surgeon in London 1800; F.L.S. 15 Jany. 1793; author of _An essay
on the bots of horses and other animals_ 1815; _Hippodonomia, or
the true structure laws and economy of the horse’s foot_ 1829;
_Treatise on the bits of horses_, _2 ed._ 1835; and many other
small books on veterinary subjects. _d._ Giltspur st. London 16
Dec. 1860. _Proc. of Linnæan Society_ (1861) 21–4; _J. Smith’s
Catalogue of Friends’ books i_, 417–22 (1867).
CLARK, CHARLES. _b._ Heybridge, Maldon, Essex 1806; lived at Great
Totham hall near Witham where he composed and printed with his own
hands numerous broadsides consisting chiefly of satirical songs
and parodies; printed _A history of the parish of Great Totham by
G. W. Johnson_ 1831; contributed to the _Literary Gazette_,
_Family Herald_ and _Sportsman_. _d._ of heart disease at
Heybridge 21 March 1880. _W. T. Lowndes’s Bibliographer’s Manual
by H. G. Bohn iv, appendix pp._ 216–17 (1864).
CLARK, CHARLES. Barrister M.T. 21 May 1830; official reporter to
House of Lords 1840; secretary to Channel Islands’ criminal law
commission 1846; revising barrister for South Essex 1863–4, for
Herts 1864–73; sec. to Juridical Society 1855–8; bencher of his
inn 15 Jany. 1872; Q.C. 9 Feb. 1874; author of _A summary of
colonial law_ 1834; _House of Lords cases 11 vols._ 1849–66;
author with Patrick Dow of _Reports in the House of Lords 2 vols._
1827–32, with William Finnelly of _Reports in the House of Lords
12 vols._ 1835–47. _d._ 10 Albert road, Regent’s park, London 28
June 1881.
CLARK, EDWARD RAWSON. _b._ Yorkshire; employed at Crockford’s, St.
James’s st. London; kept a racing stud from about 1834; a finance
agent in London to 1856; a member of Tattersall’s 52 years;
commonly known as D’Orsay Clark. _d._ 147 Church st. Chelsea 12
April 1885 aged 81. _Sporting Review xl_, 434–7, (1858); _Sporting
Times 2 May 1885 p._ 5.
CLARK, FRANCIS WILLIAM (_eld. son of Francis Wm. Clark of
Kilpatrick, Argyllshire_). _b._ Stirling 1827; ed. at Stirling gr.
sch. and Univ. of Edin., hon. LLD. 1877; advocate 1851; sheriff
substitute for Glasgow 1867–76; sheriff of Lanarkshire 1876 to
death; author of _A treatise on the law of partnership and
joint-stock companies according to the law of Scotland_ 1866. _d._
Kelvinside, Glasgow 19 Nov. 1886.
CLARK, REV. FREDERICK SCOTSON (_eld. son of Michael Clark of
Southwark, London_). _b._ Southwark 16 Nov. 1840; organist of
Regent Square church, London 1854; studied at Royal academy of
music; founded the London Organ school 1865; matriculated from
Exeter coll. Ox. 13 Oct. 1865; organist of Ex. coll. 1865–7; Mus.
Bac. 1867; head master of St. Michael’s gr. sch. Brighton 1867; C.
of St. Michael’s, Lewes 1868–9; assistant chaplain at Stuttgart
1870–4, at Amsterdam 1874–8; chaplain at Paris 1879; the English
official representative organist at Paris Exhibition 1878 when he
was awarded a gold medal; composed many pieces for the organ,
harmonium and piano. _d._ the London organ school 3 Prince’s st.
Cavendish sq. 5 July 1883.
CLARK, VENERABLE GEORGE. Educ. at Univ. coll. Ox., Bennett scholar,
B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; C. of Alton, Hants 1835–42; C. of Tawstock,
Devon 1843–5; V. of Cantley, Yorkshire 1845–54; preb. of Hereford
12 Dec. 1848 to death; R. of Tenby 1854–67; archdeacon of St.
David’s 21 Jany. 1864 to death. _d._ Lampeter Velfrey rectory 11
Dec. 1874.
CLARK, GEORGE AITKEN (_son of John Clark of Paisley, thread
manufacturer_). _b._ Paisley 9 Aug. 1823; shawl manufacturer with
Robert and John Ronald at Paisley to 1851; started with Peter Kerr
a thread business at Linside Mill, Paisley 1851; established a
branch factory at Newark, New Jersey 1864; bequeathed £20,000 for
erection of a town hall at Paisley which was opened 30 Jany. 1882,
and £20,000 to found 4 scholarships of £300 a year each, tenable
for 3 years in Glasgow Univ. _d._ Newark 13 Feb. 1873. _The
inauguration of the George A. Clark town hall, Paisley_ 1882,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxx_, 133 (1882).
CLARK, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (_son of David Clark of Findlater, who
d. 15 Aug. 1836_). _b._ Findlater 14 Dec. 1788; ed. at Fordyce gr.
sch. and King’s coll. Aberdeen; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1809; assistant
surgeon R.N. 1809–16 when placed on h.p.; M.D. Edin. 1 Aug. 1817;
physician at Rome 1819–26, in London 1826–60; L.R.C.P. 26 June
1826; F.R.S. 7 April 1832; first phys. in ord. to the Queen 8 Aug.
1837; created baronet 11 Nov. 1837; member of senate of Univ. of
London 1838–65; physician to Prince Albert 1840–60; served on
general medical council 1858–60; lived at Bagshot park, lent to
him by the Queen 1860 to death; K.C.B. 6 July 1866; author of _The
influence of climate in the prevention and cure of chronic
diseases_ 1829, _3 ed._ 1841; _Remarks on medical reform_ 1843; _A
memoir of John Conolly, M.D. 1869_. _d._ Bagshot park 29 June
1870. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xix_, 13–19 (1871); _Physic and
Physicians ii_, 254–60 (1839); _Barker’s Photographs of medical
men_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lvii_, 48, 61, 70 (1870), _portrait_.
CLARK, JOHN (_son of Thomas Clark of Greinton, Somerset, minister of
Society of Friends, who d. 16 June 1850 aged 91_). _b._ Greinton
21 Nov. 1785; projected an electric telegraph; took out a patent
for construction of Air Beds and cushions by use of a solution of
india rubber which he disposed of to Mackintosh; constructed a
machine for composing hexameter Latin verses 1848; author of _The
Avalonian guide to the town of Glastonbury and its environs_ 1810,
_10 ed._ 1855; _Tales of the convent of St. Clair_ 1823; _Don
Juan, Canto xvii published by John Clark_ 1827. _d._ Bridgwater 23
May 1853. _J. Smith’s Friends’ books i_, 425–7 (1867).
CLARK, JOHN. Race judge for 30 years at Newmarket, Doncaster, Ascot,
Epsom 1822–52. _d._ Newmarket 15 July 1853 aged 74.
CLARK, JOHN. Attorney in London; clerk of the Central criminal
court, Old Bailey 1829 to death; clerk of the peace for City of
London and borough of Southwark 1829–42 and 1843 to death. _d._
London 28 July 1858. _bur._ Datchet 5 Aug. _City Press 31 July
1858 p. 2, col. 2, and p. 3, col. 2._
CLARK, JOHN. Artist and illustrator of books; inventor and executant
of the Myriorama, Urania’s Mirror and other ingenious art-toys;
known as ‘Waterloo Clark’ from his sketches of some of the
incidents of the field of Waterloo taken by himself on the spot
immediately after the battle. _d._ Edinburgh, Oct. 1863 aged 92.
CLARK, JOHN. Ensign 55 foot 2 June 1814; commandant royal military
asylum 2 April 1852 to 26 Oct. 1858; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858; col. 59
foot 9 March 1863 to death. _d._ Brighton 22 March 1865.
CLARK, RICHARD. _b._ Datchet, Bucks. 5 April 1780; lay clerk at St.
George’s chapel, Windsor and Eton college 1802–11; secretary of
the Glee club 1805; member of Royal Society of musicians 3 July
1814; a gentleman of the Chapels Royal 1 Oct. 1820; a vicar choral
of St. Paul’s cathedral 1827; a lay clerk at Westminster abbey
1828; published _Words of the most favourite pieces performed at
the Glee club, Catch club and other societies_ 1814, _2 ed._ 1824;
_An account of the national anthem, God save the king_ 1822, which
he at first attributed to Carey but afterwards claimed for Bull;
_Reminiscences of Handel_ 1836; _Reading and playing from score
simplified_ 1838; composed glees, anthems and chants. _d._ the
Littlington tower, Westminster abbey cloisters 5 Oct. 1856.
CLARK, REV. SAMUEL (_youngest child of Joseph Clark of Southampton,
brush maker_). _b._ Southampton 19 May 1810; publisher with John
Maw Darton at Holborn hill, London 1836 to 11 June 1843; entered
Magd. hall, Ox. 7 Jany. 1839, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1846; vice principal
of St. Mark’s training college, Chelsea, May 1846–1851; principal
of National Society’s training college, Battersea 1851–63; V. of
Bredwardine, Hereford 1863–71; R. of Eaton Bishop, Hereford, June
1871 to death; inspector of schools for diocese of Hereford 1872
to death; published _Peter Parley’s Tales of the sun, moon and
stars_ 1837; _Maps illustrative of physical and political history
of the British empire_ 1849; contributed to the Speaker’s
Commentary, Leviticus, the latter part of Exodus and Micah; one of
revisers of the Old Testament. _d._ Cosham house, East Cosham,
Hants. 17 July 1875. _Memorials of Samuel Clark edited by his
wife_ (1878), _portrait_.
CLARK, SARAH (_6 child of John Davies of Caerwys, Flintshire_).
Baptized in Caerwys church 1 March 1767. (_m._ 3 March 1790 Wm.
Clark of Hawarden parish, labourer, who _d._ 20 Jany. 1844).
_buried_ at Hawarden 21 April 1871. _W. J. Thoms’s Human
longevity_ (1873) 268–72.
CLARK, THOMAS. _b._ Canterbury 1775; composed several anthems and
many hymn tunes, a few of which continue in use as “Queenborough,”
“Burnham” and “Pembroke.” _d._ Canterbury 30 May 1859.
CLARK, THOMAS. _b._ Ayr 1801; lecturer on chemistry at Glasgow
Mechanics’ Institution 1836; discovered the pyrophosphate of soda
1836; studied at Glasgow Univ. 1827–31, M.D. 1831; apothecary to
Glasgow infirmary 1829; professor of chemistry in Marischal
college and univ. Aberdeen 1833–60 when the coll. and univ. was
fused with King’s college and univ.; best known by his water tests
and by his process for softening chalk waters; contributed to
_Westminster Review_ articles on weights and measures and on the
patent laws 1834–5. _d._ 27 Nov. 1867.
CLARK, THOMAS (_son of Wm. Clark, sheriff-substitute of
Clackmannanshire_). _b._ Whiteside, Stirlingshire 14 Nov. 1820;
landscape painter in oil and water colours at Edinburgh; A.R.S.A.
Nov. 1865. _d._ Dundaroch, Aberfoyle 7 Oct. 1876.
CLARK, THOMAS JAMES (_2 son of Wm. Clark of St. John st. London and
of Edmonton, hop merchant_). _b._ 1822; ed. at Univ. coll. London;
B.A. London 1842; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1845; went Home circuit;
Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; bencher of his inn 25 Jany. 1867. _d._ Myrtle
cottage, Catford bridge, Kent 17 March 1877.
CLARK, REV. WILLIAM (_2 son of John Clark, M.D. of Newcastle
1744–1805_). _b._ Newcastle 5 April 1788; entered Trin. coll. Cam.
Oct. 1804, scholar 1807, fellow 1809; 7 wrangler 1808, B.A. 1808,
M.A. 1811, M.D. 1827; licensed to practise by Univ. of Cam. 5 July
1813; professor of anatomy at Cam. 1817–66, ordained deacon 1818;
V. of Arrington, Cambs. 1824–5; R. of Guiseley near Leeds 1825–59;
F.R.C.P. 25 June 1830; F.R.S. 28 Jany. 1836; author of _Analysis
of a course of lectures on the anatomy and physiology of the human
body_ 1822; _Handbook of zoology translated from the Dutch of J.
Vander Hoeven 2 vols._ 1856–68. _d._ Cambridge 15 Sep. 1869.
_Macmillan’s Mag. xxi_, 267–72 (1870).
CLARK, WILLIAM. _b._ Colchester 17 March 1821; ed. at King’s coll.
London; engineer to municipality of Calcutta 1855–74 where he
devised a complete system of drainage and waterworks; M.I.C.E. 2
Feb. 1864; M.I.M.E. 1867; partner with W. F. Batho in London 1874,
joint patentee with him of steam road roller; invented a tied
brick arch; author of _The drainage of Calcutta_ 1871. _d._
Surbiton, Surrey 22 Jany. 1880. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E.
lxiii_, 308–10 (1881).
CLARK, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ Barford hall, Darlington, March 1821;
ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam.; second in the classical
tripos and second chancellor’s medallist 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A.
1847; fellow of Trin. coll. 1844 to death, tutor 1856–66, vice
master 9 Oct. 1868 to 1871; public orator of Univ. of Cam. 1857 to
Oct. 1869; ordained deacon 1853, priest 1854; relinquished holy
orders by deed inrolled in chancery 2 Sep. 1870; F.S.A. 15 June
1865; one of founders and editors of _Journal of Philology_ 1868;
author of _Gazpacho, or summer months in Spain_ 1850;
_Peloponnesus, notes of study and travel_ 1858; edited with Glover
and Wright _The Cambridge Shakespeare 9 vols._ 1863–6; left £300 a
year to endow a lectureship of English literature at Trinity coll.
Cam. _d._ York 6 Nov. 1878. _C. A. Bristed’s Five years at an
English University_ (1873) 215–7, 219; _Academy ii_, 472, 496
(1878); _Notes and Queries 5 S. x_, 400, 438 (1878), _xi_, 55
(1879).
CLARK, WILLIAM H. Pupil of John Loder the violinist; played the
violin in orchestra of Bath theatre; made his first appearance on
the stage at Weymouth 1833 and in London at Surrey theatre 3 April
1837 in _Jack’s Alive_ and _The loadstone of the earth_; acted at
Haymarket theatre 17 April 1838 to 1877; always known as Little
Clark. _d._ 3 June 1887 in 72 year. _bur._ Tooting cemetery 8
June.
CLARK, SIR WILLIAM STEPHENSON (_son of Wm. Clark, sheriff of York in
1786_). _b._ York, Aug. 1782; studied medicine in London 1803 to
1806; practised at York 1806 to death; one of the city
chamberlains 1809, member of common council for Micklegate ward
1813–20 and 1835–39, one of city sheriffs 1820, alderman 1839–49,
mayor 1839–40, one of the city magistrates 1842 to death; knighted
at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840. (_m._ Oct. 1811 Anne 3 dau. of
John Audus of Selby, Yorkshire, she _d._ 16 July 1883 aged 95).
_d._ York 2 May 1851.
CLARK, WILLIAM TIERNEY (_son of Thomas Clark of Sion house,
Somerset_). _b._ Bristol 23 Aug. 1873; employed by John Rennie in
London 1808–11; resident engineer of West Middlesex water works
1811 where he constructed reservoirs to contain 40,000,000 gallons
of water; erected Hammersmith suspension bridge 1824–7;
constructed Gravesend town pier 1834–5; erected great suspension
bridge over Danube between Pesth and Buda 1839–49 at cost of
£622,042; M.I.C.E. 1823; F.R.S. 4 May 1837; author of _An account
of the suspension bridge across the river Danube_ 1852–3. _d._
Hammersmith 22 Sep. 1852. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii_,
153–7 (1853).
CLARK-KENNEDY, SIR ALEXANDER KENNEDY (_eld. son of John Clark of
Nunland_). _b._ Dumfries 1782; cornet 6 dragoon guards 8 Sep.
1802; captured single-handed at Waterloo the eagle of the 105th
regiment of French infantry; lieut.-col. 7 dragoon guards 11 June
1830 to 22 Dec. 1843 when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the Queen
1841–54; colonel 6 dragoon guards 14 June 1858 to 17 July 1860;
L.G. 3 June 1860; colonel 2 dragoons (Scots Greys) 17 July 1860 to
death; K.H. 1831; C.B. 19 July 1838; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; assumed
additional name of Kennedy 1839. _d._ 69 Oxford terrace, Hyde
park, London 30 Jany. 1864. _bur._ St. Michael’s churchyard,
Dumfries.
CLARK-KENNEDY, JOHN (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Knockgrey,
Kirkcudbright 21 Sep. 1817; cornet 7 dragoon guards 25 Oct. 1833;
took additional name of Kennedy 1839; captain 18 foot 4 March
1842, lieut.-col. 22 June 1855 to 10 Nov. 1856 when placed on
h.p.; served in second Sikh war 1848–9 and in Crimean war 1854–6;
C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; col. commandant military train 10 Feb. 1860 to
death. _d._ Cairo 18 Dec. 1867.
CLARKE, SIR ARTHUR (_son of Arthur Clarke_). _b._ Dublin 1778;
M.R.C.S. 7 April 1807, F.R.C.S. 26 Aug. 1844; surgeon to Dublin
police; knighted 1811; author of _An essay on diseases of the
skin_ 1821; _A practical manual for the preservation of health_
1824. _d._ Dublin 9 Nov. 1857.
