Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
BUTLER, George Slade (son of Richard Butler of Rye, Sussex, surgeon). b. Rye 4 March 1821; solicitor at Rye 1843 to death; town clerk 1875–81; registrar of county court; F.S.A. 6 March 1862; author of Topographica Sussexiana 1866, originally printed in Collections of Sussex Archæological Society to which he contributed many papers on antiquities of Rye. d. Rye 11 April 1882.
BUTLER, Henry Edward (2 son of 2 Earl of Carrick 1746–1813). b. 3 Dec. 1780; ensign 27 foot 15 Feb. 1800; major 2 garrison battalion 19 March 1812 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854; col. 94 foot 25 July 1854 and col. 55 foot 19 Jany. 1855 to death. d. Paris 7 Dec. 1856.
BUTLER, James Armar (4 son of the preceding). b. 1827; ensign 90 foot 13 Oct. 1843; captain Ceylon rifle regiment 6 May 1853 to May 1854 when placed on h.p.; conducted siege of Silistria, Turkey against the Russians May 1854 to death; gazetted brevet major 14 July 1854 and lieut. Coldstream guards 15 July 1854. d. Silistria of wounds received during the siege 22 June 1854 in 28 year. E. H. Nolan’s War against Russia i, 214–27 (1857); G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) 141–3.
BUTLER, James Arthur. b. 1795; ensign 1 foot guards 23 June 1813, captain 18 April 1816 to 25 Dec. 1818, carried the colours at Waterloo; captain 80 foot 31 July 1823 to 19 Nov. 1825 when placed on h.p.; general 5 Dec. 1871. d. Holt lodge, Kintbury, Berkshire 26 Feb. 1881.
BUTLER, Rev. Pierce (brother of James Armar Butler 1827–54). b. 27 Feb. 1826; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; explored peninsula of Sinai 1853–4; R. of Ulcombe, Kent 1861 to death; translated from the Danish Öhlenschläger’s Axel and Valborg, a tragedy in 5 acts 1874. d. Ulcombe rectory 8 Feb. 1868. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxviii, pp. cxliv-cxlvi, (1868).
BUTLER, Pierce Somerset. b. 26 Jany. 1801; called to Irish bar 1832; M.P. for co. Kilkenny 1 Dec. 1843 to 1 July 1852. d. 28 July 1865. Annual Register (1854) 402–14.
BUTLER, Very Rev. Richard (eld. son of Rev. Richard Butler, V. of Burnchurch, co. Kilkenny who d. 1841). b. near Granard, co. Longford 14 Oct. 1794; ed. at Reading and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1817; V. of Trim, co. Meath 1819 to death; dean of Clonmacnois Dec. 1847 to death; one of founders of Irish archæological Society 1840 (united with Celtic Society 1854), for which he edited Clyn and Dowling’s Annals of Ireland 1849; author of Some notices of the Castle and of the Abbies at Trim 1835, 2 ed. 1840. d. 17 July 1862.
BUTLER, Sir Richard Pierce, 9 Baronet. b. 4 March 1813; succeeded 8 Nov. 1861. d. 22 Nov. 1862.
BUTLER, Sir Thomas, 8 Baronet. b. 23 Oct. 1783; succeeded 16 Jany. 1817. d. 8 Nov. 1861.
BUTLER-CLARKE-SOUTHWELL-WANDESFORD, Charles Harward (4 son of 17 Earl of Ormonde who d. 30 Jany. 1796). b. 9 Nov. 1780; M.P. for city of Kilkenny 1802–9 and 1814–20; M.P. for county Kilkenny 1820–30. d. Mount Juliet, Kilkenny 7 Nov. 1860.
BUTLER-JOHNSTONE, Henry (3 son of 13 Baron Dunboyne 1780–1850). b. Dublin 28 Aug. 1809; M.P. for Canterbury 8 July 1852 to 21 Feb. 1853 when unseated on petition of the electors, M.P. again 1857–62; colonel commandant Dumfries militia 7 Feb. 1868 to 15 March 1873. d. 8 Seamore place, Mayfair, London 1 April 1879.
BUTT, George Medd (2 son of John Butt of Sherborne). b. Sherborne 1797; practised as special pleader; barrister I.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 1845, reader 1858, treasurer 1859; Q.C. 1845; M.P. for Weymouth 10 July 1852 to 21 March 1857. d. 17 Eaton square, London 11 Nov. 1860.
