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750CRAMPTON, Sir John Fiennes Twisleton, 2 Baronet (elder son of the succeeding). b. Dawson st. Dublin 12 Aug. 1805; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Dublin; attached to mission at Turin 1826, to embassy at St. Petersburg 1828; paid attaché at Brussels 1834, at Vienna 1839; sec. of legation to Confederated states of Swiss Cantons 1844, in the United States 1845, chargé d’Affaires there 1847–49 and 1850–52; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to U.S. 19 Jany. 1852, the pres. of the U.S. discontinued official intercourse with him 28 May 1856 on account of his recruiting soldiers in the U.S. for the British army, when he returned to England but he held the appointment to 20 Jany. 1857; K.C.B. 20 Sep. 1856; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to King of Hanover 2 March 1857, at St. Petersburg 31 March 1858, at Madrid 11 Dec. 1860 to 1 July 1869 when he retired on pension; succeeded his father 10 June 1858. d. Bushey park, Enniscorthy, co. Wicklow 5 Dec. 1886.

CRAMPTON, Sir Philip, 1 Baronet (3 son of John Crampton of Merrion sq. Dublin 1732–92). b. Dublin 7 June 1777; assistant surgeon in army; surgeon to Meath hospital, Dublin 1798; M.D. Glasgow 1800; taught anatomy in private lectures and maintained a dissecting room behind his own house; surgeon general to the forces in Ireland to his death, the last who held that appointment; surgeon in ord. to the Queen for Ireland; a member of senate of the Queen’s Univ.; pres. of Royal college of surgeons, Dublin 3 times; F.R.S. 16 April 1812; created baronet 14 March 1839. d. Merrion sq. Dublin 10 June 1858. Dublin Univ. Mag. xv, 613 (1840), portrait; Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii, 52–53 (1861).

CRAMPTON, Philip Cecil (4 son of Rev. Cecil Crampton 1733–1819, R. of Headford, co. Galway). b. May 1782; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1800, fellow 1807, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1807; LL.B. 1809, LLD. 1810; called to Irish bar 1810; professor of common and feudal law in Univ. of Dublin 1816–34; solicitor general for Ireland 23 Dec. 1830; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1831; justice of Court of Queen’s Bench, Ireland 21 Oct. 1834 to Jany. 1859; M.P. for Milborne, Port, Somerset 15 July 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Univ. of Dublin, Dec. 1832 and Dungarvan, Feb. 1834; P.C. 1858. d. St. Valente, Bray, co. Wicklow 29 Dec. 1862. Address on Judge Crampton’s retirement with some of his charges to Juries 1859; O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 299–302.

CRAMPTON, Thomas. b. Sheerness 1817; organist at Staines 1840, afterwards at Brentford and Ealing; government lecturer at Kneller 751Hall training college 1854; composed anthems, glees and instrumental music; purchaser of music to the British Museum 1875; published The church psalter 1854; The part singer 1868; Twenty-four school songs with lessons on musical notation 1873; Forty school songs 1882; Music for the New Code staff notation 1884; composed and printed upwards of 35 pieces of music; some of his duets and trios appeared under the nom de plume of J. Karl Bernhardt. d. 2 Devonshire gardens, Chiswick 13 April 1885.

CRANE, Lucy (dau. of the succeeding.) b. Liverpool 22 Sep. 1842; ed. in London; wrote the original verses and rhymed versions of nursery legends for her brother Walter Crane’s Coloured Toybooks 1869–75; delivered lectures in London and the North on Art and the formation of taste; author of Household stories from the Brothers Grimm, translated 1882; Art and formation of taste, Six lectures 1882. d. Bolton-le-Moors 31 March 1882.

CRANE, Thomas (son of Mr. Crane of Chester, bookseller). b. Chester 1808; artist at Chester 1825; associate of Liverpool Academy 1835, member 1838, treasurer 1841; lived at Torquay 1844–57; his principal works were portraits in oil, water-colour and crayon; exhibited 9 subject pictures at the R.A.; illustrated various books. d. Lambton terrace, Bayswater, London 15 July 1859.

CRANWORTH, Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1 Baron (elder son of Rev. Edmund Rolfe, R. of Cockley Cley, Norfolk, who d. 24 July 1795). b. Cranworth, Norfolk 18 Dec. 1790; ed. at Bury school, Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam., 17 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; fellow of Downing coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 21 May 1816, bencher 1832; recorder of Bury St. Edmunds about 1830; K.C. Aug. 1832; M.P. for Penryn 1832–39; solicitor general 6 Nov. to 20 Dec. 1834 and 30 April 1835 to 11 Nov. 1839; baron of Court of Exchequer 11 Nov. 1839 to 2 Nov. 1850; one of comrs. of the Great Seal 19 June to 15 July 1850; vice chancellor 2 Nov. 1850; P.C. 13 Nov. 1850; created Baron Cranworth of Cranworth, co. Norfolk 20 Dec. 1850 being the first and only instance of a vice chancellor receiving dignity of a peer; one of the two lords justices of appeal in chancery 8 Oct. 1851; lord chancellor 28 Dec. 1852 to 26 Feb. 1858 and 7 July 1865 to 6 July 1867. d. 40 Upper Brook st. London 26 July 1868. bur. Keston churchyard. Men of the time British statesmen (1854) 251–58; Law mag. and law review xxvi, 278–84 (1869); The British cabinet in 1853 pp. 251–58; I.L.N. xvii, 357 (1850), portrait, xxx, 109 (1857), portrait, liii, 114, 153 (1868), portrait.

752CRAUFURD, Edward Henry John (eld. son of John Craufurd 1780–1867, secretary to senate of Ionian islands). b. 9 Dec. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1840, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1845; admitted barrister M.T. 10 April 1854; edited The Legal Examiner 1852; M.P. for Ayr district 22 July 1852 to 26 Jany. 1874; author of Advocacy in county courts. d. Portencross, Ayrshire 29 Aug. 1887.

CRAUFURD, James (eld. son of Archibald Clifford Blackwell Craufurd of Ardmillan, Ayrshire). b. Havant, Hants. 1805; ed. at Ayr academy and at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; admitted advocate 1829; sheriff of Perthshire 14 March 1849; solicitor general for Scotland 16 Nov. 1853; lord of session 10 Jany. 1855 to death with courtesy title of Lord Ardmillan; lord of justiciary 16 June 1855 to death. d. 18 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1876. Journal of jurisprudence xx, 538–9 (1876); Graphic xiv, 308 (1876), portrait.

CRAVEN, Louisa, Countess of (youngest dau. of John Brunton 1750–1832, manager of the Norwich theatre). b. Norwich 21 Jany. 1779; made her first appearance on the stage at Covent Garden 25 Oct. 1803 as Lady Townley in the Provoked Husband; made her last appearance at Covent Garden 21 Oct. 1807 as Clara Sedley in The Rage. (m. 12 Dec. 1807 Wm. Craven 1 Earl of Craven, he was b. 1 Sep. 1770 and d. 30 July 1825). d. Hampstead Marshall, Newbury 27 Aug. 1860. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses i, 94–102 (1844), portrait; British Stage ii, 241 (1818), portrait; Theatrical Inquisitor xiii, 3 (1818), portrait; Bentley’s Miscellany xviii, 249–51 (1845).

CRAVEN, William Craven, 2 Earl of. b. 18 July 1809; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 30 July 1825; knight of the griffin at the Eglinton tournament 28 to 31 Aug. 1839; lord lieut. of Warws. 29 March 1854 to 1856; devoted great attention to coursing and held spring and autumn meetings at Ashdown hills on his own property. d. Royal hotel, Scarborough 25 Aug. 1866. Baily’s Mag. viii, 327–9 (1864), portrait; Nixon and Richardson’s Eglinton tournament (1843), portrait.

CRAVEN, George Grimston Craven, 3 Earl of. b. Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 16 March 1841; ed. at Harrow; succeeded 25 Aug. 1866; high steward of Newbury, Berkshire 14 Jany. 1869; lord lieut. of Berks. 11 Aug. 1881 to death; master of the old Berkshire hounds, a steeple chaser, continued the Ashdown coursing meeting. d. Ashdown park, Berks. 7 Dec. 1883. bur. Binley churchyard near Coventry 13 Dec. Baily’s Mag. xxii, 187 (1872), portrait.

753CRAVEN, Fulwar (elder son of Rev. John Craven of Chilton house, Wiltshire, who d. 19 June 1804). b. 25 June 1782; captain 1 dragoons 1803–1806; owner of race horses; won the Oaks with Deception 1839; one of the most notable and eccentric characters on the turf. d. Brockhampton park, Gloucs. 14 April 1860. H. Corbet’s Tales of sporting life (1864) 99–108; W. Day’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1886) 138–42.

CRAVEN, Keppel Richard (youngest child of 6 Baron Craven 1737–91). b. 1 June 1779; ed. at Harrow; resided with his mother at Naples 1805; chamberlain to Princess of Wales 1814–15; purchased a large convent in the mountains near Salerno, South Italy, and lived there 1834; author of A tour through the southern provinces of the kingdom of Naples 1821; Excursions in the Abruzzi and northern provinces of Naples 2 vols. 1838. d. Naples 24 June 1851. Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach (1826), i, 72, 85, 364, ii, 74, 84, 95, 173, portrait; Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington, ii, 124–39 (1855).

CRAWFORD and BALCARRES, James Lindsay, Earl of. b. Balcarres, Fifeshire 24 April 1783; succeeded as 7 Earl of Balcarres 27 March 1825; created Baron Wigan in peerage of United Kingdom 5 July 1826; had Earldom of Crawford (dormant since 1808) confirmed to him by House of Lords 1848 and thus became 24 Earl of Crawford and premier Earl on union roll of Scotland; claimed Dukedom of Montrose 1855. d. Dunecht house, Aberdeen 15 Dec. 1869.

CRAWFORD and BALCARRES, Alexander William Crawford Lindsay, Earl of (eld. child of the preceding). b. Muncaster Castle 16 Oct. 1812; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1833; succeeded 15 Dec. 1869; collected from all parts of the world the famous Crawford library consisting of more than 50,000 books and MSS., the first portion of which was sold for £19,000 in 1887, one book the Mazarin Bible fetched £2650; author of Letters on Egypt, Edom and the Holy Land 2 vols. 1838; Lives of the Lindsays 3 vols. 1840, 3 ed. 1858; Ballads, songs and poems translated from the German 1841; Progression by antagonism, a theory 1846; Sketches of the history of Christian art 3 vols. 1847, new ed. 2 vols. 1885; Scepticism, a retrogressive movement in theology 1861; Etruscan inscriptions analysed 1872; The Earldom of Mar in sunshine and in shade during five hundred years 2 vols. 1882. d. Villa Eualenina, Florence 13 Dec. 1880. bur. at Dunecht house, April 1881, personalty sworn under £300,000 April 1881. Athenæum 25 Dec. 1880 p. 865; I.L.N. lxxxi, 124 (1882).

754Note.—His body was stolen April 1881 by Charles Soutar a ratcatcher, but the theft was not discovered until Dec. 1881, the body was found on the farm of Dumbreck near Dunecht house 18 July 1882 and buried in family vault under Wigan parish church 26 July 1882. C. Soutar was sentenced to 5 years penal servitude 24 Oct. 1882.

CRAWFORD, Abraham (youngest son of Rev. Thomas Crawford, V. of Lismore, co. Waterford). b. Lismore, Oct. 1788; entered navy 19 May 1800; captain 5 Jany. 1829; retired captain 5 Jany. 1849; retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865. d. Teignmouth, Devon 17 Jany. 1869. Reminiscences of a naval officer by Capt. A. Crawford, R.N. 2 vols. 1851.

CRAWFORD, Edmund Thornton (son of Mr. Crawford of Cowden near Dalkeith, land surveyor). b. Cowden 1806; landscape and marine painter; A.R.S.A. 1839, R.S.A. 1848; one of the greatest landscape painters in Scotland; contributed many pictures to Royal Scottish Academy 1831–77; lived at Lasswade near Edinburgh 1858 to death. d. Lasswade 27 Sep. 1885. bur. in new cemetery at Dalkeith.

CRAWFORD, George Morland. b. Chelsfield court lodge, Kent 1816; barrister I.T. 5 May 1837; Paris correspondent of Daily News 1850 to death; a severe censurer of the Imperial government; very intimate with Thiers, Gambetta and Floquet; stung by a wasp in the carotid artery, Oct. 1885. d. from blood poisoning in Paris 23 Nov. 1885. Daily News 26 Nov. 1885 p. 3, 28 Nov. p. 3; Pall Mall Gazette 26 Nov. 1885 p. 11, 27 Nov. p. 3, portrait 9 Dec. p. 5.

CRAWFORD, John. b. Greenock 31 Aug. 1816; a house painter at Alloa 1834 to death; author of Doric lays, being snatches of song and ballad 2 vols. 1850–60; committed suicide at Alloa 13 Dec. 1873. Memorials of the town and parish of Alloa, by the late John Crawford with memoir of the author by Rev. Charles Rogers 1874.

CRAWFORD, Joseph Tucker. Consul general in Island of Cuba, April 1842 to death; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859. d. Havannah 21 July 1864.

