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

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

COLE, George Ward. b. Lumley castle, Durham 15 Nov. 1793; in the navy 1807–17 when placed on h.p.; in the merchant service 1817–39; arrived in Melbourne 4 July 1840; built Cole’s Wharf on the Yarra 1841; built the “City of Melbourne” 1851 the 1st screw steamer ever seen south of the equator, she traded between Melbourne and Launceston and was finally wrecked on King’s Island, Bass’s Straits 1853; introduced sugar-beet into Victoria from Holland 1863; member for Gipps Land of Victorian legislative council, July 1853–1855; member for the Central 671province of legislative council 1859 to death; an executive councillor 1867; wrote several pamphlets in support of protection. d. 26 April 1879. Men of the time in Australia, Victorian series (1878) 37–39.

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

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

COLE, Henry Thomas (2 son of George Cole, captain Cornwall militia). b. Bath 2 Feb. 1816; barrister M.T. 4 Nov. 1842, bencher Jany. 1867, treasurer 1883–4; became leader of Western circuit; recorder of Penzance April 6721862 to April 1872; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; recorder of Plymouth and Devonport April 1872 to death; M.P. for Falmouth and Penryn 6 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880. d. 4 Glendower place, South Kensington, London 5 Jany. 1885.

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

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

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

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

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

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

673COLEMAN, Rev. William Higgins. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; a master at Christ’s hospital, Hertford 1840–7; at Ashby-de-la-Zouch gr. sch. 1847 to death; author with Rev. H. R. Webb of Flora Hertfordiensis 1849; published in Journal of Biblical Literature, July 1863 an elaborate paper on The Eighteenth chapter of Isaiah, which was reprinted with others under title of Biblical papers, being remains of the Rev. W. H. Coleman 1864. d. Burton on Trent 12 Sep. 1863.

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

COLENSO, Right Rev. John William (son of John Wm. Colenso of Lostwithiel, mineral agent for Duchy of Cornwall, who d. 23 Dec. 1860 aged 82). b. St. Austell 24 Jany. 1814; ed. at Devonport and St. John’s coll. Cam.; second wrangler and Smith’s prizeman 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. and D.D. 1853; fellow of his college 13 March 1837 to 1846; mathematical master at Harrow 1839–42; private tutor at Cam. 1842–6; V. of Forncett St. Mary, Norfolk 1846–53; bishop of Natal 23 Nov. 1853, consecrated in St. Mary’s, Lambeth 30 Nov.; suffragan to bishop of Cape Town 6 Dec. 1853, who pronounced sentence of deposition against him 16 April 1864, he appealed to the Crown, and the judicial committee of the privy council pronounced all the legal proceedings null and void in law; publicly excommunicated at Maritzburg cathedral 5 Jany. 1866; author of The elements of Algebra designed for the use of schools 1841, and numerous other works on mathematics; Village sermons 1854; Ten weeks in Natal 1855; First steps in Zulu-Kaffir 1859 and many other works concerning, and in that language; The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua critically examined 1862–65, 5 volumes, with other editions of the whole work and of parts of it; Natal sermons, a series of discourses in the cathedral church of St. Peter’s, Maritzburg 1866; Lectures on the Pentateuch and the Moabite stone 1873; The treatment by the Natal government of Langalibalele and the Amahlubi tribe 1874. d. Pieter-Maritzburg, Natal 20 June 1883. Dict. of Nat. Biog. xi, 290–3 (1887); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 76–9, iii, 1125–7; J. F. Hurst’s History of rationalism (1867) 401–409; Churchman’s Family Mag. v, 395–408 (1865); Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia 153–4; 674Graphic xxvii, 652 (1883), portrait; Bookseller 30 July 1863 pp. 356–8.

