1808_). _b._ Compton place, Eastbourne 30 Nov. 1836; ed. at Trin.
coll. Cam., B.A. 1858; private sec. to Earl Granville, pres. of
the council 1859–64; M.P. for north division of west riding of
Yorkshire 15 July 1865 to death; private sec. to W. E. Gladstone,
July 1872 to Aug. 1873; a lord of the treasury, Aug. 1873 to Feb.
1874; financial sec. to the treasury, April 1880 to May 1882;
chief sec. to Earl Spencer, lord lieutenant of Ireland, May 1882,
sworn in at the Castle, Dublin 6 May; stabbed to death in Phœnix
park, Dublin by assassins calling themselves “the Invincibles” 6
May 1882. _bur._ in churchyard of Edensor near Chatsworth 11 May,
a memorial window placed in St. Margaret’s church, Westminster at
cost of members of House of Commons 22 Feb. 1883, statue of him at
Barrow in Furness uncovered 2 June 1885. _C. Brown’s Life of Lord
Beaconsfield ii_, 237 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xlviii_, 144
(1866), _portrait, lxxx_, 456, 477, 502 (1882), _portrait_.
CAVENDISH, GEORGE HENRY (_2 son of hon. Wm. Cavendish 1783–1812_).
_b._ 19 Aug. 1810; M.P. for North Derbyshire 27 May 1834 to 24
March 1880; raised to rank of an Earl’s son 1837 and to that of a
Duke’s son 1858. _d._ Ashford hall near Bakewell 23 Sep. 1880.
CAVENDISH, HENRY FREDERICK COMPTON (_3 son of 1 Earl of Burlington
1754–1834_). _b._ 5 Nov. 1789; lieut. 10 hussars 22 June 1808;
lieut. col. 1 life guards 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; colonel 2
dragoon guards 2 June 1853 to death; general 9 Nov. 1862; M.P. for
Derby 17 June 1818 to 29 Dec. 1834. _d._ Burlington gardens,
London 5 April 1873.
CAW, JOHN YOUNG. _b._ Perth about 1810; ed. at St. Andrew’s and
Trin. coll. Cam.; connected with Bank of Manchester, then with
Manchester and Salford bank; member of Literary and Philosophical
Society of Manchester 1841, librarian 1854–6; F.S.A.; author of
_The necessity and advantage of a bankers clearing house_ 1847;
_Some remarks on the deserted village of Oliver Goldsmith_ 1852.
_d._ Fountain villa, Cheetham hill near Manchester 22 Oct. 1858.
CAWDOR, JOHN FREDERICK CAMPBELL, 1 Earl of (_elder son of John
Campbell 1 baron Cawdor who d. 1 June 1821 aged 71_). _b._ London
8 Nov. 1790; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1812, D.C.L. 1841; F.R.S. 11
June 1812; M.P. for Carmarthen 20 Dec. 1813 to 1 June 1821;
created Viscount Emlyn of Emlyn and Earl of Cawdor 5 Oct. 1827;
lord lieut. of Carmarthenshire 15 May 1852 to death. _d._
Stackpoole court, Pembrokeshire 7 Nov. 1860.
CAWLEY, CHARLES EDWARD (_son of Samuel Cawley of Gooden house,
Middleton near Manchester_). _b._ Gooden house 7 Feb. 1812; civil
engineer in London and Manchester; engineer to Manchester, Bury,
and Rossendale railway; M.I.C.E. 30 June 1846; alderman of Salford
1859 to death; arbitrator to Board of Trade 1868; M.P. for Salford
17 Nov. 1868 to death. _d._ The Heath, Kersal near Manchester 2 or
9 April 1877. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. l_, 175–7 (1877);
_Graphic xv_, 356 (1877), _portrait_.
CAY, JOHN (_eld. son of Robert Hodshon Cay of North Charlton,
Northumberland, judge admiral of Scotland_). _b._ Edinburgh 31
Aug. 1790; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; admitted
advocate 1812; sheriff of Linlithgowshire 1822 to death; F.R.S.
Edin. 1821; member of Royal Scottish Society of Arts; author of
_An analysis of the Scottish reform act 2 parts 1837–40_;
_Analysis of the burgh registration act_; _Outlines of the
procedure at elections for members of parliament_. _d._ Edinburgh
13 Dec. 1865. _Journal of Jurisprudence x_, 24 (1866).
CAYLEY, CHARLES BAGOT (_younger son of Henry Cayley of St.
Petersburg, merchant 1768–1850_). _b._ near St. Petersburg 9 July
1823; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1845;
published _Dante’s Divine comedy, translated in the original
ternary rhyme 4 vols._ 1851–5; _Psyche’s Interludes_ 1857 a small
vol. of poems; _The Psalms in metre_ 1860; _Filippo Malincontri or
student life in Venetia, an autobiography translated from the
Italian 2 vols._ 1861; _The Iliad of Homer, homometrically
translated_ 1877; author with F. Garrido of _History of political
and religious persecutions 2 vols._ 1876. _d._ suddenly of heart
disease at 4 South crescent, Bloomsbury, London, night of 5–6 Dec.
1883. _Athenæum ii_, 776, 817 (1883).
NOTE.—An accurate likeness of him exists in Ford Madox Brown’s
fresco in the Manchester town hall, of Wm. Crabtree of
Broughton watching the transit of Venus over the sun 24 Nov.
1639. He was the original of Oliver Serpleton in Oliver Madox
Brown’s story _The Dwale Bluth_ (in his _Literary Remains_
1876).
CAYLEY, SIR DIGBY, 7 Baronet. _b._ York 13 March 1807; succeeded 15
Dec. 1857. _d._ Brompton near Scarborough 22 Dec. 1883.
CAYLEY, EDWARD STILLINGFLEET (_only son of John Cayley of Low hall
near Brompton, who d. 16 June 1846_). _b._ Newbold hall near
Market Weighton 13 Aug. 1802; ed. at Rugby and Brasenose coll.
Ox.; M.P. for North Riding of Yorkshire 17 Dec. 1832 to death;
chairman of committees on Hand-loom weavers 1834–5 and on
Agricultural distress; edited _Agricultural and Industrial Mag._
25 numbers 1 Oct. 1834 to 1 Dec. 1835. _d._ 11 Dean’s yard,
Westminster 25 Feb. 1862. _Farmer’s Mag. x_, 81–4 (1844),
_portrait, xxi_, 354–5 (1862).
CAYLEY, EDWARD STILLINGFLEET (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ 30
July 1824; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister I.T. 13
June 1851; author of _The European revolutions of 1848 2 vols._
1856; _The war of 1870 and the peace of 1871_, 1871. _d._ Wydale,
Brompton 10 Sep. 1884.
CAYLEY, SIR GEORGE, 6 Baronet (_only son of sir Thomas Cayley, 5
baronet 1732–92_). _b._ 27 Dec. 1773; succeeded 15 March 1792;
invented an instrument for testing purity of water by abstraction
of light, and another for obtaining and applying electric power to
machinery; carried out a system of arterial drainage in Yorkshire
on a principle previously unknown in England; the first promoter
and adopter of cottage allotment system; chairman of the
Polytechnic Institution, Regent st. London 1838; chairman of the
Whig club at York. _d._ Brompton 15 Dec. 1857. _The Times 18 Dec.
1857 p. 7, col. 6._
CAYLEY, GEORGE JOHN (_younger son of Edward Stillingfleet Cayley
1802–62_). _b._ 26 Jany. 1826; ed. at Eton; barrister I.T. 17 Nov.
1852; author of _Some account of the life and adventures of Sir
Reginald Mohun, Baronet, done in verse_ 1850; _Las alforjas or the
bridle roads of Spain 2 vols._ 1853, _2 ed._ 1860. _d._ Hunton
rectory, Kent 11 Oct. 1878.
CAZALET, EDWARD. _b._ Brighton 1827; author of _The Berlin
conference and the Anglo-Turkish convention_ 1878; _The Eastern
congress an address to working men_ 1878, _2 ed._ 1879;
_Bimetallism and its connection with commerce_ 1879. _d._ Hotel
d’Angleterre, Constantinople 21 April 1883.
CAZALET, REV. WILLIAM WAHAB. _b._ 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and
Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; ordained deacon 1834,
priest 1836; teacher of elocution in London; chaplain to the
union, Watford, Herts.; author of _The history of the Royal
Academy of music_ 1854; _On the right management of the voice in
speaking and reading_ 1855; _Stammering its cause and cure_ 1858;
_The voice or the art of singing_ 1861. _d._ Watford 24 April
1875.
CAZENOVE, JOHN (_son of James Cazenove of Old Broad st. London,
merchant, who d. 20 Oct. 1827 aged 83_). _b._ 1788; one of a club
of 35 members formed to promote views of political economy 1821;
president of London Chess Club; author of _A selection of games at
chess_ 1817; _An elementary treatise on political economy_ 1840;
_Thoughts on a few subjects of political economy_ 1859. _d._ 13
Middleton road, Battersea Rise, London 15 Aug. 1879.
CAZENOVE, PHILIP (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Nov. 1798; ed.
at the Charterhouse; member of Stock Exchange, London; head of
firm of P. Cazenove and Co. stockbrokers Threadneedle st.; a
munificent supporter of Church societies, hospitals and charities
of every kind. _d._ Clapham Common, London 20 Jany. 1880,
personalty sworn under £250,000 Feb. 1880. _Guardian 28 Jany. 1880
p. 106, col. 1._
CECIL, REV. WILLIAM (_son of Rev. Richard Cecil_). _b._ 1792; ed. at
Magd. coll. Cam.; Bell’s Univ. scholar 1811; 17 wrangler 1814;
B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; fellow of his college; R. of Longstanton St.
Michael near Cambridge 1823 to death; author of _The church choir,
a collection of psalm and hymn tunes_ 1846; _Recollections
suitable for confirmation and other solemn seasons_ 1856, _3 ed._
1873; _Spanish metres illustrated in music and English verse_
1866. _d._ Longstanton rectory 10 Feb. 1882.
CELESTE, MADAME, stage name of Celeste Elliott (_dau. of Monsieur
Keppler of Paris_). _b._ Paris 6 Aug. 1811; ed. at Academie Royale
de Musique; made her first appearance at Bowery theatre, New York
as a dancer 27 June 1827; first appeared in London at Drury Lane
theatre 1830 in ballet of _La Bayadère_; played in Italy, Germany
and Spain 1832–3; played in United States 1834–7 clearing sum of
£40,000; manager with B. Webster of T.R., Liverpool Christmas
1843; directress of Adelphi theatre, London 1844–8; manager of
Lyceum theatre, London 28 Nov. 1859 to Aug. 1860; re-appeared in
New York 23 Aug. 1865; sailed for Australia Oct. 1866 and returned
to England early in 1868; made her last appearance 15 May 1878 at
Drury Lane; her best characters were Mathilde in _The French Spy_
and Miami in _The green bushes_. (_m._ 1828 Henry Elliott of
Baltimore who _d._ 1842). _d._ 18 Rue Chapeyron, Paris 12 Feb.
1882. _H. P. Phelps’s Players of a century_ (1880) 122, 189, 198,
265, 278; _C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1879) 74–83; _Tallis’s
Drawing room table book_ (1851) 27–8, _portrait_; _Brown’s
American stage_ (1870) 65, 74, _portrait_; _Illust. news of the
world, viii_ (1861), _portrait_.
CHABOT, CHARLES. _b._ Battersea, London 1815; a lithographer and
engraver in Skinner st. Snowhill, Holborn; an expert in
handwriting; gave evidence at trial of Wm. Roupell, M.P. for
Lambeth, who was sentenced to penal servitude for life for forgery
24 Sep. 1862; examined handwriting of letters of Junius and
compared it with handwriting of persons to whom letters had been
attributed 1871. _d._ 26 Albert sq. Clapham, London 15 Oct. 1882
in 68 year. _Cornhill Mag. Feb. 1885_, _pp. 148–62_; _I.L.N.
lxxxi_, 549 (1882), _portrait_.
CHABOT, PHILIP JAMES (_son of Mr. Chabot of Spitalfields, London,
dyer who d. 1832_). _b._ Spitalfields 1801; ed. at St. John’s
coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 11 May 1830; a
dyer in Fashion st. Spitalfields 1832–56; originator of the Silk
Conditioning Society, secretary and manager to death; member of
Spitalfields Mathematical Soc. 1834, F.R.A.S. 1845; member of
Cavendish, Philological and Chemical Societies; made several
improvements in dyeing. _d._ 41 Claremont sq. Pentonville, London
11 Jany. 1868.
CHAD, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet. _b._ 21 April 1779; ensign 92 foot 15
March 1798; cornet royal horse guards 3 May 1800; lieut. 2 life
guards 2 April 1803 to 7 Nov. 1805 when he retired; succeeded 24
Nov. 1815. _d._ 1 Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 30 Sep. 1855.
CHADS, SIR HENRY DUCIE (_eld. son of Henry Chads, captain R.N. who
d. 10 Oct. 1799_). _b._ 1788; entered navy Sep. 1803, captain 25
July 1825; captain of Andromache 28 guns 1834–7 and 1841–5;
commodore in East Indies 3 Feb. 1844 to 29 June 1844;
superintendent of royal naval college at Portsmouth and captain of
Excellent 28 Aug. 1845 to 12 Jany. 1854; fourth (afterwards third)
in command of Baltic fleet on board Edinburgh 6 Feb. to Dec. 1854;
commander in chief at Cork 1 April 1856 to 24 Nov. 1858; chairman
of committee on coast defence 1859; admiral 3 Dec. 1863; C.B. 26
Dec. 1826, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; granted good
service pension 4 May 1865. _d._ Southsea 7 April 1868. _Memoir of
Sir H. D. Chads by an Old follower_ (_M. Barrows_) 1869,
_portrait_; _James’s Naval history v_, 409–23 (1860).
CHADS, JOHN CORNELL (_brother of the preceding_). Second lieut. R.M.
4 May 1809; captain 1 West India Regiment 27 Jany. 1820, major 22
April 1836 to 3 March 1843 when he retired on full pay; president
of British Virgin Islands 1852 to death. _d._ Government house,
Tortola 28 Feb. 1854 aged 60.
CHADWICK, REV. FRANCIS (_son of Francis Chadwick of Burgh hall,
Lancs._) _b._ 14 Sep. 1801; entered Society of Jesus 7 Sep. 1818;
prefect of studies and professor of rhetoric at Stonyhurst college
1827, minister of Stonyhurst 12 March 1833; went to Rome 14 Jany.
1834; sailed from Portsmouth for Calcutta 31 May 1834; served
Mission at Calcutta 1834–8 and 1839–42; served Missions of
Worcester 1842, Holywell 1844–6, London 1851. _d._ Oxford 5 March
1857.
CHADWICK, RIGHT REV. JAMES (_3 son of John Chadwick of Drogheda_).
_b._ Drogheda 24 April 1813; entered St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw
26 May 1825, ordained priest 17 Dec. 1836, general prefect,
professor of humanities, mental philosophy and pastoral theology
successively 1837–50; professor again 1856–9 and 1863; served
missions in North of England 1850–6; chaplain to Lord Stourton
1859–63; bishop of Hexham and Newcastle 31 Aug. 1866 to death;
consecrated at St. Cuthbert’s 28 Oct. 1866. _d._ Newcastle 14 May
1882. _Gillow’s English Catholics i_, 444–6 (1885).
CHADWICK, SAMUEL TAYLOR. L.S.A. 1831, M.R.C.S. 1831, F.R.C.S. 1858;
M.D. Edin. 1848; surgeon at Wigan 1831, at Bolton 1837 to May 1863
when he was presented by 7000 working men with a full-length
_portrait_ of himself; made over to trustees sum of £22,000 to
build and maintain an orphanage for children in the Bolton union
1868–9, orphanage was opened Dec. 1874; a bronze statue of him in
Town hall square, Bolton, was unveiled 1 Aug. 1873. _d._ Peel
house, Southport 3 May 1876 aged 66. _I.L.N. lxiii_, 127, 129,
(1873).
CHADWICK, WILLIAM (_2 son of John Chadwick of Pentonville, London,
mason, who d. 1821_). _b._ 1797; statuary and mason in Southwark
1818; built St. Peter’s church, Newington; erected bridges on
Great Western railway; carried out line of railway from Didcot to
Oxford 1844; chairman of London and Richmond railway which line
was opened 27 July 1846. _d._ 8 Jany. 1853.
CHAINE, JAMES. _b._ Ballycragie, co. Antrim 1841; sheriff of Antrim
1873; M.P. for co. Antrim 16 Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ Larne, co.
Antrim 4 May 1885.
CHALK, SIR JAMES JELL (_2 son of James Chalk of Queenborough,
Kent_). _b._ Queenborough 1803; articled to an attorney 1819,
admitted 1824; a strolling actor; entered Ecclesiastical
commission office 4 Oct. 1836; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1839;
assistant sec. to Ecclesiastical commissioners Sep. 1849, sec.
Dec. 1850 to 4 Oct. 1871 when he resigned; knighted at Osborne 28
July 1871; F.S.A. 30 May 1872; _d._ 80 Warwick sq. Pimlico, London
23 Sep. 1878.
CHALLICE, ANNIE EMMA (_dau. of Mr. Armstrong_). _b._ London 1821;
author of _The village school fête_ 1847; _The sister of charity_
1857; _The secret history of the court of France under Louis XV_,
1861 _anon._; _French authors at home_ 1864; _Illustrious women of
France_ 1873. (_m._ the succeeding). _d._ of cancer of the liver
at 7 Upper Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 11 Jany. 1875.