CRAWFORD, Rev. Thomas Jackson (son of Wm. Crawford, professor of moral philosophy in United college, St. Andrews). b. St. Andrews; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, B.D. 1831, D.D. 1844; minister of parish of Cults 1834, of parish of Glamis 1838, of St. Andrews parish Edin. 1844; professor of theology in Univ. of Edin. 1859 to death, being the last person appointed by the town to any chair in the Univ.; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 1861; a dean of the chapel royal; moderator of general 755assembly 1867; author of Reasons of adherence to the Church of Scotland 1843; Presbyterianism defended against the exclusive claims of prelacy as urged by the Romanists and Tractarians 1853, 2 ed. 1867; The Fatherhood of God 1866, 3 ed. 1870; The mysteries of Christianity 1874. d. Genoa 11 Oct. 1875. Scott’s Fasti iii, pt. 2, p. 772; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix, 17 (1878).

CRAWFORD, William (2 son of Archibald Crawford of Ayr, poet 1779–1843). b. Ayr 1825; teacher of drawing at Royal Institution, Edinburgh; exhibited pictures at Royal Scottish Academy, many of which were bought by Royal Assoc. for Promotion of fine arts in Scotland; his portraits in crayons of children and ladies were much sought after; A.R.S.A. 1860. d. Lynedoch place, Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. ii, 146 (1869).

CRAWFORD, William Thomas. Second lieut. R.A. 21 June 1833, lieut. col. 1 April 1855 to death; C.B. 24 March 1858. d. Rome 6 March 1862.

CRAWFURD, Andrew. b. St. John’s hill, Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 1813; surgeon at Rothesay, Isle of Bute; professor of natural philosophy in the Dollar Institution a short time; author of a voluminous Eik or Supplement to John Jamieson’s Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language 2 vols. 1840, and of a supplement of 80 pages dated 1853 to The Laird of Logan 1841; collected 44 quarto manuscript volumes relating to Renfrewshire. d. St. John’s hill, Lochwinnoch 27 Dec. 1854 aged 67.

CRAWFURD, John (son of Mr. Crawfurd of Islay, Hebrides islands, surgeon). b. Islay 13 Aug. 1783; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co. 1803; filled some of chief civil and political posts in Java 1811–17; envoy to courts of Siam and Cochin China 1821–23; governor of Singapore 1823–26; comr. to Pegu 1826; made a collection of fossil mastodon and other animals which were described by Buckland and Clift; sent on a mission to court of Ava 1827; F.R.S. 7 May 1818; contested Glasgow, Dec. 1832, Paisley, March 1834 and Sterling, Jany. 1835; pres. of Ethnological Soc. 1861, contributed 38 papers to the Journal 1861–68; author of History of the Indian Archipelago 3 vols. 1820; Journal of an embassy to Ava 1828; A grammar and dictionary of the Malay language 2 vols. 1852; A descriptive dictionary of the Indian islands and adjacent countries 1856. d. Elvaston place, South Kensington, London 11 May 1868. Journal of Royal Geographical Soc. xxxviii, pp. cxlviii-clii, (1868).

756CRAWLEY, George Baden (2 son of George Abraham Crawley of London, solicitor 1795–1862). b. 4 Sep. 1833; ed. at Harrow, was in cricket eleven; one of the best tennis players; a railway contractor; planned and carried out two railways in Belgium, two railways in Spain, a railway from Vera Cruz to Mexico and a railway of nearly 300 miles from Tiflis to Poti; his last work was a railway from Ploesti in Roumania to Cronstadt in Hungary but this was interrupted by the war 1878; accidentally killed on board a steamer off Progreso coast of Mexico 23 Nov. 1879. bur. Highgate cemetery, London 1 Jany. 1880.

CRAWLEY, Peter. b. Newington Green 5 Dec. 1799; fought Richard Acton for £50 at Blindlow heath 6 May 1823 when Crawley won after 13 rounds; fought James Ward for £200 at Royston heath 2 Jany. 1827 when Crawley won in 26 minutes; landlord of Queen’s head and French horn, Duke st. West Smithfield, London 1827 to death. d. at his house 12 March 1865. Miles’s Pugilistica ii, 233–47 (1880), portrait; Illust. sporting news iii, 37 (1864), portrait.

CRAWLEY, Thomas Robert. b. 30 April 1818; ensign 45 foot 19 Dec. 1834; lieut. col. 15 dragoons 23 Sep. 1859 to 18 Sep. 1860; lieut. col. 6 dragoons 18 Sep. 1860 to 2 Dec. 1868 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 6 Feb. 1870; tried by a court martial at Aldershot 17 Nov. to 23 Dec. 1863 for falsely arresting Sergeant Lilley at Mhow in Hindustan, who died from effects of treatment he suffered after a month’s close confinement, honourably acquitted 23 Dec. 1863, the trial formed subject of several inquiries in House of Commons 1864 it cost the country £18,378 17s. 6d. d. 9 York terrace, Regent’s park, London 2 July 1880. British quarterly Review xxxix, 389–408 (1864); Annual Register (1863) 312–28; Illust. Times 28 Nov. 1863 p. 345, portrait.

CRAWSHAY, Robert Thompson (youngest son of the succeeding). b. Cyfarthfa ironworks near Merthyr Tydvil 8 March 1817; manager of the ironworks; head of the business 1867; known as the ‘iron king of Wales.’ d. Queen’s hotel, Cheltenham 10 May 1879, personalty sworn under £1,200,000, 21 June. Practical Mag. (1873) 81–4, portrait; Journal of iron and steel instit. (1879) 328–30.

CRAWSHAY, William (eld. son of Wm. Crawshay of Stoke Newington, Middlesex). b. 1788; sole proprietor of Cyfarthfa ironworks; had 10 mines in active work turning out iron ore, 9 shafts and collieries, a domain with a railway 6 miles long and large estates in Berks and 757Gloucestershire; sheriff of Glamorganshire 1822. d. Caversham park, Reading 4 Aug. 1867, personalty sworn under £2,000,000, 7 Sep. Red Dragon v, 289–92 (1884), portrait; G.M. Sep. 1867 pp. 393–95.

CREAGH, James. Ensign 86 foot 1 Jany. 1810, lieut. col. 30 April 1852 to 24 Jany. 1860; L.G. 26 Jany. 1874; colonel 34 foot 7 Oct. 1874 to death. d. 16 St. Stephen’s road, Westbourne park, London 1 Aug. 1875.

CREAGH, Jasper Byng. Ensign 81 foot 9 April 1825, captain 5 Oct. 1832 to 5 Sep. 1834; captain 54 foot 20 Sep. 1839 to 12 Dec. 1843 when placed on h.p.; served with British auxiliary legion in north of Spain 1836–37; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. Richmond road, Bayswater, London 9 March 1881 in 68 year.

CREAGH, Sir Michael (5 son of John Creagh of Limerick). b. 1788; ensign 86 foot 9 May 1802, major 24 Oct. 1821 to 31 Dec. 1830 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 86 foot 24 Feb. 1832 to 7 Jany. 1842; lieut. col. 11 foot 7 Jany. 1842 to 27 June 1845; M.G. 20 June 1854; col. 73 foot 11 Jany. 1860 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 Aug. 1832; K.H. 1832. d. Boulogne 14 Sep. 1860.

CREASY, Sir Edward Shepherd (son of Edward Hill Creasy of Bexley, Kent, land agent). b. Bexley 1812; ed. at Eton, Newcastle scholar 1831; scholar of King’s coll. Cam. 1832, fellow 1834, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1837; professor of ancient and modern history in Univ. coll. London 1840–60; chief justice of Ceylon 19 March 1860 to 1875 when he retired on pension of £1600; knighted at St. James’s palace 28 March 1860; professor of jurisprudence to the four Inns of Court, London; author of Memoirs of eminent Etonians 1850, 2 ed. 1876; The fifteen decisive battles of the world from Marathon to Waterloo 2 vols. 1851, 28 ed. 1877; The history of the rise and progress of the English constitution 1853, 14 ed. 1888; History of the Ottoman Turks 2 vols. 1854, new ed. 1877; History of England 2 vols. 1869–70; The old love and the new 3 vols. 1870. d. 15 Cecil st. Strand, London 27 Jany. 1878. I.L.N. lxxii, 133 (1878), portrait.

CRESSWELL, Addison John Baker (son of Francis Easterby of Blackheath, Kent who assumed name of Cresswell and d. 1820). b. 1 Oct. 1788; ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., M.A. 1810; sheriff of Northumberland 1821; M.P. for North Northumberland 12 July 1841 to 23 July 1847. d. Cresswell near Morpeth 5 May 1879.

758CRESSWELL, Sir Cresswell (brother of the preceding). b. Biggmarket, Newcastle 1794; ed. at Charterhouse and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; admitted at M.T. 1810, at I.T. 1815, barrister I.T. 25 June 1819, bencher 1834; went Northern circuit of which he became joint leader with Robert Alexander; recorder of Hull 1830; K.C. 1834; M.P. for Liverpool 26 July 1837 to Jany. 1842; justice of Court of Common Pleas 22 Jany. 1842 to 11 Jany. 1858; serjeant-at-law 27 Jany. 1842; knighted at St. James’s Palace 4 May 1842; judge of Court of Probate and Divorce (established by 20 & 21 Vict. c. 77) 11 Jany. 1858 to death; adjudicated upon 1000 cases in only one of which was his judgment reversed; P.C. 3 Feb. 1858; published with R. V. Barnewall Reports of cases in the Court of King’s Bench 1822–1830, 10 vols. 1823–32; thrown from his horse on Constitution hill and his kneepan fractured 17 July 1863. d. from heart disease at 21 Prince’s gate, Hyde park, London 29 July 1863. Law Mag. and law review xx, 179–88 (1866); Law Times xxxviii, 535–7 (1863).

CRESSWELL, Samuel Gurney (3 son of Francis Cresswell of Lynn, Norfolk). Entered navy 1842; lieut. of the Investigator 17 Dec. 1849, searched for Sir John Franklin in the Polar sea 1850–53; explored 170 miles of Banks island in sledges 18 April to 20 May 1851, arrived in London 7 Oct 1853 being the first person who actually effected the North-west passage; presented with an address in the guildhall, Lynn 26 Oct. 1853; captain 17 Sep. 1858; received Baltic and Arctic medals and a portion of the £10,000 awarded to officers and crew of the Investigator for discovery of N.W. passage; published Eight sketches in colours of voyage of Investigator 1854; illustrated R. J. le M. M’Clure’s Discovery of north west passage 1856. d. Bank house, King’s Lynn 14 Aug. 1867 aged 39. I.L.N. xxiii, 389 (1853).

CRESTADORO, Andrea. b. Genoa 1808; ed. at Univ. of Turin, Ph. Doc., professor of natural philosophy; came to England 1849; patented certain improvements in impulsoria 1852; a model of his metallic balloon was shown at Crystal Palace, June 1868; compiled catalogues for Sampson Low and Co. 1859–61; chief librarian of Manchester free libraries, Dec. 1862 to death; originated index catalogues, generally adopted as models by English municipal libraries; naturalised in England 16 April 1866; received order of Crown of Italy 1878; author of The art of making catalogues or a method to obtain a most perfect printed catalogue of the British Museum library, by A Reader therein 1856; Du pouvoir temporel et de 759la souveraineté Pontificale, Paris 1861; Catalogue of books in the Manchester free library, Reference department 1864; Taxation reform, or the best way of raising the revenue 1878. d. 155 Upper Brook st. Manchester 7 April 1879. Momus 20 March 1879, portrait.

CRESWICK, Thomas. b. Sheffield 5 Feb. 1811; landscape painter in London 1828; exhibited 139 pictures at R.A., 80 at B.I. and 46 at Suffolk st. gallery 1828–70; A.R.A. 1842, R.A. 11 Feb. 1851; largely employed as a designer of book illustrations; 109 of his paintings were collected together at London International Exhibition 1873; many of his pictures were in Manchester Exhibition 1887. d. The Limes, Linden grove, Bayswater, London 28 Dec. 1869. I.L.N. xviii, 219 (1851), portrait, lvi, 53 (1870), portrait; A catalogue of the works of T. Creswick by T. O. Barlow 1873.

CRESY, Edward. b. Dartford, Kent 7 May 1792; walked through England to study, measure and draw the cathedrals and most interesting buildings 1816; walked through France, Switzerland, Italy and Greece 1817–20; architect and civil engineer in London 1820 to death; superintending inspector under general board of health; author of A practical treatise on bridge building 1839; Illustrations of Stone church, Kent 1840; An encyclopædia of civil engineering 1847, 2 ed. 1856; author with George Ledwell Taylor of The architectural antiquities of Rome 2 vols. folio 1821–2, new ed. 1874; Architecture of the middle ages in Italy 1829. d. South Darenth, Kent 12 Nov. 1858. G. L. Taylor’s Autobiography of an octogenarian architect 2 vols. 1870–72.