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

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

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

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

675COLERIDGE, Sir John Taylor (brother of the preceding). b. Tiverton 9 July 1790; ed. at Ottery St. Mary, Eton and C.C. coll. Ox., scholar, April 1809; took both Bachelors’ prizes for English and Latin essays 1813; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1817, hon. D.C.L. 1852; Vinerian law scholar 1812; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1812 to 7 Aug. 1818; a certificated special pleader; barrister M.T. 25 June 1819; a bankruptcy comr. 1827; recorder of Exeter, Feb. 1832; serjeant-at-law 14 Feb. 1832; a justice of Court of King’s Bench 27 Jany. 1835 to 28 June 1858; knighted at St. James’s Palace 18 Feb. 1835; member of Inns of Court commission 1834, and of Law Courts commission 1858; P.C. 5 June 1858, member of judicial committee; edited Blackstone’s Commentaries 4 vols. 1825; author of Memoir of the Rev. John Keble 1869, 4 ed. 1874. d. Heath’s Court, Devon 11 Feb. 1876. Law Mag. and law review vii, 263–84 (1859), i, 486–99 (1876); I.L.N. vi, 245 (1845), portrait, xxxiii, 142 (1858), portrait, lxviii, 190, 213 (1876), portrait.

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

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

676COLES, Henry Beaumont. b. London 1794; barrister G.I. 30 Jany. 1837; M.P. for Andover 29 July 1847 to 20 March 1857. d. Portman sq. London 23 Nov. 1862.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

677COLLETTE, John Hickey. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 7 Madras light cavalry 12 Aug. 1839 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Nice 23 Oct. 1858 aged 77.

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

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

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

COLLIER, John Payne (son of John Dyer Collier of London, writer on the press 1762–1825). b. Broad st. London 11 Jany. 1789; reporter on The Times 1809–21, on the Morning Chronicle 1821–47; summoned before House of Commons 15 June 1819 for misreporting a speech of Joseph Hume, and committed to custody of the serjeant-at-arms; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1829; deputy licenser of plays; a founder of the Camden Society 1838; sec. of Royal commission on British Museum 1847–50; accused of having committed many literary frauds in connection with Shakespearian and other documents; granted civil list pension of £100, 30 Oct. 1850; author of Criticisms on the Bar, by Amicus Curiæ 1819; printed privately and anonymously The Poet’s Pilgrimage 1822; published 678a new ed. of Dodsley’s Old Plays 12 vols. 1825–7; Punch and Judy 1828, anon.; History of English dramatic poetry and annals of the stage 3 vols. 1831, new ed. 1879; Shakespeare’s Library 2 vols. 1843; Shakespeare’s Works 8 vols. 1844, 6 vols. 1858; Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare’s plays from the folio in the possession of J. P. C. [i.e. the Perkins folio] 1853; The works of Edmund Spenser 5 vols. 1862. d. Riverside, Maidenhead 17 Sep. 1883. bur. Bray churchyard 20 Sep. J. P. Collier’s An old man’s diary 4 parts 1871–2; Wheatley’s Notes on the life of J. P. Collier 1884; Literary Cookery 1855, anon. by E. A. Brae; Antiquarian Mag. iv, 272–5 (1883); I.L.N. lxxxiii, 309 (1883), portrait; N. E. S. A. Hamilton’s Genuineness of Collier’s Annotated Shakespeare 1860.

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

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

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

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

679COLLINS, Edward Francis. b. North of Ireland 1807; came to London 1832 and became private secretary to Joseph Hume, M.P.; sub-editor of the Sun; edited the Hull Advertiser 1842–66; sub-editor of The Tablet 1868; author of A form of reciting the most holy rosary, compiled for the nuns of the convent of our Lord of Mercy at Hull 1859, anon. d. Upper Clapton near London 3 Jany. 1872.

