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CLARE, Peter (son of Peter Clare of Manchester, clockmaker, who d. 30 July 1799). b. Manchester 1781; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society 1810, sec. 1821–42; F.R.A.S. 1841; a zealous member of Anti-slavery committee. d. Manchester 24 Nov. 1851. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xii, 89–90 (1852).

CLARENDON, George William Frederick Villiers, 4 Earl of (eld. son of hon. George Villiers 1759–1827). b. London 12 Jany. 1800; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; attaché of embassy at St. Petersburg 1820–23; a comr. of the Excise 1823–33; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Madrid 16 Aug. 1833 to 18 Oct. 1839; G.C.B. 19 Oct. 1837; succeeded his uncle as 4 Earl 22 Dec. 1838; P.C. 3 Jany. 1840; lord keeper of privy seal 15 Jany. 1840 to 3 Sep. 1841; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 31 Oct. 1840 to 23 June 1841 and 7 April 1864 to Nov. 1865; pres. of board of trade 6 July 1846 to 22 July 1847; lord lieut. of Ireland 20 May 1847 to 2 March 1852; grand master of order of St. Patrick 26 May 1847 to 1852; K.G. 23 March 1849; sec. of state for foreign department 21 Feb. 1853 to 26 Feb. 1858, 3 Nov. 1865 to 5 July 1866 and 9 Dec. 1868 to death; ambassador extraord. and plenipo. to congress of Paris 15 Feb. to April 1856; ambassador extraord. at coronation of King Wm. i of Prussia 2 Oct. 1861; chancellor of Queen’s Univ. of Ireland 8 Oct. 1864. d. 1 Grosvenor crescent, London 27 June 1870. bur. at Watford, Herts. 1 July. W. H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France and England, New York (1863) 157–61; Men of the time, British Statesmen (1854) 287–317; D. O. Maddyn’s Chiefs of parties (1859) 136–53; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 454–58 (1854); Macmillan’s mag. xxii, 292–6 (1870); St. James’s mag. Feb. 1870 pp. 676–85, portrait; The British cabinet in 1853 pp. 287–317.

CLARGES, Sir Richard Goddard (2 son of Rev. James Hare of Stratton, Wilts.) b. Chingford hall, Essex; ed. at Rugby, entered at Oxford but never resided; lieut. 30 foot 6 July 1796; major 12 foot 1 July 1813 to 27 Aug. 1825 when placed on h.p.; colonel 73 foot 18 May 1849 to 29 July 1852; colonel 12 foot 29 July 1852 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; served in Egypt, Hanover, Spain and the Peninsula; assumed surname of Clarges 18 June 1844; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856. d. Bitchfield near Grantham 13 April 1857.

CLARIDGE, Sir John Thomas (eld. son of John Fellowes Claridge of Sevenoaks, Kent). b. 1792; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1818; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1818; recorder of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca 30 Sep. 1825 to 1829; knighted at Windsor Castle 30 Sep. 1825. d. Stoke villa, Leamington 20 June 1868.

CLARIDGE, William. Succeeded James Edward Mivart (who d. 5 Jany. 1856 aged 75) as owner of Mivart’s hotel, Brook st. Hanover sq. London 1851 the hotel par excellence for princes and foreign ambassadors; sold the hotel to a company for £60,000 March 1881. d. Cragthorne, Grove park, Kent 12 April 1882 aged 68.

CLARINA, Eyre Massey, 3 Baron. b. Cork 6 May 1798; succeeded Jany. 1810; a representative peer for Ireland 16 April 1849 to death. d. Elm park, Clarina, co. Limerick 18 Nov. 1872.

CLARIS, John Chalk (son of Mr. Claris of Canterbury, bookseller). b. Canterbury about 1797; edited the Kent Herald 1826–65; published under pseudonym of Arthur Brooke following poetical works; Juvenile Pieces 1816; Poems 1817; Durovernum, The curse of Chatterton and other poems 1818; Thoughts and feelings 1820; Retrospection (with portrait) 1821; Elegy on the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1822. d. Best lane, Canterbury 10 Jany. 1866. Notes and Queries, Fourth series, x, 29, 95 (1872).

CLARK, Bracy. b. Chipping Norton, Oxon 7 April 1771; a veterinary surgeon in London 1800; F.L.S. 15 Jany. 1793; author of An essay on the bots of horses and other animals 1815; Hippodonomia, or the true structure laws and economy of the horse’s foot 1829; Treatise on the bits of horses, 2 ed. 1835; and many other small books on veterinary subjects. d. Giltspur st. London 16 Dec. 1860. Proc. of Linnæan Society (1861) 21–4; J. Smith’s Catalogue of Friends’ books i, 417–22 (1867).

CLARK, Charles. b. Heybridge, Maldon, Essex 1806; lived at Great Totham hall near Witham where he composed and printed with his own hands numerous broadsides consisting chiefly of satirical songs and parodies; printed A history of the parish of Great Totham by G. W. Johnson 1831; contributed to the Literary Gazette, Family Herald and Sportsman. d. of heart disease at Heybridge 21 March 1880. W. T. Lowndes’s Bibliographer’s Manual by H. G. Bohn iv, appendix pp. 216–17 (1864).

CLARK, Charles. Barrister M.T. 21 May 1830; official reporter to House of Lords 1840; secretary to Channel Islands’ criminal law commission 1846; revising barrister for South Essex 1863–4, for Herts 1864–73; sec. to Juridical Society 1855–8; bencher of his inn 15 Jany. 1872; Q.C. 9 Feb. 1874; author of A summary of colonial law 1834; House of Lords cases 11 vols. 1849–66; author with Patrick Dow of Reports in the House of Lords 2 vols. 1827–32, with William Finnelly of Reports in the House of Lords 12 vols. 1835–47. d. 10 Albert road, Regent’s park, London 28 June 1881.

CLARK, Edward Rawson. b. Yorkshire; employed at Crockford’s, St. James’s st. London; kept a racing stud from about 1834; a finance agent in London to 1856; a member of Tattersall’s 52 years; commonly known as D’Orsay Clark. d. 147 Church st. Chelsea 12 April 1885 aged 81. Sporting Review xl, 434–7, (1858); Sporting Times 2 May 1885 p. 5.

CLARK, Francis William (eld. son of Francis Wm. Clark of Kilpatrick, Argyllshire). b. Stirling 1827; ed. at Stirling gr. sch. and Univ. of Edin., hon. LLD. 1877; advocate 1851; sheriff substitute for Glasgow 1867–76; sheriff of Lanarkshire 1876 to death; author of A treatise on the law of partnership and joint-stock companies according to the law of Scotland 1866. d. Kelvinside, Glasgow 19 Nov. 1886.

CLARK, Rev. Frederick Scotson (eld. son of Michael Clark of Southwark, London). b. Southwark 16 Nov. 1840; organist of Regent Square church, London 1854; studied at Royal academy of music; founded the London Organ school 1865; matriculated from Exeter coll. Ox. 13 Oct. 1865; organist of Ex. coll. 1865–7; Mus. Bac. 1867; head master of St. Michael’s gr. sch. Brighton 1867; C. of St. Michael’s, Lewes 1868–9; assistant chaplain at Stuttgart 1870–4, at Amsterdam 1874–8; chaplain at Paris 1879; the English official representative organist at Paris Exhibition 1878 when he was awarded a gold medal; composed many pieces for the organ, harmonium and piano. d. the London organ school 3 Prince’s st. Cavendish sq. 5 July 1883.

CLARK, Venerable George. Educ. at Univ. coll. Ox., Bennett scholar, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; C. of Alton, Hants 1835–42; C. of Tawstock, Devon 1843–5; V. of Cantley, Yorkshire 1845–54; preb. of Hereford 12 Dec. 1848 to death; R. of Tenby 1854–67; archdeacon of St. David’s 21 Jany. 1864 to death. d. Lampeter Velfrey rectory 11 Dec. 1874.

CLARK, George Aitken (son of John Clark of Paisley, thread manufacturer). b. Paisley 9 Aug. 1823; shawl manufacturer with Robert and John Ronald at Paisley to 1851; started with Peter Kerr a thread business at Linside Mill, Paisley 1851; established a branch factory at Newark, New Jersey 1864; bequeathed £20,000 for erection of a town hall at Paisley which was opened 30 Jany. 1882, and £20,000 to found 4 scholarships of £300 a year each, tenable for 3 years in Glasgow Univ. d. Newark 13 Feb. 1873. The inauguration of the George A. Clark town hall, Paisley 1882, portrait; I.L.N. lxxx, 133 (1882).

CLARK, Sir James, 1 Baronet (son of David Clark of Findlater, who d. 15 Aug. 1836). b. Findlater 14 Dec. 1788; ed. at Fordyce gr. sch. and King’s coll. Aberdeen; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1809; assistant surgeon R.N. 1809–16 when placed on h.p.; M.D. Edin. 1 Aug. 1817; physician at Rome 1819–26, in London 1826–60; L.R.C.P. 26 June 1826; F.R.S. 7 April 1832; first phys. in ord. to the Queen 8 Aug. 1837; created baronet 11 Nov. 1837; member of senate of Univ. of London 1838–65; physician to Prince Albert 1840–60; served on general medical council 1858–60; lived at Bagshot park, lent to him by the Queen 1860 to death; K.C.B. 6 July 1866; author of The influence of climate in the prevention and cure of chronic diseases 1829, 3 ed. 1841; Remarks on medical reform 1843; A memoir of John Conolly, M.D. 1869. d. Bagshot park 29 June 1870. Proc. of Royal Soc. xix, 13–19 (1871); Physic and Physicians ii, 254–60 (1839); Barker’s Photographs of medical men, portrait; I.L.N. lvii, 48, 61, 70 (1870), portrait.

CLARK, John (son of Thomas Clark of Greinton, Somerset, minister of Society of Friends, who d. 16 June 1850 aged 91). b. Greinton 21 Nov. 1785; projected an electric telegraph; took out a patent for construction of Air Beds and cushions by use of a solution of india rubber which he disposed of to Mackintosh; constructed a machine for composing hexameter Latin verses 1848; author of The Avalonian guide to the town of Glastonbury and its environs 1810, 10 ed. 1855; Tales of the convent of St. Clair 1823; Don Juan, Canto xvii published by John Clark 1827. d. Bridgwater 23 May 1853. J. Smith’s Friends’ books i, 425–7 (1867).

CLARK, John. Race judge for 30 years at Newmarket, Doncaster, Ascot, Epsom 1822–52. d. Newmarket 15 July 1853 aged 74.

CLARK, John. Attorney in London; clerk of the Central criminal court, Old Bailey 1829 to death; clerk of the peace for City of London and borough of Southwark 1829–42 and 1843 to death. d. London 28 July 1858. bur. Datchet 5 Aug. City Press 31 July 1858 p. 2, col. 2, and p. 3, col. 2.

CLARK, John. Artist and illustrator of books; inventor and executant of the Myriorama, Urania’s Mirror and other ingenious art-toys; known as ‘Waterloo Clark’ from his sketches of some of the incidents of the field of Waterloo taken by himself on the spot immediately after the battle. d. Edinburgh, Oct. 1863 aged 92.

CLARK, John. Ensign 55 foot 2 June 1814; commandant royal military asylum 2 April 1852 to 26 Oct. 1858; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858; col. 59 foot 9 March 1863 to death. d. Brighton 22 March 1865.

CLARK, Richard. b. Datchet, Bucks. 5 April 1780; lay clerk at St. George’s chapel, Windsor and Eton college 1802–11; secretary of the Glee club 1805; member of Royal Society of musicians 3 July 1814; a gentleman of the Chapels Royal 1 Oct. 1820; a vicar choral of St. Paul’s cathedral 1827; a lay clerk at Westminster abbey 1828; published Words of the most favourite pieces performed at the Glee club, Catch club and other societies 1814, 2 ed. 1824; An account of the national anthem, God save the king 1822, which he at first attributed to Carey but afterwards claimed for Bull; Reminiscences of Handel 1836; Reading and playing from score simplified 1838; composed glees, anthems and chants. d. the Littlington tower, Westminster abbey cloisters 5 Oct. 1856.

CLARK, Rev. Samuel (youngest child of Joseph Clark of Southampton, brush maker). b. Southampton 19 May 1810; publisher with John Maw Darton at Holborn hill, London 1836 to 11 June 1843; entered Magd. hall, Ox. 7 Jany. 1839, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1846; vice principal of St. Mark’s training college, Chelsea, May 1846–1851; principal of National Society’s training college, Battersea 1851–63; V. of Bredwardine, Hereford 1863–71; R. of Eaton Bishop, Hereford, June 1871 to death; inspector of schools for diocese of Hereford 1872 to death; published Peter Parley’s Tales of the sun, moon and stars 1837; Maps illustrative of physical and political history of the British empire 1849; contributed to the Speaker’s Commentary, Leviticus, the latter part of Exodus and Micah; one of revisers of the Old Testament. d. Cosham house, East Cosham, Hants. 17 July 1875. Memorials of Samuel Clark edited by his wife (1878), portrait.

CLARK, Sarah (6 child of John Davies of Caerwys, Flintshire). Baptized in Caerwys church 1 March 1767. (m. 3 March 1790 Wm. Clark of Hawarden parish, labourer, who d. 20 Jany. 1844). buried at Hawarden 21 April 1871. W. J. Thoms’s Human longevity (1873) 268–72.

CLARK, Thomas. b. Canterbury 1775; composed several anthems and many hymn tunes, a few of which continue in use as “Queenborough,” “Burnham” and “Pembroke.” d. Canterbury 30 May 1859.

CLARK, Thomas. b. Ayr 1801; lecturer on chemistry at Glasgow Mechanics’ Institution 1836; discovered the pyrophosphate of soda 1836; studied at Glasgow Univ. 1827–31, M.D. 1831; apothecary to Glasgow infirmary 1829; professor of chemistry in Marischal college and univ. Aberdeen 1833–60 when the coll. and univ. was fused with King’s college and univ.; best known by his water tests and by his process for softening chalk waters; contributed to Westminster Review articles on weights and measures and on the patent laws 1834–5. d. 27 Nov. 1867.

CLARK, Thomas (son of Wm. Clark, sheriff-substitute of Clackmannanshire). b. Whiteside, Stirlingshire 14 Nov. 1820; landscape painter in oil and water colours at Edinburgh; A.R.S.A. Nov. 1865. d. Dundaroch, Aberfoyle 7 Oct. 1876.

CLARK, Thomas James (2 son of Wm. Clark of St. John st. London and of Edmonton, hop merchant). b. 1822; ed. at Univ. coll. London; B.A. London 1842; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1845; went Home circuit; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; bencher of his inn 25 Jany. 1867. d. Myrtle cottage, Catford bridge, Kent 17 March 1877.

CLARK, Rev. William (2 son of John Clark, M.D. of Newcastle 1744–1805). b. Newcastle 5 April 1788; entered Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1804, scholar 1807, fellow 1809; 7 wrangler 1808, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, M.D. 1827; licensed to practise by Univ. of Cam. 5 July 1813; professor of anatomy at Cam. 1817–66, ordained deacon 1818; V. of Arrington, Cambs. 1824–5; R. of Guiseley near Leeds 1825–59; F.R.C.P. 25 June 1830; F.R.S. 28 Jany. 1836; author of Analysis of a course of lectures on the anatomy and physiology of the human body 1822; Handbook of zoology translated from the Dutch of J. Vander Hoeven 2 vols. 1856–68. d. Cambridge 15 Sep. 1869. Macmillan’s Mag. xxi, 267–72 (1870).

CLARK, William. b. Colchester 17 March 1821; ed. at King’s coll. London; engineer to municipality of Calcutta 1855–74 where he devised a complete system of drainage and waterworks; M.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1864; M.I.M.E. 1867; partner with W. F. Batho in London 1874, joint patentee with him of steam road roller; invented a tied brick arch; author of The drainage of Calcutta 1871. d. Surbiton, Surrey 22 Jany. 1880. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii, 308–10 (1881).

CLARK, William George. b. Barford hall, Darlington, March 1821; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam.; second in the classical tripos and second chancellor’s medallist 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; fellow of Trin. coll. 1844 to death, tutor 1856–66, vice master 9 Oct. 1868 to 1871; public orator of Univ. of Cam. 1857 to Oct. 1869; ordained deacon 1853, priest 1854; relinquished holy orders by deed inrolled in chancery 2 Sep. 1870; F.S.A. 15 June 1865; one of founders and editors of Journal of Philology 1868; author of Gazpacho, or summer months in Spain 1850; Peloponnesus, notes of study and travel 1858; edited with Glover and Wright The Cambridge Shakespeare 9 vols. 1863–6; left £300 a year to endow a lectureship of English literature at Trinity coll. Cam. d. York 6 Nov. 1878. C. A. Bristed’s Five years at an English University (1873) 215–7, 219; Academy ii, 472, 496 (1878); Notes and Queries 5 S. x, 400, 438 (1878), xi, 55 (1879).

CLARK, William H. Pupil of John Loder the violinist; played the violin in orchestra of Bath theatre; made his first appearance on the stage at Weymouth 1833 and in London at Surrey theatre 3 April 1837 in Jack’s Alive and The loadstone of the earth; acted at Haymarket theatre 17 April 1838 to 1877; always known as Little Clark. d. 3 June 1887 in 72 year. bur. Tooting cemetery 8 June.

CLARK, Sir William Stephenson (son of Wm. Clark, sheriff of York in 1786). b. York, Aug. 1782; studied medicine in London 1803 to 1806; practised at York 1806 to death; one of the city chamberlains 1809, member of common council for Micklegate ward 1813–20 and 1835–39, one of city sheriffs 1820, alderman 1839–49, mayor 1839–40, one of the city magistrates 1842 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840. (m. Oct. 1811 Anne 3 dau. of John Audus of Selby, Yorkshire, she d. 16 July 1883 aged 95). d. York 2 May 1851.

CLARK, William Tierney (son of Thomas Clark of Sion house, Somerset). b. Bristol 23 Aug. 1873; employed by John Rennie in London 1808–11; resident engineer of West Middlesex water works 1811 where he constructed reservoirs to contain 40,000,000 gallons of water; erected Hammersmith suspension bridge 1824–7; constructed Gravesend town pier 1834–5; erected great suspension bridge over Danube between Pesth and Buda 1839–49 at cost of £622,042; M.I.C.E. 1823; F.R.S. 4 May 1837; author of An account of the suspension bridge across the river Danube 1852–3. d. Hammersmith 22 Sep. 1852. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 153–7 (1853).

CLARK-KENNEDY, Sir Alexander Kennedy (eld. son of John Clark of Nunland). b. Dumfries 1782; cornet 6 dragoon guards 8 Sep. 1802; captured single-handed at Waterloo the eagle of the 105th regiment of French infantry; lieut.-col. 7 dragoon guards 11 June 1830 to 22 Dec. 1843 when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the Queen 1841–54; colonel 6 dragoon guards 14 June 1858 to 17 July 1860; L.G. 3 June 1860; colonel 2 dragoons (Scots Greys) 17 July 1860 to death; K.H. 1831; C.B. 19 July 1838; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; assumed additional name of Kennedy 1839. d. 69 Oxford terrace, Hyde park, London 30 Jany. 1864. bur. St. Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries.

CLARK-KENNEDY, John (eld. son of the preceding). b. Knockgrey, Kirkcudbright 21 Sep. 1817; cornet 7 dragoon guards 25 Oct. 1833; took additional name of Kennedy 1839; captain 18 foot 4 March 1842, lieut.-col. 22 June 1855 to 10 Nov. 1856 when placed on h.p.; served in second Sikh war 1848–9 and in Crimean war 1854–6; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; col. commandant military train 10 Feb. 1860 to death. d. Cairo 18 Dec. 1867.

CLARKE, Sir Arthur (son of Arthur Clarke). b. Dublin 1778; M.R.C.S. 7 April 1807, F.R.C.S. 26 Aug. 1844; surgeon to Dublin police; knighted 1811; author of An essay on diseases of the skin 1821; A practical manual for the preservation of health 1824. d. Dublin 9 Nov. 1857.

CLARKE, Augustus. Entered Madras army 1817; colonel 8 Madras N.I. 4 July 1856 to 1869; general 23 April 1872. d. Glebeland house, Lee 24 Jany. 1878 aged 76.

CLARKE, Rev. Charles. Educ. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1837; C. of Norton by Daventry 1844–54; chaplain to Earl of Stamford 1864; author of Letters to an undergraduate of Oxford 1848; Charlie Thornhill 3 vols. 1863; A box for the season, a sporting sketch 2 vols. 1864; Crumbs from a sportsman’s table, by A Sportsman 1865; The Beauclercs, father and son 3 vols. 1867 and other novels; wrote articles in Baily’s Mag. under pseudonym of The Gentleman in black. d. from tumor of the abdomen at Esher 23 July 1870 aged 55.

CLARKE, Charles Cowden (son of John Clarke of Enfield, Middlesex, schoolmaster, who d. Dec. 1820). b. Enfield 15 Dec. 1787; bookseller and publisher in London 1820; music publisher with Alfred Novello; lectured on Shakespeare and other dramatists and poets in the provinces and London 1834–56, many of his lectures were published; lived at Nice 1856–61, at Genoa 1861 to death; author of Readings in natural philosophy 1828; Tales from Chaucer 1833, 2 ed. 1870; Riches of Chaucer 2 vols. 1835, 3 ed. 1877; Carmina Minima a poem 1859; Shakespeare characters, chiefly those subordinate 1863; Molière characters 1865; edited with his wife The works of Shakespeare 1864 and 1869, reissued 1875 and under title of Cassell’s Illustrated Shakespeare 1886. (m. 5 July 1828 Mary Victoria eld. child of Vincent Novello the composer, she was b. 22 June 1809). d. Villa Novello, Genoa 13 March 1877. I.L.N. lxx, 291, 292 (1877), portrait.

CLARKE, Sir Charles Mansfield, 1 Baronet (son of John Clarke of Chancery lane, London, surgeon). b. London 28 May 1782; ed. at St. Paul’s school and St. George’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1802; lectured on midwifery 1804–21; surgeon to Queen Charlotte’s Lying-in-hospital; M.R.C.P.; F.R.C.P.; F.R.S. 9 June 1825; M.D. Lambeth 1827; physician to Queen Adelaide 1830; created baronet 30 Sep. 1831; hon. M.A. Cam. 1842; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1845; founded the Milton prize for an English poem at St. Paul’s school 1851; author of Observations on those diseases of females which are attended by discharges 2 parts 1814–21, 2 ed. 1821–6 translated into German 1818–25. d. Brighton 7 Sep. 1857. Physic and physicians ii, 329–31 (1839); W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery i, 16 (1846), portrait; T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery i, (1840), portrait; R. B. Gardiner’s St. Paul’s school (1884) 199, 433–8.

CLARKE, Harriet Ludlow (4 dau. of Edward Clarke of London, solicitor). Engraver on wood about 1837; executed some of the illustrations for Mrs. Jameson’s Sacred and legendary art 1848; a designer and painter on glass; executed windows in St. Martin’s church, Canterbury and Sidcup church, Kent 1851–4; executed for the Queen a large window in church of North Marston, Bucks.; designed a large window representing history of St. Thomas à Becket, which was put up in Canterbury cathedral, May 1863. d. Cannes 19 Jany. 1866. G.M. i, 436 (1866).

CLARKE, Jacob Augustus Lockhart. b. 1817; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; L.S.A. 1842, M.R.C.S. 1860; practised in London to death; F.R.S. 1 June 1854, royal medallist 1864; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1867; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1869; M.R.C.P. 1871; physician to the hospital for epilepsy and paralysis, London; author of many articles in medical journals. d. 21 New Cavendish st. London 25 Jany. 1880 in 64 year.

CLARKE, James. b. London 1793; teacher of music; author of A catechism of wind instruments 1845; Instruction book for children on the pianoforte; The child’s alphabet of music; Catechism of the rudiments of music; New School of music; composed popular song The maid of Llangollen. d. Leeds 1859.

CLARKE, James. b. 1798; member of British Archæological Assoc. 1847; a frequent exhibitor at its meetings of coins and other antiquities of which he contributed short notices to the journal; author of The Suffolk Antiquary 1849. d. 25 Sep. 1861. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xviii, 367–8 (1862).

CLARKE, James Fernandez (son of Mr. Clarke of Olney, Bucks. lace merchant). b. Olney 1812; aided Ryan in the London medical and surgical journal; reported at hospitals and medical societies for the Lancet 1834–64; M.R.C.S. 1837; practised in Gerrard st. Soho 1837 to death; author of Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession 1874, reprinted from Medical times and gazette. d. 23 Gerrard st. Soho 6 July 1875 in 63 year. Medical Circular ii, 310 (1853); Medical times and gazette ii, 82–3 (1875).

CLARKE, James Langton (2 son of Andrew Clarke of Belmont, co. Donegal). b. 1801; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1835; practised as a conveyancer; admitted to bar of Victoria, Australia 7 June 1855; judge of county courts for district of Ararat 1867, for district of Maryborough to about 1874. d. Mentone 16 Feb. 1886 aged 85.

CLARKE, John. b. about 1830; photographer in Farringdon st. London; first appeared on stage in London at Strand theatre, Jany. 1852, chief comedian there 1852–5 and 1858–62; thrown from a horse and lamed for life, Jany. 1863; played at Prince of Wales’s theatre 15 April 1865 to 1867; acted John Chodd in Robertson’s comedy Society 11 Nov. 1865 to Sep. 1866, Hugh Chalcot in Robertson’s comedy Ours 15 Sep. 1866 to April 1867, Sarah Gamp in H. Wigan’s drama Martin Chuzzlewit at Olympic 2 March 1868, Quilp in A. Halliday’s drama Nell or the old curiosity shop at Olympic 19 Nov. 1870; acted at nearly all the west-end theatres; last appeared on the stage at Globe theatre 8 June 1878. (m. 10 Aug. 1873 Theresa Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Furtado of London, professor of music, leading actress at Adelphi theatre, she d. 9 Aug. 1877 aged 32). d. 15 Torriano avenue, Camden road, London 20 Feb. 1879. Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1880) 390–2; The Players i, 129 (1860), portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news, x, 572 (1879), portrait.

CLARKE, John Randall (son of Joseph Clarke of Gloucester). b. about 1828; an architect; author of Architectural history of Gloucester 1850; and of two novels, Gloucester Cathedral, or last days of the Tudors 1856, and Manxley Hall; contributed to Gent. Mag., Le Follet, The Era and other periodicals. d. College Green, Gloucester 31 March 1863.

CLARKE, Rev. Joseph. b. about 1811; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1841; R. of Stretford, Manchester 1850 to death; rural dean of Manchester 1854 to death; wrecked in the Orion steamer between Liverpool and Greenock 17 June 1850; author of The wreck of the Orion, tribute of gratitude 1851; Trees of righteousness; made collections for history of parish of Stretford which were used by Rev. F. R. Raines in his History of the chantries within the county of Lancaster 1862. d. Stretford 25 Feb. 1860. G.M. viii, 463 (1860), xv, 243 (1863).

CLARKE, Marcus Andrew Hislop (only son of Wm. Hislop Clarke of Lincoln’s Inn, London, barrister). b. 11 Leonard place, Kensington 24 April 1846; went to Victoria 1863; joined staff of the Argus, Melbourne daily paper 1867, wrote the dramatic criticism some years; contributed to all principal Melbourne journals; secretary to trustees of public library, Melbourne 1872, assistant librarian 1876 to death; author of a novel called Long Odds 1868; produced at T.R. Melbourne pantomimes of Little Bo-Peep 1870 and Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star 1873; author of His natural life 1874 a novel republished in London, New York and Germany; Holiday Peak a collection of stories. d. Melbourne 2 Aug. 1881. Men of the time in Australia, Victorian series (1878) p. 36; Heaton’s Australian dictionary of dates (1879) p. 39.

CLARKE, Mary Ann (dau. of Mr. Thompson). b. Ball and Tin alley, White’s alley, Chancery lane, London 1776; eloped at 15 years of age with Joseph Clarke (son of a builder on Snow hill, London) who married her 1794; the kept mistress of Frederick Duke of York at Gloucester place 1803–1806 when discharged with pension of £400; published The rival princes or a faithful narrative of facts relative to the acquaintance of the author with Colonel Wardle 2 vols. 1810; A letter to the Right Hon. William Fitzgerald, chancellor of the Irish Exchequer 1813, for which she was prosecuted for libel and sentenced to 9 months imprisonment. d. Boulogne 21 June 1852. Biographical Memoir 1809, portrait; The investigation of the charges brought against the Duke of York ii, (1809), portrait; The rival princes vol. i (1810), portrait; Gronow’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1862) 35–42; G.M. xxxviii, 208–9 (1852); Marmion travestied, a tale of modern times by Peter Pry 1809, in which her history is given in rhyme.

Note.—After the inquiry into the Duke of York’s conduct, Mrs. Clarke announced her intention of publishing a narrative of circumstances relating to her connection with him, this book was actually printed but was suppressed by her in consideration of receiving the sum of £7,000 and an annuity of £400 for life, and an annuity of £200 for each of her daughters; the printer received £1,500 of the above sum of £7,000, the whole edition of 10,000 copies was burnt except one copy which was deposited in Drummond’s bank.

CLARKE, Nathaniel Richard (eld. son of Nathaniel Gooding Clarke of Handsworth, Staffs. recorder of Walsall). b. Duffield, Derbyshire 11 May 1785; ed. at Ashbourne gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1811; recorder of Lincoln, Newark, Northampton and Walsall to death; serjeant at law 6 Feb. 1843; judge of county courts, circuit 25 (Wolverhampton, Oldbury and Walsall) March 1847 to death. d. Wolverhampton 31 July 1859.

CLARKE, Sir Robert Bowcher (eld. son of Robert Bowcher Clarke of Eldridge, Barbados). b. 1802; ed. at Codrington coll. Barbados and Trin. coll. Cam., LL.B. 1827; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827; solicitor general at Barbados 1837–42, chief justice 1842–74; chief justice of St. Lucia 19 June 1850 to 1859; knighted by patent 20 March 1840 for his services in relation to emancipation of the slaves; C.B. 27 April 1848. d. Eldridge, Chislehurst, Kent 9 May 1881 in 79 year.

CLARKE, Seymour (2 son of Frederic Clarke of Streatham, Surrey). b. Streatham 1814; superintendent of London division of Great Western railway, Oct. 1837, in charge of the line from London to Swindon 1840–50; general manager of Great Northern railway, May 1850 to Sep. 1870; a comr. to inquire into Irish railways 1867, the report of the commission was chiefly written by him; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1865. d. Walthamstow 15 March 1876. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xliv, 225–7 (1876).

CLARKE, Thomas. b. 14 July 1789; admitted an attorney 1810; practised in Craven st. Strand, London 1810–45; solicitor to Board of Ordnance 1845 to death; sec. of the Lowtonian club; member of council of Incorporated Law Society, July 1843, vice-pres. 1848–9, pres. 1849–50. d. Highgate hill, Kentish town, London 15 July 1854.

