Dublin, merchant, who d. 1838_). _b._ 91 Thomas st. Dublin 1 Dec.
1802; M.D. Edin. 1825, M.D. Dublin 1849; lecturer on medicine in
Carmichael school, Dublin 1833; phys. to the House of Industry
hospitals 1840–66; M.R.C.S. London 1843; phys. in ord. to Queen in
Ireland 23 Nov. 1847; medical comr. under Medical Charities Act
1851; fellow of King and Queen’s college of phys. in Ireland 27
Oct. 1856, pres. 1859–64; created baronet 5 Feb. 1866; M.P. for
city of Dublin 1870 to 1874; vice chancellor of Queen’s univ.
Dublin, June 1871; author of _On famine and fever in Ireland_
1846; _Lectures on the nature and treatment of fever_ 1853; _Ten
days in Athens with notes by the way_ 1862. _d._ Merrion sq.
Dublin 1 Feb. 1880. _Irish Monthly viii_, 160–71 (1880); _I.L.N.
xlviii_, 252 (1866), _portrait_.
CORRY, ARMAR LOWRY. Entered navy 1 Aug. 1805, captain 23 July 1821;
admiralty superintendent of packet service at Southampton 1850–52;
R.A. 8 March 1852; commanded western squadron on the Home and
Lisbon stations 1852–54; second in command of English fleet in the
Baltic, March to July 1854; named a K.C.B. in London Gazette 10
July 1855. _d._ Paris 2 May 1855 aged 62.
CORRY, HENRY THOMAS LOWRY (_younger son of 2 Earl of Belmore
1774–1841_). _b._ Dublin 9 March 1803; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch.
Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1829; M.P. for co. Tyrone 20 June 1826 to
death; comptroller of the household 29 Dec. 1834 to 1835; P.C. 23
Feb. 1835; a lord of the Admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 12 Feb. 1845,
sec. to the Admiralty 13 Feb. 1845 to 13 July 1846, and March 1858
to June 1859; vice pres. of committee of privy council for
education 12 July 1866 to March 1867, fourth charity comr. 18 July
1866; first lord of the Admiralty, March 1867 to Dec. 1868; author
of _Naval promotion and retirement_ 1863; _The Navy, Speeches in
House of Commons_ 1872. _d._ Bournemouth 6 March 1873. _I.L.N.
lxii_, 259, 280, 282 (1873), _portrait_.
CORSER, REV. THOMAS (_3 son of George Corser of Whitchurch, Salop,
banker_). _b._ Whitchurch 1793; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and
Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; C. of Prestwich, Lancs.
1823–6; R. of Stand near Manchester 8 Sep. 1826 to death; V. of
Norton by Daventry, Northamptonshire 1828 to death; rural dean of
Prestwich 1852–68; F.S.A. 1850; one of projectors of Chetham
Society 1843; edited for the Society _Chester’s Triumph_ 1844,
_Iter Lancastrense by R. James_ 1845, _Robinson’s Golden Mirror_
1850, and _Collectanea Anglopoetica 5 parts_ 1860–80 being a
description of the rare books in his own library which realised
upwards of £20,000 when sold in London in 7 portions 1868–74. _d._
Stand rectory 24 Aug. 1876. _Manchester school register iii_,
32–36 (1874).
CORYTON, JOHN RAWLINS. Second lieut. R.M. 6 July 1803; col.
commandant of Plymouth division 23 Dec. 1851 to 20 June 1855;
granted good service pension 5 Sep. 1858; general 8 Sep. 1858.
_d._ Woolwich 12 Sep. 1867 aged 77.
COSTA, SIR MICHAEL ANDREW AGNUS (_son of Cavaliere Pasquale Costa,
who d. 1845_). _b._ Naples 4 Feb. 1810; accompanist at San Carlo
theatre, Naples 1828; sang at Birmingham musical festival, Oct.
1829; director of music at King’s theatre, London 1832–46; the
first person in England to conduct with a baton instead of a
violin bow 1832; naturalised in England 28 July 1845; director of
music at Covent Garden 1846–66; conductor of the Philharmonic
concerts 1846–54; conductor of Sacred harmonic society 22 Sep.
1848; directed triennial musical festivals at Birmingham 1849–79
and at Leeds 1874–80; directed Handel festivals at Crystal palace
1857–77; knighted at Windsor castle 14 April 1869; director of Her
Majesty’s opera 1871–79; the first master of the art of conducting
in England; composed oratorios of _Eli_ and _Naaman_ produced at
Birmingham musical festivals 29 Aug. 1855 and 7 Sep. 1864, opera
of _Malek Adhel_ produced in Paris 1837 and in London 1838, and
opera of _Don Carlos_ produced at Her Majesty’s opera 1844; wrote
many songs and other music. _d._ 13 Seafield, West Brighton 29
April 1884. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 6 May. _Illust. Review
i_, 385–6 (1874), _portrait_; _Touchstone 15 Feb. 1879, p._ 3,
_portrait_; _Illust. news of the world iii_, 385 (1859),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. i_, 124 (1842), _portrait, iv_, 404 (1844),
_portrait_, _xxx_, 13 (1857), _portrait_, _lxxxiv_, 440 (1884),
_portrait_.
COSTELLO, DUDLEY (_only son of James Francis Costello, captain 14
foot_). _b._ Sussex 1803; ensign 34 foot 1821–23 when placed on
h.p.; ensign 96 foot 1824–28 when placed on h.p.; served on the
staff in North America and West Indies; contributed to many
periodicals 1835 to death; foreign correspondent of _Morning
Herald_ 1838, of _Daily News_ 1846; connected with the _Examiner_
1845 to death; granted civil list pension of £75 a year 19 April
1861; author of _A tour through the valley of the Meuse_ 1845;
_Stories from a screen_ 1855; _The joint-stock bank_ 1856; _The
millionaire of Mincing lane_ 1858; _Faint heart never won fair
lady_ 1859; _Piedmont and Italy from the Alps to the Tiber 2
vols._ 1859–61; _Holidays with Hobgoblins_ 1861. _d._ 54 Acacia
road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 Sep. 1865. _Bentley’s Miscellany
lviii_, 543–50 (1865); _The Examiner 7 Oct. 1865 p. 637_.
COSTELLO, LOUISA STUART (_only sister of the preceding_). _b._ 1799;
a miniature painter in Paris and London; copied many curious
illuminated MSS. in Paris and London; granted civil list pension
of £75, 9 Aug. 1852; lived at Boulogne 1865 to death; author of
_The maid of the Cyprus Isle and other poems_ 1815; _Songs of a
stranger_ 1825; _A summer among the Bocages and the vines_ 1840;
_Memoirs of eminent Englishwomen_ 1844; _The falls, lakes and
mountains of North Wales_ 1845; _The lay of the stork, a poem_
1856 and 12 other books. _d._ of cancer in the mouth, at Boulogne
24 April 1870.
COSTELLO, WILLIAM BIRMINGHAM. _b._ Dublin 1800; a surgeon in London
about 1832; proprietor of Wyke house asylum, Sion hill, Brentford;
edited _Cyclopædia of practical surgery_ 12 _parts_ 1841–3. _d._
Paris 15 Aug. 1867.
COTES, JOHN. _b._ 17 July 1799; sheriff of Shropshire 1826; M.P. for
North Shropshire 21 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834. _d._ Woodcote hall,
Newport, Shropshire 10 Jany. 1874.
COTHER, CHARLES. Ensign 71 foot, Feb. 1800, lieut. col. 13 Oct.
1814; lieut. col. 83 foot 24 Oct. 1816 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed
on h.p.; retired 3 Dec. 1829; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815. _d._ York
buildings, Gloucester 24 Jany. 1855.
COTMAN, JOSEPH JOHN (_2 son of John Sell Cotman, landscape painter
1782–1842_). _b._ 1814; a drawing master at Norwich 1836; an
artist of much original power; produced a large number of good
drawings; underwent an operation for cancer of the tongue, Feb.
1878. _d._ Norfolk and Norwich hospital, Norwich 15 March 1878.
COTMAN, MILES EDMUND (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 5 Jany.
1810; drawing master at Norwich to 1836; assistant drawing master
at King’s college, London 1836, drawing master 1843; painted and
taught at North Walsham latterly; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A.,
10 at B.I. and 19 at Society of British Artists 1835–56; published
_Eleven original etchings, Norwich_ 1846. _d._ Norfolk and Norwich
hospital, Norwich 23 Jany. 1858.
COTON, WILLIAM. Pyrotechnic artist at 4 Elizabeth place, Westminster
bridge, London; supplied the fireworks for Vauxhall gardens;
killed by an explosion of fireworks at his factory 6 March 1854,
his widow was killed by an explosion at same place 12 July 1858.
_Annual Register_ (1854) 40, (1858) 120–2.
COTTENHAM, CHARLES CHRISTOPHER PEPYS, 1 Earl of (_2 son of Sir Wm.
Weller Pepys, 1 baronet 1740–1825, master in chancery_). _b._
Wimpole st. London 29 April 1781; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll.
Cam., LL.B. 1803; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1804; practised in court
of chancery; K.C. 24 Aug. 1826; solicitor general to Queen
Adelaide, Nov. 1830; M.P. for Higham Ferrers 14 July 1831 to Sep.
1831, for Malton 30 Sep. 1831 to Jany. 1836; solicitor general 22
Feb. 1834; knighted at St. James’s Palace 26 Feb. 1834; Master of
the Rolls 29 Sep. 1834; P.C. 1 Oct. 1834; first comr. of the Great
Seal 23 April 1835; lord chancellor 16 Jany. 1836 to 3 Sep. 1841
and 6 July 1846 to 19 June 1850 when he resigned; created Baron
Cottenham of Cottenham, co. Cambridge 20 Jany. 1836; succeeded his
brother as 3 baronet 5 Oct. 1845 and his cousin Rev. Sir H. L.
Pepys as 4 baronet 9 Dec. 1849; created Viscount Crowhurst and
Earl of Cottenham 11 June 1850; the act 10 & 11 Vict. c. 96
whereby trustees are authorised to pay trust moneys into court is
known as Lord Cottenham’s act. _d._ Pietra Santa, Duchy of Lucca
29 April 1851. _bur._ Totteridge, Herts. _Doyle’s Official
baronage i_, 464 (1886), _portrait_; _Law Mag. xlvi_, 280–8
(1851); _Law Review xiv_, 353–9 (1851); _Law mag. and law review
xxvii_, 264–72 (1869); _Lord Cottenham’s Earldom_, _2 ed._ 1850.
COTTER, GEORGE SACKVILLE. Second lieut. Madras artillery 15 June
1827, lieut. col. 1 Sep. 1860 to 15 Nov. 1861 when he retired;
commanded at siege and capture of Lucknow, July 1857 to March
1858; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ 25 June 1878.
COTTER, SIR LUDLOW (_eld. son of Sir James Laurence Cotter, 4
baronet of Rockforest, Mallow, Cork, b. 1828_). _b._ Dublin 11
June 1853; knighted by the Queen at Windsor castle 12 Dec. 1874 in
accordance with a special privilege contained in the patent as the
eldest son of a baronet. _d._ Rockforest 24 Nov. 1882.
COTTERILL, RIGHT REV. HENRY (_son of Rev. Joseph Cotterill, R. of
Blakeney, Norfolk, who d. 14 Feb. 1858 aged 78_). _b._ Ampton,
Suffolk 1812; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., Bell’s scholar, fellow
1835; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1835, B.A. 1835,
M.A. 1836, D.D. 1857; chaplain at Madras 1836–47; vice principal
of Brighton college 1847–51, principal 1851–56; bishop of
Grahamstown 4 Nov. 1856 to 26 April 1871 when he was elected
co-adjutor bishop of Edinburgh; bishop of Edin. April 1872 to
death; author of _The Seven ages of the Church_ 1849; _The Genesis
of the Church_ 1872; _Does science aid faith in regard to
creation_ 1883 and many other works. _d._ Manor place, Edin. 16
April 1886.
COTTINGHAM, NOCKALLS JOHNSON (_elder son of Lewis Nockalls
Cottingham, architect 1787–1847_). _b._ 1823; an architect;
assisted his father, especially in restoration of Hereford
cathedral where he designed the reredos 1847; a designer for
stained glass. Lost in the steamship Arctic which foundered about
50 miles from Cape Race on her way from Liverpool to New York 27
Sep. 1854.
COTTLE, JOSEPH. _b._ 1770; bookseller at Bristol 1791–99; published
several of the works of the Lake poets Coleridge, Southey and
Wordsworth; author of _Malvern Hills_ 1798, _4 ed._ 1829; _Alfred,
an epic poem_ 1800, _2 ed. 2 vols._ 1804; _John the Baptist, a
poem_ 1801; _The fall of Cambria, a poem 2 vols._ 1808, _2 ed._
1811; _Early recollections chiefly relating to Samuel Taylor
Coleridge 2 vols._ 1837–39, _2 ed._ 1847. _d._ Fairfield house,
Knowle near Bristol 7 June 1853. _Pen and ink sketches_, _2 ed._
(1847) 165–74; _J. Cottle’s Early recollections_ (1837),
_portrait_.
COTTON, CORBET. _b._ 10 Aug. 1808; ensign 19 foot 9 April 1825;
assistant adjutant general of cavalry at head quarters 21 Aug.
1854 to 4 Oct. 1859; colonel 101 foot 29 Dec. 1873 to death;
general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 65 Warwick sq. Belgravia, London 30
April 1885.
COTTON, FRANCIS VERE (_son of Henry Calveley Cotton of Woodcote,
Oxfordshire, who d. 15 May 1831 aged 81_). _b._ 16 June 1799;
entered navy, May 1814; captain 23 Nov. 1841; placed on retired
list 4 June 1855; retired admiral 30 July 1875. _d._ Alport house,
Whitchurch, Salop 30 Jany. 1884.
COTTON, RIGHT REV. GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (_only son of Thomas
D’Avenant Cotton, captain 7 fusiliers, who was killed at Nivelle
near Bayonne 13 Nov. 1813_). _b._ Chester 29 Oct. 1813; ed. at
Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1838, B.A. 1836, M.A.
1839, D.D. 1858; assistant master at Rugby 1837–52, ‘the young
master’ of _Tom Brown’s School Days_; master of Marlborough
1852–58 which he completely reorganised; bishop of Calcutta 29
March 1858 to death; consecrated in Westminster abbey 13 May 1858,
installed 14 Nov. 1858; established schools in Bengal for
educating the middle classes; author of numerous sermons, charges
and other works; drowned at Kushtiâ on the Gorai river 6 Oct.
1866, body never found. _Memoir of G. E. L. Cotton edited by Mrs.
Cotton_, _new ed._ (1872); _Macmillan’s Mag. xv_, 102–111 (1866);
_I.L.N. xxxii_, 525 (1858), _portrait_.
COTTON, VERY REV. HENRY. _b._ Bucks 1790; ed. at Westminster and Ch.
Ch, Ox., reader in Greek 1810, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1813; sub-librarian
at the Bodleian library 1814–22; a student of Ch. Ch.; domestic
chaplain to archbishop of Cashel 1823; preb. of Killardriffe,
Cashel 1 Oct. 1823 to 19 June 1824; archdeacon of Cashel 19 June
1824; treasurer of Ch. Ch. cathedral, Dublin 12 June 1832; dean of
Lismore 16 Dec. 1834 to 1850; author of _A list of editions of the
Bible in English from 1505 to 1820, with specimens of
translations_ 1821, _2 ed._ 1852; _A typographical gazetteer
attempted_ 1824, _2 ed._ 1831, _second series_ 1866; _The five
books of Maccabees in English_ 1833; _Fasti ecclesiæ Hibernicæ 5
vols._ 1845–78; _The four gospels and the acts of the apostles
with short notes_ 1857, and many other works. _d._ Lismore 3 Dec.
1879.
COTTON, VERY REV. JAMES HENRY (_2 son of Very Rev. George Cotton
1742–1805, dean of Chester_). _b._ the deanery, Chester 8 Feb.
1781; ed. at Chester and St. John’s coll. Cam., LL.B. 1804; V. of
Bangor 1819–38; precentor of Bangor 31 March 1810 to 31 March
1838; R. of Llanllechyd, Carnarvonshire 1821 to death; dean of
Bangor 31 March 1838 to death; author of sermons, pamphlets and
addresses. _d._ the deanery, Bangor 28 May 1862.
COTTON, JOHN. Writer Madras civil service 1801; principal magistrate
of Tangore 1821–27; annuitant on the fund 1 May 1830; a director
of East India Co. 30 April 1833, deputy chairman of Court of
directors 1842, chairman 1843–45. _d._ Westbourne terrace, Hyde
Park, London 16 July 1860 aged 76.
COTTON, REV. RICHARD LYNCH (_brother of Francis Vere Cotton
1799–1884_). _b._ Woodcote 14 Aug. 1794; ed. at Charterhouse and
Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1839;
scholar of Worcester coll. 8 May 1815, fellow 7 May 1816, tutor,
dean and bursar, provost Feb. 1839 to death, resided continuously
in Worcester coll. 1815 to 1880; V. of Denchworth near Wantage
1823–39; vice chancellor of Univ. of Ox. 1852–57; promoted
building of Shippon, Dry Sandford and Headington Quarry churches;
author of _Scriptural view of the Lord’s Supper_ 1837; _The way of
salvation plainly and practically traced_ 1837; _Lectures on the
holy sacrament of the Lord’s Supper_ 1849. _d._ Oxford 8 Dec.
1880. _bur._ Holywell cemetery 14 Dec. _Guardian 29 Dec. 1880 p._
1, 819.
COTTON, SIR SAINT VINCENT, 6 Baronet (_eld. son of admiral Sir
Charles Cotton, 5 baronet 1753–1812_). _b._ Madingley hall, Cambs.
