Court, Ottery St. Mary, Devon 1760–1836_). _b._ 13 June 1789; ed.
at Balliol coll. Ox., B.C.L. 1821, D.C.L. 1835; V. of Kenwyn and
Kea, Cornwall 1823–8; R. of Lawhitton, Cornwall 1826–39; V. of
Lewannick, Cornwall 1831–41; V. of Thorverton, Devon 1839 to
death; preb. of Exeter cath. 5 Aug. 1825 to death; author of _A
selection of family prayers_ 1820, _3 ed._ 1831; _Observations of
a Parish Priest in scenes of sickness and death_ 1825; _A
companion to first lessons for the services of the Church on
Sundays and the fasts and festivals_ 1838. _d._ Thorverton 26 Dec.
1857. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 79, 313, _iii_,
1128.
COLERIDGE, SIR JOHN TAYLOR (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Tiverton 9 July 1790; ed. at Ottery St. Mary, Eton and C.C. coll.
Ox., scholar, April 1809; took both Bachelors’ prizes for English
and Latin essays 1813; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1817, hon. D.C.L. 1852;
Vinerian law scholar 1812; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1812 to
7 Aug. 1818; a certificated special pleader; barrister M.T. 25
June 1819; a bankruptcy comr. 1827; recorder of Exeter, Feb. 1832;
serjeant-at-law 14 Feb. 1832; a justice of Court of King’s Bench
27 Jany. 1835 to 28 June 1858; knighted at St. James’s Palace 18
Feb. 1835; member of Inns of Court commission 1834, and of Law
Courts commission 1858; P.C. 5 June 1858, member of judicial
committee; edited _Blackstone’s Commentaries 4 vols._ 1825; author
of _Memoir of the Rev. John Keble_ 1869, _4 ed._ 1874. _d._
Heath’s Court, Devon 11 Feb. 1876. _Law Mag. and law review vii_,
263–84 (1859), _i_, 486–99 (1876); _I.L.N. vi_, 245 (1845),
_portrait_, _xxxiii_, 142 (1858), _portrait_, _lxviii_, 190, 213
(1876), _portrait_.
COLERIDGE, SARA (_only dau. of Samuel Taylor Coleridge the poet
1772–1834_). _b._ Greta hall near Keswick 22 Dec. 1802; published
a translation of Martin Dobrizhoffer’s _Account of the Abipones 3
vols._ 1822; _Pretty lessons for good children_ 1834;
_Phantasmion_ 1837 a fairy tale; edited with her husband, S. T.
Coleridge’s _Biographia Literaria_ 1847; one of the three maidens
celebrated in Wordsworth’s _Trias_ 1828. (_m._ 3 Sep. 1829 her
cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge, barrister, he was _b._ 25 Oct. 1798
and _d._ 26 Jany. 1843). _d._ Chester place, Regent’s park, London
3 May 1852. _Memoir of Sara Coleridge edited by her daughter Edith
Coleridge, 4 ed._ 1874; _G.M. xxxviii_, 540–2 (1852).
COLES, COWPER PHIPPS (_3 son of Rev. John Coles 1787–1865, R. of
Silchester, Hants._) _b._ 9 July 1819; entered navy 15 Dec. 1831;
captain on h.p. 27 Feb. 1856; C.B. 23 March 1867; carried out an
elaborate series of experiments on the methods of applying armour
to vessels and mounting guns, the ship ‘Captain’ was built from
drawings by Coles and Messrs. Laird 1866–70; author of _Our
national defences_ 1861, _4 ed._ 1862. (_m._ 11 March 1856 Emily 3
dau. of Henry S. Pearson, she was granted civil list pension of
£150, 11 Feb. 1871, and _d._ 11 Jany. 1876). _drowned_ in the
Captain, off Cape Finisterre 7 Sep. 1870 when nearly all the crew
perished. _Journal of Royal United Service Instit. iv_, 280,
_vii_, 110, _xi_, 434; _I.L.N. xl_, 399 (1862), _lvii_, 307, 329,
(1870), _portrait_.
COLES, HENRY BEAUMONT. _b._ London 1794; barrister G.I. 30 Jany.
1837; M.P. for Andover 29 July 1847 to 20 March 1857. _d._ Portman
sq. London 23 Nov. 1862.
COLES, ROBERT BARTLETT. _b._ 1785; cornet 8 dragoons 20 Aug. 1803;
major 76 foot 24 Oct. 1821 to 19 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.;
col. 65 foot 25 July 1857 to death; general 31 May 1865. _d._
Glencot, Wilts. 27 Oct. 1869.
COLES, WILLIAM COWPER. Ensign 40 foot 31 Oct. 1805; major 2 Life
Guards 21 March 1829 to 20 Jany. 1832 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 9
March 1861. _d._ Woodcote, Salop 26 Aug. 1867 aged 77.
COLLARD, FREDERICK WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Collard of Wiveliscombe,
Somerset_). _baptized_ Wiveliscombe 21 June 1772; employed by
Longman, Lukey and Broderip, music publishers at 26 Cheapside,
London 1786; pianoforte maker with Muzio Clementi in London 1799
to 24 June 1831, with his brother W. F. Collard to 24 June 1842,
with his two nephews 1842 to death; took out many patents for
improvements in pianos; supplied bugles, fifes and drums to
regiments of East India Co. to 1858. _d._ 26 Cheapside, London 31
Jany. 1860.
COLLARD, WILLIAM FREDERICK (_brother of the preceding_). _baptized_
at Wiveliscombe 25 Aug. 1776; member of firm of Muzio Clementi and
Co. pianoforte makers 26 Cheapside down to 24 June 1831; partner
with his brother 1831–42; invented many improvements in pianos.
_d._ Folkestone 11 Oct. 1866.
COLLEDGE, THOMAS RICHARDSON. _b._ 1796; pupil of Sir Astley Cooper;
practised in Canton and Macao; founded Medical missionary society
in China 1837, pres. 1837 to death; surgeon to consulate at Canton
to May 1841 when the office was abolished; M.D. King’s coll.
Aberdeen 1839; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1840; F.R.S. Edin. 1844; F.R.C.S.
England 1853; lived at Cheltenham 1841 to death. _d._ Lauriston
house, Cheltenham 28 Oct. 1879.
COLLEN, GEORGE WILLIAM. Portcullis pursuivant of arms 6 Nov. 1841 to
death; author of _Britannia Saxonica, a map of Britain_ 1833;
_Debrett’s Peerage continued_ 1840. _d._ 52 Camden sq. London 9
Jany. 1878 in 79 year.
COLLETON, SIR ROBERT AUGUSTUS FULFORD GRAVES, 8 Baronet. _b._ 19
Sep. 1824; succeeded 29 July 1848. _d._ Fermoy, Ireland 28 Oct.
1866.
COLLETTE, JOHN HICKEY. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 7 Madras light
cavalry 12 Aug. 1839 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Nice 23
Oct. 1858 aged 77.
COLLEY, SIR GEORGE POMEROY POMEROY- (_youngest son of Hon. George
Francis Colley of Ferney, co. Dublin 1797–1879, commander R.N._)
_b._ 1 Nov. 1835; ed. at R.M.A. Sandhurst; ensign 2 foot 28 May
1852, major 12 May 1875 to 24 April 1880 when placed on h.p.;
professor at the staff college 1 July 1871 to 30 Nov. 1873;
commanded the transport in Ashanti expedition, Dec. 1873 to Feb.
1874; military sec. to Viceroy of India 13 April 1876 to 12 April
1878, private sec. to him 13 April 1878 to 19 Feb. 1880; C.B. 31
March 1874; K.C.S.I. 29 July 1879; assumed additional surname of
Pomeroy by r.l. 8 May 1880; author of the article _Army_ in
_Encyclopædia Britannica_, _9 ed._, _ii_, 559–619 (1875); governor
and commander in chief Natal 24 April 1880 to death. Shot by the
Boers on Majuba hill at Laing’s Nek, North Natal 27 Feb. 1881.
_Army and navy mag. i_, 554–61 (1881), _ii_, 673–89 (1881),
_portrait_; _A narrative of the Boer war by T. F. Carter_ 1883;
_T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the Empire_ (1879) 44–50; _I.L.N.
lxxiv_ 576 (1879), _portrait_, _lxxviii_, 224 (1881), _portrait_.
COLLIER, SIR EDWARD (_son of Edward Collier of Blockley, Worcs._)
_b._ Blockley 1783; entered navy, Feb. 1796; captain 18 Nov. 1814;
V. A. 18 June 1857; retired on a pension 27 Nov. 1857; admiral 4
Oct. 1862; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840; K.C.B. 7 June 1865. _d._ Blockley 5
Aug. 1872.
COLLIER, HENRY THEODOSIUS BROWNE. _b._ 1791; entered navy 28 April
1800; captain on half pay 26 Dec. 1822; retired admiral 26 June
1863. _d._ 25 Ryder st. St. James’s, London 10 Sep. 1872.
COLLIER, JOHN PAYNE (_son of John Dyer Collier of London, writer on
the press 1762–1825_). _b._ Broad st. London 11 Jany. 1789;
reporter on _The Times_ 1809–21, on the _Morning Chronicle_
1821–47; summoned before House of Commons 15 June 1819 for
misreporting a speech of Joseph Hume, and committed to custody of
the serjeant-at-arms; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1829; deputy licenser
of plays; a founder of the Camden Society 1838; sec. of Royal
commission on British Museum 1847–50; accused of having committed
many literary frauds in connection with Shakespearian and other
documents; granted civil list pension of £100, 30 Oct. 1850;
author of _Criticisms on the Bar, by Amicus Curiæ_ 1819; printed
privately and anonymously _The Poet’s Pilgrimage_ 1822; published
a new ed. of _Dodsley’s Old Plays 12 vols._ 1825–7; _Punch and
Judy_ 1828, _anon._; _History of English dramatic poetry and
annals of the stage 3 vols._ 1831, _new ed._ 1879; _Shakespeare’s
Library 2 vols._ 1843; _Shakespeare’s Works 8 vols._ 1844, _6
vols._ 1858; _Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare’s
plays from the folio in the possession of J. P. C. [i.e. the
Perkins folio]_ 1853; _The works of Edmund Spenser 5 vols._ 1862.
_d._ Riverside, Maidenhead 17 Sep. 1883. _bur._ Bray churchyard 20
Sep. _J. P. Collier’s An old man’s diary 4 parts_ 1871–2;
_Wheatley’s Notes on the life of J. P. Collier_ 1884; _Literary
Cookery_ 1855, _anon. by E. A. Brae_; _Antiquarian Mag. iv_, 272–5
(1883); _I.L.N. lxxxiii_, 309 (1883), _portrait_; _N. E. S. A.
Hamilton’s Genuineness of Collier’s Annotated Shakespeare_ 1860.
COLLINGS, JOHN ELIAS (_son of lieut.-col. Joseph Collings_). _b._ 11
Sep. 1821; ensign 33 foot 21 June 1839, lieut.-col. 17 Nov. 1857
to 28 Oct. 1868 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depôt 1
April 1873 to 24 Jany. 1874 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 18 Sep.
1879; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July
1881; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. _d._ Grange hill, Guernsey 10 Dec. 1886.
COLLINGS, SIR WILLIAM (_2 son of John Collings of St. Peter port,
Guernsey_). _b._ St. Peter port 1781; jurat of royal court of
Guernsey 1822; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838; colonel
of Royal Guernsey militia to death. _d._ Guernsey 18 June 1854.
COLLINS, CHARLES ALLSTON (_younger son of Wm. Collins the painter
1788–1847_). _b._ Hampstead 25 Jany. 1828; practised as a painter
1848–58; contributed to _Household Words_; art critic to the
_Echo_; author of _A new sentimental Journey_ 1859; _The
eye-witness, seeing is believing_ 1860; _A cruise upon wheels 2
vols._ 1862; _The bar sinister 2 vols._ 1864; _Strathcairn 2
vols._ 1864; _At the bar, a tale 2 vols._ 1866. _d._ Thurloe
place, Brompton, London, about midnight 9–10 April 1873.
_Illustrated Review v_, 423–8 (1873), _portrait_; _Graphic vii_,
312, 318 (1873), _portrait_.
COLLINS, CHARLES JAMES. On the parliamentary staff of the _Sun_,
_Daily Telegraph_ and _Standard_; edited _Comic News 1 May 1847_;
projected and edited the _Racing Times_ 1861; author of
_Kenilworth_ and other burlesques; _Life and adventures of Dick
Diminy_ 1854; _Sackville Chase 3 vols._ 1863; _Matilda the Dane, a
romance of the affections_ 1863; _The man in chains 3 vols._ 1864;
_Singed Moths, a city romance 3 vols._ 1864. _d._ 9 Manor terrace,
Brixton, London 31 Dec. 1864.
COLLINS, EDWARD FRANCIS. _b._ North of Ireland 1807; came to London
1832 and became private secretary to Joseph Hume, M.P.; sub-editor
of the _Sun_; edited the _Hull Advertiser_ 1842–66; sub-editor of
_The Tablet_ 1868; author of _A form of reciting the most holy
rosary, compiled for the nuns of the convent of our Lord of Mercy
at Hull_ 1859, _anon._ _d._ Upper Clapton near London 3 Jany.
1872.
COLLINS, FRANCES (_dau. of Wm. Dunn of London, engineer_). _b._ 1840
or 1841; author with Mortimer Collins of the novels entitled
_Frances 3 vols._ 1874, _another ed._ 1880, her name is not on the
original ed.; _Sweet and twenty 3 vols._ 1875, _another ed._ 1877;
_The village comedy 3 vols._ 1878; _You play me false 3 vols._
1878; author of _Mortimer Collins, his letters and friendships 2
vols._ 1877; _A broken lily 3 vols._ 1882; author with her cousin
F. Percy Cotton of _Mudge and her chicks by a Brother and Sister
[F.P.C. and F.C.]_ 1880; _The Woodleighs of Amscote by F. Percy
Cotton and F. Collins_ 1881; edited with Tom Taylor _Pen sketches
by a Vanished Hand, from papers of M. Collins_ 1879; edited with
Edmund Yates _Thoughts in my garden by M. Collins 2 vols._ 1880.
(_m._ 4 May 1868 Mortimer Collins 1827–76). _d._ Pine-tree hill,
Camberley, Surrey 16 March 1886, cremated at Woking cemetery 20
March.
COLLINS, HENRY POWELL. M.P. for Taunton 8 Oct. 1812 to 29 Feb. 1820;
sheriff of Somerset 1827. _d._ Weston-super-Mare 22 Aug. 1854 aged
78.
COLLINS, JOHN (_eld. son of John Collins, landlord of the Lucan Spa
house near Dublin_). _b._ Lucan, Sep. 1804; a cook in his father’s
hotel; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 29 Aug. 1832
as Captain Macheath in _The Beggar’s Opera_, chief tenor singer
there; original actor of Paul Clifford at Covent Garden 1835;
first appeared Park theatre, New York 17 Aug. 1846, the best
singer of Irish ballads and humorous songs in America; acted in
United States 1846–64, at Adelphi theatre, London, Oct. 1864, in
Australia 1866. _d._ Philadelphia 13 Aug. 1874. _Actors by
daylight ii_, 153 (1839), _portrait_; _Belgravia xvi_, 443 (1872);
_Ireland’s New York Stage ii_, 464–5 (1867).
COLLINS, MORTIMER, whose full names were Edward James Mortimer
Collins (_only child of Francis Collings of Kingsbridge, Devon,
who d. 1839_). _b._ Plymouth 29 June 1827; reading boy at Gilbert
and Rivingtons, St. John’s sq. London 5 May to 29 June 1838;
assistant in a shop in Holborn 1838; usher in Rev. Richard
Harris’s school at Westbury, Wilts. 1843–5; his first poem, signed
E. J. M. C. printed in _Bath and Cheltenham Gazette 10 April
1844_; contributed to _Felix Farley’s Journal_ at Bristol 1847–9,
Paris correspondent 1848; private tutor at Windermere 1847–8;
usher at Rev. J. H. Crump’s school, Lechlade, Gloucs. Jany. to
June 1849; tutor at Rothwell, Northamptonshire 1849; editor of the
_Lancaster Gazette_, May 1850; master of a school at Launceston
for 3 months in 1851; head master of lower school, Elizabeth
college, Guernsey 1852–5; contributed to _Dublin Univ. Mag._ 1851
and to _Punch_ 1853; started the _Channel Islands Mag._ 1 May
1853, 3 numbers only; opened a private school in Guernsey 1855–6;
edited the _Leamington Mercury_ 1856–7; private tutor at Carlisle
1858; edited the _Plymouth Mail_ 1859, _Nottingham Guardian_
1860–1; contributed to _Temple Bar_ 1861–7; editor of and
contributed to _The Owl_ 1864–6; joint editor of _The Globe_ 1866;
author of _Windermere a poem and Sonnets, Kendal_ 1848; _Idyls and
Rhymes_ 1855; _Summer songs_ 1860; _Who is the heir? 3 vols._
1865; _A selection from the works of Sir Walter Scott_ in Moxon’s
Miniature Poets 1866; _Sweet Anne Page 3 vols._ 1868; _The Ivory
gate 2 vols._ 1869; _Letter to the Eight Hon. B. Disraeli_ 1869 in
verse, anon.; _The Vivian romance 3 vols._ 1870; _The Inn of
strange Meetings, and other Poems_ 1871; _The secret of long life_
1871 _anon._, _5 ed._ 1879; _Marquis and Merchant 3 vols._ 1871;
_The British birds, a communication from the Ghost of
Aristophanes_ 1872, _2 ed._ 1878; _The Princess Clarice 2 vols._
1871; _Two plunges for a pearl 3 vols._ 1872; _Squire Sylvester’s
Whim 3 vols._ 1873; _Miranda a Midsummer madness 3 vols._ 1873;
_Mr. Carington, a tale of love and conspiracy by Robert Turner
Cotton 3 vols._ 1873, _pseud._; _Transmigration 3 vols._ 1874;
_Blacksmith and Scholar, and from Midnight to Midnight 3 vols._
1876; _A fight with fortune, 3 vols._ 1876, _another ed._ 1880.
