Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
CAPEL, Rev. William Robert. b. 28 April 1775; ed. at Merton coll. Ox. B.A. 1798, M.A. 1799; chaplain to the Sovereign 1814 to death; V. of Watford, Herts. 8 June 1799 to death; R. of Rayne, Essex 1805 to death. d. Watford 3 Dec. 1854.
CAPON, Sir David (youngest son of John Capon, lieut. col. East India company’s Bombay army). b. Bombay 1793; entered military service of E.I.C. at Bombay 26 May 1810; colonel 23 Bombay light infantry 26 Feb. 1848 to 30 Sep. 1862; col. 106 foot 30 Sep. 1862 to death; general 13 Aug. 1868; C.B. 20 Oct. 1848; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 8 Craven hill, Hyde park, London 17 Dec. 1869.
CAPPER, Charles. b. 1822; goods manager of Great Eastern railway, afterwards superintendent; general manager of Victoria docks 1855; chairman of Southampton docks company 1862 to death; M.P. for Sandwich 9 May 1866 to 11 Nov. 1868; author of The port and trade of London, historical, statistical, local and general 1861. d. Upton, Essex 21 March 1869.
CAPPER, Samuel (son of Jasper Capper of London). b. Gracechurch st. London 2 March 1782; a linen draper at Bristol 1803–10; a farmer at Potterne, Wilts. 1810–20; a minister of Society of Friends 1817 to death; engaged in putting down practice of bullbaiting in Bristol 1825; held many tent-meetings in counties of Gloucester, Worcester, Wilts. and in London 1834–43 and in Somerset, Devon and Cornwall 1846; author of The acknowledged doctrines of the Church of Rome, being an exposition of Roman Catholic doctrines as set forth by esteemed doctors of the said church 2 vols. 1849–51. d. Quaker’s meeting house, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset 29 Aug. 1852. Memoir of S. Capper edited by K. Backhouse 1855.
CAPRON, George. b. 16 June 1783; head of firm of Capron, Babrant and Capron of Savile place, New Burlington st. London, solicitors; recorder of Orford, Suffolk 1848–59. d. Southwick near Oundle 24 Aug. 1872.
CAPUA, Penelope, Princess of (2 dau. of Grice Smyth of Ballynatray, co. Waterford who d. 18 Jany. 1816 aged 54). b. 19 July 1815. m. at Rome by Cardinal Weld 1830, Charles Ferdinand Prince of Capua 2 son of Francis i King of the two Sicilies who expressly forbade the marriage, m. the Prince again at Madrid, m. him again at Gretna Green 5 April 1836, m. him again at St. George’s Hanover sq. London 23 May 1836, he was b. 10 Oct. 1811 and d. 22 April 1862, she d. Royal villa of Martia near Lucca 13 Dec. 1882. Times 5 May 1836, 20 Dec. 1882 p. 9, col. 6; Heath’s Book of beauty (1842) p. 10, portrait.
CARADORI-ALLAN, Maria Caterina Rosalbina (dau. of Baron de Munck). b. Casa Palatina, Milan 1800; took her mother’s name Caradori; made her début in London 12 Jany. 1822 at King’s theatre as Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro; sang at same house 1822–7, her salary rising from £300 to £1,200; sang at Philharmonic and Ancient concerts and at all great festivals; took chief part in first opera produced in England by Meyerbeer Margherita d’Anjou; made her début in America at Park theatre New York 28 Oct. 1837; returned to Europe July 1839; sang soprano part in Elijah at Birmingham 26 Aug. 1846; composed several popular Italian and French airs. (m. 1824 Edward Thomas Allan, secretary of King’s theatre, London). d. Elm lodge, Surbiton, Surrey 15 Oct. 1865 in 65 year. J. Ebers’s Seven years of the King’s theatre (1828) 144, 153, portrait; Orchestra 28 Oct. 1865 p. 74, 4 Nov. p. 93; Century Mag. xxiii, 865–6 (1882), portrait.
CARDALE, John Bate (eld. son of Wm. Cardale of 2 Bedford row, London, solicitor 1777–1823). b. 28 Lamb’s Conduit st. London 9 Nov. 1802; ed. at Rugby 1815–8; articled to his father; head of firm of Cardale, Iliffe and Russell of Bedford row, solicitors 1824–34; Irvingite apostle Oct. 1832 to death, also an Irvingite prophet; ordained Edward Irving to be minister or angel of chapel in Newman st. London 5 April 1833; retired with the 11 other apostles and 7 prophets to Albury, Surrey 14 July 1835 where they spent 2½ years in consultation; “The Apostle for England and The Pillar of the Apostles”; author of Readings on the Liturgy vol. 1 1849–51, vol. 2 1852–78; The doctrine of the Eucharist as revealed to St. Paul 1856, 2 ed. 1876; A discourse on the Real Presence 1867, 2 ed. 1868, and 25 other books all anonymous and most of them privately printed. d. Cooke’s place, Albury 18 July 1877. Miller’s History of Irvingism (1878) i, 61, ii, 416; Mrs. Oliphant’s Life of E. Irving, (4 ed.) 356, 396, 398; The old church porch i, 87, 206 (1854); The morning watch ii, 869–73 (1830); Saturday Review xliv, 104–5 (1877); Clement Boase’s Catalogue of books relating to Catholic Apostolic Church (1885) 9–12.