BUTT, Isaac (only son of Rev. Robert Butt R. of Stranorlar, co. Donegal). b. Glenfin, co. Donegal 6 Sep. 1813; ed. at Royal school Raphoe and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1832, B.A. 1835, LL.B. 1836, M.A. and LLD. 1840; Whately professor of political economy in Trin. coll. Dublin 1836–41; called to Irish bar Nov. 1838; alderman of Dublin 1840; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1859; carried on a counter agitation to that of the Repeal Association 1843; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; M.P. for Harwich 8 May 1852 to 1 July 1852, for Youghal 1852 to 1865 and for Limerick 1871 to death; leader of the Home Rule party 1871 to death; defended the Fenian prisoners 1865–9; pres. of Amnesty Association 1869; a founder of Dublin Univ. Mag. 1833, editor Aug. 1834 to 1838; established in Dublin a weekly newspaper called the Protestant Guardian afterwards amalgamated with the Warder; author of Ovid’s Fasti translated 1833; The history of Italy 1860; A practical treatise on the new law of compensation to tenants in Ireland 1871; Home government for Ireland 1874. d. Roebuck cottage near Dundrum, co. Dublin 5 May 1879. Dublin Univ. Mag. xciii, 710–15 (1879); Sullivan’s New Ireland (1877), ii, 306–10, 319; Graphic iv, 485 (1871), portrait, xix, 508 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. iv, 40 (1844), portrait.
BUTT, James Palmer. Educ. at school established in Somers Town, London by Abbé Carron and at Stonyhurst college; kept a school with his brother Wm. Henry Butt at Baylis house, Salt hill near Windsor about 1828 to death. d. Baylis house, Salt hill 2 May 1873 aged 84.
BUTTER, Donald. Surgeon Bengal army 28 Aug. 1833; superintending surgeon at Benares 31 Dec. 1854 to 23 April 1859 when placed on h.p. with rank of inspector general; author of Outline of the topography and statistics of the Southern districts of Oudh 1839; Snake bite curable and hydrophobia preventible 1873. d. Hazelwood, Upper Norwood 24 Dec. 1877 aged 78.
BUTTER, John. b. Woodbury, Devon 22 Jany. 1791; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.; surgeon at Plymouth 1814–20, physician there 1820–56 when he became blind; M.D. Edin. 1820; originated Plymouth Eye Dispensary 1821; F.L.S. 1817; F.R.S. 21 March 1822; author of Remarks on irritative fever commonly called the Plymouth dockyard disease 1845. d. 7 Windsor villas, Plymouth 13 Jany. 1877.
BUTTERWORTH, Henry (son of Henry Butterworth of Coventry, timber merchant). b. Coventry 28 Feb. 1786; law publisher at 7 Fleet st. London 1818 to death; representative of ward of Farringdon Without in Court of Common Council 1823–30; law publisher to the Queen 23 Nov. 1852 to death; F.S.A. 6 Jany. 1848. d. Upper Tooting, Surrey 2 Nov. 1860. Memoir of the late H. Butterworth (1861).
BUTTERWORTH, William John. Adjutant 38 Madras N.I. 1821; lieut. col. of 2 European regiment 1841–3 and 1846–51, of 10 Madras N.I. 1843–6; col. of 5 Madras N.I. 3 Dec. 1851 to death; C.B. 20 July 1838; governor of Prince of Wales island, Singapore and Malacca 14 June 1843 to 1855, presented with piece of plate value £700 by the inhabitants 1856; general 28 Nov. 1854. d. Millmead house, Guildford 4 Nov. 1856 aged 55. I.L.N. xxix, 105–6 (1856), portrait.
BUXTON, Bertha H. (dau. of Wm. Lenpold or Leupold of London, merchant). b. 26 July 1844; ed. at Queen’s college, Tufnell park, London; travelled in Holland, Germany and America; published Jennie of “The Prince’s,” a novel by B. H. B. 3 vols. 1876; Won, by the author of Jennie of the Prince’s 3 vols. 1877; Rosabella, a doll’s Christmas story by Auntie Bee 1877; More dolls by Auntie Bee 1878; the following books have her name on them Fetterless though bound together 3 vols. 1879, Great Grenfell gardens 3 vols. 1879, Nell—On and off the stage 3 vols. 1880, From the wings 3 vols. 1880, Many loves 3 vols. 1880, Little Pops a nursery romance 1881, Sceptre and king 1881. (m. at Hanwell parish church 22 Dec. 1860, Henry Buxton of Hanwell, merchant son of Edward Buxton, merchant). d. 12 St. Mary’s terrace, Kensington, London 31 March 1881. Biograph iv, 159–62 (1880); Carisbrooke Mag. April 1881, portrait; Tinsley’s Mag. xxviii, 499–500 (1881).