CHALLICE, JOHN. _b._ Horsham, Sussex 1815; L.S.A. 1836, M.D. King’s
college, Aberdeen 1850, F.R.C.P. Edin. 1860; deputy coroner for
East Middlesex to 1860; medical officer of health for Bermondsey
1856 to death; author of _Should the Cholera come what ought to be
done?_ 1848; _Medical advice to mothers_ 1851; _Letter to Lord
Palmerston on sanitary reform_ 1854. _d._ 13 Great Cumberland st.
London 11 May 1863.
CHALLIS, REV. JAMES (_4 son of John Challis of Braintree, Essex_).
_b._ Braintree 12 Dec. 1803; ed. at Mill Hill school, London and
Trin. Coll. Cam., scholar 1824, senior wrangler and first Smith’s
prizeman 1825, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; fellow of his college
1826–31; re-elected fellow May 1870; R. of Papworth Everard
1830–52; examiner for the Smith prizes 1836–78; Plumian professor
of astronomy and experimental philosophy in Univ. of Cam. 2 Feb.
1836 to death; director of Cambridge observatory 1836–61; invented
the Meteoroscope 1848 and the Transit reducer 1849; F.R.A.S. 8
April 1836, F.R.S. 9 June 1848; author of _Notes on the principles
of pure and applied calculation and applications of mathematical
principles to theories of the physical forces_ 1869; _Lectures on
practical astronomy and astronomical instruments_ 1879. _d._ 2
Trumpington st. Cambridge 3 Dec. 1882. _Monthly notices of Royal
Astronom. Soc. xliii_, 160–79 (1883).
CHALLIS, THOMAS (_son of Thomas Challis of 92 Fore st. Cripplegate,
London, butcher_). _b._ 92 Fore st. 1 or 2 July 1794; a skin
broker in Finsbury, a hide and skin salesman in Leadenhall and
Bermondsey markets; alderman of Cripplegate ward 17 Oct. 1843;
sheriff of London and Middlesex 1846–7; lord mayor 1852–3, there
was no procession or dinner in consequence of recent death of Duke
of Wellington; M.P. for Finsbury 9 July 1852 to 20 March 1857.
_d._ Baker st. Enfield 20 Aug. 1874. _I.L.N. xxi_, 396 (1852),
_portrait_; _City Press 22 Aug. 1874 p. 5, 29 Aug. p. 4_.
CHALMER, JAMES ARCHIBALD. Second lieut. R.A. 10 Aug. 1804, assistant
director general 17 Jany. 1843, colonel 11 Nov. 1851 to 15 May
1855; M.G. 15 May 1855. _d._ 17 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq.
London 9 Dec. 1856 aged 69.
CHALMERS, GEORGE PAUL (_son of Mr. Chalmers of Montrose, master of a
small coasting vessel_). _b._ Montrose 1833; apprenticed to a
ship-chandler; ed. at Trustees school, Edin. 1853–5; painter in
Edin. of portraits, subject pictures and landscapes; A.R.S.A.
1867, R.S.A. 1871; exhibited 58 pictures at R.S.A. 1855–78, 20 at
Glasgow 1862–78, and 6 at R.A. 1863–76; found insensible in an
area in Charlotte st. Edin. 16 Feb. 1878. _d._ Royal infirmary,
Edin. 20 Feb. 1878. _George Paul Chalmers, R.S.A._ 1879,
_portrait_; _Good Words xix_, 285–8 (1878).
CHALMERS, JAMES. _b._ Arbroath 2 Feb. 1782; bookseller in Castle st.
Dundee; convener of the Nine Incorporated Trades; member of town
council, Dundee, treasurer several years; vice consul for Sweden
and Norway at Dundee Sep. 1827; suggested a uniform rate of
postage and exhibited a sample of an adhesive postage stamp in
Dundee, Aug. 1834; competed for premium of £200 offered by the
Government for best design of a postage stamp, there were 2000
candidates, but the premium was never awarded, _d._ Comley bank,
Dundee 26 Aug. 1853. _James Chalmers the inventor of the adhesive
stamp by Patrick Chalmers_ 1884; _Philatelic Record iii_, 194–201,
_iv_, 27, 68, 167, 169–72, 184–6.
CHALMERS, JAMES. _b._ Perthshire; an engineer in America; practised
in London 1861 to death; invented Chalmers target for defence of
ships of war, it was tried at Shoeburyness 1863 and nearly
completed at Atlas works, Sheffield for War Office at time of his
death; made a design for a wrought-iron railway tunnel across the
English channel; his Indian problem at chess baffled some of the
best players; author of _Channel railway connecting England and
France_ 1861, _2 ed._ 1867; _England’s danger, the Admiralty
policy of naval construction_ 1864; _Armour for ships and forts_
1865. _d._ 22 Southampton road, Haverstock hill, London 26 Dec.
1868 aged 49.
CHALMERS, PATRICK (_eld. son of Patrick Chalmers of Auldbar castle
near Brechin who d. 1826_). _b._ Auldbar castle 31 Oct. 1802;
cornet 3 dragoon guards 12 June 1823, captain 1826–27 when he sold
out; M.P. for Forfar district of burghs 15 Jany. 1835 to April
1842; F.S.A. 24 Jany. 1850; author of _The ancient sculptural
monuments of Angus_ 1848; _The Cartulary of the abbey of
Arbroath_, _vol. 2_, 1856. _d._ Rome 23 June 1854. _bur._
churchyard of Auldbar church which he had just rebuilt. _Journal
of British Archæol. Assoc. xi_, 164–70 (1855).
CHALMERS, REV. PETER. Licensed by presbytery of Glasgow 11 Sep.
1814; minister of Dunfermline (second charge) 17 March 1817,
ordained 18 July 1817; minister of Dunfermline (first charge) 5
Oct. 1836 to death; joined Free Secession 18 May 1843 but changed
his mind and was received back 21 June 1843; D.D. 5 Feb. 1855;
author of _Two discourses on the sin, danger and remedy of
duelling_ 1822; _An historical and statistical account of
Dunfermline 2 vols._ 1844–59. _d._ the Abbey church manse,
Dunfermline 11 April 1870 in 80 year.
CHALMERS, SIR WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Chalmers, town clerk of
Dundee_). _b._ Castle st. Dundee 1785; ensign 52 foot 9 July 1803,
captain 27 Aug. 1807 to 2 Oct. 1817 when placed on h.p.; brigade
major of various infantry brigades in Peninsular campaigns
1810–14; colonel of 20 foot 28 Feb. 1853, of 78 foot 30 Sep. 1853
to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; K.C.H. 1837, C.B. 19 July 1838;
knighted by patent 17 April 1844; principal clerk of the peace for
the county of Forfar and keeper of Sasines about 1830 to death.
_d._ Glenericht, Perthshire 21 June 1860. _Norrie’s Dundee
celebrities_ (1873) 179–81.
CHALON, ALFRED EDWARD (_younger son of Jean Chalon, professor of
French at Royal military college at Sandhurst_). _b._ Geneva 15
Feb. 1780; student at R.A. London 1797; exhibited 363 pictures at
R.A. and 21 at B.I. 1801–60; A.R.A. 1812, R.A. 1816; founded with
7 other artists the Evening Sketching Society 1808 which lasted 40
years; the most fashionable _portrait_ painter in water colours;
painted the first _portrait_ of Queen Victoria after her accession
and many portraits of the female aristocracy; painter in water
colours to the Queen; exhibited at Society of Arts a collection of
120 of his brother’s works with some of his own 1855. _d._ El
Retiro, Campden hill, Kensington, London 3 Oct. 1860. _Athenæum,
ii_, 487, 756, 792 (1860); Art Journal (1860) 337, (1862) 9; _A
memoir of T. Uwins with his correspondence with A. E. Chalon_
1858.
CHALON, JOHN JAMES (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Geneva 27
March 1778; a student at Royal Academy, London 1796; member of
Watercolour society 1808–13; A.R.A. 1827, R.A. 1841; exhibited 86
pictures at R.A. and 49 at B.I. 1801–54; painted landscapes,
figure and animal subjects, and marine pictures with equal
facility; author of _Sketches of Parisian manners_ 1820. _d._ El
Retiro, Campden hill, Kensington 14 Nov. 1854. _Redgrave’s Century
of painters ii_, 468–73 (1866); _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy
ii_, 167–9 (1862).
CHALON, THOMAS BARNARD. Judge advocate general Madras army 21 Aug.
1840 to 17 June 1859; retired M.G. 17 June 1859. _d._ Stuttgard 28
Jany. 1867 aged 67.
CHALONER, THOMAS (_son of Robert Chaloner of Guisborough_). _b._ 6
Feb. 1815; entered navy 2 Aug. 1827; captain 6 April 1853, retired
31 March 1866; retired admiral 2 Aug. 1879; C.B. 24 May 1881. _d._
Long Hull, Guisborough 20 Oct. 1884.
CHALONER, THOMAS (_son of a baker at Manchester_). _b._ Manchester 2
June 1839; won the St. Leger by a head on Caller Ou 1861 when
betting was 100 to 1 against him, on The Marquis 1862, Achievement
1867, Formosa 1868, and Craigmillar 1875; won the Oaks on Feu de
Joie 1862, the Two thousand guineas and Derby on Macaroni 1863;
won 409 races 1855–63; combined coolness with great ability and a
patience excelled by no other jockey; a trainer at Newmarket 1879
to death. _d._ Osborne house, Newmarket 3 April 1886. _Sporting
Review lii_, 61–3 (1864), _portrait_, _Illust. sp. and dr. news
i_, 16 (1874), _portrait, iii_, 261 (1875), _portrait, and 17
April 1876, portrait_; _Sporting Life 5 Feb. 1887 p. 5_,
_portrait_.
CHAMBERLAIN, CHARLES FRANCIS FALCON (_youngest son of Sir Henry
Chamberlain, 1 baronet 1773–1829_). _b._ 11 Oct. 1826; major
Bombay staff corps 13 June 1866 to death; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. _d._
Umballa, Punjab, India 31 Oct. 1870.
CHAMBERLAIN, SIR HENRY ORLANDO Robert, 3 Baronet (_elder son of Sir
Henry Chamberlain, 2 baronet 1796–1843_). _b._ 15 Dec. 1828;
succeeded 8 Sep. 1843; member of Corps of Gentlemen-at-arms Oct.
1857 to 1860. _d._ Bruges 30 Dec. 1870.
CHAMBERLAIN, JOHN HENRY (_son of Rev. Joseph Chamberlain, minister
of Calvinistic Baptists at Leicester_). _b._ Leicester 26 June
1831; architect at Birmingham 1856 to death; partner with Wm.
Martin 13 April 1864 to death; built Institute buildings in
Paradise st. and Free Libraries in Edmund st; member of council of
Midland Institute 1867, hon. sec. 1868 to death; member of Society
of Artists March 1861, professor of architecture 1861, vice pres.
1879. _d._ at house of Lawson Tait, The Crescent, Birmingham 22
Oct. 1883. _Edgbastonia iii_, 161–6 (1883), _portrait_; _The
Architect 27 Oct. 1883 pp. 254–5_.
CHAMBERLAIN, WILLIAM CHARLES (_brother of Charles Francis Falcon
Chamberlain_). _b._ 21 April 1818; entered navy June 1831, captain
21 Feb. 1856; superintendent of Chatham dockyard 30 Nov. 1868 to
19 Jany. 1874; R.A. 19 Jany 1874, superintendent of Devonport
dockyard 5 Aug. 1875 to 1 May 1876. _d._ Brighton 27 Feb. 1878.
CHAMBERLAYNE, THOMAS (_only son of Rev. Thomas Chamberlayne, R. of
Charlton, Kent_). _b._ 1805; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox.; purchased the
old hull of a celebrated cutter called the Arrow, and from her
midship section built a cutter of 84 tons called the Arrow which
won cups and prizes worth several thousands, she beat the America
and the Mosquito at Ryde 22 July 1852, and the Volante and 6 other
yachts at Ryde 4 Aug. 1869; made a beautiful cricket ground at
Cranbury near Winchester 1834, and got together an Eleven second
to none in England; pres. of Marylebone Cricket Club; a great
coursing, hunting and coaching man; built stables at Cranbury at
an expense of £20,000 which are matchless in style; sheriff of
Hampshire 1835. _d._ Cranbury park 21 Oct. 1876. _Baily’s mag.
xii_, 55–59 (1867), _portrait_; _Hunt’s yachting mag. i_, 103
(1853), _xviii_, 30–5, 381–91, _xxv_, 699 (1876).
CHAMBERLAYNE, WILLIAM, _b._ The Ryes, Essex 12 Aug. 1788; ed. at
Westminster; captain 2 dragoon guards 9 May 1811 to 30 Dec. 1826
when placed on h.p.; general 14 Jany. 1866. _d._ Orford house,
Oakley, Essex 21 July 1869.
CHAMBERS, REV. JOHN CHARLES (_son of John Chambers of The Tything,
Worcester, topographer 1780–1839_). _b._ The Tything 23 Nov. 1817;
ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843;
Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1842; founded the first Sunday schools in
Cambridge; C. of Sedbergh, Yorkshire 1842–6; missionary priest at
Perth 1846–50; canon and chancellor of St. Ninian’s cathedral,
Perth 1850–5; V. of St. Mary Magdalene, Harlow 1855–6; Inc. of St.
Mary the Virgin, Crown st. Soho, London 1856 to death, this was
the first parish in which church guilds were set on foot; warden
of House of Charity, Soho Nov. 1856 to death; author of _Sermons_
1857; _Reformation not deformation_ 1864; _The destruction of Sin,
being thirteen addresses delivered in Advent 1872_, _edited by J.
J. Elkington_ 1874. _d._ London 21 May 1874.
CHAMBERS, JOHN GRAHAM (_eld. son of Wm. Chambers of Hafod,
Cardiganshire 1809–75_). _b._ Llanelly, Carmarthenshire 12 Feb.
1843; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1865; the best walker
in the University; rowed against Oxford 1862 and 1863; won the 7
mile walking championship March 1866; founded the Amateur Athletic
Club at Beaufort house grounds, Walham green, 1866; pres. of
Cambridge University Boat Club 1864–6; won the Colquhoun sculls at
Cam. 1863, and the senior sculls at Barnes 1865 and 1866; coached
the Cambridge crew at Putney 1871–4; edited _Land and Water_ 1871
to death. _d._ 10 Wetherby terrace, Earl’s court, London 4 March
1883. _Sporting Mirror v_, 121–3 (1883), _portrait_; _Land and
Water xxxv_, 175–6, 249–50 (1883); _Illust. sporting and dr. news
i_, 136 (1874), _portrait_.
CHAMBERS, MONTAGU (_5 son of George Chambers of Harford, Hunts._)
_b._ 1799; ensign Grenadier Guards 9 Nov. 1815 to 1 Oct. 1818 when
placed on h.p.; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1828, bencher 3 Nov. 1845,
treasurer 1868; Q.C. 3 July 1845; M.P. for Greenwich 8 July 1852
to 20 March 1857 and for Devonport 22 May 1866 to 26 Jany. 1874;
edited the _Law Journal Reports_ 1835 to death. _d._ 394 Uxbridge
road, London 18 Sep. 1885.
CHAMBERS, ROBERT. _b._ Walker near Newcastle 14 June 1831; worked as
a puddler at a forge on banks of the Tyne; won sculler’s prize at
Thames national regatta 1856 and 1858; beat T. White of Bermondsey
for £200 on the Tyne 19 April 1859; sculled H. Kelley for the
championship 29 Sep. 1859 when he won easily; beat White again 18
Sep. 1860, and G. W. Everson of Greenwich 14 April 1863; beat R.
A. W. Green the Australian 16 June 1863; beaten by Cooper of
Newcastle 28 July 1863 but beat him 7 Sep. 1864 and 12 June 1865;
beaten by H. Kelley for the championship 8 Aug. 1865; beat J. H.
Sadler of Putney 22 Nov. 1866; introduced the long slow stroke in
rowing; rowed 112 races 90 of which he won. _d._ of consumption,
result of overtraining, at The King’s Arms, St. Anthony’s,
Newcastle 4 June 1868. _Rowing Almanac_ (1861), _portrait_, (1862)
105–6, (1886) 163; _Illust. Sporting news i_, 141 (1862),
_portrait, ii_, 64, (1863), _portrait, iv_, 361 (1865), _portrait,
v_, 745 (1866), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lv_, 513 (1869); _Bell’s Life
in London 13 June 1868 p. 9_.
CHAMBERS, ROBERT (_2 son of James Chambers of Peebles, cotton
manufacturer_). _b._ Peebles 10 July 1802; bookseller at Leith
1818–22, at Edin. 1822; partner with his brother William as
publishers in Edin. 1832 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1840; F.G.S. 1844;
hon. LLD. St. Andrews 1868; author of _Traditions of Edinburgh 2
vols._ 1823, _new ed._ 1868; _History of the rebellion of 1745_,
1828, _7 ed._ 1869; _Biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen 4
vols._ 1832–4; _Vestiges of the natural history of creation_ 1844,
_anon._ _12 ed._ 1884; _The book of days 2 vols._ 1862–4. _d._ St.
Andrews 17 March 1871. _Memoir of W. and R. Chambers by W.
Chambers_, _12 ed._ 1883, _portrait_; _Illust. Review i_, 423–7
(1871), _portrait_.
CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Peebles 16
April 1800; bookseller at Leith 1819–23, at Broughton st. Edin.
1823; edited _Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal_ 4 Feb. 1832 to death;
partner with his brother Robert 1832; lord provost of Edin.
1865–9; LLD. Edin. 1872; presented town of Peebles with a library
(10,000 volumes) and other buildings called the Chambers
Institution opened Aug. 1859; spent about £25,000 on St. Giles’s
church, Edin., re-opened 23 May 1883; accepted offer of a
baronetcy May 1883 but died before receiving the honour. _d._
Chester st. Edinburgh 20 May 1883. _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvii_,
177–90 (1851); _Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent
personages_, _fourth series_ 1860, _portrait_.
