CORNER, Julia (dau. of John Corner of London, engraver). b. 1798; author of Historical Library 14 vols. 1840–48; Pictorial history of China and India 1846; Children’s own Sunday book 1850; History of the United Kingdom 1852; Little plays for little actors 2 vols. 1855, new ed. 1870; Calverley Rise, a tale 3 vols. 1861; No Relations 3 vols. 1864, and about 50 other books. d. 92 Clarendon road, Notting hill, London 16 Aug. 1875.

CORNER, Richard James (brother of George Richard Corner 1801–63). b. Lambeth 1805; barrister I.T. 1840; chief justice of the Gold Coast 13 March 1858; chief justice of British Honduras 3 July 1862 to 1872 when he resigned; one of the authors of Reports of cases in all the superior courts of common law 1853–55, 3 vols. in 5, 1853–55. d. East Moulsey, Surrey 27 Feb. 1876.

CORNEWALL, Sir Velters, 4 Baronet. b. Moccas court, Weobly, co. Hereford 20 Feb. 1824; succeeded 27 Dec. 1835; sheriff of co. Hereford 1847; joint master of the Herefordshire hunt; a breeder of hunters. d. 14 Oct. 1868.

CORNEY, Bolton. b. Greenwich 28 April 1784; ensign 28 foot 1803; first clerk in Steward’s department at Greenwich hospital 16 April 1834 to Dec. 1844; lived at Barnes, Surrey 1848 to death; a member of council of Shakespeare Soc. and of Camden Soc.; had a long controversy with Isaac D’Israeli respecting statements in his writings; author of Researches and conjectures on the Bayeux tapestry 1836; Curiosities of literature by I. D’Israeli illustrated 1837, 2 ed. to which are added Ideas on controversy, deduced from the practice of a Veteran 1838; The sonnets of William Shakspere, a critical disquisition 1862 privately printed, and many other works; his library was sold at Sotheby’s in June 1871 for £3539 9s. 6d. d. 29 The Terrace, Barnes 30 Aug. 1870. F. Hitchman’s Eighteenth century studies (1881), 254–71; Notes and Queries 4 series vi, 206 (1870), 6 series ii, 123 (1880), iv, 291 (1881).

CORNISH, Rev. Henry Hubert (2 son of Charles Cornish of Gatcombe house, Totnes). Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 19 Feb. 1835 aged 23, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1842, B.D. and D.D. 1866; chaplain of C.C. coll. 1845–50; tutor of New Inn hall 1858, principal 1866 to death, when the hall ceased to possess an independent existence having been made over to Balliol college by the University Commission. d. Oxford 9 June 1887.

CORNWALLIS, James Mann, 5 Earl. b. 20 Sep. 1778; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1798; M.P. for Eye, Suffolk 30 Oct. 1799 to 29 April 1807; succeeded 20 Jany. 1824. d. Linton place near Maidstone 21 May 1852.

CORNWALLIS, Caroline Frances (younger dau. of Rev. Wm. Cornwallis 1751–1827, R. of Elham, Kent). b. 12 July 1786; learnt Latin, Greek, Hebrew and German; shared with Micaiah Hill prize of £200 given by Lady Byron for best essay on ‘Juvenile Delinquency’ 1853; chief projector of a series of 22 vols. entitled Small books on great subjects edited by some well-wishers to knowledge 1841, author of many of the vols. including the first which was entitled Philosophical theories and philosophical experience by a Pariah 1841; published Pericles, a tale of Athens in the 83rd Olympiad 2 vols. 1846, anon.; An exposition of the vulgar and common errors adapted to the year of grace, MDCCCXLV, by Thomas Brown redivivus 1846. d. Lidwells near Goudhurst, Kent 8 Jany. 1858. Selections from the letters of C. F. Cornwallis (1864).

CORRI, Haydn (son of Domenico Corri, Italian musical composer 1746–1825). b. Edinburgh 1785; teacher of music at Dublin; composed a few glees and songs, one of which his vocal arrangement of The harmonious blacksmith used to be much sung; organist to the cathedral, Great Marlborough st. Dublin; arranged for the organ under Cherubini’s instruction that composer’s famous mass in D (written for coronation of Charles X) and added an additional voice part; wrote the music to There grows a bonny briar bush 1815, Can you love me, lady fair 1820, Music can guide the soul 1821, O fly to the woods 1821; his wife was chief singer at all the great concerts in Dublin many years, and d. Leeds 10 April 1867 in 68 year, he d. Dublin 19 Feb. 1860. Era 26 Feb. 1860 p. 11, col. 2.

CORRI, Patrick Anthony (son of the preceding). b. 1820; chorister in churches in Dublin; first appeared in London at Princess’s theatre about 1845 as a baritone singer; sang at Manchester; sang in operas at Grecian theatre, London 1849; musical director at Weston’s music hall, Holborn, London 1857 to death, the name was changed from Weston’s to The Royal 1868; composed some vocal music. d. Bradford 1 June 1876. bur. Scholemore cemetery 3 June. Entr’acte 10 June 1876 p. 8, 17 June p. 7, portrait; Era 11 June 1876, p. 6.

CORRIE, Archibald. b. Perthshire 1777; held a horticultural post near Edinburgh about 1797–1807; manager of the estate of Annat near Errol in Perthshire 1807–57; contributed agricultural reports to Scottish papers; contributed many papers on agriculture and horticulture to Loudon’s and other magazines. d. Annat cottage near Errol 1857 in 80 year.

CORRIE, Rev. George Elwes (son of Rev. John Corrie, C. of Colsterworth, co. Lincoln). b. Colsterworth 28 April 1793; entered Catharine hall, Cam., Oct. 1813, 18 wrangler 1817, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1831, D.D. 1853; fellow of his college 1818, assistant tutor, dean and steward 1820, tutor 1821–49; Norrisian professor of divinity in Univ. of Cam. 1838–54; exam. chaplain to bishop of Ely 1845–64; master of Jesus coll. Cam. Dec. 1849 to death; vice chancellor 1850; R. of Newton, Isle of Ely 1851 to death; rural dean of Wisbech 1851–78; a founder of Cambridge Antiquarian Soc. 1840; leader of Conservative party in Univ. of Cam.; published Catalogue of the original library of St. Catharine’s hall 1840; The sermons and remains of Hugh Latimer 2 vols. 1844; History of the Reformation by G. Burnet 1847; edited A concise history of the church and state of England during the reign of Henry VIII 1874; edited for the University Press An Historical Vindication of the Church of England by Sir R. Twysden 1847; The Homilies 1850; and A rational illustration of the book of Common Prayer, by C. Wheatley 1858. d. The lodge, Jesus college, Cambridge 20 Sep. 1885.

CORRIE, William. b. Wellingborough 1806; practised as solicitor; barrister I.T. 10 June 1836; magistrate at Clerkenwell police court, London 1851–60, at Bow st. 1860–64; remembrancer of city of London 1864 to June 1878; author of An analysis of the Municipal Boroughs bill 1870. d. 26 Cleveland sq. London 24 March 1881.

CORRIGAN, Sir Dominic John, 1 Baronet (2 son of John Corrigan of Dublin, merchant, who d. 1838). b. 91 Thomas st. Dublin 1 Dec. 1802; M.D. Edin. 1825, M.D. Dublin 1849; lecturer on medicine in Carmichael school, Dublin 1833; phys. to the House of Industry hospitals 1840–66; M.R.C.S. London 1843; phys. in ord. to Queen in Ireland 23 Nov. 1847; medical comr. under Medical Charities Act 1851; fellow of King and Queen’s college of phys. in Ireland 27 Oct. 1856, pres. 1859–64; created baronet 5 Feb. 1866; M.P. for city of Dublin 1870 to 1874; vice chancellor of Queen’s univ. Dublin, June 1871; author of On famine and fever in Ireland 1846; Lectures on the nature and treatment of fever 1853; Ten days in Athens with notes by the way 1862. d. Merrion sq. Dublin 1 Feb. 1880. Irish Monthly viii, 160–71 (1880); I.L.N. xlviii, 252 (1866), portrait.

CORRY, Armar Lowry. Entered navy 1 Aug. 1805, captain 23 July 1821; admiralty superintendent of packet service at Southampton 1850–52; R.A. 8 March 1852; commanded western squadron on the Home and Lisbon stations 1852–54; second in command of English fleet in the Baltic, March to July 1854; named a K.C.B. in London Gazette 10 July 1855. d. Paris 2 May 1855 aged 62.