CARDEN, Sir John Craven, 4 Baronet. b. Templemore house, Tipperary 1 Dec. 1819; succeeded 23 March 1847. d. Templemore abbey, Tipperary 23 March 1879.
CARDEN, John Surman. b. 15 Aug. 1771; entered navy 28 May 1788; captain 22 Jany. 1806; commanded the Ordinary at Sheerness 1825–40; admiral on half pay 3 July 1855. d. Ramoan rectory, Ballycastle, co. Antrim 22 April 1858.
CARDEW, George. Second lieut. R.E. 20 Dec. 1798, colonel 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 1 April 1855 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Portland terrace, Southsea 9 May 1859 aged 76.
CARDIGAN, James Thomas Brudenell, 7 Earl of (only son of 6 Earl of Cardigan 1769–1837). b. Hambledon, Hants. 16 Oct. 1797; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Marlborough 1818–29, for Fowey 1830–2, for North Northamptonshire 21 Dec. 1832 to 14 Aug. 1837 when he succeeded; cornet 8 hussars 6 May 1824, major 3 Aug. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1830 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 11 hussars (which became the crack cavalry regiment) 25 March 1836 to 20 June 1854; commanded light cavalry brigade in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 1855; led the charge at Balaklava 25 Oct. 1854 when out of 607 men 409 were lost; inspector general of cavalry 1 Feb. 1855 to 31 March 1860; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; commander of legion of honour 2 Aug. 1856; col. 5 dragoon guards 14 Aug. 1859; col. 11 hussars 3 Aug. 1860 to death; L.G. 13 Feb. 1861; fought a duel which arose out of what was known as the “Black Bottle Quarrel” with Captain Harvey Garnett Phipps Tuckett on Wimbledon Common 12 Sep. 1840 when Tuckett was slightly wounded; tried before House of Lords for feloniously shooting Tuckett 16 Feb. 1841 when upon a technical deficiency of proof he was unanimously declared Not Guilty; kept staghounds in Leics. 1839–42. d. Deene park near Wansford, Northamptonshire 28 March 1868. F. A. Whinyates’s From Coruna to Sevastopol (1884) 149–202; W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i, 209–43 (1850); Kinglake’s Crimean war vol. 5; G. Ryan’s Was Lord Cardigan a hero at Balaklava? 1855; The trial of James Thomas, Earl of Cardigan 1841; Baily’s Mag. xv, 55–60 (1868), portrait; I.L.N. iv, 216 (1844), portrait, lii, 353 (1868), portrait.
CARDWELL, Edward Cardwell, 1 Viscount (elder son of John Cardwell of Liverpool, merchant 1781–1831). b. 24 July 1813; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., double first class 1835, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, D.C.L. 1863; scholar of his college 1832, fellow 1835; barrister I.T. 16 Nov. 1838, bencher 28 April 1868; M.P. for Clitheroe 1842–7, for Liverpool 1847–52, for city of Oxford 1852–7 and 21 July 1857 to 6 March 1874; joint sec. to Treasury Feb. 1845 to July 1846; pres. of Board of trade 28 Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; P.C. 28 Dec. 1852; chief sec. for Ireland June 1859 to July 1861; P.C. Ireland 5 July 1859; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 25 July 1861 to March 1864; sec. of state for Colonies March 1864 to June 1866; sec. of state for war 9 Dec. 1868 to 21 Feb. 1874; reorganised army by abolishing purchase system 20 July 1871 and introducing short service; created Viscount Cardwell of Ellerbeach 6 March 1874; an ecclesiastical comr. to Nov. 1882; pres. of commission on Vivisection 23 June 1875 to March 1876. d. Villa Como, Torquay 15 Feb. 1886. bur. Highgate cemetery. St. James’s Mag. Jany. 1870 pp. 527–32, portrait; I.L.N. iv, 65 (1844), portrait, xlvi, 251 (1865), portrait, liv, 436 (1869), portrait.