CLARKE, AUGUSTUS. Entered Madras army 1817; colonel 8 Madras N.I. 4
July 1856 to 1869; general 23 April 1872. _d._ Glebeland house,
Lee 24 Jany. 1878 aged 76.
CLARKE, REV. CHARLES. Educ. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1837; C. of
Norton by Daventry 1844–54; chaplain to Earl of Stamford 1864;
author of _Letters to an undergraduate of Oxford_ 1848; _Charlie
Thornhill 3 vols._ 1863; _A box for the season, a sporting sketch
2 vols._ 1864; _Crumbs from a sportsman’s table, by A Sportsman_
1865; _The Beauclercs, father and son 3 vols._ 1867 and other
novels; wrote articles in _Baily’s Mag._ under pseudonym of The
Gentleman in black. _d._ from tumor of the abdomen at Esher 23
July 1870 aged 55.
CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (_son of John Clarke of Enfield, Middlesex,
schoolmaster, who d. Dec. 1820_). _b._ Enfield 15 Dec. 1787;
bookseller and publisher in London 1820; music publisher with
Alfred Novello; lectured on Shakespeare and other dramatists and
poets in the provinces and London 1834–56, many of his lectures
were published; lived at Nice 1856–61, at Genoa 1861 to death;
author of _Readings in natural philosophy_ 1828; _Tales from
Chaucer_ 1833, _2 ed._ 1870; _Riches of Chaucer 2 vols._ 1835, _3
ed._ 1877; _Carmina Minima a poem_ 1859; _Shakespeare characters,
chiefly those subordinate_ 1863; _Molière characters_ 1865; edited
with his wife _The works of Shakespeare_ 1864 _and_ 1869, reissued
1875 and under title of _Cassell’s Illustrated Shakespeare_ 1886.
(_m._ 5 July 1828 Mary Victoria eld. child of Vincent Novello the
composer, she was _b._ 22 June 1809). _d._ Villa Novello, Genoa 13
March 1877. _I.L.N. lxx_, 291, 292 (1877), _portrait_.
CLARKE, SIR CHARLES MANSFIELD, 1 Baronet (_son of John Clarke of
Chancery lane, London, surgeon_). _b._ London 28 May 1782; ed. at
St. Paul’s school and St. George’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1802;
lectured on midwifery 1804–21; surgeon to Queen Charlotte’s
Lying-in-hospital; M.R.C.P.; F.R.C.P.; F.R.S. 9 June 1825; M.D.
Lambeth 1827; physician to Queen Adelaide 1830; created baronet 30
Sep. 1831; hon. M.A. Cam. 1842; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1845; founded the
Milton prize for an English poem at St. Paul’s school 1851; author
of _Observations on those diseases of females which are attended
by discharges 2 parts_ 1814–21, _2 ed._ 1821–6 translated into
German 1818–25. _d._ Brighton 7 Sep. 1857. _Physic and physicians
ii_, 329–31 (1839); _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery i_,
16 (1846), _portrait_; _T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery
i_, (1840), _portrait_; _R. B. Gardiner’s St. Paul’s school_
(1884) 199, 433–8.
CLARKE, HARRIET LUDLOW (_4 dau. of Edward Clarke of London,
solicitor_). Engraver on wood about 1837; executed some of the
illustrations for Mrs. Jameson’s _Sacred and legendary art_ 1848;
a designer and painter on glass; executed windows in St. Martin’s
church, Canterbury and Sidcup church, Kent 1851–4; executed for
the Queen a large window in church of North Marston, Bucks.;
designed a large window representing history of St. Thomas à
Becket, which was put up in Canterbury cathedral, May 1863. _d._
Cannes 19 Jany. 1866. _G.M. i_, 436 (1866).
CLARKE, JACOB AUGUSTUS LOCKHART. _b._ 1817; studied at Guy’s and St.
Thomas’s hospitals; L.S.A. 1842, M.R.C.S. 1860; practised in
London to death; F.R.S. 1 June 1854, royal medallist 1864;
F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1867; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1869; M.R.C.P. 1871;
physician to the hospital for epilepsy and paralysis, London;
author of many articles in medical journals. _d._ 21 New Cavendish
st. London 25 Jany. 1880 in 64 year.
CLARKE, JAMES. _b._ London 1793; teacher of music; author of _A
catechism of wind instruments_ 1845; _Instruction book for
children on the pianoforte_; _The child’s alphabet of music_;
_Catechism of the rudiments of music_; _New School of music_;
composed popular song _The maid of Llangollen_. _d._ Leeds 1859.
CLARKE, JAMES. _b._ 1798; member of British Archæological Assoc.
1847; a frequent exhibitor at its meetings of coins and other
antiquities of which he contributed short notices to the journal;
author of _The Suffolk Antiquary_ 1849. _d._ 25 Sep. 1861.
_Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xviii_, 367–8 (1862).
CLARKE, JAMES FERNANDEZ (_son of Mr. Clarke of Olney, Bucks. lace
merchant_). _b._ Olney 1812; aided Ryan in the _London medical and
surgical journal_; reported at hospitals and medical societies for
the _Lancet_ 1834–64; M.R.C.S. 1837; practised in Gerrard st. Soho
1837 to death; author of _Autobiographical recollections of the
medical profession_ 1874, reprinted from _Medical times and
gazette_. _d._ 23 Gerrard st. Soho 6 July 1875 in 63 year.
_Medical Circular ii_, 310 (1853); _Medical times and gazette ii_,
82–3 (1875).
CLARKE, JAMES LANGTON (_2 son of Andrew Clarke of Belmont, co.
Donegal_). _b._ 1801; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A.
1833; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1835; practised as a conveyancer;
admitted to bar of Victoria, Australia 7 June 1855; judge of
county courts for district of Ararat 1867, for district of
Maryborough to about 1874. _d._ Mentone 16 Feb. 1886 aged 85.
CLARKE, JOHN. _b._ about 1830; photographer in Farringdon st.
London; first appeared on stage in London at Strand theatre, Jany.
1852, chief comedian there 1852–5 and 1858–62; thrown from a horse
and lamed for life, Jany. 1863; played at Prince of Wales’s
theatre 15 April 1865 to 1867; acted John Chodd in Robertson’s
comedy _Society_ 11 Nov. 1865 to Sep. 1866, Hugh Chalcot in
Robertson’s comedy _Ours_ 15 Sep. 1866 to April 1867, Sarah Gamp
in H. Wigan’s drama _Martin Chuzzlewit_ at Olympic 2 March 1868,
Quilp in A. Halliday’s drama _Nell or the old curiosity shop_ at
Olympic 19 Nov. 1870; acted at nearly all the west-end theatres;
last appeared on the stage at Globe theatre 8 June 1878. (_m._ 10
Aug. 1873 Theresa Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Furtado of London,
professor of music, leading actress at Adelphi theatre, she _d._ 9
Aug. 1877 aged 32). _d._ 15 Torriano avenue, Camden road, London
20 Feb. 1879. _Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1880) 390–2; _The Players
i_, 129 (1860), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic news,
x_, 572 (1879), _portrait_.
CLARKE, JOHN RANDALL (_son of Joseph Clarke of Gloucester_). _b._
about 1828; an architect; author of _Architectural history of
Gloucester_ 1850; and of two novels, _Gloucester Cathedral, or
last days of the Tudors_ 1856, and _Manxley Hall_; contributed to
_Gent. Mag._, _Le Follet_, _The Era_ and other periodicals. _d._
College Green, Gloucester 31 March 1863.
CLARKE, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ about 1811; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1837, M.A. 1841; R. of Stretford, Manchester 1850 to death;
rural dean of Manchester 1854 to death; wrecked in the Orion
steamer between Liverpool and Greenock 17 June 1850; author of
_The wreck of the Orion, tribute of gratitude_ 1851; _Trees of
righteousness_; made collections for history of parish of
Stretford which were used by Rev. F. R. Raines in his _History of
the chantries within the county of Lancaster_ 1862. _d._ Stretford
25 Feb. 1860. _G.M. viii_, 463 (1860), _xv_, 243 (1863).
CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (_only son of Wm. Hislop Clarke of
Lincoln’s Inn, London, barrister_). _b._ 11 Leonard place,
Kensington 24 April 1846; went to Victoria 1863; joined staff of
the _Argus_, Melbourne daily paper 1867, wrote the dramatic
criticism some years; contributed to all principal Melbourne
journals; secretary to trustees of public library, Melbourne 1872,
assistant librarian 1876 to death; author of a novel called _Long
Odds_ 1868; produced at T.R. Melbourne pantomimes of _Little
Bo-Peep_ 1870 and _Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star_ 1873; author of
_His natural life_ 1874 a novel republished in London, New York
and Germany; _Holiday Peak_ a collection of stories. _d._
Melbourne 2 Aug. 1881. _Men of the time in Australia, Victorian
series_ (1878) _p._ 36; _Heaton’s Australian dictionary of dates_
(1879) _p._ 39.
CLARKE, MARY ANN (_dau. of Mr. Thompson_). _b._ Ball and Tin alley,
White’s alley, Chancery lane, London 1776; eloped at 15 years of
age with Joseph Clarke (_son of a builder on Snow hill, London_)
who married her 1794; the kept mistress of Frederick Duke of York
at Gloucester place 1803–1806 when discharged with pension of
£400; published _The rival princes or a faithful narrative of
facts relative to the acquaintance of the author with Colonel
Wardle 2 vols._ 1810; _A letter to the Right Hon. William
Fitzgerald, chancellor of the Irish Exchequer_ 1813, for which she
was prosecuted for libel and sentenced to 9 months imprisonment.
_d._ Boulogne 21 June 1852. _Biographical Memoir_ 1809,
_portrait_; _The investigation of the charges brought against the
Duke of York ii_, (1809), _portrait_; _The rival princes vol. i_
(1810), _portrait_; _Gronow’s Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1862)
35–42; _G.M. xxxviii_, 208–9 (1852); _Marmion travestied, a tale
of modern times by Peter Pry_ 1809, in which her history is given
in rhyme.
NOTE.—After the inquiry into the Duke of York’s conduct, Mrs.
Clarke announced her intention of publishing a narrative of
circumstances relating to her connection with him, this book
was actually printed but was suppressed by her in
consideration of receiving the sum of £7,000 and an annuity of
£400 for life, and an annuity of £200 for each of her
daughters; the printer received £1,500 of the above sum of
£7,000, the whole edition of 10,000 copies was burnt except
one copy which was deposited in Drummond’s bank.
CLARKE, NATHANIEL RICHARD (_eld. son of Nathaniel Gooding Clarke of
Handsworth, Staffs. recorder of Walsall_). _b._ Duffield,
Derbyshire 11 May 1785; ed. at Ashbourne gr. sch. and Trin. coll.
Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1811; recorder
of Lincoln, Newark, Northampton and Walsall to death; serjeant at
law 6 Feb. 1843; judge of county courts, circuit 25
(Wolverhampton, Oldbury and Walsall) March 1847 to death. _d._
Wolverhampton 31 July 1859.
CLARKE, SIR ROBERT BOWCHER (_eld. son of Robert Bowcher Clarke of
Eldridge, Barbados_). _b._ 1802; ed. at Codrington coll. Barbados
and Trin. coll. Cam., LL.B. 1827; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827;
solicitor general at Barbados 1837–42, chief justice 1842–74;
chief justice of St. Lucia 19 June 1850 to 1859; knighted by
patent 20 March 1840 for his services in relation to emancipation
of the slaves; C.B. 27 April 1848. _d._ Eldridge, Chislehurst,
Kent 9 May 1881 in 79 year.
CLARKE, SEYMOUR (_2 son of Frederic Clarke of Streatham, Surrey_).
_b._ Streatham 1814; superintendent of London division of Great
Western railway, Oct. 1837, in charge of the line from London to
Swindon 1840–50; general manager of Great Northern railway, May
1850 to Sep. 1870; a comr. to inquire into Irish railways 1867,
the report of the commission was chiefly written by him; A.I.C.E.
5 Dec. 1865. _d._ Walthamstow 15 March 1876. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xliv_, 225–7 (1876).
CLARKE, THOMAS. _b._ 14 July 1789; admitted an attorney 1810;
practised in Craven st. Strand, London 1810–45; solicitor to Board
of Ordnance 1845 to death; sec. of the Lowtonian club; member of
council of Incorporated Law Society, July 1843, vice-pres. 1848–9,
pres. 1849–50. _d._ Highgate hill, Kentish town, London 15 July
1854.
CLARKE, REV. THOMAS TRACY. _b._ Dublin 4 July 1802; ed. at
Stonyhurst and Maynooth colleges; entered Society of Jesus 1823;
master at Hodder School 1825–9; ordained priest 24 Sep. 1836;
professor of history and librarian at Stonyhurst college 1840–5;
master of novices at Hodder 1845–60, by his exertions the
novitiate was removed to Beaumont lodge, Old Windsor 4 Sep. 1854.
_d._ the Residence of St. Ignatius’ college, Hill st. London 11
Jany. 1862.
CLARKE, TREDWAY. _b._ July 1764; Second lieut. Madras artillery 20
Oct. 1780, colonel 25 July 1810 to death; head commissary of
ordnance and stores at Fort St. George 1798–1811; declined command
of artillery at Madras 1820; general 23 Nov. 1841; lived in
England 1811 to death, _d._ Upper Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London
3 May 1858.
CLARKE, WILLIAM. _b._ Nottingham 24 Dec. 1798; a bricklayer;
landlord of the Bell Inn, Nottingham to 1847; proprietor of the
Trent Bridge cricket ground, Nottingham 1838–47; played in the
Nottingham Eleven from 1816; played his first match at Lord’s 11
July 1836; a practice bowler at Lord’s 1846; originated the All
England matches 1846; the best slow underhand bowler of his day; a
great fives player, at which game he lost his right eye by
accident. _d._ Priory lodge, Wandsworth road, London 25 Aug. 1856.
_Denison’s Cricket_ (1846) 21–6; _Pycroft’s Cricket Field_ (1862),
_portrait_.
CLARKE, WILLIAM. Private soldier; quartermaster 14 light dragoons 15
Sep. 1837, major 23 Nov. 1848 to 30 Dec. 1853; granted
distinguished service reward 18 March 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._
2 Notting hill terrace, Bayswater, London 17 Oct. 1881.
CLARKE, REV. WILLIAM BRANWHITE. _b._ East Bergholt, Suffolk 2 June
1798; ed. at Dedham gr. sch. and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1821, M.A.
1824; presented to a living in Dorset 1833; chaplain to Bishop of
Salisbury 1837–9; V. of St. Thomas’s, Willoughby, N.S.W. 1846 to 1
Oct. 1870; made geological researches in N.S.W. 1839 to death;
ascertained auriferous nature of the country 1841, ten years
before the popular date 1851; voted sum of £1,000 by legislature
of N.S.W. 1853 but £5,000 was afterwards given to him; F.G.S.
1826, Murchison medallist 1877; F.R.S. of N.S.W. 1867; F.R.S. 1
June 1876 in recognition of his discovery of gold in Australia;
author of _Lays of leisure_ 1822; _Recollections of a visit to
Mont Blanc_ 1839; _Remarks on the sedimentary formations of
N.S.W._, _4 ed._ 1878 and of many scientific papers. _d._ North
Shore, Sydney 17 June 1878. _Journal and proc. of Royal Soc. of
N.S.W. xiii_, 4–23 (1880); _Therry’s Reminiscences_, _2 ed._
(1863) 363–8; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxviii_, 1–4 (1879); _Quarterly
Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxv_, 44–6 (1879); _Phillips’s Mining and
metallurgy of gold and silver_ (1867).
CLARKE, WILLIAM FAIRLIE (_son of Wm. Fairlie Clarke of Bengal civil
service, who d. Calcutta 23 Sep. 1835 aged 47_). _b._ Calcutta
1833; ed. at high school, Edin., Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1856,
M.A. and M.B. 1862, M.D. 1876; studied medicine at King’s coll.
Lon. 1858; M.R.C.S. 1862, F.R.C.S. 1863; practised in London
1863–76, and at Southborough near Tunbridge Wells 1876 to death;
assistant surgeon at Charing Cross hospital 1871; author of _A
manual of the practice of surgery_ 1865, _3 ed._ 1879; _A treatise
on the diseases of the tongue_ 1873. _d._ Bonchurch, Isle of Wight
8 May 1884. _bur._ Elvington churchyard 14 May. _Life and letters
of W. F. Clarke edited by E.A.W._ (1885), _portrait_.
CLARKE-JERVOISE, REV. SIR SAMUEL, 1 Baronet (_youngest son of
Jervoise Clarke 1734–1808, M.P. for Hampshire_). _b._ Albemarle
st. Piccadilly, London 25 Nov. 1770, ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., B.A.
1792, M.A. 1795; R. of Chalton with Idsworth 1794–1834; R. of
Blendworth, Hants. 1795–1835; took additional surname of Jervoise
by royal license 9 Nov. 1808; created baronet 13 Nov. 1813. _d._ 1
Oct. 1852.
CLARKE-TRAVERS, SIR WILLIAM HENRY ST. LAWRENCE, 2 Baronet. _b._ 3
Aug. 1801; succeeded 7 Feb. 1808; assumed by royal license
additional name of Travers 20 March 1853. _d._ 3 Queen’s gardens,
Hyde park, London 31 Aug. 1877.
CLARKSON, EUGENE COMERFORD (_3 son of Frederick Clarkson of Doctor’s
Commons, London, proctor_). _b._ 1831; ed. at King’s college,
London; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1854; practised in court of
Admiralty about 1858 to death; Q.C. 21 March 1881. _d._ from
hydrophobia at East end lodge, Pinner 19 Aug. 1881.