CREWDSON, Jane (2 dau. of George Fox of Perran-arworthal, Cornwall). b. Perran-arworthal 22 Oct. 1808; author of Aunt Jane’s Verses for children 1851, 3 ed. 1871; Lays of the Reformation and other lyrics 1860; A little while and other poems 1864, 3 ed. 1872. (m. Oct. 1836 Thomas Dillworth Crewdson of Manchester, manufacturer). d. Summerlands, Whalley Range, Manchester 14 Sep. 1863.

CREWE, Rev. Henry Robert (2 son of Sir Henry Harpur, 7 baronet 1763–1818 who assumed name of Crewe 1808). b. Stourfield house 4 Sep. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1830; R. of Breadsall, Derbyshire 1830 to death; author of The Church of England, Pro. and Con. 1843; Repeal of the corn laws by One who fears God and regards man 1846; The war of Satan and the battle of God, remarks on Turkey and the East 1854; The war of prophecy 1854. d. Breadsall rectory 29 Sep. 1865.

760CREYKE, Ven. Stephen (youngest son of Richard Creyke 1746–1826, commissioner of the Victualling office). b. 24 Sep. 1796; ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820, fellow of his college 1821–23; R. of Wigginton near York 1834–44; V. of Sutton-on-the-Forest near York 1837–44; preb. of York 28 Sep. 1841 to death; R. of Beeford, Yorkshire 1844–65; archdeacon of York 16 Oct. 1845 to 1867; canon res. of York 1857–73; R. of Bolton-Percy, Yorkshire 1865 to death. d. Bolton-Percy 11 Dec. 1883.

CRICHTON, Sir Alexander (2 son of Alexander Crichton of Woodhouselee and Newington, Midlothian). b. Edinburgh 2 Dec. 1763; came to London 1784; M.D. Leyden 29 July 1785; studied at Paris, Stuttgart, Vienna and Halle; member of Corporation of surgeons, May 1789, got himself disfranchised 1 May 1791; L.R.C.P. 25 June 1791; physician to Westminster hosp. 1794; phys. in ord. to Alexander I Emperor of Russia 1804; head of Russian civil medical department; F.R.S. 8 May 1800; F.G.S. 1819; received grand cross of the Red Eagle 27 Dec. 1820, grand cross of St. Anne, Aug. 1830; knighted at the Pavilion, Brighton 1 March 1821; author of Inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement 2 vols. 1798; A synoptical table of diseases designed for the use of students 1805; Account of experiments with vapour of tar in cure of pulmonary consumption 1817; On the treatment and cure of pulmonary consumption 1823. d. The Grove near Sevenoaks, Kent 4 June 1856. bur. Norwood cemetery. Proc. of Royal Soc. viii, 269–72 (1856); Quarterly Journal of Geog. Soc. xiii, pp. lxiv-lxvi (1857).

CRICHTON, Rev. Andrew. b. parish of Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire Dec. 1790; engaged in teaching at Edinburgh and North Berwick; edited North Briton 1830–32, Edinburgh Advertiser 1832 to June 1851; member of presbytery of Edin.; elder for burgh of Cullen in general assembly of Church of Scotland 1852 to death; LLD. St. Andrew’s 1837; author of Converts from infidelity 2 vols. 1827; History of Arabia 2 vols. 1833; with H. Wheaton of Scandinavia ancient and modern 2 vols. 1838. d. 33 St. Bernard’s crescent, Edinburgh 9 Jany. 1855.

CRICHTON, Rev. Andrew (son of Rev. David Crichton, English master at Madras college, St. Andrews). b. St. Andrews 22 May 1837; bursar at Univ. of Edin. 1852, B.A. 1857; licensed as a preacher by free presbytery of Arbroath June 1860; co-pastor of New North free church, Edinburgh Dec. 1860 to March 7611866; pastor of free church, Chapelshade, Dundee 30 March 1866 to death; most popular preacher in Dundee; contributed many articles to Family Treasury, London Review and Sunday Mag.; author of The confessions of a wandering soul. d. Liberton, Edinburgh 13 July 1867. bur. in Grange cemetery, Edin. where is monument. Memorials of the late Rev. A. Crichton, edited by W. G. Blaikie (1868).

CRICHTON, Sir Archibald William (eld. son of Patrick Crichton, captain 47 foot). b. 1791; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; physician to Emperor of Russia and his family; member of Russian medical council; councillor of state in Russia; received star of legion of honour 1814; D.C.L. Ox. 11 Jany. 1817; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 13 March 1817; received grand cross of Red Eagle of Prussia 1829, of St. Stanislaus 1832, of St. Anne 1834 and of St. Vladimir 1836. d. St. Petersburg 27 Feb. 1865.

CRICHTON, John (7 child of Thomas Crichton of Dundee, merchant who was b. in Queen Anne’s reign). b. Dundee 22 Feb. 1772; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrew’s and Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1790; surgeon at Dundee 1791; became an eminent lithotomist; performed operation of lithotomy 200 times, being unsuccessful in 14 cases only; surgeon to Royal Infirmary, Dundee 1836, his full-length portrait by John Gibson was placed in the Infirmary 14 June 1841; a reader in the Glasite church, Dundee 60 years; never went out of Scotland. d. Tay st. Dundee 3 July 1860. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 182–4.

CRICHTON, William Hindley. Entered Madras army 19 Aug. 1839, lieut. col. Madras staff corps 19 Aug. 1865 to 22 July 1871; hon. M.G. 17 Feb. 1872; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Beaconside, North Devon 7 Dec. 1885 aged 66.

CRINNON, Right Rev. Peter Francis. b. Cullen, co. Louth 1817 or 1818; went to Canada 1850; studied at St. Sulpice coll. Montreal; ordained in Toronto 1854; priest successively at London, St. Mary’s, Biddulph, and Kintora; priest at Stratford 1858 where he built St. Mary’s church; vicar general of London; R.C. bishop of Hamilton, Canada 1874 to death, during his administration of the diocese the number of Roman Catholics was doubled. d. Jacksonville, Florida 25 Nov. 1882. Dominion Annual Register 1883 p. 337.

CRIPPS, John Marten (son of John Cripps). b. 1780; Fellow commoner at Jesus coll. Cam. 27 April 1798, M.A. 1803; travelled in the East with Edward Daniel Clarke 3 years; 762introduced from Russia the Khol-rabi for the use of dairy farms; F.L.S. 1803, F.S.A. 1805; presented part of his large collection of statues, antiques and oriental flora to Univ. of Cam. and other public institutions. d. Novington near Lewes 3 Jany. 1853. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii, 231–2 (1855); M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 271–73.

CRITCHETT, George. b. Highgate 25 March 1817; ed. at London hospital; M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1844, member of council 1870; demonstrator of anatomy at London hospital, assistant surgeon 1846, surgeon Aug. 1861 to 1863; one of the best operators on the eye; pres. of Hunterian Soc. 2 years; pres. of International congress of Ophthalmology held in London 1872; ophthalmic surgeon and lecturer at Middlesex hospital 1876; author of Lectures on ulcers of the lower extremities 1849. d. 21 Harley st. London 1 Nov. 1882. I.L.N. lxxxi, 497 (1882), portrait.

CRIVELLI, Domenico Francesco Maria (son of Gaetano Crivelli 1774–1836 tenor singer at King’s theatre, London). b. Brescia 1794; came to England with his father 1817; taught singing in London 1817 to death; principal professor of singing at Royal Academy of Music 1823 to death; taught many of the best English singers. d. 71 Upper Norton st. Fitzroy sq. London 31 Dec. 1856.

CROCKER, Charles. b. Chichester 22 June 1797; shoemaker at Chichester 1809–39; employed by W. H. Mason the publisher 1839–45; sexton of Chichester cathedral 1845 to death; author of The vale of obscurity, the Lavant and other poems 1830, 3 ed. 1841; A visit to Chichester cathedral 1848; Poetical works of C. Crocker 1860. d. South st. Chichester 6 Oct. 1861. M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 87–8; Lives of illustrious shoemakers by W. E. Winks (1883) 321; Sketches of obscure poets (1833) 102–112.

CROCKETT, James (son of Mr. Crockett, a showman by Miss Cross of Nottingham who was 6 feet 8 inches in height). b. Prestyn, Radnorshire 9 May 1835; cornet player in circus of Messrs. Sanger, lion tamer with them 1857; performed in chief capitals of Europe; returned to England 1863; went to United States 1864; travelled in western states with Howes and Cushing’s European circus at a salary of £20 a week; fell down dead in the circus at Cincinnati 6 July 1865. Illust. Sporting news ii, 377, 437 (1864), portrait; Era 30 July 1865 p. 10, col. 1, 6 Aug. p. 11, col. 4; I.L.N. xxxviii, 90 (1861).

763CROFT, Sir Archer Denman, 8 Baronet (2 son of Sir Richard Croft, 6 baronet 1762–1818). b. Old Burlington st. London 7 Dec. 1801; ed. at Westminster; succeeded his brother 29 Oct. 1835; barrister L.I. 30 April 1839; a master of Court of Queen’s Bench 1838 to death. d. 1 Sussex place, Hyde park, London 10 Jany. 1865.

CROFT, Ven. James (eld. son of Rev. Robert Nicholas Croft 1754–1831, canon res. of York cath.) b. 2 July 1784; ed. at Eton and Peterhouse Cam.; B.A. 1807, M.A. 1812; R. of Saltwood near Hythe 1812 to death; preb. of Ely 3 Nov. 1815; R. of Cliffe-at-Hoo, Kent 1818 to death; canon of Canterbury 26 April 1822; archdeacon of Canterbury 18 June 1825 to death. d. Saltwood rectory 9 May 1869.

CROFT, Sir John, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Croft of Oporto, merchant, who d. 11 Feb. 1805). b. 21 March 1778; comr. to distribute parliamentary grant of £100,000 to the Portugese sufferers by Marshal Massena’s invasion 1811–12; chargé d’affaires at Lisbon 1815; F.R.S. 5 March 1818; created baronet 17 Dec. 1818 for services during Peninsular war; K.T.S. 10 Dec. 1821; D.C.L. Ox. 1822. d. 53 Queen Anne st. London 5 Feb. 1862.

CROFT, William (2 son of Stephen Croft of Stillington hall, Yorkshire 1744–1813). b. 2 April 1782; entered navy 1 Sep. 1795; captain 13 Oct. 1807; admiral on half pay 28 Nov. 1857. d. Stillington 6 May 1872.

CROFTON, Edward Crofton, 2 Baron. b. Clarges st. London 1 Aug. 1806; succeeded his father as 4 baronet 8 Jany. 1816, and his grandmother as 2 baron 12 Aug. 1817; a representative peer of Ireland 20 Jany. 1840 to death; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Feb. to Dec. 1852, Feb. 1858 to June 1859 and July 1866 to Dec. 1868. d. Mote park, Roscommon 27 Dec. 1869.

CROFTON, Edward Walter. 2 lieut. R.A. 26 July 1831, col. 30 May 1862 to death; C.B. 1 March 1861. d. Malta 26 June 1863.

CROFTON, George Alfred. b. 1785; entered navy March 1798; captain 1 Feb. 1812; V.A. on h.p. 9 July 1855. d. Clifton 23 Feb. 1858.

CROFTON, John Ffolliott. b. 9 Oct. 1802; ensign 6 foot 18 Dec. 1824, lieut. col. 7 Aug. 1846 to 21 July 1848; col. of 95 foot 25 Aug. 1868, of 6 foot 5 Sep. 1869 to death; general 23 Aug. 1877. d. 29 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 17 July 1885.

764CROGGAN, John William. 2 lieut. Madras artillery 18 Dec. 1823, col. commandant 14 Dec. 1868 to death; L.G. 10 April 1876; author of Miscellaneous exercises on artillery 1856; A treatise on Mortar practice, velocity, time of flight and range 1865. d. 35 Tregunter road, London 2 May 1877.

CROKAT, William. b. near Edinburgh 1788; ensign 20 foot 9 April 1807, captain 31 March 1814 to 7 Nov. 1826 when placed on h.p.; witnessed the death of Napoleon at St. Helena 5 May 1821, being the original of the “Officer on guard” in Steuben’s well known engraving; general 25 Oct. 1871. d. 52 Inverkeith’s row, Edinburgh 6 Nov. 1879 in 92 year.

CROKER, John Wilson (son of John Croker, surveyor general of customs and excise in Ireland). b. Galway 20 Dec. 1780; ed. at Portarlington and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1800, LL.B. and LLD. 1809; student at L.I. 1800; called to Irish bar 1802; M.P. for Downpatrick 1807–12, for Athlone 1812–18, for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1819–20, for Bodmin 1820–26, for Aldeburgh, Suffolk 1826–27 and 1830–32, for Univ. of Dublin 1827–30; one of chief opponents of the Reform bill; sec. of the Admiralty 9 Oct. 1809 to Nov. 1830 when he retired on a pension of £1500; P.C. 16 June 1828; one of founders of Quarterly Review 1809 in which he wrote about 260 articles 1809–64; F.R.S. 5 July 1810; friend and factotum of 3 Marquis of Hertford (the Marquis of Steyne of Vanity Fair) who left him £21,000 and his cellar of wine 1842; author of Familiar epistles to F. J[one]s, Esq. on the present state of the Irish stage 1804 anon. 5 ed. 1804; Talavera 1809; Essays on the early period of the French revolution 1857 and other books; edited The new Whig guide 1819; Boswell’s Life of Dr. Johnson 4 vols. 1831 and other books. d. at house of Sir Wm. Wightman, St. Alban’s Bank, Hampton, Middlesex 10 Aug. 1857. bur. at West Moulsey. Memoirs, diaries and correspondence of J. W. Croker edited by L. J. Jennings, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1885, portrait; Quarterly Review cxlii, 83–126 (1876); D. O. Madden’s Chiefs of parties ii, 81–112 (1859); J. Grant’s Memoir of Sir G. Sinclair (1870) 213–28; Mrs. Houston’s A woman’s memories i, 1–18 (1883); H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 376–85; Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 72–4, portrait.