6 Oct. 1801; succeeded 24 Feb. 1812; ed. at Westminster and Ch.
Ch. Ox.; cornet 10 light dragoons 13 May 1827, lieut. 13 Dec. 1827
to 19 Nov. 1830 when placed on h.p.; distinguished himself in the
hunting, shooting, racing and pugilistic world; played in
Marylebone cricket matches 1830–35; a great player at hazard;
dissipated all his property; drove the ‘Age’ coach from Brighton
to London and back for some years from 1836. _d._ 5 Hyde park
terrace, Kensington road, London 25 Jany. 1863. _New sporting mag.
xii_, 81, 421 (1837), _portrait_.
COTTON, SIR SYDNEY JOHN (_brother of Rev. Richard Lynch Cotton
1794–1880_). _b._ 2 Dec. 1792; cornet 22 dragoons 19 April 1810;
lieut. col. 28 foot 8 Jany. 1843; lieut. col. 22 foot 2 Dec. 1847;
lieut. col. 10 foot 14 Dec. 1854 to 26 Oct. 1858; commanded the
troops on north west frontier of India during Indian mutiny
1857–58; col. 10 foot 5 Feb. 1863 to death; L.G. 20 April 1866;
governor of Chelsea hospital 10 May 1872 to death; K.C.B. 24 March
1858, G.C.B. 24 May 1873; author of _Remarks on drill_ 1857; _Nine
years on the north west frontier of India_ 1868; _The Central
Asian question, a prophecy fulfilled_ 1869, reprinted 1878. _d._
Chelsea hospital 20 Feb. 1874. _F. Brodigan’s Historical record of
28 Foot_ (1884) 94–9; _Kaye’s Sepoy Mutiny ii_, 453, _et seq._;
_I.L.N. xxxii_, 489 (1858), _portrait_; _Graphic ix_, 314, 328
(1874), _portrait_.
COTTON, WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Cotton of the Customs, who d. Balham
hill near London 27 Oct. 1816 aged 58_). _b._ 1794; made a special
study of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s works; F.S.A.; author of _A graphic
and historical sketch of the antiquities of Totnes_ 1850; _Sir
Joshua Reynolds’ Gleanings from his diary_ 1856; _Some account of
the ancient borough town of Plympton St. Maurice or Plympton Earl_
1859; gave a fine collection of books, prints and drawings to the
Plymouth public library which erected a building for their
reception and opened it to the public 1 June 1853. _d._ 8 West Hoe
terrace, Plymouth 22 Jany. 1863. _G.M. xiv_, 520–22 (1863).
COTTON, WILLIAM (_3 son of Joseph Cotton of Leyton, Essex 1745–1825,
deputy master of the Trinity house_). _b._ Leyton 12 Sep. 1786;
partner in firm of Huddart and Co. manufacturers of registered
cables at Limehouse, London 1807; one of founders of National
Society 1811; a director of Bank of England 1821–66, governor
1843–45, invented automatic weighing machine for gold 1844, still
in use and called after him ‘the governor’; member of S.P.C.K. 50
years, treasurer; F.R.S. 21 May 1821; sheriff of Essex 1837; built
and endowed St. Thomas’s church, Bethnal Green 1844 and St. Paul’s
church, Bow Common 1847. _d._ Walwood house, Leytonstone, Essex 1
Dec. 1866, a painted memorial window to his memory was placed by
public subscription in St. Paul’s cathedral. _G.M. iii_, 111–13
(1867); _I.L.N. v_, 20 (1844), _portrait_.
COTTON, SIR WILLOUGHBY (_only son of Rowland Cotton, admiral R.N.,
who d. 3 Nov. 1794_). _b._ Upper Grosvenor st. London 1783; ed. at
Rugby where he was leader of a rebellion Nov. 1797; ensign 3 foot
guards 31 Oct. 1798; lieut. col. 47 foot 17 May 1821, lieut. col.
14 foot 13 Oct. 1828 to 22 July 1830; commanded forces in Jamaica
1829–34 where he put down an insurrection of the slaves 1831;
commanded first division of Bengal army in Afghan war 1838–39;
commander in chief at Bombay 8 April 1847 to 30 Dec. 1850; colonel
of 98 foot 1 Aug. 1839 to 17 April 1854, and of 32 foot 17 April
1854 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, K.C.B. 19
July 1838, G.C.B. 21 Jany. 1840; K.C.H. 1830; knighted at St.
James’s palace 17 July 1830. _d._ 15 Lowndes sq. London 4 May
1860.
COUCH, JONATHAN (_only child of Richard Couch of Polperro, Cornwall
1739–1823_). _b._ Polperro 15 March 1789; surgeon at Polperro 1810
to death; F.L.S. 6 April 1824; contributed to T. Bewick’s _British
Quadrupeds_ and W. Yarrell’s _British Fishes_; author of _Cornish
Fauna 3 parts_ 1838–44; _Illustrations of instinct deduced from
the habits of British animals_ 1847; _A history of the fishes of
the British islands 4 vols._ 1860–65; translated _Pliny’s Natural
history 3 vols._ 1847–50, published by the Wernerian Club. _d._
Polperro 13 April 1870. _The history of Polperro by the late
Jonathan Couch, with a short account of his life by T. Q. Couch_
1871; _Life of a Scotch naturalist Thomas Edward_ (1877) 292, 296,
333–49.
COUCH, RICHARD QUILLER (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Polperro
14 March 1816; ed. at Guy’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S. 1838,
L.S.A. 1839; surgeon at Polperro; practised at Penzance 1843 to
death; a sec. and curator of Penzance Natural history and
antiquarian soc. 1845 to death; curator of Royal Geol. Soc. of
Cornwall 1848 to death; contributed the third part (on the
Zoophytes) to his father’s _Cornish Fauna_ 1844, and an account of
natural history of West Cornwall to J. S. Courtney’s _Guide to
Penzance_ 1845. _d._ Penzance 8 May 1863. _G.M. xv_, 106–8 (1863).
COUCH, THOMAS QUILLER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Polperro 28
May 1826; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1852; surgeon at Bodmin 1855 to
death; F.S.A. 26 March 1870; a constant contributor to _Notes and
Queries_, from which two series of his articles _The folklore of a
Cornish village_ 1855 and 1857 have been incorporated in his
father’s _History of Polperro_ 1871; published in the _Journal of
the Royal instit. of Cornwall_ 1864 and 1870 lists of local words
afterwards included in a _Glossary of words in use in Cornwall_
issued by the English Dialect Society 1880. _d._ Bodmin 23 Oct.
1884.
COULSON, WALTER (_2 son of Thomas Coulson, master painter in
Devonport dockyard, who d. 1845_). _b._ Torpoint, Cornwall 1794;
amanuensis to Jeremy Bentham; parliamentary reporter on the
_Morning Chronicle_; editor of the _Traveller_ 1822, of the _Globe
and Traveller_ 1823; barrister G.I. 26 Nov. 1828, bencher, Nov.
1851; recorder of Penzance 18 July 1836 to Jany. 1838; Q.C. July
1851; parliamentary draughtsman for the home office; member of
Political Economy club, June 1821; a registration and conveyancing
comr. 1847; member of royal commission for Great Exhibition 1851.
_d._ North bank, St. John’s Wood, London 21 Nov. 1860. _Leigh
Hunt’s Correspondence i_, 98, 120, 126–34.
COULSON, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Torpoint,
Cornwall 15 Sep. 1801; studied in Berlin 1824–26; M.R.C.S. 1826,
F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1851, Hunterian orator 1861; a
founder of Aldersgate st. school of medicine 1826; surgeon to
Aldersgate st. dispensary 1828–32; consulting surgeon to City of
London Lying-in hospital 1830; senior surgeon to St. Mary’s
hospital, Paddington 1843; sheriff of Cornwall 1863; F.S.A. 19
June 1856; accumulated £200,000, one of the largest fortunes ever
made in practice; author of _On deformities of the chest_ 1836, _2
ed._ 1837; _On diseases of the hip joint_ 1837, _2 ed._ 1841; _On
diseases of the bladder and prostate gland_ 1838, _6 ed._ 1865;
_On lithotrity and lithotomy_ 1853; _Lectures on diseases of the
joints_ 1854. _d._ 1 Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 5 May
1877. _Medical Circular ii_, 329–32, 349–51 (1853), _portrait_;
_Beattie’s Life of T. Campbell ii_, 448–52 (1849).
COULTON, DAVID TREVENA. _b._ Devizes 1810; contributed to _Quarterly
Review_; founded the _Britannia_, a weekly journal of news,
politics and literature 13 April 1839 which he sold 1850; edited
the _Press and St. James’s Chronicle_, weekly paper 1854 to death;
invented a plan for an atmospheric railway; author of _Fortune, a
romance of life 3 vols._ 1853; and of _An inquiry into the
authorship of the letters of Junius_. _d._ Brighton 8 May 1857.
COUPER, SIR GEORGE, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Robert Couper, M.D. of
Fochabers, Morayshire_). _b._ 21 June 1788; ensign 69 foot 2 Nov.
1797; major 92 foot 30 Dec. 1819 to 20 March 1823 when placed on
h.p.; principal equerry and comptroller of the household to
Duchess of Kent 1839 to death; K.H. 1831, C.B. 19 July 1838;
created baronet 23 June 1841. _d._ Frogmore near Windsor 28 Feb.
1861.
COURTAULD, SAMUEL (_eld. son of George Courtauld the first to
introduce silk throwing into Essex_). _b._ Albany in the State of
New York 1 June 1793; brought to England in his infancy; developed
the business of a silk throwster into that of a manufacturer of
crape; head of firm of Courtauld & Co. crape manufacturers,
Bocking, Essex; in the Consistory court 8 Nov. 1837 raised
question of legality of a church rate in Braintree, case settled
in house of lords in his favor 12 Aug. 1853; presented with a
testimonial worth 700 guineas at Braintree 25 Sept. 1855; F.R.A.S.
8 Nov. 1867. _d._ Gosfield hall, Essex 21 March 1881, personalty
sworn under £700,000, 7 May 1881. _I.L.N. 13 Oct. 1855 pp. 445–46
with view of testimonial_; _Monthly Notices of R.A.S. xlii_, 144
(1882); _The Braintree church rate case, Gosling v. Veley, by W.
W. Attree_ 1853.
COURTENAY, FRANCIS BURDETT (_son of Mr. Courtenay of Ryde, Isle of
Wight, surgeon_). M.R.C.S. 13 July 1833; settled in London as a
specialist in urethral diseases 1833; surgeon to hospital for
stricture of the urethra, London; author of _Enlargement of the
prostate gland in old people_ 1839; _Pathology and cure of
stricture of the urethra_ 1843; _On Spermattorrhea and the
professional fallacies which prevail in relation to its nature_
1858, _13 ed._ 1884; _Revelations of quacks and quackery, by
Detector, pseud._ 1865, _11 ed._ 1886. _d._ 2 Chandos st.
Cavendish sq. London 15 March 1886 in 76 year. _Medical Circular
iii_, 71, 72 (1853).
COURTENAY, GEORGE WILLIAM CONWAY. _b._ Beach hall near Chester 1795;
entered navy 26 Sep. 1805; captain 14 April 1828; consul general
at Hayti 1832–42; V.A. 29 July 1861. _d._ 1E The Albany,
Piccadilly, London 31 March 1863.
COURTHOPE, WILLIAM (_only son of Thomas Courthope of Rotherhithe_).
_b._ Rotherhithe 6 May 1808; private clerk to Francis Townsend,
Rouge Dragon 1824; clerk to the College of Arms 1833; Rouge Croix
pursuivant of arms Feb. 1839; sec. to Garter King of arms 1842;
barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1851; Somerset Herald 31 Jany. 1854;
registrar of College of arms, Nov. 1859; author of _Synopsis of
extinct baronetage_ 1835; _Memoir of Daniel Chamier_ 1852,
privately printed; _A pictorial history of the Earls of Warwick by
John Rows_ dated 1845 but not published until 1859; edited Sir N.
H. Nicolas’s _Historic peerage of England_ 1853. _d._ Hastings 13
May 1866. _bur._ Wadhurst.
COURTNEY, JOHN SAMPSON (_eld. son of James Courtney of the Excise
1778–1860_). _b._ Ilfracombe 10 Oct. 1803; clerk in Mount’s Bay
bank, Penzance 1829, manager 1856 to death; author of _A guide to
Penzance and its neighbourhood, including the Islands of Scilly_
1845; and of several papers in _Transactions of Royal Cornwall
Polytechnic Society_ 1838–42. _d._ Alverton, Penzance 10 Feb.
1881. _Half a century at Penzance_ (1825–1875) _from notes by J.
S. Courtney, written by Louise Courtney_ 1878; _Times 12 Feb. 1881
p. 9, col. 6_.
COUSEN, JOHN. _b._ Mirashay near Bradford 19 Feb. 1804; one of the
best landscape engravers, retired from practice about 1864;
engraved book plates after Turner for _The Rivers of France_, and
after Stansfield for _Heath’s Picturesque Annual_ 1833 and 1834;
engraved plates for the Royal, Vernon and Turner galleries issued
in the _Art Journal_. _d._ Holmesdale road, South Norwood near
London 26 Dec. 1880. _bur._ Croydon cemetery.
COUSINS, SAMUEL. _b._ Exeter 9 May 1801; apprenticed to S. W.
Reynolds the engraver, Sep. 1814, assistant to him; a mezzotint
engraver at 104 Great Russell st. London 1826; A.R.A. Nov. 1835,
associate engraver 1854, the first academician engraver 10 Feb.
1855; presented an almost complete set of his engravings to
British Museum 1872; gave £15,000 to R.A. for benefit of poor
artists about 1872; T. Agnew and Sons held an exhibition of his
works at Manchester 1877; another exhibition took place at the
Fine Art Society 148 New Bond st. London 1883 and a third was held
at H. Graves and Co.’s, Pall Mall 1887. _d._ 24 Camden sq. London
7 May 1887. _G. Pycroft’s Memoir of S. Cousins_ (1887) _privately
printed_; _Artists at home 1 April 1884 pt. ii, p._ 19; _Sandby’s
History of Royal Academy ii_, 322–4 (1862).
COVENTRY, THOMAS. Barrister L.I. 1 July 1824; author of _Concise
forms in conveyancing_ 1827; _On conveyancers’ evidence_ 1832; _A
readable edition of Coke upon Littleton_ 1830; author with Samuel
Hughes of _Analytical digested index to the common law reports 2
vols._ 1827. _d._ Nice 19 April 1869 aged 72.
COWAN, CHARLES (_son of Rev. Thomas Conolly Cowan, who d. Reading
1856_). M.D. Edin. and L.R.C.S. Edin. 1833, M.D. Paris 1834; pres.
of Hunterian Soc.; an early exponent of the science and art of
auscultation; practised at Bath 1835–9, at Reading 1839 to death;
senior phys. Royal Berkshire hospital 1839, the best speaker in
the profession; author of _A Bedside manual, or a physical
diagnosis of the lungs, &c._ 1836; _Phrenology consistent with
science and revelation_ 1841, and many other works. _d._ Reading 6
Dec. 1868 aged 62. _Barker’s Photographs (1868), ii_, 9–13,
_portrait_.
COWAN, JOHN (_son of Hugh Cowan of Ayr_). _b._ Ayr 1798; ed. at Ayr
academy and Univ. of Edin.; called to Scotch bar 1822; sheriff of
Kincardineshire 10 Jany. 1848; solicitor general for Scotland 18
April 1851; lord of session and lord of justiciary 23 June 1851 to
Jany. 1874 with courtesy title of Lord Cowan. _d._ Elmbank,
Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1878.
COWARD, JAMES. _b._ London 25 Jany. 1824; a chorister in Westminster
abbey; obtained 13 prizes for glees 1845–67; organist of Lambeth
parish church; organist at Crystal palace 1857 to death; conductor
of the Western Madrigal Society, Oct. 1864 to March 1872; organist
of St. George’s church, Bloomsbury 1866–69, of the Sacred Harmonic
Society and of Grand lodge of Freemasons; organist of St. Magnus
the Martyr, London Bridge to death; published _O Lord correct me_
an anthem, _Sing unto God_ a canon, _Airy fairy Lilian_ and other
part songs. _d._ 38 Lupus st. Pimlico, London 22 Jany. 1880.
COWELL, JOSEPH LEATHLEY. _b._ near Torquay 7 Aug. 1792; midshipman
R.N. 1805–8; made his debut 23 Jany. 1812 at Devonport as Belcour
in _The West Indian_; first appeared in London at Drury lane
theatre 1812 as Samson Rawbold in Colman’s _Iron Chest_, acted
there till 1818; composed and acted on the Lincoln circuit a three
hours olio called ‘Cowell alone or a trip to London’; played at
Adelphi, Drury Lane and Astley’s; first appeared in America at
Park theatre, New York, Oct. 1821 in _The foundling of the
forest_; left the Park theatre 24 July 1823; opened Philadelphia
theatre at Wilmington, Delaware, Sep. 1827; acted at Adelphi and
other London theatres; author of _Thirty years passed among the
players in England and America 2 vols._ 1845. _d._ Vauxhall,
London 14 Nov. 1863. _J. N. Ireland’s Records of New York stage
i_, 394–5 (1866); _Era 22 Nov. 1863 p. 10, col. 1_.
