON, DONALD. Piper to Sir J. J. R. Mackenzie of Scatwell, Rossshire 1833; piper to Seaforth of Dingwall, Rossshire 1848 to death; gained gold medal at Inverness 1849, and another at competition of 9 best pipers in Scotland 1850; gained annual champion medals given by Highland society of London at great northern meetings 1859 and 1867; composed Braham Castle, Lady Anne Mackenzie and other excellent airs; declined several offers to become Her Majesty’s piper. d. near Dingwall 7 Jany. 1868.

CAMERON, SIR DUNCAN, 2 Baronet. b. 1770; succeeded Oct. 1828. d. Callart near Appin, Argyleshire 15 Jany. 1863.

CAMERON, GEORGE POULETT (son of Robert Cameron, commander R.N. who d. 22 Jany. 1807). b. 1805; entered Madras army 1821; joined expedition to Portugal organised by Don Pedro to recover throne for Queen Maria ii, 1832; sent on particular service to Persia, commanded garrison of Tabriz 1836–8; political agent at titular court of Nawab of Arcot 1842; K.T.S., K.L.S., C.B. 25 Aug. 1841; commandant of the Neilgherries hills 1856–8; present with Austrian army in Italian war 1859; author of Personal adventures in Georgia, Circassia and Russia, 2 vols. 1848; The romance of military life 1853. d. Cheltenham 12 Feb. 1882.

CAMERON, JAMES. b. near Dunkeld 6 Jany. 1800; went to Madagascar 1826 where he taught the natives principal mechanical arts and industries; lived at Cape Town 1835–53 and 1854–63; lay missionary of London Missionary Society in Madagascar 1863 to death. d. Antananarivo, Madagascar 3 Oct. 1875. Cape Monthly Mag. xii, 169–79 (1876); Chronicle of London Missionary Soc, for 1876 pp. 21, 229–34.

CAMERON, JOHN. Second lieut. R.E. 12 Dec. 1834, colonel 1 Jany. 1868 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; F.R.S. 4 June 1868; C.B. 14 June 1870; director of ordnance survey of Great Britain and Ireland, Aug. 1875 to death; edited Ordnance survey. Meteorological observations 1856. d. Ordnance house, Southampton 30 June 1878 aged 61.

CAMERON, JOHN ALEXANDER. b. Inverness; a bank clerk; contributed to Bombay Gazette, acting editor to 1878, special correspondent in Afghan war 1878; special correspondent of the London Standard in Afghan war 1879; crossed from Bombay to Natal on outbreak of Boer insurrection Dec. 1880; present at battles of Laing’s Nek and Ingogo Jany. 1881; taken prisoner at battle of Majuba Hill Feb. 1881; special correspondent of Standard in Egypt 1882–3 his description of bombardment of Alexandria was best sent home; accompanied British force in advance upon Tokar, witnessed battles of El Teb and Tamanieb; shot by Arabs near Metemneh in Sir H. Stewart’s desert march to Gubat on the Nile 18 Jany. 1885. London Figaro 9 Dec. 1882; Graphic xxiii, 437 (1881), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxvi, 146, 218 (1885), portrait; Standard 29 Jany. 1885 pp. 5–6.

CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET (3 dau. of James Pattle of Bengal civil service). b. Calcutta 11 June 1815; raised in Calcutta a large sum of money for relief of sufferers in Irish famine 1846; lived in England 1848–75; went to Ceylon 1875; began photographing 1865, took admirable portraits of many eminent persons, gained gold medals in America, Austria, Germany and England; exhibited large collection of her portraits and studies at the German gallery in Bond st. London March 1868; wrote many poems some of them in Macmillan’s Mag.; translated Burger’s Leonora 1847. (m. 1838 Charles Hay Cameron 1795–1880). d. Ceylon 26 Jany. 1879. Sir H. Taylor’s Autobiography ii, 48–55, 184–8.

CAMERON, LUCY LYTTELTON (youngest child of Rev. George Butt 1741–95, V. of Stanford-on-Teme, Worcs.) b. Stanford-on-Teme 29 April 1781; ed. at Reading 1792–7; author of The two lambs 1827; Addresses to children on the Beatitudes 1828; The Caskets, 12 ed. 1833; The Berkshire shepherd, 6 ed. 1840 and many more childrens books. (m. 12 June 1806 Rev. Charles Richard Cameron 1781–1865). d. Swaby rectory 6 Sep. 1858. The life of Mrs. Cameron by Rev. G. T. Cameron, 2 ed. 1873, portrait.

CAMERON, PATRICK. Entered Madras army 1802; colonel 1 Madras light cavalry 12 April 1843 to 1869; general 24 Oct. 1858. d. Gordonston, Inverness 8 Dec. 1871 aged 87.

CAMIDGE, JOHN (3 son of Mathew Camidge 1758–1844, organist of York minster). b. York 1790; Mus. Bac. Cam. 1812, Mus. Doc. 1819; Mus. Doc. Lambeth 1855; assistant organist of York minster, organist 15 Oct. 1842 to death; paralysed while playing the evening service 28 Nov. 1848, never played again; adapted much classical music for use in the Anglican service; published Cathedral music consisting of a service, anthems and 50 double chants; Six glees for 3 and 4 voices. d. Gray’s court, Chapter house st. York 21 Sep. 1859. Musical World 1 Oct. 1859, p. 634.

CAMMELL, CHARLES (son of George Cammell of Hull). b. Hull 8 Jany. 1810; steel and file manufacturer at Sheffield 1837, added manufacture of rails and railway material 1861, and of armour plates 1863; his business was converted into a limited liability company 1864, of which he was chairman to his death; acquired Yorkshire iron and steel works at Penistone 1865, and the Oaks colliery near Barnsley 1873; M.I.M.E. Oct. 1847. d. 7 South wick crescent, Hyde park, London 12 Jany. 1879, personalty sworn under £250,000, 8 March 1879. Iron and steel institute journal 1879, p. 615.

CAMOYS, THOMAS STONOR, 3 Baron (eld. son of Thomas Stonor of Stonor near Henley-on-Thames 1766–1831). b. London 22 Oct. 1797; M.P. for Oxford 13 Dec. 1832 to March 1833, when unseated on petition; contested Oxfordshire 29 July 1837; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1835; summoned to House of Lords 14 Sep. 1839, when ancient barony of Camoys was called out of abeyance, having been dormant since 12 Aug. 1426; a lord in waiting on the Queen 1846–52, 1853–8, 1859–66 and 1868–74. d. Stonor 18 Jany. 1881. I.L.N. lxxviii, 125 (1881), portrait.

CAMPANA, A. FABIO. b. Bologna 1815; settled in London about 1850 as teacher of singing; composed 6 operas Caterina di Guisa 1838, Giulio d’Este 1841, Vannina d’Ornano 1842, Luisa di Francia 1844, Almina, produced in London 1860 and Esmeralda, produced at Covent Garden theatre London 14 June 1870; composed The little gipsy, The twilight hour, The scout and about 400 other drawing room songs. d. 15 Westbourne place, Eaton sq. London 1 Feb. 1882.

CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, 1 Baron (younger son of Rev. George Campbell 1747–1824, minister of Cupar; Fifeshire). b. Springfield near Cupar 15 Sep. 1779; ed. at Cupar gr. sch. and Univ. of St. Andrews; reported in House of Commons and law courts for Morning Chronicle 1800–5; barrister L.I. 15 Nov. 1806, bencher 1827, treasurer 1834; leader of Oxford circuit 1824–7; K.C. 13 June 1827; chairman of real property commission 9 June 1828; M.P. for Stafford 1830–2, for Dudley 1832–4 and for Edinburgh 1834–41; solicitor general 23 Nov. 1832 to 22 Feb. 1834; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 Dec. 1832; attorney general 22 Feb. 1834 to Nov. 1834 and 30 April 1835 to 22 June 1841; lord chancellor of Ireland 22 June 1841 to Sep. 1841; created Baron Campbell of St. Andrews 30 June 1841; P.C. 22 June 1841; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 6 July 1846 to 6 March 1850; serjeant at law 5 March 1850; chief justice of Court of Queen’s Bench 6 March 1850 to 18 June 1859; tried Wm. Palmer the poisoner 14 to 27 May 1856; lord chancellor 18 June 1859 to death; he was the first peer ever made a serjeant at law and held the great seal at an older age than any previous lord chancellor; author of Reports of cases determined at Nisi Prius 4 vols. 1809–16; The lives of the lord chancellors 7 vols. 1846–7, 4 ed. 10 vols. 1856–7; The lives of the lord justices 3 vols. 1849–57; Lives of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham 1869. d. Stratheden lodge, Kensington, London 23 June 1861. bur. Jedburgh abbey 29 June. Life of Lord Campbell 2 vols. 1881, portrait; W. H. Bennet’s Select biographical sketches (1867) 153–76; Ballantine’s Some experiences i, 184–206 (1882); O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 262–72; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. iv, 484–91 (1862); Quarterly Review cli, 1–40 (1881); I.L.N. iv, 180 (1844), portrait, xvi, 173 (1850), portrait, xxxviii, 611 (1861), portrait; Law mag. and law rev. xi, 347–95 (1861).

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (eld. son of Thomas Campbell of Ballymena, co. Antrim, schoolmaster 1763–1854). b. near Ballymena 12 Sep. 1788; ed. at Glasgow univ. 1808–9; went to United States 1809; joined the Baptists 1812; organised a separate body under name of Disciples of Christ, more commonly known as Campbellites 1827; founded a college at Bethany 21 Oct. 1841; author of numerous religious books; edited “Christian Baptist” 7 vols. 1823–9, succeeded by the Millenial harbinger. d. Bethany, west Virginia 4 March 1866. Richardson’s Memoirs 2 vols. 1871, portrait; Rice’s Campbellism its rise and progress 1850.

CAMPBELL, SIR ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet. b. 15 June 1819; succeeded 2 April 1842; a sergeant at arms in Her Majesty’s Household 1851 to death. d. 16 Ridgeway place, Wimbledon 11 Dec. 1880.

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER CAMERON (eld. son of lieut. gen. Alexander Campbell of Monzie, co. Argyle who d. 24 Feb. 1832). b. 30 Dec. 1811; officer in 32 foot and 15 hussars 1828–32; M.P. for co. Argyle 9 July 1841 to Aug. 1843; brought in a “Bill to regulate the exercise of church patronage in Scotland” 14 April 1842; laid foundation of the John Knox memorial church Edinburgh 18 May 1846; a great promoter of interests of Free Church of Scotland. d. Markham house, Leamington 5 Jany. 1869. bur. in St. Mary’s church Warwick. J. A. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 125–30.

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER DUNCAN. Writer Madras civil service 1807; sec. to Board of revenue 1817; third puisne judge of Sudder Fougdarry, Adawlut 1838, second puisne judge 1840, first puisne judge 1842, resigned the service 6 May 1842; author of A grammar of the Teloogoo language 1816; A dictionary of the Teloogoo language 1821, 2 ed. 1848. d. 23 April 1857.

CAMPBELL, ANDREW VOULLAIRE, stage name of Andrew Leonard Voullaire. b. London 29 Sep. 1789; gave imitations at Sanspareil theatre 1808; acted at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1814–38; acted at Astley’s and City of London theatres; acting manager at Royal Grecian saloon to 1851; a pensioner in Royal dramatic college, Woking 1859 to death; wrote many dramas and addresses. d. Royal dramatic college, Woking 2 July 1870. Actors by daylight i, 113 (1838), portrait.

CAMPBELL, SIR ANGUS, 2 Baronet. b. Surrey 19 Aug. 1827; entered navy 10 Dec. 1840; lieut. 4 Dec. 1849; placed on h.p. Oct. 1856; succeeded 18 Oct. 1860. d. Dunstaffnage, Argyleshire 13 Aug. 1863.

CAMPBELL, SIR ARCHIBALD ISLAY, 3 Baronet. b. Garscube near Glasgow 16 May 1825; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 23 July 1846; M.P. for Argyleshire 6 June 1851 to 21 March 1857; lieut. col. of 1 Lanarkshire rifle corps 1860. d. Garscube 11 Sep. 1866.

CAMPBELL, REV. AUGUSTUS. b. London 4 April 1786; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1812; R. of Liverpool 1829 to death; V. of Childwall near Liverpool 1829 to death; author of The rights of the English clergy asserted and the probable amount of the incomes estimated 1822, 2 ed. 1823; Two papers on church music read before the Liverpool Ecclesiastical music society 1854. d. Childwall vicarage 16 May 1870.

CAMPBELL, CHARLES STUART. Lieutenant 26 foot 14 Dec. 1797; lieut. col. 1 foot 24 Jany. 1829 to 27 Oct. 1831 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Reading 30 Aug. 1854.

CAMPBELL, COLIN MINTON. b. Liverpool 27 Aug. 1827; member of Society of Arts 1860; invented a new method of producing durable mural paintings by fictile vitrifaction described in a paper read before Society of Arts 14 Dec. 1870; head of firm of Minton and Co. of Stoke upon Trent, manufacturers of china; sheriff of Staffs. 1869; M.P. for North Staffs. 10 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880. d. Woodseat, Uttoxeter, Staffs. 7 Feb. 1885. Bronze statue of him by T. Brock unveiled at Stoke upon Trent 1 Jany. 1887.

CAMPBELL, DAVID. b. Glasgow 24 Sep. 1813; resident superintendent engineer of Coloba Press company, Bombay 1843–57; engineer at Liverpool and Glasgow 1872 to death; improved machinery for pressing goods and brought out several inventions in connection with screw and side lever presses. d. Glasgow 11 May 1882.

CAMPBELL, DONALD. b. 1778; entered navy 4 June 1791; Captain 1 Aug. 1811; inspecting commander coast guard 1822–32; R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. d. Barbrech house, Craignish, Argyleshire 16 Dec. 1856.

CAMPBELL, SIR DONALD, 3 Baronet. b. Innestore, Argyleshire 5 Oct. 1829; succeeded 13 Aug. 1863. d. Aix les Bains, France 8 June 1879.

CAMPBELL, DUGALD JOHN PHILIP. Entered Madras army 1846; captain 7 Madras N.I. 29 Jany. 1861 to 1 Feb. 1871 when he retired; City Marshal 17 July 1873 to death. d. Mansion house, London 23 Dec. 1885 aged 57.

CAMPBELL, REV. DUNCAN R. b. Scotland; pastor of Baptist church at Georgetown, Kentucky; pres. of Georgetown college 1849 to death. d. Covington, Kentucky 11 Aug. 1865 aged about 63.

CAMPBELL, SIR EDWARD FITZGERALD, 2 Baronet. b. Cadogan terrace, London 25 Oct. 1822; second lieut. Rifle Corps 2 July 1841; major 9 Sep. 1858 to 12 Jany. 1867; succeeded 27 Jany. 1849. d. West Grinstead lodge, Horsham 23 Nov. 1882.

CAMPBELL, FREDERICK (7 son of John Campbell 1730–90). b. 1780; second lieut. R.A. 12 Jany. 1797, garrison quartermaster at Woolwich 1810–28; commanded R.A. in Jamaica 1833–7 and in Canada 1838–47; superintendent of royal military repository Woolwich 1847–52; col. commandant of 6 battalion of R.A. 10 March 1852 to death; general 25 Sep. 1859. d. Woolwich 4 April 1866. A memorial history of the Campbells of Melfort by M. O. C. (1882) 18, 26, portrait.

CAMPBELL, SIR GEORGE (brother of 1 Baron Campbell 1779–1861). b. Cupar, March 1778; assistant surgeon in service of H.E.I. Co. to 1823; knighted Jany. 1833 in consideration of his active services in preserving the peace during period of Reform bill. d. Edenwood near Cupar 20 May 1854.

CAMPBELL, SIR GEORGE, 4 Baronet. b. 27 April 1829; ed. at Eton and Glasgow colleges; captain 1 dragoons 1848–57; succeeded 11 Sep. 1866. d. Malta 17 Feb. 1874.

CAMPBELL, GEORGE. Ensign 52 foot 13 March 1835, lieut. col. 27 May 1853 to 31 Jany. 1860; inspecting field officer 1860–5; L.G. 8 March 1875; colonel 85 foot 19 Oct. 1875 to death; C.B. 1 Jany. 1858; granted service reward 15 Jany. 1858. d. 31 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 22 Dec. 1876.

CAMPBELL, GEORGE. b. 1804; second lieut. Bengal artillery 6 June 1823, colonel commandant 10 May 1874 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on retired list; general 21 July 1874; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 1 Byng place, Gordon sq. London 25 April 1882. bur. Inverneil, co. Argyle 2 May.

CAMPBELL, GEORGE PRYSE (younger son of 1 baron Cawdor who d. 1 June 1821). b. 1793; entered navy 7 April 1803, captain 27 Jany. 1821, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired R.A. 8 March 1852; groom of the chamber to Wm. iv, 24 Feb. 1831; M.P. for Nairnshire 1820–6 and 1830–1. d. South Audley st. London 12 Jany. 1858.

CAMPBELL, SIR HENRY FREDERICK (son of lieut. col. Alexander Campbell who d. Nov. 1785). b. 10 July 1769; ensign 1 foot guards 20 Sep. 1786, third major 21 Oct. 1813 to 25 July 1814; commanded second brigade of guards in Portugal Dec. 1808 to 1809 and April 1811 to 1812; commanded first division of army at siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, battle of Salamanca and siege of castle of Burgos 1812; colonel 88 foot 16 Jany. 1824 and of 25 foot 20 Oct. 1831 to death; general 10 Jany. 1837; prothonotary of Palace court Westminster 1792 to 1849 when court was abolished; M.P. for Nairn and Cromarty 1796 to 1802 and 1806–7; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; G.C.H. 1818. d. 8 Lowndes sq. Belgravia, London 2 Sep. 1856.

CAMPBELL, IVIE. b. Dalgig, Ayrshire about 1798; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow; a great courser 1849–65, his dog Canaradzo brought him about £1,500 in the slips and at the stud; bred cattle, horses and sheep extensively at Dalgig; gained Highland and Agricultural Society’s gold medal 1833. d. 21 Nov. 1867. Saddle and sirloin by the Druid (1870) 7–12; Field and fern by the Druid (1865) 249–66.

CAMPBELL, JAMES. Ensign 91 foot 17 Sep. 1803; major 79 foot 3 June 1819 to 10 July 1824; lieut. col. 95 foot 27 Sep. 1831 to 11 Nov. 1851; served in Irish rebellion 1798–9, expedition to Hanover 1805 and to Walcheren 1809; K.H. 1836; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. London 18 Nov. 1853 aged 67.

CAMPBELL, JAMES. Ensign 51 foot 12 June 1799, lieut. col. 12 July 1831 to 26 June 1838 when placed on h.p.; inspecting field officer of Coventry recruiting district Dec. 1846; M.G. 20 June 1854; K.H. 1835. d. Brislington 8 May 1856.

CAMPBELL, JAMES. Barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1821, bencher 1851; Q.C. July 1851; charity comr. for England and Wales 6 Nov. 1855 to death. d. 10 York place, Portman sq. London 2 March 1866.

CAMPBELL, SIR JAMES (son of James Campbell of Perth). b. Inchanoch, Port of Monteith, Perthshire 3 June 1790; warehouseman at Glasgow; lord provost of Glasgow 1840–3; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 April 1842 after presenting an address on birth of Prince of Wales. d. Stracathrow house, Brechin, Forfarshire 10 Sep. 1876.

CAMPBELL, REV. JAMES ROBERTSON. b. Glasgow 1814; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1835, D.D. 1861; pastor of Congregational church Montrose 1835, of church in Albany st. Edinburgh 1844, of Horton lane ch. Bradford 1 July 1855 to 14 Oct. 1883; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1867; edited Ralph Wardlaw’s Systematic theology 1856; author of The form of sound words, A handbook of the principles of Holy Scripture 1858; found dead in his bed at Cliffe house, Baildon near Bradford 1 Dec. 1884. Congregational year book (1886) 152–5.

CAMPBELL, SIR JOHN, 7 Baronet (only child of Sir John Campbell, 6 baronet 1767–1834). b. 27 Nov. 1807; admitted advocate at Scottish bar 1831; succeeded 7 Nov. 1834; lieutenant governor of island of St. Vincent 9 June 1845 to death. d. Kingstown, St. Vincent 18 Jany. 1853.

CAMPBELL, SIR JOHN, 2 Baronet (younger son of Sir Archibald Campbell, 1 baronet 1769–1843). b. 14 April 1806: ensign 38 foot 25 Nov. 1821, lieut. col. 7 Aug. 1840 to 21 Feb. 1854; succeeded his father 6 Oct. 1843; commanded 2 brigade of 3 division in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854; held temporary command of fourth division Nov. 1854 to 7 June 1855; M.G. 12 Dec. 1854; gazetted K.C.B. 5 July 1855; killed in attack upon the Redan 18 June 1855. I.L.N. xxvii, 373 (1855), portrait.

CAMPBELL, SIR JOHN (son of Wm. Campbell, comr. of navy board). b. Chatham dockyard 1780; ed. at Harrow; cornet 7 hussars 1800; lieut. col. Portugese cavalry 1809; col. of fourth Portugese cavalry; organised Portugese forces 1814–20; knighted 9 March 1815; lieut. col. 75 foot 9 Aug. 1821 to 23 Sep. 1824 when he sold out; espoused cause of Dom Miguel who created him L.G.; K.T.S. 14 June 1815, K.C.T.S. 5 Oct. 1825. d. 51 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 19 Dec. 1863. G.M. xvi, 389–90 (1864).

CAMPBELL, REV. JOHN (son of Alexander Campbell of Kirremuir near Dundee, surgeon). b. Kirremuir 5 Oct. 1795; a blacksmith; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Glasgow, D.D. St. Andrews 1841; Independent minister at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire Feb. 1827; minister of the Tabernacle Moorfields, London 1829 to Dec. 1865; contested Bible monopoly with Queen’s printer 1839, result being a great reduction in price of Bibles; presented with sum of £3,000, 17 Jany. 1865, contributed by 600 persons in all parts of the world; edited Christian Witness 1844–64, Christian penny magazine 1846–64, British Banner 1848–56, British Standard 1856–66, British Ensign 1858; author of Jethro 1839; Maritime discovery and Christian missions 1840; Pastoral visitation 1841; The martyr of Erromanga 1842; Life of David Nasmyth 1844; Wesleyan Methodism 1847; Popery, ancient and modern 1865. d. Manor house, St. John’s wood park, London 26 March 1867. Life by Rev. R. Ferguson and Rev. A. M. Brown (1867); Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 283–8.

CAMPBELL, JOHN. Ensign 44 foot 23 Jany. 1812; commanded Beauharnois district during rebellion in Canada 1838; col. of 97 foot 15 Dec. 1861 and of 92 foot 3 March 1869 to death; L.G. 4 July 1864. d. Lipson terrace, Plymouth 28 Dec. 1871 aged 73.

CAMPBELL, SIR JOHN (eld. son of John Campbell of Lochend, Argyleshire 1771–1827). b. Kingsburgh, island of Skye 1802; ensign 91 foot 21 Jany. 1819; lieut. 41 Madras N.I. 5 April 1820; lieut. col. 45 Madras N.I. 1850 to 2 Jany. 1854; colonel 14 Madras N.I. 1860–9; general 21 March 1872; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; K.C.S.I. 2 June 1869 for his services in suppression of human sacrifice among the Khonds of hill tracts of Orissa, Bengal; author of Personal narrative of 13 years service among the wild tribes of Khondistan 1864. d. 1 Hampton terrace, Edinburgh 21 April 1878. A memorial history of the Campbells of Melfort by M. O. C. (1882) 60–62.

CAMPBELL, JOHN ARCHIBALD (eld. son of John Campbell of the Citadel, Leith). b. 1788; a writer to the Signet 1813; joint crown agent 1813–6; sheriff clerk of Midlothian 1843–59; helped to found some of the most thriving institutions in Edinburgh; F.R.S. Edin. 1837. d. 2 Albyn place, Edin. 7 Sep. 1866 in 78 year.

CAMPBELL, SIR JOHN EYTON, 8 Baronet. b. 22 May 1809; succeeded April 1834. d. Gibraltar 9 Dec. 1853.

CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS (son of Walter Frederick Campbell 1798–1855). b. 29 Dec. 1822; ed. at Eton and Univ. of Edin.; barrister I.T. 2 May 1851; private sec. to Lord privy seal 1853; assistant sec. to general board of health 1854; sec. to Lighthouse commission 1859; groom of Privy chamber 1861; sec. to Mines commission 1863; sec. to Coal commission 1866; groom in waiting in ordinary to Victoria 1874–80; invented sunshine recorder for indicating varying intensity of sun’s rays; author of Popular tales of the West Highlands orally collected 4 vols. 1860–2; Frost and fire 1865, new ed. 2 vols. 1867; Circular notes, tour round the world 2 vols. 1876; issued a series of Gaelic texts under title of Leabhair na Fenine 1872. d. Cannes 17 Feb. 1885. I.L.N. lxxxvi, 224, 294 (1885), portrait.

CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS GLENCAIRN. Ensign 91 foot 25 Oct. 1827, lieut. col. 14 April 1846 to 12 Nov. 1860; colonel 79 foot 12 July 1868 to death; L.G. 3 Feb. 1870; C.B. 6 March 1858. d. Jersey 20 Aug. 1870 aged 60.

CAMPBELL, REV. JOHN MCLEOD (eld. child of Rev. Donald Campbell 1758–1843, minister of Kilninver, Argyleshire). b. Ardnaddy house near Kilninver 4 May 1800; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow 1811–20 and Edinburgh; licensed as a preacher 1821; minister of parish of Row, Dumbartonshire 8 Sep. 1825 to Aug. 1831 when deposed by General Assembly on charge of holding and teaching doctrines on assurance of faith and atonement contrary to standards of the church; minister of Blackfriars st. chapel Glasgow 17 Sep. 1833 to April 1859; D.D. Glasgow April 1868; author of Sermons and lectures 1832; Christ the bread of life 1851, 2 ed. 1869; The nature of the Atonement 1856, 4 ed. 1873; Thoughts on revelation 1862. d. Acknashire, Rosneath 27 Feb. 1872. J. M. Campbell’s Reminiscences and reflections 1873; Memorials of J.M. Campbell edited by his son Rev. Donald Campbell 2 vols. 1877, portrait; Blackwood’s Mag. cxxii, 283–302 (1877).

CAMPBELL, SIR JOHN NICHOLL ROBERT, 2 Baronet (eld. child of Sir Robert Campbell, 1 baronet 1771–1858). b. Vizagapatam 25 May 1799; entered Madras army 1 Sep. 1818, captain 8 Dec. 1826; chargé d’ affaires in Persia to 1861; knighted at St. James’s palace 22 Dec. 1832; K.C.H. 1836; succeeded 28 Feb. 1858. d. Germany 11 May 1870.

CAMPBELL, SIR LOUIS HENRY DUGALD, 9 Baronet. b. 2 March 1844; succeeded 9 Dec. 1853. d. Kildalloig, co. Argyle 18 June 1875.

CAMPBELL, PATRICK. b. 1779; lieut. col. R.A. 29 July 1825 to 11 Nov. 1836 when he retired on full pay; secretary of legation in Columbia 29 Dec. 1826; agent and consul general in Egypt 7 Jany. 1833 to 13 Aug. 1841 when he retired on a superannuation allowance; general 28 Nov. 1854. d. Rockstone place, Southampton 29 Aug. 1857.

CAMPBELL, REV. PETER COLIN. Principal of University of Aberdeen 1855 to death; author of The theory of ruling eldership or the position of the lay ruler in reformed churches examined 1866. d. Chanonry, Aberdeen 12 Dec. 1876.

CAMPBELL, SIR ROBERT, 1 Baronet (son of John Campbell of Ballyshannon, co. Donegal). b. Ballyshannon May 1771; a director of East India company 23 July 1817 to 1852; created baronet 30 Sep. 1831. d. 5 Argyle place, London 28 Feb. 1858.

CAMPBELL, ROBERT CALDER (son of Rev. Pryce Campbell, minister of Ardeseir, Nairn). b. Scotland 1798; lieut. Madras army 2 Oct. 1818; served in Burmese war 1826–7; major 43 Madras N.I. 28 April 1836 to 1 Aug. 1839 when he retired; author under name of Calder Campbell of Lays from the East 1831; The palmer’s last lesson and other poems 1838; Rough recollections of rambles at home and abroad 3 vols. 1847; Winter nights, a novel 3 vols. 1850; The three trials of Loide, and other poems 1851; Episodes in the war life of a soldier 1857. d. University st. London 13 May 1857.

CAMPBELL, THOMAS. b. Edinburgh 1 May 1790; apprenticed to a marble cutter; a sculptor in Rome 1818–30; executed many busts and portrait statues in bronze and marble; exhibited 38 works at Royal Academy 1827–57; lived in London 1834 to death; his chief works are statue of Princess Pauline Borghese at Chatsworth, statue of the Queen at Windsor, monuments of Sir W. Hoste in St. Paul’s cathedral and of Duchess of Buccleuch at Boughton. d. 16 Great Marlborough st. London 4 Feb. 1858.

CAMPBELL, REV. THOMAS HEWITT (son of Duncan Campbell of Upper Gloucester st. London, merchant). b. 7 July 1828; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Ox., junior Univ. math, scholar 1848, B.A. 1851, M.A. 1853; fellow of his college to 1862; under master at Charterhouse; head master of Wolverhampton gr. sch.; appointed principal of Otago college, New Zealand 1863; drowned off Port Chalmers, Otago 4 July 1863.

CAMPBELL, WALTER FREDERICK. b. 10 April 1798; M.P. for Argyleshire 14 March 1822 to 3 Dec. 1832 and 13 Jany. 1835 to 23 June 1841; author of Life in Normandy 2 vols. 1863, published anonymously by his son John Francis Campbell. d. 8 Feb. 1855.

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM. Cornet 2 Dragoon guards 6 Jany. 1832, lieut. col. 30 Jany. 1846 to death; C.B. 27 July 1858. d. Cawnpore 9 July 1858.

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM (brother of Sir James Campbell 1790–1876). b. near Port of Monteith, Perthshire 1793; general warehouseman in Glasgow 1814; partner with his brother; active promoter of scheme for building 20 new Free churches in Glasgow and 200 additional churches in Scotland; member of Glasgow town council; proprietor of Tillichewan castle. d. 2 April 1864 in 71 year. J. A. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 131–8.

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM, b. Glasgow; came to Newcastle about Nov. 1877; landlord of Duke of Wellington public house High bridge, Newcastle; exhibited himself at Egyptian hall, London, d. Newcastle 26 May 1878.

NOTE.—He was 76 inches round the breast and weighed 52 stone.

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM GEORGE. Barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1836; comr. in lunacy 26 Nov. 1845 to 1878; hon. comr. in lunacy 1878 to death. d. 50 Ennismore gardens, London 13 June 1881 in 71 year.

CAMPERDOWN, ROBERT DUNDAS DUNCAN-HALDANE, 1 Earl of (eld. son of Admiral Adam Duncan, 1 Viscount Duncan 1731–1804). b. 21 March 1785; succeeded as 2 Viscount 4 Aug. 1804; created Earl of Camperdown of Lundie, co. Forfar and Glenagles, co. Perth 12 Sep. 1831; K.T. 12 May 1848. d. 1 Wilton terrace, Belgrave sq. London 22 Dec. 1859.

CAMPERDOWN, ADAM DUNCAN-HALDANE, 2 Earl of (elder son of the preceding). b. Edinburgh 25 March 1812; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1834; M.P. for Southampton 1837–41, for Bath 1841–52 for Forfarshire 1854 to 22 Dec. 1859 when he succeeded as 2 Earl; obtained repeal of the Window tax by 14 and 15 Vict. cap. 36, 24 July 1851 for which he was presented with freedom of Dundee Dec. 1851; a lord of the Treasury 8 March 1855 to March 1858. d. Weston, Warwickshire 30 Jany. 1867. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 280–1.

CAMPION, GEORGE B. b. 1796; an original member of New Society (now Royal Institute) of painters in water colours 1834 to which he contributed landscapes; many of his views have been published; landscape drawing master at Royal Military academy Woolwich 1 Dec. 1841 to death; author of The adventures of a chamois hunter and of some papers on German art in Art Journal. d. Munich 7 April 1870.

CANDLISH, REV. ROBERT SMITH (youngest child of James Candlish of Edinburgh, teacher of medicine who d. 29 April 1806 aged 46). b. Nicolson st. Edin. 23 March 1806; ed. at Glasgow college 1818–23; private tutor at Eton Dec. 1823; licensed by presbytery of Glasgow 6 Aug. 1828; assistant minister at St. Andrew’s Glasgow 1829, at Bonhill, Dumbartonshire 1831–3; minister of St. George’s Edin. 14 Aug. 1834; D.D. Princeton coll. New Jersey 1841; left Scotch kirk 18 May 1843; had leading share in organisation of Free church; minister of St. George’s free church Edin. 1846 to death; convener of education committee of Free church 1846; moderator of General Assembly 1861; principal of New college Edin. 1862; D.D. Edin. 1865; author of Contributions towards the exposition of the book of Genesis 3 vols. 1843–62; Scripture characters and miscellanies 1850, 4 ed. 1872; Life in a risen Saviour 1858, 3 ed. 1863; Reason and revelation 1859, 2 ed. 1864; The fatherhood of God 1865, 5 ed. 1870. d. Melville st. Edinburgh 19 Oct. 1873. Memorials by Wm. Wilson 1880, portrait; Life by J. L. Watson 1882, portrait; A. Beith’s Three weeks with Dr. Candlish, 2 ed. 1874; J. A. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 139–46, portrait; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), portrait; Graphic viii, 407, 412 (1873), portrait.

CANE, ROBERT, b. Kilkenny 1807; surgeon at Kilkenny 1832 to death; M.R.C.S. England 1841; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1844; M.D. Glasgow 1842; chief promoter of repeal movement at Kilkenny, mayor 1844 and 1849; originated Celtic Union a semi-political and semi-literary society 1853; edited the Celt, a magazine, first number appeared 1 Aug. 1857; author of The Williamite and Jacobite wars in Ireland 1859. d. William st. Kilkenny 17 Aug. 1858. Irish quarterly review viii, 1004–96 (1858).

CANN, ABRAHAM (son of Robert Cann of Colebrooke near Crediton, farmer). Baptized Colebrooke 2 Dec. 1794; wrestled with and defeated all the best wrestlers in Devonshire; beat James Warren at Eagle tavern, City road, London 21 Sep. 1826; wrestled with James Polkinghorne, champion of Cornwall for £200 a side at Tamar Green near Devonport 23 Oct. 1826 in presence of 12000 spectators when match was declared to be drawn; is the hero of H. Kingsley’s novel Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn 1859. d. Colebrooke 7 April 1864. Sporting Mag. lxvii, 165 (1826), lxix, 55, 215, 314, 344 (1827); London Mag. 1 Oct. 1826 pp. 160–3; Illust. sporting news iii, 100 (1864), 2 portraits, v, 197 (1866), portrait.

CANNING, CHARLES JOHN CANNING, 1 Earl (youngest child of George Canning 1770–1827, prime minister). b. Gloucester lodge, Brompton, London 14 Dec. 1812; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1833; M.P. for Warwick Aug. 1836 to 15 March 1837 when on death of his mother he became Viscount Canning; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 4 Sep. 1841 to 27 Jany. 1846; first comr. of woods and forests 2 March to 6 July 1846; P.C. 18 March 1846; postmaster general 5 Jany. 1853 to 4 July 1855; governor general of India 4 July 1855 to March 1862; the first viceroy of India 2 Aug. 1858; G.C.B. 31 March 1859; created Earl Canning 21 May 1859; ranger of Greenwich park 1860; the first grand master of order of Star of India 25 June 1861 to March 1862; K.G. 21 May 1862. d. Grosvenor sq. London 17 June 1862. bur. Westminster abbey 21 June. Eton portrait gallery (1876) 356–60; Men whom India has known (1874) 50–5; Nolan’s British empire in India ii, 706 (1860), portrait; Illust. news of the world viii, (1861), portrait; I.L.N. xxvii, 649 (1855), portrait, xli, 1, 8, 22 (1862), portrait.

CANNON, EDWARD ST. LEGER. b. 1803; entered navy 10 Nov. 1816; captain 9 Nov. 1846; captain of Centaur 6 guns 23 July 1851 to 29 July 1853; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. The Glen, Walmer, Kent 20 Nov. 1881.

CANNON, RICHARD, b. 1779; clerk at the Horse Guards 1 Jany. 1802; principal clerk in adjutant general’s office to Jany. 1854 when he retired on full pay of £800 a year; edited The historical records of the British army 66 vols. 1836–53, being records of all the regiments of cavalry (except Royal horse guards) and of 42 regiments of infantry. d. 30 Oct. 1865.

CANNON, ROBERT (son of Rev. D. Cannon, D.D.) b. 1811; entered Madras army 1826, captain 40 Madras N.I. 15 Jany. 1841 to 26 March 1846; raised 500 men in Devonshire for British auxiliary legion of Spain; major in 6th Scotch regiment 1835; lieut. col. in Auxiliary legion 5 May 1836 and in 9th regiment 26 May 1836; commanded 9th and 10th regiments, styled the Royal Irish 20 March 1837; granted license to accept cross of first class of order of St. Ferdinand 9 Oct. 1837 and of second class 1 March 1839; granted license to accept insignia of order of Charles the third 5 Feb. 1848; joined Turkish army at Shumlah as “Behram Pacha” early in 1854; took a division of Turkish army to Eupatoria Dec. 1854; present at bombardment of Sebastopol April 1855; hon. lieut. gen. (Ferik) in service of the Sultan 5 Dec. 1856. d. Folkestone 5 April 1882. I.L.N. xxviii, 405 (1856), portrait, lxxx, 396 (1882), portrait.

CANNON, THOMAS, b. Eton 14 March 1790; a bargeman at Windsor; fought and beat Dolly Smith at Shirley Common near Windsor 6 May 1817; fought Joshua Hudson for £100 a side at Yateley, Hants. 23 June 1824 when Cannon won; fought Hudson again on Warwick race course for £500 a side 23 Nov. 1824 when Cannon won again; gamekeeper to “Pea-green” Hayne 1824; fought James Ward for £500 a side at Warwick 19 July 1825 when Ward won; appeared at Coburg theatre London Aug. 1825 in The fight at Warwick; fought Edward Neale for £100 a side at Warfield, Berks. 20 Feb. 1827 when Neale won; landlord of the Castle tavern, 16 Jermyn st. St. James’s, London 1828; a swan-watcher for Corporation of London at Strand-on-the-Green Chiswick, Middlesex; shot himself at Strand-on-the-Green 11 July 1858. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica ii, 248–62 (1880), portrait.

CANTERBURY, CHARLES JOHN MANNERS-SUTTON, 2 Viscount (eld. son of 1 Viscount Canterbury 1780–1845). b. London 17 April 1812; succeeded 21 July 1845; comr. to inquire into local charges on shipping 1853. d. 13 Chesterfield st. London 13 Nov. 1869.

CANTERBURY, JOHN HENRY THOMAS MANNERS-SUTTON, 3 Viscount (brother of the preceding). b. Downing st. London 27 May 1814; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1835; registrar of Faculty office 1841 to death; M.P. for town of Cambridge 1839–40 and 1841–7, for Newark-on-Trent 1847–57; under sec. of state for home department 3 Sep. 1841 to 5 July 1846; chairman of commission on harbour dues 1853–4; lieutenant governor of New Brunswick June 1854 to Oct. 1861; governor of Trinidad 6 Sep. 1864 to 24 April 1866; governor of Victoria 15 Aug. 1866 to 2 March 1873; K.C.B. 23 June 1866; G.C.M.G. 25 June 1873. d. 12 Queensberry place, South Kensington, London 24 June 1877. I.L.N. xxxv, 586 (1859). portrait, lxxxi, 19 (1877), portrait.

CANTRELL, JOSEPH THOMAS (eld. son of Joseph Cantrell of King’s Newton near Derby). b. 1802; ed. at Repton gr. sch.; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1831; judge of Wirksworth and Staffordshire potteries court of requests; judge of county courts circuit 19, Derbyshire, March 1847 to death. d. King’s Newton 4 April 1862.

CAPE, JAMES MATTHEW. b. 1796; edited British Press; worked on Mirror of Parliament, on Morning Chronicle, on Times nearly 26 years; an active leader of the old Reform party; author of many important anonymous contributions to London Journals. d. 61 Victoria road, Kentish Town, London 18 Jany. 1874.

CAPE, REV. JONATHAN. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., 5 wrangler 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; professor of mathematics at Addiscombe college 1823–65; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; author of Mathematical tables 1838, 3 ed. 1860; A course of mathematics 2 vols. 1839–40, 2 ed. 1842–4. d. George st. Croydon 9 Sep. 1868 aged 75.

CAPE, LAWSON (son of John Cape of Uldale, Cumberland). b. 6 Dec. 1807; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1827; M.D. Edin. 1833; L.R.C.P. London 1835, F.R.C.P. 1857; phys. to Royal infirmary for children Waterloo bridge road 1836–46; asst. phys. to General lying-in hospital York road, Lambeth 1837, phys. 1844 to death; lecturer on midwifery at St. Thomas’ hospital 1837–48. d. 28 Curzon st. London 22 March 1877.

CAPE, WILLIAM TIMOTHY (eld. son of Wm. Cape of Ireby, Cumberland). b. Walworth, Surrey 25 Oct. 1806; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; went with his father to Van Diemen’s Land 1821; head master of Sydney public school July 1829; kept a private school in King st. Sydney 1830–5 when he transferred his pupils to Sydney college; head master of Sydney college 19 Jany. 1835 to 1842; kept another school in Sydney 1842–56; member for Wollombi of legislative assembly of N.S.W. 1859; fellow of St. Paul’s college Sydney; comr. of national education. d. Warwick st. Pimlico, London 14 June 1863. J. H. Heaton’s Australian dictionary of dates (1879) 33–5.

CAPEL, JAMES. Clerk in office of Sir Edmund Antrobus and Co. of the Stock exchange London, partner in the firm; head of firm of James Capel and Co. stock brokers; chairman of board, of managers of stock exchange; chairman of committee of Spanish bondholders many years. d. 62 Westbourne terrace, London 18 Nov. 1872 aged 84.

CAPEL, SIR THOMAS BLADEN (youngest son of 4 Earl of Essex 1732–99). b. 25 Aug. 1776; entered navy 12 April 1792; signal lieut. to Lord Nelson at battle of the Nile; captain 27 Dec. 1798; commanded Royal George and Apollo yachts 1821–5; commander in chief of East India station 30 May 1834 to July 1837; admiral 28 April 1847; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.B. 20 Feb. 1832; G.C.B. 6 April 1852. d. 22 Rutland gate, Hyde park, London 4 March 1853.

CAPEL, THOMAS EDWARD (brother of the preceding). b. 24 March 1770; ensign 1 foot guards 10 April 1793, captain 22 June 1803 to 4 June 1814; served in Flanders and the Peninsula; assistant adjutant general at Cadiz 1811; general 9 Nov. 1846. d. 14 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 3 Feb. 1855.

CAPEL, REV. WILLIAM ROBERT. b. 28 April 1775; ed. at Merton coll. Ox. B.A. 1798, M.A. 1799; chaplain to the Sovereign 1814 to death; V. of Watford, Herts. 8 June 1799 to death; R. of Rayne, Essex 1805 to death. d. Watford 3 Dec. 1854.

CAPON, SIR DAVID (youngest son of John Capon, lieut. col. East India company’s Bombay army). b. Bombay 1793; entered military service of E.I.C. at Bombay 26 May 1810; colonel 23 Bombay light infantry 26 Feb. 1848 to 30 Sep. 1862; col. 106 foot 30 Sep. 1862 to death; general 13 Aug. 1868; C.B. 20 Oct. 1848; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 8 Craven hill, Hyde park, London 17 Dec. 1869.

CAPPER, CHARLES. b. 1822; goods manager of Great Eastern railway, afterwards superintendent; general manager of Victoria docks 1855; chairman of Southampton docks company 1862 to death; M.P. for Sandwich 9 May 1866 to 11 Nov. 1868; author of The port and trade of London, historical, statistical, local and general 1861. d. Upton, Essex 21 March 1869.

CAPPER, SAMUEL (son of Jasper Capper of London). b. Gracechurch st. London 2 March 1782; a linen draper at Bristol 1803–10; a farmer at Potterne, Wilts. 1810–20; a minister of Society of Friends 1817 to death; engaged in putting down practice of bullbaiting in Bristol 1825; held many tent-meetings in counties of Gloucester, Worcester, Wilts. and in London 1834–43 and in Somerset, Devon and Cornwall 1846; author of The acknowledged doctrines of the Church of Rome, being an exposition of Roman Catholic doctrines as set forth by esteemed doctors of the said church 2 vols. 1849–51. d. Quaker’s meeting house, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset 29 Aug. 1852. Memoir of S. Capper edited by K. Backhouse 1855.

CAPRON, GEORGE. b. 16 June 1783; head of firm of Capron, Babrant and Capron of Savile place, New Burlington st. London, solicitors; recorder of Orford, Suffolk 1848–59. d. Southwick near Oundle 24 Aug. 1872.

CAPUA, PENELOPE, Princess of (2 dau. of Grice Smyth of Ballynatray, co. Waterford who d. 18 Jany. 1816 aged 54). b. 19 July 1815. m. at Rome by Cardinal Weld 1830, Charles Ferdinand Prince of Capua 2 son of Francis i King of the two Sicilies who expressly forbade the marriage, m. the Prince again at Madrid, m. him again at Gretna Green 5 April 1836, m. him again at St. George’s Hanover sq. London 23 May 1836, he was b. 10 Oct. 1811 and d. 22 April 1862, she d. Royal villa of Martia near Lucca 13 Dec. 1882. Times 5 May 1836, 20 Dec. 1882 p. 9, col. 6; Heath’s Book of beauty (1842) p. 10, portrait.

CARADORI-ALLAN, MARIA CATERINA ROSALBINA (dau. of Baron de Munck). b. Casa Palatina, Milan 1800; took her mother’s name Caradori; made her début in London 12 Jany. 1822 at King’s theatre as Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro; sang at same house 1822–7, her salary rising from £300 to £1,200; sang at Philharmonic and Ancient concerts and at all great festivals; took chief part in first opera produced in England by Meyerbeer Margherita d’Anjou; made her début in America at Park theatre New York 28 Oct. 1837; returned to Europe July 1839; sang soprano part in Elijah at Birmingham 26 Aug. 1846; composed several popular Italian and French airs. (m. 1824 Edward Thomas Allan, secretary of King’s theatre, London). d. Elm lodge, Surbiton, Surrey 15 Oct. 1865 in 65 year. J. Ebers’s Seven years of the King’s theatre (1828) 144, 153, portrait; Orchestra 28 Oct. 1865 p. 74, 4 Nov. p. 93; Century Mag. xxiii, 865–6 (1882), portrait.

CARDALE, JOHN BATE (eld. son of Wm. Cardale of 2 Bedford row, London, solicitor 1777–1823). b. 28 Lamb’s Conduit st. London 9 Nov. 1802; ed. at Rugby 1815–8; articled to his father; head of firm of Cardale, Iliffe and Russell of Bedford row, solicitors 1824–34; Irvingite apostle Oct. 1832 to death, also an Irvingite prophet; ordained Edward Irving to be minister or angel of chapel in Newman st. London 5 April 1833; retired with the 11 other apostles and 7 prophets to Albury, Surrey 14 July 1835 where they spent 2½ years in consultation; “The Apostle for England and The Pillar of the Apostles”; author of Readings on the Liturgy vol. 1 1849–51, vol. 2 1852–78; The doctrine of the Eucharist as revealed to St. Paul 1856, 2 ed. 1876; A discourse on the Real Presence 1867, 2 ed. 1868, and 25 other books all anonymous and most of them privately printed. d. Cooke’s place, Albury 18 July 1877. Miller’s History of Irvingism (1878) i, 61, ii, 416; Mrs. Oliphant’s Life of E. Irving, (4 ed.) 356, 396, 398; The old church porch i, 87, 206 (1854); The morning watch ii, 869–73 (1830); Saturday Review xliv, 104–5 (1877); Clement Boase’s Catalogue of books relating to Catholic Apostolic Church (1885) 9–12.

CARDEN, SIR JOHN CRAVEN, 4 Baronet. b. Templemore house, Tipperary 1 Dec. 1819; succeeded 23 March 1847. d. Templemore abbey, Tipperary 23 March 1879.

CARDEN, JOHN SURMAN. b. 15 Aug. 1771; entered navy 28 May 1788; captain 22 Jany. 1806; commanded the Ordinary at Sheerness 1825–40; admiral on half pay 3 July 1855. d. Ramoan rectory, Ballycastle, co. Antrim 22 April 1858.

CARDEW, GEORGE. Second lieut. R.E. 20 Dec. 1798, colonel 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 1 April 1855 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Portland terrace, Southsea 9 May 1859 aged 76.

CARDIGAN, JAMES THOMAS BRUDENELL, 7 Earl of (only son of 6 Earl of Cardigan 1769–1837). b. Hambledon, Hants. 16 Oct. 1797; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Marlborough 1818–29, for Fowey 1830–2, for North Northamptonshire 21 Dec. 1832 to 14 Aug. 1837 when he succeeded; cornet 8 hussars 6 May 1824, major 3 Aug. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1830 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 11 hussars (which became the crack cavalry regiment) 25 March 1836 to 20 June 1854; commanded light cavalry brigade in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 1855; led the charge at Balaklava 25 Oct. 1854 when out of 607 men 409 were lost; inspector general of cavalry 1 Feb. 1855 to 31 March 1860; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; commander of legion of honour 2 Aug. 1856; col. 5 dragoon guards 14 Aug. 1859; col. 11 hussars 3 Aug. 1860 to death; L.G. 13 Feb. 1861; fought a duel which arose out of what was known as the “Black Bottle Quarrel” with Captain Harvey Garnett Phipps Tuckett on Wimbledon Common 12 Sep. 1840 when Tuckett was slightly wounded; tried before House of Lords for feloniously shooting Tuckett 16 Feb. 1841 when upon a technical deficiency of proof he was unanimously declared Not Guilty; kept staghounds in Leics. 1839–42. d. Deene park near Wansford, Northamptonshire 28 March 1868. F. A. Whinyates’s From Coruna to Sevastopol (1884) 149–202; W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i, 209–43 (1850); Kinglake’s Crimean war vol. 5; G. Ryan’s Was Lord Cardigan a hero at Balaklava? 1855; The trial of James Thomas, Earl of Cardigan 1841; Baily’s Mag. xv, 55–60 (1868), portrait; I.L.N. iv, 216 (1844), portrait, lii, 353 (1868), portrait.

CARDWELL, EDWARD CARDWELL, 1 Viscount (elder son of John Cardwell of Liverpool, merchant 1781–1831). b. 24 July 1813; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., double first class 1835, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, D.C.L. 1863; scholar of his college 1832, fellow 1835; barrister I.T. 16 Nov. 1838, bencher 28 April 1868; M.P. for Clitheroe 1842–7, for Liverpool 1847–52, for city of Oxford 1852–7 and 21 July 1857 to 6 March 1874; joint sec. to Treasury Feb. 1845 to July 1846; pres. of Board of trade 28 Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; P.C. 28 Dec. 1852; chief sec. for Ireland June 1859 to July 1861; P.C. Ireland 5 July 1859; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 25 July 1861 to March 1864; sec. of state for Colonies March 1864 to June 1866; sec. of state for war 9 Dec. 1868 to 21 Feb. 1874; reorganised army by abolishing purchase system 20 July 1871 and introducing short service; created Viscount Cardwell of Ellerbeach 6 March 1874; an ecclesiastical comr. to Nov. 1882; pres. of commission on Vivisection 23 June 1875 to March 1876. d. Villa Como, Torquay 15 Feb. 1886. bur. Highgate cemetery. St. James’s Mag. Jany. 1870 pp. 527–32, portrait; I.L.N. iv, 65 (1844), portrait, xlvi, 251 (1865), portrait, liv, 436 (1869), portrait.

CARDWELL, REV. EDWARD (youngest son of Richard Cardwell of Blackburn 1749–1824). b. Blackburn 3 Aug. 1787; ed. at Brasn. coll. Ox., fellow 1809; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1819, D.D. 1831; select preacher 1823; Camden professor of ancient history 1825 to death; R. of Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire 1828–36; principal of St. Alban hall Ox. Oct. 1831 to death; published Aristotle’s Ethica 2 vols. 1828–30; Enchiridion theologicum Anti-Romanum 3 vols. 1836–7; Josephus de bello Judaico 2 vols. 1837; Documentary annals of the reformed church of England 2 vols. 1839; Synodalia, a collection of articles of religion 2 vols. 1842. d. Principal’s lodge, St. Alban hall Oxford 23 May 1861. G.M. xi, 208–11 (1861).

CAREW, ROBERT SHAPLAND CAREW, 1 Baron (only son of Robert Shapland Carew of Castleborough, Ross, co. Wexford who d. 25 March 1835). b. Dublin 9 March 1787; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for co. Wexford 19 Oct. 1812 to 13 June 1834 when he was created Baron Carew of co. Wexford in peerage of Ireland; created Baron Carew of Castleborough, co. Wexford in peerage of United Kingdom 9 July 1838; lord lieut. of Wexford 1831 to death; K.P. 1851. d. Castleborough 2 June 1856.

CAREW, ROBERT SHAPLAND CAREW, 2 Baron (eld. son of the preceding). b. Dublin 28 Jany. 1818; M.P. for Waterford 24 Aug. 1840 to 23 July 1847; hon. col. Wexford militia 5 April 1847 to death; lord lieut. of Wexford 2 July 1856 to death; K.P. 1872. d. 28 Belgrave sq. London 8 Sep. 1881.

CAREW, JOHN EDWARD. b. Tramore, Waterford 1782; assistant to Sir Richard Westmacott the sculptor in London 1809–23; worked for Lord Egremont 1823–31; sculptor at Brighton 1831–5; executed a statue of Huskisson for Chichester Cathedral, an altarpiece for the R.C. ch. St. James’s st. Brighton, statues called ‘Arethusa’ and ‘The Falconer’; exhibited at the R.A. 1830–48; made a claim of £50,000 upon Lord Egremont’s estate on his death 11 Nov. 1837, brought an action against the executors 1840 when he was nonsuited; insolvent 1841; executed statue of ‘Whittington listening to the London bells’; designed bas-relief of ‘The death of Nelson at Trafalgar’ in south panel of Nelson column Trafalgar sq. d. 40 Cambridge st. Hyde park, London 30 Nov. 1868. Report of trial of cause Carew against Burrell 1840; Report of proceedings in Court for relief of Insolvent debtors in matter of J. E. Carew 1842; Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 227 (1869).

CAREW, MOST REV. PATRICK JOSEPH. Professor of divinity at Maynooth; R.C. bishop of Madras 1838–40; vicar apostolic of Bengal 1840 to death; archbishop of Edessa. d. Bengal 2 Nov. 1855.

CAREW, SIR WALTER PALK, 8 Baronet. b. Marley house, Buckfastleigh, Devon 9 July 1807; succeeded 31 Oct. 1830; sheriff of Devon 1846. d. Marley house 27 Jany. 1874.

CAREY, REV. CHARLES STOKES. b. London 17 Sep. 1828; ed. at Hackney college 1849–53; matric. at Univ. of London but did not take any degree; ordained a Congregational minister 15 Sep. 1853; minister at Basingstoke, Harwich, Bungay and Leytonstone 1853–75; author of The strength of Judah and the vengeance of Asshur, A tale of the times of Isaiah 1862; The Bible or the Bishop? A reply to parts 1 and 2 of Dr. Colenso’s attack on the Pentateuch 1863; Plainer words on absolution, Privately printed 1870; A commonplace book of epigrams analytically arranged 1872; edited A concordance to the Old and New Testament by A. Cruden 1867 and 1880. d. Leytonstone 8 June 1875.

CAREY, EUSTACE (youngest child of Thomas Carey of Paulerspury, Northamptonshire). b. Paulerspury 22 March 1791; baptized 7 July 1809; studied at Olney 1809–12, at Bristol college 1812–3; sailed from Portsmouth for India 18 Feb. 1814, landed at Serampore 1 Aug. 1814; missionary at Calcutta Sep. 1815; returned to England 1825. d. 3 Eastcott place, Camden Town, London 19 July 1855. Eustace Carey a missionary in India a memoir by Mrs. Eustace Carey 1857, portrait.

CAREY, GEORGE JACKSON. b. Rozel, Guernsey 5 Oct. 1822; ensign Cape mounted riflemen 22 July 1845; served in Kaffir wars 1846–7 and 1850–2; brigadier general in New Zealand Aug. 1863 to Aug. 1865, Wm. Thompson the Maori chief surrendered to him 27 May 1865; acting governor of Victoria 7 May to 15 Aug. 1866; commanded 2 brigade at Aldershot 1 Dec. 1867 and Northern district Oct. 1871 to death; C.B. 18 March 1865. d. Westwood, Whalley Range, Manchester 12 June 1872. bur. at Rozel.

CAREY, JAMES (son of Francis Carey of Dublin, bricklayer). b. James st. Dublin 1845; bricklayer in Dublin 18 years; builder in Denzille st. Dublin; a leading member of the Fenians 1862–78; treasurer of Irish Republican Brotherhood; a town councillor of Dublin 1882; took part in murder of Lord F. Cavendish and T. F. Burke 6 May 1882; turned Queen’s evidence 13 Feb. 1883; sailed for Cape Town 6 July 1883; shot by Patrick O’Donnel a Fenian on board Melrose Castle steamer 12½ miles from Cape Vacca 29 July 1883. Pall Mall Gazette 31 July 1883 pp. 10–12, portrait; Graphic xxvii, 200, 273 (1883), portrait, xxviii, 112 (1883), portrait.

CAREY, VEN. JAMES GASPARD LE MARCHANT. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; R. of Snodland, Kent 1866–74; hon. canon of Rochester 1870–7; V. of Boreham, Essex 1874 to death; hon. canon of St. Alban’s 1877; archdeacon of Essex 29 June 1882. d. Folkestone 17 March 1885 in 54 year.

CAREY, PETER. Cornet 16 Dragoons 9 Dec. 1795; major 86 foot 26 March 1807; lieut. col. 84 foot 18 July 1811 to 25 Feb. 1818 when placed on h.p.; military sec. to Sir George Beckwith, commander of forces in Ireland 1816–20; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. 44 Cadogan place, London 20 June 1852 aged 78.

CAREY, SIR PETER STAFFORD (only child of Peter Martin Carey of Taunton). b. Guernsey 7 April 1803; ed. at Clifton and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830; recorder of Dartmouth 1836–45; judge of Borough court of Wells 1838–45; professor of English law at Univ. coll. London 1838–45; bailiff of Guernsey 1845–83; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Nov. 1863; author of Borough Court rules of England and Wales 1841; The Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Galatians with a paraphrase and introduction 1867; Notes sur l’Ile de Guernesey 1874. d. 17 Jany. 1886. Biograph iii, 6–8 (1880).

CAREY, ROBERT (son of Sir Octavius Carey 1785–1844, major general). b. 12 Dec. 1821; ensign 40 foot 15 Nov. 1839, major 6 Aug. 1858 to 28 Oct. 1859 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in Australia 12 March 1860 to 6 Aug. 1863; D.A.G. in New Zealand 7 Aug. 1863 to 31 March 1866; M.G. 22 July 1869; deputy judge advocate 1 Aug. 1870 to 31 March 1882; C.B. 2 May 1862, granted Service reward 8 March 1875. d. 17 Belgrave road, London 25 Jany. 1883.

CARFRAE, JOHN. Entered Madras army 1797; colonel 50 Madras N.I. 15 May 1834 to death; general 5 March 1859; author of The pilgrim of sorrow being a collection of odes, lyrics, etc. 1848. d. Bower house, Dunbar 29 Aug. 1860.

CARGILL, JASPER FARMER. Barrister M.T. 11 June 1841; a revising barrister at Kingston, Jamaica 1848; acting chairman of quarter sessions there 1855; judge of supreme court, Jamaica 1856 to death. d. Kingston 27 Nov. 1871 in 65 year.

CARINGTON, ROBERT JOHN CARINGTON, 2 Baron (only son of Robert Smith, 1 Baron Carington 1752–1838). b. St. James’s place, London 16 Jany. 1796; ed. at Eton and Christ’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1815; M.P. for Wendover 1818–20, for Bucks 1820–31, for Chipping Wycombe 1831 to 18 Sep. 1838 when he succeeded his father; F.R.S. 14 Feb. 1839; col. of Royal Bucks. militia 7 March 1839 to death; took surname of Carington in lieu of Smith by royal license 26 Aug. 1839; lord lieutenant of Bucks. 20 Feb. 1839 to death. d. Wycombe abbey, Bucks. 17 March 1868.

CARLETON, JOHN WILLIAM. Cornet 4 dragoons 2 July 1807, lieut. 11 April 1809 to 5 June 1817 when placed on h.p.; the first editor of the Sporting Review 1839; edited The sporting sketch book 1842; published under pseudonym of “Craven” Hyde Marston, or a sportsman’s life 3 vols. 1844 which is autobiographical; Recreations in shooting with some account of the game of the British isles 1846. d. Hayes, Middlesex 29 May 1856. Sporting Review iii, 3 (1840), portrait.

CARLETON, JOHN WILLIAM (eld. son of Andrew Carleton of Hermitage, co. Leitrim). b. Hermitage 1812; ed. at Elphin and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1856; called to Irish bar Jany. 1839; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of A practical treatise on the law of judgment and judgment debts in Ireland 1844; The law relating to the qualification and registration of parliamentary voters in Ireland 1852; A compendium of the practice at elections of members to serve in Parliament as regulated by the several statutes in force in Ireland 1857, 6 ed. 1865. d. Dublin 11 Nov. 1878.