CARDWELL, Rev. Edward (youngest son of Richard Cardwell of Blackburn 1749–1824). b. Blackburn 3 Aug. 1787; ed. at Brasn. coll. Ox., fellow 1809; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1819, D.D. 1831; select preacher 1823; Camden professor of ancient history 1825 to death; R. of Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire 1828–36; principal of St. Alban hall Ox. Oct. 1831 to death; published Aristotle’s Ethica 2 vols. 1828–30; Enchiridion theologicum Anti-Romanum 3 vols. 1836–7; Josephus de bello Judaico 2 vols. 1837; Documentary annals of the reformed church of England 2 vols. 1839; Synodalia, a collection of articles of religion 2 vols. 1842. d. Principal’s lodge, St. Alban hall Oxford 23 May 1861. G.M. xi, 208–11 (1861).
CAREW, Robert Shapland Carew, 1 Baron (only son of Robert Shapland Carew of Castleborough, Ross, co. Wexford who d. 25 March 1835). b. Dublin 9 March 1787; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for co. Wexford 19 Oct. 1812 to 13 June 1834 when he was created Baron Carew of co. Wexford in peerage of Ireland; created Baron Carew of Castleborough, co. Wexford in peerage of United Kingdom 9 July 1838; lord lieut. of Wexford 1831 to death; K.P. 1851. d. Castleborough 2 June 1856.
CAREW, Robert Shapland Carew, 2 Baron (eld. son of the preceding). b. Dublin 28 Jany. 1818; M.P. for Waterford 24 Aug. 1840 to 23 July 1847; hon. col. Wexford militia 5 April 1847 to death; lord lieut. of Wexford 2 July 1856 to death; K.P. 1872. d. 28 Belgrave sq. London 8 Sep. 1881.
CAREW, John Edward. b. Tramore, Waterford 1782; assistant to Sir Richard Westmacott the sculptor in London 1809–23; worked for Lord Egremont 1823–31; sculptor at Brighton 1831–5; executed a statue of Huskisson for Chichester Cathedral, an altarpiece for the R.C. ch. St. James’s st. Brighton, statues called ‘Arethusa’ and ‘The Falconer’; exhibited at the R.A. 1830–48; made a claim of £50,000 upon Lord Egremont’s estate on his death 11 Nov. 1837, brought an action against the executors 1840 when he was nonsuited; insolvent 1841; executed statue of ‘Whittington listening to the London bells’; designed bas-relief of ‘The death of Nelson at Trafalgar’ in south panel of Nelson column Trafalgar sq. d. 40 Cambridge st. Hyde park, London 30 Nov. 1868. Report of trial of cause Carew against Burrell 1840; Report of proceedings in Court for relief of Insolvent debtors in matter of J. E. Carew 1842; Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 227 (1869).
CAREW, Most Rev. Patrick Joseph. Professor of divinity at Maynooth; R.C. bishop of Madras 1838–40; vicar apostolic of Bengal 1840 to death; archbishop of Edessa. d. Bengal 2 Nov. 1855.
CAREW, Sir Walter Palk, 8 Baronet. b. Marley house, Buckfastleigh, Devon 9 July 1807; succeeded 31 Oct. 1830; sheriff of Devon 1846. d. Marley house 27 Jany. 1874.
CAREY, Rev. Charles Stokes. b. London 17 Sep. 1828; ed. at Hackney college 1849–53; matric. at Univ. of London but did not take any degree; ordained a Congregational minister 15 Sep. 1853; minister at Basingstoke, Harwich, Bungay and Leytonstone 1853–75; author of The strength of Judah and the vengeance of Asshur, A tale of the times of Isaiah 1862; The Bible or the Bishop? A reply to parts 1 and 2 of Dr. Colenso’s attack on the Pentateuch 1863; Plainer words on absolution, Privately printed 1870; A commonplace book of epigrams analytically arranged 1872; edited A concordance to the Old and New Testament by A. Cruden 1867 and 1880. d. Leytonstone 8 June 1875.
CAREY, Eustace (youngest child of Thomas Carey of Paulerspury, Northamptonshire). b. Paulerspury 22 March 1791; baptized 7 July 1809; studied at Olney 1809–12, at Bristol college 1812–3; sailed from Portsmouth for India 18 Feb. 1814, landed at Serampore 1 Aug. 1814; missionary at Calcutta Sep. 1815; returned to England 1825. d. 3 Eastcott place, Camden Town, London 19 July 1855. Eustace Carey a missionary in India a memoir by Mrs. Eustace Carey 1857, portrait.