(_m._ (1) 9 May 1850 at Wargrave, Berks., Susan dau. of William
Hubbard, and widow of Rev. J. H. Crump, chaplain of the Mill Hill
school, Middlesex, who _d._ 14 Feb. 1849 aged 46, she _d._ 5 Aug.
1867 aged 59. _m._ (2) 4 May 1868 at St. Martins in the Fields,
London, Frances dau. of Wm. Dunn of London, engineer, she _d._ 16
March 1886 aged 45). _d._ Nightingale hall, Richmond 28 July 1876.
_bur._ Petersham churchyard 1 Aug. _Mortimer Collins his letters
and friendships, edited by Frances Collins 2 vols._ 1877; _Dublin
Univ. Mag. xc_, 340–56, 474–98, 561–93 (1877); _I.L.N. lxix_, 205,
206 (1876), _portrait_.
COLLINS, SAM, stage name of Samuel Thomas Collins Vagg (_son of
Samuel Vagg who d. Uxbridge 13 Feb. 1868_). Comic singer at Mogul
music hall, Drury lane, London where he made a great hit with the
song _Paddy’s Wedding_; proprietor of Marylebone music hall,
London and Welsh harp, Hendon; became bankrupt on his own petition
2 July 1861; sang at all the chief music halls in London and the
provinces; proprietor of Lansdowne music hall, Islington green,
London, afterwards known as Collins’s music hall 1862 to death.
_d._ 10 Paradise row, Islington 25 May 1865 aged 39. _Illust.
Sporting news iv_, 217 (1865), _portrait_; _Era 28 May 1865 p. 10,
4 June p. 11_.
COLLINS, SAMUEL (_son of a hand-loom weaver_). _b._ Hollinwood near
Manchester 1 Dec. 1802; a hand-loom weaver; a follower of Henry
Hunt and Wm. Cobbett; took part in the meeting at Peterloo 1819;
wrote homely verses, some of them in the Lancashire dialect which
were collected in a small vol. entitled _Miscellaneous poems and
songs of S. Collins with a biographical notice by B. Brierley_
1859. _d._ Hale Moss, Chadderton near Manchester 8 July 1878.
COLLINS, THOMAS (_2 son of Rev. Thomas Collins, V. of Farnham,
Yorkshire who d. 7 May 1870 aged 89_). _b._ 1825; ed. at
Charterhouse and Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1847; barrister I.T. 4 May
1849; M.P. for Knaresborough 1851–2, 1857–65 and 12 May 1881 to
death; M.P. for Boston 1868–74. _d._ Harrogate 26 Nov. 1884 in 59
year.
COLLINS, WILLIAM. _b._ Eastwood, Renfrewshire 12 Oct. 1789; elder of
Tron. ch. Glasgow 1814, and chief mover in appointment of Rev.
Thomas Chalmers to that ch. 1815; opened first local Sabbath sch.
Glasgow 1816; publisher and bookseller; lecturer on Temperance in
Scotland and England 1829–34; founder of British and Foreign
Temperance Soc. London 1830; founder of 20 new churches in Glasgow
1834 etc.; joined the Free ch. movement in 1843 and aided in
erecting many Free churches. _d._ Rothesay 2 Jany. 1853. _Wylie’s
Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 165–72; _Burns’s Temperance
Dictionary_ (1864) _pp._ 433–43.
COLLINS, WILLIAM ANTHONY (_2 son of Charles Collins of Brixworth
hall, Northamptonshire_). _b._ London 1801; ed. at Ch. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1829, bencher 1861;
Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861. _d._ Warrior sq. St. Leonard’s on Sea 30 March
1875. _bur._ Tonbridge, Kent.
COLLINS, REV. WILLIAM LUCAS (_only son of Rev. John Collins of
Axwich, Glamorgan_). Educ. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A.
1841; C. of Great Houghton, Northamptonshire 1835–62; R. of
Cheriton, Glamorganshire 1863–7; V. of Kilsby 1867–73; R. of
Lowick 1873 to death; V. of Slipton 1876 to death; hon. canon of
Peterborough 1871 to death; editor of _Ancient classics for
English readers_ 1870, wrote the vols. on _Homer’s Iliad and
Odyssey, Aristophanes, Lucian, Virgil, Plautus, Terence, Cicero,
Livy and Thucydides_; author of _The luck of Ladysmede_ 1860; _The
education question_ 1862; _Etoniana ancient and modern_ 1865; _The
public schools by W. L. C._ 1867; _Montaigne_ in Mrs. Oliphant’s
_Foreign classics for English readers_ 1879; _Butler_ in Knight’s
_Philosophical classics for English readers_ 1881; _La Fontaine
and other French fabulists_ in _Foreign Classics_ 1882;
contributed to _Blackwood’s Mag._ from 1843. _d._ Lowick rectory
24 March 1887 aged 70. _Blackwood’s Mag. cxli_, 734–6 (1887).
COLLINSON, JAMES (_son of Mr. Collinson of Mansfield, Notts.
bookseller_). _b._ Mansfield about 1825; ed. at Royal Academy
school; exhibited a picture called ‘The charity boy’s début’ at
the R.A. 1847; one of the original 7 brothers of the
Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood; contributed a devotional poem in blank
verse entitled _The Child Jesus_ to the Pre-Raphaelite periodical
_The Germ_ 1850; lived in seclusion at Stonyhurst 1851–4; fellow
of Society of British Artists. _d._ of pneumonia at 16 Paulet
road, Camberwell, London 24 Jany. 1881. _Fraser’s Mag. May 1882
pp._ 568–80.
COLLINSON, REV. JOHN (_son of Rev. Richard Collinson of Bristol_).
Educ. at Winchester and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806;
one of Select Preachers 1809, Bampton Lecturer 1813; R. of
Gateshead 1810–40; R. of Boldon, Durham, 1840 to death; hon. canon
of Durham 1844 to death; author of _Analysis of Hooker’s eight
books of ecclesiastical polity_ 1810; _Life of Thuanus with
account of his writings_ 1807; _Key to the writings of the Fathers
of the Christian church_ 1813; _Observations on the history of the
gospel from Solomon’s temple to first Christian century_ 1830;
_History of Reformation, from the French of A. Ruchat_ 1845. _d._
Boldon 17 Feb. 1857. _G.M. ii_, 492–93 (1857).
COLLINSON, SIR RICHARD (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Gateshead 7
Nov. 1811; entered navy 2 Dec. 1823; captain 23 Dec. 1842; captain
of the Enterprise 14 Dec. 1849 to 6 May 1855 during the expedition
to Behring strait in search of Sir John Franklin; granted good
service pension 4 Dec. 1857; an elder brother of the Trinity House
1862, deputy master 7 Sep. 1875 to death; V.A. 17 March 1869;
retired admiral 30 July 1875; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 29 May
1875; F.R.G.S. gold medallist 1848; edited for the Hakluyt Society
_The three voyages of Martin Frobisher in search of a passage to
Cathaia and India by the Northwest_ 1867. _d._ Haven Green, Ealing
12 Sep. 1883. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v_, 606–9, 734 (1883);
_I.L.N. xxvi_, 472 (1855), _portrait_, _lxxxiii_, 309 (1883),
_portrait_.
COLLIS, REV. JOHN DAY (_eld. son of Rev. Robert Fitzgerald Collis
1790–1863, preb. of Kilconnel, co. Galway_). _b._ 24 Feb. 1816;
ed. at Rugby and Worcester coll. Ox., Eaton scholar 1835, B.A.
1838, M.A. 1841, B.D. and D.D. 1860; Kennicott Hebrew scholar
1839; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1841; fellow of his
college; head master of Bromsgrove gr. school Dec. 1842–1867,
tercentenary of the school was celebrated 31 March 1853, the
chapel was built at cost of £1500, 1856; hon. canon of Worcester
1854 to death; Grinfield lecturer on Septuagint in Univ. of Ox.
1863–65; V. of Stratford-on-Avon 1867 to death; founded Trinity
college school at Stratford-on-Avon 27 Jany. 1872; author of _The
chief rules of Greek accentuation_ 1849 and other Greek school
books; _The chief tenses of Latin irregular verbs_ 1854 and other
Latin school books; _Historical notes on the church of St. John
the Baptist_, _Bromsgrove_ 1859; _Ponticulus Latinus, History of
Rome to destruction of Carthage_ 1860. _d._ Shottery hall,
Stratford-on-Avon 1 April 1879. _bur._ Bromsgrove cemetery 4
April.
COLLIS, MAURICE HENRY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1824; ed.
at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1847, M.B. 1849, M.D. 1867, L.R.C.S.I.
1847, F.R.C.S.I. 1850; surgeon to Meath Hosp. 1851 to death; pres.
of council of Irish Medical Assoc.; author of _On the diagnosis
and treatment of cancer and the tumours analogous to it_ 1864.
_d._ Dublin 28 March 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 404–5
(1869).
COLLS, REV. JOHN FLOWERDEW. _b._ 15 Aug. 1801; ed. at Merchant
Taylors’ and Trin. coll. Cam., B.D. 1834, D.D. 1842; R. of
Laindon, Herts. 1853 to death; author of _Vindication of infant
baptism_ 1829; _Utilitarianism unmasked_ 1844. _d._ 9 Hanover st.
Hanover square, London 19 Nov. 1878.
COLLYER, JOHN (_eld. child of the succeeding_). _b._ 15 July 1801;
ed. at Charterhouse and Clare coll. Cam., fellow, B.A. 1822, M.A.
1825; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1827; commissary of Norwich 1842;
judge of county courts, circuit 35, Cambridgeshire, March 1847 to
death; author of _A practical treatise on the law of Partnership_
1832, _2 ed._ 1840; _Reports of cases decided in the court of
Chancery by Sir J. L. Knight Bruce_ 1844–6, _2 vols._ 1845–7;
author with Edward Younge of _Reports of cases in the court of
Exchequer in Equity_ 1833–41, _4 vols._ 1836–46; _Reports of cases
decided in the court of Chancery by Sir J. L. Knight Bruce_
1841–4, _2 vols._ 1843–4. _d._ Hackford hall, Reepham, Norfolk 1
Sep. 1870.
COLLYER, VENERABLE JOHN BEDINGFELD (_2 son of Rev. Daniel Collyer of
Wroxham hall, Norfolk_). _b._ 26 Jany. 1777; ed. at Clare coll.
Camb., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1808; V. of Wroxham, Norfolk 1801 to death;
archdeacon of Norwich 23 Sep. 1844 to death; author of Charges and
Sermons 1838–56. _d._ Hackford hall, Norfolk 29 March 1857.
COLLYER, REV. WILLIAM BENGO (_son of Thomas Collyer of Deptford,
builder_). _b._ Deptford 14 April 1782; ed. at the Old college,
Homerton; Congregational minister at Peckham 1800 to death, his
chapel was rebuilt and reopened under name of Hanover chapel 1816;
ordained Dec. 1801, D.D. Edin. 1808; minister at Salter’s hall
chapel, Islington 1813 to death; author of _Fugitive pieces for
the use of schools_ 1803; _Hymns designed as a substitute for Dr.
Watts_ 1812; _Services suited to the solemnisation of matrimony
with original hymns_ 1837, and several series of popular lectures
on scripture subjects. _d._ May 1854. _European Mag. lxxii_,
407–10 (1817), _portrait_; _Waddington’s Congregational history
iv_, 136–42 (1878); _The Unique, vol. 2_ (1825), _portrait_; _Some
of Dr. Collyer’s errors stated and corrected_ 1821.
COLNAGHI, DOMINIC PAUL (_eld. son of Paul Colnaghi of London, print
dealer 1751–1833_). _b._ London 15 July 1790; head of the firm of
Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, print dealers 14 Pall Mall East 1833;
had a European reputation as an authority on prints; a connoiseur
in ancient armour, original possessor of a large portion of the
Meyrick collection; retired from business 1865; published
_Colnaghi’s Patriotic fund almanac_ 1854; _Colnaghi’s Crimean
almanac_ 1855. _d._ 62 Margaret st. Cavendish sq. London 19 Dec.
1879.
COLOMB, GEORGE THOMAS. Ensign 96 foot 8 Dec. 1808; captain 5 dragoon
guards 17 March 1825 to 27 April 1827 when placed on h.p.; col. 4
West India regiment 24 April 1866 to 3 March 1869; L.G. 31 March
1866; col. 97 foot 3 March 1869 to death. _d._ Dalkey, co. Dublin
20 March 1874.
COLONSAY, DUNCAN M’NEILL, 1 Baron (_2 son of John Mc. Neill of
Colonsay, Argyllshire, who d. 1846_). _b._ Colonsay 20 Aug. 1793;
ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; called to Scottish bar
1816; advocate depute 1820–4; sheriff of Perthshire, Dec. 1824 to
Dec. 1834; solicitor general for Scotland Nov. 1834 to April 1835
and Sep. 1841 to 26 Oct. 1842; Her Majesty’s advocate for Scotland
26 Oct. 1842 to July 1846; dean of faculty of advocates 1843–51; a
lord of session 15 May 1851; a lord of justiciary 30 May 1851;
lord justice general and pres. of court of session 15 May 1852 to
Feb. 1867; P.C. 8 Aug. 1853; M.P. for Argyllshire 1843–51; created
baron Colonsay of Colonsay and Oransay in the co. of Argyle 26
Feb. 1867. _d._ Pau, France 31 Jany. 1874.
COLQUHOUN, FRANCES SARA (_dau. of Edward Fuller Maitland of Park
place, Stansted hall, Essex_). Completed Henry Kirke White’s
fragment beginning ‘Much in sorrow, oft in woe’ which completion
has been universally accepted for use in the Church of England;
author of _Rhymes and Chimes_ 1876. (_m._ 29 Jany. 1834 John
Colquhoun 1805–85). _d._ 27 May 1877.
COLQUHOUN, SIR JAMES, 4 Baronet. _b._ Edinburgh 7 Feb. 1804; ed. at
Geneva; succeeded 3 Feb. 1836; lord lieutenant of Dumbartonshire
1837; M.P. for Dumbartonshire 1837–1841. Drowned in Loch Lomond 18
Dec. 1873.
COLQUHOUN, JAMES NISBET. _b._ parish of St. Pierre, Guernsey 23 June
1791; Second lieut. R.A. 1 June 1808, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846 to
death; inspector of carriage department at Woolwich 1845; raised,
organized, equipped and commanded corps of artillery attached to
British auxiliary legion under De Lacy Evans for service of Queen
of Spain in war against Don Carlos 1835–6; A.I.C.E. 1843, member
of council 1846; F.R.S. _d._ Woolwich barracks 17 Sep. 1853. _Min.
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii_, 149–56 (1854).
COLQUHOUN, JOHN (_brother of Sir James Colquhoun, 4 baronet
1804–73_). _b._ Charlotte sq. Edin. 6 March 1805; ensign 33 foot
1828; lieut. 4 dragoon guards 1829 to 1834 when he sold out;
author of _The moor and the loch_ 1840, _6 ed._ 1884; _Rocks and
Rivers_ 1849; _Salmon casts and stray shots_ 1858; _Sporting Days_
1866, and of 2 lectures, _The feræ naturæ of the British islands_
1873, _Instinct and Reason_ 1874. _d._ Royal Terrace, Edinburgh 27
May 1885. _The moor and the loch_, _6 ed._ 1884; _The Chiefs of
Colquhoun by W. Fraser_, _2 vols._ _privately printed Edin._ 1869.
COLQUHOUN, JOHN CAMPBELL (_5 son of Sir James Colquhoun, 2
Baronet_). _b._ Edinburgh 31 Jany. 1785; studied at Göttingen;
called to bar in Scotland 7 June 1806; sheriff depute of
Dumbartonshire 1815–84; author of _Isis Revelata, an inquiry into
the origin, progress and present state of animal magnetism_ 1836
and of a translation of Wienholt’s _Seven lectures on
Somnambulism_ 1845. _d._ Edinburgh 21 Aug. 1854.
COLQUHOUN, JOHN CAMPBELL (_eld. son of Archibald Campbell, lord
registrar of Scotland, who took name of Colquhoun and d. 1820_).
_b._ Edinburgh 23 Jany. 1803; ed. at Edin. high sch. and Oriel
coll. Ox., B.A. 1823; M.P. for Dumbartonshire 1832–4, for
Kilmarnock 1837–41, for Newcastle under Lyme 1842–7; author of
_Short sketches of some notable lives_ 1855; _Life in Italy and
France in the olden times_ 1858; _William Wilberforce his friends
and his times_ 1866, _2 ed._ 1867; _Memorials of H. M. Colquhoun_
1870, and numerous other works. _d._ Chesham st. London 17 April
1870.