COWELL, SAMUEL HOUGHTON (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Craven
buildings, Drury lane, London 5 April 1819; first appeared on the
stage at Boston, U.S. 1829 as Crack in T. Knight’s _Turnpike
Gate_; acted in all chief theatres in the U.S.; played Alessio in
_La Sonnambula_ at Surrey theatre, London 15 July 1844; acted at
T.R. Edinburgh 4 years, then in London at Olympic, Princess’s and
Covent Garden, at Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin; one of the leaders
of the Monte Christo row at Drury Lane theatre 12 June 1848; the
leading comic singer at chief music halls in London and the
provinces 1851–60; sang in United States 1860–62; his best songs
were _Billy Barlow_, _Lord Lovel_, _The ratcatcher’s daughter_,
_Alonzo the brave and Richard the Third_; sang _The Ratcatcher’s
Daughter_ at Canterbury Arms 12 Feb. 1855 and more than 50 nights
afterwards; sang _Lord Lovel_ 600 times; composed music to his own
ballads _Clara Cline_, _The Yellow Busha-Belle_, _In Westminster_
1855, _&c._ _d._ Crown hotel, Blandford, Dorset 11 March 1864.
_Rambles by Patricius_ Walker [_W. Allingham_] 1873, _pp._ 252–55;
_Tallis’s Illustrated life in London_ (1864) 86, 88, 89, _2
portraits_; _Theatrical times iii_, 241–2 (1848), _portrait_;
_Illust. sporting news iii_, 92 (1864), _v_, 268 (1866),
_portrait_; _Era 20 March 1864 p. 6, col. 2_; _S. Cowell’s New
illustrated pocket songster 4 vols._ 1856.
COWELL, WILLIAM. _b._ Dublin 1820; connected with Broadway theatre,
New York 1847; travelled with Barry Sullivan the actor as business
manager 1858; wrote pamphlets in defence of the stage against
attacks of Rev. Dr. Hatfield of Chicago; his pamphlets were
considered as able a defence of the profession as ever written.
_d._ Philadelphia 24 Feb. 1868.
COWELL-STEPNEY, SIR JOHN STEPNEY, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Andrew
Cowell of Coleshill, Bucks., general who commanded brigade of
guards in Irish rebellion, and d. 21 Sep. 1821_). _b._ 23 Feb.
1791; ensign Coldstream guards 18 May 1809, captain 15 June 1830
to 22 May 1832 when he sold out; served in 6 campaigns under Duke
of Wellington and Lord Lynedoch; assumed additional surname of
Stepney 29 Dec. 1857; sheriff of Carmarthen 1862; M.P. for
Carmarthen 1868–74; K.H. 1832; created baronet 22 Sep. 1871;
author of _Leaves from the diary of an officer of the Guards_
1854. _d._ 5 St. George’s place, London 15 May 1877. _T.
Nicholas’s County families of Wales i_, 282 (1872).
COWEN, SIR JOSEPH (_eld. son of John Cowen of Winlaton, Durham_).
_b._ Greenside, Durham, Feb. 1800; a fire brick and clay retort
manufacturer; alderman of Newcastle; chairman of Gateshead Board
of Guardians; appointed by act of parliament a life member of Tyne
improvement commission, chairman of this commission; M.P. for
Newcastle upon Tyne, July 1865 to death; knighted at Buckingham
palace 14 March 1872. _d._ Stella hall near Blaydon-on-Tyne 19
Dec. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiv_, 22, 36 (1874), _portrait_, _lxviii_, 35
(1876).
COWEN, WILLIAM. _b._ Rotherham, Yorkshire; landscape painter;
exhibited at Society of Artists 1811, at British Institution
1823–60, at the R.A. 1824–39; published _Yorkshire scenery from
drawings by W. Cowen_ 1826; a series of 12 etchings of Corsica
1843 included in his _Six weeks in Corsica_ 1848; contributed view
of Kilchurn castle, Loch Awe to fresco competition in Westminster
hall 1844. _d._ about 1860.
COWIE, HUGH (_eld. son of Alexander Cowie of Auchterless, co.
Aberdeen_). _b._ June 1829; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin.
coll. Cam., scholar, 26 wrangler 1851; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1860;
barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1862, bencher 26 May 1880; a revising
barrister for home circuit 1868; recorder of Maldon and of Saffron
Walden 11 Aug. 1873 to death; admitted barrister M.T. 13 April
1875; chancellor of diocese of Durham, Jany. 1876; sec. to
Criminal code commission 1878; Q.C. 16 Dec. 1882; reporter in
Court of Exchequer for the _Law Journal Reports_ 1864–71. _d._
Ythandale, Wimbledon park near London 20 July 1886.
COWIE, ROBERT. _b._ Lerwick, Shetland Islands 1842; ed. at Univs. of
Aberdeen and Edin; M.A. Aberdeen; M.D. Edin. 1866; author of
_Shetland descriptive and historical_ 1871, _3 ed._ 1879. _d._ 8
May 1874.
COWLE, WILLIAM. _b._ 6 Feb. 1802; played with success leading
characters at various London theatres from 1822; a favourite actor
at Birmingham; a founder of Royal general theatrical fund 7 Nov.
1838, one of its annuitants Feb. 1862 to death. _d._ 92 Camden St.
London 22 March 1885.
COWLEY, HENRY RICHARD CHARLES WELLESLEY, 1 Earl (_eld. child of
Henry Wellesley, 1 baron Cowley 1773–1847_). _b._ Hertford st.
London 17 July 1804; attaché of embassy at Vienna 1 Oct. 1824;
succeeded 27 April 1847; minister plenipotentiary to Berne 29 Feb.
1848; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Frankfort 8 Feb. 1849,
to Germanic confederation 7 June 1851; P.C. 2 Feb. 1852;
ambassador extraord. and plenipotentiary to French republic 5 Feb.
1852 to July 1867; joint plenipo. with Earl of Clarendon at
conference of Paris Feb. to March 1856; signed treaty of peace
with Russia 30 March 1856, with Persia 4 March 1857; created Earl
Cowley and Viscount Dangan 11 April 1857; employed on a
confidential mission to Vienna Feb. to March 1859; signed at
Paris, treaty of commerce between England and France 23 Jany.
1860; retired on a pension of £1700 16 July 1867; C.B. 27 April
1848, K.C.B. 1 March 1851, G.C.B. 21 Feb. 1853; K.G. 3 Feb. 1866.
_d._ 20 Albemarle st. London 15 July 1884. _bur._ parish church,
Draycot near Chippenham 19 July. _Times 16 July 1884 p. 9, col.
5_.
COWLING, JOHN. _b._ 1802; educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., senior wr.
and 1st Smith’s prizeman 1824, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, fellow of St.
John’s coll. 6 April 1824; barrister M.T. 9 Nov. 1827; deputy high
steward of Univ. of Cam. 1839 to death; standing counsel to Univ.
of Cam. 1845 to death. _d._ 28B Albemarle st. London 12 Dec. 1855.
COWPER, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK COWPER, 6 Earl (_eld. son of 5
Earl Cowper 1778–1837_). _b._ George st. Hanover sq. London 26
June 1806; cornet Royal horse guards 28 April 1827, lieut. 1830;
lieut. 31 foot 13 Feb. to 6 March 1835; M.P. for Canterbury 31
July 1830 to 29 Dec. 1834; under secretary of state for foreign
department 13 Nov. to 17 Dec. 1834; succeeded 21 June 1837; lord
lieut. of Kent 21 April 1849 to death. _d._ at house of governor
of the gaol, Maidstone 15 April 1856. _Waagen’s Treasures of art
in Great Britain iii_, 7–17 (1854).
COWPER, SIR CHARLES (_son of Ven. Wm. Cowper 1780–1858_). _b._
Drypool, Yorkshire 26 April 1807; secretary of Church and school
lands corporation at Sydney 1826–33 when corporation was
dissolved; sheep breeder on the Murray river 1833; member for co.
Cumberland of legislative council 1843–50, for Durham 1851–56, for
Sydney 1856–59, for Liverpool Plains 1869–70; colonial sec. N.S.W.
26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856, 7 Sep. 1857 to 26 Oct. 1859, 9 March
1860 to 15 Oct. 1863, 3 Feb. 1865 to 21 Jany. 1866 and 13 Jany.
1870 to 15 Dec. 1870; agent general for N.S.W. in London 6 Dec.
1870 to 31 May 1871; C.M.G. 23 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1872.
_d._ Eldon road, Kensington, London 19 Oct. 1875. _Heaton’s
Australian dictionary of dates_ (1879) 44–7.
COWPER, EBENEZER. Articled to Mr. Lloyd, engineer, Gravel lane,
Southwark, London; partner with his brother Edward Cowper; spent
his life in putting up printing presses in England, Scotland,
Ireland and on the Continent on the Cowper-Applegath model; the
first edition of the Waverley novels was printed at Edinburgh off
a Cowper machine; erected 12 machines at Imprimerie Royale, Paris
1830; Cowper machines although superseded by the Walter press for
printing newspapers are still used for printing books; erected the
printing machinery in the Bank of England. _d._ Harbourne road,
Edgbaston, Birmingham 14 Sep. 1880 aged 77. _Engineering 24 Sep.
1880 p. 257_; _Iron 24 Sep. 1880 p. 244_.
COWPER, EDWARD (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1790; ironmonger
at St. Mary, Newington Butts 1816; printer in Nelson sq. 1818;
partner with his brother-in-law Augustus Applegath; they jointly
invented the four-cylinder printing machine and erected it at the
Times office 1827; partner with his brother Ebenezer as machine
makers, their machines were widely used throughout Europe;
invented an ink distributing machine; professor of manufacturing
art and machinery at King’s college, London 1846 to death. _d._ 9
Kensington park road, London 17 Oct. 1852. _Wyman’s Bibliography
of printing_ (1880), 14, 146.
COWPER, HENRY FREDERICK (_2 son of 6 Earl Cowper 1806–56_). _b._ 18
April 1836; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; contested Tamworth,
Oct. 1863 and Herts. March 1864; M.P. for Herts. 24 July 1865 to
Nov. 1885. _d._ Panshanger, Hertford 10 Nov. 1887. _I.L.N. liv_,
213 (1869), _portrait_.
COWPER, JOHN CURTIS, stage name of John Curtis (_son of David Curtis
of Manchester, painter_). _b._ Port st. Piccadilly, Manchester 7
June 1827; first appeared at T.R. Manchester as Romeo; played star
engagements with G. V. Brooke; leading tragedian at T.R.
Liverpool; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre, 17 Dec.
1862 as Duke Aranza in _The Honeymoon_; played leading parts at
Drury Lane, Princess’s, Holborn and other London theatres. _d._
Barnes, Surrey 30 Jany. 1885. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London 4
Feb.
COWPER, VEN. WILLIAM. _b._ Whittington, Lancs. 28 Dec. 1780; C. of
Rawdon near Leeds; senior assistant colonial chaplain 1 Jany.
1808; arrived in Sydney 18 Aug. 1809; Inc. of St. Philip’s ch.
Sydney, Aug. 1809 to death, ch. was consecrated 25 Dec. 1810;
organised the Benevolent 1818, Bible and Religious tract societies
in N.S.W.; sec. of diocesan committees of the S.P.C.K. and S.P.G.;
archdeacon of Cumberland and Camden 1848 to death; special
commissary during Bishop Broughton’s absence in Europe 1852. _d._
Sydney 6 July 1858.
COX, DAVID (_only son of Joseph Cox of Birmingham, whitesmith, who
d. about 1830_). _b._ Heath mill lane, Deritend, Birmingham 29
April 1783; scene painter at Birmingham theatre 1800–4; came to
London 1804; member of Soc. of painters in water colours 1813;
drawing master in schools at Hereford 1814–26; exhibited 136
pictures at Pall Mall gallery 1844–54; made his first sketching
visit to Bettws-y-coed then nearly unknown 1844, painted sign of
the Royal Oak Inn there 1847 which he re-touched and varnished
1849; the greatest English water colour painter except Turner, his
picture ‘The Hayfield’ fetched £2950 at the Quilter sale, April
1875, a price unparalleled for any water-colour; the best
collections of his works were exhibited in Liverpool, Nov. 1875
numbering 448 pictures insured for about £100,000, and at
Manchester Exhibition 1887; illustrated various works; author of
_The young artist’s companion_ 1825; _A treatise on landscape
painting_ 1841. _d._ Greenfield house, Harborne near Birmingham 7
June 1859. _A biography of D. Cox by W. Hall_ (1881), _portrait_;
_Memoirs of D. Cox by N. N. Solly_ (1875); _Sherer’s Gallery of
British artists, i_, 124–6; _Redgrave’s Century of painters ii_,
479–86 (1866); _I.L.N. xxxv_, 28, 42 (1859), _portrait_.
COX, DAVID (_only child of the preceding_). _b._ Dulwich Common,
summer of 1809; pupil of his father; a water-colour painter;
exhibited at the R.A. 1827; associate of Soc. of painters in
water-colours 1849. _d._ Chester house, Mount Ephraim road,
Streatham, Surrey 4 Dec. 1885.
COX, REV. EDWARD (_son of Edward Cox, who d. 27 Dec. 1849 aged 73_).
_b._ about 1806; ed. at Old hall near Ware, Herts.; assistant
priest at Chelsea; pres. of St. Edmund’s college at Old hall
green, Aug. 1840 to Aug. 1851; missioner at Southampton, Aug. 1851
to death; a member of the Southwark chapter, vicar general; canon
of Southwark; published _The history of the church translated from
the German of the Rev. J. J. von Döllinger 4 vols._ 1840–2; _A
treatise on the church, translated from the German of the Rev. H.
Klee_ 1847; _The Our Father, or illustrations of the Lord’s
prayer, from the German of J. E. Veith_ 1849. _d._ Southampton 9
Nov. 1856.
COX, EDWARD TOWNSEND (_son of Rev. Thomas Cox, chaplain of St.
John’s, Deritend, Birmingham_). _b._ Deritend 1769; surgeon at
Stratford-on-Avon, surgeon to the infirmary at Birmingham 40
years; took an active part in founding and conducting Royal school
of medicine; a most successful accoucheur; disliked travelling so
much that he had never seen the sea. _d._ 26 Nov. 1863. _W. S.
Cox’s Annals of Queen’s college, iv_, 149–54 (1873).
COX, EDWARD WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Charles Cox of Taunton,
manufacturer_). _b._ Taunton 1809; barrister M.T. 5 May 1843;
recorder of Helston and Falmouth, Feb. 1857 to June 1868; serjeant
at law 29 May 1868; recorder of Portsmouth, June 1868; M. P. for
Taunton 1868–1869 when unseated on petition; chairman of second
court of Middlesex sessions, March 1870 to death; founded 22 Feb.
1875 Psychological society of Great Britain, pres. to his death,
society was dissolved 31 Dec. 1879; established _Law Times_ 8
April 1843; _County courts chronicle and gazette of bankruptcy_
1846; _Exchange and Mart_; _The country, a journal of rural
pursuits_ 1873; purchased from Benjamin Webster _The Field, a
gentleman’s newspaper devoted to sport_; proprietor of _The Queen,
a lady’s newspaper_; wrote or edited 1829, _A Poem_ 1829; _Reports
of cases in criminal law 13 vols._ 1846–78; _The magistrate_ 1848;
_The advocate_ 1852; _The law and practice of joint-stock
companies_ 1855, _7 ed._ 1870; _Reports of all the cases relating
to the law of joint-stock companies 4 vols._ 1867–71; _What am I?_
1873; _The mechanism of man_ 1876; _A monograph of sleep and
dreams_ 1878. _d._ Moat mount, Mill Hill, Middlesex 24 Nov. 1879.
_S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life ii_, 121–6 (1883);
_Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 208–11; _I.L.N. 6 Dec. 1879
pp._ 529, 530, _portrait_.
COX, REV. FRANCIS AUGUSTUS. _b._ Leighton Buzzard 7 March 1783; ed.
at the Baptist college, Bristol and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1802;
ordained to ministry of Baptist congregation at Clipstone,
Northamptonshire 4 April 1804; pastor of Baptist chapel, Hackney,
London 3 Oct. 1811 to death; sec. to general body of dissenting
ministers of the three denominations residing in and near London 3
years; a projector and founder of London University 1828,
librarian short time; LLD. Glasgow 1824, D.D. Waterville, U.S.
1838; author of _Female scripture biography 2 vols._ 1817;
_History of the Baptist missionary society from 1792 to 1842_, _2
vols._ 1842, and many other works. _d._ King Edward’s road, South
Hackney, London 5 Sep. 1853.
COX, REV. GEORGE VALENTINE (_son of Charles Cox of St. Martin’s,
Oxford_). _b._ Oxford 1786; ed. at Magdalen college sch. and New
coll. Ox., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808; master of New college school 1806
to June 1857; Esquire Bedel in law in Univ. of Ox. March 1806, in
medicine and arts 29 Jany. 1815 to 1866, University coroner 1808;
chaplain of New coll. 1812–20; author of _Jeannette Isabelle 3
vols._ 1837 a novel; _The Prayer book epistles_ 1846;
_Recollections of Oxford_ 1868; translated from the German
Dahlmann’s _Life of Herodotus_ 1845, Neander’s _Emperor Julian and
his generation_ 1850, and Ullmann’s _Gregory of Nazianzum_ 1851.
_d._ Cowley lodge, Oxford 19 March 1875.
COX, HARRY, stage name of Oliver James Bussley. _b._ Bristol 1841;
first appeared in London at Prince of Wales’s theatre 15 April
1865 as Alessio in H. J. Byron’s burlesque _La Sonnambula_; acted
at Strand theatre, April 1872 to day before his death. _d._ 3
Burfield st. Hammersmith 10 Jany. 1882. _Era 14 Jany. 1882 p. 5,
col. 2_; _Entr’ Acte 21 Jany. 1882, portrait_.
COX, HENRY CHAMBERS MURRAY. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel 58
Bengal N.I. 5 June 1853 to 1869; general 9 Dec. 1871. _d._ St.