CORRY, Henry Thomas Lowry (younger son of 2 Earl of Belmore 1774–1841). b. Dublin 9 March 1803; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1829; M.P. for co. Tyrone 20 June 1826 to death; comptroller of the household 29 Dec. 1834 to 1835; P.C. 23 Feb. 1835; a lord of the Admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 12 Feb. 1845, sec. to the Admiralty 13 Feb. 1845 to 13 July 1846, and March 1858 to June 1859; vice pres. of committee of privy council for education 12 July 1866 to March 1867, fourth charity comr. 18 July 1866; first lord of the Admiralty, March 1867 to Dec. 1868; author of Naval promotion and retirement 1863; The Navy, Speeches in House of Commons 1872. d. Bournemouth 6 March 1873. I.L.N. lxii, 259, 280, 282 (1873), portrait.

CORSER, Rev. Thomas (3 son of George Corser of Whitchurch, Salop, banker). b. Whitchurch 1793; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; C. of Prestwich, Lancs. 1823–6; R. of Stand near Manchester 8 Sep. 1826 to death; V. of Norton by Daventry, Northamptonshire 1828 to death; rural dean of Prestwich 1852–68; F.S.A. 1850; one of projectors of Chetham Society 1843; edited for the Society Chester’s Triumph 1844, Iter Lancastrense by R. James 1845, Robinson’s Golden Mirror 1850, and Collectanea Anglopoetica 5 parts 1860–80 being a description of the rare books in his own library which realised upwards of £20,000 when sold in London in 7 portions 1868–74. d. Stand rectory 24 Aug. 1876. Manchester school register iii, 32–36 (1874).

CORYTON, John Rawlins. Second lieut. R.M. 6 July 1803; col. commandant of Plymouth division 23 Dec. 1851 to 20 June 1855; granted good service pension 5 Sep. 1858; general 8 Sep. 1858. d. Woolwich 12 Sep. 1867 aged 77.

COSTA, Sir Michael Andrew Agnus (son of Cavaliere Pasquale Costa, who d. 1845). b. Naples 4 Feb. 1810; accompanist at San Carlo theatre, Naples 1828; sang at Birmingham musical festival, Oct. 1829; director of music at King’s theatre, London 1832–46; the first person in England to conduct with a baton instead of a violin bow 1832; naturalised in England 28 July 1845; director of music at Covent Garden 1846–66; conductor of the Philharmonic concerts 1846–54; conductor of Sacred harmonic society 22 Sep. 1848; directed triennial musical festivals at Birmingham 1849–79 and at Leeds 1874–80; directed Handel festivals at Crystal palace 1857–77; knighted at Windsor castle 14 April 1869; director of Her Majesty’s opera 1871–79; the first master of the art of conducting in England; composed oratorios of Eli and Naaman produced at Birmingham musical festivals 29 Aug. 1855 and 7 Sep. 1864, opera of Malek Adhel produced in Paris 1837 and in London 1838, and opera of Don Carlos produced at Her Majesty’s opera 1844; wrote many songs and other music. d. 13 Seafield, West Brighton 29 April 1884. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 6 May. Illust. Review i, 385–6 (1874), portrait; Touchstone 15 Feb. 1879, p. 3, portrait; Illust. news of the world iii, 385 (1859), portrait; I.L.N. i, 124 (1842), portrait, iv, 404 (1844), portrait, xxx, 13 (1857), portrait, lxxxiv, 440 (1884), portrait.

COSTELLO, Dudley (only son of James Francis Costello, captain 14 foot). b. Sussex 1803; ensign 34 foot 1821–23 when placed on h.p.; ensign 96 foot 1824–28 when placed on h.p.; served on the staff in North America and West Indies; contributed to many periodicals 1835 to death; foreign correspondent of Morning Herald 1838, of Daily News 1846; connected with the Examiner 1845 to death; granted civil list pension of £75 a year 19 April 1861; author of A tour through the valley of the Meuse 1845; Stories from a screen 1855; The joint-stock bank 1856; The millionaire of Mincing lane 1858; Faint heart never won fair lady 1859; Piedmont and Italy from the Alps to the Tiber 2 vols. 1859–61; Holidays with Hobgoblins 1861. d. 54 Acacia road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 Sep. 1865. Bentley’s Miscellany lviii, 543–50 (1865); The Examiner 7 Oct. 1865 p. 637.

COSTELLO, Louisa Stuart (only sister of the preceding). b. 1799; a miniature painter in Paris and London; copied many curious illuminated MSS. in Paris and London; granted civil list pension of £75, 9 Aug. 1852; lived at Boulogne 1865 to death; author of The maid of the Cyprus Isle and other poems 1815; Songs of a stranger 1825; A summer among the Bocages and the vines 1840; Memoirs of eminent Englishwomen 1844; The falls, lakes and mountains of North Wales 1845; The lay of the stork, a poem 1856 and 12 other books. d. of cancer in the mouth, at Boulogne 24 April 1870.

COSTELLO, William Birmingham. b. Dublin 1800; a surgeon in London about 1832; proprietor of Wyke house asylum, Sion hill, Brentford; edited Cyclopædia of practical surgery 12 parts 1841–3. d. Paris 15 Aug. 1867.

COTES, John. b. 17 July 1799; sheriff of Shropshire 1826; M.P. for North Shropshire 21 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834. d. Woodcote hall, Newport, Shropshire 10 Jany. 1874.

COTHER, Charles. Ensign 71 foot, Feb. 1800, lieut. col. 13 Oct. 1814; lieut. col. 83 foot 24 Oct. 1816 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; retired 3 Dec. 1829; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815. d. York buildings, Gloucester 24 Jany. 1855.

COTMAN, Joseph John (2 son of John Sell Cotman, landscape painter 1782–1842). b. 1814; a drawing master at Norwich 1836; an artist of much original power; produced a large number of good drawings; underwent an operation for cancer of the tongue, Feb. 1878. d. Norfolk and Norwich hospital, Norwich 15 March 1878.

COTMAN, Miles Edmund (brother of the preceding). b. 5 Jany. 1810; drawing master at Norwich to 1836; assistant drawing master at King’s college, London 1836, drawing master 1843; painted and taught at North Walsham latterly; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A., 10 at B.I. and 19 at Society of British Artists 1835–56; published Eleven original etchings, Norwich 1846. d. Norfolk and Norwich hospital, Norwich 23 Jany. 1858.

COTON, William. Pyrotechnic artist at 4 Elizabeth place, Westminster bridge, London; supplied the fireworks for Vauxhall gardens; killed by an explosion of fireworks at his factory 6 March 1854, his widow was killed by an explosion at same place 12 July 1858. Annual Register (1854) 40, (1858) 120–2.

COTTENHAM, Charles Christopher Pepys, 1 Earl of (2 son of Sir Wm. Weller Pepys, 1 baronet 1740–1825, master in chancery). b. Wimpole st. London 29 April 1781; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., LL.B. 1803; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1804; practised in court of chancery; K.C. 24 Aug. 1826; solicitor general to Queen Adelaide, Nov. 1830; M.P. for Higham Ferrers 14 July 1831 to Sep. 1831, for Malton 30 Sep. 1831 to Jany. 1836; solicitor general 22 Feb. 1834; knighted at St. James’s Palace 26 Feb. 1834; Master of the Rolls 29 Sep. 1834; P.C. 1 Oct. 1834; first comr. of the Great Seal 23 April 1835; lord chancellor 16 Jany. 1836 to 3 Sep. 1841 and 6 July 1846 to 19 June 1850 when he resigned; created Baron Cottenham of Cottenham, co. Cambridge 20 Jany. 1836; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 5 Oct. 1845 and his cousin Rev. Sir H. L. Pepys as 4 baronet 9 Dec. 1849; created Viscount Crowhurst and Earl of Cottenham 11 June 1850; the act 10 & 11 Vict. c. 96 whereby trustees are authorised to pay trust moneys into court is known as Lord Cottenham’s act. d. Pietra Santa, Duchy of Lucca 29 April 1851. bur. Totteridge, Herts. Doyle’s Official baronage i, 464 (1886), portrait; Law Mag. xlvi, 280–8 (1851); Law Review xiv, 353–9 (1851); Law mag. and law review xxvii, 264–72 (1869); Lord Cottenham’s Earldom, 2 ed. 1850.

COTTER, George Sackville. Second lieut. Madras artillery 15 June 1827, lieut. col. 1 Sep. 1860 to 15 Nov. 1861 when he retired; commanded at siege and capture of Lucknow, July 1857 to March 1858; C.B. 1 March 1861. d. 25 June 1878.

COTTER, Sir Ludlow (eld. son of Sir James Laurence Cotter, 4 baronet of Rockforest, Mallow, Cork, b. 1828). b. Dublin 11 June 1853; knighted by the Queen at Windsor castle 12 Dec. 1874 in accordance with a special privilege contained in the patent as the eldest son of a baronet. d. Rockforest 24 Nov. 1882.