CLARKE, Rev. Thomas Tracy. b. Dublin 4 July 1802; ed. at Stonyhurst and Maynooth colleges; entered Society of Jesus 1823; master at Hodder School 1825–9; ordained priest 24 Sep. 1836; professor of history and librarian at Stonyhurst college 1840–5; master of novices at Hodder 1845–60, by his exertions the novitiate was removed to Beaumont lodge, Old Windsor 4 Sep. 1854. d. the Residence of St. Ignatius’ college, Hill st. London 11 Jany. 1862.

CLARKE, Tredway. b. July 1764; Second lieut. Madras artillery 20 Oct. 1780, colonel 25 July 1810 to death; head commissary of ordnance and stores at Fort St. George 1798–1811; declined command of artillery at Madras 1820; general 23 Nov. 1841; lived in England 1811 to death, d. Upper Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 3 May 1858.

CLARKE, William. b. Nottingham 24 Dec. 1798; a bricklayer; landlord of the Bell Inn, Nottingham to 1847; proprietor of the Trent Bridge cricket ground, Nottingham 1838–47; played in the Nottingham Eleven from 1816; played his first match at Lord’s 11 July 1836; a practice bowler at Lord’s 1846; originated the All England matches 1846; the best slow underhand bowler of his day; a great fives player, at which game he lost his right eye by accident. d. Priory lodge, Wandsworth road, London 25 Aug. 1856. Denison’s Cricket (1846) 21–6; Pycroft’s Cricket Field (1862), portrait.

CLARKE, William. Private soldier; quartermaster 14 light dragoons 15 Sep. 1837, major 23 Nov. 1848 to 30 Dec. 1853; granted distinguished service reward 18 March 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. 2 Notting hill terrace, Bayswater, London 17 Oct. 1881.

CLARKE, Rev. William Branwhite. b. East Bergholt, Suffolk 2 June 1798; ed. at Dedham gr. sch. and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; presented to a living in Dorset 1833; chaplain to Bishop of Salisbury 1837–9; V. of St. Thomas’s, Willoughby, N.S.W. 1846 to 1 Oct. 1870; made geological researches in N.S.W. 1839 to death; ascertained auriferous nature of the country 1841, ten years before the popular date 1851; voted sum of £1,000 by legislature of N.S.W. 1853 but £5,000 was afterwards given to him; F.G.S. 1826, Murchison medallist 1877; F.R.S. of N.S.W. 1867; F.R.S. 1 June 1876 in recognition of his discovery of gold in Australia; author of Lays of leisure 1822; Recollections of a visit to Mont Blanc 1839; Remarks on the sedimentary formations of N.S.W., 4 ed. 1878 and of many scientific papers. d. North Shore, Sydney 17 June 1878. Journal and proc. of Royal Soc. of N.S.W. xiii, 4–23 (1880); Therry’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1863) 363–8; Proc. of Royal Soc. xxviii, 1–4 (1879); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxv, 44–6 (1879); Phillips’s Mining and metallurgy of gold and silver (1867).

CLARKE, William Fairlie (son of Wm. Fairlie Clarke of Bengal civil service, who d. Calcutta 23 Sep. 1835 aged 47). b. Calcutta 1833; ed. at high school, Edin., Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1856, M.A. and M.B. 1862, M.D. 1876; studied medicine at King’s coll. Lon. 1858; M.R.C.S. 1862, F.R.C.S. 1863; practised in London 1863–76, and at Southborough near Tunbridge Wells 1876 to death; assistant surgeon at Charing Cross hospital 1871; author of A manual of the practice of surgery 1865, 3 ed. 1879; A treatise on the diseases of the tongue 1873. d. Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 8 May 1884. bur. Elvington churchyard 14 May. Life and letters of W. F. Clarke edited by E.A.W. (1885), portrait.

CLARKE-JERVOISE, Rev. Sir Samuel, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Jervoise Clarke 1734–1808, M.P. for Hampshire). b. Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 25 Nov. 1770, ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795; R. of Chalton with Idsworth 1794–1834; R. of Blendworth, Hants. 1795–1835; took additional surname of Jervoise by royal license 9 Nov. 1808; created baronet 13 Nov. 1813. d. 1 Oct. 1852.

CLARKE-TRAVERS, Sir William Henry St. Lawrence, 2 Baronet. b. 3 Aug. 1801; succeeded 7 Feb. 1808; assumed by royal license additional name of Travers 20 March 1853. d. 3 Queen’s gardens, Hyde park, London 31 Aug. 1877.

CLARKSON, Eugene Comerford (3 son of Frederick Clarkson of Doctor’s Commons, London, proctor). b. 1831; ed. at King’s college, London; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1854; practised in court of Admiralty about 1858 to death; Q.C. 21 March 1881. d. from hydrophobia at East end lodge, Pinner 19 Aug. 1881.

CLARKSON, William. Barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1823; recorder of Faversham 1844 to death. d. Westfield lodge, Brighton 24 Oct. 1856 aged 61. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters i, 232–8 (1841); I.L.N. iv, 228 (1844), portrait.

CLASON, Rev. Patrick (youngest child of Rev. Robert Clason, minister of Logie near Stirling). b. Manse of Dalziel on the Clyde 13 Oct. 1789; ed. at college of Glasgow; D.D. Glasgow, March 1836; licensed to preach the gospel 1811; minister of Carmunock near Glasgow 1815, of St. Cuthbert’s Chapel of Ease (now Buccleuch ch.), Edin. 16 April 1824; joint clerk of the free church general assembly 18 May 1843 to death; moderator of general assembly 1848 and 1864. d. 22 George sq. Edin. 30 July 1868. J. A. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 161–4, portrait; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 17–19, portrait.

CLASPER, Henry (son of Robert Clasper of Dunston near Newcastle). b. Dunston 1812; a putter at Hetton colliery; a coke burner at Derwenthaugh; sculled his first race, June 1841; beaten by R. Coombes at Newcastle 18 Dec. 1844; beat Carroll on the Mersey 29 Sep. 1845; beat W. Pocock at Newcastle 25 Nov. 1845; beaten by Candlish for the championship of the Tyne 9 Sep. 1851; beat Robert Campbell of Glasgow for championship of the Clyde and £200, 22 July 1858, beat him again on Loch Lomond 6 Oct.; beaten by T. White on the Thames 9 Nov. 1858; rowed with three of his brothers many four-oared races in England and Scotland; a boat builder on the Tyne; brought his first outrigger boat to London 1844, generally said to have invented the outrigger boat, but he only brought it to perfection; rowed on every river between the Thames and Clyde; presented by the public with a freehold house. d. Newcastle 12 July 1870. Illust. sporting news (1862) 77, 139, 141, 2 portraits; Illust. news of the world ii, 267, 269 (1858), portrait; Rowing almanac (1863) 95–104.

CLATER, Thomas (3 son of Francis Clater of East Retford, Notts., farrier 1756–1823). Baptised at East Retford 9 June 1789; painter; exhibited 43 pictures at the R.A., 91 at B.I. and 194 at Suffolk st. gallery 1819–59; fellow of Society of British Artists 1843. d. 1 Hemus terrace, South Chelsea, London 24 Feb. 1867.

CLAUDET, Antoine François Jean. b. Lyons 12 Aug. 1797; opened a warehouse at 89 High Holborn, London for sale of French glass 1829; invented machine for cutting cylindrical glass 1833; photographer at Adelaide gallery, London 1840–51, at 107 Regent st. 1851 to death; one of the first to adopt the collodion process; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; invented many new photographic processes; photographer in ordinary to the Queen 1858; author of upwards of 40 papers; received awards of 11 medals; a chevalier of the Legion of Honour 1863. d. 11 Gloucester road, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1867. Scientific Review, August 1868 pp. 151–4; Proc. of Royal Soc. xvii, pp. lxxxv-lxxxvii (1869).

CLAUGHTON, Right Rev. Piers Calveley (son of Thomas Claughton of Haydock Lodge, Winwick, Lancs., M.P. for Newton, Lancs., who d. 1842). b. Haydock lodge 8 Jany. 1814; ed. at Repton and Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, D.D. 1859; fell. and tutor of Univ. coll. Ox. 1837–42; R. of Elton, Hunts. 1845–59; select Pr. in Univ. of Ox. 1843 and 1850; bishop of St. Helena 3 June 1859 to May 1862; bishop of Colombo 13 May 1862 to Dec. 1870; archdeacon of London with canonry of St. Paul’s annexed Dec. 1870 to death; rural dean of Hackney 1874 to death; chaplain general to the forces 7 April 1875 to death; assistant bishop of London 1879 to death; author of A brief examination of the Thirty nine articles 1843; A catechism for the Sundays in Lent 1847. d. 2 Northwick terrace, Maida hill, London 11 Aug. 1884. bur. Elton churchyard 15 Aug., a tablet to his memory containing a medallion portrait of him was placed in the crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral.

CLAVELL, Richard. Second lieut. R.M.L.I. 21 Nov. 1837, col. commandant 13 Feb. 1872 to death; L.G. 25 Dec. 1877. d. Gosport 1 Sep. 1878 in 59 year.

CLAVERING, Sir Thomas John, 8 Baronet. b. 6 April 1771; succeeded 14 Oct. 1794; raised at his own expense a troop of yeomanry 1798; sheriff of Northumberland 1817–18. d. Clifton 18 Nov. 1853.

CLAVERING, Sir William Aloysius, 9 Baronet. b. 1800; succeeded 18 Nov. 1853; sheriff of Durham 1859. d. St. George’s hospital, London 8 Oct. 1872.

CLAXTON, Marshall (son of Rev. Marshall Claxton of Bolton, Lancs., Wesleyan minister). b. Bolton 12 May 1813; entered Royal Academy, Jany. 1831; awarded gold medal of Society of Arts 1835; competed in the Cartoon exhibitions at Westminster hall 1843, 1844 and 1847; took out to Australia about 200 pictures by himself and others, which he exhibited gratis 1850, this being the first exhibition of works of art in Australia; went to India where he sold most of the pictures; painted for the Queen, ‘General view of Sydney’ and ‘Portrait of the last Queen of the Aborigines’; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 31 at B.I. and 25 at Suffolk st. gallery. d. 155 Carlton road, Maida vale, London 28 July 1881.

CLAY, Alfred Borron (2 son of Rev. John Clay 1796–1858). b. Walton near Preston 3 June 1831; articled to a solicitor at Preston; studied art in Liverpool and London; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1852–70; his chief pictures were ‘The imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots at Lochleven Castle,’ ‘Charles ix and the French court at the massacre of St. Bartholomew,’ ‘The return to Whitehall 29 May 1660,’ now in the Walker gallery at Liverpool. d. Rainhill near Liverpool 1 Oct. 1868.

CLAY, Sir George, 3 Baronet. b. 14 Aug. 1831; ensign 19 foot 1849, captain 29 Dec. 1854 to 1 May 1866 when placed on h.p.; succeeded 14 Oct. 1876. d. 17 Cavendish square, London 30 June 1878.

CLAY, James (son of James Clay of Old Broad st. London, merchant). b. London 1804; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1827; took the leading parts in operas performed by amateurs at Florence when Lord Burghersh was British minister there 1821–30; travelled in the Holy Land with B. Disraeli 1830; a merchant in London; contested Beverley, July 1837, and Hull, June 1841; M.P. for Hull 1847–53 and 1857 to death; chairman of committee to settle laws of whist 1863, by his book on whist and influence made the game popular and intelligible; the finest whist and piquet player of his time; he is described under name of Castlemaine in G. W. Lawrence’s novel Sans Merci, or kestrels and falcons 3 vols. 1866; author of A treatise, on the game of whist by J. C., affixed to J. L. Baldwin’s Laws of short whist 1864. d. 30 Regency sq. Brighton 26 Sep. 1873. W. A. Gunnell’s Sketches of Hull celebrities (1876) 473–7; Westminster Papers vi, 117–8 (1873); Graphic viii, 362, 376 (1873), portrait; Power, Rodwell and Dew’s Controverted elections ii, 96–100 (1857).

Note.—He was unseated March 1853 for bribery by his agents, in Feb. 1857 he was again returned and his election is the only instance on record of a member unseated on petition taking his seat a second time for the same place in the same parliament, the case would have been tried before a committee of the House of Commons had not a dissolution occurred 20 March 1857.

CLAY, Rev. John (5 son of Thomas Clay of Liverpool, ship and anchor smith, who d. 1821). b. Liverpool 10 May 1796; invented an improved bow and arrow which long bore his name; assist, chap, of Preston gaol 11 Aug. 1821; entered Em. coll. Cam. as a ten years man 1822, B.D. 1835; chap, of Preston gaol, Aug. 1823 to Jany. 1858; issued annual reports 1824–57, in 1836 his annual reports were reprinted in a parliamentary blue book; author of Twenty five sermons 1827; Burial clubs and infanticide in England 1854; A plain address to candidates for confirmation 1866. d. Lansdowne crescent, Leamington 21 Nov. 1858. The prison chaplain by Rev. W. L. Clay (1861), portrait.

CLAY, Richard. b. Cambridge; apprenticed to John Smith at the Pitt Press, Cambridge; printer near Devonshire square, Bishopsgate, London; printer to the S.P.G.; head of firm of Clay Sons and Taylor, Bread st. hill, London, retired Oct. 1868. d. Hornsey 10 Dec. 1877 in 89 year. Bookseller, January 1878 p. 7.

CLAY, Sir William, 1 Baronet (son of George Clay of London, merchant 1757–1836). b. London 15 Aug. 1791; merchant and shipowner with his father; M.P. for Tower Hamlets 12 Dec. 1832 to 20 March 1857; author of the Small tenements rating act 1850; one of foremost holders of advanced radical views; secretary to Board of Control 30 Sep. 1839 to 8 Sep. 1841; created baronet 20 Sep. 1841; chairman of Grand Junction and Southwark and Vauxhall water companies; author of Speech on moving for a committee to inquire into the act permitting the establishment of joint-stock banks, 2 ed. 1837; Remarks on the water supply of London, 2 ed. 1849 and 3 other pamphlets. d. Cadogan place, London 13 March 1869.

CLAY, William. b. Liverpool 15 May 1823; manager of ironworks near Glasgow; invented a method of rolling taper bars 1848; manager of Mersey Forge, Liverpool; designed and forged the “Monstre” gun which weighed 22 tons and threw a projectile of 300 lbs. to a distance of 5 miles, it was mounted at Tilbury Fort; partner in Mersey Forge to 1864 when the works were transferred to a company; the first maker of puddled steel on a large scale; established with C. A. Inman and captain McNeile the Birkenhead Forge 1864; M.I.M.E. 1859; formed in 1861 Eighth Lancashire artillery volunteer corps, lieut.-col. commandant 9 May 1861, hon. col. 1 May 1880 to death. d. Liverpool 28 Feb. 1881. Proc. of Instit. of M.E. (1882) 3–5.

CLAY, Sir William Dickason, 2 Baronet. b. London 21 Dec. 1828; succeeded 13 March 1869. d. 9 Lowndes sq. London 14 Oct. 1876.

CLAY, Rev. William Keatinge. b. 1797; C. of Greenwich 1823; C. of Paddington 1830; C. of Blunham, Beds. 1834; B.D. Cam. (Jesus coll.) 1835; minor canon of Ely 1838–54; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Ely 1842–54; V. of Waterbeach, Cambs. 1854 to death; author of Explanatory notes on the Prayer book version of the Psalms 1839; The book of Common Prayer illustrated 1841; An historical sketch of the Prayer Book 1849; History of the Parish of Waterbeach 1859, Landbeach 1861, and Horningsey 1865, these 3 histories printed separately by the Cambridge Antiquarian Soc. were collected into one vol. 1865. d. Waterbeach 26 April 1867. A history of the parish of Milton by the late W. K. Clay (1869) v-vi.

CLAYTON, Rev. Charles. b. Cambridge 13 July 1813; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., 21 wrangler 1836, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; C. of St. John’s, Chatham 1837–45; fellow and tutor of his college to 1855; London sec. to Church Pastoral aid soc. 1845–8; V. of Holy Trinity, Cam. 1851–65; hon. canon of Ripon cath. 1864 to death; R. of Stanhope, Durham 1865 to death; rural dean of Stanhope 1880 to death; author of Sermons preached at Cambridge 1859, Second series 1865; Letters from abroad 1878. d. Stanhope rectory 21 Oct. 1883. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) part 57, portrait.

CLAYTON, Rev. George (2 son of Rev. John Clayton 1754–1843, pastor of King’s Weigh House chapel, London). b. London 9 April 1783; ed. at Reading and Hoxton college; Independent minister at Southampton 1802, at Walworth, Surrey 1804 to death; ordained 6 June 1804; the Clayton jubilee memorial schools were opened 27 June 1855. d. Gaines 14 July 1862. T. W. Aveling’s Memorials of the Clayton family (1867), portrait.

CLAYTON, John. b. Hereford; architect at Hereford, where many public buildings were erected from his designs; practised in London about 1839 to death; A.R.I.B.A. 13 June 1842, F.R.I.B.A. 2 Nov. 1857; exhibited architectural designs at the R.A. 1844–7, 1853 and 1856; author of A collection of the ancient timber edifices of England 1846; The parochial churches of Sir Christopher Wren erected in the cities of London and Westminster 1848. d. Teignmouth, Devon 14 Sep. 1861 aged 41.

CLAYTON, Rev. John (brother of Rev. George Clayton 1783–1862). b. London 13 May 1780; ordained congregational minister at Kensington 21 Oct. 1801; pastor of the congregation in Camomile st. London 4 April 1805 which migrated to the Poultry 1819, where he was pastor 17 Nov. 1819 to 1847; frequently called on to undertake services in all parts of the country at openings of chapels and other special occasions; joint sec. of London Missionary Soc. 1830–2; author of The choice of books 1811. d. Bath 3 Oct. 1865. bur. Abney park cemetery, London. T. W. Aveling’s Memorials of the Clayton family (1867), portrait.

CLAYTON, Rice Richard. b. 15 Nov. 1798; sheriff of Bucks 1838; M.P. for Aylesbury 28 June 1841 to 23 July 1847. d. Hedgerley park near Slough 4 May 1879.

CLAYTON, Sir William Robert, 5 Baronet (eld. child of Sir Wm. Clayton 4 baronet 1762–1834). b. Harleyford, Bucks. 28 Aug. 1786; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; cornet Royal horse guards 28 Sep. 1804, captain 27 April 1809 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; served in the Peninsula, Netherlands and at Waterloo; M.P. for Great Marlow 1831–42; succeeded 26 Jany. 1834; sheriff of Bucks. 1846; general 12 Jany. 1865. d. Southsea 19 Sep. 1866. bur. Marlow parish church 27 Sep.

CLEASBY, Sir Anthony (youngest son of Stephen Cleasby of London, Russian broker, who d. 31 Aug. 1844). b. 27 Aug. 1804; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., 3 wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; fellow of his coll. 1828–36; barrister I.T. 10 June 1831; contested East Surrey 1852 and 1859, and Univ. of Cam. 1867; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; bencher of I.T. 1861–8; serjeant at law 25 Aug. 1868, admitted 2 Nov.; baron of Court of Exchequer 25 Aug. 1868 to 9 Jany. 1879 when he retired on a pension; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 Dec. 1868. d. Pennoyre near Brecon 6 Oct. 1879. Cleasby and Vigfusson’s Icelandic-English dictionary (1869) pp. lxi-civ; Law mag. and review v, 113–27 (1880); A generation of Judges by Their Reporter (1886) 54–9; I.L.N. liv, 93 (1869), portrait.

CLEBURNE, Patrick. b. near Queenstown, Cork 17 March 1828; a private in British army 1847–50; went to the United States 1850; studied law at Helena, Arkansas; a private in Confederate army 1861; brigadier general, March 1862; commanded a division at battle of Stone River 2 Jany. 1863, and at Chickamauga 21 Sep. 1863; killed at battle of Franklin, Tennessee 30 Nov. 1864.

CLEGG, Samuel. b. Manchester 2 March 1781; apprenticed to Boulton and Watt; invented lime purifiers for purifying gas; engineer of Chartered gas company, London 1814; invented and patented a water meter 1816; an engineer at Liverpool where he lost all his money; reconstructed the mint at Lisbon; M.I.C.E. 1829. d. Fairfield house, Adelaide road, Haverstock hill, London 8 Jany. 1861. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 552–4 (1862).

CLEGG, Samuel (only son of the preceding). b. Westminster 2 April 1814; made a trigonometrical survey of part of the Algarves in Portugal 1836; resident engineer of Southampton and Dorchester railway 1844–5; M.I.C.E. 1848; professor of civil engineering and architecture at Putney college, Surrey 1849; lecturer on civil engineering to Royal Engineers at Chatham 1849 to death; author of A practical treatise on the manufacture and distribution of coal gas 1841, 4 ed. 1866. d. Putney 25 July 1856. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi, 121–4 (1857).

CLEGHORN, Thomas (son of Alexander Cleghorn, collector of customs at Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 3 March 1818; ed. at Edin. academy and univ.; called to Scottish bar 1839; advocate depute; registrar of friendly societies; sheriff of Argyleshire 19 Feb. 1855 to death; legal adviser of Free church of Scotland 1871; founded Wellington school for reformation of young criminals; author with Robert Balfour of History of the Speculative Society; wrote many articles in early numbers of North British Review; revised Journal of Lord Cockburn 2 vols. 1874. d. Edin. 13 June 1874. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. viii, 468–9 (1875); Journal of jurisprudence xviii, 385–6 (1874).

CLELAND, Robert Stewart (3 son of Samuel Cleland of Stormont castle, co. Down). b. 24 June 1840; ed. at Eton and Harrow; cornet 7 dragoon guards 7 July 1857; lieut. 9 lancers 6 Nov. 1860, lieut.-col. 27 June 1879 to death. d. at Murree, Bengal 7 Aug. 1880 from wounds received in the action of Killa Kazi 11 Dec. 1879. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 46–7, portrait.

CLEMENT, William Innell. Newsvendor in London; purchased a share of the Observer 1815, conducted it 1815 to death; published Cobbett’s Register; bought the Morning Chronicle 1822 for £42,000, sold it to John Easthope 1834 for £16,500; bought Bell’s Life in London 1825, conducted it 1825 to death, raised circulation from 3000 to 30,000. d. Hackney, London 24 Jany. 1852. bur. Kensal green 31 Jany. G.M. xxxvii, 306–7 (1852); A. Andrews’s British Journalism ii, 85, 93, 172–3, 206 (1859); J. Grant’s Newspaper Press iii, 28–33 (1872).

CLEMENT, William James (eld. son of Wm. Clement of Shrewsbury, surgeon, who d. 15 Jany. 1853). b. Shrewsbury 1804; a surgeon at Shrewsbury; M.R.C.S. 3 Dec. 1824, F.R.C.S. 26 Aug. 1844; obtained Fothergillian gold medal; mayor of Shrewsbury 1863, 64 and 65; M.P. for Shrewsbury 11 July 1865 to death; author of Observations in surgery and pathology 1832. d. The council house, Shrewsbury 29 Aug. 1870.

CLEMENTS, Frank, stage name of Robert Menti. b. Aberdeen 8 July 1844; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen; appeared on the stage for the first time at New theatre, Birmingham 1861; leading actor at T.R. Birmingham 1867–9 and 1870 to Dec. 1873; manager and leading actor at T.R. Nottingham 1869–70; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre, July 1874 as Lord Moray in Charles the First; played nearly every leading legitimate and Shakespearian character in the provinces 1875–7; played Philip de Comines in Louis xi at Lyceum theatre, March 1878; member of the companies of Miss Genevieve Ward and Madame Modjeska in the United States; killed by a railway train passing over him at Newark, New Jersey 8 May 1886.

CLEMENTS, John. Bookseller and stationer at 21 Little Pulteney st. Golden sq. London; one of the first to attempt publication of cheap serial works among which were The romancist and novelist library issued in weekly parts; obtained contract for first supply of envelopes ever used by the Stationery office; the first to introduce sale of note paper in 5 quire packets. d. Tunbridge Wells 10 Nov. 1878 in 73 year.

CLEMO, Ebenezer. b. London about 1831; went to Toronto, Canada 1858; patented a mode of using nitric acid in the conversion of straw and grasses into pulp, and for treating this pulp with a solution of hydrate of an alkali to reduce it to a fibrous pulp for making paper 1860; author of The life and adventures of Simon Seek, or Canada in all shapes, by Maple Knot, Montreal 1858; Canadian homes or the mystery solved, Montreal 1858. d. Morristown 1860.

CLEMONS, Clement. Entered Madras army 1819; major 20 Madras N.I. 21 Oct. 1842, lieut.-col. 23 March 1849 to 1855; lieut.-col. 12 N.I. 1855–6, 21 N.I. 1856–7, 43 N.I. 1857 to 3 Dec. 1857, 38 N.I. 3 Dec. 1857 to 7 Oct. 1860; L.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. 4 St. Stephen’s crescent, Bayswater, London 27 Jany. 1885 in 82 year.

CLERK, Sir George, 6 Baronet (elder son of James Clerk, who d. 1793). b. Edinburgh 19 Nov. 1787; succeeded his uncle Sir John Clerk 24 Feb. 1798; entered Trin. coll. Ox. 21 Jany. 1806, D.C.L. 1810; called to Scottish bar 1809; M.P. for Midlothian 1811–32 and 1835–7, for Stamford 1838–47 and for Dover 1847–52; a lord of the Admiralty 1819–27 and 1828–30; clerk of the ordnance, May 1827; under sec. of state for home department 5 Aug. to 22 Nov. 1830; sec. to the Treasury 19 Dec. 1834 to 21 April 1835 and Sep. 1841 to Feb. 1845; vice pres. of Board of Trade 5 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846; P.C. 5 Feb. 1845; master of the Mint 12 Feb. 1845 to 14 July 1846; F.R.S. 27 May 1819; chairman of Royal academy of music. d. Penicuik house near Edin. 23 Dec. 1867. G.M. v, 246–7 (1868).

CLERK, Sir James, 7 Baronet. b. London 17 July 1812; succeeded 23 Dec. 1867. d. St. Vincent’s hall, Clifton, Bristol 17 Nov. 1870.

CLERK, Robert. Writer Madras civil service 1816; secretary to Government in military department 1831–2, in civil department 1835–6 and 1837–44, in secret political and public departments 1836–7; resigned the service 22 Feb. 1844. d. Westholme house, Pilton, Shepton Mallet 3 April 1873 aged 75.

CLERKE, Venerable Charles Carr (3 son of Rev. Sir Wm. Henry Clerke, 8 Bart. 1751–1818). b. 30 Dec. 1798; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student, B.A. 1818, M.A, 1821, B.D. 1830, D.D. 1847; select preacher 1826; V. of St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford 1827; archdeacon of Oxford 9 March 1830 to death; R. of Milton, Berks. 1836–75; canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 24 March 1845 to death; sub-dean of Ch. Ch. 1853 to death; author of Duty of churchwardens 1864; Daily devotions for a churchman’s household 1868. d. Ch. Ch. Oxford 24 Dec. 1877.

CLERKE, Saint John Augustus (son of Jonathan Clerke). b. 1795; ensign 94 foot 13 Oct. 1808; major 77 foot 26 May 1825 to 30 Dec. 1828 when placed on h.p.; colonel 75 foot 22 March 1858 to death; general 8 March 1867; K.H. 1832. d. 66 Mountjoy sq. Dublin 17 Jany. 1870.

CLERKE, Sir William Henry, 9 Baronet (brother of Ven. Charles Carr Clerke 1798–1877). b. London 13 Sep. 1793; ensign 89 foot 10 Jany. 1811; lieut. 52 foot 19 Sep. 1811, captain 25 April 1822 to 2 May 1823 when placed on h.p.; succeeded 10 April 1818; sheriff of Flintshire 1848. d. Heath house, Aston on Clun, Salop 16 Feb. 1861.

CLERKE, Sir William Henry, 10 Baronet. b. Clonmel 17 Nov. 1822; a principal clerk in the Treasury, London; succeeded 16 Feb. 1861. d. 10 Eaton place south, London 8 Feb. 1882.

CLEUGH, Venerable John. Educ. at Trin. hall, Cam., B.D. 1824; civil chaplain at Malta 1824 to 1865; archdeacon of Malta 1865 to death. d. Valetta, Malta 25 March 1881 aged 88.

CLEVELAND, Henry Vane Powlett, 2 Duke of (eld. child of 1 Duke of Cleveland 1766–1842). b. London 16 Aug. 1788; M.P. for co. Durham 1812–18, for Tregony 1818–26, for Totnes 1826–30, for Saltash 1830–1, for South Shropshire 24 Dec. 1832 to 29 Jany. 1842 when he succeeded; cornet 7 hussars 6 July 1815; major 2 Ceylon regiment 3 July 1823; major 75 foot 11 Dec. 1823 to 6 July 1826 when placed on h.p.; colonel 1 Durham militia 1842–60; general 23 Oct. 1863; K.G. 11 April 1842. d. Raby castle, Durham 18 Jany. 1864. Doyle’s Official baronage i, 415 (1886), portrait.

CLEVELAND, William John Frederick Powlett, 3 Duke of (brother of the preceding). b. London 3 April 1792; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., M.A. 1812; M.P. for Winchelsea 1812–15, for co. Durham 1815–31, for St. Ives, Cornwall 1846–52, for Ludlow 1852–57; kept racehorses from 1843 but was very unlucky, his only good horse being Tim Whiffler which won the Goodwood and Doncaster cups; succeeded 18 Jany. 1864. d. Raby castle 6 Sep. 1864. W. Day’s Reminiscences of the turf, 2 ed. (1886) 328–42.

CLEVELAND, John Wheeler. Entered Madras army 1808; commandant of Trichinopoly 26 Nov. 1844 to 26 April 1850; col. 18 Madras N.I. 1 Oct. 1846 to 30 June 1853; commandant of Southern division of the army 17 Feb. 1852 to 10 May 1857; col. 38 N.I. 30 June 1853 to 1869; general 6 March 1868; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. Cleveland house, Bangalore 1 Nov. 1883 aged 92.

CLIAS, Peter Henry. An officer in Swiss artillery; introduced gymnastics into Swiss army 1814; professor of gymnastics in academy of Bern; came to London 1822, introduced his system of gymnastics into British army and navy; professor of gymnastics in Royal military academy, Woolwich 20 March 1823 to 4 Sep. 1825; author of Elementary course of gymnastic exercises 1824. d. Bern about Dec. 1854, left a considerable sum of money to city of Bern under condition that his skeleton should be exhibited in the Natural history museum as a palpable confirmation of beneficial effects of gymnastics.

CLIFDEN, Henry Agar-Ellis, 3 Viscount (eld. son of 1 Baron Dover 1797–1833). b. Spring gardens, London 25 Feb. 1825; succeeded his father 10 July 1833; succeeded his grandfather as 3 Viscount Clifden 13 July 1836; won the Derby and St. Leger with Surplice 1848 no horse having won both these races since 1800; won the Great Northamptonshire stakes 1852 with Poodle carrying the extraordinary feather weight of 4 st. 5 lb. d. Dover house, Whitehall, London 20 Feb. 1866. Illust. sporting news v, 136 (1866), portrait; G.M. i, 584–5 (1866).

CLIFFE, Charles Frederick. Edited Gloucestershire Chronicle; author of The book of South Wales, the Bristol Channel, Monmouthshire and the Wye 1847, 3 ed. 1854; The book of North Wales, scenery, antiquities, highways and byeways, lakes, streams and railways 1850, 2 ed. 1851. d. Clifton, Bristol 7 Oct. 1851 aged 42.