COLQUHOUN, SIR ROBERT GILMOUR (_eld. son of Robert Colquhoun of
Camstroden, Dumbarton_). _b._ Glasgow 9 Jany. 1803; ed. at Pemb.
coll. Ox.; British consul at Bucharest 17 Nov. 1834, consul
general there 15 Dec. 1837, agent and consul general 18 Nov. 1851;
consul general and agent in Egypt 13 Dec. 1858 to 14 Aug. 1865;
C.B. 5 Dec. 1859, K.C.B. 30 May 1865. _d._ Fincastle, Perthshire
10 Nov. 1870.
COLT, REV. SIR EDWARD HENRY VAUGHAN, 6 Baronet. _b._ Lescroft,
Staffs. April 1808; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1836; V. of
Hill, Gloucs. 1839 to death; succeeded 9 June 1849. _d._ Hill
vicarage 15 Oct. 1882.
COLTHURST, SIR GEORGE CONWAY, 5 Baronet. _b._ 1824; ed. at Harrow;
succeeded 22 June 1829; M.P. for Kinsale 8 June 1863 to Jany.
1874. _d._ Buxton 24 Sep. 1878.
COLVILE, CHARLES ROBERT (_eld. son of Sir Charles Henry Colvile of
Duffield hall, Derbyshire, who d. 28 Sep. 1833_). _b._ London 30
March 1815; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for South Derbyshire
1841–59 and 1865–8; sheriff of Derbyshire 1874. _d._ Lullington
hall, Burton-on-Trent 10 March 1886.
COLVILE, REV. FREDERICK LEIGH (_eld. son of Frederick Charles
Colvile of Marylebone, London_). Educ. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A.
1840, M.A. 1843; V. of Leek Wootton near Warwick 1842–80; chaplain
of Stoneleigh abbey 1853–80; rural dean of Coventry 1856–80;
author of _Catechism on the liturgy of the Church of England_, _9
ed._ 1850; _Stoneleigh Abbey from its foundation by F. L. C.,
privately printed_ 1850; _Worthies of Warwickshire_ 1870. _d._
Kempsey, Bournemouth 28 March 1886.
COLVILE, HENRY ROBERT (_4 son of Robert Colvile of Newton hall,
Cambs. 1763–99_). _b._ 1795; ed. at Eton; ensign 3 foot guards 29
Dec. 1813, lieut.-col. 25 March 1852 to Feb. 1854; col. 12 foot 29
Oct. 1864 to death; general 27 March 1868. _d._ Kempsey hall near
Worcester 1 Nov. 1875.
COLVILE, SIR JAMES WILLIAM (_eld. son of Andrew Wedderburn,
afterwards Colvile, of Crombie, Fifeshire, who d. 1856_). _b._
London 12 Jany. 1810; ed. at Eton and Trin coll. Cam., B.A. 1831,
M.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1835, bencher; advocate general
at Calcutta 1845–8; puisne judge of supreme court of Bengal
1848–55, chief justice 1855–9; knighted by patent 9 Dec. 1848;
P.C. 6 July 1859; assessor of judicial committee of privy council
on Indian appeals 1859; member of judicial committee 20 Nov. 1865
to Nov. 1871, one of the 4 paid judges Nov. 1871 to death; pres.
of Asiatic Society of Calcutta; F.R.S. 29 April 1875. _d._ 8
Rutland gate, London 6 Dec. 1880. _bur._ Craigflower near
Dunfermline 11 Dec. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv_, _page x_ (1883);
_Graphic iv_, 531 (1871), _portrait_.
COLVIN, JOHN. Lieut. col. Bengal Engineers 20 April 1835; C.B. 2
July 1838; retired col. Bengal army 4 Sep. 1839. _d._ Lintwardine,
Herefordshire 27 April 1871.
COLVIN, JOHN RUSSELL (_2 son of James Colvin of London and Calcutta,
merchant_). _b._ Calcutta May 1807; ed. at St. Andrew’s, Fifeshire
and Haileybury; went to Bengal 1826; assistant to Registrar of the
Sudder Court 1826, to Resident at Hyderabad 14 Dec. 1827;
assistant sec. in Revenue and Judicial department at Calcutta 4
Jany. 1831; Sec. to Board of Revenue in Lower Provinces 13 March
1835; private sec. to Lord Auckland the Governor General 1836–42;
resident in Nepaul 1845; commissioner of Tenasserim provinces
1846; judge of Sudder Court at Calcutta 1849; lieut. governor of
north western provinces 1853. _d._ Agra 9 Sep. 1857. _G.M. iv_,
212–19 (1858).
COMBE, BOYCE (_2 son of Harvey Christian Combe of Cobham park,
Surrey 1752–1818_). _b._ London 1789; ed. at Harrow; barrister
L.I. 19 Nov. 1813, bencher; magistrate at Thames police court
1833, at Lambeth St. near Whitechapel 1838, at Hatton garden 1839,
at Clerkenwell 1842, at Southwark 1851 to death. _d._ 43 Upper
Seymour st. Portman sq. London 7 Jany. 1864. _I.L.N. x_, 332
(1847), _portrait_.
COMBE, GEORGE (_son of George Combe of Edinburgh, brewer, who d. 29
Sep. 1815 in 60 year._) _b._ Livingston’s yards, Edin. 21 Oct.
1788; studied at Univ. of Edin. 1802–4; admitted a writer to the
signet 31 Jany. 1812, practised in Edin 1812–36; a founder of
Phrenological Society, Feb. 1820; delivered 158 lectures on
phrenology and education in United States 1838–40; author of
_Elements of phrenology_ 1824, _8 ed._ 1855; _Outlines of
phrenology_ 1824, _9 ed._ 1854; _The constitution of man
considered in relation to external objects_ 1828, _9 ed._ 1860;
_Notes on the United States 3 vols._ 1841, and numerous other
works. _d._ Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey 14 Aug. 1858. _bur._ in the
Dean cemetery, Edin. _The life of George Combe by Charles Gibbon 2
vols._ 1878, _portrait_; _Charles Mackay’s Forty years
recollections_ (1877) _ii_, 241–70; _H. Martineau’s Biographical
sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 265–77; _R. Capen’s Reminiscences of
Spurzheim and Combe_ 1881; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882)
161–6, _portrait_.
COMBE, RICHARD THOMAS (_2 son of John Maddison of Alvingham, Lincs,
who d. 1849_). _b._ 1813; ed. at Winchester and Univ. coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1835; barrister M.T. 1840; assumed name of Combe in lieu of
Maddison by royal license 18 Dec. 1849; chairman of Ilminster
bench of magistrates; recorder of Langport; sheriff of Somerset
1867. Shot himself 8 May 1880.
COMBE, THOMAS (_son of Thomas Combe of Leicester, bookseller_). _b._
June 1796; assistant to Joseph Parker of Oxford bookseller to
1823, to M. A. Nattali of London 1823–7; partner with his father
1827; senior partner in University press, Oxford; manager of
classical side of Clarendon press, Ox.; architypographer to Univ.
of Ox.; managing partner of the Bible press, Ox.; built and
endowed church of St. Barnabas’s, Jericho, Oxford 1869; built
chapel attached to Radcliffe infirmary, Ox.; owner of Holman
Hunt’s picture ‘The light of the world’ which his widow gave to
Keble college, Ox. _d._ The Clarendon press, Oxford 29 Oct. 1872.
COMBERMERE, STAPLETON COTTON, 1 Viscount (_2 son of Sir Robert
Salusbury Cotton, 5 baronet, who d. 24 Aug. 1809_). _b._ Llewenny
hall, co. Denbigh 14 Nov. 1773; ed. at Westminster; 2 lieut. 23
foot 26 Feb. 1790; lieut.-col. 25 light dragoons 9 March 1794 to
14 Feb. 1800; lieut.-col. 16 light dragoons 14 Feb. 1800 to 27
Jany. 1813; succeeded 24 Aug. 1809; M.P. for Newark 1806–1814;
commanded a brigade of cavalry in Portugal 1808; commanded whole
allied cavalry under Duke of Wellington 1810–14; col. 20 light
dragoons 27 Jany. 1813–1819 when regiment was disbanded; created
Baron Combermere of Combermere Abbey 17 May 1814 for his brilliant
services during Peninsula war, with an annuity of £2000 for two
generations; commanded allied cavalry in France 1815–16, the
forces in West Indies 21 Dec. 1816 to 9 Feb. 1821; governor of
Barbados 14 Feb. 1817 to 2 March 1821; commander in chief in
Ireland 1822–5; col. 3 light dragoons 25 Jan. 1821 to 16 Sep.
1829; governor of Sheerness 25 Jany. 1821 to 11 Oct. 1852;
commander in chief in India 9 Feb. 1825 to 1 Jany. 1830, captured
city of Bhurtpoor, Hindostan 18 Jany. 1826; created Viscount
Combermere 2 Dec. 1826; col. 1 life guards 16 Sep. 1829 to death;
P.C. 15 Dec. 1834; constable of Tower of London 11 Oct. 1852 to
death, sworn in 21 Feb. 1853; field marshal 2 Oct. 1855; G.C.B. 21
Aug. 1813, G.C.H. 24 July 1817, K.S.I. 19 Aug. 1861; portrait in
National portrait gallery. _d._ Clifton 21 Feb. 1865. _bur._
Wrenbury ch. where is a monument; statue by Marochetti at Chester
castle. _Memoirs 2 vols._ 1866, 2 _portraits_; _Army and navy mag.
iii_, 481–5 (1882), _portrait_.
COMER, JOHN. Popular singer at concerts in Bath 1821; sang in
principal cities in Italy 1830–5; Mus. Doc. Bologna 1832;
principal bass singer in Italian opera at Her Majesty’s theatre,
London 1835; lived at Taunton from 1836 to death; leader of the
Taunton Madrigal Soc. many years. _d._ Ilchester 17 March 1886
aged 86.
COMER, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Bath 19 Dec. 1790;
first appeared on stage at Bath theatre 1803 as Don Cæsar in _The
castle of Andalusia_; first appeared in London 1816 as the Officer
in _The Slave_; went to United States 1827; director of music at
Tremont theatre, Boston 1828 and at other houses there. _d._
Bromfield house, Boston 27 July 1862. _Ireland’s New York Stage
i_, 224, 556 (1866).
COMPTON, HENRY, stage name of Charles Mackenzie (_6 child of John
Mackenzie of Huntingdon_). _b._ Huntingdon 22 March 1805; clerk in
office of Mr. Symonds of Aldermanbury, London, cloth merchant;
acted on the Bedford, Lincoln and York circuits 1826–37; first
appeared in London at Lyceum theatre 24 July 1837 as Robin in _The
Waterman_; played at Drury Lane 1837–8, 1839 and 1843–4, at Lyceum
1838–9, at Princess’s 1844–7, at Olympic 1847–50 and 1850–3, at
Strand 1849–50, at Haymarket 1853–70, at Globe 1871, at Lyceum
1874; went on a tour with the Vezin-Chippendale company; last
appeared at Prince of Wales’s theatre, Liverpool 14 July 1877; the
best Shakespearean clown of his time. _d._ 12 Stanford road,
Victoria road, Kensington 15 Sep. 1877. _Memoir of H. Compton
edited by C. and E. Compton_ 1879, _portrait_; _Actors by daylight
i_, 289 (1838), _portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_,
_part 11_, _portrait as Launce_; _The Players ii_, 25 (1860),
_portrait_; _Theatrical times ii_, 1 (1847), _portrait_.
COMPTON, HENRY COMBE. _b._ 6 Jany. 1789; ed. at Eton and Merton
coll. Ox; M.P. for South Hants. 1835–57. _d._ Minstead manor
house, Lyndhurst, Hants. 27 Nov. 1866.
COMYN, SIR ROBERT BUCKLEY (_3 son of Rev. Thomas Comyn, V. of
Tottenham, Middlesex who d. 16 Feb. 1798_). _b._ Tottenham 26 June
1792; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; commoner of St. John’s
coll. Ox. 1809; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1815, D.C.L. 1842; barrister L.I.
24 Nov. 1814; puisne judge of supreme court of Madras 19 Aug.
1825, chief justice 31 Dec. 1835 to Jany. 1842 when he resigned;
knighted at Carlton house 9 Feb. 1825; bencher of M.T. 1844;
author of _Treatise on law of Usury_ 1817; _Treatise on the law of
landlord and tenant_ 1830; _History of Western Europe from the
birth of Charlemagne to the accession of Charles v_, 1841. _d._ 9
New st. Spring gardens, London 23 May 1853.
CONDER, JOSIAH (_4 son of Thomas Conder of London, engraver, who d.
June 1831 aged 84_). _b._ Falcon st. Aldersgate, London 17 Sep.
1789; lost his right eye by small pox 1795; assisted his father in
a bookselling business at 30 Bucklersbury 1802–11, carried on the
business alone 1811–19; edited _Eclectic Review_ 1814–37; edited
_Patriot_ newspaper, Jany. 1833 to death; edited _Modern Traveller
30 vols._ 1825–9; author of _Gloria in excelsis Deo, a poem_ 1812;
_The law of the Sabbath_ 1830, _2 ed._ 1852; _Italy 3 vols._ 1831;
_A dictionary of geography_ 1834; _An analytical view of all
religions_ 1838. _d._ 28 Belsize road, St. John’s Wood, London 27
Dec. 1855. _Josiah Conder, a memoir by E. R. Conder_ 1857.
CONDY, NICHOLAS. _b._ Torpoint, Cornwall 1793; ensign 43 foot 9 May
1811, lieut. 24 Feb. 1813 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; a
painter at Plymouth; chiefly produced small water-colours on
tinted paper about 8 inches by 5, which he sold at prices ranging
from fifteen shillings to one guinea each; exhibited 2 landscapes
at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. gallery 1830–45; published
_Cotehele on the banks of the Tamar with a descriptive account by
the Rev. F. V. J. Arundell_, _17 plates_. _d._ 10 Mount Pleasant
terrace, Plymouth 8 Jany. 1857 aged 64.
CONDY, NICHOLAS MATTHEWS (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Union st.
Plymouth 1818; a painter at Plymouth; exhibited three sea pieces
at R.A. 1842–5, which gave hopes of his becoming a distinguished
artist. _d._ The Grove, Plymouth 20 May 1851. _Reminiscences of a
yachting cruise by Mrs. N. M. Condy with drawings by T. G. Dutton
from sketches by N. M. Condy_ 1852, _portrait_.
CONGLETON, JOHN VESEY PARNELL, 2 Baron (_eld. son of 1 Baron
Congleton 1776–1842_). _b._ Baker st. London 16 June 1805; ed. at
Edin.; received a commission in the army which he never took up;
became acquainted with A. N. Groves in Dublin 1827, conveyed him
to Russia in the yacht The Osprey 1829; took a room in Aungier st.
Dublin for The Brethren 1829; travelled in the East 1830–4 and in
India 1834–7; resided at Teignmouth where he lived with great
simplicity, preached to The Brethren congregations and spent
nearly all his capital in good works 1837–42; succeeded 8 June
1842; resided at Islington 1842–6, at Brighton 1846–9, in London
1849 to death; minister in the Orchard st. chapel, London 1849–60,
in the Welbeck st. chapel 1860 to death; gave one half his income
in charity; author of _The resurrection life, a tract_ 1845, _13
editions_; _The true idea of Baptism_ 1850; _The Psalms, a new
version_ 1860, _another ed._ 1875, and of many tracts. _d._ 53
Great Cumberland place, London 23 Oct. 1883. _bur._ Kensal Green
cemetery where upwards of 1000 Plymouth Brethren attended. _Memoir
of Lord Congleton by H. Groves_ 1884, _portrait_.
CONGREVE, GEORGE. Ensign 29 foot 8 April 1825, lieut.-col. 11 Feb.
1846 to 29 Sep. 1859 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 24 May 1847;
quartermaster general East Indies 28 Nov. 1854 to 1860; M.G. 20
July 1860. _d._ Simla 30 April 1861.
CONGREVE, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, 3 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir Wm.
Congreve 2 baronet 1772–1828_). _b._ 1827; succeeded 16 May 1828;
last heard of in 1860 when he was in Sydney and proposed going to
Omaha in Fiji islands; advertised for in _The Times_ 17 Feb. 1882
p. 1 col. 2. Sir James Hannen judge of the Court of Probate
directed letters of administration to issue 30 Nov. 1882,
presuming that his death took place 14 Feb. 1860 when he wrote his
last letter home.
CONINGHAM, HENRY. Entered Madras army 1819; col. 7 Madras light
cavalry 24 Oct. 1858 to death; L.G. 6 Nov. 1866. _d._ Nice 21
April 1868 aged 70.
CONINGHAM, WILLIAM (_son of Rev. Robert Coningham of Londonderry_).
_b._ Rose hill near Penzance 1815; cornet 1 dragoons 1834–6;
contested Brighton, July 1847 and Westminster, July 1852; M.P. for
Brighton 28 March 1857 to Jany. 1864; published _Twelve letters by
John Sterling_ [to William Coningham] 1851, _3 ed._ [1872]; _Lord
Palmerston and Prince Albert.... Letters by W. Coningham, together
with “The suppressed pamphlet,” entitled “Palmerston, what has he
done?” by “One of the people”_ 1854, and other books. _d._ 6 Lewes
crescent, Kemp Town, Brighton 20 Dec. 1884.
CONINGTON, FRANCIS THIRKILL (_3 son of Rev. Richard Conington,
Minister of chapel of ease, Boston, Lincs. who d. 25 Sep. 1861
aged 65_). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 12 June 1846 aged 18;
fellow of his coll. 1849 to death; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; examiner
in science in Univ. of Ox. 1860–1; author of _Handbook of chemical
analysis_ 1858; contributed to periodicals 1860 to death. _d._
Boston 20 Nov. 1863 aged 35.
CONINGTON, JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Boston 10 Aug.