COTTERILL, Right Rev. Henry (son of Rev. Joseph Cotterill, R. of Blakeney, Norfolk, who d. 14 Feb. 1858 aged 78). b. Ampton, Suffolk 1812; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., Bell’s scholar, fellow 1835; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1835, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836, D.D. 1857; chaplain at Madras 1836–47; vice principal of Brighton college 1847–51, principal 1851–56; bishop of Grahamstown 4 Nov. 1856 to 26 April 1871 when he was elected co-adjutor bishop of Edinburgh; bishop of Edin. April 1872 to death; author of The Seven ages of the Church 1849; The Genesis of the Church 1872; Does science aid faith in regard to creation 1883 and many other works. d. Manor place, Edin. 16 April 1886.

COTTINGHAM, Nockalls Johnson (elder son of Lewis Nockalls Cottingham, architect 1787–1847). b. 1823; an architect; assisted his father, especially in restoration of Hereford cathedral where he designed the reredos 1847; a designer for stained glass. Lost in the steamship Arctic which foundered about 50 miles from Cape Race on her way from Liverpool to New York 27 Sep. 1854.

COTTLE, Joseph. b. 1770; bookseller at Bristol 1791–99; published several of the works of the Lake poets Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth; author of Malvern Hills 1798, 4 ed. 1829; Alfred, an epic poem 1800, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1804; John the Baptist, a poem 1801; The fall of Cambria, a poem 2 vols. 1808, 2 ed. 1811; Early recollections chiefly relating to Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2 vols. 1837–39, 2 ed. 1847. d. Fairfield house, Knowle near Bristol 7 June 1853. Pen and ink sketches, 2 ed. (1847) 165–74; J. Cottle’s Early recollections (1837), portrait.

COTTON, Corbet. b. 10 Aug. 1808; ensign 19 foot 9 April 1825; assistant adjutant general of cavalry at head quarters 21 Aug. 1854 to 4 Oct. 1859; colonel 101 foot 29 Dec. 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 65 Warwick sq. Belgravia, London 30 April 1885.

COTTON, Francis Vere (son of Henry Calveley Cotton of Woodcote, Oxfordshire, who d. 15 May 1831 aged 81). b. 16 June 1799; entered navy, May 1814; captain 23 Nov. 1841; placed on retired list 4 June 1855; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. Alport house, Whitchurch, Salop 30 Jany. 1884.

COTTON, Right Rev. George Edward Lynch (only son of Thomas D’Avenant Cotton, captain 7 fusiliers, who was killed at Nivelle near Bayonne 13 Nov. 1813). b. Chester 29 Oct. 1813; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1838, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, D.D. 1858; assistant master at Rugby 1837–52, ‘the young master’ of Tom Brown’s School Days; master of Marlborough 1852–58 which he completely reorganised; bishop of Calcutta 29 March 1858 to death; consecrated in Westminster abbey 13 May 1858, installed 14 Nov. 1858; established schools in Bengal for educating the middle classes; author of numerous sermons, charges and other works; drowned at Kushtiâ on the Gorai river 6 Oct. 1866, body never found. Memoir of G. E. L. Cotton edited by Mrs. Cotton, new ed. (1872); Macmillan’s Mag. xv, 102–111 (1866); I.L.N. xxxii, 525 (1858), portrait.

COTTON, Very Rev. Henry. b. Bucks 1790; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch, Ox., reader in Greek 1810, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1813; sub-librarian at the Bodleian library 1814–22; a student of Ch. Ch.; domestic chaplain to archbishop of Cashel 1823; preb. of Killardriffe, Cashel 1 Oct. 1823 to 19 June 1824; archdeacon of Cashel 19 June 1824; treasurer of Ch. Ch. cathedral, Dublin 12 June 1832; dean of Lismore 16 Dec. 1834 to 1850; author of A list of editions of the Bible in English from 1505 to 1820, with specimens of translations 1821, 2 ed. 1852; A typographical gazetteer attempted 1824, 2 ed. 1831, second series 1866; The five books of Maccabees in English 1833; Fasti ecclesiæ Hibernicæ 5 vols. 1845–78; The four gospels and the acts of the apostles with short notes 1857, and many other works. d. Lismore 3 Dec. 1879.

COTTON, Very Rev. James Henry (2 son of Very Rev. George Cotton 1742–1805, dean of Chester). b. the deanery, Chester 8 Feb. 1781; ed. at Chester and St. John’s coll. Cam., LL.B. 1804; V. of Bangor 1819–38; precentor of Bangor 31 March 1810 to 31 March 1838; R. of Llanllechyd, Carnarvonshire 1821 to death; dean of Bangor 31 March 1838 to death; author of sermons, pamphlets and addresses. d. the deanery, Bangor 28 May 1862.

COTTON, John. Writer Madras civil service 1801; principal magistrate of Tangore 1821–27; annuitant on the fund 1 May 1830; a director of East India Co. 30 April 1833, deputy chairman of Court of directors 1842, chairman 1843–45. d. Westbourne terrace, Hyde Park, London 16 July 1860 aged 76.

COTTON, Rev. Richard Lynch (brother of Francis Vere Cotton 1799–1884). b. Woodcote 14 Aug. 1794; ed. at Charterhouse and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1839; scholar of Worcester coll. 8 May 1815, fellow 7 May 1816, tutor, dean and bursar, provost Feb. 1839 to death, resided continuously in Worcester coll. 1815 to 1880; V. of Denchworth near Wantage 1823–39; vice chancellor of Univ. of Ox. 1852–57; promoted building of Shippon, Dry Sandford and Headington Quarry churches; author of Scriptural view of the Lord’s Supper 1837; The way of salvation plainly and practically traced 1837; Lectures on the holy sacrament of the Lord’s Supper 1849. d. Oxford 8 Dec. 1880. bur. Holywell cemetery 14 Dec. Guardian 29 Dec. 1880 p. 1, 819.

COTTON, Sir Saint Vincent, 6 Baronet (eld. son of admiral Sir Charles Cotton, 5 baronet 1753–1812). b. Madingley hall, Cambs. 6 Oct. 1801; succeeded 24 Feb. 1812; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; cornet 10 light dragoons 13 May 1827, lieut. 13 Dec. 1827 to 19 Nov. 1830 when placed on h.p.; distinguished himself in the hunting, shooting, racing and pugilistic world; played in Marylebone cricket matches 1830–35; a great player at hazard; dissipated all his property; drove the ‘Age’ coach from Brighton to London and back for some years from 1836. d. 5 Hyde park terrace, Kensington road, London 25 Jany. 1863. New sporting mag. xii, 81, 421 (1837), portrait.

COTTON, Sir Sydney John (brother of Rev. Richard Lynch Cotton 1794–1880). b. 2 Dec. 1792; cornet 22 dragoons 19 April 1810; lieut. col. 28 foot 8 Jany. 1843; lieut. col. 22 foot 2 Dec. 1847; lieut. col. 10 foot 14 Dec. 1854 to 26 Oct. 1858; commanded the troops on north west frontier of India during Indian mutiny 1857–58; col. 10 foot 5 Feb. 1863 to death; L.G. 20 April 1866; governor of Chelsea hospital 10 May 1872 to death; K.C.B. 24 March 1858, G.C.B. 24 May 1873; author of Remarks on drill 1857; Nine years on the north west frontier of India 1868; The Central Asian question, a prophecy fulfilled 1869, reprinted 1878. d. Chelsea hospital 20 Feb. 1874. F. Brodigan’s Historical record of 28 Foot (1884) 94–9; Kaye’s Sepoy Mutiny ii, 453, et seq.; I.L.N. xxxii, 489 (1858), portrait; Graphic ix, 314, 328 (1874), portrait.

COTTON, William (son of Wm. Cotton of the Customs, who d. Balham hill near London 27 Oct. 1816 aged 58). b. 1794; made a special study of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s works; F.S.A.; author of A graphic and historical sketch of the antiquities of Totnes 1850; Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Gleanings from his diary 1856; Some account of the ancient borough town of Plympton St. Maurice or Plympton Earl 1859; gave a fine collection of books, prints and drawings to the Plymouth public library which erected a building for their reception and opened it to the public 1 June 1853. d. 8 West Hoe terrace, Plymouth 22 Jany. 1863. G.M. xiv, 520–22 (1863).