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

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

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

COLLINS, Mortimer, whose full names were Edward James Mortimer Collins (only child of Francis Collings of Kingsbridge, Devon, who d. 1839). b. Plymouth 29 June 1827; reading boy at Gilbert and Rivingtons, St. John’s sq. London 5 May to 29 June 1838; assistant in a shop in Holborn 1838; usher in Rev. Richard Harris’s school at Westbury, Wilts. 1843–5; 680his first poem, signed E. J. M. C. printed in Bath and Cheltenham Gazette 10 April 1844; contributed to Felix Farley’s Journal at Bristol 1847–9, Paris correspondent 1848; private tutor at Windermere 1847–8; usher at Rev. J. H. Crump’s school, Lechlade, Gloucs. Jany. to June 1849; tutor at Rothwell, Northamptonshire 1849; editor of the Lancaster Gazette, May 1850; master of a school at Launceston for 3 months in 1851; head master of lower school, Elizabeth college, Guernsey 1852–5; contributed to Dublin Univ. Mag. 1851 and to Punch 1853; started the Channel Islands Mag. 1 May 1853, 3 numbers only; opened a private school in Guernsey 1855–6; edited the Leamington Mercury 1856–7; private tutor at Carlisle 1858; edited the Plymouth Mail 1859, Nottingham Guardian 1860–1; contributed to Temple Bar 1861–7; editor of and contributed to The Owl 1864–6; joint editor of The Globe 1866; author of Windermere a poem and Sonnets, Kendal 1848; Idyls and Rhymes 1855; Summer songs 1860; Who is the heir? 3 vols. 1865; A selection from the works of Sir Walter Scott in Moxon’s Miniature Poets 1866; Sweet Anne Page 3 vols. 1868; The Ivory gate 2 vols. 1869; Letter to the Eight Hon. B. Disraeli 1869 in verse, anon.; The Vivian romance 3 vols. 1870; The Inn of strange Meetings, and other Poems 1871; The secret of long life 1871 anon., 5 ed. 1879; Marquis and Merchant 3 vols. 1871; The British birds, a communication from the Ghost of Aristophanes 1872, 2 ed. 1878; The Princess Clarice 2 vols. 1871; Two plunges for a pearl 3 vols. 1872; Squire Sylvester’s Whim 3 vols. 1873; Miranda a Midsummer madness 3 vols. 1873; Mr. Carington, a tale of love and conspiracy by Robert Turner Cotton 3 vols. 1873, pseud.; Transmigration 3 vols. 1874; Blacksmith and Scholar, and from Midnight to Midnight 3 vols. 1876; A fight with fortune, 3 vols. 1876, another ed. 1880. (m. (1) 9 May 1850 at Wargrave, Berks., Susan dau. of William Hubbard, and widow of Rev. J. H. Crump, chaplain of the Mill Hill school, Middlesex, who d. 14 Feb. 1849 aged 46, she d. 5 Aug. 1867 aged 59. m. (2) 4 May 1868 at St. Martins in the Fields, London, Frances dau. of Wm. Dunn of London, engineer, she d. 16 March 1886 aged 45). d. Nightingale hall, Richmond 28 July 1876. bur. Petersham churchyard 1 Aug. Mortimer Collins his letters and friendships, edited by Frances Collins 2 vols. 1877; Dublin Univ. Mag. xc, 340–56, 474–98, 561–93 (1877); I.L.N. lxix, 205, 206 (1876), portrait.

COLLINS, Sam, stage name of Samuel Thomas Collins Vagg (son of Samuel Vagg who d. Uxbridge 13 Feb. 1868). Comic singer at Mogul 681music hall, Drury lane, London where he made a great hit with the song Paddy’s Wedding; proprietor of Marylebone music hall, London and Welsh harp, Hendon; became bankrupt on his own petition 2 July 1861; sang at all the chief music halls in London and the provinces; proprietor of Lansdowne music hall, Islington green, London, afterwards known as Collins’s music hall 1862 to death. d. 10 Paradise row, Islington 25 May 1865 aged 39. Illust. Sporting news iv, 217 (1865), portrait; Era 28 May 1865 p. 10, 4 June p. 11.

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

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

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

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

COLLINS, Rev. William Lucas (only son of Rev. John Collins of Axwich, Glamorgan). Educ. 682at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; C. of Great Houghton, Northamptonshire 1835–62; R. of Cheriton, Glamorganshire 1863–7; V. of Kilsby 1867–73; R. of Lowick 1873 to death; V. of Slipton 1876 to death; hon. canon of Peterborough 1871 to death; editor of Ancient classics for English readers 1870, wrote the vols. on Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Aristophanes, Lucian, Virgil, Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Livy and Thucydides; author of The luck of Ladysmede 1860; The education question 1862; Etoniana ancient and modern 1865; The public schools by W. L. C. 1867; Montaigne in Mrs. Oliphant’s Foreign classics for English readers 1879; Butler in Knight’s Philosophical classics for English readers 1881; La Fontaine and other French fabulists in Foreign Classics 1882; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. from 1843. d. Lowick rectory 24 March 1887 aged 70. Blackwood’s Mag. cxli, 734–6 (1887).