CARLETON, REV. RICHARD (youngest son of 1 Baron Dorchester 1724–1808). b. Portman sq. London 10 Feb. 1792; ed. at Trin. hall Cam., M.A. 1811; R. of Boughton, co. Northampton 1819–43; R. of Nateley-Scures, Hants. 1819 to death; F.R.S. 9 Feb. 1826. d. Brighton 2 Feb. 1869.

CARLETON, WILLIAM (youngest child of Mr. Carleton of Prillisk near Clogher, co. Tyrone, farmer). b. Prillisk 20 Feb. 1798; private tutor in family of a farmer named Murphy in co. Louth; settled at Dublin 1830; granted a civil list pension of £200, 14 July 1848; author of Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry 1830, 2 series 1833, 11 ed. 1876; Tales of Ireland 1834; Fardorougha the miser 1839, dramatised and produced at a Dublin theatre; Valentine McClutchy the Irish agent 3 vols. 1845, 3 ed. 1859; The Squanders of Castle Squander 2 vols. 1852, 2 ed. 1873. d. Woodville, Sandford, Dublin 30 Jany. 1869. Dublin Univ. Mag. xvii, 66–72 (1841), portrait, xxvi, 737–47 (1845).

CARLETON, WILLIAM. b. Dublin about 1835; made his début in America 26 Feb. 1866 as a vocalist at Tony Pastor’s opera house Bowery New York, and as an actor Feb. 1868 at the Worrell Sisters theatre N.Y. in drama of Pickwick; author of many Irish plays, farces and songs; committed suicide by suffocation in New York, Aug. 1885.

CARLILE, REV. JAMES. b. Paisley 1784; ed. at Glasgow Univ. D.D.; minister of the Scots church St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 1813 to death; acted as their missionary to Parsonstown 1839–51; resident comr. to Irish Board of education 1830–9; author of Examination of arguments for Roman Catholic episcopacy 1815; Letters on the divine origin and authority of scripture 2 vols. 1833; Manual of the anatomy and physiology of the human mind 1851, 2 ed. 1859. d. Dublin 31 March 1854. Rev. J. Carlile’s Station and occupation of the saints in their final glory (1854) pp. v-xxxv and 139–65.

CARLILE, REV. WARRAND (12 child of James Carlile of Paisley, thread manufacturer). b. Paisley 12 Nov. 1796; ed. at Glasgow Univ.; licensed by presbytery of Paisley; Presbyterian minister at Carlow 1836–42; missionary at Brownsville Hanover, Jamaica, Jany. 1843 to death; visited the United States 1854 and England 1858 and 1863. d. Brownsville 25 Aug. 1881. Thirty-eight years mission life in Jamaica, a brief sketch of the Rev. W. Carlile by One of his sons (1884).

CARLISLE, GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK Howard, 7 Earl of (eld. son of 6 Earl of Carlisle 1773–1848). b. Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 18 April 1802; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827; M.P. for Morpeth 1826–30, for Yorkshire 1830–2 and for West Riding of Yorkshire 1832–41 and 4 Feb. 1846 to 7 Oct. 1848 when he succeeded; chief sec. for Ireland 22 April 1835 to 6 Sep. 1841; P.C. 20 May 1835; P.C. Ireland 30 Sep. 1835; chief comr. of woods and forests 6 July 1846 to March 1850; lord lieut. of East riding of Yorkshire 22 July 1847; F.R.S. 3 June 1847; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 6 March 1850 to Feb. 1852; lord rector of Univ. of Aberdeen March 1853; K.G. 7 Feb. 1855; lord lieut. of Ireland 28 Feb. 1855 to 26 Feb. 1858 and 18 June 1859 to Oct. 1864; grand master of order of St. Patrick 1855–8 and 1859–64; author of Diary in Turkish and Greek waters 1854; Daniel’s second vision; paraphrase in verse 1858. d. Castle Howard, Malton, Yorkshire 5 Dec. 1864. My reminiscences by Lord Ronald Gower i, 111–95 (1883); H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland iii, 125–88 (1872); Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, 2 series i, 131–61 (1877); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 131–42; Orators of the age by G. H. Francis (1847) 206–16; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 278–80 (1854), iii, 317–32 (1854); Drawing room portrait gallery, 2 series (1859), portrait; I.L.N. xxvi, 280 (1855), portrait.

CARLOS, EDWARD JOHN (only child of Wm. Carlos of Newington, Middlesex). b. Newington 12 Feb. 1798; an attorney in City of London 1820 to death; contributed to Gent. Mag. reviews of architectural books 1822–48 and a series of descriptions of new churches in London 1824–33; author of Historical and antiquarian notices of Crosby hall 1832; G. Skelton’s Oxonia restaurata, 2 ed. 1843; author with W. Knight of An account of London bridge with observations on its architecture during its demolition 1832. d. York place, Walworth, London 20 Jany. 1851.

CARLYLE, JANE BAILLIE (only child of John Welsh of Haddington, surgeon 1776–1819). b. Haddington 14 July 1801; ed. at Haddington school; known from her wit and beauty as ‘the flower of Haddington.’ (m. at Templand 17 Oct. 1826, Thomas Carlyle 1795–1881); lived at 5 Cheyne row, Chelsea 10 June 1834 to death. d. in her carriage in Hyde park, London 21 April 1866. bur. at Haddington. Letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by J. A. Froude 3 vols. 1883, portrait; Graphic xxiii, 160 (1881), portrait.

CARLYLE, JOHN AITKEN (2 son of James Carlyle of Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, mason 1757–1832). b. Ecclefechan 7 July 1801; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1825; travelling physician to Countess of Clare 1831–7, to Duke of Buccleuch 1838–43; published Dante’s Divine comedy, the Inferno with the text of the original collated from the best editions and explanatory notes 1849, 3 ed. 1882; edited Irving’s History of Scottish poetry 1861; made over in 1878 to acting committee of Association for better endowment of Univ. of Edin. £1,600 to found 2 medical bursaries of not less than £25 each tenable for one year. d. Dumfries 15 Dec. 1879. Graphic xxiii, 160 (1881), portrait.

CARLYLE, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). b. Ecclefechan 4 Dec. 1795; ed. at Annan school and Univ. of Edinburgh; teacher of mathematics in a school at Annan 1814–6; schoolmaster at Kirkcaldy 1816–8; studied law at Edin. and took pupils 1819–22; tutor to Arthur and Charles Buller 1822–4; lived at 21 Comely bank close to Edinburgh 1826–8, at Craigenputtock 16 miles from Dumfries 1828–34, at 5 Cheyne row, Chelsea 10 June 1834 to death; gave lectures in London, May 1837, 1838, 1839 and 1840; lord rector of Univ. of Edin. Nov. 1865, installed 29 March 1866; pres. of Edinburgh philosophical institution 1868 and 1877; pres. of London library, St. James’s sq. London, July 1870 to death, having been the first person to suggest formation of the library; received Prussian order of Merit, Feb. 1874; author of Life of Schiller 1825, 2 ed. 1845; Wilhelm Meister’s apprenticeship 3 vols. 1824; Sartor Resartus 1835; History of the French revolution 3 vols. 1837; Life and letters of Oliver Cromwell 2 vols. 1845; The life of Frederick the Great 6 vols. 1858–65. d. 5 Cheyne row, Chelsea 5 Feb. 1881, the house was renumbered 24 in Sep. or Oct. 1881. bur. Ecclefechan churchyard 10 Feb. Thomas Carlyle, a history of the first 40 years of his life by J. A. Froude 2 vols. 1882, portraits; Thomas Carlyle, a history of his life in London by J. A. Froude 2 vols. 1884, portraits; Memoir by R. H. Shepherd 2 vols. 1881; J. B. Crozier’s Religion of the future (1880) 1–104; Obiter dicta (1884) 1–54; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age ii, 253–80 (1844) portrait; Biographical Mag. i, 1–22 (1877); The Maclise portrait gallery by W. Bates (1883) 172–8, portrait; Dict. of national biog. ix, 111–27 (1887).

NOTE.—On the eightieth anniversary of his birth, 4 Dec. 1875, a gold medal was struck in his honour and an address signed by upwards of 100 men and women eminent in science, literature and art was presented to him; a bronze statue of him by J. E. Boehm in the public garden at end of Great Cheyne row, Chelsea was unveiled by Professor Tyndall 26 Oct. 1882. He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel The Warden under name of “Dr. Pessimist Anticant.”

CARLYLE, THOMAS (son of Wm. Carlyle of King’s Grange, Kirkcudbrightshire). b. King’s Grange 17 July 1803; ed. at Annan, Dumfries and Univ. of Edin.; called to Scottish bar 1824; practised in Edin. 1824–35; counsel for Rev. J. M. Campbell in the Row heresy case 1831; claim to dormant title of Baron Carlyle devolved on him Oct. 1824; named the ninth apostle of Catholic Apostolic church, April 1835, the Apostle for North Germany 1838; author of An essay to illustrate the foundation of Christianity By a Layman 1827; The moral phenomena of Germany 1845; A short history of the Apostolic work 1851; Our present position in spiritual chronology 1853, another ed. 1879 and 19 other books. d. Heath house, Albury, Surrey 28 Jany. 1855. Miller’s Irvingism i, 14, ii, 416; Athenæum 14 May 1881 p. 654.

CARLYON, CLEMENT (4 son of Rev. John Carlyon 1722–98, R. of Bradwell, Essex). b. Truro, Cornwall 14 April 1777; ed. at Truro gr. sch. and Pemb. coll. Cam., tenth wrangler 1798, B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801, M.L. 1804, M.D. 1813; elected travelling bachelor 1798; physician at Truro 1806–61; mayor of Truro 5 times; author of Latin letters to the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge, Gottingen 1799–1800; Observations on the endemic typhus fever of Cornwall 1827; Early years and late reflections 2 vols. 1836–43, 2 ed. 4 vols. 1856–8; Scripture notices and proofs 1838. d. Truro 5 March 1864. G.M. xvi, 797–8 (1864).

CARLYON, EDWARD AUGUSTUS (2 son of major general Edward Carlyon of Tregrehan near Par, Cornwall 1783–1854). b. 3 June 1823; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1850; author of The laws and practice of whist by Cælebs [E. A. Carlyon] 1851, 3 ed. 1858. d. Gwavas Napier, New Zealand 4 Dec. 1874.

CARMENT, REV. DAVID (son of James Carment of Keiss near Wick, schoolmaster). b. Keiss 28 Sep. 1772; entered King’s college Aberdeen Nov. 1791, M.A. 1795; parish schoolmaster of Strath, Isle of Skye 1795–9; licensed to preach by presbytery of Skye 4 April 1799; assistant minister of Croy near Inverness March 1803; minister of Gaelic chapel in Duke st. Glasgow April 1810; minister of parish of Roskeen 14 March 1822 to 1 Aug. 1843; a member of the Assembly 1825; took an active part in the Disruption controversy 1842–3; minister of a church built for him in Roskeen 1845 to July 1852; author of The fiery cross 1842. d. 26 May 1856. J. A. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 147–52.

CARMICHAEL, CHARLES MONTAUBAN. b. 21 Sep. 1790; cornet Bengal army 27 March 1806; colonel 8 Bengal light cavalry 1852–8; L.G. 14 April 1862; colonel 20 Hussars 30 Sep. 1862 to death; C.B. 20 Dec. 1839. d. Hotel du Louvre, Boulogne 21 Nov. 1870.

CARMICHAEL, JAMES (son of George Carmichael of the Trongate, Glasgow, merchant). b. Glasgow, 1776; millwright with his brother Charles at Dundee 1810; fitted up first twin steam-boat for ferry across the Tay at Dundee 1821; invented planing, shaping and boring machine used at Woolwich and Portsmouth; made locomotive steam engines for Dundee and Newtyle railway 1832–3 the first locomotives made in Scotland; invented fan blast or blowing machine for heating and melting iron, brought into practical use about 1829. d. Fleuchar Craig, Dundee 14 Aug. 1853, bronze statue of him erected in Albert sq. Dundee. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 144–7; I.L.N. lxix, 245 (1876).

CARMICHAEL, SIR JAMES ROBERT, 2 Baronet. b. Devonshire place, London 11 June 1817; ed. at Charterhouse and Sandhurst; succeeded 4 March 1838; a claimant to Scottish earldom of Hyndford; chairman of the Submarine and of the Mediterranean extension telegraph companies. d. 12 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 7 June 1883.

CARMICHAEL, JAMES (OR JOHN) WILSON. b. Newcastle 1800; apprenticed to a shipbuilder; a marine painter; went to London about 1845; exhibited 21 sea pieces at R.A. 21 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1835–62; author of The art of marine painting in water colours 1859; The art of marine painting in oil colours 1864. d. Scarborough 2 May 1868.

CARMICHAEL, SIR THOMAS GIBSON, 12 Baronet. b. Castle Craig, Peebleshire 27 Oct. 1817; commander R.N. 9 Nov. 1846; succeeded 8 May 1850. d. Civita Vecchia, Italy 30 Dec. 1855.

CARNAC, JOHN RIVETT. b. 28 June 1796; Midshipman 29 April 1812; captain 10 Jany. 1837; retired V.A. 30 Nov. 1863. d. 34 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 1 Jany. 1869.

CARNAC, SIR JOHN RIVETT, 2 Baronet (son of Sir James Rivett Carnac, 1 baronet 1784–1846). b. Baroda, East Indies 10 Aug. 1818; succeeded 28 Jany. 1846; M.P. for Lymington 1852 to 1860. d. Winchester 4 Aug. 1883. I.L.N. xxii, 293 (1853), portrait.

CARNE, ELIZABETH CATHERINE THOMAS (4 dau. of the succeeding). b. Rivière house, Phillack, Cornwall 16 Dec. 1817; head of bank of Batten, Carne, and Carne at Penzance 1858 to death; gave site for Elizabeth or St. Paul’s schools opened at Penzance 2 Feb. 1876; founded schools at Wesley Rock, Carfury and Bosullo all near Penzance; built a museum at Penzance for her fine collection of minerals; author of Three months rest at Pau in the winter and spring of 1859 by John Altrayd Wittitterly pseud. 1860; Country towns and the place they fill in modern civilisation 1868; England’s three wants, anon. 1871; The realm of truth 1873 and of many articles in London Quarterly Review. d. Penzance 7 Sep. 1873. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 60, 1113; Geol. Mag. x, 480, 524 (1873).

CARNE, JOSEPH (eld. son of Wm. Carne of Penzance, banker 1754–1836). b. Truro 17. April 1782; manager of Cornish Copper company’s smelting works at Hayle 1810 or 1811; partner in bank of Batten, Carne, and Carne at Penzance 1820 to death; F.R.S. 28 May 1818; pricked for sheriff of Cornwall 1837 but declined to serve; pres. of Penzance Natural history and antiquarian soc. 1849–55; author of many papers in Transactions of Royal Geol. Soc. of Cornwall 1816–51. d. 28 Chapel st. Penzance 12 Oct. 1858. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 61, 1114.

CARNEGIE, JOHN WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1833; major 15 Bengal N.I. 30 Sep. 1860 to 6 June 1862; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Gipsy hill near London 6 Jany. 1874.

CARNEGIE, SWYNFEN THOMAS (youngest son of 7 Earl of Northesk 1758–1831). b. Rosehill, Hampshire 8 March 1813; entered navy 3 Aug. 1826; served in operations connected with civil war in Spain 1833–8, received order of San Fernando; captain R.N. 10 June 1845; C.B. 5 July 1855; officer in command of defences of the Thames and superintendent of steam naval organisation at Sheerness 1852; controller general of coast guard 6 Feb. to 27 April 1863; retired admiral 18 June 1876; M.P. for Stafford 1841–7; a lord of the treasury 11 March to 6 July 1846; a lord of the admiralty 9 March 1859. d. 16 Pelham crescent, London 29 Nov. 1879. I.L.N. xx, 172 (1852), portrait.

CARNEGY, ALEXANDER. b. 25 Feb. 1793; ensign Bengal army 20 Aug. 1813; lieut. col. of 15 Bengal N.I. 5 Nov. 1841, of 27 N.I. 1843, of 36 N.I. 1849–51; col. 15 N.I. 15 Sep. 1851 to death; commissioner at Peshawar, Punjab 26 June 1852; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Meggetland house, Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1862.

CARNEGY, PATRICK. b. 20 May 1825; entered Indian civil service 1846; assistant comr. in Oude 1856; deputy comr. of Lucknow district; comr. of the Bareilly division; first civil officer who entering service in uncovenanted branch, ever attained rank of a comr.; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; F.R.G.S.; author of Kutcherry technicalities or vocabulary of law terms as used in the Mofussil courts N.W.P. Allahabad 1853; Notes on the land tenures and revenue assessments of Upper India 1874. d. Norwood near London 12 Nov. 1886.

CARNWATH, THOMAS HENRY DALZELL, 11 Earl of. b. 2 Sep. 1797; succeeded 1 Jany. 1839. d. Bagnéres de Bigorre, Hautes Pyrénées, France 14 Dec. 1867.

CARNWATH, HENRY ARTHUR HEW DALZELL, 12 Earl of. b. Heidelberg 12 April 1858; succeeded 14 Dec. 1867. d. Harrow school 13 March 1873.

CARNWATH, ARTHUR ALEXANDER DALZELL, 13 Earl of (2 son of 10 Earl of Carnwath 1768–1839). b. 15 Sep. 1799; ensign 45 foot 29 April 1819; captain 48 foot 28 June 1827, lieut. col. 23 April 1841 to 13 Dec. 1853 when placed on h.p.; inspecting field officer of militia 1853–8; commanded south eastern district of England 1861–5; col. 48 foot 10 Aug. 1864 to death; general 14 April 1873; succeeded his nephew 13 March 1873. d. 28 Eaton place, London 28 April 1875.

CARON, RÉNÉ EDOUARD (son of Augustin Caron of parish of St. Anne Cote of Beaupré, Lower Canada). b. St. Anne, Nov. or Dec. 1800; barrister Lower Canada 1826; member of city council of Quebec 1832, mayor 1833–7; M.P. for Upper town of Quebec 1834–6; Q.C. 1848; member of legislative council of Canada 1841–57, speaker 8 Nov. 1843 to 1847 and 11 March 1848 to 1853, member of executive council 28 Oct. 1851; puisne judge of superior court 15 Aug. 1853, of Court of Queen’s Bench, Quebec 27 Jany. 1855; lieutenant governor of province of Quebec 11 Feb. 1873 to death. d. Quebec 13 Dec. 1876. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians (1862) 472–3.

CARPENTER, GEORGE (son of the succeeding). Ensign 53 foot 1 Oct. 1818; lieut. col. 41 foot 27 Dec. 1850 to death; killed at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854 in 55 year. G. Ryan’s Our heroes in the Crimea (1855) 70–2.

CARPENTER, GEORGE. Entered Bengal army 1791; colonel 49 Bengal N.I. 29 April 1823 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. 7 Great Cumberland place, London 30 Jany. 1855 aged 91.

CARPENTER, JOSEPH EDWARDS. b. London 2 Nov. 1813; wrote for magazines at a very early age; gave a musical entertainment called The Road, the Rail and the River in London and the provinces; produced The Sanctuary a musical drama in 2 acts 1854, Love and Honour a drama in 3 acts at Surrey theatre 1854 and Adam Bede a drama in 3 acts at same house 1862; author of upwards of 2500 songs and duets; edited Penny Readings in prose and verse 10 vols. 1865–7; author of Random rhymes or lays of London 1833; Lays for light hearts 1835; Songs and ballads 1844; Poems and lyrics 1845; Border ballads 1846; Lays and legends of fairy land 1849; My jubilee volume 1883. d. 20 Norland sq. Bayswater, London 6 May 1885. Illust. news of the world ii, 425 (1858), portrait.

CARPENTER, MARGARET SARAH (2 dau. of Alexander Geddes of Alderbury, Wiltshire). b. Salisbury 1793; portrait painter in London 1814; exhibited 147 pictures at the R.A. 50 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk st. gallery 1818–66; granted civil list pension of £100 per annum 29 Nov. 1866. (m. 1817 Wm. Hookham Carpenter 1792–1866). d. 22 Upper Gloucester place, London 13 Nov. 1872. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists i, 386–8 (1876).

CARPENTER, MARY (eld. child of Rev. Lant Carpenter of Bristol, Unitarian minister 1780–1840). b. Exeter 3 April 1807; kept a school with her mother at Bristol 1829; opened a ragged school in Bristol 1 Aug. 1846, a reformatory at Kingswood 11 Sep. 1852, a reformatory for girls in Park row, Bristol 10 Oct. 1854 and a certified industrial school there April 1859; took leading part in conferences on ragged schools held in Birmingham, Dec. 1851, Dec. 1853 and Jany, 1861; visited India 1866–7, 1868–9, 1869–70 and 1875–6; visited America and Canada 1873; read many papers at meetings of Social Science Association; author of Meditations and prayers anon. 1845; Our convicts, how they are made and should be treated 2 vols. 1864; Six months in India 2 vols. 1868 and 9 other books. d. Bristol 14 June 1877. Life and work of Mary Carpenter by J. E. Carpenter 1879, portrait; Theological Review, April 1880 p. 279; The children of the street by M. H. Hart 1880; Fortnightly Review xxxiii, 662–71 (1880); Graphic xv, 624 (1877), portrait; Times 18 June 1877 p. 8, cols. 3–5.

CARPENTER, REV. PHILIP PEARSALL (brother of the preceding). b. Bristol, Nov. 1819; ed. at Bristol and York; B.A. London 1841; Presbyterian minister at Stand, then at Warrington 1846–61; bought a vast collection of 14 tons of shells in Liverpool for £50, 1855, a full report on these shells occupies 209 pages of British Association report for 1856; lived in Montreal 1865 to death; formed a great collection of Chitonidæ. d. Montreal 24 May 1877. Memoir of P. P. Carpenter edited by R. L. Carpenter 1880, portrait.

CARPENTER, RICHARD CROMWELL (son of Richard Carpenter of Middlesex). b. 21 Oct. 1812; ed. at the Charterhouse; architect in London; district surveyor for East Islington; exhibited 9 works at R.A. 1830–49; built churches of St. Stephen and St. Andrew at Birmingham 1844 and 1846, St. Paul at Brighton 1849, and St. Mary Magdalen, Munster sq. London 1852 where the west window was filled with stained glass to his memory at a cost of £425; restored Chichester cathedral, Sherborne Abbey and St. John’s college, Hurstpierpoint. d. 40 Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 27 March 1855.

CARPENTER, THOMAS DAVID. Entered Madras army 1819; lieut. col. 1 Madras N.I. 1 Sep. 1847 to 29 Aug. 1859; M.G. 29 Aug. 1859. d. Secunderabad 17 Oct. 1860 aged 56.

CARPENTER, WILLIAM. b. 1797; apprenticed to a bookseller in Finsbury; edited with Wm. Greenfield Scripture Magazine afterwards expanded into the Critica Biblica 4 vols. 1824–7; edited Shipping Gazette 1836, Era 1838, Railway Observer 1843, Lloyd’s Weekly News 1844, Court Journal 1848, Sunday Times 1854, Bedfordshire Independent 1854; issued a publication entitled Political Letters 1830–1 which was unstamped for which he was tried 14 May 1831 and imprisoned in the King’s Bench; from his prison he edited Political Mag. Sep. 1831 to July 1832, republished as Carpenter’s Monthly political mag. 1832; hon. sec. to Chancery reform association 1851–3; author of Sancta Biblica 3 vols. 1825; Scripture natural history 1828; A peerage for the people 1835, 4 ed. 1848; A comprehensive dictionary of English synonyms, 6 ed. 1865; An introduction to the reading and study of the Bible 3 vols. 1867–8. d. Colebrooke row, Islington, London 21 April 1874.

CARPENTER, WILLIAM BENJAMIN (brother of Mary Carpenter 1807–77). b. Exeter 29 Oct. 1813; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1835; lecturer on medical jurisprudence at Bristol medical school; Fullerian professor of physiology at Royal Institution London 1844; edited British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review 1847–52; professor of forensic medicine at Univ. college London 1849–59; principal of University hall London 1851–9; registrar of Univ. of London May 1856 to Feb. 1879, F.R.S. 1 Feb. 1844, Royal medallist 1861; pres. of British Association at Brighton Aug. 1872; corresponding member of Institute of France 1873; C.B. 4 Dec. 1875; Lyell medallist of Geological Soc. 1883; author of The principles of general and comparative physiology 1839, 4 ed. 1854; Popular cyclopædia of science 1843; Manual of physiology 1846, 4 ed. 1865; Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera, Ray Society 1862. d. 56 Regent’s park road, London 10 Nov. 1885. J. Timbs’s Year book of facts (1873) 1–8, 126–33, portrait; Medical Circular ii, 169–71 (1853), portrait; T. H. Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1865), portrait; I.L.N. lxi, 148, 150 (1872), portrait, lxxxvii, 559 (1885), portrait.

CARPENTER, WILLIAM HOOKHAM (only son of James Carpenter of Old Bond st. London, bookseller who d. 30 March 1852 aged 84). b. Bruton st. London 2 March 1792; bookseller and publisher in Lower Brook st. London 1817; keeper of prints and drawings in British Museum, March 1845 to death; a trustee of National portrait gallery 1856 to death; member of Academy of fine arts at Amsterdam 1847; F.S.A. 13 Jany. 1853; author of Pictorial notices, consisting of a memoir of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, with a descriptive catalogue of the etchings executed by him 1844; A guide to the drawings and prints exhibited to the public in the King’s library, British Museum 1858, 3 ed. 1862. d. British Museum, London 12 July 1866. G.M. ii, 410–11 (1866).

CARPMAEL, WILLIAM. b. 90 Chancery lane, London 27 Feb. 1804; designed and erected salt works in Cheshire which he managed; patent agent and consulting engineer in London 1835; A.I.C.E. 1830, M.I.C.E. 1840, member of council 1858; M.I.M.E. 1862; member of Metropolitan Board of Works from its formation 14 Aug. 1855 to his death; author of The law of patents for inventions explained for the use of inventors and patentees 1832 6 ed. 1860; Law reports of patent cases 3 vols. 1843–52. d. Streatham hill near London 9 July 1867.

CARR, REV. JAMES. b. April 1784; P.C. of South Shields 1831–62; hon. canon of Durham 1860 to death; master of Sherburn hospital, Durham 1862 to death. d. Sherburn hospital 29 March 1874.

CARR, JOHN CHARLES (eld. son of John Carr of Trinidad). b. Trinidad 1810; LL.B. London 1839; barrister G.I. 6 May 1840; Queen’s advocate of Sierra Leone, May 1840, chief justice 20 Aug. 1841 to 1865; declined honour of knighthood twice. d. Bedford house, New Barnet 2 Sep. 1880 in 71 year.

CARR, MARK WILLIAM. Assistant inspector general of Madras police 12 Sep. 1862; major Madras staff corps 16 Feb. 1870 to death; author of A collection of Telugu proverbs together with some Sanscrit proverbs 1868; edited Descriptive and historical papers relating to the seven pagodas on the Coromandel coast by W. Chambers and others 1869; lost in wreck of “General Outram” off Rutnagherry on the coast of Malabar 16 Jany. 1871.

CARR, RIGHT REV. THOMAS. b. Yorkshire 1788; sizar St. John’s coll. Cam. 10 June 1809; B.A. 1813; D.D. Lambeth 12 Sep. 1832; chaplain at Bombay; bishop of Bombay 15 July 1837 to July 1851, consecrated at Lambeth 19 Nov. 1837; R. of St. Peter and St. Paul i.e. The Abbey with St. James’s, Bath, April 1854 to death. d. Lansdown crescent, Bath 5 Sep. 1859. Illust. news of the world iv, 177 (1859), portrait.

CARR, THOMAS. b. Durham 23 Jany. 1824; invented a new method of drying glue, the disintegrator a machine much used in various trades and manufactures, and a flour mill on the disintegrator principle which is a good deal used in Scotland. d. Bristol 29 March 1874.

CARR, SIR WILLIAM OGLE (_3 son of Thomas Wm. Carr of Frognal, Hampstead, barrister_). Barrister G.I. 26 April 1826; King’s advocate in Ceylon; second puisne judge of Ceylon 19 Dec. 1839, chief justice 14 Aug. 1854 to death; knighted by patent 14 Aug. 1854. d. Candy, Ceylon 24 April 1856 aged 53.

CARRE, ROBERT RIDDELL. b. Edinburgh 27 Feb. 1782; entered navy 2 June 1796; placed on half pay 15 Nov. 1816; captain 12 Aug. 1819; retired V.A. 10 Sep. 1857. d. Caverse Carre, Roxburghshire 1 March 1860.

CARRICK, THOMAS (2 child of John Carrick of Carlisle, cotton-mill owner). b. Upperley near Carlisle 4 July 1802; a chemist at Carlisle to about 1830; miniature painter at Newcastle 1836, in London 1839–68; exhibited annually 8 miniatures at R.A. 1841–66, Turner annuitant 1868 to death; presented by Prince Albert with a medal for his invention of painting miniatures on marble 1845. d. Newcastle 31 July 1875.

CARRINGTON, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS (only son of Rev. Caleb Carrington, V. of Berkeley, Gloucs. who d. 1839). b. 1801; barrister L.I. 7 Feb. 1823; recorder of Wokingham, Oct. 1858 to death; published with Joseph Payne Reports of cases argued and ruled at Nisi Prius 9 vols. 1825–41. d. 28 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 30 July 1860.

CARRINGTON, FREDERICK GEORGE (3 son of Noel Thomas Carrington of Devonport, poet 1777–1830). b. about 1816; contributed to the Bath Chronicle, Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, Cornwall Gazette, West of England Conservative, Bristol Mirror and Gloucester Journal; editor and proprietor of Gloucestershire Chronicle; wrote treatises on Architecture and Painting for Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. d. Gloucester 1 Feb. 1864. G.M. xvi, 535 (1864).

CARRINGTON, HENRY EDMUND (brother of the preceding). b. Maidstone 16 March 1806; connected with the Plymouth Journal, Devonport Telegraph, Sherborne Mercury, and Western Luminary; edited the Bath Chronicle; author of The Plymouth and Devonport guide with sketches of the surrounding scenery 1828. d. Bath 5 Feb. 1859.

CARRINGTON, RICHARD CHRISTOPHER (2 son of Richard Carrington of Brentford, brewer who d. July 1858). b. Chelsea 26 May 1826; ed. at Hedley and Trin. coll. Cam., 36 wrangler 1848; B.A. 1848; observer in Univ. of Durham Oct. 1849 to April 1852; built a house at Redhill near Reigate with an observatory attached 1852–4; built an observatory on top of an isolated conical hill known as the Middle Devil’s Jump at Churt Surrey 1866; F.R.A.S. 14 March 1851, hon. sec. Feb. 1857 to Feb. 1862, gold medallist 1859; F.R.S. 7 June 1860; author of A catalogue of 3735 circumpolar stars observed at Redhill 1857 printed by the Admiralty; Observations of the spots on the sun from Nov. 9, 1853 to March 24, 1861 made at Redhill 1863; found dead in his house at Churt 27 Nov. 1875. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxvi, 137–42 (1876); I.L.N. lxviii, 119 (1876), portrait; Times 22 Nov. 1875 p. 5, col. 3, 7 Dec. p. 11, col. 6.

CARROLL, SIR GEORGE. Stockbroker at 26 Oxford st. London 1811; contractor for state lotteries having offices in Cornhill, Oxford st. and Charing Cross, lotteries were abolished Oct. 1826; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1837–8; knighted at the Guildhall 9 Nov. 1837; an original director of London Joint Stock bank 1836; alderman of Candlewick ward 23 Dec. 1839 to death; lord mayor 1846–7; president of St. Bartholomew’s hospital. d. Loughton, Essex 19 Dec. 1860 aged 76. bur. Norwood cemetery 27 Dec. I.L.N. ix, 295, 309 (1846), portrait; City Press 22 Dec. 1860 p. 5.

CARROLL, REV. RICHARD. b. Dublin 14 July 1807; entered Society of Jesus at Cheiri 18 Sep. 1825; ordained priest 20 Dec. 1834; professed of the four vows 2 Feb. 1845; superior of Seminary at Stonyhurst Sep. 1845 to Sep. 1849; sent to mission of St. Francis Xavier, Liverpool Sep. 1849 where he became distinguished as a preacher. d. Liverpool 14 Feb. 1858.

CARROLL, SIR WILLIAM FAIRBROTHER (3 son of Daniel Carroll of Uskane, co. Tipperary, barrister). b. Glencarrig, co. Wicklow 28 Jany. 1784; entered navy 5 Dec. 1795; captain 6 Dec. 1813; head of Bath police several years; R.A. 24 Jany. 1849; commander in chief at Cork 28 July 1853 to 13 Aug. 1855; lieutenant governor of Greenwich hospital 13 Aug. 1855 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852; was in action with the enemy 67 times. d. Greenwich hospital 8 April 1862.

CARROW, JOHN MONSON (eld. son of Rev. Richard Carrow, R. of Broxholme, Lincs. who d. 20 Feb. 1847 aged 72). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1834; judge of county courts, circuit 57, (Somerset) 13 March 1847 to death; recorder of Wells 1852 to death; one of the authors of Cases relating to railways and canals 4 vols. 1840–8; and of New Sessions cases 3 vols. 1845–9. d. Weston-super-Mare 8 May 1853. G.M. xxxix, 668–9 (1853).

CARRUTHERS, RIGHT REV. ANDREW. b. Glenmillan near New Abbey in stewartry of Kircudbright 7 Feb. 1770; ed. at Scotch college, Douay; ordained priest 1795; stationed at Balloch, Perthshire, then at Traquair, Peebleshire, afterwards at Munchies and Dalbeattie; vicar apostolic of eastern district of Scotland 28 Sep. 1832 to death; consecrated at Edinburgh as bishop of Ceramis in partibus infidelium 13 Jany. 1833. d. Edinburgh 24 May 1852. Gordon’s Catholic church in Scotland 474, portrait.

CARRUTHERS, RICHARD. Ensign 26 foot 19 May 1814; major 2 foot 19 Feb. 1836 to 23 July 1839 when he retired; C.B. 6 June 1840. d. 1 Brunswick gardens, Kensington, London 17 Feb. 1864 aged 63.

CARRUTHERS, ROBERT (son of Mr. Carruthers of Mouswald, Dumfries, farmer). b. Dumfries 5 Nov. 1799; master of national school at Huntingdon; edited Inverness Courier, April 1828 to death, he made it the most popular paper in North of Scotland, proprietor 1831; hon. LLD. Edin. 21 April 1871; published History of Huntingdon 1824; The Highland note book or sketches and anecdotes 1843; The poetical works of Alexander Pope 4 vols. 1853; wrote with Robert Chambers most of the original matter in Chambers’s Cyclopædia of English literature 2 vols. 1843–4. d. Inverness 26 May 1878. G.M. Nov. 1884 pp. 448–51; I.L.N. lxii, 557 (1878), portrait.

CARSON, RIGHT REV. THOMAS (elder son of Rev. Thomas Carson 1763–1816, R. of Kilmahon, Cloyne). b. Kilmahon rectory 27 Aug. 1805; ed. at Glanmire school and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1826, LL.B. and LLD. 1832; V. of Urney, co. Cavan 1838; R. of Cloon and vicar general of Kilmore 1854; dean of Kilmore 1860; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh 1870 to death; consecrated at Armagh 2 Oct. 1870. d. Portrush, co. Antrim 7 July 1874.

CARSWELL, SIR ROBERT. b. Paisley 3 Feb. 1793; studied at Glasgow, Paris and Lyons; M.D. Marischal college, Aberdeen 1826; made a series of 2000 water-color drawings of diseased structures in Paris for University college, London 1828–31; professor of pathological anatomy at the college 1831–40; phys. to King of the Belgians at Lacken near Brussells 1840 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; author of Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease, with coloured plates 1837; and of 7 articles in Cyclopædia of practical medicine 4 vols. 1833–5. d. Lacken 15 June 1857.

CARTE, JOHN ELLIOT. Assistant surgeon in army 31 Dec. 1841; surgeon 14 foot 26 Jany. 1858; deputy inspector general 22 June 1870 to 17 Feb. 1872 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 5 July 1865. d. Portland place, Brighton 19 April 1876.

CARTER, GEORGE. b. Bromfield near Ludlow, Salop 29 Nov. 1792; whip to the Warwickshire hounds 1823–5, to Mr. West’s harriers 1825–7; whip to Duke of Grafton 1827–31 and huntsman 1833–42; huntsman to Grantley Berkeley 1831–3; huntsman of the Tedworth hounds 1842–65; had few equals and no superiors whether in the kennel or in the field. d. Milton, Pewsey Vale, Wilts. 21 Nov. 1884. Hound and horn or the life and recollections of George Carter the great huntsman by I. H. G. (1885), portrait.

CARTER, HARRY WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Carter, M.D. of Canterbury who d. 1822). b. Canterbury 7 Sep. 1787; ed. at Kings sch. Canterbury and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, M.B. 1811, M.D. 1819; Radcliffe travelling fellow 1812; F.R.C.P. 1825; phys. at Canterbury 1825–35; author of A short account of some of the principal hospitals of France, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands with remarks on the climate and diseases of these countries 1821, and of some essays in Cyclopædia of practical medicine. d. Kennington hall near Ashford, Kent 16 July 1863.

CARTER, HENRY LEE. Gave an entertainment called “The two lands of gold” at the Marionette theatre previously known as the Adelaide gallery, Adelaide st., Strand, London April 1853. d. Kensington house asylum, Kensington, London 3 Oct. 1862 aged 37.

CARTER, JAMES. b. Colchester 5 July 1792; tailor at Colchester 1819; removed to London 1836; author of Lectures on taste; A lecture on the primitive state of man; Memoirs of a working man 2 vols. 1845–50. d. St. John’s place, Camberwell 1 June 1853. G.M. xl, 96 (1853).

CARTER, JAMES. b. parish of Shoreditch, London 1798; a landscape and figure engraver; engraved many plates for the annuals especially Jennings’s Landscape Annual 1830–40; engraved plates after Goodall, Nasmyth and Richard Wilson for Art Journal and E. M. Ward’s pictures of ‘The South Sea Bubble’ and ‘Benjamin West’s First essay in art.’ d. 6 Fleur de Lis street, Norton Folgate, London 23 Aug. 1855.

CARTER, SIR JAMES (son of James Carter of Portsmouth). b. 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1832; judge of supreme court of New Brunswick 1834, chief justice 20 Dec. 1850 to 1865 when he retired on a pension; knighted by patent 12 Oct. 1859. d. Mortimer lodge near Reading 10 March 1878 in 74 year.

CARTER, JOHN (_2 son of Thomas Carter of Castle Martin, co. Kildare_). Entered navy 14 Jany. 1798; captain 7 Dec. 1815; superintendent of royal hospital at Haslar 2 Dec. 1841 to Dec. 1846; R.A. 8 April 1851; admiral on h.p. 4 Oct. 1862. d. 12 Devonport st., Portsmouth 2 April 1863.

CARTER, JOHN (2 son of Wm. Carter of Southwark, London). b. Southwark 8 March 1804; Cadet H.E.I. Co.’s service; chronometer maker at 207 Tooley st. London 1827 and at 61 Cornhill 1840 to death; his chronometers obtained prizes and pecuniary rewards from government; a common councilman of London, alderman of Cornhill ward 1851 to death, sheriff 1852–53, lord mayor 1859–60; colonel London rifle brigade; F.R.A.S. 1830; F.S.A. 3 March 1853; juror in section of mechanics at Imperial exhibition Paris 1855. d. Stamford hill, London 8 May 1878. Illust. news of the world iv, 289, 308 (1859), portrait; I.L.N. xxxv, 437, 463, 472, 490 (1859), portrait.

CARTER, OWEN BROWNE. Architect at Winchester; lived at Cairo, Egypt about 1830 where he executed many drawings, a selection of which was published in a folio vol. entitled Illustrations of Cairo 1840; author of Picturesque memorials of Winchester 1830, Some account of the church of St. John the Baptist at Bishopstone 1845, and of articles in Weale’s Quarterly Papers on Architecture. d. Salisbury 30 March 1859 aged 53.

CARTER, ROBERT MEEK (eld. son of John Carter of Bridlington, Yorkshire). b. Skeffling, Holderness 1814; a coal merchant and cloth finisher at Leeds; alderman of Leeds; M.P. for Leeds 17 Nov. 1868 to Aug. 1876. d. The Grange, Burley near Leeds 9 Aug. 1882.

CARTER, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Carter of Coventry). b. Coventry 15 May 1805; solicitor in partnership with his uncle Josiah Conder at Birmingham 1827 to 16 Aug. 1839 when Conder died; solicitor to London and Birmingham railway co. (afterwards London and North Western) 1831–60; solicitor to Birmingham and Derby railway co. (afterwards the Midland) 1835–68; had control of 40 bills promoted by the two companies in one parliamentary session; practised in London 1850–68; M.P. for Coventry 26 March to 11 Nov. 1868, contested Coventry Nov. 1868 and Feb. 1874. d. 3 Clifton place, Hyde park, London 31 Jany. 1878. bur. Kenilworth parish churchyard. Solicitors’ Journal xxii, 302 (1878).

CARTER, THOMAS. Clerk at the Horse Guards, Whitehall, London April 1839, first class clerk in Adjutant general’s office to death; author of Curiosities of war and military studies 1860, 2 ed. 1871; Medals of the British army and how they were won 1860–61; Historical record of the Forty-fourth foot 1864; edited Historical record of the Thirteenth regiment of light infantry 1867; Historical record of the Twenty-sixth regiment 1867; a constant contributor to Notes and Queries. d. 11 Lorrimore sq. Walworth, London 9 Aug. 1867.

CARTER, REV. THOMAS. b. 1774; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1802; fellow of Eton 14 April 1829; V. of Burnham, Bucks. 1833 to death; vice provost of Eton 1857 to death. d. Burnham vicarage 8 Oct. 1868.

CARTER, THOMAS WREN. b. Nov. 1789; entered navy 29 March 1800, captain 25 April 1831; captain of Britannia 120 guns 9 Aug. 1852 to 13 March 1855; R.A. 31 Jany. 1856, retired admiral 20 Nov. 1876; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 1 Feb. 1874.

CARTHEW, GEORGE ALFRED (only son of George Carthew of Harleston, Norfolk, solicitor). b. 20 June 1807; solicitor at Framlingham, Suffolk, and at Harleston 1830–9, at East Dereham 1839 to death; F.S.A. 2 Feb. 1854; author of The hundred of Launditch and deanery of Brisley in the county of Norfolk, 3 parts 1877–9; A history of the parishes of West and East Bradenham 1883; The origin of family or surnames 1883, and of many papers in antiquarian periodicals; found dead in his chair at Millfield, East Dereham 21 Oct. 1882. Athenæum 4 Nov. 1882 p. 598.

CARTHEW, JAMES. b. Liskeard, Cornwall Jany. 1770; entered navy 8 Dec. 1780, captain 11 July 1801; admiral 14 Jany. 1850; placed on half pay 1853; pensioned 21 Jany. 1854. d. Tredudwell near Fowey 28 Nov. 1855.

CARTIER, SIR GEORGE ETIENNE, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Jacques Cartier 1774–1841, lieut. col. Canadian militia). b. St. Antoine, Lower Canada 6 Sep. 1814; called to bar in L.C. Nov. 1835; Q.C. 1854; provincial sec. of L.C. 25 Jany. 1856; attorney general of L.C. 1856–8, 1858–62, and 1864 to 1 July 1867; premier of Canadian government 6 Aug. 1858 to May 1862; C.B. 29 June 1867; member of Canadian privy council July 1867; minister of militia and defence 1867–73; created baronet 24 Aug. 1868. d. 47 Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. London 21 May 1873. H. J. Morgan’s Eminent Canadians (1862) 603–8; I.L.N. xlv, 496 (1864), portrait.

CARTLITCH, JOHN. b. in or near Manchester 1793; chief tragedian of Richardson’s theatre at all the great fairs in England; the original Mazeppa at Astley’s Amphitheatre Easter 1831, played the part more than 1500 times; landlord of King of Prussia public house Fair st. Horsleydown, London 1836, of Spread Eagle 137 Whitecross st. 1837–8; played at Franklin theatre, New York 1839; made his début in Philadelphia, at Museum Masonic hall 10 July 1849 as Rivers in His last legs; last appeared on the stage at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 25 June 1860; kept a café in Fourth st. Philadelphia. d. Philadelphia 12 Dec. 1875. The Era 9 Jany. 1876 p. 5, col. 4.

NOTE.—John Richardson the famous showman who died 14 Nov. 1836 aged 70, left him a legacy of £1000 because he was “such a bould speaker and might be heard from one end of the fear to the other when the trumpets were going.”

CARTMELL, REV. JAMES. b. 1810. Educ. at Em. coll. Cam.; 7 wrangler 1833, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1846, D.D. 1849; fellow of Christ’s coll. 1836, master 13 Feb. 1849 to death; vice chancellor of Univ. of Cam. 1849, 1865, and 1866; a member of council of the senate to Nov. 1880; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 7 Feb. 1851 to death. d. The lodge, Christ’s college, Cambridge 23 Jany. 1881.

CARTTAR, CHARLES JOSEPH (son of Joseph Carttar of Greenwich, solicitor). Solicitor at Greenwich 1830 to death; coroner for West Kent 1832 to death; conducted 14 Nov. 1878 inquest upon the 640 bodies found after sinking of the Princess Alice in the Thames 3 Sep. 1878; managed several elections at Greenwich for Conservative party. d. Catherine house, Blackheath road, Greenwich 19 March 1880 aged 71.

CARTWRIGHT, EDMUND. Entered Bengal army 1795; brigadier in command at Delhi 1826–34, and at Agra 1834; colonel 10 Bengal N.I. 5 June 1829; col. 57 Bengal N.I. 1834 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Piccadilly, London 31 March 1853.

CARTWRIGHT, FAIRFAX WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Cartwright 1797–1873). b. London 14 May 1823; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1844; fellow of All Souls’ college; served in Austrian army; major 2 hussars British German legion 7 Nov. 1855; M.P. for South Northamptonshire 25 Nov. 1868 to death. d. 7 New Burlington street, London 2 Feb. 1881.

CARTWRIGHT, FRANCES DOROTHY (youngest child of rev. Edmund Cartwright 1743–1823 inventor of the power loom). b. Goadby Marwood, Leics. 28 Oct. 1780; author of The life and correspondence of Major Cartwright 2 vols. 1826; Poems, chiefly devotional, privately printed 1835; her translations of the Spanish poet Nunez Riego’s poems appeared with her initials in his Obras postumas poeticas 1844. d. Brighton 12 Jany 1863.

CARTWRIGHT, SAMUEL. b. Northampton 1789; an ivory turner; mechanical assistant to Charles Dumergue of Piccadilly, London, dentist; a dentist at 32 Old Burlington st. London 1811–57; at the head of his profession, made more than £10,000 a year for some years; dentist in ordinary to George IV.; the first pres. of Odontological Soc. 1856–7; F.R.G.S. 1830, F.L.S. 19 Nov. 1833, F.R.S. 11 Feb. 1841. d. Nizell’s house near Tunbridge 10 June 1864. British journal of dental science vii, 287 (1864); Proc. of Linnæan Soc. 1865, p. 84; Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v, 42–4 (1867).

CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM (2 son of Wm. Ralph Cartwright of Aynhoe 1771–1847, M.P. for Northamptonshire). b. 22 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; ensign 61 foot 2 July 1812; captain 8 hussars 2 July 1823 to 19 May 1825 when placed on h.p.; general 19 Nov. 1871. d. 16 Green st. Grosvenor sq. London 5 June 1873.

CARVOSSO, REV. BENJAMIN (son of Wm. Carvosso of Mousehole near Penzance, Wesleyan preacher 1750–1834). b. Gluvias parish, Cornwall 29 Sep. 1789; admitted as a probationer by Wesleyan conference 1814; a missionary at Hobart Town in Van Diemen’s Land 1820 and 1825–30, in New South Wales 1820–5; Wesleyan minister in various parts of England 1830 to death; author of The great efficacy of simple faith, a memoir of William Carvosso 1835; Drunkenness, the enemy of Britain, arrested by the hand of God 1840; An account of Miss Deborah B. Carvosso 1840; Attractive piety or memorials of Wm. B. Carvosso 1844. d. Tuckingmill, Cornwall 2 Oct. 1854. G. Blencowe’s Memoir of Rev. B. Carvosso 1857.

CARY, FRANCIS STEPHEN (son of Rev. Henry Francis Cary 1772–1844, translator of Dante). b. Kingsbury, Warws. 10 May 1808; studied art in London, Paris, Italy, and Munich; manager of Art school, Streatham st. Bloomsbury, London 1842–74; a candidate for decoration of houses of parliament in competitions held at Westminster Hall 1844 and 1847; exhibited 34 pictures at R.A. 8 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk st. gallery 1834–76. d. Abinger, Surrey 5 Jany. 1880.

CARY, GEORGE HUNTER (eld. son of Wm. Henry Cary of Woodford, Essex, surgeon). b. Woodford Dec. 1831; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and King’s college, London; pupil of Sir Hugh Cairns; barrister I.T. 13 June 1854; Attorney General of British Columbia 21 March 1859; Attorney General of Vancouver Island 1861 to Nov. 1865 when he resigned; Leader of Government party in House of Assembly, Vancouver Island. d. 1 Upper George st. Bryanston sq. London 15 July 1866. Law Times xli, 684 (1866).

CARY, REV. HENRY (brother of Francis Stephen Cary 1808–80). b. 12 Feb. 1804; ed. at Merchant Taylors and Worcester coll. Ox., scholar 1821, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 15 Nov. 1827; retired from practice 1832; ordained deacon 1834; P.C. of St. Paul’s, Oxford 1839–44; C. of Drayton, Berks. 1847–9; went to New South Wales 1849; district court judge at Sydney 1861–70; author of A practical treatise on the law of partnership 1827; Memoir of the Rev. H. F. Cary 2 vols. 1847; edited Memorials of the great civil war in England 2 vols. 1842; The works of Plato vol. 1, 1848. d. Sydney 30 June 1870; Law Times xlix, 496 (1870).

CARYSFORT, JOHN PROBY, 2 Earl of (2 son of 1 Earl of Carysfort 1751–1828). b. Elton hall near Oundle 1780; ed. at Rugby; ensign 10 foot 3 June 1795; major 1 foot 25 March 1802; captain 1 foot guards 25 May 1803 to 4 June 1814; commanded brigade of guards in Flanders 1813–4; general 9 Nov. 1846; M.P. for Buckingham 1805–6, for Hunts. 1806–7 and 1814–8; succeeded 7 April 1828 but never took his seat in House of Lords; insane for some years before his death. d. Westbury near Bristol 11 June 1855.

CARYSFORT, GRANVILLE LEVESON PROBY, 3 Earl of (brother of the preceding). b. 1781; ed. at Rugby; midshipman R.N. 21 March 1798; present at battles of the Nile and Trafalgar; captain 28 Nov. 1806; admiral on h.p. 9 July 1857; M.P. for co. Wicklow 13 Feb. 1816 to 22 July 1829; succeeded 11 June 1855. d. Elton hall 3 Nov. 1868.

CARYSFORT, GRANVILLE LEVESON PROBY, 4 Earl of (son of the preceding). b. Bushy park, co. Wicklow 14 Sep. 1825; ensign 43 foot 8 Feb. 1842; captain 74 foot 14 March 1851 to 1853; M.P. for co. Wicklow 25 Feb. 1858 to 3 Nov. 1868, when he succeeded; controller of Queen’s household 25 June 1859 to July 1866; P.C. 6 July 1859; K.P. 1869. d. Florence 18 May 1872.

CASAMAJOR, ARSENE AUGUSTUS JOSEPH. Winner of junior sculls at Barnes regatta 1852, of senior sculls 1853; won diamond sculls at Henley on Thames 1855, 1856–7–8 and 1861; won Wingfield challenge sculls at Henley 1855, thus becoming amateur champion of the Thames a title he retained until July 1861; rowed upwards of 50 public races winning more than 40 of them Aug. 1852 to June 1861, he was never beaten in a sculler’s race; an early member of London rowing club; aquatic editor of The Field. d. from breaking a blood vessel Belmont terrace, Wandsworth road, London 7 Aug. 1861 aged 27. Rowing Almanac (1862) xiii-xvi, portrait; The Field 10 Aug. 1861 p. 132, 17 Aug. p. 147.

CASSAL, HUGUES CHARLES STANISLAS (son of a solicitor at Altkirch, département du Haut-Rhin, France, who d. 1845). b. Altkirch 1 April 1818; LL.B. Univ. of France 1839, LLD. 1840; practised at French bar 1840–5; member for Altkirch in Assemblée Nationale 1848; went to England, Jany. 1852; taught French at University college school, London 1856 to death; professor of French at Univ. college, London 1860 to death; created Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur 12 July 1880; author of The graduated course of translation from English into French 2 parts 1875–6, new ed. 1880; Anthology of modern French poetry 2 vols. 1876; A glossary of idioms Gallicisms and other difficulties contained in the senior course of the modern French reader 1881. d. 105 Adelaide road, South Hampstead, London 11 March 1885. Athenæum 21 March 1885 p. 375.

CASSELL, JOHN (son of Mark Cassell, landlord of the Ring o’ Bells in old churchyard, Manchester, who d. 1830). b. the Ring o’ Bells 23 Jany. 1817; apprenticed to a joiner in Salford; went to London, Oct. 1836; a temperance lecturer; a tea and coffee dealer and patent medicine agent at 14 Budge Row, city of London 1847, at 80 Fenchurch st. 1849; started a paper called The Teetotal Times; a publisher in London 1850, took into partnership G. W. Petter and T. D. Galpin 1859; published Working Man’s Friend 1850; Popular Educator 1852; Cassell’s Illustrated Family Paper 31 Dec. 1853 to death; Cassell’s Illustrated Family Bible 2 vols. 1860–66. d. 25 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 2 April 1865. T. Frost’s Forty years recollections (1880) 226–38; Cassell’s Illust. family paper 20 May 1865 pp. 262–4, portrait; Le Livre, Juin 1885 pp. 163–73.

CASSELLS, ANDREW. b. 1811; member of council of India 1874–84. d. 2 Aug. 1886.

CASSERLY, EUGENE. b. Ireland 1822; admitted to New York bar 1844; corporation attorney 1846–7; practised at San Francisco 1850–69 and 1873 to death; edited a paper at San Francisco; elected a senator in congress from California for the term 1869–75 but resigned before expiration of his term. d. San Francisco 14 June 1883.

CASSIDY, JAMES. Composed many pieces of dance music; member of orchestra of T.R. Dublin many years. d. Dublin 28 March 1869.

CASSIE, JAMES. b. Keith hall, Aberdeenshire 1819; pupil of James Giles R.S.A.; a landscape painter at Aberdeen, then at Edin. 1869 to death; exhibited 21 pictures at R.A., London 4 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1854–79; A.R.S.A. 1869, R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1879. d. Edinburgh 11 May 1879.

CASTLE, WILLIAM LANGFORD. b. 31 March 1800; entered navy 19 March 1813; captain 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on half pay 24 May 1867. d. New lodge, Lymington 6 Aug. 1874.

CASTLEMAINE, RICHARD HANDCOCK, 3 Baron (eld. child of Richard Handcock, 2 baron Castlemaine 1767–1840). b. Dublin 17 Nov. 1791; M.P. for Athlone 15 July 1826 to 3 Dec. 1832; succeeded 18 April 1840; a representative peer for Ireland 6 July 1841 to death. d. 4 July 1869.

CASTLESTUART, ROBERT STUART, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 Earl of Castlestuart 1723–1809). b. Dublin 19 Aug. 1784; succeeded 26 Aug. 1809. d. Stuart hall, Tyrone 10 June 1854.

CASTLESTUART, EDWARD STUART, 3 Earl of. b. Lower Brook st. London 11 Sep. 1807. Succeeded 10 June 1854. d. East Cliff, Dover 20 Feb. 1857.

CASTLESTUART, CHARLES ANDREW KNOX Stuart, 4 Earl of. b. Clifton 23 April 1810; succeeded 20 Feb. 1857. d. Stuart hall 12 Sep. 1874.

CASTLETOWN, JOHN WILSON FITZPATRICK, 1 Baron (natural son of John Fitzpatrick 2 Earl of Upper Ossory 1745–1818). b. London 23 Sep. 1811; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Queen’s county 1837–41, 1847–52, and 1865–9; P.C. Ireland 1848; lord lieutenant of Queen’s county 15 Nov. 1855 to death; created baron Castletown of Upper Ossory, Queen’s county 10 Dec. 1869. d. 32 Hertford st. London 22 Jany. 1883. I.L.N. lxxxii, 149 (1883), portrait.

CASWALL, REV. EDWARD (son of Rev. Robert Clarke Caswall, V. of Yateley, Hampshire). b. Yateley 15 July 1814; ed. at Marlborough and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1838; P.C. of Stratford-sub-Castle, Wilts. 1840–6; received into R.C. church by Cardinal Acton at Rome Jany. 1847; admitted into congregation of the Oratory at Edgbaston, Birmingham 29 March 1850 where he was ordained priest; author of A new art teaching how to be plucked, being a treatise after the fashion of Aristotle, writ for the use of students in the Universities, to which is added a synopsis of drinking by Scriblerus Redivivus, Oxford 1835, 7 ed. 1837, often reprinted; Sermons on the seen and the unseen 1846; Lyra Catholica containing all the breviary and missal hymns translated 1849 adopted in most R.C. prayer books; The Masque of Mary and other poems 1858; A May pageant, a tale of Tintern, and other poems 1865. d. The Oratory, Edgbaston 2 Jany. 1878. Gillow’s English catholics i, 429–31 (1885).

CASWALL, REV. HENRY (brother of the preceding). b. Yateley 1810; ed. at Chigwell gr. sch. and Kenyon coll. Ohio, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; ordained deacon by Bishop of Ohio 1831, being the first ordained graduate of Kenyon college; returned to England 1842, obtained a private act of parliament 6 and 7 Vict. c. 32, removing disabilities attaching to his ordination in the U.S. 31 May 1843; V. of Figheldean, Wilts. 1848–70; preb. of Salisbury 1 Feb. 1860–1870; author of America and the American church 1839, 2 ed. 1851; Mormonism and its author 1852; Scotland and the Scottish church 1853; The Western world revisited 1854. d. Franklin, Panama 17 Dec. 1870.

CATER, THOMAS ORLANDO. Second lieut. R.A. 1 April 1809; colonel 28 Nov. 1854 to 26 May 1857 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 26 May 1857. d. Blomfield road, Maida hill, London 5 June 1862 aged 71.

CATES, JAMES. Appointed an attendant at British Museum, London 19 July 1810, attendant in the reading room 20 Jany. 1815, superintendent 1824 to death. d. 38 Alfred st. St. Giles’s, London 22 Dec. 1855 aged 78. R. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1871) 200–208; Report on British Museum (1850) 310–312.

CATHCART, CHARLES MURRAY CATHCART, 2 Earl (eld. son of 1 Earl Cathcart 1755–1843). b. Walton, Essex 21 Dec. 1783; cornet 2 life guards 2 March 1800; permanent assistant quartermaster general 28 July 1814 to 26 June 1823; lieut. col. royal staff corps at Hythe 1823–30; governor of Edinburgh Castle 1837–42; col. 11 hussars 30 Aug. 1842 to 19 Nov. 1847; succeeded as 2 Earl 17 June 1843; governor and commander in chief in British North America 16 March 1846 to 1 Oct. 1849; col. 3 dragoon guards 19 Nov. 1847 to 9 Jany. 1851; commanded northern and midland district of England 1849–54; col. 1 dragoon guards 9 Jany. 1851 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 21 June 1859; discovered a new mineral, a sulphate of cadmium 1841 which was named Greenockite. d. St. Leonard’s on Sea 16 July 1859. H. J. Morgan’s Eminent Canadians (1862) 448–57; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. iv, 222–4 (1862).

CATHCART, FREDERICK MAC ADAM (brother of the preceding). b. 28 Oct. 1789; cornet 2 dragoons 12 Jany. 1805, captain 12 Jany. 1808 to 18 May 1820 when placed on h.p.; sec. of embassy at St. Petersburg 26 May 1820; minister plenipotentiary to the Diet at Frankfort 15 Jany. 1824 to 1826; colonel of Ayrshire militia 6 April 1852; Knight of Russian order of St. Anne. d. Clarendon sq. Leamington 5 March 1865.

CATHCART, SIR GEORGE (brother of the preceding). b. Albemarle st. London 12 May 1794; ed. at Eton and Univ. of Edin.; cornet 2 Life Guards 25 May 1810; lieut. 6 dragoon guards 1811 to 1818 when placed on h.p.; captain 7 hussars 1819 to 1826 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 8 foot 20 March 1828 to 25 Sep. 1835 when placed on h.p.; lieut col. 1 dragoon guards 11 May 1838 to 19 Jany. 1844 when placed on h.p.; deputy lieut. Tower of London 13 Feb. 1846 to 13 Feb. 1852; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; governor and commander in chief of Cape of Good Hope 20 Jany. 1852 to April 1854; granted distinguished service reward 13 July 1853; adjutant general 12 Dec. 1853; commanded fourth division of British army in the Crimea 1854 to death; knight of Russian order of St. Wladimir 3 June 1814; K.C.B. 31 May 1853; author of Commentaries on the war in Russia and Germany in 1812 and 1813, London 1850; shot through the heart at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854; Correspondence of Sir G. Cathcart 1856; Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea vol. 5 (1875); I.L.N. xx, 125 (1852), portrait.