COTTON, William (3 son of Joseph Cotton of Leyton, Essex 1745–1825, deputy master of the Trinity house). b. Leyton 12 Sep. 1786; partner in firm of Huddart and Co. manufacturers of registered cables at Limehouse, London 1807; one of founders of National Society 1811; a director of Bank of England 1821–66, governor 1843–45, invented automatic weighing machine for gold 1844, still in use and called after him ‘the governor’; member of S.P.C.K. 50 years, treasurer; F.R.S. 21 May 1821; sheriff of Essex 1837; built and endowed St. Thomas’s church, Bethnal Green 1844 and St. Paul’s church, Bow Common 1847. d. Walwood house, Leytonstone, Essex 1 Dec. 1866, a painted memorial window to his memory was placed by public subscription in St. Paul’s cathedral. G.M. iii, 111–13 (1867); I.L.N. v, 20 (1844), portrait.

COTTON, Sir Willoughby (only son of Rowland Cotton, admiral R.N., who d. 3 Nov. 1794). b. Upper Grosvenor st. London 1783; ed. at Rugby where he was leader of a rebellion Nov. 1797; ensign 3 foot guards 31 Oct. 1798; lieut. col. 47 foot 17 May 1821, lieut. col. 14 foot 13 Oct. 1828 to 22 July 1830; commanded forces in Jamaica 1829–34 where he put down an insurrection of the slaves 1831; commanded first division of Bengal army in Afghan war 1838–39; commander in chief at Bombay 8 April 1847 to 30 Dec. 1850; colonel of 98 foot 1 Aug. 1839 to 17 April 1854, and of 32 foot 17 April 1854 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 21 Jany. 1840; K.C.H. 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 July 1830. d. 15 Lowndes sq. London 4 May 1860.

COUCH, Jonathan (only child of Richard Couch of Polperro, Cornwall 1739–1823). b. Polperro 15 March 1789; surgeon at Polperro 1810 to death; F.L.S. 6 April 1824; contributed to T. Bewick’s British Quadrupeds and W. Yarrell’s British Fishes; author of Cornish Fauna 3 parts 1838–44; Illustrations of instinct deduced from the habits of British animals 1847; A history of the fishes of the British islands 4 vols. 1860–65; translated Pliny’s Natural history 3 vols. 1847–50, published by the Wernerian Club. d. Polperro 13 April 1870. The history of Polperro by the late Jonathan Couch, with a short account of his life by T. Q. Couch 1871; Life of a Scotch naturalist Thomas Edward (1877) 292, 296, 333–49.

COUCH, Richard Quiller (eld. son of the preceding). b. Polperro 14 March 1816; ed. at Guy’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S. 1838, L.S.A. 1839; surgeon at Polperro; practised at Penzance 1843 to death; a sec. and curator of Penzance Natural history and antiquarian soc. 1845 to death; curator of Royal Geol. Soc. of Cornwall 1848 to death; contributed the third part (on the Zoophytes) to his father’s Cornish Fauna 1844, and an account of natural history of West Cornwall to J. S. Courtney’s Guide to Penzance 1845. d. Penzance 8 May 1863. G.M. xv, 106–8 (1863).

COUCH, Thomas Quiller (brother of the preceding). b. Polperro 28 May 1826; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1852; surgeon at Bodmin 1855 to death; F.S.A. 26 March 1870; a constant contributor to Notes and Queries, from which two series of his articles The folklore of a Cornish village 1855 and 1857 have been incorporated in his father’s History of Polperro 1871; published in the Journal of the Royal instit. of Cornwall 1864 and 1870 lists of local words afterwards included in a Glossary of words in use in Cornwall issued by the English Dialect Society 1880. d. Bodmin 23 Oct. 1884.

COULSON, Walter (2 son of Thomas Coulson, master painter in Devonport dockyard, who d. 1845). b. Torpoint, Cornwall 1794; amanuensis to Jeremy Bentham; parliamentary reporter on the Morning Chronicle; editor of the Traveller 1822, of the Globe and Traveller 1823; barrister G.I. 26 Nov. 1828, bencher, Nov. 1851; recorder of Penzance 18 July 1836 to Jany. 1838; Q.C. July 1851; parliamentary draughtsman for the home office; member of Political Economy club, June 1821; a registration and conveyancing comr. 1847; member of royal commission for Great Exhibition 1851. d. North bank, St. John’s Wood, London 21 Nov. 1860. Leigh Hunt’s Correspondence i, 98, 120, 126–34.

COULSON, William (brother of the preceding). b. Torpoint, Cornwall 15 Sep. 1801; studied in Berlin 1824–26; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1851, Hunterian orator 1861; a founder of Aldersgate st. school of medicine 1826; surgeon to Aldersgate st. dispensary 1828–32; consulting surgeon to City of London Lying-in hospital 1830; senior surgeon to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1843; sheriff of Cornwall 1863; F.S.A. 19 June 1856; accumulated £200,000, one of the largest fortunes ever made in practice; author of On deformities of the chest 1836, 2 ed. 1837; On diseases of the hip joint 1837, 2 ed. 1841; On diseases of the bladder and prostate gland 1838, 6 ed. 1865; On lithotrity and lithotomy 1853; Lectures on diseases of the joints 1854. d. 1 Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 5 May 1877. Medical Circular ii, 329–32, 349–51 (1853), portrait; Beattie’s Life of T. Campbell ii, 448–52 (1849).

COULTON, David Trevena. b. Devizes 1810; contributed to Quarterly Review; founded the Britannia, a weekly journal of news, politics and literature 13 April 1839 which he sold 1850; edited the Press and St. James’s Chronicle, weekly paper 1854 to death; invented a plan for an atmospheric railway; author of Fortune, a romance of life 3 vols. 1853; and of An inquiry into the authorship of the letters of Junius. d. Brighton 8 May 1857.

COUPER, Sir George, 1 Baronet (elder son of Robert Couper, M.D. of Fochabers, Morayshire). b. 21 June 1788; ensign 69 foot 2 Nov. 1797; major 92 foot 30 Dec. 1819 to 20 March 1823 when placed on h.p.; principal equerry and comptroller of the household to Duchess of Kent 1839 to death; K.H. 1831, C.B. 19 July 1838; created baronet 23 June 1841. d. Frogmore near Windsor 28 Feb. 1861.

COURTAULD, Samuel (eld. son of George Courtauld the first to introduce silk throwing into Essex). b. Albany in the State of New York 1 June 1793; brought to England in his infancy; developed the business of a silk throwster into that of a manufacturer of crape; head of firm of Courtauld & Co. crape manufacturers, Bocking, Essex; in the Consistory court 8 Nov. 1837 raised question of legality of a church rate in Braintree, case settled in house of lords in his favor 12 Aug. 1853; presented with a testimonial worth 700 guineas at Braintree 25 Sept. 1855; F.R.A.S. 8 Nov. 1867. d. Gosfield hall, Essex 21 March 1881, personalty sworn under £700,000, 7 May 1881. I.L.N. 13 Oct. 1855 pp. 445–46 with view of testimonial; Monthly Notices of R.A.S. xlii, 144 (1882); The Braintree church rate case, Gosling v. Veley, by W. W. Attree 1853.

COURTENAY, Francis Burdett (son of Mr. Courtenay of Ryde, Isle of Wight, surgeon). M.R.C.S. 13 July 1833; settled in London as a specialist in urethral diseases 1833; surgeon to hospital for stricture of the urethra, London; author of Enlargement of the prostate gland in old people 1839; Pathology and cure of stricture of the urethra 1843; On Spermattorrhea and the professional fallacies which prevail in relation to its nature 1858, 13 ed. 1884; Revelations of quacks and quackery, by Detector, pseud. 1865, 11 ed. 1886. d. 2 Chandos st. Cavendish sq. London 15 March 1886 in 76 year. Medical Circular iii, 71, 72 (1853).

COURTENAY, George William Conway. b. Beach hall near Chester 1795; entered navy 26 Sep. 1805; captain 14 April 1828; consul general at Hayti 1832–42; V.A. 29 July 1861. d. 1E The Albany, Piccadilly, London 31 March 1863.

COURTHOPE, William (only son of Thomas Courthope of Rotherhithe). b. Rotherhithe 6 May 1808; private clerk to Francis Townsend, Rouge Dragon 1824; clerk to the College of Arms 1833; Rouge Croix pursuivant of arms Feb. 1839; sec. to Garter King of arms 1842; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1851; Somerset Herald 31 Jany. 1854; registrar of College of arms, Nov. 1859; author of Synopsis of extinct baronetage 1835; Memoir of Daniel Chamier 1852, privately printed; A pictorial history of the Earls of Warwick by John Rows dated 1845 but not published until 1859; edited Sir N. H. Nicolas’s Historic peerage of England 1853. d. Hastings 13 May 1866. bur. Wadhurst.