CLARKSON, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1823; recorder of Faversham
1844 to death. _d._ Westfield lodge, Brighton 24 Oct. 1856 aged
61. _J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters i_, 232–8 (1841);
_I.L.N. iv_, 228 (1844), _portrait_.
CLASON, REV. PATRICK (_youngest child of Rev. Robert Clason,
minister of Logie near Stirling_). _b._ Manse of Dalziel on the
Clyde 13 Oct. 1789; ed. at college of Glasgow; D.D. Glasgow, March
1836; licensed to preach the gospel 1811; minister of Carmunock
near Glasgow 1815, of St. Cuthbert’s Chapel of Ease (now Buccleuch
ch.), Edin. 16 April 1824; joint clerk of the free church general
assembly 18 May 1843 to death; moderator of general assembly 1848
and 1864. _d._ 22 George sq. Edin. 30 July 1868. _J. A. Wylie’s
Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 161–4, _portrait_; _Crombie’s Modern
Athenians_ (1882) 17–19, _portrait_.
CLASPER, HENRY (_son of Robert Clasper of Dunston near Newcastle_).
_b._ Dunston 1812; a putter at Hetton colliery; a coke burner at
Derwenthaugh; sculled his first race, June 1841; beaten by R.
Coombes at Newcastle 18 Dec. 1844; beat Carroll on the Mersey 29
Sep. 1845; beat W. Pocock at Newcastle 25 Nov. 1845; beaten by
Candlish for the championship of the Tyne 9 Sep. 1851; beat Robert
Campbell of Glasgow for championship of the Clyde and £200, 22
July 1858, beat him again on Loch Lomond 6 Oct.; beaten by T.
White on the Thames 9 Nov. 1858; rowed with three of his brothers
many four-oared races in England and Scotland; a boat builder on
the Tyne; brought his first outrigger boat to London 1844,
generally said to have invented the outrigger boat, but he only
brought it to perfection; rowed on every river between the Thames
and Clyde; presented by the public with a freehold house. _d._
Newcastle 12 July 1870. _Illust. sporting news_ (1862) 77, 139,
141, 2 _portraits_; _Illust. news of the world ii_, 267, 269
(1858), _portrait_; _Rowing almanac_ (1863) 95–104.
CLATER, THOMAS (_3 son of Francis Clater of East Retford, Notts.,
farrier 1756–1823_). Baptised at East Retford 9 June 1789;
painter; exhibited 43 pictures at the R.A., 91 at B.I. and 194 at
Suffolk st. gallery 1819–59; fellow of Society of British Artists
1843. _d._ 1 Hemus terrace, South Chelsea, London 24 Feb. 1867.
CLAUDET, ANTOINE FRANÇOIS JEAN. _b._ Lyons 12 Aug. 1797; opened a
warehouse at 89 High Holborn, London for sale of French glass
1829; invented machine for cutting cylindrical glass 1833;
photographer at Adelaide gallery, London 1840–51, at 107 Regent
st. 1851 to death; one of the first to adopt the collodion
process; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; invented many new photographic
processes; photographer in ordinary to the Queen 1858; author of
upwards of 40 papers; received awards of 11 medals; a chevalier of
the Legion of Honour 1863. _d._ 11 Gloucester road, Regent’s park,
London 27 Dec. 1867. _Scientific Review, August 1868 pp. 151–4_;
_Proc. of Royal Soc. xvii, pp. lxxxv-lxxxvii_ (1869).
CLAUGHTON, RIGHT REV. PIERS CALVELEY (_son of Thomas Claughton of
Haydock Lodge, Winwick, Lancs., M.P. for Newton, Lancs., who d.
1842_). _b._ Haydock lodge 8 Jany. 1814; ed. at Repton and Brasn.
coll. Ox., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, D.D. 1859; fell. and tutor of
Univ. coll. Ox. 1837–42; R. of Elton, Hunts. 1845–59; select Pr.
in Univ. of Ox. 1843 and 1850; bishop of St. Helena 3 June 1859 to
May 1862; bishop of Colombo 13 May 1862 to Dec. 1870; archdeacon
of London with canonry of St. Paul’s annexed Dec. 1870 to death;
rural dean of Hackney 1874 to death; chaplain general to the
forces 7 April 1875 to death; assistant bishop of London 1879 to
death; author of _A brief examination of the Thirty nine articles_
1843; _A catechism for the Sundays in Lent_ 1847. _d._ 2 Northwick
terrace, Maida hill, London 11 Aug. 1884. _bur._ Elton churchyard
15 Aug., a tablet to his memory containing a medallion portrait of
him was placed in the crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral.
CLAVELL, RICHARD. Second lieut. R.M.L.I. 21 Nov. 1837, col.
commandant 13 Feb. 1872 to death; L.G. 25 Dec. 1877. _d._ Gosport
1 Sep. 1878 in 59 year.
CLAVERING, SIR THOMAS JOHN, 8 Baronet. _b._ 6 April 1771; succeeded
14 Oct. 1794; raised at his own expense a troop of yeomanry 1798;
sheriff of Northumberland 1817–18. _d._ Clifton 18 Nov. 1853.
CLAVERING, SIR WILLIAM ALOYSIUS, 9 Baronet. _b._ 1800; succeeded 18
Nov. 1853; sheriff of Durham 1859. _d._ St. George’s hospital,
London 8 Oct. 1872.
CLAXTON, MARSHALL (_son of Rev. Marshall Claxton of Bolton, Lancs.,
Wesleyan minister_). _b._ Bolton 12 May 1813; entered Royal
Academy, Jany. 1831; awarded gold medal of Society of Arts 1835;
competed in the Cartoon exhibitions at Westminster hall 1843, 1844
and 1847; took out to Australia about 200 pictures by himself and
others, which he exhibited gratis 1850, this being the first
exhibition of works of art in Australia; went to India where he
sold most of the pictures; painted for the Queen, ‘General view of
Sydney’ and ‘Portrait of the last Queen of the Aborigines’;
exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 31 at B.I. and 25 at Suffolk st.
gallery. _d._ 155 Carlton road, Maida vale, London 28 July 1881.
CLAY, ALFRED BORRON (_2 son of Rev. John Clay 1796–1858_). _b._
Walton near Preston 3 June 1831; articled to a solicitor at
Preston; studied art in Liverpool and London; exhibited 19
pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1852–70;
his chief pictures were ‘The imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots
at Lochleven Castle,’ ‘Charles ix and the French court at the
massacre of St. Bartholomew,’ ‘The return to Whitehall 29 May
1660,’ now in the Walker gallery at Liverpool. _d._ Rainhill near
Liverpool 1 Oct. 1868.
CLAY, SIR GEORGE, 3 Baronet. _b._ 14 Aug. 1831; ensign 19 foot 1849,
captain 29 Dec. 1854 to 1 May 1866 when placed on h.p.; succeeded
14 Oct. 1876. _d._ 17 Cavendish square, London 30 June 1878.
CLAY, JAMES (_son of James Clay of Old Broad st. London, merchant_).
_b._ London 1804; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A.
1827; took the leading parts in operas performed by amateurs at
Florence when Lord Burghersh was British minister there 1821–30;
travelled in the Holy Land with B. Disraeli 1830; a merchant in
London; contested Beverley, July 1837, and Hull, June 1841; M.P.
for Hull 1847–53 and 1857 to death; chairman of committee to
settle laws of whist 1863, by his book on whist and influence made
the game popular and intelligible; the finest whist and piquet
player of his time; he is described under name of Castlemaine in
G. W. Lawrence’s novel _Sans Merci, or kestrels and falcons 3
vols._ 1866; author of _A treatise, on the game of whist by J.
C._, affixed to J. L. Baldwin’s _Laws of short whist_ 1864. _d._
30 Regency sq. Brighton 26 Sep. 1873. _W. A. Gunnell’s Sketches of
Hull celebrities_ (1876) 473–7; _Westminster Papers vi_, 117–8
(1873); _Graphic viii_, 362, 376 (1873), _portrait_; _Power,
Rodwell and Dew’s Controverted elections ii_, 96–100 (1857).
NOTE.—He was unseated March 1853 for bribery by his agents, in
Feb. 1857 he was again returned and his election is the only
instance on record of a member unseated on petition taking his
seat a second time for the same place in the same parliament,
the case would have been tried before a committee of the House
of Commons had not a dissolution occurred 20 March 1857.
CLAY, REV. JOHN (_5 son of Thomas Clay of Liverpool, ship and anchor
smith, who d. 1821_). _b._ Liverpool 10 May 1796; invented an
improved bow and arrow which long bore his name; assist, chap, of
Preston gaol 11 Aug. 1821; entered Em. coll. Cam. as a ten years
man 1822, B.D. 1835; chap, of Preston gaol, Aug. 1823 to Jany.
1858; issued annual reports 1824–57, in 1836 his annual reports
were reprinted in a parliamentary blue book; author of _Twenty
five sermons_ 1827; _Burial clubs and infanticide in England_
1854; _A plain address to candidates for confirmation_ 1866. _d._
Lansdowne crescent, Leamington 21 Nov. 1858. _The prison chaplain
by Rev. W. L. Clay_ (1861), _portrait_.
CLAY, RICHARD. _b._ Cambridge; apprenticed to John Smith at the Pitt
Press, Cambridge; printer near Devonshire square, Bishopsgate,
London; printer to the S.P.G.; head of firm of Clay Sons and
Taylor, Bread st. hill, London, retired Oct. 1868. _d._ Hornsey 10
Dec. 1877 in 89 year. _Bookseller, January 1878 p. 7._
CLAY, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_son of George Clay of London,
merchant 1757–1836_). _b._ London 15 Aug. 1791; merchant and
shipowner with his father; M.P. for Tower Hamlets 12 Dec. 1832 to
20 March 1857; author of the _Small tenements rating act_ 1850;
one of foremost holders of advanced radical views; secretary to
Board of Control 30 Sep. 1839 to 8 Sep. 1841; created baronet 20
Sep. 1841; chairman of Grand Junction and Southwark and Vauxhall
water companies; author of _Speech on moving for a committee to
inquire into the act permitting the establishment of joint-stock
banks_, _2 ed._ 1837; _Remarks on the water supply of London_, _2
ed._ 1849 and 3 other pamphlets. _d._ Cadogan place, London 13
March 1869.
CLAY, WILLIAM. _b._ Liverpool 15 May 1823; manager of ironworks near
Glasgow; invented a method of rolling taper bars 1848; manager of
Mersey Forge, Liverpool; designed and forged the “Monstre” gun
which weighed 22 tons and threw a projectile of 300 lbs. to a
distance of 5 miles, it was mounted at Tilbury Fort; partner in
Mersey Forge to 1864 when the works were transferred to a company;
the first maker of puddled steel on a large scale; established
with C. A. Inman and captain McNeile the Birkenhead Forge 1864;
M.I.M.E. 1859; formed in 1861 Eighth Lancashire artillery
volunteer corps, lieut.-col. commandant 9 May 1861, hon. col. 1
May 1880 to death. _d._ Liverpool 28 Feb. 1881. _Proc. of Instit.
of M.E._ (1882) 3–5.
CLAY, SIR WILLIAM DICKASON, 2 Baronet. _b._ London 21 Dec. 1828;
succeeded 13 March 1869. _d._ 9 Lowndes sq. London 14 Oct. 1876.
CLAY, REV. WILLIAM KEATINGE. _b._ 1797; C. of Greenwich 1823; C. of
Paddington 1830; C. of Blunham, Beds. 1834; B.D. Cam. (Jesus
coll.) 1835; minor canon of Ely 1838–54; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Ely
1842–54; V. of Waterbeach, Cambs. 1854 to death; author of
_Explanatory notes on the Prayer book version of the Psalms_ 1839;
_The book of Common Prayer illustrated_ 1841; _An historical
sketch of the Prayer Book_ 1849; _History of the Parish of
Waterbeach_ 1859, _Landbeach_ 1861, _and Horningsey_ 1865, these 3
histories printed separately by the Cambridge Antiquarian Soc.
were collected into one vol. 1865. _d._ Waterbeach 26 April 1867.
_A history of the parish of Milton by the late W. K. Clay_ (1869)
_v-vi_.
CLAYTON, REV. CHARLES. _b._ Cambridge 13 July 1813; ed. at Caius
coll. Cam., 21 wrangler 1836, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; C. of St.
John’s, Chatham 1837–45; fellow and tutor of his college to 1855;
London sec. to Church Pastoral aid soc. 1845–8; V. of Holy
Trinity, Cam. 1851–65; hon. canon of Ripon cath. 1864 to death; R.
of Stanhope, Durham 1865 to death; rural dean of Stanhope 1880 to
death; author of _Sermons preached at Cambridge_ 1859, _Second
series_ 1865; _Letters from abroad_ 1878. _d._ Stanhope rectory 21
Oct. 1883. _Church of England photographic portrait gallery_
(1859) _part 57_, _portrait_.
CLAYTON, REV. GEORGE (_2 son of Rev. John Clayton 1754–1843, pastor
of King’s Weigh House chapel, London_). _b._ London 9 April 1783;
ed. at Reading and Hoxton college; Independent minister at
Southampton 1802, at Walworth, Surrey 1804 to death; ordained 6
June 1804; the Clayton jubilee memorial schools were opened 27
June 1855. _d._ Gaines 14 July 1862. _T. W. Aveling’s Memorials of
the Clayton family_ (1867), _portrait_.
CLAYTON, JOHN. _b._ Hereford; architect at Hereford, where many
public buildings were erected from his designs; practised in
London about 1839 to death; A.R.I.B.A. 13 June 1842, F.R.I.B.A. 2
Nov. 1857; exhibited architectural designs at the R.A. 1844–7,
1853 and 1856; author of _A collection of the ancient timber
edifices of England_ 1846; _The parochial churches of Sir
Christopher Wren erected in the cities of London and Westminster_
1848. _d._ Teignmouth, Devon 14 Sep. 1861 aged 41.
CLAYTON, REV. JOHN (_brother of Rev. George Clayton 1783–1862_).
_b._ London 13 May 1780; ordained congregational minister at
Kensington 21 Oct. 1801; pastor of the congregation in Camomile
st. London 4 April 1805 which migrated to the Poultry 1819, where
he was pastor 17 Nov. 1819 to 1847; frequently called on to
undertake services in all parts of the country at openings of
chapels and other special occasions; joint sec. of London
Missionary Soc. 1830–2; author of _The choice of books_ 1811. _d._
Bath 3 Oct. 1865. _bur._ Abney park cemetery, London. _T. W.
Aveling’s Memorials of the Clayton family_ (1867), _portrait_.
CLAYTON, RICE RICHARD. _b._ 15 Nov. 1798; sheriff of Bucks 1838;
M.P. for Aylesbury 28 June 1841 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Hedgerley
park near Slough 4 May 1879.
CLAYTON, SIR WILLIAM ROBERT, 5 Baronet (eld. child of Sir Wm.
Clayton 4 baronet 1762–1834). _b._ Harleyford, Bucks. 28 Aug.
1786; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; cornet Royal horse guards
28 Sep. 1804, captain 27 April 1809 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on
h.p.; served in the Peninsula, Netherlands and at Waterloo; M.P.
for Great Marlow 1831–42; succeeded 26 Jany. 1834; sheriff of
Bucks. 1846; general 12 Jany. 1865. _d._ Southsea 19 Sep. 1866.
_bur._ Marlow parish church 27 Sep.
CLEASBY, SIR ANTHONY (_youngest son of Stephen Cleasby of London,
Russian broker, who d. 31 Aug. 1844_). _b._ 27 Aug. 1804; ed. at
Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., 3 wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830;
fellow of his coll. 1828–36; barrister I.T. 10 June 1831;
contested East Surrey 1852 and 1859, and Univ. of Cam. 1867; Q.C.
22 Feb. 1861; bencher of I.T. 1861–8; serjeant at law 25 Aug.
1868, admitted 2 Nov.; baron of Court of Exchequer 25 Aug. 1868 to
9 Jany. 1879 when he retired on a pension; knighted at Windsor
Castle 9 Dec. 1868. _d._ Pennoyre near Brecon 6 Oct. 1879.
_Cleasby and Vigfusson’s Icelandic-English dictionary_ (1869) _pp.
lxi-civ_; _Law mag. and review v_, 113–27 (1880); _A generation of
Judges by Their Reporter_ (1886) 54–9; _I.L.N. liv_, 93 (1869),
_portrait_.
CLEBURNE, PATRICK. _b._ near Queenstown, Cork 17 March 1828; a
private in British army 1847–50; went to the United States 1850;
studied law at Helena, Arkansas; a private in Confederate army
1861; brigadier general, March 1862; commanded a division at
battle of Stone River 2 Jany. 1863, and at Chickamauga 21 Sep.
1863; killed at battle of Franklin, Tennessee 30 Nov. 1864.
CLEGG, SAMUEL. _b._ Manchester 2 March 1781; apprenticed to Boulton
and Watt; invented lime purifiers for purifying gas; engineer of
Chartered gas company, London 1814; invented and patented a water
meter 1816; an engineer at Liverpool where he lost all his money;
reconstructed the mint at Lisbon; M.I.C.E. 1829. _d._ Fairfield
house, Adelaide road, Haverstock hill, London 8 Jany. 1861. _Min.
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_, 552–4 (1862).