CATHCART, SIR JOHN ANDREW, 5 Baronet (son of Hugh Cathcart). b. 18 Feb. 1810; succeeded his grand uncle 1828. d. Edinburgh 25 March 1878.

CATHERWOOD, FREDERICK. Artist and traveller; drew views of city of Thebes, city of Jerusalem and temples of Baalbec from which Burford painted his pictures of these places published with descriptions 1834–44; travelled in Central America 1839–40; explored Peninsula of Yucatan 1841; took charge of the works for the railway across Isthmus of Panama 1851; author of Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan 1841; left Liverpool for New York on board the “Pacific” 23 Jany. 1856 which steamship has never since been heard of.

CATOR, BERTIE CORNELIUS (son of Joseph Cator of Beckenham, Kent who d. 1818). b. Beckenham 26 Sep. 1787; entered navy April 1800; captain 7 June 1814; retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 12 April 1862. d. London 23 July 1864.

CATOR, SIR WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Beckenham 1785; ed. at Westminster and Woolwich; second lieut. R.A. 7 May 1803, col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 1854, col. commandant 1 April 1860 to death; brigadier general 21 Feb. 1854; L.G. 25 Sep. 1859. Granted distinguished service reward 1 April 1856; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 6 Eaton place, London 11 May 1866.

CATT, WILLIAM (son of John Catt of Sussex, farmer). b. 1780; miller at Lamberhurst, afterwards at Bishopstone near Seaford where he constructed largest watermill in Sussex; his mills became so influential as to govern the flour trade in South of England. d. Newhaven 4 March 1853 in 73 year. M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 217–19, portrait.

CATTERALL, JOSEPH (son of Paul Catterall of Preston, cotton spinner). b. 10 July 1812; barrister M.T. 23 May 1845; district registrar at Preston of Court of Chancery of county palatine of Lancaster 1 March 1854 to 21 Dec. 1876; recorder of Wigan 19 May 1862 to April 1880. d. Fleetwood, Lancs. 6 March 1882.

CATTERALL, PETER (brother of the preceding). b. 1796; attorney at Preston 1817–52; principal registrar of Duchy of Lancaster 10 Feb. 1846 to death. d. Winckley square, Preston 14 July 1873. Law Times lv, 281, 317 (1873).

CATTERMOLE, GEORGE. b. Dickleborough near Diss, Norfolk 8 Aug. 1800; placed with John Britton the antiquary; a water colour painter; an Associate exhibitor of Society of painters in water colours 1822, a Member 1833–50; refused offer of knighthood, July 1839; received at French International exhibition 1855, one of the two grandes médailles d’ honneur awarded to English artists; a member of Royal Academy of Amsterdam 1856; published Cattermole’s Historical annual 1841; Cattermole’s Portfolio of original drawings; illustrated many books and annuals. (m. 20 Aug. 1839 Clarissa Hester dau. of James Elderton, deputy remembrancer of Court of exchequer, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 28 Jany. 1875). d. 4 The Cedars road, Clapham common, London 24 July 1868. John Sherer’s Gallery of British artists i, 97–106.

CATTERMOLE, REV. RICHARD (brother of the preceding). b. about 1795; secretary to Royal Society of Literature 17 June 1823 to 1852; studied at Christ’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1831; V. of Little Marlow, Bucks. 1848 to death; one of the editors of the Sacred Classics or select library of divinity 30 vols. 1834–6; author of Becket and other poems, anon., 1832; The book of the cartoons of Raphael 1837; The literature of the Church of England 2 vols. 1844; Evenings at Haddon hall 1850. d. Boulogne 6 Dec. 1858.

CAULFIELD, RIGHT REV. CHARLES (_eld. son of Rev. Hans Caulfield, R. of Kilmanagh, co. Kerry, who d. June 1854_). Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1858; ordained deacon 1827, priest 1828; P.C. of Clamantagh, Ossory 1832; R. of Kilcock, Kildare 1832–43; R. of Creagh, Ross 4 Aug. 1843 to Jany. 1858; archdeacon of the Bahamas 2 Feb. 1858; bishop of Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas (the first) 6 Nov. 1861 to death; consecrated at Lambeth 24 Nov. 1861; author of The fall of Babylon 1839. d. Nassau 4 Sep. 1862.

CAULFIELD, HENRY (son of 1 Earl of Charlemont 1728–99). b. 29 July 1779; M.P. for co. Armagh 17 July 1802 to 29 April 1807, 23 Sep. 1815 to 10 June 1818 and 22 March 1820 to 24 July 1830. d. Hockley near Armagh 4 March 1862.

CAULFIELD, JAMES (son of Ven. John Caulfield, archdeacon of Kilmore). b. 30 Jany. 1782; entered Bengal army 1798; col. 10 Bengal light cavalry 10 March 1841 to death; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; a director of East India company 1848 to death; M.P. for Abingdon 8 July 1852, but did not take his seat dying on day parliament met. d. Copswood, co. Limerick 4 Nov. 1852.

CAULFIELD, RICHARD, b. city of Cork 23 April 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, M.A. and L.L.D. 1866; librarian of Royal Institution, Cork 1864 to death; librarian of Queen’s college, Cork 1876 to death; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1862; edited for Camden Society Diary of Rowland Davies, D.D. dean of Cork 1857; published Life of St. Finn Barre 1864 the MS. of which he discovered in Bodleian library, Oxford 1862; edited Council book of corporation of Cork 1876 and other valuable works, d. city of Cork about 20 Feb. 1887.

CAUNT, BENJAMIN. b. Hucknall-Torkard, Notts. 22 March 1815; pugilist; beaten by Wm. Thompson known as Bendigo 21 July 1835, fought him again 3 April 1838 when Caunt won; beat John Leechman known as Brassey after 101 rounds 26 Oct. 1840 and became champion of England; beaten by Nicholas Ward 2 Feb. 1841, beat him 11 May 1841; went to the United States Sep. 1841; proprietor of Coach and Horses public house, 90 St. Martin’s lane, London 1843 to death; fought Bendigo near Sutfield green, Oxfordshire for £200 a side and the championship 9 Sep. 1845 when referee decided in favour of Bendigo in the 93rd round; fought Nat. Langham 23 Sep. 1857 when after 60 rounds no decision was given, d. 90 St. Martin’s lane, London 10 Sep. 1861. bur. Hucknall-Torkard churchyard 14 Sep. H.D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii, 47–93 (1880), portrait; Fights for the championship by the Editor of Bell’s Life in London (1860) 135–42, 158–209; Modern Boxing by Pendragon i.e. H. Sampson (1879) 2–9.

CAUNTER, REV. JOHN HOBART. b. Dittisham, Devon 21 July 1794; went to India as a cadet about 1809; studied at Peterhouse coll. Cam., B.D. 1828; incumbent of St. Paul’s chapel, Foley place, London 1825–44; V. of Hailsham, Sussex 1844–6; minister of St. James’s chapel, Kennington 1846–8; C. of Prittlewell, Essex 1848 to death; edited The Oriental Annual 1830–9; author of The Cadet 2 vols. 1814, a poem; The romance of history, India 3 vols. 1836 republished 1872; The fellow commoner, a novel, anon., 3 vols. 1836; The poetry of the Pentateuch 2 vols. 1839; Illustrations of the five books of Moses 2 vols. 1847. d. Edward st. Portman sq. London 14 Nov. 1851. G.M. xxxvii, 627–8 (1852); Notes and Queries 4 S. vi, 274, 353, 445 (1870).

CAUSTON, SIR JOSEPH (son of R. Causton of St. Albans). b. St. Albans 1815; wholesale stationer at 47 Eastcheap, London 1837 to death; common councilman for Billingsgate 1848; alderman for Bridge within 1867 to death; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1868–9; knighted at Windsor Castle 11 Dec. 1869 after the Queen’s visit to the city to open Blackfriars bridge and Holborn viaduct. d. Champion hill near London 27 May 1871. bur. Norwood cemetery 3 June. City Press 3 June 1871 p. 5 and 10 June p. 5.

CAUTLEY, SIR PROBY THOMAS (son of Rev. Thomas Cautley, R. of Roydon, Suffolk who d. 13 July 1817). b. Roydon 1802; ed. at Charterhouse and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 1819, lieut. col. 5 May 1849 to 17 May 1854; constructed Ganges canal works 1843–54, canal opened 8 April 1854; director of canals in North West Provinces 1848; member of council of India 1858–68; chairman of public works committee 1860; gave to British Museum extensive collection of fossil mammalia from Sivalik hills in North West Provinces of India; F.G.S. 1836, Wollaston medalist 1837; F.R.S. 2 April 1846; K.C.B. 29 July 1854; wrote an elaborate report on construction of Ganges canal consisting of 3 vols. with a large atlas of plans 1860. d. The Avenue, Sydenham park, Kent 25 Jany. 1871 in 69 year.

CAUTLEY, REV. WILLIAM GRAINGER (son of Rev. J. Cautley of Messing, Essex). Educ. at Christ’s hospital and Pemb. hall, Cam., 15 wrangler and 2 chancellor’s medallist 1805, member’s prizeman 1806 and 1807, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1809; fellow of Clare hall 1808–31; chaplain to the forces 25 Dec. 1809 to 21 April 1818; present at battle of Waterloo; R. of Earsham, Norfolk 1831 to death. d. Earsham 26 March 1855 aged 72.

CAVAGNARI, SIR PIERRE LOUIS NAPOLEON (eld. son of Major the Count Adolphe Cavagnari, private secretary to Prince Lucien Buonaparte). b. Stenay, department of the Meuse, France 4 July 1841; ed. at Christ’s hospital, London; granted a certificate of naturalisation 7 Dec. 1857; ensign 1 Bengal Fusiliers, 9 April 1858; held political charge of the Kohat district, April 1866 to May 1877; deputy comr. of Peshawar, May 1877; negotiated treaty of Gandamuck with Yakub Khan, Ameer of Afghanistan 26 May 1879; British resident at Cabul 24 July 1879; C.S.I. 1 Jany. 1877, K.C.B. 19 July 1879; killed by Afghans in citadel, Cabul 3 Sep. 1879. Kaliprasanna’s Life of sir L. Cavagnari 1881, portrait; Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 37–41, portrait; Graphic xx, 4, 29, 261, 304 (1879), portraits.

CAVE, SIR STEPHEN (eld. son of Daniel Cave of Cleve hill near Bristol 1789–1872). b. Clifton 28 Dec. 1820; ed. at Harrow and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1846; M.P. for New Shoreham 29 April 1859 to 24 March 1880; paymaster general and vice pres. of board of trade 10 July 1866 to Dec. 1868; P.C. 10 July 1866; judge advocate and paymaster general 25 Feb. 1874 to Nov. 1875; paymaster general Nov. 1875 to 24 March 1880; went on a special mission to Egypt, Dec. 1875; chairman of West India committee; G.C.B. 20 March 1880. d. Chambéry, Savoy 6 June 1880, personalty sworn under £350,000 21 Aug. 1880. I.L.N. lxvii, 581 (1875), portrait; Graphic xi, 574, 589 (1875), portrait.

CAVE-BROWNE-CAVE, SIR JOHN ROBERT, 10 Baronet. b. Stretton-en-le-Field near Ashby-de-la-Zouch 4 March 1798; succeeded 22 Aug. 1838; sheriff of Derbyshire 1844. d. Stretton hall 11 Nov. 1855.

CAVENDISH, FREDERICK CHARLES (2 son of 7 Duke of Devonshire, b. 1808). b. Compton place, Eastbourne 30 Nov. 1836; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1858; private sec. to Earl Granville, pres. of the council 1859–64; M.P. for north division of west riding of Yorkshire 15 July 1865 to death; private sec. to W. E. Gladstone, July 1872 to Aug. 1873; a lord of the treasury, Aug. 1873 to Feb. 1874; financial sec. to the treasury, April 1880 to May 1882; chief sec. to Earl Spencer, lord lieutenant of Ireland, May 1882, sworn in at the Castle, Dublin 6 May; stabbed to death in Phœnix park, Dublin by assassins calling themselves “the Invincibles” 6 May 1882. bur. in churchyard of Edensor near Chatsworth 11 May, a memorial window placed in St. Margaret’s church, Westminster at cost of members of House of Commons 22 Feb. 1883, statue of him at Barrow in Furness uncovered 2 June 1885. C. Brown’s Life of Lord Beaconsfield ii, 237 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. xlviii, 144 (1866), portrait, lxxx, 456, 477, 502 (1882), portrait.

CAVENDISH, GEORGE HENRY (2 son of hon. Wm. Cavendish 1783–1812). b. 19 Aug. 1810; M.P. for North Derbyshire 27 May 1834 to 24 March 1880; raised to rank of an Earl’s son 1837 and to that of a Duke’s son 1858. d. Ashford hall near Bakewell 23 Sep. 1880.

CAVENDISH, HENRY FREDERICK COMPTON (3 son of 1 Earl of Burlington 1754–1834). b. 5 Nov. 1789; lieut. 10 hussars 22 June 1808; lieut. col. 1 life guards 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; colonel 2 dragoon guards 2 June 1853 to death; general 9 Nov. 1862; M.P. for Derby 17 June 1818 to 29 Dec. 1834. d. Burlington gardens, London 5 April 1873.

CAW, JOHN YOUNG. b. Perth about 1810; ed. at St. Andrew’s and Trin. coll. Cam.; connected with Bank of Manchester, then with Manchester and Salford bank; member of Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 1841, librarian 1854–6; F.S.A.; author of The necessity and advantage of a bankers clearing house 1847; Some remarks on the deserted village of Oliver Goldsmith 1852. d. Fountain villa, Cheetham hill near Manchester 22 Oct. 1858.

CAWDOR, JOHN FREDERICK CAMPBELL, 1 Earl of (elder son of John Campbell 1 baron Cawdor who d. 1 June 1821 aged 71). b. London 8 Nov. 1790; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1812, D.C.L. 1841; F.R.S. 11 June 1812; M.P. for Carmarthen 20 Dec. 1813 to 1 June 1821; created Viscount Emlyn of Emlyn and Earl of Cawdor 5 Oct. 1827; lord lieut. of Carmarthenshire 15 May 1852 to death. d. Stackpoole court, Pembrokeshire 7 Nov. 1860.

CAWLEY, CHARLES EDWARD (son of Samuel Cawley of Gooden house, Middleton near Manchester). b. Gooden house 7 Feb. 1812; civil engineer in London and Manchester; engineer to Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale railway; M.I.C.E. 30 June 1846; alderman of Salford 1859 to death; arbitrator to Board of Trade 1868; M.P. for Salford 17 Nov. 1868 to death. d. The Heath, Kersal near Manchester 2 or 9 April 1877. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. l, 175–7 (1877); Graphic xv, 356 (1877), portrait.

CAY, JOHN (eld. son of Robert Hodshon Cay of North Charlton, Northumberland, judge admiral of Scotland). b. Edinburgh 31 Aug. 1790; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; admitted advocate 1812; sheriff of Linlithgowshire 1822 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1821; member of Royal Scottish Society of Arts; author of An analysis of the Scottish reform act 2 parts 1837–40; Analysis of the burgh registration act; Outlines of the procedure at elections for members of parliament. d. Edinburgh 13 Dec. 1865. Journal of Jurisprudence x, 24 (1866).

CAYLEY, CHARLES BAGOT (younger son of Henry Cayley of St. Petersburg, merchant 1768–1850). b. near St. Petersburg 9 July 1823; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1845; published Dante’s Divine comedy, translated in the original ternary rhyme 4 vols. 1851–5; Psyche’s Interludes 1857 a small vol. of poems; The Psalms in metre 1860; Filippo Malincontri or student life in Venetia, an autobiography translated from the Italian 2 vols. 1861; The Iliad of Homer, homometrically translated 1877; author with F. Garrido of History of political and religious persecutions 2 vols. 1876. d. suddenly of heart disease at 4 South crescent, Bloomsbury, London, night of 5–6 Dec. 1883. Athenæum ii, 776, 817 (1883).

NOTE.—An accurate likeness of him exists in Ford Madox Brown’s fresco in the Manchester town hall, of Wm. Crabtree of Broughton watching the transit of Venus over the sun 24 Nov. 1639. He was the original of Oliver Serpleton in Oliver Madox Brown’s story The Dwale Bluth (in his Literary Remains 1876).

CAYLEY, SIR DIGBY, 7 Baronet. b. York 13 March 1807; succeeded 15 Dec. 1857. d. Brompton near Scarborough 22 Dec. 1883.

CAYLEY, EDWARD STILLINGFLEET (only son of John Cayley of Low hall near Brompton, who d. 16 June 1846). b. Newbold hall near Market Weighton 13 Aug. 1802; ed. at Rugby and Brasenose coll. Ox.; M.P. for North Riding of Yorkshire 17 Dec. 1832 to death; chairman of committees on Hand-loom weavers 1834–5 and on Agricultural distress; edited Agricultural and Industrial Mag. 25 numbers 1 Oct. 1834 to 1 Dec. 1835. d. 11 Dean’s yard, Westminster 25 Feb. 1862. Farmer’s Mag. x, 81–4 (1844), portrait, xxi, 354–5 (1862).

CAYLEY, EDWARD STILLINGFLEET (elder son of the preceding). b. 30 July 1824; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister I.T. 13 June 1851; author of The European revolutions of 1848 2 vols. 1856; The war of 1870 and the peace of 1871, 1871. d. Wydale, Brompton 10 Sep. 1884.

CAYLEY, SIR GEORGE, 6 Baronet (only son of sir Thomas Cayley, 5 baronet 1732–92). b. 27 Dec. 1773; succeeded 15 March 1792; invented an instrument for testing purity of water by abstraction of light, and another for obtaining and applying electric power to machinery; carried out a system of arterial drainage in Yorkshire on a principle previously unknown in England; the first promoter and adopter of cottage allotment system; chairman of the Polytechnic Institution, Regent st. London 1838; chairman of the Whig club at York. d. Brompton 15 Dec. 1857. The Times 18 Dec. 1857 p. 7, col. 6.

CAYLEY, GEORGE JOHN (younger son of Edward Stillingfleet Cayley 1802–62). b. 26 Jany. 1826; ed. at Eton; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; author of Some account of the life and adventures of Sir Reginald Mohun, Baronet, done in verse 1850; Las alforjas or the bridle roads of Spain 2 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1860. d. Hunton rectory, Kent 11 Oct. 1878.

CAZALET, EDWARD. b. Brighton 1827; author of The Berlin conference and the Anglo-Turkish convention 1878; The Eastern congress an address to working men 1878, 2 ed. 1879; Bimetallism and its connection with commerce 1879. d. Hotel d’Angleterre, Constantinople 21 April 1883.

CAZALET, REV. WILLIAM WAHAB. b. 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; ordained deacon 1834, priest 1836; teacher of elocution in London; chaplain to the union, Watford, Herts.; author of The history of the Royal Academy of music 1854; On the right management of the voice in speaking and reading 1855; Stammering its cause and cure 1858; The voice or the art of singing 1861. d. Watford 24 April 1875.

CAZENOVE, JOHN (son of James Cazenove of Old Broad st. London, merchant, who d. 20 Oct. 1827 aged 83). b. 1788; one of a club of 35 members formed to promote views of political economy 1821; president of London Chess Club; author of A selection of games at chess 1817; An elementary treatise on political economy 1840; Thoughts on a few subjects of political economy 1859. d. 13 Middleton road, Battersea Rise, London 15 Aug. 1879.

CAZENOVE, PHILIP (brother of the preceding). b. Nov. 1798; ed. at the Charterhouse; member of Stock Exchange, London; head of firm of P. Cazenove and Co. stockbrokers Threadneedle st.; a munificent supporter of Church societies, hospitals and charities of every kind. d. Clapham Common, London 20 Jany. 1880, personalty sworn under £250,000 Feb. 1880. Guardian 28 Jany. 1880 p. 106, col. 1.

CECIL, REV. WILLIAM (son of Rev. Richard Cecil). b. 1792; ed. at Magd. coll. Cam.; Bell’s Univ. scholar 1811; 17 wrangler 1814; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; fellow of his college; R. of Longstanton St. Michael near Cambridge 1823 to death; author of The church choir, a collection of psalm and hymn tunes 1846; Recollections suitable for confirmation and other solemn seasons 1856, 3 ed. 1873; Spanish metres illustrated in music and English verse 1866. d. Longstanton rectory 10 Feb. 1882.

CELESTE, MADAME, stage name of Celeste Elliott (dau. of Monsieur Keppler of Paris). b. Paris 6 Aug. 1811; ed. at Academie Royale de Musique; made her first appearance at Bowery theatre, New York as a dancer 27 June 1827; first appeared in London at Drury Lane theatre 1830 in ballet of La Bayadère; played in Italy, Germany and Spain 1832–3; played in United States 1834–7 clearing sum of £40,000; manager with B. Webster of T.R., Liverpool Christmas 1843; directress of Adelphi theatre, London 1844–8; manager of Lyceum theatre, London 28 Nov. 1859 to Aug. 1860; re-appeared in New York 23 Aug. 1865; sailed for Australia Oct. 1866 and returned to England early in 1868; made her last appearance 15 May 1878 at Drury Lane; her best characters were Mathilde in The French Spy and Miami in The green bushes. (m. 1828 Henry Elliott of Baltimore who d. 1842). d. 18 Rue Chapeyron, Paris 12 Feb. 1882. H. P. Phelps’s Players of a century (1880) 122, 189, 198, 265, 278; C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 74–83; Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 27–8, portrait; Brown’s American stage (1870) 65, 74, portrait; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait.

CHABOT, CHARLES. b. Battersea, London 1815; a lithographer and engraver in Skinner st. Snowhill, Holborn; an expert in handwriting; gave evidence at trial of Wm. Roupell, M.P. for Lambeth, who was sentenced to penal servitude for life for forgery 24 Sep. 1862; examined handwriting of letters of Junius and compared it with handwriting of persons to whom letters had been attributed 1871. d. 26 Albert sq. Clapham, London 15 Oct. 1882 in 68 year. Cornhill Mag. Feb. 1885, pp. 148–62; I.L.N. lxxxi, 549 (1882), portrait.

CHABOT, PHILIP JAMES (son of Mr. Chabot of Spitalfields, London, dyer who d. 1832). b. Spitalfields 1801; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 11 May 1830; a dyer in Fashion st. Spitalfields 1832–56; originator of the Silk Conditioning Society, secretary and manager to death; member of Spitalfields Mathematical Soc. 1834, F.R.A.S. 1845; member of Cavendish, Philological and Chemical Societies; made several improvements in dyeing. d. 41 Claremont sq. Pentonville, London 11 Jany. 1868.

CHAD, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet. b. 21 April 1779; ensign 92 foot 15 March 1798; cornet royal horse guards 3 May 1800; lieut. 2 life guards 2 April 1803 to 7 Nov. 1805 when he retired; succeeded 24 Nov. 1815. d. 1 Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 30 Sep. 1855.

CHADS, SIR HENRY DUCIE (eld. son of Henry Chads, captain R.N. who d. 10 Oct. 1799). b. 1788; entered navy Sep. 1803, captain 25 July 1825; captain of Andromache 28 guns 1834–7 and 1841–5; commodore in East Indies 3 Feb. 1844 to 29 June 1844; superintendent of royal naval college at Portsmouth and captain of Excellent 28 Aug. 1845 to 12 Jany. 1854; fourth (afterwards third) in command of Baltic fleet on board Edinburgh 6 Feb. to Dec. 1854; commander in chief at Cork 1 April 1856 to 24 Nov. 1858; chairman of committee on coast defence 1859; admiral 3 Dec. 1863; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; granted good service pension 4 May 1865. d. Southsea 7 April 1868. Memoir of Sir H. D. Chads by an Old follower (M. Barrows) 1869, portrait; James’s Naval history v, 409–23 (1860).

CHADS, JOHN CORNELL (brother of the preceding). Second lieut. R.M. 4 May 1809; captain 1 West India Regiment 27 Jany. 1820, major 22 April 1836 to 3 March 1843 when he retired on full pay; president of British Virgin Islands 1852 to death. d. Government house, Tortola 28 Feb. 1854 aged 60.

CHADWICK, REV. FRANCIS (son of Francis Chadwick of Burgh hall, Lancs.) b. 14 Sep. 1801; entered Society of Jesus 7 Sep. 1818; prefect of studies and professor of rhetoric at Stonyhurst college 1827, minister of Stonyhurst 12 March 1833; went to Rome 14 Jany. 1834; sailed from Portsmouth for Calcutta 31 May 1834; served Mission at Calcutta 1834–8 and 1839–42; served Missions of Worcester 1842, Holywell 1844–6, London 1851. d. Oxford 5 March 1857.

CHADWICK, RIGHT REV. JAMES (3 son of John Chadwick of Drogheda). b. Drogheda 24 April 1813; entered St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw 26 May 1825, ordained priest 17 Dec. 1836, general prefect, professor of humanities, mental philosophy and pastoral theology successively 1837–50; professor again 1856–9 and 1863; served missions in North of England 1850–6; chaplain to Lord Stourton 1859–63; bishop of Hexham and Newcastle 31 Aug. 1866 to death; consecrated at St. Cuthbert’s 28 Oct. 1866. d. Newcastle 14 May 1882. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 444–6 (1885).

CHADWICK, SAMUEL TAYLOR. L.S.A. 1831, M.R.C.S. 1831, F.R.C.S. 1858; M.D. Edin. 1848; surgeon at Wigan 1831, at Bolton 1837 to May 1863 when he was presented by 7000 working men with a full-length portrait of himself; made over to trustees sum of £22,000 to build and maintain an orphanage for children in the Bolton union 1868–9, orphanage was opened Dec. 1874; a bronze statue of him in Town hall square, Bolton, was unveiled 1 Aug. 1873. d. Peel house, Southport 3 May 1876 aged 66. I.L.N. lxiii, 127, 129, (1873).

CHADWICK, WILLIAM (2 son of John Chadwick of Pentonville, London, mason, who d. 1821). b. 1797; statuary and mason in Southwark 1818; built St. Peter’s church, Newington; erected bridges on Great Western railway; carried out line of railway from Didcot to Oxford 1844; chairman of London and Richmond railway which line was opened 27 July 1846. d. 8 Jany. 1853.

CHAINE, JAMES. b. Ballycragie, co. Antrim 1841; sheriff of Antrim 1873; M.P. for co. Antrim 16 Feb. 1874 to death. d. Larne, co. Antrim 4 May 1885.

CHALK, SIR JAMES JELL (2 son of James Chalk of Queenborough, Kent). b. Queenborough 1803; articled to an attorney 1819, admitted 1824; a strolling actor; entered Ecclesiastical commission office 4 Oct. 1836; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1839; assistant sec. to Ecclesiastical commissioners Sep. 1849, sec. Dec. 1850 to 4 Oct. 1871 when he resigned; knighted at Osborne 28 July 1871; F.S.A. 30 May 1872; d. 80 Warwick sq. Pimlico, London 23 Sep. 1878.

CHALLICE, ANNIE EMMA (dau. of Mr. Armstrong). b. London 1821; author of The village school fête 1847; The sister of charity 1857; The secret history of the court of France under Louis XV, 1861 anon.; French authors at home 1864; Illustrious women of France 1873. (m. the succeeding). d. of cancer of the liver at 7 Upper Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 11 Jany. 1875.

CHALLICE, JOHN. b. Horsham, Sussex 1815; L.S.A. 1836, M.D. King’s college, Aberdeen 1850, F.R.C.P. Edin. 1860; deputy coroner for East Middlesex to 1860; medical officer of health for Bermondsey 1856 to death; author of Should the Cholera come what ought to be done? 1848; Medical advice to mothers 1851; Letter to Lord Palmerston on sanitary reform 1854. d. 13 Great Cumberland st. London 11 May 1863.

CHALLIS, REV. JAMES (4 son of John Challis of Braintree, Essex). b. Braintree 12 Dec. 1803; ed. at Mill Hill school, London and Trin. Coll. Cam., scholar 1824, senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1825, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; fellow of his college 1826–31; re-elected fellow May 1870; R. of Papworth Everard 1830–52; examiner for the Smith prizes 1836–78; Plumian professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy in Univ. of Cam. 2 Feb. 1836 to death; director of Cambridge observatory 1836–61; invented the Meteoroscope 1848 and the Transit reducer 1849; F.R.A.S. 8 April 1836, F.R.S. 9 June 1848; author of Notes on the principles of pure and applied calculation and applications of mathematical principles to theories of the physical forces 1869; Lectures on practical astronomy and astronomical instruments 1879. d. 2 Trumpington st. Cambridge 3 Dec. 1882. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xliii, 160–79 (1883).

CHALLIS, THOMAS (son of Thomas Challis of 92 Fore st. Cripplegate, London, butcher). b. 92 Fore st. 1 or 2 July 1794; a skin broker in Finsbury, a hide and skin salesman in Leadenhall and Bermondsey markets; alderman of Cripplegate ward 17 Oct. 1843; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1846–7; lord mayor 1852–3, there was no procession or dinner in consequence of recent death of Duke of Wellington; M.P. for Finsbury 9 July 1852 to 20 March 1857. d. Baker st. Enfield 20 Aug. 1874. I.L.N. xxi, 396 (1852), portrait; City Press 22 Aug. 1874 p. 5, 29 Aug. p. 4.

CHALMER, JAMES ARCHIBALD. Second lieut. R.A. 10 Aug. 1804, assistant director general 17 Jany. 1843, colonel 11 Nov. 1851 to 15 May 1855; M.G. 15 May 1855. d. 17 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 9 Dec. 1856 aged 69.

CHALMERS, GEORGE PAUL (son of Mr. Chalmers of Montrose, master of a small coasting vessel). b. Montrose 1833; apprenticed to a ship-chandler; ed. at Trustees school, Edin. 1853–5; painter in Edin. of portraits, subject pictures and landscapes; A.R.S.A. 1867, R.S.A. 1871; exhibited 58 pictures at R.S.A. 1855–78, 20 at Glasgow 1862–78, and 6 at R.A. 1863–76; found insensible in an area in Charlotte st. Edin. 16 Feb. 1878. d. Royal infirmary, Edin. 20 Feb. 1878. George Paul Chalmers, R.S.A. 1879, portrait; Good Words xix, 285–8 (1878).

CHALMERS, JAMES. b. Arbroath 2 Feb. 1782; bookseller in Castle st. Dundee; convener of the Nine Incorporated Trades; member of town council, Dundee, treasurer several years; vice consul for Sweden and Norway at Dundee Sep. 1827; suggested a uniform rate of postage and exhibited a sample of an adhesive postage stamp in Dundee, Aug. 1834; competed for premium of £200 offered by the Government for best design of a postage stamp, there were 2000 candidates, but the premium was never awarded, d. Comley bank, Dundee 26 Aug. 1853. James Chalmers the inventor of the adhesive stamp by Patrick Chalmers 1884; Philatelic Record iii, 194–201, iv, 27, 68, 167, 169–72, 184–6.

CHALMERS, JAMES. b. Perthshire; an engineer in America; practised in London 1861 to death; invented Chalmers target for defence of ships of war, it was tried at Shoeburyness 1863 and nearly completed at Atlas works, Sheffield for War Office at time of his death; made a design for a wrought-iron railway tunnel across the English channel; his Indian problem at chess baffled some of the best players; author of Channel railway connecting England and France 1861, 2 ed. 1867; England’s danger, the Admiralty policy of naval construction 1864; Armour for ships and forts 1865. d. 22 Southampton road, Haverstock hill, London 26 Dec. 1868 aged 49.

CHALMERS, PATRICK (eld. son of Patrick Chalmers of Auldbar castle near Brechin who d. 1826). b. Auldbar castle 31 Oct. 1802; cornet 3 dragoon guards 12 June 1823, captain 1826–27 when he sold out; M.P. for Forfar district of burghs 15 Jany. 1835 to April 1842; F.S.A. 24 Jany. 1850; author of The ancient sculptural monuments of Angus 1848; The Cartulary of the abbey of Arbroath, vol. 2, 1856. d. Rome 23 June 1854. bur. churchyard of Auldbar church which he had just rebuilt. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xi, 164–70 (1855).

CHALMERS, REV. PETER. Licensed by presbytery of Glasgow 11 Sep. 1814; minister of Dunfermline (second charge) 17 March 1817, ordained 18 July 1817; minister of Dunfermline (first charge) 5 Oct. 1836 to death; joined Free Secession 18 May 1843 but changed his mind and was received back 21 June 1843; D.D. 5 Feb. 1855; author of Two discourses on the sin, danger and remedy of duelling 1822; An historical and statistical account of Dunfermline 2 vols. 1844–59. d. the Abbey church manse, Dunfermline 11 April 1870 in 80 year.

CHALMERS, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Chalmers, town clerk of Dundee). b. Castle st. Dundee 1785; ensign 52 foot 9 July 1803, captain 27 Aug. 1807 to 2 Oct. 1817 when placed on h.p.; brigade major of various infantry brigades in Peninsular campaigns 1810–14; colonel of 20 foot 28 Feb. 1853, of 78 foot 30 Sep. 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; K.C.H. 1837, C.B. 19 July 1838; knighted by patent 17 April 1844; principal clerk of the peace for the county of Forfar and keeper of Sasines about 1830 to death. d. Glenericht, Perthshire 21 June 1860. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 179–81.

CHALON, ALFRED EDWARD (younger son of Jean Chalon, professor of French at Royal military college at Sandhurst). b. Geneva 15 Feb. 1780; student at R.A. London 1797; exhibited 363 pictures at R.A. and 21 at B.I. 1801–60; A.R.A. 1812, R.A. 1816; founded with 7 other artists the Evening Sketching Society 1808 which lasted 40 years; the most fashionable portrait painter in water colours; painted the first portrait of Queen Victoria after her accession and many portraits of the female aristocracy; painter in water colours to the Queen; exhibited at Society of Arts a collection of 120 of his brother’s works with some of his own 1855. d. El Retiro, Campden hill, Kensington, London 3 Oct. 1860. Athenæum, ii, 487, 756, 792 (1860); Art Journal (1860) 337, (1862) 9; A memoir of T. Uwins with his correspondence with A. E. Chalon 1858.

CHALON, JOHN JAMES (brother of the preceding). b. Geneva 27 March 1778; a student at Royal Academy, London 1796; member of Watercolour society 1808–13; A.R.A. 1827, R.A. 1841; exhibited 86 pictures at R.A. and 49 at B.I. 1801–54; painted landscapes, figure and animal subjects, and marine pictures with equal facility; author of Sketches of Parisian manners 1820. d. El Retiro, Campden hill, Kensington 14 Nov. 1854. Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 468–73 (1866); Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 167–9 (1862).

CHALON, THOMAS BARNARD. Judge advocate general Madras army 21 Aug. 1840 to 17 June 1859; retired M.G. 17 June 1859. d. Stuttgard 28 Jany. 1867 aged 67.

CHALONER, THOMAS (son of Robert Chaloner of Guisborough). b. 6 Feb. 1815; entered navy 2 Aug. 1827; captain 6 April 1853, retired 31 March 1866; retired admiral 2 Aug. 1879; C.B. 24 May 1881. d. Long Hull, Guisborough 20 Oct. 1884.

CHALONER, THOMAS (son of a baker at Manchester). b. Manchester 2 June 1839; won the St. Leger by a head on Caller Ou 1861 when betting was 100 to 1 against him, on The Marquis 1862, Achievement 1867, Formosa 1868, and Craigmillar 1875; won the Oaks on Feu de Joie 1862, the Two thousand guineas and Derby on Macaroni 1863; won 409 races 1855–63; combined coolness with great ability and a patience excelled by no other jockey; a trainer at Newmarket 1879 to death. d. Osborne house, Newmarket 3 April 1886. Sporting Review lii, 61–3 (1864), portrait, Illust. sp. and dr. news i, 16 (1874), portrait, iii, 261 (1875), portrait, and 17 April 1876, portrait; Sporting Life 5 Feb. 1887 p. 5, portrait.

CHAMBERLAIN, CHARLES FRANCIS FALCON (youngest son of Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1 baronet 1773–1829). b. 11 Oct. 1826; major Bombay staff corps 13 June 1866 to death; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. d. Umballa, Punjab, India 31 Oct. 1870.

CHAMBERLAIN, SIR HENRY ORLANDO Robert, 3 Baronet (elder son of Sir Henry Chamberlain, 2 baronet 1796–1843). b. 15 Dec. 1828; succeeded 8 Sep. 1843; member of Corps of Gentlemen-at-arms Oct. 1857 to 1860. d. Bruges 30 Dec. 1870.

CHAMBERLAIN, JOHN HENRY (son of Rev. Joseph Chamberlain, minister of Calvinistic Baptists at Leicester). b. Leicester 26 June 1831; architect at Birmingham 1856 to death; partner with Wm. Martin 13 April 1864 to death; built Institute buildings in Paradise st. and Free Libraries in Edmund st; member of council of Midland Institute 1867, hon. sec. 1868 to death; member of Society of Artists March 1861, professor of architecture 1861, vice pres. 1879. d. at house of Lawson Tait, The Crescent, Birmingham 22 Oct. 1883. Edgbastonia iii, 161–6 (1883), portrait; The Architect 27 Oct. 1883 pp. 254–5.

CHAMBERLAIN, WILLIAM CHARLES (brother of Charles Francis Falcon Chamberlain). b. 21 April 1818; entered navy June 1831, captain 21 Feb. 1856; superintendent of Chatham dockyard 30 Nov. 1868 to 19 Jany. 1874; R.A. 19 Jany 1874, superintendent of Devonport dockyard 5 Aug. 1875 to 1 May 1876. d. Brighton 27 Feb. 1878.

CHAMBERLAYNE, THOMAS (only son of Rev. Thomas Chamberlayne, R. of Charlton, Kent). b. 1805; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox.; purchased the old hull of a celebrated cutter called the Arrow, and from her midship section built a cutter of 84 tons called the Arrow which won cups and prizes worth several thousands, she beat the America and the Mosquito at Ryde 22 July 1852, and the Volante and 6 other yachts at Ryde 4 Aug. 1869; made a beautiful cricket ground at Cranbury near Winchester 1834, and got together an Eleven second to none in England; pres. of Marylebone Cricket Club; a great coursing, hunting and coaching man; built stables at Cranbury at an expense of £20,000 which are matchless in style; sheriff of Hampshire 1835. d. Cranbury park 21 Oct. 1876. Baily’s mag. xii, 55–59 (1867), portrait; Hunt’s yachting mag. i, 103 (1853), xviii, 30–5, 381–91, xxv, 699 (1876).

CHAMBERLAYNE, WILLIAM, b. The Ryes, Essex 12 Aug. 1788; ed. at Westminster; captain 2 dragoon guards 9 May 1811 to 30 Dec. 1826 when placed on h.p.; general 14 Jany. 1866. d. Orford house, Oakley, Essex 21 July 1869.

CHAMBERS, REV. JOHN CHARLES (son of John Chambers of The Tything, Worcester, topographer 1780–1839). b. The Tything 23 Nov. 1817; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1842; founded the first Sunday schools in Cambridge; C. of Sedbergh, Yorkshire 1842–6; missionary priest at Perth 1846–50; canon and chancellor of St. Ninian’s cathedral, Perth 1850–5; V. of St. Mary Magdalene, Harlow 1855–6; Inc. of St. Mary the Virgin, Crown st. Soho, London 1856 to death, this was the first parish in which church guilds were set on foot; warden of House of Charity, Soho Nov. 1856 to death; author of Sermons 1857; Reformation not deformation 1864; The destruction of Sin, being thirteen addresses delivered in Advent 1872, edited by J. J. Elkington 1874. d. London 21 May 1874.

CHAMBERS, JOHN GRAHAM (eld. son of Wm. Chambers of Hafod, Cardiganshire 1809–75). b. Llanelly, Carmarthenshire 12 Feb. 1843; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1865; the best walker in the University; rowed against Oxford 1862 and 1863; won the 7 mile walking championship March 1866; founded the Amateur Athletic Club at Beaufort house grounds, Walham green, 1866; pres. of Cambridge University Boat Club 1864–6; won the Colquhoun sculls at Cam. 1863, and the senior sculls at Barnes 1865 and 1866; coached the Cambridge crew at Putney 1871–4; edited Land and Water 1871 to death. d. 10 Wetherby terrace, Earl’s court, London 4 March 1883. Sporting Mirror v, 121–3 (1883), portrait; Land and Water xxxv, 175–6, 249–50 (1883); Illust. sporting and dr. news i, 136 (1874), portrait.

CHAMBERS, MONTAGU (5 son of George Chambers of Harford, Hunts.) b. 1799; ensign Grenadier Guards 9 Nov. 1815 to 1 Oct. 1818 when placed on h.p.; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1828, bencher 3 Nov. 1845, treasurer 1868; Q.C. 3 July 1845; M.P. for Greenwich 8 July 1852 to 20 March 1857 and for Devonport 22 May 1866 to 26 Jany. 1874; edited the Law Journal Reports 1835 to death. d. 394 Uxbridge road, London 18 Sep. 1885.

CHAMBERS, ROBERT. b. Walker near Newcastle 14 June 1831; worked as a puddler at a forge on banks of the Tyne; won sculler’s prize at Thames national regatta 1856 and 1858; beat T. White of Bermondsey for £200 on the Tyne 19 April 1859; sculled H. Kelley for the championship 29 Sep. 1859 when he won easily; beat White again 18 Sep. 1860, and G. W. Everson of Greenwich 14 April 1863; beat R. A. W. Green the Australian 16 June 1863; beaten by Cooper of Newcastle 28 July 1863 but beat him 7 Sep. 1864 and 12 June 1865; beaten by H. Kelley for the championship 8 Aug. 1865; beat J. H. Sadler of Putney 22 Nov. 1866; introduced the long slow stroke in rowing; rowed 112 races 90 of which he won. d. of consumption, result of overtraining, at The King’s Arms, St. Anthony’s, Newcastle 4 June 1868. Rowing Almanac (1861), portrait, (1862) 105–6, (1886) 163; Illust. Sporting news i, 141 (1862), portrait, ii, 64, (1863), portrait, iv, 361 (1865), portrait, v, 745 (1866), portrait; I.L.N. lv, 513 (1869); Bell’s Life in London 13 June 1868 p. 9.

CHAMBERS, ROBERT (2 son of James Chambers of Peebles, cotton manufacturer). b. Peebles 10 July 1802; bookseller at Leith 1818–22, at Edin. 1822; partner with his brother William as publishers in Edin. 1832 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1840; F.G.S. 1844; hon. LLD. St. Andrews 1868; author of Traditions of Edinburgh 2 vols. 1823, new ed. 1868; History of the rebellion of 1745, 1828, 7 ed. 1869; Biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen 4 vols. 1832–4; Vestiges of the natural history of creation 1844, anon. 12 ed. 1884; The book of days 2 vols. 1862–4. d. St. Andrews 17 March 1871. Memoir of W. and R. Chambers by W. Chambers, 12 ed. 1883, portrait; Illust. Review i, 423–7 (1871), portrait.

CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Peebles 16 April 1800; bookseller at Leith 1819–23, at Broughton st. Edin. 1823; edited Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 4 Feb. 1832 to death; partner with his brother Robert 1832; lord provost of Edin. 1865–9; LLD. Edin. 1872; presented town of Peebles with a library (10,000 volumes) and other buildings called the Chambers Institution opened Aug. 1859; spent about £25,000 on St. Giles’s church, Edin., re-opened 23 May 1883; accepted offer of a baronetcy May 1883 but died before receiving the honour. d. Chester st. Edinburgh 20 May 1883. Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvii, 177–90 (1851); Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, fourth series 1860, portrait.

CHAMBERS, WILLIAM FREDERIC (eld. son of Wm. Chambers of H.E.I.Co’s civil service who d. 1793). b. India 1786; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, M.D. 1818; physician to St. George’s hospital, London 20 April 1816 to 1839; F.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1819, censor 1822, 1836, consilarius 1836, 1841, 1845, an Elect 1847; F.R.S. 13 March 1828; phys. in ord. to Queen Adelaide 25 Oct. 1836; phys. to Wm. IV. 4 May 1837; created K.C.H. by Queen Victoria at St. James’s palace 8 Aug. 1837 but allowed to decline assumption of the prefix Sir; the leading phys. in London 1836–48, being the last who to any extent monopolised consulting practice among the rich and noble; phys. in ord. to Queen Victoria 8 Aug. 1837. d. Hordle Cliff near Lymington, Hants. 16 Dec. 1855. Lives of British physicians 2 ed. 1857 pp. 388–402; Munk’s Roll of physicians iii, 196–200 (1878); Medical Circular i, 373 (1852), portrait.

CHAMBRE, WILLIAM (younger son of Meredith Calcott Chambre of Hawthorn hill, co. Armagh, who d. 8 Feb. 1812). Lieut. York light infantry volunteers 27 May 1812; captain 11 foot 10 Jany. 1822 to 30 July 1844 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 26 Jany. 1874. d. 1 Duncairn terrace, Bray, co. Dublin 24 Oct. 1876.

CHAMIER, FREDERICK (4 son of John Chamier, member of council for Madras presidency, who d. 23 Feb. 1831). b. London 1796; midshipman R.N. 24 June 1809; served in United States war 1812; commander 9 Aug. 1826; placed on reserved list July 1851; retired captain 1 April 1856; author of The life of a sailor 3 vols. 1832; Ben Brace 3 vols. 1836; Jack Adams 3 vols. 1838; Tom Bowling 3 vols. 1841; My travels, or an unsentimental journey through France, Switzerland and Italy 3 vols. 1855, and of many papers in New Monthly Mag.; edited W. James’s Naval history of Great Britain, 3 ed. 6 vols. 1837. d. 29 Warrior sq. St. Leonard’s on Sea 31 Oct. 1870. New Monthly Mag. lii, 508–10 (1838), portrait.

CHAMIER, HENRY. Writer Madras civil service 1812; chief sec. to Madras government 1837–43; member of council 1843–8; pres. of the revenue, marine and college boards 1843 to 14 Jany. 1867 when he resigned the service. d. 9 Waterloo crescent, Dover 4 Feb. 1867 aged 71.

CHAMPAIN, SIR JOHN UNDERWOOD BATEMAN (2 son of Agnew Champain, major 9 foot, who d. 1876). b. Gloucester place, London 22 July 1835; ed. at Cheltenham and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal Engineers 11 June 1853, lieut. col. 31 Dec. 1878 to death; director in chief of Indo-European government telegraph department 1869 to death; granted special permission to accept a sword of honour from Shah of Persia 1885 an honour quite unprecedented; K.C.M.G. 31 Dec. 1885; assumed additional name of Bateman 1870. d. San Remo 1 Feb. 1887. Sir F. J. Goldsmid’s Telegraph and Travel (1874) 206–388, 639.

CHAMPION, JOHN GEORGE. b. Edinburgh 5 May 1815; Ensign 95 foot 2 Aug. 1831, major 11 Nov. 1851 to death; served at Hong-kong 1847–50; brought a collection of dried plants to England 1850, most of his novelties were described in Hooker’s Journals; placed last set of his plants in the Kew herbarium 1854, his name is commemorated in the genus Championia and by the splendid plant Rhodoleia Championi. d. Scutari hospital 30 Nov. 1854 of wounds received at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. G. Bentham’s Flora Hongkongensis (1861) 8*–9*; Gardener’s Chronicle (1854) 819–20; G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) 93–5.

CHAMPNEYS, VERY REV. WILLIAM WELDON (eld. son of Rev. Wm. Beyton Champneys). b. Camden Town, London 6 April 1807; matric. from Brasenose coll. Ox. 3 July 1824, scholar of his college, fellow 1831; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; C. of St. Ebbe’s, Oxford 1831–7; R. of St. Mary’s, Whitechapel, London 1837–60; canon residentiary of St. Paul’s cath. 3 Nov. 1851 to 11 Nov. 1868; V. of St. Pancras, London 1860–8; dean of Lichfield and R. of Tatenhill, Staffs. 11 Nov. 1868 to death; author of Images or allegories for the young 1849, 8 ed. 1868; Six lectures on Protestantism 1852; The Sunday school teacher, 3 ed. 1857; The Spirit in the word 1862, 4 ed. 1866; Facts and Fragments 1864. d. the Deanery, Lichfield 4 Feb. 1875. Rev. W. W. Champneys’s Story of the tentmaker (1875) 7–14, portrait; Drawing room portrait gallery (4th series 1860) 1–2, portrait.

CHANCE, HENRY (youngest son of Wm. Chance of Birmingham). b. Newhall st. Birmingham 1794; a certificated conveyancer 1819; barrister L.I. 21 May 1824; practised as conveyancer 1819–66 when he retired; author of A treatise on Powers 2 vols. 1831. d. 7 North villas, Camden sq. London 16 Feb. 1876.

CHANDLER, VERY REV. GEORGE. Educ. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1804, D.C.L. 1824; R. of Southam, Warws. 1815–30; R. of All Souls, St. Marylebone, London 1825–47; Bampton lecturer 1825; dean of Chichester 20 Feb. 1830 to death, installed 18 March 1830; R. of Felpham, Sussex 1832 to death; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1833; author of The Bampton lectures 1825. d. The Deanery, Chichester 3 Feb. 1859 aged 80.

CHANDLER, JOHANNA. b. 1820; called a meeting at Mansion House, London 2 Nov. 1859 when sum of £800 was collected for a National hospital for the paralysed and epileptic, which was opened in Queen’s square, Bloomsbury, May 1860; founded Samaritan society to give aid to out-door patients and Home for convalescent women patients at East Finchley. d. 43 Albany st. Regent’s Park, London 12 Jany. 1875. Facta non verba by the author of Contrasts [Wm. Gilbert] (1874) 101–25; Good Words vii, 537–42 (1866).

CHANDLESS, THOMAS (_eld. son of Thomas Chandless of York place, Portman square, London_). b. 1798; barrister G.I. 19 June 1822, practised in court of chancery; bencher of his inn 5 May 1847, treasurer 1850–51; Q.C. 11 July 1851. d. 45 Harewood sq. London 22 Feb. 1883 in 85 year.

CHANNELL, SIR WILLIAM FRY (son of Pike Channell, an officer in the navy, afterwards a merchant in London). b. 31 Aug. 1804; barrister I.T. 25 May 1827, went Home circuit; serjeant at law 19 Feb. 1840; shared with Serjeant Talfourd leading business of Court of Common Pleas 1840–6 when practice was thrown open to the bar generally; obtained patent of precedence 1844; leader of Home circuit 1845–57; Baron of Court of Exchequer 12 Feb. 1857 to Jany. 1873; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 June 1857; issued an address to Beverley at general election July 1852 but withdrew before the election; nominated a P.C. Feb. 1873 but did not live to be sworn in. d. 2 Clarendon place, Hyde park gardens, London 26 Feb. 1873. Law mag. and law review ii, 351–4 (1873); I.L.N. lxii, 234, 249, 318 (1873), portrait.

CHAPLIN, CHARLES. b. 21 April 1786; M.P. for Lincolnshire 25 June 1818 to 23 April 1831. d. London 24 May 1859.

CHAPLIN, EDWARD. b. Ryhall, Rutland 28 March 1842; ed. at Harrow; captain Coldstream guards 1871; M.P. for Lincoln 4 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; master of the Blankney hounds 1872–6; a member of the Four-in-hand club 1877. d. 25 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 23 Dec. 1883. Baily’s mag. xxxi, 311–2 (1878), portrait.

CHAPLIN, WILLIAM JAMES (son of Wm. Chaplin of Rochester). b. Rochester 1787; one of the largest coach proprietors in the kingdom, being owner of 64 stage coaches worked by 1500 horses; chairman of London and South western railway company to death; sheriff of London 1845–46; M.P. for Salisbury 1847–1857. d. 2 Hyde Park gardens, London 24 April 1859 aged 71.

CHAPMAN, REV. BENEDICT. Educ. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam., 6 Wr. 1792, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, D.D. 1840; fellow of his college, tutor, master, May or June 1839 to death; R. of Ashdon, Essex 1818 to death. d. Ashdon rectory 23 Oct. 1852 in 83 year. bur. in chapel of his college 30 Oct.

CHAPMAN, HENRY SAMUEL. b. Kennington, London, July 1803; went to Canada 1823; founded at Montreal 1833 Daily Advertiser first daily newspaper published in Canada, edited it 1833–4; barrister M.T. 12 June 1840; a judge of supreme court of New Zealand, June 1843 to March 1852; colonial sec. of Van Diemen’s Land, March 1852 to Nov. 1852; attorney general of Victoria 11 March 1857 to 29 April 1857 and March 1858 to 27 Oct. 1859; formed a ministry, March 1858; acted as judge of supreme court of Victoria 1862 to March 1863; judge of supreme court of New Zealand 1865–77; author of Thoughts on the money and exchanges of Lower Canada 1832; The New Zealand portfolio 1843. d. Dunedin, N.Z. 27 Dec. 1881.

CHAPMAN, HENRY THOMAS (elder son of Thomas Chapman of Ampthill, Beds. who lived to be 94). b. Ampthill 1806; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London, house surgeon; surgeon in Lower Seymour st. London; lecturer on surgery in school next St. George’s hospital; fellow of Med. and Chir. Soc. 1837; author of A brief description of surgical apparatus 1832; The treatment of obstinate ulcers and cutaneous eruptions of the leg without confinement 1848, 3 ed. 1859; Varicose veins, their nature, consequences and treatment 1856. d. Cheltenham 19 Nov. 1874.

CHAPMAN, RIGHT REV. JAMES. b. 1799; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1845; Fell. of his coll.; deacon 1824, priest 1825; assistant master at Eton; R. of Dunton Waylett, Essex 1834–45; Bishop of Colombo 24 April 1845–1861; Fell. of Eton, April 1862; R. of Wootton Courtney, Somerset 1863 to death; Preb. of Wells cath. 1868. d. Wootton Courtney 20 Oct. 1879.

CHAPMAN, JOHN (son of John Chapman of Loughborough, clockmaker). b. Loughborough 20 Jany. 1801; manufacturer with his brother Wm. of machinery required for the bobbinet trade technically called insides 1823–34 when completely ruined by the protection laws; wrote for the Mechanics Magazine which he edited short time 1835; sec. to Safety cabriolet and two-wheel carriage company in London 1836; invented all the valuable improvements found in the modern ‘Hansom cab,’ a patent for his cab was granted 31 Dec. 1836; laid before Board of Trade a project for constructing Great Indian Peninsular railway 1844; prepared a great scheme for irrigation of India which was formally sanctioned by the government just after his death; author of The cotton and commerce of India, published 1 Jany. 1851; Principles of Indian reform 1853, and of many articles in periodicals and newspapers. d. London 11 Sep. 1854. General Baptist Mag. iii, 169–76, 209–17, 292–8, 329–32 (1856); Nottingham Review 11 Sep. to 3 Dec. 1833.

CHAPMAN, JOHN (son of John Chapman of Ashton, Lancs. who d. 19 May 1819 aged 55). b. Ashton 1810; sheriff of Cheshire 1856; M.P. for Great Grimsby 14 Feb. 1862 to 6 July 1865 and 5 Feb. 1874 to death. d. Hill End, Mottram in Longdendale, Cheshire 18 July 1877 in 67 year.

CHAPMAN, MARY FRANCIS (dau. of Mr. Chapman of Dublin, custom house officer). b. Dublin 28 Nov. 1838; ed. at Staplehurst, Kent; published following novels under pseud. of J. C. Ayrton, Mary Bertrand 1856, Lord Bridgnorth’s Niece 1862, A Scotch Wooing 1875, Gerald Marlowe’s Wife 1876; wrote with her father in Churchman’s family magazine 1869 an historical tale called Bellasis or the fortunes of a cavalier; her last work The gift of the Gods 1879 appeared under her own name. d. Old Charlton, Kent 18 Feb. 1884.

CHAPMAN, MATTHEW JAMES. Educ. at Univ. of Edin. and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.D. Edin. 1820; B.A. Cam. 1832, M.A. 1835; published Barbadoes and other poems 1833; Jephtha’s Daughter a dramatic poem 1834; Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, translated 1836. d. 25 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 15 Nov. 1865 aged 69.

CHAPMAN, SIR MONTAGUE LOWTHER, 3 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Thomas Chapman, 2 baronet 1756–1837). b. 10 Dec. 1808; M.P. for Westmeath 12 Aug. 1830 to 23 June 1841; succeeded 23 Dec. 1837; sheriff of Westmeath 1844; sailed from Melbourne for Sydney May 1852 but his ship was never heard of again; death announced as having occurred on the coast of Australia 17 May 1852. Annual Register 1853 p. 229.

CHAPMAN, SIR STEPHEN REMNANT (son of Richard Chapman of Tainfield house, Taunton). b. Tainfield house 1776; second lieut. R.E. 18 Sep. 1793; sec. to Lord Mulgrave, master general of the ordnance 1810 to 29 July 1825; civil sec. at Gibraltar 1825–31; col. R.E. 29 July 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; governor, vice admiral and commander in chief at Bermuda 23 April 1831 to 8 Feb. 1839; carried into effect emancipation of the slaves there 1834; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; col. commandant R.E. 9 March 1860 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at St. James’s palace 8 June 1831; F.R.S. 21 Nov. 1816. d. Tainfield house 6 March 1851.

CHAPPELL, EDWARD. b. 10 Aug. 1792; entered navy, May 1804; captain 27 Dec. 1838; retired R.A. 20 Jany. 1858; secretary to Royal mail steam packet company, Feb. 1842; author of Narrative of a voyage to Hudson’s Bay 1817; Voyage to Newfoundland and the southern coast of Labrador 1818. d. Charlwood st. west, Warwick sq. London 21 Jany. 1861.

CHAPPLE, JAMES. b. Exeter; Won the Derby on Dangerous 1833 on Amato 1838; won the Oaks on Vespa 1833; won Cesarewitch on Glauca 1850 and Cambridgeshire on Landgrave 1850; rode many years for Sir Gilbert Heathcote; had no superior for a knowledge of pace and fineness of hand. d. Newmarket, 10 June 1858 in 63 year. Sporting Review xxvii, 58–61 (1852), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 13 June 1858 p. 4.

CHAPPLE, JOHN. b. 10 Jany. 1826; worked under I. K. Brunel the civil engineer and G. G. Scott the architect; restored churches at Frinstead, Kent and Chesham, Bucks.; clerk of the works for restoration of St. Albans Abbey 1870–6 and 1877 to death; supervised restoration of great church of St. Nicholai, Hamburg 1876–7; member of council of St. Albans 1877, mayor 1879, alderman 1883 to death, d. Torrington hall, St. Albans 6 Feb. 1887. The Herts Advertiser 12 Feb. 1887.

CHARLEMONT, FRANCIS WILLIAM CAULFIELD, 2 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Earl of Charlemont 1728–99). b. 3 Jany. 1775; M.P. for Armagh in Irish House of Commons 1797 to 4 Aug. 1799 when he succeeded; one of representative peers for Ireland 22 Nov. 1806 to death; K.P. Oct. 1831; P.C. Ireland 1832; lord lieut. of Tyrone 1839 to death; created Baron Charlemont in peerage of the U.K. 13 Feb. 1837. d. Clontarf 26 Dec. 1863.

CHARLES, REV. JOHN (son of John Charles of Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire). b. 1770; M.A. Marischal college and Univ. of Aberdeen 26 March 1792; schoolmaster of Glenbervie; minister of Garvock 7 June 1821 to death; author of A sermon preached in the church of Glenbervie 1814; The Protestant’s Hand Book 1855. d. 17 Nov. 1868 aged nearly 99.

CHARLES, THOMAS (younger son of Wm. Charles of Maidstone, felter and blanket cleaner, who d. 1832). Apprenticed to his father, became his partner, succeeded to the business 1832 which he sold 1840; author of a translation of Boethius’s Consolations of philosophy; bequeathed his valuable collections to the town of Maidstone which purchased his house and opened The Charles Museum in it, Jany. 1858. d. Chillington house, Maidstone 29 April 1855 aged 77. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 141–6 (1883); J. M. Russell’s History of Maidstone (1881) 357–62.

CHARLESWORTH, EDWARD PARKER (son of Rev. John Charlesworth, R. of Ossington, Notts.) b. 1783; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1807; physician at Lincoln 1807 to death; visiting phys. to Lincoln lunatic asylum 1820 to death, where he substituted moral control and kindness in place of physical control and coercion; author of Remarks on the treatment of the insane 1828. d. Lincoln 20 Feb. 1853. G.M. xxxix, 548–50 (1853).

CHARLESWORTH, REV. JOHN (brother of the preceding). b. Ossington parsonage 1782; practised with a surgeon at Clapham, London 1804; ordained deacon by Bishop of Norwich 1809; R. of Flowton, Suffolk 1814–44; kept his terms at Queen’s coll. Cam. 1820–3, B.D. 1826; R. of St. Mildred’s, Bread st. London 1844 to death. d. Islington, London 22 April 1864. bur. churchyard of Limpsfield, Surrey. J. P. Fitzgerald’s The quiet worker for good, a sketch of the late John Charlesworth 1865.

CHARLESWORTH, JOHN CHARLESWORTH DODGSON. b. Chapelthorpe hall near Wakefield 1815; ed. at Sedbergh, Yorkshire and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; M.P. for Wakefield 27 March 1857 to 23 April 1859. d. 21 March 1880.

CHARLESWORTH, MARIA LOUISA (dau. of Rev. John Charlesworth 1782–1864). b. rectory of Blakenham Parva near Ipswich 1 Oct. 1819; lived at Nutfield, Surrey 1864 to death; author of The female visitor to the poor, by a Clergyman’s daughter 1846; A book for the cottage 1848; The light of life 1850; Ministering Children 1854 which had a very large circulation; Where dwellest thou? or the Inner home 1871. d. Nutfield 16 Oct. 1880. Woman’s Work in the great harvest field x, 45–7 (1881).

