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.