CHAMBERS, WILLIAM FREDERIC (_eld. son of Wm. Chambers of H.E.I.Co’s
civil service who d. 1793_). _b._ India 1786; ed. at Westminster
and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, M.D. 1818;
physician to St. George’s hospital, London 20 April 1816 to 1839;
F.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1819, censor 1822, 1836, consilarius 1836, 1841,
1845, an Elect 1847; F.R.S. 13 March 1828; phys. in ord. to Queen
Adelaide 25 Oct. 1836; phys. to Wm. IV. 4 May 1837; created K.C.H.
by Queen Victoria at St. James’s palace 8 Aug. 1837 but allowed to
decline assumption of the prefix Sir; the leading phys. in London
1836–48, being the last who to any extent monopolised consulting
practice among the rich and noble; phys. in ord. to Queen Victoria
8 Aug. 1837. _d._ Hordle Cliff near Lymington, Hants. 16 Dec.
1855. _Lives of British physicians_ _2 ed._ 1857 _pp._ 388–402;
_Munk’s Roll of physicians iii_, 196–200 (1878); _Medical Circular
i_, 373 (1852), _portrait_.
CHAMBRE, WILLIAM (_younger son of Meredith Calcott Chambre of
Hawthorn hill, co. Armagh, who d. 8 Feb. 1812_). Lieut. York light
infantry volunteers 27 May 1812; captain 11 foot 10 Jany. 1822 to
30 July 1844 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 26 Jany. 1874. _d._ 1
Duncairn terrace, Bray, co. Dublin 24 Oct. 1876.
CHAMIER, FREDERICK (_4 son of John Chamier, member of council for
Madras presidency, who d. 23 Feb. 1831_). _b._ London 1796;
midshipman R.N. 24 June 1809; served in United States war 1812;
commander 9 Aug. 1826; placed on reserved list July 1851; retired
captain 1 April 1856; author of _The life of a sailor 3 vols._
1832; _Ben Brace 3 vols._ 1836; _Jack Adams 3 vols._ 1838; _Tom
Bowling 3 vols._ 1841; _My travels, or an unsentimental journey
through France, Switzerland and Italy 3 vols._ 1855, and of many
papers in _New Monthly Mag._; edited _W. James’s Naval history of
Great Britain, 3 ed. 6 vols._ 1837. _d._ 29 Warrior sq. St.
Leonard’s on Sea 31 Oct. 1870. _New Monthly Mag. lii_, 508–10
(1838), _portrait_.
CHAMIER, HENRY. Writer Madras civil service 1812; chief sec. to
Madras government 1837–43; member of council 1843–8; pres. of the
revenue, marine and college boards 1843 to 14 Jany. 1867 when he
resigned the service. _d._ 9 Waterloo crescent, Dover 4 Feb. 1867
aged 71.
CHAMPAIN, SIR JOHN UNDERWOOD BATEMAN (_2 son of Agnew Champain,
major 9 foot, who d. 1876_). _b._ Gloucester place, London 22 July
1835; ed. at Cheltenham and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal Engineers
11 June 1853, lieut. col. 31 Dec. 1878 to death; director in chief
of Indo-European government telegraph department 1869 to death;
granted special permission to accept a sword of honour from Shah
of Persia 1885 an honour quite unprecedented; K.C.M.G. 31 Dec.
1885; assumed additional name of Bateman 1870. _d._ San Remo 1
Feb. 1887. _Sir F. J. Goldsmid’s Telegraph and Travel_ (1874)
206–388, 639.
CHAMPION, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ Edinburgh 5 May 1815; Ensign 95 foot 2
Aug. 1831, major 11 Nov. 1851 to death; served at Hong-kong
1847–50; brought a collection of dried plants to England 1850,
most of his novelties were described in _Hooker’s Journals_;
placed last set of his plants in the Kew herbarium 1854, his name
is commemorated in the genus Championia and by the splendid plant
Rhodoleia Championi. _d._ Scutari hospital 30 Nov. 1854 of wounds
received at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. _G. Bentham’s Flora
Hongkongensis_ (1861) 8*–9*; _Gardener’s Chronicle_ (1854) 819–20;
_G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea_ (1855) 93–5.
CHAMPNEYS, VERY REV. WILLIAM WELDON (_eld. son of Rev. Wm. Beyton
Champneys_). _b._ Camden Town, London 6 April 1807; matric. from
Brasenose coll. Ox. 3 July 1824, scholar of his college, fellow
1831; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; C. of St. Ebbe’s, Oxford 1831–7; R. of
St. Mary’s, Whitechapel, London 1837–60; canon residentiary of St.
Paul’s cath. 3 Nov. 1851 to 11 Nov. 1868; V. of St. Pancras,
London 1860–8; dean of Lichfield and R. of Tatenhill, Staffs. 11
Nov. 1868 to death; author of _Images or allegories for the young_
1849, _8 ed._ 1868; _Six lectures on Protestantism_ 1852; _The
Sunday school teacher_, _3 ed._ 1857; _The Spirit in the word_
1862, _4 ed._ 1866; _Facts and Fragments_ 1864. _d._ the Deanery,
Lichfield 4 Feb. 1875. _Rev. W. W. Champneys’s Story of the
tentmaker_ (1875) 7–14, _portrait_; _Drawing room portrait
gallery_ (_4th series_ 1860) 1–2, _portrait_.
CHANCE, HENRY (_youngest son of Wm. Chance of Birmingham_). _b._
Newhall st. Birmingham 1794; a certificated conveyancer 1819;
barrister L.I. 21 May 1824; practised as conveyancer 1819–66 when
he retired; author of _A treatise on Powers 2 vols._ 1831. _d._ 7
North villas, Camden sq. London 16 Feb. 1876.
CHANDLER, VERY REV. GEORGE. Educ. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.;
B.C.L. 1804, D.C.L. 1824; R. of Southam, Warws. 1815–30; R. of All
Souls, St. Marylebone, London 1825–47; Bampton lecturer 1825; dean
of Chichester 20 Feb. 1830 to death, installed 18 March 1830; R.
of Felpham, Sussex 1832 to death; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1833; author of
_The Bampton lectures_ 1825. _d._ The Deanery, Chichester 3 Feb.
1859 aged 80.
CHANDLER, JOHANNA. _b._ 1820; called a meeting at Mansion House,
London 2 Nov. 1859 when sum of £800 was collected for a National
hospital for the paralysed and epileptic, which was opened in
Queen’s square, Bloomsbury, May 1860; founded Samaritan society to
give aid to out-door patients and Home for convalescent women
patients at East Finchley. _d._ 43 Albany st. Regent’s Park,
London 12 Jany. 1875. _Facta non verba by the author of Contrasts_
[_Wm. Gilbert_] (1874) 101–25; _Good Words vii_, 537–42 (1866).
CHANDLESS, THOMAS (_eld. son of Thomas Chandless of York place,
Portman square, London_). _b._ 1798; barrister G.I. 19 June 1822,
practised in court of chancery; bencher of his inn 5 May 1847,
treasurer 1850–51; Q.C. 11 July 1851. _d._ 45 Harewood sq. London
22 Feb. 1883 in 85 year.
CHANNELL, SIR WILLIAM FRY (_son of Pike Channell, an officer in the
navy, afterwards a merchant in London_). _b._ 31 Aug. 1804;
barrister I.T. 25 May 1827, went Home circuit; serjeant at law 19
Feb. 1840; shared with Serjeant Talfourd leading business of Court
of Common Pleas 1840–6 when practice was thrown open to the bar
generally; obtained patent of precedence 1844; leader of Home
circuit 1845–57; Baron of Court of Exchequer 12 Feb. 1857 to Jany.
1873; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 June 1857; issued an
address to Beverley at general election July 1852 but withdrew
before the election; nominated a P.C. Feb. 1873 but did not live
to be sworn in. _d._ 2 Clarendon place, Hyde park gardens, London
26 Feb. 1873. _Law mag. and law review ii_, 351–4 (1873); _I.L.N.
lxii_, 234, 249, 318 (1873), _portrait_.
CHAPLIN, CHARLES. _b._ 21 April 1786; M.P. for Lincolnshire 25 June
1818 to 23 April 1831. _d._ London 24 May 1859.
CHAPLIN, EDWARD. _b._ Ryhall, Rutland 28 March 1842; ed. at Harrow;
captain Coldstream guards 1871; M.P. for Lincoln 4 Feb. 1874 to 24
March 1880; master of the Blankney hounds 1872–6; a member of the
Four-in-hand club 1877. _d._ 25 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 23
Dec. 1883. _Baily’s mag. xxxi_, 311–2 (1878), _portrait_.
CHAPLIN, WILLIAM JAMES (_son of Wm. Chaplin of Rochester_). _b._
Rochester 1787; one of the largest coach proprietors in the
kingdom, being owner of 64 stage coaches worked by 1500 horses;
chairman of London and South western railway company to death;
sheriff of London 1845–46; M.P. for Salisbury 1847–1857. _d._ 2
Hyde Park gardens, London 24 April 1859 aged 71.
CHAPMAN, REV. BENEDICT. Educ. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam., 6
Wr. 1792, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, D.D. 1840; fellow of his college,
tutor, master, May or June 1839 to death; R. of Ashdon, Essex 1818
to death. _d._ Ashdon rectory 23 Oct. 1852 in 83 year. _bur._ in
chapel of his college 30 Oct.
CHAPMAN, HENRY SAMUEL. _b._ Kennington, London, July 1803; went to
Canada 1823; founded at Montreal 1833 _Daily Advertiser_ first
daily newspaper published in Canada, edited it 1833–4; barrister
M.T. 12 June 1840; a judge of supreme court of New Zealand, June
1843 to March 1852; colonial sec. of Van Diemen’s Land, March 1852
to Nov. 1852; attorney general of Victoria 11 March 1857 to 29
April 1857 and March 1858 to 27 Oct. 1859; formed a ministry,
March 1858; acted as judge of supreme court of Victoria 1862 to
March 1863; judge of supreme court of New Zealand 1865–77; author
of _Thoughts on the money and exchanges of Lower Canada_ 1832;
_The New Zealand portfolio_ 1843. _d._ Dunedin, N.Z. 27 Dec. 1881.
CHAPMAN, HENRY THOMAS (_elder son of Thomas Chapman of Ampthill,
Beds. who lived to be 94_). _b._ Ampthill 1806; studied at St.
Bartholomew’s hospital, London, house surgeon; surgeon in Lower
Seymour st. London; lecturer on surgery in school next St.
George’s hospital; fellow of Med. and Chir. Soc. 1837; author of
_A brief description of surgical apparatus_ 1832; _The treatment
of obstinate ulcers and cutaneous eruptions of the leg without
confinement_ 1848, _3 ed._ 1859; _Varicose veins, their nature,
consequences and treatment_ 1856. _d._ Cheltenham 19 Nov. 1874.
CHAPMAN, RIGHT REV. JAMES. _b._ 1799; ed. at Eton and King’s coll.
Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1845; Fell. of his coll.; deacon
1824, priest 1825; assistant master at Eton; R. of Dunton Waylett,
Essex 1834–45; Bishop of Colombo 24 April 1845–1861; Fell. of
Eton, April 1862; R. of Wootton Courtney, Somerset 1863 to death;
Preb. of Wells cath. 1868. _d._ Wootton Courtney 20 Oct. 1879.
CHAPMAN, JOHN (_son of John Chapman of Loughborough, clockmaker_).
_b._ Loughborough 20 Jany. 1801; manufacturer with his brother Wm.
of machinery required for the bobbinet trade technically called
insides 1823–34 when completely ruined by the protection laws;
wrote for the _Mechanics Magazine_ which he edited short time
1835; sec. to Safety cabriolet and two-wheel carriage company in
London 1836; invented all the valuable improvements found in the
modern ‘Hansom cab,’ a patent for his cab was granted 31 Dec.
1836; laid before Board of Trade a project for constructing Great
Indian Peninsular railway 1844; prepared a great scheme for
irrigation of India which was formally sanctioned by the
government just after his death; author of _The cotton and
commerce of India, published 1 Jany. 1851_; _Principles of Indian
reform_ 1853, and of many articles in periodicals and newspapers.
_d._ London 11 Sep. 1854. _General Baptist Mag. iii_, 169–76,
209–17, 292–8, 329–32 (1856); _Nottingham Review 11 Sep. to 3 Dec.
1833_.
CHAPMAN, JOHN (_son of John Chapman of Ashton, Lancs. who d. 19 May
1819 aged 55_). _b._ Ashton 1810; sheriff of Cheshire 1856; M.P.
for Great Grimsby 14 Feb. 1862 to 6 July 1865 and 5 Feb. 1874 to
death. _d._ Hill End, Mottram in Longdendale, Cheshire 18 July
1877 in 67 year.
CHAPMAN, MARY FRANCIS (_dau. of Mr. Chapman of Dublin, custom house
officer_). _b._ Dublin 28 Nov. 1838; ed. at Staplehurst, Kent;
published following novels under pseud. of J. C. Ayrton, _Mary
Bertrand_ 1856, _Lord Bridgnorth’s Niece_ 1862, _A Scotch Wooing_
1875, _Gerald Marlowe’s Wife_ 1876; wrote with her father in
_Churchman’s family magazine_ 1869 an historical tale called
_Bellasis or the fortunes of a cavalier_; her last work _The gift
of the Gods_ 1879 appeared under her own name. _d._ Old Charlton,
Kent 18 Feb. 1884.
CHAPMAN, MATTHEW JAMES. Educ. at Univ. of Edin. and Trin. coll.
Cam.; M.D. Edin. 1820; B.A. Cam. 1832, M.A. 1835; published
_Barbadoes and other poems_ 1833; _Jephtha’s Daughter a dramatic
poem_ 1834; _Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, translated_ 1836. _d._
25 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 15 Nov. 1865 aged 69.
CHAPMAN, SIR MONTAGUE LOWTHER, 3 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir Thomas
Chapman, 2 baronet 1756–1837_). _b._ 10 Dec. 1808; M.P. for
Westmeath 12 Aug. 1830 to 23 June 1841; succeeded 23 Dec. 1837;
sheriff of Westmeath 1844; sailed from Melbourne for Sydney May
1852 but his ship was never heard of again; death announced as
having occurred on the coast of Australia 17 May 1852. _Annual
Register 1853 p. 229._
CHAPMAN, SIR STEPHEN REMNANT (_son of Richard Chapman of Tainfield
house, Taunton_). _b._ Tainfield house 1776; second lieut. R.E. 18
Sep. 1793; sec. to Lord Mulgrave, master general of the ordnance
1810 to 29 July 1825; civil sec. at Gibraltar 1825–31; col. R.E.
29 July 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; governor, vice admiral and
commander in chief at Bermuda 23 April 1831 to 8 Feb. 1839;
carried into effect emancipation of the slaves there 1834; L.G. 9
Nov. 1846; col. commandant R.E. 9 March 1860 to death; C.B. 4 June
1815; knighted at St. James’s palace 8 June 1831; F.R.S. 21 Nov.
1816. _d._ Tainfield house 6 March 1851.
CHAPPELL, EDWARD. _b._ 10 Aug. 1792; entered navy, May 1804; captain
27 Dec. 1838; retired R.A. 20 Jany. 1858; secretary to Royal mail
steam packet company, Feb. 1842; author of _Narrative of a voyage
to Hudson’s Bay_ 1817; _Voyage to Newfoundland and the southern
coast of Labrador_ 1818. _d._ Charlwood st. west, Warwick sq.
London 21 Jany. 1861.
CHAPPLE, JAMES. _b._ Exeter; Won the Derby on Dangerous 1833 on
Amato 1838; won the Oaks on Vespa 1833; won Cesarewitch on Glauca
1850 and Cambridgeshire on Landgrave 1850; rode many years for Sir
Gilbert Heathcote; had no superior for a knowledge of pace and
fineness of hand. _d._ Newmarket, 10 June 1858 in 63 year.
_Sporting Review xxvii_, 58–61 (1852), _portrait_; _Bell’s Life in
London 13 June 1858 p. 4_.
CHAPPLE, JOHN. _b._ 10 Jany. 1826; worked under I. K. Brunel the
civil engineer and G. G. Scott the architect; restored churches at
Frinstead, Kent and Chesham, Bucks.; clerk of the works for
restoration of St. Albans Abbey 1870–6 and 1877 to death;
supervised restoration of great church of St. Nicholai, Hamburg
1876–7; member of council of St. Albans 1877, mayor 1879, alderman
1883 to death, _d._ Torrington hall, St. Albans 6 Feb. 1887. _The
Herts Advertiser 12 Feb. 1887._
CHARLEMONT, FRANCIS WILLIAM CAULFIELD, 2 Earl of (_eld. son of 1
Earl of Charlemont 1728–99_). _b._ 3 Jany. 1775; M.P. for Armagh
in Irish House of Commons 1797 to 4 Aug. 1799 when he succeeded;
one of representative peers for Ireland 22 Nov. 1806 to death;
K.P. Oct. 1831; P.C. Ireland 1832; lord lieut. of Tyrone 1839 to
death; created Baron Charlemont in peerage of the U.K. 13 Feb.
1837. _d._ Clontarf 26 Dec. 1863.
CHARLES, REV. JOHN (_son of John Charles of Laurencekirk,
Kincardineshire_). _b._ 1770; M.A. Marischal college and Univ. of
Aberdeen 26 March 1792; schoolmaster of Glenbervie; minister of
Garvock 7 June 1821 to death; author of _A sermon preached in the
church of Glenbervie_ 1814; _The Protestant’s Hand Book_ 1855.
_d._ 17 Nov. 1868 aged nearly 99.