CHARLETON, ROBERT (eld. son of James Charleton, who d. Ashley hill, Bristol 1847). b. Bristol 15 April 1809; pin manufacturer at Kingswood near Bristol 1833–52; one of the deputation of 3 Friends, to Emperor of Russia Feb. 1854; went with Robert Forster as a deputation to governments of Northern Europe to present the “Plea for liberty of conscience” issued by Society of Friends 1858; lectured in England and Ireland 1860 to death; author of Opposition to the war, an address 1855; A brief memoir of Wm. Forster 1867; Thoughts on the Atonement 1869. d. Ashley Down, Bristol 5 Dec. 1872. Memoir of Robert Charleton edited by his sister-in-law Anna F. Fox 1873, portrait.

CHARLEVILLE, CHARLES WILLIAM BURY, 2 Earl of (only son of 1 Earl of Charleville 1764–1835, by Catherine Maria dau. of Thomas Townley Dawson and widow of James Tisdall, she was b. 22 Dec. 1762 and d. 24 Feb. 1851). b. 29 April 1801; M.P. for Carlow 15 June 1826 to 3 Dec. 1832, for Penryn and Falmouth 11 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; succeeded as 2 Earl 31 Oct. 1835; representative peer of Ireland 13 April 1838 to death. d. near London 14 July 1851. Burke’s Portrait gallery of distinguished females i, 5 and ii, 8 (1833); G.M. xxxv, 429–30 (1851).

CHARLEVILLE, CHARLES WILLIAM GEORGE BURY, 3 Earl of. b. Geneva 8 March 1822; succeeded 14 July 1851. d. Charleville forest, Tullamore, King’s county 19 Jany. 1859.

CHARLEVILLE, CHARLES WILLIAM FRANCIS BURY, 4 Earl of. b. Charleville Forest 16 May 1852; succeeded 19 Jany. 1859. d. Staten island, New York 3 Nov. 1874.

CHARLEVILLE, ALFRED BURY, 5 Earl of. b. 19 Feb. 1829; succeeded 3 Nov. 1874. d. Brighton 26 June 1875.

CHARLTON, EDWARD (2 son of Wm. John Charlton of Hesleyside, Northumberland 1784–1846). b. 23 July 1814; M.D. Edin. 1836; M.D. Durham 1856, D.C.L. 1870; practised at Newcastle; pres. of Royal Med. Soc. of Edin.; pres. of British Medical Assoc. 1870; author of An account of the late epidemic of scarlatina in Newcastle 1847; Memorials of North Tyndale and its four surnames 1871. d. 7 Eldon sq. Newcastle 14 May 1874. Medical times and gazette i, 632, (1874).

CHARLTON, JOHN. b. Hartlepool, Durham 1828; Jockey to Baron Rothschild 1851; won the One thousand guineas on Mentmore Lass 1853, Oaks on Mincemeat 1854, Derby and Oaks on Blink Bonny 1857, Ascot cup on Skirmisher 1857. d. Malton 27 July 1862. Sporting Review xxxviii, 17–19 (1857), portrait; I.L.N. xxii, 416 (1857), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 3 Aug. 1862 p. 5.

CHARLTON, REV. WILLIAM HENRY. Educ. at Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; V. of Felmingham, Norfolk 1834 to death; P.C. of parish chapel of St. Marylebone, London 1851 to death; author of Poems and translations 1834; Sacred sonnets and other poems 1854. d. 11 July 1866 aged 79.

CHARNOCK, RICHARD (2 son of James Charnock of Islington, London). b. 1799; student of Gray’s Inn 28 July 1813; admitted solicitor 1820; barrister I.T. 12 June 1840; one of Her Majesty’s gentlemen at arms 1837–41; author of A digest of all the new rules as to practice and pleading in all the courts 1836, 2 ed. 1845; Digest of the various decisions since the new pleading rules came into operation 1837; The act for abolishing arrest on mesne process in civil actions 1838; The police guide, containing the Metropolitan and City of London police acts 1841; edited J. Story’s Commentaries on the law of Bailments 1839. d. 5 King’s Bench Walk, Temple 26 May 1864.

CHARRETIE, ANNA MARIA (dau. of Mr. Kenwell of Vauxhall, London, architect). b. Vauxhall 5 May 1819; studied drawing under Valentine Bartholomew; miniature and oil painter; exhibited 40 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 32 at Suffolk st. Gallery 1843–75. (m. 1841 John Charretie, captain H.E.I.Co., he d. 18 Nov. 1868). d. 8 Hornton St. Kensington, London 5 Oct. 1875. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists i, 415–9 (1876).

CHARRINGTON, HAROLD (son of Spencer Charrington of Hunsden house, Ware, Herts.) Naval cadet 13 April 1869; lieut. 23 June 1880; flag lieut. of Euryalus 16 guns 15 April 1882; went with E. H. Palmer and Wm. Gill to Egypt for the purpose of detaching the Arabs from Arabi Pacha; shot by the Arabs near Gaza 11 Aug. 1882. bur. in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral, London 6 April 1883. Graphic xxvi, 469 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxi, 461 (1882), portrait.

CHART, HENRY NYE (eld. son of John Chart of London, who d. 1863 aged 76). b. 1822; acted at Sadler’s Wells theatre under name of Henry Nye; low comedian and stage manager at Brighton theatre, July 1850 and acting manager 1852 to 28 Feb. 1854; lessee of Brighton theatre 29 July 1854 to 7 May 1866 when he purchased theatre and opened a new house on same site 15 Oct. 1866. (m. 27 July 1867 Ellen Elizabeth Rollason, leading actress at Brighton theatre). d. 9 New road, Brighton 18 June 1876. Era 25 June 1876 p. 5, col. 1, 2 July p. 10, col. 4.

CHARY, CHINTAMANNY RAGOONATHA. Attached to the Madras observatory nearly 40 years, first assistant 1863 to death; took a chief share in making 38,000 observations with transit-circle for the star catalogue; member of expeditions to observe total eclipses of the sun 18 Aug. 1868 and 11 Dec. 1871; discovered 2 new variable stars; F.R.A.S. 12 Jany. 1872; edited for 12 years astronomical portion of Asylum Press Almanac; published 1874 a pamphlet on the Transit of Venus, which appeared in 6 Indian languages as well as in English, d. Madras 5 Feb. 1880. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xli, 180 (1881).

CHASE, ANN (dau. of Mr. M’Clarnonde, who d. 1818). b. North of Ireland 1807; went to New York 1824; m. 1836 Franklin Chase, consul general at Tampico, Mexico; in the Mexican war 1846 city of Tampico was surprised and taken by the American forces, through her instrumentality, without loss of life, the fortress of the city was named Fort Ann in her honour, and the ladies of New Orleans presented to her a service of plate; lived at Tampico 1834–71 and at Brooklyn, New York 1871 to death, d. Brooklyn 24 Dec. 1874. S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed. 1855 pp. 859–61, portrait.

CHASE, JOHN. b. John st. Fitzroy sq. London 26 Feb. 1810; landscape water-colour painter; member of New Society of painters in water-colours 1835: exhibited 11 pictures at R.A. and 8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1826–70; author of A practical treatise on landscape painting and sketching from nature in water-colours, edited by Rev. James Harris 1861. d. 113 Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 8 Jany. 1879.

CHASLES, VICTOR EUPHÉMION PHILARÈTE. b. Mainvilliers near Chartres 8 Oct. 1798; fled to England soon after the Bourbon restoration 1815; a proof reader at Valpy’s printing office in Took’s Court, Chancery lane, London; wrote in the Athenæum 1832 to death; keeper of Mazarin library, Paris 1837; professor in Collége de France, Paris; translated many books from English into French, d. Venice 19 July 1873.

CHASSELS, REV. DAVID, b. Glasgow 30 April 1787; went with his parents to United States 1795; graduated at Dartmouth college, Vermont 1810; principal of the academy in Peacham, Vermont, and then of academy in Cambridge, New York; ordained by Presbytery of Troy 1820; took charge of the Fairfield academy 1821 and then of academy at Herkimer; a good teacher and fine classical scholar, d. Holland Patent, Oneida county, New York 10 Jany. 1870.

CHATELAIN, CLARA DE (dau. of M. de Pontigny). b. London 31 July 1807; wrote a number of fugitive pieces in English under pseudonyms of Leopold Wray, Baronne Cornelie de B., Rosalia Santa Croce and Leopoldine Ziska; wrote and composed many ballads; translated upwards of 400 songs; author of The Silver Swan 1847; A handbook of the four elements of vocalization 1850; The sedan chair 1866; Truly noble 1870; her name and her assumed names are attached to 140 original tales, 50 fairy tales and 16 handbooks, (m. 13 April 1843 the succeeding, they received the Dunmow flitch of bacon from W. H. Ainsworth 19 July 1855). d. insane in London 30 June 1876; bur. in Lyndhurst churchyard, Hants. 7 July. In Memoriam of Clara de Chatelain with a catalogue of her works 1876; Fleurs et fruits, souvenirs de feu Madame C. de Chatelain 1877, portrait; Andrews’s History of the Dunmow flitch (1877) 18, 27–31.

CHATELAIN, JEAN BAPTISTE FRANÇOIS ERNEST DE. b. Paris 19 Jany 1801; published a weekly paper in London called Le petit Mercure 1825 which he changed to Le Mercure de Londre 1826; went on foot from Paris to Rome to study sayings and doings of Pope Leo XII, 1827; edited Le propagateur de la Gironde at Bordeaux 1830 for which he was condemned to 6 month’s imprisonment and fined 1320 francs 5 May 1831; published many works in France 1833–8; assumed title of Chevalier 1840; lived in England 1842 to death, naturalised 6 June 1848; author of Rumbles through Rome 1852; Ronces et Chardons 1869 and 50 other works, the chief being Beautés de la poesie Anglaise, 5 tomes 1860–72 containing over 1000 translations of poems from Chaucer to Tennyson; received Prussian order of Merit 1835. d. 20 Warwick crescent, Regent’s park, London 15 Aug. 1881. bur. in Lyndhurst churchyard 22 Aug. Catalogue des Ouvrages du Chevalier De Chatelain 1875.

CHATTERLEY, LOUISA (dau. of Madame Simeon of St. James’s st. Piccadilly, London, milliner). b. St. James’s st. 16 Oct. 1797; made her début on the stage at Bath, Nov. 1814 as Juliet; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre 9 July 1816 as Harriet in Is he jealous; acted at Surrey theatre 1817, Olympic 1820, Covent Garden 1821; the best representative of a Frenchwoman on the English stage, (m. 11 Aug. 1814 Wm. Simmonds Chatterley, actor 1787–1822, she m. (2) 13 Feb. 1830 Mr. Place), d. 37 Brompton sq. London 3 Nov. 1866. Oxberry’s Dramatic biography v, 271–82 (1826), portrait; British Stage iv, 237 (1820), portrait; The Era 18 Nov. 1866 p. 11.

CHATTERTON, FREDERICK BALSIR (eld. son of Edward A. Chatterton of London, box bookkeeper at many theatres who d. 5 Dec. 1875 in 65 year). b. Euston sq. London 17 Sep. 1834; amateur actor at Cabinet and Soho theatres 1852; acting manager at Lyceum theatre 1857 and 1861–2; lessee of St. James’s theatre 1859–60; joint lessee with Edmund Falconer of Drury Lane theatre 12 Sep. 1863, sole lessee 22 Sep. 1866 to 4 Feb. 1879 when he closed the theatre being £36,000 in debt; joint manager with B. Webster of Princess’s and Adelphi theatres 1871; made his début as a reciter at St. James’s hall, London 14 March 1883. d. 18 Feb. 1886. E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane i, 273–317 (1881); Illust. sporting news v, 593 (1866), portrait; Touchstone, March 1879 p. 3, portrait.

CHATTERTON, LADY HENRIETTA GEORGIANA MARCIA (only child of Rev. Lascelles Iremonger, prebendary of Winchester, who d. 6 Jany. 1830). b. 24 Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 11 Nov. 1806; author of Aunt Dorothy’s Tales, 2 vols. 1837 anon.; Rambles in the South of Ireland 1839, 2 ed. 1839; Home sketches and foreign recollections 1841; Allanston or the Infidel 1843; Compensation, 2 vols. 1856 anon.; The reigning beauty 3 vols. 1858; Memorials of Admiral Lord Gambier 2 vols. 1861; Leonore a tale and other poems 2 vols. 1864; Won at last 3 vols. 1874 and 20 other books; received into Church of Rome, Aug. 1875. (m. (1) 3 Aug. 1824 Sir W. A. Chatterton 1787–1855. m. (2) 1 June 1859 Edward Heneage Dering 2 son of Rev. John Dering, R. of Pluckley, Kent, he was b. 15 March 1827). d. Malvern Wells 6 Feb. 1876. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton with some passages from her diary by E. H. Dering 1878; J. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 478–80 (1885).

CHATTERTON, SIR JAMES CHARLES, 3 Baronet (youngest son of Sir James Chatterton, 1 baronet, who d. 9 April 1806). b. 1792; cornet 12 light dragoons 23 Nov. 1809; lieut. col. 4 dragoon guards 9 Dec. 1831 to 3 Oct. 1848 when placed on h.p.; col. 5 lancers 23 Feb. 1858 to 22 Nov. 1868; general 31 March 1866; col. 4 dragoon guards 22 Nov. 1868 to death; M.P. for co. Cork 1831–5 and 1849–52; sheriff of co. Cork 1851–2; a gentleman of the privy chamber; succeeded his brother 7 Aug. 1855; K.S.F.; K.H. 1832; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 5 Jany. 1874. I.L.N. xvi, 133 (1850), portrait; Graphic ix, 52, 59 (1874), portrait.

CHATTERTON, JOHN BALSIR (son of John Chatterton of Portsmouth, professor of music). b. Portsmouth 1802; pupil of Robert Bochsa the harpist; professor of the harp at R.A. of Music, London 1827; harpist to the Queen 1842 to death; published numerous transcriptions from popular operas for the harp. (m. Eliza Davenport only dau. of Thomas Davenport Latham of Coombe hill, Croydon, she d. 9 Jany. 1877 in 71 year), d. 32 Manchester st. Portman sq. London 9 April 1871. Wm. Ball’s Musical Gem (1831) 50–1, portrait.

CHATTERTON, SIR WILLIAM ABRAHAM, 2 Baronet, b. 6 Aug. 1787; succeeded 9 April 1806. d. Rolls park, Chigwell, Essex 7 Aug. 1855.

CHATTO, WILLIAM ANDREW (only son of Wm. Chatto of Newcastle, merchant, who d. 1804). b. Newcastle 17 April 1799; wholesale tea-dealer in Eastcheap, London 1830–4; edited New Sporting Magazine 1839–41; projected Puck a journalette of fun, a penny daily comic illustrated paper 22 numbers 6 May 1844 to 29 June 1844; author of Scenes and recollections of fly-fishing by Stephen Oliver the younger 1834; The angler’s souvenir by P. Fisher 1836, 2 ed. 1871; A treatise on wood engraving 1839, 3 ed. 1877; Facts and speculations on the origin and history of playing cards 1848. d. The Charterhouse, London 28 Feb. 1864.

CHAVASSE, PYE HENRY, b. Cirencester 1810; L.S.A. 1833; M.R.C.S. 18 Jany. 1833, F.R.C.S. 12 Aug. 1852; practised at Birmingham 1834–74; pres. of Queen’s college medical chirurgical society 1856–8; author of Advice to mothers on the management of their offspring 1839, 14 ed. 1885; Advice to a mother on the management of herself 1869, 4 ed. 1879; Counsel to a mother 1869, 4 ed. 1879; Aphorisms on mental culture of a child 1872, 2 ed. 1877; his books were translated into nearly every European language and several Asiatic. d. 214 Hagley road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 21 Sep. 1879.

CHAYTOR, SIR WILLIAM RICHARD CARTER, 2 Baronet, b. 7 Feb. 1805; M.P. for city of Durham 23 March 1831 to 29 Dec. 1834; succeeded 28 Jany. 1847. d. Scrafton lodge, Middleham, Yorkshire 9 Feb. 1871.

CHEAPE, DOUGLAS (younger son of John Cheape of Rossie, Fifeshire 1757–1838). b. 1797; member of Faculty of Advocates, Edin. 1819; professor of civil law in Univ. of Edin. 1827–42, substituted English for Latin in class examinations; author of Res Judicata and other squibs published in the Court of Session Garland 1839, his other squibs were The book of the chronicles of the city, being a Scriptural account of the election of a member for the city of Edinburgh in May 1834, and probably La festa d’Overgroghi (Over Gogar near Edinburgh) a burlesque opera in Italian and English. d. Trinity grove, Trinity near Edin. 1 Sep. 1861. Blackwood’s Mag. cix, 111–2 (1871).

CHEAPE, SIR JOHN (brother of the preceding). b. 1792; second lieut. Bengal engineers 3 Nov. 1809, col. commandant 19 Feb. 1844 to death; general 6 Dec. 1866; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 5 June 1849, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; served in the 3 campaigns of first Burmese war 1824–6; second in command in second Burmese war 1852–3. d. Old park, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 30 March 1875. W. F. B. Laurie’s Second Burmese war 1853.

CHEEKE, ALFRED, b. Evesham, Worcs. 1811; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1836; went to Sydney, Oct. 1837; comr. of Court of Claims, March 1841; crown prosecutor at quarter sessions, June 1841; chairman of quarter sessions 1844–5 and 1851–7; comr. of Court of requests for county of Cumberland, Jany. 1845; district court judge 1858 to June 1865; puisne judge of supreme court, June 1865 to death. d. Darling point, Sydney 14 March 1876. Heads of the people ii, 151–2 (1848), portrait.

CHEETHAM, JOHN (son of George Cheetham of Stayleybridge). b. Stayleybridge 1802; a merchant and manufacturer; M.P. for South Lancashire 14 July 1852 to 23 April 1859, and for Salford ll July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. 18 May 1886.

CHELMSFORD, FREDERICK THESIGER, 1 Baron (youngest son of Charles Thesiger, collector of customs in island of St. Vincent, who d. 18 Feb. 1831). b. 1 Fowkes buildings, Tower st. London 15 July 1794; midshipman R.N. 1807; student of G.I. 5 Nov. 1818, of I.T. 2 March 1824, barrister I.T. 21 May 1824; went Home circuit, became leader; K.C. 7 July 1834; bencher of IT. 18, Nov. 1834, reader 1842, treasurer 1843; solicitor general 17 April 1844 to July 1845; knighted at Buckingham palace 23 May 1844; attorney general 29 June 1845 to 3 July 1846 and Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852; lord chancellor 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859 and 6 July 1866 to 29 Feb. 1868, when he resigned office; P.C. 26 Feb. 1858; M.P. for Woodstock 20 March 1840 to April 1844, for Abingdon 11 May 1844 to 1 July 1852 and for Stamford 10 July 1852 to 1 March 1858; F.R.S. 19 June 1845; created baron Chelmsford of Chelmsford, Essex 1 March 1858. d. 7 Eaton sq. London 5 Oct. 1878. Illust. news of the world, vol. 1 (1858), portrait; London Society xi, 87, 95 (1867), portrait.

CHENERY, THOMAS, b. Barbados 1826; ed. at Eton and Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1868; correspondent of Times at Constantinople 1854–6, wrote leading articles and reviews in Times; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; Lord Almoner’s professor of Arabic at Oxford, April 1868 to Nov. 1877; member of Ch. Ch. Ox., incorporated M.A. 1868; member of 2 class of Imperial order of Medjidie, July 1869; secretary to Royal Asiatic Society; one of the revisers of Old Testament 1870–83; editor of Times Nov. 1877 to death, worked on it to 1 Feb. 1884; published The six assemblies of El Hariry translated 1867; edited the Machberoth Ithiel of Jehudah ben Shelomo Alkharzi. d. 16 Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet st. London 11 Feb. 1884. Journal of Royal Asiatic Soc. xvi, pp. xii-xv (1884); Times 12 Feb. 1884 p. 6, cols. 5–6; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 180 (1884), portrait; Graphic xxix, 148 (1884), portrait.

CHEPMELL, REV. HAVILLAND LE MESURIER. Educ. at Pembroke coll. Ox., Townsend scholar, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. and D.D. 1851; chaplain to Royal military college, Sandhurst 1841–67; translated Lectures on Roman History by B. G. Niebuhr 1849; author of Course of history, Greek, Roman and English, 10 ed. 1874, 2nd series 2 vols. 1857. d. The hermitage, St. Martin’s, Guernsey 21 March 1887.

CHERMSIDE, HENRY LOWTHER (2 son of the succeeding). b. 1825; second lieut. R.A. 19 June 1844, colonel 8 Sep. 1875 to 16 Nov. 1878 when he retired with hon. rank of major general; commanded R.A. at Poona 1876–8; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Regia house, Teignmouth 2 Jany. 1886.

CHERMSIDE, SIR ROBERT ALEXANDER (3 son of Dr. Chermside of Portaferry, co. Down). b. Portaferry 1787; Assist, surgeon to 7th Hussars 16 Aug. 1810; Surgeon to 10th Hussars 29 June 1815 to 30 Oct. 1823; graduated M.D. at Edin. 1817; L.R.C.P. London 16 April 1821, F.R.C.P. 27 April 1843; phys. to British embassy at Paris; physician extraordinary to Duchess of Kent; K.C.H. 31 July 1835; Knight of St. John of Jerusalem; Knight of Red Eagle of Prussia; Knight of Legion of Honour. d. Oxford 8 Sep. 1860.

CHERRY, FREDERICK CLIFFORD. Veterinary surgeon of 11 light dragoons 12 Oct. 1803, of Waggon Train 16 July 1807 to 25 Sep. 1819 when placed on h.p.; Vet. surgeon 2 life guards 10 May 1833; principal vet. surgeon in the army 17 Sep. 1839 to death. d. Clapham, London 11 July 1854.

CHESHAM, CHARLES COMPTON CAVENDISH, 1 Baron (4 son of 1 Earl of Burlington 1754–1834). b. Savile row, London 28 Aug. 1793; M.P. for Newtown, Hants. 1821–6 for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1831–2, for East Sussex 1832–41, for Youghal 1841–7, for Bucks 1847–57; created Baron Chesham of Chesham, Bucks. 15 Jany. 1858. d. 19 Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1863.

CHESHAM, WILLIAM GEORGE CAVENDISH, 2 Baron, b. 20 Oct. 1815; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Peterborough 30 July 1847 to 1 July 1852, for Bucks. 23 Dec. 1857 to 10 Nov. 1863 when he succeeded. d. Latimer, near Chesham, Bucks. 26 June 1882.

CHESHAM, SARAH. Tried at Chelmsford assizes 1847 upon a charge of poisoning the illegitimate child of Lydia Taylor but acquitted; tried 1848 for poisoning two of her children but acquitted; tried at Chelmsford assizes 6 March 1851 for poisoning with arsenic her husband Richard Chesham, who d. May 1850, when she was found guilty and sentenced to death; known as ‘Arsenic Sal’; executed at Chelmsford 25 March 1851. A.R. (1850) 109, (1851) 396–400; A. H. Dymond’s The law on its trial (1865) 211–19.

CHESNEY, CHARLES CORNWALLIS (son of Charles Cornwallis Chesney, captain Bengal artillery who d. 1830). b. Packolet, near Kilkeel, co. Down 29 Sept. 1826; second lieut R.E. 18 June 1845, lieut col. 1 March 1868 to death; commanded R.E. in home district 1873 to death; professor of military history at Sandhurst 1858–68; the best military critic of his day; member of royal commission on military education 1868–70; sent by government to report on Franco-German war 1871; author of A military view of recent campaigns in Virginia and Maryland 1863, 2 ed. 1864; Waterloo lectures, a study of the campaign of 1815, 1868, 3 ed. 1874; Essays in military biography 1874. d. 11 Grosvenor mansions, Victoria st. London 19 March 1876. Graphic xiii, 342, 348 (1876), portrait.

CHESNEY, FRANCIS RAWDON (2 son of Alexander Chesney 1755–1843, coast-officer in the district of Mourne, co. Down). b. Ballyvea Mourne 16 March 1789; 2 lieut. R.A. 9 Nov. 1804, commanded R.A. at Hong Kong 1843–7, col. 11 Nov. 1851 to 6 Jany. 1855, col. commandant 27 June 1864 to death; general 1 Jany. 1868; explored Syrian route to India 1830–1; commanded expedition for examining route to India by the Euphrates 1835–6; explored the Tigris and Karūm 1836–7; surveyed Euphrates route again 1857; F.R.G.S. 1838, gold medallist 1838; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; author of Expedition for survey of Euphrates and Tigris 2 vols. 1850; Observations on past and present state of fire arms 1852; The Russo-Turkish campaign of 1828 and 1829, 1854; Narrative of Euphrates expedition 1868. d. Packolet 30 Jany. 1872. The Life of F. R. Chesney, by his wife and daughter, edited by S. Lane-Poole (1885), portrait; Dublin Univ. mag. xviii, 574–80 (1841), portrait; Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlii, 159–61 (1872).

CHESSAR, JANE AGNES. b. Edinburgh 1835; had charge of a class in Home and Colonial training college, London 1852–66; lecturer and private tutor in London 1866–75; member for Marylebone of London school board 27 Nov. 1873 to 1875; edited Mrs. Somerville’s Physical geography 1877; W. Hughes’s Manual of geography 1880; wrote much for the Queen and other newspapers. d. Brussels 3 Sep. 1880. Graphic ix, 30 (1874), portrait.

CHESTER, HARRY (youngest son of sir Robert Chester of Bush hall, Herts. 1768–1848). b. 1 Oct. 1806; ed. at Charterhouse, Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam.; clerk in Privy Council office May 1826 to 1 Jany. 1859; assistant sec. to Committee of Privy Council on education 1840–58; author of The lay of the Lady Ellen, a tale of 1834, London 1835, and of an article entitled The food of the people in Macmillan’s Mag. Oct. and Nov. 1868. d. 63 Rutland gate, London 5 Oct. 1868.

CHESTER, JOSEPH LEMUEL (son of Joseph Chester of Norwich, Connecticut, grocer, who d. 1832). b. Norwich 30 April 1821; a merchant’s clerk in New York 1840, in Philadelphia 1845; a temperance lecturer in many of the states; musical editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book 1845–50; one of the editors of Philadelphia Inquirer and of the Daily Sun 1852; member of council of Philadelphia 1854; one of aide-de-camps of governor of Pennsylvania with rank of colonel 1855–8; lived in London 1859 to death; made most extensive extracts from parish registers, and at his death left 87 folio vols. of such extracts; copied the matriculation register of the university of Oxford 1866–9; D.C.L. Ox. 22 June 1881; one of founders of Harleian Society 1869; a member of first council of Royal Historical Society 1870; published Greenwood cemetery and other poems 1843; The registers of the abbey of St. Peter, Westminster 1876, (Harleian Society) also Privately Printed for the author; The parish registers of St. Michael, Cornhill, London 1882. d. 124 Southwark park road, London 26 May 1882. Latting’s Memoir of Colonel Chester 1882; Dean’s Memoir of Colonel Chester 1884, portrait; Marshall’s Genealogist vi, 189*–92* (1882); New Monthly Mag. June 1881 pp. 626–30, portrait.

CHESTERFIELD, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK STANHOPE, 6 Earl of (only son of 5 Earl of Chesterfield 1755–1815). b. Bretby hall, Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire 23 May 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 29 Aug. 1815; lord of the bedchamber to George iv, 11 Aug. 1828 to 26 June 1830; master of the Buckhounds 30 Dec. 1834 to April 1835; P.C. 29 Dec. 1834; began racing 1826, won Ascot cup with Zinganee 1829, the Oaks with Industry 1838 and Lady Evelyn 1849 and St. Leger with Don John 1838; master of Pytchley hounds 1838–40; the yellow gossamer overcoat known as a Chesterfield was called after him; he is depicted under name of Earl of Chesterlane in D’Horsay, or the follies of the day by A man of fashion 1844. d. 3 Grosvenor sq. London 1 June 1866. bur. at Bretby church 8 June. Rice’s History of the British turf i, 284–6 (1879); Sporting Preview xxix, 450–2 (1858), lvi, 10, 79 (1866); Baily’s Mag. ii, 55–8 (1861), portrait; Sporting Times 7 March 1885; Doyle’s Official baronage i, 374, (1886), portrait.

CHESTERFIELD, GEORGE PHILIP CECIL ARTHUR STANHOPE, 7 Earl of. b. 28 Sep. 1831; ed. at Eton; cornet Royal horse guards 21 Aug. 1849, lieut. 2 Sep. 1853 to 1860; M.P. for south Notts. 18 Dec. 1860 to 1 June 1866 when he succeeded, d. Bretby hall 1 Dec. 1871.

CHESTERFIELD, GEORGE PHILIP STANHOPE, 8 Earl of. b. 29 Nov. 1822; succeeded 1 Dec. 1871, his claim was admitted by House of Lords 7 July 1873. d. Killendanagh near Lifford, co. Donegal 19 Oct. 1883.

CHESTERFIELD, HENRY EDWYN CHANDOS SCUDAMORE STANHOPE, 9 Earl of (eld. son of Sir Edwyn Francis Scudamore Stanhope, 2 baronet 1793–1874). b. Teignmouth, Devon 8 April 1821; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1841; succeeded as 3 baronet 8 Feb. 1874, as 9 Earl 19 Oct. 1883. d. St. Leonard’s on Sea 21 Jany. 1887.

CHETHAM-STRODE, SIR EDWARD (4 son of Thomas Chetham of Mellon hall, Derbyshire). b. 5 July 1775; entered navy 29 April 1786; captain 13 Oct. 1807; captain of the Leander 50 guns 1 May 1816 to July 1819; superintendent of Haslar hospital and Royal Clarence Victualling yard 5 April 1838 to 23 Nov. 1841; R.A. on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.C.H. 1 Jany. 1837; knighted by Wm. iv, at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837; K.C.B. 8 May 1845; assumed additional surname of Strode 1845; granted good service pension 18 June 1857; admiral of the white 22 Aug. 1857. d. Southill house, Shepton-Mallet, Somerset 1 April 1862.

CHETWODE, SIR JOHN NEWDIGATE LUDFORD, 5 Baronet, b. Oakley near Mucklestone, Staffs. 12 Nov. 1788; succeeded 17 Dec. 1845; sheriff of Warwick 1852. d. Oakley 8 Sep. 1873.

CHETWYND, RICHARD WALTER CHETWYND, 6 Viscount, b. Bolton row, London 14 Dec. 1800; succeeded 27 Feb. 1821. d. Marpool near Exmouth 6 Dec. 1879.

CHETWYND, SIR GEORGE, 3 Baronet, b. Grendon hall near Atherstone, co. Warwick 6 Sep. 1809; succeeded 24 May 1850. d. Grendon hall 25 March 1869.

CHETWYND, GEORGE (son of W. J. Chetwynd, captain 52 foot). b. 1824; receiver and accountant general, Post Office, London 1864 to death; C.B. 16 May 1881. d. Hyde Vale, Blackheath, London 3 Dec. 1882.

CHETWYND, WILLIAM FAWKENER. b. 15 Oct. 1788; M.P. for Stafford 11 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841. d. Brocton hall near Stafford 25 April 1873.

CHEVALLIER, REV. TEMPLE (eld. son of Rev. Temple Fiske, Chevallier, R. of Badingham, Suffolk), b. Badingham 19 Oct. 1794; ed. at Pemb. coll. Cam., fellow 1819; 2 wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1817; B A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1833; fellow and tutor of St. Cath. hall, Cam.; V. of St. Andrew the Great, Cam. 1821–34; Hulsean lecturer 1826–7; P.C. of Esh near Durham 1835–69; registrar of Univ. of Durham 1835; professor of mathematics in Univ. of Durham 1835–71 and professor of astronomy 1841–71; hon. canon of Durham cathedral 2 Oct. 1846, canon res. Sep. 1865 to death; F.R.A.S. 13 Dec. 1839; author of A translation of the epistles of Clement of Rome, Polycarp, and Ignatius and of the Apologies of Justin Martyr and Tertullian 1833, 2 ed. 1851 and of 18 papers in journals of Royal Astronom. Soc. d. at house of his son-in-law, the vicarage, Harrow-Weald, Middlesex 4 Nov. 1873. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxiv, 137–39 (1874).

CHEVERS, NORMAN (son of Forbes Mackbean Chevers, surgeon R.N.) b. Greenhithe on the Thames 1818; ed. at Guy’s hospital; assistant surgeon Bengal army 1 Aug. 1848; secretary to Medical Board, Calcutta 1855–61; principal of Calcutta medical college, professor of medicine and first phys. of the college hospital 27 April 1861 to 1876; deputy surgeon general to 1876; C.I.E.; Co-editor of the Indian annals of medical science 1853–72; author of Management of the diseases of the heart 1851; Removable and mitigable causes of death 1852; Medical jurisprudence in India 1855, 3 ed. 1861 for which he was awarded the Swiney prize by Royal coll. of phys.; Preservation of the health of seamen 1864, 2 ed. 1866; Commentary on the diseases of India 1886. d. 32 Tavistock road, Bayswater, London 2 Dec. 1886. British medical journal 18 Dec. 1886 p. 1245; Biograph vi, 129–31 (1881).

CHEYNE, CHARLES HARTWELL HORNE (eld. son of Rev. Charles Cheyne, second master at Christ’s hospital, who d. 1867). b. 1 May 1838; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s, and St. John’s coll. Cam., foundation scholar, June 1859, 18 wrangler 1861, B.A. 1861, M.A. 1864; second mathematical master of Westminster school, March 1863 to Dec. 1876; F.R.A.S. June 1868; author of An elementary treatise on the planetary theory 1862, 3 ed. 1883; The Earth’s motion of rotation, including the theory of precession and nutation 1867. d. Torquay 1 Jany. 1877. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxvii, 147 (1877).

CHICHESTER, HENRY THOMAS PELHAM, 3 Earl of (eld. son of 2 Earl of Chichester 1756–1826). b. Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 25 Aug. 1804; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam.; cornet 6 dragoons 24 June 1824; lieut. Royal horse guards 28 April 1827; succeeded as 3 Earl 4 July 1826; pres. of Church Missionary Society 1835; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 22 Feb. 1841 to death; joint comr. to consider state of bishoprics in England and Wales 30 Jany. 1847; chief comr. for management of ecclesiastical estates 24 Aug. 1850 to Oct. 1878; lord lieut. of Sussex 21 Nov. 1860 to death. d. Stanmer park near Lewes 16 March 1886. Sunday at home (1885), 296–300, portrait.

CHICHESTER, SIR ALEXANDER PALMER BRUCE, 2 Baronet. b. Malta 24 Dec. 1842; succeeded 10 Dec. 1851; sheriff of Devon 1868. d. Arlington court, Barnstaple 25 Jany. 1881.

CHICHESTER, FREDERICK RICHARD, called by courtesy, Earl of Belfast (younger son of 3 Marquis of Donegall 1797–1883). b. 25 Nov. 1827; ed. at Eton; pres. of Classical harmonist’s society established at Belfast 1852; author of Two generations or birth parentage and education, a novel 2 vols. 1851; Poets and poetry of the nineteenth century, a course of lectures 1852. d. Naples 15 Feb. 1853.

CHICHESTER, JOHN LUDFORD (6 son of 2 Marquis of Donegall 1769–1844). b. 12 Nov. 1811; M.P. for Belfast 20 Aug. 1845 to 1 July 1852. d. Cambridge house, Twickenham 22 April 1873.

CHICHESTER, SIR JOHN PALMER BRUCE, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Palmer Bruce Chichester 1769–1823, colonel of Royal Cardigan rifle corps). b. 1794; served in the navy 1810–20; M.P. for Barnstaple 3 May 1831 to 23 June 1841; created baronet 7 Sep. 1840. d. 20 Eaton sq. London 10 Dec. 1851.

CHIFNEY, SAMUEL (younger son of Samuel Chifney, jockey 1753–1807). b. 1786; rode for Prince of Wales at Stockbridge races 1802; won the Oaks on Briseis 1807, on Sorcery 1811, on Landscape 1816, on Shoveller 1819 and on Wings 1825; won the Derby on Sam a horse called after himself 1818 and on Sailor 1820; won the One thousand guineas on Extempore 1843; a trainer at Newmarket to 1843; had a stud of his own there 1843–51. d. Hove, Brighton 29 Aug. 1854. Sporting Review vii, 416 (1842), portrait, xxxii, 231–5, 312–6 (1854) xxxiii, 31–5, 89–95, 162–7, 231–6, 309–14, 401–6 (1855) xxxiv, 5–10, 75–8 (1855).

CHIFNEY, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Newmarket 1784; a trainer near Newmarket; owner with his brother of a small stud of horses at Newmarket to June 1834; publicly thrashed on 31 May 1803 Lieut. col. George Leigh, an equerry to Prince of Wales, for abusing his father, imprisoned for the assault 6 months at Cambridge. d. Pancras sq. Pancras road, London 14 Oct. 1862. H. Corbett’s Tales of sporting life (1864) 176–82.

CHILD-VILLIERS, FREDERICK WILLIAM (_3 son of 5 Earl of Jersey 1773–1859_). b. Berkeley sq. London 20 July 1815; ed. at Eton; lieut. Coldstream Guards 1838 to 24 May 1844 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Weymouth 15 Dec. 1847 to 1 July 1852; lieut. col. commandant of 5 Middlesex militia 16 May 1853 to 4 May 1855; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1869. d. Berkeley sq. 24 May 1871.

CHILDE, HENRY LANGDON. b. 1782; made his first magic lantern 1797; painted on glass and produced slides illustrating natural history and astronomy; invented dissolving views 1807 which he exhibited at Adelphi theatre, London 1818 and at Her Majesty’s theatre 1837–40; connected with the Polytechnic Institution, Regent st. from date of opening 6 Aug. 1838 for nearly 20 years; invented the chromatrope, a lantern slide by which beautiful effects of colour were produced. d. Mostyn road, Brixton, London 15 Oct. 1874.

CHILDE, JAMES WARREN. Landscape and Miniature painter in London 1798 to death; most of his exhibited works were portraits of popular actors and actresses; exhibited 76 pictures at R.A. and 16 at Suffolk st. gallery 1798–1853. d. 27 Scarsdale villas, Kensington, London 19 Sep. 1862 aged 82.

CHILDE, WILLIAM LACON. b. 3 Jany. 1786; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Wenlock 9 March 1820 to 2 June 1826; sheriff of Salop 1828. d. 15 Dec. 1880.

CHILDERS, JOHN WALBANKE. b. 27 May 1798; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Cambridgeshire 21 Dec. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834, for Malton 12 Feb. 1836 to April 1846 and 28 July 1847 to 1 July 1852. d. Cantley hall, Doncaster 8 Feb. 1886. Times 9 Feb. 1886 p. 10 col. 4.

CHILDERS, MICHAEL. Ensign 2 West India regiment 25 Feb. 1799; lieut. col. 11 light dragoons 21 Sep. 1820 to 25 March 1836 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818; colonel 10 Jany. 1837; retired 8 June 1838. d. Sandhutton near York 9 Jany. 1854.

CHILDERS, ROBERT CÆSAR (son of Rev. Charles Childers, chaplain at Nice). b. 1838; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., Hebrew scholar; a writer in Ceylon civil service 1860, private secretary to the governor Sir Charles McCarthy 3 years; office assistant to government agent in Kandy to March 1864 when he returned home; sub-librarian at India office, London 1872; professor of Pali and Buddhist literature at Univ. coll. London, July 1873 to death; published Pali text of the Khadduka Patha with English translation and notes in Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Nov. 1869 being the first Pali text printed in England; Dictionary of the Pali language 2 vols. 1872–5, awarded by the Institute of France the Volney prize, July 1876 as the best philological work of the year. d. Weybridge, Surrey 25 July 1876. Annual report of Royal Asiatic Society, June 1877 pp. viii-x.

CHILDREN, JOHN GEORGE (only child of George Children of Ferox hall, Tunbridge, Kent 1742–1818). b. Ferox hall 18 May 1777; ed. at Eton and Queen’s coll. Cam.; established gunpowder mills at Ramhurst 1813; a librarian in department of antiquities at British Museum 1816, keeper of the Zoological collections 1823 to 25 March 1840; F.R.S. 12 March 1807, one of the secretaries 1826–7 and 1830–7, vice pres. 1837–8; F.R.S. of Edin. 1812; F.S.A. 1816; pres. of Entomological Soc. 1834–5; discovered a method for extracting silver from its ore without the use of mercury 1824; published translations of Thenard’s Traité de Chymie 1819, and of Berzelius’s Use of the blowpipe in chemical analysis 1822. d. Halstead place, Kent 1 Jany. 1852. Memoir of J. G. Children, privately printed 1853; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 137–40 (1853); G.M. xxxvii, 622–4 (1852).

CHILDS, CHARLES (son of the succeeding). b. 1807; head of firm of John Childs and Son of Bungay, Suffolk, printers 1853 to death; gave evidence before select committee of House of Commons on the Queen’s printers’ patent 1859; wrote several articles in the Westminster Review. d. Bungay 26 Dec. 1876.

CHILDS, JOHN. b. Bungay 1783; printer at Bungay 1806 to death; projected with Joseph Ogle Robinson the series known as ‘Imperial octavo editions of standard authors’; a pioneer of movement for cheap and good literature for the million. d. Bungay 12 Aug. 1853 in 70 year.

CHILDS, JOSEPH. Second lieut. R.M. 21 April 1809, col. commandant 14 July 1855 to 31 March 1857 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 31 March 1857. d. Liskeard, Cornwall 2 Jany. 1870 aged 83.

CHILTON, GEORGE (eld. son of George Chilton of Chancery lane, London, solicitor). Educ. at Queen’s coll. Ox, B.A. 1818; barrister I.T. 16 June 1820, bencher 1837, reader 1848, treasurer 1849; recorder of Gloucester, March 1837 to death; Q.C. 1837; judge of county courts for Greenwich and Lambeth (circuit 48), July 1847 to death; edited R. B. Comyn’s A treatise on the law of landlord and tenant, 2 ed. 1830. d. Boulogne 1 Nov. 1852 aged 56.

CHINNERY, REV. SIR NICHOLAS, 3 Baronet (only son of Sir Brodrick Chinnery, 2 baronet 1779–1840). b. Bath 7 July 1804; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; succeeded 17 Jany. 1840; C. of Trinity chapel, Conduit st. London 1855–6; author of Anglican formalism 1862; The design of heresies 1867; killed in a railway accident between Abergele and Llandulas stations on Chester and Holyhead railway 20 Aug. 1868, when 33 persons were literally burned alive. A.R. (1868) 106–11; I.L.N. liii, 234 (1868).

CHIOSSO, JAMES. Opened gymnasia and schools of arms at 21 New road, Marylebone, London 1853, and at 123 Oxford st. 1854; professor of gymnastics at University college school, London, where he erected one of the earliest gymnasia in London about 1838; invented the Calisthenic and Gymnastic Polymachinon 1855; author of Remarks on physical education 1845; Gymnastics an essential branch of national education 1854; The gymnastic polymachinon 1855. d. 11 Norfolk villas, Bayswater, London 14 March 1864 aged 75. Illust. Sporting news i, 116 (1862), portrait.

CHIPP, EDMUND THOMAS (eld. son of the succeeding). b. London 25 Dec. 1823; a member of Society of British Musicians 1842; organist of St. John’s chapel, Hampstead 1843–6; a violinist in Queen’s private band 1843–55; organist at St. Olave, Southwark 1847–52 and at St. Mary-at-Hill 1852–6; organist at Panopticon, Leicester sq. 1855 and at Holy Trinity church, Paddington 1856–62; Mus. Bac. Cam. 1859, Mus. Doc. 1861; organist of St. George’s ch. and Ulster Hall, Belfast 1862–6, and of Ely cathedral, Nov. 1866 to death; composed Job an oratorio; Naomi a sacred idyll, several songs, services, and organ and pianoforte music. d. Nice 17 Dec. 1886. Biograph vi, 563–5 (1881); Graphic xxxv, 100 (1887), portrait.

CHIPP, THOMAS PAUL. b. London 25 May 1793; teacher of the harp; harpist in orchestra of Covent Garden theatre 1818, of Her Majesty’s theatre 1826; a member of all chief London orchestras 1813–66; played at coronations of George iv, Wm. iv, and Victoria. d. Camden Town, London 19 June 1870.

CHISHOLM, CAROLINE (dau. of Wm. Jones of Wootton, Northamptonshire). b. Wootton, May 1808; went to Madras 1832 where she established Female school of industry; went to Sydney 1839 where she opened an office for the use of emigrants, Jany. 1841; promoted emigration of families from England 1846–54; laboured in Australia 1854–66; granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1867; author of The A.B.C. of colonisation 1850, Emigration and transportation relatively considered. (m. 1830 Archibald Chisholm, captain 13 Madras N.I. who d. Rugby 17 Aug. 1877 aged 82). d. 43^a Barclay road, Walham Green near London 25 March 1877. bur. Northampton 31 March. Mackenzie’s Memoirs of C. Chisholm 1852, portrait; Michelet’s La Femme (1860) 398–406; I.L.N. xx, 301 (1852), portrait, xxiv, 337 (1854), portrait, lxx, 349 (1877), portrait.

CHISHOLM, WALTER (son of Mr. Chisholm of Easter Harelaw near Chirnside, Berwickshire, shepherd). b. Easter Harelaw 21 Dec. 1856; wrote poems signed ‘Wattie’ in the Haddington Courier and in the People’s Friend; his poem entitled Scotia’s Border Land gained second prize in competition promoted by People’s Journal Christmas 1876. d. of pleurisy at Dowlaw farm 1 Oct. 1877. Poems by the late Walter Chisholm, edited by W. Cairns 1879 pp. ix-xvi.

CHITTY, EDWARD (3 son of Joseph Chitty of the Middle Temple, London, barrister 1776–1841). b. 1804; barrister L.I. 7 July 1829; went to Jamaica 1840; author of An index to all the reported cases of equity and bankruptcy 2 vols. 1831, 3 ed. 4 vols. 1853; author with E. E. Deacon of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 4 vols. 1833–7; with Basil Montagu of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1840; with F. Forster of A digested index to all the common law reports relating to conveyancing and bankruptcy 1841. d. Cambridge lodge, Walham green near London 28 Sep. 1863.

CHITTY, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). b. 1801; practised in London as a special pleader below the bar 1820–77; taught many men who became judges and leading counsel; author of Forms of practical proceedings in the courts of Queen’s Bench Common Pleas and Exchequer of Pleas 1834, 12 ed. 1883; edited J. F. Archbold’s Practice of the Court of King’s Bench, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1835, 5 ed. 2 vols. 1836, 6 ed. 2 vols. 1838, 7 ed. 2 vols. 1840, and 8 ed. 2 vols. 1845–7. d. 47 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London 13 Feb. 1878.

CHITTY, TOMPSON. Barrister M.T. 31 Jany. 1851; edited Joseph Chitty’s A practical treatise on the law of contracts, not under seal, 3 ed. 1841; author with Leofric Temple of A practical treatise on the law of carriers of goods and passengers 1856. d. Stockwell Surrey 4 Feb. 1863.

CHOLMELEY, SIR MONTAGU JOHN, 2 Baronet. b. Grantham 5 Aug. 1802; M.P. for Grantham 14 June 1826 to 23 April 1831, for North Lincolnshire 12 Jany. 1847 to 1 July 1852, and 31 March 1857 to death; succeeded 10 March 1831. d. Easton hall, Grantham 18 Jany. 1874.

CHOLMLEY, SIR GEORGE, 7 Baronet. b. Welburn, Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire 26 Nov. 1782; M.P. for Yorkshire 6 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832, for west riding of Yorkshire 20 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841, for Preston 29 June 1841 to 21 March 1857; succeeded 8 Jany. 1834; assumed name of Cholmley in lieu of Strickland by royal licence 17 March 1865. d. Newton hall near Malton 23 Dec. 1874.

CHOLMONDELEY, GEORGE HORATIO CHOLMONDELEY, 2 Marquis of. b. Paris 16 Jany. 1792; M.P. for Castle Rising, Norfolk 21 Feb. 1817 to 24 Dec. 1821; summoned to House of Peers in his father’s barony of Newburgh 24 Dec. 1821; succeeded 10 April 1827; Joint hereditary grand chamberlain of England 10 April 1827 to death; P.C. 19 July 1830. d. Cholmondeley castle, Nantwich, Cheshire 8 May 1870.

CHOLMONDELEY, WILLIAM HENRY HUGH, 3 Marquis of. b. Piccadilly, London 31 Aug. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Castle Rising 1 Feb. 1822 to 3 Dec. 1832, for South Hants. 14 July 1852 to 21 March 1857; succeeded 8 May 1870; joint hereditary grand chamberlain of England 8 May 1870 to death. d. Houghton hall, Rougham, Norfolk 16 Dec. 1884.

CHORLEY, CHARLES (son of John Chorley, lieutenant 1 Somerset militia, who d. 22 Feb. 1839 aged 66). b. Taunton about 1810; sub-editor of Cornwall Gazette at Truro 30 years; sec. to Truro Public Rooms company; sub-manager of Truro Savings’ bank; edited Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall 1863–74; published Jephtha or the Vow, a tragedy by [George] Buchanan, translated from the Latin by C. C[horley] 1854; The Baptist or calumny, a tragedy by [George] Buchanan, translated from the Latin by C. C[horley] 1864, Verse by C. C. 1867. d. 24 Lemon st. Truro 22 June 1874. Journal of Royal Instit. of Cornwall, Oct. 1874 pp. iii, iv, vii.

CHORLEY, HENRY FOTHERGILL (3 son of John Chorley of Blackley Hurst, Lancs. lock maker, who d. 15 April 1816). b. Blackley Hurst 15 Dec. 1808; started with his brother W. B. Chorley, M.D. an annual called The Winter’s Wreath 1828; a reviewer on the Athenæum 1833–66, musical critic of it 1833–68; author of Sketches of a Sea-port town 3 vols. 1835; Conti the discarded, a novel 3 vols. 1835; Memorials of Mrs. Hemans 2 vols. 1836; Modern German music 3 vols. 1854; Thirty years musical recollections 2 vols. 1862; Prodigy, a tale of music 3 vols. 1866; librettos for Wallace’s Amber Witch, and Bennett’s May Queen. d. 13 Eaton place west, London 16 Feb. 1872. H. F. Chorley, autobiography, memoir and letters, compiled by H. G. Hewlett 2 vols. 1873, portrait; Musical cynics of London, a satire by George Linley 1862 a satirical poem on H. F. Chorley.

CHORLEY, JOHN RUTTER (brother of the preceding). b. Blackley Hurst about 1807; secretary to Grand Junction railway between Liverpool and Birmingham; formed a fine collection of Spanish plays which he gave to British Museum; principal reviewer of German, Italian and Spanish books for the Athenæum 1846–54; author of The Wife’s Litany, and other poems 1865. d. 29 June 1867. H. F. Chorley’s Autobiography ii, 254–92 (1873).

CHOWN, REV. JOSEPH PARBERY. b. Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire 9 Dec. 1821; ed. at Horton (now Rawdon) college; pastor of Sion baptist chapel, Bradford 1848–75; pastor of Bloomsbury chapel, London 1875–85; pres. of London baptist association 1879; pres. of Baptist union of Great Britain and Ireland 1883; author of many circular letters written for the Yorkshire Baptist Association and of sermons, which had a wide circulation; one of the most popular Baptist preachers. d. 24 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 8 July 1886. The Baptist 16 July 1886 pp. 42–4; The Freeman 16 July 1886 pp. 464–5; John Taylor’s Bibliotheca Northamtonensis.

CHOWNE, WILLIAM. M.R.C.S. 1813; M.D. Edin. 1827, L.R.C.P. 1833, F.R.C.P. 1857; practised in Holland, Lincs. 1813–27, moved to London 1833; assistant phys. to Charing Cross hospital, lecturer on medicine, obstetrics and diseases of women and children; pres. of Westminster Medical Soc.; pres. of Harveian Soc. 1850–1; author of An oration delivered before the Medical Society of London, with an appendix on coroners’ inquests 1846. d. 17 Sep. 1870 aged 79. Medical Circular i, 261–3, 301 (1852), portrait.

CHRISTIAN, RICHARD. b. Cottesmore, Rutland, March 1779; head groom to Sir Wm. Heathcote 1799–1809; a farmer at Luffenham, Rutland 1809–17; whip to Lord Scarborough at Rufford 1820–35. d. 5 June 1862. Post and Paddock by the Druid pp. 336–67; Silk and Scarlet by the Druid pp. 1–69, portrait.

CHRISTIE, ALEXANDER (eld. son of David Christie of Edinburgh). b. Edin. 1807; ed. at Edin. academy and univ.; apprenticed to a writer to the signet; studied art in Edin., London and Paris; an assistant in ornamental department of School of Art, Edin. 1843, director 1845; A.R.S.A. 1848, where he exhibited pictures for some years; painted a large picture ‘The apparition of the Cross to Constantine,’ as an altar-piece for the chapel at Murthley Castle; delivered lectures on art at Philosophical Instit. of Edin. d. 5 May 1860.

CHRISTIE, JAMES ROBERT (2 son of Samuel Hunter Christie 1784–1865). b. Woolwich 9 Feb. 1814; mathematical master at Royal military academy, Woolwich 1837–47, first mathematical master 1847–65; F.R.S. 18 March 1847; F.R.A.S. 13 Jany. 1854; author of Introduction to practical astronomy 1853; Test questions in pure and mixed mathematics 1866. d. Arundel house, South Norwood park near London 28 Feb. 1879. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xl, 188 (1880).

CHRISTIE, JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1822; captain 1 European light cavalry 1 Jany. 1846 to 21 Feb. 1861; aide-de-camp to the Queen 7 March 1856 to 21 Feb. 1861; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. San Remo, Italy 7 May 1869.

CHRISTIE, JONATHAN HENRY. Educ. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1815; barrister L.I. 21 May 1824; fought a duel with John Scott editor of the London Magazine at Chalk farm near London at 9 p.m. 16 Feb. 1821 when at the second fire Scott fell mortally wounded and died at Chalk farm tavern 4 March; tried at the Old Bailey for murder 13 April 1821 when acquitted. d. 9 Stanhope st. Hyde park gardens, London 15 April 1876 aged 83. J. G. Millingen’s History of duelling ii, 244–52 (1841); A. Steinmetz’s Romance of duelling ii, 253–9 (1868).

CHRISTIE, SAMUEL HUNTER (youngest son of James Christie of 90 Pall Mall, London, auctioneer 1730–1803). b. 90 Pall Mall 22 March 1784; admitted sizar at Trin. coll. Cam. 7 Oct. 1800, scholar 1803, 2 wrangler and bracketed 1 Smith’s prizeman 1805; B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; founded Cambridge university boat club; captain of Grenadier company of Cambridge volunteers; mathematical assistant at Royal military academy, Woolwich 1806, professor of mathematics 1838–54; F.R.S. 12 Jany. 1826, sec. of Royal Soc. 1837–54, contributed to the Transactions many papers on magnetism and kindred subjects; author of An elementary course of mathematics 3 parts 1845–7. d. Ailsa villa, Twickenham 24 Jany. 1865. Proc. of Royal Soc. xv, 11–14 (1867).

CHRISTIE, SAMUEL TOLFREY. Ensign 80 foot 22 Jany. 1836, lieut. col. 5 March 1858 to Nov. 1865; C.B. 14 May 1859; L.G. 5 April 1876. d. Roehampton, Surrey 5 Oct. 1876.

CHRISTIE, WILLIAM DOUGAL (eld. son of Dougal Christie, M.D. of the H.E.I. Co.’s Bombay medical service). b. Bombay 3 Jany. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1862; barrister I.T. 16 June 1840; M.P. for Weymouth 1842–7; sec. of legation at Berne 25 Feb. 1851; chargé d’affaires in Argentine Republic 10 Oct. 1854, minister plenipotentiary 15 Jany. 1856; envoy extraord. to Emperor of Brazil 2 Sep. 1859 to 20 Oct. 1863 when he retired; C.B. 24 July 1871; author of Notes on Brazilian questions 1865; Life of the First Earl of Shaftesbury 2 vols. 1871; Ballot and corruption and expenses at elections 1872. d. 32 Dorset sq. Marylebone, London 27 July 1874. Fraser’s Mag. xxxiv, 661–3 (1846); I.L.N. lxv, 140, 355 (1874).

CHRISTIE, WILLIAM HARVEY (son of Thomas Christie, M.D. of Cheltenham). b. Ceylon 2 Aug. 1808; ed. at Rugby and Woolwich; ensign 80 foot 8 April 1825, major 9 Nov. 1838 to 17 Jany. 1840; police magistrate at Hyde park barracks, Sydney to 1842; agent for church and school estates, Sydney 1842–52; postmaster general of N.S.W. 1852–1865. d. Pyrmont, Sydney 19 March 1873.

CHRISTISON, JOHN. b. 18 Nov. 1788; sheriff of Ayrshire 13 March 1854 to death, d. 11 June 1862.

CHRISTISON, SIR ROBERT (son of Alexander Christison, professor of humanity in Univ. of Edin., who d. 25 June 1830). b. Edin. 18 July 1797; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1819, LLD. 1872; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1823, pres. 1839 and 1848; professor of medical jurisprudence in Univ. of Edin. 23 Feb. 1822 to 1832, professor of clinical medicine 1832–55, professor of materia medica 1832 to April 1877; medical witness in almost every important case in Scotland 1829–66; one of the Queen’s phys. in ord. in Scotland 1848–82; a crown representative in general medical council 1858–77; pres. of Royal Soc. of Edin. 1868–73; created baronet 20 Nov. 1871; pres. of British medical assoc. 1875; author of A treatise on poisons 1829, 4 ed. 1845; On granular degeneration of the kidneys 1839; A dispensatory or commentary on the pharmacopœias of Great Britain 1842, 2 ed. 1848. d. 40 Moray place, Edin. 27 Jany. 1882. Life of Sir R. Christison edited by his sons 2 vols. 1885–6, 2 portraits; S. Muspratt’s Chemistry vol. 1 (1853), portrait.

CHRISTMAS, REV. HENRY, afterwards Noel-Fearn (only son of Robert Noble Christmas of Taunton). b. London 1811; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; librarian and sec. of Sion college, London 1841–8; minister of Verulam chapel, Lambeth 1843–56; lecturer at St. Peter’s church, Cornhill 1852–66; C. of St. James’s, Thames st. 1866; professor of English history and archæology in Royal Society of Literature 1854–9; joint hon. sec. of Numismatic Society of London 1844–7, his collection of coins was sold at Sotheby’s for £1260, 1–5 Feb. 1864; edited Churchman 1840–3, Church of England Quarterly review 1840–3 and 1854–8, British Churchman 1845–8, Literary Gazette 1859–60; F.R.S. 14 April 1842; F.S.A.; author of The Voyage, a poem 1833; The cradle of the twin giants, science and history 2 vols. 1849; The shores and islands of the Mediterranean 3 vols. 1851 and 15 other books; took name of Noel-Fearn 1866. d. suddenly of apoplexy in a cab in the Haymarket, London 11 March 1868.

CHRISTOFF, GEORGE, stage name of George Christopher. One of the best tight rope dancers in England; performed at the New Queen’s theatre, London in The last days of Pompeii, drama in 5 acts by John Oxenford 8 Jany. 1872, and several months afterwards. d. Lambeth infirmary, London 13 June 1881 aged about 55.

CHRISTOPHER-NISBET-HAMILTON, ROBERT ADAM (elder son of Philip Dundas, governor of Prince of Wales Island, who d. 1807). b. 9 Feb. 1804; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; advocate 1826; M.P. for city of Edin. 1831–2, for North Lincolnshire 1837–57; F.R.S. 18 April 1833; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 1 March to 30 Dec. 1852; assumed surname of Christopher in lieu of Dundas 20 Jany. 1836, took additional surname of Nisbet-Hamilton 1854. d. 23 Chesham place, London 9 June 1877.

CHRISTY, HENRY (2 son of W. Miller Christy of Woodbines, Kingston upon Thames, banker 1778–1858). b. 26 July 1810; partner in firm of Messrs. Christy’s of Bermondsey and Stockport, manufacturers; succeeded his father as a director of London joint stock bank 1858; travelled in Scandinavia 1852–3; explored with Edward B. Tylor all parts of Mexico; examined the caves in valley of the Vezere, south of France, finding thousands of specimens of remains; F.G.S. 1858; selected by council of Royal society to be elected a fellow 1 June 1865; author with E. Lartet of Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ, being contributions to the archæology and palæontology of Perigord and the adjacent provinces of Southern France 1865–70. d. La Palisse, Allier, France 4 May 1865. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1865) 85–90.

NOTE.—By his will he bequeathed his magnificent collections illustrating the history of early man, with the equally large series of articles representing the habits of modern savages, to the nation; the trustees of the British Museum secured the suite of rooms at 118 Victoria st. Westminster (in which Christy himself had lived) and here the collection was exhibited until 1884 when it was moved to the British Museum.

CHUBB, JOHN (son of Charles Chubb of London, locksmith, who d. 16 May 1845). Locksmith in St. Paul’s churchyard, London, afterwards in Queen Victoria st.; M.I.C.E. 1845, read a valuable paper on locks and keys before that institution 1850 for which he was awarded Telford silver medal; patented various improvements in locks and safes. d. Radcliffe house, Brixton Rise, London 30 Oct. 1872 in 57 year. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. ix, 310–43 (1850).

CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (2 son of Matthew Church of Cork). b. 1784; ensign 13 foot 3 July 1800; major 1 Greek light infantry 9 Sep. 1809; lieut.-col. 2 Greek light infantry 19 Nov. 1812 to 1815 when both regiments (which he had raised) were disbanded; commander in chief in Sicily 1820; generalissimo of Greek army 1827–8 and 1832–43 when he joined the revolutionary party; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at Carlton house 12 June 1822; G.C.H. 1837. d. Athens 20 March 1873.