Note.—D’Israeli ridiculed him very successfully in Coningsby under name of Rigby, also in Vivian Grey under name of Vivida Vis; Lady Morgan depicted him in her novel Florence Macarthy as Councillor Crawley, and Lord Brougham in his novel Albert Lunel us La Croasse.

765CROKER, Marianne (dau. of Francis Nicholson of Whitby, Yorkshire, artist 1753–1844). b. Whitby; produced her first drawing upon stone 1816; wrote The adventures of Barney Mahoney 1832, and My village versus our village 1832, both of which have the name of Thomas Crofton Croker on their title pages; (m. 1830 T. C. Croker 1798–1854). d. 3 Gloucester road, Old Brompton, London 6 Oct. 1854.

CROKER, Thomas Crofton (only son of Thomas Croker, major in the army who d. 22 March 1818). b. Buckingham sq. Cork 15 Jany. 1798; clerk in the Admiralty, London 1818 to Feb. 1850 when he retired as senior clerk of the first class on a pension of £580, introduced lithography into the Admiralty; F.S.A. 1827; M.R.I.A. 1827; founder and pres. of Society of Noviomagus 11 Dec. 1828 to his death; helped to found Camden Soc. 1839, Percy Soc. 1840 and British Archælogical Assoc. 1843; edited Willis’s Current Notes Jany. 1851 to death; author of Researches in the South of Ireland 1834; Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland 3 parts 1825–28, several editions; Legends of the Lakes, or sayings and doings at Killarney 2 vols. 1829, new ed. 1874; The popular songs of Ireland 1839 another ed. in Morley’s Universal Library vol. 40; The Keen of the South of Ireland illustrative of Irish history, Percy Soc. vol. 13 (1842); A walk from London to Fulham 1860, and many other works and translations. d. 3 Gloucester road, Old Brompton, London 8 Aug. 1854. Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland by T. C. Croker with a memoir of the author by his son T. F. D. Croker 1862; Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxiv, 203–16 (1849), portrait; Fraser’s Mag. iii, 67 (1831), portrait; Mrs. Balmanno’s Pen and pencil (1858) 156–71, portrait; C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 251–57 (1883); Numismatic Chronicle xviii, 20–1 (1856); Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 49–53, portrait; G.M. xlii, 397–401 (1854).

CROKER, William. Ensign 17 foot 27 March 1803, lieut. col. 1 April 1836 to 5 Nov. 1847 when he sold out; C.B. 20 Dec. 1839; colonel in the army 9 Nov. 1846. d. Cheltenham 11 Aug. 1852 aged 64.

CROLL, Alexander Angus (youngest son of George Croll of Perth). b. Perth 1811; civil engineer in London; a pioneer in extension of telegraphy; chairman of United Kingdom electric telegraph company; publicly presented with a testimonial of plate worth 1000 guineas 1871; originated and erected the Wool Exchange in city of London; colonel 2 Tower Hamlets volunteers 1869–85; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1853. d. Dunblane, Scotland 7 June 1887. bur. Woking cemetery, Surrey 11 June. I.L.N. xxiii, 195 (1853).

766CROLL, Francis. b. Musselburgh about 1826; line engraver. d. Edinburgh 12 Feb. 1854. Art Journal (1854) 119.

CROLY, Rev. George. b. Dublin 17 Aug. 1780; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1798, B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804, hon. LLD. 1831; came to London about 1810; dramatic critic to the New Times; took charge of parish of Romford, Essex 1832–35; R. of St. Benet Sherehog with St. Stephen’s, Walbrook, London 1835 to death; afternoon preacher at Foundling hospital 1847–48; wrote poems in the Literary Gazette from 1817; edited The Graces 1824, The Literary Souvenir 1825–34; author of Paris in 1815, 1817; The Beauties of the British poets 1828; Tales of the Saint Bernard 1829; Salathiel, A story of the past, the present and the future 1829, new ed. 1855; The life and times of George the Fourth 1830, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1841; Divine providence, or the three cycles of Revelation 1834; A memoir of Edmund Burke 2 vols. 1840; Historical sketches, speeches and characters 1842; Marston, or the soldier and statesman 3 vols. 1846, 3 ed. 1861; Scenes from Scripture with other poems 1851; The book of Job 1863, and numerous other books and single sermons. d. suddenly whilst walking in Holborn, London 24 Nov. 1860. bur. St. Stephen’s, Walbrook where a bust of him was placed. The book of Job by Rev. G. Croly with a biographical sketch by his son 1873; A few personal recollections of Rev. G. Croly by Richard Herring 1861; James Grant’s Metropolitan pulpit i, 239–56; G. Gilfillan’s A second gallery of literary portraits (1850) 145–59; G.M. x, 104–7 (1861); I.L.N. iv, 248 (1844), portrait, xxiv, 401 (1854), portrait.

CROMBIE, Thomas. Ensign 79 foot 12 Aug. 1824; major Rifle corps 16 Nov. 1841 to 20 Oct. 1848 when placed on h.p.; captain Coldstream guards 22 June 1849 to 9 Feb. 1855 when placed on h.p.; col. 96 foot 10 May 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 33 Half Moon st, Piccadilly, London 14 Oct. 1877.

CROMMELIN, Thomas Lake. b. 1805; executed commissions for gentlemen on the chief public races 1835–52; a butcher in Melbourne, Australia 1853; police magistrate Victoria gold fields 1854; commissioner of crown lands Riverina district, New South Wales 1860, resigned 1869; sec. to Union club, Sydney for one month only 1869. d. in house of his friend hon. John Bowie Wilson at Sydney 7 April 1877. Sporting Times 2 May 1885 pp. 2–3.

CROMMELIN, William Arden (son of Charles Barker Crommelin of Garruckpore). b. 1823; second lieut. Bengal engineers 10 Dec. 1841, 767colonel 1 Jany. 1870 to 31 Dec. 1878 when he retired with hon. rank of L.G.; C.B. 26 July 1858; inspector general of military works 2 Aug. 1865 to 1877, granted service reward 12 Jany. 1875. d. Brightlands, Barnes, Surrey 30 Oct. 1886.

CROMPTON, Sir Charles John (3 son of Peter Crompton, M.D. of Derby). b. Derby 12 June 1797; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; barrister I.T. 23 Nov. 1821, bencher 1851; tubman in Court of Exchequer, postman; contested Preston, Dec. 1832 and Newport, Isle of Wight, July 1847; assessor of Court of Passage, Liverpool 1836–52; a comr. of inquiry into Court of Chancery, Dec. 1850; justice of Court of Queen’s Bench, Feb. 1852 to death; serjeant-at-law Feb. 1852; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 Feb. 1852; author with John Jervis of Reports in the Court of Exchequer 1830–32, 2 vols. 1832–33; with Roger Meeson of Reports in the Court of Exchequer 1832–34, 2 vols. 1834–35; with R. Meeson and Henry Roscoe of Reports in the Court of Exchequer 1834–36, 2 vols. 1834–36. d. 22 Hyde park sq. London 30 Oct. 1865. Law mag. and law review xxiii, 1–30 (1867); I.L.N. xxi, 356 (1852), portrait.

CROMPTON, Joshua Samuel (son of Joshua Crompton of York, who d. 1832). b. 17 Sep. 1799; M.P. for Ripon 1832 to 1834. d. Azerley hall, Ripon 17 June 1881.

CROMPTON, Thomas Bonsor (youngest son of John Crompton of Farnworth mills, Lancashire, paper maker). b. Farnworth 20 May 1792; partner with his brother John Crompton in Farnworth Mills, sole proprietor 1835 to death; contrived several mechanical appliances for utilising fibres hitherto considered unsuitable for being made into paper; became an extensive newspaper proprietor; proprietor of the Morning Post; erected very large cotton mill at Prestolee near Farnworth about 1833. d. the Hassels, Sandy, Beds. 3 Sep. 1858.

CROMPTON-STANSFIELD, William Rookes (brother of Joshua Samuel Crompton 1799–1881). b. 3 Aug. 1790; ed. at Harrow and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; barrister I.T. 22 May 1819; M.P. for Huddersfield 1837 to 1853; took additional name of Stansfield 1819. d. Frimley park, Surrey 5 Dec. 1871.

CROMWELL, Rev. Thomas. b. 14 Dec. 1792; entered Literary department of Longman & Co. of London, publishers; minister of Unitarian chapel, Stoke Newington Green 1839–64; minister of old presbyterian chapel at 768Canterbury 1865 to death; F.S.A. Dec. 1838; author of The school boy with other poems 1816; Honour, or arrivals from college, privately printed 1820, a comedy played at Drury Lane 17 and 18 April 1819; Oliver Cromwell and his times 1821, 2 ed. 1822; History of the town and borough of Colchester 2 vols. 1825; History description of the parish of Clerkenwell 1828; The Druid, a tragedy 1832; Walks through Islington 1835; The soul and the future life 1859. d. Canterbury 22 Dec. 1870. Notes and Queries 4th series, ix, 198, 267, 347 (1872).

CRONYN, Right Rev. Benjamin (son of Thomas Cronyn, mayor of Kilkenny). b. Kilkenny 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1855; held curacies in Ireland 1826–32; R. of St. Paul’s, London, Canada West 1832–57; bishop of Huron 14 Oct. 1857 to death, consecrated at Lambeth 28 Oct. 1857. d. London, Ontario 21 Sep. 1871. I.L.N. xli, 576, 587 (1862), portrait.

CROOK, Joseph (eld. son of Joshua Crook of Whitebank, Bolton). b. 1809; cotton manufacturer at Bolton; M.P. for Bolton 9 July 1852 to Jany. or Feb. 1861. d. Oakfield, Heaton, Bolton 8 Dec. 1884 in 76 year.

CROOKS, James. b. Kilmarnock, Scotland 1778; one of earliest settlers in Upper Canada, lived at Niagara 1794; established first paper mill in and sent first load of wheat and flour from Upper Canada to Montreal; served with distinction during war of 1812; member of Canadian legislative assembly and council. d. West Flamborough, Ontario 1860.

CROOKSHANK, Alexander Crowder. Deputy controller Dublin district 11 Dec. 1872 to death; C.B. 24 May 1873. d. 20 Upper Mount st. Dublin 14 April 1877. Graphic xv, 408 (1877), portrait.

CROPPER, Joseph Almond. b. Loughborough; barrister G.I. 11 Feb. 1823; devised property to Westminster hospital worth £800 per annum, to St. George’s hospital worth £700, and to Middlesex hospital property worth £600 per annum and the sum of £4000, these 3 hospitals are enabled by special acts of parliament to receive lands notwithstanding the Statute of Mortmain. d. Fulwood house, Gray’s Inn London 27 Sep. 1862 aged 79.

CROSBY, Allan James (only son of James Crosby of Streatham). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 9 Nov. 1854 aged 18, B.A. 1858, M.A. 1873; barrister I.T. 1 May 1865; employed in the public record office about 1860 769to death; edited Accounts and papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, Camden Soc. 1867; Calendar of foreign state papers of the reign of Queen Elizabeth 4 vols. 1871–80. d. Holmbush, Ide near Exeter 5 Dec. 1881. Antiquarian Mag. i, 152 (1882).

CROSBY, James. b. 1806; ed. at Greenwich and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830; police magistrate at Kingston, St. Vincent, May 1844; member of house of assembly St. Vincent many years, speaker 1853; stipendiary magistrate British Guiana, March 1857, immigration agent general British Guiana 1 Oct. 1862 to death. d. Georgetown, Demerara 30 Aug. 1880.

CROSKERY, Rev. Thomas (son of Mr. Croskery of co. Down, tradesman). b. Carrowdore near Belfast 26 May 1830; licensed to preach by presbytery of Down 6 May 1851; a reporter and subsequently editor of the Banner of Ulster; ordained minister of Creggan, co. Armagh 17 July 1860, translated to Clonakilty, co. Cork 24 March 1863; minister of chapel at Waterside, city of Londonderry 1866–75; professor of logic and belles lettres in Magee college, Londonderry 1875–79, professor of theology 1879 to death; author of A catechism on the doctrines of the Plymouth brethren; Plymouth brethrenism, a refutation of its principles and doctrines 1879; Irish Presbyterianism, its history, character, influence and present position 1884. d. 3 Oct. 1886.