CHARLES, THOMAS (_younger son of Wm. Charles of Maidstone, felter
and blanket cleaner, who d. 1832_). Apprenticed to his father,
became his partner, succeeded to the business 1832 which he sold
1840; author of a translation of _Boethius’s Consolations of
philosophy_; bequeathed his valuable collections to the town of
Maidstone which purchased his house and opened The Charles Museum
in it, Jany. 1858. _d._ Chillington house, Maidstone 29 April 1855
aged 77. _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i_, 141–6 (1883); _J. M.
Russell’s History of Maidstone_ (1881) 357–62.
CHARLESWORTH, EDWARD PARKER (_son of Rev. John Charlesworth, R. of
Ossington, Notts._) _b._ 1783; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1807;
physician at Lincoln 1807 to death; visiting phys. to Lincoln
lunatic asylum 1820 to death, where he substituted moral control
and kindness in place of physical control and coercion; author of
_Remarks on the treatment of the insane_ 1828. _d._ Lincoln 20
Feb. 1853. _G.M. xxxix_, 548–50 (1853).
CHARLESWORTH, REV. JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Ossington
parsonage 1782; practised with a surgeon at Clapham, London 1804;
ordained deacon by Bishop of Norwich 1809; R. of Flowton, Suffolk
1814–44; kept his terms at Queen’s coll. Cam. 1820–3, B.D. 1826;
R. of St. Mildred’s, Bread st. London 1844 to death. _d._
Islington, London 22 April 1864. _bur._ churchyard of Limpsfield,
Surrey. _J. P. Fitzgerald’s The quiet worker for good, a sketch of
the late John Charlesworth_ 1865.
CHARLESWORTH, JOHN CHARLESWORTH DODGSON. _b._ Chapelthorpe hall near
Wakefield 1815; ed. at Sedbergh, Yorkshire and St. John’s coll.
Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; M.P. for Wakefield 27 March 1857 to 23
April 1859. _d._ 21 March 1880.
CHARLESWORTH, MARIA LOUISA (_dau. of Rev. John Charlesworth
1782–1864_). _b._ rectory of Blakenham Parva near Ipswich 1 Oct.
1819; lived at Nutfield, Surrey 1864 to death; author of _The
female visitor to the poor, by a Clergyman’s daughter_ 1846; _A
book for the cottage_ 1848; _The light of life_ 1850; _Ministering
Children_ 1854 which had a very large circulation; _Where dwellest
thou? or the Inner home_ 1871. _d._ Nutfield 16 Oct. 1880.
_Woman’s Work in the great harvest field x_, 45–7 (1881).
CHARLETON, ROBERT (_eld. son of James Charleton, who d. Ashley hill,
Bristol 1847_). _b._ Bristol 15 April 1809; pin manufacturer at
Kingswood near Bristol 1833–52; one of the deputation of 3
Friends, to Emperor of Russia Feb. 1854; went with Robert Forster
as a deputation to governments of Northern Europe to present the
“Plea for liberty of conscience” issued by Society of Friends
1858; lectured in England and Ireland 1860 to death; author of
_Opposition to the war, an address_ 1855; _A brief memoir of Wm.
Forster_ 1867; _Thoughts on the Atonement_ 1869. _d._ Ashley Down,
Bristol 5 Dec. 1872. _Memoir of Robert Charleton edited by his
sister-in-law Anna F. Fox_ 1873, _portrait_.
CHARLEVILLE, CHARLES WILLIAM BURY, 2 Earl of (_only son of 1 Earl of
Charleville 1764–1835, by Catherine Maria dau. of Thomas Townley
Dawson and widow of James Tisdall, she was b. 22 Dec. 1762 and d.
24 Feb. 1851_). _b._ 29 April 1801; M.P. for Carlow 15 June 1826
to 3 Dec. 1832, for Penryn and Falmouth 11 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec.
1834; succeeded as 2 Earl 31 Oct. 1835; representative peer of
Ireland 13 April 1838 to death. _d._ near London 14 July 1851.
_Burke’s Portrait gallery of distinguished females i, 5 and ii, 8_
(1833); _G.M. xxxv_, 429–30 (1851).
CHARLEVILLE, CHARLES WILLIAM GEORGE BURY, 3 Earl of. _b._ Geneva 8
March 1822; succeeded 14 July 1851. _d._ Charleville forest,
Tullamore, King’s county 19 Jany. 1859.
CHARLEVILLE, CHARLES WILLIAM FRANCIS BURY, 4 Earl of. _b._
Charleville Forest 16 May 1852; succeeded 19 Jany. 1859. _d._
Staten island, New York 3 Nov. 1874.
CHARLEVILLE, ALFRED BURY, 5 Earl of. _b._ 19 Feb. 1829; succeeded 3
Nov. 1874. _d._ Brighton 26 June 1875.
CHARLTON, EDWARD (_2 son of Wm. John Charlton of Hesleyside,
Northumberland 1784–1846_). _b._ 23 July 1814; M.D. Edin. 1836;
M.D. Durham 1856, D.C.L. 1870; practised at Newcastle; pres. of
Royal Med. Soc. of Edin.; pres. of British Medical Assoc. 1870;
author of _An account of the late epidemic of scarlatina in
Newcastle_ 1847; _Memorials of North Tyndale and its four
surnames_ 1871. _d._ 7 Eldon sq. Newcastle 14 May 1874. _Medical
times and gazette i_, 632, (1874).
CHARLTON, JOHN. _b._ Hartlepool, Durham 1828; Jockey to Baron
Rothschild 1851; won the One thousand guineas on Mentmore Lass
1853, Oaks on Mincemeat 1854, Derby and Oaks on Blink Bonny 1857,
Ascot cup on Skirmisher 1857. _d._ Malton 27 July 1862. _Sporting
Review xxxviii_, 17–19 (1857), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxii_, 416
(1857), _portrait_; _Bell’s Life in London 3 Aug. 1862 p. 5_.
CHARLTON, REV. WILLIAM HENRY. Educ. at Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1819,
M.A. 1822; V. of Felmingham, Norfolk 1834 to death; P.C. of parish
chapel of St. Marylebone, London 1851 to death; author of _Poems
and translations_ 1834; _Sacred sonnets and other poems_ 1854.
_d._ 11 July 1866 aged 79.
CHARNOCK, RICHARD (_2 son of James Charnock of Islington, London_).
_b._ 1799; student of Gray’s Inn 28 July 1813; admitted solicitor
1820; barrister I.T. 12 June 1840; one of Her Majesty’s gentlemen
at arms 1837–41; author of _A digest of all the new rules as to
practice and pleading in all the courts_ 1836, _2 ed._ 1845;
_Digest of the various decisions since the new pleading rules came
into operation_ 1837; _The act for abolishing arrest on mesne
process in civil actions_ 1838; _The police guide, containing the
Metropolitan and City of London police acts_ 1841; edited _J.
Story’s Commentaries on the law of Bailments_ 1839. _d._ 5 King’s
Bench Walk, Temple 26 May 1864.
CHARRETIE, ANNA MARIA (_dau. of Mr. Kenwell of Vauxhall, London,
architect_). _b._ Vauxhall 5 May 1819; studied drawing under
Valentine Bartholomew; miniature and oil painter; exhibited 40
pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 32 at Suffolk st. Gallery 1843–75.
(_m._ 1841 John Charretie, captain H.E.I.Co., he _d._ 18 Nov.
1868). _d._ 8 Hornton St. Kensington, London 5 Oct. 1875. _E. C.
Clayton’s English female artists i_, 415–9 (1876).
CHARRINGTON, HAROLD (_son of Spencer Charrington of Hunsden house,
Ware, Herts._) Naval cadet 13 April 1869; lieut. 23 June 1880;
flag lieut. of Euryalus 16 guns 15 April 1882; went with E. H.
Palmer and Wm. Gill to Egypt for the purpose of detaching the
Arabs from Arabi Pacha; shot by the Arabs near Gaza 11 Aug. 1882.
_bur._ in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral, London 6 April 1883.
_Graphic xxvi_, 469 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxi_, 461
(1882), _portrait_.
CHART, HENRY NYE (_eld. son of John Chart of London, who d. 1863
aged 76_). _b._ 1822; acted at Sadler’s Wells theatre under name
of Henry Nye; low comedian and stage manager at Brighton theatre,
July 1850 and acting manager 1852 to 28 Feb. 1854; lessee of
Brighton theatre 29 July 1854 to 7 May 1866 when he purchased
theatre and opened a new house on same site 15 Oct. 1866. (_m._ 27
July 1867 Ellen Elizabeth Rollason, leading actress at Brighton
theatre). _d._ 9 New road, Brighton 18 June 1876. _Era 25 June
1876 p. 5, col. 1, 2 July p. 10, col. 4._
CHARY, CHINTAMANNY RAGOONATHA. Attached to the Madras observatory
nearly 40 years, first assistant 1863 to death; took a chief share
in making 38,000 observations with transit-circle for the star
catalogue; member of expeditions to observe total eclipses of the
sun 18 Aug. 1868 and 11 Dec. 1871; discovered 2 new variable
stars; F.R.A.S. 12 Jany. 1872; edited for 12 years astronomical
portion of _Asylum Press Almanac_; published 1874 a pamphlet on
the _Transit of Venus_, which appeared in 6 Indian languages as
well as in English, _d._ Madras 5 Feb. 1880. _Monthly notices of
Royal Astronom. Soc. xli_, 180 (1881).
CHASE, ANN (_dau. of Mr. M’Clarnonde, who d. 1818_). _b._ North of
Ireland 1807; went to New York 1824; _m._ 1836 Franklin Chase,
consul general at Tampico, Mexico; in the Mexican war 1846 city of
Tampico was surprised and taken by the American forces, through
her instrumentality, without loss of life, the fortress of the
city was named Fort Ann in her honour, and the ladies of New
Orleans presented to her a service of plate; lived at Tampico
1834–71 and at Brooklyn, New York 1871 to death, _d._ Brooklyn 24
Dec. 1874. _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed._ 1855 _pp. 859–61_,
_portrait_.
CHASE, JOHN. _b._ John st. Fitzroy sq. London 26 Feb. 1810;
landscape water-colour painter; member of New Society of painters
in water-colours 1835: exhibited 11 pictures at R.A. and 8 at
Suffolk st. gallery 1826–70; author of _A practical treatise on
landscape painting and sketching from nature in water-colours_,
_edited by Rev. James Harris_ 1861. _d._ 113 Charlotte st. Fitzroy
sq. London 8 Jany. 1879.
CHASLES, VICTOR EUPHÉMION PHILARÈTE. _b._ Mainvilliers near Chartres
8 Oct. 1798; fled to England soon after the Bourbon restoration
1815; a proof reader at Valpy’s printing office in Took’s Court,
Chancery lane, London; wrote in the _Athenæum_ 1832 to death;
keeper of Mazarin library, Paris 1837; professor in Collége de
France, Paris; translated many books from English into French,
_d._ Venice 19 July 1873.
CHASSELS, REV. DAVID, _b._ Glasgow 30 April 1787; went with his
parents to United States 1795; graduated at Dartmouth college,
Vermont 1810; principal of the academy in Peacham, Vermont, and
then of academy in Cambridge, New York; ordained by Presbytery of
Troy 1820; took charge of the Fairfield academy 1821 and then of
academy at Herkimer; a good teacher and fine classical scholar,
_d._ Holland Patent, Oneida county, New York 10 Jany. 1870.
CHATELAIN, CLARA DE (_dau. of M. de Pontigny_). _b._ London 31 July
1807; wrote a number of fugitive pieces in English under
pseudonyms of Leopold Wray, Baronne Cornelie de B., Rosalia Santa
Croce and Leopoldine Ziska; wrote and composed many ballads;
translated upwards of 400 songs; author of _The Silver Swan_ 1847;
_A handbook of the four elements of vocalization_ 1850; _The sedan
chair_ 1866; _Truly noble_ 1870; her name and her assumed names
are attached to 140 original tales, 50 fairy tales and 16
handbooks, (_m._ 13 April 1843 the succeeding, they received the
Dunmow flitch of bacon from W. H. Ainsworth 19 July 1855). _d._
insane in London 30 June 1876; _bur._ in Lyndhurst churchyard,
Hants. 7 July. _In Memoriam of Clara de Chatelain with a catalogue
of her works_ 1876; _Fleurs et fruits, souvenirs de feu Madame C.
de Chatelain_ 1877, _portrait_; _Andrews’s History of the Dunmow
flitch_ (1877) 18, 27–31.
CHATELAIN, JEAN BAPTISTE FRANÇOIS ERNEST DE. _b._ Paris 19 Jany
1801; published a weekly paper in London called _Le petit Mercure_
1825 which he changed to _Le Mercure de Londre_ 1826; went on foot
from Paris to Rome to study sayings and doings of Pope Leo XII,
1827; edited _Le propagateur de la Gironde_ at Bordeaux 1830 for
which he was condemned to 6 month’s imprisonment and fined 1320
francs 5 May 1831; published many works in France 1833–8; assumed
title of Chevalier 1840; lived in England 1842 to death,
naturalised 6 June 1848; author of _Rumbles through Rome_ 1852;
_Ronces et Chardons_ 1869 and 50 other works, the chief being
_Beautés de la poesie Anglaise_, _5 tomes 1860–72_ containing over
1000 translations of poems from Chaucer to Tennyson; received
Prussian order of Merit 1835. _d._ 20 Warwick crescent, Regent’s
park, London 15 Aug. 1881. _bur._ in Lyndhurst churchyard 22 Aug.
_Catalogue des Ouvrages du Chevalier De Chatelain_ 1875.
CHATTERLEY, LOUISA (_dau. of Madame Simeon of St. James’s st.
Piccadilly, London, milliner_). _b._ St. James’s st. 16 Oct. 1797;
made her début on the stage at Bath, Nov. 1814 as Juliet; first
appeared in London at Lyceum theatre 9 July 1816 as Harriet in _Is
he jealous_; acted at Surrey theatre 1817, Olympic 1820, Covent
Garden 1821; the best representative of a Frenchwoman on the
English stage, (_m._ 11 Aug. 1814 Wm. Simmonds Chatterley, actor
1787–1822, she _m._ (2) 13 Feb. 1830 Mr. Place), _d._ 37 Brompton
sq. London 3 Nov. 1866. _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography v_, 271–82
(1826), _portrait_; _British Stage iv, 237_ (1820), _portrait_;
_The Era 18 Nov. 1866 p._ 11.
CHATTERTON, FREDERICK BALSIR (_eld. son of Edward A. Chatterton of
London, box bookkeeper at many theatres who d. 5 Dec. 1875 in 65
year_). _b._ Euston sq. London 17 Sep. 1834; amateur actor at
Cabinet and Soho theatres 1852; acting manager at Lyceum theatre
1857 and 1861–2; lessee of St. James’s theatre 1859–60; joint
lessee with Edmund Falconer of Drury Lane theatre 12 Sep. 1863,
sole lessee 22 Sep. 1866 to 4 Feb. 1879 when he closed the theatre
being £36,000 in debt; joint manager with B. Webster of Princess’s
and Adelphi theatres 1871; made his début as a reciter at St.
James’s hall, London 14 March 1883. _d._ 18 Feb. 1886. _E.
Stirling’s Old Drury Lane i_, 273–317 (1881); _Illust. sporting
news v_, 593 (1866), _portrait_; _Touchstone, March 1879 p. 3_,
_portrait_.
CHATTERTON, LADY HENRIETTA GEORGIANA MARCIA (_only child of Rev.
Lascelles Iremonger, prebendary of Winchester, who d. 6 Jany.
1830_). _b._ 24 Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 11 Nov. 1806;
author of _Aunt Dorothy’s Tales_, _2 vols. 1837 anon._; _Rambles
in the South of Ireland_ 1839, _2 ed._ 1839; _Home sketches and
foreign recollections_ 1841; _Allanston or the Infidel_ 1843;
_Compensation_, _2 vols._ 1856 _anon._; _The reigning beauty 3
vols._ 1858; _Memorials of Admiral Lord Gambier 2 vols._ 1861;
_Leonore a tale and other poems 2 vols._ 1864; _Won at last 3
vols._ 1874 and 20 other books; received into Church of Rome, Aug.
1875. (_m._ (1) 3 Aug. 1824 Sir W. A. Chatterton 1787–1855. _m._
(2) 1 June 1859 Edward Heneage Dering 2 son of Rev. John Dering,
R. of Pluckley, Kent, he was _b._ 15 March 1827). _d._ Malvern
Wells 6 Feb. 1876. _Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton with
some passages from her diary by E. H. Dering_ 1878; _J. Gillow’s
English Catholics i_, 478–80 (1885).
CHATTERTON, SIR JAMES CHARLES, 3 Baronet (_youngest son of Sir James
Chatterton, 1 baronet, who d. 9 April 1806_). _b._ 1792; cornet 12
light dragoons 23 Nov. 1809; lieut. col. 4 dragoon guards 9 Dec.
1831 to 3 Oct. 1848 when placed on h.p.; col. 5 lancers 23 Feb.
1858 to 22 Nov. 1868; general 31 March 1866; col. 4 dragoon guards
22 Nov. 1868 to death; M.P. for co. Cork 1831–5 and 1849–52;
sheriff of co. Cork 1851–2; a gentleman of the privy chamber;
succeeded his brother 7 Aug. 1855; K.S.F.; K.H. 1832; K.C.B. 10
Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ Albemarle st. Piccadilly,
London 5 Jany. 1874. _I.L.N. xvi_, 133 (1850), _portrait_;
_Graphic ix_, 52, 59 (1874), _portrait_.