CHURCHILL, FRANCIS GEORGE SPENCER, 2 Baron. b. Blenheim 6 Oct. 1802; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; attaché at Vienna 10 Aug. 1823, at Lisbon 12 Jany. 1828; succeeded his father 7 March 1845; commanded Oxfordshire yeomanry 1857–74. d. 32 Albemarle st. London 24 Nov. 1886.

CHURCHILL, ALFRED B. b. Constantinople; succeeded his father as editor and proprietor of Turkish semi-official paper the Jeride Hawades; much improved character of Turkish printing; attended the Sultan on his visit to England, July 1867 as official historiographer. d. Constantinople, Nov. or Dec. 1870 aged 45.

CHURCHILL, FLEETWOOD. b. Nottingham, Feb. 1808; studied in London, Dublin and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1831; practised at Dublin 1832–75; fellow of King and Queen’s college of Phys. 27 Oct. 1851, censor 1855–7, vice pres. 1856, professor of midwifery in school of physic 1856–64, pres. 1867–8; pres. of Obstetrical Soc. of Dublin 1856 and 1864; author of Diseases of females 1838; Operative Midwifery 1841; Diseases of Children 1850. d. Ardtrea rectory near Stewartstown 31 Jany. 1878. Dublin Journal of medical science lxv, 285–8 (1878).

CHURCHILL, HENRY ADRIAN (son of Wm. Nosworthy Churchill). b. 1828; attaché at Teheran 22 April 1852; attached as secretary and interpreter to staff of General Williams in Asia 18 July 1854 to 28 Nov. 1855 when taken prisoner at capitulation of Kars; consul general in Syria 1862, at Algiers 1863–7; political agent and consul at Zanzibar 15 June 1867 to 12 Feb. 1872 when he retired on a pension; consul in Sicily 1 Oct. 1879 to death; C.B. 19 June 1856. d. Palermo 12 July 1886.

CHURCHILL, JOHN SPRIGGS MORSS (3 son of Rev. James Churchill, Independent minister at Ongar, Essex). b. Ongar 4 Aug. 1801; medical bookseller at 16 Princes st. Soho, London 1830–54, at New Burlington st. 1854 to 31 Dec. 1870 when he retired; published British and foreign medical review 1838, Lancet 1842–7, Medical Times 1850 and nearly all the medical books; projected and edited a series of medical manuals. d. Tunbridge Wells 3 Aug. 1875. H. Curwen’s History of booksellers (1873) 339–45; Medical times and gazette ii, 197–200 (1875).

CHURSTON, JOHN YARDE-BULLER, 1 Baron (2 son of Sir Francis Buller-Yarde 2 baronet 1767–1833). b. Dilhorne hall, Staffs. 12 April 1799; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; succeeded 17 April 1833; M.P. for South Devon 13 Jany. 1835 to 2 Aug. 1858 when created Baron Churston of Churston Ferrers and Lupton, Devon; lieut.-col. of South Devon militia 1845; special deputy warden of the stannaries 1852; changed his name from Buller-Yarde to Yarde-Buller by royal license 13 Feb. 1860. d. Lupton near Brixham 4 Sep. 1871. I.L.N. xxxvii, 191, 208 (1860), portrait, lix, 259, 530 (1871).

CHURTON, VENERABLE EDWARD (2 son of Ven. Ralph Churton 1754–1831, archdeacon of St. David’s). b. Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire 26 Jany. 1800; ed. at Charterhouse 1810–18 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; head master of Hackney church of England school 1830–4; R. of Crayke, Yorkshire 1835 to death; preb. of York cath. 1841 to death; archdeacon of Cleveland 21 Jany. 1846 to death; edited with Rev. W. Gresley The Englishman’s Library, for which he wrote The early English Church 1840; author of Lays of faith and loyalty 1847; The book of Psalms in English verse 1854; Gongora, an historical and critical essay on the times of Philip iii and iv of Spain with translations 2 vols. 1863. d. Crayke 4 July 1874. Poetical remains of Edward Churton 1876, portrait.

CHURTON, EDWARD. Bookseller and publisher as 26 Holles st. Cavendish sq. London many years. d. Wanganui, New Zealand 24 July 1885 aged 73.

CHUTE, JAMES HENRY. b. Gosport 4 July 1810; played at Bristol theatre as Mr. Chew; performed on the York and Lincoln circuits; played at T.R. Dublin 7 years; joined the Bristol stage about 1842; lessee of the Old theatre, King st. Bristol, Sep. 1853 to death, of the new theatre Bristol to death; made his last appearance 6 April 1876. d. Bristol 23 July 1878. Era 28 July 1878 p. 4, col. 4, 4 Aug. p. 10, col. 1.

CHUTE, SIR TREVOR (3 son of Francis Chute of Chute hall, Tralee, co. Kerry, who d. 12 Aug. 1849). b. Spa, Tralee 31 July 1816; ensign Ceylon rifle regiment 10 Aug. 1831; captain 70 foot 8 Nov. 1839, lieut. col. 14 Dec. 1849 to 12 May 1863 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 1858–9 and 1860–1; brigadier general Australia 1863–5; major general New Zealand 1865–7; major general Australia 1867–70; col. 22 foot 6 May 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Egmont, Bracknell, Berks. 12 March 1886. Sir J. E. Alexander’s Bush fighting (1873) 267–305.

CHUTE, WILLIAM LYDE WIGGETT. b. 16 June 1800; sheriff of Norfolk 1832; M.P. for West Norfolk 29 July 1837 to 23 July 1847. d. The Vyne near Basingstoke 6 July 1879.

CIANCHETTI, PIO (2 son of Francesco Cianchetti of Rome). b. London 11 Dec. 1799; performed a sonata of his own composition in the opera concert room, London 1805; performed in Germany, Holland and France; spoke the English, French, German and Italian languages at 8 years old; composed instrumental pieces including a grand concerto which he executed at a concert in London 1809; acted as composer and conductor of Madame Catalani’s concerts in England 1822; composed concertos, pianoforte music and songs; edited an edition in score of symphonies and overtures by Mozart and Beethoven. d. Cheltenham 21 July 1851.

CLAIRMONT, CLARA MARY JANE (dau. of Mr. Clairmont, who d. about May 1798, by Mary Jane, who m. (2) Wm. Godwin the author). b. 27 April 1798; ed. at Walham Green; went to France with her half sister Mary Godwin, when she eloped with the poet Shelley 28 July 1814; introduced herself to Lord Byron early in 1816, became his mistress, her daughter Allegra was born at Bath 12 Jany. 1817 and d. in the convent of Bagna-Cavallo near Ravenna 19 April 1822; a governess in Russia about 1823–9; lived in Italy and Paris. d. Florence 19 March 1879. C. K. Paul’s Life of Wm. Godwin ii, 108, 213, 217, 247–8, 280 (1876); Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1847) 389, 557, 567. Dowden’s Life of P. B. Shelley i, 439–522 (1886).

CLANCARTY, WILLIAM THOMAS LE POER TRENCH, 3 Earl of. b. Castletown, co. Kildare 21 Sep. 1803; lieut.-col. of Galway militia 1830–65; succeeded 24 Nov. 1837. d. Salt hill near Dublin 26 April 1872.

CLANMORRIS, JOHN CHARLES ROBERT BINGHAM, 4 Baron (eld. son of Denis Arthur Bingham, 3 Baron Clanmorris 1808–47). b. Moyode castle, co. Galway 28 Nov. 1826; ed. at Rugby; succeeded his father 24 Feb. 1847. d. at his seat in West of Ireland 5 April 1876.

CLANRICARDE, ULICK JOHN DE-BURGH, 1 Marquis of (only son of 13 Earl of Clanricarde 1744–1808). b. Belmont, Hants. 20 or 28 Dec. 1802; succeeded as 14 Earl 27 July 1808; created a marquis in peerage of Ireland 6 Oct. 1825; created Baron Somerhill in peerage of the U.K. 13 June 1826; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 2 Jany. 1826 to 17 Aug. 1827; captain of yeomen of the guard 1 Dec. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1834; P.C. 1 Dec. 1830; lord lieut. of Galway 1831; K.P. 7 Oct. 1831; colonel of Galway militia 1 Jany. 1838, hon. colonel 12 Feb. 1873 to death; ambassador at St. Petersburgh 6 Oct. 1838 to 28 March 1840; postmaster general 7 July 1846 to 27 Dec. 1852; lord privy seal 3 Feb. 1858 to 26 Feb. 1858. d. 17 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 10 April 1874. bur. Portumna, Galway. Baily’s Mag. xi, 333–7 (1866), portrait; I.L.N. iv, 332, (1844), portrait; Graphic ix, 433 (1874), portrait.

CLANWILLIAM, RICHARD CHARLES FRANCIS MEADE, 3 Earl of (elder son of Richard Meade, 2 Earl of Clanwilliam 1766–1805). b. 15 Aug. 1795; succeeded 3 Sep. 1805; private sec. to Marquess of Londonderry 5 Jan. 1817 to 11 July 1819; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 22 Jan. 1822 to 12 Aug. 1822; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. at Berlin 1 Feb. 1823 to 25 Dec. 1827; G.C.H. 1826; created a peer of the U.K. by title of Baron Clanwilliam of Clanwilliam, co. Tipperary 28 Jany. 1828; created D.C.L. Ox. 11 June 1834. d. 32 Belgrave square, London 7 Oct. 1879. Personalty sworn under £250,000 Jany. 1880.

CLAPHAM, ROBERT CALVERT (son of Anthony Clapham, who established soda and alkali works on the Tyne). b. Newcastle 15 Sep. 1823; manager of the Walker alkali works; chief founder of Newcastle Chemical society 1868, pres. 1878; sec. of Newcastle literary and philosophical society 21 years; M.I.M.E. 1869; F.C.S.; author of the article on Soda in Chemistry as applied to arts and manufactures. d. Winchelsea 22 Dec. 1881. Proc. of Instit. of Mechanical Engineers (1882) 2–3.

CLAPHAM, WILLIAM. Entered Madras army 1796; colonel 47 Madras N.I. 5 April 1831 to death; M.G. 28 June 1838. d. Widcombe house, Bath 29 Aug. 1851 aged 70.

CLARE, JOHN FITZGIBBON, 2 Earl of (elder son of John Fitzgibbon, 1 Earl of Clare 1749–1802, lord chancellor of Ireland), b. 10 June 1792; succeeded as 2 Earl 28 Jany. 1802; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1819; lord lieutenant of Limerick; governor of Bombay, Aug. 1830 to 17 March 1835, took his seat 21 March 1831; P.C. 25 Aug. 1830; G.C.H. 1835; K.P. 17 Sep. 1845. d. Brighton 18 Aug. 1851.

CLARE, RICHARD HOBART FITZGIBBON, 3 Earl of (brother of the preceding). b. Dublin 2 Oct. 1793; registrar of affidavits in Irish court of Chancery 1797–1836 when office was abolished; ensign 1 foot guards 18 Aug. 1808; captain 2 Ceylon regiment 1811–14; M.P. for co. Limerick 1818–41; lord lieut. of Limerick 1851; succeeded as 3 Earl 18 Aug. 1851. d. Kensington palace gardens, London 10 Jany. 1864.

CLARE, JOHN (son of Parker Clare of Helpstone near Stamford, labourer). b. Helpstone 13 July 1793; cottage farmer at Helpstone 1827–32, at Northborough 1832–7; confined at High Beech private lunatic asylum, Epping Forest 1837–41, at county asylum, Northampton 1841 to death; author of Poems descriptive of rural life and scenery 1821; The village minstrel and other poems 2 vols. 1821; The rural muse 1835. d. Northampton asylum 20 May 1864. bur. Helpstone 25 May. F. Martin’s Life of J. Clare 1865; J. L. Cherry’s Life of J. Clare 1873; M. R. Mitford’s Recollections of a literary life (1859) 103–14; J. Clare’s Village Minstrel vol. 1 (1821), portrait.

CLARE, JOHN. Nautical inventor; one of the persons who suggested protection of war vessels by means of iron plates; made a claim on the Government for a sum of about a million for compensation, which claim was rejected; author of Mechanical defects of things resembling iron ships, but constructed upon the tin-pot principle 1856; Life preserving ships hydrodynamically developed upon metallic principles 1868. d. 1 West bank road, Liverpool 12 Oct. 1885 aged 65.

CLARE, PETER (son of Peter Clare of Manchester, clockmaker, who d. 30 July 1799). b. Manchester 1781; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society 1810, sec. 1821–42; F.R.A.S. 1841; a zealous member of Anti-slavery committee. d. Manchester 24 Nov. 1851. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xii, 89–90 (1852).

CLARENDON, GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK VILLIERS, 4 Earl of (eld. son of hon. George Villiers 1759–1827). b. London 12 Jany. 1800; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; attaché of embassy at St. Petersburg 1820–23; a comr. of the Excise 1823–33; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Madrid 16 Aug. 1833 to 18 Oct. 1839; G.C.B. 19 Oct. 1837; succeeded his uncle as 4 Earl 22 Dec. 1838; P.C. 3 Jany. 1840; lord keeper of privy seal 15 Jany. 1840 to 3 Sep. 1841; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 31 Oct. 1840 to 23 June 1841 and 7 April 1864 to Nov. 1865; pres. of board of trade 6 July 1846 to 22 July 1847; lord lieut. of Ireland 20 May 1847 to 2 March 1852; grand master of order of St. Patrick 26 May 1847 to 1852; K.G. 23 March 1849; sec. of state for foreign department 21 Feb. 1853 to 26 Feb. 1858, 3 Nov. 1865 to 5 July 1866 and 9 Dec. 1868 to death; ambassador extraord. and plenipo. to congress of Paris 15 Feb. to April 1856; ambassador extraord. at coronation of King Wm. i of Prussia 2 Oct. 1861; chancellor of Queen’s Univ. of Ireland 8 Oct. 1864. d. 1 Grosvenor crescent, London 27 June 1870. bur. at Watford, Herts. 1 July. W. H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France and England, New York (1863) 157–61; Men of the time, British Statesmen (1854) 287–317; D. O. Maddyn’s Chiefs of parties (1859) 136–53; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 454–58 (1854); Macmillan’s mag. xxii, 292–6 (1870); St. James’s mag. Feb. 1870 pp. 676–85, portrait; The British cabinet in 1853 pp. 287–317.

CLARGES, SIR RICHARD GODDARD (2 son of Rev. James Hare of Stratton, Wilts.) b. Chingford hall, Essex; ed. at Rugby, entered at Oxford but never resided; lieut. 30 foot 6 July 1796; major 12 foot 1 July 1813 to 27 Aug. 1825 when placed on h.p.; colonel 73 foot 18 May 1849 to 29 July 1852; colonel 12 foot 29 July 1852 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; served in Egypt, Hanover, Spain and the Peninsula; assumed surname of Clarges 18 June 1844; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856. d. Bitchfield near Grantham 13 April 1857.

CLARIDGE, SIR JOHN THOMAS (eld. son of John Fellowes Claridge of Sevenoaks, Kent). b. 1792; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1818; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1818; recorder of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca 30 Sep. 1825 to 1829; knighted at Windsor Castle 30 Sep. 1825. d. Stoke villa, Leamington 20 June 1868.

CLARIDGE, WILLIAM. Succeeded James Edward Mivart (who d. 5 Jany. 1856 aged 75) as owner of Mivart’s hotel, Brook st. Hanover sq. London 1851 the hotel par excellence for princes and foreign ambassadors; sold the hotel to a company for £60,000 March 1881. d. Cragthorne, Grove park, Kent 12 April 1882 aged 68.

CLARINA, EYRE MASSEY, 3 Baron. b. Cork 6 May 1798; succeeded Jany. 1810; a representative peer for Ireland 16 April 1849 to death. d. Elm park, Clarina, co. Limerick 18 Nov. 1872.

CLARIS, JOHN CHALK (son of Mr. Claris of Canterbury, bookseller). b. Canterbury about 1797; edited the Kent Herald 1826–65; published under pseudonym of Arthur Brooke following poetical works; Juvenile Pieces 1816; Poems 1817; Durovernum, The curse of Chatterton and other poems 1818; Thoughts and feelings 1820; Retrospection (with portrait) 1821; Elegy on the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1822. d. Best lane, Canterbury 10 Jany. 1866. Notes and Queries, Fourth series, x, 29, 95 (1872).

CLARK, BRACY. b. Chipping Norton, Oxon 7 April 1771; a veterinary surgeon in London 1800; F.L.S. 15 Jany. 1793; author of An essay on the bots of horses and other animals 1815; Hippodonomia, or the true structure laws and economy of the horse’s foot 1829; Treatise on the bits of horses, 2 ed. 1835; and many other small books on veterinary subjects. d. Giltspur st. London 16 Dec. 1860. Proc. of Linnæan Society (1861) 21–4; J. Smith’s Catalogue of Friends’ books i, 417–22 (1867).

CLARK, CHARLES. b. Heybridge, Maldon, Essex 1806; lived at Great Totham hall near Witham where he composed and printed with his own hands numerous broadsides consisting chiefly of satirical songs and parodies; printed A history of the parish of Great Totham by G. W. Johnson 1831; contributed to the Literary Gazette, Family Herald and Sportsman. d. of heart disease at Heybridge 21 March 1880. W. T. Lowndes’s Bibliographer’s Manual by H. G. Bohn iv, appendix pp. 216–17 (1864).

CLARK, CHARLES. Barrister M.T. 21 May 1830; official reporter to House of Lords 1840; secretary to Channel Islands’ criminal law commission 1846; revising barrister for South Essex 1863–4, for Herts 1864–73; sec. to Juridical Society 1855–8; bencher of his inn 15 Jany. 1872; Q.C. 9 Feb. 1874; author of A summary of colonial law 1834; House of Lords cases 11 vols. 1849–66; author with Patrick Dow of Reports in the House of Lords 2 vols. 1827–32, with William Finnelly of Reports in the House of Lords 12 vols. 1835–47. d. 10 Albert road, Regent’s park, London 28 June 1881.

CLARK, EDWARD RAWSON. b. Yorkshire; employed at Crockford’s, St. James’s st. London; kept a racing stud from about 1834; a finance agent in London to 1856; a member of Tattersall’s 52 years; commonly known as D’Orsay Clark. d. 147 Church st. Chelsea 12 April 1885 aged 81. Sporting Review xl, 434–7, (1858); Sporting Times 2 May 1885 p. 5.

CLARK, FRANCIS WILLIAM (eld. son of Francis Wm. Clark of Kilpatrick, Argyllshire). b. Stirling 1827; ed. at Stirling gr. sch. and Univ. of Edin., hon. LLD. 1877; advocate 1851; sheriff substitute for Glasgow 1867–76; sheriff of Lanarkshire 1876 to death; author of A treatise on the law of partnership and joint-stock companies according to the law of Scotland 1866. d. Kelvinside, Glasgow 19 Nov. 1886.

CLARK, REV. FREDERICK SCOTSON (eld. son of Michael Clark of Southwark, London). b. Southwark 16 Nov. 1840; organist of Regent Square church, London 1854; studied at Royal academy of music; founded the London Organ school 1865; matriculated from Exeter coll. Ox. 13 Oct. 1865; organist of Ex. coll. 1865–7; Mus. Bac. 1867; head master of St. Michael’s gr. sch. Brighton 1867; C. of St. Michael’s, Lewes 1868–9; assistant chaplain at Stuttgart 1870–4, at Amsterdam 1874–8; chaplain at Paris 1879; the English official representative organist at Paris Exhibition 1878 when he was awarded a gold medal; composed many pieces for the organ, harmonium and piano. d. the London organ school 3 Prince’s st. Cavendish sq. 5 July 1883.

CLARK, VENERABLE GEORGE. Educ. at Univ. coll. Ox., Bennett scholar, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; C. of Alton, Hants 1835–42; C. of Tawstock, Devon 1843–5; V. of Cantley, Yorkshire 1845–54; preb. of Hereford 12 Dec. 1848 to death; R. of Tenby 1854–67; archdeacon of St. David’s 21 Jany. 1864 to death. d. Lampeter Velfrey rectory 11 Dec. 1874.

CLARK, GEORGE AITKEN (son of John Clark of Paisley, thread manufacturer). b. Paisley 9 Aug. 1823; shawl manufacturer with Robert and John Ronald at Paisley to 1851; started with Peter Kerr a thread business at Linside Mill, Paisley 1851; established a branch factory at Newark, New Jersey 1864; bequeathed £20,000 for erection of a town hall at Paisley which was opened 30 Jany. 1882, and £20,000 to found 4 scholarships of £300 a year each, tenable for 3 years in Glasgow Univ. d. Newark 13 Feb. 1873. The inauguration of the George A. Clark town hall, Paisley 1882, portrait; I.L.N. lxxx, 133 (1882).

CLARK, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (son of David Clark of Findlater, who d. 15 Aug. 1836). b. Findlater 14 Dec. 1788; ed. at Fordyce gr. sch. and King’s coll. Aberdeen; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1809; assistant surgeon R.N. 1809–16 when placed on h.p.; M.D. Edin. 1 Aug. 1817; physician at Rome 1819–26, in London 1826–60; L.R.C.P. 26 June 1826; F.R.S. 7 April 1832; first phys. in ord. to the Queen 8 Aug. 1837; created baronet 11 Nov. 1837; member of senate of Univ. of London 1838–65; physician to Prince Albert 1840–60; served on general medical council 1858–60; lived at Bagshot park, lent to him by the Queen 1860 to death; K.C.B. 6 July 1866; author of The influence of climate in the prevention and cure of chronic diseases 1829, 3 ed. 1841; Remarks on medical reform 1843; A memoir of John Conolly, M.D. 1869. d. Bagshot park 29 June 1870. Proc. of Royal Soc. xix, 13–19 (1871); Physic and Physicians ii, 254–60 (1839); Barker’s Photographs of medical men, portrait; I.L.N. lvii, 48, 61, 70 (1870), portrait.

CLARK, JOHN (son of Thomas Clark of Greinton, Somerset, minister of Society of Friends, who d. 16 June 1850 aged 91). b. Greinton 21 Nov. 1785; projected an electric telegraph; took out a patent for construction of Air Beds and cushions by use of a solution of india rubber which he disposed of to Mackintosh; constructed a machine for composing hexameter Latin verses 1848; author of The Avalonian guide to the town of Glastonbury and its environs 1810, 10 ed. 1855; Tales of the convent of St. Clair 1823; Don Juan, Canto xvii published by John Clark 1827. d. Bridgwater 23 May 1853. J. Smith’s Friends’ books i, 425–7 (1867).

CLARK, JOHN. Race judge for 30 years at Newmarket, Doncaster, Ascot, Epsom 1822–52. d. Newmarket 15 July 1853 aged 74.

CLARK, JOHN. Attorney in London; clerk of the Central criminal court, Old Bailey 1829 to death; clerk of the peace for City of London and borough of Southwark 1829–42 and 1843 to death. d. London 28 July 1858. bur. Datchet 5 Aug. City Press 31 July 1858 p. 2, col. 2, and p. 3, col. 2.

CLARK, JOHN. Artist and illustrator of books; inventor and executant of the Myriorama, Urania’s Mirror and other ingenious art-toys; known as ‘Waterloo Clark’ from his sketches of some of the incidents of the field of Waterloo taken by himself on the spot immediately after the battle. d. Edinburgh, Oct. 1863 aged 92.

CLARK, JOHN. Ensign 55 foot 2 June 1814; commandant royal military asylum 2 April 1852 to 26 Oct. 1858; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858; col. 59 foot 9 March 1863 to death. d. Brighton 22 March 1865.

CLARK, RICHARD. b. Datchet, Bucks. 5 April 1780; lay clerk at St. George’s chapel, Windsor and Eton college 1802–11; secretary of the Glee club 1805; member of Royal Society of musicians 3 July 1814; a gentleman of the Chapels Royal 1 Oct. 1820; a vicar choral of St. Paul’s cathedral 1827; a lay clerk at Westminster abbey 1828; published Words of the most favourite pieces performed at the Glee club, Catch club and other societies 1814, 2 ed. 1824; An account of the national anthem, God save the king 1822, which he at first attributed to Carey but afterwards claimed for Bull; Reminiscences of Handel 1836; Reading and playing from score simplified 1838; composed glees, anthems and chants. d. the Littlington tower, Westminster abbey cloisters 5 Oct. 1856.

CLARK, REV. SAMUEL (youngest child of Joseph Clark of Southampton, brush maker). b. Southampton 19 May 1810; publisher with John Maw Darton at Holborn hill, London 1836 to 11 June 1843; entered Magd. hall, Ox. 7 Jany. 1839, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1846; vice principal of St. Mark’s training college, Chelsea, May 1846–1851; principal of National Society’s training college, Battersea 1851–63; V. of Bredwardine, Hereford 1863–71; R. of Eaton Bishop, Hereford, June 1871 to death; inspector of schools for diocese of Hereford 1872 to death; published Peter Parley’s Tales of the sun, moon and stars 1837; Maps illustrative of physical and political history of the British empire 1849; contributed to the Speaker’s Commentary, Leviticus, the latter part of Exodus and Micah; one of revisers of the Old Testament. d. Cosham house, East Cosham, Hants. 17 July 1875. Memorials of Samuel Clark edited by his wife (1878), portrait.

CLARK, SARAH (6 child of John Davies of Caerwys, Flintshire). Baptized in Caerwys church 1 March 1767. (m. 3 March 1790 Wm. Clark of Hawarden parish, labourer, who d. 20 Jany. 1844). buried at Hawarden 21 April 1871. _W. J. Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1873) 268–72.

CLARK, THOMAS. b. Canterbury 1775; composed several anthems and many hymn tunes, a few of which continue in use as “Queenborough,” “Burnham” and “Pembroke.” d. Canterbury 30 May 1859.

CLARK, THOMAS. b. Ayr 1801; lecturer on chemistry at Glasgow Mechanics’ Institution 1836; discovered the pyrophosphate of soda 1836; studied at Glasgow Univ. 1827–31, M.D. 1831; apothecary to Glasgow infirmary 1829; professor of chemistry in Marischal college and univ. Aberdeen 1833–60 when the coll. and univ. was fused with King’s college and univ.; best known by his water tests and by his process for softening chalk waters; contributed to Westminster Review articles on weights and measures and on the patent laws 1834–5. d. 27 Nov. 1867.

CLARK, THOMAS (son of Wm. Clark, sheriff-substitute of Clackmannanshire). b. Whiteside, Stirlingshire 14 Nov. 1820; landscape painter in oil and water colours at Edinburgh; A.R.S.A. Nov. 1865. d. Dundaroch, Aberfoyle 7 Oct. 1876.

CLARK, THOMAS JAMES (2 son of Wm. Clark of St. John st. London and of Edmonton, hop merchant). b. 1822; ed. at Univ. coll. London; B.A. London 1842; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1845; went Home circuit; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; bencher of his inn 25 Jany. 1867. d. Myrtle cottage, Catford bridge, Kent 17 March 1877.

CLARK, REV. WILLIAM (2 son of John Clark, M.D. of Newcastle 1744–1805). b. Newcastle 5 April 1788; entered Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1804, scholar 1807, fellow 1809; 7 wrangler 1808, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, M.D. 1827; licensed to practise by Univ. of Cam. 5 July 1813; professor of anatomy at Cam. 1817–66, ordained deacon 1818; V. of Arrington, Cambs. 1824–5; R. of Guiseley near Leeds 1825–59; F.R.C.P. 25 June 1830; F.R.S. 28 Jany. 1836; author of Analysis of a course of lectures on the anatomy and physiology of the human body 1822; Handbook of zoology translated from the Dutch of J. Vander Hoeven 2 vols. 1856–68. d. Cambridge 15 Sep. 1869. Macmillan’s Mag. xxi, 267–72 (1870).

CLARK, WILLIAM. b. Colchester 17 March 1821; ed. at King’s coll. London; engineer to municipality of Calcutta 1855–74 where he devised a complete system of drainage and waterworks; M.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1864; M.I.M.E. 1867; partner with W. F. Batho in London 1874, joint patentee with him of steam road roller; invented a tied brick arch; author of The drainage of Calcutta 1871. d. Surbiton, Surrey 22 Jany. 1880. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii, 308–10 (1881).

CLARK, WILLIAM GEORGE. b. Barford hall, Darlington, March 1821; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam.; second in the classical tripos and second chancellor’s medallist 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; fellow of Trin. coll. 1844 to death, tutor 1856–66, vice master 9 Oct. 1868 to 1871; public orator of Univ. of Cam. 1857 to Oct. 1869; ordained deacon 1853, priest 1854; relinquished holy orders by deed inrolled in chancery 2 Sep. 1870; F.S.A. 15 June 1865; one of founders and editors of Journal of Philology 1868; author of Gazpacho, or summer months in Spain 1850; Peloponnesus, notes of study and travel 1858; edited with Glover and Wright The Cambridge Shakespeare 9 vols. 1863–6; left £300 a year to endow a lectureship of English literature at Trinity coll. Cam. d. York 6 Nov. 1878. C. A. Bristed’s Five years at an English University (1873) 215–7, 219; Academy ii, 472, 496 (1878); Notes and Queries 5 S. x, 400, 438 (1878), xi, 55 (1879).

CLARK, WILLIAM H. Pupil of John Loder the violinist; played the violin in orchestra of Bath theatre; made his first appearance on the stage at Weymouth 1833 and in London at Surrey theatre 3 April 1837 in Jack’s Alive and The loadstone of the earth; acted at Haymarket theatre 17 April 1838 to 1877; always known as Little Clark. d. 3 June 1887 in 72 year. bur. Tooting cemetery 8 June.

CLARK, SIR WILLIAM STEPHENSON (son of Wm. Clark, sheriff of York in 1786). b. York, Aug. 1782; studied medicine in London 1803 to 1806; practised at York 1806 to death; one of the city chamberlains 1809, member of common council for Micklegate ward 1813–20 and 1835–39, one of city sheriffs 1820, alderman 1839–49, mayor 1839–40, one of the city magistrates 1842 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840. (m. Oct. 1811 Anne 3 dau. of John Audus of Selby, Yorkshire, she d. 16 July 1883 aged 95). d. York 2 May 1851.

CLARK, WILLIAM TIERNEY (son of Thomas Clark of Sion house, Somerset). b. Bristol 23 Aug. 1873; employed by John Rennie in London 1808–11; resident engineer of West Middlesex water works 1811 where he constructed reservoirs to contain 40,000,000 gallons of water; erected Hammersmith suspension bridge 1824–7; constructed Gravesend town pier 1834–5; erected great suspension bridge over Danube between Pesth and Buda 1839–49 at cost of £622,042; M.I.C.E. 1823; F.R.S. 4 May 1837; author of An account of the suspension bridge across the river Danube 1852–3. d. Hammersmith 22 Sep. 1852. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 153–7 (1853).

CLARK-KENNEDY, SIR ALEXANDER KENNEDY (eld. son of John Clark of Nunland). b. Dumfries 1782; cornet 6 dragoon guards 8 Sep. 1802; captured single-handed at Waterloo the eagle of the 105th regiment of French infantry; lieut.-col. 7 dragoon guards 11 June 1830 to 22 Dec. 1843 when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the Queen 1841–54; colonel 6 dragoon guards 14 June 1858 to 17 July 1860; L.G. 3 June 1860; colonel 2 dragoons (Scots Greys) 17 July 1860 to death; K.H. 1831; C.B. 19 July 1838; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; assumed additional name of Kennedy 1839. d. 69 Oxford terrace, Hyde park, London 30 Jany. 1864. bur. St. Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries.

CLARK-KENNEDY, JOHN (eld. son of the preceding). b. Knockgrey, Kirkcudbright 21 Sep. 1817; cornet 7 dragoon guards 25 Oct. 1833; took additional name of Kennedy 1839; captain 18 foot 4 March 1842, lieut.-col. 22 June 1855 to 10 Nov. 1856 when placed on h.p.; served in second Sikh war 1848–9 and in Crimean war 1854–6; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; col. commandant military train 10 Feb. 1860 to death. d. Cairo 18 Dec. 1867.

CLARKE, SIR ARTHUR (son of Arthur Clarke). b. Dublin 1778; M.R.C.S. 7 April 1807, F.R.C.S. 26 Aug. 1844; surgeon to Dublin police; knighted 1811; author of An essay on diseases of the skin 1821; A practical manual for the preservation of health 1824. d. Dublin 9 Nov. 1857.

CLARKE, AUGUSTUS. Entered Madras army 1817; colonel 8 Madras N.I. 4 July 1856 to 1869; general 23 April 1872. d. Glebeland house, Lee 24 Jany. 1878 aged 76.

CLARKE, REV. CHARLES. Educ. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1837; C. of Norton by Daventry 1844–54; chaplain to Earl of Stamford 1864; author of Letters to an undergraduate of Oxford 1848; Charlie Thornhill 3 vols. 1863; A box for the season, a sporting sketch 2 vols. 1864; Crumbs from a sportsman’s table, by A Sportsman 1865; The Beauclercs, father and son 3 vols. 1867 and other novels; wrote articles in Baily’s Mag. under pseudonym of The Gentleman in black. d. from tumor of the abdomen at Esher 23 July 1870 aged 55.

CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (son of John Clarke of Enfield, Middlesex, schoolmaster, who d. Dec. 1820). b. Enfield 15 Dec. 1787; bookseller and publisher in London 1820; music publisher with Alfred Novello; lectured on Shakespeare and other dramatists and poets in the provinces and London 1834–56, many of his lectures were published; lived at Nice 1856–61, at Genoa 1861 to death; author of Readings in natural philosophy 1828; Tales from Chaucer 1833, 2 ed. 1870; Riches of Chaucer 2 vols. 1835, 3 ed. 1877; Carmina Minima a poem 1859; Shakespeare characters, chiefly those subordinate 1863; Molière characters 1865; edited with his wife The works of Shakespeare 1864 and 1869, reissued 1875 and under title of Cassell’s Illustrated Shakespeare 1886. (m. 5 July 1828 Mary Victoria eld. child of Vincent Novello the composer, she was b. 22 June 1809). d. Villa Novello, Genoa 13 March 1877. I.L.N. lxx, 291, 292 (1877), portrait.

CLARKE, SIR CHARLES MANSFIELD, 1 Baronet (son of John Clarke of Chancery lane, London, surgeon). b. London 28 May 1782; ed. at St. Paul’s school and St. George’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1802; lectured on midwifery 1804–21; surgeon to Queen Charlotte’s Lying-in-hospital; M.R.C.P.; F.R.C.P.; F.R.S. 9 June 1825; M.D. Lambeth 1827; physician to Queen Adelaide 1830; created baronet 30 Sep. 1831; hon. M.A. Cam. 1842; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1845; founded the Milton prize for an English poem at St. Paul’s school 1851; author of Observations on those diseases of females which are attended by discharges 2 parts 1814–21, 2 ed. 1821–6 translated into German 1818–25. d. Brighton 7 Sep. 1857. Physic and physicians ii, 329–31 (1839); W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery i, 16 (1846), portrait; T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery i, (1840), portrait; R. B. Gardiner’s St. Paul’s school (1884) 199, 433–8.

CLARKE, HARRIET LUDLOW (4 dau. of Edward Clarke of London, solicitor). Engraver on wood about 1837; executed some of the illustrations for Mrs. Jameson’s Sacred and legendary art 1848; a designer and painter on glass; executed windows in St. Martin’s church, Canterbury and Sidcup church, Kent 1851–4; executed for the Queen a large window in church of North Marston, Bucks.; designed a large window representing history of St. Thomas à Becket, which was put up in Canterbury cathedral, May 1863. d. Cannes 19 Jany. 1866. G.M. i, 436 (1866).

CLARKE, JACOB AUGUSTUS LOCKHART. b. 1817; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; L.S.A. 1842, M.R.C.S. 1860; practised in London to death; F.R.S. 1 June 1854, royal medallist 1864; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1867; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1869; M.R.C.P. 1871; physician to the hospital for epilepsy and paralysis, London; author of many articles in medical journals. d. 21 New Cavendish st. London 25 Jany. 1880 in 64 year.

CLARKE, JAMES. b. London 1793; teacher of music; author of A catechism of wind instruments 1845; Instruction book for children on the pianoforte; The child’s alphabet of music; Catechism of the rudiments of music; New School of music; composed popular song The maid of Llangollen. d. Leeds 1859.

CLARKE, JAMES. b. 1798; member of British Archæological Assoc. 1847; a frequent exhibitor at its meetings of coins and other antiquities of which he contributed short notices to the journal; author of The Suffolk Antiquary 1849. d. 25 Sep. 1861. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xviii, 367–8 (1862).

CLARKE, JAMES FERNANDEZ (son of Mr. Clarke of Olney, Bucks. lace merchant). b. Olney 1812; aided Ryan in the London medical and surgical journal; reported at hospitals and medical societies for the Lancet 1834–64; M.R.C.S. 1837; practised in Gerrard st. Soho 1837 to death; author of Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession 1874, reprinted from Medical times and gazette. d. 23 Gerrard st. Soho 6 July 1875 in 63 year. Medical Circular ii, 310 (1853); Medical times and gazette ii, 82–3 (1875).

CLARKE, JAMES LANGTON (2 son of Andrew Clarke of Belmont, co. Donegal). b. 1801; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1835; practised as a conveyancer; admitted to bar of Victoria, Australia 7 June 1855; judge of county courts for district of Ararat 1867, for district of Maryborough to about 1874. d. Mentone 16 Feb. 1886 aged 85.

CLARKE, JOHN. b. about 1830; photographer in Farringdon st. London; first appeared on stage in London at Strand theatre, Jany. 1852, chief comedian there 1852–5 and 1858–62; thrown from a horse and lamed for life, Jany. 1863; played at Prince of Wales’s theatre 15 April 1865 to 1867; acted John Chodd in Robertson’s comedy Society 11 Nov. 1865 to Sep. 1866, Hugh Chalcot in Robertson’s comedy Ours 15 Sep. 1866 to April 1867, Sarah Gamp in H. Wigan’s drama Martin Chuzzlewit at Olympic 2 March 1868, Quilp in A. Halliday’s drama Nell or the old curiosity shop at Olympic 19 Nov. 1870; acted at nearly all the west-end theatres; last appeared on the stage at Globe theatre 8 June 1878. (m. 10 Aug. 1873 Theresa Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Furtado of London, professor of music, leading actress at Adelphi theatre, she d. 9 Aug. 1877 aged 32). d. 15 Torriano avenue, Camden road, London 20 Feb. 1879. Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1880) 390–2; The Players i, 129 (1860), portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news, x, 572 (1879), portrait.

CLARKE, JOHN RANDALL (son of Joseph Clarke of Gloucester). b. about 1828; an architect; author of Architectural history of Gloucester 1850; and of two novels, Gloucester Cathedral, or last days of the Tudors 1856, and Manxley Hall; contributed to Gent. Mag., Le Follet, The Era and other periodicals. d. College Green, Gloucester 31 March 1863.

CLARKE, REV. JOSEPH. b. about 1811; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1841; R. of Stretford, Manchester 1850 to death; rural dean of Manchester 1854 to death; wrecked in the Orion steamer between Liverpool and Greenock 17 June 1850; author of The wreck of the Orion, tribute of gratitude 1851; Trees of righteousness; made collections for history of parish of Stretford which were used by Rev. F. R. Raines in his History of the chantries within the county of Lancaster 1862. d. Stretford 25 Feb. 1860. G.M. viii, 463 (1860), xv, 243 (1863).

CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (only son of Wm. Hislop Clarke of Lincoln’s Inn, London, barrister). b. 11 Leonard place, Kensington 24 April 1846; went to Victoria 1863; joined staff of the Argus, Melbourne daily paper 1867, wrote the dramatic criticism some years; contributed to all principal Melbourne journals; secretary to trustees of public library, Melbourne 1872, assistant librarian 1876 to death; author of a novel called Long Odds 1868; produced at T.R. Melbourne pantomimes of Little Bo-Peep 1870 and Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star 1873; author of His natural life 1874 a novel republished in London, New York and Germany; Holiday Peak a collection of stories. d. Melbourne 2 Aug. 1881. Men of the time in Australia, Victorian series (1878) p. 36; Heaton’s Australian dictionary of dates (1879) p. 39.

CLARKE, MARY ANN (dau. of Mr. Thompson). b. Ball and Tin alley, White’s alley, Chancery lane, London 1776; eloped at 15 years of age with Joseph Clarke (son of a builder on Snow hill, London) who married her 1794; the kept mistress of Frederick Duke of York at Gloucester place 1803–1806 when discharged with pension of £400; published The rival princes or a faithful narrative of facts relative to the acquaintance of the author with Colonel Wardle 2 vols. 1810; A letter to the Right Hon. William Fitzgerald, chancellor of the Irish Exchequer 1813, for which she was prosecuted for libel and sentenced to 9 months imprisonment. d. Boulogne 21 June 1852. Biographical Memoir 1809, portrait; The investigation of the charges brought against the Duke of York ii, (1809), portrait; The rival princes vol. i (1810), portrait; Gronow’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1862) 35–42; G.M. xxxviii, 208–9 (1852); Marmion travestied, a tale of modern times by Peter Pry 1809, in which her history is given in rhyme.

NOTE.—After the inquiry into the Duke of York’s conduct, Mrs. Clarke announced her intention of publishing a narrative of circumstances relating to her connection with him, this book was actually printed but was suppressed by her in consideration of receiving the sum of £7,000 and an annuity of £400 for life, and an annuity of £200 for each of her daughters; the printer received £1,500 of the above sum of £7,000, the whole edition of 10,000 copies was burnt except one copy which was deposited in Drummond’s bank.

CLARKE, NATHANIEL RICHARD (eld. son of Nathaniel Gooding Clarke of Handsworth, Staffs. recorder of Walsall). b. Duffield, Derbyshire 11 May 1785; ed. at Ashbourne gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1811; recorder of Lincoln, Newark, Northampton and Walsall to death; serjeant at law 6 Feb. 1843; judge of county courts, circuit 25 (Wolverhampton, Oldbury and Walsall) March 1847 to death. d. Wolverhampton 31 July 1859.

CLARKE, SIR ROBERT BOWCHER (eld. son of Robert Bowcher Clarke of Eldridge, Barbados). b. 1802; ed. at Codrington coll. Barbados and Trin. coll. Cam., LL.B. 1827; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827; solicitor general at Barbados 1837–42, chief justice 1842–74; chief justice of St. Lucia 19 June 1850 to 1859; knighted by patent 20 March 1840 for his services in relation to emancipation of the slaves; C.B. 27 April 1848. d. Eldridge, Chislehurst, Kent 9 May 1881 in 79 year.

CLARKE, SEYMOUR (2 son of Frederic Clarke of Streatham, Surrey). b. Streatham 1814; superintendent of London division of Great Western railway, Oct. 1837, in charge of the line from London to Swindon 1840–50; general manager of Great Northern railway, May 1850 to Sep. 1870; a comr. to inquire into Irish railways 1867, the report of the commission was chiefly written by him; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1865. d. Walthamstow 15 March 1876. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xliv, 225–7 (1876).

CLARKE, THOMAS. b. 14 July 1789; admitted an attorney 1810; practised in Craven st. Strand, London 1810–45; solicitor to Board of Ordnance 1845 to death; sec. of the Lowtonian club; member of council of Incorporated Law Society, July 1843, vice-pres. 1848–9, pres. 1849–50. d. Highgate hill, Kentish town, London 15 July 1854.

CLARKE, REV. THOMAS TRACY. b. Dublin 4 July 1802; ed. at Stonyhurst and Maynooth colleges; entered Society of Jesus 1823; master at Hodder School 1825–9; ordained priest 24 Sep. 1836; professor of history and librarian at Stonyhurst college 1840–5; master of novices at Hodder 1845–60, by his exertions the novitiate was removed to Beaumont lodge, Old Windsor 4 Sep. 1854. d. the Residence of St. Ignatius’ college, Hill st. London 11 Jany. 1862.

CLARKE, TREDWAY. b. July 1764; Second lieut. Madras artillery 20 Oct. 1780, colonel 25 July 1810 to death; head commissary of ordnance and stores at Fort St. George 1798–1811; declined command of artillery at Madras 1820; general 23 Nov. 1841; lived in England 1811 to death, d. Upper Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 3 May 1858.

CLARKE, WILLIAM. b. Nottingham 24 Dec. 1798; a bricklayer; landlord of the Bell Inn, Nottingham to 1847; proprietor of the Trent Bridge cricket ground, Nottingham 1838–47; played in the Nottingham Eleven from 1816; played his first match at Lord’s 11 July 1836; a practice bowler at Lord’s 1846; originated the All England matches 1846; the best slow underhand bowler of his day; a great fives player, at which game he lost his right eye by accident. d. Priory lodge, Wandsworth road, London 25 Aug. 1856. Denison’s Cricket (1846) 21–6; Pycroft’s Cricket Field (1862), portrait.

CLARKE, WILLIAM. Private soldier; quartermaster 14 light dragoons 15 Sep. 1837, major 23 Nov. 1848 to 30 Dec. 1853; granted distinguished service reward 18 March 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. 2 Notting hill terrace, Bayswater, London 17 Oct. 1881.

CLARKE, REV. WILLIAM BRANWHITE. b. East Bergholt, Suffolk 2 June 1798; ed. at Dedham gr. sch. and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; presented to a living in Dorset 1833; chaplain to Bishop of Salisbury 1837–9; V. of St. Thomas’s, Willoughby, N.S.W. 1846 to 1 Oct. 1870; made geological researches in N.S.W. 1839 to death; ascertained auriferous nature of the country 1841, ten years before the popular date 1851; voted sum of £1,000 by legislature of N.S.W. 1853 but £5,000 was afterwards given to him; F.G.S. 1826, Murchison medallist 1877; F.R.S. of N.S.W. 1867; F.R.S. 1 June 1876 in recognition of his discovery of gold in Australia; author of Lays of leisure 1822; Recollections of a visit to Mont Blanc 1839; Remarks on the sedimentary formations of N.S.W., 4 ed. 1878 and of many scientific papers. d. North Shore, Sydney 17 June 1878. Journal and proc. of Royal Soc. of N.S.W. xiii, 4–23 (1880); Therry’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1863) 363–8; Proc. of Royal Soc. xxviii, 1–4 (1879); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxv, 44–6 (1879); Phillips’s Mining and metallurgy of gold and silver (1867).

CLARKE, WILLIAM FAIRLIE (son of Wm. Fairlie Clarke of Bengal civil service, who d. Calcutta 23 Sep. 1835 aged 47). b. Calcutta 1833; ed. at high school, Edin., Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1856, M.A. and M.B. 1862, M.D. 1876; studied medicine at King’s coll. Lon. 1858; M.R.C.S. 1862, F.R.C.S. 1863; practised in London 1863–76, and at Southborough near Tunbridge Wells 1876 to death; assistant surgeon at Charing Cross hospital 1871; author of A manual of the practice of surgery 1865, 3 ed. 1879; A treatise on the diseases of the tongue 1873. d. Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 8 May 1884. bur. Elvington churchyard 14 May. Life and letters of W. F. Clarke edited by E.A.W. (1885), portrait.

CLARKE-JERVOISE, REV. SIR SAMUEL, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Jervoise Clarke 1734–1808, M.P. for Hampshire). b. Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 25 Nov. 1770, ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795; R. of Chalton with Idsworth 1794–1834; R. of Blendworth, Hants. 1795–1835; took additional surname of Jervoise by royal license 9 Nov. 1808; created baronet 13 Nov. 1813. d. 1 Oct. 1852.

CLARKE-TRAVERS, SIR WILLIAM HENRY ST. LAWRENCE, 2 Baronet. b. 3 Aug. 1801; succeeded 7 Feb. 1808; assumed by royal license additional name of Travers 20 March 1853. d. 3 Queen’s gardens, Hyde park, London 31 Aug. 1877.

CLARKSON, EUGENE COMERFORD (3 son of Frederick Clarkson of Doctor’s Commons, London, proctor). b. 1831; ed. at King’s college, London; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1854; practised in court of Admiralty about 1858 to death; Q.C. 21 March 1881. d. from hydrophobia at East end lodge, Pinner 19 Aug. 1881.

CLARKSON, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1823; recorder of Faversham 1844 to death. d. Westfield lodge, Brighton 24 Oct. 1856 aged 61. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters i, 232–8 (1841); I.L.N. iv, 228 (1844), portrait.

CLASON, REV. PATRICK (youngest child of Rev. Robert Clason, minister of Logie near Stirling). b. Manse of Dalziel on the Clyde 13 Oct. 1789; ed. at college of Glasgow; D.D. Glasgow, March 1836; licensed to preach the gospel 1811; minister of Carmunock near Glasgow 1815, of St. Cuthbert’s Chapel of Ease (now Buccleuch ch.), Edin. 16 April 1824; joint clerk of the free church general assembly 18 May 1843 to death; moderator of general assembly 1848 and 1864. d. 22 George sq. Edin. 30 July 1868. J. A. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 161–4, portrait; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 17–19, portrait.

CLASPER, HENRY (son of Robert Clasper of Dunston near Newcastle). b. Dunston 1812; a putter at Hetton colliery; a coke burner at Derwenthaugh; sculled his first race, June 1841; beaten by R. Coombes at Newcastle 18 Dec. 1844; beat Carroll on the Mersey 29 Sep. 1845; beat W. Pocock at Newcastle 25 Nov. 1845; beaten by Candlish for the championship of the Tyne 9 Sep. 1851; beat Robert Campbell of Glasgow for championship of the Clyde and £200, 22 July 1858, beat him again on Loch Lomond 6 Oct.; beaten by T. White on the Thames 9 Nov. 1858; rowed with three of his brothers many four-oared races in England and Scotland; a boat builder on the Tyne; brought his first outrigger boat to London 1844, generally said to have invented the outrigger boat, but he only brought it to perfection; rowed on every river between the Thames and Clyde; presented by the public with a freehold house. d. Newcastle 12 July 1870. Illust. sporting news (1862) 77, 139, 141, 2 portraits; Illust. news of the world ii, 267, 269 (1858), portrait; Rowing almanac (1863) 95–104.

CLATER, THOMAS (3 son of Francis Clater of East Retford, Notts., farrier 1756–1823). Baptised at East Retford 9 June 1789; painter; exhibited 43 pictures at the R.A., 91 at B.I. and 194 at Suffolk st. gallery 1819–59; fellow of Society of British Artists 1843. d. 1 Hemus terrace, South Chelsea, London 24 Feb. 1867.

CLAUDET, ANTOINE FRANÇOIS JEAN. b. Lyons 12 Aug. 1797; opened a warehouse at 89 High Holborn, London for sale of French glass 1829; invented machine for cutting cylindrical glass 1833; photographer at Adelaide gallery, London 1840–51, at 107 Regent st. 1851 to death; one of the first to adopt the collodion process; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; invented many new photographic processes; photographer in ordinary to the Queen 1858; author of upwards of 40 papers; received awards of 11 medals; a chevalier of the Legion of Honour 1863. d. 11 Gloucester road, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1867. Scientific Review, August 1868 pp. 151–4; Proc. of Royal Soc. xvii, pp. lxxxv-lxxxvii (1869).

CLAUGHTON, RIGHT REV. PIERS CALVELEY (son of Thomas Claughton of Haydock Lodge, Winwick, Lancs., M.P. for Newton, Lancs., who d. 1842). b. Haydock lodge 8 Jany. 1814; ed. at Repton and Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, D.D. 1859; fell. and tutor of Univ. coll. Ox. 1837–42; R. of Elton, Hunts. 1845–59; select Pr. in Univ. of Ox. 1843 and 1850; bishop of St. Helena 3 June 1859 to May 1862; bishop of Colombo 13 May 1862 to Dec. 1870; archdeacon of London with canonry of St. Paul’s annexed Dec. 1870 to death; rural dean of Hackney 1874 to death; chaplain general to the forces 7 April 1875 to death; assistant bishop of London 1879 to death; author of A brief examination of the Thirty nine articles 1843; A catechism for the Sundays in Lent 1847. d. 2 Northwick terrace, Maida hill, London 11 Aug. 1884. bur. Elton churchyard 15 Aug., a tablet to his memory containing a medallion portrait of him was placed in the crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral.

CLAVELL, RICHARD. Second lieut. R.M.L.I. 21 Nov. 1837, col. commandant 13 Feb. 1872 to death; L.G. 25 Dec. 1877. d. Gosport 1 Sep. 1878 in 59 year.

CLAVERING, SIR THOMAS JOHN, 8 Baronet. b. 6 April 1771; succeeded 14 Oct. 1794; raised at his own expense a troop of yeomanry 1798; sheriff of Northumberland 1817–18. d. Clifton 18 Nov. 1853.

CLAVERING, SIR WILLIAM ALOYSIUS, 9 Baronet. b. 1800; succeeded 18 Nov. 1853; sheriff of Durham 1859. d. St. George’s hospital, London 8 Oct. 1872.

CLAXTON, MARSHALL (son of Rev. Marshall Claxton of Bolton, Lancs., Wesleyan minister). b. Bolton 12 May 1813; entered Royal Academy, Jany. 1831; awarded gold medal of Society of Arts 1835; competed in the Cartoon exhibitions at Westminster hall 1843, 1844 and 1847; took out to Australia about 200 pictures by himself and others, which he exhibited gratis 1850, this being the first exhibition of works of art in Australia; went to India where he sold most of the pictures; painted for the Queen, ‘General view of Sydney’ and ‘Portrait of the last Queen of the Aborigines’; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 31 at B.I. and 25 at Suffolk st. gallery. d. 155 Carlton road, Maida vale, London 28 July 1881.

CLAY, ALFRED BORRON (2 son of Rev. John Clay 1796–1858). b. Walton near Preston 3 June 1831; articled to a solicitor at Preston; studied art in Liverpool and London; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1852–70; his chief pictures were ‘The imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots at Lochleven Castle,’ ‘Charles ix and the French court at the massacre of St. Bartholomew,’ ‘The return to Whitehall 29 May 1660,’ now in the Walker gallery at Liverpool. d. Rainhill near Liverpool 1 Oct. 1868.

CLAY, SIR GEORGE, 3 Baronet. b. 14 Aug. 1831; ensign 19 foot 1849, captain 29 Dec. 1854 to 1 May 1866 when placed on h.p.; succeeded 14 Oct. 1876. d. 17 Cavendish square, London 30 June 1878.

CLAY, JAMES (son of James Clay of Old Broad st. London, merchant). b. London 1804; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1827; took the leading parts in operas performed by amateurs at Florence when Lord Burghersh was British minister there 1821–30; travelled in the Holy Land with B. Disraeli 1830; a merchant in London; contested Beverley, July 1837, and Hull, June 1841; M.P. for Hull 1847–53 and 1857 to death; chairman of committee to settle laws of whist 1863, by his book on whist and influence made the game popular and intelligible; the finest whist and piquet player of his time; he is described under name of Castlemaine in G. W. Lawrence’s novel Sans Merci, or kestrels and falcons 3 vols. 1866; author of A treatise, on the game of whist by J. C., affixed to J. L. Baldwin’s Laws of short whist 1864. d. 30 Regency sq. Brighton 26 Sep. 1873. W. A. Gunnell’s Sketches of Hull celebrities (1876) 473–7; Westminster Papers vi, 117–8 (1873); Graphic viii, 362, 376 (1873), portrait; Power, Rodwell and Dew’s Controverted elections ii, 96–100 (1857).

NOTE.—He was unseated March 1853 for bribery by his agents, in Feb. 1857 he was again returned and his election is the only instance on record of a member unseated on petition taking his seat a second time for the same place in the same parliament, the case would have been tried before a committee of the House of Commons had not a dissolution occurred 20 March 1857.

CLAY, REV. JOHN (5 son of Thomas Clay of Liverpool, ship and anchor smith, who d. 1821). b. Liverpool 10 May 1796; invented an improved bow and arrow which long bore his name; assist, chap, of Preston gaol 11 Aug. 1821; entered Em. coll. Cam. as a ten years man 1822, B.D. 1835; chap, of Preston gaol, Aug. 1823 to Jany. 1858; issued annual reports 1824–57, in 1836 his annual reports were reprinted in a parliamentary blue book; author of Twenty five sermons 1827; Burial clubs and infanticide in England 1854; A plain address to candidates for confirmation 1866. d. Lansdowne crescent, Leamington 21 Nov. 1858. The prison chaplain by Rev. W. L. Clay (1861), portrait.

CLAY, RICHARD. b. Cambridge; apprenticed to John Smith at the Pitt Press, Cambridge; printer near Devonshire square, Bishopsgate, London; printer to the S.P.G.; head of firm of Clay Sons and Taylor, Bread st. hill, London, retired Oct. 1868. d. Hornsey 10 Dec. 1877 in 89 year. Bookseller, January 1878 p. 7.

CLAY, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (son of George Clay of London, merchant 1757–1836). b. London 15 Aug. 1791; merchant and shipowner with his father; M.P. for Tower Hamlets 12 Dec. 1832 to 20 March 1857; author of the Small tenements rating act 1850; one of foremost holders of advanced radical views; secretary to Board of Control 30 Sep. 1839 to 8 Sep. 1841; created baronet 20 Sep. 1841; chairman of Grand Junction and Southwark and Vauxhall water companies; author of Speech on moving for a committee to inquire into the act permitting the establishment of joint-stock banks, 2 ed. 1837; Remarks on the water supply of London, 2 ed. 1849 and 3 other pamphlets. d. Cadogan place, London 13 March 1869.

CLAY, WILLIAM. b. Liverpool 15 May 1823; manager of ironworks near Glasgow; invented a method of rolling taper bars 1848; manager of Mersey Forge, Liverpool; designed and forged the “Monstre” gun which weighed 22 tons and threw a projectile of 300 lbs. to a distance of 5 miles, it was mounted at Tilbury Fort; partner in Mersey Forge to 1864 when the works were transferred to a company; the first maker of puddled steel on a large scale; established with C. A. Inman and captain McNeile the Birkenhead Forge 1864; M.I.M.E. 1859; formed in 1861 Eighth Lancashire artillery volunteer corps, lieut.-col. commandant 9 May 1861, hon. col. 1 May 1880 to death. d. Liverpool 28 Feb. 1881. Proc. of Instit. of M.E. (1882) 3–5.

CLAY, SIR WILLIAM DICKASON, 2 Baronet. b. London 21 Dec. 1828; succeeded 13 March 1869. d. 9 Lowndes sq. London 14 Oct. 1876.

CLAY, REV. WILLIAM KEATINGE. b. 1797; C. of Greenwich 1823; C. of Paddington 1830; C. of Blunham, Beds. 1834; B.D. Cam. (Jesus coll.) 1835; minor canon of Ely 1838–54; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Ely 1842–54; V. of Waterbeach, Cambs. 1854 to death; author of Explanatory notes on the Prayer book version of the Psalms 1839; The book of Common Prayer illustrated 1841; An historical sketch of the Prayer Book 1849; History of the Parish of Waterbeach 1859, Landbeach 1861, and Horningsey 1865, these 3 histories printed separately by the Cambridge Antiquarian Soc. were collected into one vol. 1865. d. Waterbeach 26 April 1867. A history of the parish of Milton by the late W. K. Clay (1869) v-vi.

CLAYTON, REV. CHARLES. b. Cambridge 13 July 1813; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., 21 wrangler 1836, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; C. of St. John’s, Chatham 1837–45; fellow and tutor of his college to 1855; London sec. to Church Pastoral aid soc. 1845–8; V. of Holy Trinity, Cam. 1851–65; hon. canon of Ripon cath. 1864 to death; R. of Stanhope, Durham 1865 to death; rural dean of Stanhope 1880 to death; author of Sermons preached at Cambridge 1859, Second series 1865; Letters from abroad 1878. d. Stanhope rectory 21 Oct. 1883. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) part 57, portrait.

CLAYTON, REV. GEORGE (2 son of Rev. John Clayton 1754–1843, pastor of King’s Weigh House chapel, London). b. London 9 April 1783; ed. at Reading and Hoxton college; Independent minister at Southampton 1802, at Walworth, Surrey 1804 to death; ordained 6 June 1804; the Clayton jubilee memorial schools were opened 27 June 1855. d. Gaines 14 July 1862. T. W. Aveling’s Memorials of the Clayton family (1867), portrait.

CLAYTON, JOHN. b. Hereford; architect at Hereford, where many public buildings were erected from his designs; practised in London about 1839 to death; A.R.I.B.A. 13 June 1842, F.R.I.B.A. 2 Nov. 1857; exhibited architectural designs at the R.A. 1844–7, 1853 and 1856; author of A collection of the ancient timber edifices of England 1846; The parochial churches of Sir Christopher Wren erected in the cities of London and Westminster 1848. d. Teignmouth, Devon 14 Sep. 1861 aged 41.

CLAYTON, REV. JOHN (brother of Rev. George Clayton 1783–1862). b. London 13 May 1780; ordained congregational minister at Kensington 21 Oct. 1801; pastor of the congregation in Camomile st. London 4 April 1805 which migrated to the Poultry 1819, where he was pastor 17 Nov. 1819 to 1847; frequently called on to undertake services in all parts of the country at openings of chapels and other special occasions; joint sec. of London Missionary Soc. 1830–2; author of The choice of books 1811. d. Bath 3 Oct. 1865. bur. Abney park cemetery, London. T. W. Aveling’s Memorials of the Clayton family (1867), portrait.

CLAYTON, RICE RICHARD. b. 15 Nov. 1798; sheriff of Bucks 1838; M.P. for Aylesbury 28 June 1841 to 23 July 1847. d. Hedgerley park near Slough 4 May 1879.