CLEGG, SAMUEL (_only son of the preceding_). _b._ Westminster 2
April 1814; made a trigonometrical survey of part of the Algarves
in Portugal 1836; resident engineer of Southampton and Dorchester
railway 1844–5; M.I.C.E. 1848; professor of civil engineering and
architecture at Putney college, Surrey 1849; lecturer on civil
engineering to Royal Engineers at Chatham 1849 to death; author of
_A practical treatise on the manufacture and distribution of coal
gas_ 1841, _4 ed._ 1866. _d._ Putney 25 July 1856. _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xvi_, 121–4 (1857).
CLEGHORN, THOMAS (_son of Alexander Cleghorn, collector of customs
at Edinburgh_). _b._ Edinburgh 3 March 1818; ed. at Edin. academy
and univ.; called to Scottish bar 1839; advocate depute; registrar
of friendly societies; sheriff of Argyleshire 19 Feb. 1855 to
death; legal adviser of Free church of Scotland 1871; founded
Wellington school for reformation of young criminals; author with
Robert Balfour of _History of the Speculative Society_; wrote many
articles in early numbers of _North British Review_; revised
_Journal of Lord Cockburn 2 vols._ 1874. _d._ Edin. 13 June 1874.
_Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. viii_, 468–9 (1875); _Journal of
jurisprudence xviii_, 385–6 (1874).
CLELAND, ROBERT STEWART (_3 son of Samuel Cleland of Stormont
castle, co. Down_). _b._ 24 June 1840; ed. at Eton and Harrow;
cornet 7 dragoon guards 7 July 1857; lieut. 9 lancers 6 Nov. 1860,
lieut.-col. 27 June 1879 to death. _d._ at Murree, Bengal 7 Aug.
1880 from wounds received in the action of Killa Kazi 11 Dec.
1879. _Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign_ (1882) 46–7, _portrait_.
CLEMENT, WILLIAM INNELL. Newsvendor in London; purchased a share of
the _Observer_ 1815, conducted it 1815 to death; published
_Cobbett’s Register_; bought the _Morning Chronicle_ 1822 for
£42,000, sold it to John Easthope 1834 for £16,500; bought _Bell’s
Life in London_ 1825, conducted it 1825 to death, raised
circulation from 3000 to 30,000. _d._ Hackney, London 24 Jany.
1852. _bur._ Kensal green 31 Jany. _G.M. xxxvii_, 306–7 (1852);
_A. Andrews’s British Journalism ii_, 85, 93, 172–3, 206 (1859);
_J. Grant’s Newspaper Press iii_, 28–33 (1872).
CLEMENT, WILLIAM JAMES (_eld. son of Wm. Clement of Shrewsbury,
surgeon, who d. 15 Jany. 1853_). _b._ Shrewsbury 1804; a surgeon
at Shrewsbury; M.R.C.S. 3 Dec. 1824, F.R.C.S. 26 Aug. 1844;
obtained Fothergillian gold medal; mayor of Shrewsbury 1863, 64
and 65; M.P. for Shrewsbury 11 July 1865 to death; author of
_Observations in surgery and pathology_ 1832. _d._ The council
house, Shrewsbury 29 Aug. 1870.
CLEMENTS, FRANK, stage name of Robert Menti. _b._ Aberdeen 8 July
1844; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen; appeared on the stage for the
first time at New theatre, Birmingham 1861; leading actor at T.R.
Birmingham 1867–9 and 1870 to Dec. 1873; manager and leading actor
at T.R. Nottingham 1869–70; first appeared in London at Lyceum
theatre, July 1874 as Lord Moray in _Charles the First_; played
nearly every leading legitimate and Shakespearian character in the
provinces 1875–7; played Philip de Comines in _Louis xi_ at Lyceum
theatre, March 1878; member of the companies of Miss Genevieve
Ward and Madame Modjeska in the United States; killed by a railway
train passing over him at Newark, New Jersey 8 May 1886.
CLEMENTS, JOHN. Bookseller and stationer at 21 Little Pulteney st.
Golden sq. London; one of the first to attempt publication of
cheap serial works among which were _The romancist and novelist
library_ issued in weekly parts; obtained contract for first
supply of envelopes ever used by the Stationery office; the first
to introduce sale of note paper in 5 quire packets. _d._ Tunbridge
Wells 10 Nov. 1878 in 73 year.
CLEMO, EBENEZER. _b._ London about 1831; went to Toronto, Canada
1858; patented a mode of using nitric acid in the conversion of
straw and grasses into pulp, and for treating this pulp with a
solution of hydrate of an alkali to reduce it to a fibrous pulp
for making paper 1860; author of _The life and adventures of Simon
Seek, or Canada in all shapes, by Maple Knot, Montreal_ 1858;
_Canadian homes or the mystery solved, Montreal_ 1858. _d._
Morristown 1860.
CLEMONS, CLEMENT. Entered Madras army 1819; major 20 Madras N.I. 21
Oct. 1842, lieut.-col. 23 March 1849 to 1855; lieut.-col. 12 N.I.
1855–6, 21 N.I. 1856–7, 43 N.I. 1857 to 3 Dec. 1857, 38 N.I. 3
Dec. 1857 to 7 Oct. 1860; L.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ 4 St. Stephen’s
crescent, Bayswater, London 27 Jany. 1885 in 82 year.
CLERK, SIR GEORGE, 6 Baronet (_elder son of James Clerk, who d.
1793_). _b._ Edinburgh 19 Nov. 1787; succeeded his uncle Sir John
Clerk 24 Feb. 1798; entered Trin. coll. Ox. 21 Jany. 1806, D.C.L.
1810; called to Scottish bar 1809; M.P. for Midlothian 1811–32 and
1835–7, for Stamford 1838–47 and for Dover 1847–52; a lord of the
Admiralty 1819–27 and 1828–30; clerk of the ordnance, May 1827;
under sec. of state for home department 5 Aug. to 22 Nov. 1830;
sec. to the Treasury 19 Dec. 1834 to 21 April 1835 and Sep. 1841
to Feb. 1845; vice pres. of Board of Trade 5 Feb. 1845 to 6 July
1846; P.C. 5 Feb. 1845; master of the Mint 12 Feb. 1845 to 14 July
1846; F.R.S. 27 May 1819; chairman of Royal academy of music. _d._
Penicuik house near Edin. 23 Dec. 1867. _G.M. v_, 246–7 (1868).
CLERK, SIR JAMES, 7 Baronet. _b._ London 17 July 1812; succeeded 23
Dec. 1867. _d._ St. Vincent’s hall, Clifton, Bristol 17 Nov. 1870.
CLERK, ROBERT. Writer Madras civil service 1816; secretary to
Government in military department 1831–2, in civil department
1835–6 and 1837–44, in secret political and public departments
1836–7; resigned the service 22 Feb. 1844. _d._ Westholme house,
Pilton, Shepton Mallet 3 April 1873 aged 75.
CLERKE, VENERABLE CHARLES CARR (_3 son of Rev. Sir Wm. Henry Clerke,
8 Bart. 1751–1818_). _b._ 30 Dec. 1798; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.,
student, B.A. 1818, M.A, 1821, B.D. 1830, D.D. 1847; select
preacher 1826; V. of St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford 1827; archdeacon
of Oxford 9 March 1830 to death; R. of Milton, Berks. 1836–75;
canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 24 March 1845 to death; sub-dean of Ch. Ch.
1853 to death; author of _Duty of churchwardens_ 1864; _Daily
devotions for a churchman’s household_ 1868. _d._ Ch. Ch. Oxford
24 Dec. 1877.
CLERKE, SAINT JOHN AUGUSTUS (_son of Jonathan Clerke_). _b._ 1795;
ensign 94 foot 13 Oct. 1808; major 77 foot 26 May 1825 to 30 Dec.
1828 when placed on h.p.; colonel 75 foot 22 March 1858 to death;
general 8 March 1867; K.H. 1832. _d._ 66 Mountjoy sq. Dublin 17
Jany. 1870.
CLERKE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY, 9 Baronet (_brother of Ven. Charles Carr
Clerke 1798–1877_). _b._ London 13 Sep. 1793; ensign 89 foot 10
Jany. 1811; lieut. 52 foot 19 Sep. 1811, captain 25 April 1822 to
2 May 1823 when placed on h.p.; succeeded 10 April 1818; sheriff
of Flintshire 1848. _d._ Heath house, Aston on Clun, Salop 16 Feb.
1861.
CLERKE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY, 10 Baronet. _b._ Clonmel 17 Nov. 1822; a
principal clerk in the Treasury, London; succeeded 16 Feb. 1861.
_d._ 10 Eaton place south, London 8 Feb. 1882.
CLEUGH, VENERABLE JOHN. Educ. at Trin. hall, Cam., B.D. 1824; civil
chaplain at Malta 1824 to 1865; archdeacon of Malta 1865 to death.
_d._ Valetta, Malta 25 March 1881 aged 88.
CLEVELAND, HENRY VANE POWLETT, 2 Duke of (_eld. child of 1 Duke of
Cleveland 1766–1842_). _b._ London 16 Aug. 1788; M.P. for co.
Durham 1812–18, for Tregony 1818–26, for Totnes 1826–30, for
Saltash 1830–1, for South Shropshire 24 Dec. 1832 to 29 Jany. 1842
when he succeeded; cornet 7 hussars 6 July 1815; major 2 Ceylon
regiment 3 July 1823; major 75 foot 11 Dec. 1823 to 6 July 1826
when placed on h.p.; colonel 1 Durham militia 1842–60; general 23
Oct. 1863; K.G. 11 April 1842. _d._ Raby castle, Durham 18 Jany.
1864. _Doyle’s Official baronage i_, 415 (1886), _portrait_.
CLEVELAND, WILLIAM JOHN FREDERICK POWLETT, 3 Duke of (_brother of
the preceding_). _b._ London 3 April 1792; ed. at Brasenose coll.
Ox., M.A. 1812; M.P. for Winchelsea 1812–15, for co. Durham
1815–31, for St. Ives, Cornwall 1846–52, for Ludlow 1852–57; kept
racehorses from 1843 but was very unlucky, his only good horse
being Tim Whiffler which won the Goodwood and Doncaster cups;
succeeded 18 Jany. 1864. _d._ Raby castle 6 Sep. 1864. _W. Day’s
Reminiscences of the turf_, _2 ed._ (1886) 328–42.
CLEVELAND, JOHN WHEELER. Entered Madras army 1808; commandant of
Trichinopoly 26 Nov. 1844 to 26 April 1850; col. 18 Madras N.I. 1
Oct. 1846 to 30 June 1853; commandant of Southern division of the
army 17 Feb. 1852 to 10 May 1857; col. 38 N.I. 30 June 1853 to
1869; general 6 March 1868; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877.
_d._ Cleveland house, Bangalore 1 Nov. 1883 aged 92.
CLIAS, PETER HENRY. An officer in Swiss artillery; introduced
gymnastics into Swiss army 1814; professor of gymnastics in
academy of Bern; came to London 1822, introduced his system of
gymnastics into British army and navy; professor of gymnastics in
Royal military academy, Woolwich 20 March 1823 to 4 Sep. 1825;
author of _Elementary course of gymnastic exercises_ 1824. _d._
Bern about Dec. 1854, left a considerable sum of money to city of
Bern under condition that his skeleton should be exhibited in the
Natural history museum as a palpable confirmation of beneficial
effects of gymnastics.
CLIFDEN, HENRY AGAR-ELLIS, 3 Viscount (_eld. son of 1 Baron Dover
1797–1833_). _b._ Spring gardens, London 25 Feb. 1825; succeeded
his father 10 July 1833; succeeded his grandfather as 3 Viscount
Clifden 13 July 1836; won the Derby and St. Leger with Surplice
1848 no horse having won both these races since 1800; won the
Great Northamptonshire stakes 1852 with Poodle carrying the
extraordinary feather weight of 4 st. 5 lb. _d._ Dover house,
Whitehall, London 20 Feb. 1866. _Illust. sporting news v_, 136
(1866), _portrait_; _G.M. i_, 584–5 (1866).
CLIFFE, CHARLES FREDERICK. Edited _Gloucestershire Chronicle_;
author of _The book of South Wales, the Bristol Channel,
Monmouthshire and the Wye_ 1847, _3 ed._ 1854; _The book of North
Wales, scenery, antiquities, highways and byeways, lakes, streams
and railways_ 1850, _2 ed._ 1851. _d._ Clifton, Bristol 7 Oct.
1851 aged 42.
CLIFFORD, HUGH CHARLES CLIFFORD, 8 Baron. _b._ New park, Somerset 29
May 1790; ed. at Stonyhurst; travelled in south of Europe where he
made a large collection of all the catechetical works of
instruction authorized by the several religious communities of the
continent; succeeded 29 April 1831. _d._ Rome 28 Feb. 1858.
_buried_ Rome 2 March by the side of Cardinal Weld. _Gillow’s
English Catholics i_, 509–11 (1885).
CLIFFORD, CHARLES HUGH CLIFFORD, 9 Baron. _b._ 27 July 1819;
succeeded 28 Feb. 1858. _d._ Ugbrook park, Chudleigh, Devon 5 Aug.
1880.
CLIFFORD, SIR AUGUSTUS WILLIAM JAMES, 1 Baronet. _b._ 26 May 1788;
ed. at Harrow; midshipman R.N. May 1800, captain 23 July 1812,
R.A. 23 March 1848, admiral 7 Nov. 1860; M.P. for Bandon Bridge
1818–20, for Dungarvan 1820–2, for Bandon Bridge again 1831–2;
gentleman usher of the black rod 24 July 1832 to death; deputy
lord great chamberlain of England several times between 1843 and
1866; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 4
Aug. 1830; created baronet 4 Aug. 1838. _d._ House of Lords,
Westminster 8 Feb. 1877, personalty sworn under £250,000, 28 April
1877. _Graphic xv_, 172, 179 (1877), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxx_,
171, 181 (1877), _portrait_.
CLIFFORD, SIR HENRY HUGH (_3 son of 8 Baron Clifford 1790–1858_).
_b._ 12 Sep. 1826; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 7 Aug. 1846; A.Q.M.G.
China 20 Aug. 1857 to 24 Aug. 1859; A.Q.M.G. Aldershot 18 Feb.
1860 to 31 Dec. 1864; A.Q.M.G. at head quarters 1 Jany. 1865 to 25
Nov. 1868; A.D.C. to commander in chief I April 1870 to 4 Dec.
1873; A.A.G. at head quarters 5 Dec. 1873 to 31 Oct. 1875; M.G.
Cape of Good Hope 6 April 1879 to 14 Nov. 1880; M.G. eastern
district 1 April 1882 to 15 Sep. 1882; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; C.B. 2
June 1869; K.C.M.G. 19 Dec. 1879; granted pension of £100 for
distinguished service 7 Oct. 1874. _d._ Ugbrook 12 April 1883. _C.
R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age i_, 208–21 (1880); _Graphic
xix_, 372 (1879), _portrait_.
CLIFFORD, HENRY MORGAN (_only son of Morgan Morgan Clifford of
Penystone, co. Hereford, who d. 1814_). _b._ 1806; ed. at Eton and
Ch. Ch. Ox.; chairman of Herefordshire quarter sessions 1845; M.P.
for Hereford 1847–65; a comr. of lunacy 1853; col. of
Monmouthshire militia 5 March 1858. _d._ St. Ronan’s, Torquay 12
Feb. 1884 in 78 year.
CLIFFORD, SIR WILLIAM JOHN CAVENDISH, 2 Baronet. _b._ London 12 Oct.
1814; ed. at Eton; entered navy 24 Feb. 1829, captain 18 Aug.
1847, V.A. 1 Oct. 1871, retired 7 May 1872, retired admiral 1 Aug.
1877; C.B. 5 July 1855; succeeded 8 Feb. 1877. _d._ Bournemouth 11
April 1882.
CLIFFORD, WILLIAM KINGDON (_son of Wm. Clifford of Exeter,
bookseller, who d. Feb. 1878_). _b._ Exeter 4 May 1845; ed. at
King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., a minor scholar, Oct.
1863; 2 wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1867; B.A. 1867, M.A.
1870; fellow of his college, Oct. 1868; took part in English
eclipse expedition 1870, wrecked in the Psyche off Catania;
professor of applied mathematics at Univ. coll. London 1871;
F.R.A.S. 12 Dec. 1873; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; a prominent member of
Metaphysical Soc. 1874; author of _Mathematical fragments_ 1881;
_Mathematical papers edited by R. Tucker_ 1882; _Common sense of
the exact sciences edited by K. Pearson_ 1885. (_m._ 7 April 1875
Sophia Lucy Jane dau. of John Lane of Barbadoes, she was granted
civil list pension of £80, 13 Oct. 1880). _d._ Madeira 3 March
1879. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. _Lectures and essays by the late
W. K. Clifford edited by Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock vol.
1_ (1879), _portrait_; _Edinburgh Review cli_, 474–511 (1880).
CLIFTON, SIR, Arthur Benjamin (_youngest son of Sir Gervase Clifton,
6 baronet, who d. 1815_). _b._ 1772; ed. at Rugby; cornet 3
dragoon guards 6 June 1794, major 17 Dec. 1803 to 22 Nov. 1810;
lieut.-col. 1 dragoons 22 Nov. 1810 to 11 June 1829 when placed on
h.p.; col. 17 lancers 25 Aug. 1839 to 30 Aug. 1842; col. 1
dragoons 30 Aug. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June
1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; K.C.H. 1832. _d._
52 Old Steyne, Brighton 7 March 1869. _bur._ Clifton, Notts. 12
March, personalty sworn under £140,000, May 1869.