COURTNEY, John Sampson (eld. son of James Courtney of the Excise 1778–1860). b. Ilfracombe 10 Oct. 1803; clerk in Mount’s Bay bank, Penzance 1829, manager 1856 to death; author of A guide to Penzance and its neighbourhood, including the Islands of Scilly 1845; and of several papers in Transactions of Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1838–42. d. Alverton, Penzance 10 Feb. 1881. Half a century at Penzance (1825–1875) from notes by J. S. Courtney, written by Louise Courtney 1878; Times 12 Feb. 1881 p. 9, col. 6.

COUSEN, John. b. Mirashay near Bradford 19 Feb. 1804; one of the best landscape engravers, retired from practice about 1864; engraved book plates after Turner for The Rivers of France, and after Stansfield for Heath’s Picturesque Annual 1833 and 1834; engraved plates for the Royal, Vernon and Turner galleries issued in the Art Journal. d. Holmesdale road, South Norwood near London 26 Dec. 1880. bur. Croydon cemetery.

COUSINS, Samuel. b. Exeter 9 May 1801; apprenticed to S. W. Reynolds the engraver, Sep. 1814, assistant to him; a mezzotint engraver at 104 Great Russell st. London 1826; A.R.A. Nov. 1835, associate engraver 1854, the first academician engraver 10 Feb. 1855; presented an almost complete set of his engravings to British Museum 1872; gave £15,000 to R.A. for benefit of poor artists about 1872; T. Agnew and Sons held an exhibition of his works at Manchester 1877; another exhibition took place at the Fine Art Society 148 New Bond st. London 1883 and a third was held at H. Graves and Co.’s, Pall Mall 1887. d. 24 Camden sq. London 7 May 1887. G. Pycroft’s Memoir of S. Cousins (1887) privately printed; Artists at home 1 April 1884 pt. ii, p. 19; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 322–4 (1862).

COVENTRY, Thomas. Barrister L.I. 1 July 1824; author of Concise forms in conveyancing 1827; On conveyancers’ evidence 1832; A readable edition of Coke upon Littleton 1830; author with Samuel Hughes of Analytical digested index to the common law reports 2 vols. 1827. d. Nice 19 April 1869 aged 72.

COWAN, Charles (son of Rev. Thomas Conolly Cowan, who d. Reading 1856). M.D. Edin. and L.R.C.S. Edin. 1833, M.D. Paris 1834; pres. of Hunterian Soc.; an early exponent of the science and art of auscultation; practised at Bath 1835–9, at Reading 1839 to death; senior phys. Royal Berkshire hospital 1839, the best speaker in the profession; author of A Bedside manual, or a physical diagnosis of the lungs, &c. 1836; Phrenology consistent with science and revelation 1841, and many other works. d. Reading 6 Dec. 1868 aged 62. Barker’s Photographs (1868), ii, 9–13, portrait.

COWAN, John (son of Hugh Cowan of Ayr). b. Ayr 1798; ed. at Ayr academy and Univ. of Edin.; called to Scotch bar 1822; sheriff of Kincardineshire 10 Jany. 1848; solicitor general for Scotland 18 April 1851; lord of session and lord of justiciary 23 June 1851 to Jany. 1874 with courtesy title of Lord Cowan. d. Elmbank, Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1878.

COWARD, James. b. London 25 Jany. 1824; a chorister in Westminster abbey; obtained 13 prizes for glees 1845–67; organist of Lambeth parish church; organist at Crystal palace 1857 to death; conductor of the Western Madrigal Society, Oct. 1864 to March 1872; organist of St. George’s church, Bloomsbury 1866–69, of the Sacred Harmonic Society and of Grand lodge of Freemasons; organist of St. Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge to death; published O Lord correct me an anthem, Sing unto God a canon, Airy fairy Lilian and other part songs. d. 38 Lupus st. Pimlico, London 22 Jany. 1880.

COWELL, Joseph Leathley. b. near Torquay 7 Aug. 1792; midshipman R.N. 1805–8; made his debut 23 Jany. 1812 at Devonport as Belcour in The West Indian; first appeared in London at Drury lane theatre 1812 as Samson Rawbold in Colman’s Iron Chest, acted there till 1818; composed and acted on the Lincoln circuit a three hours olio called ‘Cowell alone or a trip to London’; played at Adelphi, Drury Lane and Astley’s; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New York, Oct. 1821 in The foundling of the forest; left the Park theatre 24 July 1823; opened Philadelphia theatre at Wilmington, Delaware, Sep. 1827; acted at Adelphi and other London theatres; author of Thirty years passed among the players in England and America 2 vols. 1845. d. Vauxhall, London 14 Nov. 1863. J. N. Ireland’s Records of New York stage i, 394–5 (1866); Era 22 Nov. 1863 p. 10, col. 1.

COWELL, Samuel Houghton (son of the preceding). b. Craven buildings, Drury lane, London 5 April 1819; first appeared on the stage at Boston, U.S. 1829 as Crack in T. Knight’s Turnpike Gate; acted in all chief theatres in the U.S.; played Alessio in La Sonnambula at Surrey theatre, London 15 July 1844; acted at T.R. Edinburgh 4 years, then in London at Olympic, Princess’s and Covent Garden, at Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin; one of the leaders of the Monte Christo row at Drury Lane theatre 12 June 1848; the leading comic singer at chief music halls in London and the provinces 1851–60; sang in United States 1860–62; his best songs were Billy Barlow, Lord Lovel, The ratcatcher’s daughter, Alonzo the brave and Richard the Third; sang The Ratcatcher’s Daughter at Canterbury Arms 12 Feb. 1855 and more than 50 nights afterwards; sang Lord Lovel 600 times; composed music to his own ballads Clara Cline, The Yellow Busha-Belle, In Westminster 1855, &c. d. Crown hotel, Blandford, Dorset 11 March 1864. Rambles by Patricius Walker [W. Allingham] 1873, pp. 252–55; Tallis’s Illustrated life in London (1864) 86, 88, 89, 2 portraits; Theatrical times iii, 241–2 (1848), portrait; Illust. sporting news iii, 92 (1864), v, 268 (1866), portrait; Era 20 March 1864 p. 6, col. 2; S. Cowell’s New illustrated pocket songster 4 vols. 1856.

COWELL, William. b. Dublin 1820; connected with Broadway theatre, New York 1847; travelled with Barry Sullivan the actor as business manager 1858; wrote pamphlets in defence of the stage against attacks of Rev. Dr. Hatfield of Chicago; his pamphlets were considered as able a defence of the profession as ever written. d. Philadelphia 24 Feb. 1868.

COWELL-STEPNEY, Sir John Stepney, 1 Baronet (elder son of Andrew Cowell of Coleshill, Bucks., general who commanded brigade of guards in Irish rebellion, and d. 21 Sep. 1821). b. 23 Feb. 1791; ensign Coldstream guards 18 May 1809, captain 15 June 1830 to 22 May 1832 when he sold out; served in 6 campaigns under Duke of Wellington and Lord Lynedoch; assumed additional surname of Stepney 29 Dec. 1857; sheriff of Carmarthen 1862; M.P. for Carmarthen 1868–74; K.H. 1832; created baronet 22 Sep. 1871; author of Leaves from the diary of an officer of the Guards 1854. d. 5 St. George’s place, London 15 May 1877. T. Nicholas’s County families of Wales i, 282 (1872).

COWEN, Sir Joseph (eld. son of John Cowen of Winlaton, Durham). b. Greenside, Durham, Feb. 1800; a fire brick and clay retort manufacturer; alderman of Newcastle; chairman of Gateshead Board of Guardians; appointed by act of parliament a life member of Tyne improvement commission, chairman of this commission; M.P. for Newcastle upon Tyne, July 1865 to death; knighted at Buckingham palace 14 March 1872. d. Stella hall near Blaydon-on-Tyne 19 Dec. 1873. I.L.N. lxiv, 22, 36 (1874), portrait, lxviii, 35 (1876).

COWEN, William. b. Rotherham, Yorkshire; landscape painter; exhibited at Society of Artists 1811, at British Institution 1823–60, at the R.A. 1824–39; published Yorkshire scenery from drawings by W. Cowen 1826; a series of 12 etchings of Corsica 1843 included in his Six weeks in Corsica 1848; contributed view of Kilchurn castle, Loch Awe to fresco competition in Westminster hall 1844. d. about 1860.

COWIE, Hugh (eld. son of Alexander Cowie of Auchterless, co. Aberdeen). b. June 1829; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, 26 wrangler 1851; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1860; barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1862, bencher 26 May 1880; a revising barrister for home circuit 1868; recorder of Maldon and of Saffron Walden 11 Aug. 1873 to death; admitted barrister M.T. 13 April 1875; chancellor of diocese of Durham, Jany. 1876; sec. to Criminal code commission 1878; Q.C. 16 Dec. 1882; reporter in Court of Exchequer for the Law Journal Reports 1864–71. d. Ythandale, Wimbledon park near London 20 July 1886.