1825; ed. at Beverley gr. sch., Rugby and Magd. coll. Ox., demy,
June 1843; Hertford and Ireland scholar 1844; scholar of Univ.
coll. March 1846, fellow May 1847 to 1855; sec. of Union Society
1845, pres. 1846, librarian 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; Eldon law
scholar for 6 months 1849; student at L.I. June 1849 but not
called to bar; contributed to _Morning Chronicle_ 1849–50; Corpus
professor of Latin in Univ. of Ox. June 1854 to death; published
_The Agamemnon of Æschylus translated into English verse_ 1848;
_On the academical study of Latin_ 1855; _The works of Virgil with
a commentary 3 vols._ 1858–70; _The odes and carmen seculare of
Horace translated into English verse_ 1863, _4 ed._ 1870; _The
Æneid of Virgil translated into English verse_ 1866, _3 ed._ 1870.
_d._ Boston 23 Oct. 1869. _bur._ Fishtoft churchyard 26 Oct.
_Miscellaneous writings of John Conington edited by J. A. Symonds
with a memoir by H. J. S. Smith 2 vols._ 1872; _Memoirs of Mark
Pattison_ (1885) 245–52.
CONNELL, ARTHUR (_eld. son of Sir John Connell, judge of the
admiralty court of Scotland_). _b._ Edinburgh 30 Nov. 1794; ed. at
High sch. and Univ. of Edin.; Snell exhibitioner at Univ. of
Glasgow; matric. from Balliol coll. Ox. 20 March 1812; passed
advocate at Scotch bar 1817 but never practised; professor of
chemistry in Univ. of St. Andrews 1840–56; F.R.S. Edin. 1829,
F.R.S. 1855; established several new mineral species; author of _A
treatise on the election laws in Scotland_ 1827, many papers in
_Trans. of Royal Soc. of Edin._ and in _Edin. Philos. Journal._
_d._ St. Andrew’s, Fife 31 Oct. 1863.
CONNELLAN, OWEN. _b._ co. Sligo 1800; employed as a scribe in Royal
Irish academy more than 20 years; Irish historiographer to George
iv and William iv 1821–37; professor of Irish in Queen’s college,
Cork 1849 to death; author of _The gospel according to St. John,
in Irish with an English translation_ 1830; _A Dissertation on
Irish grammar_ 1834; _The annals of Ireland translated from the
original Irish of the Four Masters_ 1846; _The proceedings of the
Great Bardic Institution_ 1854 being vol. 5 of _Transactions of
Ossianic Society_. _d._ Dublin 1869.
CONNELLAN, THADDEUS. Author of _The two first books of the
Pentateuch, the types cut from Irish MSS._ 1820; _The
Irish-English guide to the Irish language_ 1824; _The King’s
Letter translated into Irish_ 1825; _The Irish-English spelling
book_ 1825; _The Irish-English primer_ 1825; _Easy lessons on
money matters, commerce, trade, wages etc._ 1835; _Psalma Daibi_
1836; _The Gospel of St. Matthew in Irish_ 1840; _The Acts of the
Apostles in Irish_ 1840. _d._ Sligo 25 July 1854.
CONNOLLY, WILLIAM HALLETT. Second lieut. R.M. 8 May 1795,
lieut.-col. 16 April 1832, col. commandant of Woolwich division 10
July 1837 to 1842 when he retired on full pay; general 20 June
1855. _d._ King’s terrace, Southsea 20 June 1861 aged 79.
CONNOP, RICHARD. Ensign 93 foot 30 Dec. 1813, captain 25 Sep. 1817
to 19 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 31 March 1866. _d._
Dawlish 5 Feb. 1867 aged 75.
CONNOR, VERY REV. GEORGE HENRY (_eld. son of George Connor, master
in chancery in Ireland_). _b._ 21 Dec. 1822; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1851; M.A. at Ox. 1859; V. of Newport,
Isle of Wight 1852–82; hon. chaplain to the Queen 11 Oct. 1872,
chaplain in ord. 8 Feb. 1875, resident chaplain in ord. 2 Nov.
1882 to death; dean of Windsor 30 Oct. 1882, installed 10 Nov.
1882. _d._ The deanery, Windsor castle 1 May 1883. _Church
portrait journal i_, 93 (1880), _portrait_; _Graphic xxvi_, 412
(1882), _portrait_.
CONNOR, SKEFFINGTON. _b._ Dublin 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1828, LL.B. and LLD. 1845; called to Irish bar 1838; called
to Canadian bar at Toronto 1842; bencher of Canadian law society
1850, Q.C. 1850; represented South Oxford in legislative assembly
1856–63; solicitor general for Upper Canada 1858; puisne judge of
Court of Queen’s Bench, Upper Canada 1 Feb. 1863. _d._ Toronto 29
April 1863.
CONOLLY, HENRY VALENTINE (_son of Valentine Conolly of 37 Portland
place, London, who d. 2 Dec. 1819_). _b._ 5 Dec. 1806; ed. at
Rugby; a writer in Madras civil service 19 May 1824; collector and
magistrate in Malabar 1841 to death; murdered by some Mopla
fanatics in his house at Calicut 11 Sep. 1855; there is a monument
to him in the cathedral Madras, and a scholarship was founded in
his memory at the Madras University.
CONOLLY, JAMES. _b._ 19 Feb. 1818; cornet 5 dragoon guards 17 June
1836; deputy adjutant general Canada 6 Dec. 1861 to 20 May 1865;
assistant quartermaster general at Aldershot 7 Nov. 1867 to 31
Aug. 1869; military attaché at Vienna 1869–71, at Paris 5 April
1871 to 30 Dec. 1880; L.G. 26 Dec. 1880; placed on retired list
with hon. rank of general 19 Feb. 1885; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._
Wiesbaden 22 June 1885.
CONOLLY, JOHN (_son of Mr. Conolly of Market Rasen, Lincs. who d.
1799_). _b._ Market Rasen 27 May 1794; ensign in Cambridgeshire
militia 1812–16; studied at Univ. of Edin. 1817–21, M.D. 1821;
physician at Chichester 1822–23, at Stratford-on-Avon 1823–7;
professor of practice of medicine in Univ. coll. London 1828–30;
practised at Warwick 1830–8; resident phys. to Middlesex county
asylum at Hanwell 1 June 1839 to 1844, where he entirely abolished
restraint; kept a private asylum at Lawn house near Hanwell 1852
to death; an original member of British medical Assoc. 1832, of
Ethnological Soc. 1843; author of _The construction and government
of lunatic asylums_ 1847; _The treatment of the insane without
mechanical restraints_ 1856; _A study of Hamlet_ 1863. _d._ Lawn
House near Hanwell 5 March 1866. _Sir James Clark’s Memoir of J.
Conolly_ 1869; _Medical Circular ii_, 469–70 (1853), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xlviii_, 317 (1866), _portrait_.
CONOLLY, THOMAS. _b._ Kilcooly abbey, Tipperary 23 Feb. 1823; ed. at
Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Donegal 1848; M.P. for Donegal
20 Feb. 1849 to death. _d._ Castletown house, Celbridge, Kildare
10 Aug. 1876.
CONQUEST, BENJAMIN OLIVER, stage name of Benjamin Oliver. _b._ near
St. Michael’s church, Cornhill, London 1805; first appeared on the
stage as a witch in _Macbeth_ at Lyceum theatre; acted at Pavilion
theatre 1827; sang song of _Billy Barlow_ 4 times every night for
28 weeks; projected and opened with Wyman and Freer the Garrick
theatre, Whitechapel 1830, proprietor of it with Gomersal to 4
Nov. 1846 when it was burned down; landlord of “The Hampshire Hog”
tavern 410 Strand, London 1847–51; lessee of Grecian theatre, City
road, London at rent of £1300, 4 March 1851 to death. _d._ New
north road, London 5 July 1872. _Actors by daylight i_, 337 (1839)
_portrait_.
CONQUEST, JOHN TRICKER. _b._ Chatham, Kent 1789; assistant surgeon
military depot, Chatham 1808; studied at Univ. of Edin., M.D.
1813; L.C.P. London, Dec. 1819; gave 4 courses of lectures on
midwifery yearly at his house 4 Aldermanbury Postern, London about
1820–4; lecturer on midwifery at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1825;
noted for his operation of tapping for hydrocephalus; author of
_Outlines of midwifery_ 1820, _6 ed._ 1854; _The Holy Bible with
twenty thousand emendations_ 1841; _Letters to a mother on the
management of herself and her children in health and disease_
1848, _4 ed._ 1852. _d._ The Oaks, Plumstead common 24 Oct. 1866
aged 77. _Medical Circular iii_, 51–53 (1853), _portrait_; _Physic
and physicians ii_, 265–67 (1839).
CONRAN, GEORGE. Second lieut. Madras artillery 27 July 1811, col.
commandant 15 May 1851 to death; general 14 Dec. 1868. _d._ Bath
28 Aug. 1869 aged 76.
CONROY, SIR EDWARD, 2 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir John Conroy 1
baronet 1786–1854_). _b._ Dublin 6 Dec. 1809; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.,
B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; attaché to special mission to Brussels
1831–8; deputy registrar of births, deaths and marriages in London
1836–42. _d._ Arborfield near Reading 3 Nov. 1869.
CONROY, RIGHT REV. GEORGE (_son of Nicholas Conroy_). Professor of
dogmatic theology, All Hallow’s college, Dublin 1857–66; sec. to
Cardinal Cullen, and professor of dogmatic theology in Holy Cross
college, Clonliffe 1866–7; bishop of Ardagh 1871 to death;
consecrated in St. Mel’s cathedral, Longford 11 April 1871; author
of _Occasional sermons, addresses and essays_ 1884. _d._ St.
John’s, Newfoundland 4 Aug. 1878.
CONROY, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of John Ponsonby Conroy of
Bettyfield, co. Roscommon 1759–97_). _b._ Caerhyn, Carnarvonshire
21 Oct. 1786; second lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803, second captain 13
March 1811 to 17 June 1822 when placed on permanent h.p.; K.C.H.
17 Aug. 1827; comptroller of the household to Duchess of Kent to
1837 when he retired on pension of £3000; created baronet 7 July
1837; comr. of Colonial audit board; sheriff of Montgomeryshire
1843; col. of Montgomeryshire militia 30 Aug. 1852. _d._
Arborfield near Reading 2 March 1854.
CONSTABLE, HENRY (_son of a small tradesman_). _b._ Birmingham 10
April 1851; taught riding by T. Stevens on the Ilsley Downs;
apprenticed to Wm. Reeves at Epsom 1867–71; first rode at Wye
meeting on Skittles 1870; headed list of winning jockeys 1873,
taking 110 races out of 395 mounts; won the Derby on Mr. W. S.
Crawfurd’s Sefton 1878; first jockey and trainer to Lord Rosebery.
_d._ Epsom 17 Feb. 1881. _Illust. sporting and dramatic news i_,
61 (1874), _portrait_, _iii_, 261 (1875), _portrait, xiv_, 563,
572 (1881), _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. xxv_ (1874), _portrait_.
CONSTABLE, THOMAS (_youngest son of Archibald Constable of
Edinburgh, publisher 1774–1827_). _b._ Craigcrook near Edin. 29
June 1812; learned printing with C. Richards of St. Martin’s lane,
London; printer and publisher in Edin. to 1860; Her Majesty’s
printer and publisher 7 Sep. 1839; issued _Constable’s Miscellany
of foreign literature 10 vols._ 1854–5; issued _Constable’s
Educational series 36 vols._ 1857–72; published _The works of
Dugald Stewart edited by Sir W. Hamilton 10 vols._ 1854; author of
_Archibald Constable and his literary correspondents 3 vols._
1873; _Memoir of Lewis D. B. Gordon_ 1877, _privately printed_;
_Memoir of Rev. C. A. C. de Boinville_ 1880. _d._ Marston Biggot
rectory, Frome, Somerset 26 May 1881.
CONSTABLE, SIR THOMAS ASTON CLIFFORD, 2 Baronet. _b._ Tixall hall,
Staffs. 3 May 1806; succeeded 25 Feb. 1823. _d._ Burton Constable,
Yorkshire 22 Dec. 1870.
CONWAY, FREDERICK B. (_son of Wm. A. Conway, actor 1780–1828_). _b._
London 10 Feb. 1819; made his first appearance at Princess’s
theatre 4 Oct. 1847; went to the United States 1850 where he acted
with Edwin Forrest playing Iago to his Othello, De Mauprat to his
Richelieu and other companion parts; opened Pike’s opera house
Cincinnati 1859; played at Sadler’s Wells theatre, London 1861;
played leading parts at New Brooklyn theatre, New York 1864–73.
_d._ Manchester, Massachusetts 6 Sep. 1874.
CONWAY, THOMAS SYDENHAM. _b._ 7 June 1810; ensign 22 foot 14 Feb.
1828; deputy adjutant general Bombay 1849–51; captain Grenadier
guards 14 July 1854 to 8 March 1864 when placed on h.p.; placed on
retired list with hon. rank of general 7 June 1880; C.B. 4 July
1843. _d._ 19 Bury st. St. James’s, London 7 June 1885.
CONY, BARKHAM. _b._ Ely 5 Nov. 1802; made his first appearance in
London 1828 at Coburg theatre in _Love me, love my dog_; first
appeared in America 1835 with a number of well-trained dogs who
assisted in the performance which consisted of _Forest of Bondy_
and _Cherokee Chief_; played successful engagements all over the
United States and Great Britain; styled the “Dog Star.” _d._
Chicago 1 Jany. 1858.
CONYBEARE, VERY REV. WILLIAM DANIEL (_son of Rev. Wm. Conybeare, R.
of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London, who d. 5 April 1815 aged
76_). _b._ London 7 June 1787; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.,
B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; founded with Sir Henry de la Beche, Bristol
Philosophical and Literary Institution 1817; corresponding member
of French Institute; V. of Sully, Glamorganshire 1821–36; V. of
Axminster 1836–44; Bampton lecturer 1839; dean of Llandaff 29 Sep.
1844 to death; F.R.S. 9 Dec. 1819, F.G.S. 1821; gave the name of
Plesiosaurus to a new genus of reptilia forming an intermediate
link between the Ichthyosaurus and Crocodile; author of
_Elementary course of theological lectures_ 1836; _Geological
memoir of the landslip in Devon_ 1840; author with Wm. Phillips of
_Outlines of the geology of England and Wales_ 1822. _d._
Itchenstoke near Portsmouth 12 Aug. 1857. _Quarterly Journal of
Geol. Soc. xiv_, 24–32 (1858); _Proc. of Royal Soc. ix_, 50–2
(1857); _G.M. iii_, 335–7 (1857); _I.L.N. xxxi_, 309 (1857),
_portrait_.
CONYBEARE, REV. WILLIAM JOHN (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1
Aug. 1815; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow, 15
wrangler and 3 classic 1837, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; Whitehall
preacher 1841; principal of the newly founded Liverpool Collegiate
Institution 1842–8; V. of Axminster 1848–54; author of _Essays
ecclesiastical and social_ 1855; _Perversion, or the causes and
consequences of infidelity, a tale for the times 3 vols._ 1856
_anon._; author with Rev. J. S. Howson of _The life and epistles
of St. Paul 2 vols._ 1852. _d._ of consumption at Weybridge 22
July 1857.
CONYNGHAM, FRANCIS NATHANIEL CONYNGHAM, 2 Marquis (_2 son of 1
Marquis Conyngham 1766–1832_). _b._ Dublin 11 June 1797; cornet 2
life guards 21 Sep. 1820, lieut. 13 Dec. 1821 to 12 June 1823 when
placed on h.p.; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 6 Jany.
1823 to 2 Jany. 1826; M.P. for co. Donegal 1825 to 1832; a lord of
the treasury 30 April 1826 to 30 April 1827; succeeded 28 Dec.
1832; postmaster general 5 July to 31 Dec. 1834 and 8 to 30 May
1835; lord chamberlain of the household, May 1835 to 6 May 1839;
G.C.H. 1823; K.P. 27 March 1833; P.C. 20 May 1835; lord lieut. of
co. Meath 27 May 1869 to death; general 21 March 1874. _d._ 5
Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 17 July 1876, personalty sworn
under £500,000, 9 Sep. 1876. _I.L.N. lxix_, 113, 119, 255 (1876),
_portrait_; _Graphic xiv_, 102, 108 (1876), _portrait_.
CONYNGHAM, GEORGE HENRY CONYNGHAM, 3 Marquis. _b._ London 3 Feb.
1825; cornet 2 dragoons 31 Dec. 1844; major 1 life guards 24 Aug.
1861 to 13 June 1868 when placed on h.p.; equerry to the Queen 30
Sep. 1872 to death; succeeded 17 July 1876; col. Royal East Kent
yeomanry cavalry 16 Jany. 1878 to death; placed on retired list
with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. _d._ Belgrave sq. London 2
June 1882.
CONYNGHAM, FRANCIS NATHANIEL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Goodwood 24 Sep. 1832; served in R.N. 1846–60; M.P. for Clare
1857–9 and 1874–80. _d._ The Muirshiel, Lockwinnock, Renfrewshire
14 Sep. 1880.
COODE, GEORGE (_eld. son of Manners Benson Coode of St. Helier’s,
Jersey_). _b._ 1807; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833; assistant sec. to
Poor law commission 18 Aug. 1834 to 13 June 1846; drafted the
Irish poor law act, 1 & 2 Vict. c. 56; comr. for consolidating the
statute law 1853; comr. for inquiry into state of education in
England 1859; author of _Report on the law of settlement and
removal of the poor_ 1851; _On legislative expression_ 1853;
article on the _Poor laws_ in _Encyclopædia Britannica_, _8 ed._
xviii, 295–316 (1859); _Report of local taxation and digest of the
laws relating to 24 local taxes_ 1862; _Report on the fire
insurance duties_ 1862. _d._ Roselands, Walmer, Kent 27 Sep. 1869.