CLIFFORD, Hugh Charles Clifford, 8 Baron. b. New park, Somerset 29 May 1790; ed. at Stonyhurst; travelled in south of Europe where he made a large collection of all the catechetical works of instruction authorized by the several religious communities of the continent; succeeded 29 April 1831. d. Rome 28 Feb. 1858. buried Rome 2 March by the side of Cardinal Weld. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 509–11 (1885).

CLIFFORD, Charles Hugh Clifford, 9 Baron. b. 27 July 1819; succeeded 28 Feb. 1858. d. Ugbrook park, Chudleigh, Devon 5 Aug. 1880.

CLIFFORD, Sir Augustus William James, 1 Baronet. b. 26 May 1788; ed. at Harrow; midshipman R.N. May 1800, captain 23 July 1812, R.A. 23 March 1848, admiral 7 Nov. 1860; M.P. for Bandon Bridge 1818–20, for Dungarvan 1820–2, for Bandon Bridge again 1831–2; gentleman usher of the black rod 24 July 1832 to death; deputy lord great chamberlain of England several times between 1843 and 1866; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830; created baronet 4 Aug. 1838. d. House of Lords, Westminster 8 Feb. 1877, personalty sworn under £250,000, 28 April 1877. Graphic xv, 172, 179 (1877), portrait; I.L.N. lxx, 171, 181 (1877), portrait.

CLIFFORD, Sir Henry Hugh (3 son of 8 Baron Clifford 1790–1858). b. 12 Sep. 1826; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 7 Aug. 1846; A.Q.M.G. China 20 Aug. 1857 to 24 Aug. 1859; A.Q.M.G. Aldershot 18 Feb. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1864; A.Q.M.G. at head quarters 1 Jany. 1865 to 25 Nov. 1868; A.D.C. to commander in chief I April 1870 to 4 Dec. 1873; A.A.G. at head quarters 5 Dec. 1873 to 31 Oct. 1875; M.G. Cape of Good Hope 6 April 1879 to 14 Nov. 1880; M.G. eastern district 1 April 1882 to 15 Sep. 1882; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; C.B. 2 June 1869; K.C.M.G. 19 Dec. 1879; granted pension of £100 for distinguished service 7 Oct. 1874. d. Ugbrook 12 April 1883. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age i, 208–21 (1880); Graphic xix, 372 (1879), portrait.

CLIFFORD, Henry Morgan (only son of Morgan Morgan Clifford of Penystone, co. Hereford, who d. 1814). b. 1806; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; chairman of Herefordshire quarter sessions 1845; M.P. for Hereford 1847–65; a comr. of lunacy 1853; col. of Monmouthshire militia 5 March 1858. d. St. Ronan’s, Torquay 12 Feb. 1884 in 78 year.

CLIFFORD, Sir William John Cavendish, 2 Baronet. b. London 12 Oct. 1814; ed. at Eton; entered navy 24 Feb. 1829, captain 18 Aug. 1847, V.A. 1 Oct. 1871, retired 7 May 1872, retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877; C.B. 5 July 1855; succeeded 8 Feb. 1877. d. Bournemouth 11 April 1882.

CLIFFORD, William Kingdon (son of Wm. Clifford of Exeter, bookseller, who d. Feb. 1878). b. Exeter 4 May 1845; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., a minor scholar, Oct. 1863; 2 wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1867; B.A. 1867, M.A. 1870; fellow of his college, Oct. 1868; took part in English eclipse expedition 1870, wrecked in the Psyche off Catania; professor of applied mathematics at Univ. coll. London 1871; F.R.A.S. 12 Dec. 1873; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; a prominent member of Metaphysical Soc. 1874; author of Mathematical fragments 1881; Mathematical papers edited by R. Tucker 1882; Common sense of the exact sciences edited by K. Pearson 1885. (m. 7 April 1875 Sophia Lucy Jane dau. of John Lane of Barbadoes, she was granted civil list pension of £80, 13 Oct. 1880). d. Madeira 3 March 1879. bur. Highgate cemetery. Lectures and essays by the late W. K. Clifford edited by Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock vol. 1 (1879), portrait; Edinburgh Review cli, 474–511 (1880).

CLIFTON, Sir, Arthur Benjamin (youngest son of Sir Gervase Clifton, 6 baronet, who d. 1815). b. 1772; ed. at Rugby; cornet 3 dragoon guards 6 June 1794, major 17 Dec. 1803 to 22 Nov. 1810; lieut.-col. 1 dragoons 22 Nov. 1810 to 11 June 1829 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 lancers 25 Aug. 1839 to 30 Aug. 1842; col. 1 dragoons 30 Aug. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; K.C.H. 1832. d. 52 Old Steyne, Brighton 7 March 1869. bur. Clifton, Notts. 12 March, personalty sworn under £140,000, May 1869.

CLIFTON, Henry Robert, known as Harry Clifton. b. Hoddesdon, Herts.; apprenticed to John Clark, circus proprietor, who taught him riding and clowning; comic and motto vocalist at music halls in London and the provinces, many of his songs obtained great popularity; organised a concert company with which he visited every town in Great Britain and Ireland 1864–72. d. of hepatic disease at 26 St. Stephen’s road, Hammersmith, London 15 July 1872 aged 40. The Era 21 July 1872 p. 12, col. 3.

CLIFTON, John Talbot. b. London 5 March 1819; M.P. for North Lancs. 1844–7; col. 1 royal Lancashire militia 8 Oct. 1852–1870; sheriff of Lancs. 1853. d. on board his steam yacht Taurus at Algiers 16 April 1882.

CLIFTON, Sir Juckes Glanville Juckes, 8 Baronet. b. Aug. 1769; succeeded his brother 28 April 1837. d. Clifton hall near Nottingham 1 Oct. 1852.

CLIFTON, Rev. Robert Cox. b. Gloucester 4 Jany. 1810; ed. at Worcester and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of his coll. 1833; clerk in orders at Manchester collegiate church 1837, elected to a fellowship by the collegiate chapter 6 Dec. 1843; R. of Somerton, Oxon 1840 to death; canon of Manchester, Dec. 1843 to death; a trustee of Owen’s college, Manchester; author of several sermons and pamphlets. d. Somerton rectory 30 July 1861.

CLIFTON, Sir Robert Juckes, 9 Baronet. b. 24 Dec. 1826; ed. at Eton; lost heavily on the turf during his minority; succeeded 1 Oct. 1852; M.P. for Nottingham 26 Dec. 1861 to May 1866 (when unseated on petition) and 18 Nov. 1868 to death. d. Clifton hall 30 May 1869.

CLINT, Alfred (youngest son of the succeeding). b. Alfred place, Bedford sq. London 22 March 1807; painted portraits and landscapes; member of Society of British artists 1843, secretary 1853–9, pres. 1869–81; best known as a marine painter; exhibited 24 pictures at R.A. 35 at B.I. and 343 at Suffolk st. gallery 1828–79; drew and etched illustrations to Bennett’s Pedestrian’s guide through North Wales 1838; author of Landscape from nature 1855. d. 54 Lancaster road, Notting hill, London 22 March 1883, I.L.N. lxxxii, 332 (1883), portrait.

CLINT, George (son of Michael Clint of Lombard st. London, hairdresser). b. Brownlow st. Drury Lane, London 12 April 1770; a house painter, painted the stones of the arches in nave of Westminster abbey; a miniature painter in Leadenhall st.; made copies in colours from prints after Morland and Teniers; painted a series of dramatic scenes; exhibited 99 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 15 at Suffolk st. gallery; A.R.A. 1821–36. d. 10 Pembroke sq. London 10 May 1854. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 66–8 (1862).

CLINTON, Charles Rodolph Trefusis, 18 Baron. b. South Brent, South Devon 9 Nov. 1791; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; fellow of All Souls coll.; M.P. for Callington 4 March 1813 to 10 June 1818; a comr. of excise 29 Sep. 1823; succeeded 7 Oct. 1832; lieut.-col. commandant of North Devon yeomanry cavalry 1842. d. Heanton Satchville house, North Devon 10 April 1866.

CLINTON, Rev. Charles John Fynes (3 son of Rev. Charles Fynes 1748–1827, preb. of Westminster, who took name of Clinton 1821). b. 16 April 1799; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; V. of Orston, Notts 1827–55; R. of Cromwell, Notts 1828 to death; author of An address to all classes on the first visitation of cholera 1832; Plain doctrinal and practical sermons 1842; edited H. F. Clinton’s Epitome of chronology of Rome and Constantinople 1853; Literary remains of H. F. Clinton 1854. d. of pleurisy at 3 Montague place, St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London 10 Jany. 1872.

CLINTON, Henry Fynes (brother of the preceding). b. Gamston, Notts. 14 Jany. 1781; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., student Dec. 1802 to June 1809, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1805, one of the few who passed an examination for the M.A. degree; M.P. for Aldborough 3 Nov. 1806 to June 1826; a candidate for librarianship of British Museum, Dec. 1827; author of Fasti Hellenici 4 vols. 1824–34; Fasti Romani 2 vols. 1845–50. d. Welwyn, Herts. 24 Oct. 1852. Literary remains of H. F. Clinton edited by Rev. C. J. F. Clinton 1854; C. Brown’s Lives of Nottinghamshire worthies (1882) 338–41; G.M. xxxix, 315–6 (1853).

CLISSOLD, Rev. Augustus (son of Augustus Clissold of Stonehouse near Stroud, Gloucs.) b. 1797; matric. from Exeter coll. Ox. 6 Dec. 1814, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; C. of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London; C. of St. Mary, Stoke Newington; pres. of Swedenborg Association 1845; purchased in 1854 for use of the Swedenborg Society a 70 years lease of 36 Bloomsbury st. London; author of Principles of Apocalyptical interpretation 3 vols. 1845; Spiritual exposition of the Apocalypse 4 vols. 1851; Transition or the passing of ages 1868; Prophetic spirit in relation to wisdom and madness 1870; The creeds of Athanasius, Sabellius and Swedenborg examined 1873, 2 ed. 1873 and 17 other books. d. 4 Broadwater Down, Tunbridge Wells 30 Oct. 1882.

CLISSOLD, Rev. Henry. Educ. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; R. of Chelmondiston, Suffolk 1830–58; author of Last hours of eminent Christians 1848; Lamps of the church, lives of eminent Christians 1862. d. 19 Talbot sq. Sussex gardens, London 10 Jany. 1867.

CLISSOLD, Rev. Stephen. b. about 1790; ed. at Clare coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; R. of Wrentham, Suffolk 1830–53; hon. canon of Norwich cathedral 1848 to death; author of Letters of Cincinnatus 1815; Considerations on the trade, manufacture and commerce of the British Empire 1820. d. Wrentham 12 May 1863.

CLITHEROW, John (eld. son of Christopher Clitherow of Bird’s Place, Essendon, Herts). b. 13 Dec. 1782; ensign 3 foot guards 19 Dec. 1799, lieut.-col. 15 Sep. 1825 to 22 July 1830; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; administered government of Canada after decease of Lord Sydenham 1841; col. 67 foot 15 Jany. 1844 to death. d. Boston house, Middlesex 14 Oct. 1852.

CLIVE, Caroline (2 dau. of Edmund Meysey Wigley of Shakenhurst, Worcs.) b. Brompton Grove, London 24 June 1801; author of ix Poems by V. 1840, 2 ed. 1841; The valley of the Rea, a poem by V. 1851; Paul Ferroll, a tale by the author of, ix Poems by V. 1855; Why Paul Ferroll killed his wife 1860; John Greswold 2 vols. 1864. (m. 10 Nov. 1840 Rev. Archer Clive, preb. of Hereford, he was b. 16 March 1800 and d. 17 Sep. 1878). d. by an accident from fire at Whitfield near Hereford 13 July 1873. Contemporary Review xxiii, 197–217 (1874).

CLIVE, George (3 son of Edward Bolton Clive of Whitfield, Herefordshire, who d. 22 July 1845 in 81 year). b. Verdun, France, Oct. 1806; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 29 June 1830; assistant poor law comr. 1836–9; police magistrate for Kensington and Wandsworth 1840–7; judge of county courts circuit 47 Southwark, March 1847 to 1858; recorder of Wokingham 1849–58; M.P. for city of Hereford 14 Feb. 1857 to 9 March 1869 (when unseated on petition) and 3 Feb. 1874 to March 1880; under sec. of state for home department, June 1859 to Nov. 1862; chairman of Herefordshire quarter sessions, Jany. 1871 to death. d. Perrystone near Ross 8 June 1880. O’Malley and Hardcastle’s Reports of election petitions i, 194–7 (1870).

CLIVE, Henry Bayley (4 son of Wm. Clive of Leigh hall, Salop 1745–1825). b. Styche, Market Drayton 1800; M.P. for Ludlow 1847–52. d. Styche 26 Feb. 1870.

CLIVE, Robert Henry (2 son of Earl of Powis 1754–1839). b. 15 Jany. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1809, LLD. 1835; M.P. for Ludlow 1818 to 1832, for South Shropshire 1832 to death; under sec. of state for home department 21 April 1818 to 17 Jany. 1822; pres. of Cambrian archæological assoc. 1852; author of Documents connected with the history of Ludlow and the Lords Marchers 1841 preface signed R. H. C. d. Shrewsbury 20 Jany. 1854.

CLIVE, Robert Windsor (son of the preceding). b. Grosvenor st. London 24 May 1824; M.P. for Ludlow 1852–1854, for South Salop 1854 to death. d. 53 Lower Grosvenor st. London 4 Aug. 1859.

CLIVE, Venerable William (brother of Henry Bayley Clive 1800–1870). b. 14 March 1795; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; V. of Welshpool 1819–65; archdeacon of Montgomery 29 Feb. 1844–1861; preb. of St. Asaph 25 July 1849; hon. canon of St. Asaph 1854 to death; R. of Blymhill, Staffs. 1865. d. Blymhill rectory 24 May 1883.

CLOËTÉ, Sir Abraham Josias (2 son of Peter Laurence Cloëté, member of council at Cape of Good Hope). b. Cape of Good Hope 7 Aug. 1794; cornet 15 hussars 29 Jany. 1809; deputy quartermaster general at Cape of Good Hope 1840–54; commanded forces in West Indies 1855–61; colonel 19 foot 10 March 1861 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 23 Sep. 1847, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; knighted at St. James’s palace 9 June 1854. d. 88 Gloucester terrace, London 26 Oct. 1886.

CLONCURRY, Valentine Browne Lawless, 2 Baron (2 son of 1 Baron Cloncurry 1735–99). b. Merrion sq. Dublin 19 Aug. 1773; ed. at Portarlington, Chester and Trin. coll. Dublin; member of Society of United Irishmen; member of executive directory of United Irish Society 1797; arrested 31 May 1798, again 14 April 1799, confined in the Tower of London 8 May 1799 to March 1801; succeeded as 2 Baron 28 Aug. 1799; P.C. for Ireland 1831; created a Baron of the United Kingdom 14 Sep. 1831. d. Maretimo, Blackrock near Dublin 28 Oct. 1853. W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Life of Lord Cloncurry 1855; G.M. xli, 82–7 (1854); Personal recollections of Lord Cloncurry (1849).

CLONCURRY, Edward Lawless, 3 Baron. b. Lyons house, co. Kildare 13 Sep. 1816; ed. at Eton and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1861; succeeded 23 Oct. 1853; killed by falling from a window of Lyons house whilst of unsound mind and unaccountable for his acts 3 April 1869. Morning Post 6 April 1869 p. 5.

CLONMELL, John Henry Scott, 3 Earl of. b. Hertford st. London 4 Jany. 1817; succeeded 18 Jany. 1838. d. Bishop’s court, Naas, co. Kildare 7 Feb. 1866.

CLOSE, Very Rev. Francis (youngest son of Rev. Henry Jackson Close, R. of Bentworth, Hants. who d. April 1806). b. near Frome 11 July 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Cam. Scholar 1817, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1857; C. of Church Lawford, Warws. 1820–22; C. of Willesden and Kingsbury 1822–24; P.C. of Cheltenham 1826–56; Dean of Carlisle 24 Nov. 1856 to Aug. 1881 when he resigned; P.C. of St. Mary, Carlisle 1865–68; a most popular evangelical preacher; author of upwards of 70 books. d. Morrab house, Penzance 18 Dec. 1882. buried Carlisle cemetery 23 Dec. The Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1861, 32–33, portrait; Illust. news of the world viii, (1861), portrait; Congregationalist iv, 562–72 (1875); A golden decade of a favoured town by Contem Ignotus (1884) 11–69; E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 429–30; I.L.N. lxxxii, 45 (1883), portrait.

CLOSE, Thomas (son of John Close of Manchester, merchant). b. Manchester 12 Feb. 1796; a founder and original member of Reform club, London 1836; auditor of the London and South Western railway many years; F.S.A. 10 May 1855; author of St. Mary’s church, Nottingham, its probable architect and benefactors 1866, drew up elaborate pedigrees of the Tattershall and Wake families and many illuminated pedigrees of royal, noble and illustrious houses. d. Nottingham 25 Jany. 1881. Manchester school register iii, 66–8 (1874).

CLOUGH, Arthur Hugh (2 son of James Butler Clough of Liverpool, cotton merchant 1784–1844). b. Liverpool 1 Jany. 1819; ed. at Rugby and Balliol coll. Ox., scholar Nov. 1836, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; fellow of Oriel coll. 1842 to Oct. 1848, tutor 1843–8; principal of University hall, Gordon sq. London, Oct. 1849 to 1851; professor of English language and literature at Univ. coll. London, Nov. or Dec. 1850; sec. to commission on military education 1856; author of The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, a long vacation pastoral 1848; Plutarch’s lives, the translation called Dryden’s Corrected from the Greek and revised 1859; author with Thomas Burbidge of Ambarvalia, poems 1849. d. Florence 13 Nov. 1861. Poems and prose remains of A. H. Clough edited by his wife 2 vols. 1869; Poems by A. H. Clough with a memoir [by F. T. Palgrave], 2 ed. 1863; A. H. Clough a monograph by S. Waddington 1883; J. C. Shairp’s Balliol scholars, a remembrance 1873; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. iv, 589–607 (1883).

CLOUGH, Very Rev. Charles Butler (4 son of Rev. Roger Clough, canon of St. Asaph). b. 1793; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1825; V. of Mold, Flintshire 1824–54; archdeacon of St. Asaph 20 Feb. 1844–1854, hon. canon of St. Asaph 25 July 1849–1854, dean and chancellor of St. Asaph 1854 to death. d. the Deanery, St. Asaph 4 Sep. 1859.

CLOWES, George (son of Wm. Clowes of London, printer 1779–1847). b. 1814; ed. at Tooting and London Univ. college; partner with his father 1846; printed the official publications of the Great Exhibition 1851; auditor to the Guild of Literature many years; printed and published The Law Reports 1865 to death. d. Oak hill, Surbiton 3 Nov. 1886. London Figaro 20 Nov. 1886 p. 6, col. 2, portrait.

CLOWES, Thomas Ball (son of Mr. Clowes of Canterbury, surgeon). b. Wingham, Kent 30 June 1787; entered navy 17 June 1801; captain 16 May 1823, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 24 Sep. 1863. d. Upton, Slough 31 March 1864.

CLOWES, Rev. William (son of Wm. Clowes of Burslem, Staffs., potter). b. Burslem 12 March 1780; a working potter; attended the first camp meeting ever held in England, which was at Mow Hill near Harrisehead 31 May 1807; a local Wesleyan preacher, Oct. 1808; one of founders of Primitive Methodist connection 14 March 1810; preached in most of the northern counties of England, also in London and Cornwall. d. Hull 2 March 1851. Davison’s Life of W. Clowes (1854), portrait; Petty’s Primitive Methodist connection (1864), portrait.

CLOWES, William (brother of George Clowes 1814–86). b. 15 May 1807; entered his father’s business 1823, partner with him 1846; trustee of Printers’ pension corporation 1844, treasurer 1853. d. Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 19 May 1883.

CLULOW, Rev. William Benton. b. Leek, Staffs.; ed. at Hoxton academy; pastor of Congregational chapel at Shaldon, Devon 1823–35; classical tutor of Airedale college, Bradford 1835–43; author of Aphorisms and reflections, a miscellany of thought and opinion 1843; Sunshine and Shadows, or Sketches of thought, philosophic and religious 1863; Essays of a recluse, or traces of thought, literature and fancy 1865. d. Leek 16 April 1882.

CLUTTERBUCK, Henry (5 child of Thomas Clutterbuck of Marazion, Cornwall, attorney, who d. 6 Nov. 1781). b. Marazion 28 Jany. 1767; M.R.C.S. 7 Aug. 1790; practised at Walbrook, city of London 1790–1802; projected The Medical and Chirurgical Review 1795, edited it 1795–1807; M.D. Glasgow 16 April 1804; licentiate of College of Physicians 1 Oct. 1804; physician in Bridge st. Blackfriars 1808 to death; physician to general dispensary, Aldersgate st. 1809; lectured on materia medica and the practice of physic; author of Remarks respecting venereal disease 1799; An enquiry into the seat and nature of fever 1807, 2 ed. 1825; An essay on Pyrexia, or symptomatic fever 1837; A series of essays on inflamation 1846. d. 1 Crescent, New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 24 April 1856. Lives of British physicians (1857) 403–16; T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery ii, (1840), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery ii, 88–9 (1846), portrait; Medical Circular ii, 495–7 (1853), portrait.

CLUTTERBUCK, Rev. James Charles (2 son of Robert Clutterbuck of Watford, Herts. 1772–1831). b. Watford 11 July 1801; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., fellow 26 Dec. 1822 to 19 Jany. 1831; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1827; C. of Watford; V. of Long Wittenham, Berkshire 14 Jany. 1830 to death; rural dean of Abingdon 1869 to death; great authority on all questions relating to water; member of Board of Thames Conservancy. d. Long Wittenham 8 May 1885.

CLYDE, Colin Campbell, 1 Baron (eld. child of John McLiver of Glasgow, cabinet maker, who d. 22 Dec. 1859, by Agnes Campbell). b. Glasgow 20 Oct. 1792; ed. at Glasgow high sch. and Gosport; gazetted ensign 9 foot under name of Campbell 26 May 1808; lieut.-col. 98 foot 19 June 1835 to 1 April 1853; aide-de-camp to the Queen 23 Dec. 1842 to 20 June 1854; commanded third division of army under Lord Gough in Punjaub campaigns of 1848–49; commanded the Peshawur district 1851–52; commanded Highland brigade in the Crimea 1854; commandant at Balaklava 1854; colonel 67 foot 24 Oct. 1854 to 15 Jany. 1858; commanded first division of British army in the Crimea, Dec. 1854 to 3 Nov. 1855; inspector general of infantry, Sep. 1856; commander in chief in India 11 July 1857; stormed Lucknow, Nov. 1857, captured it 19 March 1858, left India 4 June 1860; colonel 93 foot 15 Jany. 1858 to 4 June 1860; general 14 May 1858; colonel Coldstream guards 22 June 1860 to death; field marshal 9 Nov. 1862; admitted to freedom of city of Glasgow 1856, of London 20 Dec. 1860; granted pension of £2,000 by the H.E.I.Co. 1858; created Baron Clyde of Clydesdale 16 Aug. 1858; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 9 June 1849, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; K.S.I. June 1858, K.C.S.I. 25 June 1861. d. the Government house, Chatham 14 Aug. 1863. bur. Westminster abbey 22 Aug., statue of him by Marochetti erected in Carlton gardens, Pall Mall 1867, and a statue by Foley at Glasgow 1868. Shadwell’s Life of Lord Clyde 2 vols. 1881, portrait; C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age ii, 372–446 (1880); A personal narrative of the siege of Lucknow by L. E. R. Rees, 3 ed. 1858; Illust. news of the world i, (1858), portrait.

COATS, Thomas (4 son of James Coats of Paisley, thread manufacturer). b. Paisley 18 Oct. 1809; thread manufacturer with his brother Peter, at the Ferguslie thread works, Paisley, one of the largest in the world; pres. of Paisley Philosophical Institution 1862–4, to which he gave an observatory on Oakshaw hill 1882; presented to town of Paisley a public park called the Fountain’s Gardens 1868; chairman of Paisley school board 1873 to death; made valuable collection of Scottish coins. d. 15 Oct. 1883, statue of him erected at Paisley.

COBBE, George (2 son of Charles Cobbe of Newbridge house, co. Dublin 1756–98). b. 1782; second lieut. R.A. 9 Oct. 1799, col. commandant 29 Aug. 1857 to death; general 15 Dec. 1864. d. 9 Sydney place, Onslow sq. Brompton London 8 Feb. 1865.

COBBE, Henry Clermont (eld. son of Thomas Alexander Cobbe 1788–1836, col. H.E.I.C.S.) Ensign 86 foot 15 Feb. 1831; lieut.-col. 2 West India regiment 26 May 1844 to 14 April 1854; lieut.-col. 4 foot 14 April 1854 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. in the camp before Sebastopol 6 Aug. 1855.

COBBETT, John Morgan (2 son of Wm. Cobbett, political writer 1762–1835). b. 1800; barrister L.I. 26 Nov. 1830; M.P. for Oldham 9 July 1852 to 6 July 1865 and 5 June 1872 to death; author of Letters from France, containing observations on that country during a journey from Calais to the South as far as Limoges 1825. d. 20 Brompton crescent, South Kensington, London 13 Feb. 1877.

COBBETT, Richard Baverstock Brown (brother of the preceding). b. 1804; attorney at Manchester 1838 to death; defended some of the Chartists; sec. to the council of Manchester Political Union which got up the great demonstration on Kersal Moor to demand the six points of the Charter 24 Sep. 1838; author of some legal pamphlets. d. Wilmslow, Manchester 3 June 1875.

COBBETT, William (brother of the preceding). Brought actions against several of the judges in connection with an attempt on his part to obtain release of the Tichborne claimant by means of a writ of habeas corpus. d. the watchman’s room, central hall of Houses of Parliament, Westminster 12 Jany. 1878.

COBBIN, Rev. Ingram. b. London, Dec. 1777; ed. at Hoxton academy 1798–1802; Independent minister at South Molton 1802; assist. sec. to British and Foreign school society; first sec. of Home Missionary society 1819; Owing to weak health he did not hold any pastorate for more than a short period; author of Elements of English grammar 1828, thirty three editions; Elements of Arithmetic for children 1828, fifteen editions; Evangelical Synopsis 1833; The Condensed Commentary 1837; The Portable Commentary 1843; Domestic Bible 1844; Bible Remembrancer 1848; Scripture light on Popish Darkness 1851; and about 30 other works. d. of phthisis at Denmark cottage, Cold Arbour lane, Kennington, London 10 March 1851. Congregational year book 1851 p. 212.

COBBOLD, John Chevalier (eld. child of John Cobbold of Ipswich, brewer 1774–1860). b. Ipswich 24 Aug. 1797; banker and merchant at Ipswich and Harwich; chairman of Eastern union railway co. and of Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds railway co.; M.P. for Ipswich 30 July 1847 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. Holywells, Ipswich 6 Oct. 1882. Public men of Ipswich (1875) 57–63; Graphic xxvi, 412 (1882), portrait.

COBBOLD, John Patteson (eld. son of the preceding). b. Ipswich 12 July 1831; a banker and brewer at Ipswich; M.P. for Ipswich 6 Feb. 1874 to death. d. the Cliff, Ipswich 10 Dec. 1875. Licensed victualler’s year book (1876), portrait; I.L.N. lxvii, 614, 629 (1875), portrait; Public men of Ipswich (1875) 274.

COBBOLD, Rev. Richard (20 child of John Cobbold of Ipswich, brewer). b. Ipswich 1797; ed. at Bury St. Edmunds and Caius coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Wortham, Suffolk 1826 to death; rural dean of Hartismere, Suffolk 1844–69; author of History of Margaret Catchpole 2 vols. 1845 of which 100,000 copies were sold; Mary Ann Wellington 3 vols. 1846; The young man’s home 1848 and other books. d. Wortham rectory 5 Jany. 1877. Public men of Ipswich (1875) 170.

COBBOLD, Thomas Clement (3 son of John Chevalier Cobbold 1797–1882). b. Ipswich 22 July 1833; ed. at Charterhouse; served in diplomatic service abroad 5 Sep. 1855 to 22 Dec. 1875; M.P. for Ipswich 1 Jany. 1876 to death; C.B. 2 Sep. 1879. d. Ipswich 21 Nov. 1883. Graphic xiii, 75, 84 (1876), portrait.

COBBOLD, Thomas Spencer (youngest son of Rev. Richard Cobbold 1797–1877). b. Ipswich 26 May 1828; ed. at the Charterhouse and Edin. univ., M.D. and gold medallist 1851, curator of the anatomical museum 1851–7; lecturer on botany at St. Mary’s hospital, London 1857–61, at Middlesex hospital 1861 where he lectured on comparative anatomy 13 years; practised in London 1865; Swiney lecturer on geology at British Museum, May 1868 to May 1873; professor of botany at Royal Veterinary college 1873 of helminthology 1874; F.R.S. 2 June 1864; author of Entozoa, an introduction to the study of Helminthology 1864; Tapeworms 1866, 4 ed. 1883; Parasites, a treatise on the Entozoa of man and animals 1879. d. 74 Portsdown road, Maida hill, London 20 March 1886. Barker’s Photographs of eminent medical men ii, 77–81 (1868), portrait; Lancet 27 March 1886 p. 616.

COBDEN, Richard (2 son of Wm. Cobden of Dunford, Heyshott near Midhurst, Sussex, farmer, who d. 15 June 1833). b. Dunford 3 June 1804; calico printer at Manchester 1829–39; M.P. for Stockport 1841–7, for West riding of Yorkshire 1847–57, for Rochdale 1859 to death; member of Anti-Corn law league Oct. 1838 to 1846, repeal of the corn law was chiefly due to him, sum of nearly £80,000 was raised for him by subscription 1846; negotiated commercial treaty with France signed 23 Jany. 1860; presented with sum of £40,000 by about 100 friends 1860; admitted to freedom of city of London 6 June 1861; author of the following pamphlets England, Ireland and America by a Manchester manufacturer 1835; Russia by a Manchester manufacturer 1836; 1792 and 1853 in three letters 1853; How wars are got up in India 1853; What next? and next? 1856; The three, panics of 1848, 1853 and 1862, 1862. d. 23 Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 2 April 1865; bur. West Lavington churchyard near Midhurst 7 April. J. Morley’s Life of R. Cobden 2 vols. 1881, portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iii, 51–4 (1847), portrait; H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii, 365–84 (1866); J. H. Jennings’s Anecdotal history of the British parliament (1880) 332–8; Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 41, portrait.

COCHET, John. b. Rochester 3 Aug. 1760; entered navy 22 Dec. 1775, captain 9 Dec. 1796, placed on h.p. 30 May 1799; principal agent for transports in the Mediterranean 2 May 1805 to June 1810; admiral 23 Nov. 1841. d. Bideford 10 June 1851.