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

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

COLLINSON, Sir Richard (son of the preceding). b. Gateshead 7 Nov. 1811; entered navy 2 Dec. 1823; captain 23 Dec. 1842; captain of the Enterprise 14 Dec. 1849 to 6 May 1855 during the expedition to Behring strait in search of Sir John Franklin; granted good service pension 4 Dec. 1857; an elder brother of the Trinity House 1862, 683deputy master 7 Sep. 1875 to death; V.A. 17 March 1869; retired admiral 30 July 1875; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 29 May 1875; F.R.G.S. gold medallist 1848; edited for the Hakluyt Society The three voyages of Martin Frobisher in search of a passage to Cathaia and India by the Northwest 1867. d. Haven Green, Ealing 12 Sep. 1883. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v, 606–9, 734 (1883); I.L.N. xxvi, 472 (1855), portrait, lxxxiii, 309 (1883), portrait.

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

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

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

COLLYER, John (eld. child of the succeeding). b. 15 July 1801; ed. at Charterhouse and Clare coll. Cam., fellow, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1827; commissary of Norwich 1842; judge of county courts, circuit 35, Cambridgeshire, March 1847 to death; 684author of A practical treatise on the law of Partnership 1832, 2 ed. 1840; Reports of cases decided in the court of Chancery by Sir J. L. Knight Bruce 1844–6, 2 vols. 1845–7; author with Edward Younge of Reports of cases in the court of Exchequer in Equity 1833–41, 4 vols. 1836–46; Reports of cases decided in the court of Chancery by Sir J. L. Knight Bruce 1841–4, 2 vols. 1843–4. d. Hackford hall, Reepham, Norfolk 1 Sep. 1870.

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

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

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

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

685COLONSAY, Duncan M’Neill, 1 Baron (2 son of John Mc. Neill of Colonsay, Argyllshire, who d. 1846). b. Colonsay 20 Aug. 1793; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; called to Scottish bar 1816; advocate depute 1820–4; sheriff of Perthshire, Dec. 1824 to Dec. 1834; solicitor general for Scotland Nov. 1834 to April 1835 and Sep. 1841 to 26 Oct. 1842; Her Majesty’s advocate for Scotland 26 Oct. 1842 to July 1846; dean of faculty of advocates 1843–51; a lord of session 15 May 1851; a lord of justiciary 30 May 1851; lord justice general and pres. of court of session 15 May 1852 to Feb. 1867; P.C. 8 Aug. 1853; M.P. for Argyllshire 1843–51; created baron Colonsay of Colonsay and Oransay in the co. of Argyle 26 Feb. 1867. d. Pau, France 31 Jany. 1874.

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

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

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

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

686COLQUHOUN, John Campbell (5 son of Sir James Colquhoun, 2 Baronet). b. Edinburgh 31 Jany. 1785; studied at Göttingen; called to bar in Scotland 7 June 1806; sheriff depute of Dumbartonshire 1815–84; author of Isis Revelata, an inquiry into the origin, progress and present state of animal magnetism 1836 and of a translation of Wienholt’s Seven lectures on Somnambulism 1845. d. Edinburgh 21 Aug. 1854.

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

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

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

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

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

COLVILE, Rev. Frederick Leigh (eld. son of Frederick Charles Colvile of Marylebone, London). Educ. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; V. of Leek Wootton near Warwick 1842–80; chaplain of Stoneleigh abbey 1853–80; rural dean of Coventry 1856–80; author of Catechism on the liturgy of the Church of England, 9 ed. 1850; Stoneleigh Abbey from 687its foundation by F. L. C., privately printed 1850; Worthies of Warwickshire 1870. d. Kempsey, Bournemouth 28 March 1886.