Ann’s, Burnham, Somerset 22 July 1876.
COX, JOHN. Second lieut. Rifle brigade 16 March 1808, major 19 Aug.
1828 to 17 Feb. 1837 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 18 Dec. 1855;
colonel 88 foot 13 Oct. 1860 to death; K.H. 1832. _d._ Cheltenham
7 Feb. 1863.
COX, JOHN HAMILTON (_only son of Wm. Cox, K.H. who d. 13 Jany.
1857_). _b._ 1817; ensign 75 foot 10 Oct. 1834, captain 23 March
1849 to 2 Dec. 1862 when placed on h.p.; brigade major to Highland
brigade during Indian mutiny; C.B. 24 May 1873; M.G. retired on
full pay 5 July 1873. _d._ 37 Sterndale road, West Kensington,
London 10 March 1887.
COX, JOHN LEWIS. Head of the firm of Cox and Sons (afterwards Cox
and Wyman) printers to the H.E.I. Co. Great Queen st. London;
master of Stationer’s Co. 1849–50. _d._ Ham Common near London 1
Feb. 1856 aged 79.
COX, ROBERT (_3 son of Robert Cox of Georgie Mills, co. Edinburgh,
leather-dresser_). _b._ Georgie 25 Feb. 1810; ed. at high sch. and
Univ. Edin.; a writer to the signet 1832; sec. of a literary
institution at Liverpool 1835–39; edited _Phrenological Journal_,
numbers xxxiv to l of the first series and 1841–47; compiled index
to the _22 vols._ of _Encyclopædia Britannica_, _7 ed._ 1842;
author of _Sabbath laws and Sabbath duties_ 1853; _The literature
of the Sabbath question 2 vols._ 1865; bequeathed his collection
of books on the Sabbath question to Advocates’ library, Edin. _d._
Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1872.
COX, TALBOT ASHLEY. _b._ 9 July 1836; ensign 3 foot 29 July 1853,
lieut. col. 12 July 1871 to death; C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ Cawnpore
9 Dec. 1877.
COX, WILLIAM. Second lieut. 95 foot 6 June 1805; major 75 foot 20
June 1834 to 1 July 1843 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854;
K.H. 1835. _d._ St. Leonard’s on Sea 13 Jany. 1857.
COX, SIR WILLIAM (_3 son of John Cox of Coolcliffe, co. Wexford
1749–93_). _b._ Coolcliffe 5 Dec. 1776; ensign 68 foot 1 Oct.
1794; commanded fortress of Almeida, April 1809 to 27 Aug. 1810
when its magazine having exploded he surrendered; lieut. col.
Portugese army 16 Feb. 1809 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.;
K.T.S. 28 Aug. 1815; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 13
Aug. 1816; colonel in British army 12 Aug. 1819; sheriff of King’s
County 1825. _d._ Longford place, Monkstown, co. Dublin 1 July
1864.
COX, WILLIAM JAMES (_2 son of Philip Cox 1779–1841, proprietor of
the Royal tennis court, James st. Haymarket, London_). _b._ 2 Feb.
1806; part proprietor of the Royal tennis court many years;
champion of England at game of tennis. _d._ Brantford, Canada West
30 June 1864. _J. Marshall’s Annals of tennis_ (1878) 100–106.
COX, WILLIAM SANDS (_eld. son of Edward Townsend Cox of Birmingham,
surgeon 1769–1863_). _b._ 38 Cannon st. Birmingham 1802; L.S.A.
1823; M.R.C.S. 1824, F.R.C.S. 1843; started a medical and surgical
class-room at Temple row, Birmingham 1 Dec. 1825; removed to an
old chapel in Paradise st. 1830 which he named the School of
Medicine, it was incorporated by royal charter as the Queen’s
college 1843, principal of the college 1858–9; founded Queen’s
hospital, Birmingham 1840–1; F.R.S. 5 May 1836; member of French
Institute; hon. member of nearly every important surgical school
in Europe; author of _A synopsis of the bones, ligaments and
muscles, bloodvessels and nerves of the human body_ 1831; _Annals
of Queen’s college 4 vols._ 1873. _d._ Woodside, Kenilworth 23
Dec. 1875. _Barker’s Photographs of eminent medical men i_, 61–6
(1865), _portrait_, _reprinted in Cox’s Annals iv_, 155–60 (1873);
_E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham_ (1877) 132–39.
COXE, REV. HENRY OCTAVIUS (_8 son of Rev. Richard Coxe, V. of
Bucklebury, Berkshire_). _b._ Bucklebury 20 Sep. 1811; ed. at
Westminster and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; entered
manuscript department of British Museum, May 1833; C. of Culham
1839–48, of Tubney 1848–55 both near Oxford; sub-librarian of
Bodleian library 16 Nov. 1838, librarian 6 Nov. 1860 to death,
catalogue of 723 folio volumes was compiled 1859–80; select
preacher to Univ. of Ox. 1842; Whitehall preacher 1868; chaplain
of C.C. coll. Ox. 1847–74; lecturer at St. Martin’s, Carfax,
Oxford 1852–59; C. of Wytham, Berks. 1861–68; R. of Wytham 1868 to
death; presided at annual meeting of Library Association at Oxford
1 to 3 Oct. 1878, pres. of Association 25 Sep. 1879 to death;
published _Forms of bidding prayer_ 1840; _Rogeri de Wendover
Chronica 5 vols._ (_English Hist. Soc._) 1841–4; _The Black
Prince, an historical poem written in French by Chandos Herald
(Roxburghe club)_ 1842; _Report on the Greek manuscripts yet
remaining in libraries of the Levant_ 1858. _d._ St. Giles’s road,
Oxford 8 July 1881. _bur._ at Wytham 12 July.
COXE, SIR JAMES (_4 son of Robert Coxe of Georgie, Midlothian_).
_b._ Georgie 1811; ed. at Gottingen, Heidelberg, Paris and Univ.
of Edin., M.D. Edin. 1835; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1835; F.R.C.P. Edin.
1837; wrote Report on management of the insane in Scotland 1855;
paid comr. in lunacy for Scotland 23 Sep. 1857 to death, wrote
first fifteen reports of the Commissioners; knighted by patent 10
Aug. 1863; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ Folkestone on returning from Paris 9
May 1878. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x_, 15 (1880).
COXE, VEN. RICHARD CHARLES (_brother of Rev. Henry Octavius Coxe
1811–81_). Ed. at Reading gr. sch.; matric. from Worcester coll.
Ox. 29 Nov. 1817 aged 17, scholar 1818, B. A. 1821, M.A. 1824;
fellow of his coll. 1823–26; Inc. of Abp. Tenison’s chapel, Regent
St. London 1829–41; V. of Newcastle 1841–53; hon. canon of Durham
1843–58; archdeacon of Lindisfarne, March 1853 to death; V. of
Eglingham, Northumberland, March 1853 to death; canon of Durham,
Dec. 1857 to death; author of _Lectures on the evidence from
miracles_ 1832; _The Mercy at Marsdon rocks_ 1844; _Poems
scriptural, classical and miscellaneous_ 1845; _Leda Tanah the
martyr’s child, Derwent Bank_ 1851. _d._ Eglingham vicarage 25
Aug. 1865.
COXETER, ELIZABETH. _b._ Witney, Oxon. 1 Feb. 1775. _d._ Newbury,
Berkshire 27 Nov. 1876 nearly 102 years of age. _Notes and
Queries_ 5 _S. iii_, 144 (1875), _vi_, 460 (1876).
COYNE, FREDERICK. Comic singer at principal music halls in London
and the provinces 1867 to death; wrote the music to _Tuner’s
Oppertuner-ty, a song_ 1879. _d._ 8 Huntingdon st. Kingsland road,
London 23 Feb. 1886 aged 39. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 27 Feb.
_Entr’acte 6 March 1886 p. 9_, _portrait_.
COYNE, JOSEPH STIRLING (_son of Denis Coyne, port surveyor of
Waterford_). _b._ Birr, King’s county 1803; his first farce called
_The Phrenologist_ was produced at T.R. Dublin, June 1835; came to
London 1836 where his farce _The queer subject_ was produced at
Adelphi theatre, Nov. 1836; author of upwards of 55 dramas,
burlesques and farces produced chiefly at Adelphi and Haymarket
theatres; his drama called _Everybody’s Friend_ was brought out at
the Haymarket 2 April 1859 it was reproduced at St. James’s 16
Oct. 1867 as _The Widow Hunt_; contributed to the first number of
_Punch_ 17 July 1841; secretary to Dramatic authors’ society 1856
to death; dramatic critic on _Sunday Times_ newspaper; author of
_Scenery and antiquities of Ireland 2 vols._ 1842; _Pippins and
pies, or sketches out of school_ 1855; _Sam Spangle or the history
of a harlequin_ 1866. _d._ 61 Talbot road, Westbourne park, London
18 July 1868.
CRABB, GEORGE. _b._ Palgrave, Suffolk 8 Dec. 1778; classical master
at Thorp-Arch school, Yorkshire; studied German at Bremen 1801–6;
gentleman commoner at Magd. hall, Ox. 1814, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1822;
barrister I.T. 3 July 1829; author of _English synonyms explained,
in alphabetical order_ 1816, _7 ed._ 1844 after which the book was
stereotyped; _Universal technological dictionary 2 vols._ 1823;
_Universal historical dictionary 2 vols._ 1825; _History of the
English law_ 1829; _Precedents in conveyancing 2 vols._ 1835, _5
ed._ 1859; _Digest and index of all the statutes at large 4 vols._
1841–7; _Law of real property 2 vols._ 1846. _d._ Hammersmith 4
Dec. 1851.
CRABB, REV. JAMES (_3 son of James Crabb of Wilton, Wiltshire, cloth
manufacturer_). _b._ Wilton 13 April 1774; joined the Wesleyans,
Feb. 1791; kept a school at Romsey, and at Spring hill,
Southampton; minister of Zion chapel, Lansdowne hill, Southampton,
opened 9 June 1824; founded infant day schools at Kingsland Place,
Southampton, the earliest in England; was popularly known as the
Gipsy’s friend and was the missionary referred to in Rev. Legh
Richmond’s _Dairyman’s Daughter_ as having first brought her to a
sense of religion; author of _The Gipsies Advocate_ 1831, _3 ed._
1832; _An address to Irvingites in which their heresy, modes of
worship, etc. are set forth_ 1836. _d._ Springhill house,
Southampton 17 Sep. 1851. _Memoir of Rev. James Crabb by John
Rudall_ 1854, _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvi_, 659–60 (1851).
CRABBE, EYRE JOHN. Ensign 74 foot 11 June 1807, lieut.-col. 6 Nov.
1841 to 1 May 1846 when placed on retired full pay; col. in the
army 28 Nov. 1854; K.H. 1837. _d._ Highfield, Southampton 19 March
1859 aged 68.
CRABBE, REV. GEORGE (_eld. son of George Crabbe the poet
1754–1832_). _b._ Stathern, Leics. 16 Nov. 1785; ed. at Ipswich
gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807; C. of Pucklechurch,
Gloucs. 1817–34; V. of Bredfield and Pettistree, Suffolk 1834 to
death; author of _Life of George Crabbe_ 1838; _Outlines of a
system of natural theology_ 1840. _d._ Bredfield vicarage 16 Sep.
1857.
CRACE, FREDERICK (_son of John Crace of London, architectural
decorator 1754–1819_). _b._ 3 June 1779; architectural decorator;
employed on work at royal palaces, London, Brighton and Windsor; a
comr. of Sewers; began to collect maps and views of London about
1818, his splendid collection was purchased by the British Museum
from his son John Gregory Crace 1880, it consists of between five
and six thousand prints and drawings arranged in a series of 57
portfolios, it is described in _Catalogues of maps, plans and
views of London collected and arranged by F. Crace edited by J. G.
Crace_ 1878, a very large number of the illustrations in Thornbury
and Walford’s _Old and New_ London are derived from this
collection. _d._ Vine cottage, Blyth lane, Hammersmith 18 Sep.
1859. _The Little journal i_, 136–42 (1884).
CRACKANTHORPE, WILLIAM (_son of Christopher Cookson who assumed name
of Crackanthorpe, and d. 1800_). _b._ 25 Feb. 1790; ed. at St.
John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1816; had an interview with
Napoleon at Elba 25 Feb. 1815 the day before he escaped to France;
sheriff of Cumberland 1826; chairman of Westmoreland poor law
board 40 years; rebuilt parish church of Newbiggin and the rectory
house at his own expense. _d._ Newbiggin hall, Westmoreland 10
Jany. 1888.
CRACKLOW, HENRY. Ensign Bombay army 23 Dec. 1819; colonel 2 Bombay
N.I. 1855–69; M.G. 22 Aug. 1855; general 28 March 1874; placed on
retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Castle hill, Inverness 15 May 1886
in 83 year.
CRACROFT, PETER (_2 son of Robert Cracroft of Hackthorne, Lincs.
1783–1862_). _b._ 15 March 1816; entered navy 4 June 1830, lost
the Reynard on the Pratas shoal, China 1846; captain 20 Nov. 1854;
commodore in charge at Jamaica 31 March 1863 to death; C.B. 7 Oct.
1862. _d._ Admiralty house, Port Royal, Jamaica 2 Aug. 1865.
_Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxvi, p. cxlviii_, (1866).
CRADOCK, REV. EDWARD HARTOPP (_3 son of Edward Grove of Shenstone
park, Staffs._) _b._ 26 April 1810; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, B.D. and D.D. 1854; fellow of Brasenose to
1845, principal 27 Dec. 1853 to death; R. of Tedstone Delamere,
Herefordshire 1845–54; canon of Worcester 31 Jany. 1848 to 1854;
assumed name of Cradock by r.l. 22 May 1849. _d._ Oxford 27 Jany.
1886.
CRAIG, JAMES THOMSON GIBSON (_2 son of Sir James Gibson Craig, 1
baronet 1765–1850_). _b._ 12 March 1799; ed. at high school and
univ. Edin.; a writer to the signet; an original member of the
Bannatyne club 1823, for which he edited _Papers relating to the
marriage of King James Sixth_ 1828; issued in an edition of 25
copies a series of facsimiles of historic and artistic
bookbindings in his collection 1882; issued in 1883 a facsimile
reprint of the _Shorte summe of the whole catechism 1583 by John
Craig_; a first part of his valuable library was sold in London,
June 1887. _d._ Edinburgh 18 July 1886.
CRAIG, RICHARD DAVIS (_eld. son of Rev. Thomas Craig of Bocking,
Essex_), _b._ Bocking 2 Nov. 1810; studied at London Univ.; drew
Boundary Act which became part of Reform act 1832; private sec. to
E. J. Littleton chief sec. for Ireland 1833; barrister L.I. 18
Nov. 1834, bencher 3 Nov. 1851; one of the 2 revising barristers
for London and Westminster 1835–40; Q.C. 11 July 1851; retired
from practice 1867; published with J. W. Mylne _Reports of cases
in Chancery_ 1835–41, _5 vols._ 1837–48; with T. J. Phillips
_Reports of cases in Chancery_ 1840–41, _1 vol._ 1842; author of
_Legal and equitable rights and liabilities as to trees and woods_
1866. _d._ Liss, Hampshire 8 May 1884.
CRAIG, WILLIAM. _b._ Dublin 1829; water-colour painter; exhibited at
R.A. Dublin 1846; went to United States 1863; an original member
of American Society of water-colour painters. Drowned in Lake
George, New York 1875.
CRAIG, SIR WILLIAM GIBSON, 2 Baronet (_brother of James Thomson
Gibson Craig 1799–1886_). _b._ 2 Aug. 1797; admitted advocate
1820; M.P. for co. Edinburgh 1837–41, for city of Edin. 1841–52; a
lord of the treasury 6 July 1846 to Feb. 1852; succeeded his
father 6 March 1850; lord clerk register and keeper of signet of
Scotland 3 July 1862 to death; P.C. 8 Dec. 1863. _d._ Riccarton
near Edin. 12 March 1878. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x_, 24
(1880).
CRAIGIE, DAVID. _b._ Leith near Edinburgh 6 June 1793; ed. at Univ.
of Edin., M.D. 1816; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1832, pres. Dec. 1861; phys.
to Edin. Royal infirmary 1833; editor of _Edinburgh Medical and
Surgical Journal_ 1820–32, sole proprietor and editor 1832–55;
F.R.S. Edin. 1833; author of _Elements of general and pathological
anatomy_ 1828, _2 ed._ 1848; _Elements of anatomy, general,
special and comparative_ 1838; _Elements of the practice of physic
2 vols._ 1840, and of 30 separate papers on medical subjects. _d._
17 May 1866. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. vi_, 15–16 (1869).
CRAIGIE, DAVID. Navigating lieutenant R.N. 17 Aug. 1838; staff
commander 11 June 1863; retired captain 20 Jany. 1864; C.B. 2 June
1869. _d._ London 8 April 1883.
CRAIGIE, SIR PATRICK EDMONSTONE (_3 son of Laurence Craigie of
Glasgow_). _b._ 1794; ed. at Glasgow school and college; ensign 52
foot 3 June 1813; lieut. col. 55 foot 21 Nov. 1834 to 11 Aug. 1844
when placed on h.p.; aide de camp to the Queen 23 Dec. 1842 to 20
June 1854; commanded centre division of Madras army 7 Jany. 1855
to 23 April 1860; col. of 31 foot 20 Feb. 1859, of 55 foot 1 June
1862 to death; general 21 Jany. 1868; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 13
March 1867. _d._ Warrior terrace, St. Leonards 13 Dec. 1873.