CLIFTON, HENRY ROBERT, known as Harry Clifton. _b._ Hoddesdon,
Herts.; apprenticed to John Clark, circus proprietor, who taught
him riding and clowning; comic and motto vocalist at music halls
in London and the provinces, many of his songs obtained great
popularity; organised a concert company with which he visited
every town in Great Britain and Ireland 1864–72. _d._ of hepatic
disease at 26 St. Stephen’s road, Hammersmith, London 15 July 1872
aged 40. _The Era 21 July 1872 p. 12, col. 3._
CLIFTON, JOHN TALBOT. _b._ London 5 March 1819; M.P. for North
Lancs. 1844–7; col. 1 royal Lancashire militia 8 Oct. 1852–1870;
sheriff of Lancs. 1853. _d._ on board his steam yacht Taurus at
Algiers 16 April 1882.
CLIFTON, SIR JUCKES GLANVILLE JUCKES, 8 Baronet. _b._ Aug. 1769;
succeeded his brother 28 April 1837. _d._ Clifton hall near
Nottingham 1 Oct. 1852.
CLIFTON, REV. ROBERT COX. _b._ Gloucester 4 Jany. 1810; ed. at
Worcester and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of
his coll. 1833; clerk in orders at Manchester collegiate church
1837, elected to a fellowship by the collegiate chapter 6 Dec.
1843; R. of Somerton, Oxon 1840 to death; canon of Manchester,
Dec. 1843 to death; a trustee of Owen’s college, Manchester;
author of several sermons and pamphlets. _d._ Somerton rectory 30
July 1861.
CLIFTON, SIR ROBERT JUCKES, 9 Baronet. _b._ 24 Dec. 1826; ed. at
Eton; lost heavily on the turf during his minority; succeeded 1
Oct. 1852; M.P. for Nottingham 26 Dec. 1861 to May 1866 (when
unseated on petition) and 18 Nov. 1868 to death. _d._ Clifton hall
30 May 1869.
CLINT, ALFRED (_youngest son of the succeeding_). _b._ Alfred place,
Bedford sq. London 22 March 1807; painted portraits and
landscapes; member of Society of British artists 1843, secretary
1853–9, pres. 1869–81; best known as a marine painter; exhibited
24 pictures at R.A. 35 at B.I. and 343 at Suffolk st. gallery
1828–79; drew and etched illustrations to Bennett’s _Pedestrian’s
guide through North Wales_ 1838; author of _Landscape from nature_
1855. _d._ 54 Lancaster road, Notting hill, London 22 March 1883,
_I.L.N. lxxxii_, 332 (1883), _portrait_.
CLINT, GEORGE (_son of Michael Clint of Lombard st. London,
hairdresser_). _b._ Brownlow st. Drury Lane, London 12 April 1770;
a house painter, painted the stones of the arches in nave of
Westminster abbey; a miniature painter in Leadenhall st.; made
copies in colours from prints after Morland and Teniers; painted a
series of dramatic scenes; exhibited 99 pictures at R.A., 9 at
B.I. and 15 at Suffolk st. gallery; A.R.A. 1821–36. _d._ 10
Pembroke sq. London 10 May 1854. _Sandby’s History of Royal
Academy ii_, 66–8 (1862).
CLINTON, CHARLES RODOLPH TREFUSIS, 18 Baron. _b._ South Brent, South
Devon 9 Nov. 1791; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1814,
M.A. 1817; fellow of All Souls coll.; M.P. for Callington 4 March
1813 to 10 June 1818; a comr. of excise 29 Sep. 1823; succeeded 7
Oct. 1832; lieut.-col. commandant of North Devon yeomanry cavalry
1842. _d._ Heanton Satchville house, North Devon 10 April 1866.
CLINTON, REV. CHARLES JOHN FYNES (_3 son of Rev. Charles Fynes
1748–1827, preb. of Westminster, who took name of Clinton 1821_).
_b._ 16 April 1799; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A.
1822, M.A. 1825; V. of Orston, Notts 1827–55; R. of Cromwell,
Notts 1828 to death; author of _An address to all classes on the
first visitation of cholera_ 1832; _Plain doctrinal and practical
sermons_ 1842; edited H. F. Clinton’s _Epitome of chronology of
Rome and Constantinople_ 1853; _Literary remains of H. F. Clinton_
1854. _d._ of pleurisy at 3 Montague place, St. George’s,
Bloomsbury, London 10 Jany. 1872.
CLINTON, HENRY FYNES (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Gamston,
Notts. 14 Jany. 1781; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., student
Dec. 1802 to June 1809, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1805, one of the few who
passed an examination for the M.A. degree; M.P. for Aldborough 3
Nov. 1806 to June 1826; a candidate for librarianship of British
Museum, Dec. 1827; author of _Fasti Hellenici 4 vols._ 1824–34;
_Fasti Romani 2 vols._ 1845–50. _d._ Welwyn, Herts. 24 Oct. 1852.
_Literary remains of H. F. Clinton edited by Rev. C. J. F.
Clinton_ 1854; _C. Brown’s Lives of Nottinghamshire worthies_
(1882) 338–41; _G.M. xxxix_, 315–6 (1853).
CLISSOLD, REV. AUGUSTUS (_son of Augustus Clissold of Stonehouse
near Stroud, Gloucs._) _b._ 1797; matric. from Exeter coll. Ox. 6
Dec. 1814, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; C. of St. Martin-in-the-Fields,
London; C. of St. Mary, Stoke Newington; pres. of Swedenborg
Association 1845; purchased in 1854 for use of the Swedenborg
Society a 70 years lease of 36 Bloomsbury st. London; author of
_Principles of Apocalyptical interpretation 3 vols._ 1845;
_Spiritual exposition of the Apocalypse 4 vols._ 1851; _Transition
or the passing of ages_ 1868; _Prophetic spirit in relation to
wisdom and madness_ 1870; _The creeds of Athanasius, Sabellius and
Swedenborg examined_ 1873, _2 ed._ 1873 and 17 other books. _d._ 4
Broadwater Down, Tunbridge Wells 30 Oct. 1882.
CLISSOLD, REV. HENRY. Educ. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821;
R. of Chelmondiston, Suffolk 1830–58; author of _Last hours of
eminent Christians_ 1848; _Lamps of the church, lives of eminent
Christians_ 1862. _d._ 19 Talbot sq. Sussex gardens, London 10
Jany. 1867.
CLISSOLD, REV. STEPHEN. _b._ about 1790; ed. at Clare coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; R. of Wrentham, Suffolk 1830–53; hon. canon
of Norwich cathedral 1848 to death; author of _Letters of
Cincinnatus_ 1815; _Considerations on the trade, manufacture and
commerce of the British Empire_ 1820. _d._ Wrentham 12 May 1863.
CLITHEROW, JOHN (_eld. son of Christopher Clitherow of Bird’s Place,
Essendon, Herts_). _b._ 13 Dec. 1782; ensign 3 foot guards 19 Dec.
1799, lieut.-col. 15 Sep. 1825 to 22 July 1830; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841;
administered government of Canada after decease of Lord Sydenham
1841; col. 67 foot 15 Jany. 1844 to death. _d._ Boston house,
Middlesex 14 Oct. 1852.
CLIVE, CAROLINE (_2 dau. of Edmund Meysey Wigley of Shakenhurst,
Worcs._) _b._ Brompton Grove, London 24 June 1801; author of _ix
Poems by V._ 1840, _2 ed._ 1841; _The valley of the Rea, a poem by
V._ 1851; _Paul Ferroll, a tale by the author of, ix Poems by V._
1855; _Why Paul Ferroll killed his wife_ 1860; _John Greswold 2
vols._ 1864. (_m._ 10 Nov. 1840 Rev. Archer Clive, preb. of
Hereford, he was _b._ 16 March 1800 and _d._ 17 Sep. 1878). _d._
by an accident from fire at Whitfield near Hereford 13 July 1873.
_Contemporary Review xxiii_, 197–217 (1874).
CLIVE, GEORGE (_3 son of Edward Bolton Clive of Whitfield,
Herefordshire, who d. 22 July 1845 in 81 year_). _b._ Verdun,
France, Oct. 1806; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A.
1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 29 June 1830; assistant poor law
comr. 1836–9; police magistrate for Kensington and Wandsworth
1840–7; judge of county courts circuit 47 Southwark, March 1847 to
1858; recorder of Wokingham 1849–58; M.P. for city of Hereford 14
Feb. 1857 to 9 March 1869 (when unseated on petition) and 3 Feb.
1874 to March 1880; under sec. of state for home department, June
1859 to Nov. 1862; chairman of Herefordshire quarter sessions,
Jany. 1871 to death. _d._ Perrystone near Ross 8 June 1880.
_O’Malley and Hardcastle’s Reports of election petitions i_, 194–7
(1870).
CLIVE, HENRY BAYLEY (_4 son of Wm. Clive of Leigh hall, Salop
1745–1825_). _b._ Styche, Market Drayton 1800; M.P. for Ludlow
1847–52. _d._ Styche 26 Feb. 1870.
CLIVE, ROBERT HENRY (_2 son of Earl of Powis 1754–1839_). _b._ 15
Jany. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1809, LLD. 1835;
M.P. for Ludlow 1818 to 1832, for South Shropshire 1832 to death;
under sec. of state for home department 21 April 1818 to 17 Jany.
1822; pres. of Cambrian archæological assoc. 1852; author of
_Documents connected with the history of Ludlow and the Lords
Marchers_ 1841 preface signed R. H. C. _d._ Shrewsbury 20 Jany.
1854.
CLIVE, ROBERT WINDSOR (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Grosvenor st.
London 24 May 1824; M.P. for Ludlow 1852–1854, for South Salop
1854 to death. _d._ 53 Lower Grosvenor st. London 4 Aug. 1859.
CLIVE, VENERABLE WILLIAM (_brother of Henry Bayley Clive
1800–1870_). _b._ 14 March 1795; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; V. of Welshpool 1819–65; archdeacon of
Montgomery 29 Feb. 1844–1861; preb. of St. Asaph 25 July 1849;
hon. canon of St. Asaph 1854 to death; R. of Blymhill, Staffs.
1865. _d._ Blymhill rectory 24 May 1883.
CLOËTÉ, SIR ABRAHAM JOSIAS (_2 son of Peter Laurence Cloëté, member
of council at Cape of Good Hope_). _b._ Cape of Good Hope 7 Aug.
1794; cornet 15 hussars 29 Jany. 1809; deputy quartermaster
general at Cape of Good Hope 1840–54; commanded forces in West
Indies 1855–61; colonel 19 foot 10 March 1861 to death; general 25
Oct. 1871; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 23 Sep. 1847,
K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; knighted at St. James’s palace 9 June 1854.
_d._ 88 Gloucester terrace, London 26 Oct. 1886.
CLONCURRY, VALENTINE BROWNE LAWLESS, 2 Baron (_2 son of 1 Baron
Cloncurry 1735–99_). _b._ Merrion sq. Dublin 19 Aug. 1773; ed. at
Portarlington, Chester and Trin. coll. Dublin; member of Society
of United Irishmen; member of executive directory of United Irish
Society 1797; arrested 31 May 1798, again 14 April 1799, confined
in the Tower of London 8 May 1799 to March 1801; succeeded as 2
Baron 28 Aug. 1799; P.C. for Ireland 1831; created a Baron of the
United Kingdom 14 Sep. 1831. _d._ Maretimo, Blackrock near Dublin
28 Oct. 1853. _W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Life of Lord Cloncurry_ 1855;
_G.M. xli_, 82–7 (1854); _Personal recollections of Lord
Cloncurry_ (1849).
CLONCURRY, EDWARD LAWLESS, 3 Baron. _b._ Lyons house, co. Kildare 13
Sep. 1816; ed. at Eton and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1861; succeeded
23 Oct. 1853; killed by falling from a window of Lyons house
whilst of unsound mind and unaccountable for his acts 3 April
1869. _Morning Post 6 April 1869 p. 5._
CLONMELL, JOHN HENRY SCOTT, 3 Earl of. _b._ Hertford st. London 4
Jany. 1817; succeeded 18 Jany. 1838. _d._ Bishop’s court, Naas,
co. Kildare 7 Feb. 1866.
CLOSE, VERY REV. FRANCIS (_youngest son of Rev. Henry Jackson Close,
R. of Bentworth, Hants. who d. April 1806_). _b._ near Frome 11
July 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Cam.
Scholar 1817, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1857; C. of Church
Lawford, Warws. 1820–22; C. of Willesden and Kingsbury 1822–24;
P.C. of Cheltenham 1826–56; Dean of Carlisle 24 Nov. 1856 to Aug.
1881 when he resigned; P.C. of St. Mary, Carlisle 1865–68; a most
popular evangelical preacher; author of upwards of 70 books. _d._
Morrab house, Penzance 18 Dec. 1882. _buried_ Carlisle cemetery 23
Dec. _The Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1861_, 32–33,
_portrait_; _Illust. news of the world viii_, (1861), _portrait_;
_Congregationalist iv_, 562–72 (1875); _A golden decade of a
favoured town by Contem Ignotus_ (1884) 11–69; _E. M. Roose’s
Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 429–30; _I.L.N. lxxxii_, 45 (1883),
_portrait_.
CLOSE, THOMAS (_son of John Close of Manchester, merchant_). _b._
Manchester 12 Feb. 1796; a founder and original member of Reform
club, London 1836; auditor of the London and South Western railway
many years; F.S.A. 10 May 1855; author of _St. Mary’s church,
Nottingham, its probable architect and benefactors_ 1866, drew up
elaborate pedigrees of the Tattershall and Wake families and many
illuminated pedigrees of royal, noble and illustrious houses. _d._
Nottingham 25 Jany. 1881. _Manchester school register iii_, 66–8
(1874).
CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH (_2 son of James Butler Clough of Liverpool,
cotton merchant 1784–1844_). _b._ Liverpool 1 Jany. 1819; ed. at
Rugby and Balliol coll. Ox., scholar Nov. 1836, B.A. 1841, M.A.
1843; fellow of Oriel coll. 1842 to Oct. 1848, tutor 1843–8;
principal of University hall, Gordon sq. London, Oct. 1849 to
1851; professor of English language and literature at Univ. coll.
London, Nov. or Dec. 1850; sec. to commission on military
education 1856; author of _The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, a long
vacation pastoral_ 1848; _Plutarch’s lives, the translation called
Dryden’s Corrected from the Greek and revised_ 1859; author with
Thomas Burbidge of _Ambarvalia, poems_ 1849. _d._ Florence 13 Nov.
1861. _Poems and prose remains of A. H. Clough edited by his wife
2 vols._ 1869; _Poems by A. H. Clough with a memoir_ [_by F. T.
Palgrave_], 2 ed. 1863; _A. H. Clough a monograph by S.
Waddington_ 1883; _J. C. Shairp’s Balliol scholars, a remembrance_
1873; _T. H. Ward’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_, 589–607 (1883).
CLOUGH, VERY REV. CHARLES BUTLER (_4 son of Rev. Roger Clough, canon
of St. Asaph_). _b._ 1793; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A.
1815, M.A. 1825; V. of Mold, Flintshire 1824–54; archdeacon of St.
Asaph 20 Feb. 1844–1854, hon. canon of St. Asaph 25 July
1849–1854, dean and chancellor of St. Asaph 1854 to death. _d._
the Deanery, St. Asaph 4 Sep. 1859.
CLOWES, GEORGE (_son of Wm. Clowes of London, printer 1779–1847_).
_b._ 1814; ed. at Tooting and London Univ. college; partner with
his father 1846; printed the official publications of the Great
Exhibition 1851; auditor to the Guild of Literature many years;
printed and published _The Law Reports_ 1865 to death. _d._ Oak
hill, Surbiton 3 Nov. 1886. _London Figaro 20 Nov. 1886 p. 6, col.
2_, _portrait_.
CLOWES, THOMAS BALL (_son of Mr. Clowes of Canterbury, surgeon_).
_b._ Wingham, Kent 30 June 1787; entered navy 17 June 1801;
captain 16 May 1823, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 24 Sep.
1863. _d._ Upton, Slough 31 March 1864.
CLOWES, REV. WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Clowes of Burslem, Staffs.,
potter_). _b._ Burslem 12 March 1780; a working potter; attended
the first camp meeting ever held in England, which was at Mow Hill
near Harrisehead 31 May 1807; a local Wesleyan preacher, Oct.
1808; one of founders of Primitive Methodist connection 14 March
1810; preached in most of the northern counties of England, also
in London and Cornwall. _d._ Hull 2 March 1851. _Davison’s Life of
W. Clowes_ (1854), _portrait_; _Petty’s Primitive Methodist
connection_ (1864), _portrait_.
CLOWES, WILLIAM (_brother of George Clowes 1814–86_). _b._ 15 May
1807; entered his father’s business 1823, partner with him 1846;
trustee of Printers’ pension corporation 1844, treasurer 1853.
_d._ Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 19 May 1883.
CLULOW, REV. WILLIAM BENTON. _b._ Leek, Staffs.; ed. at Hoxton
academy; pastor of Congregational chapel at Shaldon, Devon
1823–35; classical tutor of Airedale college, Bradford 1835–43;
author of _Aphorisms and reflections, a miscellany of thought and
opinion_ 1843; _Sunshine and Shadows, or Sketches of thought,
philosophic and religious_ 1863; _Essays of a recluse, or traces
of thought, literature and fancy_ 1865. _d._ Leek 16 April 1882.
