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.