CLAYTON, SIR WILLIAM ROBERT, 5 Baronet (eld. child of Sir Wm. Clayton 4 baronet 1762–1834). b. Harleyford, Bucks. 28 Aug. 1786; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; cornet Royal horse guards 28 Sep. 1804, captain 27 April 1809 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; served in the Peninsula, Netherlands and at Waterloo; M.P. for Great Marlow 1831–42; succeeded 26 Jany. 1834; sheriff of Bucks. 1846; general 12 Jany. 1865. d. Southsea 19 Sep. 1866. bur. Marlow parish church 27 Sep.

CLEASBY, SIR ANTHONY (youngest son of Stephen Cleasby of London, Russian broker, who d. 31 Aug. 1844). b. 27 Aug. 1804; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., 3 wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; fellow of his coll. 1828–36; barrister I.T. 10 June 1831; contested East Surrey 1852 and 1859, and Univ. of Cam. 1867; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; bencher of I.T. 1861–8; serjeant at law 25 Aug. 1868, admitted 2 Nov.; baron of Court of Exchequer 25 Aug. 1868 to 9 Jany. 1879 when he retired on a pension; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 Dec. 1868. d. Pennoyre near Brecon 6 Oct. 1879. Cleasby and Vigfusson’s Icelandic-English dictionary (1869) pp. lxi-civ; Law mag. and review v, 113–27 (1880); A generation of Judges by Their Reporter (1886) 54–9; I.L.N. liv, 93 (1869), portrait.

CLEBURNE, PATRICK. b. near Queenstown, Cork 17 March 1828; a private in British army 1847–50; went to the United States 1850; studied law at Helena, Arkansas; a private in Confederate army 1861; brigadier general, March 1862; commanded a division at battle of Stone River 2 Jany. 1863, and at Chickamauga 21 Sep. 1863; killed at battle of Franklin, Tennessee 30 Nov. 1864.

CLEGG, SAMUEL. b. Manchester 2 March 1781; apprenticed to Boulton and Watt; invented lime purifiers for purifying gas; engineer of Chartered gas company, London 1814; invented and patented a water meter 1816; an engineer at Liverpool where he lost all his money; reconstructed the mint at Lisbon; M.I.C.E. 1829. d. Fairfield house, Adelaide road, Haverstock hill, London 8 Jany. 1861. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 552–4 (1862).

CLEGG, SAMUEL (only son of the preceding). b. Westminster 2 April 1814; made a trigonometrical survey of part of the Algarves in Portugal 1836; resident engineer of Southampton and Dorchester railway 1844–5; M.I.C.E. 1848; professor of civil engineering and architecture at Putney college, Surrey 1849; lecturer on civil engineering to Royal Engineers at Chatham 1849 to death; author of A practical treatise on the manufacture and distribution of coal gas 1841, 4 ed. 1866. d. Putney 25 July 1856. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi, 121–4 (1857).

CLEGHORN, THOMAS (son of Alexander Cleghorn, collector of customs at Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 3 March 1818; ed. at Edin. academy and univ.; called to Scottish bar 1839; advocate depute; registrar of friendly societies; sheriff of Argyleshire 19 Feb. 1855 to death; legal adviser of Free church of Scotland 1871; founded Wellington school for reformation of young criminals; author with Robert Balfour of History of the Speculative Society; wrote many articles in early numbers of North British Review; revised Journal of Lord Cockburn 2 vols. 1874. d. Edin. 13 June 1874. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. viii, 468–9 (1875); Journal of jurisprudence xviii, 385–6 (1874).

CLELAND, ROBERT STEWART (_3 son of Samuel Cleland of Stormont castle, co. Down_). b. 24 June 1840; ed. at Eton and Harrow; cornet 7 dragoon guards 7 July 1857; lieut. 9 lancers 6 Nov. 1860, lieut.-col. 27 June 1879 to death. d. at Murree, Bengal 7 Aug. 1880 from wounds received in the action of Killa Kazi 11 Dec. 1879. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 46–7, portrait.

CLEMENT, WILLIAM INNELL. Newsvendor in London; purchased a share of the Observer 1815, conducted it 1815 to death; published Cobbett’s Register; bought the Morning Chronicle 1822 for £42,000, sold it to John Easthope 1834 for £16,500; bought Bell’s Life in London 1825, conducted it 1825 to death, raised circulation from 3000 to 30,000. d. Hackney, London 24 Jany. 1852. bur. Kensal green 31 Jany. G.M. xxxvii, 306–7 (1852); A. Andrews’s British Journalism ii, 85, 93, 172–3, 206 (1859); J. Grant’s Newspaper Press iii, 28–33 (1872).

CLEMENT, WILLIAM JAMES (eld. son of Wm. Clement of Shrewsbury, surgeon, who d. 15 Jany. 1853). b. Shrewsbury 1804; a surgeon at Shrewsbury; M.R.C.S. 3 Dec. 1824, F.R.C.S. 26 Aug. 1844; obtained Fothergillian gold medal; mayor of Shrewsbury 1863, 64 and 65; M.P. for Shrewsbury 11 July 1865 to death; author of Observations in surgery and pathology 1832. d. The council house, Shrewsbury 29 Aug. 1870.

CLEMENTS, FRANK, stage name of Robert Menti. b. Aberdeen 8 July 1844; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen; appeared on the stage for the first time at New theatre, Birmingham 1861; leading actor at T.R. Birmingham 1867–9 and 1870 to Dec. 1873; manager and leading actor at T.R. Nottingham 1869–70; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre, July 1874 as Lord Moray in Charles the First; played nearly every leading legitimate and Shakespearian character in the provinces 1875–7; played Philip de Comines in Louis xi at Lyceum theatre, March 1878; member of the companies of Miss Genevieve Ward and Madame Modjeska in the United States; killed by a railway train passing over him at Newark, New Jersey 8 May 1886.

CLEMENTS, JOHN. Bookseller and stationer at 21 Little Pulteney st. Golden sq. London; one of the first to attempt publication of cheap serial works among which were The romancist and novelist library issued in weekly parts; obtained contract for first supply of envelopes ever used by the Stationery office; the first to introduce sale of note paper in 5 quire packets. d. Tunbridge Wells 10 Nov. 1878 in 73 year.

CLEMO, EBENEZER. b. London about 1831; went to Toronto, Canada 1858; patented a mode of using nitric acid in the conversion of straw and grasses into pulp, and for treating this pulp with a solution of hydrate of an alkali to reduce it to a fibrous pulp for making paper 1860; author of The life and adventures of Simon Seek, or Canada in all shapes, by Maple Knot, Montreal 1858; Canadian homes or the mystery solved, Montreal 1858. d. Morristown 1860.

CLEMONS, CLEMENT. Entered Madras army 1819; major 20 Madras N.I. 21 Oct. 1842, lieut.-col. 23 March 1849 to 1855; lieut.-col. 12 N.I. 1855–6, 21 N.I. 1856–7, 43 N.I. 1857 to 3 Dec. 1857, 38 N.I. 3 Dec. 1857 to 7 Oct. 1860; L.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. 4 St. Stephen’s crescent, Bayswater, London 27 Jany. 1885 in 82 year.

CLERK, SIR GEORGE, 6 Baronet (elder son of James Clerk, who d. 1793). b. Edinburgh 19 Nov. 1787; succeeded his uncle Sir John Clerk 24 Feb. 1798; entered Trin. coll. Ox. 21 Jany. 1806, D.C.L. 1810; called to Scottish bar 1809; M.P. for Midlothian 1811–32 and 1835–7, for Stamford 1838–47 and for Dover 1847–52; a lord of the Admiralty 1819–27 and 1828–30; clerk of the ordnance, May 1827; under sec. of state for home department 5 Aug. to 22 Nov. 1830; sec. to the Treasury 19 Dec. 1834 to 21 April 1835 and Sep. 1841 to Feb. 1845; vice pres. of Board of Trade 5 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846; P.C. 5 Feb. 1845; master of the Mint 12 Feb. 1845 to 14 July 1846; F.R.S. 27 May 1819; chairman of Royal academy of music. d. Penicuik house near Edin. 23 Dec. 1867. G.M. v, 246–7 (1868).

CLERK, SIR JAMES, 7 Baronet. b. London 17 July 1812; succeeded 23 Dec. 1867. d. St. Vincent’s hall, Clifton, Bristol 17 Nov. 1870.

CLERK, ROBERT. Writer Madras civil service 1816; secretary to Government in military department 1831–2, in civil department 1835–6 and 1837–44, in secret political and public departments 1836–7; resigned the service 22 Feb. 1844. d. Westholme house, Pilton, Shepton Mallet 3 April 1873 aged 75.

CLERKE, VENERABLE CHARLES CARR (3 son of Rev. Sir Wm. Henry Clerke, 8 Bart. 1751–1818). b. 30 Dec. 1798; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student, B.A. 1818, M.A, 1821, B.D. 1830, D.D. 1847; select preacher 1826; V. of St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford 1827; archdeacon of Oxford 9 March 1830 to death; R. of Milton, Berks. 1836–75; canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 24 March 1845 to death; sub-dean of Ch. Ch. 1853 to death; author of Duty of churchwardens 1864; Daily devotions for a churchman’s household 1868. d. Ch. Ch. Oxford 24 Dec. 1877.

CLERKE, SAINT JOHN AUGUSTUS (son of Jonathan Clerke). b. 1795; ensign 94 foot 13 Oct. 1808; major 77 foot 26 May 1825 to 30 Dec. 1828 when placed on h.p.; colonel 75 foot 22 March 1858 to death; general 8 March 1867; K.H. 1832. d. 66 Mountjoy sq. Dublin 17 Jany. 1870.

CLERKE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY, 9 Baronet (brother of Ven. Charles Carr Clerke 1798–1877). b. London 13 Sep. 1793; ensign 89 foot 10 Jany. 1811; lieut. 52 foot 19 Sep. 1811, captain 25 April 1822 to 2 May 1823 when placed on h.p.; succeeded 10 April 1818; sheriff of Flintshire 1848. d. Heath house, Aston on Clun, Salop 16 Feb. 1861.

CLERKE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY, 10 Baronet. b. Clonmel 17 Nov. 1822; a principal clerk in the Treasury, London; succeeded 16 Feb. 1861. d. 10 Eaton place south, London 8 Feb. 1882.

CLEUGH, VENERABLE JOHN. Educ. at Trin. hall, Cam., B.D. 1824; civil chaplain at Malta 1824 to 1865; archdeacon of Malta 1865 to death. d. Valetta, Malta 25 March 1881 aged 88.

CLEVELAND, HENRY VANE POWLETT, 2 Duke of (eld. child of 1 Duke of Cleveland 1766–1842). b. London 16 Aug. 1788; M.P. for co. Durham 1812–18, for Tregony 1818–26, for Totnes 1826–30, for Saltash 1830–1, for South Shropshire 24 Dec. 1832 to 29 Jany. 1842 when he succeeded; cornet 7 hussars 6 July 1815; major 2 Ceylon regiment 3 July 1823; major 75 foot 11 Dec. 1823 to 6 July 1826 when placed on h.p.; colonel 1 Durham militia 1842–60; general 23 Oct. 1863; K.G. 11 April 1842. d. Raby castle, Durham 18 Jany. 1864. Doyle’s Official baronage i, 415 (1886), portrait.

CLEVELAND, WILLIAM JOHN FREDERICK POWLETT, 3 Duke of (brother of the preceding). b. London 3 April 1792; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., M.A. 1812; M.P. for Winchelsea 1812–15, for co. Durham 1815–31, for St. Ives, Cornwall 1846–52, for Ludlow 1852–57; kept racehorses from 1843 but was very unlucky, his only good horse being Tim Whiffler which won the Goodwood and Doncaster cups; succeeded 18 Jany. 1864. d. Raby castle 6 Sep. 1864. W. Day’s Reminiscences of the turf, 2 ed. (1886) 328–42.

CLEVELAND, JOHN WHEELER. Entered Madras army 1808; commandant of Trichinopoly 26 Nov. 1844 to 26 April 1850; col. 18 Madras N.I. 1 Oct. 1846 to 30 June 1853; commandant of Southern division of the army 17 Feb. 1852 to 10 May 1857; col. 38 N.I. 30 June 1853 to 1869; general 6 March 1868; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. Cleveland house, Bangalore 1 Nov. 1883 aged 92.

CLIAS, PETER HENRY. An officer in Swiss artillery; introduced gymnastics into Swiss army 1814; professor of gymnastics in academy of Bern; came to London 1822, introduced his system of gymnastics into British army and navy; professor of gymnastics in Royal military academy, Woolwich 20 March 1823 to 4 Sep. 1825; author of Elementary course of gymnastic exercises 1824. d. Bern about Dec. 1854, left a considerable sum of money to city of Bern under condition that his skeleton should be exhibited in the Natural history museum as a palpable confirmation of beneficial effects of gymnastics.

CLIFDEN, HENRY AGAR-ELLIS, 3 Viscount (eld. son of 1 Baron Dover 1797–1833). b. Spring gardens, London 25 Feb. 1825; succeeded his father 10 July 1833; succeeded his grandfather as 3 Viscount Clifden 13 July 1836; won the Derby and St. Leger with Surplice 1848 no horse having won both these races since 1800; won the Great Northamptonshire stakes 1852 with Poodle carrying the extraordinary feather weight of 4 st. 5 lb. d. Dover house, Whitehall, London 20 Feb. 1866. Illust. sporting news v, 136 (1866), portrait; G.M. i, 584–5 (1866).

CLIFFE, CHARLES FREDERICK. Edited Gloucestershire Chronicle; author of The book of South Wales, the Bristol Channel, Monmouthshire and the Wye 1847, 3 ed. 1854; The book of North Wales, scenery, antiquities, highways and byeways, lakes, streams and railways 1850, 2 ed. 1851. d. Clifton, Bristol 7 Oct. 1851 aged 42.

CLIFFORD, HUGH CHARLES CLIFFORD, 8 Baron. b. New park, Somerset 29 May 1790; ed. at Stonyhurst; travelled in south of Europe where he made a large collection of all the catechetical works of instruction authorized by the several religious communities of the continent; succeeded 29 April 1831. d. Rome 28 Feb. 1858. buried Rome 2 March by the side of Cardinal Weld. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 509–11 (1885).

CLIFFORD, CHARLES HUGH CLIFFORD, 9 Baron. b. 27 July 1819; succeeded 28 Feb. 1858. d. Ugbrook park, Chudleigh, Devon 5 Aug. 1880.

CLIFFORD, SIR AUGUSTUS WILLIAM JAMES, 1 Baronet. b. 26 May 1788; ed. at Harrow; midshipman R.N. May 1800, captain 23 July 1812, R.A. 23 March 1848, admiral 7 Nov. 1860; M.P. for Bandon Bridge 1818–20, for Dungarvan 1820–2, for Bandon Bridge again 1831–2; gentleman usher of the black rod 24 July 1832 to death; deputy lord great chamberlain of England several times between 1843 and 1866; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830; created baronet 4 Aug. 1838. d. House of Lords, Westminster 8 Feb. 1877, personalty sworn under £250,000, 28 April 1877. Graphic xv, 172, 179 (1877), portrait; I.L.N. lxx, 171, 181 (1877), portrait.

CLIFFORD, SIR HENRY HUGH (3 son of 8 Baron Clifford 1790–1858). b. 12 Sep. 1826; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 7 Aug. 1846; A.Q.M.G. China 20 Aug. 1857 to 24 Aug. 1859; A.Q.M.G. Aldershot 18 Feb. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1864; A.Q.M.G. at head quarters 1 Jany. 1865 to 25 Nov. 1868; A.D.C. to commander in chief I April 1870 to 4 Dec. 1873; A.A.G. at head quarters 5 Dec. 1873 to 31 Oct. 1875; M.G. Cape of Good Hope 6 April 1879 to 14 Nov. 1880; M.G. eastern district 1 April 1882 to 15 Sep. 1882; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; C.B. 2 June 1869; K.C.M.G. 19 Dec. 1879; granted pension of £100 for distinguished service 7 Oct. 1874. d. Ugbrook 12 April 1883. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age i, 208–21 (1880); Graphic xix, 372 (1879), portrait.

CLIFFORD, HENRY MORGAN (only son of Morgan Morgan Clifford of Penystone, co. Hereford, who d. 1814). b. 1806; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; chairman of Herefordshire quarter sessions 1845; M.P. for Hereford 1847–65; a comr. of lunacy 1853; col. of Monmouthshire militia 5 March 1858. d. St. Ronan’s, Torquay 12 Feb. 1884 in 78 year.

CLIFFORD, SIR WILLIAM JOHN CAVENDISH, 2 Baronet. b. London 12 Oct. 1814; ed. at Eton; entered navy 24 Feb. 1829, captain 18 Aug. 1847, V.A. 1 Oct. 1871, retired 7 May 1872, retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877; C.B. 5 July 1855; succeeded 8 Feb. 1877. d. Bournemouth 11 April 1882.

CLIFFORD, WILLIAM KINGDON (son of Wm. Clifford of Exeter, bookseller, who d. Feb. 1878). b. Exeter 4 May 1845; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., a minor scholar, Oct. 1863; 2 wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1867; B.A. 1867, M.A. 1870; fellow of his college, Oct. 1868; took part in English eclipse expedition 1870, wrecked in the Psyche off Catania; professor of applied mathematics at Univ. coll. London 1871; F.R.A.S. 12 Dec. 1873; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; a prominent member of Metaphysical Soc. 1874; author of Mathematical fragments 1881; Mathematical papers edited by R. Tucker 1882; Common sense of the exact sciences edited by K. Pearson 1885. (m. 7 April 1875 Sophia Lucy Jane dau. of John Lane of Barbadoes, she was granted civil list pension of £80, 13 Oct. 1880). d. Madeira 3 March 1879. bur. Highgate cemetery. Lectures and essays by the late W. K. Clifford edited by Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock vol. 1 (1879), portrait; Edinburgh Review cli, 474–511 (1880).

CLIFTON, SIR, Arthur Benjamin (youngest son of Sir Gervase Clifton, 6 baronet, who d. 1815). b. 1772; ed. at Rugby; cornet 3 dragoon guards 6 June 1794, major 17 Dec. 1803 to 22 Nov. 1810; lieut.-col. 1 dragoons 22 Nov. 1810 to 11 June 1829 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 lancers 25 Aug. 1839 to 30 Aug. 1842; col. 1 dragoons 30 Aug. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; K.C.H. 1832. d. 52 Old Steyne, Brighton 7 March 1869. bur. Clifton, Notts. 12 March, personalty sworn under £140,000, May 1869.

CLIFTON, HENRY ROBERT, known as Harry Clifton. b. Hoddesdon, Herts.; apprenticed to John Clark, circus proprietor, who taught him riding and clowning; comic and motto vocalist at music halls in London and the provinces, many of his songs obtained great popularity; organised a concert company with which he visited every town in Great Britain and Ireland 1864–72. d. of hepatic disease at 26 St. Stephen’s road, Hammersmith, London 15 July 1872 aged 40. The Era 21 July 1872 p. 12, col. 3.

CLIFTON, JOHN TALBOT. b. London 5 March 1819; M.P. for North Lancs. 1844–7; col. 1 royal Lancashire militia 8 Oct. 1852–1870; sheriff of Lancs. 1853. d. on board his steam yacht Taurus at Algiers 16 April 1882.

CLIFTON, SIR JUCKES GLANVILLE JUCKES, 8 Baronet. b. Aug. 1769; succeeded his brother 28 April 1837. d. Clifton hall near Nottingham 1 Oct. 1852.

CLIFTON, REV. ROBERT COX. b. Gloucester 4 Jany. 1810; ed. at Worcester and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of his coll. 1833; clerk in orders at Manchester collegiate church 1837, elected to a fellowship by the collegiate chapter 6 Dec. 1843; R. of Somerton, Oxon 1840 to death; canon of Manchester, Dec. 1843 to death; a trustee of Owen’s college, Manchester; author of several sermons and pamphlets. d. Somerton rectory 30 July 1861.

CLIFTON, SIR ROBERT JUCKES, 9 Baronet. b. 24 Dec. 1826; ed. at Eton; lost heavily on the turf during his minority; succeeded 1 Oct. 1852; M.P. for Nottingham 26 Dec. 1861 to May 1866 (when unseated on petition) and 18 Nov. 1868 to death. d. Clifton hall 30 May 1869.

CLINT, ALFRED (youngest son of the succeeding). b. Alfred place, Bedford sq. London 22 March 1807; painted portraits and landscapes; member of Society of British artists 1843, secretary 1853–9, pres. 1869–81; best known as a marine painter; exhibited 24 pictures at R.A. 35 at B.I. and 343 at Suffolk st. gallery 1828–79; drew and etched illustrations to Bennett’s Pedestrian’s guide through North Wales 1838; author of Landscape from nature 1855. d. 54 Lancaster road, Notting hill, London 22 March 1883, I.L.N. lxxxii, 332 (1883), portrait.

CLINT, GEORGE (son of Michael Clint of Lombard st. London, hairdresser). b. Brownlow st. Drury Lane, London 12 April 1770; a house painter, painted the stones of the arches in nave of Westminster abbey; a miniature painter in Leadenhall st.; made copies in colours from prints after Morland and Teniers; painted a series of dramatic scenes; exhibited 99 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 15 at Suffolk st. gallery; A.R.A. 1821–36. d. 10 Pembroke sq. London 10 May 1854. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 66–8 (1862).

CLINTON, CHARLES RODOLPH TREFUSIS, 18 Baron. b. South Brent, South Devon 9 Nov. 1791; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; fellow of All Souls coll.; M.P. for Callington 4 March 1813 to 10 June 1818; a comr. of excise 29 Sep. 1823; succeeded 7 Oct. 1832; lieut.-col. commandant of North Devon yeomanry cavalry 1842. d. Heanton Satchville house, North Devon 10 April 1866.

CLINTON, REV. CHARLES JOHN FYNES (3 son of Rev. Charles Fynes 1748–1827, preb. of Westminster, who took name of Clinton 1821). b. 16 April 1799; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; V. of Orston, Notts 1827–55; R. of Cromwell, Notts 1828 to death; author of An address to all classes on the first visitation of cholera 1832; Plain doctrinal and practical sermons 1842; edited H. F. Clinton’s Epitome of chronology of Rome and Constantinople 1853; Literary remains of H. F. Clinton 1854. d. of pleurisy at 3 Montague place, St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London 10 Jany. 1872.

CLINTON, HENRY FYNES (brother of the preceding). b. Gamston, Notts. 14 Jany. 1781; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., student Dec. 1802 to June 1809, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1805, one of the few who passed an examination for the M.A. degree; M.P. for Aldborough 3 Nov. 1806 to June 1826; a candidate for librarianship of British Museum, Dec. 1827; author of Fasti Hellenici 4 vols. 1824–34; Fasti Romani 2 vols. 1845–50. d. Welwyn, Herts. 24 Oct. 1852. Literary remains of H. F. Clinton edited by Rev. C. J. F. Clinton 1854; C. Brown’s Lives of Nottinghamshire worthies (1882) 338–41; G.M. xxxix, 315–6 (1853).

CLISSOLD, REV. AUGUSTUS (son of Augustus Clissold of Stonehouse near Stroud, Gloucs.) b. 1797; matric. from Exeter coll. Ox. 6 Dec. 1814, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; C. of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London; C. of St. Mary, Stoke Newington; pres. of Swedenborg Association 1845; purchased in 1854 for use of the Swedenborg Society a 70 years lease of 36 Bloomsbury st. London; author of Principles of Apocalyptical interpretation 3 vols. 1845; Spiritual exposition of the Apocalypse 4 vols. 1851; Transition or the passing of ages 1868; Prophetic spirit in relation to wisdom and madness 1870; The creeds of Athanasius, Sabellius and Swedenborg examined 1873, 2 ed. 1873 and 17 other books. d. 4 Broadwater Down, Tunbridge Wells 30 Oct. 1882.

CLISSOLD, REV. HENRY. Educ. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; R. of Chelmondiston, Suffolk 1830–58; author of Last hours of eminent Christians 1848; Lamps of the church, lives of eminent Christians 1862. d. 19 Talbot sq. Sussex gardens, London 10 Jany. 1867.

CLISSOLD, REV. STEPHEN. b. about 1790; ed. at Clare coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; R. of Wrentham, Suffolk 1830–53; hon. canon of Norwich cathedral 1848 to death; author of Letters of Cincinnatus 1815; Considerations on the trade, manufacture and commerce of the British Empire 1820. d. Wrentham 12 May 1863.

CLITHEROW, JOHN (_eld. son of Christopher Clitherow of Bird’s Place, Essendon, Herts_). b. 13 Dec. 1782; ensign 3 foot guards 19 Dec. 1799, lieut.-col. 15 Sep. 1825 to 22 July 1830; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; administered government of Canada after decease of Lord Sydenham 1841; col. 67 foot 15 Jany. 1844 to death. d. Boston house, Middlesex 14 Oct. 1852.

CLIVE, CAROLINE (2 dau. of Edmund Meysey Wigley of Shakenhurst, Worcs.) b. Brompton Grove, London 24 June 1801; author of ix Poems by V. 1840, 2 ed. 1841; The valley of the Rea, a poem by V. 1851; Paul Ferroll, a tale by the author of, ix Poems by V. 1855; Why Paul Ferroll killed his wife 1860; John Greswold 2 vols. 1864. (m. 10 Nov. 1840 Rev. Archer Clive, preb. of Hereford, he was b. 16 March 1800 and d. 17 Sep. 1878). d. by an accident from fire at Whitfield near Hereford 13 July 1873. Contemporary Review xxiii, 197–217 (1874).

CLIVE, GEORGE (3 son of Edward Bolton Clive of Whitfield, Herefordshire, who d. 22 July 1845 in 81 year). b. Verdun, France, Oct. 1806; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 29 June 1830; assistant poor law comr. 1836–9; police magistrate for Kensington and Wandsworth 1840–7; judge of county courts circuit 47 Southwark, March 1847 to 1858; recorder of Wokingham 1849–58; M.P. for city of Hereford 14 Feb. 1857 to 9 March 1869 (when unseated on petition) and 3 Feb. 1874 to March 1880; under sec. of state for home department, June 1859 to Nov. 1862; chairman of Herefordshire quarter sessions, Jany. 1871 to death. d. Perrystone near Ross 8 June 1880. O’Malley and Hardcastle’s Reports of election petitions i, 194–7 (1870).

CLIVE, HENRY BAYLEY (4 son of Wm. Clive of Leigh hall, Salop 1745–1825). b. Styche, Market Drayton 1800; M.P. for Ludlow 1847–52. d. Styche 26 Feb. 1870.

CLIVE, ROBERT HENRY (2 son of Earl of Powis 1754–1839). b. 15 Jany. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1809, LLD. 1835; M.P. for Ludlow 1818 to 1832, for South Shropshire 1832 to death; under sec. of state for home department 21 April 1818 to 17 Jany. 1822; pres. of Cambrian archæological assoc. 1852; author of Documents connected with the history of Ludlow and the Lords Marchers 1841 preface signed R. H. C. d. Shrewsbury 20 Jany. 1854.

CLIVE, ROBERT WINDSOR (son of the preceding). b. Grosvenor st. London 24 May 1824; M.P. for Ludlow 1852–1854, for South Salop 1854 to death. d. 53 Lower Grosvenor st. London 4 Aug. 1859.

CLIVE, VENERABLE WILLIAM (brother of Henry Bayley Clive 1800–1870). b. 14 March 1795; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; V. of Welshpool 1819–65; archdeacon of Montgomery 29 Feb. 1844–1861; preb. of St. Asaph 25 July 1849; hon. canon of St. Asaph 1854 to death; R. of Blymhill, Staffs. 1865. d. Blymhill rectory 24 May 1883.

CLOËTÉ, SIR ABRAHAM JOSIAS (2 son of Peter Laurence Cloëté, member of council at Cape of Good Hope). b. Cape of Good Hope 7 Aug. 1794; cornet 15 hussars 29 Jany. 1809; deputy quartermaster general at Cape of Good Hope 1840–54; commanded forces in West Indies 1855–61; colonel 19 foot 10 March 1861 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 23 Sep. 1847, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; knighted at St. James’s palace 9 June 1854. d. 88 Gloucester terrace, London 26 Oct. 1886.

CLONCURRY, VALENTINE BROWNE LAWLESS, 2 Baron (2 son of 1 Baron Cloncurry 1735–99). b. Merrion sq. Dublin 19 Aug. 1773; ed. at Portarlington, Chester and Trin. coll. Dublin; member of Society of United Irishmen; member of executive directory of United Irish Society 1797; arrested 31 May 1798, again 14 April 1799, confined in the Tower of London 8 May 1799 to March 1801; succeeded as 2 Baron 28 Aug. 1799; P.C. for Ireland 1831; created a Baron of the United Kingdom 14 Sep. 1831. d. Maretimo, Blackrock near Dublin 28 Oct. 1853. W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Life of Lord Cloncurry 1855; G.M. xli, 82–7 (1854); Personal recollections of Lord Cloncurry (1849).

CLONCURRY, EDWARD LAWLESS, 3 Baron. b. Lyons house, co. Kildare 13 Sep. 1816; ed. at Eton and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1861; succeeded 23 Oct. 1853; killed by falling from a window of Lyons house whilst of unsound mind and unaccountable for his acts 3 April 1869. Morning Post 6 April 1869 p. 5.

CLONMELL, JOHN HENRY SCOTT, 3 Earl of. b. Hertford st. London 4 Jany. 1817; succeeded 18 Jany. 1838. d. Bishop’s court, Naas, co. Kildare 7 Feb. 1866.

CLOSE, VERY REV. FRANCIS (youngest son of Rev. Henry Jackson Close, R. of Bentworth, Hants. who d. April 1806). b. near Frome 11 July 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Cam. Scholar 1817, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1857; C. of Church Lawford, Warws. 1820–22; C. of Willesden and Kingsbury 1822–24; P.C. of Cheltenham 1826–56; Dean of Carlisle 24 Nov. 1856 to Aug. 1881 when he resigned; P.C. of St. Mary, Carlisle 1865–68; a most popular evangelical preacher; author of upwards of 70 books. d. Morrab house, Penzance 18 Dec. 1882. buried Carlisle cemetery 23 Dec. The Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1861, 32–33, portrait; Illust. news of the world viii, (1861), portrait; Congregationalist iv, 562–72 (1875); A golden decade of a favoured town by Contem Ignotus (1884) 11–69; E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 429–30; I.L.N. lxxxii, 45 (1883), portrait.

CLOSE, THOMAS (son of John Close of Manchester, merchant). b. Manchester 12 Feb. 1796; a founder and original member of Reform club, London 1836; auditor of the London and South Western railway many years; F.S.A. 10 May 1855; author of St. Mary’s church, Nottingham, its probable architect and benefactors 1866, drew up elaborate pedigrees of the Tattershall and Wake families and many illuminated pedigrees of royal, noble and illustrious houses. d. Nottingham 25 Jany. 1881. Manchester school register iii, 66–8 (1874).

CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH (2 son of James Butler Clough of Liverpool, cotton merchant 1784–1844). b. Liverpool 1 Jany. 1819; ed. at Rugby and Balliol coll. Ox., scholar Nov. 1836, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; fellow of Oriel coll. 1842 to Oct. 1848, tutor 1843–8; principal of University hall, Gordon sq. London, Oct. 1849 to 1851; professor of English language and literature at Univ. coll. London, Nov. or Dec. 1850; sec. to commission on military education 1856; author of The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, a long vacation pastoral 1848; Plutarch’s lives, the translation called Dryden’s Corrected from the Greek and revised 1859; author with Thomas Burbidge of Ambarvalia, poems 1849. d. Florence 13 Nov. 1861. Poems and prose remains of A. H. Clough edited by his wife 2 vols. 1869; Poems by A. H. Clough with a memoir [by F. T. Palgrave], 2 ed. 1863; A. H. Clough a monograph by S. Waddington 1883; J. C. Shairp’s Balliol scholars, a remembrance 1873; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. iv, 589–607 (1883).

CLOUGH, VERY REV. CHARLES BUTLER (4 son of Rev. Roger Clough, canon of St. Asaph). b. 1793; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1825; V. of Mold, Flintshire 1824–54; archdeacon of St. Asaph 20 Feb. 1844–1854, hon. canon of St. Asaph 25 July 1849–1854, dean and chancellor of St. Asaph 1854 to death. d. the Deanery, St. Asaph 4 Sep. 1859.

CLOWES, GEORGE (son of Wm. Clowes of London, printer 1779–1847). b. 1814; ed. at Tooting and London Univ. college; partner with his father 1846; printed the official publications of the Great Exhibition 1851; auditor to the Guild of Literature many years; printed and published The Law Reports 1865 to death. d. Oak hill, Surbiton 3 Nov. 1886. London Figaro 20 Nov. 1886 p. 6, col. 2, portrait.

CLOWES, THOMAS BALL (son of Mr. Clowes of Canterbury, surgeon). b. Wingham, Kent 30 June 1787; entered navy 17 June 1801; captain 16 May 1823, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 24 Sep. 1863. d. Upton, Slough 31 March 1864.

CLOWES, REV. WILLIAM (son of Wm. Clowes of Burslem, Staffs., potter). b. Burslem 12 March 1780; a working potter; attended the first camp meeting ever held in England, which was at Mow Hill near Harrisehead 31 May 1807; a local Wesleyan preacher, Oct. 1808; one of founders of Primitive Methodist connection 14 March 1810; preached in most of the northern counties of England, also in London and Cornwall. d. Hull 2 March 1851. Davison’s Life of W. Clowes (1854), portrait; Petty’s Primitive Methodist connection (1864), portrait.

CLOWES, WILLIAM (brother of George Clowes 1814–86). b. 15 May 1807; entered his father’s business 1823, partner with him 1846; trustee of Printers’ pension corporation 1844, treasurer 1853. d. Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 19 May 1883.

CLULOW, REV. WILLIAM BENTON. b. Leek, Staffs.; ed. at Hoxton academy; pastor of Congregational chapel at Shaldon, Devon 1823–35; classical tutor of Airedale college, Bradford 1835–43; author of Aphorisms and reflections, a miscellany of thought and opinion 1843; Sunshine and Shadows, or Sketches of thought, philosophic and religious 1863; Essays of a recluse, or traces of thought, literature and fancy 1865. d. Leek 16 April 1882.

CLUTTERBUCK, HENRY (5 child of Thomas Clutterbuck of Marazion, Cornwall, attorney, who d. 6 Nov. 1781). b. Marazion 28 Jany. 1767; M.R.C.S. 7 Aug. 1790; practised at Walbrook, city of London 1790–1802; projected The Medical and Chirurgical Review 1795, edited it 1795–1807; M.D. Glasgow 16 April 1804; licentiate of College of Physicians 1 Oct. 1804; physician in Bridge st. Blackfriars 1808 to death; physician to general dispensary, Aldersgate st. 1809; lectured on materia medica and the practice of physic; author of Remarks respecting venereal disease 1799; An enquiry into the seat and nature of fever 1807, 2 ed. 1825; An essay on Pyrexia, or symptomatic fever 1837; A series of essays on inflamation 1846. d. 1 Crescent, New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 24 April 1856. Lives of British physicians (1857) 403–16; T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery ii, (1840), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery ii, 88–9 (1846), portrait; Medical Circular ii, 495–7 (1853), portrait.

CLUTTERBUCK, REV. JAMES CHARLES (2 son of Robert Clutterbuck of Watford, Herts. 1772–1831). b. Watford 11 July 1801; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., fellow 26 Dec. 1822 to 19 Jany. 1831; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1827; C. of Watford; V. of Long Wittenham, Berkshire 14 Jany. 1830 to death; rural dean of Abingdon 1869 to death; great authority on all questions relating to water; member of Board of Thames Conservancy. d. Long Wittenham 8 May 1885.

CLYDE, COLIN CAMPBELL, 1 Baron (eld. child of John McLiver of Glasgow, cabinet maker, who d. 22 Dec. 1859, by Agnes Campbell). b. Glasgow 20 Oct. 1792; ed. at Glasgow high sch. and Gosport; gazetted ensign 9 foot under name of Campbell 26 May 1808; lieut.-col. 98 foot 19 June 1835 to 1 April 1853; aide-de-camp to the Queen 23 Dec. 1842 to 20 June 1854; commanded third division of army under Lord Gough in Punjaub campaigns of 1848–49; commanded the Peshawur district 1851–52; commanded Highland brigade in the Crimea 1854; commandant at Balaklava 1854; colonel 67 foot 24 Oct. 1854 to 15 Jany. 1858; commanded first division of British army in the Crimea, Dec. 1854 to 3 Nov. 1855; inspector general of infantry, Sep. 1856; commander in chief in India 11 July 1857; stormed Lucknow, Nov. 1857, captured it 19 March 1858, left India 4 June 1860; colonel 93 foot 15 Jany. 1858 to 4 June 1860; general 14 May 1858; colonel Coldstream guards 22 June 1860 to death; field marshal 9 Nov. 1862; admitted to freedom of city of Glasgow 1856, of London 20 Dec. 1860; granted pension of £2,000 by the H.E.I.Co. 1858; created Baron Clyde of Clydesdale 16 Aug. 1858; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 9 June 1849, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; K.S.I. June 1858, K.C.S.I. 25 June 1861. d. the Government house, Chatham 14 Aug. 1863. bur. Westminster abbey 22 Aug., statue of him by Marochetti erected in Carlton gardens, Pall Mall 1867, and a statue by Foley at Glasgow 1868. Shadwell’s Life of Lord Clyde 2 vols. 1881, portrait; C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age ii, 372–446 (1880); A personal narrative of the siege of Lucknow by L. E. R. Rees, 3 ed. 1858; Illust. news of the world i, (1858), portrait.

COATS, THOMAS (4 son of James Coats of Paisley, thread manufacturer). b. Paisley 18 Oct. 1809; thread manufacturer with his brother Peter, at the Ferguslie thread works, Paisley, one of the largest in the world; pres. of Paisley Philosophical Institution 1862–4, to which he gave an observatory on Oakshaw hill 1882; presented to town of Paisley a public park called the Fountain’s Gardens 1868; chairman of Paisley school board 1873 to death; made valuable collection of Scottish coins. d. 15 Oct. 1883, statue of him erected at Paisley.

COBBE, GEORGE (2 son of Charles Cobbe of Newbridge house, co. Dublin 1756–98). b. 1782; second lieut. R.A. 9 Oct. 1799, col. commandant 29 Aug. 1857 to death; general 15 Dec. 1864. d. 9 Sydney place, Onslow sq. Brompton London 8 Feb. 1865.

COBBE, HENRY CLERMONT (eld. son of Thomas Alexander Cobbe 1788–1836, col. H.E.I.C.S.) Ensign 86 foot 15 Feb. 1831; lieut.-col. 2 West India regiment 26 May 1844 to 14 April 1854; lieut.-col. 4 foot 14 April 1854 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. in the camp before Sebastopol 6 Aug. 1855.

COBBETT, JOHN MORGAN (2 son of Wm. Cobbett, political writer 1762–1835). b. 1800; barrister L.I. 26 Nov. 1830; M.P. for Oldham 9 July 1852 to 6 July 1865 and 5 June 1872 to death; author of Letters from France, containing observations on that country during a journey from Calais to the South as far as Limoges 1825. d. 20 Brompton crescent, South Kensington, London 13 Feb. 1877.

COBBETT, RICHARD BAVERSTOCK BROWN (brother of the preceding). b. 1804; attorney at Manchester 1838 to death; defended some of the Chartists; sec. to the council of Manchester Political Union which got up the great demonstration on Kersal Moor to demand the six points of the Charter 24 Sep. 1838; author of some legal pamphlets. d. Wilmslow, Manchester 3 June 1875.

COBBETT, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). Brought actions against several of the judges in connection with an attempt on his part to obtain release of the Tichborne claimant by means of a writ of habeas corpus. d. the watchman’s room, central hall of Houses of Parliament, Westminster 12 Jany. 1878.

COBBIN, REV. INGRAM. b. London, Dec. 1777; ed. at Hoxton academy 1798–1802; Independent minister at South Molton 1802; assist. sec. to British and Foreign school society; first sec. of Home Missionary society 1819; Owing to weak health he did not hold any pastorate for more than a short period; author of Elements of English grammar 1828, thirty three editions; Elements of Arithmetic for children 1828, fifteen editions; Evangelical Synopsis 1833; The Condensed Commentary 1837; The Portable Commentary 1843; Domestic Bible 1844; Bible Remembrancer 1848; Scripture light on Popish Darkness 1851; and about 30 other works. d. of phthisis at Denmark cottage, Cold Arbour lane, Kennington, London 10 March 1851. Congregational year book 1851 p. 212.

COBBOLD, JOHN CHEVALIER (eld. child of John Cobbold of Ipswich, brewer 1774–1860). b. Ipswich 24 Aug. 1797; banker and merchant at Ipswich and Harwich; chairman of Eastern union railway co. and of Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds railway co.; M.P. for Ipswich 30 July 1847 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. Holywells, Ipswich 6 Oct. 1882. Public men of Ipswich (1875) 57–63; Graphic xxvi, 412 (1882), portrait.

COBBOLD, JOHN PATTESON (eld. son of the preceding). b. Ipswich 12 July 1831; a banker and brewer at Ipswich; M.P. for Ipswich 6 Feb. 1874 to death. d. the Cliff, Ipswich 10 Dec. 1875. Licensed victualler’s year book (1876), portrait; I.L.N. lxvii, 614, 629 (1875), portrait; Public men of Ipswich (1875) 274.

COBBOLD, REV. RICHARD (20 child of John Cobbold of Ipswich, brewer). b. Ipswich 1797; ed. at Bury St. Edmunds and Caius coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Wortham, Suffolk 1826 to death; rural dean of Hartismere, Suffolk 1844–69; author of History of Margaret Catchpole 2 vols. 1845 of which 100,000 copies were sold; Mary Ann Wellington 3 vols. 1846; The young man’s home 1848 and other books. d. Wortham rectory 5 Jany. 1877. Public men of Ipswich (1875) 170.

COBBOLD, THOMAS CLEMENT (3 son of John Chevalier Cobbold 1797–1882). b. Ipswich 22 July 1833; ed. at Charterhouse; served in diplomatic service abroad 5 Sep. 1855 to 22 Dec. 1875; M.P. for Ipswich 1 Jany. 1876 to death; C.B. 2 Sep. 1879. d. Ipswich 21 Nov. 1883. Graphic xiii, 75, 84 (1876), portrait.

COBBOLD, THOMAS SPENCER (youngest son of Rev. Richard Cobbold 1797–1877). b. Ipswich 26 May 1828; ed. at the Charterhouse and Edin. univ., M.D. and gold medallist 1851, curator of the anatomical museum 1851–7; lecturer on botany at St. Mary’s hospital, London 1857–61, at Middlesex hospital 1861 where he lectured on comparative anatomy 13 years; practised in London 1865; Swiney lecturer on geology at British Museum, May 1868 to May 1873; professor of botany at Royal Veterinary college 1873 of helminthology 1874; F.R.S. 2 June 1864; author of Entozoa, an introduction to the study of Helminthology 1864; Tapeworms 1866, 4 ed. 1883; Parasites, a treatise on the Entozoa of man and animals 1879. d. 74 Portsdown road, Maida hill, London 20 March 1886. Barker’s Photographs of eminent medical men ii, 77–81 (1868), portrait; Lancet 27 March 1886 p. 616.

COBDEN, RICHARD (2 son of Wm. Cobden of Dunford, Heyshott near Midhurst, Sussex, farmer, who d. 15 June 1833). b. Dunford 3 June 1804; calico printer at Manchester 1829–39; M.P. for Stockport 1841–7, for West riding of Yorkshire 1847–57, for Rochdale 1859 to death; member of Anti-Corn law league Oct. 1838 to 1846, repeal of the corn law was chiefly due to him, sum of nearly £80,000 was raised for him by subscription 1846; negotiated commercial treaty with France signed 23 Jany. 1860; presented with sum of £40,000 by about 100 friends 1860; admitted to freedom of city of London 6 June 1861; author of the following pamphlets England, Ireland and America by a Manchester manufacturer 1835; Russia by a Manchester manufacturer 1836; 1792 and 1853 in three letters 1853; How wars are got up in India 1853; What next? and next? 1856; The three, panics of 1848, 1853 and 1862, 1862. d. 23 Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 2 April 1865; bur. West Lavington churchyard near Midhurst 7 April. J. Morley’s Life of R. Cobden 2 vols. 1881, portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iii, 51–4 (1847), portrait; H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii, 365–84 (1866); J. H. Jennings’s Anecdotal history of the British parliament (1880) 332–8; Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 41, portrait.

COCHET, JOHN. b. Rochester 3 Aug. 1760; entered navy 22 Dec. 1775, captain 9 Dec. 1796, placed on h.p. 30 May 1799; principal agent for transports in the Mediterranean 2 May 1805 to June 1810; admiral 23 Nov. 1841. d. Bideford 10 June 1851.

COCHRANE, CHARLES (natural son of hon. Basil Cochrane, lieut. col. 36 foot who d. 14 May 1816). Traversed the United Kingdom dressed in Hungarian costume and sang songs while playing the guitar 1825–6; the farce of The Wandering Minstrel by Henry Mayhew produced at Fitzroy theatre, London 16 Jany. 1834 was founded on his eccentricities; pres. of National philanthropic instit. in Leicester sq. London 1842–50; contested city of Westminster July 1847; author of Journal of a tour made by Senor Juan de Vega, a character assumed by an English gentleman 2 vols. 1830. d. Nelson sq. Blackfriars road, London 13 June 1855 in 48 year. G.M. xliv, 324–5 (1855).

COCHRANE, SIR JAMES (4 son of Thomas Cochrane, speaker of house of assembly at Nova Scotia). b. Nova Scotia 1798; barrister I.T. 6 Feb. 1829; attorney general of Gibraltar 1837, chief justice 1841 to May 1877; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1845; d. Glenrocky, Gibraltar 24 June 1883.

COCHRANE, JOHN GEORGE (son of Mr. Cochrane of Glasgow). b. Glasgow 1781; bookseller and publisher with John White in Fleet st. London; manager of foreign bookselling house of Messrs. Treuttel and Wurtz, Soho sq.; acting editor of Foreign quarterly review 1827–35; edited Caledonian Mercury at Edin.; catalogued Sir Walter Scott’s library at Abbotsford; edited a newspaper at Hertford; sec. and librarian of London library, London 17 Feb. 1841 to death, library was opened 3 May 1841; compiled two catalogues of the library 1842 and 1847. d. London library, St. James’s sq. London 11 May 1852. Catalogue of the London library by R. Harrison 1875 pp. vii-xi.

COCHRANE, SIR THOMAS JOHN (eld. child of Sir Alexander Forester Inglis Cochrane, G.C.B. 1758–1831). b. Edinburgh 5 Feb. 1789; entered navy 15 June 1796; captain 23 April 1806; second in command on East India station 1842 to 1845; commander-in-chief 1845 to 1847; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 18 Dec. 1852 to Jany. 1856; admiral 31 Jany. 1856; admiral of the fleet 12 Sep. 1865; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 29 May 1812; governor of Newfoundland 16 April 1825 to 1834; M.P. for Ipswich 1837–41; C.B. 18 April 1839, K.C.B. 29 Oct. 1847, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 19 Oct. 1872. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 25 Oct.

COCHRANE, WILLIAM GEORGE. Ensign 40 foot 13 Feb. 1805; lieut.-col. 10 foot 16 Sep. 1836 to 10 July 1837 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in Ireland 11 Dec. 1846 to 1 April 1852; colonel 11 foot 23 June 1856 to death; L.G. 26 Sep. 1856. d. 127 Piccadilly, London 4 Sep. 1857.

COCK, HENRY. Entered Bengal army 1802; col. 64 Bengal N.I. 1849 to death; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Hopton hall near Lowestoft 17 Feb. 1851.

COCK, REV. THOMAS ASTLEY. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., 27 wrangler 1834, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1839; mathematical tutor King’s coll. London and professor of mathematics Queen’s coll. London many years. d. 18 Rodney st. Pentonville, London 3 July 1885 in 74 year.

COCKAYNE, REV. THOMAS OSWALD (son of Mr. Cockin). b. 1807; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 10 wrangler 1828, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1835; a master at King’s college sch. London 1842–69; member of Philological and Early English Text Societies; author of The civil history of the Jews from Joshua to Hadrian 1841, 2 ed. 1845; Greek Syntax 1846; Life of Marshal Turenne 1853; Leechdoms, Wort-cunning and Starcraft of early England 3 vols. 1858; Spoon and Sparrow, or English roots in Greek, Latin and Hebrew 1861. Shot himself at Carrackdew, St. Ives 2 or 3 June 1873. Cornish Telegraph 18, 25 June 1873.

COCKBURN, ALEXANDER (4 son of Sir James Cockburn 6 baronet 1729–1804). b. 20 Aug. 1776; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Wurtemburg 6 March 1820 to 8 Feb. 1823, to Columbia, South America 28 Feb. 1826 to 21 Sep. 1829. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 14 Oct. 1852.

COCKBURN, SIR ALEXANDER JAMES EDMUND, 10 Baronet (only son of the preceding). b. 24 Dec. 1802; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., fellow commoner 1825, fellow 1829; LL.B. 1829, LLD. 1874; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1829, bencher 1841, treasurer 1853; recorder of Southampton 26 July 1840 to Aug. 1846; Q.C. Oct. 1841; M.P. for Southampton 31 July 1847 to Nov. 1856; solicitor general 11 July 1850; knighted at Buckingham Palace 14 Aug. 1850; attorney general 28 March 1851 to Feb. 1852 and 28 Dec. 1852 to 21 Nov. 1856; recorder of Bristol, April 1854 to Nov. 1856; led the prosecution of Wm. Palmer the Rugeley poisoner who was hanged 14 June 1856; lord chief justice of court of Common Pleas 21 Nov. 1856; lord chief justice of court of Queen’s bench 24 June 1859, of England 2 Nov. 1874 to death; P.C. 2 Feb. 1857; succeeded his uncle as 10 baronet 30 April 1858; arbitrator for Her Majesty under treaty of Washington 1 Sep. 1871; G.C.B. 12 Feb. 1873; presided at trial of The Queen v Castro (Tichborne claimant) 1873–4, 188 days, longest trial upon record except that of Warren Hastings; admitted to freedom of city of London 9 March 1876; chairman of Cambridge University commission 1877–8; presided in court of crown cases reserved 20 Nov. 1880. d. from angina pectoris 40 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 20 Nov. 1880. A generation of Judges by Their Reporter (1886) 1–20; Ballantine’s Some experiences of a barrister ii, 113–19 (1882); Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, second series i, 162–83 (1877); E. Yates’s Recollections ii, 129–38 (1884); Law Mag. xlvi, 193–213 (1851); Law Mag. and Review i, 50–3, 896–903 (1872); The Englishman xiv, 88–90 (1880), portrait; I.L.N. xvii, 121 (1850), portrait, lxvi, 287 (1875), portrait, lxxvii, 521 (1880), portrait.

NOTE.—He was the first legally styled Lord chief justice of England; Sir Edward Coke assumed that title which most of his successors also did, but it was not until the Supreme Court of Judicature act 1873 that the title was fully recognised.

COCKBURN, SIR FRANCIS (brother of Alexander Cockburn 1776–1852). b. 10 Nov. 1780; cornet 7 dragoon guards 16 Oct. 1800; lieut. col. New Brunswick Fencibles 27 Oct. 1814 to 25 April 1816 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 2 West India regiment 30 July 1829 to 9 Nov. 1846; governor of Honduras 1830–7, of the Bahamas 1837–44; knighted by patent 8 Sep. 1841; colonel 95 foot 26 Dec. 1853 to death; general 12 Nov. 1860. d. East Cliff, Dover 24 Aug. 1868.

COCKBURN, SIR GEORGE, 8 Baronet (brother of the preceding). b. London 22 April 1772; entered navy as captain’s servant 12 March 1781; captain 20 Feb. 1794; suggested and planned capture of Washington 1813; commander-in-chief at St. Helena Oct. 1815 to June 1816; conveyed Napoleon Buonaparte from Plymouth to St. Helena in the Northumberland 8 Aug. to 16 Oct. 1815; commander-in-chief on North America and West India station 6 Dec. 1832 to Feb. 1836; admiral 10 Jany. 1837; rear admiral of the U.K. 10 Aug. 1847; admiral of the fleet 1 July 1851 to death; first naval lord of the Admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 13 July 1846; major-general of marines 5 April 1821; M.P. for Portsmouth 1818–20, for Weobley, co. Hereford 1820–6, for Plymouth 1826–32, for Ripon 1841–7; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 20 Feb. 1818; F.R.S. 21 Dec. 1820; P.C. 30 April 1827; succeeded 26 Feb. 1852. d. Leamington Spa 19 Aug. 1853. J. Allen’s Battles of the British Navy ii, 420 (1852), portrait; G.M. xl, 406–10 (1853); I.L.N. xxiii, 165, 166 (1853), portrait.

COCKBURN, HENRY THOMAS (4 son of Archibald Cockburn, a baron of Court of Exchequer in Scotland). b. in or near Edin. 26 Oct. 1779; ed. at Edin. high school and college; called to Scotch bar Dec. 1800; advocate depute 1806–10; leader with Jeffrey of the Scottish bar; solicitor general for Scotland 3 Dec. 1830 to 1834; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1831; one of lords of Court of Session as Lord Cockburn 5 Nov. 1834; a lord comr. of justiciary 14 June 1837 to death; author of Life of Lord Jeffrey 2 vols. 1852. d. Bonaly near Edin. 26 April 1854. Memorials of his time by H. T. Cockburn 1856, portrait; Journal of H. T. Cockburn 1831–44, 2 vols. 1874; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), portrait.

COCKBURN, SIR JAMES, 7 Baronet (brother of Sir Francis Cockburn 1780–1868). b. 21 March 1771; succeeded his father 26 July 1804; under sec. of state for department of war and colonies 1806–7; governor and commander-in-chief of Curaçoa 10 April 1807 to 1811; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda islands 26 April 1811 to 1 July 1819; inspector general of Royal marines; major general 22 Feb. 1831; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1847. d. Portman sq. London 26 Feb. 1852.

COCKBURN, JAMES HORSFORD. Entered navy 1 Dec. 1829; captain 7 April 1850; R.A. 6 April 1866; commander-in-chief East Indies 6 Sep. 1870 to death. d. Government house, Calcutta 10 Feb. 1872 aged 56.

COCKBURN, VERY REV. SIR WILLIAM, 9 Baronet (brother of Alexander Cockburn 1776–1852). b. 2 June 1773; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 12 wrangler 1795, B.A. 1795, M.A. 1798, B.D. and D.D. 1832; fellow of his college 1796–1806; Christian advocate to Univ. of Cam. 1803–10; dean of York 17 Oct. 1822 to death; R. of Kelston near Bath 1832 to death; succeeded his brother Sir George Cockburn 19 Aug. 1853. d. Kelston rectory 30 April 1858.

COCKBURN, SIR WILLIAM SARSFIELD ROSSITER, 6 Baronet. b. 11 June 1796; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1823; succeeded 19 March 1835. d. Downton near Kington, Herefordshire 12 April 1858.

COCKBURN-CAMPBELL, SIR ALEXANDER THOMAS, 2 Baronet. b. Madras 1803; succeeded 11 Dec. 1824; assumed additional name of Campbell by royal licence 19 July 1825; superintendent of police in Western Australia, Sep. 1857; resident magistrate of Albury 1861. d. 23 April 1871.

COCKERELL, CHARLES ROBERT (son of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, architect 1754–1827). b. London 28 April 1788; ed. at Westminster school; explored Greece, Asia Minor and Sicily 1810–11; discovered Æginetan and Phigaleian marbles 1811; surveyor to St. Paul’s cath. 1819; A.R.A. 1829, R.A. 1836; architect of Bank of England 1833; prof. of architecture, Royal academy 1840–57; one of the 8 foreign assocs. of French Instit. 1841; built the Taylor buildings at Oxford 1841–2; member of academy of St. Luke, Rome 1843; D.C.L. Ox. 20 June 1844; pres. of R.I.B.A. 1860–1, gold medallist 1848; author of Antiquities of Athens 5 parts, fo. 1830; Iconography of the West front of Wells Cathedral 1851; Illustrations of the genius of M. A. Buonarotti, fo. 1857 and other works. d. 13 Chester terrace, Regent’s Park, London 17 Sept. 1863. bur. St. Paul’s cath. 24 Sept. Sandby’s History of Royal academy ii, 199–201 (1862); G.M. xv, 785–91 (1863); I.L.N. xliii, 341, 342 (1863), portrait.

COCKERELL, FREDERICK PEPYS (2 son of the preceding). b. 87 Eaton sq. London, March 1833; ed. at Winchester and King’s coll. Lon.; pupil of Philip Hardwick, R.A. 1854–5; exhibited 54 designs at the R.A. 1854–77; designed Freemasons’ hall in Great Queen st. 1861; A.R.I.B.A. 1860, F.R.I.B.A. 30 May 1864, sec. 1871; his design for the Albert Memorial was selected by the judges, but the Queen preferred the Gothic design of Sir G. G. Scott. d. Paris 4 Nov. 1878. Builder 16 Nov. 1878 p. 1194, 23 Nov. p. 1230, 20 Dec. p. 1393 and 27 Dec. p. 1433.

COCKS, ARTHUR HERBERT (3 son of Philip James Cocks of Stepple hall, Salop 1774–1857). b. 18 April 1819; entered Bengal civil service 1837; retired on annuity fund 1863; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Ashburn place, Cromwell road, London 29 Aug. 1881.

COCKS, ROBERT. b, 1796; established music publishing business in London 1823 which became one of the largest; published many valuable theoretical works including translations of foreign authors; built and endowed 10 almshouses at Old Buckenham, Norfolk, completed Aug. 1861. d. May 1887.

COCKTON, HENRY. b. London 7 Dec. 1807; lost his money in a malting speculation at Bury St. Edmunds; author of _Valentine Vox the Ventriloquist_ 1840 published in monthly numbers; _George St. George Julian, the Prince_ 1841; Stanley Thorne 3 vols. 1841; Sylvester Sound the Somnambulist 1844; The love match 1845; The Steward 1850; The sisters, or the fatal marriage 1851; Lady Felicia 1852; Percy Effingham 3 vols. 1853. d. Bury St. Edmunds 26 June 1853. Cockton’s George St. George Julian 1841, portrait.

CODD, EDWARD. Entered navy 11 Sep. 1820; captain 1 May 1851; admiral 26 Sep. 1878. d. 23 Hanover sq. London 14 April 1887 aged 82.

CODRINGTON, CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM. b. 12 March 1805; M.P. for East Gloucs. 1834 to death. d. Dodington, Gloucs. 24 June 1864.

CODRINGTON, SIR EDWARD (youngest son of Edward Codrington of London 1732–75). b. 27 April 1770; entered navy 18 July 1783; captain 6 April 1795; captain of the Orion at Trafalgar 1805; colonel of Marines 4 Dec. 1813; commander-in chief of Mediterranean squadron 1 Nov. 1826 to April 1828 when recalled; commanded allied fleets of England, France and Russia at battle of Navarino 20 Oct. 1827; commanded Channel fleet 7 June 1831 to 24 Oct. 1831; admiral 10 Jany. 1837; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 22 Nov. 1839 to 10 Dec. 1842; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 13 Nov. 1827, declined to pay the fees which amounted to £386 7s. 2d.; G.C.M.G. 23 April 1827, resigned 1828 but reinstated by Wm. iv, 17 Aug. 1832; M.P. for Devonport 1832–39; groom in waiting in Queen’s household July 1846; F.R.S. 21 Nov. 1822. d. 110 Eaton sq. London 28 April 1851. Memoir by his daughter Lady Bourchier 2 vols. 1873, 2 portraits; J. Allen’s Battles of the British navy ii, 514, (1852), portrait.

CODRINGTON, SIR HENRY JOHN (youngest son of the preceding). b. Preston Candover, Hants. 17 Oct. 1808; ed. at Harrow; entered navy 21 Feb. 1823; captain 20 Jany. 1836; employed in the Baltic during Russian war 1854–6; admiral superintendent of Malta dockyard 1858–63; admiral 18 Oct. 1867; commander-in chief at Plymouth 1869–72; admiral of the fleet 22 Jany. 1877 to death; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840, K.C.B. 13 March 1867; his portrait is in the Painted Hall at Greenwich. d. 112 Eaton sq. London 4 Aug. 1877. Selections from the letters of Sir H. Codrington edited by his sister Lady Bourchier 1880.

CODRINGTON, SIR WILLIAM JOHN (brother of the preceding). b. 26 Nov. 1804; ensign 88 foot 22 Feb. 1821; ensign Coldstream guards 24 April 1823, captain 8 July 1836; commanded first brigade of light division in the Crimea 1 Sep. 1854; commanded the light division 30 July 1855 to 10 Nov. 1855; commander-in-chief in the Crimea 11 Nov. 1855 to 12 July 1856; col. of 54 foot 11 Aug. 1856, of 23 foot 27 Dec. 1860 and of Coldstream guards 16 March 1875 to death; M.P. for Greenwich 9 Feb. 1857 to 23 April 1859; contested Westminster, Feb. 1874 and Lewes, April 1880; governor of Gibraltar, May 1859 to Nov. 1865; general 27 July 1863, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. Danmore cottage, Hackfield near Winchfield, Hants. 6 Aug. 1884. Army and navy mag. iii, 358–60 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. xxvii, 520 (1855), portrait, xxx, 479 (1857), portrait.

CODRINGTON, SIR WILLIAM RAIMOND, 4 Baronet. b. Rennes, Brittany 25 Jany. 1806; succeeded 1816. d. Château de la Boullaye near Montfort, Brittany 7 or 17 Dec. 1873.