COCHRANE, Charles (natural son of hon. Basil Cochrane, lieut. col. 36 foot who d. 14 May 1816). Traversed the United Kingdom dressed in Hungarian costume and sang songs while playing the guitar 1825–6; the farce of The Wandering Minstrel by Henry Mayhew produced at Fitzroy theatre, London 16 Jany. 1834 was founded on his eccentricities; pres. of National philanthropic instit. in Leicester sq. London 1842–50; contested city of Westminster July 1847; author of Journal of a tour made by Senor Juan de Vega, a character assumed by an English gentleman 2 vols. 1830. d. Nelson sq. Blackfriars road, London 13 June 1855 in 48 year. G.M. xliv, 324–5 (1855).

COCHRANE, Sir James (4 son of Thomas Cochrane, speaker of house of assembly at Nova Scotia). b. Nova Scotia 1798; barrister I.T. 6 Feb. 1829; attorney general of Gibraltar 1837, chief justice 1841 to May 1877; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1845; d. Glenrocky, Gibraltar 24 June 1883.

COCHRANE, John George (son of Mr. Cochrane of Glasgow). b. Glasgow 1781; bookseller and publisher with John White in Fleet st. London; manager of foreign bookselling house of Messrs. Treuttel and Wurtz, Soho sq.; acting editor of Foreign quarterly review 1827–35; edited Caledonian Mercury at Edin.; catalogued Sir Walter Scott’s library at Abbotsford; edited a newspaper at Hertford; sec. and librarian of London library, London 17 Feb. 1841 to death, library was opened 3 May 1841; compiled two catalogues of the library 1842 and 1847. d. London library, St. James’s sq. London 11 May 1852. Catalogue of the London library by R. Harrison 1875 pp. vii-xi.

COCHRANE, Sir Thomas John (eld. child of Sir Alexander Forester Inglis Cochrane, G.C.B. 1758–1831). b. Edinburgh 5 Feb. 1789; entered navy 15 June 1796; captain 23 April 1806; second in command on East India station 1842 to 1845; commander-in-chief 1845 to 1847; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 18 Dec. 1852 to Jany. 1856; admiral 31 Jany. 1856; admiral of the fleet 12 Sep. 1865; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 29 May 1812; governor of Newfoundland 16 April 1825 to 1834; M.P. for Ipswich 1837–41; C.B. 18 April 1839, K.C.B. 29 Oct. 1847, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 19 Oct. 1872. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 25 Oct.

COCHRANE, William George. Ensign 40 foot 13 Feb. 1805; lieut.-col. 10 foot 16 Sep. 1836 to 10 July 1837 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in Ireland 11 Dec. 1846 to 1 April 1852; colonel 11 foot 23 June 1856 to death; L.G. 26 Sep. 1856. d. 127 Piccadilly, London 4 Sep. 1857.

COCK, Henry. Entered Bengal army 1802; col. 64 Bengal N.I. 1849 to death; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Hopton hall near Lowestoft 17 Feb. 1851.

COCK, Rev. Thomas Astley. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., 27 wrangler 1834, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1839; mathematical tutor King’s coll. London and professor of mathematics Queen’s coll. London many years. d. 18 Rodney st. Pentonville, London 3 July 1885 in 74 year.

COCKAYNE, Rev. Thomas Oswald (son of Mr. Cockin). b. 1807; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 10 wrangler 1828, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1835; a master at King’s college sch. London 1842–69; member of Philological and Early English Text Societies; author of The civil history of the Jews from Joshua to Hadrian 1841, 2 ed. 1845; Greek Syntax 1846; Life of Marshal Turenne 1853; Leechdoms, Wort-cunning and Starcraft of early England 3 vols. 1858; Spoon and Sparrow, or English roots in Greek, Latin and Hebrew 1861. Shot himself at Carrackdew, St. Ives 2 or 3 June 1873. Cornish Telegraph 18, 25 June 1873.

COCKBURN, Alexander (4 son of Sir James Cockburn 6 baronet 1729–1804). b. 20 Aug. 1776; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Wurtemburg 6 March 1820 to 8 Feb. 1823, to Columbia, South America 28 Feb. 1826 to 21 Sep. 1829. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 14 Oct. 1852.

COCKBURN, Sir Alexander James Edmund, 10 Baronet (only son of the preceding). b. 24 Dec. 1802; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., fellow commoner 1825, fellow 1829; LL.B. 1829, LLD. 1874; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1829, bencher 1841, treasurer 1853; recorder of Southampton 26 July 1840 to Aug. 1846; Q.C. Oct. 1841; M.P. for Southampton 31 July 1847 to Nov. 1856; solicitor general 11 July 1850; knighted at Buckingham Palace 14 Aug. 1850; attorney general 28 March 1851 to Feb. 1852 and 28 Dec. 1852 to 21 Nov. 1856; recorder of Bristol, April 1854 to Nov. 1856; led the prosecution of Wm. Palmer the Rugeley poisoner who was hanged 14 June 1856; lord chief justice of court of Common Pleas 21 Nov. 1856; lord chief justice of court of Queen’s bench 24 June 1859, of England 2 Nov. 1874 to death; P.C. 2 Feb. 1857; succeeded his uncle as 10 baronet 30 April 1858; arbitrator for Her Majesty under treaty of Washington 1 Sep. 1871; G.C.B. 12 Feb. 1873; presided at trial of The Queen v Castro (Tichborne claimant) 1873–4, 188 days, longest trial upon record except that of Warren Hastings; admitted to freedom of city of London 9 March 1876; chairman of Cambridge University commission 1877–8; presided in court of crown cases reserved 20 Nov. 1880. d. from angina pectoris 40 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 20 Nov. 1880. A generation of Judges by Their Reporter (1886) 1–20; Ballantine’s Some experiences of a barrister ii, 113–19 (1882); Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, second series i, 162–83 (1877); E. Yates’s Recollections ii, 129–38 (1884); Law Mag. xlvi, 193–213 (1851); Law Mag. and Review i, 50–3, 896–903 (1872); The Englishman xiv, 88–90 (1880), portrait; I.L.N. xvii, 121 (1850), portrait, lxvi, 287 (1875), portrait, lxxvii, 521 (1880), portrait.

Note.—He was the first legally styled Lord chief justice of England; Sir Edward Coke assumed that title which most of his successors also did, but it was not until the Supreme Court of Judicature act 1873 that the title was fully recognised.

COCKBURN, Sir Francis (brother of Alexander Cockburn 1776–1852). b. 10 Nov. 1780; cornet 7 dragoon guards 16 Oct. 1800; lieut. col. New Brunswick Fencibles 27 Oct. 1814 to 25 April 1816 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 2 West India regiment 30 July 1829 to 9 Nov. 1846; governor of Honduras 1830–7, of the Bahamas 1837–44; knighted by patent 8 Sep. 1841; colonel 95 foot 26 Dec. 1853 to death; general 12 Nov. 1860. d. East Cliff, Dover 24 Aug. 1868.

COCKBURN, Sir George, 8 Baronet (brother of the preceding). b. London 22 April 1772; entered navy as captain’s servant 12 March 1781; captain 20 Feb. 1794; suggested and planned capture of Washington 1813; commander-in-chief at St. Helena Oct. 1815 to June 1816; conveyed Napoleon Buonaparte from Plymouth to St. Helena in the Northumberland 8 Aug. to 16 Oct. 1815; commander-in-chief on North America and West India station 6 Dec. 1832 to Feb. 1836; admiral 10 Jany. 1837; rear admiral of the U.K. 10 Aug. 1847; admiral of the fleet 1 July 1851 to death; first naval lord of the Admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 13 July 1846; major-general of marines 5 April 1821; M.P. for Portsmouth 1818–20, for Weobley, co. Hereford 1820–6, for Plymouth 1826–32, for Ripon 1841–7; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 20 Feb. 1818; F.R.S. 21 Dec. 1820; P.C. 30 April 1827; succeeded 26 Feb. 1852. d. Leamington Spa 19 Aug. 1853. J. Allen’s Battles of the British Navy ii, 420 (1852), portrait; G.M. xl, 406–10 (1853); I.L.N. xxiii, 165, 166 (1853), portrait.

COCKBURN, Henry Thomas (4 son of Archibald Cockburn, a baron of Court of Exchequer in Scotland). b. in or near Edin. 26 Oct. 1779; ed. at Edin. high school and college; called to Scotch bar Dec. 1800; advocate depute 1806–10; leader with Jeffrey of the Scottish bar; solicitor general for Scotland 3 Dec. 1830 to 1834; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1831; one of lords of Court of Session as Lord Cockburn 5 Nov. 1834; a lord comr. of justiciary 14 June 1837 to death; author of Life of Lord Jeffrey 2 vols. 1852. d. Bonaly near Edin. 26 April 1854. Memorials of his time by H. T. Cockburn 1856, portrait; Journal of H. T. Cockburn 1831–44, 2 vols. 1874; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), portrait.

COCKBURN, Sir James, 7 Baronet (brother of Sir Francis Cockburn 1780–1868). b. 21 March 1771; succeeded his father 26 July 1804; under sec. of state for department of war and colonies 1806–7; governor and commander-in-chief of Curaçoa 10 April 1807 to 1811; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda islands 26 April 1811 to 1 July 1819; inspector general of Royal marines; major general 22 Feb. 1831; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1847. d. Portman sq. London 26 Feb. 1852.

COCKBURN, James Horsford. Entered navy 1 Dec. 1829; captain 7 April 1850; R.A. 6 April 1866; commander-in-chief East Indies 6 Sep. 1870 to death. d. Government house, Calcutta 10 Feb. 1872 aged 56.

COCKBURN, Very Rev. Sir William, 9 Baronet (brother of Alexander Cockburn 1776–1852). b. 2 June 1773; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 12 wrangler 1795, B.A. 1795, M.A. 1798, B.D. and D.D. 1832; fellow of his college 1796–1806; Christian advocate to Univ. of Cam. 1803–10; dean of York 17 Oct. 1822 to death; R. of Kelston near Bath 1832 to death; succeeded his brother Sir George Cockburn 19 Aug. 1853. d. Kelston rectory 30 April 1858.

COCKBURN, Sir William Sarsfield Rossiter, 6 Baronet. b. 11 June 1796; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1823; succeeded 19 March 1835. d. Downton near Kington, Herefordshire 12 April 1858.

COCKBURN-CAMPBELL, Sir Alexander Thomas, 2 Baronet. b. Madras 1803; succeeded 11 Dec. 1824; assumed additional name of Campbell by royal licence 19 July 1825; superintendent of police in Western Australia, Sep. 1857; resident magistrate of Albury 1861. d. 23 April 1871.

COCKERELL, Charles Robert (son of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, architect 1754–1827). b. London 28 April 1788; ed. at Westminster school; explored Greece, Asia Minor and Sicily 1810–11; discovered Æginetan and Phigaleian marbles 1811; surveyor to St. Paul’s cath. 1819; A.R.A. 1829, R.A. 1836; architect of Bank of England 1833; prof. of architecture, Royal academy 1840–57; one of the 8 foreign assocs. of French Instit. 1841; built the Taylor buildings at Oxford 1841–2; member of academy of St. Luke, Rome 1843; D.C.L. Ox. 20 June 1844; pres. of R.I.B.A. 1860–1, gold medallist 1848; author of Antiquities of Athens 5 parts, fo. 1830; Iconography of the West front of Wells Cathedral 1851; Illustrations of the genius of M. A. Buonarotti, fo. 1857 and other works. d. 13 Chester terrace, Regent’s Park, London 17 Sept. 1863. bur. St. Paul’s cath. 24 Sept. Sandby’s History of Royal academy ii, 199–201 (1862); G.M. xv, 785–91 (1863); I.L.N. xliii, 341, 342 (1863), portrait.

COCKERELL, Frederick Pepys (2 son of the preceding). b. 87 Eaton sq. London, March 1833; ed. at Winchester and King’s coll. Lon.; pupil of Philip Hardwick, R.A. 1854–5; exhibited 54 designs at the R.A. 1854–77; designed Freemasons’ hall in Great Queen st. 1861; A.R.I.B.A. 1860, F.R.I.B.A. 30 May 1864, sec. 1871; his design for the Albert Memorial was selected by the judges, but the Queen preferred the Gothic design of Sir G. G. Scott. d. Paris 4 Nov. 1878. Builder 16 Nov. 1878 p. 1194, 23 Nov. p. 1230, 20 Dec. p. 1393 and 27 Dec. p. 1433.

COCKS, Arthur Herbert (3 son of Philip James Cocks of Stepple hall, Salop 1774–1857). b. 18 April 1819; entered Bengal civil service 1837; retired on annuity fund 1863; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Ashburn place, Cromwell road, London 29 Aug. 1881.

COCKS, Robert. b, 1796; established music publishing business in London 1823 which became one of the largest; published many valuable theoretical works including translations of foreign authors; built and endowed 10 almshouses at Old Buckenham, Norfolk, completed Aug. 1861. d. May 1887.

COCKTON, Henry. b. London 7 Dec. 1807; lost his money in a malting speculation at Bury St. Edmunds; author of Valentine Vox the Ventriloquist 1840 published in monthly numbers; George St. George Julian, the Prince 1841; Stanley Thorne 3 vols. 1841; Sylvester Sound the Somnambulist 1844; The love match 1845; The Steward 1850; The sisters, or the fatal marriage 1851; Lady Felicia 1852; Percy Effingham 3 vols. 1853. d. Bury St. Edmunds 26 June 1853. Cockton’s George St. George Julian 1841, portrait.

CODD, Edward. Entered navy 11 Sep. 1820; captain 1 May 1851; admiral 26 Sep. 1878. d. 23 Hanover sq. London 14 April 1887 aged 82.

CODRINGTON, Christopher William. b. 12 March 1805; M.P. for East Gloucs. 1834 to death. d. Dodington, Gloucs. 24 June 1864.

CODRINGTON, Sir Edward (youngest son of Edward Codrington of London 1732–75). b. 27 April 1770; entered navy 18 July 1783; captain 6 April 1795; captain of the Orion at Trafalgar 1805; colonel of Marines 4 Dec. 1813; commander-in chief of Mediterranean squadron 1 Nov. 1826 to April 1828 when recalled; commanded allied fleets of England, France and Russia at battle of Navarino 20 Oct. 1827; commanded Channel fleet 7 June 1831 to 24 Oct. 1831; admiral 10 Jany. 1837; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 22 Nov. 1839 to 10 Dec. 1842; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 13 Nov. 1827, declined to pay the fees which amounted to £386 7s. 2d.; G.C.M.G. 23 April 1827, resigned 1828 but reinstated by Wm. iv, 17 Aug. 1832; M.P. for Devonport 1832–39; groom in waiting in Queen’s household July 1846; F.R.S. 21 Nov. 1822. d. 110 Eaton sq. London 28 April 1851. Memoir by his daughter Lady Bourchier 2 vols. 1873, 2 portraits; J. Allen’s Battles of the British navy ii, 514, (1852), portrait.

CODRINGTON, Sir Henry John (youngest son of the preceding). b. Preston Candover, Hants. 17 Oct. 1808; ed. at Harrow; entered navy 21 Feb. 1823; captain 20 Jany. 1836; employed in the Baltic during Russian war 1854–6; admiral superintendent of Malta dockyard 1858–63; admiral 18 Oct. 1867; commander-in chief at Plymouth 1869–72; admiral of the fleet 22 Jany. 1877 to death; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840, K.C.B. 13 March 1867; his portrait is in the Painted Hall at Greenwich. d. 112 Eaton sq. London 4 Aug. 1877. Selections from the letters of Sir H. Codrington edited by his sister Lady Bourchier 1880.

CODRINGTON, Sir William John (brother of the preceding). b. 26 Nov. 1804; ensign 88 foot 22 Feb. 1821; ensign Coldstream guards 24 April 1823, captain 8 July 1836; commanded first brigade of light division in the Crimea 1 Sep. 1854; commanded the light division 30 July 1855 to 10 Nov. 1855; commander-in-chief in the Crimea 11 Nov. 1855 to 12 July 1856; col. of 54 foot 11 Aug. 1856, of 23 foot 27 Dec. 1860 and of Coldstream guards 16 March 1875 to death; M.P. for Greenwich 9 Feb. 1857 to 23 April 1859; contested Westminster, Feb. 1874 and Lewes, April 1880; governor of Gibraltar, May 1859 to Nov. 1865; general 27 July 1863, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. Danmore cottage, Hackfield near Winchfield, Hants. 6 Aug. 1884. Army and navy mag. iii, 358–60 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. xxvii, 520 (1855), portrait, xxx, 479 (1857), portrait.

CODRINGTON, Sir William Raimond, 4 Baronet. b. Rennes, Brittany 25 Jany. 1806; succeeded 1816. d. Château de la Boullaye near Montfort, Brittany 7 or 17 Dec. 1873.

Note.—On the death of the 3rd baronet the title was assumed by the grandson of the 1st baronet on the ground that the 3rd baronet left no legitimate issue, but the Heralds’ College confirmed Sir W. R. Codrington in the baronetcy.

COEY, Sir Edward (son of James Coey of Larne, co. Antrim). b. Larne 1805; mayor of Belfast 1861, alderman 1861; knighted by Earl of Carlisle, lord lieut. of Ireland 1861; sheriff of Antrim 1867. d. Merville, Belfast 26 June 1887.

COFFEY, James Charles (2 son of Edmund Coffey of co. Kerry). b. Dublin 1815; called to Irish bar, Trinity term 1843; went Munster circuit; Q.C. 13 June 1864; county court judge for Westmeath, transferred to Leitrim, transferred to Londonderry, retired 1879; edited the Monitor a whig anti-repeal paper. d. Sea Point, co. Dublin 31 July 1880.

COFFIN, Sir Edward Pine (youngest son of Rev. John Pine of East Down, Devon 1736–1824, who assumed name of Coffin 1797). b. East Down 20 Oct. 1784; entered commissariat service 25 July 1805; deputy commissary general 4 Aug. 1814; commissary general 1 July 1840 to 1 April 1848 when placed on h.p.; had charge of relief operations at Limerick and on west coast of Ireland during famine, Jany. to Aug. 1846; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1846; one of comrs. of inquiry into working of royal mint 1 April 1848. d. Gay st. Bath 31 July 1862.

COFFIN, Henry Edward. b. 1794; entered navy 1 Oct. 1805; captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. Springfield house, Caversham near Reading 31 Aug. 1881 in 88 year.

COFFIN, Sir Isaac Campbell (eld. son of Francis Holmes Coffin, admiral R.N.) b. 1801; entered Madras army 3 June 1818; commanded Hyderabad subsidiary force 6 Nov. 1855; commanded southern division of Madras army 28 March 1859 to 28 March 1864 for which he was created K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; col. 12 Madras N.I. 23 July 1858 to 1869; L.G. 18 July 1869. d. 9 St. John’s park south, Blackheath, Kent 1 Oct. 1872.

COFFIN, John Townsend. b. 1789; entered navy 7 Nov. 1799; captain 26 Dec. 1822, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 26 June 1863. d. Holgate hill, York 29 April 1882.

COFFIN, Right Rev. Robert Aston. b. Brighton 19 July 1819; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; V. of St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford 1843; received into Church of Rome 3 Dec. 1845; ordained priest at Rome 1847; superior of St. Wilfrids, Cotton hall, Staffs. 1848–9; entered novitiate of Redemptorist Fathers at St. Trond in Belgium and made his profession 2 Feb. 1852; R. of St. Mary’s, Clapham 1855; provincial 1865–82; bishop of Southwark, April 1882 to death; consecrated at Rome 11 June 1882, enthroned at St. George’s cathedral, Southwark 27 July 1882; author of The oratory of the faithful soul translated from F. L. Blosius 1848, and of translations of many of the works of St. Alphonsus de Liguori. d. house of the Redemptorists, Teignmouth 6 April 1885. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 523–6 (1885).

COFFIN, William Foster. b. Bath 1808; ed. at Eton; called to Lower Canadian bar 1835; comr. of police 1840; raised and commanded Montreal field battery 1855; comr. of ordnance and admiralty lands for dominion of Canada; author of Memorial to Sir E. W. Head 1855; 1812, The war and its moral 2 vols. 1864; Three chapters on a triple project; Thoughts on defence from a Canadian point of view; Quirks of diplomacy. d. 1878.

COGAN, Rev. Eliezer (son of John Cogan of Bothwell, Northamptonshire, surgeon who d. 1784). b. Rothwell 1762; ed. at Daventry; Presbyterian minister at Cirencester 1787–9, at Walthamstow 1801–16; kept a school at Higham Hill, Walthamstow 1801–28; author of An address to the Dissenters on classical literature 1789; Reflections on the evidences of Christianity 1796; Sermons chiefly on practical subjects 2 vols. 1817; edited Moschi Idyllia tria, Grece 1795. d. Higham Hill 21 Jany. 1855. Christian Reformer xi, 237–59 (1855); Dict. of Nat. Biog. xi, 219–20 (1887).

COGHLAN, Sir William Marcus (son of Jeremiah Coghlan, captain R.N.) b. Plymouth 31 May 1803; ed. at Addiscombe; Second lieut. Bombay Artillery 19 Dec. 1820, colonel 28 Nov. 1854, col. commandant 8 May 1859 to death; political resident and commandant at Aden 1854–63; general 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 6 June 1864. d. Ramsgate 26 Nov. 1885.

COGSWELL, John. b. March 1827; a printer and stationer at Bath to 1833; reporter on the Hastings News 1833–50; edited the Hastings Chronicle 1850, the Hastings and St. Leonards Times, the West Surrey Times 1880–3 and 1886 to death. d. 13 April 1887.

COHEN, Lionel Louis (son of the succeeding). b. London 2 June 1832; foreign banker with his father under name of Louis Cohen and Sons 1852; senior partner 1882–5 when he retired; a trustee and manager of Stock Exchange 1870 to death; a founder and vice-pres. of United Synagogue; pres. of Jewish Board of Guardians 1869 to death; M.P. for North Paddington 25 Nov. 1885 to death. d. 9 Hyde park terrace, London 26 June 1887. Vanity Fair 24 April 1886, portrait.

COHEN, Louis (son of Joseph Cohen). b. Sep. 1799; entered the Stock Exchange, London 1819, member of its committee 15 years; warden of Great Synagogue, London 1837; member of committee of the Seven Elders; member of Board of Deputies 25 years, the main author of new constitution of the Board. d. 84 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 15 March 1882, personalty sworn £623,000, 22 April 1882. Jewish Chronicle 17 March 1882 p. 12, 24 March p. 12.

COLBORNE, Nicholas William Ridley-Colborne, 1 Baron (2 son of Sir Matthew White Ridley of Blagdon, Northumberland, 2 baronet 1745–1813). b. St. Marylebone, London 14 April 1779; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1800; entered at G.I. 12 Dec. 1795 but withdrew 26 April 1809 without being called; assumed additional name of Colborne 21 June 1803; M.P. for Appleby 1807–12, for Thetford 1818–26, for Horsham 1827–32, for Wells 1834–7; created Baron Colborne of West Harding, Norfolk 15 May 1839; member of Fine Arts commission 1841, of Metropolitan improvements commission 1842. d. 19 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 3 May 1854.

COLBRAN, John. b. 1809; a bookseller at Tunbridge Wells; started in 1833 the Tunbridge Wells Visitor, the first newspaper there; started the Tunbridge Wells Gazette 1851; retired 1874. d. Tunbridge Wells 20 Sep. 1884.

COLBURN, Henry. Kept circulating library in Conduit st. London 1816; publisher in New Burlington st. 1817; partner with Richard Bentley 1830 to Aug. 1832; publisher at Windsor; publisher in Great Marlborough st. London 1853, retired in favour of Hurst and Blackett; chief publisher of novels many years; published Colburn’s Modern Standard Novelists 19 vols. 1835–41; originated New Monthly Mag. 1814; with Wm. Jerdan Literary Gazette 25 Jany. 1817, Court Journal 1828, United Service Mag. 1829. d. Bryanston sq. London 16 Aug. 1855, his copyrights were sold for £14,000, 26 May 1857. H. Curwen’s History of booksellers (1873) 279–95.

COLBY, Thomas Frederick (eld. child of Thomas Colby, major R.M. who d. 1813). b. St. Margaret’s-next-Rochester 1 Sep. 1784; ed. at Northfleet school and R.M.A. Woolwich; second lieut. R.E. 2 July 1801; lost his left hand by explosion of a pistol, Dec. 1803; F.R.S. 13 April 1820; surveyed Ireland 1824–46; col. R.E. 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. (m. 1828 Elizabeth Hester 2 dau. of Archibald Boyd, treasurer of Londonderry, she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 10 Feb. 1853). d. New Brighton near Liverpool 9 Oct. 1852. J. E. Portlock’s Life of General Colby 1869; Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 132–7 (1853).

COLCHESTER, Charles Abbot, 2 Baron (elder son of 1 baron Colchester 1757–1829). b. St. James’s, Westminster 12 March 1798; entered navy 8 April 1811; captain 26 Jany. 1826, placed on h.p. Jany. 1833; admiral on h.p. 11 Jany. 1864; succeeded as 2 Baron 7 May 1829; vice pres. of Board of Trade and paymaster general 28 Feb. to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; postmaster general, Feb. 1858 to June 1859. d. 34 Berkeley sq. London 18 Oct. 1867. Walford’s Photographic portraits of living celebrities 1859, portrait; I.L.N. xxxii, 312 (1858), portrait.

COLDSTREAM, John (only son of Robert Coldstream of Leith, merchant). b. Leith 19 March 1806; ed. at Leith, High sch. Edin. and Univ. of Edin.; apprenticed to Dr. Charles Anderson of Leith 1823; entered Royal Medical Society 19 Nov. 1824; studied in Paris 1827–28; practised at Leith 1828–47; mem. of Wernerian Society 9 Jany. 1830; enrolled as Fellow for life of Botanical Soc. 9 Dec. 1858, date of dissolution of Wernerian Soc.; F.R.C.P. 1845; removed to Edinburgh 1847; mem. of Royal Physical Society 17 Feb. 1849, one of the presidents 4 Dec. 1850. d. Irthing house near Carlisle 17 Sept. 1863. J. H. Balfour’s Biography of the late John Coldstream (1865), portrait.

COLE, Rev. Arthur Raggett. Ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1864, M.A. 1866, B.D. 1874; C. of St. Luke, Southampton 1864–68; C. in charge of Hurstbourne Priors, Hants. 1868 to death; author of A short liturgy for the school room service, 2 ed. 1870; Drawing near with faith 1872; A book of family prayers for a month 1875; edited the Etcetera, monthly mag. 1872–4. d. Hurstbourne Priors 23 Sep. 1877.

COLE, George, b. 1810; portrait painter at Portsmouth; painted a canvas show-cloth 20 feet square for Wombwell’s menagerie; studied animal painting in Holland; exhibited 16 pictures at the R.A., 35 at B.I. and 209 at Suffolk st. gallery 1838–80; member of society of British Artists 1850. d. of heart disease at 1 Kensington crescent, London 7 Sep. 1883. I.L.N. lxxxiii, 307, 309 (1883), portrait.

COLE, George Ward. b. Lumley castle, Durham 15 Nov. 1793; in the navy 1807–17 when placed on h.p.; in the merchant service 1817–39; arrived in Melbourne 4 July 1840; built Cole’s Wharf on the Yarra 1841; built the “City of Melbourne” 1851 the 1st screw steamer ever seen south of the equator, she traded between Melbourne and Launceston and was finally wrecked on King’s Island, Bass’s Straits 1853; introduced sugar-beet into Victoria from Holland 1863; member for Gipps Land of Victorian legislative council, July 1853–1855; member for the Central province of legislative council 1859 to death; an executive councillor 1867; wrote several pamphlets in support of protection. d. 26 April 1879. Men of the time in Australia, Victorian series (1878) 37–39.

COLE, Sir Henry (son of Henry Robert Cole, captain 1 dragoon guards). b. Bath 15 July 1808; ed. at Christ’s hospital; clerk to Francis Palgrave of the Record Commission 1824–9; one of the 4 senior assistant keepers of the Records 1838–41; edited Guide newspaper 1837, Post Circular 1838; sec. of committee on penny postage 1838; edited Journal of Design March 1849 to Feb. 1852; member of Society of Arts 1846; member of executive committee of Great Exhibition 1851, 3 Jany. 1850; general adviser to Exhibition of 1862 with a fee of £1500; sec. to royal commission at Paris exhibitions 1855 and 1867; chief manager of Exhibitions in London 1871–4; sec. of School of Design 31 Oct. 1851; sec. of Department of practical art Jany. 1852 to April 1873; C.B. 25 Oct. 1851, K.C.B. 25 March 1875; published under the pseudonym of Felix Summerly, the following books, The Home Treasury. A series of children’s books. Lond. printed by J. Cundall 1843–44; Pleasure excursions to Croydon 1846; Heroic tales of ancient Greece, translated from the German of B. G. Niebuhr 1849, and the following handbooks, Westminster Abbey 1842, Picture galleries 1842, Canterbury 1843, Hampton Court 1843, National gallery 1843, Temple Church 1843; Shall we keep the Crystal palace, by Denarius 1851; edited Works of T. L. Peacock 3 vols. 1875. (m. 28 Dec. 1833 Marian Fairman 3 dau. of Wm. Andrew Bond of Ashford, Kent, she was granted a civil list pension of £150, 10 June 1882, author of The Mother’s Primer, by Mrs. Felix Summerly 1844). d. 96 Philbeach gardens, Earl’s Court, London 18 April 1882. Fifty years of public work of Sir H. Cole 2 vols. 1884, portrait; Practical Mag. vii, 321, portrait; I.L.N. xix, 487, 509 (1851), portrait, lxiii, 36, 38 (1873), portrait, lxxx, 417 (1882), portrait.

Note.—He originated the idea of Christmas cards, the first of which was issued by Joseph Cundall at 12 Old Bond st, 1846, the drawing was made by J. C. Horsley printed in lithography by Jobbins of Warwick court, Holborn and coloured by hand, about 1000 copies were sold of the card which was the usual size of a lady’s calling card.

COLE, Henry Thomas (2 son of George Cole, captain Cornwall militia). b. Bath 2 Feb. 1816; barrister M.T. 4 Nov. 1842, bencher Jany. 1867, treasurer 1883–4; became leader of Western circuit; recorder of Penzance April 1862 to April 1872; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; recorder of Plymouth and Devonport April 1872 to death; M.P. for Falmouth and Penryn 6 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880. d. 4 Glendower place, South Kensington, London 5 Jany. 1885.

COLE, Henry Warwick (3 son of Wm. Nicholas Cole of Islington, solicitor). b. 12 Oct. 1812; ed. at Univ. coll. London; barrister I.T. 10 June 1836, bencher 1861, reader 1873, treasurer 1874; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; judge of county courts, circuit 21 Warwickshire 11 Sep. 1872 to death; author of The law of domicile of Englishmen in France 1857; St. Augustine a poem in 8 books 1877; contributed to Quarterly Review and Fraser’s Mag. d. 23 High st. Warwick 19 June 1876.

COLE, John Lowry (3 son of 2 Earl of Enniskillen 1768–1840). b. 8 June 1813; sheriff of Fermanagh 1842. M.P. for Enniskillen 21 Feb. 1859 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. Florence court, co. Fermanagh 29 Nov. 1882.

COLE, Pennel. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Feb. 1810, col. 20 June 1854 to 11 Aug. 1856 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 11 Aug. 1856. d. Boulogne 25 March 1862 aged 70.