_Law mag. and law review xxviii_, 178, 318–25 (1870).
COODE, SIR JOHN HENRY (_son of Edward Coode of Penryn, Cornwall_).
_b._ Penryn 11 Feb. 1779; entered navy 16 June 1793; captain 21
Oct. 1810; R.A. 26 June 1847; V.A. on h.p. 27 May 1854, pensioned
10 Dec. 1855; C.B. 19 Sep. 1816, K.C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Plymouth
19 Jany. 1858.
COOK, ALEXANDER SHANK (_son of Rev. George Cook, professor of moral
philosophy at St. Andrews_). _b._ 9 Dec. 1810; ed. at St. Andrews;
advocate at Edin. 1834; procurator for church of Scotland 1861 to
death; advocate depute; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 22 March 1858
to death. _d._ Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1869.
COOK, EDWARD DUTTON (_eld. child of George Simon Cook of Tudor st.
Blackfriars, London, solicitor, who d. 12 Sep. 1852_). _b._ 9
Grenville st. Brunswick sq. London 30 Jany. 1829; articled to his
father; pupil of Rolt the painter; dramatic critic of _Pall Mall
Gazette_ 1867 to Oct. 1875, of _The World Oct._ 1875 to death;
edited _Cornhill Mag._ 1868–71; wrote all the lives of dramatists
and actors in letter A of _Dictionary of national biography_ 1885;
author of _Paul Foster’s Daughter 3 vols._ 1861; _Leo 3 vols._
1863; _Hobson’s Choice, a story_ 1867; _Art in England, notes and
studies_ 1869; _A book of the play 2 vols._ 1876; _Hours with the
players 2 vols._ 1881; _On the stage_ 1883 and 9 other books. _d._
suddenly outside his house 69 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park,
London 11 Sep. 1883. _Longman’s Mag. Dec. 1883 pp. 179–87_;
_Theatre, Nov. 1883_, 212, 272, _portrait_; _Graphic xxviii_, 321
(1883), _portrait_.
COOK, HENRY DAVID. Writer Madras civil service 1835; civil and
sessions judge, Calicut 1857–66; civil and sessions judge,
Coimbatore 1866 to 18 Sep. 1870 when he retired on annuity. _d._
England 16 June 1882.
COOK, JAMES. Edited _Paisley and Renfrewshire Gazette_ from its
commencement Oct. 1864 to his death; author of _Bibliography of
the writings of Charles Dickens_ 1879. _d._ Paisley 25 Oct. 1882
aged 65.
COOK, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. John Cook 1771–1824, professor of
biblical criticism in Univ. of St. Andrews_). _b._ St. Andrews 1
Sep. 1807; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, A.M. 1823, D.D. 9 Dec.
1848; licensed for ministry of Church of Scotland 13 Aug. 1828;
minister of Laurencekirk 1829–45; minister of St. Leonard’s in St.
Andrews 1845–63; moderator of General Assembly 19 May 1859,
convener of many of its important committees; Emeritus professor
of ecclesiastical history in Univ. of St. Andrews 19 June 1860 to
30 July 1868; a dean of the chapel royal, Sep. 1863; author of
_Evidence on church patronage_ 1838; _Six lectures on the
Christian evidences_ 1852. _d._ St. Andrews 17 April 1869.
COOK, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. George Cook 1772–1845, leader of
the ‘moderate’ party in the Church of Scotland_). _b._ 12 Sep.
1807; ed. at St. Andrews Univ., A.M. 1823, D.D. 1843; licensed for
ministry of Church of Scotland 17 Sep. 1828; minister of Cults,
Fifeshire 1832; translated to second charge at Haddington 1833, to
the first charge 1843; sub-clerk of the Assembly 25 May 1859,
principal clerk 22 May 1862, moderator 24 May 1866; author of
_Styles of writs and forms of procedure in the church courts of
Scotland_ 1850, _4 ed._ 1870. _d._ Haddington 11 Sep. 1874.
COOK, JOHN DOUGLAS. _b._ Banchory-Ternan, Aberdeenshire 25 March
1811; held an appointment in India; sec. of commission to inquire
into revenues of Duchy of Cornwall; private sec. to Lord Lincoln,
governor of Ionian Islands; reported in parliament for _The
Times_; edited _Morning Chronicle_ 1852–5; edited _Saturday
Review_ from first number 3 Nov. 1855 to death, joint owner of it
with A. J. B. Beresford Hope, M.P. _d._ G1 The Albany, Piccadilly,
London 10 Aug. 1868. _bur._ Tintagel churchyard. _James Grant’s
The Saturday Review its origin and progress_ 1873.
COOK, PAUL (_son of Charles Cook of Jersey, Wesleyan minister_).
President of French Methodist Conference; considered the founder
of French Sunday schools. _d._ Paris 2 May 1886 aged 59.
COOK, RICHARD. _b._ London 1784; ed. at Royal Academy; gold
medallist of Society of Arts 1832; A.R.A. 1816, R.A. 1822;
exhibited pictures chiefly historical; illustrated _Scott’s Lady
of the Lake_ 1810. _d._ Cumberland place, Hyde park, London 11
March 1857. _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_, 34 (1862).
COOK, SAMUEL. _b._ Camelford, Cornwall 1806; apprenticed to a
woollen manufacturer at Camelford 1815; a painter and glazier at
Plymouth; exhibited pictures chiefly coast scenes at New
Water-Colour Society in Pall Mall, London about 1830–59, a member
of the Society 1850; his “Early morning at the Lizard” was sold to
Rev. Henry Tozer for 137 guineas at Plymouth 7 Feb. 1882. _d._
near Plymouth 7 June 1859. _Hayle Miscellany vol. 2_ (1860),
_portrait_.
COOK, THOMAS. Entered navy 17 July 1807; lieutenant 1 June 1818;
professor of fortification and artillery at H.E.I. Co.’s military
academy, Addiscombe, Jany. 1837 to death; F.R.S. 4 June 1840. _d._
Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 11 Dec. 1858.
COOKE, EDWARD. Barrister M.T. 12 Nov. 1819; judge of county courts,
circuit 11, Bradford 1854 to 1861 when he resigned; author of _The
real cause of the high price of gold_ 1819; _A treatise on the law
of insolvent debtors_ 1827, _2 ed._ 1839. _d._ 2 Taviton st.
Gordon sq. London 6 Feb. 1862 aged 70.
COOKE, EDWARD WILLIAM (_son of George Cooke of London, line engraver
1781–1834_). _b._ Pentonville, London 27 March 1811; painted sign
of the “Old Ship Hotel” at Brighton 1825; etched 2 series of
plates entitled “Coast sketches” and “The British Coast”; made 70
drawings of new London bridge 1825–31, most of which were engraved
and published 1833; executed a series of pencil drawings for Earl
de Grey 1832; travelled abroad 1832–44; A.R.A. 1851, R.A. 1864;
exhibited 129 pictures at R.A., 115 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st.
gallery; 2 of his pictures are in the National Gallery, “Dutch
boats in calm” and “The Boat house”; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; published
_Views in London and its vicinity_ 1834; _Grotesque animals
invented, drawn and described_ 1872; _Leaves from my sketch book 2
series_ 1876–7. _d._ Glen Andred, Groombridge near Tunbridge Wells
4 Jany. 1880. _I.L.N. xlv_, 173 (1864), _portrait_; _Graphic xxi_,
252 (1880), _portrait_.
COOKE, GEORGE. _b._ Manchester 7 March 1807; first appeared on the
stage at Walsall, March 1828; acted at Strand theatre, London
1837, at Drury Lane 1839, at Marylebone 1847; played at Strand
theatre 1848, at Olympic theatre to death. (_m._ 1840 Eliza
Stuart, she _d._ 13 June 1877 aged 74); committed suicide 4 March
1863. _Theatrical Times iii_, 376, 397 (1848), _portrait_.
COOKE, REV. GEORGE LEIGH (_son of Rev. Samuel Cooke, V. of Great
Bookham, Surrey, who d. 30 March 1820_). Matric. from Ball. coll.
Ox. 26 Jany. 1797 aged 17; scholar of C.C. coll. 1797, fellow
1800–15, tutor; B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804, B.D. 1812; Sedleian
professor of natural philosophy in Univ. of Ox. 1818–26; keeper of
the Univ. archives 1818–26; V. of Cubbington, Warws. 1820 to
death; V. of Rissington Wick, Gloucs. 1820 to death; P.C. of
Hunningham, Warcs. 1820 to death; founded the Literary Dining
Club, sec. of it many years; author of _The three first sections
and part of the seventh section of Newton’s Principia_ 1850. _d._
Cubbington 29 March 1853 aged 73.
COOKE, GEORGE WINGROVE (_eld. son of T. H. Cooke of Bristol_). _b._
Bristol 1814; ed. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1834; barrister M.T. 30
Jany. 1835; contested Colchester, Feb. 1860, Marylebone, April
1861; special correspondent of _The Times_ in China 1857–8;
copyhold and inclosure comr. Dec. 1862 to death; author of
_Memoirs of Lord Bolingbroke_ 1835, _2 ed._ 1836; _The history of
party from the rise of the Whig and Tory factions to the passing
of the Reform bill 3 vols._ 1836–37; _Act for the enclosure of
commons with a treatise on the law of rights of common_ 1846, _4
ed._ 1864; _Treatise on agricultural tenancies_ 1850, _new ed._
1882; _A treatise on the law and practice of copyhold
enfranchisement_ 1853; _Inside Sebastopol_ 1856; _China and Lower
Bengal_ 1858; _Conquest and colonisation in North Africa_ 1860.
_d._ 25 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 18 June 1865.
COOKE, REV. HENRY (_youngest child of John Cooke of Grillagh near
Maghera, co. Londonderry, farmer_). _b._ in farm house of Grillagh
11 May 1788; matric. at Glasgow college, Nov. 1802; licensed by
the presbytery of Ballymena; pastor at Duneane near Randalstown,
co. Antrim 1808–10; minister at Donegore, co. Antrim 1811–18;
studied at Glasgow and Trin. coll. Dublin 1815–18; pastor of
Killyleigh, co. Down 1818–29; moderator of general synod of
Ulster, June 1824; pastor of May st. chapel, Belfast 24 Nov. 1829
to Feb. 1868; D.D. Jefferson college, U.S. 21 Oct. 1829; LLD.
Dublin 9 Feb. 1837; granted freedom of city of Dublin 6 Feb. 1839;
challenged O’Connell to a public discussion in Belfast 6 Jany.
1841, which he declined; moderator of the general assembly 1841;
agent for distribution of _Regium Donum_ 29 Nov. 1845 to death;
professor of sacred rhetoric, assembly’s college, Belfast, Sep.
1847 to death, pres. of the college 1848 to death; dean of
residence for presbyterian church, Queen’s college, Belfast 1849;
author of _Translations and paraphrases in verse for the use of
the Presbyterian church, Killyleigh_ 1821; edited, _J. Brown’s
Self-interpreting Bible_ 1855, _2 ed._ 1873. _d._ Ormean road,
Belfast 13 Dec. 1868, statue of him erected at Belfast, Sep. 1875.
_J. S. Porter’s Life of Rev. Henry Cooke_ (1871), _portrait_.
COOKE, JAMES (_son of Thomas Taplin Cooke, circus proprietor, who d.
19 March 1866 aged 84_). Leading rider of his father’s company;
the only real rival of the great Andrew Ducrow; proprietor of a
circus about 1837–49 and 1850–56; resided in Edinburgh 1856 to
death. _d._ Portobello, Edin. 5 Sep. 1869 aged 59.
COOKE, SIR JOHN HENRY. _b._ 1791; ensign 43 foot 15 March 1809;
captain 25 foot 27 July 1838 to 15 Dec. 1840 when placed on h.p.;
conducted Louis xviii from Ghent to Paris, June to July 1815; sub
officer of corps of gentlemen at arms 2 Oct. 1844 to 16 Sep. 1862;
ensign of Yeomen of the guard 16 Sep. 1862, lieut. 2 Feb. 1866 to
death; knighted at Windsor Castle 11 Dec. 1867. _d._ Albion villa,
Upper heath, Hampstead 31 Jany. 1870.
COOKE, JOHN P. _b._ Chester 31 Oct. 1820; leader of the orchestras
at Adelphi, Strand and Astley’s, London successively; leader at
Burton’s theatre, New York 1850; musical director at several New
York theatres; composed and arranged music for the _Winter’s
Tale_, _Midsummer Night’s Dream_ and other Shakespearean plays;
wrote melodies for the _Sea of Ice_. _d._ New York 4 Nov. 1865.
COOKE, RICHARD HARVEY. Ensign 1 Foot Guards 20 Feb. 1798, captain 7
Nov. 1811 to 26 March 1818; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ 45 Upper Brook
st. London 8 Oct. 1856.
COOKE, REV. ROBERT. _b._ Waterford about 1820; joined the
Congregation of Oblates of Mary Immaculate in France, ordained
priest; stationed at Grace Dieu, Leics., at Everingham park,
Yorkshire 1847–51; founded mission at Howden; restored mission at
Pocklington; stationed at Leeds 1851; introduced the Oblates into
Ireland, result being establishment of a mission at Inchicore;
established a house of his order at Kilburn, London where a new
church was erected 1879; founded church of the English Martyrs,
Tower Hill, London; author of _Pictures of youthful holiness_
1872; _Catholic memories of the Tower of London_ 1875, translated
into French 1875; _Sketches of the life of Mgr. de Mazenod, bishop
of Marseilles and founder of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate 2
vols._ 1879–82. _d._ London 18 June 1882. _Gillow’s English
Catholics i_, 557–8 (1885).
COOKE, THOMAS (_son of Mr. Cooke of Allerthorpe in the East Riding
of Yorkshire, shoemaker_). _b._ Allerthorpe 8 March 1807; kept a
school at Allerthorpe 1823–9; optician at York about 1836 to
death; made a telescope of 25 inches aperture 1863–8 which was
mounted at Gateshead 1869, it is still the largest and best in the
United Kingdom; invented an automatic engine for the graduation of
circles, perfected the astronomical clock, and built nearly 100
turret clocks for public institutions and churches; F.R.A.S. 1859.
_d._ 19 Oct. 1868.
COOKE, THOMAS POTTER (_son of Mr. Cooke of London, surgeon, who d.
1793_). _b._ Titchfield st. Marylebone 23 April 1786; served in
navy 1796–1802, present in battle off Cape St. Vincent 1797; made
his début at Royalty theatre, Wellclose sq. Jany. 1804; stage
manager of Surrey theatre 1809–16; acted at Lyceum 1820–2, at
Covent Garden 1822–5; played Le Monstre (Frankenstein) 80 nights,
at Porte Saint Martin theatre, Paris 1825–6; played at Adelphi
1828–9; his best known part was William in Douglas Jerrold’s drama
_Black-eyed Susan_, which he acted over 100 nights from 6 June
1829 at Surrey theatre; acted at Covent Garden 1829–34 and 1836,
at Drury Lane 1834–6; made his last appearance on the stage 2 May
1861 at Princess’s theatre; he is described by Christopher North
in _Noctes Ambrosianæ_ as ‘the best sailor out of all sight and
hearing that ever trod the stage.’ _d._ 37 Thurloe sq. London 4
April 1864. _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii_, 109 (1825),
_portrait_; _Stirling’s Old Drury Lane ii_, 105–11 (1881);
_Tallis’s Illustrated life in London_ (1864) 33, 36, 40, 41, 3
_portraits_; _Actors by daylight 11 Aug. 1838 pp. 185–87_,
_portrait_.
NOTE.—He left by his will £2000 to the Dramatic College, the
interest of which was to be paid for a prize nautical drama,
in compliance with the terms of the grant ‘True to the core, a
story of the Armada,’ a drama by Angiolo Robson Slous was
produced at Surrey theatre, London 8 Sep. 1866, the prize
having been awarded to him at Maybury college, Surrey 23 April
1866.
COOKE, THOMAS TAPLIN. Proprietor of a circus, his company consisted
of his 19 sons and daughters; built the first circus in Edinburgh
1835; chartered a vessel and shipped all his circus to the United
States 1837, where he performed to 1839 when his circus and all
his horses were burnt at Baltimore. _d._ 2 Barossa place,
Brompton, London 19 March 1866 aged 84.
COOKE, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ 1806; minister in the Methodist New
Connexion body 1827 to death; filled in succession all the
important offices of his denomination; author of _Christian
theology explained and defended_ 1846, _new ed._ 1879; _Discourses
illustrative of sacred truth_ 1871; _Explanations of difficult
portions of holy scripture_; _A survey of the unity, harmony and
growing evidence of sacred truth_; _The Shekinah, or the presence
and manifestation of Jehovah under the several dispensations_, and
other works including a number of polemical treatises in connexion
with Roman Catholicism. _d._ Burslem house, Forest Hill 25 Dec.
1884.