BUXTON, Charles (3 son of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1 Baronet 1786–1845). b. Cromer 18 Nov. 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B. A. 1845, M.A. 1850; partner in firm of Truman, Hanbury and Co. of Spitalfields, London, brewers 1845; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 1857–9, for Maidstone 1859–65, for East Surrey 1865 to death; member of the Ritual commission 1867–8; his secretary Arthur White attempted to shoot him at 7 Grosvenor crescent, Hyde Park 29 April 1870; author of Slavery and freedom in the British West Indies 1860; The ideas of the day on policy Dec. 1865. d. Lochearnhead hotel near Killin, Perthshire 10 Aug. 1871. Personalty sworn under £250,000, 28 Feb. 1872. Notes of thought by the late C. Buxton, 2 ed. (1883) 5–52; Graphic iv, 219, 237 (1871), portrait.
BUXTON, Sir Edward North, 2 Baronet (brother of the preceding). b. Earlham, Norfolk 16 Sep. 1812; succeeded 19 Feb. 1845; M.P. for South Essex 1847–52, for East Norfolk 6 April 1857 to death. d. Colne house, Cromer 11 June 1858.
BUXTON, Frederick. b. Bow lane, Cheapside, London; made his first appearance on the stage at York 1844 as Mr. Gillman in The happiest day of my life; made his début in London at Olympic theatre 1847 as David in The Rivals; first appeared in America at Louisville, Kentucky March 1850 as Peter in The Stranger. d. Chicago 17 Jany. 1858.
BUXTON, Richard (2 son of John Buxton of Sedgley hall farm, Prestwich, farmer). b. Sedgley hall farm 15 Jany. 1786; apprenticed to a bat maker 1798; botanised in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and North Wales; frequently cited in J. B. Wood’s Flora Mancuniensis 1840 as the authority for many localities of the rarer plants; author of Botanical guide to the flowering plants found within 16 miles of Manchester 1849, 2 ed. 1859. d. Manchester 2 Jany. 1865. J. Cash’s Where there’s a will there’s a way (1873) 94–107; Seemann’s Journ. of Bot. iii, 71 (1865).
BYAM, Edward (younger son of Edward Byam of Cedar hill, Antigua 1767–95). b. 1795; ensign 38 foot 11 Nov. 1811; major 15 Hussars 16 June 1825 to 26 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; colonel 18 Hussars 23 Feb. 1858 to death; L.G. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Byam house, Brighton 9 Sep. 1864.
BYAM, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. 1792; ed. at Eton; lieut. 15 Hussars 17 Sep. 1812 to 1817; served in Peninsula, south of France and Waterloo; pres. of local council in Antigua; colonel of regiment of dragoons raised in Antigua; knighted by patent 6 July 1859. d. Westwood, Southampton 5 July 1869.
BYLES, Sir John Barnard (eld. son of Jeremiah Byles of Stowmarket, Suffolk, timber merchant). b. Stowmarket 11 Jany. 1801; a special pleader; barrister I.T. 18 Nov. 1831; recorder of Buckingham 1840 to Jany. 1858; serjeant-at-law 14 Feb. 1843; leader of Norfolk circuit 1845; received a patent of precedence 1846; Queen’s serjeant with serjeants Shee and Wrangham 27 Feb. 1857, this was last appointment of queen’s serjeants of whom he was the survivor; judge of Court of Common Pleas Jany. 1858 to Jany. 1873 when he retired on pension of £3,500; knighted at St. James’s palace 14 April 1858; P.C. 3 March 1873; author of A discourse on the present state of the law of England 1829; A practical treatise on the law of bills of exchange 1829, 14 ed. 1885; Observations on the usury laws 1845; Free trade and its so called sophisms examined by a barrister 1850; Foundations of religion in the mind and heart of man 1875. d. Harefield house, Uxbridge 3 Feb. 1884, Will proved 25 March 1884, personalty upwards of £201,000. A. Pulling’s Order of the Coif (1884) 41, 105, 182; A generation of judges by their Reporter 1886; Law Journal xix, 115, 255 (1884); Times 5 Feb. 1884 p. 7, col. 1.