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

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

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

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

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

688COMBE, George (son of George Combe of Edinburgh, brewer, who d. 29 Sep. 1815 in 60 year.) b. Livingston’s yards, Edin. 21 Oct. 1788; studied at Univ. of Edin. 1802–4; admitted a writer to the signet 31 Jany. 1812, practised in Edin 1812–36; a founder of Phrenological Society, Feb. 1820; delivered 158 lectures on phrenology and education in United States 1838–40; author of Elements of phrenology 1824, 8 ed. 1855; Outlines of phrenology 1824, 9 ed. 1854; The constitution of man considered in relation to external objects 1828, 9 ed. 1860; Notes on the United States 3 vols. 1841, and numerous other works. d. Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey 14 Aug. 1858. bur. in the Dean cemetery, Edin. The life of George Combe by Charles Gibbon 2 vols. 1878, portrait; Charles Mackay’s Forty years recollections (1877) ii, 241–70; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 265–77; R. Capen’s Reminiscences of Spurzheim and Combe 1881; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 161–6, portrait.

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

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

COMBERMERE, Stapleton Cotton, 1 Viscount (2 son of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5 baronet, who d. 24 Aug. 1809). b. Llewenny hall, co. Denbigh 14 Nov. 1773; ed. at Westminster; 2 lieut. 23 foot 26 Feb. 1790; lieut.-col. 25 light dragoons 9 March 1794 to 14 Feb. 1800; lieut.-col. 16 light dragoons 14 Feb. 1800 to 27 Jany. 1813; succeeded 24 Aug. 1809; M.P. for Newark 1806–1814; commanded a brigade of cavalry in Portugal 1808; commanded whole allied cavalry under Duke of Wellington 1810–14; 689col. 20 light dragoons 27 Jany. 1813–1819 when regiment was disbanded; created Baron Combermere of Combermere Abbey 17 May 1814 for his brilliant services during Peninsula war, with an annuity of £2000 for two generations; commanded allied cavalry in France 1815–16, the forces in West Indies 21 Dec. 1816 to 9 Feb. 1821; governor of Barbados 14 Feb. 1817 to 2 March 1821; commander in chief in Ireland 1822–5; col. 3 light dragoons 25 Jan. 1821 to 16 Sep. 1829; governor of Sheerness 25 Jany. 1821 to 11 Oct. 1852; commander in chief in India 9 Feb. 1825 to 1 Jany. 1830, captured city of Bhurtpoor, Hindostan 18 Jany. 1826; created Viscount Combermere 2 Dec. 1826; col. 1 life guards 16 Sep. 1829 to death; P.C. 15 Dec. 1834; constable of Tower of London 11 Oct. 1852 to death, sworn in 21 Feb. 1853; field marshal 2 Oct. 1855; G.C.B. 21 Aug. 1813, G.C.H. 24 July 1817, K.S.I. 19 Aug. 1861; portrait in National portrait gallery. d. Clifton 21 Feb. 1865. bur. Wrenbury ch. where is a monument; statue by Marochetti at Chester castle. Memoirs 2 vols. 1866, 2 portraits; Army and navy mag. iii, 481–5 (1882), portrait.

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

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

COMPTON, Henry, stage name of Charles Mackenzie (6 child of John Mackenzie of Huntingdon). b. Huntingdon 22 March 1805; clerk in office of Mr. Symonds of Aldermanbury, London, cloth merchant; acted on the Bedford, Lincoln and York circuits 1826–37; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre 24 July 1837 as Robin in The Waterman; played at Drury Lane 1837–8, 1839 and 1843–4, at Lyceum 1838–9, at Princess’s 1844–7, at Olympic 1847–50 and 1850–3, at Strand 1849–50, at Haymarket 1853–70, at 690Globe 1871, at Lyceum 1874; went on a tour with the Vezin-Chippendale company; last appeared at Prince of Wales’s theatre, Liverpool 14 July 1877; the best Shakespearean clown of his time. d. 12 Stanford road, Victoria road, Kensington 15 Sep. 1877. Memoir of H. Compton edited by C. and E. Compton 1879, portrait; Actors by daylight i, 289 (1838), portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book, part 11, portrait as Launce; The Players ii, 25 (1860), portrait; Theatrical times ii, 1 (1847), portrait.