COLE, William John. b. London; entered navy 5 Jany. 1802; captain on h.p. 28 June 1838; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837. d. Lechlade, Gloucs. 15 May 1856.

COLE, William Robert. Barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838; went north-eastern circuit; author of Law and practice on criminal information 1843; Law and practice in ejectment 1856. d. Warrington gardens, Maida hill, London 27 Dec. 1881.

COLEBROOKE, Sir William Macbean George (son of Paulette Welbore Colebrooke, lieut.-col. R.A. who d. 28 Sep. 1816). b. 1787; Second lieut. R.A. 17 Aug. 1803; served in Mahratta war 1817–8; comr. of Eastern inquiry 1823–31; lieut. governor of Bahamas 9 Sep. 1834; governor general of Leeward islands 11 Jany. 1837; knighted by Wm. iv at Windsor castle 31 March 1837; lieut. governor of New Brunswick 25 March 1841–1848; governor of British Guiana 28 April 1848; governor of Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, Tobago and St. Lucia 11 Aug. 1848 to 1856 when he retired on pension of £750; col. commandant R.A. 25 Sep. 1859 to death; general 26 Dec. 1865; K.H. 1834, C.B. 1 May 1848. d. Salthill, Bucks. 6 Feb. 1870.

COLEMAN, Rev. William Higgins. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; a master at Christ’s hospital, Hertford 1840–7; at Ashby-de-la-Zouch gr. sch. 1847 to death; author with Rev. H. R. Webb of Flora Hertfordiensis 1849; published in Journal of Biblical Literature, July 1863 an elaborate paper on The Eighteenth chapter of Isaiah, which was reprinted with others under title of Biblical papers, being remains of the Rev. W. H. Coleman 1864. d. Burton on Trent 12 Sep. 1863.

COLENSO, Frances Ellen (2 dau. of the succeeding). b. 30 May 1849; befriended Cetywayo 1881; author with Col. Edward Durnford of History of the Zulu war 1880; The ruin of Zululand 1884. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 29 April 1887.

COLENSO, Right Rev. John William (son of John Wm. Colenso of Lostwithiel, mineral agent for Duchy of Cornwall, who d. 23 Dec. 1860 aged 82). b. St. Austell 24 Jany. 1814; ed. at Devonport and St. John’s coll. Cam.; second wrangler and Smith’s prizeman 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. and D.D. 1853; fellow of his college 13 March 1837 to 1846; mathematical master at Harrow 1839–42; private tutor at Cam. 1842–6; V. of Forncett St. Mary, Norfolk 1846–53; bishop of Natal 23 Nov. 1853, consecrated in St. Mary’s, Lambeth 30 Nov.; suffragan to bishop of Cape Town 6 Dec. 1853, who pronounced sentence of deposition against him 16 April 1864, he appealed to the Crown, and the judicial committee of the privy council pronounced all the legal proceedings null and void in law; publicly excommunicated at Maritzburg cathedral 5 Jany. 1866; author of The elements of Algebra designed for the use of schools 1841, and numerous other works on mathematics; Village sermons 1854; Ten weeks in Natal 1855; First steps in Zulu-Kaffir 1859 and many other works concerning, and in that language; The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua critically examined 1862–65, 5 volumes, with other editions of the whole work and of parts of it; Natal sermons, a series of discourses in the cathedral church of St. Peter’s, Maritzburg 1866; Lectures on the Pentateuch and the Moabite stone 1873; The treatment by the Natal government of Langalibalele and the Amahlubi tribe 1874. d. Pieter-Maritzburg, Natal 20 June 1883. Dict. of Nat. Biog. xi, 290–3 (1887); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 76–9, iii, 1125–7; J. F. Hurst’s History of rationalism (1867) 401–409; Churchman’s Family Mag. v, 395–408 (1865); Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia 153–4; Graphic xxvii, 652 (1883), portrait; Bookseller 30 July 1863 pp. 356–8.

Note.—Part i of The Pentateuch an edition of 10,000 copies excited much comment and gave rise to the publication of upwards of 130 works in which its principles were adversely criticised. Of the Bishop’s Arithmetic designed for Schools, more than 400,000 copies were sold.

COLERIDGE, Rev. Derwent (younger son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge the Poet 1772–1834). b. Greta hall, Keswick 14 Sep. 1800; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1829; master of Helston gr. sch. 1827–41; principal of St. Mark’s college, Chelsea 1841–64; preb. of St. Paul’s 28 Feb. 1846 to death; R. of Hanwell 1864–80; edited works of Hartley Coleridge, S. T. Coleridge, J. Moultrie and W. M. Praed; author of The scriptural character of the English Church 1839; Life of Hartley Coleridge 1849. d. Eldon lodge, Torquay 28 March 1883. The church of England photographic portrait gallery 1859 pt. 9, portrait; Illust. news of the world viii, (1861), portrait; Guardian 18 April 1883 p. 569.

COLERIDGE, Herbert (only son of Henry Nelson Coleridge, chancery barrister 1798–1843). b. Hampstead 7 Oct. 1830; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Ox., Balliol scholar 1847, Newcastle scholar 1848, double first class 1852; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1854; member of Philological Soc. Feb. 1857, hon. sec. of a special committee ‘for collecting words and idioms hitherto unregistered,’ this scheme developed into J. A. H. Murray’s ‘New English dictionary’ published by Clarendon Press 1884 etc.; author of Glossarial index to the printed English literature of the thirteenth century 1859. d. 10 Chester place, London 23 April 1861. Macmillan’s Mag. v, 56 (1862).

COLERIDGE, Rev. James Duke (eld. son of James Coleridge of Heath’s Court, Ottery St. Mary, Devon 1760–1836). b. 13 June 1789; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.C.L. 1821, D.C.L. 1835; V. of Kenwyn and Kea, Cornwall 1823–8; R. of Lawhitton, Cornwall 1826–39; V. of Lewannick, Cornwall 1831–41; V. of Thorverton, Devon 1839 to death; preb. of Exeter cath. 5 Aug. 1825 to death; author of A selection of family prayers 1820, 3 ed. 1831; Observations of a Parish Priest in scenes of sickness and death 1825; A companion to first lessons for the services of the Church on Sundays and the fasts and festivals 1838. d. Thorverton 26 Dec. 1857. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 79, 313, iii, 1128.

COLERIDGE, Sir John Taylor (brother of the preceding). b. Tiverton 9 July 1790; ed. at Ottery St. Mary, Eton and C.C. coll. Ox., scholar, April 1809; took both Bachelors’ prizes for English and Latin essays 1813; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1817, hon. D.C.L. 1852; Vinerian law scholar 1812; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1812 to 7 Aug. 1818; a certificated special pleader; barrister M.T. 25 June 1819; a bankruptcy comr. 1827; recorder of Exeter, Feb. 1832; serjeant-at-law 14 Feb. 1832; a justice of Court of King’s Bench 27 Jany. 1835 to 28 June 1858; knighted at St. James’s Palace 18 Feb. 1835; member of Inns of Court commission 1834, and of Law Courts commission 1858; P.C. 5 June 1858, member of judicial committee; edited Blackstone’s Commentaries 4 vols. 1825; author of Memoir of the Rev. John Keble 1869, 4 ed. 1874. d. Heath’s Court, Devon 11 Feb. 1876. Law Mag. and law review vii, 263–84 (1859), i, 486–99 (1876); I.L.N. vi, 245 (1845), portrait, xxxiii, 142 (1858), portrait, lxviii, 190, 213 (1876), portrait.

COLERIDGE, Sara (only dau. of Samuel Taylor Coleridge the poet 1772–1834). b. Greta hall near Keswick 22 Dec. 1802; published a translation of Martin Dobrizhoffer’s Account of the Abipones 3 vols. 1822; Pretty lessons for good children 1834; Phantasmion 1837 a fairy tale; edited with her husband, S. T. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria 1847; one of the three maidens celebrated in Wordsworth’s Trias 1828. (m. 3 Sep. 1829 her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge, barrister, he was b. 25 Oct. 1798 and d. 26 Jany. 1843). d. Chester place, Regent’s park, London 3 May 1852. Memoir of Sara Coleridge edited by her daughter Edith Coleridge, 4 ed. 1874; G.M. xxxviii, 540–2 (1852).

COLES, Cowper Phipps (3 son of Rev. John Coles 1787–1865, R. of Silchester, Hants.) b. 9 July 1819; entered navy 15 Dec. 1831; captain on h.p. 27 Feb. 1856; C.B. 23 March 1867; carried out an elaborate series of experiments on the methods of applying armour to vessels and mounting guns, the ship ‘Captain’ was built from drawings by Coles and Messrs. Laird 1866–70; author of Our national defences 1861, 4 ed. 1862. (m. 11 March 1856 Emily 3 dau. of Henry S. Pearson, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 11 Feb. 1871, and d. 11 Jany. 1876). drowned in the Captain, off Cape Finisterre 7 Sep. 1870 when nearly all the crew perished. Journal of Royal United Service Instit. iv, 280, vii, 110, xi, 434; I.L.N. xl, 399 (1862), lvii, 307, 329, (1870), portrait.

COLES, Henry Beaumont. b. London 1794; barrister G.I. 30 Jany. 1837; M.P. for Andover 29 July 1847 to 20 March 1857. d. Portman sq. London 23 Nov. 1862.

COLES, Robert Bartlett. b. 1785; cornet 8 dragoons 20 Aug. 1803; major 76 foot 24 Oct. 1821 to 19 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; col. 65 foot 25 July 1857 to death; general 31 May 1865. d. Glencot, Wilts. 27 Oct. 1869.

COLES, William Cowper. Ensign 40 foot 31 Oct. 1805; major 2 Life Guards 21 March 1829 to 20 Jany. 1832 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 9 March 1861. d. Woodcote, Salop 26 Aug. 1867 aged 77.

COLLARD, Frederick William (son of Wm. Collard of Wiveliscombe, Somerset). baptized Wiveliscombe 21 June 1772; employed by Longman, Lukey and Broderip, music publishers at 26 Cheapside, London 1786; pianoforte maker with Muzio Clementi in London 1799 to 24 June 1831, with his brother W. F. Collard to 24 June 1842, with his two nephews 1842 to death; took out many patents for improvements in pianos; supplied bugles, fifes and drums to regiments of East India Co. to 1858. d. 26 Cheapside, London 31 Jany. 1860.

COLLARD, William Frederick (brother of the preceding). baptized at Wiveliscombe 25 Aug. 1776; member of firm of Muzio Clementi and Co. pianoforte makers 26 Cheapside down to 24 June 1831; partner with his brother 1831–42; invented many improvements in pianos. d. Folkestone 11 Oct. 1866.

COLLEDGE, Thomas Richardson. b. 1796; pupil of Sir Astley Cooper; practised in Canton and Macao; founded Medical missionary society in China 1837, pres. 1837 to death; surgeon to consulate at Canton to May 1841 when the office was abolished; M.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1839; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1840; F.R.S. Edin. 1844; F.R.C.S. England 1853; lived at Cheltenham 1841 to death. d. Lauriston house, Cheltenham 28 Oct. 1879.

COLLEN, George William. Portcullis pursuivant of arms 6 Nov. 1841 to death; author of Britannia Saxonica, a map of Britain 1833; Debrett’s Peerage continued 1840. d. 52 Camden sq. London 9 Jany. 1878 in 79 year.

COLLETON, Sir Robert Augustus Fulford Graves, 8 Baronet. b. 19 Sep. 1824; succeeded 29 July 1848. d. Fermoy, Ireland 28 Oct. 1866.

COLLETTE, John Hickey. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 7 Madras light cavalry 12 Aug. 1839 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Nice 23 Oct. 1858 aged 77.

COLLEY, Sir George Pomeroy Pomeroy- (youngest son of Hon. George Francis Colley of Ferney, co. Dublin 1797–1879, commander R.N.) b. 1 Nov. 1835; ed. at R.M.A. Sandhurst; ensign 2 foot 28 May 1852, major 12 May 1875 to 24 April 1880 when placed on h.p.; professor at the staff college 1 July 1871 to 30 Nov. 1873; commanded the transport in Ashanti expedition, Dec. 1873 to Feb. 1874; military sec. to Viceroy of India 13 April 1876 to 12 April 1878, private sec. to him 13 April 1878 to 19 Feb. 1880; C.B. 31 March 1874; K.C.S.I. 29 July 1879; assumed additional surname of Pomeroy by r.l. 8 May 1880; author of the article Army in Encyclopædia Britannica, 9 ed., ii, 559–619 (1875); governor and commander in chief Natal 24 April 1880 to death. Shot by the Boers on Majuba hill at Laing’s Nek, North Natal 27 Feb. 1881. Army and navy mag. i, 554–61 (1881), ii, 673–89 (1881), portrait; A narrative of the Boer war by T. F. Carter 1883; T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the Empire (1879) 44–50; I.L.N. lxxiv 576 (1879), portrait, lxxviii, 224 (1881), portrait.

COLLIER, Sir Edward (son of Edward Collier of Blockley, Worcs.) b. Blockley 1783; entered navy, Feb. 1796; captain 18 Nov. 1814; V. A. 18 June 1857; retired on a pension 27 Nov. 1857; admiral 4 Oct. 1862; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840; K.C.B. 7 June 1865. d. Blockley 5 Aug. 1872.

COLLIER, Henry Theodosius Browne. b. 1791; entered navy 28 April 1800; captain on half pay 26 Dec. 1822; retired admiral 26 June 1863. d. 25 Ryder st. St. James’s, London 10 Sep. 1872.

COLLIER, John Payne (son of John Dyer Collier of London, writer on the press 1762–1825). b. Broad st. London 11 Jany. 1789; reporter on The Times 1809–21, on the Morning Chronicle 1821–47; summoned before House of Commons 15 June 1819 for misreporting a speech of Joseph Hume, and committed to custody of the serjeant-at-arms; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1829; deputy licenser of plays; a founder of the Camden Society 1838; sec. of Royal commission on British Museum 1847–50; accused of having committed many literary frauds in connection with Shakespearian and other documents; granted civil list pension of £100, 30 Oct. 1850; author of Criticisms on the Bar, by Amicus Curiæ 1819; printed privately and anonymously The Poet’s Pilgrimage 1822; published a new ed. of Dodsley’s Old Plays 12 vols. 1825–7; Punch and Judy 1828, anon.; History of English dramatic poetry and annals of the stage 3 vols. 1831, new ed. 1879; Shakespeare’s Library 2 vols. 1843; Shakespeare’s Works 8 vols. 1844, 6 vols. 1858; Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare’s plays from the folio in the possession of J. P. C. [i.e. the Perkins folio] 1853; The works of Edmund Spenser 5 vols. 1862. d. Riverside, Maidenhead 17 Sep. 1883. bur. Bray churchyard 20 Sep. J. P. Collier’s An old man’s diary 4 parts 1871–2; Wheatley’s Notes on the life of J. P. Collier 1884; Literary Cookery 1855, anon. by E. A. Brae; Antiquarian Mag. iv, 272–5 (1883); I.L.N. lxxxiii, 309 (1883), portrait; N. E. S. A. Hamilton’s Genuineness of Collier’s Annotated Shakespeare 1860.

COLLINGS, John Elias (son of lieut.-col. Joseph Collings). b. 11 Sep. 1821; ensign 33 foot 21 June 1839, lieut.-col. 17 Nov. 1857 to 28 Oct. 1868 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depôt 1 April 1873 to 24 Jany. 1874 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 18 Sep. 1879; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. d. Grange hill, Guernsey 10 Dec. 1886.

COLLINGS, Sir William (2 son of John Collings of St. Peter port, Guernsey). b. St. Peter port 1781; jurat of royal court of Guernsey 1822; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838; colonel of Royal Guernsey militia to death. d. Guernsey 18 June 1854.

COLLINS, Charles Allston (younger son of Wm. Collins the painter 1788–1847). b. Hampstead 25 Jany. 1828; practised as a painter 1848–58; contributed to Household Words; art critic to the Echo; author of A new sentimental Journey 1859; The eye-witness, seeing is believing 1860; A cruise upon wheels 2 vols. 1862; The bar sinister 2 vols. 1864; Strathcairn 2 vols. 1864; At the bar, a tale 2 vols. 1866. d. Thurloe place, Brompton, London, about midnight 9–10 April 1873. Illustrated Review v, 423–8 (1873), portrait; Graphic vii, 312, 318 (1873), portrait.

COLLINS, Charles James. On the parliamentary staff of the Sun, Daily Telegraph and Standard; edited Comic News 1 May 1847; projected and edited the Racing Times 1861; author of Kenilworth and other burlesques; Life and adventures of Dick Diminy 1854; Sackville Chase 3 vols. 1863; Matilda the Dane, a romance of the affections 1863; The man in chains 3 vols. 1864; Singed Moths, a city romance 3 vols. 1864. d. 9 Manor terrace, Brixton, London 31 Dec. 1864.

COLLINS, Edward Francis. b. North of Ireland 1807; came to London 1832 and became private secretary to Joseph Hume, M.P.; sub-editor of the Sun; edited the Hull Advertiser 1842–66; sub-editor of The Tablet 1868; author of A form of reciting the most holy rosary, compiled for the nuns of the convent of our Lord of Mercy at Hull 1859, anon. d. Upper Clapton near London 3 Jany. 1872.

COLLINS, Frances (dau. of Wm. Dunn of London, engineer). b. 1840 or 1841; author with Mortimer Collins of the novels entitled Frances 3 vols. 1874, another ed. 1880, her name is not on the original ed.; Sweet and twenty 3 vols. 1875, another ed. 1877; The village comedy 3 vols. 1878; You play me false 3 vols. 1878; author of Mortimer Collins, his letters and friendships 2 vols. 1877; A broken lily 3 vols. 1882; author with her cousin F. Percy Cotton of Mudge and her chicks by a Brother and Sister [F.P.C. and F.C.] 1880; The Woodleighs of Amscote by F. Percy Cotton and F. Collins 1881; edited with Tom Taylor Pen sketches by a Vanished Hand, from papers of M. Collins 1879; edited with Edmund Yates Thoughts in my garden by M. Collins 2 vols. 1880. (m. 4 May 1868 Mortimer Collins 1827–76). d. Pine-tree hill, Camberley, Surrey 16 March 1886, cremated at Woking cemetery 20 March.

COLLINS, Henry Powell. M.P. for Taunton 8 Oct. 1812 to 29 Feb. 1820; sheriff of Somerset 1827. d. Weston-super-Mare 22 Aug. 1854 aged 78.

COLLINS, John (eld. son of John Collins, landlord of the Lucan Spa house near Dublin). b. Lucan, Sep. 1804; a cook in his father’s hotel; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 29 Aug. 1832 as Captain Macheath in The Beggar’s Opera, chief tenor singer there; original actor of Paul Clifford at Covent Garden 1835; first appeared Park theatre, New York 17 Aug. 1846, the best singer of Irish ballads and humorous songs in America; acted in United States 1846–64, at Adelphi theatre, London, Oct. 1864, in Australia 1866. d. Philadelphia 13 Aug. 1874. Actors by daylight ii, 153 (1839), portrait; Belgravia xvi, 443 (1872); Ireland’s New York Stage ii, 464–5 (1867).

COLLINS, Mortimer, whose full names were Edward James Mortimer Collins (only child of Francis Collings of Kingsbridge, Devon, who d. 1839). b. Plymouth 29 June 1827; reading boy at Gilbert and Rivingtons, St. John’s sq. London 5 May to 29 June 1838; assistant in a shop in Holborn 1838; usher in Rev. Richard Harris’s school at Westbury, Wilts. 1843–5; his first poem, signed E. J. M. C. printed in Bath and Cheltenham Gazette 10 April 1844; contributed to Felix Farley’s Journal at Bristol 1847–9, Paris correspondent 1848; private tutor at Windermere 1847–8; usher at Rev. J. H. Crump’s school, Lechlade, Gloucs. Jany. to June 1849; tutor at Rothwell, Northamptonshire 1849; editor of the Lancaster Gazette, May 1850; master of a school at Launceston for 3 months in 1851; head master of lower school, Elizabeth college, Guernsey 1852–5; contributed to Dublin Univ. Mag. 1851 and to Punch 1853; started the Channel Islands Mag. 1 May 1853, 3 numbers only; opened a private school in Guernsey 1855–6; edited the Leamington Mercury 1856–7; private tutor at Carlisle 1858; edited the Plymouth Mail 1859, Nottingham Guardian 1860–1; contributed to Temple Bar 1861–7; editor of and contributed to The Owl 1864–6; joint editor of The Globe 1866; author of Windermere a poem and Sonnets, Kendal 1848; Idyls and Rhymes 1855; Summer songs 1860; Who is the heir? 3 vols. 1865; A selection from the works of Sir Walter Scott in Moxon’s Miniature Poets 1866; Sweet Anne Page 3 vols. 1868; The Ivory gate 2 vols. 1869; Letter to the Eight Hon. B. Disraeli 1869 in verse, anon.; The Vivian romance 3 vols. 1870; The Inn of strange Meetings, and other Poems 1871; The secret of long life 1871 anon., 5 ed. 1879; Marquis and Merchant 3 vols. 1871; The British birds, a communication from the Ghost of Aristophanes 1872, 2 ed. 1878; The Princess Clarice 2 vols. 1871; Two plunges for a pearl 3 vols. 1872; Squire Sylvester’s Whim 3 vols. 1873; Miranda a Midsummer madness 3 vols. 1873; Mr. Carington, a tale of love and conspiracy by Robert Turner Cotton 3 vols. 1873, pseud.; Transmigration 3 vols. 1874; Blacksmith and Scholar, and from Midnight to Midnight 3 vols. 1876; A fight with fortune, 3 vols. 1876, another ed. 1880. (m. (1) 9 May 1850 at Wargrave, Berks., Susan dau. of William Hubbard, and widow of Rev. J. H. Crump, chaplain of the Mill Hill school, Middlesex, who d. 14 Feb. 1849 aged 46, she d. 5 Aug. 1867 aged 59. m. (2) 4 May 1868 at St. Martins in the Fields, London, Frances dau. of Wm. Dunn of London, engineer, she d. 16 March 1886 aged 45). d. Nightingale hall, Richmond 28 July 1876. bur. Petersham churchyard 1 Aug. Mortimer Collins his letters and friendships, edited by Frances Collins 2 vols. 1877; Dublin Univ. Mag. xc, 340–56, 474–98, 561–93 (1877); I.L.N. lxix, 205, 206 (1876), portrait.

COLLINS, Sam, stage name of Samuel Thomas Collins Vagg (son of Samuel Vagg who d. Uxbridge 13 Feb. 1868). Comic singer at Mogul music hall, Drury lane, London where he made a great hit with the song Paddy’s Wedding; proprietor of Marylebone music hall, London and Welsh harp, Hendon; became bankrupt on his own petition 2 July 1861; sang at all the chief music halls in London and the provinces; proprietor of Lansdowne music hall, Islington green, London, afterwards known as Collins’s music hall 1862 to death. d. 10 Paradise row, Islington 25 May 1865 aged 39. Illust. Sporting news iv, 217 (1865), portrait; Era 28 May 1865 p. 10, 4 June p. 11.

COLLINS, Samuel (son of a hand-loom weaver). b. Hollinwood near Manchester 1 Dec. 1802; a hand-loom weaver; a follower of Henry Hunt and Wm. Cobbett; took part in the meeting at Peterloo 1819; wrote homely verses, some of them in the Lancashire dialect which were collected in a small vol. entitled Miscellaneous poems and songs of S. Collins with a biographical notice by B. Brierley 1859. d. Hale Moss, Chadderton near Manchester 8 July 1878.

COLLINS, Thomas (2 son of Rev. Thomas Collins, V. of Farnham, Yorkshire who d. 7 May 1870 aged 89). b. 1825; ed. at Charterhouse and Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1847; barrister I.T. 4 May 1849; M.P. for Knaresborough 1851–2, 1857–65 and 12 May 1881 to death; M.P. for Boston 1868–74. d. Harrogate 26 Nov. 1884 in 59 year.

COLLINS, William. b. Eastwood, Renfrewshire 12 Oct. 1789; elder of Tron. ch. Glasgow 1814, and chief mover in appointment of Rev. Thomas Chalmers to that ch. 1815; opened first local Sabbath sch. Glasgow 1816; publisher and bookseller; lecturer on Temperance in Scotland and England 1829–34; founder of British and Foreign Temperance Soc. London 1830; founder of 20 new churches in Glasgow 1834 etc.; joined the Free ch. movement in 1843 and aided in erecting many Free churches. d. Rothesay 2 Jany. 1853. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 165–72; Burns’s Temperance Dictionary (1864) pp. 433–43.

COLLINS, William Anthony (2 son of Charles Collins of Brixworth hall, Northamptonshire). b. London 1801; ed. at Ch. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1829, bencher 1861; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861. d. Warrior sq. St. Leonard’s on Sea 30 March 1875. bur. Tonbridge, Kent.

COLLINS, Rev. William Lucas (only son of Rev. John Collins of Axwich, Glamorgan). Educ. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; C. of Great Houghton, Northamptonshire 1835–62; R. of Cheriton, Glamorganshire 1863–7; V. of Kilsby 1867–73; R. of Lowick 1873 to death; V. of Slipton 1876 to death; hon. canon of Peterborough 1871 to death; editor of Ancient classics for English readers 1870, wrote the vols. on Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Aristophanes, Lucian, Virgil, Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Livy and Thucydides; author of The luck of Ladysmede 1860; The education question 1862; Etoniana ancient and modern 1865; The public schools by W. L. C. 1867; Montaigne in Mrs. Oliphant’s Foreign classics for English readers 1879; Butler in Knight’s Philosophical classics for English readers 1881; La Fontaine and other French fabulists in Foreign Classics 1882; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. from 1843. d. Lowick rectory 24 March 1887 aged 70. Blackwood’s Mag. cxli, 734–6 (1887).

COLLINSON, James (son of Mr. Collinson of Mansfield, Notts. bookseller). b. Mansfield about 1825; ed. at Royal Academy school; exhibited a picture called ‘The charity boy’s début’ at the R.A. 1847; one of the original 7 brothers of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood; contributed a devotional poem in blank verse entitled The Child Jesus to the Pre-Raphaelite periodical The Germ 1850; lived in seclusion at Stonyhurst 1851–4; fellow of Society of British Artists. d. of pneumonia at 16 Paulet road, Camberwell, London 24 Jany. 1881. Fraser’s Mag. May 1882 pp. 568–80.

COLLINSON, Rev. John (son of Rev. Richard Collinson of Bristol). Educ. at Winchester and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; one of Select Preachers 1809, Bampton Lecturer 1813; R. of Gateshead 1810–40; R. of Boldon, Durham, 1840 to death; hon. canon of Durham 1844 to death; author of Analysis of Hooker’s eight books of ecclesiastical polity 1810; Life of Thuanus with account of his writings 1807; Key to the writings of the Fathers of the Christian church 1813; Observations on the history of the gospel from Solomon’s temple to first Christian century 1830; History of Reformation, from the French of A. Ruchat 1845. d. Boldon 17 Feb. 1857. G.M. ii, 492–93 (1857).

COLLINSON, Sir Richard (son of the preceding). b. Gateshead 7 Nov. 1811; entered navy 2 Dec. 1823; captain 23 Dec. 1842; captain of the Enterprise 14 Dec. 1849 to 6 May 1855 during the expedition to Behring strait in search of Sir John Franklin; granted good service pension 4 Dec. 1857; an elder brother of the Trinity House 1862, deputy master 7 Sep. 1875 to death; V.A. 17 March 1869; retired admiral 30 July 1875; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 29 May 1875; F.R.G.S. gold medallist 1848; edited for the Hakluyt Society The three voyages of Martin Frobisher in search of a passage to Cathaia and India by the Northwest 1867. d. Haven Green, Ealing 12 Sep. 1883. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v, 606–9, 734 (1883); I.L.N. xxvi, 472 (1855), portrait, lxxxiii, 309 (1883), portrait.

COLLIS, Rev. John Day (eld. son of Rev. Robert Fitzgerald Collis 1790–1863, preb. of Kilconnel, co. Galway). b. 24 Feb. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Worcester coll. Ox., Eaton scholar 1835, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841, B.D. and D.D. 1860; Kennicott Hebrew scholar 1839; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1841; fellow of his college; head master of Bromsgrove gr. school Dec. 1842–1867, tercentenary of the school was celebrated 31 March 1853, the chapel was built at cost of £1500, 1856; hon. canon of Worcester 1854 to death; Grinfield lecturer on Septuagint in Univ. of Ox. 1863–65; V. of Stratford-on-Avon 1867 to death; founded Trinity college school at Stratford-on-Avon 27 Jany. 1872; author of The chief rules of Greek accentuation 1849 and other Greek school books; The chief tenses of Latin irregular verbs 1854 and other Latin school books; Historical notes on the church of St. John the Baptist, Bromsgrove 1859; Ponticulus Latinus, History of Rome to destruction of Carthage 1860. d. Shottery hall, Stratford-on-Avon 1 April 1879. bur. Bromsgrove cemetery 4 April.

COLLIS, Maurice Henry (brother of the preceding). b. 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1847, M.B. 1849, M.D. 1867, L.R.C.S.I. 1847, F.R.C.S.I. 1850; surgeon to Meath Hosp. 1851 to death; pres. of council of Irish Medical Assoc.; author of On the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and the tumours analogous to it 1864. d. Dublin 28 March 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 404–5 (1869).

COLLS, Rev. John Flowerdew. b. 15 Aug. 1801; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Trin. coll. Cam., B.D. 1834, D.D. 1842; R. of Laindon, Herts. 1853 to death; author of Vindication of infant baptism 1829; Utilitarianism unmasked 1844. d. 9 Hanover st. Hanover square, London 19 Nov. 1878.

COLLYER, John (eld. child of the succeeding). b. 15 July 1801; ed. at Charterhouse and Clare coll. Cam., fellow, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1827; commissary of Norwich 1842; judge of county courts, circuit 35, Cambridgeshire, March 1847 to death; author of A practical treatise on the law of Partnership 1832, 2 ed. 1840; Reports of cases decided in the court of Chancery by Sir J. L. Knight Bruce 1844–6, 2 vols. 1845–7; author with Edward Younge of Reports of cases in the court of Exchequer in Equity 1833–41, 4 vols. 1836–46; Reports of cases decided in the court of Chancery by Sir J. L. Knight Bruce 1841–4, 2 vols. 1843–4. d. Hackford hall, Reepham, Norfolk 1 Sep. 1870.

COLLYER, Venerable John Bedingfeld (2 son of Rev. Daniel Collyer of Wroxham hall, Norfolk). b. 26 Jany. 1777; ed. at Clare coll. Camb., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1808; V. of Wroxham, Norfolk 1801 to death; archdeacon of Norwich 23 Sep. 1844 to death; author of Charges and Sermons 1838–56. d. Hackford hall, Norfolk 29 March 1857.