CROSLAND, Thomas Pearson. b. Crosland near Huddersfield 29 Dec. 1815; a merchant at Huddersfield; M.P. for Huddersfield 14 July 1865 to death. d. Gledholt near Huddersfield 8 March 1868.

CROSLEY, Alexander. b. Camberwell 1827; a solicitor in London 1850 to death; common councilman for Langbourn ward 1857–61; under sheriff for London and Middlesex 8 times. d. 76 Camberwell grove, London 14 Jany. 1876 in 49 year.

CROSLEY, Sir Charles Decimus (son of Henry Crosley). b. the Grove, Camberwell, Surrey 21 Feb. 1820; ed. at Camberwell; a stock and share broker in city of London 1846 to death; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1854–55; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 May 1855 after visit of Emperor of the French; chevalier of legion of honour; a comr. of inland revenue for Middlesex. d. Eastbourne 12 Oct. 1882.

770CROSMOND, Rosa, stage name of Helen Turner (dau. of Sarah Rachael Leverson known as Madame Rachel of 47 New Bond st. London, enameller of ladies faces, who d. 12 Oct. 1880 aged 60). Member of Carter’s choir at Albert hall, London about 1873; studied at Royal Academy of Music; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre 1878–79 and with Mapleson’s company in the United States; secured a high position at Milan particularly for her representation of Aida about 1881. (m. Edmund Turner of London, silk merchant who d. about 1879). d. St. George’s hospital, London 27 April 1888, having shot herself in a cab in Piccadilly Circus the night before.

CROSS, Edward. Superintendent of the Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand, London 1794 to 1814, Chunee the elephant shot there 9 March 1826, proprietor 1814 to 16 June 1829 when it was taken down and he removed his menagerie to the King’s Mews, Charing Cross; originated the Surrey Zoological gardens comprising 15 acres at Walworth, opened 12 Aug. 1831, proprietor 1831–44, the conservatory 300 feet in circumference was the largest in England; exhibited the Indian one-horned rhinoceros which cost £800, 1834, three giraffes 1836, picture of Mount Vesuvius painted by Danson 1837 reproduced 1846, Iceland and its volcanoes 1839, Jullien conducted promenade concerts here 1849–51. d. 48 Newington place, Kennington road, London 26 Sep. 1854 aged 80. Hone’s Every-day book ii, 321–36 (1838); Brayley’s Surrey iii, 409–11 (1850).

CROSS, John. b. Tiverton, May 1819; studied painting at St. Quentin and Paris; exhibited a cartoon of ‘The death of Thomas à Becket’ at Westminster Hall 1844, and a large oil painting called ‘The clemency of Richard Cœur-de-Lion towards Bertrand de Gourdon’ 1847 which gained a first premium of £300 and was purchased by the comrs. for £1000; an exhibition of his principal works was held at Society of Arts, Adelphi 1861; his widow Mary Cross was granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1862. He d. 38 Gloucester road, Regent’s Park, London 27 Feb. 1861.

CROSS, John (2 son of James Cross of Mortfield near Bolton, Lancs. solicitor and banker, who d. 1 Nov. 1850 aged 79). b. Mortfield 18 Jany. 1807; ed. at Bolton gr. school; articled to his father; solicitor at Bolton 1829–33; barrister G.I. and M.T. 8 June 1836; serjeant at law 17 May 1858; chairman of board of directors of Londonderry and Coleraine railway; author of A treatise on the law of lien and stoppage in transitu 1840. d. 2 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 1 June 1861.

771CROSS, John Henry. b. London; connected with the Religious tract society more than 40 years; wrote for it 609 separate publications (majority being small books for children), total circulation of which amounted to nearly 80,000,000 copies, selections from them have been translated into 30 languages; edited the Child’s Companion 33 years, the Tract magazine 6 years. d. Lougborough road, Brixton 5 Feb. 1876 aged 72.

CROSS, John Kynaston (son of John Cross of Gartside house, Bolton). b. 13 Oct. 1832; a merchant at Manchester and a cotton spinner at Bolton; M.P. for Bolton 4 Feb. 1874 to 18 Nov. 1885; under sec. of state for India, Jany. 1883 to July 1885; author of Imports, exports and the French treaty 1881 in Cobden Club Papers; hanged himself at Fernclough, Heaton, Bolton 20 March 1887.

CROSS, Mary Ann (youngest child of Robert Evans 1773–1849, surveyor to Sir Roger Newdigate of Arbury hall, Warws.) b. Arbury farm, parish of Chilvers Coton, Warws. 22 Nov. 1819; ed. at Nuneaton and Coventry; removed with her father to Foleshill road, Coventry, March 1841; lived at 142 Strand, London as assistant editor of Westminster Review Sep. 1851 to Oct. 1853; lived with George Henry Lewes at Holly lodge, Wandsworth 1859–60, at 16 Blandford sq. Regent’s park 1860–63, and at The Priory 21 North bank, St. John’s Wood 1863–78, G. H. Lewes d. 28 Nov. 1878, she proved his will 16 Dec. 1878; founded George Henry Lewes studentship worth nearly £200 a year to be held for 3 years by some student occupied in physiological investigation 1879; published The life of Jesus critically examined by D. F. Strauss, translated from the fourth German edition 3 vols. 1846 anon.; The essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach translated from the second German edition by Marian Evans 1854; author of the following works under pseudonym of George Eliot: Scenes of clerical life 2 vols. 1858, Adam Bede 3 vols. 1859, The mill on the Floss 3 vols. 1860, Silas Marner the weaver of Raveloe 1861, Romola 3 vols. 1863, Felix Holt the Radical 3 vols. 1866, The Spanish Gypsy, a poem 1868, Agatha, a poem 1869, Middlemarch a study of provincial life 4 vols. 1871–72, The legend of Jubal and other poems 1874, Daniel Deronda 4 vols. 1876, Impressions of Theophrastus Such 1879, How Lisa loved the King 1883, Essays and leaves from a Note-Book 1884. (m. 6 May 1880 under name of Mary Ann Evans Lewes, John Walter Cross of Weybridge, Surrey). d. 4 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 22 Dec. 1880. bur. by side of G. H. Lewes in Highgate cemetery 29 Dec. 772portrait of her by Sir Frederick Burton in National portrait gallery. The life of George Eliot by J. W. Cross 3 vols. 1884, 2 portraits; George Eliot by Mathilde Blind 1883; G. W. Cooke’s George Eliot, critical story of her life 1883; Our living poets by H. B. Forman (1871) 467–500; Biographical sketches by C. K. Paul (1883) 141–70; Westminster Review, Jany. 1882 pp. 65–71.

CROSS, Philip Henry Eustace. L.R.C.S. Ireland 1848; assistant surgeon 1 West India regiment 3 April 1849; surgeon 97 foot 7 Sep. 1855; surgeon 13 foot 16 June 1857 to 19 Nov. 1858; staff surgeon 19 Nov. 1858; served in the Crimean war; surgeon major 27 Feb. 1872 to 14 April 1875 when he retired; slowly murdered his first wife Mary Lawson Cross by giving her doses of arsenic and strychnine, she d. at Shandy hall, Cork 2 June 1887, (m. (2) 17 June 1887 his governess Miss Skinner); found guilty of murder 17 Dec. 1887, hanged in Cork gaol 10 Jany. 1888. Pall Mall Gazette 10 Jany. 1888 p. 7, col. 2.

CROSSE, Andrew (elder son of Richard Crosse of Fyne court, Broomfield, Somerset). b. Fyne court 17 June 1784; ed. at Rev. Mr. Seyer’s school, The Fort, Bristol 1793–1802, caned on an average 3 times a day for 7 years; gentleman commoner at Brasenose coll. Ox. 1802, B.A. 1806; experimented on electro-crystallisation; observed appearance of insect life in metallic solutions supposed to be destructive to organic life 1837, the publication of this discovery gained him great notoriety. d. in the room in which he was born at Fyne Court 6 July 1855. Memorials scientific and literary of Andrew Crosse the electrician by C. A. H. Crosse 1857; H. M. Noad’s Manual of Electricity, 4 ed. (1855) 173–77, 256, 378–83, 390, 401; Letters of H. G. Atkinson to Harriet Martineau (1851) 361–67.

CROSSE, Thomas Bright (only son of Thomas Ikin). b. 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1817; assumed surname of Crosse 8 Sep. 1828; sheriff of Lancashire 1837; M.P. for Wigan 1 July 1841 to April 1842 when unseated on petition. d. 75 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 21 March 1886.

CROSSLEY, Sir Francis, 1 Baronet (youngest son of John Crossley of Halifax, carpet manufacturer, who d. 17 Jany. 1837). b. Halifax 26 Oct. 1817; carpet manufacturer at Dean Clough mills, Halifax, the largest concern of the kind in the world; M.P. for Halifax 1852–59, for west riding of Yorkshire 1859–65, for north west riding 1865–68, for north division of west riding 1868 to death; mayor of Halifax 7731849 and 1850; founded 21 almshouses at Halifax 1855; donor of the People’s park, Halifax at cost of £41,300, opened 14 Aug. 1857, where a statue of him was erected 14 Aug. 1860; created baronet 23 Jany. 1863; author of Canada and United States 1856. d. Belle Vue, Halifax 5 Jany. 1872, personalty sworn under £800,000, 27 May 1872. Thrift by S. Smiles (1875) 205–17; Enoch Mellor’s A true life 1872; Illust. news of the world iii (1859), portrait; Family Friend 1 March 1870 pp. 39–43, portrait; I.L.N. lx, 55, 57, 587 (1872), portrait.

CROSSLEY, James (son of James Crossley of Halifax, clothing merchant 1767–1831). b. The Mount, Halifax 31 March 1800; articled to Thomas Ainsworth of Manchester, attorney 1817; partner in firm of Ainsworth, Crossley and Sudlow at Manchester 1823–24 when Ainsworth died, partner in firm of Crossley and Sudlow 1824–60 when he retired; pres. of Incorporated Law Assoc. of Manchester 1840 and 1857; pres. of Manchester Athenæum 1847–50; pres. of Chetham Soc. Dec. 1847 to death, this society was mooted at his house in Booth st. Piccadilly early in 1843 and founded at the Chetham library 23 March 1843; F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1852; member of Surtees Soc. 1858, vice pres. 1861; pres. of Spencer Soc. 1866; the first pres. of Record Soc. 1878; one of chief contributors to Retrospective Review 1820; collected a library of 100,000 volumes, part of which was sold at Manchester, May 1884, and the remainder in London, July 1884 and June 1885; edited for the Chetham Soc. Potts’s Discovery of witches in the county of Lancaster 1845; The diary and correspondence of Dr. John Worthington 2 vols. 1847–55; author of Vade-Mecum to Hatton 1867 privately printed. d. the Stocks house, Cheetham hill road, Manchester 1 Aug. 1883. bur. Kersal church 6 Aug. Palatine note book iii, 221–29 (1883), portrait; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors and orators (1850) 67–72; W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire iii, 49, portrait; Antiquarian Mag. iv, 198–202 (1883); Bibliographer, Sep. 1883, pp. 97–9; Manchester Guardian 2 Aug. 1883, p. 6, cols. 1–5; Momus 11 March 1880, portrait.

Note.—He is described under the initial C in an article called The Theatre in W. H. Ainsworth’s “December Tales” 1823 pp. 165–79, the article was written by J. P. Aston author of Sir John Chiverton.

CROSSLEY, John (brother of Sir Francis Crossley 1817–72). b. Halifax 16 May 1812; mayor of Halifax 1849, 1850, 1861 and 1862; M.P. for Halifax 3 Feb. 1874 to Feb. 1877; built with his brothers Sir F. Crossley and Joseph Crossley (who d. 14 Sep. 1868) the Crossley 774Orphan house and school on Skircoat Moor about 1861. d. Broomfield, Halifax 16 April 1879. Weekly Welcome (1879) 357–8, portrait.

CROSSLEY, John Sydney. b. Loughborough 25 Dec. 1812; engineer to Leicester Canal company 1832; resident engineer to Midland Railway company 1857, engineer in chief 1858 to April 1875; M.I.C.E. 1 March 1859. d. Barrow upon Soar 10 June 1879. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lviii, 341–43 (1879).

CROWDER, Sir Richard Budden (eld. son of Wm. Henry Crowder of Montagu place, London). b. London 1796; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 25 May 1821; went Western circuit; Q.C. 1837; recorder of Bristol, Aug. 1846 to April 1854; counsel of the Admiralty and judge advocate of the Fleet, Aug. 1849 to March 1854; M.P. for Liskeard 3 Jany. 1849 to March 1854; justice of Court of Common Pleas, March 1854 to death; serjeant at law, March 1854; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 May 1854. d. 17 Carlton house terrace, London 5 Dec. 1859. Traits of character by a contemporary i, 251–82 (1860); Eton portrait gallery (1876) 445–47.

CROWDY, Charles (3 son of James Crowdy of Highworth, Wilts. solicitor). b. Highworth, March 1786; entered navy 7 Sep. 1799; captain 13 Jany. 1834; placed on retired list 1 July 1851; retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867. d. Pittville lawn, Cheltenham 17 May 1870.