BYNG, Gerald Frederick (youngest son of 5 Viscount Torrington 1741–1813). Page of honour to Prince of Wales 1791; cornet 27 light dragoons 1800; ensign 53 foot 1801–2 when place on h.p.; clerk in Foreign office 5 Jany. 1801 to 5 Nov. 1839 when he retired on a superannuation allowance; ensign St. George’s volunteer infantry 1803; attended on King and Queen of Sandwich Islands during their visit to England May to July 1824; one of gentlemen ushers of privy chamber 23 March 1831 to death; a comr. for inquiring into Smithfield market 28 Nov. 1849; joined ranks of Queen’s rifle volunteers 1859; presented to that corps colours of the St. George’s volunteer infantry 1860; generally known as Poodle Byng, a soubriquet given him by George Canning on account of his curly hair; lived at 5 Cleveland court, afterwards called 37 St. James’s place, Pall Mall, London 1831 to death. d. there 5 June 1871 aged 87. Life of G. Brummell by captain Jesse i, 110 (1886), portrait.
BYNG, Henry Dilkes (brother of the preceding). b. 1784; entered navy March 1798; captain 9 March 1814; held a command on lakes of Canada 15 years; captain of the Ordinary at Portsmouth 1833–6; commodore at Jamaica 1842–3; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired V.A. 31 Jany. 1856. d. Queen’s terrace, Southsea 23 Sep. 1860.
BYRES, Patrick (younger son of Robert Byres of London, merchant). b. about 1778; entered Bengal army 1794; major 11 Bengal N.I. 5 Aug. 1816; colonel 20 Bengal N.I. 3 June 1825; colonel 33 Bengal N.I. 9 July 1840 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Lonley, Aberdeenshire 1 Feb. 1854.
BYRNE, Right Rev. Andrew. b. Navan, Ireland 5 Dec. 1802; went to America 1820; deacon April 1827, priest 11 Nov. 1827; stationed at various places in Carolina; pastor of St. Mary’s R.C. church at Charleston 1830; vicar general of Bishop of Charleston; pastor of St. James’s church N.Y. 1 Sep. 1836, of St. Andrew’s church N.Y. 19 March 1842, of Church of the Nativity N.Y. 5 June 1842; bishop of Little Rock comprising state of Arkansas 1844 to death; consecrated at St. Patrick’s cath. N.Y. 10 March 1844; attended sixth provincial council at Baltimore, May 1846 and first provincial council at New Orleans 1856. d. 1862. R. H. Clarke’s Lives of deceased bishops ii, 264–71 (1872).
BYRNE, John. Ensign 22 foot 1 Oct. 1808; lieut. col. 31 foot 8 Oct. 1844 to 15 April 1846; lieut. col. 53 foot 15 April 1846 to 9 May 1851 when he sold out; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. 21 July 1851.
BYRNE, Miles. b. Monaseed, co. Wexford 20 March 1780; joined society of United Irishmen 1797; joined insurgents under Rev. John Murphy at Corrigua, co. Wexford 3 June 1798; clerk in timber yard in Dublin 1798–1803; lieutenant of infantry in Napoleon’s Irish legion Nov. 1803, commanded a bataillon d’elite of Irish troops 1810, chevalier of Legion of honour 18 June 1813, received cross of that order 1832; chef de bataillon in 56 regiment of the line 1830–5; served in Greece 1828–30; lived in Paris 1835 to death. d. Rue Montaigne, Paris 24 Jany. 1862. Monument in Montmartre cemetery. Memoirs of Miles Byrne 3 vols. 1863, portrait.
BYRNE, Oscar (son of James Byrne, dancer who d. 5 Burton crescent, London 4 Dec. 1844 aged 85). Made his first appearance as a dancer in a ballet at Drury Lane theatre 1803; spent some years in Ireland and abroad; ballet master at Princess’s theatre 1850–9, at Drury Lane 1862, at Her Majesty’s Nov. 1866; had an inexhaustible invention in designing new dances; taught most of the English dancers who gained distinction during his time. d. 22 Islip st. Kentish Town, London 4 Sep. 1867 aged 72.