COLLYER, Rev. William Bengo (son of Thomas Collyer of Deptford, builder). b. Deptford 14 April 1782; ed. at the Old college, Homerton; Congregational minister at Peckham 1800 to death, his chapel was rebuilt and reopened under name of Hanover chapel 1816; ordained Dec. 1801, D.D. Edin. 1808; minister at Salter’s hall chapel, Islington 1813 to death; author of Fugitive pieces for the use of schools 1803; Hymns designed as a substitute for Dr. Watts 1812; Services suited to the solemnisation of matrimony with original hymns 1837, and several series of popular lectures on scripture subjects. d. May 1854. European Mag. lxxii, 407–10 (1817), portrait; Waddington’s Congregational history iv, 136–42 (1878); The Unique, vol. 2 (1825), portrait; Some of Dr. Collyer’s errors stated and corrected 1821.

COLNAGHI, Dominic Paul (eld. son of Paul Colnaghi of London, print dealer 1751–1833). b. London 15 July 1790; head of the firm of Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, print dealers 14 Pall Mall East 1833; had a European reputation as an authority on prints; a connoiseur in ancient armour, original possessor of a large portion of the Meyrick collection; retired from business 1865; published Colnaghi’s Patriotic fund almanac 1854; Colnaghi’s Crimean almanac 1855. d. 62 Margaret st. Cavendish sq. London 19 Dec. 1879.

COLOMB, George Thomas. Ensign 96 foot 8 Dec. 1808; captain 5 dragoon guards 17 March 1825 to 27 April 1827 when placed on h.p.; col. 4 West India regiment 24 April 1866 to 3 March 1869; L.G. 31 March 1866; col. 97 foot 3 March 1869 to death. d. Dalkey, co. Dublin 20 March 1874.

COLONSAY, Duncan M’Neill, 1 Baron (2 son of John Mc. Neill of Colonsay, Argyllshire, who d. 1846). b. Colonsay 20 Aug. 1793; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; called to Scottish bar 1816; advocate depute 1820–4; sheriff of Perthshire, Dec. 1824 to Dec. 1834; solicitor general for Scotland Nov. 1834 to April 1835 and Sep. 1841 to 26 Oct. 1842; Her Majesty’s advocate for Scotland 26 Oct. 1842 to July 1846; dean of faculty of advocates 1843–51; a lord of session 15 May 1851; a lord of justiciary 30 May 1851; lord justice general and pres. of court of session 15 May 1852 to Feb. 1867; P.C. 8 Aug. 1853; M.P. for Argyllshire 1843–51; created baron Colonsay of Colonsay and Oransay in the co. of Argyle 26 Feb. 1867. d. Pau, France 31 Jany. 1874.

COLQUHOUN, Frances Sara (dau. of Edward Fuller Maitland of Park place, Stansted hall, Essex). Completed Henry Kirke White’s fragment beginning ‘Much in sorrow, oft in woe’ which completion has been universally accepted for use in the Church of England; author of Rhymes and Chimes 1876. (m. 29 Jany. 1834 John Colquhoun 1805–85). d. 27 May 1877.

COLQUHOUN, Sir James, 4 Baronet. b. Edinburgh 7 Feb. 1804; ed. at Geneva; succeeded 3 Feb. 1836; lord lieutenant of Dumbartonshire 1837; M.P. for Dumbartonshire 1837–1841. Drowned in Loch Lomond 18 Dec. 1873.

COLQUHOUN, James Nisbet. b. parish of St. Pierre, Guernsey 23 June 1791; Second lieut. R.A. 1 June 1808, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846 to death; inspector of carriage department at Woolwich 1845; raised, organized, equipped and commanded corps of artillery attached to British auxiliary legion under De Lacy Evans for service of Queen of Spain in war against Don Carlos 1835–6; A.I.C.E. 1843, member of council 1846; F.R.S. d. Woolwich barracks 17 Sep. 1853. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii, 149–56 (1854).

COLQUHOUN, John (brother of Sir James Colquhoun, 4 baronet 1804–73). b. Charlotte sq. Edin. 6 March 1805; ensign 33 foot 1828; lieut. 4 dragoon guards 1829 to 1834 when he sold out; author of The moor and the loch 1840, 6 ed. 1884; Rocks and Rivers 1849; Salmon casts and stray shots 1858; Sporting Days 1866, and of 2 lectures, The feræ naturæ of the British islands 1873, Instinct and Reason 1874. d. Royal Terrace, Edinburgh 27 May 1885. The moor and the loch, 6 ed. 1884; The Chiefs of Colquhoun by W. Fraser, 2 vols. privately printed Edin. 1869.

COLQUHOUN, John Campbell (5 son of Sir James Colquhoun, 2 Baronet). b. Edinburgh 31 Jany. 1785; studied at Göttingen; called to bar in Scotland 7 June 1806; sheriff depute of Dumbartonshire 1815–84; author of Isis Revelata, an inquiry into the origin, progress and present state of animal magnetism 1836 and of a translation of Wienholt’s Seven lectures on Somnambulism 1845. d. Edinburgh 21 Aug. 1854.

COLQUHOUN, John Campbell (eld. son of Archibald Campbell, lord registrar of Scotland, who took name of Colquhoun and d. 1820). b. Edinburgh 23 Jany. 1803; ed. at Edin. high sch. and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1823; M.P. for Dumbartonshire 1832–4, for Kilmarnock 1837–41, for Newcastle under Lyme 1842–7; author of Short sketches of some notable lives 1855; Life in Italy and France in the olden times 1858; William Wilberforce his friends and his times 1866, 2 ed. 1867; Memorials of H. M. Colquhoun 1870, and numerous other works. d. Chesham st. London 17 April 1870.

COLQUHOUN, Sir Robert Gilmour (eld. son of Robert Colquhoun of Camstroden, Dumbarton). b. Glasgow 9 Jany. 1803; ed. at Pemb. coll. Ox.; British consul at Bucharest 17 Nov. 1834, consul general there 15 Dec. 1837, agent and consul general 18 Nov. 1851; consul general and agent in Egypt 13 Dec. 1858 to 14 Aug. 1865; C.B. 5 Dec. 1859, K.C.B. 30 May 1865. d. Fincastle, Perthshire 10 Nov. 1870.

COLT, Rev. Sir Edward Henry Vaughan, 6 Baronet. b. Lescroft, Staffs. April 1808; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1836; V. of Hill, Gloucs. 1839 to death; succeeded 9 June 1849. d. Hill vicarage 15 Oct. 1882.

COLTHURST, Sir George Conway, 5 Baronet. b. 1824; ed. at Harrow; succeeded 22 June 1829; M.P. for Kinsale 8 June 1863 to Jany. 1874. d. Buxton 24 Sep. 1878.

COLVILE, Charles Robert (eld. son of Sir Charles Henry Colvile of Duffield hall, Derbyshire, who d. 28 Sep. 1833). b. London 30 March 1815; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for South Derbyshire 1841–59 and 1865–8; sheriff of Derbyshire 1874. d. Lullington hall, Burton-on-Trent 10 March 1886.

COLVILE, Rev. Frederick Leigh (eld. son of Frederick Charles Colvile of Marylebone, London). Educ. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; V. of Leek Wootton near Warwick 1842–80; chaplain of Stoneleigh abbey 1853–80; rural dean of Coventry 1856–80; author of Catechism on the liturgy of the Church of England, 9 ed. 1850; Stoneleigh Abbey from its foundation by F. L. C., privately printed 1850; Worthies of Warwickshire 1870. d. Kempsey, Bournemouth 28 March 1886.

COLVILE, Henry Robert (4 son of Robert Colvile of Newton hall, Cambs. 1763–99). b. 1795; ed. at Eton; ensign 3 foot guards 29 Dec. 1813, lieut.-col. 25 March 1852 to Feb. 1854; col. 12 foot 29 Oct. 1864 to death; general 27 March 1868. d. Kempsey hall near Worcester 1 Nov. 1875.

COLVILE, Sir James William (eld. son of Andrew Wedderburn, afterwards Colvile, of Crombie, Fifeshire, who d. 1856). b. London 12 Jany. 1810; ed. at Eton and Trin coll. Cam., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1835, bencher; advocate general at Calcutta 1845–8; puisne judge of supreme court of Bengal 1848–55, chief justice 1855–9; knighted by patent 9 Dec. 1848; P.C. 6 July 1859; assessor of judicial committee of privy council on Indian appeals 1859; member of judicial committee 20 Nov. 1865 to Nov. 1871, one of the 4 paid judges Nov. 1871 to death; pres. of Asiatic Society of Calcutta; F.R.S. 29 April 1875. d. 8 Rutland gate, London 6 Dec. 1880. bur. Craigflower near Dunfermline 11 Dec. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv, page x (1883); Graphic iv, 531 (1871), portrait.

COLVIN, John. Lieut. col. Bengal Engineers 20 April 1835; C.B. 2 July 1838; retired col. Bengal army 4 Sep. 1839. d. Lintwardine, Herefordshire 27 April 1871.

COLVIN, John Russell (2 son of James Colvin of London and Calcutta, merchant). b. Calcutta May 1807; ed. at St. Andrew’s, Fifeshire and Haileybury; went to Bengal 1826; assistant to Registrar of the Sudder Court 1826, to Resident at Hyderabad 14 Dec. 1827; assistant sec. in Revenue and Judicial department at Calcutta 4 Jany. 1831; Sec. to Board of Revenue in Lower Provinces 13 March 1835; private sec. to Lord Auckland the Governor General 1836–42; resident in Nepaul 1845; commissioner of Tenasserim provinces 1846; judge of Sudder Court at Calcutta 1849; lieut. governor of north western provinces 1853. d. Agra 9 Sep. 1857. G.M. iv, 212–19 (1858).

COMBE, Boyce (2 son of Harvey Christian Combe of Cobham park, Surrey 1752–1818). b. London 1789; ed. at Harrow; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1813, bencher; magistrate at Thames police court 1833, at Lambeth St. near Whitechapel 1838, at Hatton garden 1839, at Clerkenwell 1842, at Southwark 1851 to death. d. 43 Upper Seymour st. Portman sq. London 7 Jany. 1864. I.L.N. x, 332 (1847), portrait.

COMBE, George (son of George Combe of Edinburgh, brewer, who d. 29 Sep. 1815 in 60 year.) b. Livingston’s yards, Edin. 21 Oct. 1788; studied at Univ. of Edin. 1802–4; admitted a writer to the signet 31 Jany. 1812, practised in Edin 1812–36; a founder of Phrenological Society, Feb. 1820; delivered 158 lectures on phrenology and education in United States 1838–40; author of Elements of phrenology 1824, 8 ed. 1855; Outlines of phrenology 1824, 9 ed. 1854; The constitution of man considered in relation to external objects 1828, 9 ed. 1860; Notes on the United States 3 vols. 1841, and numerous other works. d. Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey 14 Aug. 1858. bur. in the Dean cemetery, Edin. The life of George Combe by Charles Gibbon 2 vols. 1878, portrait; Charles Mackay’s Forty years recollections (1877) ii, 241–70; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 265–77; R. Capen’s Reminiscences of Spurzheim and Combe 1881; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 161–6, portrait.

COMBE, Richard Thomas (2 son of John Maddison of Alvingham, Lincs, who d. 1849). b. 1813; ed. at Winchester and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1835; barrister M.T. 1840; assumed name of Combe in lieu of Maddison by royal license 18 Dec. 1849; chairman of Ilminster bench of magistrates; recorder of Langport; sheriff of Somerset 1867. Shot himself 8 May 1880.

COMBE, Thomas (son of Thomas Combe of Leicester, bookseller). b. June 1796; assistant to Joseph Parker of Oxford bookseller to 1823, to M. A. Nattali of London 1823–7; partner with his father 1827; senior partner in University press, Oxford; manager of classical side of Clarendon press, Ox.; architypographer to Univ. of Ox.; managing partner of the Bible press, Ox.; built and endowed church of St. Barnabas’s, Jericho, Oxford 1869; built chapel attached to Radcliffe infirmary, Ox.; owner of Holman Hunt’s picture ‘The light of the world’ which his widow gave to Keble college, Ox. d. The Clarendon press, Oxford 29 Oct. 1872.

COMBERMERE, Stapleton Cotton, 1 Viscount (2 son of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5 baronet, who d. 24 Aug. 1809). b. Llewenny hall, co. Denbigh 14 Nov. 1773; ed. at Westminster; 2 lieut. 23 foot 26 Feb. 1790; lieut.-col. 25 light dragoons 9 March 1794 to 14 Feb. 1800; lieut.-col. 16 light dragoons 14 Feb. 1800 to 27 Jany. 1813; succeeded 24 Aug. 1809; M.P. for Newark 1806–1814; commanded a brigade of cavalry in Portugal 1808; commanded whole allied cavalry under Duke of Wellington 1810–14; col. 20 light dragoons 27 Jany. 1813–1819 when regiment was disbanded; created Baron Combermere of Combermere Abbey 17 May 1814 for his brilliant services during Peninsula war, with an annuity of £2000 for two generations; commanded allied cavalry in France 1815–16, the forces in West Indies 21 Dec. 1816 to 9 Feb. 1821; governor of Barbados 14 Feb. 1817 to 2 March 1821; commander in chief in Ireland 1822–5; col. 3 light dragoons 25 Jan. 1821 to 16 Sep. 1829; governor of Sheerness 25 Jany. 1821 to 11 Oct. 1852; commander in chief in India 9 Feb. 1825 to 1 Jany. 1830, captured city of Bhurtpoor, Hindostan 18 Jany. 1826; created Viscount Combermere 2 Dec. 1826; col. 1 life guards 16 Sep. 1829 to death; P.C. 15 Dec. 1834; constable of Tower of London 11 Oct. 1852 to death, sworn in 21 Feb. 1853; field marshal 2 Oct. 1855; G.C.B. 21 Aug. 1813, G.C.H. 24 July 1817, K.S.I. 19 Aug. 1861; portrait in National portrait gallery. d. Clifton 21 Feb. 1865. bur. Wrenbury ch. where is a monument; statue by Marochetti at Chester castle. Memoirs 2 vols. 1866, 2 portraits; Army and navy mag. iii, 481–5 (1882), portrait.

COMER, John. Popular singer at concerts in Bath 1821; sang in principal cities in Italy 1830–5; Mus. Doc. Bologna 1832; principal bass singer in Italian opera at Her Majesty’s theatre, London 1835; lived at Taunton from 1836 to death; leader of the Taunton Madrigal Soc. many years. d. Ilchester 17 March 1886 aged 86.

COMER, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. Bath 19 Dec. 1790; first appeared on stage at Bath theatre 1803 as Don Cæsar in The castle of Andalusia; first appeared in London 1816 as the Officer in The Slave; went to United States 1827; director of music at Tremont theatre, Boston 1828 and at other houses there. d. Bromfield house, Boston 27 July 1862. Ireland’s New York Stage i, 224, 556 (1866).

COMPTON, Henry, stage name of Charles Mackenzie (6 child of John Mackenzie of Huntingdon). b. Huntingdon 22 March 1805; clerk in office of Mr. Symonds of Aldermanbury, London, cloth merchant; acted on the Bedford, Lincoln and York circuits 1826–37; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre 24 July 1837 as Robin in The Waterman; played at Drury Lane 1837–8, 1839 and 1843–4, at Lyceum 1838–9, at Princess’s 1844–7, at Olympic 1847–50 and 1850–3, at Strand 1849–50, at Haymarket 1853–70, at Globe 1871, at Lyceum 1874; went on a tour with the Vezin-Chippendale company; last appeared at Prince of Wales’s theatre, Liverpool 14 July 1877; the best Shakespearean clown of his time. d. 12 Stanford road, Victoria road, Kensington 15 Sep. 1877. Memoir of H. Compton edited by C. and E. Compton 1879, portrait; Actors by daylight i, 289 (1838), portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book, part 11, portrait as Launce; The Players ii, 25 (1860), portrait; Theatrical times ii, 1 (1847), portrait.

COMPTON, Henry Combe. b. 6 Jany. 1789; ed. at Eton and Merton coll. Ox; M.P. for South Hants. 1835–57. d. Minstead manor house, Lyndhurst, Hants. 27 Nov. 1866.

COMYN, Sir Robert Buckley (3 son of Rev. Thomas Comyn, V. of Tottenham, Middlesex who d. 16 Feb. 1798). b. Tottenham 26 June 1792; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; commoner of St. John’s coll. Ox. 1809; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1815, D.C.L. 1842; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1814; puisne judge of supreme court of Madras 19 Aug. 1825, chief justice 31 Dec. 1835 to Jany. 1842 when he resigned; knighted at Carlton house 9 Feb. 1825; bencher of M.T. 1844; author of Treatise on law of Usury 1817; Treatise on the law of landlord and tenant 1830; History of Western Europe from the birth of Charlemagne to the accession of Charles v, 1841. d. 9 New st. Spring gardens, London 23 May 1853.

CONDER, Josiah (4 son of Thomas Conder of London, engraver, who d. June 1831 aged 84). b. Falcon st. Aldersgate, London 17 Sep. 1789; lost his right eye by small pox 1795; assisted his father in a bookselling business at 30 Bucklersbury 1802–11, carried on the business alone 1811–19; edited Eclectic Review 1814–37; edited Patriot newspaper, Jany. 1833 to death; edited Modern Traveller 30 vols. 1825–9; author of Gloria in excelsis Deo, a poem 1812; The law of the Sabbath 1830, 2 ed. 1852; Italy 3 vols. 1831; A dictionary of geography 1834; An analytical view of all religions 1838. d. 28 Belsize road, St. John’s Wood, London 27 Dec. 1855. Josiah Conder, a memoir by E. R. Conder 1857.

CONDY, Nicholas. b. Torpoint, Cornwall 1793; ensign 43 foot 9 May 1811, lieut. 24 Feb. 1813 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; a painter at Plymouth; chiefly produced small water-colours on tinted paper about 8 inches by 5, which he sold at prices ranging from fifteen shillings to one guinea each; exhibited 2 landscapes at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. gallery 1830–45; published Cotehele on the banks of the Tamar with a descriptive account by the Rev. F. V. J. Arundell, 17 plates. d. 10 Mount Pleasant terrace, Plymouth 8 Jany. 1857 aged 64.

CONDY, Nicholas Matthews (son of the preceding). b. Union st. Plymouth 1818; a painter at Plymouth; exhibited three sea pieces at R.A. 1842–5, which gave hopes of his becoming a distinguished artist. d. The Grove, Plymouth 20 May 1851. Reminiscences of a yachting cruise by Mrs. N. M. Condy with drawings by T. G. Dutton from sketches by N. M. Condy 1852, portrait.

CONGLETON, John Vesey Parnell, 2 Baron (eld. son of 1 Baron Congleton 1776–1842). b. Baker st. London 16 June 1805; ed. at Edin.; received a commission in the army which he never took up; became acquainted with A. N. Groves in Dublin 1827, conveyed him to Russia in the yacht The Osprey 1829; took a room in Aungier st. Dublin for The Brethren 1829; travelled in the East 1830–4 and in India 1834–7; resided at Teignmouth where he lived with great simplicity, preached to The Brethren congregations and spent nearly all his capital in good works 1837–42; succeeded 8 June 1842; resided at Islington 1842–6, at Brighton 1846–9, in London 1849 to death; minister in the Orchard st. chapel, London 1849–60, in the Welbeck st. chapel 1860 to death; gave one half his income in charity; author of The resurrection life, a tract 1845, 13 editions; The true idea of Baptism 1850; The Psalms, a new version 1860, another ed. 1875, and of many tracts. d. 53 Great Cumberland place, London 23 Oct. 1883. bur. Kensal Green cemetery where upwards of 1000 Plymouth Brethren attended. Memoir of Lord Congleton by H. Groves 1884, portrait.

CONGREVE, George. Ensign 29 foot 8 April 1825, lieut.-col. 11 Feb. 1846 to 29 Sep. 1859 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 24 May 1847; quartermaster general East Indies 28 Nov. 1854 to 1860; M.G. 20 July 1860. d. Simla 30 April 1861.

CONGREVE, Sir William Augustus, 3 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Wm. Congreve 2 baronet 1772–1828). b. 1827; succeeded 16 May 1828; last heard of in 1860 when he was in Sydney and proposed going to Omaha in Fiji islands; advertised for in The Times 17 Feb. 1882 p. 1 col. 2. Sir James Hannen judge of the Court of Probate directed letters of administration to issue 30 Nov. 1882, presuming that his death took place 14 Feb. 1860 when he wrote his last letter home.

CONINGHAM, Henry. Entered Madras army 1819; col. 7 Madras light cavalry 24 Oct. 1858 to death; L.G. 6 Nov. 1866. d. Nice 21 April 1868 aged 70.

CONINGHAM, William (son of Rev. Robert Coningham of Londonderry). b. Rose hill near Penzance 1815; cornet 1 dragoons 1834–6; contested Brighton, July 1847 and Westminster, July 1852; M.P. for Brighton 28 March 1857 to Jany. 1864; published Twelve letters by John Sterling [to William Coningham] 1851, 3 ed. [1872]; Lord Palmerston and Prince Albert.... Letters by W. Coningham, together with “The suppressed pamphlet,” entitled “Palmerston, what has he done?” by “One of the people” 1854, and other books. d. 6 Lewes crescent, Kemp Town, Brighton 20 Dec. 1884.

CONINGTON, Francis Thirkill (3 son of Rev. Richard Conington, Minister of chapel of ease, Boston, Lincs. who d. 25 Sep. 1861 aged 65). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 12 June 1846 aged 18; fellow of his coll. 1849 to death; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; examiner in science in Univ. of Ox. 1860–1; author of Handbook of chemical analysis 1858; contributed to periodicals 1860 to death. d. Boston 20 Nov. 1863 aged 35.

CONINGTON, John (brother of the preceding). b. Boston 10 Aug. 1825; ed. at Beverley gr. sch., Rugby and Magd. coll. Ox., demy, June 1843; Hertford and Ireland scholar 1844; scholar of Univ. coll. March 1846, fellow May 1847 to 1855; sec. of Union Society 1845, pres. 1846, librarian 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; Eldon law scholar for 6 months 1849; student at L.I. June 1849 but not called to bar; contributed to Morning Chronicle 1849–50; Corpus professor of Latin in Univ. of Ox. June 1854 to death; published The Agamemnon of Æschylus translated into English verse 1848; On the academical study of Latin 1855; The works of Virgil with a commentary 3 vols. 1858–70; The odes and carmen seculare of Horace translated into English verse 1863, 4 ed. 1870; The Æneid of Virgil translated into English verse 1866, 3 ed. 1870. d. Boston 23 Oct. 1869. bur. Fishtoft churchyard 26 Oct. Miscellaneous writings of John Conington edited by J. A. Symonds with a memoir by H. J. S. Smith 2 vols. 1872; Memoirs of Mark Pattison (1885) 245–52.

CONNELL, Arthur (eld. son of Sir John Connell, judge of the admiralty court of Scotland). b. Edinburgh 30 Nov. 1794; ed. at High sch. and Univ. of Edin.; Snell exhibitioner at Univ. of Glasgow; matric. from Balliol coll. Ox. 20 March 1812; passed advocate at Scotch bar 1817 but never practised; professor of chemistry in Univ. of St. Andrews 1840–56; F.R.S. Edin. 1829, F.R.S. 1855; established several new mineral species; author of A treatise on the election laws in Scotland 1827, many papers in Trans. of Royal Soc. of Edin. and in Edin. Philos. Journal. d. St. Andrew’s, Fife 31 Oct. 1863.

CONNELLAN, Owen. b. co. Sligo 1800; employed as a scribe in Royal Irish academy more than 20 years; Irish historiographer to George iv and William iv 1821–37; professor of Irish in Queen’s college, Cork 1849 to death; author of The gospel according to St. John, in Irish with an English translation 1830; A Dissertation on Irish grammar 1834; The annals of Ireland translated from the original Irish of the Four Masters 1846; The proceedings of the Great Bardic Institution 1854 being vol. 5 of Transactions of Ossianic Society. d. Dublin 1869.

CONNELLAN, Thaddeus. Author of The two first books of the Pentateuch, the types cut from Irish MSS. 1820; The Irish-English guide to the Irish language 1824; The King’s Letter translated into Irish 1825; The Irish-English spelling book 1825; The Irish-English primer 1825; Easy lessons on money matters, commerce, trade, wages etc. 1835; Psalma Daibi 1836; The Gospel of St. Matthew in Irish 1840; The Acts of the Apostles in Irish 1840. d. Sligo 25 July 1854.

CONNOLLY, William Hallett. Second lieut. R.M. 8 May 1795, lieut.-col. 16 April 1832, col. commandant of Woolwich division 10 July 1837 to 1842 when he retired on full pay; general 20 June 1855. d. King’s terrace, Southsea 20 June 1861 aged 79.

CONNOP, Richard. Ensign 93 foot 30 Dec. 1813, captain 25 Sep. 1817 to 19 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 31 March 1866. d. Dawlish 5 Feb. 1867 aged 75.

CONNOR, Very Rev. George Henry (eld. son of George Connor, master in chancery in Ireland). b. 21 Dec. 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1851; M.A. at Ox. 1859; V. of Newport, Isle of Wight 1852–82; hon. chaplain to the Queen 11 Oct. 1872, chaplain in ord. 8 Feb. 1875, resident chaplain in ord. 2 Nov. 1882 to death; dean of Windsor 30 Oct. 1882, installed 10 Nov. 1882. d. The deanery, Windsor castle 1 May 1883. Church portrait journal i, 93 (1880), portrait; Graphic xxvi, 412 (1882), portrait.

CONNOR, Skeffington. b. Dublin 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1828, LL.B. and LLD. 1845; called to Irish bar 1838; called to Canadian bar at Toronto 1842; bencher of Canadian law society 1850, Q.C. 1850; represented South Oxford in legislative assembly 1856–63; solicitor general for Upper Canada 1858; puisne judge of Court of Queen’s Bench, Upper Canada 1 Feb. 1863. d. Toronto 29 April 1863.

CONOLLY, Henry Valentine (son of Valentine Conolly of 37 Portland place, London, who d. 2 Dec. 1819). b. 5 Dec. 1806; ed. at Rugby; a writer in Madras civil service 19 May 1824; collector and magistrate in Malabar 1841 to death; murdered by some Mopla fanatics in his house at Calicut 11 Sep. 1855; there is a monument to him in the cathedral Madras, and a scholarship was founded in his memory at the Madras University.

CONOLLY, James. b. 19 Feb. 1818; cornet 5 dragoon guards 17 June 1836; deputy adjutant general Canada 6 Dec. 1861 to 20 May 1865; assistant quartermaster general at Aldershot 7 Nov. 1867 to 31 Aug. 1869; military attaché at Vienna 1869–71, at Paris 5 April 1871 to 30 Dec. 1880; L.G. 26 Dec. 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 19 Feb. 1885; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Wiesbaden 22 June 1885.

CONOLLY, John (son of Mr. Conolly of Market Rasen, Lincs. who d. 1799). b. Market Rasen 27 May 1794; ensign in Cambridgeshire militia 1812–16; studied at Univ. of Edin. 1817–21, M.D. 1821; physician at Chichester 1822–23, at Stratford-on-Avon 1823–7; professor of practice of medicine in Univ. coll. London 1828–30; practised at Warwick 1830–8; resident phys. to Middlesex county asylum at Hanwell 1 June 1839 to 1844, where he entirely abolished restraint; kept a private asylum at Lawn house near Hanwell 1852 to death; an original member of British medical Assoc. 1832, of Ethnological Soc. 1843; author of The construction and government of lunatic asylums 1847; The treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints 1856; A study of Hamlet 1863. d. Lawn House near Hanwell 5 March 1866. Sir James Clark’s Memoir of J. Conolly 1869; Medical Circular ii, 469–70 (1853), portrait; I.L.N. xlviii, 317 (1866), portrait.

CONOLLY, Thomas. b. Kilcooly abbey, Tipperary 23 Feb. 1823; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Donegal 1848; M.P. for Donegal 20 Feb. 1849 to death. d. Castletown house, Celbridge, Kildare 10 Aug. 1876.

CONQUEST, Benjamin Oliver, stage name of Benjamin Oliver. b. near St. Michael’s church, Cornhill, London 1805; first appeared on the stage as a witch in Macbeth at Lyceum theatre; acted at Pavilion theatre 1827; sang song of Billy Barlow 4 times every night for 28 weeks; projected and opened with Wyman and Freer the Garrick theatre, Whitechapel 1830, proprietor of it with Gomersal to 4 Nov. 1846 when it was burned down; landlord of “The Hampshire Hog” tavern 410 Strand, London 1847–51; lessee of Grecian theatre, City road, London at rent of £1300, 4 March 1851 to death. d. New north road, London 5 July 1872. Actors by daylight i, 337 (1839) portrait.

CONQUEST, John Tricker. b. Chatham, Kent 1789; assistant surgeon military depot, Chatham 1808; studied at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1813; L.C.P. London, Dec. 1819; gave 4 courses of lectures on midwifery yearly at his house 4 Aldermanbury Postern, London about 1820–4; lecturer on midwifery at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1825; noted for his operation of tapping for hydrocephalus; author of Outlines of midwifery 1820, 6 ed. 1854; The Holy Bible with twenty thousand emendations 1841; Letters to a mother on the management of herself and her children in health and disease 1848, 4 ed. 1852. d. The Oaks, Plumstead common 24 Oct. 1866 aged 77. Medical Circular iii, 51–53 (1853), portrait; Physic and physicians ii, 265–67 (1839).

CONRAN, George. Second lieut. Madras artillery 27 July 1811, col. commandant 15 May 1851 to death; general 14 Dec. 1868. d. Bath 28 Aug. 1869 aged 76.

CONROY, Sir Edward, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Sir John Conroy 1 baronet 1786–1854). b. Dublin 6 Dec. 1809; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; attaché to special mission to Brussels 1831–8; deputy registrar of births, deaths and marriages in London 1836–42. d. Arborfield near Reading 3 Nov. 1869.

CONROY, Right Rev. George (son of Nicholas Conroy). Professor of dogmatic theology, All Hallow’s college, Dublin 1857–66; sec. to Cardinal Cullen, and professor of dogmatic theology in Holy Cross college, Clonliffe 1866–7; bishop of Ardagh 1871 to death; consecrated in St. Mel’s cathedral, Longford 11 April 1871; author of Occasional sermons, addresses and essays 1884. d. St. John’s, Newfoundland 4 Aug. 1878.

CONROY, Sir John, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Ponsonby Conroy of Bettyfield, co. Roscommon 1759–97). b. Caerhyn, Carnarvonshire 21 Oct. 1786; second lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803, second captain 13 March 1811 to 17 June 1822 when placed on permanent h.p.; K.C.H. 17 Aug. 1827; comptroller of the household to Duchess of Kent to 1837 when he retired on pension of £3000; created baronet 7 July 1837; comr. of Colonial audit board; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1843; col. of Montgomeryshire militia 30 Aug. 1852. d. Arborfield near Reading 2 March 1854.

CONSTABLE, Henry (son of a small tradesman). b. Birmingham 10 April 1851; taught riding by T. Stevens on the Ilsley Downs; apprenticed to Wm. Reeves at Epsom 1867–71; first rode at Wye meeting on Skittles 1870; headed list of winning jockeys 1873, taking 110 races out of 395 mounts; won the Derby on Mr. W. S. Crawfurd’s Sefton 1878; first jockey and trainer to Lord Rosebery. d. Epsom 17 Feb. 1881. Illust. sporting and dramatic news i, 61 (1874), portrait, iii, 261 (1875), portrait, xiv, 563, 572 (1881), portrait; Baily’s Mag. xxv (1874), portrait.