CRAIGIE, ROBERT. Entered navy 22 March 1811; captain 7 Nov. 1839;
admiral on h.p. 1 April 1870. _d._ Dawlish 2 March 1873 in 73
year.
CRAIGIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Belnaboth, Aberdeenshire 11 March 1799;
studied for medical profession at Marischal college, Aberdeen and
at Univs. of Edin. and Dublin; settled at Ancaster, Canada West
1834, removed to Hamilton 1845; held a high position as a
scientific authority on meteorology, botany, horticulture and
agriculture; a member of Board of arts and manufactures of Canada
West. _d._ Hamilton, Aug. 1863.
CRAIK, GEORGE LILLIE (_eld. son of Rev. Wm. Craik, assistant
minister of parish of Kennoway, Fifeshire, who d. 1830_). _b._
Kennoway 1798; ed. at St. Andrew’s Univ.; edited the _Star_ local
paper 1817; came to London 1826; professor of English literature
and history at Queen’s college, Belfast 1849 to death; examiner
for Indian civil service in London 1859 and 1862; author of _The
pursuit of knowledge under difficulties 2 vols._ 1830–31;
_Sketches of the history of literature and learning in England 6
vols._ 1844–45 expanded into _A Compendious History of English
literature and of the English language 2 vols._ 1861; _Spenser and
his poetry 3 vols._ 1845; _Bacon, his writings and his philosophy
3 vols._ 1846–7; _Romance of the peerage 4 vols._ 1848–50; author
with C. Macfarlane of _The pictorial history of England 4 vols._
1837–41. _d._ 2 Chlorine place, Belfast 25 June 1866.
_Certificates in favour of G. L. Craik for the office of one of
the Latin masters in the new Edinburgh Academy._
CRAIK, HENRY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Prestonpans, East
Lothian 8 Aug. 1805; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews; tutor in family
of Anthony Norris Groves of Exeter 1826, in family of John Synge
of Buckridge house near Teignmouth 1828–31; pastor of Baptist
chapel, Shaldon, Devon 1831–32; laboured in Bristol with George
Muller (founder of the New orphan houses, Ashley Down) 1832 to
death, founded with him a society at Bristol similar to the
Plymouth Brethren 1832; author of _The Hebrew language, its
history and characteristics_ 1860; _Principia Hebraica_ 1863. _d._
Hampton park, Redland near Bristol 22 Jany. 1866. _W. E. Tayler’s
Passages from the diary and letters of H. Craik_ 1866.
CRAMER, JOHANN BAPTIST (_eld. son of Wilhelm Cramer of London,
violinist 1745–99_). _b._ Mannheim 24 Feb. 1771; taken to London
1774; made his first appearance as a pianist 1781; travelled
abroad 1788–91, 1798 and 1816–18; a member of board of management
of Royal Academy of Music 1822; founded firm of music publishers
J. B. Cramer and Co. in Regent st. London 1828 from which he
retired 1835; occupied the foremost rank of his day as a pianist;
composed, adapted and arranged 250 pieces of music; his _Eighty
four Studies_ are still very popular. _d._ Kensington terrace,
London 16 April 1858. _The Harmonicon i_, 179–81 (1823),
_portrait_.
CRAMP, REV. JOHN MOCKETT (_son of Rev. Thomas Cramp, founder of
Baptist church at St. Peter’s, Isle of Thanet, who d. 17 Nov. 1851
aged 82_). _b._ St. Peter’s 25 July 1796; ed. at Stepney college,
London; pastor of baptist chapel, Dean st. Southwark 1818;
assistant pastor at St. Peter’s 1827–42; pastor of baptist chapel,
Hastings 1842–44; pres. of baptist college, Montreal 1844–49;
pres. of Acadia college, Nova Scotia 1851–69; edited _The
Register_ a Montreal weekly religious journal 1844–49; edited with
Rev. W. Taylor _The Colonial Protestant_ a monthly mag. 1848–49;
general editor of _The Pilot_ Montreal newspaper 1849–51; author
of _A text book of Popery_ 1831; _Baptist history from the
foundation of the Christian church to the eighteenth century_ 1868
and many other books. _d._ Wolfville, Nova Scotia 6 Dec. 1881.
CRAMPTON, SIR JOHN FIENNES TWISLETON, 2 Baronet (_elder son of the
succeeding_). _b._ Dawson st. Dublin 12 Aug. 1805; ed. at Eton and
Trin. coll. Dublin; attached to mission at Turin 1826, to embassy
at St. Petersburg 1828; paid attaché at Brussels 1834, at Vienna
1839; sec. of legation to Confederated states of Swiss Cantons
1844, in the United States 1845, chargé d’Affaires there 1847–49
and 1850–52; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to U.S. 19 Jany.
1852, the pres. of the U.S. discontinued official intercourse with
him 28 May 1856 on account of his recruiting soldiers in the U.S.
for the British army, when he returned to England but he held the
appointment to 20 Jany. 1857; K.C.B. 20 Sep. 1856; envoy extraord.
and min. plenipo. to King of Hanover 2 March 1857, at St.
Petersburg 31 March 1858, at Madrid 11 Dec. 1860 to 1 July 1869
when he retired on pension; succeeded his father 10 June 1858.
_d._ Bushey park, Enniscorthy, co. Wicklow 5 Dec. 1886.
CRAMPTON, SIR PHILIP, 1 Baronet (_3 son of John Crampton of Merrion
sq. Dublin 1732–92_). _b._ Dublin 7 June 1777; assistant surgeon
in army; surgeon to Meath hospital, Dublin 1798; M.D. Glasgow
1800; taught anatomy in private lectures and maintained a
dissecting room behind his own house; surgeon general to the
forces in Ireland to his death, the last who held that
appointment; surgeon in ord. to the Queen for Ireland; a member of
senate of the Queen’s Univ.; pres. of Royal college of surgeons,
Dublin 3 times; F.R.S. 16 April 1812; created baronet 14 March
1839. _d._ Merrion sq. Dublin 10 June 1858. _Dublin Univ. Mag.
xv_, 613 (1840), _portrait_; _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii_,
52–53 (1861).
CRAMPTON, PHILIP CECIL (_4 son of Rev. Cecil Crampton 1733–1819, R.
of Headford, co. Galway_). _b._ May 1782; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, scholar 1800, fellow 1807, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1807; LL.B.
1809, LLD. 1810; called to Irish bar 1810; professor of common and
feudal law in Univ. of Dublin 1816–34; solicitor general for
Ireland 23 Dec. 1830; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1831; justice
of Court of Queen’s Bench, Ireland 21 Oct. 1834 to Jany. 1859;
M.P. for Milborne, Port, Somerset 15 July 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832;
contested Univ. of Dublin, Dec. 1832 and Dungarvan, Feb. 1834;
P.C. 1858. _d._ St. Valente, Bray, co. Wicklow 29 Dec. 1862.
_Address on Judge Crampton’s retirement with some of his charges
to Juries_ 1859; _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_
(1885) 299–302.
CRAMPTON, THOMAS. _b._ Sheerness 1817; organist at Staines 1840,
afterwards at Brentford and Ealing; government lecturer at Kneller
Hall training college 1854; composed anthems, glees and
instrumental music; purchaser of music to the British Museum 1875;
published _The church psalter_ 1854; _The part singer_ 1868;
_Twenty-four school songs with lessons on musical notation_ 1873;
_Forty school songs_ 1882; _Music for the New Code staff notation_
1884; composed and printed upwards of 35 pieces of music; some of
his duets and trios appeared under the nom de plume of J. Karl
Bernhardt. _d._ 2 Devonshire gardens, Chiswick 13 April 1885.
CRANE, LUCY (_dau. of the succeeding._) _b._ Liverpool 22 Sep. 1842;
ed. in London; wrote the original verses and rhymed versions of
nursery legends for her brother Walter Crane’s Coloured Toybooks
1869–75; delivered lectures in London and the North on Art and the
formation of taste; author of _Household stories from the Brothers
Grimm, translated_ 1882; _Art and formation of taste, Six
lectures_ 1882. _d._ Bolton-le-Moors 31 March 1882.
CRANE, THOMAS (_son of Mr. Crane of Chester, bookseller_). _b._
Chester 1808; artist at Chester 1825; associate of Liverpool
Academy 1835, member 1838, treasurer 1841; lived at Torquay
1844–57; his principal works were portraits in oil, water-colour
and crayon; exhibited 9 subject pictures at the R.A.; illustrated
various books. _d._ Lambton terrace, Bayswater, London 15 July
1859.
CRANWORTH, ROBERT MONSEY ROLFE, 1 Baron (_elder son of Rev. Edmund
Rolfe, R. of Cockley Cley, Norfolk, who d. 24 July 1795_). _b._
Cranworth, Norfolk 18 Dec. 1790; ed. at Bury school, Winchester
and Trin. coll. Cam., 17 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815;
fellow of Downing coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 21 May 1816, bencher
1832; recorder of Bury St. Edmunds about 1830; K.C. Aug. 1832;
M.P. for Penryn 1832–39; solicitor general 6 Nov. to 20 Dec. 1834
and 30 April 1835 to 11 Nov. 1839; baron of Court of Exchequer 11
Nov. 1839 to 2 Nov. 1850; one of comrs. of the Great Seal 19 June
to 15 July 1850; vice chancellor 2 Nov. 1850; P.C. 13 Nov. 1850;
created Baron Cranworth of Cranworth, co. Norfolk 20 Dec. 1850
being the first and only instance of a vice chancellor receiving
dignity of a peer; one of the two lords justices of appeal in
chancery 8 Oct. 1851; lord chancellor 28 Dec. 1852 to 26 Feb. 1858
and 7 July 1865 to 6 July 1867. _d._ 40 Upper Brook st. London 26
July 1868. _bur._ Keston churchyard. _Men of the time British
statesmen_ (1854) 251–58; _Law mag. and law review xxvi_, 278–84
(1869); _The British cabinet in 1853 pp._ 251–58; _I.L.N. xvii_,
357 (1850), _portrait_, _xxx_, 109 (1857), _portrait_, _liii_,
114, 153 (1868), _portrait_.
CRAUFURD, EDWARD HENRY JOHN (_eld. son of John Craufurd 1780–1867,
secretary to senate of Ionian islands_). _b._ 9 Dec. 1816; ed. at
Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1840, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister
I.T. 21 Nov. 1845; admitted barrister M.T. 10 April 1854; edited
_The Legal Examiner_ 1852; M.P. for Ayr district 22 July 1852 to
26 Jany. 1874; author of _Advocacy in county courts_. _d._
Portencross, Ayrshire 29 Aug. 1887.
CRAUFURD, JAMES (_eld. son of Archibald Clifford Blackwell Craufurd
of Ardmillan, Ayrshire_). _b._ Havant, Hants. 1805; ed. at Ayr
academy and at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; admitted advocate
1829; sheriff of Perthshire 14 March 1849; solicitor general for
Scotland 16 Nov. 1853; lord of session 10 Jany. 1855 to death with
courtesy title of Lord Ardmillan; lord of justiciary 16 June 1855
to death. _d._ 18 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1876. _Journal of
jurisprudence xx_, 538–9 (1876); _Graphic xiv_, 308 (1876),
_portrait_.
CRAVEN, LOUISA, Countess of (_youngest dau. of John Brunton
1750–1832, manager of the Norwich theatre_). _b._ Norwich 21 Jany.
1779; made her first appearance on the stage at Covent Garden 25
Oct. 1803 as Lady Townley in the _Provoked Husband_; made her last
appearance at Covent Garden 21 Oct. 1807 as Clara Sedley in _The
Rage_. (_m._ 12 Dec. 1807 Wm. Craven 1 Earl of Craven, he was _b._
1 Sep. 1770 and _d._ 30 July 1825). _d._ Hampstead Marshall,
Newbury 27 Aug. 1860. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses i_,
94–102 (1844), _portrait_; _British Stage ii_, 241 (1818),
_portrait_; _Theatrical Inquisitor xiii_, 3 (1818), _portrait_;
_Bentley’s Miscellany xviii_, 249–51 (1845).
CRAVEN, WILLIAM CRAVEN, 2 Earl of. _b._ 18 July 1809; ed. at Eton
and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 30 July 1825; knight of the griffin at
the Eglinton tournament 28 to 31 Aug. 1839; lord lieut. of Warws.
29 March 1854 to 1856; devoted great attention to coursing and
held spring and autumn meetings at Ashdown hills on his own
property. _d._ Royal hotel, Scarborough 25 Aug. 1866. _Baily’s
Mag. viii_, 327–9 (1864), _portrait_; _Nixon and Richardson’s
Eglinton tournament_ (1843), _portrait_.
CRAVEN, GEORGE GRIMSTON CRAVEN, 3 Earl of. _b._ Charles st. Berkeley
sq. London 16 March 1841; ed. at Harrow; succeeded 25 Aug. 1866;
high steward of Newbury, Berkshire 14 Jany. 1869; lord lieut. of
Berks. 11 Aug. 1881 to death; master of the old Berkshire hounds,
a steeple chaser, continued the Ashdown coursing meeting. _d._
Ashdown park, Berks. 7 Dec. 1883. _bur._ Binley churchyard near
Coventry 13 Dec. _Baily’s Mag. xxii_, 187 (1872), _portrait_.
CRAVEN, FULWAR (_elder son of Rev. John Craven of Chilton house,
Wiltshire, who d. 19 June 1804_). _b._ 25 June 1782; captain 1
dragoons 1803–1806; owner of race horses; won the Oaks with
Deception 1839; one of the most notable and eccentric characters
on the turf. _d._ Brockhampton park, Gloucs. 14 April 1860. _H.
Corbet’s Tales of sporting life_ (1864) 99–108; _W. Day’s
Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1886) 138–42.
CRAVEN, KEPPEL RICHARD (_youngest child of 6 Baron Craven 1737–91_).
_b._ 1 June 1779; ed. at Harrow; resided with his mother at Naples
1805; chamberlain to Princess of Wales 1814–15; purchased a large
convent in the mountains near Salerno, South Italy, and lived
there 1834; author of _A tour through the southern provinces of
the kingdom of Naples_ 1821; _Excursions in the Abruzzi and
northern provinces of Naples 2 vols._ 1838. _d._ Naples 24 June
1851. _Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach_ (1826), _i_, 72, 85,
364, _ii_, 74, 84, 95, 173, _portrait_; _Madden’s Literary life of
Countess of Blessington, ii_, 124–39 (1855).
CRAWFORD and BALCARRES, JAMES LINDSAY, Earl of. _b._ Balcarres,
Fifeshire 24 April 1783; succeeded as 7 Earl of Balcarres 27 March
1825; created Baron Wigan in peerage of United Kingdom 5 July
1826; had Earldom of Crawford (dormant since 1808) confirmed to
him by House of Lords 1848 and thus became 24 Earl of Crawford and
premier Earl on union roll of Scotland; claimed Dukedom of
Montrose 1855. _d._ Dunecht house, Aberdeen 15 Dec. 1869.
CRAWFORD and BALCARRES, ALEXANDER WILLIAM CRAWFORD LINDSAY, Earl of
(_eld. child of the preceding_). _b._ Muncaster Castle 16 Oct.
1812; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1833; succeeded 15
Dec. 1869; collected from all parts of the world the famous
Crawford library consisting of more than 50,000 books and MSS.,
the first portion of which was sold for £19,000 in 1887, one book
the Mazarin Bible fetched £2650; author of _Letters on Egypt, Edom
and the Holy Land 2 vols._ 1838; _Lives of the Lindsays 3 vols._
1840, _3 ed._ 1858; _Ballads, songs and poems translated from the
German_ 1841; _Progression by antagonism, a theory_ 1846;
_Sketches of the history of Christian art 3 vols._ 1847, _new ed.
2 vols._ 1885; _Scepticism, a retrogressive movement in theology_
1861; _Etruscan inscriptions analysed_ 1872; _The Earldom of Mar
in sunshine and in shade during five hundred years 2 vols._ 1882.
_d._ Villa Eualenina, Florence 13 Dec. 1880. _bur._ at Dunecht
house, April 1881, personalty sworn under £300,000 April 1881.
_Athenæum 25 Dec. 1880 p._ 865; _I.L.N. lxxxi_, 124 (1882).
NOTE.—His body was stolen April 1881 by Charles Soutar a
ratcatcher, but the theft was not discovered until Dec. 1881,
the body was found on the farm of Dumbreck near Dunecht house
18 July 1882 and buried in family vault under Wigan parish
church 26 July 1882. C. Soutar was sentenced to 5 years penal
servitude 24 Oct. 1882.
CRAWFORD, ABRAHAM (_youngest son of Rev. Thomas Crawford, V. of
Lismore, co. Waterford_). _b._ Lismore, Oct. 1788; entered navy 19
May 1800; captain 5 Jany. 1829; retired captain 5 Jany. 1849;
retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865. _d._ Teignmouth, Devon 17 Jany.
1869. _Reminiscences of a naval officer by Capt. A. Crawford, R.N.
2 vols._ 1851.
CRAWFORD, EDMUND THORNTON (_son of Mr. Crawford of Cowden near
Dalkeith, land surveyor_). _b._ Cowden 1806; landscape and marine
painter; A.R.S.A. 1839, R.S.A. 1848; one of the greatest landscape
painters in Scotland; contributed many pictures to Royal Scottish
Academy 1831–77; lived at Lasswade near Edinburgh 1858 to death.
_d._ Lasswade 27 Sep. 1885. _bur._ in new cemetery at Dalkeith.