CROWDY, John. b. Lewknor, Oxon. 6 Jany. 1834; foreign editor of the Guardian 1854 to death; editor successively of The Choirmaster, The Musician, The Musical Standard, and The Artist from its commencement 15 Jany. 1880; published The church choirmaster 1864; A free chant service 1865; A recitative service 1865; A short commentary on Handel’s The Messiah 1875; author of a system of recitative for psalms and canticles in Congregational worship called ‘Free Chant’, designed to provide for an undisturbed delivery of the words with suitable musical chords or cadences without necessity of signs. d. Addlestone, Surrey 12 Jany. 1883. The Artist 1 Feb. 1883 pp. 45, 48.

CROWE, Catherine Ann (dau. of John Stevens of Clarges street, Piccadilly, London). b. Englefield Green, Kent 1790; lived in Edinburgh many years; a disciple of George Combe; one of the persons to whom authorship of The Vestiges of Creation was attributed 1841; author of Aristodemus, a tragedy 1838, anon.; The adventures of Susan Hopley 3 vols. 1841, a dramatic version of this novel entitled Susan 775Hopley or the vicissitudes of a servant girl by Dibdin Pitt was produced at the Victoria theatre, London 31 May 1841 and played more than 300 nights; Men and women, or manorial rights 3 vols. 1843; The Seerest of Prevorst, translated from Kerner 1845; The story of Lilly Dawson 2 vols. 1847; The night side of nature, or Ghosts and ghost seers 2 vols. 1848, several eds.; Light and darkness or mysteries of life 3 vols. 1850; The adventures of a beauty, a novel 3 vols. 1852; The cruel kindness, a drama in 5 acts performed at Haymarket theatre, June 6, 1853; Linny Lockwood 2 vols. 1853; Spiritualism and the age we live in 1859; Adventures of a monkey 1861 and many books for children. (m. Oct. 1822 in London, lieut.-col. John Crowe who d. 7 March 1860). Resided at 22 Sandgate road, Folkestone, where she became bedridden and died of natural decay on 14 June 1872; Her son and only child Capt. John William Crowe is resident Leonard lodge, Dover road, Folkestone 1888. Victoria Mag. xxxiii, 35–44 (1879); Colburn’s New monthly mag. xcvi, 439–45 (1852).

CROWE, Eyre Evans (son of David Crowe, captain in H.E.I.Co.’s army). b. Redbridge, Southampton 20 March 1799; ed. at Carlow and Trin. coll. Dublin; Paris correspondent of Morning Chronicle 1832–44, joined staff of Daily News 1846, editor 1849–51; author of The pleasures of Melancholy, and a Saxon tale 1819; To-day in Ireland 1825; Yesterday in Ireland 1829; The History of France 3 vols. 1830–31 and Lives of Foreign Statesmen 1833 both in Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopædia; Connemara 1843; Charles Delmer, a story of the day 1853; The Greek and the Turk or powers and prospects in the Levant 1853; History of the reigns of Louis xviii and Charles x 2 vols. 1854; The History of France 5 vols. 1858–68. d. 56 Beaumont st. Marylebone, London 25 Feb. 1868.

CROWE, John. Ensign 32 foot 7 Aug. 1800, captain 30 May 1805 to 4 May 1826; major on h.p. 4 May 1826; served in Peninsula, July 1811 to end of the war 1814; lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837; retired 1846; K.H. 1837. d. Fairlea villa near Bideford 7 March 1860 aged 77.

CROWE, Sir John Rice. Served in the Russian navy 6 years; British vice-consul at Hamerfest in Norway, May 1824, consul there 14 March 1837; consul general in Norway 16 Aug. 1843 to 2 April 1875 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 5 Dec. 1859; knighted at Windsor Castle 7 July 1874. d. near Christiania 10 Jany. 1877 aged 84. Times 24 Jany. 1877 p. 6, col. 4.

776CROWFOOT, Rev. John Rustat (son of Wm. Henchman Crowfoot of Beccles, Suffolk, surgeon). b. Beccles, 21 Feb. 1817; ed. at Eton and Caius coll. Cam., 12 wrangler 1839, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, B.D. 1849, fellow of his college 1840–52; C. of Eynesbury, Hunts. 1840–47; C. of St. Mary the Great, Cam. 1852–54; P.C. of Southwold, Suffolk 1854–60; V. of Wangfordcum-Reydon, Suffolk 1860 to death; published Remarks on the University of Cambridge 1848; Academic notes on Holy Scripture 1st series 1850; Plea for a colonial college at Cambridge 1854; Fragmenta Evangelica 1870; Observations on the collation in Greek of Cureton’s Syriac Fragments of the Gospels 1872. d. Wangford vicarage 18 March 1875.

CROWLEY, Abraham. Head of brewing firm of A. Crowley and Co. at Alton, Hants.; many refreshment houses were established in London and other places which especially supplied Crowley’s ales; built and supported a British school for 150 girls at Alton 1845. d. Alton 6 May 1864 aged 70. Hampshire Chronicle 14 May 1864 p. 5.

CROWLEY, Nicholas Joseph (3 son of Peter Crowley of Dublin). b. Dublin 6 Dec. 1819; a pupil of Royal Dublin Society; exhibited 46 pictures at the R.A. 1835–57; member of Royal Hibernian academy 1838; painted several portraits of Daniel O’Connell 1844; painted ‘Taking the Veil’ for St. Vincent’s hospital, Dublin 1845, in the background of this picture there is a portrait of himself; many of his pictures were engraved and lithographed. d. 13 Upper Fitzroy st. London 4 Nov. 1857.

CROWLEY, Peter O’Neill (son of Mr. Crowley of Ballymacoda, co. Cork, tenant farmer). b. Ballymacoda 23 May 1832; a farmer; joined the Fenian movement; one of the party who attacked Knockadoon coastguard station 5 March 1867; mortally wounded in a fight with the constabulary in Kilclooney wood, co. Cork 31 March 1867. d. Mitchelstown 31 March 1867. bur. at Ballymacoda 2 April. John Savage’s Fenian heroes and martyrs (1868) 262–66, 273–80.

CROWTHER, Rev. Jonathan (son of Rev. Timothy Crowther of St. Austell, Cornwall, methodist minister 1757–1829). b. St. Austell 31 July 1794; ed. at Kingswood school, Gloucs.; head master Woodhouse Grove school near Bradford 1814–16; head master of Kingswood sch. 1823; general superintendent of Wesleyan missions in India 1837–43; classical tutor in Wesleyan Theological Institution at Didsbury, Lancs. 1849; edited London Quarterly Review; 777author of The Methodist manual 1810, 2 ed. 1811; A defence of the Wesleyan Theological institution, 3 ed. 1834; Sermons 1839. d. at house of Rev. Wm. Williams at Leeds 16 Jany. 1856. The Pulpit iv, (1825), portrait; Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school (1885) 92–6.

CROZIER, Richard (eld. son of Rawson Bodham Crozier of West hill, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 1775–1849). b. 26 Aug. 1803; entered navy 1 Nov. 1813; captain 20 March 1839; admiral on h.p. 1 April 1870; K.T.S. May 1824. d. Westhill 3 Feb. 1880.

CROZIER, William. Studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1862; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co. 1842; professor of anatomy and physiology at the Medical college, Calcutta 1855 to death. d. on board P. and O. steamer Simla on his way to England 19 Nov. 1862 aged 45.

CRUCHLEY, George Frederick. Publisher, mapseller, engraver and printer at 38 Ludgate st. London to 1833, at 81 Fleet st. 1833–76; sold his entire stock at Hodgsons 16 Jany. 1877. d. 65 Grand parade, Brighton 16 June 1880 in 84 year.

CRUICKSHANK, Brodie. Author of Eighteen years on the gold coast of Africa 2 vols. 1853. d. Lisbon 17 Nov. 1854.

CRUIKSHANK, George (younger son of Isaac Cruikshank of London, caricaturist, who d. 1810 or 1811). b. Duke st. Bloomsbury, London 27 Sep. 1792; employed to complete the plates left unfinished by Gillray 1811; illustrated the political pamphlets of Wm. Hone 1819–21; published Illustrations of phrenology 1826; Illustrations of time 1827; illustrated Fielding, Smollett and Goldsmith for Roscoe’s Novelist’s Library 17 vols. 1831–2; illustrated the Comic Almanac 1835–53; Bentley’s Miscellany 14 vols. 1837–41; Ainsworth’s Magazine 1842–45; published The Bottle 8 plates 1847 and The Drunkard’s Children 8 plates 1848 many thousands of which were sold in a few days, the subject was represented at 8 London theatres at once; a student at the R.A. 22 April 1853; produced the Worship of Bacchus 1862, presented to National gallery by public subscription 1869; granted civil list pension of £95, 19 June 1867; many of his works were purchased by the Westminster Aquarium for £2500 July 1876. d. 263 Hampstead road, London 1 Feb. 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 9 Feb., removed to St. Paul’s cathedral 29 Nov. 1878. Life by W. B. Jerrold, 2 ed. 1883; George Cruikshank the artist by W. Bates, 2 ed. 1879; G. W. Reid’s Descriptive catalogue of the works 778of G. Cruikshank 3 vols. 1871; W. Thornbury’s British Artists ii, 55–69 (1861); W. M. Rossetti’s Fine Art (1867) 277–82; P. G. Hamerton’s Etching and etchers (1876) 316–23; James Grant’s Public characters ii, 236–51 (1841); G. Cruikshank’s Omnibus (1842) 1–8, portrait; Temple Bar lii, 499–516 (1878); Illustrated Review iii, 385–91 (1873), portrait.

CRUIKSHANK, Isaac Robert (brother of the preceding). b. Duke st. Bloomsbury, London 27 Sep. 1789; a midshipman in H.E.I. Co.’s service; made water colour drawings for private patrons; caricaturist and miniature painter; insolvent Dec. 1826; illustrated Pierce Egan’s Life in London 1821 (the 3 chief characters in which Tom, Jerry and Logic he designed from himself, his brother George and Pierce Egan) and The Finish 1831; Westmacott’s English Spy 1825; Cumberland’s British theatre 39 vols. 1823–31 and many other books. d. of bronchitis at 206 Pentonville road, Islington, London 13 March 1856. George Daniel’s Love’s last labour not lost (1863) 173–76.

CRUM, Walter (2 son of Alexander Crum of Thornliebank near Glasgow, merchant manufacturer). b. Glasgow 1796; scientific chemist and manufacturer at Glasgow; member of Philosophical Soc. of Glasgow 1834, pres. 1852; F.R.S. 29 Feb. 1844; pres. of Anderson’s Univ. Glasgow; best known for his successful efforts to place the arts of dyeing and calico printing on a scientific basis; the first person to give the true formula for gun cotton. d. The Ronken, Thornliebank near Glasgow 5 May 1867. Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, 8–10 (1868).

CRUMMER, James Henry. b. Birr, King’s county; ensign 28 foot July 1805, captain 20 July 1815 to 1 March 1839 when placed on h.p.; served in Peninsular war 1809–14; commandant of Island of Calamo 1822–27; police magistrate and superintendent of convicts at Newcastle, N.S.W. 1837–49; police magistrate of Maitland 1849–58 and of Port Macquarie 1858–64. d. Port Macquarie 29 Dec. 1867.

CUBBON, Sir Mark (son of Rev. Thomas Cubbon). b. 1785; lieut. 15 Madras N.I. 20 July 1801; joint comr. of Mysore 1831–34, sole comr. 17 May 1834 to Feb. 1861; col. of 15 Madras N.I. 8 Oct. 1839 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 26 May 1856. d. at Suez on his way home 23 April 1861 in 77 year, there is a fine equestrian statue of him at Bangalore where the Cubbon park is named after him. Rice’s Mysore and Coorg 1877 passim; J. F. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known, 2 ed. (1874) 96–7.

779CUBITT, Joseph (only son of Sir Wm. Cubitt 1785–1861). b. Horning, Norfolk 24 Nov. 1811; assistant to his father 1832–43; constructed great part of London and South Western railway 1838–41, Great Northern railway 1846–50 and London, Chatham and Dover railway 1855–64; built new Blackfriars bridge, London 1865–69 opened by the Queen 6 Nov. 1869; M.I.C.E. 1840, vice pres. 1865. d. 7 Dec. 1872. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 249–51 (1875).

CUBITT, Thomas (son of Jonathan Cubitt of Buxton near Norwich, who d. 1807). b. Buxton 25 Feb. 1788; a master carpenter in London 1809; built London Institution, Finsbury Circus 1815–19; built over large portion of the Five Fields, Chelsea 1824–29; covered with mansions, district between Eaton sq. and the Thames since known as Pimlico; built over Clapham park about 250 acres 1824; constructed about 1000 yards of embankment above Vauxhall bridge at his own expense; built large factory at Thames Bank, burnt down 17 Aug. 1854; church of St. Barnabas, Ranmore near Dorking was built at his cost 1859; A.I.C.E. 1839. d. Denbies near Dorking 20 Dec. 1855. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi, 158–62 (1857); J. S. Bright’s Dorking (1884) 133–6; G.M. xlv, 202–205 (1856).