CHATTERTON, JOHN BALSIR (_son of John Chatterton of Portsmouth,
professor of music_). _b._ Portsmouth 1802; pupil of Robert Bochsa
the harpist; professor of the harp at R.A. of Music, London 1827;
harpist to the Queen 1842 to death; published numerous
transcriptions from popular operas for the harp. (_m._ Eliza
Davenport only dau. of Thomas Davenport Latham of Coombe hill,
Croydon, she _d._ 9 Jany. 1877 in 71 year), _d._ 32 Manchester st.
Portman sq. London 9 April 1871. _Wm. Ball’s Musical Gem_ (1831)
50–1, _portrait_.
CHATTERTON, SIR WILLIAM ABRAHAM, 2 Baronet, _b._ 6 Aug. 1787;
succeeded 9 April 1806. _d._ Rolls park, Chigwell, Essex 7 Aug.
1855.
CHATTO, WILLIAM ANDREW (_only son of Wm. Chatto of Newcastle,
merchant, who d. 1804_). _b._ Newcastle 17 April 1799; wholesale
tea-dealer in Eastcheap, London 1830–4; edited _New Sporting
Magazine_ 1839–41; projected _Puck a journalette of fun_, a penny
daily comic illustrated paper 22 numbers 6 May 1844 to 29 June
1844; author of _Scenes and recollections of fly-fishing by
Stephen Oliver the younger_ 1834; _The angler’s souvenir by P.
Fisher_ 1836, _2 ed._ 1871; _A treatise on wood engraving_ 1839,
_3 ed._ 1877; _Facts and speculations on the origin and history of
playing cards_ 1848. _d._ The Charterhouse, London 28 Feb. 1864.
CHAVASSE, PYE HENRY, _b._ Cirencester 1810; L.S.A. 1833; M.R.C.S. 18
Jany. 1833, F.R.C.S. 12 Aug. 1852; practised at Birmingham
1834–74; pres. of Queen’s college medical chirurgical society
1856–8; author of _Advice to mothers on the management of their
offspring_ 1839, _14 ed._ 1885; _Advice to a mother on the
management of herself_ 1869, _4 ed._ 1879; _Counsel to a mother_
1869, _4 ed._ 1879; _Aphorisms on mental culture of a child_ 1872,
_2 ed._ 1877; his books were translated into nearly every European
language and several Asiatic. _d._ 214 Hagley road, Edgbaston,
Birmingham 21 Sep. 1879.
CHAYTOR, SIR WILLIAM RICHARD CARTER, 2 Baronet, _b._ 7 Feb. 1805;
M.P. for city of Durham 23 March 1831 to 29 Dec. 1834; succeeded
28 Jany. 1847. _d._ Scrafton lodge, Middleham, Yorkshire 9 Feb.
1871.
CHEAPE, DOUGLAS (_younger son of John Cheape of Rossie, Fifeshire
1757–1838_). _b._ 1797; member of Faculty of Advocates, Edin.
1819; professor of civil law in Univ. of Edin. 1827–42,
substituted English for Latin in class examinations; author of
_Res Judicata_ and other squibs published in the _Court of Session
Garland_ 1839, his other squibs were _The book of the chronicles
of the city, being a Scriptural account of the election of a
member for the city of Edinburgh in May 1834_, and probably _La
festa d’Overgroghi_ (Over Gogar near Edinburgh) a burlesque opera
in Italian and English. _d._ Trinity grove, Trinity near Edin. 1
Sep. 1861. _Blackwood’s Mag. cix_, 111–2 (1871).
CHEAPE, SIR JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1792; second
lieut. Bengal engineers 3 Nov. 1809, col. commandant 19 Feb. 1844
to death; general 6 Dec. 1866; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 5 June
1849, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; served in the 3 campaigns of first
Burmese war 1824–6; second in command in second Burmese war
1852–3. _d._ Old park, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 30 March 1875. _W.
F. B. Laurie’s Second Burmese war_ 1853.
CHEEKE, ALFRED, _b._ Evesham, Worcs. 1811; barrister M.T. 29 Jany.
1836; went to Sydney, Oct. 1837; comr. of Court of Claims, March
1841; crown prosecutor at quarter sessions, June 1841; chairman of
quarter sessions 1844–5 and 1851–7; comr. of Court of requests for
county of Cumberland, Jany. 1845; district court judge 1858 to
June 1865; puisne judge of supreme court, June 1865 to death. _d._
Darling point, Sydney 14 March 1876. _Heads of the people ii_,
151–2 (1848), _portrait_.
CHEETHAM, JOHN (_son of George Cheetham of Stayleybridge_). _b._
Stayleybridge 1802; a merchant and manufacturer; M.P. for South
Lancashire 14 July 1852 to 23 April 1859, and for Salford ll July
1865 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ 18 May 1886.
CHELMSFORD, FREDERICK THESIGER, 1 Baron (_youngest son of Charles
Thesiger, collector of customs in island of St. Vincent, who d. 18
Feb. 1831_). _b._ 1 Fowkes buildings, Tower st. London 15 July
1794; midshipman R.N. 1807; student of G.I. 5 Nov. 1818, of I.T. 2
March 1824, barrister I.T. 21 May 1824; went Home circuit, became
leader; K.C. 7 July 1834; bencher of IT. 18, Nov. 1834, reader
1842, treasurer 1843; solicitor general 17 April 1844 to July
1845; knighted at Buckingham palace 23 May 1844; attorney general
29 June 1845 to 3 July 1846 and Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852; lord
chancellor 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859 and 6 July 1866 to 29 Feb.
1868, when he resigned office; P.C. 26 Feb. 1858; M.P. for
Woodstock 20 March 1840 to April 1844, for Abingdon 11 May 1844 to
1 July 1852 and for Stamford 10 July 1852 to 1 March 1858; F.R.S.
19 June 1845; created baron Chelmsford of Chelmsford, Essex 1
March 1858. _d._ 7 Eaton sq. London 5 Oct. 1878. _Illust. news of
the world, vol._ 1 (1858), _portrait_; _London Society xi_, 87, 95
(1867), _portrait_.
CHENERY, THOMAS, _b._ Barbados 1826; ed. at Eton and Caius coll.
Cam., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1868; correspondent of _Times_ at
Constantinople 1854–6, wrote leading articles and reviews in
_Times_; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; Lord Almoner’s professor of
Arabic at Oxford, April 1868 to Nov. 1877; member of Ch. Ch. Ox.,
incorporated M.A. 1868; member of 2 class of Imperial order of
Medjidie, July 1869; secretary to Royal Asiatic Society; one of
the revisers of Old Testament 1870–83; editor of _Times_ Nov. 1877
to death, worked on it to 1 Feb. 1884; published _The six
assemblies of El Hariry translated_ 1867; edited the _Machberoth
Ithiel of Jehudah ben Shelomo Alkharzi_. _d._ 16 Serjeant’s Inn,
Fleet st. London 11 Feb. 1884. _Journal of Royal Asiatic Soc. xvi,
pp. xii-xv_ (1884); _Times 12 Feb. 1884 p. 6, cols. 5–6_; _I.L.N.
lxxxiv_, 180 (1884), _portrait_; _Graphic xxix_, 148 (1884),
_portrait_.
CHEPMELL, REV. HAVILLAND LE MESURIER. Educ. at Pembroke coll. Ox.,
Townsend scholar, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. and D.D. 1851;
chaplain to Royal military college, Sandhurst 1841–67; translated
_Lectures on Roman History by B. G. Niebuhr_ 1849; author of
_Course of history, Greek, Roman and English_, _10 ed._ 1874, _2nd
series 2 vols._ 1857. _d._ The hermitage, St. Martin’s, Guernsey
21 March 1887.
CHERMSIDE, HENRY LOWTHER (_2 son of the succeeding_). _b._ 1825;
second lieut. R.A. 19 June 1844, colonel 8 Sep. 1875 to 16 Nov.
1878 when he retired with hon. rank of major general; commanded
R.A. at Poona 1876–8; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ Regia house,
Teignmouth 2 Jany. 1886.
CHERMSIDE, SIR ROBERT ALEXANDER (_3 son of Dr. Chermside of
Portaferry, co. Down_). _b._ Portaferry 1787; Assist, surgeon to
7th Hussars 16 Aug. 1810; Surgeon to 10th Hussars 29 June 1815 to
30 Oct. 1823; graduated M.D. at Edin. 1817; L.R.C.P. London 16
April 1821, F.R.C.P. 27 April 1843; phys. to British embassy at
Paris; physician extraordinary to Duchess of Kent; K.C.H. 31 July
1835; Knight of St. John of Jerusalem; Knight of Red Eagle of
Prussia; Knight of Legion of Honour. _d._ Oxford 8 Sep. 1860.
CHERRY, FREDERICK CLIFFORD. Veterinary surgeon of 11 light dragoons
12 Oct. 1803, of Waggon Train 16 July 1807 to 25 Sep. 1819 when
placed on h.p.; Vet. surgeon 2 life guards 10 May 1833; principal
vet. surgeon in the army 17 Sep. 1839 to death. _d._ Clapham,
London 11 July 1854.
CHESHAM, CHARLES COMPTON CAVENDISH, 1 Baron (_4 son of 1 Earl of
Burlington 1754–1834_). _b._ Savile row, London 28 Aug. 1793; M.P.
for Newtown, Hants. 1821–6 for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1831–2, for
East Sussex 1832–41, for Youghal 1841–7, for Bucks 1847–57;
created Baron Chesham of Chesham, Bucks. 15 Jany. 1858. _d._ 19
Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1863.
CHESHAM, WILLIAM GEORGE CAVENDISH, 2 Baron, _b._ 20 Oct. 1815; ed.
at Eton; M.P. for Peterborough 30 July 1847 to 1 July 1852, for
Bucks. 23 Dec. 1857 to 10 Nov. 1863 when he succeeded. _d._
Latimer, near Chesham, Bucks. 26 June 1882.
CHESHAM, SARAH. Tried at Chelmsford assizes 1847 upon a charge of
poisoning the illegitimate child of Lydia Taylor but acquitted;
tried 1848 for poisoning two of her children but acquitted; tried
at Chelmsford assizes 6 March 1851 for poisoning with arsenic her
husband Richard Chesham, who _d._ May 1850, when she was found
guilty and sentenced to death; known as ‘Arsenic Sal’; executed at
Chelmsford 25 March 1851. _A.R._ (1850) 109, (1851) 396–400; _A.
H. Dymond’s The law on its trial_ (1865) 211–19.
CHESNEY, CHARLES CORNWALLIS (_son of Charles Cornwallis Chesney,
captain Bengal artillery who d. 1830_). _b._ Packolet, near
Kilkeel, co. Down 29 Sept. 1826; second lieut R.E. 18 June 1845,
lieut col. 1 March 1868 to death; commanded R.E. in home district
1873 to death; professor of military history at Sandhurst 1858–68;
the best military critic of his day; member of royal commission on
military education 1868–70; sent by government to report on
Franco-German war 1871; author of _A military view of recent
campaigns in Virginia and Maryland_ 1863, _2 ed._ 1864; _Waterloo
lectures, a study of the campaign of 1815_, 1868, _3 ed._ 1874;
_Essays in military biography_ 1874. _d._ 11 Grosvenor mansions,
Victoria st. London 19 March 1876. _Graphic xiii_, 342, 348
(1876), _portrait_.
CHESNEY, FRANCIS RAWDON (_2 son of Alexander Chesney 1755–1843,
coast-officer in the district of Mourne, co. Down_). _b._ Ballyvea
Mourne 16 March 1789; 2 lieut. R.A. 9 Nov. 1804, commanded R.A. at
Hong Kong 1843–7, col. 11 Nov. 1851 to 6 Jany. 1855, col.
commandant 27 June 1864 to death; general 1 Jany. 1868; explored
Syrian route to India 1830–1; commanded expedition for examining
route to India by the Euphrates 1835–6; explored the Tigris and
Karūm 1836–7; surveyed Euphrates route again 1857; F.R.G.S. 1838,
gold medallist 1838; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; author of _Expedition for
survey of Euphrates and Tigris 2 vols._ 1850; _Observations on
past and present state of fire arms_ 1852; _The Russo-Turkish
campaign of 1828 and 1829_, 1854; _Narrative of Euphrates
expedition_ 1868. _d._ Packolet 30 Jany. 1872. _The Life of F. R.
Chesney_, _by his wife and daughter, edited by S. Lane-Poole_
(1885), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. mag. xviii_, 574–80 (1841),
_portrait_; _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlii_, 159–61 (1872).
CHESSAR, JANE AGNES. _b._ Edinburgh 1835; had charge of a class in
Home and Colonial training college, London 1852–66; lecturer and
private tutor in London 1866–75; member for Marylebone of London
school board 27 Nov. 1873 to 1875; edited _Mrs. Somerville’s
Physical geography_ 1877; _W. Hughes’s Manual of geography_ 1880;
wrote much for the _Queen_ and other newspapers. _d._ Brussels 3
Sep. 1880. _Graphic ix_, 30 (1874), _portrait_.
CHESTER, HARRY (_youngest son of sir Robert Chester of Bush hall,
Herts. 1768–1848_). _b._ 1 Oct. 1806; ed. at Charterhouse,
Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam.; clerk in Privy Council office
May 1826 to 1 Jany. 1859; assistant sec. to Committee of Privy
Council on education 1840–58; author of _The lay of the Lady
Ellen, a tale of 1834, London_ 1835, and of an article entitled
_The food of the people in Macmillan’s Mag._ Oct. and Nov. 1868.
_d._ 63 Rutland gate, London 5 Oct. 1868.
CHESTER, JOSEPH LEMUEL (_son of Joseph Chester of Norwich,
Connecticut, grocer, who d. 1832_). _b._ Norwich 30 April 1821; a
merchant’s clerk in New York 1840, in Philadelphia 1845; a
temperance lecturer in many of the states; musical editor of
_Godey’s Lady’s Book_ 1845–50; one of the editors of _Philadelphia
Inquirer_ and of the _Daily Sun_ 1852; member of council of
Philadelphia 1854; one of aide-de-camps of governor of
Pennsylvania with rank of colonel 1855–8; lived in London 1859 to
death; made most extensive extracts from parish registers, and at
his death left 87 folio vols. of such extracts; copied the
matriculation register of the university of Oxford 1866–9; D.C.L.
Ox. 22 June 1881; one of founders of Harleian Society 1869; a
member of first council of Royal Historical Society 1870;
published _Greenwood cemetery and other poems_ 1843; _The
registers of the abbey of St. Peter, Westminster_ 1876, (Harleian
Society) also Privately Printed for the author; _The parish
registers of St. Michael, Cornhill, London_ 1882. _d._ 124
Southwark park road, London 26 May 1882. _Latting’s Memoir of
Colonel Chester_ 1882; _Dean’s Memoir of Colonel Chester_ 1884,
_portrait_; _Marshall’s Genealogist vi_, 189*–92* (1882); _New
Monthly Mag. June 1881 pp._ 626–30, _portrait_.
CHESTERFIELD, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK STANHOPE, 6 Earl of (_only
son of 5 Earl of Chesterfield 1755–1815_). _b._ Bretby hall,
Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire 23 May 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch.
Ox.; succeeded 29 Aug. 1815; lord of the bedchamber to George iv,
11 Aug. 1828 to 26 June 1830; master of the Buckhounds 30 Dec.
1834 to April 1835; P.C. 29 Dec. 1834; began racing 1826, won
Ascot cup with Zinganee 1829, the Oaks with Industry 1838 and Lady
Evelyn 1849 and St. Leger with Don John 1838; master of Pytchley
hounds 1838–40; the yellow gossamer overcoat known as a
Chesterfield was called after him; he is depicted under name of
Earl of Chesterlane in _D’Horsay, or the follies of the day by A
man of fashion_ 1844. _d._ 3 Grosvenor sq. London 1 June 1866.
_bur._ at Bretby church 8 June. _Rice’s History of the British
turf i_, 284–6 (1879); _Sporting Preview xxix_, 450–2 (1858),
_lvi_, 10, 79 (1866); _Baily’s Mag. ii_, 55–8 (1861), _portrait_;
_Sporting Times 7 March 1885_; _Doyle’s Official baronage i_, 374,
(1886), _portrait_.
CHESTERFIELD, GEORGE PHILIP CECIL ARTHUR STANHOPE, 7 Earl of. _b._
28 Sep. 1831; ed. at Eton; cornet Royal horse guards 21 Aug. 1849,
lieut. 2 Sep. 1853 to 1860; M.P. for south Notts. 18 Dec. 1860 to
1 June 1866 when he succeeded, _d._ Bretby hall 1 Dec. 1871.
CHESTERFIELD, GEORGE PHILIP STANHOPE, 8 Earl of. _b._ 29 Nov. 1822;
succeeded 1 Dec. 1871, his claim was admitted by House of Lords 7
July 1873. _d._ Killendanagh near Lifford, co. Donegal 19 Oct.
1883.
CHESTERFIELD, HENRY EDWYN CHANDOS SCUDAMORE STANHOPE, 9 Earl of
(_eld. son of Sir Edwyn Francis Scudamore Stanhope, 2 baronet
1793–1874_). _b._ Teignmouth, Devon 8 April 1821; ed. at Balliol
coll. Ox., B.A. 1841; succeeded as 3 baronet 8 Feb. 1874, as 9
Earl 19 Oct. 1883. _d._ St. Leonard’s on Sea 21 Jany. 1887.
CHETHAM-STRODE, SIR EDWARD (_4 son of Thomas Chetham of Mellon hall,
Derbyshire_). _b._ 5 July 1775; entered navy 29 April 1786;
captain 13 Oct. 1807; captain of the Leander 50 guns 1 May 1816 to
July 1819; superintendent of Haslar hospital and Royal Clarence
Victualling yard 5 April 1838 to 23 Nov. 1841; R.A. on h.p. 23
Nov. 1841; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.C.H. 1 Jany. 1837; knighted by Wm.
iv, at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837; K.C.B. 8 May 1845; assumed
additional surname of Strode 1845; granted good service pension 18
June 1857; admiral of the white 22 Aug. 1857. _d._ Southill house,
Shepton-Mallet, Somerset 1 April 1862.