CLUTTERBUCK, HENRY (_5 child of Thomas Clutterbuck of Marazion,
Cornwall, attorney, who d. 6 Nov. 1781_). _b._ Marazion 28 Jany.
1767; M.R.C.S. 7 Aug. 1790; practised at Walbrook, city of London
1790–1802; projected _The Medical and Chirurgical Review_ 1795,
edited it 1795–1807; M.D. Glasgow 16 April 1804; licentiate of
College of Physicians 1 Oct. 1804; physician in Bridge st.
Blackfriars 1808 to death; physician to general dispensary,
Aldersgate st. 1809; lectured on materia medica and the practice
of physic; author of _Remarks respecting venereal disease_ 1799;
_An enquiry into the seat and nature of fever_ 1807, _2 ed._ 1825;
_An essay on Pyrexia, or symptomatic fever_ 1837; _A series of
essays on inflamation_ 1846. _d._ 1 Crescent, New Bridge st.
Blackfriars, London 24 April 1856. _Lives of British physicians_
(1857) 403–16; _T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery ii_,
(1840), _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery ii_,
88–9 (1846), _portrait_; _Medical Circular ii_, 495–7 (1853),
_portrait_.
CLUTTERBUCK, REV. JAMES CHARLES (_2 son of Robert Clutterbuck of
Watford, Herts. 1772–1831_). _b._ Watford 11 July 1801; ed. at Ex.
coll. Ox., fellow 26 Dec. 1822 to 19 Jany. 1831; B.A. 1826, M.A.
1827; C. of Watford; V. of Long Wittenham, Berkshire 14 Jany. 1830
to death; rural dean of Abingdon 1869 to death; great authority on
all questions relating to water; member of Board of Thames
Conservancy. _d._ Long Wittenham 8 May 1885.
CLYDE, COLIN CAMPBELL, 1 Baron (_eld. child of John McLiver of
Glasgow, cabinet maker, who d. 22 Dec. 1859, by Agnes Campbell_).
_b._ Glasgow 20 Oct. 1792; ed. at Glasgow high sch. and Gosport;
gazetted ensign 9 foot under name of Campbell 26 May 1808;
lieut.-col. 98 foot 19 June 1835 to 1 April 1853; aide-de-camp to
the Queen 23 Dec. 1842 to 20 June 1854; commanded third division
of army under Lord Gough in Punjaub campaigns of 1848–49;
commanded the Peshawur district 1851–52; commanded Highland
brigade in the Crimea 1854; commandant at Balaklava 1854; colonel
67 foot 24 Oct. 1854 to 15 Jany. 1858; commanded first division of
British army in the Crimea, Dec. 1854 to 3 Nov. 1855; inspector
general of infantry, Sep. 1856; commander in chief in India 11
July 1857; stormed Lucknow, Nov. 1857, captured it 19 March 1858,
left India 4 June 1860; colonel 93 foot 15 Jany. 1858 to 4 June
1860; general 14 May 1858; colonel Coldstream guards 22 June 1860
to death; field marshal 9 Nov. 1862; admitted to freedom of city
of Glasgow 1856, of London 20 Dec. 1860; granted pension of £2,000
by the H.E.I.Co. 1858; created Baron Clyde of Clydesdale 16 Aug.
1858; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 9 June 1849, G.C.B. 5 July 1855;
K.S.I. June 1858, K.C.S.I. 25 June 1861. _d._ the Government
house, Chatham 14 Aug. 1863. _bur._ Westminster abbey 22 Aug.,
statue of him by Marochetti erected in Carlton gardens, Pall Mall
1867, and a statue by Foley at Glasgow 1868. _Shadwell’s Life of
Lord Clyde 2 vols._ 1881, _portrait_; _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the
Victorian age ii_, 372–446 (1880); _A personal narrative of the
siege of Lucknow by L. E. R. Rees_, _3 ed._ 1858; _Illust. news of
the world i_, (1858), _portrait_.
COATS, THOMAS (_4 son of James Coats of Paisley, thread
manufacturer_). _b._ Paisley 18 Oct. 1809; thread manufacturer
with his brother Peter, at the Ferguslie thread works, Paisley,
one of the largest in the world; pres. of Paisley Philosophical
Institution 1862–4, to which he gave an observatory on Oakshaw
hill 1882; presented to town of Paisley a public park called the
Fountain’s Gardens 1868; chairman of Paisley school board 1873 to
death; made valuable collection of Scottish coins. _d._ 15 Oct.
1883, statue of him erected at Paisley.
COBBE, GEORGE (_2 son of Charles Cobbe of Newbridge house, co.
Dublin 1756–98_). _b._ 1782; second lieut. R.A. 9 Oct. 1799, col.
commandant 29 Aug. 1857 to death; general 15 Dec. 1864. _d._ 9
Sydney place, Onslow sq. Brompton London 8 Feb. 1865.
COBBE, HENRY CLERMONT (_eld. son of Thomas Alexander Cobbe
1788–1836, col. H.E.I.C.S._) Ensign 86 foot 15 Feb. 1831;
lieut.-col. 2 West India regiment 26 May 1844 to 14 April 1854;
lieut.-col. 4 foot 14 April 1854 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._
in the camp before Sebastopol 6 Aug. 1855.
COBBETT, JOHN MORGAN (_2 son of Wm. Cobbett, political writer
1762–1835_). _b._ 1800; barrister L.I. 26 Nov. 1830; M.P. for
Oldham 9 July 1852 to 6 July 1865 and 5 June 1872 to death; author
of _Letters from France, containing observations on that country
during a journey from Calais to the South as far as Limoges_ 1825.
_d._ 20 Brompton crescent, South Kensington, London 13 Feb. 1877.
COBBETT, RICHARD BAVERSTOCK BROWN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
1804; attorney at Manchester 1838 to death; defended some of the
Chartists; sec. to the council of Manchester Political Union which
got up the great demonstration on Kersal Moor to demand the six
points of the Charter 24 Sep. 1838; author of some legal
pamphlets. _d._ Wilmslow, Manchester 3 June 1875.
COBBETT, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). Brought actions
against several of the judges in connection with an attempt on his
part to obtain release of the Tichborne claimant by means of a
writ of habeas corpus. _d._ the watchman’s room, central hall of
Houses of Parliament, Westminster 12 Jany. 1878.
COBBIN, REV. INGRAM. _b._ London, Dec. 1777; ed. at Hoxton academy
1798–1802; Independent minister at South Molton 1802; assist. sec.
to British and Foreign school society; first sec. of Home
Missionary society 1819; Owing to weak health he did not hold any
pastorate for more than a short period; author of _Elements of
English grammar_ 1828, _thirty three editions_; _Elements of
Arithmetic for children_ 1828, _fifteen editions_; _Evangelical
Synopsis_ 1833; _The Condensed Commentary_ 1837; _The Portable
Commentary_ 1843; _Domestic Bible_ 1844; _Bible Remembrancer_
1848; _Scripture light on Popish Darkness_ 1851; and about 30
other works. _d._ of phthisis at Denmark cottage, Cold Arbour
lane, Kennington, London 10 March 1851. _Congregational year book
1851 p. 212._
COBBOLD, JOHN CHEVALIER (_eld. child of John Cobbold of Ipswich,
brewer 1774–1860_). _b._ Ipswich 24 Aug. 1797; banker and merchant
at Ipswich and Harwich; chairman of Eastern union railway co. and
of Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds railway co.; M.P. for Ipswich 30
July 1847 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ Holywells, Ipswich 6 Oct. 1882.
_Public men of Ipswich_ (1875) 57–63; _Graphic xxvi_, 412 (1882),
_portrait_.
COBBOLD, JOHN PATTESON (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Ipswich
12 July 1831; a banker and brewer at Ipswich; M.P. for Ipswich 6
Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ the Cliff, Ipswich 10 Dec. 1875.
_Licensed victualler’s year book_ (1876), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxvii_, 614, 629 (1875), _portrait_; _Public men of Ipswich_
(1875) 274.
COBBOLD, REV. RICHARD (_20 child of John Cobbold of Ipswich,
brewer_). _b._ Ipswich 1797; ed. at Bury St. Edmunds and Caius
coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Wortham, Suffolk
1826 to death; rural dean of Hartismere, Suffolk 1844–69; author
of _History of Margaret Catchpole 2 vols._ 1845 of which 100,000
copies were sold; _Mary Ann Wellington 3 vols._ 1846; _The young
man’s home_ 1848 and other books. _d._ Wortham rectory 5 Jany.
1877. _Public men of Ipswich_ (1875) 170.
COBBOLD, THOMAS CLEMENT (_3 son of John Chevalier Cobbold
1797–1882_). _b._ Ipswich 22 July 1833; ed. at Charterhouse;
served in diplomatic service abroad 5 Sep. 1855 to 22 Dec. 1875;
M.P. for Ipswich 1 Jany. 1876 to death; C.B. 2 Sep. 1879. _d._
Ipswich 21 Nov. 1883. _Graphic xiii_, 75, 84 (1876), _portrait_.
COBBOLD, THOMAS SPENCER (_youngest son of Rev. Richard Cobbold
1797–1877_). _b._ Ipswich 26 May 1828; ed. at the Charterhouse and
Edin. univ., M.D. and gold medallist 1851, curator of the
anatomical museum 1851–7; lecturer on botany at St. Mary’s
hospital, London 1857–61, at Middlesex hospital 1861 where he
lectured on comparative anatomy 13 years; practised in London
1865; Swiney lecturer on geology at British Museum, May 1868 to
May 1873; professor of botany at Royal Veterinary college 1873 of
helminthology 1874; F.R.S. 2 June 1864; author of _Entozoa, an
introduction to the study of Helminthology_ 1864; _Tapeworms_
1866, _4 ed._ 1883; _Parasites, a treatise on the Entozoa of man
and animals_ 1879. _d._ 74 Portsdown road, Maida hill, London 20
March 1886. _Barker’s Photographs of eminent medical men ii_,
77–81 (1868), _portrait_; _Lancet 27 March 1886 p._ 616.
COBDEN, RICHARD (_2 son of Wm. Cobden of Dunford, Heyshott near
Midhurst, Sussex, farmer, who d. 15 June 1833_). _b._ Dunford 3
June 1804; calico printer at Manchester 1829–39; M.P. for
Stockport 1841–7, for West riding of Yorkshire 1847–57, for
Rochdale 1859 to death; member of Anti-Corn law league Oct. 1838
to 1846, repeal of the corn law was chiefly due to him, sum of
nearly £80,000 was raised for him by subscription 1846; negotiated
commercial treaty with France signed 23 Jany. 1860; presented with
sum of £40,000 by about 100 friends 1860; admitted to freedom of
city of London 6 June 1861; author of the following pamphlets
_England, Ireland and America by a Manchester manufacturer_ 1835;
_Russia by a Manchester manufacturer_ 1836; _1792 and 1853 in
three letters_ 1853; _How wars are got up in India_ 1853; _What
next? and next?_ 1856; _The three, panics of 1848, 1853 and 1862_,
1862. _d._ 23 Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 2 April 1865; _bur._
West Lavington churchyard near Midhurst 7 April. _J. Morley’s Life
of R. Cobden 2 vols._ 1881, _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National
portrait gallery iii_, 51–4 (1847), _portrait_; _H. R. F. Bourne’s
English merchants ii_, 365–84 (1866); _J. H. Jennings’s Anecdotal
history of the British parliament_ (1880) 332–8; _Fagan’s Reform
club_ (1887) 41, _portrait_.
COCHET, JOHN. _b._ Rochester 3 Aug. 1760; entered navy 22 Dec. 1775,
captain 9 Dec. 1796, placed on h.p. 30 May 1799; principal agent
for transports in the Mediterranean 2 May 1805 to June 1810;
admiral 23 Nov. 1841. _d._ Bideford 10 June 1851.
COCHRANE, CHARLES (_natural son of hon. Basil Cochrane, lieut. col.
36 foot who d. 14 May 1816_). Traversed the United Kingdom dressed
in Hungarian costume and sang songs while playing the guitar
1825–6; the farce of _The Wandering Minstrel_ by Henry Mayhew
produced at Fitzroy theatre, London 16 Jany. 1834 was founded on
his eccentricities; pres. of National philanthropic instit. in
Leicester sq. London 1842–50; contested city of Westminster July
1847; author of _Journal of a tour made by Senor Juan de Vega, a
character assumed by an English gentleman 2 vols._ 1830. _d._
Nelson sq. Blackfriars road, London 13 June 1855 in 48 year. _G.M.
xliv_, 324–5 (1855).
COCHRANE, SIR JAMES (_4 son of Thomas Cochrane, speaker of house of
assembly at Nova Scotia_). _b._ Nova Scotia 1798; barrister I.T. 6
Feb. 1829; attorney general of Gibraltar 1837, chief justice 1841
to May 1877; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1845; _d._
Glenrocky, Gibraltar 24 June 1883.
COCHRANE, JOHN GEORGE (_son of Mr. Cochrane of Glasgow_). _b._
Glasgow 1781; bookseller and publisher with John White in Fleet
st. London; manager of foreign bookselling house of Messrs.
Treuttel and Wurtz, Soho sq.; acting editor of _Foreign quarterly
review_ 1827–35; edited _Caledonian Mercury_ at Edin.; catalogued
Sir Walter Scott’s library at Abbotsford; edited a newspaper at
Hertford; sec. and librarian of London library, London 17 Feb.
1841 to death, library was opened 3 May 1841; compiled two
catalogues of the library 1842 and 1847. _d._ London library, St.
James’s sq. London 11 May 1852. _Catalogue of the London library
by R. Harrison_ 1875 _pp. vii-xi_.
COCHRANE, SIR THOMAS JOHN (_eld. child of Sir Alexander Forester
Inglis Cochrane, G.C.B. 1758–1831_). _b._ Edinburgh 5 Feb. 1789;
entered navy 15 June 1796; captain 23 April 1806; second in
command on East India station 1842 to 1845; commander-in-chief
1845 to 1847; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 18 Dec. 1852 to
Jany. 1856; admiral 31 Jany. 1856; admiral of the fleet 12 Sep.
1865; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 29 May 1812;
governor of Newfoundland 16 April 1825 to 1834; M.P. for Ipswich
1837–41; C.B. 18 April 1839, K.C.B. 29 Oct. 1847, G.C.B. 18 May
1860. _d._ Ryde, Isle of Wight 19 Oct. 1872. _bur._ Kensal Green
cemetery 25 Oct.
COCHRANE, WILLIAM GEORGE. Ensign 40 foot 13 Feb. 1805; lieut.-col.
10 foot 16 Sep. 1836 to 10 July 1837 when placed on h.p.; deputy
adjutant general in Ireland 11 Dec. 1846 to 1 April 1852; colonel
11 foot 23 June 1856 to death; L.G. 26 Sep. 1856. _d._ 127
Piccadilly, London 4 Sep. 1857.
COCK, HENRY. Entered Bengal army 1802; col. 64 Bengal N.I. 1849 to
death; C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ Hopton hall near Lowestoft 17 Feb.
1851.
COCK, REV. THOMAS ASTLEY. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., 27 wrangler
1834, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1839; mathematical tutor King’s coll. London
and professor of mathematics Queen’s coll. London many years. _d._
18 Rodney st. Pentonville, London 3 July 1885 in 74 year.
COCKAYNE, REV. THOMAS OSWALD (_son of Mr. Cockin_). _b._ 1807; ed.
at St. John’s coll. Cam., 10 wrangler 1828, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1835;
a master at King’s college sch. London 1842–69; member of
Philological and Early English Text Societies; author of _The
civil history of the Jews from Joshua to Hadrian_ 1841, _2 ed._
1845; _Greek Syntax_ 1846; _Life of Marshal Turenne_ 1853;
_Leechdoms, Wort-cunning and Starcraft of early England 3 vols._
1858; _Spoon and Sparrow, or English roots in Greek, Latin and
Hebrew_ 1861. Shot himself at Carrackdew, St. Ives 2 or 3 June
1873. _Cornish Telegraph 18, 25 June 1873._
COCKBURN, ALEXANDER (_4 son of Sir James Cockburn 6 baronet
1729–1804_). _b._ 20 Aug. 1776; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo.
to Wurtemburg 6 March 1820 to 8 Feb. 1823, to Columbia, South
America 28 Feb. 1826 to 21 Sep. 1829. _d._ St. Heliers, Jersey 14
Oct. 1852.
COCKBURN, SIR ALEXANDER JAMES EDMUND, 10 Baronet (_only son of the
preceding_). _b._ 24 Dec. 1802; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., fellow
commoner 1825, fellow 1829; LL.B. 1829, LLD. 1874; barrister M.T.
6 Feb. 1829, bencher 1841, treasurer 1853; recorder of Southampton
26 July 1840 to Aug. 1846; Q.C. Oct. 1841; M.P. for Southampton 31
July 1847 to Nov. 1856; solicitor general 11 July 1850; knighted
at Buckingham Palace 14 Aug. 1850; attorney general 28 March 1851
to Feb. 1852 and 28 Dec. 1852 to 21 Nov. 1856; recorder of
Bristol, April 1854 to Nov. 1856; led the prosecution of Wm.
Palmer the Rugeley poisoner who was hanged 14 June 1856; lord
chief justice of court of Common Pleas 21 Nov. 1856; lord chief
justice of court of Queen’s bench 24 June 1859, of England 2 Nov.