CONSTABLE, Thomas (youngest son of Archibald Constable of Edinburgh, publisher 1774–1827). b. Craigcrook near Edin. 29 June 1812; learned printing with C. Richards of St. Martin’s lane, London; printer and publisher in Edin. to 1860; Her Majesty’s printer and publisher 7 Sep. 1839; issued Constable’s Miscellany of foreign literature 10 vols. 1854–5; issued Constable’s Educational series 36 vols. 1857–72; published The works of Dugald Stewart edited by Sir W. Hamilton 10 vols. 1854; author of Archibald Constable and his literary correspondents 3 vols. 1873; Memoir of Lewis D. B. Gordon 1877, privately printed; Memoir of Rev. C. A. C. de Boinville 1880. d. Marston Biggot rectory, Frome, Somerset 26 May 1881.

CONSTABLE, Sir Thomas Aston Clifford, 2 Baronet. b. Tixall hall, Staffs. 3 May 1806; succeeded 25 Feb. 1823. d. Burton Constable, Yorkshire 22 Dec. 1870.

CONWAY, Frederick B. (son of Wm. A. Conway, actor 1780–1828). b. London 10 Feb. 1819; made his first appearance at Princess’s theatre 4 Oct. 1847; went to the United States 1850 where he acted with Edwin Forrest playing Iago to his Othello, De Mauprat to his Richelieu and other companion parts; opened Pike’s opera house Cincinnati 1859; played at Sadler’s Wells theatre, London 1861; played leading parts at New Brooklyn theatre, New York 1864–73. d. Manchester, Massachusetts 6 Sep. 1874.

CONWAY, Thomas Sydenham. b. 7 June 1810; ensign 22 foot 14 Feb. 1828; deputy adjutant general Bombay 1849–51; captain Grenadier guards 14 July 1854 to 8 March 1864 when placed on h.p.; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 7 June 1880; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. 19 Bury st. St. James’s, London 7 June 1885.

CONY, Barkham. b. Ely 5 Nov. 1802; made his first appearance in London 1828 at Coburg theatre in Love me, love my dog; first appeared in America 1835 with a number of well-trained dogs who assisted in the performance which consisted of Forest of Bondy and Cherokee Chief; played successful engagements all over the United States and Great Britain; styled the “Dog Star.” d. Chicago 1 Jany. 1858.

CONYBEARE, Very Rev. William Daniel (son of Rev. Wm. Conybeare, R. of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London, who d. 5 April 1815 aged 76). b. London 7 June 1787; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; founded with Sir Henry de la Beche, Bristol Philosophical and Literary Institution 1817; corresponding member of French Institute; V. of Sully, Glamorganshire 1821–36; V. of Axminster 1836–44; Bampton lecturer 1839; dean of Llandaff 29 Sep. 1844 to death; F.R.S. 9 Dec. 1819, F.G.S. 1821; gave the name of Plesiosaurus to a new genus of reptilia forming an intermediate link between the Ichthyosaurus and Crocodile; author of Elementary course of theological lectures 1836; Geological memoir of the landslip in Devon 1840; author with Wm. Phillips of Outlines of the geology of England and Wales 1822. d. Itchenstoke near Portsmouth 12 Aug. 1857. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xiv, 24–32 (1858); Proc. of Royal Soc. ix, 50–2 (1857); G.M. iii, 335–7 (1857); I.L.N. xxxi, 309 (1857), portrait.

CONYBEARE, Rev. William John (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1 Aug. 1815; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow, 15 wrangler and 3 classic 1837, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; Whitehall preacher 1841; principal of the newly founded Liverpool Collegiate Institution 1842–8; V. of Axminster 1848–54; author of Essays ecclesiastical and social 1855; Perversion, or the causes and consequences of infidelity, a tale for the times 3 vols. 1856 anon.; author with Rev. J. S. Howson of The life and epistles of St. Paul 2 vols. 1852. d. of consumption at Weybridge 22 July 1857.

CONYNGHAM, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, 2 Marquis (2 son of 1 Marquis Conyngham 1766–1832). b. Dublin 11 June 1797; cornet 2 life guards 21 Sep. 1820, lieut. 13 Dec. 1821 to 12 June 1823 when placed on h.p.; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 6 Jany. 1823 to 2 Jany. 1826; M.P. for co. Donegal 1825 to 1832; a lord of the treasury 30 April 1826 to 30 April 1827; succeeded 28 Dec. 1832; postmaster general 5 July to 31 Dec. 1834 and 8 to 30 May 1835; lord chamberlain of the household, May 1835 to 6 May 1839; G.C.H. 1823; K.P. 27 March 1833; P.C. 20 May 1835; lord lieut. of co. Meath 27 May 1869 to death; general 21 March 1874. d. 5 Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 17 July 1876, personalty sworn under £500,000, 9 Sep. 1876. I.L.N. lxix, 113, 119, 255 (1876), portrait; Graphic xiv, 102, 108 (1876), portrait.

CONYNGHAM, George Henry Conyngham, 3 Marquis. b. London 3 Feb. 1825; cornet 2 dragoons 31 Dec. 1844; major 1 life guards 24 Aug. 1861 to 13 June 1868 when placed on h.p.; equerry to the Queen 30 Sep. 1872 to death; succeeded 17 July 1876; col. Royal East Kent yeomanry cavalry 16 Jany. 1878 to death; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. Belgrave sq. London 2 June 1882.

CONYNGHAM, Francis Nathaniel (brother of the preceding). b. Goodwood 24 Sep. 1832; served in R.N. 1846–60; M.P. for Clare 1857–9 and 1874–80. d. The Muirshiel, Lockwinnock, Renfrewshire 14 Sep. 1880.

COODE, George (eld. son of Manners Benson Coode of St. Helier’s, Jersey). b. 1807; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833; assistant sec. to Poor law commission 18 Aug. 1834 to 13 June 1846; drafted the Irish poor law act, 1 & 2 Vict. c. 56; comr. for consolidating the statute law 1853; comr. for inquiry into state of education in England 1859; author of Report on the law of settlement and removal of the poor 1851; On legislative expression 1853; article on the Poor laws in Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 ed. xviii, 295–316 (1859); Report of local taxation and digest of the laws relating to 24 local taxes 1862; Report on the fire insurance duties 1862. d. Roselands, Walmer, Kent 27 Sep. 1869. Law mag. and law review xxviii, 178, 318–25 (1870).

COODE, Sir John Henry (son of Edward Coode of Penryn, Cornwall). b. Penryn 11 Feb. 1779; entered navy 16 June 1793; captain 21 Oct. 1810; R.A. 26 June 1847; V.A. on h.p. 27 May 1854, pensioned 10 Dec. 1855; C.B. 19 Sep. 1816, K.C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Plymouth 19 Jany. 1858.

COOK, Alexander Shank (son of Rev. George Cook, professor of moral philosophy at St. Andrews). b. 9 Dec. 1810; ed. at St. Andrews; advocate at Edin. 1834; procurator for church of Scotland 1861 to death; advocate depute; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 22 March 1858 to death. d. Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1869.

COOK, Edward Dutton (eld. child of George Simon Cook of Tudor st. Blackfriars, London, solicitor, who d. 12 Sep. 1852). b. 9 Grenville st. Brunswick sq. London 30 Jany. 1829; articled to his father; pupil of Rolt the painter; dramatic critic of Pall Mall Gazette 1867 to Oct. 1875, of The World Oct. 1875 to death; edited Cornhill Mag. 1868–71; wrote all the lives of dramatists and actors in letter A of Dictionary of national biography 1885; author of Paul Foster’s Daughter 3 vols. 1861; Leo 3 vols. 1863; Hobson’s Choice, a story 1867; Art in England, notes and studies 1869; A book of the play 2 vols. 1876; Hours with the players 2 vols. 1881; On the stage 1883 and 9 other books. d. suddenly outside his house 69 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 11 Sep. 1883. Longman’s Mag. Dec. 1883 pp. 179–87; Theatre, Nov. 1883, 212, 272, portrait; Graphic xxviii, 321 (1883), portrait.

COOK, Henry David. Writer Madras civil service 1835; civil and sessions judge, Calicut 1857–66; civil and sessions judge, Coimbatore 1866 to 18 Sep. 1870 when he retired on annuity. d. England 16 June 1882.

COOK, James. Edited Paisley and Renfrewshire Gazette from its commencement Oct. 1864 to his death; author of Bibliography of the writings of Charles Dickens 1879. d. Paisley 25 Oct. 1882 aged 65.

COOK, Rev. John (eld. son of Rev. John Cook 1771–1824, professor of biblical criticism in Univ. of St. Andrews). b. St. Andrews 1 Sep. 1807; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, A.M. 1823, D.D. 9 Dec. 1848; licensed for ministry of Church of Scotland 13 Aug. 1828; minister of Laurencekirk 1829–45; minister of St. Leonard’s in St. Andrews 1845–63; moderator of General Assembly 19 May 1859, convener of many of its important committees; Emeritus professor of ecclesiastical history in Univ. of St. Andrews 19 June 1860 to 30 July 1868; a dean of the chapel royal, Sep. 1863; author of Evidence on church patronage 1838; Six lectures on the Christian evidences 1852. d. St. Andrews 17 April 1869.

COOK, Rev. John (eld. son of Rev. George Cook 1772–1845, leader of the ‘moderate’ party in the Church of Scotland). b. 12 Sep. 1807; ed. at St. Andrews Univ., A.M. 1823, D.D. 1843; licensed for ministry of Church of Scotland 17 Sep. 1828; minister of Cults, Fifeshire 1832; translated to second charge at Haddington 1833, to the first charge 1843; sub-clerk of the Assembly 25 May 1859, principal clerk 22 May 1862, moderator 24 May 1866; author of Styles of writs and forms of procedure in the church courts of Scotland 1850, 4 ed. 1870. d. Haddington 11 Sep. 1874.

COOK, John Douglas. b. Banchory-Ternan, Aberdeenshire 25 March 1811; held an appointment in India; sec. of commission to inquire into revenues of Duchy of Cornwall; private sec. to Lord Lincoln, governor of Ionian Islands; reported in parliament for The Times; edited Morning Chronicle 1852–5; edited Saturday Review from first number 3 Nov. 1855 to death, joint owner of it with A. J. B. Beresford Hope, M.P. d. G1 The Albany, Piccadilly, London 10 Aug. 1868. bur. Tintagel churchyard. James Grant’s The Saturday Review its origin and progress 1873.

COOK, Paul (son of Charles Cook of Jersey, Wesleyan minister). President of French Methodist Conference; considered the founder of French Sunday schools. d. Paris 2 May 1886 aged 59.

COOK, Richard. b. London 1784; ed. at Royal Academy; gold medallist of Society of Arts 1832; A.R.A. 1816, R.A. 1822; exhibited pictures chiefly historical; illustrated Scott’s Lady of the Lake 1810. d. Cumberland place, Hyde park, London 11 March 1857. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 34 (1862).

COOK, Samuel. b. Camelford, Cornwall 1806; apprenticed to a woollen manufacturer at Camelford 1815; a painter and glazier at Plymouth; exhibited pictures chiefly coast scenes at New Water-Colour Society in Pall Mall, London about 1830–59, a member of the Society 1850; his “Early morning at the Lizard” was sold to Rev. Henry Tozer for 137 guineas at Plymouth 7 Feb. 1882. d. near Plymouth 7 June 1859. Hayle Miscellany vol. 2 (1860), portrait.

COOK, Thomas. Entered navy 17 July 1807; lieutenant 1 June 1818; professor of fortification and artillery at H.E.I. Co.’s military academy, Addiscombe, Jany. 1837 to death; F.R.S. 4 June 1840. d. Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 11 Dec. 1858.

COOKE, Edward. Barrister M.T. 12 Nov. 1819; judge of county courts, circuit 11, Bradford 1854 to 1861 when he resigned; author of The real cause of the high price of gold 1819; A treatise on the law of insolvent debtors 1827, 2 ed. 1839. d. 2 Taviton st. Gordon sq. London 6 Feb. 1862 aged 70.

COOKE, Edward William (son of George Cooke of London, line engraver 1781–1834). b. Pentonville, London 27 March 1811; painted sign of the “Old Ship Hotel” at Brighton 1825; etched 2 series of plates entitled “Coast sketches” and “The British Coast”; made 70 drawings of new London bridge 1825–31, most of which were engraved and published 1833; executed a series of pencil drawings for Earl de Grey 1832; travelled abroad 1832–44; A.R.A. 1851, R.A. 1864; exhibited 129 pictures at R.A., 115 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. gallery; 2 of his pictures are in the National Gallery, “Dutch boats in calm” and “The Boat house”; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; published Views in London and its vicinity 1834; Grotesque animals invented, drawn and described 1872; Leaves from my sketch book 2 series 1876–7. d. Glen Andred, Groombridge near Tunbridge Wells 4 Jany. 1880. I.L.N. xlv, 173 (1864), portrait; Graphic xxi, 252 (1880), portrait.

COOKE, George. b. Manchester 7 March 1807; first appeared on the stage at Walsall, March 1828; acted at Strand theatre, London 1837, at Drury Lane 1839, at Marylebone 1847; played at Strand theatre 1848, at Olympic theatre to death. (m. 1840 Eliza Stuart, she d. 13 June 1877 aged 74); committed suicide 4 March 1863. Theatrical Times iii, 376, 397 (1848), portrait.

COOKE, Rev. George Leigh (son of Rev. Samuel Cooke, V. of Great Bookham, Surrey, who d. 30 March 1820). Matric. from Ball. coll. Ox. 26 Jany. 1797 aged 17; scholar of C.C. coll. 1797, fellow 1800–15, tutor; B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804, B.D. 1812; Sedleian professor of natural philosophy in Univ. of Ox. 1818–26; keeper of the Univ. archives 1818–26; V. of Cubbington, Warws. 1820 to death; V. of Rissington Wick, Gloucs. 1820 to death; P.C. of Hunningham, Warcs. 1820 to death; founded the Literary Dining Club, sec. of it many years; author of The three first sections and part of the seventh section of Newton’s Principia 1850. d. Cubbington 29 March 1853 aged 73.

COOKE, George Wingrove (eld. son of T. H. Cooke of Bristol). b. Bristol 1814; ed. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1834; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1835; contested Colchester, Feb. 1860, Marylebone, April 1861; special correspondent of The Times in China 1857–8; copyhold and inclosure comr. Dec. 1862 to death; author of Memoirs of Lord Bolingbroke 1835, 2 ed. 1836; The history of party from the rise of the Whig and Tory factions to the passing of the Reform bill 3 vols. 1836–37; Act for the enclosure of commons with a treatise on the law of rights of common 1846, 4 ed. 1864; Treatise on agricultural tenancies 1850, new ed. 1882; A treatise on the law and practice of copyhold enfranchisement 1853; Inside Sebastopol 1856; China and Lower Bengal 1858; Conquest and colonisation in North Africa 1860. d. 25 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 18 June 1865.

COOKE, Rev. Henry (youngest child of John Cooke of Grillagh near Maghera, co. Londonderry, farmer). b. in farm house of Grillagh 11 May 1788; matric. at Glasgow college, Nov. 1802; licensed by the presbytery of Ballymena; pastor at Duneane near Randalstown, co. Antrim 1808–10; minister at Donegore, co. Antrim 1811–18; studied at Glasgow and Trin. coll. Dublin 1815–18; pastor of Killyleigh, co. Down 1818–29; moderator of general synod of Ulster, June 1824; pastor of May st. chapel, Belfast 24 Nov. 1829 to Feb. 1868; D.D. Jefferson college, U.S. 21 Oct. 1829; LLD. Dublin 9 Feb. 1837; granted freedom of city of Dublin 6 Feb. 1839; challenged O’Connell to a public discussion in Belfast 6 Jany. 1841, which he declined; moderator of the general assembly 1841; agent for distribution of Regium Donum 29 Nov. 1845 to death; professor of sacred rhetoric, assembly’s college, Belfast, Sep. 1847 to death, pres. of the college 1848 to death; dean of residence for presbyterian church, Queen’s college, Belfast 1849; author of Translations and paraphrases in verse for the use of the Presbyterian church, Killyleigh 1821; edited, J. Brown’s Self-interpreting Bible 1855, 2 ed. 1873. d. Ormean road, Belfast 13 Dec. 1868, statue of him erected at Belfast, Sep. 1875. J. S. Porter’s Life of Rev. Henry Cooke (1871), portrait.

COOKE, James (son of Thomas Taplin Cooke, circus proprietor, who d. 19 March 1866 aged 84). Leading rider of his father’s company; the only real rival of the great Andrew Ducrow; proprietor of a circus about 1837–49 and 1850–56; resided in Edinburgh 1856 to death. d. Portobello, Edin. 5 Sep. 1869 aged 59.

COOKE, Sir John Henry. b. 1791; ensign 43 foot 15 March 1809; captain 25 foot 27 July 1838 to 15 Dec. 1840 when placed on h.p.; conducted Louis xviii from Ghent to Paris, June to July 1815; sub officer of corps of gentlemen at arms 2 Oct. 1844 to 16 Sep. 1862; ensign of Yeomen of the guard 16 Sep. 1862, lieut. 2 Feb. 1866 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 11 Dec. 1867. d. Albion villa, Upper heath, Hampstead 31 Jany. 1870.

COOKE, John P. b. Chester 31 Oct. 1820; leader of the orchestras at Adelphi, Strand and Astley’s, London successively; leader at Burton’s theatre, New York 1850; musical director at several New York theatres; composed and arranged music for the Winter’s Tale, Midsummer Night’s Dream and other Shakespearean plays; wrote melodies for the Sea of Ice. d. New York 4 Nov. 1865.

COOKE, Richard Harvey. Ensign 1 Foot Guards 20 Feb. 1798, captain 7 Nov. 1811 to 26 March 1818; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. 45 Upper Brook st. London 8 Oct. 1856.

COOKE, Rev. Robert. b. Waterford about 1820; joined the Congregation of Oblates of Mary Immaculate in France, ordained priest; stationed at Grace Dieu, Leics., at Everingham park, Yorkshire 1847–51; founded mission at Howden; restored mission at Pocklington; stationed at Leeds 1851; introduced the Oblates into Ireland, result being establishment of a mission at Inchicore; established a house of his order at Kilburn, London where a new church was erected 1879; founded church of the English Martyrs, Tower Hill, London; author of Pictures of youthful holiness 1872; Catholic memories of the Tower of London 1875, translated into French 1875; Sketches of the life of Mgr. de Mazenod, bishop of Marseilles and founder of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate 2 vols. 1879–82. d. London 18 June 1882. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 557–8 (1885).

COOKE, Thomas (son of Mr. Cooke of Allerthorpe in the East Riding of Yorkshire, shoemaker). b. Allerthorpe 8 March 1807; kept a school at Allerthorpe 1823–9; optician at York about 1836 to death; made a telescope of 25 inches aperture 1863–8 which was mounted at Gateshead 1869, it is still the largest and best in the United Kingdom; invented an automatic engine for the graduation of circles, perfected the astronomical clock, and built nearly 100 turret clocks for public institutions and churches; F.R.A.S. 1859. d. 19 Oct. 1868.

COOKE, Thomas Potter (son of Mr. Cooke of London, surgeon, who d. 1793). b. Titchfield st. Marylebone 23 April 1786; served in navy 1796–1802, present in battle off Cape St. Vincent 1797; made his début at Royalty theatre, Wellclose sq. Jany. 1804; stage manager of Surrey theatre 1809–16; acted at Lyceum 1820–2, at Covent Garden 1822–5; played Le Monstre (Frankenstein) 80 nights, at Porte Saint Martin theatre, Paris 1825–6; played at Adelphi 1828–9; his best known part was William in Douglas Jerrold’s drama Black-eyed Susan, which he acted over 100 nights from 6 June 1829 at Surrey theatre; acted at Covent Garden 1829–34 and 1836, at Drury Lane 1834–6; made his last appearance on the stage 2 May 1861 at Princess’s theatre; he is described by Christopher North in Noctes Ambrosianæ as ‘the best sailor out of all sight and hearing that ever trod the stage.’ d. 37 Thurloe sq. London 4 April 1864. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii, 109 (1825), portrait; Stirling’s Old Drury Lane ii, 105–11 (1881); Tallis’s Illustrated life in London (1864) 33, 36, 40, 41, 3 portraits; Actors by daylight 11 Aug. 1838 pp. 185–87, portrait.

Note.—He left by his will £2000 to the Dramatic College, the interest of which was to be paid for a prize nautical drama, in compliance with the terms of the grant ‘True to the core, a story of the Armada,’ a drama by Angiolo Robson Slous was produced at Surrey theatre, London 8 Sep. 1866, the prize having been awarded to him at Maybury college, Surrey 23 April 1866.

COOKE, Thomas Taplin. Proprietor of a circus, his company consisted of his 19 sons and daughters; built the first circus in Edinburgh 1835; chartered a vessel and shipped all his circus to the United States 1837, where he performed to 1839 when his circus and all his horses were burnt at Baltimore. d. 2 Barossa place, Brompton, London 19 March 1866 aged 84.

COOKE, Rev. William. b. 1806; minister in the Methodist New Connexion body 1827 to death; filled in succession all the important offices of his denomination; author of Christian theology explained and defended 1846, new ed. 1879; Discourses illustrative of sacred truth 1871; Explanations of difficult portions of holy scripture; A survey of the unity, harmony and growing evidence of sacred truth; The Shekinah, or the presence and manifestation of Jehovah under the several dispensations, and other works including a number of polemical treatises in connexion with Roman Catholicism. d. Burslem house, Forest Hill 25 Dec. 1884.

COOKE, William. Lessee and manager of Astley’s Amphitheatre, Westminster bridge road, London 1855–60; took his farewell benefit 30 Jany. 1860. d. 149 Acre lane, Brixton 6 May 1886.

COOKE, William Bernard (brother of George Cooke, engraver 1781–1834). b. London 1778; pupil of Wm. Angus the engraver; published The Thames 1811 for which he engraved nearly all the plates; published with his brother George Cooke Picturesque views on the Southern coast of England 1814–26, chiefly from drawings by Turner; illustrated 10 other works 1812–40. d. Camberwell, London 2 Aug. 1855.

COOKE, Sir William Bryan, 8 Baronet (younger son of Sir George Cooke 7 baronet, who d. 2 June 1823). b. 3 March 1782; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; ensign 1 foot guards 15 Oct. 1803 to 1808 when he sold out; lieut.-col. 3 West York militia 26 Oct. 1811, col. 23 Feb. 1812 to 7 Dec. 1819; contested city of York 1818; banker at Doncaster, Retford and Worksop 1 Jany. 1819; succeeded 2 June 1823; the first mayor of Doncaster 1836, alderman 1837–8; sheriff of Yorkshire 1845; author of The seize Quartiers of the family of Bryan Cooke 1857. d. Wheatley hall near Doncaster 24 Dec. 1851. G.M. xxxvii, 185–6 (1852).

COOKE, Sir William Fothergill (eld. son of Wm. Cooke, professor of medicine at Durham Univ.) b. Ealing near London 1806; ed. at Durham school and Univ. of Edin.; ensign 39 Madras N.I. 8 Jany. 1826, resigned his commission 1836; partner with Charles Wheatstone, Nov. 1837, they patented magnetic needle telegraph 12 June 1837; laid down a telegraph between Paddington and West Drayton 1838–9, and from West Drayton to Slough 1842; invented with Wheatstone the single needle apparatus 1845; one of founders of Electro telegraph company 1846; received with Wheatstone the 4th royal Albert gold medal 1867; A.I.C.E. 21 May 1867; knighted at Windsor Castle 11 Nov. 1869; granted civil list pension of £100, 25 July 1871; author of Telegraphic Railways 1842. (m. 1838 Anna Louisa dau. of Joseph Wheatley of Treeton, Yorkshire, she was granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1880). d. 31 Castle st. Farnham, Surrey 25 June 1879. W. T. Jeans’s Lives of the electricians i, 134, 323 (1887); W. F. Cooke’s The electric telegraph, was it invented by professor Wheatstone? 2 vols. 1857; Authorship of the practical electric telegraph of Great Britain by Rev. T. F. Cooke 1868; Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lviii, 358–64 (1879).

Note.—The merit of initiating the idea of an international exhibition has been often warmly contested, but there is no doubt that the original proposition was made to the Committee of the Society of Arts in 1844 by Sir W. F. Cooke.

COOKE, William John. b. Dublin 11 April 1797; pupil of his uncle George Cooke the engraver; received from Society of Arts a gold medal for improvements in engraving upon steel 1826; employed upon the Annuals and other illustrated publications to about 1840 when he left England and settled at Darmstadt; engraved several pictures after Turner, Cox and Landseer. d. Darmstadt 6 April 1865.

COOKESLEY, John. Entered navy 29 Jany. 1791; captain 7 Dec. 1818, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired R.A. 8 July 1851; invented a very simple and efficacious species of raft fully described and illustrated in the Nautical Mag. iv, 73–77 (1835). d. Rackley, Portishead near Bristol 25 Nov. 1852 aged 78.

COOKESLEY, Rev. William Gifford. b. Brasted, Kent 1 Dec. 1802; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; assistant master of Eton 1825–55; V. of Hayton, Yorkshire 1857–60; P.C. of St. Peter’s, Hammersmith 1860–8; R. of Tempsford, Beds. 22 Oct. 1868 to death; published Selections from Pindar 1838; Pindari Carmina 1844 2 vols. 1851; Selecta e Catullo 1845; A revised translation of the New Testament 1859, and 13 other works. d. Tempsford rectory 16 Aug. 1880.

COOKSON, Rev. Henry Wilkinson (6 son of Thomas Cookson of Kendal). b. Kendal 10 April 1810; ed. at Kendal, Sedbergh and St. Peter’s coll. Cam., 7 wrangler 1832, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.D. and D.D. 1848; tutor of his college, Master 3 Nov. 1847 to death; R. of Glaston, Rutland 1847–61; vice-chancellor of Univ. of Cam. 1848, 1863, 1864, 1872, 1873; member of council of the Senate almost continuously from institution of that body 1856; pres. of Cambridge Philosophical Soc. 1865–6; declined bishopric of Lichfield 1867. d. St. Peter’s college lodge, Cambridge 30 Sep. 1876.

COOKSON, Isaac. b. 1776; a glass manufacturer at Newcastle to 1845; sheriff of Newcastle 1801, alderman 22 Sep. 1807, mayor 1809–10; bought Meldon park, Northumberland for 56,900 guineas 19 April 1832; sheriff of Northumberland 1838. d. Munich 8 Oct. 1851.

COOLEY, William Desborough. F.R.G.S. 1830, hon. free member 1864; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; wrote for Lardner’s ‘Cabinet Cyclopædia’ The history of maritime and inland discovery 3 vols. 1830–1; published The world surveyed in the xix century 2 vols. 1845–8; Inner Africa laid open 1852; Physical geography, or the terraqueous globe and its phenomena 1876 and other works. d. 56 Crowndale road, Somers Town, London 1 March 1883. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v, 232–3 (1883).

COOMBES, Robert. b. Vauxhall, London 1808; a waterman on river Thames; sculled his first race 4 July 1836; beat J. Kelly 4 Oct. 1838; stroke in the winning four at Liverpool regatta 1840 beating 5 crews; beat H. Clasper on the Tyne 18 Dec. 1844; beat C. Campbell 19 Aug. 1846 when he became champion of the Thames; presented with a champion belt 28 Oct. 1846; raced T. Cole for £200 a side 24 May 1852 when Cole won; won the pairs with Wilson at Thames regatta 1845; with his brother Tom Coombes beat Richard and Harry Clasper on the Thames 1847; trained the Cambridge crew 1852; never surpassed in speed and style during his time; author of Hints on rowing and training 1852. d. Kent lunatic asylum, Maidstone 25 Feb. 1860. bur. Brompton cemetery, London 7 March. I.L.N. 29 May 1852 p. 436, portrait.

COOPE, Octavius Edward (3 son of John Coope of London, sugar refiner). b. Leyspring, Essex 1814; a sugar refiner in London; a partner in brewing firm of Ind, Coope and Co. at Romford, Essex 1846, established a branch brewery at Burton-on-Trent 1856 the third largest brewing firm in Burton; M.P. for Great Yarmouth 29 July 1847 to June 1848 when unseated on petition; contested Tower Hamlets, Nov. 1868; M.P. for Middlesex 14 Feb. 1874 to 18 Nov. 1885, for Brentford division of Middlesex, Dec. 1885 to death; gave £15,000 towards rebuilding Whitechapel church 1875. d. 41 Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 27 Nov. 1886, personalty sworn upwards of £542,000. Licensed Victuallers’ year book (1876) 80–81, portrait; Morning Advertiser 29 Nov. 1886 p. 5 and 3 Dec. p. 2.

COOPER, Abraham (son of Mr. Cooper of Red Lion st. Holborn, London, tobacconist). b. Red Lion st. 8 Sep. 1787; member of the Artists’ fund 1812, chairman; awarded premium of 150 guineas by British Institution for his picture of the ‘Battle of Waterloo’ 1816; A.R.A. 1817, R.A. 1820–66; exhibited 332 pictures at R.A. and 74 at British Institution 1812–69; pre-eminent as a painter of battle pieces; furnished the illustrations to Sporting, by Nimrod 1838, and other works. d. Woodbine cottage, Woodlands, Greenwich 24 Dec. 1868. bur. Highgate cemetery. J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists ii, 4–7; Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 131–2 (1869).

COOPER, Sir Astley Paston, 2 Baronet. b. Great Yarmouth 13 Jany. 1797; succeeded 12 Feb. 1841; sheriff of Herts. 1864. d. Gadesbridge, Hemel Hempstead 6 Jany. 1866.

COOPER, Bransby Blake (eld. son of Rev. Samuel Lovick Cooper 1763–1817, R. of Bacton, Norfolk). b. Great Yarmouth 2 Sep. 1792; midshipman in the navy; second assistant surgeon R.A. 2 Dec. 1811 to 1 April 1816 when placed on permanent h.p.; M.R.C.S. 1823, hon. fellow 1843, member of the council 1848; brought an action against Thomas Wakley editor of The Lancet for defamation of character, and obtained £100 damages 12 Dec. 1828; surgeon of Guy’s hospital, London to death; F.R.S. 18 June 1829; author of The life of Sir Astley Cooper baronet 2 vols. 1843; Lectures on the principles and practice of surgery 1851. d. Athenæum club, Pall Mall, London 18 Aug. 1853. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 520–6; Medical Circular ii, 511–14 (1853).

COOPER, Sir Charles (3 son of Thomas Cooper of Henley-on-Thames). b. Henley-on-Thames, March 1795; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827; judge of supreme court of South Australia 1839–56, chief justice June 1856 to 1861; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 June 1857; Cooper’s Creek in Queensland was named after him. d. 12 Pulteney st. Bath 24 May 1887.