CHETWODE, SIR JOHN NEWDIGATE LUDFORD, 5 Baronet, _b._ Oakley near
Mucklestone, Staffs. 12 Nov. 1788; succeeded 17 Dec. 1845; sheriff
of Warwick 1852. _d._ Oakley 8 Sep. 1873.
CHETWYND, RICHARD WALTER CHETWYND, 6 Viscount, _b._ Bolton row,
London 14 Dec. 1800; succeeded 27 Feb. 1821. _d._ Marpool near
Exmouth 6 Dec. 1879.
CHETWYND, SIR GEORGE, 3 Baronet, _b._ Grendon hall near Atherstone,
co. Warwick 6 Sep. 1809; succeeded 24 May 1850. _d._ Grendon hall
25 March 1869.
CHETWYND, GEORGE (_son of W. J. Chetwynd, captain 52 foot_). _b._
1824; receiver and accountant general, Post Office, London 1864 to
death; C.B. 16 May 1881. _d._ Hyde Vale, Blackheath, London 3 Dec.
1882.
CHETWYND, WILLIAM FAWKENER. _b._ 15 Oct. 1788; M.P. for Stafford 11
Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841. _d._ Brocton hall near Stafford 25
April 1873.
CHEVALLIER, REV. TEMPLE (_eld. son of Rev. Temple Fiske, Chevallier,
R. of Badingham, Suffolk_), _b._ Badingham 19 Oct. 1794; ed. at
Pemb. coll. Cam., fellow 1819; 2 wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman
1817; B A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1833; fellow and tutor of St.
Cath. hall, Cam.; V. of St. Andrew the Great, Cam. 1821–34;
Hulsean lecturer 1826–7; P.C. of Esh near Durham 1835–69;
registrar of Univ. of Durham 1835; professor of mathematics in
Univ. of Durham 1835–71 and professor of astronomy 1841–71; hon.
canon of Durham cathedral 2 Oct. 1846, canon res. Sep. 1865 to
death; F.R.A.S. 13 Dec. 1839; author of _A translation of the
epistles of Clement of Rome, Polycarp, and Ignatius and of the
Apologies of Justin Martyr and Tertullian_ 1833, _2 ed._ 1851 and
of 18 papers in journals of Royal Astronom. Soc. _d._ at house of
his son-in-law, the vicarage, Harrow-Weald, Middlesex 4 Nov. 1873.
_Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxiv_, 137–39 (1874).
CHEVERS, NORMAN (_son of Forbes Mackbean Chevers, surgeon R.N._)
_b._ Greenhithe on the Thames 1818; ed. at Guy’s hospital;
assistant surgeon Bengal army 1 Aug. 1848; secretary to Medical
Board, Calcutta 1855–61; principal of Calcutta medical college,
professor of medicine and first phys. of the college hospital 27
April 1861 to 1876; deputy surgeon general to 1876; C.I.E.;
Co-editor of the _Indian annals of medical science_ 1853–72;
author of _Management of the diseases of the heart_ 1851;
_Removable and mitigable causes of death_ 1852; _Medical
jurisprudence in India_ 1855, _3 ed._ 1861 for which he was
awarded the Swiney prize by Royal coll. of phys.; _Preservation of
the health of seamen_ 1864, _2 ed._ 1866; _Commentary on the
diseases of India_ 1886. _d._ 32 Tavistock road, Bayswater, London
2 Dec. 1886. _British medical journal 18 Dec. 1886 p._ 1245;
_Biograph vi_, 129–31 (1881).
CHEYNE, CHARLES HARTWELL HORNE (_eld. son of Rev. Charles Cheyne,
second master at Christ’s hospital, who d. 1867_). _b._ 1 May
1838; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s, and St. John’s coll. Cam.,
foundation scholar, June 1859, 18 wrangler 1861, B.A. 1861, M.A.
1864; second mathematical master of Westminster school, March 1863
to Dec. 1876; F.R.A.S. June 1868; author of _An elementary
treatise on the planetary theory_ 1862, _3 ed._ 1883; _The Earth’s
motion of rotation, including the theory of precession and
nutation_ 1867. _d._ Torquay 1 Jany. 1877. _Monthly notices of
Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxvii_, 147 (1877).
CHICHESTER, HENRY THOMAS PELHAM, 3 Earl of (_eld. son of 2 Earl of
Chichester 1756–1826_). _b._ Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 25
Aug. 1804; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam.; cornet 6
dragoons 24 June 1824; lieut. Royal horse guards 28 April 1827;
succeeded as 3 Earl 4 July 1826; pres. of Church Missionary
Society 1835; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 22 Feb. 1841 to
death; joint comr. to consider state of bishoprics in England and
Wales 30 Jany. 1847; chief comr. for management of ecclesiastical
estates 24 Aug. 1850 to Oct. 1878; lord lieut. of Sussex 21 Nov.
1860 to death. _d._ Stanmer park near Lewes 16 March 1886. _Sunday
at home_ (1885), 296–300, _portrait_.
CHICHESTER, SIR ALEXANDER PALMER BRUCE, 2 Baronet. _b._ Malta 24
Dec. 1842; succeeded 10 Dec. 1851; sheriff of Devon 1868. _d._
Arlington court, Barnstaple 25 Jany. 1881.
CHICHESTER, FREDERICK RICHARD, called by courtesy, Earl of Belfast
(_younger son of 3 Marquis of Donegall 1797–1883_). _b._ 25 Nov.
1827; ed. at Eton; pres. of Classical harmonist’s society
established at Belfast 1852; author of _Two generations or birth
parentage and education_, _a novel 2 vols._ 1851; _Poets and
poetry of the nineteenth century, a course of lectures_ 1852. _d._
Naples 15 Feb. 1853.
CHICHESTER, JOHN LUDFORD (_6 son of 2 Marquis of Donegall
1769–1844_). _b._ 12 Nov. 1811; M.P. for Belfast 20 Aug. 1845 to 1
July 1852. _d._ Cambridge house, Twickenham 22 April 1873.
CHICHESTER, SIR JOHN PALMER BRUCE, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of John
Palmer Bruce Chichester 1769–1823, colonel of Royal Cardigan rifle
corps_). _b._ 1794; served in the navy 1810–20; M.P. for
Barnstaple 3 May 1831 to 23 June 1841; created baronet 7 Sep.
1840. _d._ 20 Eaton sq. London 10 Dec. 1851.
CHIFNEY, SAMUEL (_younger son of Samuel Chifney, jockey 1753–1807_).
_b._ 1786; rode for Prince of Wales at Stockbridge races 1802; won
the Oaks on Briseis 1807, on Sorcery 1811, on Landscape 1816, on
Shoveller 1819 and on Wings 1825; won the Derby on Sam a horse
called after himself 1818 and on Sailor 1820; won the One thousand
guineas on Extempore 1843; a trainer at Newmarket to 1843; had a
stud of his own there 1843–51. _d._ Hove, Brighton 29 Aug. 1854.
_Sporting Review vii_, 416 (1842), _portrait, xxxii_, 231–5, 312–6
(1854) _xxxiii_, 31–5, 89–95, 162–7, 231–6, 309–14, 401–6 (1855)
_xxxiv_, 5–10, 75–8 (1855).
CHIFNEY, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Newmarket 1784;
a trainer near Newmarket; owner with his brother of a small stud
of horses at Newmarket to June 1834; publicly thrashed on 31 May
1803 Lieut. col. George Leigh, an equerry to Prince of Wales, for
abusing his father, imprisoned for the assault 6 months at
Cambridge. _d._ Pancras sq. Pancras road, London 14 Oct. 1862. _H.
Corbett’s Tales of sporting life_ (1864) 176–82.
CHILD-VILLIERS, FREDERICK WILLIAM (_3 son of 5 Earl of Jersey
1773–1859_). _b._ Berkeley sq. London 20 July 1815; ed. at Eton;
lieut. Coldstream Guards 1838 to 24 May 1844 when placed on h.p.;
M.P. for Weymouth 15 Dec. 1847 to 1 July 1852; lieut. col.
commandant of 5 Middlesex militia 16 May 1853 to 4 May 1855;
sheriff of Northamptonshire 1869. _d._ Berkeley sq. 24 May 1871.
CHILDE, HENRY LANGDON. _b._ 1782; made his first magic lantern 1797;
painted on glass and produced slides illustrating natural history
and astronomy; invented dissolving views 1807 which he exhibited
at Adelphi theatre, London 1818 and at Her Majesty’s theatre
1837–40; connected with the Polytechnic Institution, Regent st.
from date of opening 6 Aug. 1838 for nearly 20 years; invented the
chromatrope, a lantern slide by which beautiful effects of colour
were produced. _d._ Mostyn road, Brixton, London 15 Oct. 1874.
CHILDE, JAMES WARREN. Landscape and Miniature painter in London 1798
to death; most of his exhibited works were portraits of popular
actors and actresses; exhibited 76 pictures at R.A. and 16 at
Suffolk st. gallery 1798–1853. _d._ 27 Scarsdale villas,
Kensington, London 19 Sep. 1862 aged 82.
CHILDE, WILLIAM LACON. _b._ 3 Jany. 1786; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch.
Ox.; M.P. for Wenlock 9 March 1820 to 2 June 1826; sheriff of
Salop 1828. _d._ 15 Dec. 1880.
CHILDERS, JOHN WALBANKE. _b._ 27 May 1798; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch.
Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Cambridgeshire 21 Dec. 1832 to
30 Dec. 1834, for Malton 12 Feb. 1836 to April 1846 and 28 July
1847 to 1 July 1852. _d._ Cantley hall, Doncaster 8 Feb. 1886.
_Times 9 Feb. 1886 p. 10 col. 4._
CHILDERS, MICHAEL. Ensign 2 West India regiment 25 Feb. 1799; lieut.
col. 11 light dragoons 21 Sep. 1820 to 25 March 1836 when placed
on h.p.; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818; colonel 10 Jany. 1837; retired 8 June
1838. _d._ Sandhutton near York 9 Jany. 1854.
CHILDERS, ROBERT CÆSAR (_son of Rev. Charles Childers, chaplain at
Nice_). _b._ 1838; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., Hebrew scholar; a
writer in Ceylon civil service 1860, private secretary to the
governor Sir Charles McCarthy 3 years; office assistant to
government agent in Kandy to March 1864 when he returned home;
sub-librarian at India office, London 1872; professor of Pali and
Buddhist literature at Univ. coll. London, July 1873 to death;
published Pali text of the _Khadduka Patha_ with English
translation and notes in _Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Nov.
1869_ being the first Pali text printed in England; _Dictionary of
the Pali language 2 vols._ 1872–5, awarded by the Institute of
France the Volney prize, July 1876 as the best philological work
of the year. _d._ Weybridge, Surrey 25 July 1876. _Annual report
of Royal Asiatic Society, June 1877 pp. viii-x._
CHILDREN, JOHN GEORGE (_only child of George Children of Ferox hall,
Tunbridge, Kent 1742–1818_). _b._ Ferox hall 18 May 1777; ed. at
Eton and Queen’s coll. Cam.; established gunpowder mills at
Ramhurst 1813; a librarian in department of antiquities at British
Museum 1816, keeper of the Zoological collections 1823 to 25 March
1840; F.R.S. 12 March 1807, one of the secretaries 1826–7 and
1830–7, vice pres. 1837–8; F.R.S. of Edin. 1812; F.S.A. 1816;
pres. of Entomological Soc. 1834–5; discovered a method for
extracting silver from its ore without the use of mercury 1824;
published translations of _Thenard’s Traité de Chymie_ 1819, and
of _Berzelius’s Use of the blowpipe in chemical analysis_ 1822.
_d._ Halstead place, Kent 1 Jany. 1852. _Memoir of J. G. Children,
privately printed_ 1853; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii_,
137–40 (1853); _G.M. xxxvii_, 622–4 (1852).
CHILDS, CHARLES (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ 1807; head of firm
of John Childs and Son of Bungay, Suffolk, printers 1853 to death;
gave evidence before select committee of House of Commons on the
Queen’s printers’ patent 1859; wrote several articles in the
_Westminster Review_. _d._ Bungay 26 Dec. 1876.
CHILDS, JOHN. _b._ Bungay 1783; printer at Bungay 1806 to death;
projected with Joseph Ogle Robinson the series known as ‘_Imperial
octavo editions of standard authors_’; a pioneer of movement for
cheap and good literature for the million. _d._ Bungay 12 Aug.
1853 in 70 year.
CHILDS, JOSEPH. Second lieut. R.M. 21 April 1809, col. commandant 14
July 1855 to 31 March 1857 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 31
March 1857. _d._ Liskeard, Cornwall 2 Jany. 1870 aged 83.
CHILTON, GEORGE (_eld. son of George Chilton of Chancery lane,
London, solicitor_). Educ. at Queen’s coll. Ox, B.A. 1818;
barrister I.T. 16 June 1820, bencher 1837, reader 1848, treasurer
1849; recorder of Gloucester, March 1837 to death; Q.C. 1837;
judge of county courts for Greenwich and Lambeth (circuit 48),
July 1847 to death; edited _R. B. Comyn’s A treatise on the law of
landlord and tenant_, _2 ed._ 1830. _d._ Boulogne 1 Nov. 1852 aged
56.
CHINNERY, REV. SIR NICHOLAS, 3 Baronet (_only son of Sir Brodrick
Chinnery, 2 baronet 1779–1840_). _b._ Bath 7 July 1804; ed. at
Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; succeeded 17 Jany. 1840;
C. of Trinity chapel, Conduit st. London 1855–6; author of
_Anglican formalism_ 1862; _The design of heresies_ 1867; killed
in a railway accident between Abergele and Llandulas stations on
Chester and Holyhead railway 20 Aug. 1868, when 33 persons were
literally burned alive. _A.R._ (1868) 106–11; _I.L.N. liii_, 234
(1868).
CHIOSSO, JAMES. Opened gymnasia and schools of arms at 21 New road,
Marylebone, London 1853, and at 123 Oxford st. 1854; professor of
gymnastics at University college school, London, where he erected
one of the earliest gymnasia in London about 1838; invented the
Calisthenic and Gymnastic Polymachinon 1855; author of _Remarks on
physical education_ 1845; _Gymnastics an essential branch of
national education_ 1854; _The gymnastic polymachinon_ 1855. _d._
11 Norfolk villas, Bayswater, London 14 March 1864 aged 75.
_Illust. Sporting news i_, 116 (1862), _portrait_.
CHIPP, EDMUND THOMAS (_eld. son of the succeeding_). _b._ London 25
Dec. 1823; a member of Society of British Musicians 1842; organist
of St. John’s chapel, Hampstead 1843–6; a violinist in Queen’s
private band 1843–55; organist at St. Olave, Southwark 1847–52 and
at St. Mary-at-Hill 1852–6; organist at Panopticon, Leicester sq.
1855 and at Holy Trinity church, Paddington 1856–62; Mus. Bac.
Cam. 1859, Mus. Doc. 1861; organist of St. George’s ch. and Ulster
Hall, Belfast 1862–6, and of Ely cathedral, Nov. 1866 to death;
composed _Job an oratorio_; _Naomi a sacred idyll_, several songs,
services, and organ and pianoforte music. _d._ Nice 17 Dec. 1886.
_Biograph vi_, 563–5 (1881); _Graphic xxxv_, 100 (1887),
_portrait_.
CHIPP, THOMAS PAUL. _b._ London 25 May 1793; teacher of the harp;
harpist in orchestra of Covent Garden theatre 1818, of Her
Majesty’s theatre 1826; a member of all chief London orchestras
1813–66; played at coronations of George iv, Wm. iv, and Victoria.
_d._ Camden Town, London 19 June 1870.
CHISHOLM, CAROLINE (_dau. of Wm. Jones of Wootton,
Northamptonshire_). _b._ Wootton, May 1808; went to Madras 1832
where she established Female school of industry; went to Sydney
1839 where she opened an office for the use of emigrants, Jany.
1841; promoted emigration of families from England 1846–54;
laboured in Australia 1854–66; granted civil list pension of £100,
19 June 1867; author of _The A.B.C. of colonisation_ 1850,
_Emigration and transportation relatively considered_. (_m._ 1830
Archibald Chisholm, captain 13 Madras N.I. who _d._ Rugby 17 Aug.
1877 aged 82). _d._ 43^a Barclay road, Walham Green near London 25
March 1877. _bur._ Northampton 31 March. _Mackenzie’s Memoirs of
C. Chisholm_ 1852, _portrait_; _Michelet’s La Femme_ (1860)
398–406; _I.L.N. xx_, 301 (1852), _portrait, xxiv_, 337 (1854),
_portrait, lxx_, 349 (1877), _portrait_.
CHISHOLM, WALTER (_son of Mr. Chisholm of Easter Harelaw near
Chirnside, Berwickshire, shepherd_). _b._ Easter Harelaw 21 Dec.
1856; wrote poems signed ‘Wattie’ in the _Haddington Courier_ and
in the _People’s Friend_; his poem entitled _Scotia’s Border Land_
gained second prize in competition promoted by _People’s Journal_
Christmas 1876. _d._ of pleurisy at Dowlaw farm 1 Oct. 1877.