NOTE.—On the death of the 3rd baronet the title was assumed by the grandson of the 1st baronet on the ground that the 3rd baronet left no legitimate issue, but the Heralds’ College confirmed Sir W. R. Codrington in the baronetcy.

COEY, SIR EDWARD (son of James Coey of Larne, co. Antrim). b. Larne 1805; mayor of Belfast 1861, alderman 1861; knighted by Earl of Carlisle, lord lieut. of Ireland 1861; sheriff of Antrim 1867. d. Merville, Belfast 26 June 1887.

COFFEY, JAMES CHARLES (2 son of Edmund Coffey of co. Kerry). b. Dublin 1815; called to Irish bar, Trinity term 1843; went Munster circuit; Q.C. 13 June 1864; county court judge for Westmeath, transferred to Leitrim, transferred to Londonderry, retired 1879; edited the Monitor a whig anti-repeal paper. d. Sea Point, co. Dublin 31 July 1880.

COFFIN, SIR EDWARD PINE (youngest son of Rev. John Pine of East Down, Devon 1736–1824, who assumed name of Coffin 1797). b. East Down 20 Oct. 1784; entered commissariat service 25 July 1805; deputy commissary general 4 Aug. 1814; commissary general 1 July 1840 to 1 April 1848 when placed on h.p.; had charge of relief operations at Limerick and on west coast of Ireland during famine, Jany. to Aug. 1846; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1846; one of comrs. of inquiry into working of royal mint 1 April 1848. d. Gay st. Bath 31 July 1862.

COFFIN, HENRY EDWARD. b. 1794; entered navy 1 Oct. 1805; captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. Springfield house, Caversham near Reading 31 Aug. 1881 in 88 year.

COFFIN, SIR ISAAC CAMPBELL (eld. son of Francis Holmes Coffin, admiral R.N.) b. 1801; entered Madras army 3 June 1818; commanded Hyderabad subsidiary force 6 Nov. 1855; commanded southern division of Madras army 28 March 1859 to 28 March 1864 for which he was created K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; col. 12 Madras N.I. 23 July 1858 to 1869; L.G. 18 July 1869. d. 9 St. John’s park south, Blackheath, Kent 1 Oct. 1872.

COFFIN, JOHN TOWNSEND. b. 1789; entered navy 7 Nov. 1799; captain 26 Dec. 1822, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 26 June 1863. d. Holgate hill, York 29 April 1882.

COFFIN, RIGHT REV. ROBERT ASTON. b. Brighton 19 July 1819; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; V. of St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford 1843; received into Church of Rome 3 Dec. 1845; ordained priest at Rome 1847; superior of St. Wilfrids, Cotton hall, Staffs. 1848–9; entered novitiate of Redemptorist Fathers at St. Trond in Belgium and made his profession 2 Feb. 1852; R. of St. Mary’s, Clapham 1855; provincial 1865–82; bishop of Southwark, April 1882 to death; consecrated at Rome 11 June 1882, enthroned at St. George’s cathedral, Southwark 27 July 1882; author of The oratory of the faithful soul translated from F. L. Blosius 1848, and of translations of many of the works of St. Alphonsus de Liguori. d. house of the Redemptorists, Teignmouth 6 April 1885. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 523–6 (1885).

COFFIN, WILLIAM FOSTER. b. Bath 1808; ed. at Eton; called to Lower Canadian bar 1835; comr. of police 1840; raised and commanded Montreal field battery 1855; comr. of ordnance and admiralty lands for dominion of Canada; author of Memorial to Sir E. W. Head 1855; 1812, The war and its moral 2 vols. 1864; Three chapters on a triple project; Thoughts on defence from a Canadian point of view; Quirks of diplomacy. d. 1878.

COGAN, REV. ELIEZER (son of John Cogan of Bothwell, Northamptonshire, surgeon who d. 1784). b. Rothwell 1762; ed. at Daventry; Presbyterian minister at Cirencester 1787–9, at Walthamstow 1801–16; kept a school at Higham Hill, Walthamstow 1801–28; author of An address to the Dissenters on classical literature 1789; Reflections on the evidences of Christianity 1796; Sermons chiefly on practical subjects 2 vols. 1817; edited Moschi Idyllia tria, Grece 1795. d. Higham Hill 21 Jany. 1855. Christian Reformer xi, 237–59 (1855); Dict. of Nat. Biog. xi, 219–20 (1887).

COGHLAN, SIR WILLIAM MARCUS (son of Jeremiah Coghlan, captain R.N.) b. Plymouth 31 May 1803; ed. at Addiscombe; Second lieut. Bombay Artillery 19 Dec. 1820, colonel 28 Nov. 1854, col. commandant 8 May 1859 to death; political resident and commandant at Aden 1854–63; general 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 6 June 1864. d. Ramsgate 26 Nov. 1885.

COGSWELL, JOHN. b. March 1827; a printer and stationer at Bath to 1833; reporter on the Hastings News 1833–50; edited the Hastings Chronicle 1850, the Hastings and St. Leonards Times, the West Surrey Times 1880–3 and 1886 to death. d. 13 April 1887.

COHEN, LIONEL LOUIS (son of the succeeding). b. London 2 June 1832; foreign banker with his father under name of Louis Cohen and Sons 1852; senior partner 1882–5 when he retired; a trustee and manager of Stock Exchange 1870 to death; a founder and vice-pres. of United Synagogue; pres. of Jewish Board of Guardians 1869 to death; M.P. for North Paddington 25 Nov. 1885 to death. d. 9 Hyde park terrace, London 26 June 1887. Vanity Fair 24 April 1886, portrait.

COHEN, LOUIS (son of Joseph Cohen). b. Sep. 1799; entered the Stock Exchange, London 1819, member of its committee 15 years; warden of Great Synagogue, London 1837; member of committee of the Seven Elders; member of Board of Deputies 25 years, the main author of new constitution of the Board. d. 84 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 15 March 1882, personalty sworn £623,000, 22 April 1882. Jewish Chronicle 17 March 1882 p. 12, 24 March p. 12.

COLBORNE, NICHOLAS WILLIAM RIDLEY-COLBORNE, 1 Baron (2 son of Sir Matthew White Ridley of Blagdon, Northumberland, 2 baronet 1745–1813). b. St. Marylebone, London 14 April 1779; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1800; entered at G.I. 12 Dec. 1795 but withdrew 26 April 1809 without being called; assumed additional name of Colborne 21 June 1803; M.P. for Appleby 1807–12, for Thetford 1818–26, for Horsham 1827–32, for Wells 1834–7; created Baron Colborne of West Harding, Norfolk 15 May 1839; member of Fine Arts commission 1841, of Metropolitan improvements commission 1842. d. 19 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 3 May 1854.

COLBRAN, JOHN. b. 1809; a bookseller at Tunbridge Wells; started in 1833 the Tunbridge Wells Visitor, the first newspaper there; started the Tunbridge Wells Gazette 1851; retired 1874. d. Tunbridge Wells 20 Sep. 1884.

COLBURN, HENRY. Kept circulating library in Conduit st. London 1816; publisher in New Burlington st. 1817; partner with Richard Bentley 1830 to Aug. 1832; publisher at Windsor; publisher in Great Marlborough st. London 1853, retired in favour of Hurst and Blackett; chief publisher of novels many years; published Colburn’s Modern Standard Novelists 19 vols. 1835–41; originated New Monthly Mag. 1814; with Wm. Jerdan Literary Gazette 25 Jany. 1817, Court Journal 1828, United Service Mag. 1829. d. Bryanston sq. London 16 Aug. 1855, his copyrights were sold for £14,000, 26 May 1857. H. Curwen’s History of booksellers (1873) 279–95.

COLBY, THOMAS FREDERICK (eld. child of Thomas Colby, major R.M. who d. 1813). b. St. Margaret’s-next-Rochester 1 Sep. 1784; ed. at Northfleet school and R.M.A. Woolwich; second lieut. R.E. 2 July 1801; lost his left hand by explosion of a pistol, Dec. 1803; F.R.S. 13 April 1820; surveyed Ireland 1824–46; col. R.E. 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. (m. 1828 Elizabeth Hester 2 dau. of Archibald Boyd, treasurer of Londonderry, she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 10 Feb. 1853). d. New Brighton near Liverpool 9 Oct. 1852. J. E. Portlock’s Life of General Colby 1869; Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 132–7 (1853).

COLCHESTER, CHARLES ABBOT, 2 Baron (elder son of 1 baron Colchester 1757–1829). b. St. James’s, Westminster 12 March 1798; entered navy 8 April 1811; captain 26 Jany. 1826, placed on h.p. Jany. 1833; admiral on h.p. 11 Jany. 1864; succeeded as 2 Baron 7 May 1829; vice pres. of Board of Trade and paymaster general 28 Feb. to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; postmaster general, Feb. 1858 to June 1859. d. 34 Berkeley sq. London 18 Oct. 1867. Walford’s Photographic portraits of living celebrities 1859, portrait; I.L.N. xxxii, 312 (1858), portrait.

COLDSTREAM, JOHN (only son of Robert Coldstream of Leith, merchant). b. Leith 19 March 1806; ed. at Leith, High sch. Edin. and Univ. of Edin.; apprenticed to Dr. Charles Anderson of Leith 1823; entered Royal Medical Society 19 Nov. 1824; studied in Paris 1827–28; practised at Leith 1828–47; mem. of Wernerian Society 9 Jany. 1830; enrolled as Fellow for life of Botanical Soc. 9 Dec. 1858, date of dissolution of Wernerian Soc.; F.R.C.P. 1845; removed to Edinburgh 1847; mem. of Royal Physical Society 17 Feb. 1849, one of the presidents 4 Dec. 1850. d. Irthing house near Carlisle 17 Sept. 1863. J. H. Balfour’s Biography of the late John Coldstream (1865), portrait.

COLE, REV. ARTHUR RAGGETT. Ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1864, M.A. 1866, B.D. 1874; C. of St. Luke, Southampton 1864–68; C. in charge of Hurstbourne Priors, Hants. 1868 to death; author of A short liturgy for the school room service, 2 ed. 1870; Drawing near with faith 1872; A book of family prayers for a month 1875; edited the Etcetera, monthly mag. 1872–4. d. Hurstbourne Priors 23 Sep. 1877.

COLE, GEORGE, b. 1810; portrait painter at Portsmouth; painted a canvas show-cloth 20 feet square for Wombwell’s menagerie; studied animal painting in Holland; exhibited 16 pictures at the R.A., 35 at B.I. and 209 at Suffolk st. gallery 1838–80; member of society of British Artists 1850. d. of heart disease at 1 Kensington crescent, London 7 Sep. 1883. I.L.N. lxxxiii, 307, 309 (1883), portrait.

COLE, GEORGE WARD. b. Lumley castle, Durham 15 Nov. 1793; in the navy 1807–17 when placed on h.p.; in the merchant service 1817–39; arrived in Melbourne 4 July 1840; built Cole’s Wharf on the Yarra 1841; built the “City of Melbourne” 1851 the 1st screw steamer ever seen south of the equator, she traded between Melbourne and Launceston and was finally wrecked on King’s Island, Bass’s Straits 1853; introduced sugar-beet into Victoria from Holland 1863; member for Gipps Land of Victorian legislative council, July 1853–1855; member for the Central province of legislative council 1859 to death; an executive councillor 1867; wrote several pamphlets in support of protection. d. 26 April 1879. Men of the time in Australia, Victorian series (1878) 37–39.

COLE, SIR HENRY (son of Henry Robert Cole, captain 1 dragoon guards). b. Bath 15 July 1808; ed. at Christ’s hospital; clerk to Francis Palgrave of the Record Commission 1824–9; one of the 4 senior assistant keepers of the Records 1838–41; edited Guide newspaper 1837, Post Circular 1838; sec. of committee on penny postage 1838; edited Journal of Design March 1849 to Feb. 1852; member of Society of Arts 1846; member of executive committee of Great Exhibition 1851, 3 Jany. 1850; general adviser to Exhibition of 1862 with a fee of £1500; sec. to royal commission at Paris exhibitions 1855 and 1867; chief manager of Exhibitions in London 1871–4; sec. of School of Design 31 Oct. 1851; sec. of Department of practical art Jany. 1852 to April 1873; C.B. 25 Oct. 1851, K.C.B. 25 March 1875; published under the pseudonym of Felix Summerly, the following books, The Home Treasury. A series of children’s books. Lond. printed by J. Cundall 1843–44; Pleasure excursions to Croydon 1846; Heroic tales of ancient Greece, translated from the German of B. G. Niebuhr 1849, and the following handbooks, Westminster Abbey 1842, Picture galleries 1842, Canterbury 1843, Hampton Court 1843, National gallery 1843, Temple Church 1843; Shall we keep the Crystal palace, by Denarius 1851; edited Works of T. L. Peacock 3 vols. 1875. (m. 28 Dec. 1833 Marian Fairman 3 dau. of Wm. Andrew Bond of Ashford, Kent, she was granted a civil list pension of £150, 10 June 1882, author of The Mother’s Primer, by Mrs. Felix Summerly 1844). d. 96 Philbeach gardens, Earl’s Court, London 18 April 1882. Fifty years of public work of Sir H. Cole 2 vols. 1884, portrait; Practical Mag. vii, 321, portrait; I.L.N. xix, 487, 509 (1851), portrait, lxiii, 36, 38 (1873), portrait, lxxx, 417 (1882), portrait.

NOTE.—He originated the idea of Christmas cards, the first of which was issued by Joseph Cundall at 12 Old Bond st, 1846, the drawing was made by J. C. Horsley printed in lithography by Jobbins of Warwick court, Holborn and coloured by hand, about 1000 copies were sold of the card which was the usual size of a lady’s calling card.

COLE, HENRY THOMAS (2 son of George Cole, captain Cornwall militia). b. Bath 2 Feb. 1816; barrister M.T. 4 Nov. 1842, bencher Jany. 1867, treasurer 1883–4; became leader of Western circuit; recorder of Penzance April 1862 to April 1872; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; recorder of Plymouth and Devonport April 1872 to death; M.P. for Falmouth and Penryn 6 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880. d. 4 Glendower place, South Kensington, London 5 Jany. 1885.

COLE, HENRY WARWICK (3 son of Wm. Nicholas Cole of Islington, solicitor). b. 12 Oct. 1812; ed. at Univ. coll. London; barrister I.T. 10 June 1836, bencher 1861, reader 1873, treasurer 1874; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; judge of county courts, circuit 21 Warwickshire 11 Sep. 1872 to death; author of The law of domicile of Englishmen in France 1857; St. Augustine a poem in 8 books 1877; contributed to Quarterly Review and Fraser’s Mag. d. 23 High st. Warwick 19 June 1876.

COLE, JOHN LOWRY (3 son of 2 Earl of Enniskillen 1768–1840). b. 8 June 1813; sheriff of Fermanagh 1842. M.P. for Enniskillen 21 Feb. 1859 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. Florence court, co. Fermanagh 29 Nov. 1882.

COLE, PENNEL. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Feb. 1810, col. 20 June 1854 to 11 Aug. 1856 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 11 Aug. 1856. d. Boulogne 25 March 1862 aged 70.

COLE, WILLIAM JOHN. b. London; entered navy 5 Jany. 1802; captain on h.p. 28 June 1838; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837. d. Lechlade, Gloucs. 15 May 1856.

COLE, WILLIAM ROBERT. Barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838; went north-eastern circuit; author of Law and practice on criminal information 1843; Law and practice in ejectment 1856. d. Warrington gardens, Maida hill, London 27 Dec. 1881.

COLEBROOKE, SIR WILLIAM MACBEAN GEORGE (son of Paulette Welbore Colebrooke, lieut.-col. R.A. who d. 28 Sep. 1816). b. 1787; Second lieut. R.A. 17 Aug. 1803; served in Mahratta war 1817–8; comr. of Eastern inquiry 1823–31; lieut. governor of Bahamas 9 Sep. 1834; governor general of Leeward islands 11 Jany. 1837; knighted by Wm. iv at Windsor castle 31 March 1837; lieut. governor of New Brunswick 25 March 1841–1848; governor of British Guiana 28 April 1848; governor of Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, Tobago and St. Lucia 11 Aug. 1848 to 1856 when he retired on pension of £750; col. commandant R.A. 25 Sep. 1859 to death; general 26 Dec. 1865; K.H. 1834, C.B. 1 May 1848. d. Salthill, Bucks. 6 Feb. 1870.

COLEMAN, REV. WILLIAM HIGGINS. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; a master at Christ’s hospital, Hertford 1840–7; at Ashby-de-la-Zouch gr. sch. 1847 to death; author with Rev. H. R. Webb of Flora Hertfordiensis 1849; published in Journal of Biblical Literature, July 1863 an elaborate paper on The Eighteenth chapter of Isaiah, which was reprinted with others under title of Biblical papers, being remains of the Rev. W. H. Coleman 1864. d. Burton on Trent 12 Sep. 1863.

COLENSO, FRANCES ELLEN (2 dau. of the succeeding). b. 30 May 1849; befriended Cetywayo 1881; author with Col. Edward Durnford of History of the Zulu war 1880; The ruin of Zululand 1884. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 29 April 1887.

COLENSO, RIGHT REV. JOHN WILLIAM (son of John Wm. Colenso of Lostwithiel, mineral agent for Duchy of Cornwall, who d. 23 Dec. 1860 aged 82). b. St. Austell 24 Jany. 1814; ed. at Devonport and St. John’s coll. Cam.; second wrangler and Smith’s prizeman 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. and D.D. 1853; fellow of his college 13 March 1837 to 1846; mathematical master at Harrow 1839–42; private tutor at Cam. 1842–6; V. of Forncett St. Mary, Norfolk 1846–53; bishop of Natal 23 Nov. 1853, consecrated in St. Mary’s, Lambeth 30 Nov.; suffragan to bishop of Cape Town 6 Dec. 1853, who pronounced sentence of deposition against him 16 April 1864, he appealed to the Crown, and the judicial committee of the privy council pronounced all the legal proceedings null and void in law; publicly excommunicated at Maritzburg cathedral 5 Jany. 1866; author of The elements of Algebra designed for the use of schools 1841, and numerous other works on mathematics; Village sermons 1854; Ten weeks in Natal 1855; First steps in Zulu-Kaffir 1859 and many other works concerning, and in that language; The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua critically examined 1862–65, 5 volumes, with other editions of the whole work and of parts of it; Natal sermons, a series of discourses in the cathedral church of St. Peter’s, Maritzburg 1866; Lectures on the Pentateuch and the Moabite stone 1873; The treatment by the Natal government of Langalibalele and the Amahlubi tribe 1874. d. Pieter-Maritzburg, Natal 20 June 1883. Dict. of Nat. Biog. xi, 290–3 (1887); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 76–9, iii, 1125–7; J. F. Hurst’s History of rationalism (1867) 401–409; Churchman’s Family Mag. v, 395–408 (1865); Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia 153–4; Graphic xxvii, 652 (1883), portrait; Bookseller 30 July 1863 pp. 356–8.

NOTE.—Part i of The Pentateuch an edition of 10,000 copies excited much comment and gave rise to the publication of upwards of 130 works in which its principles were adversely criticised. Of the Bishop’s Arithmetic designed for Schools, more than 400,000 copies were sold.

COLERIDGE, REV. DERWENT (younger son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge the Poet 1772–1834). b. Greta hall, Keswick 14 Sep. 1800; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1829; master of Helston gr. sch. 1827–41; principal of St. Mark’s college, Chelsea 1841–64; preb. of St. Paul’s 28 Feb. 1846 to death; R. of Hanwell 1864–80; edited works of Hartley Coleridge, S. T. Coleridge, J. Moultrie and W. M. Praed; author of The scriptural character of the English Church 1839; Life of Hartley Coleridge 1849. d. Eldon lodge, Torquay 28 March 1883. The church of England photographic portrait gallery 1859 pt. 9, portrait; Illust. news of the world viii, (1861), portrait; Guardian 18 April 1883 p. 569.

COLERIDGE, HERBERT (only son of Henry Nelson Coleridge, chancery barrister 1798–1843). b. Hampstead 7 Oct. 1830; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Ox., Balliol scholar 1847, Newcastle scholar 1848, double first class 1852; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1854; member of Philological Soc. Feb. 1857, hon. sec. of a special committee ‘for collecting words and idioms hitherto unregistered,’ this scheme developed into J. A. H. Murray’s ‘New English dictionary’ published by Clarendon Press 1884 etc.; author of Glossarial index to the printed English literature of the thirteenth century 1859. d. 10 Chester place, London 23 April 1861. Macmillan’s Mag. v, 56 (1862).

COLERIDGE, REV. JAMES DUKE (eld. son of James Coleridge of Heath’s Court, Ottery St. Mary, Devon 1760–1836). b. 13 June 1789; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.C.L. 1821, D.C.L. 1835; V. of Kenwyn and Kea, Cornwall 1823–8; R. of Lawhitton, Cornwall 1826–39; V. of Lewannick, Cornwall 1831–41; V. of Thorverton, Devon 1839 to death; preb. of Exeter cath. 5 Aug. 1825 to death; author of A selection of family prayers 1820, 3 ed. 1831; Observations of a Parish Priest in scenes of sickness and death 1825; A companion to first lessons for the services of the Church on Sundays and the fasts and festivals 1838. d. Thorverton 26 Dec. 1857. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 79, 313, iii, 1128.

COLERIDGE, SIR JOHN TAYLOR (brother of the preceding). b. Tiverton 9 July 1790; ed. at Ottery St. Mary, Eton and C.C. coll. Ox., scholar, April 1809; took both Bachelors’ prizes for English and Latin essays 1813; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1817, hon. D.C.L. 1852; Vinerian law scholar 1812; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1812 to 7 Aug. 1818; a certificated special pleader; barrister M.T. 25 June 1819; a bankruptcy comr. 1827; recorder of Exeter, Feb. 1832; serjeant-at-law 14 Feb. 1832; a justice of Court of King’s Bench 27 Jany. 1835 to 28 June 1858; knighted at St. James’s Palace 18 Feb. 1835; member of Inns of Court commission 1834, and of Law Courts commission 1858; P.C. 5 June 1858, member of judicial committee; edited Blackstone’s Commentaries 4 vols. 1825; author of Memoir of the Rev. John Keble 1869, 4 ed. 1874. d. Heath’s Court, Devon 11 Feb. 1876. Law Mag. and law review vii, 263–84 (1859), i, 486–99 (1876); I.L.N. vi, 245 (1845), portrait, xxxiii, 142 (1858), portrait, lxviii, 190, 213 (1876), portrait.

COLERIDGE, SARA (only dau. of Samuel Taylor Coleridge the poet 1772–1834). b. Greta hall near Keswick 22 Dec. 1802; published a translation of Martin Dobrizhoffer’s Account of the Abipones 3 vols. 1822; Pretty lessons for good children 1834; Phantasmion 1837 a fairy tale; edited with her husband, S. T. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria 1847; one of the three maidens celebrated in Wordsworth’s Trias 1828. (m. 3 Sep. 1829 her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge, barrister, he was b. 25 Oct. 1798 and d. 26 Jany. 1843). d. Chester place, Regent’s park, London 3 May 1852. Memoir of Sara Coleridge edited by her daughter Edith Coleridge, 4 ed. 1874; G.M. xxxviii, 540–2 (1852).

COLES, COWPER PHIPPS (3 son of Rev. John Coles 1787–1865, R. of Silchester, Hants.) b. 9 July 1819; entered navy 15 Dec. 1831; captain on h.p. 27 Feb. 1856; C.B. 23 March 1867; carried out an elaborate series of experiments on the methods of applying armour to vessels and mounting guns, the ship ‘Captain’ was built from drawings by Coles and Messrs. Laird 1866–70; author of Our national defences 1861, 4 ed. 1862. (m. 11 March 1856 Emily 3 dau. of Henry S. Pearson, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 11 Feb. 1871, and d. 11 Jany. 1876). drowned in the Captain, off Cape Finisterre 7 Sep. 1870 when nearly all the crew perished. Journal of Royal United Service Instit. iv, 280, vii, 110, xi, 434; I.L.N. xl, 399 (1862), lvii, 307, 329, (1870), portrait.

COLES, HENRY BEAUMONT. b. London 1794; barrister G.I. 30 Jany. 1837; M.P. for Andover 29 July 1847 to 20 March 1857. d. Portman sq. London 23 Nov. 1862.

COLES, ROBERT BARTLETT. b. 1785; cornet 8 dragoons 20 Aug. 1803; major 76 foot 24 Oct. 1821 to 19 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; col. 65 foot 25 July 1857 to death; general 31 May 1865. d. Glencot, Wilts. 27 Oct. 1869.

COLES, WILLIAM COWPER. Ensign 40 foot 31 Oct. 1805; major 2 Life Guards 21 March 1829 to 20 Jany. 1832 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 9 March 1861. d. Woodcote, Salop 26 Aug. 1867 aged 77.

COLLARD, FREDERICK WILLIAM (son of Wm. Collard of Wiveliscombe, Somerset). baptized Wiveliscombe 21 June 1772; employed by Longman, Lukey and Broderip, music publishers at 26 Cheapside, London 1786; pianoforte maker with Muzio Clementi in London 1799 to 24 June 1831, with his brother W. F. Collard to 24 June 1842, with his two nephews 1842 to death; took out many patents for improvements in pianos; supplied bugles, fifes and drums to regiments of East India Co. to 1858. d. 26 Cheapside, London 31 Jany. 1860.

COLLARD, WILLIAM FREDERICK (brother of the preceding). baptized at Wiveliscombe 25 Aug. 1776; member of firm of Muzio Clementi and Co. pianoforte makers 26 Cheapside down to 24 June 1831; partner with his brother 1831–42; invented many improvements in pianos. d. Folkestone 11 Oct. 1866.

COLLEDGE, THOMAS RICHARDSON. b. 1796; pupil of Sir Astley Cooper; practised in Canton and Macao; founded Medical missionary society in China 1837, pres. 1837 to death; surgeon to consulate at Canton to May 1841 when the office was abolished; M.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1839; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1840; F.R.S. Edin. 1844; F.R.C.S. England 1853; lived at Cheltenham 1841 to death. d. Lauriston house, Cheltenham 28 Oct. 1879.

COLLEN, GEORGE WILLIAM. Portcullis pursuivant of arms 6 Nov. 1841 to death; author of Britannia Saxonica, a map of Britain 1833; Debrett’s Peerage continued 1840. d. 52 Camden sq. London 9 Jany. 1878 in 79 year.

COLLETON, SIR ROBERT AUGUSTUS FULFORD GRAVES, 8 Baronet. b. 19 Sep. 1824; succeeded 29 July 1848. d. Fermoy, Ireland 28 Oct. 1866.

COLLETTE, JOHN HICKEY. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 7 Madras light cavalry 12 Aug. 1839 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Nice 23 Oct. 1858 aged 77.

COLLEY, SIR GEORGE POMEROY POMEROY- (youngest son of Hon. George Francis Colley of Ferney, co. Dublin 1797–1879, commander R.N.) b. 1 Nov. 1835; ed. at R.M.A. Sandhurst; ensign 2 foot 28 May 1852, major 12 May 1875 to 24 April 1880 when placed on h.p.; professor at the staff college 1 July 1871 to 30 Nov. 1873; commanded the transport in Ashanti expedition, Dec. 1873 to Feb. 1874; military sec. to Viceroy of India 13 April 1876 to 12 April 1878, private sec. to him 13 April 1878 to 19 Feb. 1880; C.B. 31 March 1874; K.C.S.I. 29 July 1879; assumed additional surname of Pomeroy by r.l. 8 May 1880; author of the article Army in Encyclopædia Britannica, 9 ed., ii, 559–619 (1875); governor and commander in chief Natal 24 April 1880 to death. Shot by the Boers on Majuba hill at Laing’s Nek, North Natal 27 Feb. 1881. Army and navy mag. i, 554–61 (1881), ii, 673–89 (1881), portrait; A narrative of the Boer war by T. F. Carter 1883; T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the Empire (1879) 44–50; I.L.N. lxxiv 576 (1879), portrait, lxxviii, 224 (1881), portrait.

COLLIER, SIR EDWARD (son of Edward Collier of Blockley, Worcs.) b. Blockley 1783; entered navy, Feb. 1796; captain 18 Nov. 1814; V. A. 18 June 1857; retired on a pension 27 Nov. 1857; admiral 4 Oct. 1862; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840; K.C.B. 7 June 1865. d. Blockley 5 Aug. 1872.

COLLIER, HENRY THEODOSIUS BROWNE. b. 1791; entered navy 28 April 1800; captain on half pay 26 Dec. 1822; retired admiral 26 June 1863. d. 25 Ryder st. St. James’s, London 10 Sep. 1872.

COLLIER, JOHN PAYNE (son of John Dyer Collier of London, writer on the press 1762–1825). b. Broad st. London 11 Jany. 1789; reporter on The Times 1809–21, on the Morning Chronicle 1821–47; summoned before House of Commons 15 June 1819 for misreporting a speech of Joseph Hume, and committed to custody of the serjeant-at-arms; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1829; deputy licenser of plays; a founder of the Camden Society 1838; sec. of Royal commission on British Museum 1847–50; accused of having committed many literary frauds in connection with Shakespearian and other documents; granted civil list pension of £100, 30 Oct. 1850; author of Criticisms on the Bar, by Amicus Curiæ 1819; printed privately and anonymously The Poet’s Pilgrimage 1822; published a new ed. of Dodsley’s Old Plays 12 vols. 1825–7; Punch and Judy 1828, anon.; History of English dramatic poetry and annals of the stage 3 vols. 1831, new ed. 1879; Shakespeare’s Library 2 vols. 1843; Shakespeare’s Works 8 vols. 1844, 6 vols. 1858; Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare’s plays from the folio in the possession of J. P. C. [i.e. the Perkins folio] 1853; The works of Edmund Spenser 5 vols. 1862. d. Riverside, Maidenhead 17 Sep. 1883. bur. Bray churchyard 20 Sep. J. P. Collier’s An old man’s diary 4 parts 1871–2; Wheatley’s Notes on the life of J. P. Collier 1884; Literary Cookery 1855, anon. by E. A. Brae; Antiquarian Mag. iv, 272–5 (1883); I.L.N. lxxxiii, 309 (1883), portrait; N. E. S. A. Hamilton’s Genuineness of Collier’s Annotated Shakespeare 1860.

COLLINGS, JOHN ELIAS (son of lieut.-col. Joseph Collings). b. 11 Sep. 1821; ensign 33 foot 21 June 1839, lieut.-col. 17 Nov. 1857 to 28 Oct. 1868 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depôt 1 April 1873 to 24 Jany. 1874 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 18 Sep. 1879; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. d. Grange hill, Guernsey 10 Dec. 1886.

COLLINGS, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of John Collings of St. Peter port, Guernsey). b. St. Peter port 1781; jurat of royal court of Guernsey 1822; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838; colonel of Royal Guernsey militia to death. d. Guernsey 18 June 1854.

COLLINS, CHARLES ALLSTON (younger son of Wm. Collins the painter 1788–1847). b. Hampstead 25 Jany. 1828; practised as a painter 1848–58; contributed to Household Words; art critic to the Echo; author of A new sentimental Journey 1859; The eye-witness, seeing is believing 1860; A cruise upon wheels 2 vols. 1862; The bar sinister 2 vols. 1864; Strathcairn 2 vols. 1864; At the bar, a tale 2 vols. 1866. d. Thurloe place, Brompton, London, about midnight 9–10 April 1873. Illustrated Review v, 423–8 (1873), portrait; Graphic vii, 312, 318 (1873), portrait.

COLLINS, CHARLES JAMES. On the parliamentary staff of the Sun, Daily Telegraph and Standard; edited Comic News 1 May 1847; projected and edited the Racing Times 1861; author of Kenilworth and other burlesques; Life and adventures of Dick Diminy 1854; Sackville Chase 3 vols. 1863; Matilda the Dane, a romance of the affections 1863; The man in chains 3 vols. 1864; Singed Moths, a city romance 3 vols. 1864. d. 9 Manor terrace, Brixton, London 31 Dec. 1864.

COLLINS, EDWARD FRANCIS. b. North of Ireland 1807; came to London 1832 and became private secretary to Joseph Hume, M.P.; sub-editor of the Sun; edited the Hull Advertiser 1842–66; sub-editor of The Tablet 1868; author of A form of reciting the most holy rosary, compiled for the nuns of the convent of our Lord of Mercy at Hull 1859, anon. d. Upper Clapton near London 3 Jany. 1872.

COLLINS, FRANCES (dau. of Wm. Dunn of London, engineer). b. 1840 or 1841; author with Mortimer Collins of the novels entitled Frances 3 vols. 1874, another ed. 1880, her name is not on the original ed.; Sweet and twenty 3 vols. 1875, another ed. 1877; The village comedy 3 vols. 1878; You play me false 3 vols. 1878; author of Mortimer Collins, his letters and friendships 2 vols. 1877; A broken lily 3 vols. 1882; author with her cousin F. Percy Cotton of Mudge and her chicks by a Brother and Sister [F.P.C. and F.C.] 1880; The Woodleighs of Amscote by F. Percy Cotton and F. Collins 1881; edited with Tom Taylor Pen sketches by a Vanished Hand, from papers of M. Collins 1879; edited with Edmund Yates Thoughts in my garden by M. Collins 2 vols. 1880. (m. 4 May 1868 Mortimer Collins 1827–76). d. Pine-tree hill, Camberley, Surrey 16 March 1886, cremated at Woking cemetery 20 March.

COLLINS, HENRY POWELL. M.P. for Taunton 8 Oct. 1812 to 29 Feb. 1820; sheriff of Somerset 1827. d. Weston-super-Mare 22 Aug. 1854 aged 78.

COLLINS, JOHN (eld. son of John Collins, landlord of the Lucan Spa house near Dublin). b. Lucan, Sep. 1804; a cook in his father’s hotel; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 29 Aug. 1832 as Captain Macheath in The Beggar’s Opera, chief tenor singer there; original actor of Paul Clifford at Covent Garden 1835; first appeared Park theatre, New York 17 Aug. 1846, the best singer of Irish ballads and humorous songs in America; acted in United States 1846–64, at Adelphi theatre, London, Oct. 1864, in Australia 1866. d. Philadelphia 13 Aug. 1874. Actors by daylight ii, 153 (1839), portrait; Belgravia xvi, 443 (1872); Ireland’s New York Stage ii, 464–5 (1867).

COLLINS, MORTIMER, whose full names were Edward James Mortimer Collins (only child of Francis Collings of Kingsbridge, Devon, who d. 1839). b. Plymouth 29 June 1827; reading boy at Gilbert and Rivingtons, St. John’s sq. London 5 May to 29 June 1838; assistant in a shop in Holborn 1838; usher in Rev. Richard Harris’s school at Westbury, Wilts. 1843–5; his first poem, signed E. J. M. C. printed in Bath and Cheltenham Gazette 10 April 1844; contributed to Felix Farley’s Journal at Bristol 1847–9, Paris correspondent 1848; private tutor at Windermere 1847–8; usher at Rev. J. H. Crump’s school, Lechlade, Gloucs. Jany. to June 1849; tutor at Rothwell, Northamptonshire 1849; editor of the Lancaster Gazette, May 1850; master of a school at Launceston for 3 months in 1851; head master of lower school, Elizabeth college, Guernsey 1852–5; contributed to Dublin Univ. Mag. 1851 and to Punch 1853; started the Channel Islands Mag. 1 May 1853, 3 numbers only; opened a private school in Guernsey 1855–6; edited the Leamington Mercury 1856–7; private tutor at Carlisle 1858; edited the Plymouth Mail 1859, Nottingham Guardian 1860–1; contributed to Temple Bar 1861–7; editor of and contributed to The Owl 1864–6; joint editor of The Globe 1866; author of Windermere a poem and Sonnets, Kendal 1848; Idyls and Rhymes 1855; Summer songs 1860; Who is the heir? 3 vols. 1865; A selection from the works of Sir Walter Scott in Moxon’s Miniature Poets 1866; Sweet Anne Page 3 vols. 1868; The Ivory gate 2 vols. 1869; Letter to the Eight Hon. B. Disraeli 1869 in verse, anon.; The Vivian romance 3 vols. 1870; The Inn of strange Meetings, and other Poems 1871; The secret of long life 1871 anon., 5 ed. 1879; Marquis and Merchant 3 vols. 1871; The British birds, a communication from the Ghost of Aristophanes 1872, 2 ed. 1878; The Princess Clarice 2 vols. 1871; Two plunges for a pearl 3 vols. 1872; Squire Sylvester’s Whim 3 vols. 1873; Miranda a Midsummer madness 3 vols. 1873; Mr. Carington, a tale of love and conspiracy by Robert Turner Cotton 3 vols. 1873, pseud.; Transmigration 3 vols. 1874; Blacksmith and Scholar, and from Midnight to Midnight 3 vols. 1876; A fight with fortune, 3 vols. 1876, another ed. 1880. (m. (1) 9 May 1850 at Wargrave, Berks., Susan dau. of William Hubbard, and widow of Rev. J. H. Crump, chaplain of the Mill Hill school, Middlesex, who d. 14 Feb. 1849 aged 46, she d. 5 Aug. 1867 aged 59. m. (2) 4 May 1868 at St. Martins in the Fields, London, Frances dau. of Wm. Dunn of London, engineer, she d. 16 March 1886 aged 45). d. Nightingale hall, Richmond 28 July 1876. bur. Petersham churchyard 1 Aug. Mortimer Collins his letters and friendships, edited by Frances Collins 2 vols. 1877; Dublin Univ. Mag. xc, 340–56, 474–98, 561–93 (1877); I.L.N. lxix, 205, 206 (1876), portrait.

COLLINS, SAM, stage name of Samuel Thomas Collins Vagg (son of Samuel Vagg who d. Uxbridge 13 Feb. 1868). Comic singer at Mogul music hall, Drury lane, London where he made a great hit with the song Paddy’s Wedding; proprietor of Marylebone music hall, London and Welsh harp, Hendon; became bankrupt on his own petition 2 July 1861; sang at all the chief music halls in London and the provinces; proprietor of Lansdowne music hall, Islington green, London, afterwards known as Collins’s music hall 1862 to death. d. 10 Paradise row, Islington 25 May 1865 aged 39. Illust. Sporting news iv, 217 (1865), portrait; Era 28 May 1865 p. 10, 4 June p. 11.

COLLINS, SAMUEL (son of a hand-loom weaver). b. Hollinwood near Manchester 1 Dec. 1802; a hand-loom weaver; a follower of Henry Hunt and Wm. Cobbett; took part in the meeting at Peterloo 1819; wrote homely verses, some of them in the Lancashire dialect which were collected in a small vol. entitled Miscellaneous poems and songs of S. Collins with a biographical notice by B. Brierley 1859. d. Hale Moss, Chadderton near Manchester 8 July 1878.

COLLINS, THOMAS (2 son of Rev. Thomas Collins, V. of Farnham, Yorkshire who d. 7 May 1870 aged 89). b. 1825; ed. at Charterhouse and Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1847; barrister I.T. 4 May 1849; M.P. for Knaresborough 1851–2, 1857–65 and 12 May 1881 to death; M.P. for Boston 1868–74. d. Harrogate 26 Nov. 1884 in 59 year.

COLLINS, WILLIAM. b. Eastwood, Renfrewshire 12 Oct. 1789; elder of Tron. ch. Glasgow 1814, and chief mover in appointment of Rev. Thomas Chalmers to that ch. 1815; opened first local Sabbath sch. Glasgow 1816; publisher and bookseller; lecturer on Temperance in Scotland and England 1829–34; founder of British and Foreign Temperance Soc. London 1830; founder of 20 new churches in Glasgow 1834 etc.; joined the Free ch. movement in 1843 and aided in erecting many Free churches. d. Rothesay 2 Jany. 1853. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 165–72; Burns’s Temperance Dictionary (1864) pp. 433–43.

COLLINS, WILLIAM ANTHONY (2 son of Charles Collins of Brixworth hall, Northamptonshire). b. London 1801; ed. at Ch. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1829, bencher 1861; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861. d. Warrior sq. St. Leonard’s on Sea 30 March 1875. bur. Tonbridge, Kent.

COLLINS, REV. WILLIAM LUCAS (only son of Rev. John Collins of Axwich, Glamorgan). Educ. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; C. of Great Houghton, Northamptonshire 1835–62; R. of Cheriton, Glamorganshire 1863–7; V. of Kilsby 1867–73; R. of Lowick 1873 to death; V. of Slipton 1876 to death; hon. canon of Peterborough 1871 to death; editor of Ancient classics for English readers 1870, wrote the vols. on Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Aristophanes, Lucian, Virgil, Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Livy and Thucydides; author of The luck of Ladysmede 1860; The education question 1862; Etoniana ancient and modern 1865; The public schools by W. L. C. 1867; Montaigne in Mrs. Oliphant’s Foreign classics for English readers 1879; Butler in Knight’s Philosophical classics for English readers 1881; La Fontaine and other French fabulists in Foreign Classics 1882; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. from 1843. d. Lowick rectory 24 March 1887 aged 70. Blackwood’s Mag. cxli, 734–6 (1887).

COLLINSON, JAMES (son of Mr. Collinson of Mansfield, Notts. bookseller). b. Mansfield about 1825; ed. at Royal Academy school; exhibited a picture called ‘The charity boy’s début’ at the R.A. 1847; one of the original 7 brothers of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood; contributed a devotional poem in blank verse entitled The Child Jesus to the Pre-Raphaelite periodical The Germ 1850; lived in seclusion at Stonyhurst 1851–4; fellow of Society of British Artists. d. of pneumonia at 16 Paulet road, Camberwell, London 24 Jany. 1881. Fraser’s Mag. May 1882 pp. 568–80.

COLLINSON, REV. JOHN (son of Rev. Richard Collinson of Bristol). Educ. at Winchester and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; one of Select Preachers 1809, Bampton Lecturer 1813; R. of Gateshead 1810–40; R. of Boldon, Durham, 1840 to death; hon. canon of Durham 1844 to death; author of Analysis of Hooker’s eight books of ecclesiastical polity 1810; Life of Thuanus with account of his writings 1807; Key to the writings of the Fathers of the Christian church 1813; Observations on the history of the gospel from Solomon’s temple to first Christian century 1830; History of Reformation, from the French of A. Ruchat 1845. d. Boldon 17 Feb. 1857. G.M. ii, 492–93 (1857).

COLLINSON, SIR RICHARD (son of the preceding). b. Gateshead 7 Nov. 1811; entered navy 2 Dec. 1823; captain 23 Dec. 1842; captain of the Enterprise 14 Dec. 1849 to 6 May 1855 during the expedition to Behring strait in search of Sir John Franklin; granted good service pension 4 Dec. 1857; an elder brother of the Trinity House 1862, deputy master 7 Sep. 1875 to death; V.A. 17 March 1869; retired admiral 30 July 1875; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 29 May 1875; F.R.G.S. gold medallist 1848; edited for the Hakluyt Society The three voyages of Martin Frobisher in search of a passage to Cathaia and India by the Northwest 1867. d. Haven Green, Ealing 12 Sep. 1883. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v, 606–9, 734 (1883); I.L.N. xxvi, 472 (1855), portrait, lxxxiii, 309 (1883), portrait.

COLLIS, REV. JOHN DAY (eld. son of Rev. Robert Fitzgerald Collis 1790–1863, preb. of Kilconnel, co. Galway). b. 24 Feb. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Worcester coll. Ox., Eaton scholar 1835, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841, B.D. and D.D. 1860; Kennicott Hebrew scholar 1839; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1841; fellow of his college; head master of Bromsgrove gr. school Dec. 1842–1867, tercentenary of the school was celebrated 31 March 1853, the chapel was built at cost of £1500, 1856; hon. canon of Worcester 1854 to death; Grinfield lecturer on Septuagint in Univ. of Ox. 1863–65; V. of Stratford-on-Avon 1867 to death; founded Trinity college school at Stratford-on-Avon 27 Jany. 1872; author of The chief rules of Greek accentuation 1849 and other Greek school books; The chief tenses of Latin irregular verbs 1854 and other Latin school books; Historical notes on the church of St. John the Baptist, Bromsgrove 1859; Ponticulus Latinus, History of Rome to destruction of Carthage 1860. d. Shottery hall, Stratford-on-Avon 1 April 1879. bur. Bromsgrove cemetery 4 April.

COLLIS, MAURICE HENRY (brother of the preceding). b. 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1847, M.B. 1849, M.D. 1867, L.R.C.S.I. 1847, F.R.C.S.I. 1850; surgeon to Meath Hosp. 1851 to death; pres. of council of Irish Medical Assoc.; author of On the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and the tumours analogous to it 1864. d. Dublin 28 March 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 404–5 (1869).

COLLS, REV. JOHN FLOWERDEW. b. 15 Aug. 1801; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Trin. coll. Cam., B.D. 1834, D.D. 1842; R. of Laindon, Herts. 1853 to death; author of Vindication of infant baptism 1829; Utilitarianism unmasked 1844. d. 9 Hanover st. Hanover square, London 19 Nov. 1878.

COLLYER, JOHN (eld. child of the succeeding). b. 15 July 1801; ed. at Charterhouse and Clare coll. Cam., fellow, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1827; commissary of Norwich 1842; judge of county courts, circuit 35, Cambridgeshire, March 1847 to death; author of A practical treatise on the law of Partnership 1832, 2 ed. 1840; Reports of cases decided in the court of Chancery by Sir J. L. Knight Bruce 1844–6, 2 vols. 1845–7; author with Edward Younge of Reports of cases in the court of Exchequer in Equity 1833–41, 4 vols. 1836–46; Reports of cases decided in the court of Chancery by Sir J. L. Knight Bruce 1841–4, 2 vols. 1843–4. d. Hackford hall, Reepham, Norfolk 1 Sep. 1870.

COLLYER, VENERABLE JOHN BEDINGFELD (2 son of Rev. Daniel Collyer of Wroxham hall, Norfolk). b. 26 Jany. 1777; ed. at Clare coll. Camb., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1808; V. of Wroxham, Norfolk 1801 to death; archdeacon of Norwich 23 Sep. 1844 to death; author of Charges and Sermons 1838–56. d. Hackford hall, Norfolk 29 March 1857.

COLLYER, REV. WILLIAM BENGO (son of Thomas Collyer of Deptford, builder). b. Deptford 14 April 1782; ed. at the Old college, Homerton; Congregational minister at Peckham 1800 to death, his chapel was rebuilt and reopened under name of Hanover chapel 1816; ordained Dec. 1801, D.D. Edin. 1808; minister at Salter’s hall chapel, Islington 1813 to death; author of Fugitive pieces for the use of schools 1803; Hymns designed as a substitute for Dr. Watts 1812; Services suited to the solemnisation of matrimony with original hymns 1837, and several series of popular lectures on scripture subjects. d. May 1854. European Mag. lxxii, 407–10 (1817), portrait; Waddington’s Congregational history iv, 136–42 (1878); The Unique, vol. 2 (1825), portrait; Some of Dr. Collyer’s errors stated and corrected 1821.

COLNAGHI, DOMINIC PAUL (eld. son of Paul Colnaghi of London, print dealer 1751–1833). b. London 15 July 1790; head of the firm of Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, print dealers 14 Pall Mall East 1833; had a European reputation as an authority on prints; a connoiseur in ancient armour, original possessor of a large portion of the Meyrick collection; retired from business 1865; published Colnaghi’s Patriotic fund almanac 1854; Colnaghi’s Crimean almanac 1855. d. 62 Margaret st. Cavendish sq. London 19 Dec. 1879.

COLOMB, GEORGE THOMAS. Ensign 96 foot 8 Dec. 1808; captain 5 dragoon guards 17 March 1825 to 27 April 1827 when placed on h.p.; col. 4 West India regiment 24 April 1866 to 3 March 1869; L.G. 31 March 1866; col. 97 foot 3 March 1869 to death. d. Dalkey, co. Dublin 20 March 1874.

COLONSAY, DUNCAN M’NEILL, 1 Baron (2 son of John Mc. Neill of Colonsay, Argyllshire, who d. 1846). b. Colonsay 20 Aug. 1793; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; called to Scottish bar 1816; advocate depute 1820–4; sheriff of Perthshire, Dec. 1824 to Dec. 1834; solicitor general for Scotland Nov. 1834 to April 1835 and Sep. 1841 to 26 Oct. 1842; Her Majesty’s advocate for Scotland 26 Oct. 1842 to July 1846; dean of faculty of advocates 1843–51; a lord of session 15 May 1851; a lord of justiciary 30 May 1851; lord justice general and pres. of court of session 15 May 1852 to Feb. 1867; P.C. 8 Aug. 1853; M.P. for Argyllshire 1843–51; created baron Colonsay of Colonsay and Oransay in the co. of Argyle 26 Feb. 1867. d. Pau, France 31 Jany. 1874.

COLQUHOUN, FRANCES SARA (dau. of Edward Fuller Maitland of Park place, Stansted hall, Essex). Completed Henry Kirke White’s fragment beginning ‘Much in sorrow, oft in woe’ which completion has been universally accepted for use in the Church of England; author of Rhymes and Chimes 1876. (m. 29 Jany. 1834 John Colquhoun 1805–85). d. 27 May 1877.

COLQUHOUN, SIR JAMES, 4 Baronet. b. Edinburgh 7 Feb. 1804; ed. at Geneva; succeeded 3 Feb. 1836; lord lieutenant of Dumbartonshire 1837; M.P. for Dumbartonshire 1837–1841. Drowned in Loch Lomond 18 Dec. 1873.

COLQUHOUN, JAMES NISBET. b. parish of St. Pierre, Guernsey 23 June 1791; Second lieut. R.A. 1 June 1808, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846 to death; inspector of carriage department at Woolwich 1845; raised, organized, equipped and commanded corps of artillery attached to British auxiliary legion under De Lacy Evans for service of Queen of Spain in war against Don Carlos 1835–6; A.I.C.E. 1843, member of council 1846; F.R.S. d. Woolwich barracks 17 Sep. 1853. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii, 149–56 (1854).

COLQUHOUN, JOHN (brother of Sir James Colquhoun, 4 baronet 1804–73). b. Charlotte sq. Edin. 6 March 1805; ensign 33 foot 1828; lieut. 4 dragoon guards 1829 to 1834 when he sold out; author of The moor and the loch 1840, 6 ed. 1884; Rocks and Rivers 1849; Salmon casts and stray shots 1858; Sporting Days 1866, and of 2 lectures, The feræ naturæ of the British islands 1873, Instinct and Reason 1874. d. Royal Terrace, Edinburgh 27 May 1885. The moor and the loch, 6 ed. 1884; The Chiefs of Colquhoun by W. Fraser, 2 vols. privately printed Edin. 1869.

COLQUHOUN, JOHN CAMPBELL (5 son of Sir James Colquhoun, 2 Baronet). b. Edinburgh 31 Jany. 1785; studied at Göttingen; called to bar in Scotland 7 June 1806; sheriff depute of Dumbartonshire 1815–84; author of Isis Revelata, an inquiry into the origin, progress and present state of animal magnetism 1836 and of a translation of Wienholt’s Seven lectures on Somnambulism 1845. d. Edinburgh 21 Aug. 1854.

COLQUHOUN, JOHN CAMPBELL (eld. son of Archibald Campbell, lord registrar of Scotland, who took name of Colquhoun and d. 1820). b. Edinburgh 23 Jany. 1803; ed. at Edin. high sch. and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1823; M.P. for Dumbartonshire 1832–4, for Kilmarnock 1837–41, for Newcastle under Lyme 1842–7; author of Short sketches of some notable lives 1855; Life in Italy and France in the olden times 1858; William Wilberforce his friends and his times 1866, 2 ed. 1867; Memorials of H. M. Colquhoun 1870, and numerous other works. d. Chesham st. London 17 April 1870.

COLQUHOUN, SIR ROBERT GILMOUR (eld. son of Robert Colquhoun of Camstroden, Dumbarton). b. Glasgow 9 Jany. 1803; ed. at Pemb. coll. Ox.; British consul at Bucharest 17 Nov. 1834, consul general there 15 Dec. 1837, agent and consul general 18 Nov. 1851; consul general and agent in Egypt 13 Dec. 1858 to 14 Aug. 1865; C.B. 5 Dec. 1859, K.C.B. 30 May 1865. d. Fincastle, Perthshire 10 Nov. 1870.

COLT, REV. SIR EDWARD HENRY VAUGHAN, 6 Baronet. b. Lescroft, Staffs. April 1808; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1836; V. of Hill, Gloucs. 1839 to death; succeeded 9 June 1849. d. Hill vicarage 15 Oct. 1882.

COLTHURST, SIR GEORGE CONWAY, 5 Baronet. b. 1824; ed. at Harrow; succeeded 22 June 1829; M.P. for Kinsale 8 June 1863 to Jany. 1874. d. Buxton 24 Sep. 1878.

COLVILE, CHARLES ROBERT (eld. son of Sir Charles Henry Colvile of Duffield hall, Derbyshire, who d. 28 Sep. 1833). b. London 30 March 1815; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for South Derbyshire 1841–59 and 1865–8; sheriff of Derbyshire 1874. d. Lullington hall, Burton-on-Trent 10 March 1886.

COLVILE, REV. FREDERICK LEIGH (eld. son of Frederick Charles Colvile of Marylebone, London). Educ. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; V. of Leek Wootton near Warwick 1842–80; chaplain of Stoneleigh abbey 1853–80; rural dean of Coventry 1856–80; author of Catechism on the liturgy of the Church of England, 9 ed. 1850; Stoneleigh Abbey from its foundation by F. L. C., privately printed 1850; Worthies of Warwickshire 1870. d. Kempsey, Bournemouth 28 March 1886.

COLVILE, HENRY ROBERT (4 son of Robert Colvile of Newton hall, Cambs. 1763–99). b. 1795; ed. at Eton; ensign 3 foot guards 29 Dec. 1813, lieut.-col. 25 March 1852 to Feb. 1854; col. 12 foot 29 Oct. 1864 to death; general 27 March 1868. d. Kempsey hall near Worcester 1 Nov. 1875.

COLVILE, SIR JAMES WILLIAM (eld. son of Andrew Wedderburn, afterwards Colvile, of Crombie, Fifeshire, who d. 1856). b. London 12 Jany. 1810; ed. at Eton and Trin coll. Cam., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1835, bencher; advocate general at Calcutta 1845–8; puisne judge of supreme court of Bengal 1848–55, chief justice 1855–9; knighted by patent 9 Dec. 1848; P.C. 6 July 1859; assessor of judicial committee of privy council on Indian appeals 1859; member of judicial committee 20 Nov. 1865 to Nov. 1871, one of the 4 paid judges Nov. 1871 to death; pres. of Asiatic Society of Calcutta; F.R.S. 29 April 1875. d. 8 Rutland gate, London 6 Dec. 1880. bur. Craigflower near Dunfermline 11 Dec. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv, page x (1883); Graphic iv, 531 (1871), portrait.

COLVIN, JOHN. Lieut. col. Bengal Engineers 20 April 1835; C.B. 2 July 1838; retired col. Bengal army 4 Sep. 1839. d. Lintwardine, Herefordshire 27 April 1871.

COLVIN, JOHN RUSSELL (2 son of James Colvin of London and Calcutta, merchant). b. Calcutta May 1807; ed. at St. Andrew’s, Fifeshire and Haileybury; went to Bengal 1826; assistant to Registrar of the Sudder Court 1826, to Resident at Hyderabad 14 Dec. 1827; assistant sec. in Revenue and Judicial department at Calcutta 4 Jany. 1831; Sec. to Board of Revenue in Lower Provinces 13 March 1835; private sec. to Lord Auckland the Governor General 1836–42; resident in Nepaul 1845; commissioner of Tenasserim provinces 1846; judge of Sudder Court at Calcutta 1849; lieut. governor of north western provinces 1853. d. Agra 9 Sep. 1857. G.M. iv, 212–19 (1858).

COMBE, BOYCE (2 son of Harvey Christian Combe of Cobham park, Surrey 1752–1818). b. London 1789; ed. at Harrow; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1813, bencher; magistrate at Thames police court 1833, at Lambeth St. near Whitechapel 1838, at Hatton garden 1839, at Clerkenwell 1842, at Southwark 1851 to death. d. 43 Upper Seymour st. Portman sq. London 7 Jany. 1864. I.L.N. x, 332 (1847), portrait.

COMBE, GEORGE (son of George Combe of Edinburgh, brewer, who d. 29 Sep. 1815 in 60 year.) b. Livingston’s yards, Edin. 21 Oct. 1788; studied at Univ. of Edin. 1802–4; admitted a writer to the signet 31 Jany. 1812, practised in Edin 1812–36; a founder of Phrenological Society, Feb. 1820; delivered 158 lectures on phrenology and education in United States 1838–40; author of Elements of phrenology 1824, 8 ed. 1855; Outlines of phrenology 1824, 9 ed. 1854; The constitution of man considered in relation to external objects 1828, 9 ed. 1860; Notes on the United States 3 vols. 1841, and numerous other works. d. Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey 14 Aug. 1858. bur. in the Dean cemetery, Edin. The life of George Combe by Charles Gibbon 2 vols. 1878, portrait; Charles Mackay’s Forty years recollections (1877) ii, 241–70; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 265–77; R. Capen’s Reminiscences of Spurzheim and Combe 1881; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 161–6, portrait.

COMBE, RICHARD THOMAS (2 son of John Maddison of Alvingham, Lincs, who d. 1849). b. 1813; ed. at Winchester and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1835; barrister M.T. 1840; assumed name of Combe in lieu of Maddison by royal license 18 Dec. 1849; chairman of Ilminster bench of magistrates; recorder of Langport; sheriff of Somerset 1867. Shot himself 8 May 1880.

COMBE, THOMAS (son of Thomas Combe of Leicester, bookseller). b. June 1796; assistant to Joseph Parker of Oxford bookseller to 1823, to M. A. Nattali of London 1823–7; partner with his father 1827; senior partner in University press, Oxford; manager of classical side of Clarendon press, Ox.; architypographer to Univ. of Ox.; managing partner of the Bible press, Ox.; built and endowed church of St. Barnabas’s, Jericho, Oxford 1869; built chapel attached to Radcliffe infirmary, Ox.; owner of Holman Hunt’s picture ‘The light of the world’ which his widow gave to Keble college, Ox. d. The Clarendon press, Oxford 29 Oct. 1872.

COMBERMERE, STAPLETON COTTON, 1 Viscount (2 son of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5 baronet, who d. 24 Aug. 1809). b. Llewenny hall, co. Denbigh 14 Nov. 1773; ed. at Westminster; 2 lieut. 23 foot 26 Feb. 1790; lieut.-col. 25 light dragoons 9 March 1794 to 14 Feb. 1800; lieut.-col. 16 light dragoons 14 Feb. 1800 to 27 Jany. 1813; succeeded 24 Aug. 1809; M.P. for Newark 1806–1814; commanded a brigade of cavalry in Portugal 1808; commanded whole allied cavalry under Duke of Wellington 1810–14; col. 20 light dragoons 27 Jany. 1813–1819 when regiment was disbanded; created Baron Combermere of Combermere Abbey 17 May 1814 for his brilliant services during Peninsula war, with an annuity of £2000 for two generations; commanded allied cavalry in France 1815–16, the forces in West Indies 21 Dec. 1816 to 9 Feb. 1821; governor of Barbados 14 Feb. 1817 to 2 March 1821; commander in chief in Ireland 1822–5; col. 3 light dragoons 25 Jan. 1821 to 16 Sep. 1829; governor of Sheerness 25 Jany. 1821 to 11 Oct. 1852; commander in chief in India 9 Feb. 1825 to 1 Jany. 1830, captured city of Bhurtpoor, Hindostan 18 Jany. 1826; created Viscount Combermere 2 Dec. 1826; col. 1 life guards 16 Sep. 1829 to death; P.C. 15 Dec. 1834; constable of Tower of London 11 Oct. 1852 to death, sworn in 21 Feb. 1853; field marshal 2 Oct. 1855; G.C.B. 21 Aug. 1813, G.C.H. 24 July 1817, K.S.I. 19 Aug. 1861; portrait in National portrait gallery. d. Clifton 21 Feb. 1865. bur. Wrenbury ch. where is a monument; statue by Marochetti at Chester castle. Memoirs 2 vols. 1866, 2 portraits; Army and navy mag. iii, 481–5 (1882), portrait.

COMER, JOHN. Popular singer at concerts in Bath 1821; sang in principal cities in Italy 1830–5; Mus. Doc. Bologna 1832; principal bass singer in Italian opera at Her Majesty’s theatre, London 1835; lived at Taunton from 1836 to death; leader of the Taunton Madrigal Soc. many years. d. Ilchester 17 March 1886 aged 86.

COMER, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). b. Bath 19 Dec. 1790; first appeared on stage at Bath theatre 1803 as Don Cæsar in The castle of Andalusia; first appeared in London 1816 as the Officer in The Slave; went to United States 1827; director of music at Tremont theatre, Boston 1828 and at other houses there. d. Bromfield house, Boston 27 July 1862. Ireland’s New York Stage i, 224, 556 (1866).

COMPTON, HENRY, stage name of Charles Mackenzie (6 child of John Mackenzie of Huntingdon). b. Huntingdon 22 March 1805; clerk in office of Mr. Symonds of Aldermanbury, London, cloth merchant; acted on the Bedford, Lincoln and York circuits 1826–37; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre 24 July 1837 as Robin in The Waterman; played at Drury Lane 1837–8, 1839 and 1843–4, at Lyceum 1838–9, at Princess’s 1844–7, at Olympic 1847–50 and 1850–3, at Strand 1849–50, at Haymarket 1853–70, at Globe 1871, at Lyceum 1874; went on a tour with the Vezin-Chippendale company; last appeared at Prince of Wales’s theatre, Liverpool 14 July 1877; the best Shakespearean clown of his time. d. 12 Stanford road, Victoria road, Kensington 15 Sep. 1877. Memoir of H. Compton edited by C. and E. Compton 1879, portrait; Actors by daylight i, 289 (1838), portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book, part 11, portrait as Launce; The Players ii, 25 (1860), portrait; Theatrical times ii, 1 (1847), portrait.