COOPER, Charles Henry (eld. son of Basil Henry Cooper of Great Marlow, solicitor, who d. 1813). b. Great Marlow 20 March 1808; resided at Cambridge 1826 to death; coroner of borough of Cambridge 1 Jany. 1836; admitted solicitor, Nov. 1840; town clerk of Cambridge 1849 to death; F.S.A. 10 April 1851; author of A new guide to the university and town of Cambridge 1831 anon.; The annals of Cambridge 5 vols. 1842–53; The memorials of Cambridge 3 vols. 1858–66; Memoirs of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby edited by Rev. J. E. B. Mayor 1874; author with his eldest son Thompson Cooper of Athenæ Cantabrigienses 2 vols. 1858–61; contributed to Gent. Mag., Notes and Queries, and other antiquarian publications. d. 29 Jesus lane, Cambridge 21 March 1866. Dict. of Nat. Biog. xii, 139–40 (1887); Reliquary vii, 34–40 (1866).

COOPER, Charles Purton (son of Charles Cooper of St. Dunstan’s, London). b. 1793; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., double first class 1814, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1816; obtained leading practice in V.C. Knight-Bruce’s court, quarrelled with him and left the court; Q.C. 1837; bencher of his Inn 1836, treasurer 1855, master of the library 1856 to which he presented 2000 vols. on civil and foreign law 1843; secretary to Record Commission 12 March 1831 to 20 June 1837 when it lapsed on the king’s death; Queen’s serjeant in Duchy of Lancaster 1834 to death; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1832; F.S.A.; contested Canterbury 18 Aug. 1854 and 28 March 1857; author of Notes in French on the Court of Chancery 1828, 2 ed. 1830; An account of the public records of the United Kingdom 2 vols. 1832; Reports of cases decided by Lord Brougham 1835; Reports of cases decided by Lords Cottenham and Langdale and by V. G. Shadwell 1841; Reports of Lord Cottenham’s decisions 2 vols. 1847; wrote, edited or printed 52 pamphlets on political topics 1850–57. d. Boulogne 26 March 1873. Report from the select committee on record commission (1836) 1–275; Sir Henry Cole’s Fifty years of public work (1834) i, 7, ii, 20, 23.

COOPER, Edward Joshua (eld. son of Edward Synge Cooper of Dublin, who d. 1830). b. Stephens Green, Dublin, May 1798; ed. at Armagh, Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; erected an observatory at Markree castle, co. Sligo 1831 where he kept meteorological registers 1833 to death; M.R.I.A. 1832, Cunningham gold medallist 1858; M.P. for co. Sligo 1830–41 and 1857–9; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; author of Views in Egypt and Nubia 1824 privately printed; Catalogue of Stars near the Ecliptic observed at Markree 4 vols. 1851–6 printed at Government expense, and Cometic Orbits 1852. d. Markree castle 23 April 1863. Proc. of Royal Soc. xiii, 1–3 (1864).

COOPER, Frederick Fox (son of Mr. Cooper of London, editor of John Bull). b. 4 Jany. 1806; called Fox after his godfather C. J. Fox, M.P.; articled to Isaac Cooper a stockbroker; managed successively Olympic, Marylebone, Victoria, City of London and Strand theatres; sec. to Duke of Cumberland as grand master of the Orange lodges in England; examined 4 days before House of Commons on subject of Orangeism 1835; proprietor of the Nelson Examiner, New Zealand 1841; started with The Chisholm, The Cerberus, a newspaper which under 4 heads advocated 4 different lines of politics, No. 1, 17 June 1843, it was published at 164 Strand, London down to 18 Nov. 1843; author of The sons of Thespis, produced at Surrey theatre, Jenny Jones, Fleet Prison, Master Humphrey’s Clock, Black Sentinel, Rejected Addresses, The deserted village, and many travesties and dramatic sketches. d. 56 Prince’s Road, Lambeth, London 4 Jany. 1879. Theatrical Times ii, 177 (1847), portrait; Era 19 Jany. 1879 p. 12, col. 2.

COOPER, Frederick Henry (younger son of Rev. Allen Cooper, incumbent of St. Mark’s, North Audley st. London). Entered Bengal civil service 1847; comr. at Lahore to death; C.B. 18 May 1860; author of The Crisis in the Punjaub 1858; The handbook for Delhi 1863. d. Trent rectory near Sherborne 22 April 1869 aged 42.

COOPER, George (son of Mr. Cooper, assistant organist at St. Paul’s cathedral, who d. 1843). b. Lambeth 7 July 1820; organist of St. Benet’s, Paul’s wharf, London 1834, of St. Anne and St. Agnes 1836; assistant organist of St. Paul’s cathedral, March 1838 to death; organist of St. Sepulchre’s 1843 to death, of Christ’s hospital 1843, of the Chapel Royal, St. James’s, Sep. 1856 to death; author of The organist’s assistant; The organist’s manual 1851, 26 numbers; Organ arrangements 3 vols. 1864 etc.; Classical extracts for the organ 1867–69, seven numbers; Introduction to the organ; Maud Irving or the little orphan, An operetta in 5 acts 1872. d. 2 Oct. 1876. Musical Standard 7, 14, 21, 28 Oct. 1876, 18, 25 Nov., 9, 23 Dec.

COOPER, Henry. Ensign 62 foot 26 Feb. 1829; lieut. col. 45 foot 19 July 1848 to 1 May 1861; inspecting field officer 1861–2; col. 79 foot 21 Aug. 1870 to 17 March 1876; col. 45 foot 17 March 1876 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Bottesham hall, Cambs. 24 Aug. 1878.

COOPER, Henry Christopher, b. Bath 1819; solo violinist at Drury Lane theatre 1830; principal violinist at Royal Italian opera; leader at Philharmonic Society; violinist at provincial festivals; conductor at Gaiety theatre, Glasgow to death; one of the foremost of English school of violinists, d. 220 Hope st. Glasgow 26 Jany. 1881.

COOPER, John (son of Mr. Cooper of Bath, locksmith). b. Bath 1790; apprenticed to a brush maker at Bath; first appeared on the stage at Bath theatre 14 March 1811 as Inkle in Colman’s drama Inkle and Yarico; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 15 May 1811 as Count Montalban in The honeymoon and received £4 a week; played at Liverpool some years as the rival of Vandenhoff; played at Drury Lane theatre 1820–45, stage manager; played at Princess’s theatre to 1859; had studied 200 parts and was ready at very short notice to undertake any of them; the last actor of the Kemble school; lived at 6 Sandringham gardens, Ealing. d. Tunbridge Wells 13 July 1870. Oxberry’s Dramatic biog. v, 73–86 (1826), portrait; Metropolitan Mag. xviii, 74–80 (1837); Jerrold’s Bride of Ludgate (Lucy’s ed. 1872), portrait.

COOPER, John Ramsay. Chemist and druggist at 17 High st. Canterbury; a prominent promoter of the blue riband movement; invented phonic system of teaching reading, which was adopted in many of the principal elementary schools in England 1885; bankrupt on his own petition, June 1885; died at the police station, Canterbury 5 July 1885 from taking a solution of strychnia and about 15 or 20 grains of the salt; coroner’s jury returned a verdict that he committed suicide while of unsound mind.

COOPER, John Wilbye, always known as Wilbye Cooper. Tenor vocalist to 1870; composed songs entitled Ah where are now those happy hours 1852; The old cottager 1852; author of The voice, the music of language and the soul of song, a short essay on the art of singing 1874; edited Cramer’s Educational Course consisting of Cramer’s Vocal Tutor 2 parts 1867, and Cramer’s New Singing Method 4 parts 1872–74. d. 20 Castellain road, Maida hill, London 19 March 1885.

COOPER, Joseph Thomas. b. London 25 May 1819; organist of St. Michael’s, Queenhithe 1837, of St. Paul’s, Balls Pond, London 1844, of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. 1866 to death, of Christ’s hospital 1876 to death; musical editor of Evening Hours, monthly mag. March 1871; F.R.A.S. 1845. d. 113 Grosvenor road, Highbury 17 Nov. 1879.

COOPER, Robert. Educ. at Charter house school; went to Canada; edited British Canadian paper at Toronto 1846; edited Herald paper at London, Upper Canada; county judge of united counties of Huron and Bruce 1856; published Rules and practice of the Court of Chancery of Upper Canada, Toronto 1851. d. Goderich, Upper Canada 19 June 1866.

COOPER, Thomas Thornville (8 son of John J. Cooper of Bishopwearmouth, coalfitter). b. Bishopwearmouth 13 Sep. 1839; made several journeys into interior of Australia; clerk in house of Arbuthnot and Co. at Madras 1859–61; joined Shanghai volunteers and helped to protect that city against Taiping rebels 1863; attempted to penetrate from China through Tibet to India 1868; attempted to enter China from Assam 1869; political agent at Bamo; attached to political department of India office, London; sent to India with despatches and presents to the viceroy in connection with imperial durbar of Delhi 1876; re-appointed political agent at Bamo; author of Travels of a pioneer of commerce in pigtail and petticoats 1871; Mishmee hills, an account of a journey 1873; murdered by a sepoy at Bamo 24 April 1878. W. Gill’s River of Golden sand, new ed. 1883 introduction p. 108, portrait and p. 323.

COOPER, Rev. William. R. of Wadingham, Lincs. March 1808 to death; R. of West Rasen, Lincs. 1809 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1830 to death. d. West Rasen rectory 24 Aug. 1856 aged 86.

COOPER, William (son of Charles Cooper of Norwich, barrister, who d. 21 July 1836). b. 6 Jany. 1810; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 10 June 1831; comr. of bankruptcy for Norwich 1832–42; a revising barrister for Leics. 1839 to death; standing counsel to Metropolitan police; one of counsel to the Treasury; recorder of Ipswich, Dec. 1874 to death; author of A sketch of the life of H. Cooper and of C. Cooper 1856 and of 3 dramas The student of Jena 1842, Mokanna 1843 and Zopyrus 1856. d. 25 Great Russell st. Bedford sq. London 17 Sep. 1877.

COOPER, William Durrant (eld. son of Thomas Cooper of Lewes, solicitor 1789–1841). b. High st. Lewes 10 Jany. 1812; solicitor at Lewes 1833–7; on parliamentary staff of Morning Chronicle and Times 1837; solicitor to Reform club 1837; solicitor to vestry of St. Pancras 20 Dec. 1858; F.S.A. 11 March 1841; author of The parliamentary history of the county of Sussex 1834; A glossary of the provincialisms in use in Sussex, privately printed 1836 which he published 1853; Seven letters by Sterne and his friends 1844; The history of Winchelsea 1850; edited several books for the Camden and Shakespeare Societies; author of many papers in Sussex Archæological Collections vols. ii, to xxvi. d. 81 Guilford st. Russell sq. London 28 Dec. 1875. Sussex Archæological Collections xxvii, 117–32 (1877).

COOPER, William Ricketts. b. 1843; a designer of carpet patterns; a London missionary; assistant curator of Sir John Soane’s museum, Lincoln Inn Fields; one of chief founders of Society of biblical archæology 1870, sec. 1870–6; F.R.A.S. Jany. 1875; author of Serpent myths of Ancient Egypt 1873; The resurrection of Assyria 1875; Heroines of the past 1875; Egypt and the Pentateuch 1875; An Archaic dictionary 1876; The Horus myth and Christianity 1877; A short history of the Egyptian obelisk 1877, 2 ed. 1878; Christian evidence lectures 1880; translated Lenormant’s Chaldean magic 1877. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 15 Nov. 1878.

COOPER, William White (youngest son of George Fort Cooper). b. Holt, Wiltshire 17 Nov. 1816; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1838, F.R.C.S. 1845; one of original staff of North London Eye Infirmary 1841; ophthalmic surgeon to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1851; surgeon oculist in ordinary to the Queen 4 March 1859 to death; it was announced that he was to be knighted 29 May 1886; author of Invalid’s guide to Madeira 1840; Practical remarks on near sight, aged sight and impaired vision 1847, 2 ed. 1853; Observations on conical cornea 1850; On wounds and injuries of the eye 1859; Zoological notes and anecdotes by Sestertius Holt 1852, pseud. of which a second ed. appeared under the title Traits and anecdotes of animals 1861. d. of acute pneumonia at 19 Berkeley sq. London 1 June 1886. Medical Circular iii, 383–85 (1853), portrait.

COOTE, Charles. b. Waltham abbey, Essex 1807; sang in English opera at Lyceum theatre; pianist to Duke of Devonshire 30 years, travelling with him abroad and at home; organised the quadrille band 1848 which has become celebrated in aristocratic circles; composed upwards of 150 pieces of music chiefly quadrilles, waltzes, galops, polkas and dances on airs from popular operas. d. 42 New Bond st. London 14 March 1879.

COOTE, Sir Charles Henry, 9 Baronet. b. 2 Jany. 1792; succeeded 2 March 1802; M.P. for Queen’s county 1821–47 and 1852–59; col. Queen’s co. militia 20 Nov. 1824 to death. d. 5 Connaught place, London 5 Oct. 1864.

COOTE, Elizabeth Phillis (granddau. of Charles Coote 1807–79). b. 19 Oct. 1862; acted in America 1870; sang at Canterbury and Pavilion music halls, London 1871–3; played Hop o’ my Thumb in pantomime at T.R. Brighton, Dec. 1873; played at Adelphi and Princess’s theatres 1877–8; made a great hit at Brighton in pantomime of Little Boy Blue, Dec. 1882. d. Ducie st. Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester 18 Feb. 1886. Illust. sporting and dramatic news viii, 401, 422 (1878), portrait, xvi, 569, 574 (1882), portrait.

COOTE, Henry Charles (son of Charles Coote of London 1761–1835, member of college of advocates). b. 1814; admitted proctor in Doctors’ Commons 1840; practised in the Probate court; admitted solicitor 1857; F.S.A. 17 May 1860; a founder of the Folklore Society 1878; author of Practice of the ecclesiastical courts 1846; The common form practice of the Court of Probate 1858, 9 ed. 1883; Practice of the high court of Admiralty 1860, 2 ed. 1869; A neglected fact in English history 1864; The Romans in Britain 1878. d. 13 Westgate terrace, Redclyffe sq. West Brompton, London 4 Jany. 1885. Athenæum 17 Jany. 1885 p. 87, col. 3.

COOTE, Holmes (2 son of Richard Holmes Coote of London, conveyancer). b. London 10 Nov. 1817; ed. at Westminster; F.R.C.S. 1844; assistant surgeon St. Bartholomew’s 1852, surgeon 1863 to death; civil surgeon in charge of the wounded soldiers at Smyrna 1855; author of The Homologies of the human skeleton 1849; A report on some of the more important points in the treatment of Syphilis 1857; On diseases of the joints 1867. d. 22 Dec. 1872. Medical Circular iii, 31 (1853); St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports ix, pp. xxxix-xliii (1873).

COPE, Rev. Edward Meredith. b. Birmingham 28 July 1818; ed. at Ludlow, Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; fellow of Trin. coll. 1842 to death, and lecturer on Greek 1845–69; contested professorship of Greek at Cam. 1867; wrote a criticism of Grote’s Dissertation on the sophists in the Cambridge Journal of classical philology 1854–6; author of Review of Aristotle’s System of ethics, a prelection 1867; The Rhetoric of Aristotle with a commentary by the late E. M. Cope, revised and edited by J. E. Sandys 3 vols. 1877. d. 5 Aug. 1873. bur. Birmingham cemetery.

COPE, Sir John, 11 Baronet (younger son of Wm. Cope of Bridges place, Kent, chapter clerk to dean and chapter of Westminster abbey). b. 22 July 1768; practised as a solicitor to 1806; succeeded his elder brother 12 Dec. 1812; kept a pack of foxhounds to year of his death. d. Bramshill park, Hants. 18 Nov. 1851. G.M. xxxvii, 184–5 (1852).

COPE, Rev. Richard. b. near Craven chapel, Regent st. London 23 Aug. 1776; kept a boarding school at Launceston 1800–20; Independent minister at Launceston 21 Oct. 1801 to 24 June 1820; minister of Salem chapel, Wakefield 1822–29, of Quebec chapel, Abergavenny 1829–36, of New st. chapel, Penryn, Cornwall 1836 to death; M.A. Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1819; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1824; author of Adventures of a religious tract 1820 anon.; Robert Melville or characters contrasted 1827; Pulpit synopsis, outlines of sermons 1837; Entertaining anecdotes 1838; Pietas privata, family prayers 1857. d. Penryn 26 Oct. 1856. Autobiography and select remains of Richard Cope edited by his son R. J. Cope 1857.

COPE, Thomas, b. London 1793; apprenticed to Joseph Smith, printer; worked under W. Clowes of Northumberland court, Strand, printer 1818–22; started a newspaper at Southampton 1822; returned to Clowes’s; printer and publisher of The Representative 1826; managed John Wm. Parker’s printing office; publisher of The Times 1848–63. d. Salisbury st. Strand, London 13 March 1877.

COPE, Thomas. b. Liverpool; commenced with his brother George Cope the manufacture of cigars in Liverpool 1848 and the manufacture of tobacco 1860, employed about 1300 people at his works Lord Nelson st. Liverpool and was the first person in England to engage women in making cigars; founded with J. R. Jeffery and Robert Gladstone, Financial Reform Association 1848; speaker of Liverpool Parliamentary debating society; aided Hugh Shimmin in founding The Porcupine 1860; Cope’s Tobacco plant, a monthly periodical, price 1d. No. 1 issued 21 March 1870, was brought out by Cope Brothers & Co. for about 14 years. d. Parkside cottage, Huyton near Liverpool 18 Sep. 1884 in 57 year. Liverpool Daily Post 19 Sept. 1884 p. 5.

COPE, William (only son of Wm. Henry Cope of Holbeach, Staffs.) b. 20 Oct. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; district registrar of Court of Probate, Shrewsbury 1858 to death; recorder of Bridgnorth 10 March 1871 to death. d. Shawbury, Shropshire 8 Jany. 1885.

COPELAND, Thomas (son of Rev. Wm. Copeland 1747–87, C. of Byfield, Northamptonshire). b. May 1781; M.R.C.S. 6 July 1804, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon 1 foot guards 1804–9; surgeon to Westminster general dispensary; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1837; author of Observations on some of the principal diseases of the Rectum 1810, 3 ed. 1824; Observations on the symptoms and treatment of the diseased spine 1815, 2 ed. 1818 which was translated into several European languages. d. Brighton 19 Nov. 1855, personalty sworn under £180,000. Medical Circular iii, 31 (1853); Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery iv, (1840), portrait.

COPELAND, Rev. William John (son of Wm. Copeland of Chigwell, Essex, surgeon). b. Chigwell 1 Sep. 1804; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Ox., Pauline exhibitioner 1824, scholar, fellow 1830–49; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1831, B.D. 1840; C. of St. Olave, Jewry, London 1829, C. of Hackney 1829–32; R. of Farnham, Essex 1849 to death; rural dean of Newport 1849–81; edited Newman’s Parochial and plain sermons 8 vols. 1868; translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Ephesians in vol. 5 of the Library of the Fathers. d. Farnham rectory 26 Aug. 1885, part of his library is now in the National Liberal Club, Whitehall place, London.

COPELAND, William Robert, b. Deal; apprenticed to a chemist; lessee and manager of T.R. Liverpool and proprietor of royal amphitheatre 1843; manager of Strand theatre, London which he called “Punch’s Playhouse,” May 1851 to May 1852. d. New Brighton, Cheshire 29 May 1867 aged 68. bur. Smithdown lane cemetery, Liverpool 8 June. Era 2 June 1867 p. 4, col. 4.

COPELAND, William Taylor (only son of Wm. Copeland of the Stoke potteries, porcelain manufacturer, who d. 1826). b. 24 March 1797; manufacturer of porcelain at Stoke upon Trent 1833; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1828–29, alderman for ward of Bishopsgate 1829 to death, lord mayor 1835–36; M.P. for Coleraine 1833–37, for Stoke upon Trent 1837–52 and 1857 to 6 July 1865; pres. of Bridewell and of Bethlehem hospitals many years; bred racehorses and kept a stud. d. Russell farm, Watford, Herts. 12 April 1868. John Ward’s Borough of Stoke upon Trent 1843 pp. 64, 497–504, 582; Sporting Review lix, 309 (1868); Art Journal (1868) p. 158; I.L.N. xxxii, 561 (1858), portrait.

COPLAND, James, b. in the Orkneys, Nov. 1791; ed. at Lerwick and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1 Aug. 1815; Medical officer of the African company on the Gold Coast 1817; practised in London 1820–69; edited The London medical repository 1822–27; L.R.C.P. London 26 June 1820, fellow 3 July 1837, censor 1841, 1842 and 1861, Gulstonian lecturer 1838, Croonian lecturer 1844–46, Lumleian lecturer 1854–55, Harveian orator 1857, Consiliarius 1844, 1849–51, 1861–63; F.R.S. 5 Dec. 1833; pres. of Pathological Soc; author of A dictionary of practical medicine 3 vols. 1858 brought out in parts Sep. 1832–1858; The forms, complications, causes, prevention and treatment of consumption and bronchitis 1861. d. Hertford house, Brondesbury road, Kilburn near London 12 July 1870. Physic and physicians ii, 285–89 (1839); T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery i, 109 (1840), portrait; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 410–20; Medical Circular iv, 299, 317 and 353 (1854).

COPLEY, Sir Joseph William, 4 Baronet, b. London 27 July 1804; succeeded 21 May 1838; sheriff of Yorkshire 1843. d. Sprotborough hall, Doncaster 4 Jany. 1883.

COPPOCK, James (eld. son of Wm. Coppock of Stockport, Cheshire, mercer). b. Stockport 2 Sep. 1798; partner in a silk firm in London; admitted attorney 1836; sec. to Liberal Registration Society with a residence in the Society’s rooms 3 Cleveland row, St. James’s 1835; treasurer of county courts, Aug. 1857 to death; sec. of the Reform Club, London, May to June 1836 when he was elected an hon. life member and appointed solicitor to the club; author of The electors’ manual 1835. d. 3 Cleveland row, St. James’s, London 19 Dec. 1857.

CORBALLIS, John Richard (2 son of Richard Corballis of Rosemount, Roebuck, co. Dublin). b. Dublin 1796; ed. at the Lay college of Maynooth and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1816, LL.B. and LLD. 1832; barrister King’s Inns, Dublin 1820; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher of King’s Inns; comr. of charitable bequests for Ireland 18 Sep. 1845; law adviser to the Crown in Ireland 1853–58 and 1859–64; crown prosecutor on the Home circuit; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Kilkenny to 1862. d. Rosemount 13 Feb. 1879 in 83 year.

CORBALLY, Matthew Elias. b. 1797; sheriff of Meath 1838; M.P. Meath 1840–41 and 1842 to death. d. Corbalton hall, Tara, co. Meath 25 Nov. 1870.

CORBAUX, Marie Françoise Catherine Doetter, usually called Fanny Corbaux (dau. of François Corbaux, F.R.S. who d. 1 May 1843 aged 74). b. 1812; studied at National Gallery and British Institution; gained gold medal of Society of Arts for a portrait in miniature 1830; hon. mem. of Society of British Artists 1830; mem. of New Soc. of Painters in Water colours; granted civil list pension of £30, 26 Sep. 1871; wrote in the Athenæum, Letters on the physical geography of the Exodus; wrote in the Journal of sacred literature a series of papers giving the history of a remarkable nation called ‘the Rephaim’ in the Bible; wrote an historical and chronological introduction to The Exodus Papyri by D. I. Heath 1855. d. Brighton 1 Feb. 1883. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists ii, 68–70.

CORBET, Sir Andrew Vincent, 2 Baronet. b. Shawbury park, Shropshire 15 June 1800; succeeded 5 June 1835; sheriff of Shropshire 1843. d. Brancepeth castle, Durham 13 Sep. 1855.

CORBETT, Panton (2 son of Ven. Joseph Plymley, archdeacon of Salop, who took surname of Corbett 1806 and d. 22 June 1838 aged 79). b. Bank house, Longnor, Salop, April 1785; barrister L.I. 21 June 1806; M.P. for Shrewsbury 1820–1830; high steward of borough of Welshpool; sheriff of Shropshire 1849; chairman of Shropshire quarter sessions 1850 to June 1855. d. Longnor hall, Shropshire 22 Nov. 1855.

CORBETT, Sir Stuart (son of Ven. Stuart Corbett, archdeacon of York, who d. 25 Aug. 1845 aged 71). b. Tankersley, Yorkshire 1802; entered Bengal army 1814; lieut. col. 25 Bengal N.I. 26 Dec. 1846 to 1854; colonel 16 Bengal N.I. 18 May 1856 to death, M.G. 4 Feb. 1859; commanded Benares division 6 July 1863 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849, K.C.B. 28 Jany. 1862. d. Nynee Tal, India 1 Aug. 1865.

CORBETT-WINDER, Uvedale (brother of the preceding). b. 15 Nov. 1792; ed. at Pemb. coll. Ox.; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1815; comr. of bankruptcy in Wolverhampton district; recorder of Bridgnorth 1844–71; recorder of Wenlock to 1871; judge of county courts, circuit 27, Shropshire, March 1847 to Sep. 1865 when he resigned; assumed additional surname of Winder 2 June 1869. d. 36 Princes gardens, London 7 Feb. 1871.

CORCORAN, Michael, b. Carrowkeal, co. Sligo 21 Sep. 1827; emigrated to United States 1849, clerk in the post office there; colonel of 69 New York militia, Aug. 1859; taken prisoner at battle of Bull Run 21 July 1861, released 15 Aug. 1862; brigadier general 21 July 1861; organised the Corcoran legion which took part in the battles of Nansemond river and Suffolk, April 1863 and held in check advance of the enemy upon Norfolk, the legion was attached to army of the Potomac, Aug. 1863. d. of injuries received by a fall from his horse near Fairfax courthouse, Virginia 22 Dec. 1863. The captivity of General Corcoran 1862; Bramhall’s Military souvenir (1863), memoir and portrait No. 45.

CORDER, Susanna. Author of Memorials of deceased members of the Society of Friends 1837, 6 ed. 1845; A brief outline of the origin, principles and church government of the Society of Friends 1841, translated into French 1845; Life of Elizabeth Fry 1853; Christian instruction in the history, types and prophecies of the Old Testament 1854, 2 ed. 1855; edited Memoir of Priscilla Gurney 1856. d. Chelmsford 28 Feb. 1864 aged 76.

CORDNER, William John. b. Dungannon, co. Tyrone 1826; teacher of music at Armagh; the best tenor singer in north of Ireland; organist of St. Patrick’s church, Sydney 1854–56, of St. Mary’s cathedral, Sydney 1856 to death. d. Sydney 15 July 1870.

CORFE, Arthur Thomas (3 son of Joseph Corfe 1740–1820, organist of Salisbury cathedral). b. Salisbury 9 April 1773; a chorister of Westminster abbey 1783; organist of Salisbury cathedral 1804 to death; organised and undertook a musical festival at Salisbury 19 to 22 Aug. 1828; wrote a service, a few anthems and some pianoforte pieces; author of A collection of anthems used in cathedral church, Canterbury 1830. Found dead at his bedside in his house The Close, Salisbury 28 Jany. 1863. F. Lear’s Sermon on death of Archdeacon Drury and A. T. Corfe 1863.

CORFE, Charles William (son of the preceding). b. 13 July 1814; organist of Ch. Ch. cath. Ox. 1846–81; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1847; choragus of univ. of Ox. 1860 to death. d. 14 Beaumont st. Oxford 16 Dec. 1883. bur. Ch. Ch. cathedral 19 Dec.

CORFE, John Davis (brother of the preceding). b. 1804; organist of Bristol cathedral more than 50 years; conductor for many years of the Bristol Madrigal Society one of the most famous choirs in England. d. of heart disease at 31 Richmond terrace, Clifton 16 Jany. 1876.

CORFIELD, Frederick Brooke. Ensign 28 Bengal N.I. 3 April 1820; lieut.-col. of 20 Bengal N.I. 3 Sep. 1849, of 49 B.N.I. 1852, of 17 B.N.I. 1853, of 55 B.N.I. 1854, of 2 B.N.I. 1855, of 6 B.N.I. 1857, of 5 B.N.I. 1858; col. 5 European infantry 26 April 1859 to 1869; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Knowle house, Upper Norwood 2 Sep. 1884 aged 81. I.L.N. lxxxv, 292 (1884), portrait.

CORFIELD, William Robert. Ensign 15 Bengal N.I. 3 Dec. 1821; general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. 128 Lexham gardens, London 30 Nov. 1882. Graphic xxvii, 225 (1883), portrait.

CORK and ORRERY, Edmund Boyle, 8 Earl of (2 son of 7 Earl of Cork and Orrery 1742–98). b. 21 Oct. 1767; ensign 22 foot 13 April 1785; lieut. col. 87 foot 29 March 1794 to 7 Jany. 1795; lieut. col. 11 foot 7 Jany. 1795 to 17 May 1796; captain Coldstream Guards 17 May 1796 to 17 Sep. 1802, commanded first battalion in Egypt 1801; succeeded his father Oct. 1798; col. of 16 battalion of Reserve 9 July 1803 to 1804; general 27 May 1825; K.P. 22 July 1835. d. 3 Hamilton place, London 29 June 1856.

CORKRAN, John Frazer. b. Dublin; a dramatic writer in Dublin; wrote many articles in Dublin Univ. Mag.; Paris correspondent of Morning Herald and Evening Standard about 1836; author of History of the national constituent assembly 2 vols. 1849; An hour ago, or time in dreamland, a mystery 1858; East and West, or once upon a time 3 vols. 1861; Bertha’s Repentance 1863. d. 9 Clairville grove, Old Brompton, London 3 Feb. 1884.

CORMACK, Sir John Rose (only son of Rev. John Cormack, minister of Stoke near Edinburgh). b. Edin. 1815; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1837; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1841; phys. to Royal infirmary, Edin.; edited Edinburgh Monthly Journal 1841–46; F.R.S. Edin.; M.D. Paris 1870; surgeon to Ambulance Anglaise during both the sieges of Paris 1870–71; chevalier of Legion of honour 1871; F.R.C.P. London 1872; knighted at Buckingham palace 14 March 1872; author of Treatise on the properties of Creosote 1836; Pathology of fever in Edinburgh 1844; Clinical studies illustrated by cases 2 vols. 1876. d. 364 Rue st. Honoré, Paris 13 May 1882. Medical Circular iii, 109–110 (1853).

CORNER, Arthur Bloxham (2 son of Richard Corner of Southwark, London, solicitor, who d. 1820). b. parish of St. Olave’s, Southwark 29 Jany. 1803; clerk in the Crown office, Temple 1822, assistant master, May 1847; Queen’s coroner and attorney 26 April 1859 to death; published with his brother Richard James Corner The practice of the Crown side of the Court of Queen’s Bench 1844. d. Laurel cottage, Lee road, Blackheath 17 Jany. 1861.

CORNER, George Richard (brother of the preceding). b. parish of Ch. Ch. Blackfriar’s road, London 1801; admitted an attorney 1824; vestry clerk of parish of St. Olave, Southwark about 1835; F.S.A. 28 Nov. 1833, contributed papers to the Archæologia 1834–60; an original member of Numismatic Society of London 1836 and of British Archæol. Assoc. 1843; author of A concise account of the local government of the borough of Southwark 1836; The rental of St. Olave and St. John, Southwark 1838, 2 ed. 1851. d. Queen’s Row, Camberwell 31 Oct. 1863. C. R. Smith’s Collectanea Antiqua vi, 324–26 (1868); Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xx, 181–6 (1864).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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