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

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

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

CONDY, Nicholas. b. Torpoint, Cornwall 1793; ensign 43 foot 9 May 1811, lieut. 24 Feb. 1813 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; a painter at Plymouth; chiefly produced small water-colours on tinted paper about 8 inches by 5, which he sold at prices ranging from fifteen shillings to one guinea each; exhibited 2 landscapes at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. gallery 1830–45; published 691Cotehele on the banks of the Tamar with a descriptive account by the Rev. F. V. J. Arundell, 17 plates. d. 10 Mount Pleasant terrace, Plymouth 8 Jany. 1857 aged 64.

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

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

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

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

692CONINGHAM, Henry. Entered Madras army 1819; col. 7 Madras light cavalry 24 Oct. 1858 to death; L.G. 6 Nov. 1866. d. Nice 21 April 1868 aged 70.

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

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

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

CONNELL, Arthur (eld. son of Sir John Connell, judge of the admiralty court of Scotland). b. Edinburgh 30 Nov. 1794; ed. at High sch. and Univ. of Edin.; Snell exhibitioner at Univ. of Glasgow; matric. from Balliol coll. Ox. 20 March 1812; passed advocate at Scotch bar 6931817 but never practised; professor of chemistry in Univ. of St. Andrews 1840–56; F.R.S. Edin. 1829, F.R.S. 1855; established several new mineral species; author of A treatise on the election laws in Scotland 1827, many papers in Trans. of Royal Soc. of Edin. and in Edin. Philos. Journal. d. St. Andrew’s, Fife 31 Oct. 1863.

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

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

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

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

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

CONNOR, Skeffington. b. Dublin 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1828, LL.B. and 694LLD. 1845; called to Irish bar 1838; called to Canadian bar at Toronto 1842; bencher of Canadian law society 1850, Q.C. 1850; represented South Oxford in legislative assembly 1856–63; solicitor general for Upper Canada 1858; puisne judge of Court of Queen’s Bench, Upper Canada 1 Feb. 1863. d. Toronto 29 April 1863.

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

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

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

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

695CONQUEST, Benjamin Oliver, stage name of Benjamin Oliver. b. near St. Michael’s church, Cornhill, London 1805; first appeared on the stage as a witch in Macbeth at Lyceum theatre; acted at Pavilion theatre 1827; sang song of Billy Barlow 4 times every night for 28 weeks; projected and opened with Wyman and Freer the Garrick theatre, Whitechapel 1830, proprietor of it with Gomersal to 4 Nov. 1846 when it was burned down; landlord of “The Hampshire Hog” tavern 410 Strand, London 1847–51; lessee of Grecian theatre, City road, London at rent of £1300, 4 March 1851 to death. d. New north road, London 5 July 1872. Actors by daylight i, 337 (1839) portrait.

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

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

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

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

CONROY, Sir John, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Ponsonby Conroy of Bettyfield, co. Roscommon 1759–97). b. Caerhyn, Carnarvonshire 21 Oct. 6961786; second lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803, second captain 13 March 1811 to 17 June 1822 when placed on permanent h.p.; K.C.H. 17 Aug. 1827; comptroller of the household to Duchess of Kent to 1837 when he retired on pension of £3000; created baronet 7 July 1837; comr. of Colonial audit board; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1843; col. of Montgomeryshire militia 30 Aug. 1852. d. Arborfield near Reading 2 March 1854.

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

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

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

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

697CONWAY, Thomas Sydenham. b. 7 June 1810; ensign 22 foot 14 Feb. 1828; deputy adjutant general Bombay 1849–51; captain Grenadier guards 14 July 1854 to 8 March 1864 when placed on h.p.; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 7 June 1880; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. 19 Bury st. St. James’s, London 7 June 1885.