COOKE, WILLIAM. Lessee and manager of Astley’s Amphitheatre,
Westminster bridge road, London 1855–60; took his farewell benefit
30 Jany. 1860. _d._ 149 Acre lane, Brixton 6 May 1886.
COOKE, WILLIAM BERNARD (_brother of George Cooke, engraver
1781–1834_). _b._ London 1778; pupil of Wm. Angus the engraver;
published _The Thames_ 1811 for which he engraved nearly all the
plates; published with his brother George Cooke _Picturesque views
on the Southern coast of England 1814–26_, chiefly from drawings
by Turner; illustrated 10 other works 1812–40. _d._ Camberwell,
London 2 Aug. 1855.
COOKE, SIR WILLIAM BRYAN, 8 Baronet (_younger son of Sir George
Cooke 7 baronet, who d. 2 June 1823_). _b._ 3 March 1782; ed. at
Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; ensign 1 foot guards 15 Oct.
1803 to 1808 when he sold out; lieut.-col. 3 West York militia 26
Oct. 1811, col. 23 Feb. 1812 to 7 Dec. 1819; contested city of
York 1818; banker at Doncaster, Retford and Worksop 1 Jany. 1819;
succeeded 2 June 1823; the first mayor of Doncaster 1836, alderman
1837–8; sheriff of Yorkshire 1845; author of _The seize Quartiers
of the family of Bryan Cooke_ 1857. _d._ Wheatley hall near
Doncaster 24 Dec. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_, 185–6 (1852).
COOKE, SIR WILLIAM FOTHERGILL (_eld. son of Wm. Cooke, professor of
medicine at Durham Univ._) _b._ Ealing near London 1806; ed. at
Durham school and Univ. of Edin.; ensign 39 Madras N.I. 8 Jany.
1826, resigned his commission 1836; partner with Charles
Wheatstone, Nov. 1837, they patented magnetic needle telegraph 12
June 1837; laid down a telegraph between Paddington and West
Drayton 1838–9, and from West Drayton to Slough 1842; invented
with Wheatstone the single needle apparatus 1845; one of founders
of Electro telegraph company 1846; received with Wheatstone the
4th royal Albert gold medal 1867; A.I.C.E. 21 May 1867; knighted
at Windsor Castle 11 Nov. 1869; granted civil list pension of
£100, 25 July 1871; author of _Telegraphic Railways_ 1842. (_m._
1838 Anna Louisa dau. of Joseph Wheatley of Treeton, Yorkshire,
she was granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1880). _d._ 31
Castle st. Farnham, Surrey 25 June 1879. _W. T. Jeans’s Lives of
the electricians i_, 134, 323 (1887); _W. F. Cooke’s The electric
telegraph, was it invented by professor Wheatstone?_ _2 vols._
1857; _Authorship of the practical electric telegraph of Great
Britain by Rev. T. F. Cooke_ 1868; _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of
C.E. lviii_, 358–64 (1879).
NOTE.—The merit of initiating the idea of an international
exhibition has been often warmly contested, but there is no
doubt that the original proposition was made to the Committee
of the Society of Arts in 1844 by Sir W. F. Cooke.
COOKE, WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ Dublin 11 April 1797; pupil of his uncle
George Cooke the engraver; received from Society of Arts a gold
medal for improvements in engraving upon steel 1826; employed upon
the Annuals and other illustrated publications to about 1840 when
he left England and settled at Darmstadt; engraved several
pictures after Turner, Cox and Landseer. _d._ Darmstadt 6 April
1865.
COOKESLEY, JOHN. Entered navy 29 Jany. 1791; captain 7 Dec. 1818,
retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired R.A. 8 July 1851; invented a very
simple and efficacious species of raft fully described and
illustrated in the _Nautical Mag. iv_, 73–77 (1835). _d._ Rackley,
Portishead near Bristol 25 Nov. 1852 aged 78.
COOKESLEY, REV. WILLIAM GIFFORD. _b._ Brasted, Kent 1 Dec. 1802; ed.
at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; assistant
master of Eton 1825–55; V. of Hayton, Yorkshire 1857–60; P.C. of
St. Peter’s, Hammersmith 1860–8; R. of Tempsford, Beds. 22 Oct.
1868 to death; published _Selections from Pindar_ 1838; _Pindari
Carmina_ 1844 _2 vols._ 1851; _Selecta e Catullo_ 1845; _A revised
translation of the New Testament_ 1859, and 13 other works. _d._
Tempsford rectory 16 Aug. 1880.
COOKSON, REV. HENRY WILKINSON (_6 son of Thomas Cookson of Kendal_).
_b._ Kendal 10 April 1810; ed. at Kendal, Sedbergh and St. Peter’s
coll. Cam., 7 wrangler 1832, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.D. and D.D.
1848; tutor of his college, Master 3 Nov. 1847 to death; R. of
Glaston, Rutland 1847–61; vice-chancellor of Univ. of Cam. 1848,
1863, 1864, 1872, 1873; member of council of the Senate almost
continuously from institution of that body 1856; pres. of
Cambridge Philosophical Soc. 1865–6; declined bishopric of
Lichfield 1867. _d._ St. Peter’s college lodge, Cambridge 30 Sep.
1876.
COOKSON, ISAAC. _b._ 1776; a glass manufacturer at Newcastle to
1845; sheriff of Newcastle 1801, alderman 22 Sep. 1807, mayor
1809–10; bought Meldon park, Northumberland for 56,900 guineas 19
April 1832; sheriff of Northumberland 1838. _d._ Munich 8 Oct.
1851.
COOLEY, WILLIAM DESBOROUGH. F.R.G.S. 1830, hon. free member 1864;
granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; wrote for
Lardner’s ‘Cabinet Cyclopædia’ _The history of maritime and inland
discovery 3 vols._ 1830–1; published _The world surveyed in the
xix century 2 vols._ 1845–8; _Inner Africa laid open_ 1852;
_Physical geography, or the terraqueous globe and its phenomena_
1876 and other works. _d._ 56 Crowndale road, Somers Town, London
1 March 1883. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v_, 232–3 (1883).
COOMBES, ROBERT. _b._ Vauxhall, London 1808; a waterman on river
Thames; sculled his first race 4 July 1836; beat J. Kelly 4 Oct.
1838; stroke in the winning four at Liverpool regatta 1840 beating
5 crews; beat H. Clasper on the Tyne 18 Dec. 1844; beat C.
Campbell 19 Aug. 1846 when he became champion of the Thames;
presented with a champion belt 28 Oct. 1846; raced T. Cole for
£200 a side 24 May 1852 when Cole won; won the pairs with Wilson
at Thames regatta 1845; with his brother Tom Coombes beat Richard
and Harry Clasper on the Thames 1847; trained the Cambridge crew
1852; never surpassed in speed and style during his time; author
of _Hints on rowing and training_ 1852. _d._ Kent lunatic asylum,
Maidstone 25 Feb. 1860. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London 7 March.
_I.L.N. 29 May 1852 p._ 436, _portrait_.
COOPE, OCTAVIUS EDWARD (_3 son of John Coope of London, sugar
refiner_). _b._ Leyspring, Essex 1814; a sugar refiner in London;
a partner in brewing firm of Ind, Coope and Co. at Romford, Essex
1846, established a branch brewery at Burton-on-Trent 1856 the
third largest brewing firm in Burton; M.P. for Great Yarmouth 29
July 1847 to June 1848 when unseated on petition; contested Tower
Hamlets, Nov. 1868; M.P. for Middlesex 14 Feb. 1874 to 18 Nov.
1885, for Brentford division of Middlesex, Dec. 1885 to death;
gave £15,000 towards rebuilding Whitechapel church 1875. _d._ 41
Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 27 Nov. 1886, personalty
sworn upwards of £542,000. _Licensed Victuallers’ year book_
(1876) 80–81, _portrait_; _Morning Advertiser 29 Nov. 1886 p. 5
and 3 Dec. p. 2_.
COOPER, ABRAHAM (_son of Mr. Cooper of Red Lion st. Holborn, London,
tobacconist_). _b._ Red Lion st. 8 Sep. 1787; member of the
Artists’ fund 1812, chairman; awarded premium of 150 guineas by
British Institution for his picture of the ‘Battle of Waterloo’
1816; A.R.A. 1817, R.A. 1820–66; exhibited 332 pictures at R.A.
and 74 at British Institution 1812–69; pre-eminent as a painter of
battle pieces; furnished the illustrations to _Sporting, by
Nimrod_ 1838, and other works. _d._ Woodbine cottage, Woodlands,
Greenwich 24 Dec. 1868. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. _J. Sherer’s
Gallery of British artists ii_, 4–7; _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_,
131–2 (1869).
COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON, 2 Baronet. _b._ Great Yarmouth 13 Jany.
1797; succeeded 12 Feb. 1841; sheriff of Herts. 1864. _d._
Gadesbridge, Hemel Hempstead 6 Jany. 1866.
COOPER, BRANSBY BLAKE (_eld. son of Rev. Samuel Lovick Cooper
1763–1817, R. of Bacton, Norfolk_). _b._ Great Yarmouth 2 Sep.
1792; midshipman in the navy; second assistant surgeon R.A. 2 Dec.
1811 to 1 April 1816 when placed on permanent h.p.; M.R.C.S. 1823,
hon. fellow 1843, member of the council 1848; brought an action
against Thomas Wakley editor of _The Lancet_ for defamation of
character, and obtained £100 damages 12 Dec. 1828; surgeon of
Guy’s hospital, London to death; F.R.S. 18 June 1829; author of
_The life of Sir Astley Cooper baronet 2 vols._ 1843; _Lectures on
the principles and practice of surgery_ 1851. _d._ Athenæum club,
Pall Mall, London 18 Aug. 1853. _J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical
recollections of the medical profession_ (1874) 520–6; _Medical
Circular ii_, 511–14 (1853).
COOPER, SIR CHARLES (_3 son of Thomas Cooper of Henley-on-Thames_).
_b._ Henley-on-Thames, March 1795; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827;
judge of supreme court of South Australia 1839–56, chief justice
June 1856 to 1861; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 June 1857;
Cooper’s Creek in Queensland was named after him. _d._ 12 Pulteney
st. Bath 24 May 1887.
COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (_eld. son of Basil Henry Cooper of Great
Marlow, solicitor, who d. 1813_). _b._ Great Marlow 20 March 1808;
resided at Cambridge 1826 to death; coroner of borough of
Cambridge 1 Jany. 1836; admitted solicitor, Nov. 1840; town clerk
of Cambridge 1849 to death; F.S.A. 10 April 1851; author of _A new
guide to the university and town of Cambridge_ 1831 _anon._; _The
annals of Cambridge 5 vols._ 1842–53; _The memorials of Cambridge
3 vols._ 1858–66; _Memoirs of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and
Derby edited by Rev. J. E. B. Mayor_ 1874; author with his eldest
son Thompson Cooper of _Athenæ Cantabrigienses 2 vols._ 1858–61;
contributed to _Gent. Mag._, _Notes and Queries_, and other
antiquarian publications. _d._ 29 Jesus lane, Cambridge 21 March
1866. _Dict. of Nat. Biog. xii_, 139–40 (1887); _Reliquary vii_,
34–40 (1866).
COOPER, CHARLES PURTON (_son of Charles Cooper of St. Dunstan’s,
London_). _b._ 1793; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., double first class
1814, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1816; obtained
leading practice in V.C. Knight-Bruce’s court, quarrelled with him
and left the court; Q.C. 1837; bencher of his Inn 1836, treasurer
1855, master of the library 1856 to which he presented _2000
vols._ on civil and foreign law 1843; secretary to Record
Commission 12 March 1831 to 20 June 1837 when it lapsed on the
king’s death; Queen’s serjeant in Duchy of Lancaster 1834 to
death; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1832; F.S.A.; contested Canterbury 18 Aug.
1854 and 28 March 1857; author of _Notes in French on the Court of
Chancery_ 1828, _2 ed._ 1830; _An account of the public records of
the United Kingdom 2 vols._ 1832; _Reports of cases decided by
Lord Brougham_ 1835; _Reports of cases decided by Lords Cottenham
and Langdale and by V. G. Shadwell_ 1841; _Reports of Lord
Cottenham’s decisions 2 vols._ 1847; wrote, edited or printed 52
pamphlets on political topics 1850–57. _d._ Boulogne 26 March
1873. _Report from the select committee on record commission_
(1836) 1–275; _Sir Henry Cole’s Fifty years of public work_ (1834)
_i_, 7, _ii_, 20, 23.
COOPER, EDWARD JOSHUA (_eld. son of Edward Synge Cooper of Dublin,
who d. 1830_). _b._ Stephens Green, Dublin, May 1798; ed. at
Armagh, Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; erected an observatory at Markree
castle, co. Sligo 1831 where he kept meteorological registers 1833
to death; M.R.I.A. 1832, Cunningham gold medallist 1858; M.P. for
co. Sligo 1830–41 and 1857–9; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; author of _Views
in Egypt and Nubia_ 1824 privately printed; _Catalogue of Stars
near the Ecliptic observed at Markree 4 vols._ 1851–6 printed at
Government expense, and _Cometic Orbits_ 1852. _d._ Markree castle
23 April 1863. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xiii_, 1–3 (1864).
COOPER, FREDERICK FOX (_son of Mr. Cooper of London, editor of John
Bull_). _b._ 4 Jany. 1806; called Fox after his godfather C. J.
Fox, M.P.; articled to Isaac Cooper a stockbroker; managed
successively Olympic, Marylebone, Victoria, City of London and
Strand theatres; sec. to Duke of Cumberland as grand master of the
Orange lodges in England; examined 4 days before House of Commons
on subject of Orangeism 1835; proprietor of the _Nelson Examiner_,
New Zealand 1841; started with The Chisholm, _The Cerberus_, a
newspaper which under 4 heads advocated 4 different lines of
politics, No. 1, 17 June 1843, it was published at 164 Strand,
London down to 18 Nov. 1843; author of _The sons of Thespis_,
produced at Surrey theatre, _Jenny Jones_, _Fleet Prison_, _Master
Humphrey’s Clock_, _Black Sentinel_, _Rejected Addresses_, _The
deserted village_, and many travesties and dramatic sketches. _d._
56 Prince’s Road, Lambeth, London 4 Jany. 1879. _Theatrical Times
ii_, 177 (1847), _portrait_; _Era 19 Jany. 1879 p. 12, col. 2_.
COOPER, FREDERICK HENRY (_younger son of Rev. Allen Cooper,
incumbent of St. Mark’s, North Audley st. London_). Entered Bengal
civil service 1847; comr. at Lahore to death; C.B. 18 May 1860;
author of _The Crisis in the Punjaub_ 1858; _The handbook for
Delhi_ 1863. _d._ Trent rectory near Sherborne 22 April 1869 aged
42.
COOPER, GEORGE (_son of Mr. Cooper, assistant organist at St. Paul’s
cathedral, who d. 1843_). _b._ Lambeth 7 July 1820; organist of
St. Benet’s, Paul’s wharf, London 1834, of St. Anne and St. Agnes
1836; assistant organist of St. Paul’s cathedral, March 1838 to
death; organist of St. Sepulchre’s 1843 to death, of Christ’s
hospital 1843, of the Chapel Royal, St. James’s, Sep. 1856 to
death; author of _The organist’s assistant_; _The organist’s
manual_ 1851, 26 numbers; _Organ arrangements 3 vols._ 1864 etc.;
_Classical extracts for the organ_ 1867–69, seven numbers;
_Introduction to the organ_; _Maud Irving or the little orphan, An
operetta in 5 acts_ 1872. _d._ 2 Oct. 1876. _Musical Standard 7,
14, 21, 28 Oct. 1876, 18, 25 Nov., 9, 23 Dec._
COOPER, HENRY. Ensign 62 foot 26 Feb. 1829; lieut. col. 45 foot 19
July 1848 to 1 May 1861; inspecting field officer 1861–2; col. 79
foot 21 Aug. 1870 to 17 March 1876; col. 45 foot 17 March 1876 to
death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Bottesham hall, Cambs. 24 Aug.
1878.
COOPER, HENRY CHRISTOPHER, _b._ Bath 1819; solo violinist at Drury
Lane theatre 1830; principal violinist at Royal Italian opera;
leader at Philharmonic Society; violinist at provincial festivals;
conductor at Gaiety theatre, Glasgow to death; one of the foremost
of English school of violinists, _d._ 220 Hope st. Glasgow 26
Jany. 1881.
COOPER, JOHN (_son of Mr. Cooper of Bath, locksmith_). _b._ Bath
1790; apprenticed to a brush maker at Bath; first appeared on the
stage at Bath theatre 14 March 1811 as Inkle in Colman’s drama
_Inkle and Yarico_; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre
15 May 1811 as Count Montalban in _The honeymoon_ and received £4
a week; played at Liverpool some years as the rival of Vandenhoff;
played at Drury Lane theatre 1820–45, stage manager; played at
Princess’s theatre to 1859; had studied 200 parts and was ready at
very short notice to undertake any of them; the last actor of the
Kemble school; lived at 6 Sandringham gardens, Ealing. _d._
Tunbridge Wells 13 July 1870. _Oxberry’s Dramatic biog. v_, 73–86
(1826), _portrait_; _Metropolitan Mag. xviii_, 74–80 (1837);
_Jerrold’s Bride of Ludgate_ (_Lucy’s ed._ 1872), _portrait_.
COOPER, JOHN RAMSAY. Chemist and druggist at 17 High st. Canterbury;
a prominent promoter of the blue riband movement; invented phonic
system of teaching reading, which was adopted in many of the
principal elementary schools in England 1885; bankrupt on his own
petition, June 1885; died at the police station, Canterbury 5 July
1885 from taking a solution of strychnia and about 15 or 20 grains
of the salt; coroner’s jury returned a verdict that he committed
suicide while of unsound mind.