_Poems by the late Walter Chisholm, edited by W. Cairns 1879 pp.
ix-xvi._
CHITTY, EDWARD (_3 son of Joseph Chitty of the Middle Temple,
London, barrister 1776–1841_). _b._ 1804; barrister L.I. 7 July
1829; went to Jamaica 1840; author of _An index to all the
reported cases of equity and bankruptcy 2 vols._ 1831, _3 ed. 4
vols._ 1853; author with E. E. Deacon of _Reports of cases in
bankruptcy 4 vols._ 1833–7; with Basil Montagu of _Reports of
cases in bankruptcy_ 1840; with F. Forster of _A digested index to
all the common law reports relating to conveyancing and
bankruptcy_ 1841. _d._ Cambridge lodge, Walham green near London
28 Sep. 1863.
CHITTY, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1801; practised in
London as a special pleader below the bar 1820–77; taught many men
who became judges and leading counsel; author of _Forms of
practical proceedings in the courts of Queen’s Bench Common Pleas
and Exchequer of Pleas_ 1834, _12 ed._ 1883; edited _J. F.
Archbold’s Practice of the Court of King’s Bench_, _4 ed. 2 vols._
1835, _5 ed. 2 vols._ 1836, _6 ed. 2 vols._ 1838, _7 ed. 2 vols._
1840, _and 8 ed. 2 vols._ 1845–7. _d._ 47 Lancaster gate, Hyde
park, London 13 Feb. 1878.
CHITTY, TOMPSON. Barrister M.T. 31 Jany. 1851; edited _Joseph
Chitty’s A practical treatise on the law of contracts, not under
seal_, _3 ed._ 1841; author with Leofric Temple of _A practical
treatise on the law of carriers of goods and passengers_ 1856.
_d._ Stockwell Surrey 4 Feb. 1863.
CHOLMELEY, SIR MONTAGU JOHN, 2 Baronet. _b._ Grantham 5 Aug. 1802;
M.P. for Grantham 14 June 1826 to 23 April 1831, for North
Lincolnshire 12 Jany. 1847 to 1 July 1852, and 31 March 1857 to
death; succeeded 10 March 1831. _d._ Easton hall, Grantham 18
Jany. 1874.
CHOLMLEY, SIR GEORGE, 7 Baronet. _b._ Welburn, Kirkby Moorside,
Yorkshire 26 Nov. 1782; M.P. for Yorkshire 6 May 1831 to 3 Dec.
1832, for west riding of Yorkshire 20 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841,
for Preston 29 June 1841 to 21 March 1857; succeeded 8 Jany. 1834;
assumed name of Cholmley in lieu of Strickland by royal licence 17
March 1865. _d._ Newton hall near Malton 23 Dec. 1874.
CHOLMONDELEY, GEORGE HORATIO CHOLMONDELEY, 2 Marquis of. _b._ Paris
16 Jany. 1792; M.P. for Castle Rising, Norfolk 21 Feb. 1817 to 24
Dec. 1821; summoned to House of Peers in his father’s barony of
Newburgh 24 Dec. 1821; succeeded 10 April 1827; Joint hereditary
grand chamberlain of England 10 April 1827 to death; P.C. 19 July
1830. _d._ Cholmondeley castle, Nantwich, Cheshire 8 May 1870.
CHOLMONDELEY, WILLIAM HENRY HUGH, 3 Marquis of. _b._ Piccadilly,
London 31 Aug. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Castle
Rising 1 Feb. 1822 to 3 Dec. 1832, for South Hants. 14 July 1852
to 21 March 1857; succeeded 8 May 1870; joint hereditary grand
chamberlain of England 8 May 1870 to death. _d._ Houghton hall,
Rougham, Norfolk 16 Dec. 1884.
CHORLEY, CHARLES (_son of John Chorley, lieutenant 1 Somerset
militia, who d. 22 Feb. 1839 aged 66_). _b._ Taunton about 1810;
sub-editor of _Cornwall Gazette_ at Truro 30 years; sec. to Truro
Public Rooms company; sub-manager of Truro Savings’ bank; edited
_Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall_ 1863–74; published
_Jephtha or the Vow, a tragedy by [George] Buchanan, translated
from the Latin by C. C[horley]_ 1854; _The Baptist or calumny, a
tragedy by [George] Buchanan, translated from the Latin by C.
C[horley]_ 1864, _Verse by C. C._ 1867. _d._ 24 Lemon st. Truro 22
June 1874. _Journal of Royal Instit. of Cornwall, Oct. 1874 pp.
iii, iv, vii._
CHORLEY, HENRY FOTHERGILL (_3 son of John Chorley of Blackley Hurst,
Lancs. lock maker, who d. 15 April 1816_). _b._ Blackley Hurst 15
Dec. 1808; started with his brother W. B. Chorley, M.D. an annual
called _The Winter’s Wreath_ 1828; a reviewer on the _Athenæum_
1833–66, musical critic of it 1833–68; author of _Sketches of a
Sea-port town 3 vols._ 1835; _Conti the discarded, a novel 3
vols._ 1835; _Memorials of Mrs. Hemans 2 vols._ 1836; _Modern
German music 3 vols._ 1854; _Thirty years musical recollections 2
vols._ 1862; _Prodigy, a tale of music 3 vols._ 1866; librettos
for Wallace’s _Amber Witch_, and Bennett’s _May Queen_. _d._ 13
Eaton place west, London 16 Feb. 1872. _H. F. Chorley,
autobiography, memoir and letters, compiled by H. G. Hewlett 2
vols._ 1873, _portrait_; _Musical cynics of London, a satire by
George Linley_ 1862 a satirical poem on H. F. Chorley.
CHORLEY, JOHN RUTTER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Blackley
Hurst about 1807; secretary to Grand Junction railway between
Liverpool and Birmingham; formed a fine collection of Spanish
plays which he gave to British Museum; principal reviewer of
German, Italian and Spanish books for the _Athenæum_ 1846–54;
author of _The Wife’s Litany, and other poems_ 1865. _d._ 29 June
1867. _H. F. Chorley’s Autobiography ii_, 254–92 (1873).
CHOWN, REV. JOSEPH PARBERY. _b._ Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire 9
Dec. 1821; ed. at Horton (now Rawdon) college; pastor of Sion
baptist chapel, Bradford 1848–75; pastor of Bloomsbury chapel,
London 1875–85; pres. of London baptist association 1879; pres. of
Baptist union of Great Britain and Ireland 1883; author of many
circular letters written for the Yorkshire Baptist Association and
of sermons, which had a wide circulation; one of the most popular
Baptist preachers. _d._ 24 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood,
London 8 July 1886. _The Baptist 16 July 1886 pp._ 42–4; _The
Freeman 16 July 1886 pp._ 464–5; _John Taylor’s Bibliotheca
Northamtonensis_.
CHOWNE, WILLIAM. M.R.C.S. 1813; M.D. Edin. 1827, L.R.C.P. 1833,
F.R.C.P. 1857; practised in Holland, Lincs. 1813–27, moved to
London 1833; assistant phys. to Charing Cross hospital, lecturer
on medicine, obstetrics and diseases of women and children; pres.
of Westminster Medical Soc.; pres. of Harveian Soc. 1850–1; author
of _An oration delivered before the Medical Society of London,
with an appendix on coroners’ inquests_ 1846. _d._ 17 Sep. 1870
aged 79. _Medical Circular i_, 261–3, 301 (1852), _portrait_.
CHRISTIAN, RICHARD. _b._ Cottesmore, Rutland, March 1779; head groom
to Sir Wm. Heathcote 1799–1809; a farmer at Luffenham, Rutland
1809–17; whip to Lord Scarborough at Rufford 1820–35. _d._ 5 June
1862. _Post and Paddock by the Druid pp._ 336–67; _Silk and
Scarlet by the Druid pp._ 1–69, _portrait_.
CHRISTIE, ALEXANDER (_eld. son of David Christie of Edinburgh_).
_b._ Edin. 1807; ed. at Edin. academy and univ.; apprenticed to a
writer to the signet; studied art in Edin., London and Paris; an
assistant in ornamental department of School of Art, Edin. 1843,
director 1845; A.R.S.A. 1848, where he exhibited pictures for some
years; painted a large picture ‘The apparition of the Cross to
Constantine,’ as an altar-piece for the chapel at Murthley Castle;
delivered lectures on art at Philosophical Instit. of Edin. _d._ 5
May 1860.
CHRISTIE, JAMES ROBERT (_2 son of Samuel Hunter Christie
1784–1865_). _b._ Woolwich 9 Feb. 1814; mathematical master at
Royal military academy, Woolwich 1837–47, first mathematical
master 1847–65; F.R.S. 18 March 1847; F.R.A.S. 13 Jany. 1854;
author of _Introduction to practical astronomy_ 1853; _Test
questions in pure and mixed mathematics_ 1866. _d._ Arundel house,
South Norwood park near London 28 Feb. 1879. _Monthly notices of
Royal Astronom. Soc. xl_, 188 (1880).
CHRISTIE, JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1822; captain 1 European light
cavalry 1 Jany. 1846 to 21 Feb. 1861; aide-de-camp to the Queen 7
March 1856 to 21 Feb. 1861; C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ San Remo,
Italy 7 May 1869.
CHRISTIE, JONATHAN HENRY. Educ. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1813,
M.A. 1815; barrister L.I. 21 May 1824; fought a duel with John
Scott editor of the _London Magazine_ at Chalk farm near London at
9 p._m._ 16 Feb. 1821 when at the second fire Scott fell mortally
wounded and died at Chalk farm tavern 4 March; tried at the Old
Bailey for murder 13 April 1821 when acquitted. _d._ 9 Stanhope
st. Hyde park gardens, London 15 April 1876 aged 83. _J. G.
Millingen’s History of duelling ii_, 244–52 (1841); _A.
Steinmetz’s Romance of duelling ii_, 253–9 (1868).
CHRISTIE, SAMUEL HUNTER (_youngest son of James Christie of 90 Pall
Mall, London, auctioneer 1730–1803_). _b._ 90 Pall Mall 22 March
1784; admitted sizar at Trin. coll. Cam. 7 Oct. 1800, scholar
1803, 2 wrangler and bracketed 1 Smith’s prizeman 1805; B.A. 1805,
M.A. 1808; founded Cambridge university boat club; captain of
Grenadier company of Cambridge volunteers; mathematical assistant
at Royal military academy, Woolwich 1806, professor of mathematics
1838–54; F.R.S. 12 Jany. 1826, sec. of Royal Soc. 1837–54,
contributed to the Transactions many papers on magnetism and
kindred subjects; author of _An elementary course of mathematics 3
parts_ 1845–7. _d._ Ailsa villa, Twickenham 24 Jany. 1865. _Proc.
of Royal Soc. xv_, 11–14 (1867).
CHRISTIE, SAMUEL TOLFREY. Ensign 80 foot 22 Jany. 1836, lieut. col.
5 March 1858 to Nov. 1865; C.B. 14 May 1859; L.G. 5 April 1876.
_d._ Roehampton, Surrey 5 Oct. 1876.
CHRISTIE, WILLIAM DOUGAL (_eld. son of Dougal Christie, M.D. of the
H.E.I. Co.’s Bombay medical service_). _b._ Bombay 3 Jany. 1816;
ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1862; barrister I.T. 16
June 1840; M.P. for Weymouth 1842–7; sec. of legation at Berne 25
Feb. 1851; chargé d’affaires in Argentine Republic 10 Oct. 1854,
minister plenipotentiary 15 Jany. 1856; envoy extraord. to Emperor
of Brazil 2 Sep. 1859 to 20 Oct. 1863 when he retired; C.B. 24
July 1871; author of _Notes on Brazilian questions_ 1865; _Life of
the First Earl of Shaftesbury 2 vols._ 1871; _Ballot and
corruption and expenses at elections_ 1872. _d._ 32 Dorset sq.
Marylebone, London 27 July 1874. _Fraser’s Mag. xxxiv_, 661–3
(1846); _I.L.N. lxv_, 140, 355 (1874).
CHRISTIE, WILLIAM HARVEY (_son of Thomas Christie, M.D. of
Cheltenham_). _b._ Ceylon 2 Aug. 1808; ed. at Rugby and Woolwich;
ensign 80 foot 8 April 1825, major 9 Nov. 1838 to 17 Jany. 1840;
police magistrate at Hyde park barracks, Sydney to 1842; agent for
church and school estates, Sydney 1842–52; postmaster general of
N.S.W. 1852–1865. _d._ Pyrmont, Sydney 19 March 1873.
CHRISTISON, JOHN. _b._ 18 Nov. 1788; sheriff of Ayrshire 13 March
1854 to death, _d._ 11 June 1862.
CHRISTISON, SIR ROBERT (_son of Alexander Christison, professor of
humanity in Univ. of Edin., who d. 25 June 1830_). _b._ Edin. 18
July 1797; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1819, LLD.
1872; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1823, pres. 1839 and 1848; professor of
medical jurisprudence in Univ. of Edin. 23 Feb. 1822 to 1832,
professor of clinical medicine 1832–55, professor of materia
medica 1832 to April 1877; medical witness in almost every
important case in Scotland 1829–66; one of the Queen’s phys. in
ord. in Scotland 1848–82; a crown representative in general
medical council 1858–77; pres. of Royal Soc. of Edin. 1868–73;
created baronet 20 Nov. 1871; pres. of British medical assoc.
1875; author of _A treatise on poisons_ 1829, _4 ed._ 1845; _On
granular degeneration of the kidneys_ 1839; _A dispensatory or
commentary on the pharmacopœias of Great Britain_ 1842, _2 ed._
1848. _d._ 40 Moray place, Edin. 27 Jany. 1882. _Life of Sir R.
Christison edited by his sons 2 vols._ 1885–6, 2 _portraits_; _S.
Muspratt’s Chemistry vol. 1_ (1853), _portrait_.
CHRISTMAS, REV. HENRY, afterwards Noel-Fearn (_only son of Robert
Noble Christmas of Taunton_). _b._ London 1811; ed. at St. John’s
coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; librarian and sec. of Sion
college, London 1841–8; minister of Verulam chapel, Lambeth
1843–56; lecturer at St. Peter’s church, Cornhill 1852–66; C. of
St. James’s, Thames st. 1866; professor of English history and
archæology in Royal Society of Literature 1854–9; joint hon. sec.
of Numismatic Society of London 1844–7, his collection of coins
was sold at Sotheby’s for £1260, 1–5 Feb. 1864; edited _Churchman_
1840–3, _Church of England Quarterly review_ 1840–3 and 1854–8,
_British Churchman_ 1845–8, _Literary Gazette_ 1859–60; F.R.S. 14
April 1842; F.S.A.; author of _The Voyage, a poem_ 1833; _The
cradle of the twin giants, science and history 2 vols._ 1849; _The
shores and islands of the Mediterranean 3 vols._ 1851 and 15 other
books; took name of Noel-Fearn 1866. _d._ suddenly of apoplexy in
a cab in the Haymarket, London 11 March 1868.
CHRISTOFF, GEORGE, stage name of George Christopher. One of the best
tight rope dancers in England; performed at the New Queen’s
theatre, London in _The last days of Pompeii_, drama in 5 acts by
John Oxenford 8 Jany. 1872, and several months afterwards. _d._
Lambeth infirmary, London 13 June 1881 aged about 55.
CHRISTOPHER-NISBET-HAMILTON, ROBERT ADAM (_elder son of Philip
Dundas, governor of Prince of Wales Island, who d. 1807_). _b._ 9
Feb. 1804; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; advocate 1826; M.P. for city of
Edin. 1831–2, for North Lincolnshire 1837–57; F.R.S. 18 April
1833; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 1 March
to 30 Dec. 1852; assumed surname of Christopher in lieu of Dundas
20 Jany. 1836, took additional surname of Nisbet-Hamilton 1854.
_d._ 23 Chesham place, London 9 June 1877.
CHRISTY, HENRY (_2 son of W. Miller Christy of Woodbines, Kingston
upon Thames, banker 1778–1858_). _b._ 26 July 1810; partner in
firm of Messrs. Christy’s of Bermondsey and Stockport,
manufacturers; succeeded his father as a director of London joint
stock bank 1858; travelled in Scandinavia 1852–3; explored with
Edward B. Tylor all parts of Mexico; examined the caves in valley
of the Vezere, south of France, finding thousands of specimens of
remains; F.G.S. 1858; selected by council of Royal society to be
elected a fellow 1 June 1865; author with E. Lartet of _Reliquiæ
Aquitanicæ, being contributions to the archæology and palæontology
of Perigord and the adjacent provinces of Southern France_
1865–70. _d._ La Palisse, Allier, France 4 May 1865. _Proc. of
Linnæan Soc._ (1865) 85–90.
NOTE.—By his will he bequeathed his magnificent collections
illustrating the history of early man, with the equally large
series of articles representing the habits of modern savages,
to the nation; the trustees of the British Museum secured the
suite of rooms at 118 Victoria st. Westminster (in which
Christy himself had lived) and here the collection was
exhibited until 1884 when it was moved to the British Museum.
CHUBB, JOHN (_son of Charles Chubb of London, locksmith, who d. 16
May 1845_). Locksmith in St. Paul’s churchyard, London, afterwards
in Queen Victoria st.; M.I.C.E. 1845, read a valuable paper on
locks and keys before that institution 1850 for which he was
awarded Telford silver medal; patented various improvements in
locks and safes. _d._ Radcliffe house, Brixton Rise, London 30
Oct. 1872 in 57 year. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. ix_,
310–43 (1850).
CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (_2 son of Matthew Church of Cork_). _b._ 1784;
ensign 13 foot 3 July 1800; major 1 Greek light infantry 9 Sep.
1809; lieut.-col. 2 Greek light infantry 19 Nov. 1812 to 1815 when
both regiments (which he had raised) were disbanded; commander in
chief in Sicily 1820; generalissimo of Greek army 1827–8 and
1832–43 when he joined the revolutionary party; C.B. 4 June 1815;
knighted at Carlton house 12 June 1822; G.C.H. 1837. _d._ Athens
20 March 1873.
CHURCHILL, FRANCIS GEORGE SPENCER, 2 Baron. _b._ Blenheim 6 Oct.