CRAWFORD, GEORGE MORLAND. _b._ Chelsfield court lodge, Kent 1816;
barrister I.T. 5 May 1837; Paris correspondent of _Daily News_
1850 to death; a severe censurer of the Imperial government; very
intimate with Thiers, Gambetta and Floquet; stung by a wasp in the
carotid artery, Oct. 1885. _d._ from blood poisoning in Paris 23
Nov. 1885. _Daily News 26 Nov. 1885 p._ 3, _28 Nov. p._ 3; _Pall
Mall Gazette 26 Nov. 1885 p._ 11, _27 Nov. p._ 3, _portrait 9 Dec.
p._ 5.
CRAWFORD, JOHN. _b._ Greenock 31 Aug. 1816; a house painter at Alloa
1834 to death; author of _Doric lays, being snatches of song and
ballad 2 vols._ 1850–60; committed suicide at Alloa 13 Dec. 1873.
_Memorials of the town and parish of Alloa, by the late John
Crawford with memoir of the author by Rev. Charles Rogers_ 1874.
CRAWFORD, JOSEPH TUCKER. Consul general in Island of Cuba, April
1842 to death; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859. _d._ Havannah 21 July 1864.
CRAWFORD, REV. THOMAS JACKSON (_son of Wm. Crawford, professor of
moral philosophy in United college, St. Andrews_). _b._ St.
Andrews; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, B.D. 1831, D.D. 1844;
minister of parish of Cults 1834, of parish of Glamis 1838, of St.
Andrews parish Edin. 1844; professor of theology in Univ. of Edin.
1859 to death, being the last person appointed by the town to any
chair in the Univ.; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 1861; a dean of
the chapel royal; moderator of general assembly 1867; author of
_Reasons of adherence to the Church of Scotland_ 1843;
_Presbyterianism defended against the exclusive claims of prelacy
as urged by the Romanists and Tractarians_ 1853, _2 ed._ 1867;
_The Fatherhood of God_ 1866, _3 ed._ 1870; _The mysteries of
Christianity_ 1874. _d._ Genoa 11 Oct. 1875. _Scott’s Fasti iii,
pt. 2, p._ 772; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix_, 17 (1878).
CRAWFORD, WILLIAM (_2 son of Archibald Crawford of Ayr, poet
1779–1843_). _b._ Ayr 1825; teacher of drawing at Royal
Institution, Edinburgh; exhibited pictures at Royal Scottish
Academy, many of which were bought by Royal Assoc. for Promotion
of fine arts in Scotland; his portraits in crayons of children and
ladies were much sought after; A.R.S.A. 1860. _d._ Lynedoch place,
Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_, 146 (1869).
CRAWFORD, WILLIAM THOMAS. Second lieut. R.A. 21 June 1833, lieut.
col. 1 April 1855 to death; C.B. 24 March 1858. _d._ Rome 6 March
1862.
CRAWFURD, ANDREW. _b._ St. John’s hill, Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire;
ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 1813; surgeon at Rothesay, Isle of
Bute; professor of natural philosophy in the Dollar Institution a
short time; author of a voluminous Eik or Supplement to John
Jamieson’s _Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language 2
vols._ 1840, and of a supplement of 80 pages dated 1853 to _The
Laird of Logan_ 1841; collected 44 quarto manuscript volumes
relating to Renfrewshire. _d._ St. John’s hill, Lochwinnoch 27
Dec. 1854 aged 67.
CRAWFURD, JOHN (_son of Mr. Crawfurd of Islay, Hebrides islands,
surgeon_). _b._ Islay 13 Aug. 1783; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co.
1803; filled some of chief civil and political posts in Java
1811–17; envoy to courts of Siam and Cochin China 1821–23;
governor of Singapore 1823–26; comr. to Pegu 1826; made a
collection of fossil mastodon and other animals which were
described by Buckland and Clift; sent on a mission to court of Ava
1827; F.R.S. 7 May 1818; contested Glasgow, Dec. 1832, Paisley,
March 1834 and Sterling, Jany. 1835; pres. of Ethnological Soc.
1861, contributed 38 papers to the Journal 1861–68; author of
_History of the Indian Archipelago 3 vols._ 1820; _Journal of an
embassy to Ava_ 1828; _A grammar and dictionary of the Malay
language 2 vols._ 1852; _A descriptive dictionary of the Indian
islands and adjacent countries_ 1856. _d._ Elvaston place, South
Kensington, London 11 May 1868. _Journal of Royal Geographical
Soc. xxxviii, pp. cxlviii-clii_, (1868).
CRAWLEY, GEORGE BADEN (_2 son of George Abraham Crawley of London,
solicitor 1795–1862_). _b._ 4 Sep. 1833; ed. at Harrow, was in
cricket eleven; one of the best tennis players; a railway
contractor; planned and carried out two railways in Belgium, two
railways in Spain, a railway from Vera Cruz to Mexico and a
railway of nearly 300 miles from Tiflis to Poti; his last work was
a railway from Ploesti in Roumania to Cronstadt in Hungary but
this was interrupted by the war 1878; accidentally killed on board
a steamer off Progreso coast of Mexico 23 Nov. 1879. _bur._
Highgate cemetery, London 1 Jany. 1880.
CRAWLEY, PETER. _b._ Newington Green 5 Dec. 1799; fought Richard
Acton for £50 at Blindlow heath 6 May 1823 when Crawley won after
13 rounds; fought James Ward for £200 at Royston heath 2 Jany.
1827 when Crawley won in 26 minutes; landlord of Queen’s head and
French horn, Duke st. West Smithfield, London 1827 to death. _d._
at his house 12 March 1865. _Miles’s Pugilistica ii_, 233–47
(1880), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news iii_, 37 (1864),
_portrait_.
CRAWLEY, THOMAS ROBERT. _b._ 30 April 1818; ensign 45 foot 19 Dec.
1834; lieut. col. 15 dragoons 23 Sep. 1859 to 18 Sep. 1860; lieut.
col. 6 dragoons 18 Sep. 1860 to 2 Dec. 1868 when placed on h.p.;
M.G. 6 Feb. 1870; tried by a court martial at Aldershot 17 Nov. to
23 Dec. 1863 for falsely arresting Sergeant Lilley at Mhow in
Hindustan, who died from effects of treatment he suffered after a
month’s close confinement, honourably acquitted 23 Dec. 1863, the
trial formed subject of several inquiries in House of Commons 1864
it cost the country £18,378 17s. 6d. _d._ 9 York terrace, Regent’s
park, London 2 July 1880. _British quarterly Review xxxix_,
389–408 (1864); _Annual Register_ (1863) 312–28; _Illust. Times 28
Nov. 1863 p._ 345, _portrait_.
CRAWSHAY, ROBERT THOMPSON (_youngest son of the succeeding_). _b._
Cyfarthfa ironworks near Merthyr Tydvil 8 March 1817; manager of
the ironworks; head of the business 1867; known as the ‘iron king
of Wales.’ _d._ Queen’s hotel, Cheltenham 10 May 1879, personalty
sworn under £1,200,000, 21 June. _Practical Mag._ (1873) 81–4,
_portrait_; _Journal of iron and steel instit._ (1879) 328–30.
CRAWSHAY, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Crawshay of Stoke Newington,
Middlesex_). _b._ 1788; sole proprietor of Cyfarthfa ironworks;
had 10 mines in active work turning out iron ore, 9 shafts and
collieries, a domain with a railway 6 miles long and large estates
in Berks and Gloucestershire; sheriff of Glamorganshire 1822. _d._
Caversham park, Reading 4 Aug. 1867, personalty sworn under
£2,000,000, 7 Sep. _Red Dragon v_, 289–92 (1884), _portrait_;
_G.M. Sep. 1867 pp._ 393–95.
CREAGH, JAMES. Ensign 86 foot 1 Jany. 1810, lieut. col. 30 April
1852 to 24 Jany. 1860; L.G. 26 Jany. 1874; colonel 34 foot 7 Oct.
1874 to death. _d._ 16 St. Stephen’s road, Westbourne park, London
1 Aug. 1875.
CREAGH, JASPER BYNG. Ensign 81 foot 9 April 1825, captain 5 Oct.
1832 to 5 Sep. 1834; captain 54 foot 20 Sep. 1839 to 12 Dec. 1843
when placed on h.p.; served with British auxiliary legion in north
of Spain 1836–37; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Richmond road, Bayswater,
London 9 March 1881 in 68 year.
CREAGH, SIR MICHAEL (_5 son of John Creagh of Limerick_). _b._ 1788;
ensign 86 foot 9 May 1802, major 24 Oct. 1821 to 31 Dec. 1830 when
placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 86 foot 24 Feb. 1832 to 7 Jany. 1842;
lieut. col. 11 foot 7 Jany. 1842 to 27 June 1845; M.G. 20 June
1854; col. 73 foot 11 Jany. 1860 to death; knighted at St. James’s
palace 1 Aug. 1832; K.H. 1832. _d._ Boulogne 14 Sep. 1860.
CREASY, SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD (_son of Edward Hill Creasy of Bexley,
Kent, land agent_). _b._ Bexley 1812; ed. at Eton, Newcastle
scholar 1831; scholar of King’s coll. Cam. 1832, fellow 1834, B.A.
1835, M.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1837; professor of
ancient and modern history in Univ. coll. London 1840–60; chief
justice of Ceylon 19 March 1860 to 1875 when he retired on pension
of £1600; knighted at St. James’s palace 28 March 1860; professor
of jurisprudence to the four Inns of Court, London; author of
_Memoirs of eminent Etonians_ 1850, _2 ed._ 1876; _The fifteen
decisive battles of the world from Marathon to Waterloo 2 vols._
1851, _28 ed._ 1877; _The history of the rise and progress of the
English constitution_ 1853, _14 ed._ 1888; _History of the Ottoman
Turks 2 vols._ 1854, _new ed._ 1877; _History of England 2 vols._
1869–70; _The old love and the new 3 vols._ 1870. _d._ 15 Cecil
st. Strand, London 27 Jany. 1878. _I.L.N. lxxii_, 133 (1878),
_portrait_.
CRESSWELL, ADDISON JOHN BAKER (_son of Francis Easterby of
Blackheath, Kent who assumed name of Cresswell and d. 1820_). _b._
1 Oct. 1788; ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., M.A. 1810; sheriff of
Northumberland 1821; M.P. for North Northumberland 12 July 1841 to
23 July 1847. _d._ Cresswell near Morpeth 5 May 1879.
CRESSWELL, SIR CRESSWELL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Biggmarket, Newcastle 1794; ed. at Charterhouse and Em. coll.
Cam., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; admitted at M.T. 1810, at I.T. 1815,
barrister I.T. 25 June 1819, bencher 1834; went Northern circuit
of which he became joint leader with Robert Alexander; recorder of
Hull 1830; K.C. 1834; M.P. for Liverpool 26 July 1837 to Jany.
1842; justice of Court of Common Pleas 22 Jany. 1842 to 11 Jany.
1858; serjeant-at-law 27 Jany. 1842; knighted at St. James’s
Palace 4 May 1842; judge of Court of Probate and Divorce
(established by 20 & 21 Vict. c. 77) 11 Jany. 1858 to death;
adjudicated upon 1000 cases in only one of which was his judgment
reversed; P.C. 3 Feb. 1858; published with R. V. Barnewall
_Reports of cases in the Court of King’s Bench 1822–1830_, _10
vols._ 1823–32; thrown from his horse on Constitution hill and his
kneepan fractured 17 July 1863. _d._ from heart disease at 21
Prince’s gate, Hyde park, London 29 July 1863. _Law Mag. and law
review xx_, 179–88 (1866); _Law Times xxxviii_, 535–7 (1863).
CRESSWELL, SAMUEL GURNEY (_3 son of Francis Cresswell of Lynn,
Norfolk_). Entered navy 1842; lieut. of the Investigator 17 Dec.
1849, searched for Sir John Franklin in the Polar sea 1850–53;
explored 170 miles of Banks island in sledges 18 April to 20 May
1851, arrived in London 7 Oct 1853 being the first person who
actually effected the North-west passage; presented with an
address in the guildhall, Lynn 26 Oct. 1853; captain 17 Sep. 1858;
received Baltic and Arctic medals and a portion of the £10,000
awarded to officers and crew of the Investigator for discovery of
N.W. passage; published _Eight sketches in colours of voyage of
Investigator_ 1854; illustrated _R. J. le M. M’Clure’s Discovery
of north west passage_ 1856. _d._ Bank house, King’s Lynn 14 Aug.
1867 aged 39. _I.L.N. xxiii_, 389 (1853).
CRESTADORO, ANDREA. _b._ Genoa 1808; ed. at Univ. of Turin, Ph.
Doc., professor of natural philosophy; came to England 1849;
patented certain improvements in impulsoria 1852; a model of his
metallic balloon was shown at Crystal Palace, June 1868; compiled
catalogues for Sampson Low and Co. 1859–61; chief librarian of
Manchester free libraries, Dec. 1862 to death; originated index
catalogues, generally adopted as models by English municipal
libraries; naturalised in England 16 April 1866; received order of
Crown of Italy 1878; author of _The art of making catalogues or a
method to obtain a most perfect printed catalogue of the British
Museum library, by A Reader therein_ 1856; _Du pouvoir temporel et
de la souveraineté Pontificale_, _Paris_ 1861; _Catalogue of books
in the Manchester free library, Reference department_ 1864;
_Taxation reform, or the best way of raising the revenue_ 1878.
_d._ 155 Upper Brook st. Manchester 7 April 1879. _Momus 20 March
1879_, _portrait_.
CRESWICK, THOMAS. _b._ Sheffield 5 Feb. 1811; landscape painter in
London 1828; exhibited 139 pictures at R.A., 80 at B.I. and 46 at
Suffolk st. gallery 1828–70; A.R.A. 1842, R.A. 11 Feb. 1851;
largely employed as a designer of book illustrations; 109 of his
paintings were collected together at London International
Exhibition 1873; many of his pictures were in Manchester
Exhibition 1887. _d._ The Limes, Linden grove, Bayswater, London
28 Dec. 1869. _I.L.N. xviii_, 219 (1851), _portrait_, _lvi_, 53
(1870), _portrait_; _A catalogue of the works of T. Creswick by T.
O. Barlow_ 1873.
CRESY, EDWARD. _b._ Dartford, Kent 7 May 1792; walked through
England to study, measure and draw the cathedrals and most
interesting buildings 1816; walked through France, Switzerland,
Italy and Greece 1817–20; architect and civil engineer in London
1820 to death; superintending inspector under general board of
health; author of _A practical treatise on bridge building_ 1839;
_Illustrations of Stone church, Kent_ 1840; _An encyclopædia of
civil engineering_ 1847, _2 ed._ 1856; author with George Ledwell
Taylor of _The architectural antiquities of Rome 2 vols. folio
1821–2_, _new ed._ 1874; _Architecture of the middle ages in
Italy_ 1829. _d._ South Darenth, Kent 12 Nov. 1858. _G. L.
Taylor’s Autobiography of an octogenarian architect 2 vols._
1870–72.
CREWDSON, JANE (_2 dau. of George Fox of Perran-arworthal,
Cornwall_). _b._ Perran-arworthal 22 Oct. 1808; author of _Aunt
Jane’s Verses for children_ 1851, _3 ed._ 1871; _Lays of the
Reformation and other lyrics_ 1860; _A little while and other
poems_ 1864, _3 ed._ 1872. (_m._ Oct. 1836 Thomas Dillworth
Crewdson of Manchester, manufacturer). _d._ Summerlands, Whalley
Range, Manchester 14 Sep. 1863.
CREWE, REV. HENRY ROBERT (_2 son of Sir Henry Harpur, 7 baronet
1763–1818 who assumed name of Crewe 1808_). _b._ Stourfield house
4 Sep. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1830; R. of
Breadsall, Derbyshire 1830 to death; author of _The Church of
England, Pro. and Con._ 1843; _Repeal of the corn laws by One who
fears God and regards man_ 1846; _The war of Satan and the battle
of God, remarks on Turkey and the East_ 1854; _The war of
prophecy_ 1854. _d._ Breadsall rectory 29 Sep. 1865.
CREYKE, VEN. STEPHEN (_youngest son of Richard Creyke 1746–1826,
commissioner of the Victualling office_). _b._ 24 Sep. 1796;
ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820, fellow of his
college 1821–23; R. of Wigginton near York 1834–44; V. of
Sutton-on-the-Forest near York 1837–44; preb. of York 28 Sep.
1841 to death; R. of Beeford, Yorkshire 1844–65; archdeacon of
York 16 Oct. 1845 to 1867; canon res. of York 1857–73; R. of
Bolton-Percy, Yorkshire 1865 to death. _d._ Bolton-Percy 11
Dec. 1883.
CRICHTON, SIR ALEXANDER (_2 son of Alexander Crichton of
Woodhouselee and Newington, Midlothian_). _b._ Edinburgh 2 Dec.
1763; came to London 1784; M.D. Leyden 29 July 1785; studied at
Paris, Stuttgart, Vienna and Halle; member of Corporation of
surgeons, May 1789, got himself disfranchised 1 May 1791; L.R.C.P.
25 June 1791; physician to Westminster hosp. 1794; phys. in ord.
to Alexander I Emperor of Russia 1804; head of Russian civil
medical department; F.R.S. 8 May 1800; F.G.S. 1819; received grand
cross of the Red Eagle 27 Dec. 1820, grand cross of St. Anne, Aug.
1830; knighted at the Pavilion, Brighton 1 March 1821; author of
_Inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement 2 vols._
1798; _A synoptical table of diseases designed for the use of
students_ 1805; _Account of experiments with vapour of tar in cure
of pulmonary consumption_ 1817; _On the treatment and cure of
pulmonary consumption_ 1823. _d._ The Grove near Sevenoaks, Kent 4
June 1856. _bur._ Norwood cemetery. _Proc. of Royal Soc. viii_,
269–72 (1856); _Quarterly Journal of Geog. Soc. xiii, pp.
lxiv-lxvi_ (1857).