1874 to death; P.C. 2 Feb. 1857; succeeded his uncle as 10 baronet
30 April 1858; arbitrator for Her Majesty under treaty of
Washington 1 Sep. 1871; G.C.B. 12 Feb. 1873; presided at trial of
The Queen v Castro (Tichborne claimant) 1873–4, 188 days, longest
trial upon record except that of Warren Hastings; admitted to
freedom of city of London 9 March 1876; chairman of Cambridge
University commission 1877–8; presided in court of crown cases
reserved 20 Nov. 1880. _d._ from angina pectoris 40 Hertford st.
Mayfair, London 20 Nov. 1880. _A generation of Judges by Their
Reporter_ (1886) 1–20; _Ballantine’s Some experiences of a
barrister ii_, 113–19 (1882); _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I
have known, second series i_, 162–83 (1877); _E. Yates’s
Recollections ii_, 129–38 (1884); _Law Mag. xlvi_, 193–213 (1851);
_Law Mag. and Review i_, 50–3, 896–903 (1872); _The Englishman
xiv_, 88–90 (1880), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xvii_, 121 (1850),
_portrait, lxvi_, 287 (1875), _portrait, lxxvii_, 521 (1880),
_portrait_.
NOTE.—He was the first legally styled Lord chief justice of
England; Sir Edward Coke assumed that title which most of his
successors also did, but it was not until the Supreme Court of
Judicature act 1873 that the title was fully recognised.
COCKBURN, SIR FRANCIS (_brother of Alexander Cockburn 1776–1852_).
_b._ 10 Nov. 1780; cornet 7 dragoon guards 16 Oct. 1800; lieut.
col. New Brunswick Fencibles 27 Oct. 1814 to 25 April 1816 when
placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 2 West India regiment 30 July 1829 to
9 Nov. 1846; governor of Honduras 1830–7, of the Bahamas 1837–44;
knighted by patent 8 Sep. 1841; colonel 95 foot 26 Dec. 1853 to
death; general 12 Nov. 1860. _d._ East Cliff, Dover 24 Aug. 1868.
COCKBURN, SIR GEORGE, 8 Baronet (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
London 22 April 1772; entered navy as captain’s servant 12 March
1781; captain 20 Feb. 1794; suggested and planned capture of
Washington 1813; commander-in-chief at St. Helena Oct. 1815 to
June 1816; conveyed Napoleon Buonaparte from Plymouth to St.
Helena in the Northumberland 8 Aug. to 16 Oct. 1815;
commander-in-chief on North America and West India station 6 Dec.
1832 to Feb. 1836; admiral 10 Jany. 1837; rear admiral of the U.K.
10 Aug. 1847; admiral of the fleet 1 July 1851 to death; first
naval lord of the Admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 13 July 1846;
major-general of marines 5 April 1821; M.P. for Portsmouth
1818–20, for Weobley, co. Hereford 1820–6, for Plymouth 1826–32,
for Ripon 1841–7; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 20 Feb. 1818; F.R.S.
21 Dec. 1820; P.C. 30 April 1827; succeeded 26 Feb. 1852. _d._
Leamington Spa 19 Aug. 1853. _J. Allen’s Battles of the British
Navy ii_, 420 (1852), _portrait_; _G.M. xl_, 406–10 (1853);
_I.L.N. xxiii_, 165, 166 (1853), _portrait_.
COCKBURN, HENRY THOMAS (_4 son of Archibald Cockburn, a baron of
Court of Exchequer in Scotland_). _b._ in or near Edin. 26 Oct.
1779; ed. at Edin. high school and college; called to Scotch bar
Dec. 1800; advocate depute 1806–10; leader with Jeffrey of the
Scottish bar; solicitor general for Scotland 3 Dec. 1830 to 1834;
lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1831; one of lords of Court of
Session as Lord Cockburn 5 Nov. 1834; a lord comr. of justiciary
14 June 1837 to death; author of _Life of Lord Jeffrey 2 vols._
1852. _d._ Bonaly near Edin. 26 April 1854. _Memorials of his time
by H. T. Cockburn_ 1856, portrait; _Journal of H. T. Cockburn
1831–44_, _2 vols._ 1874; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882),
_portrait_.
COCKBURN, SIR JAMES, 7 Baronet (_brother of Sir Francis Cockburn
1780–1868_). _b._ 21 March 1771; succeeded his father 26 July
1804; under sec. of state for department of war and colonies
1806–7; governor and commander-in-chief of Curaçoa 10 April 1807
to 1811; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda islands 26
April 1811 to 1 July 1819; inspector general of Royal marines;
major general 22 Feb. 1831; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1847. _d._
Portman sq. London 26 Feb. 1852.
COCKBURN, JAMES HORSFORD. Entered navy 1 Dec. 1829; captain 7 April
1850; R.A. 6 April 1866; commander-in-chief East Indies 6 Sep.
1870 to death. _d._ Government house, Calcutta 10 Feb. 1872 aged
56.
COCKBURN, VERY REV. SIR WILLIAM, 9 Baronet (_brother of Alexander
Cockburn 1776–1852_). _b._ 2 June 1773; ed. at St. John’s coll.
Cam., 12 wrangler 1795, B.A. 1795, M.A. 1798, B.D. and D.D. 1832;
fellow of his college 1796–1806; Christian advocate to Univ. of
Cam. 1803–10; dean of York 17 Oct. 1822 to death; R. of Kelston
near Bath 1832 to death; succeeded his brother Sir George Cockburn
19 Aug. 1853. _d._ Kelston rectory 30 April 1858.
COCKBURN, SIR WILLIAM SARSFIELD ROSSITER, 6 Baronet. _b._ 11 June
1796; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1823; succeeded 19
March 1835. _d._ Downton near Kington, Herefordshire 12 April
1858.
COCKBURN-CAMPBELL, SIR ALEXANDER THOMAS, 2 Baronet. _b._ Madras
1803; succeeded 11 Dec. 1824; assumed additional name of Campbell
by royal licence 19 July 1825; superintendent of police in Western
Australia, Sep. 1857; resident magistrate of Albury 1861. _d._ 23
April 1871.
COCKERELL, CHARLES ROBERT (_son of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, architect
1754–1827_). _b._ London 28 April 1788; ed. at Westminster school;
explored Greece, Asia Minor and Sicily 1810–11; discovered
Æginetan and Phigaleian marbles 1811; surveyor to St. Paul’s cath.
1819; A.R.A. 1829, R.A. 1836; architect of Bank of England 1833;
prof. of architecture, Royal academy 1840–57; one of the 8 foreign
assocs. of French Instit. 1841; built the Taylor buildings at
Oxford 1841–2; member of academy of St. Luke, Rome 1843; D.C.L.
Ox. 20 June 1844; pres. of R.I.B.A. 1860–1, gold medallist 1848;
author of _Antiquities of Athens_ 5 _parts, fo._ 1830;
_Iconography of the West front of Wells Cathedral_ 1851;
_Illustrations of the genius of M. A. Buonarotti, fo._ 1857 and
other works. _d._ 13 Chester terrace, Regent’s Park, London 17
Sept. 1863. _bur._ St. Paul’s cath. 24 Sept. _Sandby’s History of
Royal academy ii_, 199–201 (1862); _G.M. xv_, 785–91 (1863);
_I.L.N. xliii_, 341, 342 (1863), _portrait_.
COCKERELL, FREDERICK PEPYS (_2 son of the preceding_). _b._ 87 Eaton
sq. London, March 1833; ed. at Winchester and King’s coll. Lon.;
pupil of Philip Hardwick, R.A. 1854–5; exhibited 54 designs at the
R.A. 1854–77; designed Freemasons’ hall in Great Queen st. 1861;
A.R.I.B.A. 1860, F.R.I.B.A. 30 May 1864, sec. 1871; his design for
the Albert Memorial was selected by the judges, but the Queen
preferred the Gothic design of Sir G. G. Scott. _d._ Paris 4 Nov.
1878. _Builder 16 Nov. 1878 p. 1194, 23 Nov. p. 1230, 20 Dec. p.
1393 and 27 Dec. p. 1433._
COCKS, ARTHUR HERBERT (_3 son of Philip James Cocks of Stepple hall,
Salop 1774–1857_). _b._ 18 April 1819; entered Bengal civil
service 1837; retired on annuity fund 1863; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._
Ashburn place, Cromwell road, London 29 Aug. 1881.
COCKS, ROBERT. b, 1796; established music publishing business in
London 1823 which became one of the largest; published many
valuable theoretical works including translations of foreign
authors; built and endowed 10 almshouses at Old Buckenham,
Norfolk, completed Aug. 1861. _d._ May 1887.
COCKTON, HENRY. _b._ London 7 Dec. 1807; lost his money in a malting
speculation at Bury St. Edmunds; author of _Valentine Vox the
Ventriloquist_ 1840 published in monthly numbers; _George St.
George Julian, the Prince_ 1841; _Stanley Thorne 3 vols._ 1841;
_Sylvester Sound the Somnambulist_ 1844; _The love match_ 1845;
_The Steward_ 1850; _The sisters, or the fatal marriage_ 1851;
_Lady Felicia_ 1852; _Percy Effingham 3 vols._ 1853. _d._ Bury St.
Edmunds 26 June 1853. _Cockton’s George St. George Julian_ 1841,
_portrait_.
CODD, EDWARD. Entered navy 11 Sep. 1820; captain 1 May 1851; admiral
26 Sep. 1878. _d._ 23 Hanover sq. London 14 April 1887 aged 82.
CODRINGTON, CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM. _b._ 12 March 1805; M.P. for East
Gloucs. 1834 to death. _d._ Dodington, Gloucs. 24 June 1864.
CODRINGTON, SIR EDWARD (_youngest son of Edward Codrington of London
1732–75_). _b._ 27 April 1770; entered navy 18 July 1783; captain
6 April 1795; captain of the Orion at Trafalgar 1805; colonel of
Marines 4 Dec. 1813; commander-in chief of Mediterranean squadron
1 Nov. 1826 to April 1828 when recalled; commanded allied fleets
of England, France and Russia at battle of Navarino 20 Oct. 1827;
commanded Channel fleet 7 June 1831 to 24 Oct. 1831; admiral 10
Jany. 1837; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 22 Nov. 1839 to 10
Dec. 1842; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 13 Nov. 1827, declined to
pay the fees which amounted to £386 7s. 2d.; G.C.M.G. 23 April
1827, resigned 1828 but reinstated by Wm. iv, 17 Aug. 1832; M.P.
for Devonport 1832–39; groom in waiting in Queen’s household July
1846; F.R.S. 21 Nov. 1822. _d._ 110 Eaton sq. London 28 April
1851. _Memoir by his daughter Lady Bourchier 2 vols._ 1873, 2
_portraits_; _J. Allen’s Battles of the British navy ii_, 514,
(1852), _portrait_.
CODRINGTON, SIR HENRY JOHN (_youngest son of the preceding_). _b._
Preston Candover, Hants. 17 Oct. 1808; ed. at Harrow; entered navy
21 Feb. 1823; captain 20 Jany. 1836; employed in the Baltic during
Russian war 1854–6; admiral superintendent of Malta dockyard
1858–63; admiral 18 Oct. 1867; commander-in chief at Plymouth
1869–72; admiral of the fleet 22 Jany. 1877 to death; C.B. 18 Dec.
1840, K.C.B. 13 March 1867; his portrait is in the Painted Hall at
Greenwich. _d._ 112 Eaton sq. London 4 Aug. 1877. _Selections from
the letters of Sir H. Codrington edited by his sister Lady
Bourchier_ 1880.
CODRINGTON, SIR WILLIAM JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 26
Nov. 1804; ensign 88 foot 22 Feb. 1821; ensign Coldstream guards
24 April 1823, captain 8 July 1836; commanded first brigade of
light division in the Crimea 1 Sep. 1854; commanded the light
division 30 July 1855 to 10 Nov. 1855; commander-in-chief in the
Crimea 11 Nov. 1855 to 12 July 1856; col. of 54 foot 11 Aug. 1856,
of 23 foot 27 Dec. 1860 and of Coldstream guards 16 March 1875 to
death; M.P. for Greenwich 9 Feb. 1857 to 23 April 1859; contested
Westminster, Feb. 1874 and Lewes, April 1880; governor of
Gibraltar, May 1859 to Nov. 1865; general 27 July 1863, placed on
retired list 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 March
1865. _d._ Danmore cottage, Hackfield near Winchfield, Hants. 6
Aug. 1884. _Army and navy mag. iii_, 358–60 (1882), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xxvii_, 520 (1855), _portrait, xxx_, 479 (1857),
_portrait_.
CODRINGTON, SIR WILLIAM RAIMOND, 4 Baronet. _b._ Rennes, Brittany 25
Jany. 1806; succeeded 1816. _d._ Château de la Boullaye near
Montfort, Brittany 7 or 17 Dec. 1873.
NOTE.—On the death of the 3rd baronet the title was assumed by
the grandson of the 1st baronet on the ground that the 3rd
baronet left no legitimate issue, but the Heralds’ College
confirmed Sir W. R. Codrington in the baronetcy.
COEY, SIR EDWARD (_son of James Coey of Larne, co. Antrim_). _b._
Larne 1805; mayor of Belfast 1861, alderman 1861; knighted by Earl
of Carlisle, lord lieut. of Ireland 1861; sheriff of Antrim 1867.
_d._ Merville, Belfast 26 June 1887.
COFFEY, JAMES CHARLES (_2 son of Edmund Coffey of co. Kerry_). _b._
Dublin 1815; called to Irish bar, Trinity term 1843; went Munster
circuit; Q.C. 13 June 1864; county court judge for Westmeath,
transferred to Leitrim, transferred to Londonderry, retired 1879;
edited the _Monitor_ a whig anti-repeal paper. _d._ Sea Point, co.
Dublin 31 July 1880.
COFFIN, SIR EDWARD PINE (_youngest son of Rev. John Pine of East
Down, Devon 1736–1824, who assumed name of Coffin 1797_). _b._
East Down 20 Oct. 1784; entered commissariat service 25 July 1805;
deputy commissary general 4 Aug. 1814; commissary general 1 July
1840 to 1 April 1848 when placed on h.p.; had charge of relief
operations at Limerick and on west coast of Ireland during famine,
Jany. to Aug. 1846; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1846; one of comrs.
of inquiry into working of royal mint 1 April 1848. _d._ Gay st.
Bath 31 July 1862.
COFFIN, HENRY EDWARD. _b._ 1794; entered navy 1 Oct. 1805; captain
23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875. _d._ Springfield
house, Caversham near Reading 31 Aug. 1881 in 88 year.
COFFIN, SIR ISAAC CAMPBELL (_eld. son of Francis Holmes Coffin,
admiral R.N._) _b._ 1801; entered Madras army 3 June 1818;
commanded Hyderabad subsidiary force 6 Nov. 1855; commanded
southern division of Madras army 28 March 1859 to 28 March 1864
for which he was created K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; col. 12 Madras N.I.
23 July 1858 to 1869; L.G. 18 July 1869. _d._ 9 St. John’s park
south, Blackheath, Kent 1 Oct. 1872.
COFFIN, JOHN TOWNSEND. _b._ 1789; entered navy 7 Nov. 1799; captain
26 Dec. 1822, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 26 June 1863.
_d._ Holgate hill, York 29 April 1882.
COFFIN, RIGHT REV. ROBERT ASTON. _b._ Brighton 19 July 1819; ed. at
Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; V. of St. Mary
Magdalene, Oxford 1843; received into Church of Rome 3 Dec. 1845;
ordained priest at Rome 1847; superior of St. Wilfrids, Cotton
hall, Staffs. 1848–9; entered novitiate of Redemptorist Fathers at
St. Trond in Belgium and made his profession 2 Feb. 1852; R. of
St. Mary’s, Clapham 1855; provincial 1865–82; bishop of Southwark,
April 1882 to death; consecrated at Rome 11 June 1882, enthroned
at St. George’s cathedral, Southwark 27 July 1882; author of _The
oratory of the faithful soul translated from F. L. Blosius_ 1848,
and of translations of many of the works of St. Alphonsus de
Liguori. _d._ house of the Redemptorists, Teignmouth 6 April 1885.
_Gillow’s English Catholics i_, 523–6 (1885).
COFFIN, WILLIAM FOSTER. _b._ Bath 1808; ed. at Eton; called to Lower
Canadian bar 1835; comr. of police 1840; raised and commanded
Montreal field battery 1855; comr. of ordnance and admiralty lands
for dominion of Canada; author of _Memorial to Sir E. W. Head_
1855; _1812, The war and its moral 2 vols._ 1864; _Three chapters
on a triple project_; _Thoughts on defence from a Canadian point
of view_; _Quirks of diplomacy_. _d._ 1878.
COGAN, REV. ELIEZER (_son of John Cogan of Bothwell,
Northamptonshire, surgeon who d. 1784_). _b._ Rothwell 1762; ed.
at Daventry; Presbyterian minister at Cirencester 1787–9, at
Walthamstow 1801–16; kept a school at Higham Hill, Walthamstow
1801–28; author of _An address to the Dissenters on classical
literature_ 1789; _Reflections on the evidences of Christianity_
1796; _Sermons chiefly on practical subjects 2 vols._ 1817; edited
_Moschi Idyllia tria, Grece_ 1795. _d._ Higham Hill 21 Jany. 1855.
_Christian Reformer xi_, 237–59 (1855); _Dict. of Nat. Biog. xi_,
219–20 (1887).
COGHLAN, SIR WILLIAM MARCUS (_son of Jeremiah Coghlan, captain
R.N._) _b._ Plymouth 31 May 1803; ed. at Addiscombe; Second lieut.