Note.—His father James Byrne introduced in Powell’s pantomime Harlequin Amulet or the Magic of Mona at Drury Lane theatre Christmas 1799 an entirely new dress for the harlequin consisting of a white silk shape fitting without a wrinkle into which 308 variegated silk patches were woven, the whole being profusely covered with 48,000 spangles. He completely altered the manner of playing harlequin by making him a graceful and agile dancer instead of merely posturing on the stage in 5 positions. Harlequins before that time wore loose dresses.
BYRON, Anne Isabella, Baroness Wentworth (only child of Sir Ralph Milbanke, 6 Baronet who d. 19 March 1825 aged 78). b. Ellemore hall, Durham 17 May 1792 being first child after a marriage of 15 years. (m. 2 Jany. 1815 George Gordon Byron, 6 Baron Byron he was b. 22 Jany. 1788 and d. 19 April 1824, they separated by mutual consent Feb. 1816). Founded an industrial school for boys at Ealing on system of Fellenberg 1834, another at Leicester, a reformatory for girls and some village schools; became baroness Wentworth at decease of her cousin Lord Scarsdale 12 Nov. 1856 when abeyance of the barony ceased. d. 11 St. George’s terrace, Regent’s park, London 16 May 1860. Macpherson’s Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson 1878 pp. 94, 163, 187, 188, 209 and 280; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. 1876 316–25; Lady Byron vindicated by H. B. Stowe 1870; Quarterly Review Oct. 1869, Jany. 1870 and July 1883.
BYRON, George Anson Byron, 7 Baron (only son of George Anson Byron 1758–93, captain R.N.) b. Bath 8 March 1789; entered navy as a volunteer Dec. 1800; captain 7 June 1814; admiral on h.p. 20 May 1862; succeeded his cousin the poet 19 April 1824. d. 44 Eaton place, London 2 March 1868.
BYRON, George Anson Byron, 8 Baron. b. Cheltenham 30 June 1818; succeeded 2 March 1868. d. 28 Nov. 1870.
BYRON, Henry James (eld. son of Henry Byron 1804–84, British consul at Port au Prince, Hayti). b. Manchester 8 Jany 1835; ed. at St. Peter’s College Eaton sq. London; admitted student at M.T. 14 Jany 1858; edited Fun from first number 21 Sep. 1861; edited Comic News 13 July 1863 to May 1864; edited Mirth Nov. 1877 to Oct. 1878 12 numbers only; manager with Marie Wilton of Prince of Wales’s theatre London 15 April 1865 to 1867; manager of Alexandra theatre Liverpool 1867, of the T.R. and Amphitheatre Liverpool; manager of Criterion theatre London when it opened 21 May 1874; made his début in London at Globe theatre 23 Oct. 1869 as Sir Simon Simple in his own comedy Not such a fool as he looks; author of about 120 burlesques, farces and comedies produced at West-end theatres, Cyril’s success was played at Globe theatre 28 Nov. 1868 to 27 March 1869 being longest run of any original 5 act play in modern times, and Our Boys a 3 act comedy was played at Vaudeville theatre from 16 Jany. 1875 to 18 April 1879 an unbroken run of 1362 times; author of Paid in full 3 vols. 1865. d. Rockelemont, Queen’s road, Clapham, London 12 April 1884. Illustrated Review vi, 441–3 (1874), portrait; Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1879) 61–68; W. Archer’s English dramatists of to-day (1882) 119–47; London Society xxvi, 121–9 (1874); Biograph (1880) 360–8; Theatre i, 212 (1878), portrait, v, 345–50 (1882), iii, 268–72 (1884).
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CABBELL, Benjamin Bond (4 son of George Cabbell of 17 Wigmore st. London, apothecary). b. Vere st. Oxford st. London 1781; ed. at Westminster; matric. from Oriel coll. Ox. 19 June 1800; migrated to Exeter college 25 Feb. 1801; barrister M.T. 9 Feb. 1816, bencher 1850; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1837; contested Marylebone July 1841; M.P. for St. Albans 1846–7 and for Boston 1847–57; sheriff of Norfolk 1854; provincial grand master of freemasons of Norfolk; a well-known patron of art. d. 39 Chapel st. Marylebone road, London 9 Dec. 1874. John Pye’s Patronage of British art (1845) 358, 365, portrait.
