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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CLANCARTY, William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3 Earl of. b. Castletown, co. Kildare 21 Sep. 1803; lieut.-col. of Galway militia 1830–65; succeeded 24 Nov. 1837. d. Salt hill near Dublin 26 April 1872.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CLARKE-TRAVERS, Sir William Henry St. Lawrence, 2 Baronet. b. 3 Aug. 1801; succeeded 7 Feb. 1808; assumed by royal license additional name of Travers 20 March 1853. d. 3 Queen’s gardens, Hyde park, London 31 Aug. 1877.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CLAVERING, Sir William Aloysius, 9 Baronet. b. 1800; succeeded 18 Nov. 1853; sheriff of Durham 1859. d. St. George’s hospital, London 8 Oct. 1872.

CLAXTON, Marshall (son of Rev. Marshall Claxton of Bolton, Lancs., Wesleyan minister). b. Bolton 12 May 1813; entered Royal Academy, Jany. 1831; awarded gold medal of Society of Arts 1835; competed in the Cartoon exhibitions at Westminster hall 1843, 1844 and 1847; took out to Australia about 200 pictures by himself and others, which he exhibited gratis 1850, this being the first exhibition of works of art in Australia; went to India where he sold most of the pictures; painted for the Queen, ‘General view of Sydney’ and ‘Portrait of the last Queen of the Aborigines’; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 31 at B.I. and 25 at Suffolk st. gallery. d. 155 Carlton road, Maida vale, London 28 July 1881.

CLAY, Alfred Borron (2 son of Rev. John Clay 1796–1858). b. Walton near Preston 3 June 1831; articled to a solicitor at Preston; studied art in Liverpool and London; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1852–70; his chief pictures were ‘The imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots at Lochleven Castle,’ ‘Charles ix and the French court at the massacre of St. Bartholomew,’ ‘The return to Whitehall 29 May 1660,’ now in the Walker gallery at Liverpool. d. Rainhill near Liverpool 1 Oct. 1868.

CLAY, Sir George, 3 Baronet. b. 14 Aug. 1831; ensign 19 foot 1849, captain 29 Dec. 1854 to 1 May 1866 when placed on h.p.; succeeded 14 Oct. 1876. d. 17 Cavendish square, London 30 June 1878.

CLAY, James (son of James Clay of Old Broad st. London, merchant). b. London 1804; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1827; took the leading parts in operas performed by amateurs at Florence when Lord Burghersh was British minister there 1821–30; travelled in the Holy Land with B. Disraeli 1830; a merchant in London; contested Beverley, July 1837, and Hull, June 1841; M.P. for Hull 1847–53 and 1857 to death; chairman of committee to settle laws of whist 1863, by his book on whist and influence made the game popular and intelligible; the finest whist and piquet player of his time; he is described under name of Castlemaine in G. W. Lawrence’s novel Sans Merci, or kestrels and falcons 3 vols. 1866; author of A treatise, on the game of whist by J. C., affixed to J. L. Baldwin’s Laws of short whist 1864. d. 30 Regency sq. Brighton 26 Sep. 1873. W. A. Gunnell’s Sketches of Hull celebrities (1876) 473–7; Westminster Papers vi, 117–8 (1873); Graphic viii, 362, 376 (1873), portrait; Power, Rodwell and Dew’s Controverted elections ii, 96–100 (1857).

Note.—He was unseated March 1853 for bribery by his agents, in Feb. 1857 he was again returned and his election is the only instance on record of a member unseated on petition taking his seat a second time for the same place in the same parliament, the case would have been tried before a committee of the House of Commons had not a dissolution occurred 20 March 1857.

CLAY, Rev. John (5 son of Thomas Clay of Liverpool, ship and anchor smith, who d. 1821). b. Liverpool 10 May 1796; invented an improved bow and arrow which long bore his name; assist, chap, of Preston gaol 11 Aug. 1821; entered Em. coll. Cam. as a ten years man 1822, B.D. 1835; chap, of Preston gaol, Aug. 1823 to Jany. 1858; issued annual reports 1824–57, in 1836 his annual reports were reprinted in a parliamentary blue book; author of Twenty five sermons 1827; Burial clubs and infanticide in England 1854; A plain address to candidates for confirmation 1866. d. Lansdowne crescent, Leamington 21 Nov. 1858. The prison chaplain by Rev. W. L. Clay (1861), portrait.

CLAY, Richard. b. Cambridge; apprenticed to John Smith at the Pitt Press, Cambridge; printer near Devonshire square, Bishopsgate, London; printer to the S.P.G.; head of firm of Clay Sons and Taylor, Bread st. hill, London, retired Oct. 1868. d. Hornsey 10 Dec. 1877 in 89 year. Bookseller, January 1878 p. 7.

CLAY, Sir William, 1 Baronet (son of George Clay of London, merchant 1757–1836). b. London 15 Aug. 1791; merchant and shipowner with his father; M.P. for Tower Hamlets 12 Dec. 1832 to 20 March 1857; author of the Small tenements rating act 1850; one of foremost holders of advanced radical views; secretary to Board of Control 30 Sep. 1839 to 8 Sep. 1841; created baronet 20 Sep. 1841; chairman of Grand Junction and Southwark and Vauxhall water companies; author of Speech on moving for a committee to inquire into the act permitting the establishment of joint-stock banks, 2 ed. 1837; Remarks on the water supply of London, 2 ed. 1849 and 3 other pamphlets. d. Cadogan place, London 13 March 1869.

CLAY, William. b. Liverpool 15 May 1823; manager of ironworks near Glasgow; invented a method of rolling taper bars 1848; manager of Mersey Forge, Liverpool; designed and forged the “Monstre” gun which weighed 22 tons and threw a projectile of 300 lbs. to a distance of 5 miles, it was mounted at Tilbury Fort; partner in Mersey Forge to 1864 when the works were transferred to a company; the first maker of puddled steel on a large scale; established with C. A. Inman and captain McNeile the Birkenhead Forge 1864; M.I.M.E. 1859; formed in 1861 Eighth Lancashire artillery volunteer corps, lieut.-col. commandant 9 May 1861, hon. col. 1 May 1880 to death. d. Liverpool 28 Feb. 1881. Proc. of Instit. of M.E. (1882) 3–5.