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

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

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

CONYNGHAM, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, 2 Marquis (2 son of 1 Marquis Conyngham 1766–1832). b. Dublin 11 June 1797; cornet 2 life guards 21 Sep. 1820, lieut. 13 698Dec. 1821 to 12 June 1823 when placed on h.p.; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 6 Jany. 1823 to 2 Jany. 1826; M.P. for co. Donegal 1825 to 1832; a lord of the treasury 30 April 1826 to 30 April 1827; succeeded 28 Dec. 1832; postmaster general 5 July to 31 Dec. 1834 and 8 to 30 May 1835; lord chamberlain of the household, May 1835 to 6 May 1839; G.C.H. 1823; K.P. 27 March 1833; P.C. 20 May 1835; lord lieut. of co. Meath 27 May 1869 to death; general 21 March 1874. d. 5 Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 17 July 1876, personalty sworn under £500,000, 9 Sep. 1876. I.L.N. lxix, 113, 119, 255 (1876), portrait; Graphic xiv, 102, 108 (1876), portrait.

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

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

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

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

699COOK, Alexander Shank (son of Rev. George Cook, professor of moral philosophy at St. Andrews). b. 9 Dec. 1810; ed. at St. Andrews; advocate at Edin. 1834; procurator for church of Scotland 1861 to death; advocate depute; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 22 March 1858 to death. d. Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1869.

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

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

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

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

COOK, Rev. John (eld. son of Rev. George Cook 1772–1845, leader of the ‘moderate’ party in the 700Church of Scotland). b. 12 Sep. 1807; ed. at St. Andrews Univ., A.M. 1823, D.D. 1843; licensed for ministry of Church of Scotland 17 Sep. 1828; minister of Cults, Fifeshire 1832; translated to second charge at Haddington 1833, to the first charge 1843; sub-clerk of the Assembly 25 May 1859, principal clerk 22 May 1862, moderator 24 May 1866; author of Styles of writs and forms of procedure in the church courts of Scotland 1850, 4 ed. 1870. d. Haddington 11 Sep. 1874.

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

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

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

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

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

701COOKE, Edward. Barrister M.T. 12 Nov. 1819; judge of county courts, circuit 11, Bradford 1854 to 1861 when he resigned; author of The real cause of the high price of gold 1819; A treatise on the law of insolvent debtors 1827, 2 ed. 1839. d. 2 Taviton st. Gordon sq. London 6 Feb. 1862 aged 70.

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

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

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

COOKE, George Wingrove (eld. son of T. H. Cooke of Bristol). b. Bristol 1814; ed. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1834; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1835; contested Colchester, Feb. 1860, 702Marylebone, April 1861; special correspondent of The Times in China 1857–8; copyhold and inclosure comr. Dec. 1862 to death; author of Memoirs of Lord Bolingbroke 1835, 2 ed. 1836; The history of party from the rise of the Whig and Tory factions to the passing of the Reform bill 3 vols. 1836–37; Act for the enclosure of commons with a treatise on the law of rights of common 1846, 4 ed. 1864; Treatise on agricultural tenancies 1850, new ed. 1882; A treatise on the law and practice of copyhold enfranchisement 1853; Inside Sebastopol 1856; China and Lower Bengal 1858; Conquest and colonisation in North Africa 1860. d. 25 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 18 June 1865.

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

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

COOKE, Sir John Henry. b. 1791; ensign 43 foot 15 March 1809; captain 25 foot 27 July 1838 to 15 Dec. 1840 when placed on h.p.; conducted Louis xviii from Ghent to Paris, June to July 1815; sub officer of corps 703of gentlemen at arms 2 Oct. 1844 to 16 Sep. 1862; ensign of Yeomen of the guard 16 Sep. 1862, lieut. 2 Feb. 1866 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 11 Dec. 1867. d. Albion villa, Upper heath, Hampstead 31 Jany. 1870.

