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630CLARK, 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; 631took 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. 632Paul’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).

633CLARKE, 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 634death; 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.

635CLARKE, 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; 636declined 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 637near 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 6381841; 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 639death; 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.

640CLAY, 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 641Small 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 642to 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 643Bucks. 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).

644CLEGHORN, 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; 645played 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).

646CLERK, 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; 647major 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).

648CLIFFE, 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. 649Ch. 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 650which 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. 651gallery; 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 652Swedenborg 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).

653CLIVE, 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).

654CLONCURRY, 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; 655Plutarch’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.

656CLULOW, 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 657Jany. 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 658to 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.

659COBBOLD, 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; 660What 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.

661COCHRANE, 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 662commoner 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 6631781; 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). 664b. 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.

665COCKS, 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.

666CODRINGTON, 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.

667COFFIN, 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. 668of 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.

669COLBORNE, 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 670h.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.