1802; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; attaché at Vienna 10 Aug.
1823, at Lisbon 12 Jany. 1828; succeeded his father 7 March 1845;
commanded Oxfordshire yeomanry 1857–74. _d._ 32 Albemarle st.
London 24 Nov. 1886.
CHURCHILL, ALFRED B. _b._ Constantinople; succeeded his father as
editor and proprietor of Turkish semi-official paper the _Jeride
Hawades_; much improved character of Turkish printing; attended
the Sultan on his visit to England, July 1867 as official
historiographer. _d._ Constantinople, Nov. or Dec. 1870 aged 45.
CHURCHILL, FLEETWOOD. _b._ Nottingham, Feb. 1808; studied in London,
Dublin and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1831; practised at Dublin 1832–75;
fellow of King and Queen’s college of Phys. 27 Oct. 1851, censor
1855–7, vice pres. 1856, professor of midwifery in school of
physic 1856–64, pres. 1867–8; pres. of Obstetrical Soc. of Dublin
1856 and 1864; author of _Diseases of females_ 1838; _Operative
Midwifery_ 1841; _Diseases of Children_ 1850. _d._ Ardtrea rectory
near Stewartstown 31 Jany. 1878. _Dublin Journal of medical
science lxv_, 285–8 (1878).
CHURCHILL, HENRY ADRIAN (_son of Wm. Nosworthy Churchill_). _b._
1828; attaché at Teheran 22 April 1852; attached as secretary and
interpreter to staff of General Williams in Asia 18 July 1854 to
28 Nov. 1855 when taken prisoner at capitulation of Kars; consul
general in Syria 1862, at Algiers 1863–7; political agent and
consul at Zanzibar 15 June 1867 to 12 Feb. 1872 when he retired on
a pension; consul in Sicily 1 Oct. 1879 to death; C.B. 19 June
1856. _d._ Palermo 12 July 1886.
CHURCHILL, JOHN SPRIGGS MORSS (_3 son of Rev. James Churchill,
Independent minister at Ongar, Essex_). _b._ Ongar 4 Aug. 1801;
medical bookseller at 16 Princes st. Soho, London 1830–54, at New
Burlington st. 1854 to 31 Dec. 1870 when he retired; published
_British and foreign medical review_ 1838, _Lancet_ 1842–7,
_Medical Times_ 1850 and nearly all the medical books; projected
and edited a series of medical manuals. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 3
Aug. 1875. _H. Curwen’s History of booksellers_ (1873) 339–45;
_Medical times and gazette ii_, 197–200 (1875).
CHURSTON, JOHN YARDE-BULLER, 1 Baron (_2 son of Sir Francis
Buller-Yarde 2 baronet 1767–1833_). _b._ Dilhorne hall, Staffs. 12
April 1799; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; succeeded 17 April 1833; M.P.
for South Devon 13 Jany. 1835 to 2 Aug. 1858 when created Baron
Churston of Churston Ferrers and Lupton, Devon; lieut.-col. of
South Devon militia 1845; special deputy warden of the stannaries
1852; changed his name from Buller-Yarde to Yarde-Buller by royal
license 13 Feb. 1860. _d._ Lupton near Brixham 4 Sep. 1871.
_I.L.N. xxxvii_, 191, 208 (1860), _portrait, lix_, 259, 530
(1871).
CHURTON, VENERABLE EDWARD (_2 son of Ven. Ralph Churton 1754–1831,
archdeacon of St. David’s_). _b._ Middleton Cheney,
Northamptonshire 26 Jany. 1800; ed. at Charterhouse 1810–18 and
Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; head master of Hackney church
of England school 1830–4; R. of Crayke, Yorkshire 1835 to death;
preb. of York cath. 1841 to death; archdeacon of Cleveland 21
Jany. 1846 to death; edited with Rev. W. Gresley _The Englishman’s
Library_, for which he wrote _The early English Church_ 1840;
author of _Lays of faith and loyalty_ 1847; _The book of Psalms in
English verse_ 1854; _Gongora, an historical and critical essay on
the times of Philip iii and iv of Spain with translations 2 vols._
1863. _d._ Crayke 4 July 1874. _Poetical remains of Edward
Churton_ 1876, _portrait_.
CHURTON, EDWARD. Bookseller and publisher as 26 Holles st. Cavendish
sq. London many years. _d._ Wanganui, New Zealand 24 July 1885
aged 73.
CHUTE, JAMES HENRY. _b._ Gosport 4 July 1810; played at Bristol
theatre as Mr. Chew; performed on the York and Lincoln circuits;
played at T.R. Dublin 7 years; joined the Bristol stage about
1842; lessee of the Old theatre, King st. Bristol, Sep. 1853 to
death, of the new theatre Bristol to death; made his last
appearance 6 April 1876. _d._ Bristol 23 July 1878. _Era 28 July
1878 p. 4, col. 4, 4 Aug. p. 10, col. 1._
CHUTE, SIR TREVOR (_3 son of Francis Chute of Chute hall, Tralee,
co. Kerry, who d. 12 Aug. 1849_). _b._ Spa, Tralee 31 July 1816;
ensign Ceylon rifle regiment 10 Aug. 1831; captain 70 foot 8 Nov.
1839, lieut. col. 14 Dec. 1849 to 12 May 1863 when placed on h.p.;
brigadier general Bengal 1858–9 and 1860–1; brigadier general
Australia 1863–5; major general New Zealand 1865–7; major general
Australia 1867–70; col. 22 foot 6 May 1873 to death; general 1
Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 3 April 1846,
K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Egmont, Bracknell, Berks. 12 March
1886. _Sir J. E. Alexander’s Bush fighting_ (1873) 267–305.
CHUTE, WILLIAM LYDE WIGGETT. _b._ 16 June 1800; sheriff of Norfolk
1832; M.P. for West Norfolk 29 July 1837 to 23 July 1847. _d._ The
Vyne near Basingstoke 6 July 1879.
CIANCHETTI, PIO (_2 son of Francesco Cianchetti of Rome_). _b._
London 11 Dec. 1799; performed a sonata of his own composition in
the opera concert room, London 1805; performed in Germany, Holland
and France; spoke the English, French, German and Italian
languages at 8 years old; composed instrumental pieces including a
grand concerto which he executed at a concert in London 1809;
acted as composer and conductor of Madame Catalani’s concerts in
England 1822; composed concertos, pianoforte music and songs;
edited an edition in score of symphonies and overtures by Mozart
and Beethoven. _d._ Cheltenham 21 July 1851.
CLAIRMONT, CLARA MARY JANE (_dau. of Mr. Clairmont, who d. about May
1798, by Mary Jane, who m. (2) Wm. Godwin the author_). _b._ 27
April 1798; ed. at Walham Green; went to France with her half
sister Mary Godwin, when she eloped with the poet Shelley 28 July
1814; introduced herself to Lord Byron early in 1816, became his
mistress, her daughter Allegra was born at Bath 12 Jany. 1817 and
_d._ in the convent of Bagna-Cavallo near Ravenna 19 April 1822; a
governess in Russia about 1823–9; lived in Italy and Paris. _d._
Florence 19 March 1879. _C. K. Paul’s Life of Wm. Godwin ii_, 108,
213, 217, 247–8, 280 (1876); _Moore’s Life of Lord Byron_ (1847)
389, 557, 567. _Dowden’s Life of P. B. Shelley i_, 439–522 (1886).
CLANCARTY, WILLIAM THOMAS LE POER TRENCH, 3 Earl of. _b._
Castletown, co. Kildare 21 Sep. 1803; lieut.-col. of Galway
militia 1830–65; succeeded 24 Nov. 1837. _d._ Salt hill near
Dublin 26 April 1872.
CLANMORRIS, JOHN CHARLES ROBERT BINGHAM, 4 Baron (_eld. son of Denis
Arthur Bingham, 3 Baron Clanmorris 1808–47_). _b._ Moyode castle,
co. Galway 28 Nov. 1826; ed. at Rugby; succeeded his father 24
Feb. 1847. _d._ at his seat in West of Ireland 5 April 1876.
CLANRICARDE, ULICK JOHN DE-BURGH, 1 Marquis of (_only son of 13 Earl
of Clanricarde 1744–1808_). _b._ Belmont, Hants. 20 or 28 Dec.
1802; succeeded as 14 Earl 27 July 1808; created a marquis in
peerage of Ireland 6 Oct. 1825; created Baron Somerhill in peerage
of the U.K. 13 June 1826; under sec. of state for foreign affairs
2 Jany. 1826 to 17 Aug. 1827; captain of yeomen of the guard 1
Dec. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1834; P.C. 1 Dec. 1830; lord lieut. of Galway
1831; K.P. 7 Oct. 1831; colonel of Galway militia 1 Jany. 1838,
hon. colonel 12 Feb. 1873 to death; ambassador at St. Petersburgh
6 Oct. 1838 to 28 March 1840; postmaster general 7 July 1846 to 27
Dec. 1852; lord privy seal 3 Feb. 1858 to 26 Feb. 1858. _d._ 17
Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 10 April 1874. _bur._ Portumna,
Galway. _Baily’s Mag. xi_, 333–7 (1866), _portrait_; _I.L.N. iv_,
332, (1844), _portrait_; _Graphic ix_, 433 (1874), _portrait_.
CLANWILLIAM, RICHARD CHARLES FRANCIS MEADE, 3 Earl of (_elder son of
Richard Meade, 2 Earl of Clanwilliam 1766–1805_). _b._ 15 Aug.
1795; succeeded 3 Sep. 1805; private sec. to Marquess of
Londonderry 5 Jan. 1817 to 11 July 1819; under sec. of state for
foreign affairs 22 Jan. 1822 to 12 Aug. 1822; envoy extraord. and
minister plenipo. at Berlin 1 Feb. 1823 to 25 Dec. 1827; G.C.H.
1826; created a peer of the U.K. by title of Baron Clanwilliam of
Clanwilliam, co. Tipperary 28 Jany. 1828; created D.C.L. Ox. 11
June 1834. _d._ 32 Belgrave square, London 7 Oct. 1879. Personalty
sworn under £250,000 Jany. 1880.
CLAPHAM, ROBERT CALVERT (_son of Anthony Clapham, who established
soda and alkali works on the Tyne_). _b._ Newcastle 15 Sep. 1823;
manager of the Walker alkali works; chief founder of Newcastle
Chemical society 1868, pres. 1878; sec. of Newcastle literary and
philosophical society 21 years; M.I.M.E. 1869; F.C.S.; author of
the article on Soda in _Chemistry as applied to arts and
manufactures_. _d._ Winchelsea 22 Dec. 1881. _Proc. of Instit. of
Mechanical Engineers_ (1882) 2–3.
CLAPHAM, WILLIAM. Entered Madras army 1796; colonel 47 Madras N.I. 5
April 1831 to death; M.G. 28 June 1838. _d._ Widcombe house, Bath
29 Aug. 1851 aged 70.
CLARE, JOHN FITZGIBBON, 2 Earl of (_elder son of John Fitzgibbon, 1
Earl of Clare 1749–1802, lord chancellor of Ireland_), _b._ 10
June 1792; succeeded as 2 Earl 28 Jany. 1802; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.,
B.A. 1812, M.A. 1819; lord lieutenant of Limerick; governor of
Bombay, Aug. 1830 to 17 March 1835, took his seat 21 March 1831;
P.C. 25 Aug. 1830; G.C.H. 1835; K.P. 17 Sep. 1845. _d._ Brighton
18 Aug. 1851.
CLARE, RICHARD HOBART FITZGIBBON, 3 Earl of (_brother of the
preceding_). _b._ Dublin 2 Oct. 1793; registrar of affidavits in
Irish court of Chancery 1797–1836 when office was abolished;
ensign 1 foot guards 18 Aug. 1808; captain 2 Ceylon regiment
1811–14; M.P. for co. Limerick 1818–41; lord lieut. of Limerick
1851; succeeded as 3 Earl 18 Aug. 1851. _d._ Kensington palace
gardens, London 10 Jany. 1864.
CLARE, JOHN (_son of Parker Clare of Helpstone near Stamford,
labourer_). _b._ Helpstone 13 July 1793; cottage farmer at
Helpstone 1827–32, at Northborough 1832–7; confined at High Beech
private lunatic asylum, Epping Forest 1837–41, at county asylum,
Northampton 1841 to death; author of _Poems descriptive of rural
life and scenery_ 1821; _The village minstrel and other poems 2
vols._ 1821; _The rural muse_ 1835. _d._ Northampton asylum 20 May
1864. _bur._ Helpstone 25 May. _F. Martin’s Life of J. Clare_
1865; _J. L. Cherry’s Life of J. Clare_ 1873; _M. R. Mitford’s
Recollections of a literary life_ (1859) 103–14; _J. Clare’s
Village Minstrel vol._ 1 (1821), _portrait_.
CLARE, JOHN. Nautical inventor; one of the persons who suggested
protection of war vessels by means of iron plates; made a claim on
the Government for a sum of about a million for compensation,
which claim was rejected; author of _Mechanical defects of things
resembling iron ships, but constructed upon the tin-pot principle_
1856; _Life preserving ships hydrodynamically developed upon
metallic principles_ 1868. _d._ 1 West bank road, Liverpool 12
Oct. 1885 aged 65.
CLARE, PETER (_son of Peter Clare of Manchester, clockmaker, who d.
30 July 1799_). _b._ Manchester 1781; member of Manchester
literary and philosophical society 1810, sec. 1821–42; F.R.A.S.
1841; a zealous member of Anti-slavery committee. _d._ Manchester
24 Nov. 1851. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xii_, 89–90
(1852).
CLARENDON, GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK VILLIERS, 4 Earl of (_eld. son
of hon. George Villiers 1759–1827_). _b._ London 12 Jany. 1800;
ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; attaché of embassy at St. Petersburg
1820–23; a comr. of the Excise 1823–33; envoy extraord. and min.
plenipo. to Madrid 16 Aug. 1833 to 18 Oct. 1839; G.C.B. 19 Oct.
1837; succeeded his uncle as 4 Earl 22 Dec. 1838; P.C. 3 Jany.
1840; lord keeper of privy seal 15 Jany. 1840 to 3 Sep. 1841;
chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 31 Oct. 1840 to 23 June 1841 and
7 April 1864 to Nov. 1865; pres. of board of trade 6 July 1846 to
22 July 1847; lord lieut. of Ireland 20 May 1847 to 2 March 1852;
grand master of order of St. Patrick 26 May 1847 to 1852; K.G. 23
March 1849; sec. of state for foreign department 21 Feb. 1853 to
26 Feb. 1858, 3 Nov. 1865 to 5 July 1866 and 9 Dec. 1868 to death;
ambassador extraord. and plenipo. to congress of Paris 15 Feb. to
April 1856; ambassador extraord. at coronation of King Wm. i of
Prussia 2 Oct. 1861; chancellor of Queen’s Univ. of Ireland 8 Oct.
1864. _d._ 1 Grosvenor crescent, London 27 June 1870. _bur._ at
Watford, Herts. 1 July. _W. H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France
and England, New York_ (1863) 157–61; _Men of the time, British
Statesmen_ (1854) 287–317; _D. O. Maddyn’s Chiefs of parties_
(1859) 136–53; _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_, 454–58 (1854);
_Macmillan’s mag. xxii_, 292–6 (1870); _St. James’s mag. Feb. 1870
pp._ 676–85, _portrait_; _The British cabinet in 1853 pp._
287–317.
CLARGES, SIR RICHARD GODDARD (_2 son of Rev. James Hare of Stratton,
Wilts._) _b._ Chingford hall, Essex; ed. at Rugby, entered at
Oxford but never resided; lieut. 30 foot 6 July 1796; major 12
foot 1 July 1813 to 27 Aug. 1825 when placed on h.p.; colonel 73
foot 18 May 1849 to 29 July 1852; colonel 12 foot 29 July 1852 to
death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; served in Egypt, Hanover, Spain and the
Peninsula; assumed surname of Clarges 18 June 1844; C.B. 4 June
1815; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856. _d._ Bitchfield near Grantham 13 April
1857.
CLARIDGE, SIR JOHN THOMAS (_eld. son of John Fellowes Claridge of
Sevenoaks, Kent_). _b._ 1792; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A.
1813, M.A. 1818; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1818; recorder of Prince of
Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca 30 Sep. 1825 to 1829; knighted
at Windsor Castle 30 Sep. 1825. _d._ Stoke villa, Leamington 20
June 1868.
CLARIDGE, WILLIAM. Succeeded James Edward Mivart (who _d._ 5 Jany.
1856 aged 75) as owner of Mivart’s hotel, Brook st. Hanover sq.
London 1851 the hotel par excellence for princes and foreign
ambassadors; sold the hotel to a company for £60,000 March 1881.
_d._ Cragthorne, Grove park, Kent 12 April 1882 aged 68.
CLARINA, EYRE MASSEY, 3 Baron. _b._ Cork 6 May 1798; succeeded Jany.
1810; a representative peer for Ireland 16 April 1849 to death.
_d._ Elm park, Clarina, co. Limerick 18 Nov. 1872.
CLARIS, JOHN CHALK (_son of Mr. Claris of Canterbury, bookseller_).
_b._ Canterbury about 1797; edited the _Kent Herald_ 1826–65;
published under pseudonym of Arthur Brooke following poetical
works; _Juvenile Pieces_ 1816; _Poems_ 1817; _Durovernum, The
curse of Chatterton and other poems_ 1818; _Thoughts and feelings_
1820; _Retrospection (with portrait)_ 1821; _Elegy on the death of
Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 1822. _d._ Best lane, Canterbury 10 Jany.
1866. _Notes and Queries, Fourth series_, _x_, 29, 95 (1872).