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

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

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

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

COOKE, Thomas Potter (son of Mr. Cooke of London, surgeon, who d. 1793). b. Titchfield st. Marylebone 23 April 1786; served in navy 1796–1802, present in battle off Cape St. Vincent 1797; made his début at Royalty 704theatre, Wellclose sq. Jany. 1804; stage manager of Surrey theatre 1809–16; acted at Lyceum 1820–2, at Covent Garden 1822–5; played Le Monstre (Frankenstein) 80 nights, at Porte Saint Martin theatre, Paris 1825–6; played at Adelphi 1828–9; his best known part was William in Douglas Jerrold’s drama Black-eyed Susan, which he acted over 100 nights from 6 June 1829 at Surrey theatre; acted at Covent Garden 1829–34 and 1836, at Drury Lane 1834–6; made his last appearance on the stage 2 May 1861 at Princess’s theatre; he is described by Christopher North in Noctes Ambrosianæ as ‘the best sailor out of all sight and hearing that ever trod the stage.’ d. 37 Thurloe sq. London 4 April 1864. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii, 109 (1825), portrait; Stirling’s Old Drury Lane ii, 105–11 (1881); Tallis’s Illustrated life in London (1864) 33, 36, 40, 41, 3 portraits; Actors by daylight 11 Aug. 1838 pp. 185–87, portrait.

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

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

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

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

705COOKE, William Bernard (brother of George Cooke, engraver 1781–1834). b. London 1778; pupil of Wm. Angus the engraver; published The Thames 1811 for which he engraved nearly all the plates; published with his brother George Cooke Picturesque views on the Southern coast of England 1814–26, chiefly from drawings by Turner; illustrated 10 other works 1812–40. d. Camberwell, London 2 Aug. 1855.

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

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

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

706COOKE, William John. b. Dublin 11 April 1797; pupil of his uncle George Cooke the engraver; received from Society of Arts a gold medal for improvements in engraving upon steel 1826; employed upon the Annuals and other illustrated publications to about 1840 when he left England and settled at Darmstadt; engraved several pictures after Turner, Cox and Landseer. d. Darmstadt 6 April 1865.

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

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

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

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

COOLEY, William Desborough. F.R.G.S. 1830, hon. free member 1864; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; wrote for Lardner’s ‘Cabinet Cyclopædia’ The history of maritime and inland discovery 3 vols. 1830–1; published The world surveyed in the xix century 2 vols. 1845–8; Inner Africa laid open 1852; 707Physical geography, or the terraqueous globe and its phenomena 1876 and other works. d. 56 Crowndale road, Somers Town, London 1 March 1883. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v, 232–3 (1883).

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

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

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

708COOPER, Sir Astley Paston, 2 Baronet. b. Great Yarmouth 13 Jany. 1797; succeeded 12 Feb. 1841; sheriff of Herts. 1864. d. Gadesbridge, Hemel Hempstead 6 Jany. 1866.

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

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

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

COOPER, Charles Purton (son of Charles Cooper of St. Dunstan’s, London). b. 1793; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., double first class 1814, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1816; obtained leading practice in V.C. Knight-Bruce’s court, quarrelled with him and left the court; Q.C. 1837; bencher of his Inn 7091836, treasurer 1855, master of the library 1856 to which he presented 2000 vols. on civil and foreign law 1843; secretary to Record Commission 12 March 1831 to 20 June 1837 when it lapsed on the king’s death; Queen’s serjeant in Duchy of Lancaster 1834 to death; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1832; F.S.A.; contested Canterbury 18 Aug. 1854 and 28 March 1857; author of Notes in French on the Court of Chancery 1828, 2 ed. 1830; An account of the public records of the United Kingdom 2 vols. 1832; Reports of cases decided by Lord Brougham 1835; Reports of cases decided by Lords Cottenham and Langdale and by V. G. Shadwell 1841; Reports of Lord Cottenham’s decisions 2 vols. 1847; wrote, edited or printed 52 pamphlets on political topics 1850–57. d. Boulogne 26 March 1873. Report from the select committee on record commission (1836) 1–275; Sir Henry Cole’s Fifty years of public work (1834) i, 7, ii, 20, 23.

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

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

710COOPER, Frederick Henry (younger son of Rev. Allen Cooper, incumbent of St. Mark’s, North Audley st. London). Entered Bengal civil service 1847; comr. at Lahore to death; C.B. 18 May 1860; author of The Crisis in the Punjaub 1858; The handbook for Delhi 1863. d. Trent rectory near Sherborne 22 April 1869 aged 42.