Bombay Artillery 19 Dec. 1820, colonel 28 Nov. 1854, col.
commandant 8 May 1859 to death; political resident and commandant
at Aden 1854–63; general 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 6 June 1864. _d._
Ramsgate 26 Nov. 1885.
COGSWELL, JOHN. _b._ March 1827; a printer and stationer at Bath to
1833; reporter on the _Hastings News_ 1833–50; edited the
_Hastings Chronicle_ 1850, the _Hastings and St. Leonards Times_,
the _West Surrey Times_ 1880–3 and 1886 to death. _d._ 13 April
1887.
COHEN, LIONEL LOUIS (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ London 2 June
1832; foreign banker with his father under name of Louis Cohen and
Sons 1852; senior partner 1882–5 when he retired; a trustee and
manager of Stock Exchange 1870 to death; a founder and vice-pres.
of United Synagogue; pres. of Jewish Board of Guardians 1869 to
death; M.P. for North Paddington 25 Nov. 1885 to death. _d._ 9
Hyde park terrace, London 26 June 1887. _Vanity Fair 24 April
1886, portrait._
COHEN, LOUIS (_son of Joseph Cohen_). _b._ Sep. 1799; entered the
Stock Exchange, London 1819, member of its committee 15 years;
warden of Great Synagogue, London 1837; member of committee of the
Seven Elders; member of Board of Deputies 25 years, the main
author of new constitution of the Board. _d._ 84 Gloucester place,
Portman sq. London 15 March 1882, personalty sworn £623,000, 22
April 1882. _Jewish Chronicle 17 March 1882 p. 12, 24 March p.
12._
COLBORNE, NICHOLAS WILLIAM RIDLEY-COLBORNE, 1 Baron (_2 son of Sir
Matthew White Ridley of Blagdon, Northumberland, 2 baronet
1745–1813_). _b._ St. Marylebone, London 14 April 1779; ed. at
Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1800; entered at G.I. 12 Dec.
1795 but withdrew 26 April 1809 without being called; assumed
additional name of Colborne 21 June 1803; M.P. for Appleby
1807–12, for Thetford 1818–26, for Horsham 1827–32, for Wells
1834–7; created Baron Colborne of West Harding, Norfolk 15 May
1839; member of Fine Arts commission 1841, of Metropolitan
improvements commission 1842. _d._ 19 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London
3 May 1854.
COLBRAN, JOHN. _b._ 1809; a bookseller at Tunbridge Wells; started
in 1833 the _Tunbridge Wells Visitor_, the first newspaper there;
started the _Tunbridge Wells Gazette_ 1851; retired 1874. _d._
Tunbridge Wells 20 Sep. 1884.
COLBURN, HENRY. Kept circulating library in Conduit st. London 1816;
publisher in New Burlington st. 1817; partner with Richard Bentley
1830 to Aug. 1832; publisher at Windsor; publisher in Great
Marlborough st. London 1853, retired in favour of Hurst and
Blackett; chief publisher of novels many years; published
_Colburn’s Modern Standard Novelists 19 vols._ 1835–41; originated
_New Monthly Mag._ 1814; with Wm. Jerdan _Literary Gazette_ 25
Jany. 1817, _Court Journal_ 1828, _United Service Mag._ 1829. _d._
Bryanston sq. London 16 Aug. 1855, his copyrights were sold for
£14,000, 26 May 1857. _H. Curwen’s History of booksellers_ (1873)
279–95.
COLBY, THOMAS FREDERICK (_eld. child of Thomas Colby, major R.M. who
d. 1813_). _b._ St. Margaret’s-next-Rochester 1 Sep. 1784; ed. at
Northfleet school and R.M.A. Woolwich; second lieut. R.E. 2 July
1801; lost his left hand by explosion of a pistol, Dec. 1803;
F.R.S. 13 April 1820; surveyed Ireland 1824–46; col. R.E. 10 Jany.
1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. (_m._ 1828 Elizabeth Hester
2 dau. of Archibald Boyd, treasurer of Londonderry, she was
granted a civil list pension of £100, 10 Feb. 1853). _d._ New
Brighton near Liverpool 9 Oct. 1852. _J. E. Portlock’s Life of
General Colby_ 1869; _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii_, 132–7
(1853).
COLCHESTER, CHARLES ABBOT, 2 Baron (_elder son of 1 baron Colchester
1757–1829_). _b._ St. James’s, Westminster 12 March 1798; entered
navy 8 April 1811; captain 26 Jany. 1826, placed on h.p. Jany.
1833; admiral on h.p. 11 Jany. 1864; succeeded as 2 Baron 7 May
1829; vice pres. of Board of Trade and paymaster general 28 Feb.
to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; postmaster general, Feb. 1858 to
June 1859. _d._ 34 Berkeley sq. London 18 Oct. 1867. _Walford’s
Photographic portraits of living celebrities_ 1859, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xxxii_, 312 (1858), _portrait_.
COLDSTREAM, JOHN (_only son of Robert Coldstream of Leith,
merchant_). _b._ Leith 19 March 1806; ed. at Leith, High sch.
Edin. and Univ. of Edin.; apprenticed to Dr. Charles Anderson of
Leith 1823; entered Royal Medical Society 19 Nov. 1824; studied in
Paris 1827–28; practised at Leith 1828–47; mem. of Wernerian
Society 9 Jany. 1830; enrolled as Fellow for life of Botanical
Soc. 9 Dec. 1858, date of dissolution of Wernerian Soc.; F.R.C.P.
1845; removed to Edinburgh 1847; mem. of Royal Physical Society 17
Feb. 1849, one of the presidents 4 Dec. 1850. _d._ Irthing house
near Carlisle 17 Sept. 1863. _J. H. Balfour’s Biography of the
late John Coldstream_ (1865), _portrait_.
COLE, REV. ARTHUR RAGGETT. Ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1864, M.A.
1866, B.D. 1874; C. of St. Luke, Southampton 1864–68; C. in charge
of Hurstbourne Priors, Hants. 1868 to death; author of _A short
liturgy for the school room service_, _2 ed._ 1870; _Drawing near
with faith_ 1872; _A book of family prayers for a month_ 1875;
edited the _Etcetera_, monthly mag. 1872–4. _d._ Hurstbourne
Priors 23 Sep. 1877.
COLE, GEORGE, _b._ 1810; portrait painter at Portsmouth; painted a
canvas show-cloth 20 feet square for Wombwell’s menagerie; studied
animal painting in Holland; exhibited 16 pictures at the R.A., 35
at B.I. and 209 at Suffolk st. gallery 1838–80; member of society
of British Artists 1850. _d._ of heart disease at 1 Kensington
crescent, London 7 Sep. 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxiii_, 307, 309 (1883),
_portrait_.
COLE, GEORGE WARD. _b._ Lumley castle, Durham 15 Nov. 1793; in the
navy 1807–17 when placed on h.p.; in the merchant service 1817–39;
arrived in Melbourne 4 July 1840; built Cole’s Wharf on the Yarra
1841; built the “City of Melbourne” 1851 the 1st screw steamer
ever seen south of the equator, she traded between Melbourne and
Launceston and was finally wrecked on King’s Island, Bass’s
Straits 1853; introduced sugar-beet into Victoria from Holland
1863; member for Gipps Land of Victorian legislative council, July
1853–1855; member for the Central province of legislative council
1859 to death; an executive councillor 1867; wrote several
pamphlets in support of protection. _d._ 26 April 1879. _Men of
the time in Australia, Victorian series_ (1878) 37–39.
COLE, SIR HENRY (_son of Henry Robert Cole, captain 1 dragoon
guards_). _b._ Bath 15 July 1808; ed. at Christ’s hospital; clerk
to Francis Palgrave of the Record Commission 1824–9; one of the 4
senior assistant keepers of the Records 1838–41; edited _Guide_
newspaper 1837, _Post Circular_ 1838; sec. of committee on penny
postage 1838; edited _Journal of Design_ March 1849 to Feb. 1852;
member of Society of Arts 1846; member of executive committee of
Great Exhibition 1851, 3 Jany. 1850; general adviser to Exhibition
of 1862 with a fee of £1500; sec. to royal commission at Paris
exhibitions 1855 and 1867; chief manager of Exhibitions in London
1871–4; sec. of School of Design 31 Oct. 1851; sec. of Department
of practical art Jany. 1852 to April 1873; C.B. 25 Oct. 1851,
K.C.B. 25 March 1875; published under the pseudonym of Felix
Summerly, the following books, _The Home Treasury_. A series of
children’s books. Lond. printed by J. Cundall 1843–44; _Pleasure
excursions to Croydon_ 1846; _Heroic tales of ancient Greece,
translated from the German of B. G. Niebuhr_ 1849, and the
following handbooks, _Westminster Abbey_ 1842, _Picture galleries_
1842, _Canterbury_ 1843, _Hampton Court_ 1843, _National gallery_
1843, _Temple Church_ 1843; _Shall we keep the Crystal palace, by
Denarius_ 1851; edited _Works of T. L. Peacock 3 vols._ 1875.
(_m._ 28 Dec. 1833 Marian Fairman 3 dau. of Wm. Andrew Bond of
Ashford, Kent, she was granted a civil list pension of £150, 10
June 1882, author of _The Mother’s Primer, by Mrs. Felix Summerly_
1844). _d._ 96 Philbeach gardens, Earl’s Court, London 18 April
1882. _Fifty years of public work of Sir H. Cole 2 vols._ 1884,
_portrait_; _Practical Mag. vii_, 321, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xix_,
487, 509 (1851), _portrait, lxiii_, 36, 38 (1873), _portrait,
lxxx_, 417 (1882), _portrait_.
NOTE.—He originated the idea of Christmas cards, the first of
which was issued by Joseph Cundall at 12 Old Bond st, 1846,
the drawing was made by J. C. Horsley printed in lithography
by Jobbins of Warwick court, Holborn and coloured by hand,
about 1000 copies were sold of the card which was the usual
size of a lady’s calling card.
COLE, HENRY THOMAS (_2 son of George Cole, captain Cornwall
militia_). _b._ Bath 2 Feb. 1816; barrister M.T. 4 Nov. 1842,
bencher Jany. 1867, treasurer 1883–4; became leader of Western
circuit; recorder of Penzance April 1862 to April 1872; Q.C. 13
Dec. 1866; recorder of Plymouth and Devonport April 1872 to death;
M.P. for Falmouth and Penryn 6 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880. _d._ 4
Glendower place, South Kensington, London 5 Jany. 1885.
COLE, HENRY WARWICK (_3 son of Wm. Nicholas Cole of Islington,
solicitor_). _b._ 12 Oct. 1812; ed. at Univ. coll. London;
barrister I.T. 10 June 1836, bencher 1861, reader 1873, treasurer
1874; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; judge of county courts, circuit 21
Warwickshire 11 Sep. 1872 to death; author of _The law of domicile
of Englishmen in France_ 1857; _St. Augustine a poem in 8 books_
1877; contributed to _Quarterly Review and Fraser’s Mag._ _d._ 23
High st. Warwick 19 June 1876.
COLE, JOHN LOWRY (_3 son of 2 Earl of Enniskillen 1768–1840_). _b._
8 June 1813; sheriff of Fermanagh 1842. M.P. for Enniskillen 21
Feb. 1859 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ Florence court, co. Fermanagh 29
Nov. 1882.
COLE, PENNEL. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Feb. 1810, col. 20 June 1854 to
11 Aug. 1856 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 11 Aug. 1856. _d._
Boulogne 25 March 1862 aged 70.
COLE, WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ London; entered navy 5 Jany. 1802; captain
on h.p. 28 June 1838; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837. _d._ Lechlade, Gloucs. 15
May 1856.
COLE, WILLIAM ROBERT. Barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838; went
north-eastern circuit; author of _Law and practice on criminal
information_ 1843; _Law and practice in ejectment_ 1856. _d._
Warrington gardens, Maida hill, London 27 Dec. 1881.
COLEBROOKE, SIR WILLIAM MACBEAN GEORGE (_son of Paulette Welbore
Colebrooke, lieut.-col. R.A. who d. 28 Sep. 1816_). _b._ 1787;
Second lieut. R.A. 17 Aug. 1803; served in Mahratta war 1817–8;
comr. of Eastern inquiry 1823–31; lieut. governor of Bahamas 9
Sep. 1834; governor general of Leeward islands 11 Jany. 1837;
knighted by Wm. iv at Windsor castle 31 March 1837; lieut.
governor of New Brunswick 25 March 1841–1848; governor of British
Guiana 28 April 1848; governor of Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent,
Tobago and St. Lucia 11 Aug. 1848 to 1856 when he retired on
pension of £750; col. commandant R.A. 25 Sep. 1859 to death;
general 26 Dec. 1865; K.H. 1834, C.B. 1 May 1848. _d._ Salthill,
Bucks. 6 Feb. 1870.
COLEMAN, REV. WILLIAM HIGGINS. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A.
1836, M.A. 1839; a master at Christ’s hospital, Hertford 1840–7;
at Ashby-de-la-Zouch gr. sch. 1847 to death; author with Rev. H.
R. Webb of _Flora Hertfordiensis_ 1849; published in _Journal of
Biblical Literature_, July 1863 an elaborate paper on The
Eighteenth chapter of Isaiah, which was reprinted with others
under title of _Biblical papers, being remains of the Rev. W. H.
Coleman_ 1864. _d._ Burton on Trent 12 Sep. 1863.
COLENSO, FRANCES ELLEN (_2 dau. of the succeeding_). _b._ 30 May
1849; befriended Cetywayo 1881; author with Col. Edward Durnford
of _History of the Zulu war_ 1880; _The ruin of Zululand_ 1884.
_d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 29 April 1887.
COLENSO, RIGHT REV. JOHN WILLIAM (_son of John Wm. Colenso of
Lostwithiel, mineral agent for Duchy of Cornwall, who d. 23 Dec.
1860 aged 82_). _b._ St. Austell 24 Jany. 1814; ed. at Devonport
and St. John’s coll. Cam.; second wrangler and Smith’s prizeman
1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. and D.D. 1853; fellow of his
college 13 March 1837 to 1846; mathematical master at Harrow
1839–42; private tutor at Cam. 1842–6; V. of Forncett St. Mary,
Norfolk 1846–53; bishop of Natal 23 Nov. 1853, consecrated in St.
Mary’s, Lambeth 30 Nov.; suffragan to bishop of Cape Town 6 Dec.
1853, who pronounced sentence of deposition against him 16 April
1864, he appealed to the Crown, and the judicial committee of the
privy council pronounced all the legal proceedings null and void
in law; publicly excommunicated at Maritzburg cathedral 5 Jany.
1866; author of _The elements of Algebra designed for the use of
schools_ 1841, and numerous other works on mathematics; _Village
sermons_ 1854; _Ten weeks in Natal_ 1855; _First steps in
Zulu-Kaffir_ 1859 and many other works concerning, and in that
language; _The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua critically examined_
1862–65, 5 volumes, with other editions of the whole work and of
parts of it; _Natal sermons, a series of discourses in the
cathedral church of St. Peter’s, Maritzburg_ 1866; _Lectures on
the Pentateuch and the Moabite stone_ 1873; _The treatment by the
Natal government of Langalibalele and the Amahlubi tribe_ 1874.
_d._ Pieter-Maritzburg, Natal 20 June 1883. _Dict. of Nat. Biog.
xi_, 290–3 (1887); _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 76–9,
_iii_, 1125–7; _J. F. Hurst’s History of rationalism_ (1867)
401–409; _Churchman’s Family Mag. v_, 395–408 (1865); _Boase’s
Collectanea Cornubiensia_ 153–4; _Graphic xxvii_, 652 (1883),
_portrait_; _Bookseller 30 July 1863 pp._ 356–8.
NOTE.—Part i of The Pentateuch an edition of 10,000 copies
excited much comment and gave rise to the publication of
upwards of 130 works in which its principles were adversely
criticised. Of the Bishop’s Arithmetic designed for Schools,
more than 400,000 copies were sold.
COLERIDGE, REV. DERWENT (_younger son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge the
Poet 1772–1834_). _b._ Greta hall, Keswick 14 Sep. 1800; ed. at
St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1829; master of Helston gr.
sch. 1827–41; principal of St. Mark’s college, Chelsea 1841–64;
preb. of St. Paul’s 28 Feb. 1846 to death; R. of Hanwell 1864–80;
edited works of Hartley Coleridge, S. T. Coleridge, J. Moultrie
and W. M. Praed; author of _The scriptural character of the
English Church_ 1839; _Life of Hartley Coleridge_ 1849. _d._ Eldon
lodge, Torquay 28 March 1883. _The church of England photographic
portrait gallery_ 1859 _pt._ 9, _portrait_; _Illust. news of the
world viii_, (1861), _portrait_; _Guardian 18 April 1883 p._ 569.
COLERIDGE, HERBERT (_only son of Henry Nelson Coleridge, chancery
barrister 1798–1843_). _b._ Hampstead 7 Oct. 1830; ed. at Eton and
Balliol coll. Ox., Balliol scholar 1847, Newcastle scholar 1848,
double first class 1852; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1854; member of
Philological Soc. Feb. 1857, hon. sec. of a special committee ‘for
collecting words and idioms hitherto unregistered,’ this scheme
developed into J. A. H. Murray’s ‘New English dictionary’
published by Clarendon Press 1884 etc.; author of _Glossarial
index to the printed English literature of the thirteenth century_
1859. _d._ 10 Chester place, London 23 April 1861. _Macmillan’s
Mag. v_, 56 (1862).