CABRERA, Ramon, Condé de Morella (son of José Cabrera of Tortosa, Catalonia, mariner who d. 1812). b. Tortosa 27 Dec. 1806; head of a body of guerillas in service of Don Carlos on breaking out of civil war in Spain 1833; commandant general of Lower Arragon Nov. 1835; mariscal de campo 15 Aug. 1836; received grand cross of S. Fernando June 1837; captured fortress of Morella Jany. 1838; created Condé De Morella by Don Carlos 1838; routed by Espartero July 1840 when he took refuge in France; lived at Lyons 1841–5; made two attempts to effect risings in Spain 1846 and 1848; created Marquis del Ter 1848; defeated at Pasteral 27 Jany. 1849 when he fled to France and thence to England; lived in London Aug. 1849, in Naples 1850–1. (m. 29 May 1850 Marianne Catherine only child of Robert Vaughan Richards Q.C.) d. Wentworth, Virginia Water, Surrey 24 May 1877. A life in 4 vols. by Don Buenaventura de Cordoba; F. Duncan’s English in Spain (1877) 109–23; Blackwood’s Mag. lx, 293–308 (1846); Pall Mall Gazette 2 June 1877; Echo 29 May 1877.
CACHEMAILLE, Rev. James Louis Victor. Ordained deacon 1834 and priest 1835 by bishop of Winchester; incumbent of Island of Sark 1834 to death; author of Essai sur la resurrection 1850; Le palais de Crystal 1852; Quelques signes des dernier temps 1853 and many other pamphlets. d. Sark 30 Jany. 1877 aged 71.
CADBURY, Richard Tapper. b. Exeter 1768 or 1769; mercer and draper in Bull st. Birmingham 1794 to about 1828; overseer of Birmingham 1800, one of board of guardians 1801, a comr. of Birmingham streets acts 1822, chairman of that board 1836–51 when it was abolished by 14 and 15 Vict. cap. xciii, 24 July 1851; member of Society of Friends who generally spoke of him as “King Richard.” d. 57 Calthorpe road, Birmingham 13 March 1860. Edgbastonia i, 2–3 (1881), portrait.
CADDELL, Cecilia Mary (2 dau. of Richard O’Ferrall Caddell of Harbourstown, co. Meath 1780–1856). Author of A history of the missions in Japan and Paraguay 1856; Blind Agnese or the little spouse of the Blessed Sacrament 1855, 5 ed. 1873; Home and the homeless, a novel 3 vols. 1858; Nellie Netterville, a tale of the times of Cromwell 1867; Wild times, a tale of the days of Queen Elizabeth 1872 and of many articles in The Irish Monthly 1874–7. d. Kingstown near Dublin 11 Sep. 1877 in 64 year. The Irish monthly v, 772–4 (1877).
CADELL, Francis (2 son of Hew Francis Cadell of Cockenzie near Preston Pans, Haddingtonshire 1790–1873). b. Cockenzie Feb. 1822; ed. at Edinburgh and in Germany; midshipman in navy of H.E.I. Co. 1835; served in first Chinese war 1840–1; proved that the river Murray in Australia was navigable by descending that river in a boat from Swan Hill station to Lake Victoria 1851; promoted the Murray Steam navigation company 1853, commander Company’s steamers 1853–60; explored South Australia, discovered mouth of river Roper and fine pastoral country in latitude 14° South, Nov. 1867; murdered by his crew while on a voyage from Amboyna to the Kei islands June 1879. A. Forster’s South Australia (1866) 68–74; Once a week viii, 667–70 (1863); I.L.N. xxvi, 173 (1855), xxvii, 176 (1855); The Times 7 Nov. 1879 p. 5.
CADELL, Jessie. b. Scotland 23 Aug. 1844; went to India where she resided chiefly at Peshawur; author of Ida Craven 2 vols. 1876 and of an article in Fraser’s Mag. for May 1879, entitled The true Omar Khayyam. d. Florence 17 June 1884. Athenæum 28 June 1884.
CADELL, William Archibald (eld. son of Wm. Cadell of Carron park near Falkirk). b. Carron park 27 June 1775; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; member of faculty of advocates 1798; F.R.S. 28 June 1810; F.R.S. Edin.; F.G.S.; detained prisoner in France several years; author of On the lines that divide each semidiurnal arc into six equal parts 1816; A journey in Carniola, Italy and France in the years 1817, 1818 2 vols. 1820. d. Edinburgh 19 Feb. 1855.