CRICHTON, REV. ANDREW. _b._ parish of Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire Dec.
1790; engaged in teaching at Edinburgh and North Berwick; edited
_North Briton_ 1830–32, _Edinburgh Advertiser_ 1832 to June 1851;
member of presbytery of Edin.; elder for burgh of Cullen in
general assembly of Church of Scotland 1852 to death; LLD. St.
Andrew’s 1837; author of _Converts from infidelity 2 vols._ 1827;
_History of Arabia 2 vols._ 1833; with H. Wheaton of _Scandinavia
ancient and modern 2 vols._ 1838. _d._ 33 St. Bernard’s crescent,
Edinburgh 9 Jany. 1855.
CRICHTON, REV. ANDREW (_son of Rev. David Crichton, English master
at Madras college, St. Andrews_). _b._ St. Andrews 22 May 1837;
bursar at Univ. of Edin. 1852, B.A. 1857; licensed as a preacher
by free presbytery of Arbroath June 1860; co-pastor of New North
free church, Edinburgh Dec. 1860 to March 1866; pastor of free
church, Chapelshade, Dundee 30 March 1866 to death; most popular
preacher in Dundee; contributed many articles to _Family
Treasury_, _London Review_ and _Sunday Mag._; author of _The
confessions of a wandering soul_. _d._ Liberton, Edinburgh 13 July
1867. _bur._ in Grange cemetery, Edin. where is monument.
_Memorials of the late Rev. A. Crichton_, _edited by W. G.
Blaikie_ (1868).
CRICHTON, SIR ARCHIBALD WILLIAM (_eld. son of Patrick Crichton,
captain 47 foot_). _b._ 1791; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; physician to
Emperor of Russia and his family; member of Russian medical
council; councillor of state in Russia; received star of legion of
honour 1814; D.C.L. Ox. 11 Jany. 1817; knighted by Prince Regent
at Carlton house 13 March 1817; received grand cross of Red Eagle
of Prussia 1829, of St. Stanislaus 1832, of St. Anne 1834 and of
St. Vladimir 1836. _d._ St. Petersburg 27 Feb. 1865.
CRICHTON, JOHN (_7 child of Thomas Crichton of Dundee, merchant who
was b. in Queen Anne’s reign_). _b._ Dundee 22 Feb. 1772; ed. at
Univs. of St. Andrew’s and Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1790; surgeon at
Dundee 1791; became an eminent lithotomist; performed operation of
lithotomy 200 times, being unsuccessful in 14 cases only; surgeon
to Royal Infirmary, Dundee 1836, his full-length portrait by John
Gibson was placed in the Infirmary 14 June 1841; a reader in the
Glasite church, Dundee 60 years; never went out of Scotland. _d._
Tay st. Dundee 3 July 1860. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_
(1873) 182–4.
CRICHTON, WILLIAM HINDLEY. Entered Madras army 19 Aug. 1839, lieut.
col. Madras staff corps 19 Aug. 1865 to 22 July 1871; hon. M.G. 17
Feb. 1872; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Beaconside, North Devon 7 Dec.
1885 aged 66.
CRINNON, RIGHT REV. PETER FRANCIS. _b._ Cullen, co. Louth 1817 or
1818; went to Canada 1850; studied at St. Sulpice coll. Montreal;
ordained in Toronto 1854; priest successively at London, St.
Mary’s, Biddulph, and Kintora; priest at Stratford 1858 where he
built St. Mary’s church; vicar general of London; R.C. bishop of
Hamilton, Canada 1874 to death, during his administration of the
diocese the number of Roman Catholics was doubled. _d._
Jacksonville, Florida 25 Nov. 1882. _Dominion Annual Register_
1883 _p._ 337.
CRIPPS, JOHN MARTEN (_son of John Cripps_). _b._ 1780; Fellow
commoner at Jesus coll. Cam. 27 April 1798, M.A. 1803; travelled
in the East with Edward Daniel Clarke 3 years; introduced from
Russia the Khol-rabi for the use of dairy farms; F.L.S. 1803,
F.S.A. 1805; presented part of his large collection of statues,
antiques and oriental flora to Univ. of Cam. and other public
institutions. _d._ Novington near Lewes 3 Jany. 1853. _Proc. of
Linnæan Soc. ii_, 231–2 (1855); _M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex_
(1865) 271–73.
CRITCHETT, GEORGE. _b._ Highgate 25 March 1817; ed. at London
hospital; M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1844, member of council 1870;
demonstrator of anatomy at London hospital, assistant surgeon
1846, surgeon Aug. 1861 to 1863; one of the best operators on the
eye; pres. of Hunterian Soc. 2 years; pres. of International
congress of Ophthalmology held in London 1872; ophthalmic surgeon
and lecturer at Middlesex hospital 1876; author of _Lectures on
ulcers of the lower extremities_ 1849. _d._ 21 Harley st. London 1
Nov. 1882. _I.L.N. lxxxi_, 497 (1882), _portrait_.
CRIVELLI, DOMENICO FRANCESCO MARIA (_son of Gaetano Crivelli
1774–1836 tenor singer at King’s theatre, London_). _b._ Brescia
1794; came to England with his father 1817; taught singing in
London 1817 to death; principal professor of singing at Royal
Academy of Music 1823 to death; taught many of the best English
singers. _d._ 71 Upper Norton st. Fitzroy sq. London 31 Dec. 1856.
CROCKER, CHARLES. _b._ Chichester 22 June 1797; shoemaker at
Chichester 1809–39; employed by W. H. Mason the publisher 1839–45;
sexton of Chichester cathedral 1845 to death; author of _The vale
of obscurity, the Lavant and other poems_ 1830, _3 ed._ 1841; _A
visit to Chichester cathedral_ 1848; _Poetical works of C.
Crocker_ 1860. _d._ South st. Chichester 6 Oct. 1861. _M. A.
Lower’s Worthies of Sussex_ (1865) 87–8; _Lives of illustrious
shoemakers by W. E. Winks_ (1883) 321; _Sketches of obscure poets_
(1833) 102–112.
CROCKETT, JAMES (_son of Mr. Crockett, a showman by Miss Cross of
Nottingham who was 6 feet 8 inches in height_). _b._ Prestyn,
Radnorshire 9 May 1835; cornet player in circus of Messrs. Sanger,
lion tamer with them 1857; performed in chief capitals of Europe;
returned to England 1863; went to United States 1864; travelled in
western states with Howes and Cushing’s European circus at a
salary of £20 a week; fell down dead in the circus at Cincinnati 6
July 1865. _Illust. Sporting news ii_, 377, 437 (1864),
_portrait_; _Era 30 July 1865 p. 10, col. 1_, _6 Aug. p. 11, col.
4_; _I.L.N. xxxviii_, 90 (1861).
CROFT, SIR ARCHER DENMAN, 8 Baronet (_2 son of Sir Richard Croft, 6
baronet 1762–1818_). _b._ Old Burlington st. London 7 Dec. 1801;
ed. at Westminster; succeeded his brother 29 Oct. 1835; barrister
L.I. 30 April 1839; a master of Court of Queen’s Bench 1838 to
death. _d._ 1 Sussex place, Hyde park, London 10 Jany. 1865.
CROFT, VEN. JAMES (_eld. son of Rev. Robert Nicholas Croft
1754–1831, canon res. of York cath._) _b._ 2 July 1784; ed. at
Eton and Peterhouse Cam.; B.A. 1807, M.A. 1812; R. of Saltwood
near Hythe 1812 to death; preb. of Ely 3 Nov. 1815; R. of
Cliffe-at-Hoo, Kent 1818 to death; canon of Canterbury 26 April
1822; archdeacon of Canterbury 18 June 1825 to death. _d._
Saltwood rectory 9 May 1869.
CROFT, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of John Croft of Oporto,
merchant, who d. 11 Feb. 1805_). _b._ 21 March 1778; comr. to
distribute parliamentary grant of £100,000 to the Portugese
sufferers by Marshal Massena’s invasion 1811–12; chargé d’affaires
at Lisbon 1815; F.R.S. 5 March 1818; created baronet 17 Dec. 1818
for services during Peninsular war; K.T.S. 10 Dec. 1821; D.C.L.
Ox. 1822. _d._ 53 Queen Anne st. London 5 Feb. 1862.
CROFT, WILLIAM (_2 son of Stephen Croft of Stillington hall,
Yorkshire 1744–1813_). _b._ 2 April 1782; entered navy 1 Sep.
1795; captain 13 Oct. 1807; admiral on half pay 28 Nov. 1857. _d._
Stillington 6 May 1872.
CROFTON, EDWARD CROFTON, 2 Baron. _b._ Clarges st. London 1 Aug.
1806; succeeded his father as 4 baronet 8 Jany. 1816, and his
grandmother as 2 baron 12 Aug. 1817; a representative peer of
Ireland 20 Jany. 1840 to death; a lord in waiting to the Queen,
Feb. to Dec. 1852, Feb. 1858 to June 1859 and July 1866 to Dec.
1868. _d._ Mote park, Roscommon 27 Dec. 1869.
CROFTON, EDWARD WALTER. 2 lieut. R.A. 26 July 1831, col. 30 May 1862
to death; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ Malta 26 June 1863.
CROFTON, GEORGE ALFRED. _b._ 1785; entered navy March 1798; captain
1 Feb. 1812; V.A. on h.p. 9 July 1855. _d._ Clifton 23 Feb. 1858.
CROFTON, JOHN FFOLLIOTT. _b._ 9 Oct. 1802; ensign 6 foot 18 Dec.
1824, lieut. col. 7 Aug. 1846 to 21 July 1848; col. of 95 foot 25
Aug. 1868, of 6 foot 5 Sep. 1869 to death; general 23 Aug. 1877.
_d._ 29 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 17 July 1885.
CROGGAN, JOHN WILLIAM. 2 lieut. Madras artillery 18 Dec. 1823, col.
commandant 14 Dec. 1868 to death; L.G. 10 April 1876; author of
_Miscellaneous exercises on artillery_ 1856; _A treatise on Mortar
practice, velocity, time of flight and range_ 1865. _d._ 35
Tregunter road, London 2 May 1877.
CROKAT, WILLIAM. _b._ near Edinburgh 1788; ensign 20 foot 9 April
1807, captain 31 March 1814 to 7 Nov. 1826 when placed on h.p.;
witnessed the death of Napoleon at St. Helena 5 May 1821, being
the original of the “Officer on guard” in Steuben’s well known
engraving; general 25 Oct. 1871. _d._ 52 Inverkeith’s row,
Edinburgh 6 Nov. 1879 in 92 year.
CROKER, JOHN WILSON (_son of John Croker, surveyor general of
customs and excise in Ireland_). _b._ Galway 20 Dec. 1780; ed. at
Portarlington and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1800, LL.B. and LLD.
1809; student at L.I. 1800; called to Irish bar 1802; M.P. for
Downpatrick 1807–12, for Athlone 1812–18, for Yarmouth, Isle of
Wight 1819–20, for Bodmin 1820–26, for Aldeburgh, Suffolk 1826–27
and 1830–32, for Univ. of Dublin 1827–30; one of chief opponents
of the Reform bill; sec. of the Admiralty 9 Oct. 1809 to Nov. 1830
when he retired on a pension of £1500; P.C. 16 June 1828; one of
founders of _Quarterly Review_ 1809 in which he wrote about 260
articles 1809–64; F.R.S. 5 July 1810; friend and factotum of 3
Marquis of Hertford (the Marquis of Steyne of _Vanity Fair_) who
left him £21,000 and his cellar of wine 1842; author of _Familiar
epistles to F. J[one]s, Esq. on the present state of the Irish
stage_ 1804 _anon. 5 ed._ 1804; _Talavera_ 1809; _Essays on the
early period of the French revolution_ 1857 and other books;
edited _The new Whig guide_ 1819; _Boswell’s Life of Dr. Johnson 4
vols._ 1831 and other books. _d._ at house of Sir Wm. Wightman,
St. Alban’s Bank, Hampton, Middlesex 10 Aug. 1857. _bur._ at West
Moulsey. _Memoirs, diaries and correspondence of J. W. Croker
edited by L. J. Jennings_, _2 ed. 3 vols._ 1885, _portrait_;
_Quarterly Review cxlii_, 83–126 (1876); _D. O. Madden’s Chiefs of
parties ii_, 81–112 (1859); _J. Grant’s Memoir of Sir G. Sinclair_
(1870) 213–28; _Mrs. Houston’s A woman’s memories i_, 1–18 (1883);
_H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 376–85;
_Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 72–4, _portrait_.
NOTE.—D’Israeli ridiculed him very successfully in Coningsby
under name of Rigby, also in Vivian Grey under name of Vivida
Vis; Lady Morgan depicted him in her novel Florence Macarthy
as Councillor Crawley, and Lord Brougham in his novel Albert
Lunel us La Croasse.
CROKER, MARIANNE (_dau. of Francis Nicholson of Whitby, Yorkshire,
artist 1753–1844_). _b._ Whitby; produced her first drawing upon
stone 1816; wrote _The adventures of Barney Mahoney_ 1832, and _My
village versus our village_ 1832, both of which have the name of
Thomas Crofton Croker on their title pages; (_m._ 1830 T. C.
Croker 1798–1854). _d._ 3 Gloucester road, Old Brompton, London 6
Oct. 1854.
CROKER, THOMAS CROFTON (_only son of Thomas Croker, major in the
army who d. 22 March 1818_). _b._ Buckingham sq. Cork 15 Jany.
1798; clerk in the Admiralty, London 1818 to Feb. 1850 when he
retired as senior clerk of the first class on a pension of £580,
introduced lithography into the Admiralty; F.S.A. 1827; M.R.I.A.
1827; founder and pres. of Society of Noviomagus 11 Dec. 1828 to
his death; helped to found Camden Soc. 1839, Percy Soc. 1840 and
British Archælogical Assoc. 1843; edited _Willis’s Current Notes_
Jany. 1851 to death; author of _Researches in the South of
Ireland_ 1834; _Fairy legends and traditions of the South of
Ireland 3 parts_ 1825–28, _several editions_; _Legends of the
Lakes, or sayings and doings at Killarney 2 vols._ 1829, _new ed._
1874; _The popular songs of Ireland_ 1839 another ed. in Morley’s
Universal Library vol. 40; _The Keen of the South of Ireland
illustrative of Irish history, Percy Soc. vol._ 13 (1842); _A walk
from London to Fulham_ 1860, and many other works and
translations. _d._ 3 Gloucester road, Old Brompton, London 8 Aug.
1854. _Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland by T. C. Croker with
a memoir of the author by his son T. F. D. Croker_ 1862; _Dublin
Univ. Mag. xxxiv_, 203–16 (1849), _portrait_; _Fraser’s Mag. iii_,
67 (1831), _portrait_; _Mrs. Balmanno’s Pen and pencil_ (1858)
156–71, _portrait_; _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i_, 251–57
(1883); _Numismatic Chronicle xviii_, 20–1 (1856); _Maclise
Portrait Gallery_ (1883) 49–53, _portrait_; _G.M. xlii_, 397–401
(1854).
CROKER, WILLIAM. Ensign 17 foot 27 March 1803, lieut. col. 1 April
1836 to 5 Nov. 1847 when he sold out; C.B. 20 Dec. 1839; colonel
in the army 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Cheltenham 11 Aug. 1852 aged 64.
CROLL, ALEXANDER ANGUS (_youngest son of George Croll of Perth_).
_b._ Perth 1811; civil engineer in London; a pioneer in extension
of telegraphy; chairman of United Kingdom electric telegraph
company; publicly presented with a testimonial of plate worth 1000
guineas 1871; originated and erected the Wool Exchange in city of
London; colonel 2 Tower Hamlets volunteers 1869–85; sheriff of
London and Middlesex 1853. _d._ Dunblane, Scotland 7 June 1887.
_bur._ Woking cemetery, Surrey 11 June. _I.L.N. xxiii_, 195
(1853).
CROLL, FRANCIS. _b._ Musselburgh about 1826; line engraver. _d._
Edinburgh 12 Feb. 1854. _Art Journal_ (1854) 119.
CROLY, REV. GEORGE. _b._ Dublin 17 Aug. 1780; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, scholar 1798, B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804, hon. LLD. 1831; came
to London about 1810; dramatic critic to the _New Times_; took
charge of parish of Romford, Essex 1832–35; R. of St. Benet
Sherehog with St. Stephen’s, Walbrook, London 1835 to death;
afternoon preacher at Foundling hospital 1847–48; wrote poems in
the _Literary Gazette_ from 1817; edited _The Graces_ 1824, _The
Literary Souvenir_ 1825–34; author of _Paris in 1815_, 1817; _The
Beauties of the British poets_ 1828; _Tales of the Saint Bernard_
1829; _Salathiel, A story of the past, the present and the future_
1829, _new ed._ 1855; _The life and times of George the Fourth_
1830, _2 ed. 2 vols._ 1841; _Divine providence, or the three
cycles of Revelation_ 1834; _A memoir of Edmund Burke 2 vols._
1840; _Historical sketches, speeches and characters_ 1842;
_Marston, or the soldier and statesman 3 vols._ 1846, _3 ed._
1861; _Scenes from Scripture with other poems_ 1851; _The book of
Job_ 1863, and numerous other books and single sermons. _d._
suddenly whilst walking in Holborn, London 24 Nov. 1860. _bur._
St. Stephen’s, Walbrook where a bust of him was placed. _The book
of Job by Rev. G. Croly with a biographical sketch by his son_
1873; _A few personal recollections of Rev. G. Croly by Richard
Herring_ 1861; _James Grant’s Metropolitan pulpit i_, 239–56; _G.