COOPER, JOHN WILBYE, always known as Wilbye Cooper. Tenor vocalist
to 1870; composed songs entitled _Ah where are now those happy
hours_ 1852; _The old cottager_ 1852; author of _The voice, the
music of language and the soul of song, a short essay on the art
of singing_ 1874; edited _Cramer’s Educational Course_ consisting
of _Cramer’s Vocal Tutor 2 parts_ 1867, and _Cramer’s New Singing
Method 4 parts_ 1872–74. _d._ 20 Castellain road, Maida hill,
London 19 March 1885.
COOPER, JOSEPH THOMAS. _b._ London 25 May 1819; organist of St.
Michael’s, Queenhithe 1837, of St. Paul’s, Balls Pond, London
1844, of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. 1866 to death, of Christ’s hospital
1876 to death; musical editor of _Evening Hours_, monthly mag.
March 1871; F.R.A.S. 1845. _d._ 113 Grosvenor road, Highbury 17
Nov. 1879.
COOPER, ROBERT. Educ. at Charter house school; went to Canada;
edited _British Canadian_ paper at Toronto 1846; edited _Herald_
paper at London, Upper Canada; county judge of united counties of
Huron and Bruce 1856; published _Rules and practice of the Court
of Chancery of Upper Canada, Toronto_ 1851. _d._ Goderich, Upper
Canada 19 June 1866.
COOPER, THOMAS THORNVILLE (_8 son of John J. Cooper of
Bishopwearmouth, coalfitter_). _b._ Bishopwearmouth 13 Sep. 1839;
made several journeys into interior of Australia; clerk in house
of Arbuthnot and Co. at Madras 1859–61; joined Shanghai volunteers
and helped to protect that city against Taiping rebels 1863;
attempted to penetrate from China through Tibet to India 1868;
attempted to enter China from Assam 1869; political agent at Bamo;
attached to political department of India office, London; sent to
India with despatches and presents to the viceroy in connection
with imperial durbar of Delhi 1876; re-appointed political agent
at Bamo; author of _Travels of a pioneer of commerce in pigtail
and petticoats_ 1871; _Mishmee hills, an account of a journey_
1873; murdered by a sepoy at Bamo 24 April 1878. _W. Gill’s River
of Golden sand_, _new ed._ 1883 _introduction p. 108, portrait and
p. 323_.
COOPER, REV. WILLIAM. R. of Wadingham, Lincs. March 1808 to death;
R. of West Rasen, Lincs. 1809 to death; chaplain in ord. to the
Sovereign 1830 to death. _d._ West Rasen rectory 24 Aug. 1856 aged
86.
COOPER, WILLIAM (_son of Charles Cooper of Norwich, barrister, who
d. 21 July 1836_). _b._ 6 Jany. 1810; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and
Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 10 June 1831; comr. of
bankruptcy for Norwich 1832–42; a revising barrister for Leics.
1839 to death; standing counsel to Metropolitan police; one of
counsel to the Treasury; recorder of Ipswich, Dec. 1874 to death;
author of _A sketch of the life of H. Cooper and of C. Cooper_
1856 and of 3 dramas _The student of Jena_ 1842, _Mokanna_ 1843
and _Zopyrus_ 1856. _d._ 25 Great Russell st. Bedford sq. London
17 Sep. 1877.
COOPER, WILLIAM DURRANT (_eld. son of Thomas Cooper of Lewes,
solicitor 1789–1841_). _b._ High st. Lewes 10 Jany. 1812;
solicitor at Lewes 1833–7; on parliamentary staff of _Morning
Chronicle_ and _Times_ 1837; solicitor to Reform club 1837;
solicitor to vestry of St. Pancras 20 Dec. 1858; F.S.A. 11 March
1841; author of _The parliamentary history of the county of
Sussex_ 1834; _A glossary of the provincialisms in use in Sussex_,
privately printed 1836 which he published 1853; _Seven letters by
Sterne and his friends_ 1844; _The history of Winchelsea_ 1850;
edited several books for the Camden and Shakespeare Societies;
author of many papers in _Sussex Archæological Collections vols.
ii, to xxvi._ _d._ 81 Guilford st. Russell sq. London 28 Dec.
1875. _Sussex Archæological Collections xxvii_, 117–32 (1877).
COOPER, WILLIAM RICKETTS. _b._ 1843; a designer of carpet patterns;
a London missionary; assistant curator of Sir John Soane’s museum,
Lincoln Inn Fields; one of chief founders of Society of biblical
archæology 1870, sec. 1870–6; F.R.A.S. Jany. 1875; author of
_Serpent myths of Ancient Egypt_ 1873; _The resurrection of
Assyria_ 1875; _Heroines of the past_ 1875; _Egypt and the
Pentateuch_ 1875; _An Archaic dictionary_ 1876; _The Horus myth
and Christianity_ 1877; _A short history of the Egyptian obelisk_
1877, _2 ed._ 1878; _Christian evidence lectures_ 1880; translated
_Lenormant’s Chaldean magic_ 1877. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 15
Nov. 1878.
COOPER, WILLIAM WHITE (_youngest son of George Fort Cooper_). _b._
Holt, Wiltshire 17 Nov. 1816; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital;
M.R.C.S. 1838, F.R.C.S. 1845; one of original staff of North
London Eye Infirmary 1841; ophthalmic surgeon to St. Mary’s
hospital, Paddington 1851; surgeon oculist in ordinary to the
Queen 4 March 1859 to death; it was announced that he was to be
knighted 29 May 1886; author of _Invalid’s guide to Madeira_ 1840;
_Practical remarks on near sight, aged sight and impaired vision_
1847, _2 ed._ 1853; _Observations on conical cornea_ 1850; _On
wounds and injuries of the eye_ 1859; _Zoological notes and
anecdotes by Sestertius Holt_ 1852, pseud. of which a second ed.
appeared under the title _Traits and anecdotes of animals_ 1861.
_d._ of acute pneumonia at 19 Berkeley sq. London 1 June 1886.
_Medical Circular iii_, 383–85 (1853), _portrait_.
COOTE, CHARLES. _b._ Waltham abbey, Essex 1807; sang in English
opera at Lyceum theatre; pianist to Duke of Devonshire 30 years,
travelling with him abroad and at home; organised the quadrille
band 1848 which has become celebrated in aristocratic circles;
composed upwards of 150 pieces of music chiefly quadrilles,
waltzes, galops, polkas and dances on airs from popular operas.
_d._ 42 New Bond st. London 14 March 1879.
COOTE, SIR CHARLES HENRY, 9 Baronet. _b._ 2 Jany. 1792; succeeded 2
March 1802; M.P. for Queen’s county 1821–47 and 1852–59; col.
Queen’s co. militia 20 Nov. 1824 to death. _d._ 5 Connaught place,
London 5 Oct. 1864.
COOTE, ELIZABETH PHILLIS (_granddau. of Charles Coote 1807–79_).
_b._ 19 Oct. 1862; acted in America 1870; sang at Canterbury and
Pavilion music halls, London 1871–3; played Hop o’ my Thumb in
pantomime at T.R. Brighton, Dec. 1873; played at Adelphi and
Princess’s theatres 1877–8; made a great hit at Brighton in
pantomime of Little Boy Blue, Dec. 1882. _d._ Ducie st.
Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester 18 Feb. 1886. _Illust. sporting
and dramatic news viii_, 401, 422 (1878), _portrait_, _xvi_, 569,
574 (1882), _portrait_.
COOTE, HENRY CHARLES (_son of Charles Coote of London 1761–1835,
member of college of advocates_). _b._ 1814; admitted proctor in
Doctors’ Commons 1840; practised in the Probate court; admitted
solicitor 1857; F.S.A. 17 May 1860; a founder of the Folklore
Society 1878; author of _Practice of the ecclesiastical courts_
1846; _The common form practice of the Court of Probate_ 1858, _9
ed._ 1883; _Practice of the high court of Admiralty_ 1860, _2 ed._
1869; _A neglected fact in English history_ 1864; _The Romans in
Britain_ 1878. _d._ 13 Westgate terrace, Redclyffe sq. West
Brompton, London 4 Jany. 1885. _Athenæum 17 Jany. 1885 p. 87, col.
3._
COOTE, HOLMES (_2 son of Richard Holmes Coote of London,
conveyancer_). _b._ London 10 Nov. 1817; ed. at Westminster;
F.R.C.S. 1844; assistant surgeon St. Bartholomew’s 1852, surgeon
1863 to death; civil surgeon in charge of the wounded soldiers at
Smyrna 1855; author of _The Homologies of the human skeleton_
1849; _A report on some of the more important points in the
treatment of Syphilis_ 1857; _On diseases of the joints_ 1867.
_d._ 22 Dec. 1872. _Medical Circular iii_, 31 (1853); _St.
Bartholomew’s hospital reports ix_, _pp. xxxix-xliii_ (1873).
COPE, REV. EDWARD MEREDITH. _b._ Birmingham 28 July 1818; ed. at
Ludlow, Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844;
fellow of Trin. coll. 1842 to death, and lecturer on Greek
1845–69; contested professorship of Greek at Cam. 1867; wrote a
criticism of Grote’s Dissertation on the sophists in the
_Cambridge Journal of classical philology_ 1854–6; author of
_Review of Aristotle’s System of ethics, a prelection_ 1867; _The
Rhetoric of Aristotle with a commentary by the late E. M. Cope,
revised and edited by J. E. Sandys 3 vols._ 1877. _d._ 5 Aug.
1873. _bur._ Birmingham cemetery.
COPE, SIR JOHN, 11 Baronet (_younger son of Wm. Cope of Bridges
place, Kent, chapter clerk to dean and chapter of Westminster
abbey_). _b._ 22 July 1768; practised as a solicitor to 1806;
succeeded his elder brother 12 Dec. 1812; kept a pack of foxhounds
to year of his death. _d._ Bramshill park, Hants. 18 Nov. 1851.
_G.M. xxxvii_, 184–5 (1852).
COPE, REV. RICHARD. _b._ near Craven chapel, Regent st. London 23
Aug. 1776; kept a boarding school at Launceston 1800–20;
Independent minister at Launceston 21 Oct. 1801 to 24 June 1820;
minister of Salem chapel, Wakefield 1822–29, of Quebec chapel,
Abergavenny 1829–36, of New st. chapel, Penryn, Cornwall 1836 to
death; M.A. Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1819; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1824;
author of _Adventures of a religious tract_ 1820 _anon._; _Robert
Melville or characters contrasted_ 1827; _Pulpit synopsis,
outlines of sermons_ 1837; _Entertaining anecdotes_ 1838; _Pietas
privata, family prayers_ 1857. _d._ Penryn 26 Oct. 1856.
_Autobiography and select remains of Richard Cope edited by his
son R. J. Cope_ 1857.
COPE, THOMAS, _b._ London 1793; apprenticed to Joseph Smith,
printer; worked under W. Clowes of Northumberland court, Strand,
printer 1818–22; started a newspaper at Southampton 1822; returned
to Clowes’s; printer and publisher of _The Representative_ 1826;
managed John Wm. Parker’s printing office; publisher of _The
Times_ 1848–63. _d._ Salisbury st. Strand, London 13 March 1877.
COPE, THOMAS. _b._ Liverpool; commenced with his brother George Cope
the manufacture of cigars in Liverpool 1848 and the manufacture of
tobacco 1860, employed about 1300 people at his works Lord Nelson
st. Liverpool and was the first person in England to engage women
in making cigars; founded with J. R. Jeffery and Robert Gladstone,
Financial Reform Association 1848; speaker of Liverpool
Parliamentary debating society; aided Hugh Shimmin in founding
_The Porcupine_ 1860; _Cope’s Tobacco plant, a monthly periodical,
price 1d. No. 1 issued 21 March 1870_, was brought out by Cope
Brothers & Co. for about 14 years. _d._ Parkside cottage, Huyton
near Liverpool 18 Sep. 1884 in 57 year. _Liverpool Daily Post 19
Sept. 1884 p. 5._
COPE, WILLIAM (_only son of Wm. Henry Cope of Holbeach, Staffs._)
_b._ 20 Oct. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839;
barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; district registrar of Court of
Probate, Shrewsbury 1858 to death; recorder of Bridgnorth 10 March
1871 to death. _d._ Shawbury, Shropshire 8 Jany. 1885.
COPELAND, THOMAS (_son of Rev. Wm. Copeland 1747–87, C. of Byfield,
Northamptonshire_). _b._ May 1781; M.R.C.S. 6 July 1804, hon.
F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon 1 foot guards 1804–9; surgeon to
Westminster general dispensary; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; surgeon
extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1837; author of _Observations on
some of the principal diseases of the Rectum_ 1810, _3 ed._ 1824;
_Observations on the symptoms and treatment of the diseased spine_
1815, _2 ed._ 1818 which was translated into several European
languages. _d._ Brighton 19 Nov. 1855, personalty sworn under
£180,000. _Medical Circular iii_, 31 (1853); _Pettigrew’s Medical
portrait gallery iv_, (1840), _portrait_.
COPELAND, REV. WILLIAM JOHN (_son of Wm. Copeland of Chigwell,
Essex, surgeon_). _b._ Chigwell 1 Sep. 1804; ed. at St. Paul’s
sch. and Trin. coll. Ox., Pauline exhibitioner 1824, scholar,
fellow 1830–49; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1831, B.D. 1840; C. of St. Olave,
Jewry, London 1829, C. of Hackney 1829–32; R. of Farnham, Essex
1849 to death; rural dean of Newport 1849–81; edited Newman’s
_Parochial and plain sermons 8 vols._ 1868; translated the
_Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Ephesians_
in vol. 5 of the _Library of the Fathers_. _d._ Farnham rectory 26
Aug. 1885, part of his library is now in the National Liberal
Club, Whitehall place, London.
COPELAND, WILLIAM ROBERT, _b._ Deal; apprenticed to a chemist;
lessee and manager of T.R. Liverpool and proprietor of royal
amphitheatre 1843; manager of Strand theatre, London which he
called “Punch’s Playhouse,” May 1851 to May 1852. _d._ New
Brighton, Cheshire 29 May 1867 aged 68. _bur._ Smithdown lane
cemetery, Liverpool 8 June. _Era 2 June 1867 p. 4, col. 4._
COPELAND, WILLIAM TAYLOR (_only son of Wm. Copeland of the Stoke
potteries, porcelain manufacturer, who d. 1826_). _b._ 24 March
1797; manufacturer of porcelain at Stoke upon Trent 1833; sheriff
of London and Middlesex 1828–29, alderman for ward of Bishopsgate
1829 to death, lord mayor 1835–36; M.P. for Coleraine 1833–37, for
Stoke upon Trent 1837–52 and 1857 to 6 July 1865; pres. of
Bridewell and of Bethlehem hospitals many years; bred racehorses
and kept a stud. _d._ Russell farm, Watford, Herts. 12 April 1868.
_John Ward’s Borough of Stoke upon Trent_ 1843 _pp._ 64, 497–504,
582; _Sporting Review lix_, 309 (1868); _Art Journal_ (1868) _p._
158; _I.L.N. xxxii_, 561 (1858), _portrait_.
COPLAND, JAMES, _b._ in the Orkneys, Nov. 1791; ed. at Lerwick and
Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1 Aug. 1815; Medical officer of the African
company on the Gold Coast 1817; practised in London 1820–69;
edited _The London medical repository_ 1822–27; L.R.C.P. London 26
June 1820, fellow 3 July 1837, censor 1841, 1842 and 1861,
Gulstonian lecturer 1838, Croonian lecturer 1844–46, Lumleian
lecturer 1854–55, Harveian orator 1857, Consiliarius 1844,
1849–51, 1861–63; F.R.S. 5 Dec. 1833; pres. of Pathological Soc;
author of _A dictionary of practical medicine 3 vols._ 1858
brought out in parts Sep. 1832–1858; _The forms, complications,
causes, prevention and treatment of consumption and bronchitis_
1861. _d._ Hertford house, Brondesbury road, Kilburn near London
12 July 1870. _Physic and physicians ii_, 285–89 (1839); _T. J.
Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery i_, 109 (1840), _portrait_;
_J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical
profession_ (1874) 410–20; _Medical Circular iv, 299, 317 and 353_
(1854).
COPLEY, SIR JOSEPH WILLIAM, 4 Baronet, _b._ London 27 July 1804;
succeeded 21 May 1838; sheriff of Yorkshire 1843. _d._
Sprotborough hall, Doncaster 4 Jany. 1883.
COPPOCK, JAMES (_eld. son of Wm. Coppock of Stockport, Cheshire,
mercer_). _b._ Stockport 2 Sep. 1798; partner in a silk firm in
London; admitted attorney 1836; sec. to Liberal Registration
Society with a residence in the Society’s rooms 3 Cleveland row,
St. James’s 1835; treasurer of county courts, Aug. 1857 to death;
sec. of the Reform Club, London, May to June 1836 when he was
elected an hon. life member and appointed solicitor to the club;
author of _The electors’ manual_ 1835. _d._ 3 Cleveland row, St.
James’s, London 19 Dec. 1857.
CORBALLIS, JOHN RICHARD (_2 son of Richard Corballis of Rosemount,
Roebuck, co. Dublin_). _b._ Dublin 1796; ed. at the Lay college of
Maynooth and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1816, LL.B. and LLD. 1832;
barrister King’s Inns, Dublin 1820; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher of
King’s Inns; comr. of charitable bequests for Ireland 18 Sep.
1845; law adviser to the Crown in Ireland 1853–58 and 1859–64;
crown prosecutor on the Home circuit; chairman of quarter sessions
for co. Kilkenny to 1862. _d._ Rosemount 13 Feb. 1879 in 83 year.