CADOGAN, George Cadogan, 3 Earl (2 son of 1 Earl Cadogan 1728–1807). b. St. James’s sq. London 5 May 1783; entered navy 15 Dec. 1795; captain 23 March 1807; commanded naval forces at destruction of Zara Dec. 1813; placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1813; Austrian order of Maria Theresa conferred on him 22 July 1814; C.B. 4 June 1815; created Baron Oakley of Caversham 10 Sep. 1831; succeeded as 3 Earl 23 Dec. 1832; admiral 9 July 1857. d. 138 Piccadilly, London 15 Sep. 1864.
CADOGAN, Henry Charles Cadogan, 4 Earl (eld. son of the preceding). b. South Audley st. London 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1832; M.P. for Reading 1841–7, for Dover 1852–7; applied for the Chiltern hundreds 1 Aug. 1842 but was refused by Henry Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer on account of disclosures relating to borough of Reading; hon. colonel 3 Middlesex militia 6 Dec. 1841 to death; succeeded as 4 Earl 15 Sep. 1864; captain of yeomen of guard 10 July 1866 to 22 Dec. 1868; P.C. 10 July 1866. d. Woodrising hall, Norfolk 8 June 1873.
CADOGAN, Sir George (brother of the preceding). b. 2 Dec. 1814; ed. at Eton; ensign 1 foot guards 22 Feb. 1833, captain 6 Aug. 1847 to 17 July 1857 when placed on h.p.; colonel 106 foot 9 Aug. 1870 to 17 May 1874; colonel 71 foot 17 May 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; K.C.B. 29 May 1875. d. 13 Park place, St. James’s, London 27 Jany. 1880.
CAFFIN, Sir James Crawford (3 son of Wm. Caffin of royal laboratory, Woolwich). b. Woolwich common 1 March 1812; entered navy 12 Aug. 1824; captain 11 Oct. 1847; director general of naval artillery 29 Aug. 1855 to Dec. 1868 when he retired on pension; director of stores and clothing at War office 2 Feb. 1857 to Dec. 1868; a naval aide de camp to the Queen 11 April 1863; admiral on half pay 1 Aug. 1877; C.B. 5 July 1855; K.C.B. 7 Dec. 1868; the centre of a religious society at Blackheath, Kent of very pronounced views. d. Woodlawn, Vanbrugh park, Blackheath 24 May 1883.
CAHILL, Rev. Daniel William (3 son of Daniel Cahill, civil engineer of Ashfield, parish of Arless, Queen’s county). b. Ashfield 28 Nov. 1796; ed. at Carlow and Maynooth; professor of natural philosophy in Carlow college 1826; kept a school at Seapoint, Williamstown 1835–41, at Prospect, Black Rock near Dublin 1841–6; edited Dublin Telegraph; arrived in New York 24 Dec. 1859; lectured and preached in United States and Canada. d. the Carney hospital, Boston 28 Oct. 1864. bur. Boston, body removed to Glasnevin cemetery Dublin 9 March 1885. Comerford’s Collections (1883) 198–200; The Lamp ii, 361–392 (1851), portrait.
CAHILL, Patrick. Ensign 56 foot 10 Aug. 1854; carried regimental colour at battle of the Alma; captain 2 Dec. 1859 to 27 April 1870 when he retired on full pay; military knight of Windsor 1874 to death. d. Lower ward, Windsor castle 25 March 1881.
CAIRD, Alexander M’Neil. b. Scotland 1814; admitted a procurator 1835; procurator fiscal of Wigtonshire about 1838; provost of Stranraer 1852–8; author of The cry of the children, 2 ed. 1849; The poor law manual for Scotland, 6 ed. 1851; Mary Stuart, her guilt or innocence 1866; The land tenancy laws 1871; Special evils of the Scottish poor law 1877. d. Genoch near Stranraer 14 Feb. 1880.
CAIRNES, John Elliot (6 child of Wm. Cairnes of Drogheda, brewer). b. Castle Bellingham, co. Louth 26 Dec. 1823; ed. at Kingstown, Chester and Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1854, LLD. 1874; called to Irish bar Nov. 1857; Whately professor of political economy in Trin. coll. Dub. 1856–61; professor of political economy and jurisprudence in Queen’s college Galway 1861 to July 1870; professor of political economy in Univ. coll. London 1866–72, emeritus professor 1872 to death; author of The character and logical method of political economy 1857, 2 ed. 1875; The slave power, its character, career and probable designs 1862, 2 ed. 1863; Political essays 1873; Some leading principles of political economy newly explained 1874. d. Rasay, Kidbrook park road, Blackheath 8 July 1875. Fortnightly Review xxiv, 149–54 (1875); Athenæum ii, 83–5 (1875); I.L.N. lxvii, 70 (1875), portrait; Graphic xi, 99, 102, 104 (1875), portrait; Times 9 July 1875 p. 5, col. 4.