Gilfillan’s A second gallery of literary portraits_ (1850) 145–59;
_G.M. x_, 104–7 (1861); _I.L.N. iv_, 248 (1844), _portrait_,
_xxiv_, 401 (1854), _portrait_.
CROMBIE, THOMAS. Ensign 79 foot 12 Aug. 1824; major Rifle corps 16
Nov. 1841 to 20 Oct. 1848 when placed on h.p.; captain Coldstream
guards 22 June 1849 to 9 Feb. 1855 when placed on h.p.; col. 96
foot 10 May 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 33 Half Moon
st, Piccadilly, London 14 Oct. 1877.
CROMMELIN, THOMAS LAKE. _b._ 1805; executed commissions for
gentlemen on the chief public races 1835–52; a butcher in
Melbourne, Australia 1853; police magistrate Victoria gold fields
1854; commissioner of crown lands Riverina district, New South
Wales 1860, resigned 1869; sec. to Union club, Sydney for one
month only 1869. _d._ in house of his friend hon. John Bowie
Wilson at Sydney 7 April 1877. _Sporting Times 2 May 1885 pp._
2–3.
CROMMELIN, WILLIAM ARDEN (_son of Charles Barker Crommelin of
Garruckpore_). _b._ 1823; second lieut. Bengal engineers 10 Dec.
1841, colonel 1 Jany. 1870 to 31 Dec. 1878 when he retired with
hon. rank of L.G.; C.B. 26 July 1858; inspector general of
military works 2 Aug. 1865 to 1877, granted service reward 12
Jany. 1875. _d._ Brightlands, Barnes, Surrey 30 Oct. 1886.
CROMPTON, SIR CHARLES JOHN (_3 son of Peter Crompton, M.D. of
Derby_). _b._ Derby 12 June 1797; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1818, M.A. 1821; barrister I.T. 23 Nov. 1821, bencher 1851; tubman
in Court of Exchequer, postman; contested Preston, Dec. 1832 and
Newport, Isle of Wight, July 1847; assessor of Court of Passage,
Liverpool 1836–52; a comr. of inquiry into Court of Chancery, Dec.
1850; justice of Court of Queen’s Bench, Feb. 1852 to death;
serjeant-at-law Feb. 1852; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 Feb.
1852; author with John Jervis of _Reports in the Court of
Exchequer_ 1830–32, _2 vols._ 1832–33; with Roger Meeson of
_Reports in the Court of Exchequer 1832–34, 2 vols._ 1834–35; with
R. Meeson and Henry Roscoe of _Reports in the Court of Exchequer
1834–36_, _2 vols._ 1834–36. _d._ 22 Hyde park sq. London 30 Oct.
1865. _Law mag. and law review xxiii_, 1–30 (1867); _I.L.N. xxi_,
356 (1852), _portrait_.
CROMPTON, JOSHUA SAMUEL (_son of Joshua Crompton of York, who d.
1832_). _b._ 17 Sep. 1799; M.P. for Ripon 1832 to 1834. _d._
Azerley hall, Ripon 17 June 1881.
CROMPTON, THOMAS BONSOR (_youngest son of John Crompton of Farnworth
mills, Lancashire, paper maker_). _b._ Farnworth 20 May 1792;
partner with his brother John Crompton in Farnworth Mills, sole
proprietor 1835 to death; contrived several mechanical appliances
for utilising fibres hitherto considered unsuitable for being made
into paper; became an extensive newspaper proprietor; proprietor
of the _Morning Post_; erected very large cotton mill at Prestolee
near Farnworth about 1833. _d._ the Hassels, Sandy, Beds. 3 Sep.
1858.
CROMPTON-STANSFIELD, WILLIAM ROOKES (_brother of Joshua Samuel
Crompton 1799–1881_). _b._ 3 Aug. 1790; ed. at Harrow and Jesus
coll. Cam., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; barrister I.T. 22 May 1819; M.P.
for Huddersfield 1837 to 1853; took additional name of Stansfield
1819. _d._ Frimley park, Surrey 5 Dec. 1871.
CROMWELL, REV. THOMAS. _b._ 14 Dec. 1792; entered Literary
department of Longman & Co. of London, publishers; minister of
Unitarian chapel, Stoke Newington Green 1839–64; minister of old
presbyterian chapel at Canterbury 1865 to death; F.S.A. Dec. 1838;
author of _The school boy with other poems_ 1816; _Honour, or
arrivals from college, privately printed_ 1820, a comedy played at
Drury Lane 17 and 18 April 1819; _Oliver Cromwell and his times_
1821, _2 ed._ 1822; _History of the town and borough of Colchester
2 vols._ 1825; _History description of the parish of Clerkenwell_
1828; _The Druid, a tragedy_ 1832; _Walks through Islington_ 1835;
_The soul and the future life_ 1859. _d._ Canterbury 22 Dec. 1870.
_Notes and Queries 4th series, ix_, 198, 267, 347 (1872).
CRONYN, RIGHT REV. BENJAMIN (_son of Thomas Cronyn, mayor of
Kilkenny_). _b._ Kilkenny 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1822, M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1855; held curacies in Ireland
1826–32; R. of St. Paul’s, London, Canada West 1832–57; bishop of
Huron 14 Oct. 1857 to death, consecrated at Lambeth 28 Oct. 1857.
_d._ London, Ontario 21 Sep. 1871. _I.L.N. xli_, 576, 587 (1862),
_portrait_.
CROOK, JOSEPH (_eld. son of Joshua Crook of Whitebank, Bolton_).
_b._ 1809; cotton manufacturer at Bolton; M.P. for Bolton 9 July
1852 to Jany. or Feb. 1861. _d._ Oakfield, Heaton, Bolton 8 Dec.
1884 in 76 year.
CROOKS, JAMES. _b._ Kilmarnock, Scotland 1778; one of earliest
settlers in Upper Canada, lived at Niagara 1794; established first
paper mill in and sent first load of wheat and flour from Upper
Canada to Montreal; served with distinction during war of 1812;
member of Canadian legislative assembly and council. _d._ West
Flamborough, Ontario 1860.
CROOKSHANK, ALEXANDER CROWDER. Deputy controller Dublin district 11
Dec. 1872 to death; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 20 Upper Mount st.
Dublin 14 April 1877. _Graphic xv_, 408 (1877), _portrait_.
CROPPER, JOSEPH ALMOND. _b._ Loughborough; barrister G.I. 11 Feb.
1823; devised property to Westminster hospital worth £800 per
annum, to St. George’s hospital worth £700, and to Middlesex
hospital property worth £600 per annum and the sum of £4000, these
3 hospitals are enabled by special acts of parliament to receive
lands notwithstanding the Statute of Mortmain. _d._ Fulwood house,
Gray’s Inn London 27 Sep. 1862 aged 79.
CROSBY, ALLAN JAMES (_only son of James Crosby of Streatham_).
Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 9 Nov. 1854 aged 18, B.A. 1858,
M.A. 1873; barrister I.T. 1 May 1865; employed in the public
record office about 1860 to death; edited _Accounts and papers
relating to Mary Queen of Scots, Camden Soc._ 1867; _Calendar of
foreign state papers of the reign of Queen Elizabeth 4 vols._
1871–80. _d._ Holmbush, Ide near Exeter 5 Dec. 1881. _Antiquarian
Mag. i_, 152 (1882).
CROSBY, JAMES. _b._ 1806; ed. at Greenwich and Trin. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1826; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830; police magistrate at
Kingston, St. Vincent, May 1844; member of house of assembly St.
Vincent many years, speaker 1853; stipendiary magistrate British
Guiana, March 1857, immigration agent general British Guiana 1
Oct. 1862 to death. _d._ Georgetown, Demerara 30 Aug. 1880.
CROSKERY, REV. THOMAS (_son of Mr. Croskery of co. Down,
tradesman_). _b._ Carrowdore near Belfast 26 May 1830; licensed to
preach by presbytery of Down 6 May 1851; a reporter and
subsequently editor of the _Banner of Ulster_; ordained minister
of Creggan, co. Armagh 17 July 1860, translated to Clonakilty, co.
Cork 24 March 1863; minister of chapel at Waterside, city of
Londonderry 1866–75; professor of logic and belles lettres in
Magee college, Londonderry 1875–79, professor of theology 1879 to
death; author of _A catechism on the doctrines of the Plymouth
brethren_; _Plymouth brethrenism, a refutation of its principles
and doctrines_ 1879; _Irish Presbyterianism, its history,
character, influence and present position_ 1884. _d._ 3 Oct. 1886.
CROSLAND, THOMAS PEARSON. _b._ Crosland near Huddersfield 29 Dec.
1815; a merchant at Huddersfield; M.P. for Huddersfield 14 July
1865 to death. _d._ Gledholt near Huddersfield 8 March 1868.
CROSLEY, ALEXANDER. _b._ Camberwell 1827; a solicitor in London 1850
to death; common councilman for Langbourn ward 1857–61; under
sheriff for London and Middlesex 8 times. _d._ 76 Camberwell
grove, London 14 Jany. 1876 in 49 year.
CROSLEY, SIR CHARLES DECIMUS (_son of Henry Crosley_). _b._ the
Grove, Camberwell, Surrey 21 Feb. 1820; ed. at Camberwell; a stock
and share broker in city of London 1846 to death; sheriff of
London and Middlesex 1854–55; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 May
1855 after visit of Emperor of the French; chevalier of legion of
honour; a comr. of inland revenue for Middlesex. _d._ Eastbourne
12 Oct. 1882.
CROSMOND, ROSA, stage name of Helen Turner (_dau. of Sarah Rachael
Leverson known as Madame Rachel of 47 New Bond st. London,
enameller of ladies faces, who d. 12 Oct. 1880 aged 60_). Member
of Carter’s choir at Albert hall, London about 1873; studied at
Royal Academy of Music; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre 1878–79 and
with Mapleson’s company in the United States; secured a high
position at Milan particularly for her representation of Aida
about 1881. (_m._ Edmund Turner of London, silk merchant who _d._
about 1879). _d._ St. George’s hospital, London 27 April 1888,
having shot herself in a cab in Piccadilly Circus the night
before.
CROSS, EDWARD. Superintendent of the Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change,
Strand, London 1794 to 1814, Chunee the elephant shot there 9
March 1826, proprietor 1814 to 16 June 1829 when it was taken down
and he removed his menagerie to the King’s Mews, Charing Cross;
originated the Surrey Zoological gardens comprising 15 acres at
Walworth, opened 12 Aug. 1831, proprietor 1831–44, the
conservatory 300 feet in circumference was the largest in England;
exhibited the Indian one-horned rhinoceros which cost £800, 1834,
three giraffes 1836, picture of Mount Vesuvius painted by Danson
1837 reproduced 1846, Iceland and its volcanoes 1839, Jullien
conducted promenade concerts here 1849–51. _d._ 48 Newington
place, Kennington road, London 26 Sep. 1854 aged 80. _Hone’s
Every-day book ii_, 321–36 (1838); _Brayley’s Surrey iii_, 409–11
(1850).
CROSS, JOHN. _b._ Tiverton, May 1819; studied painting at St.
Quentin and Paris; exhibited a cartoon of ‘The death of Thomas à
Becket’ at Westminster Hall 1844, and a large oil painting called
‘The clemency of Richard Cœur-de-Lion towards Bertrand de Gourdon’
1847 which gained a first premium of £300 and was purchased by the
comrs. for £1000; an exhibition of his principal works was held at
Society of Arts, Adelphi 1861; his widow Mary Cross was granted
civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1862. He _d._ 38 Gloucester
road, Regent’s Park, London 27 Feb. 1861.
CROSS, JOHN (_2 son of James Cross of Mortfield near Bolton, Lancs.
solicitor and banker, who d. 1 Nov. 1850 aged 79_). _b._ Mortfield
18 Jany. 1807; ed. at Bolton gr. school; articled to his father;
solicitor at Bolton 1829–33; barrister G.I. and M.T. 8 June 1836;
serjeant at law 17 May 1858; chairman of board of directors of
Londonderry and Coleraine railway; author of _A treatise on the
law of lien and stoppage in transitu_ 1840. _d._ 2 Avenue road,
Regent’s park, London 1 June 1861.
CROSS, JOHN HENRY. _b._ London; connected with the Religious tract
society more than 40 years; wrote for it 609 separate publications
(majority being small books for children), total circulation of
which amounted to nearly 80,000,000 copies, selections from them
have been translated into 30 languages; edited the _Child’s
Companion_ 33 years, the _Tract magazine_ 6 years. _d._
Lougborough road, Brixton 5 Feb. 1876 aged 72.
CROSS, JOHN KYNASTON (_son of John Cross of Gartside house,
Bolton_). _b._ 13 Oct. 1832; a merchant at Manchester and a cotton
spinner at Bolton; M.P. for Bolton 4 Feb. 1874 to 18 Nov. 1885;
under sec. of state for India, Jany. 1883 to July 1885; author of
_Imports, exports and the French treaty_ 1881 in Cobden Club
Papers; hanged himself at Fernclough, Heaton, Bolton 20 March
1887.
CROSS, MARY ANN (_youngest child of Robert Evans 1773–1849, surveyor
to Sir Roger Newdigate of Arbury hall, Warws._) _b._ Arbury farm,
parish of Chilvers Coton, Warws. 22 Nov. 1819; ed. at Nuneaton and
Coventry; removed with her father to Foleshill road, Coventry,
March 1841; lived at 142 Strand, London as assistant editor of
_Westminster Review_ Sep. 1851 to Oct. 1853; lived with George
Henry Lewes at Holly lodge, Wandsworth 1859–60, at 16 Blandford
sq. Regent’s park 1860–63, and at The Priory 21 North bank, St.
John’s Wood 1863–78, G. H. Lewes _d._ 28 Nov. 1878, she proved his
will 16 Dec. 1878; founded George Henry Lewes studentship worth
nearly £200 a year to be held for 3 years by some student occupied
in physiological investigation 1879; published _The life of Jesus
critically examined by D. F. Strauss, translated from the fourth
German edition 3 vols._ 1846 anon.; _The essence of Christianity
by Ludwig Feuerbach translated from the second German edition by
Marian Evans_ 1854; author of the following works under pseudonym
of George Eliot: _Scenes of clerical life 2 vols._ 1858, _Adam
Bede 3 vols._ 1859, _The mill on the Floss 3 vols._ 1860, _Silas
Marner the weaver of Raveloe_ 1861, _Romola 3 vols._ 1863, _Felix
Holt the Radical 3 vols._ 1866, _The Spanish Gypsy, a poem_ 1868,
_Agatha, a poem_ 1869, _Middlemarch a study of provincial life 4
vols._ 1871–72, _The legend of Jubal and other poems_ 1874,
_Daniel Deronda 4 vols._ 1876, _Impressions of Theophrastus Such_
1879, _How Lisa loved the King_ 1883, _Essays and leaves from a
Note-Book_ 1884. (_m._ 6 May 1880 under name of Mary Ann Evans
Lewes, John Walter Cross of Weybridge, Surrey). _d._ 4 Cheyne
walk, Chelsea 22 Dec. 1880. _bur._ by side of G. H. Lewes in
Highgate cemetery 29 Dec. portrait of her by Sir Frederick Burton
in National portrait gallery. _The life of George Eliot by J. W.
Cross 3 vols._ 1884, 2 _portraits_; _George Eliot by Mathilde
Blind_ 1883; _G. W. Cooke’s George Eliot, critical story of her
life_ 1883; _Our living poets by H. B. Forman_ (1871) 467–500;
_Biographical sketches by C. K. Paul_ (1883) 141–70; _Westminster
Review, Jany. 1882 pp._ 65–71.
CROSS, PHILIP HENRY EUSTACE. L.R.C.S. Ireland 1848; assistant
surgeon 1 West India regiment 3 April 1849; surgeon 97 foot 7 Sep.
1855; surgeon 13 foot 16 June 1857 to 19 Nov. 1858; staff surgeon
19 Nov. 1858; served in the Crimean war; surgeon major 27 Feb.
1872 to 14 April 1875 when he retired; slowly murdered his first
wife Mary Lawson Cross by giving her doses of arsenic and
strychnine, she _d._ at Shandy hall, Cork 2 June 1887, (_m._ (2)
17 June 1887 his governess Miss Skinner); found guilty of murder
17 Dec. 1887, hanged in Cork gaol 10 Jany. 1888. _Pall Mall
Gazette 10 Jany. 1888 p. 7, col. 2._
CROSSE, ANDREW (_elder son of Richard Crosse of Fyne court,
Broomfield, Somerset_). _b._ Fyne court 17 June 1784; ed. at
Rev. Mr. Seyer’s school, The Fort, Bristol 1793–1802, caned on
an average 3 times a day for 7 years; gentleman commoner at
Brasenose coll. Ox. 1802, B.A. 1806; experimented on
electro-crystallisation; observed appearance of insect life in
metallic solutions supposed to be destructive to organic life
1837, the publication of this discovery gained him great
notoriety. _d._ in the room in which he was born at Fyne Court 6
July 1855. _Memorials scientific and literary of Andrew Crosse
the electrician by C. A. H. Crosse_ 1857; _H. M. Noad’s Manual
of Electricity_, _4 ed._ (1855) 173–77, 256, 378–83, 390, 401;
_Letters of H. G. Atkinson to Harriet Martineau_ (1851) 361–67.
CROSSE, THOMAS BRIGHT (_only son of Thomas Ikin_). _b._ 1796; ed. at
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1817; assumed surname of Crosse 8 Sep.
1828; sheriff of Lancashire 1837; M.P. for Wigan 1 July 1841 to
April 1842 when unseated on petition. _d._ 75 Cambridge terrace,
Hyde park, London 21 March 1886.