COWIE, Robert. b. Lerwick, Shetland Islands 1842; ed. at Univs. of Aberdeen and Edin; M.A. Aberdeen; M.D. Edin. 1866; author of Shetland descriptive and historical 1871, 3 ed. 1879. d. 8 May 1874.

COWLE, William. b. 6 Feb. 1802; played with success leading characters at various London theatres from 1822; a favourite actor at Birmingham; a founder of Royal general theatrical fund 7 Nov. 1838, one of its annuitants Feb. 1862 to death. d. 92 Camden St. London 22 March 1885.

COWLEY, Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1 Earl (eld. child of Henry Wellesley, 1 baron Cowley 1773–1847). b. Hertford st. London 17 July 1804; attaché of embassy at Vienna 1 Oct. 1824; succeeded 27 April 1847; minister plenipotentiary to Berne 29 Feb. 1848; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Frankfort 8 Feb. 1849, to Germanic confederation 7 June 1851; P.C. 2 Feb. 1852; ambassador extraord. and plenipotentiary to French republic 5 Feb. 1852 to July 1867; joint plenipo. with Earl of Clarendon at conference of Paris Feb. to March 1856; signed treaty of peace with Russia 30 March 1856, with Persia 4 March 1857; created Earl Cowley and Viscount Dangan 11 April 1857; employed on a confidential mission to Vienna Feb. to March 1859; signed at Paris, treaty of commerce between England and France 23 Jany. 1860; retired on a pension of £1700 16 July 1867; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 1 March 1851, G.C.B. 21 Feb. 1853; K.G. 3 Feb. 1866. d. 20 Albemarle st. London 15 July 1884. bur. parish church, Draycot near Chippenham 19 July. Times 16 July 1884 p. 9, col. 5.

COWLING, John. b. 1802; educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., senior wr. and 1st Smith’s prizeman 1824, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, fellow of St. John’s coll. 6 April 1824; barrister M.T. 9 Nov. 1827; deputy high steward of Univ. of Cam. 1839 to death; standing counsel to Univ. of Cam. 1845 to death. d. 28B Albemarle st. London 12 Dec. 1855.

COWPER, George Augustus Frederick Cowper, 6 Earl (eld. son of 5 Earl Cowper 1778–1837). b. George st. Hanover sq. London 26 June 1806; cornet Royal horse guards 28 April 1827, lieut. 1830; lieut. 31 foot 13 Feb. to 6 March 1835; M.P. for Canterbury 31 July 1830 to 29 Dec. 1834; under secretary of state for foreign department 13 Nov. to 17 Dec. 1834; succeeded 21 June 1837; lord lieut. of Kent 21 April 1849 to death. d. at house of governor of the gaol, Maidstone 15 April 1856. Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain iii, 7–17 (1854).

COWPER, Sir Charles (son of Ven. Wm. Cowper 1780–1858). b. Drypool, Yorkshire 26 April 1807; secretary of Church and school lands corporation at Sydney 1826–33 when corporation was dissolved; sheep breeder on the Murray river 1833; member for co. Cumberland of legislative council 1843–50, for Durham 1851–56, for Sydney 1856–59, for Liverpool Plains 1869–70; colonial sec. N.S.W. 26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856, 7 Sep. 1857 to 26 Oct. 1859, 9 March 1860 to 15 Oct. 1863, 3 Feb. 1865 to 21 Jany. 1866 and 13 Jany. 1870 to 15 Dec. 1870; agent general for N.S.W. in London 6 Dec. 1870 to 31 May 1871; C.M.G. 23 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1872. d. Eldon road, Kensington, London 19 Oct. 1875. Heaton’s Australian dictionary of dates (1879) 44–7.

COWPER, Ebenezer. Articled to Mr. Lloyd, engineer, Gravel lane, Southwark, London; partner with his brother Edward Cowper; spent his life in putting up printing presses in England, Scotland, Ireland and on the Continent on the Cowper-Applegath model; the first edition of the Waverley novels was printed at Edinburgh off a Cowper machine; erected 12 machines at Imprimerie Royale, Paris 1830; Cowper machines although superseded by the Walter press for printing newspapers are still used for printing books; erected the printing machinery in the Bank of England. d. Harbourne road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 14 Sep. 1880 aged 77. Engineering 24 Sep. 1880 p. 257; Iron 24 Sep. 1880 p. 244.

COWPER, Edward (brother of the preceding). b. 1790; ironmonger at St. Mary, Newington Butts 1816; printer in Nelson sq. 1818; partner with his brother-in-law Augustus Applegath; they jointly invented the four-cylinder printing machine and erected it at the Times office 1827; partner with his brother Ebenezer as machine makers, their machines were widely used throughout Europe; invented an ink distributing machine; professor of manufacturing art and machinery at King’s college, London 1846 to death. d. 9 Kensington park road, London 17 Oct. 1852. Wyman’s Bibliography of printing (1880), 14, 146.

COWPER, Henry Frederick (2 son of 6 Earl Cowper 1806–56). b. 18 April 1836; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; contested Tamworth, Oct. 1863 and Herts. March 1864; M.P. for Herts. 24 July 1865 to Nov. 1885. d. Panshanger, Hertford 10 Nov. 1887. I.L.N. liv, 213 (1869), portrait.

COWPER, John Curtis, stage name of John Curtis (son of David Curtis of Manchester, painter). b. Port st. Piccadilly, Manchester 7 June 1827; first appeared at T.R. Manchester as Romeo; played star engagements with G. V. Brooke; leading tragedian at T.R. Liverpool; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre, 17 Dec. 1862 as Duke Aranza in The Honeymoon; played leading parts at Drury Lane, Princess’s, Holborn and other London theatres. d. Barnes, Surrey 30 Jany. 1885. bur. Brompton cemetery, London 4 Feb.

COWPER, Ven. William. b. Whittington, Lancs. 28 Dec. 1780; C. of Rawdon near Leeds; senior assistant colonial chaplain 1 Jany. 1808; arrived in Sydney 18 Aug. 1809; Inc. of St. Philip’s ch. Sydney, Aug. 1809 to death, ch. was consecrated 25 Dec. 1810; organised the Benevolent 1818, Bible and Religious tract societies in N.S.W.; sec. of diocesan committees of the S.P.C.K. and S.P.G.; archdeacon of Cumberland and Camden 1848 to death; special commissary during Bishop Broughton’s absence in Europe 1852. d. Sydney 6 July 1858.

COX, David (only son of Joseph Cox of Birmingham, whitesmith, who d. about 1830). b. Heath mill lane, Deritend, Birmingham 29 April 1783; scene painter at Birmingham theatre 1800–4; came to London 1804; member of Soc. of painters in water colours 1813; drawing master in schools at Hereford 1814–26; exhibited 136 pictures at Pall Mall gallery 1844–54; made his first sketching visit to Bettws-y-coed then nearly unknown 1844, painted sign of the Royal Oak Inn there 1847 which he re-touched and varnished 1849; the greatest English water colour painter except Turner, his picture ‘The Hayfield’ fetched £2950 at the Quilter sale, April 1875, a price unparalleled for any water-colour; the best collections of his works were exhibited in Liverpool, Nov. 1875 numbering 448 pictures insured for about £100,000, and at Manchester Exhibition 1887; illustrated various works; author of The young artist’s companion 1825; A treatise on landscape painting 1841. d. Greenfield house, Harborne near Birmingham 7 June 1859. A biography of D. Cox by W. Hall (1881), portrait; Memoirs of D. Cox by N. N. Solly (1875); Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, i, 124–6; Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 479–86 (1866); I.L.N. xxxv, 28, 42 (1859), portrait.

COX, David (only child of the preceding). b. Dulwich Common, summer of 1809; pupil of his father; a water-colour painter; exhibited at the R.A. 1827; associate of Soc. of painters in water-colours 1849. d. Chester house, Mount Ephraim road, Streatham, Surrey 4 Dec. 1885.

COX, Rev. Edward (son of Edward Cox, who d. 27 Dec. 1849 aged 73). b. about 1806; ed. at Old hall near Ware, Herts.; assistant priest at Chelsea; pres. of St. Edmund’s college at Old hall green, Aug. 1840 to Aug. 1851; missioner at Southampton, Aug. 1851 to death; a member of the Southwark chapter, vicar general; canon of Southwark; published The history of the church translated from the German of the Rev. J. J. von Döllinger 4 vols. 1840–2; A treatise on the church, translated from the German of the Rev. H. Klee 1847; The Our Father, or illustrations of the Lord’s prayer, from the German of J. E. Veith 1849. d. Southampton 9 Nov. 1856.