CORBALLY, MATTHEW ELIAS. _b._ 1797; sheriff of Meath 1838; M.P.
Meath 1840–41 and 1842 to death. _d._ Corbalton hall, Tara, co.
Meath 25 Nov. 1870.
CORBAUX, MARIE FRANÇOISE CATHERINE DOETTER, usually called Fanny
Corbaux (_dau. of François Corbaux, F.R.S. who d. 1 May 1843 aged
74_). _b._ 1812; studied at National Gallery and British
Institution; gained gold medal of Society of Arts for a portrait
in miniature 1830; hon. mem. of Society of British Artists 1830;
mem. of New Soc. of Painters in Water colours; granted civil list
pension of £30, 26 Sep. 1871; wrote in the _Athenæum_, _Letters on
the physical geography of the Exodus_; wrote in the _Journal of
sacred literature_ a series of papers giving the history of a
remarkable nation called ‘the Rephaim’ in the Bible; wrote an
historical and chronological introduction to _The Exodus Papyri by
D. I. Heath_ 1855. _d._ Brighton 1 Feb. 1883. _E. C. Clayton’s
English female artists ii_, 68–70.
CORBET, SIR ANDREW VINCENT, 2 Baronet. _b._ Shawbury park,
Shropshire 15 June 1800; succeeded 5 June 1835; sheriff of
Shropshire 1843. _d._ Brancepeth castle, Durham 13 Sep. 1855.
CORBETT, PANTON (_2 son of Ven. Joseph Plymley, archdeacon of Salop,
who took surname of Corbett 1806 and d. 22 June 1838 aged 79_).
_b._ Bank house, Longnor, Salop, April 1785; barrister L.I. 21
June 1806; M.P. for Shrewsbury 1820–1830; high steward of borough
of Welshpool; sheriff of Shropshire 1849; chairman of Shropshire
quarter sessions 1850 to June 1855. _d._ Longnor hall, Shropshire
22 Nov. 1855.
CORBETT, SIR STUART (_son of Ven. Stuart Corbett, archdeacon of
York, who d. 25 Aug. 1845 aged 71_). _b._ Tankersley, Yorkshire
1802; entered Bengal army 1814; lieut. col. 25 Bengal N.I. 26 Dec.
1846 to 1854; colonel 16 Bengal N.I. 18 May 1856 to death, M.G. 4
Feb. 1859; commanded Benares division 6 July 1863 to death; C.B. 9
June 1849, K.C.B. 28 Jany. 1862. _d._ Nynee Tal, India 1 Aug.
1865.
CORBETT-WINDER, UVEDALE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 15 Nov.
1792; ed. at Pemb. coll. Ox.; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1815; comr.
of bankruptcy in Wolverhampton district; recorder of Bridgnorth
1844–71; recorder of Wenlock to 1871; judge of county courts,
circuit 27, Shropshire, March 1847 to Sep. 1865 when he resigned;
assumed additional surname of Winder 2 June 1869. _d._ 36 Princes
gardens, London 7 Feb. 1871.
CORCORAN, MICHAEL, _b._ Carrowkeal, co. Sligo 21 Sep. 1827;
emigrated to United States 1849, clerk in the post office there;
colonel of 69 New York militia, Aug. 1859; taken prisoner at
battle of Bull Run 21 July 1861, released 15 Aug. 1862; brigadier
general 21 July 1861; organised the Corcoran legion which took
part in the battles of Nansemond river and Suffolk, April 1863 and
held in check advance of the enemy upon Norfolk, the legion was
attached to army of the Potomac, Aug. 1863. _d._ of injuries
received by a fall from his horse near Fairfax courthouse,
Virginia 22 Dec. 1863. _The captivity of General Corcoran_ 1862;
_Bramhall’s Military souvenir_ (1863), _memoir and portrait No.
45_.
CORDER, SUSANNA. Author of _Memorials of deceased members of the
Society of Friends_ 1837, _6 ed._ 1845; _A brief outline of the
origin, principles and church government of the Society of
Friends_ 1841, translated into French 1845; _Life of Elizabeth
Fry_ 1853; _Christian instruction in the history, types and
prophecies of the Old Testament_ 1854, _2 ed._ 1855; edited
_Memoir of Priscilla Gurney_ 1856. _d._ Chelmsford 28 Feb. 1864
aged 76.
CORDNER, WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ Dungannon, co. Tyrone 1826; teacher of
music at Armagh; the best tenor singer in north of Ireland;
organist of St. Patrick’s church, Sydney 1854–56, of St. Mary’s
cathedral, Sydney 1856 to death. _d._ Sydney 15 July 1870.
CORFE, ARTHUR THOMAS (_3 son of Joseph Corfe 1740–1820, organist of
Salisbury cathedral_). _b._ Salisbury 9 April 1773; a chorister of
Westminster abbey 1783; organist of Salisbury cathedral 1804 to
death; organised and undertook a musical festival at Salisbury 19
to 22 Aug. 1828; wrote a service, a few anthems and some
pianoforte pieces; author of _A collection of anthems used in
cathedral church, Canterbury_ 1830. Found dead at his bedside in
his house The Close, Salisbury 28 Jany. 1863. _F. Lear’s Sermon on
death of Archdeacon Drury and A. T. Corfe_ 1863.
CORFE, CHARLES WILLIAM (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 13 July 1814;
organist of Ch. Ch. cath. Ox. 1846–81; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1847;
choragus of univ. of Ox. 1860 to death. _d._ 14 Beaumont st.
Oxford 16 Dec. 1883. _bur._ Ch. Ch. cathedral 19 Dec.
CORFE, JOHN DAVIS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1804; organist
of Bristol cathedral more than 50 years; conductor for many years
of the Bristol Madrigal Society one of the most famous choirs in
England. _d._ of heart disease at 31 Richmond terrace, Clifton 16
Jany. 1876.
CORFIELD, FREDERICK BROOKE. Ensign 28 Bengal N.I. 3 April 1820;
lieut.-col. of 20 Bengal N.I. 3 Sep. 1849, of 49 B.N.I. 1852, of
17 B.N.I. 1853, of 55 B.N.I. 1854, of 2 B.N.I. 1855, of 6 B.N.I.
1857, of 5 B.N.I. 1858; col. 5 European infantry 26 April 1859 to
1869; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Knowle house, Upper Norwood 2 Sep.
1884 aged 81. _I.L.N. lxxxv_, 292 (1884), _portrait_.
CORFIELD, WILLIAM ROBERT. Ensign 15 Bengal N.I. 3 Dec. 1821; general
on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 128 Lexham gardens, London 30
Nov. 1882. _Graphic xxvii_, 225 (1883), _portrait_.
CORK and ORRERY, EDMUND BOYLE, 8 Earl of (_2 son of 7 Earl of Cork
and Orrery 1742–98_). _b._ 21 Oct. 1767; ensign 22 foot 13 April
1785; lieut. col. 87 foot 29 March 1794 to 7 Jany. 1795; lieut.
col. 11 foot 7 Jany. 1795 to 17 May 1796; captain Coldstream
Guards 17 May 1796 to 17 Sep. 1802, commanded first battalion in
Egypt 1801; succeeded his father Oct. 1798; col. of 16 battalion
of Reserve 9 July 1803 to 1804; general 27 May 1825; K.P. 22 July
1835. _d._ 3 Hamilton place, London 29 June 1856.
CORKRAN, JOHN FRAZER. _b._ Dublin; a dramatic writer in Dublin;
wrote many articles in _Dublin Univ. Mag._; Paris correspondent of
_Morning Herald_ and _Evening Standard_ about 1836; author of
_History of the national constituent assembly 2 vols._ 1849; _An
hour ago, or time in dreamland, a mystery_ 1858; _East and West,
or once upon a time 3 vols._ 1861; _Bertha’s Repentance_ 1863.
_d._ 9 Clairville grove, Old Brompton, London 3 Feb. 1884.
CORMACK, SIR JOHN ROSE (_only son of Rev. John Cormack, minister of
Stoke near Edinburgh_). _b._ Edin. 1815; ed. at Univ. of Edin.,
M.D. 1837; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1841; phys. to Royal infirmary, Edin.;
edited _Edinburgh Monthly Journal_ 1841–46; F.R.S. Edin.; M.D.
Paris 1870; surgeon to Ambulance Anglaise during both the sieges
of Paris 1870–71; chevalier of Legion of honour 1871; F.R.C.P.
London 1872; knighted at Buckingham palace 14 March 1872; author
of _Treatise on the properties of Creosote_ 1836; _Pathology of
fever in Edinburgh_ 1844; _Clinical studies illustrated by cases 2
vols._ 1876. _d._ 364 Rue st. Honoré, Paris 13 May 1882. _Medical
Circular iii_, 109–110 (1853).
CORNER, ARTHUR BLOXHAM (_2 son of Richard Corner of Southwark,
London, solicitor, who d. 1820_). _b._ parish of St. Olave’s,
Southwark 29 Jany. 1803; clerk in the Crown office, Temple 1822,
assistant master, May 1847; Queen’s coroner and attorney 26 April
1859 to death; published with his brother Richard James Corner
_The practice of the Crown side of the Court of Queen’s Bench_
1844. _d._ Laurel cottage, Lee road, Blackheath 17 Jany. 1861.
CORNER, GEORGE RICHARD (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ parish of
Ch. Ch. Blackfriar’s road, London 1801; admitted an attorney 1824;
vestry clerk of parish of St. Olave, Southwark about 1835; F.S.A.
28 Nov. 1833, contributed papers to the _Archæologia_ 1834–60; an
original member of Numismatic Society of London 1836 and of
British Archæol. Assoc. 1843; author of _A concise account of the
local government of the borough of Southwark_ 1836; _The rental of
St. Olave and St. John, Southwark_ 1838, _2 ed._ 1851. _d._
Queen’s Row, Camberwell 31 Oct. 1863. _C. R. Smith’s Collectanea
Antiqua vi_, 324–26 (1868); _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc.
xx_, 181–6 (1864).
CORNER, JULIA (_dau. of John Corner of London, engraver_). _b._
1798; author of _Historical Library 14 vols._ 1840–48; _Pictorial
history of China and India_ 1846; _Children’s own Sunday book_
1850; _History of the United Kingdom_ 1852; _Little plays for
little actors 2 vols._ 1855, _new ed._ 1870; _Calverley Rise, a
tale 3 vols._ 1861; _No Relations 3 vols._ 1864, and about 50
other books. _d._ 92 Clarendon road, Notting hill, London 16 Aug.
1875.
CORNER, RICHARD JAMES (_brother of George Richard Corner 1801–63_).
_b._ Lambeth 1805; barrister I.T. 1840; chief justice of the Gold
Coast 13 March 1858; chief justice of British Honduras 3 July 1862
to 1872 when he resigned; one of the authors of _Reports of cases
in all the superior courts of common law_ 1853–55, _3 vols. in 5_,
1853–55. _d._ East Moulsey, Surrey 27 Feb. 1876.
CORNEWALL, SIR VELTERS, 4 Baronet. _b._ Moccas court, Weobly, co.
Hereford 20 Feb. 1824; succeeded 27 Dec. 1835; sheriff of co.
Hereford 1847; joint master of the Herefordshire hunt; a breeder
of hunters. _d._ 14 Oct. 1868.
CORNEY, BOLTON. _b._ Greenwich 28 April 1784; ensign 28 foot 1803;
first clerk in Steward’s department at Greenwich hospital 16 April
1834 to Dec. 1844; lived at Barnes, Surrey 1848 to death; a member
of council of Shakespeare Soc. and of Camden Soc.; had a long
controversy with Isaac D’Israeli respecting statements in his
writings; author of _Researches and conjectures on the Bayeux
tapestry_ 1836; _Curiosities of literature by I. D’Israeli
illustrated_ 1837, _2 ed. to which are added Ideas on controversy,
deduced from the practice of a Veteran_ 1838; _The sonnets of
William Shakspere, a critical disquisition_ 1862 _privately
printed_, and many other works; his library was sold at Sotheby’s
in June 1871 for £3539 9s. 6d. _d._ 29 The Terrace, Barnes 30 Aug.
1870. F. _Hitchman’s Eighteenth century studies_ (1881), 254–71;
_Notes and Queries 4 series vi_, 206 (1870), _6 series ii_, 123
(1880), _iv_, 291 (1881).
CORNISH, REV. HENRY HUBERT (_2 son of Charles Cornish of Gatcombe
house, Totnes_). Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 19 Feb. 1835 aged
23, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1842, B.D. and D.D. 1866; chaplain of C.C.
coll. 1845–50; tutor of New Inn hall 1858, principal 1866 to
death, when the hall ceased to possess an independent existence
having been made over to Balliol college by the University
Commission. _d._ Oxford 9 June 1887.
CORNWALLIS, JAMES MANN, 5 Earl. _b._ 20 Sep. 1778; ed. at St. John’s
coll. Cam., M.A. 1798; M.P. for Eye, Suffolk 30 Oct. 1799 to 29
April 1807; succeeded 20 Jany. 1824. _d._ Linton place near
Maidstone 21 May 1852.
CORNWALLIS, CAROLINE FRANCES (_younger dau. of Rev. Wm. Cornwallis
1751–1827, R. of Elham, Kent_). _b._ 12 July 1786; learnt Latin,
Greek, Hebrew and German; shared with Micaiah Hill prize of £200
given by Lady Byron for best essay on ‘Juvenile Delinquency’ 1853;
chief projector of a series of 22 vols. entitled _Small books on
great subjects edited by some well-wishers to knowledge_ 1841,
author of many of the vols. including the first which was entitled
_Philosophical theories and philosophical experience by a Pariah_
1841; published _Pericles, a tale of Athens in the 83rd Olympiad 2
vols._ 1846, _anon._; _An exposition of the vulgar and common
errors adapted to the year of grace, MDCCCXLV, by Thomas Brown
redivivus_ 1846. _d._ Lidwells near Goudhurst, Kent 8 Jany. 1858.
_Selections from the letters of C. F. Cornwallis_ (1864).
CORRI, HAYDN (_son of Domenico Corri, Italian musical composer
1746–1825_). _b._ Edinburgh 1785; teacher of music at Dublin;
composed a few glees and songs, one of which his vocal arrangement
of _The harmonious blacksmith_ used to be much sung; organist to
the cathedral, Great Marlborough st. Dublin; arranged for the
organ under Cherubini’s instruction that composer’s famous mass in
D (written for coronation of Charles X) and added an additional
voice part; wrote the music to _There grows a bonny briar bush_
1815, _Can you love me, lady fair_ 1820, _Music can guide the
soul_ 1821, _O fly to the woods_ 1821; his wife was chief singer
at all the great concerts in Dublin many years, and _d._ Leeds 10
April 1867 in 68 year, he _d._ Dublin 19 Feb. 1860. _Era 26 Feb.
1860 p. 11, col. 2._
CORRI, PATRICK ANTHONY (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1820;
chorister in churches in Dublin; first appeared in London at
Princess’s theatre about 1845 as a baritone singer; sang at
Manchester; sang in operas at Grecian theatre, London 1849;
musical director at Weston’s music hall, Holborn, London 1857 to
death, the name was changed from Weston’s to The Royal 1868;
composed some vocal music. _d._ Bradford 1 June 1876. _bur._
Scholemore cemetery 3 June. _Entr’acte 10 June 1876 p. 8, 17 June
p. 7_, _portrait_; _Era 11 June 1876, p. 6_.
CORRIE, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Perthshire 1777; held a horticultural post
near Edinburgh about 1797–1807; manager of the estate of Annat
near Errol in Perthshire 1807–57; contributed agricultural reports
to Scottish papers; contributed many papers on agriculture and
horticulture to Loudon’s and other magazines. _d._ Annat cottage
near Errol 1857 in 80 year.
CORRIE, REV. GEORGE ELWES (_son of Rev. John Corrie, C. of
Colsterworth, co. Lincoln_). _b._ Colsterworth 28 April 1793;
entered Catharine hall, Cam., Oct. 1813, 18 wrangler 1817, B.A.
1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1831, D.D. 1853; fellow of his college 1818,
assistant tutor, dean and steward 1820, tutor 1821–49; Norrisian
professor of divinity in Univ. of Cam. 1838–54; exam. chaplain to
bishop of Ely 1845–64; master of Jesus coll. Cam. Dec. 1849 to
death; vice chancellor 1850; R. of Newton, Isle of Ely 1851 to
death; rural dean of Wisbech 1851–78; a founder of Cambridge
Antiquarian Soc. 1840; leader of Conservative party in Univ. of
Cam.; published _Catalogue of the original library of St.
Catharine’s hall_ 1840; _The sermons and remains of Hugh Latimer 2
vols._ 1844; _History of the Reformation by G. Burnet_ 1847;
edited _A concise history of the church and state of England
during the reign of Henry VIII_ 1874; edited for the University
Press _An Historical Vindication of the Church of England by Sir
R. Twysden_ 1847; _The Homilies_ 1850; and _A rational
illustration of the book of Common Prayer, by C. Wheatley_ 1858.
_d._ The lodge, Jesus college, Cambridge 20 Sep. 1885.
CORRIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Wellingborough 1806; practised as solicitor;
barrister I.T. 10 June 1836; magistrate at Clerkenwell police
court, London 1851–60, at Bow st. 1860–64; remembrancer of city of
London 1864 to June 1878; author of _An analysis of the Municipal
Boroughs bill_ 1870. _d._ 26 Cleveland sq. London 24 March 1881.