COMPTON, HENRY COMBE. b. 6 Jany. 1789; ed. at Eton and Merton coll. Ox; M.P. for South Hants. 1835–57. d. Minstead manor house, Lyndhurst, Hants. 27 Nov. 1866.

COMYN, SIR ROBERT BUCKLEY (3 son of Rev. Thomas Comyn, V. of Tottenham, Middlesex who d. 16 Feb. 1798). b. Tottenham 26 June 1792; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; commoner of St. John’s coll. Ox. 1809; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1815, D.C.L. 1842; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1814; puisne judge of supreme court of Madras 19 Aug. 1825, chief justice 31 Dec. 1835 to Jany. 1842 when he resigned; knighted at Carlton house 9 Feb. 1825; bencher of M.T. 1844; author of Treatise on law of Usury 1817; Treatise on the law of landlord and tenant 1830; History of Western Europe from the birth of Charlemagne to the accession of Charles v, 1841. d. 9 New st. Spring gardens, London 23 May 1853.

CONDER, JOSIAH (4 son of Thomas Conder of London, engraver, who d. June 1831 aged 84). b. Falcon st. Aldersgate, London 17 Sep. 1789; lost his right eye by small pox 1795; assisted his father in a bookselling business at 30 Bucklersbury 1802–11, carried on the business alone 1811–19; edited Eclectic Review 1814–37; edited Patriot newspaper, Jany. 1833 to death; edited Modern Traveller 30 vols. 1825–9; author of Gloria in excelsis Deo, a poem 1812; The law of the Sabbath 1830, 2 ed. 1852; Italy 3 vols. 1831; A dictionary of geography 1834; An analytical view of all religions 1838. d. 28 Belsize road, St. John’s Wood, London 27 Dec. 1855. Josiah Conder, a memoir by E. R. Conder 1857.

CONDY, NICHOLAS. b. Torpoint, Cornwall 1793; ensign 43 foot 9 May 1811, lieut. 24 Feb. 1813 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; a painter at Plymouth; chiefly produced small water-colours on tinted paper about 8 inches by 5, which he sold at prices ranging from fifteen shillings to one guinea each; exhibited 2 landscapes at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. gallery 1830–45; published Cotehele on the banks of the Tamar with a descriptive account by the Rev. F. V. J. Arundell, 17 plates. d. 10 Mount Pleasant terrace, Plymouth 8 Jany. 1857 aged 64.

CONDY, NICHOLAS MATTHEWS (son of the preceding). b. Union st. Plymouth 1818; a painter at Plymouth; exhibited three sea pieces at R.A. 1842–5, which gave hopes of his becoming a distinguished artist. d. The Grove, Plymouth 20 May 1851. Reminiscences of a yachting cruise by Mrs. N. M. Condy with drawings by T. G. Dutton from sketches by N. M. Condy 1852, portrait.

CONGLETON, JOHN VESEY PARNELL, 2 Baron (eld. son of 1 Baron Congleton 1776–1842). b. Baker st. London 16 June 1805; ed. at Edin.; received a commission in the army which he never took up; became acquainted with A. N. Groves in Dublin 1827, conveyed him to Russia in the yacht The Osprey 1829; took a room in Aungier st. Dublin for The Brethren 1829; travelled in the East 1830–4 and in India 1834–7; resided at Teignmouth where he lived with great simplicity, preached to The Brethren congregations and spent nearly all his capital in good works 1837–42; succeeded 8 June 1842; resided at Islington 1842–6, at Brighton 1846–9, in London 1849 to death; minister in the Orchard st. chapel, London 1849–60, in the Welbeck st. chapel 1860 to death; gave one half his income in charity; author of The resurrection life, a tract 1845, 13 editions; The true idea of Baptism 1850; The Psalms, a new version 1860, another ed. 1875, and of many tracts. d. 53 Great Cumberland place, London 23 Oct. 1883. bur. Kensal Green cemetery where upwards of 1000 Plymouth Brethren attended. Memoir of Lord Congleton by H. Groves 1884, portrait.

CONGREVE, GEORGE. Ensign 29 foot 8 April 1825, lieut.-col. 11 Feb. 1846 to 29 Sep. 1859 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 24 May 1847; quartermaster general East Indies 28 Nov. 1854 to 1860; M.G. 20 July 1860. d. Simla 30 April 1861.

CONGREVE, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, 3 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Wm. Congreve 2 baronet 1772–1828). b. 1827; succeeded 16 May 1828; last heard of in 1860 when he was in Sydney and proposed going to Omaha in Fiji islands; advertised for in The Times 17 Feb. 1882 p. 1 col. 2. Sir James Hannen judge of the Court of Probate directed letters of administration to issue 30 Nov. 1882, presuming that his death took place 14 Feb. 1860 when he wrote his last letter home.

CONINGHAM, HENRY. Entered Madras army 1819; col. 7 Madras light cavalry 24 Oct. 1858 to death; L.G. 6 Nov. 1866. d. Nice 21 April 1868 aged 70.

CONINGHAM, WILLIAM (son of Rev. Robert Coningham of Londonderry). b. Rose hill near Penzance 1815; cornet 1 dragoons 1834–6; contested Brighton, July 1847 and Westminster, July 1852; M.P. for Brighton 28 March 1857 to Jany. 1864; published Twelve letters by John Sterling [to William Coningham] 1851, 3 ed. [1872]; Lord Palmerston and Prince Albert.... Letters by W. Coningham, together with “The suppressed pamphlet,” entitled “Palmerston, what has he done?” by “One of the people” 1854, and other books. d. 6 Lewes crescent, Kemp Town, Brighton 20 Dec. 1884.

CONINGTON, FRANCIS THIRKILL (3 son of Rev. Richard Conington, Minister of chapel of ease, Boston, Lincs. who d. 25 Sep. 1861 aged 65). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 12 June 1846 aged 18; fellow of his coll. 1849 to death; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; examiner in science in Univ. of Ox. 1860–1; author of Handbook of chemical analysis 1858; contributed to periodicals 1860 to death. d. Boston 20 Nov. 1863 aged 35.

CONINGTON, JOHN (brother of the preceding). b. Boston 10 Aug. 1825; ed. at Beverley gr. sch., Rugby and Magd. coll. Ox., demy, June 1843; Hertford and Ireland scholar 1844; scholar of Univ. coll. March 1846, fellow May 1847 to 1855; sec. of Union Society 1845, pres. 1846, librarian 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; Eldon law scholar for 6 months 1849; student at L.I. June 1849 but not called to bar; contributed to Morning Chronicle 1849–50; Corpus professor of Latin in Univ. of Ox. June 1854 to death; published The Agamemnon of Æschylus translated into English verse 1848; On the academical study of Latin 1855; The works of Virgil with a commentary 3 vols. 1858–70; The odes and carmen seculare of Horace translated into English verse 1863, 4 ed. 1870; The Æneid of Virgil translated into English verse 1866, 3 ed. 1870. d. Boston 23 Oct. 1869. bur. Fishtoft churchyard 26 Oct. Miscellaneous writings of John Conington edited by J. A. Symonds with a memoir by H. J. S. Smith 2 vols. 1872; Memoirs of Mark Pattison (1885) 245–52.

CONNELL, ARTHUR (eld. son of Sir John Connell, judge of the admiralty court of Scotland). b. Edinburgh 30 Nov. 1794; ed. at High sch. and Univ. of Edin.; Snell exhibitioner at Univ. of Glasgow; matric. from Balliol coll. Ox. 20 March 1812; passed advocate at Scotch bar 1817 but never practised; professor of chemistry in Univ. of St. Andrews 1840–56; F.R.S. Edin. 1829, F.R.S. 1855; established several new mineral species; author of A treatise on the election laws in Scotland 1827, many papers in Trans. of Royal Soc. of Edin. and in Edin. Philos. Journal. d. St. Andrew’s, Fife 31 Oct. 1863.

CONNELLAN, OWEN. b. co. Sligo 1800; employed as a scribe in Royal Irish academy more than 20 years; Irish historiographer to George iv and William iv 1821–37; professor of Irish in Queen’s college, Cork 1849 to death; author of The gospel according to St. John, in Irish with an English translation 1830; A Dissertation on Irish grammar 1834; The annals of Ireland translated from the original Irish of the Four Masters 1846; The proceedings of the Great Bardic Institution 1854 being vol. 5 of Transactions of Ossianic Society. d. Dublin 1869.

CONNELLAN, THADDEUS. Author of The two first books of the Pentateuch, the types cut from Irish MSS. 1820; The Irish-English guide to the Irish language 1824; The King’s Letter translated into Irish 1825; The Irish-English spelling book 1825; The Irish-English primer 1825; Easy lessons on money matters, commerce, trade, wages etc. 1835; Psalma Daibi 1836; The Gospel of St. Matthew in Irish 1840; The Acts of the Apostles in Irish 1840. d. Sligo 25 July 1854.

CONNOLLY, WILLIAM HALLETT. Second lieut. R.M. 8 May 1795, lieut.-col. 16 April 1832, col. commandant of Woolwich division 10 July 1837 to 1842 when he retired on full pay; general 20 June 1855. d. King’s terrace, Southsea 20 June 1861 aged 79.

CONNOP, RICHARD. Ensign 93 foot 30 Dec. 1813, captain 25 Sep. 1817 to 19 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 31 March 1866. d. Dawlish 5 Feb. 1867 aged 75.

CONNOR, VERY REV. GEORGE HENRY (eld. son of George Connor, master in chancery in Ireland). b. 21 Dec. 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1851; M.A. at Ox. 1859; V. of Newport, Isle of Wight 1852–82; hon. chaplain to the Queen 11 Oct. 1872, chaplain in ord. 8 Feb. 1875, resident chaplain in ord. 2 Nov. 1882 to death; dean of Windsor 30 Oct. 1882, installed 10 Nov. 1882. d. The deanery, Windsor castle 1 May 1883. Church portrait journal i, 93 (1880), portrait; Graphic xxvi, 412 (1882), portrait.

CONNOR, SKEFFINGTON. b. Dublin 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1828, LL.B. and LLD. 1845; called to Irish bar 1838; called to Canadian bar at Toronto 1842; bencher of Canadian law society 1850, Q.C. 1850; represented South Oxford in legislative assembly 1856–63; solicitor general for Upper Canada 1858; puisne judge of Court of Queen’s Bench, Upper Canada 1 Feb. 1863. d. Toronto 29 April 1863.

CONOLLY, HENRY VALENTINE (son of Valentine Conolly of 37 Portland place, London, who d. 2 Dec. 1819). b. 5 Dec. 1806; ed. at Rugby; a writer in Madras civil service 19 May 1824; collector and magistrate in Malabar 1841 to death; murdered by some Mopla fanatics in his house at Calicut 11 Sep. 1855; there is a monument to him in the cathedral Madras, and a scholarship was founded in his memory at the Madras University.

CONOLLY, JAMES. b. 19 Feb. 1818; cornet 5 dragoon guards 17 June 1836; deputy adjutant general Canada 6 Dec. 1861 to 20 May 1865; assistant quartermaster general at Aldershot 7 Nov. 1867 to 31 Aug. 1869; military attaché at Vienna 1869–71, at Paris 5 April 1871 to 30 Dec. 1880; L.G. 26 Dec. 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 19 Feb. 1885; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Wiesbaden 22 June 1885.

CONOLLY, JOHN (son of Mr. Conolly of Market Rasen, Lincs. who d. 1799). b. Market Rasen 27 May 1794; ensign in Cambridgeshire militia 1812–16; studied at Univ. of Edin. 1817–21, M.D. 1821; physician at Chichester 1822–23, at Stratford-on-Avon 1823–7; professor of practice of medicine in Univ. coll. London 1828–30; practised at Warwick 1830–8; resident phys. to Middlesex county asylum at Hanwell 1 June 1839 to 1844, where he entirely abolished restraint; kept a private asylum at Lawn house near Hanwell 1852 to death; an original member of British medical Assoc. 1832, of Ethnological Soc. 1843; author of The construction and government of lunatic asylums 1847; The treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints 1856; A study of Hamlet 1863. d. Lawn House near Hanwell 5 March 1866. Sir James Clark’s Memoir of J. Conolly 1869; Medical Circular ii, 469–70 (1853), portrait; I.L.N. xlviii, 317 (1866), portrait.

CONOLLY, THOMAS. b. Kilcooly abbey, Tipperary 23 Feb. 1823; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Donegal 1848; M.P. for Donegal 20 Feb. 1849 to death. d. Castletown house, Celbridge, Kildare 10 Aug. 1876.

CONQUEST, BENJAMIN OLIVER, stage name of Benjamin Oliver. b. near St. Michael’s church, Cornhill, London 1805; first appeared on the stage as a witch in Macbeth at Lyceum theatre; acted at Pavilion theatre 1827; sang song of Billy Barlow 4 times every night for 28 weeks; projected and opened with Wyman and Freer the Garrick theatre, Whitechapel 1830, proprietor of it with Gomersal to 4 Nov. 1846 when it was burned down; landlord of “The Hampshire Hog” tavern 410 Strand, London 1847–51; lessee of Grecian theatre, City road, London at rent of £1300, 4 March 1851 to death. d. New north road, London 5 July 1872. Actors by daylight i, 337 (1839) portrait.

CONQUEST, JOHN TRICKER. b. Chatham, Kent 1789; assistant surgeon military depot, Chatham 1808; studied at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1813; L.C.P. London, Dec. 1819; gave 4 courses of lectures on midwifery yearly at his house 4 Aldermanbury Postern, London about 1820–4; lecturer on midwifery at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1825; noted for his operation of tapping for hydrocephalus; author of Outlines of midwifery 1820, 6 ed. 1854; The Holy Bible with twenty thousand emendations 1841; Letters to a mother on the management of herself and her children in health and disease 1848, 4 ed. 1852. d. The Oaks, Plumstead common 24 Oct. 1866 aged 77. Medical Circular iii, 51–53 (1853), portrait; Physic and physicians ii, 265–67 (1839).

CONRAN, GEORGE. Second lieut. Madras artillery 27 July 1811, col. commandant 15 May 1851 to death; general 14 Dec. 1868. d. Bath 28 Aug. 1869 aged 76.

CONROY, SIR EDWARD, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Sir John Conroy 1 baronet 1786–1854). b. Dublin 6 Dec. 1809; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; attaché to special mission to Brussels 1831–8; deputy registrar of births, deaths and marriages in London 1836–42. d. Arborfield near Reading 3 Nov. 1869.

CONROY, RIGHT REV. GEORGE (son of Nicholas Conroy). Professor of dogmatic theology, All Hallow’s college, Dublin 1857–66; sec. to Cardinal Cullen, and professor of dogmatic theology in Holy Cross college, Clonliffe 1866–7; bishop of Ardagh 1871 to death; consecrated in St. Mel’s cathedral, Longford 11 April 1871; author of Occasional sermons, addresses and essays 1884. d. St. John’s, Newfoundland 4 Aug. 1878.

CONROY, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Ponsonby Conroy of Bettyfield, co. Roscommon 1759–97). b. Caerhyn, Carnarvonshire 21 Oct. 1786; second lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803, second captain 13 March 1811 to 17 June 1822 when placed on permanent h.p.; K.C.H. 17 Aug. 1827; comptroller of the household to Duchess of Kent to 1837 when he retired on pension of £3000; created baronet 7 July 1837; comr. of Colonial audit board; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1843; col. of Montgomeryshire militia 30 Aug. 1852. d. Arborfield near Reading 2 March 1854.

CONSTABLE, HENRY (son of a small tradesman). b. Birmingham 10 April 1851; taught riding by T. Stevens on the Ilsley Downs; apprenticed to Wm. Reeves at Epsom 1867–71; first rode at Wye meeting on Skittles 1870; headed list of winning jockeys 1873, taking 110 races out of 395 mounts; won the Derby on Mr. W. S. Crawfurd’s Sefton 1878; first jockey and trainer to Lord Rosebery. d. Epsom 17 Feb. 1881. Illust. sporting and dramatic news i, 61 (1874), portrait, iii, 261 (1875), portrait, xiv, 563, 572 (1881), portrait; Baily’s Mag. xxv (1874), portrait.

CONSTABLE, THOMAS (youngest son of Archibald Constable of Edinburgh, publisher 1774–1827). b. Craigcrook near Edin. 29 June 1812; learned printing with C. Richards of St. Martin’s lane, London; printer and publisher in Edin. to 1860; Her Majesty’s printer and publisher 7 Sep. 1839; issued Constable’s Miscellany of foreign literature 10 vols. 1854–5; issued Constable’s Educational series 36 vols. 1857–72; published The works of Dugald Stewart edited by Sir W. Hamilton 10 vols. 1854; author of Archibald Constable and his literary correspondents 3 vols. 1873; Memoir of Lewis D. B. Gordon 1877, privately printed; Memoir of Rev. C. A. C. de Boinville 1880. d. Marston Biggot rectory, Frome, Somerset 26 May 1881.

CONSTABLE, SIR THOMAS ASTON CLIFFORD, 2 Baronet. b. Tixall hall, Staffs. 3 May 1806; succeeded 25 Feb. 1823. d. Burton Constable, Yorkshire 22 Dec. 1870.

CONWAY, FREDERICK B. (son of Wm. A. Conway, actor 1780–1828). b. London 10 Feb. 1819; made his first appearance at Princess’s theatre 4 Oct. 1847; went to the United States 1850 where he acted with Edwin Forrest playing Iago to his Othello, De Mauprat to his Richelieu and other companion parts; opened Pike’s opera house Cincinnati 1859; played at Sadler’s Wells theatre, London 1861; played leading parts at New Brooklyn theatre, New York 1864–73. d. Manchester, Massachusetts 6 Sep. 1874.

CONWAY, THOMAS SYDENHAM. b. 7 June 1810; ensign 22 foot 14 Feb. 1828; deputy adjutant general Bombay 1849–51; captain Grenadier guards 14 July 1854 to 8 March 1864 when placed on h.p.; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 7 June 1880; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. 19 Bury st. St. James’s, London 7 June 1885.

CONY, BARKHAM. b. Ely 5 Nov. 1802; made his first appearance in London 1828 at Coburg theatre in Love me, love my dog; first appeared in America 1835 with a number of well-trained dogs who assisted in the performance which consisted of Forest of Bondy and Cherokee Chief; played successful engagements all over the United States and Great Britain; styled the “Dog Star.” d. Chicago 1 Jany. 1858.

CONYBEARE, VERY REV. WILLIAM DANIEL (son of Rev. Wm. Conybeare, R. of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London, who d. 5 April 1815 aged 76). b. London 7 June 1787; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; founded with Sir Henry de la Beche, Bristol Philosophical and Literary Institution 1817; corresponding member of French Institute; V. of Sully, Glamorganshire 1821–36; V. of Axminster 1836–44; Bampton lecturer 1839; dean of Llandaff 29 Sep. 1844 to death; F.R.S. 9 Dec. 1819, F.G.S. 1821; gave the name of Plesiosaurus to a new genus of reptilia forming an intermediate link between the Ichthyosaurus and Crocodile; author of Elementary course of theological lectures 1836; Geological memoir of the landslip in Devon 1840; author with Wm. Phillips of Outlines of the geology of England and Wales 1822. d. Itchenstoke near Portsmouth 12 Aug. 1857. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xiv, 24–32 (1858); Proc. of Royal Soc. ix, 50–2 (1857); G.M. iii, 335–7 (1857); I.L.N. xxxi, 309 (1857), portrait.

CONYBEARE, REV. WILLIAM JOHN (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1 Aug. 1815; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow, 15 wrangler and 3 classic 1837, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; Whitehall preacher 1841; principal of the newly founded Liverpool Collegiate Institution 1842–8; V. of Axminster 1848–54; author of Essays ecclesiastical and social 1855; Perversion, or the causes and consequences of infidelity, a tale for the times 3 vols. 1856 anon.; author with Rev. J. S. Howson of The life and epistles of St. Paul 2 vols. 1852. d. of consumption at Weybridge 22 July 1857.

CONYNGHAM, FRANCIS NATHANIEL CONYNGHAM, 2 Marquis (2 son of 1 Marquis Conyngham 1766–1832). b. Dublin 11 June 1797; cornet 2 life guards 21 Sep. 1820, lieut. 13 Dec. 1821 to 12 June 1823 when placed on h.p.; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 6 Jany. 1823 to 2 Jany. 1826; M.P. for co. Donegal 1825 to 1832; a lord of the treasury 30 April 1826 to 30 April 1827; succeeded 28 Dec. 1832; postmaster general 5 July to 31 Dec. 1834 and 8 to 30 May 1835; lord chamberlain of the household, May 1835 to 6 May 1839; G.C.H. 1823; K.P. 27 March 1833; P.C. 20 May 1835; lord lieut. of co. Meath 27 May 1869 to death; general 21 March 1874. d. 5 Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 17 July 1876, personalty sworn under £500,000, 9 Sep. 1876. I.L.N. lxix, 113, 119, 255 (1876), portrait; Graphic xiv, 102, 108 (1876), portrait.

CONYNGHAM, GEORGE HENRY CONYNGHAM, 3 Marquis. b. London 3 Feb. 1825; cornet 2 dragoons 31 Dec. 1844; major 1 life guards 24 Aug. 1861 to 13 June 1868 when placed on h.p.; equerry to the Queen 30 Sep. 1872 to death; succeeded 17 July 1876; col. Royal East Kent yeomanry cavalry 16 Jany. 1878 to death; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. Belgrave sq. London 2 June 1882.

CONYNGHAM, FRANCIS NATHANIEL (brother of the preceding). b. Goodwood 24 Sep. 1832; served in R.N. 1846–60; M.P. for Clare 1857–9 and 1874–80. d. The Muirshiel, Lockwinnock, Renfrewshire 14 Sep. 1880.

COODE, GEORGE (eld. son of Manners Benson Coode of St. Helier’s, Jersey). b. 1807; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833; assistant sec. to Poor law commission 18 Aug. 1834 to 13 June 1846; drafted the Irish poor law act, 1 & 2 Vict. c. 56; comr. for consolidating the statute law 1853; comr. for inquiry into state of education in England 1859; author of Report on the law of settlement and removal of the poor 1851; On legislative expression 1853; article on the Poor laws in Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 ed. xviii, 295–316 (1859); Report of local taxation and digest of the laws relating to 24 local taxes 1862; Report on the fire insurance duties 1862. d. Roselands, Walmer, Kent 27 Sep. 1869. Law mag. and law review xxviii, 178, 318–25 (1870).

COODE, SIR JOHN HENRY (son of Edward Coode of Penryn, Cornwall). b. Penryn 11 Feb. 1779; entered navy 16 June 1793; captain 21 Oct. 1810; R.A. 26 June 1847; V.A. on h.p. 27 May 1854, pensioned 10 Dec. 1855; C.B. 19 Sep. 1816, K.C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Plymouth 19 Jany. 1858.

COOK, ALEXANDER SHANK (son of Rev. George Cook, professor of moral philosophy at St. Andrews). b. 9 Dec. 1810; ed. at St. Andrews; advocate at Edin. 1834; procurator for church of Scotland 1861 to death; advocate depute; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 22 March 1858 to death. d. Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1869.

COOK, EDWARD DUTTON (eld. child of George Simon Cook of Tudor st. Blackfriars, London, solicitor, who d. 12 Sep. 1852). b. 9 Grenville st. Brunswick sq. London 30 Jany. 1829; articled to his father; pupil of Rolt the painter; dramatic critic of Pall Mall Gazette 1867 to Oct. 1875, of The World Oct. 1875 to death; edited Cornhill Mag. 1868–71; wrote all the lives of dramatists and actors in letter A of Dictionary of national biography 1885; author of Paul Foster’s Daughter 3 vols. 1861; Leo 3 vols. 1863; Hobson’s Choice, a story 1867; Art in England, notes and studies 1869; A book of the play 2 vols. 1876; Hours with the players 2 vols. 1881; On the stage 1883 and 9 other books. d. suddenly outside his house 69 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 11 Sep. 1883. Longman’s Mag. Dec. 1883 pp. 179–87; Theatre, Nov. 1883, 212, 272, portrait; Graphic xxviii, 321 (1883), portrait.

COOK, HENRY DAVID. Writer Madras civil service 1835; civil and sessions judge, Calicut 1857–66; civil and sessions judge, Coimbatore 1866 to 18 Sep. 1870 when he retired on annuity. d. England 16 June 1882.

COOK, JAMES. Edited Paisley and Renfrewshire Gazette from its commencement Oct. 1864 to his death; author of Bibliography of the writings of Charles Dickens 1879. d. Paisley 25 Oct. 1882 aged 65.

COOK, REV. JOHN (eld. son of Rev. John Cook 1771–1824, professor of biblical criticism in Univ. of St. Andrews). b. St. Andrews 1 Sep. 1807; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, A.M. 1823, D.D. 9 Dec. 1848; licensed for ministry of Church of Scotland 13 Aug. 1828; minister of Laurencekirk 1829–45; minister of St. Leonard’s in St. Andrews 1845–63; moderator of General Assembly 19 May 1859, convener of many of its important committees; Emeritus professor of ecclesiastical history in Univ. of St. Andrews 19 June 1860 to 30 July 1868; a dean of the chapel royal, Sep. 1863; author of Evidence on church patronage 1838; Six lectures on the Christian evidences 1852. d. St. Andrews 17 April 1869.

COOK, REV. JOHN (eld. son of Rev. George Cook 1772–1845, leader of the ‘moderate’ party in the Church of Scotland). b. 12 Sep. 1807; ed. at St. Andrews Univ., A.M. 1823, D.D. 1843; licensed for ministry of Church of Scotland 17 Sep. 1828; minister of Cults, Fifeshire 1832; translated to second charge at Haddington 1833, to the first charge 1843; sub-clerk of the Assembly 25 May 1859, principal clerk 22 May 1862, moderator 24 May 1866; author of Styles of writs and forms of procedure in the church courts of Scotland 1850, 4 ed. 1870. d. Haddington 11 Sep. 1874.

COOK, JOHN DOUGLAS. b. Banchory-Ternan, Aberdeenshire 25 March 1811; held an appointment in India; sec. of commission to inquire into revenues of Duchy of Cornwall; private sec. to Lord Lincoln, governor of Ionian Islands; reported in parliament for The Times; edited Morning Chronicle 1852–5; edited Saturday Review from first number 3 Nov. 1855 to death, joint owner of it with A. J. B. Beresford Hope, M.P. d. G1 The Albany, Piccadilly, London 10 Aug. 1868. bur. Tintagel churchyard. James Grant’s The Saturday Review its origin and progress 1873.

COOK, PAUL (son of Charles Cook of Jersey, Wesleyan minister). President of French Methodist Conference; considered the founder of French Sunday schools. d. Paris 2 May 1886 aged 59.

COOK, RICHARD. b. London 1784; ed. at Royal Academy; gold medallist of Society of Arts 1832; A.R.A. 1816, R.A. 1822; exhibited pictures chiefly historical; illustrated Scott’s Lady of the Lake 1810. d. Cumberland place, Hyde park, London 11 March 1857. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 34 (1862).

COOK, SAMUEL. b. Camelford, Cornwall 1806; apprenticed to a woollen manufacturer at Camelford 1815; a painter and glazier at Plymouth; exhibited pictures chiefly coast scenes at New Water-Colour Society in Pall Mall, London about 1830–59, a member of the Society 1850; his “Early morning at the Lizard” was sold to Rev. Henry Tozer for 137 guineas at Plymouth 7 Feb. 1882. d. near Plymouth 7 June 1859. Hayle Miscellany vol. 2 (1860), portrait.

COOK, THOMAS. Entered navy 17 July 1807; lieutenant 1 June 1818; professor of fortification and artillery at H.E.I. Co.’s military academy, Addiscombe, Jany. 1837 to death; F.R.S. 4 June 1840. d. Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 11 Dec. 1858.

COOKE, EDWARD. Barrister M.T. 12 Nov. 1819; judge of county courts, circuit 11, Bradford 1854 to 1861 when he resigned; author of The real cause of the high price of gold 1819; A treatise on the law of insolvent debtors 1827, 2 ed. 1839. d. 2 Taviton st. Gordon sq. London 6 Feb. 1862 aged 70.

COOKE, EDWARD WILLIAM (son of George Cooke of London, line engraver 1781–1834). b. Pentonville, London 27 March 1811; painted sign of the “Old Ship Hotel” at Brighton 1825; etched 2 series of plates entitled “Coast sketches” and “The British Coast”; made 70 drawings of new London bridge 1825–31, most of which were engraved and published 1833; executed a series of pencil drawings for Earl de Grey 1832; travelled abroad 1832–44; A.R.A. 1851, R.A. 1864; exhibited 129 pictures at R.A., 115 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. gallery; 2 of his pictures are in the National Gallery, “Dutch boats in calm” and “The Boat house”; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; published Views in London and its vicinity 1834; Grotesque animals invented, drawn and described 1872; Leaves from my sketch book 2 series 1876–7. d. Glen Andred, Groombridge near Tunbridge Wells 4 Jany. 1880. I.L.N. xlv, 173 (1864), portrait; Graphic xxi, 252 (1880), portrait.

COOKE, GEORGE. b. Manchester 7 March 1807; first appeared on the stage at Walsall, March 1828; acted at Strand theatre, London 1837, at Drury Lane 1839, at Marylebone 1847; played at Strand theatre 1848, at Olympic theatre to death. (m. 1840 Eliza Stuart, she d. 13 June 1877 aged 74); committed suicide 4 March 1863. Theatrical Times iii, 376, 397 (1848), portrait.

COOKE, REV. GEORGE LEIGH (son of Rev. Samuel Cooke, V. of Great Bookham, Surrey, who d. 30 March 1820). Matric. from Ball. coll. Ox. 26 Jany. 1797 aged 17; scholar of C.C. coll. 1797, fellow 1800–15, tutor; B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804, B.D. 1812; Sedleian professor of natural philosophy in Univ. of Ox. 1818–26; keeper of the Univ. archives 1818–26; V. of Cubbington, Warws. 1820 to death; V. of Rissington Wick, Gloucs. 1820 to death; P.C. of Hunningham, Warcs. 1820 to death; founded the Literary Dining Club, sec. of it many years; author of The three first sections and part of the seventh section of Newton’s Principia 1850. d. Cubbington 29 March 1853 aged 73.

COOKE, GEORGE WINGROVE (eld. son of T. H. Cooke of Bristol). b. Bristol 1814; ed. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1834; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1835; contested Colchester, Feb. 1860, Marylebone, April 1861; special correspondent of The Times in China 1857–8; copyhold and inclosure comr. Dec. 1862 to death; author of Memoirs of Lord Bolingbroke 1835, 2 ed. 1836; The history of party from the rise of the Whig and Tory factions to the passing of the Reform bill 3 vols. 1836–37; Act for the enclosure of commons with a treatise on the law of rights of common 1846, 4 ed. 1864; Treatise on agricultural tenancies 1850, new ed. 1882; A treatise on the law and practice of copyhold enfranchisement 1853; Inside Sebastopol 1856; China and Lower Bengal 1858; Conquest and colonisation in North Africa 1860. d. 25 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 18 June 1865.

COOKE, REV. HENRY (youngest child of John Cooke of Grillagh near Maghera, co. Londonderry, farmer). b. in farm house of Grillagh 11 May 1788; matric. at Glasgow college, Nov. 1802; licensed by the presbytery of Ballymena; pastor at Duneane near Randalstown, co. Antrim 1808–10; minister at Donegore, co. Antrim 1811–18; studied at Glasgow and Trin. coll. Dublin 1815–18; pastor of Killyleigh, co. Down 1818–29; moderator of general synod of Ulster, June 1824; pastor of May st. chapel, Belfast 24 Nov. 1829 to Feb. 1868; D.D. Jefferson college, U.S. 21 Oct. 1829; LLD. Dublin 9 Feb. 1837; granted freedom of city of Dublin 6 Feb. 1839; challenged O’Connell to a public discussion in Belfast 6 Jany. 1841, which he declined; moderator of the general assembly 1841; agent for distribution of Regium Donum 29 Nov. 1845 to death; professor of sacred rhetoric, assembly’s college, Belfast, Sep. 1847 to death, pres. of the college 1848 to death; dean of residence for presbyterian church, Queen’s college, Belfast 1849; author of Translations and paraphrases in verse for the use of the Presbyterian church, Killyleigh 1821; edited, J. Brown’s Self-interpreting Bible 1855, 2 ed. 1873. d. Ormean road, Belfast 13 Dec. 1868, statue of him erected at Belfast, Sep. 1875. J. S. Porter’s Life of Rev. Henry Cooke (1871), portrait.

COOKE, JAMES (son of Thomas Taplin Cooke, circus proprietor, who d. 19 March 1866 aged 84). Leading rider of his father’s company; the only real rival of the great Andrew Ducrow; proprietor of a circus about 1837–49 and 1850–56; resided in Edinburgh 1856 to death. d. Portobello, Edin. 5 Sep. 1869 aged 59.

COOKE, SIR JOHN HENRY. b. 1791; ensign 43 foot 15 March 1809; captain 25 foot 27 July 1838 to 15 Dec. 1840 when placed on h.p.; conducted Louis xviii from Ghent to Paris, June to July 1815; sub officer of corps of gentlemen at arms 2 Oct. 1844 to 16 Sep. 1862; ensign of Yeomen of the guard 16 Sep. 1862, lieut. 2 Feb. 1866 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 11 Dec. 1867. d. Albion villa, Upper heath, Hampstead 31 Jany. 1870.

COOKE, JOHN P. b. Chester 31 Oct. 1820; leader of the orchestras at Adelphi, Strand and Astley’s, London successively; leader at Burton’s theatre, New York 1850; musical director at several New York theatres; composed and arranged music for the Winter’s Tale, Midsummer Night’s Dream and other Shakespearean plays; wrote melodies for the Sea of Ice. d. New York 4 Nov. 1865.

COOKE, RICHARD HARVEY. Ensign 1 Foot Guards 20 Feb. 1798, captain 7 Nov. 1811 to 26 March 1818; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. 45 Upper Brook st. London 8 Oct. 1856.

COOKE, REV. ROBERT. b. Waterford about 1820; joined the Congregation of Oblates of Mary Immaculate in France, ordained priest; stationed at Grace Dieu, Leics., at Everingham park, Yorkshire 1847–51; founded mission at Howden; restored mission at Pocklington; stationed at Leeds 1851; introduced the Oblates into Ireland, result being establishment of a mission at Inchicore; established a house of his order at Kilburn, London where a new church was erected 1879; founded church of the English Martyrs, Tower Hill, London; author of Pictures of youthful holiness 1872; Catholic memories of the Tower of London 1875, translated into French 1875; Sketches of the life of Mgr. de Mazenod, bishop of Marseilles and founder of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate 2 vols. 1879–82. d. London 18 June 1882. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 557–8 (1885).

COOKE, THOMAS (son of Mr. Cooke of Allerthorpe in the East Riding of Yorkshire, shoemaker). b. Allerthorpe 8 March 1807; kept a school at Allerthorpe 1823–9; optician at York about 1836 to death; made a telescope of 25 inches aperture 1863–8 which was mounted at Gateshead 1869, it is still the largest and best in the United Kingdom; invented an automatic engine for the graduation of circles, perfected the astronomical clock, and built nearly 100 turret clocks for public institutions and churches; F.R.A.S. 1859. d. 19 Oct. 1868.

COOKE, THOMAS POTTER (son of Mr. Cooke of London, surgeon, who d. 1793). b. Titchfield st. Marylebone 23 April 1786; served in navy 1796–1802, present in battle off Cape St. Vincent 1797; made his début at Royalty theatre, Wellclose sq. Jany. 1804; stage manager of Surrey theatre 1809–16; acted at Lyceum 1820–2, at Covent Garden 1822–5; played Le Monstre (Frankenstein) 80 nights, at Porte Saint Martin theatre, Paris 1825–6; played at Adelphi 1828–9; his best known part was William in Douglas Jerrold’s drama Black-eyed Susan, which he acted over 100 nights from 6 June 1829 at Surrey theatre; acted at Covent Garden 1829–34 and 1836, at Drury Lane 1834–6; made his last appearance on the stage 2 May 1861 at Princess’s theatre; he is described by Christopher North in Noctes Ambrosianæ as ‘the best sailor out of all sight and hearing that ever trod the stage.’ d. 37 Thurloe sq. London 4 April 1864. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii, 109 (1825), portrait; Stirling’s Old Drury Lane ii, 105–11 (1881); Tallis’s Illustrated life in London (1864) 33, 36, 40, 41, 3 portraits; Actors by daylight 11 Aug. 1838 pp. 185–87, portrait.

NOTE.—He left by his will £2000 to the Dramatic College, the interest of which was to be paid for a prize nautical drama, in compliance with the terms of the grant ‘True to the core, a story of the Armada,’ a drama by Angiolo Robson Slous was produced at Surrey theatre, London 8 Sep. 1866, the prize having been awarded to him at Maybury college, Surrey 23 April 1866.

COOKE, THOMAS TAPLIN. Proprietor of a circus, his company consisted of his 19 sons and daughters; built the first circus in Edinburgh 1835; chartered a vessel and shipped all his circus to the United States 1837, where he performed to 1839 when his circus and all his horses were burnt at Baltimore. d. 2 Barossa place, Brompton, London 19 March 1866 aged 84.

COOKE, REV. WILLIAM. b. 1806; minister in the Methodist New Connexion body 1827 to death; filled in succession all the important offices of his denomination; author of Christian theology explained and defended 1846, new ed. 1879; Discourses illustrative of sacred truth 1871; Explanations of difficult portions of holy scripture; A survey of the unity, harmony and growing evidence of sacred truth; The Shekinah, or the presence and manifestation of Jehovah under the several dispensations, and other works including a number of polemical treatises in connexion with Roman Catholicism. d. Burslem house, Forest Hill 25 Dec. 1884.

COOKE, WILLIAM. Lessee and manager of Astley’s Amphitheatre, Westminster bridge road, London 1855–60; took his farewell benefit 30 Jany. 1860. d. 149 Acre lane, Brixton 6 May 1886.

COOKE, WILLIAM BERNARD (brother of George Cooke, engraver 1781–1834). b. London 1778; pupil of Wm. Angus the engraver; published The Thames 1811 for which he engraved nearly all the plates; published with his brother George Cooke Picturesque views on the Southern coast of England 1814–26, chiefly from drawings by Turner; illustrated 10 other works 1812–40. d. Camberwell, London 2 Aug. 1855.

COOKE, SIR WILLIAM BRYAN, 8 Baronet (younger son of Sir George Cooke 7 baronet, who d. 2 June 1823). b. 3 March 1782; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; ensign 1 foot guards 15 Oct. 1803 to 1808 when he sold out; lieut.-col. 3 West York militia 26 Oct. 1811, col. 23 Feb. 1812 to 7 Dec. 1819; contested city of York 1818; banker at Doncaster, Retford and Worksop 1 Jany. 1819; succeeded 2 June 1823; the first mayor of Doncaster 1836, alderman 1837–8; sheriff of Yorkshire 1845; author of The seize Quartiers of the family of Bryan Cooke 1857. d. Wheatley hall near Doncaster 24 Dec. 1851. G.M. xxxvii, 185–6 (1852).

COOKE, SIR WILLIAM FOTHERGILL (eld. son of Wm. Cooke, professor of medicine at Durham Univ.) b. Ealing near London 1806; ed. at Durham school and Univ. of Edin.; ensign 39 Madras N.I. 8 Jany. 1826, resigned his commission 1836; partner with Charles Wheatstone, Nov. 1837, they patented magnetic needle telegraph 12 June 1837; laid down a telegraph between Paddington and West Drayton 1838–9, and from West Drayton to Slough 1842; invented with Wheatstone the single needle apparatus 1845; one of founders of Electro telegraph company 1846; received with Wheatstone the 4th royal Albert gold medal 1867; A.I.C.E. 21 May 1867; knighted at Windsor Castle 11 Nov. 1869; granted civil list pension of £100, 25 July 1871; author of Telegraphic Railways 1842. (m. 1838 Anna Louisa dau. of Joseph Wheatley of Treeton, Yorkshire, she was granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1880). d. 31 Castle st. Farnham, Surrey 25 June 1879. W. T. Jeans’s Lives of the electricians i, 134, 323 (1887); W. F. Cooke’s The electric telegraph, was it invented by professor Wheatstone? 2 vols. 1857; Authorship of the practical electric telegraph of Great Britain by Rev. T. F. Cooke 1868; Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lviii, 358–64 (1879).

NOTE.—The merit of initiating the idea of an international exhibition has been often warmly contested, but there is no doubt that the original proposition was made to the Committee of the Society of Arts in 1844 by Sir W. F. Cooke.

COOKE, WILLIAM JOHN. b. Dublin 11 April 1797; pupil of his uncle George Cooke the engraver; received from Society of Arts a gold medal for improvements in engraving upon steel 1826; employed upon the Annuals and other illustrated publications to about 1840 when he left England and settled at Darmstadt; engraved several pictures after Turner, Cox and Landseer. d. Darmstadt 6 April 1865.

COOKESLEY, JOHN. Entered navy 29 Jany. 1791; captain 7 Dec. 1818, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired R.A. 8 July 1851; invented a very simple and efficacious species of raft fully described and illustrated in the Nautical Mag. iv, 73–77 (1835). d. Rackley, Portishead near Bristol 25 Nov. 1852 aged 78.

COOKESLEY, REV. WILLIAM GIFFORD. b. Brasted, Kent 1 Dec. 1802; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; assistant master of Eton 1825–55; V. of Hayton, Yorkshire 1857–60; P.C. of St. Peter’s, Hammersmith 1860–8; R. of Tempsford, Beds. 22 Oct. 1868 to death; published Selections from Pindar 1838; Pindari Carmina 1844 2 vols. 1851; Selecta e Catullo 1845; A revised translation of the New Testament 1859, and 13 other works. d. Tempsford rectory 16 Aug. 1880.

COOKSON, REV. HENRY WILKINSON (6 son of Thomas Cookson of Kendal). b. Kendal 10 April 1810; ed. at Kendal, Sedbergh and St. Peter’s coll. Cam., 7 wrangler 1832, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.D. and D.D. 1848; tutor of his college, Master 3 Nov. 1847 to death; R. of Glaston, Rutland 1847–61; vice-chancellor of Univ. of Cam. 1848, 1863, 1864, 1872, 1873; member of council of the Senate almost continuously from institution of that body 1856; pres. of Cambridge Philosophical Soc. 1865–6; declined bishopric of Lichfield 1867. d. St. Peter’s college lodge, Cambridge 30 Sep. 1876.

COOKSON, ISAAC. b. 1776; a glass manufacturer at Newcastle to 1845; sheriff of Newcastle 1801, alderman 22 Sep. 1807, mayor 1809–10; bought Meldon park, Northumberland for 56,900 guineas 19 April 1832; sheriff of Northumberland 1838. d. Munich 8 Oct. 1851.

COOLEY, WILLIAM DESBOROUGH. F.R.G.S. 1830, hon. free member 1864; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; wrote for Lardner’s ‘Cabinet Cyclopædia’ The history of maritime and inland discovery 3 vols. 1830–1; published The world surveyed in the xix century 2 vols. 1845–8; Inner Africa laid open 1852; Physical geography, or the terraqueous globe and its phenomena 1876 and other works. d. 56 Crowndale road, Somers Town, London 1 March 1883. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v, 232–3 (1883).

COOMBES, ROBERT. b. Vauxhall, London 1808; a waterman on river Thames; sculled his first race 4 July 1836; beat J. Kelly 4 Oct. 1838; stroke in the winning four at Liverpool regatta 1840 beating 5 crews; beat H. Clasper on the Tyne 18 Dec. 1844; beat C. Campbell 19 Aug. 1846 when he became champion of the Thames; presented with a champion belt 28 Oct. 1846; raced T. Cole for £200 a side 24 May 1852 when Cole won; won the pairs with Wilson at Thames regatta 1845; with his brother Tom Coombes beat Richard and Harry Clasper on the Thames 1847; trained the Cambridge crew 1852; never surpassed in speed and style during his time; author of Hints on rowing and training 1852. d. Kent lunatic asylum, Maidstone 25 Feb. 1860. bur. Brompton cemetery, London 7 March. I.L.N. 29 May 1852 p. 436, portrait.

COOPE, OCTAVIUS EDWARD (3 son of John Coope of London, sugar refiner). b. Leyspring, Essex 1814; a sugar refiner in London; a partner in brewing firm of Ind, Coope and Co. at Romford, Essex 1846, established a branch brewery at Burton-on-Trent 1856 the third largest brewing firm in Burton; M.P. for Great Yarmouth 29 July 1847 to June 1848 when unseated on petition; contested Tower Hamlets, Nov. 1868; M.P. for Middlesex 14 Feb. 1874 to 18 Nov. 1885, for Brentford division of Middlesex, Dec. 1885 to death; gave £15,000 towards rebuilding Whitechapel church 1875. d. 41 Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 27 Nov. 1886, personalty sworn upwards of £542,000. Licensed Victuallers’ year book (1876) 80–81, portrait; Morning Advertiser 29 Nov. 1886 p. 5 and 3 Dec. p. 2.

COOPER, ABRAHAM (son of Mr. Cooper of Red Lion st. Holborn, London, tobacconist). b. Red Lion st. 8 Sep. 1787; member of the Artists’ fund 1812, chairman; awarded premium of 150 guineas by British Institution for his picture of the ‘Battle of Waterloo’ 1816; A.R.A. 1817, R.A. 1820–66; exhibited 332 pictures at R.A. and 74 at British Institution 1812–69; pre-eminent as a painter of battle pieces; furnished the illustrations to Sporting, by Nimrod 1838, and other works. d. Woodbine cottage, Woodlands, Greenwich 24 Dec. 1868. bur. Highgate cemetery. J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists ii, 4–7; Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 131–2 (1869).

COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON, 2 Baronet. b. Great Yarmouth 13 Jany. 1797; succeeded 12 Feb. 1841; sheriff of Herts. 1864. d. Gadesbridge, Hemel Hempstead 6 Jany. 1866.

COOPER, BRANSBY BLAKE (eld. son of Rev. Samuel Lovick Cooper 1763–1817, R. of Bacton, Norfolk). b. Great Yarmouth 2 Sep. 1792; midshipman in the navy; second assistant surgeon R.A. 2 Dec. 1811 to 1 April 1816 when placed on permanent h.p.; M.R.C.S. 1823, hon. fellow 1843, member of the council 1848; brought an action against Thomas Wakley editor of The Lancet for defamation of character, and obtained £100 damages 12 Dec. 1828; surgeon of Guy’s hospital, London to death; F.R.S. 18 June 1829; author of The life of Sir Astley Cooper baronet 2 vols. 1843; Lectures on the principles and practice of surgery 1851. d. Athenæum club, Pall Mall, London 18 Aug. 1853. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 520–6; Medical Circular ii, 511–14 (1853).

COOPER, SIR CHARLES (3 son of Thomas Cooper of Henley-on-Thames). b. Henley-on-Thames, March 1795; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827; judge of supreme court of South Australia 1839–56, chief justice June 1856 to 1861; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 June 1857; Cooper’s Creek in Queensland was named after him. d. 12 Pulteney st. Bath 24 May 1887.

COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (eld. son of Basil Henry Cooper of Great Marlow, solicitor, who d. 1813). b. Great Marlow 20 March 1808; resided at Cambridge 1826 to death; coroner of borough of Cambridge 1 Jany. 1836; admitted solicitor, Nov. 1840; town clerk of Cambridge 1849 to death; F.S.A. 10 April 1851; author of A new guide to the university and town of Cambridge 1831 anon.; The annals of Cambridge 5 vols. 1842–53; The memorials of Cambridge 3 vols. 1858–66; Memoirs of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby edited by Rev. J. E. B. Mayor 1874; author with his eldest son Thompson Cooper of Athenæ Cantabrigienses 2 vols. 1858–61; contributed to Gent. Mag., Notes and Queries, and other antiquarian publications. d. 29 Jesus lane, Cambridge 21 March 1866. Dict. of Nat. Biog. xii, 139–40 (1887); Reliquary vii, 34–40 (1866).

COOPER, CHARLES PURTON (son of Charles Cooper of St. Dunstan’s, London). b. 1793; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., double first class 1814, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1816; obtained leading practice in V.C. Knight-Bruce’s court, quarrelled with him and left the court; Q.C. 1837; bencher of his Inn 1836, treasurer 1855, master of the library 1856 to which he presented 2000 vols. on civil and foreign law 1843; secretary to Record Commission 12 March 1831 to 20 June 1837 when it lapsed on the king’s death; Queen’s serjeant in Duchy of Lancaster 1834 to death; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1832; F.S.A.; contested Canterbury 18 Aug. 1854 and 28 March 1857; author of Notes in French on the Court of Chancery 1828, 2 ed. 1830; An account of the public records of the United Kingdom 2 vols. 1832; Reports of cases decided by Lord Brougham 1835; Reports of cases decided by Lords Cottenham and Langdale and by V. G. Shadwell 1841; Reports of Lord Cottenham’s decisions 2 vols. 1847; wrote, edited or printed 52 pamphlets on political topics 1850–57. d. Boulogne 26 March 1873. Report from the select committee on record commission (1836) 1–275; Sir Henry Cole’s Fifty years of public work (1834) i, 7, ii, 20, 23.

COOPER, EDWARD JOSHUA (eld. son of Edward Synge Cooper of Dublin, who d. 1830). b. Stephens Green, Dublin, May 1798; ed. at Armagh, Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; erected an observatory at Markree castle, co. Sligo 1831 where he kept meteorological registers 1833 to death; M.R.I.A. 1832, Cunningham gold medallist 1858; M.P. for co. Sligo 1830–41 and 1857–9; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; author of Views in Egypt and Nubia 1824 privately printed; Catalogue of Stars near the Ecliptic observed at Markree 4 vols. 1851–6 printed at Government expense, and Cometic Orbits 1852. d. Markree castle 23 April 1863. Proc. of Royal Soc. xiii, 1–3 (1864).

COOPER, FREDERICK FOX (son of Mr. Cooper of London, editor of John Bull). b. 4 Jany. 1806; called Fox after his godfather C. J. Fox, M.P.; articled to Isaac Cooper a stockbroker; managed successively Olympic, Marylebone, Victoria, City of London and Strand theatres; sec. to Duke of Cumberland as grand master of the Orange lodges in England; examined 4 days before House of Commons on subject of Orangeism 1835; proprietor of the Nelson Examiner, New Zealand 1841; started with The Chisholm, The Cerberus, a newspaper which under 4 heads advocated 4 different lines of politics, No. 1, 17 June 1843, it was published at 164 Strand, London down to 18 Nov. 1843; author of The sons of Thespis, produced at Surrey theatre, Jenny Jones, Fleet Prison, Master Humphrey’s Clock, Black Sentinel, Rejected Addresses, The deserted village, and many travesties and dramatic sketches. d. 56 Prince’s Road, Lambeth, London 4 Jany. 1879. Theatrical Times ii, 177 (1847), portrait; Era 19 Jany. 1879 p. 12, col. 2.

COOPER, FREDERICK HENRY (younger son of Rev. Allen Cooper, incumbent of St. Mark’s, North Audley st. London). Entered Bengal civil service 1847; comr. at Lahore to death; C.B. 18 May 1860; author of The Crisis in the Punjaub 1858; The handbook for Delhi 1863. d. Trent rectory near Sherborne 22 April 1869 aged 42.

COOPER, GEORGE (son of Mr. Cooper, assistant organist at St. Paul’s cathedral, who d. 1843). b. Lambeth 7 July 1820; organist of St. Benet’s, Paul’s wharf, London 1834, of St. Anne and St. Agnes 1836; assistant organist of St. Paul’s cathedral, March 1838 to death; organist of St. Sepulchre’s 1843 to death, of Christ’s hospital 1843, of the Chapel Royal, St. James’s, Sep. 1856 to death; author of The organist’s assistant; The organist’s manual 1851, 26 numbers; Organ arrangements 3 vols. 1864 etc.; Classical extracts for the organ 1867–69, seven numbers; Introduction to the organ; Maud Irving or the little orphan, An operetta in 5 acts 1872. d. 2 Oct. 1876. Musical Standard 7, 14, 21, 28 Oct. 1876, 18, 25 Nov., 9, 23 Dec.

COOPER, HENRY. Ensign 62 foot 26 Feb. 1829; lieut. col. 45 foot 19 July 1848 to 1 May 1861; inspecting field officer 1861–2; col. 79 foot 21 Aug. 1870 to 17 March 1876; col. 45 foot 17 March 1876 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Bottesham hall, Cambs. 24 Aug. 1878.

COOPER, HENRY CHRISTOPHER, b. Bath 1819; solo violinist at Drury Lane theatre 1830; principal violinist at Royal Italian opera; leader at Philharmonic Society; violinist at provincial festivals; conductor at Gaiety theatre, Glasgow to death; one of the foremost of English school of violinists, d. 220 Hope st. Glasgow 26 Jany. 1881.

COOPER, JOHN (son of Mr. Cooper of Bath, locksmith). b. Bath 1790; apprenticed to a brush maker at Bath; first appeared on the stage at Bath theatre 14 March 1811 as Inkle in Colman’s drama Inkle and Yarico; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 15 May 1811 as Count Montalban in The honeymoon and received £4 a week; played at Liverpool some years as the rival of Vandenhoff; played at Drury Lane theatre 1820–45, stage manager; played at Princess’s theatre to 1859; had studied 200 parts and was ready at very short notice to undertake any of them; the last actor of the Kemble school; lived at 6 Sandringham gardens, Ealing. d. Tunbridge Wells 13 July 1870. Oxberry’s Dramatic biog. v, 73–86 (1826), portrait; Metropolitan Mag. xviii, 74–80 (1837); Jerrold’s Bride of Ludgate (Lucy’s ed. 1872), portrait.

COOPER, JOHN RAMSAY. Chemist and druggist at 17 High st. Canterbury; a prominent promoter of the blue riband movement; invented phonic system of teaching reading, which was adopted in many of the principal elementary schools in England 1885; bankrupt on his own petition, June 1885; died at the police station, Canterbury 5 July 1885 from taking a solution of strychnia and about 15 or 20 grains of the salt; coroner’s jury returned a verdict that he committed suicide while of unsound mind.

COOPER, JOHN WILBYE, always known as Wilbye Cooper. Tenor vocalist to 1870; composed songs entitled Ah where are now those happy hours 1852; The old cottager 1852; author of The voice, the music of language and the soul of song, a short essay on the art of singing 1874; edited Cramer’s Educational Course consisting of Cramer’s Vocal Tutor 2 parts 1867, and Cramer’s New Singing Method 4 parts 1872–74. d. 20 Castellain road, Maida hill, London 19 March 1885.

COOPER, JOSEPH THOMAS. b. London 25 May 1819; organist of St. Michael’s, Queenhithe 1837, of St. Paul’s, Balls Pond, London 1844, of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. 1866 to death, of Christ’s hospital 1876 to death; musical editor of Evening Hours, monthly mag. March 1871; F.R.A.S. 1845. d. 113 Grosvenor road, Highbury 17 Nov. 1879.

COOPER, ROBERT. Educ. at Charter house school; went to Canada; edited British Canadian paper at Toronto 1846; edited Herald paper at London, Upper Canada; county judge of united counties of Huron and Bruce 1856; published Rules and practice of the Court of Chancery of Upper Canada, Toronto 1851. d. Goderich, Upper Canada 19 June 1866.

COOPER, THOMAS THORNVILLE (8 son of John J. Cooper of Bishopwearmouth, coalfitter). b. Bishopwearmouth 13 Sep. 1839; made several journeys into interior of Australia; clerk in house of Arbuthnot and Co. at Madras 1859–61; joined Shanghai volunteers and helped to protect that city against Taiping rebels 1863; attempted to penetrate from China through Tibet to India 1868; attempted to enter China from Assam 1869; political agent at Bamo; attached to political department of India office, London; sent to India with despatches and presents to the viceroy in connection with imperial durbar of Delhi 1876; re-appointed political agent at Bamo; author of Travels of a pioneer of commerce in pigtail and petticoats 1871; Mishmee hills, an account of a journey 1873; murdered by a sepoy at Bamo 24 April 1878. W. Gill’s River of Golden sand, new ed. 1883 introduction p. 108, portrait and p. 323.

COOPER, REV. WILLIAM. R. of Wadingham, Lincs. March 1808 to death; R. of West Rasen, Lincs. 1809 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1830 to death. d. West Rasen rectory 24 Aug. 1856 aged 86.

COOPER, WILLIAM (son of Charles Cooper of Norwich, barrister, who d. 21 July 1836). b. 6 Jany. 1810; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 10 June 1831; comr. of bankruptcy for Norwich 1832–42; a revising barrister for Leics. 1839 to death; standing counsel to Metropolitan police; one of counsel to the Treasury; recorder of Ipswich, Dec. 1874 to death; author of A sketch of the life of H. Cooper and of C. Cooper 1856 and of 3 dramas The student of Jena 1842, Mokanna 1843 and Zopyrus 1856. d. 25 Great Russell st. Bedford sq. London 17 Sep. 1877.

COOPER, WILLIAM DURRANT (eld. son of Thomas Cooper of Lewes, solicitor 1789–1841). b. High st. Lewes 10 Jany. 1812; solicitor at Lewes 1833–7; on parliamentary staff of Morning Chronicle and Times 1837; solicitor to Reform club 1837; solicitor to vestry of St. Pancras 20 Dec. 1858; F.S.A. 11 March 1841; author of The parliamentary history of the county of Sussex 1834; A glossary of the provincialisms in use in Sussex, privately printed 1836 which he published 1853; Seven letters by Sterne and his friends 1844; The history of Winchelsea 1850; edited several books for the Camden and Shakespeare Societies; author of many papers in Sussex Archæological Collections vols. ii, to xxvi. d. 81 Guilford st. Russell sq. London 28 Dec. 1875. Sussex Archæological Collections xxvii, 117–32 (1877).

COOPER, WILLIAM RICKETTS. b. 1843; a designer of carpet patterns; a London missionary; assistant curator of Sir John Soane’s museum, Lincoln Inn Fields; one of chief founders of Society of biblical archæology 1870, sec. 1870–6; F.R.A.S. Jany. 1875; author of Serpent myths of Ancient Egypt 1873; The resurrection of Assyria 1875; Heroines of the past 1875; Egypt and the Pentateuch 1875; An Archaic dictionary 1876; The Horus myth and Christianity 1877; A short history of the Egyptian obelisk 1877, 2 ed. 1878; Christian evidence lectures 1880; translated Lenormant’s Chaldean magic 1877. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 15 Nov. 1878.

COOPER, WILLIAM WHITE (youngest son of George Fort Cooper). b. Holt, Wiltshire 17 Nov. 1816; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1838, F.R.C.S. 1845; one of original staff of North London Eye Infirmary 1841; ophthalmic surgeon to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1851; surgeon oculist in ordinary to the Queen 4 March 1859 to death; it was announced that he was to be knighted 29 May 1886; author of Invalid’s guide to Madeira 1840; Practical remarks on near sight, aged sight and impaired vision 1847, 2 ed. 1853; Observations on conical cornea 1850; On wounds and injuries of the eye 1859; Zoological notes and anecdotes by Sestertius Holt 1852, pseud. of which a second ed. appeared under the title Traits and anecdotes of animals 1861. d. of acute pneumonia at 19 Berkeley sq. London 1 June 1886. Medical Circular iii, 383–85 (1853), portrait.

COOTE, CHARLES. b. Waltham abbey, Essex 1807; sang in English opera at Lyceum theatre; pianist to Duke of Devonshire 30 years, travelling with him abroad and at home; organised the quadrille band 1848 which has become celebrated in aristocratic circles; composed upwards of 150 pieces of music chiefly quadrilles, waltzes, galops, polkas and dances on airs from popular operas. d. 42 New Bond st. London 14 March 1879.

COOTE, SIR CHARLES HENRY, 9 Baronet. b. 2 Jany. 1792; succeeded 2 March 1802; M.P. for Queen’s county 1821–47 and 1852–59; col. Queen’s co. militia 20 Nov. 1824 to death. d. 5 Connaught place, London 5 Oct. 1864.

COOTE, ELIZABETH PHILLIS (granddau. of Charles Coote 1807–79). b. 19 Oct. 1862; acted in America 1870; sang at Canterbury and Pavilion music halls, London 1871–3; played Hop o’ my Thumb in pantomime at T.R. Brighton, Dec. 1873; played at Adelphi and Princess’s theatres 1877–8; made a great hit at Brighton in pantomime of Little Boy Blue, Dec. 1882. d. Ducie st. Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester 18 Feb. 1886. Illust. sporting and dramatic news viii, 401, 422 (1878), portrait, xvi, 569, 574 (1882), portrait.

COOTE, HENRY CHARLES (son of Charles Coote of London 1761–1835, member of college of advocates). b. 1814; admitted proctor in Doctors’ Commons 1840; practised in the Probate court; admitted solicitor 1857; F.S.A. 17 May 1860; a founder of the Folklore Society 1878; author of Practice of the ecclesiastical courts 1846; The common form practice of the Court of Probate 1858, 9 ed. 1883; Practice of the high court of Admiralty 1860, 2 ed. 1869; A neglected fact in English history 1864; The Romans in Britain 1878. d. 13 Westgate terrace, Redclyffe sq. West Brompton, London 4 Jany. 1885. Athenæum 17 Jany. 1885 p. 87, col. 3.