COX, Edward Townsend (son of Rev. Thomas Cox, chaplain of St. John’s, Deritend, Birmingham). b. Deritend 1769; surgeon at Stratford-on-Avon, surgeon to the infirmary at Birmingham 40 years; took an active part in founding and conducting Royal school of medicine; a most successful accoucheur; disliked travelling so much that he had never seen the sea. d. 26 Nov. 1863. W. S. Cox’s Annals of Queen’s college, iv, 149–54 (1873).

COX, Edward William (eld. son of Wm. Charles Cox of Taunton, manufacturer). b. Taunton 1809; barrister M.T. 5 May 1843; recorder of Helston and Falmouth, Feb. 1857 to June 1868; serjeant at law 29 May 1868; recorder of Portsmouth, June 1868; M. P. for Taunton 1868–1869 when unseated on petition; chairman of second court of Middlesex sessions, March 1870 to death; founded 22 Feb. 1875 Psychological society of Great Britain, pres. to his death, society was dissolved 31 Dec. 1879; established Law Times 8 April 1843; County courts chronicle and gazette of bankruptcy 1846; Exchange and Mart; The country, a journal of rural pursuits 1873; purchased from Benjamin Webster The Field, a gentleman’s newspaper devoted to sport; proprietor of The Queen, a lady’s newspaper; wrote or edited 1829, A Poem 1829; Reports of cases in criminal law 13 vols. 1846–78; The magistrate 1848; The advocate 1852; The law and practice of joint-stock companies 1855, 7 ed. 1870; Reports of all the cases relating to the law of joint-stock companies 4 vols. 1867–71; What am I? 1873; The mechanism of man 1876; A monograph of sleep and dreams 1878. d. Moat mount, Mill Hill, Middlesex 24 Nov. 1879. S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life ii, 121–6 (1883); Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 208–11; I.L.N. 6 Dec. 1879 pp. 529, 530, portrait.

COX, Rev. Francis Augustus. b. Leighton Buzzard 7 March 1783; ed. at the Baptist college, Bristol and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1802; ordained to ministry of Baptist congregation at Clipstone, Northamptonshire 4 April 1804; pastor of Baptist chapel, Hackney, London 3 Oct. 1811 to death; sec. to general body of dissenting ministers of the three denominations residing in and near London 3 years; a projector and founder of London University 1828, librarian short time; LLD. Glasgow 1824, D.D. Waterville, U.S. 1838; author of Female scripture biography 2 vols. 1817; History of the Baptist missionary society from 1792 to 1842, 2 vols. 1842, and many other works. d. King Edward’s road, South Hackney, London 5 Sep. 1853.

COX, Rev. George Valentine (son of Charles Cox of St. Martin’s, Oxford). b. Oxford 1786; ed. at Magdalen college sch. and New coll. Ox., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808; master of New college school 1806 to June 1857; Esquire Bedel in law in Univ. of Ox. March 1806, in medicine and arts 29 Jany. 1815 to 1866, University coroner 1808; chaplain of New coll. 1812–20; author of Jeannette Isabelle 3 vols. 1837 a novel; The Prayer book epistles 1846; Recollections of Oxford 1868; translated from the German Dahlmann’s Life of Herodotus 1845, Neander’s Emperor Julian and his generation 1850, and Ullmann’s Gregory of Nazianzum 1851. d. Cowley lodge, Oxford 19 March 1875.

COX, Harry, stage name of Oliver James Bussley. b. Bristol 1841; first appeared in London at Prince of Wales’s theatre 15 April 1865 as Alessio in H. J. Byron’s burlesque La Sonnambula; acted at Strand theatre, April 1872 to day before his death. d. 3 Burfield st. Hammersmith 10 Jany. 1882. Era 14 Jany. 1882 p. 5, col. 2; Entr’ Acte 21 Jany. 1882, portrait.

COX, Henry Chambers Murray. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel 58 Bengal N.I. 5 June 1853 to 1869; general 9 Dec. 1871. d. St. Ann’s, Burnham, Somerset 22 July 1876.

COX, John. Second lieut. Rifle brigade 16 March 1808, major 19 Aug. 1828 to 17 Feb. 1837 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 18 Dec. 1855; colonel 88 foot 13 Oct. 1860 to death; K.H. 1832. d. Cheltenham 7 Feb. 1863.

COX, John Hamilton (only son of Wm. Cox, K.H. who d. 13 Jany. 1857). b. 1817; ensign 75 foot 10 Oct. 1834, captain 23 March 1849 to 2 Dec. 1862 when placed on h.p.; brigade major to Highland brigade during Indian mutiny; C.B. 24 May 1873; M.G. retired on full pay 5 July 1873. d. 37 Sterndale road, West Kensington, London 10 March 1887.

COX, John Lewis. Head of the firm of Cox and Sons (afterwards Cox and Wyman) printers to the H.E.I. Co. Great Queen st. London; master of Stationer’s Co. 1849–50. d. Ham Common near London 1 Feb. 1856 aged 79.

COX, Robert (3 son of Robert Cox of Georgie Mills, co. Edinburgh, leather-dresser). b. Georgie 25 Feb. 1810; ed. at high sch. and Univ. Edin.; a writer to the signet 1832; sec. of a literary institution at Liverpool 1835–39; edited Phrenological Journal, numbers xxxiv to l of the first series and 1841–47; compiled index to the 22 vols. of Encyclopædia Britannica, 7 ed. 1842; author of Sabbath laws and Sabbath duties 1853; The literature of the Sabbath question 2 vols. 1865; bequeathed his collection of books on the Sabbath question to Advocates’ library, Edin. d. Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1872.

COX, Talbot Ashley. b. 9 July 1836; ensign 3 foot 29 July 1853, lieut. col. 12 July 1871 to death; C.B. 2 June 1877. d. Cawnpore 9 Dec. 1877.

COX, William. Second lieut. 95 foot 6 June 1805; major 75 foot 20 June 1834 to 1 July 1843 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854; K.H. 1835. d. St. Leonard’s on Sea 13 Jany. 1857.

COX, Sir William (3 son of John Cox of Coolcliffe, co. Wexford 1749–93). b. Coolcliffe 5 Dec. 1776; ensign 68 foot 1 Oct. 1794; commanded fortress of Almeida, April 1809 to 27 Aug. 1810 when its magazine having exploded he surrendered; lieut. col. Portugese army 16 Feb. 1809 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; K.T.S. 28 Aug. 1815; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 13 Aug. 1816; colonel in British army 12 Aug. 1819; sheriff of King’s County 1825. d. Longford place, Monkstown, co. Dublin 1 July 1864.

COX, William James (2 son of Philip Cox 1779–1841, proprietor of the Royal tennis court, James st. Haymarket, London). b. 2 Feb. 1806; part proprietor of the Royal tennis court many years; champion of England at game of tennis. d. Brantford, Canada West 30 June 1864. J. Marshall’s Annals of tennis (1878) 100–106.

COX, William Sands (eld. son of Edward Townsend Cox of Birmingham, surgeon 1769–1863). b. 38 Cannon st. Birmingham 1802; L.S.A. 1823; M.R.C.S. 1824, F.R.C.S. 1843; started a medical and surgical class-room at Temple row, Birmingham 1 Dec. 1825; removed to an old chapel in Paradise st. 1830 which he named the School of Medicine, it was incorporated by royal charter as the Queen’s college 1843, principal of the college 1858–9; founded Queen’s hospital, Birmingham 1840–1; F.R.S. 5 May 1836; member of French Institute; hon. member of nearly every important surgical school in Europe; author of A synopsis of the bones, ligaments and muscles, bloodvessels and nerves of the human body 1831; Annals of Queen’s college 4 vols. 1873. d. Woodside, Kenilworth 23 Dec. 1875. Barker’s Photographs of eminent medical men i, 61–6 (1865), portrait, reprinted in Cox’s Annals iv, 155–60 (1873); E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 132–39.

COXE, Rev. Henry Octavius (8 son of Rev. Richard Coxe, V. of Bucklebury, Berkshire). b. Bucklebury 20 Sep. 1811; ed. at Westminster and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; entered manuscript department of British Museum, May 1833; C. of Culham 1839–48, of Tubney 1848–55 both near Oxford; sub-librarian of Bodleian library 16 Nov. 1838, librarian 6 Nov. 1860 to death, catalogue of 723 folio volumes was compiled 1859–80; select preacher to Univ. of Ox. 1842; Whitehall preacher 1868; chaplain of C.C. coll. Ox. 1847–74; lecturer at St. Martin’s, Carfax, Oxford 1852–59; C. of Wytham, Berks. 1861–68; R. of Wytham 1868 to death; presided at annual meeting of Library Association at Oxford 1 to 3 Oct. 1878, pres. of Association 25 Sep. 1879 to death; published Forms of bidding prayer 1840; Rogeri de Wendover Chronica 5 vols. (English Hist. Soc.) 1841–4; The Black Prince, an historical poem written in French by Chandos Herald (Roxburghe club) 1842; Report on the Greek manuscripts yet remaining in libraries of the Levant 1858. d. St. Giles’s road, Oxford 8 July 1881. bur. at Wytham 12 July.