CAIRNS, Hugh Mc. Calmont Cairns, 1 Earl (2 son of Wm. Cairns of Cultra, co. Down, captain 47 foot). b. Belfast 27 Dec. 1819; ed. at Belfast academy and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838, LL.B. and LLD. 1862; LLD. Cam. 1862; D.C.L. Ox. 1863; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1844; M.P. for Belfast July 1852 to Oct. 1866; introduced two bills 1859, one to simplify titles to real estate and another to establish a land registry; Q.C. 7 April 1856, bencher of L.I. 15 April 1856; solicitor general 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 March 1858; attorney general 10 July to 29 Oct. 1866; lord justice of appeal 29 Oct. 1866 to Feb. 1868; P.C. 10 Nov. 1866; created Baron Cairns of Garmoyle Antrim 26 Feb. 1867, Viscount Garmoyle and Earl Cairns in peerage of the U.K. 27 Sep. 1878; chancellor of Univ. of Dublin 20 Dec. 1867; lord chancellor 29 Feb. to 9 Dec. 1868 and 21 Feb. 1874 to 28 April 1880. d. Lindisfarne, Bournemouth 2 April 1885. Law quarterly review i, 365–8 (1885); C. Brown’s Life of Lord Beaconsfield ii, 114 (1882), portrait; The bench and the bar, part 3; Drawing room portrait gallery 2 series 1859, portrait; I.L.N. xlix, 413 (1866), portrait, lxiv, 364 (1874), portrait, lxxxvi, 481 (1885), portrait; Pump Court ii, 8–9 (1884), portrait; Belgravia xxix, 54–9 (1867); St. James’s Mag. xxiv, 171–6 (1869); Law mag. and review, Feb. 1886 pp. 133–53.
CAITHNESS, Alexander Sinclair, 13 Earl of. b. Barrogill castle, Thurso 24 July 1790; succeeded 16 July 1823; lord lieut. of Caithnessshire 1823 to death. d. Rutland square, Edinburgh 24 Dec. 1855.
CAITHNESS, James Sinclair, 14 Earl of (eld. child of the preceding). b. 16 Dec. 1821; succeeded 24 Dec. 1855; a lord in waiting to the Queen April 1856 to Feb. 1858 and June 1859 to July 1866; lord lieut. of Caithness March 1856 to death; a representative peer of Scotland June 1858 to Dec. 1868; created Baron Barrogill of Barrogill castle, Thurso 1 May 1866; F.R.S. 20 Nov. 1862; took out patents for working stone and for machine belts 1856 and for permanent way of railways 1859; invented a steam car to travel on ordinary roads, an improved tape loom and the Caithness gravitation compass. d. Fifth avenue hotel, New York 28 March 1881. bur. chapel royal Holyrood, Edin. 19 April.
CALCRAFT, John Hales (elder son of John Calcraft of Rempstone near Wareham, Dorset 1766–1831, M.P. for Dorset). b. Rempstone 13 Sep. 1796; M.P. for Wareham 1820–26, 1832–41 and 1857–59; sheriff of Dorset 1867. d. Rempstone 13 March 1880.
CALCRAFT, John Hales Montagu (eld. son of the preceding). b. 4 May 1831; entered navy March 1844; served in Crimean war; retired commander 25 Feb. 1862; M.P. for Wareham 13 July 1865 to death. d. Rempstone 1 Dec. 1868.
CALCRAFT, John William, stage name of John William Cole. Second lieut. 21 foot 16 July 1807, first lieut. 1809–17 when placed on h.p.; made his début at T.R. Dublin 23 Oct. 1824 as Joseph Surface in The school for scandal; lessee of T.R. Dublin 21 Aug. 1830 to 1851; secretary to Charles Kean; translated Memoirs of H. M. de Latude 1834; author of The bride of Lammermoor, a drama in 5 acts 1823; A defence of the stage 1839; The life of Charles Kean 2 vols. 1859, and of articles on the drama in Dublin Univ. Mag. d. Winchfield, Hants. 12 Feb. 1870 aged 77. History of T.R. Dublin (1870) 59, 61, 65, 83–130.