Note.—His will the longest on record extended to 386 Chancery folios of 90 words each and covered 30 skins of parchment; the personalty exceeding £1,000,000 the probate duty was £15,000.

CUBITT, Sir William (son of Joseph Cubitt of Bacton Wood near Dilham, Norfolk, miller). b. Dilham 1785; a millwright at Horning, Norfolk; invented and patented self regulating windmill sails 1807; employed by Ransome and Son of Ipswich, agricultural implement makers 1812–21, a partner 1821–26; invented the treadmill 1817, at once adopted in chief gaols of the U.K.; a civil engineer in London 1826–58; designed the Oxford canal and Liverpool junction canal; constructed South Eastern railway 1836–46, blew down face of the Round Down Cliff with a monster charge of 18,000 pounds of gunpowder which he exploded by galvanism 26 Jany. 1843; superintended construction of Great Exhibition 1851 for which he was knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct. 1851; M.I.C.E. 1823, member of council 1831, vice pres. 1836, pres. 1850–52; F.R.S. 1 April 1830. d. Clapham Common, London 13 Oct. 1861 in 77 year. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 554–58 (1862); Our iron roads by F. S. Williams, 2 ed. (1883) 123–26; I.L.N. ii, 76–7 (1843).

780CUBITT, William (brother of Thomas Cubitt 1788–1855). b. Buxton near Norwich 1791; served in the navy 4 years; builder in Gray’s Inn road, London to 1851; M.P. for Andover 29 July 1847 to July 1861 and 17 Dec. 1862 to death; contested City of London 29 July 1861; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1847–49; alderman of Langbourn ward 1851–63, lord mayor 1860–62; pres. of St. Bartholomew’s hospital; prime warden of Fishmongers’ Company; A.I.C.E. 22 Jany. 1833, member of council 1842–43. d. Penton lodge, Andover 28 Oct. 1863. G.M. xvi, 120–2 (1864); I.L.N. xxxvii, 435 (1860), portrait.

CUFF, James Dodsley (son of Mr. Cuff of Corsley near Warminster, Wilts. yeoman). Clerk in Bank of England about 1805 to death, clerk in bullion office there 1825 to death; an original member of Numismatic Society of London 1836; collected coins for 40 years which were sold for £7054, 29 June 1854; F.S.A.; contributed descriptions of coins to a supplement to Ainslie’s Illustrations of the Anglo-French coinage 1830. d. Prescott lodge, Clapham new park, London 28 Sep. 1853 in 73 year. Numismatic Chronicle xvii, 15 (1855); Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. x, 122 (1855).

CUFFE, Sir Jonah Denny Wheeler, 1 Baronet (elder son of Sir Richard Wheeler, knight, who took name of Cuffe). b. 1765 or 1766; student at Lincoln’s Inn 17 May 1790; created a baronet of Ireland 1 Oct. 1799. d. Leyrath, co. Kilkenny 9 May 1853.

CUITT, George (only son of George Cuitt of Richmond, Yorkshire, painter 1743–1818). b. Richmond, Oct. 1779; a landscape painter; a drawing master at Chester 1804; resided at Masham, Yorkshire 1820 to death; published Etchings of ancient buildings in Chester, castles in North Wales etc. 1816; Wanderings and pencillings amongst the ruins of the olden time, a series of 23 etchings 1848, reissued 1855 and many other etchings. d. Belle Vue, Masham 15 July 1854. G.M. xlii, 311 (1854).

CULLEN, His Eminence Cardinal Paul (son of Hugh Cullen of Prospect near Ballytore, co. Kildare, farmer). b. Prospect 29 April 1803; ed. at Ballytore and Carlow college; entered Urban college of the Propaganda at Rome 29 Nov. 1820; ordained priest 1829; vice rector of the Irish college in Rome 1829, rector 1832–48; rector of the Propaganda college, May 1848 to Jany. 1849; archbishop of Armagh 19 Dec. 1849; consecrated in church of St. Agatha of the Goths, Rome 24 Feb. 1850; presided over national synod held in the college at Thurles, Aug. 1850 being first 781held in Ireland since convention of Kilkenny 1642; translated from Armagh to Dublin 3 May 1852; created a cardinal priest with title of San Pietro in Montorio 22 June 1866 being first Irishman raised to that rank; founded Catholic University of Ireland at Drumcondra 20 July 1862; presided at synod of Maynooth Sep. 1875; author of Pastoral Letters 1852–56. d. 59 Eccles st. Dublin 24 Oct. 1878. bur. beneath high altar in chapel of Clonville college 29 Oct. P. J. O’Byrne’s Lives of the Cardinals (1879) 13–28, portrait; Sir C. G. Duffy’s League of North and South (1886) 136, 171–75, 301–81; M. Comerford’s Collections (1883) 188–91; J. E. Cairnes’s Political Essays (1873) 263 etc.; I.L.N. lxxiii, 421 (1878), portrait.

CULLEN, William. Second lieut. Madras artillery 1804, colonel 1 Oct. 1842 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Alleppey, Madras 1 Oct. 1862.

CULLENFORD, William. b. Halesworth, Suffolk, Jany. 1797; acted in the provinces; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre 30 Sep. 1836 as Wharton in The Christening; acted chiefly at Adelphi and Haymarket to July 1864 when he retired; a founder of Royal general theatrical fund 16 Feb. 1839, sec. of the fund 16 Feb. 1839 to death. d. Jasmine cottage, New Maiden, Surrey 6 Sep. 1874.

CULLIMORE, Isaac. b. Ireland 1791; an original member of Numismatic Society 1836; he devoted his whole life to study of Egyptian antiquities, one of the first Orientalists who made use of astronomy to fix important dates in ancient history; published 174 plates of oriental cylinders or seals from collections in British Museum, in parts 1842–52; author of Pharoah and his Princes in Syro-Egyptian Soc. Papers vol. 1, 1845. d. Clapham, London 8 or 12 April 1852. Numismatic Chronicle xv, 22 (1853); W. H. Ward’s article on Babylonian seals in Scribner’s Mag. Jany. 1887.

CULSHA, Rev. Edward Widt (only son of Edward Culsha of Islington, London). Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 20 May 1846 aged 19, B.A. 1850, M.A. 1854; C. of Little Malvern, and Head Master of Colwall gram. sch. Herefordshire 1855 to death; author of Antar and other poems 1852; Eastern lands and Eastern people 1861. d. Colwall 11 Jany. 1863.

CULVERWELL, Robert James. b. 13 July 1802; L.S.A. 1824, M.R.C.S. 1827, M.D. Giessen 1841; edited a monthly periodical entitled Leisure Moments from April 1850 to 7821852, 3 vols.; had a museum of 1000 specimens of morbid pathology; proprietor of The Argyll Baths, 10 Argyll place and 5 New Broad st. London; author of A practical treatise on bathing 1829; On consumption 1834, 2 ed. 1842; The Confessional 1841; Guide to health and long life 1844, 2 ed. 1852; The enjoyment of life 1850; Fragments from the mountains 2 vols. 1855; What to eat, drink and avoid, and many other medical books. d. 10 Argyll place, Regent st. London 9 Dec. 1852. The life of Dr. Culverwell written by himself (1852), portrait.

CUMBERBATCH, Abraham Carlton. Attached to consulate at Paris 1825–28; vice consul at Constantinople 24 Aug. 1830, consul general there 3 May 1845 to 30 Nov. 1864 when he retired; C.B. 7 April 1866. d. Heron court, Richmond, Surrey 25 Oct. 1875.

CUMBERLAND, Charles Brownlow. b. 1801; ensign 35 foot 21 Dec. 1820; lieut.-col. 96 foot 22 July 1842 to 8 July 1856 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G. d. 21 Milverton crescent, Leamington 27 Nov. 1882.

CUMBERLAND, Frederic William. b. London 1820; ed. at collegiate school, Dublin and King’s college, London; appointed to engineering department of the Admiralty 1844; architect at Toronto, Canada 1847 to death; constructed Ontario, Simcoe, and Huron railway 1852–54; designed University of Toronto 1859 said to be finest specimen of Norman Gothic architecture in America; organized in Toronto a regiment afterwards called Royal Grenadiers 1861, colonel 1861–64; represented Algoma district in legislature of Ontario 1867 and in Dominion parliament 1871. d. Toronto 5 Aug. 1881.

CUMBERLAND, John. Publisher in London; published Cumberland’s British Theatre, printed from the acting copies as performed at the Theatres Royal, London, 39 vols. 1823–31; Cumberland’s Minor Theatre 14 vols. 1831–32, these two series were republished in 64 or 65 vols. 1838; foreman of the jury at coroner’s inquest on body of Colonel Fawcett killed by Lieut. Munroe in a duel 1 July 1843. d. 185 Camden road, London 13 June 1866 in 79 year.

CUMBERLAND, Octavius. b. 1810; entered navy 16 April 1825; captain 29 Sept. 1855; retired R.A. 25 Aug. 1873; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. New hall, Penicuik, Edinburgh 6 Aug. 1877.

CUMBERLAND, Richard Francis (son of Richard Cumberland, officer in 3 foot guards). b. 7831792; a page of honour; ensign 3 foot guards 27 Jany. 1809, lieut. 25 Dec. 1813 to 1825 when he sold out; aide-de-camp to Duke of Wellington in principal actions in Peninsular war 1812–14; wounded at repulse of French sortie from Bayonne. d. Royal Mint, London 9 March 1870.

CUMBERLEGE, Edward Altham. Colonel Bengal infantry 4 Feb. 1861; L.G. 17 Sep. 1871. d. 23 Burlington road, Westbourne park, London 28 Dec. 1873 aged 70.

CUMING, Hugh. b. West Alvington, Kingsbridge, Devon 14 Feb. 1791; apprenticed to a sail maker; went to South America 1819; in business at Valparaiso 1819–26; cruised in the South Pacific and along Western coast of America collecting plants and shells 1826–29; cruised among islands of Philippine group where he collected 130,000 specimens of dried plants 1835–39; his collection of shells the largest and most valuable private one in existence contained 30,000 species and varieties; G. B. Sowerby named a genus of bivalved shells Cumingia after him 1833; F.L.S. d. 13 Gower st. London 10 Aug. 1865. Athenæum 19 Aug. 1865 pp. 247–8; Proc. of Royal Linnæan Soc. (1865–6) 57–9.

CUMING, Richard. b. London 20 March 1777; one of first members of Aurelian Soc. 1801 afterwards known as Entomological Soc. of London; member of Lambeth Chemical Soc. established 1801; invented the Phantasmagoria 1801 which was shown by Philipstal at Lyceum theatre 1802; made purchases from all celebrated collections of curiosities and natural history which were sold 1806–70; Assoc. British Archæol. Soc. 1858; translated greater part of Cuvier’s Règne Animal to which Edward Pidgeon’s name is attached. d. 63 Kennington park road, London 15 Feb. 1870. bur. Norwood cemetery 22 Feb. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxvii, 542–4 (1871).

CUMMING, Sir Henry John. b. 1772; cornet 11 light dragoons 12 May 1790, lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1803 to 20 Jany. 1837; present at every engagement in the Peninsula except siege of Badajoz; col. 12 lancers 20 Jany. 1837 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846; K.C.H. 13 March 1833. d. 15 Upper Grosvenor st. London 28 Nov. 1856.

CUMMING, Rev. James. b. St. James’s, Westminster 23 Oct. 1777; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 10 wrangler 1801, B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, fellow of his college 1803–15; professor of chemistry in Univ. of Cam. 1815 to death; 784made important modifications and simplifications of electric methods; pres. of Cambridge Philosophical Soc.; F.R.S. 4 Jany. 1816, F.G.S. 1816; R. of North Runcton, Norfolk 1819 to death; author of A manual of Electro-Dynamics 1827. d. North Runcton 10 Nov. 1861.

CUMMING, Rev. John. b. parish of Fintray, Aberdeenshire 10 Nov. 1807; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and univ.; M.A. 1827; licensed to preach by Aberdeen presbytery 3 May 1832; minister of National Scottish church, Crown court, Covent Garden, London 18 Aug. 1832 to 21 July 1879, church was rebuilt at cost of £5000, 1847–8; a prominent controversialist; opposed the Free church of Scotland in many pamphlets and lectures; took part in the Maynooth controversy 1845; became widely known by his writings on the interpretations of prophecy; lectured against Bishop Colenso 1863; his letters to the Times signed a ‘Beemaster’ attracted much notice and were the basis of a work called Beekeeping 1864; his admirers raised a sum of £3000 for him 1879 which bought an annuity of £300; author of Lectures for the times, or an exposition of Tridentine and Tractarian Popery 1844; Is Christianity from God? a manual of Christian evidence 1847, 11 ed. 1871; Apocalyptic Sketches 3 series 1848–50; Prophetic studies, or lectures on the book of Daniel 1850; Signs of the times, or present, past and future 1854; The great tribulation, or things coming on the earth 1859; Popular lectures on the Essays and Reviews 1861; The Millenial rest, or the world as it will be 1862; Moses right and Bishop Colenso wrong 1863; Driftwood, seawood and fallen leaves 2 vols. 1863, and more than 90 other books. d. Chiswick 5 July 1881. In memoriam Rev. John Cumming, D.D, printed for private distribution n.d.; Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London (1873) 201–17; Westminster Review n.s. viii, 436–62 (1855); Essays by George Eliot (1884) 145–99; Illust. news of the world iii (1859), portrait; Graphic xxiv, 149 (1881), portrait.