COXE, Sir James (4 son of Robert Coxe of Georgie, Midlothian). b. Georgie 1811; ed. at Gottingen, Heidelberg, Paris and Univ. of Edin., M.D. Edin. 1835; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1835; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1837; wrote Report on management of the insane in Scotland 1855; paid comr. in lunacy for Scotland 23 Sep. 1857 to death, wrote first fifteen reports of the Commissioners; knighted by patent 10 Aug. 1863; F.R.S. Edin. d. Folkestone on returning from Paris 9 May 1878. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x, 15 (1880).

COXE, Ven. Richard Charles (brother of Rev. Henry Octavius Coxe 1811–81). Ed. at Reading gr. sch.; matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 29 Nov. 1817 aged 17, scholar 1818, B. A. 1821, M.A. 1824; fellow of his coll. 1823–26; Inc. of Abp. Tenison’s chapel, Regent St. London 1829–41; V. of Newcastle 1841–53; hon. canon of Durham 1843–58; archdeacon of Lindisfarne, March 1853 to death; V. of Eglingham, Northumberland, March 1853 to death; canon of Durham, Dec. 1857 to death; author of Lectures on the evidence from miracles 1832; The Mercy at Marsdon rocks 1844; Poems scriptural, classical and miscellaneous 1845; Leda Tanah the martyr’s child, Derwent Bank 1851. d. Eglingham vicarage 25 Aug. 1865.

COXETER, Elizabeth. b. Witney, Oxon. 1 Feb. 1775. d. Newbury, Berkshire 27 Nov. 1876 nearly 102 years of age. Notes and Queries 5 S. iii, 144 (1875), vi, 460 (1876).

COYNE, Frederick. Comic singer at principal music halls in London and the provinces 1867 to death; wrote the music to Tuner’s Oppertuner-ty, a song 1879. d. 8 Huntingdon st. Kingsland road, London 23 Feb. 1886 aged 39. bur. Abney park cemetery 27 Feb. Entr’acte 6 March 1886 p. 9, portrait.

COYNE, Joseph Stirling (son of Denis Coyne, port surveyor of Waterford). b. Birr, King’s county 1803; his first farce called The Phrenologist was produced at T.R. Dublin, June 1835; came to London 1836 where his farce The queer subject was produced at Adelphi theatre, Nov. 1836; author of upwards of 55 dramas, burlesques and farces produced chiefly at Adelphi and Haymarket theatres; his drama called Everybody’s Friend was brought out at the Haymarket 2 April 1859 it was reproduced at St. James’s 16 Oct. 1867 as The Widow Hunt; contributed to the first number of Punch 17 July 1841; secretary to Dramatic authors’ society 1856 to death; dramatic critic on Sunday Times newspaper; author of Scenery and antiquities of Ireland 2 vols. 1842; Pippins and pies, or sketches out of school 1855; Sam Spangle or the history of a harlequin 1866. d. 61 Talbot road, Westbourne park, London 18 July 1868.

CRABB, George. b. Palgrave, Suffolk 8 Dec. 1778; classical master at Thorp-Arch school, Yorkshire; studied German at Bremen 1801–6; gentleman commoner at Magd. hall, Ox. 1814, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1822; barrister I.T. 3 July 1829; author of English synonyms explained, in alphabetical order 1816, 7 ed. 1844 after which the book was stereotyped; Universal technological dictionary 2 vols. 1823; Universal historical dictionary 2 vols. 1825; History of the English law 1829; Precedents in conveyancing 2 vols. 1835, 5 ed. 1859; Digest and index of all the statutes at large 4 vols. 1841–7; Law of real property 2 vols. 1846. d. Hammersmith 4 Dec. 1851.

CRABB, Rev. James (3 son of James Crabb of Wilton, Wiltshire, cloth manufacturer). b. Wilton 13 April 1774; joined the Wesleyans, Feb. 1791; kept a school at Romsey, and at Spring hill, Southampton; minister of Zion chapel, Lansdowne hill, Southampton, opened 9 June 1824; founded infant day schools at Kingsland Place, Southampton, the earliest in England; was popularly known as the Gipsy’s friend and was the missionary referred to in Rev. Legh Richmond’s Dairyman’s Daughter as having first brought her to a sense of religion; author of The Gipsies Advocate 1831, 3 ed. 1832; An address to Irvingites in which their heresy, modes of worship, etc. are set forth 1836. d. Springhill house, Southampton 17 Sep. 1851. Memoir of Rev. James Crabb by John Rudall 1854, portrait; G.M. xxxvi, 659–60 (1851).

CRABBE, Eyre John. Ensign 74 foot 11 June 1807, lieut.-col. 6 Nov. 1841 to 1 May 1846 when placed on retired full pay; col. in the army 28 Nov. 1854; K.H. 1837. d. Highfield, Southampton 19 March 1859 aged 68.

CRABBE, Rev. George (eld. son of George Crabbe the poet 1754–1832). b. Stathern, Leics. 16 Nov. 1785; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807; C. of Pucklechurch, Gloucs. 1817–34; V. of Bredfield and Pettistree, Suffolk 1834 to death; author of Life of George Crabbe 1838; Outlines of a system of natural theology 1840. d. Bredfield vicarage 16 Sep. 1857.

CRACE, Frederick (son of John Crace of London, architectural decorator 1754–1819). b. 3 June 1779; architectural decorator; employed on work at royal palaces, London, Brighton and Windsor; a comr. of Sewers; began to collect maps and views of London about 1818, his splendid collection was purchased by the British Museum from his son John Gregory Crace 1880, it consists of between five and six thousand prints and drawings arranged in a series of 57 portfolios, it is described in Catalogues of maps, plans and views of London collected and arranged by F. Crace edited by J. G. Crace 1878, a very large number of the illustrations in Thornbury and Walford’s Old and New London are derived from this collection. d. Vine cottage, Blyth lane, Hammersmith 18 Sep. 1859. The Little journal i, 136–42 (1884).

CRACKANTHORPE, William (son of Christopher Cookson who assumed name of Crackanthorpe, and d. 1800). b. 25 Feb. 1790; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1816; had an interview with Napoleon at Elba 25 Feb. 1815 the day before he escaped to France; sheriff of Cumberland 1826; chairman of Westmoreland poor law board 40 years; rebuilt parish church of Newbiggin and the rectory house at his own expense. d. Newbiggin hall, Westmoreland 10 Jany. 1888.

CRACKLOW, Henry. Ensign Bombay army 23 Dec. 1819; colonel 2 Bombay N.I. 1855–69; M.G. 22 Aug. 1855; general 28 March 1874; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. Castle hill, Inverness 15 May 1886 in 83 year.

CRACROFT, Peter (2 son of Robert Cracroft of Hackthorne, Lincs. 1783–1862). b. 15 March 1816; entered navy 4 June 1830, lost the Reynard on the Pratas shoal, China 1846; captain 20 Nov. 1854; commodore in charge at Jamaica 31 March 1863 to death; C.B. 7 Oct. 1862. d. Admiralty house, Port Royal, Jamaica 2 Aug. 1865. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxvi, p. cxlviii, (1866).

CRADOCK, Rev. Edward Hartopp (3 son of Edward Grove of Shenstone park, Staffs.) b. 26 April 1810; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, B.D. and D.D. 1854; fellow of Brasenose to 1845, principal 27 Dec. 1853 to death; R. of Tedstone Delamere, Herefordshire 1845–54; canon of Worcester 31 Jany. 1848 to 1854; assumed name of Cradock by r.l. 22 May 1849. d. Oxford 27 Jany. 1886.

CRAIG, James Thomson Gibson (2 son of Sir James Gibson Craig, 1 baronet 1765–1850). b. 12 March 1799; ed. at high school and univ. Edin.; a writer to the signet; an original member of the Bannatyne club 1823, for which he edited Papers relating to the marriage of King James Sixth 1828; issued in an edition of 25 copies a series of facsimiles of historic and artistic bookbindings in his collection 1882; issued in 1883 a facsimile reprint of the Shorte summe of the whole catechism 1583 by John Craig; a first part of his valuable library was sold in London, June 1887. d. Edinburgh 18 July 1886.