CUMMING, Rev. Joseph George (2 son of Joseph Notsall Cumming of Mattock). b. Matlock 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at Oakham gr. sch. and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; C. of North Runcton, Norfolk 1835–38; vice principal of King William’s college, Isle of Man 1841–55; master of Lichfield gr. sch. 1855–58; warden and professor of classical literature and geology in Queen’s college, Birmingham 1858–62; R. of Mellis, Suffolk 1862–67; V. of St. John’s, Bethnal Green, London 1867 to death; F.G.S. 1846; author of The Isle of 785Man, its history, physical, ecclesiastical, civil and legendary 1848; A chronology of ancient, sacred and profane history 1853; The great Stanley, or James VIIth Earl of Derby 1867. d. St. John’s vicarage, Bethnal Green 21 Sep. 1868. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 219–20 (1869).

CUMMING, William. b. about 1822; M.R.C.S. 1844, L.S.A. 1847; a surgeon in London; the pioneer of modern ophthalmology; the first to demonstrate that rays of light falling on the human retina might be reflected back to the eye of an observer, this important fact was communicated by him to the Medico-Chirurgical Soc. of London, June 1846 in a paper On a luminous appearance of the human eye. d. 15 Warkworth terrace, Commercial road, London 5 June 1855 aged 33.

CUMMING-BRUCE, Charles Lennox (2 son of Sir Alexander Penrose Cumming-Gordon 1 baronet, who d. 10 Feb. 1806). b. 20 Feb. 1790; ed. at Winchester and C.C. coll. Ox., M.A. 1810; M.P. for Inverness district of burghs 17 May 1833 to 17 July 1837, for Elgin and Nairnshire 25 April 1840 to 11 Nov. 1868; joint sec. of board of control Feb. to Dec. 1852; assumed additional surname of Bruce on his marriage 1820. d. Broom hall near Dunfermline 1 Jany. 1875.

CUMMING-GORDON, Roualeyn George Gordon (2 son of the succeeding). b. Altyre, co. Elgin 15 March 1820; ed. at Eton; cornet Madras cavalry 1838–40; ensign royal Newfoundland companies 3 Nov. 1843; ensign Cape Mounted rifles 23 Feb. 1844 to 22 July 1845 when he sold out; hunted in interior of South Africa 1845–50; exhibited his trophies at Great Exhibition 1851; lectured in London and the provinces 1855–58; kept a museum of his trophies at Fort Augustus on the Caledonian canal 1858 to death; author of Five years of a hunter’s life in the far interior of South Africa 2 vols. 1850 which had an immense success; The lion hunter of South Africa 1856. d. Fort Augustus 24 March 1866. I.L.N. xx, 512 (1852), portrait.

CUMMING-GORDON, Sir William Gordon, 2 Baronet. b. Altyre 20 July 1787; succeeded his father 10 Feb. 1806; M.P. for Elgin district of burghs 23 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832. d. Altyre 23 Nov. 1854.

CUNARD, Sir Edward, 2 Baronet (son of the succeeding). b. Halifax, Nova Scotia 1 Jany. 1816; agent of Cunard line of steamers at New York 1835–65; head of firm of Cunard, Burns 786and Mac Iver 1865 to death. d. suddenly at New York 6 April 1869, personalty sworn under £300,000, 5 June 1869.

CUNARD, Sir Samuel, 1 Baronet (son of Abraham Cunard of Philadelphia, mechanic). b. Halifax, Nova Scotia 21 Nov. 1787; a merchant at Halifax; established with George Burns of Glasgow and David Mac Iver of Liverpool the British and North American Royal mail steam packet company 1838; contracted with the government 4 May 1839 for conveyance of the mails between Liverpool and Halifax, Boston and Quebec for 7 years at £60,000 per annum, the first voyage across the Atlantic was made by the Britannia 4–18 July 1840; F.R.G.S. 1846; created baronet 9 March 1859. d. 26 Prince’s gardens, Kensington, London 28 April 1865, personalty sworn under £350,000, 27 May. W. S. Lindsay’s Merchant Shipping iv, 178–86, 217–20, 226–50 (1876); Fortunes made in business ii, 325–71 (1884); London Society xxxviii, 33–47 (1880).

CUNDY, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Cundy of London, architect 1765–1825). b. 1790; an architect in London; surveyor to Earl Grosvenor’s London estates Dec. 1825 to death; erected Holy Trinity, Paddington, St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, and other churches in west end of London. d. Bromley, Kent 15 July 1867.

CUNINGHAM, Alexander (2 son of Charles Cuningham of Newholm, Lanarkshire). b. Edinburgh 1805; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; a writer to the signet 1827; joint sec. with his father to comrs. of northern lighthouses 1842, sec. 1846–75; fellow of royal Scottish society of arts before whom he read many papers on subjects connected with lighthouse service. d. Palmerston place, Edinburgh 16 June 1883.

CUNINGHAM, David. Entered Bombay army 1816; brigadier in command at Aden 18 Sep. 1848 to 9 Jany. 1851; col. 1 Bombay light cavalry 19 Oct. 1849 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Cluny house near Dunkeld 4 Sep. 1861 aged 59.

CUNINGHAM, John (eld. son of John Cuningham of Port Glasgow, merchant). b. Port Glasgow 1782; admitted advocate at Scotch bar 1807; deputy to Lord Advocate Jeffery, Dec. 1830; sheriff of Morayshire 1831; solicitor general for Scotland 22 April 1835; judge of supreme court with courtesy title of Lord Cuningham 9 Feb. 1837 to May 1853 when he resigned. d. 23 Moray place, Edinburgh 26 Oct. 1854. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), 47–48, portrait.

787CUNLIFFE, Sir Robert Henry, 4 Baronet (2 son of Sir Foster Cunliffe, 2 baronet 1755–1834). b. Chester 22 April 1785; entered Bengal army 1798; major 1 Bengal N.I. 17 Oct. 1818; col. 4 Bengal N.I. 30 May 1828 to death; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1829; succeeded 15 June 1834; C.B. 28 July 1838; general 13 Oct. 1857. d. Acton park near Wrexham, Denbighshire 10 Sep. 1859.

CUNNINGHAM, Francis (youngest son of Allan Cunningham the poet 1784–1842). b. 1820; ensign 23 Madras light infantry 1838; field engineer at defence of Jellalabad; Mysore comr. at Bangalore 1850–61; retired with rank of lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1861; published an edition of Marlowe 1870, of Massinger 1871, and of Ben. Jonson 1871; a frequent contributor to Saturday Review. d. 18 Clarendon road, South Kensington, London 3 Dec. 1875.

CUNNINGHAM, Rev. John William. b. London 3 Jany. 1780; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 5 wrangler 1802, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, fellow of his college; C. of Ripley, Surrey 1802; C. of Clapham to 1811; a prominent member of the evangelical party; edited Christian Observer 1850–58; V. of Harrow 1811 to death; author of World without souls 1805, 6 ed. 1816; The Velvet Cushion 1814, 10 ed. 1816; Sancho or the Proverbialist 1817, anon. and other books. d. Harrow 30 Sep. 1861.

CUNNINGHAM, Joseph Davey (eld. son of Allan Cunningham the poet 1784–1842). b. Lambeth 9 June 1812; ed. at Addiscombe and Chatham; sailed for India, Feb. 1834; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers, captain 13 Nov. 1849 to death; lived among the Sikhs as political assistant to col. Wade and other officers 1837–45; political agent at Bhopal 7 March 1846 to 26 Oct. 1849; author of History of the Sikhs 1849. d. suddenly near Umballa, Punjab 28 Feb. 1851. J. D. Cunningham’s History of the Sikhs (1849), preface.

CUNNINGHAM, Peter (brother of the preceding). b. Pimlico, London 7 April 1816; ed. at Christ’s hospital; clerk in Audit office 1834, chief clerk 1854–60; art critic of Pictorial Times; treasurer of Shakespeare Society; author of Songs of England and Scotland 1835; The handbook of Westminster Abbey 1842; The life of Inigo Jones 1848; The handbook of London 2 vols. 1849, 2 ed. 1850; The story of Nell Gwynn 1852; edited many books. d. Ureulam road, St. Albans 18 May 1869. G. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 384–93; I.L.N. xxviii, 205, 206 (1856), portrait.

788CUNNINGHAM, Peter Miller (5 son of John Cunningham of Dalswinton near Dumfries, farmer). b. Dalswinton, Nov. 1789; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; assistant surgeon in royal navy 10 Dec. 1810, surgeon 28 Jany. 1814; surgeon superintendent of convict ships, left the sea May 1841; published Two years in New South Wales 2 vols. 1827; On the motions of the earth and on the conceptions, growth and decay of man 1834; Hints for Australian emigrants 1841. d. Greenwich 6 March 1864. Rev. D. Hogg’s Life of Allan Cunningham (1875) 12–14, 360–8.

CUNNINGHAM, Rev. William (eld. son of Charles Cunningham of Hamilton, Lanarkshire, merchant, who d. 1811). b. Hamilton 2 Oct. 1805; ed. at Dunse and Univ. of Edin. 1820–28; assistant minister of Middle church, Greenock 15 Oct. 1830; minister of Trinity college church, Edin. Jany. 1834; D.D. Princeton college, New Jersey 1842; professor of theology in New college, Edin. 1843, professor of church history there 1845 to death, principal June 1847 to death; the ablest defender of Calvinism of his time; edited British and Foreign Evangelical Review Oct. 1855 to Oct. 1860; moderator of general assembly 19 May 1859 to death; the sum of £7000 was presented to him 1859; author of The reformers and the theology of the Reformation 1862; Historical theology, a review of the principal doctrinal discussions in the Christian church from the Apostolic age 1863, 2 ed. 1864; Discussion on church principles, Popish, Erastian, Presbyterian 1863. d. Edinburgh 14 Dec. 1861. Life of W. Cunningham by R. Rainy and J. Mackenzie 1871, portrait; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 193–200, portrait; Sermons from 1828 to 1860 by the late W. Cunningham, edited by Rev. J. J. Bonar 1872.

CUNYNGHAME, Sir Arthur Augustus Thurlow (3 son of Sir David Cunynghame, 5 baronet 1769–1854). b. 2 Aug. 1812; 2 lieut. royal rifles 2 Nov. 1830; lieut.-col. 13 foot 3 Nov. 1846; captain Grenadier guards 1 Dec. 1846; lieut.-col. 20 foot 27 April 1849; lieut.-col. 27 foot 2 April 1852 to 16 Dec. 1853 when placed on h.p.; assistant quartermaster general of first division in the Crimea 1854–55; commanded a division of Turkish contingent May 1855; col. of 36 foot 2 Dec. 1868 to 2 Feb. 1876; commanded forces in South Africa 5 Nov. 1873 to 1 March 1878; col. commandant of first battalion royal rifles 2 Feb. 1876 to death; lieut. governor of Cape of Good Hope 5 March 1877 to 1878; general 1 Oct. 1877, placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1869, G.C.B. 13 789June 1878; author of An Aide-de-camp’s recollections of service in China 2 vols. 1844; A glimpse at the Great Western republic 1851; Travels in the Eastern Caucasus 1872; My command in South Africa 1879. d. on board ship at Aden on his way home from India 10 March 1884. I.L.N. lxxii, 273 (1878), portrait.

CUPPAGE, Sir Burke (son of lieut. gen. Wm. Cuppage, who d. 7 Jany. 1848 aged 87). b. Charlton, Kent 1794; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1812; commanded R.A. in south western district 1857–63; col. commandant 2 Feb. 1868 to death; governor of Jersey 23 Oct. 1863 to 1 Oct. 1868; K.C.B. 29 May 1875. d. 4 Cranley place, Onslow sq. London 19 April 1877.

CURETON, Rev. William (2 son of Wm. Cureton of Westbury, Shropshire). b. Westbury 1808; ed. at Newport and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. and D.D. 1858; chaplain of his college 1831–38; C. of Oddington, Oxon. 1831; sub librarian of Bodleian library, Oxford 1834–37; assistant keeper of MSS. in British Museum 1837–50; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1838; select preacher at Ox. 1840; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 18 June 1847; canon of Westminster and R. of St. Margaret’s, Westminster 5 Dec. 1849 to death; corresponding member of French Institute 1855, foreign associate 1860; crown trustee of British Museum 1859; chairman of committee of Oriental translation fund 1863; author of Vindiciæ Ignatianæ, the writings of St. Ignatius vindicated from heresy 1846; Corpus Ignatianum 1849; Spicilegium Syriacum with an English translation 1855; Remains of an ancient recension of the Gospels in Syriac 1858. d. Westbury 17 June 1864. The church of England photographic portrait gallery, part 21 (1859), portrait; G.M. xvii, 520–23 (1864); I.L.N. xxiv, 400 (1854) portrait.