CAREY, George Jackson. b. Rozel, Guernsey 5 Oct. 1822; ensign Cape mounted riflemen 22 July 1845; served in Kaffir wars 1846–7 and 1850–2; brigadier general in New Zealand Aug. 1863 to Aug. 1865, Wm. Thompson the Maori chief surrendered to him 27 May 1865; acting governor of Victoria 7 May to 15 Aug. 1866; commanded 2 brigade at Aldershot 1 Dec. 1867 and Northern district Oct. 1871 to death; C.B. 18 March 1865. d. Westwood, Whalley Range, Manchester 12 June 1872. bur. at Rozel.
CAREY, James (son of Francis Carey of Dublin, bricklayer). b. James st. Dublin 1845; bricklayer in Dublin 18 years; builder in Denzille st. Dublin; a leading member of the Fenians 1862–78; treasurer of Irish Republican Brotherhood; a town councillor of Dublin 1882; took part in murder of Lord F. Cavendish and T. F. Burke 6 May 1882; turned Queen’s evidence 13 Feb. 1883; sailed for Cape Town 6 July 1883; shot by Patrick O’Donnel a Fenian on board Melrose Castle steamer 12½ miles from Cape Vacca 29 July 1883. Pall Mall Gazette 31 July 1883 pp. 10–12, portrait; Graphic xxvii, 200, 273 (1883), portrait, xxviii, 112 (1883), portrait.
CAREY, Ven. James Gaspard Le Marchant. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; R. of Snodland, Kent 1866–74; hon. canon of Rochester 1870–7; V. of Boreham, Essex 1874 to death; hon. canon of St. Alban’s 1877; archdeacon of Essex 29 June 1882. d. Folkestone 17 March 1885 in 54 year.
CAREY, Peter. Cornet 16 Dragoons 9 Dec. 1795; major 86 foot 26 March 1807; lieut. col. 84 foot 18 July 1811 to 25 Feb. 1818 when placed on h.p.; military sec. to Sir George Beckwith, commander of forces in Ireland 1816–20; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. 44 Cadogan place, London 20 June 1852 aged 78.
CAREY, Sir Peter Stafford (only child of Peter Martin Carey of Taunton). b. Guernsey 7 April 1803; ed. at Clifton and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830; recorder of Dartmouth 1836–45; judge of Borough court of Wells 1838–45; professor of English law at Univ. coll. London 1838–45; bailiff of Guernsey 1845–83; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Nov. 1863; author of Borough Court rules of England and Wales 1841; The Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Galatians with a paraphrase and introduction 1867; Notes sur l’Ile de Guernesey 1874. d. 17 Jany. 1886. Biograph iii, 6–8 (1880).
CAREY, Robert (son of Sir Octavius Carey 1785–1844, major general). b. 12 Dec. 1821; ensign 40 foot 15 Nov. 1839, major 6 Aug. 1858 to 28 Oct. 1859 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in Australia 12 March 1860 to 6 Aug. 1863; D.A.G. in New Zealand 7 Aug. 1863 to 31 March 1866; M.G. 22 July 1869; deputy judge advocate 1 Aug. 1870 to 31 March 1882; C.B. 2 May 1862, granted Service reward 8 March 1875. d. 17 Belgrave road, London 25 Jany. 1883.
CARFRAE, John. Entered Madras army 1797; colonel 50 Madras N.I. 15 May 1834 to death; general 5 March 1859; author of The pilgrim of sorrow being a collection of odes, lyrics, etc. 1848. d. Bower house, Dunbar 29 Aug. 1860.
CARGILL, Jasper Farmer. Barrister M.T. 11 June 1841; a revising barrister at Kingston, Jamaica 1848; acting chairman of quarter sessions there 1855; judge of supreme court, Jamaica 1856 to death. d. Kingston 27 Nov. 1871 in 65 year.
CARINGTON, Robert John Carington, 2 Baron (only son of Robert Smith, 1 Baron Carington 1752–1838). b. St. James’s place, London 16 Jany. 1796; ed. at Eton and Christ’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1815; M.P. for Wendover 1818–20, for Bucks 1820–31, for Chipping Wycombe 1831 to 18 Sep. 1838 when he succeeded his father; F.R.S. 14 Feb. 1839; col. of Royal Bucks. militia 7 March 1839 to death; took surname of Carington in lieu of Smith by royal license 26 Aug. 1839; lord lieutenant of Bucks. 20 Feb. 1839 to death. d. Wycombe abbey, Bucks. 17 March 1868.
CARLETON, John William. Cornet 4 dragoons 2 July 1807, lieut. 11 April 1809 to 5 June 1817 when placed on h.p.; the first editor of the Sporting Review 1839; edited The sporting sketch book 1842; published under pseudonym of “Craven” Hyde Marston, or a sportsman’s life 3 vols. 1844 which is autobiographical; Recreations in shooting with some account of the game of the British isles 1846. d. Hayes, Middlesex 29 May 1856. Sporting Review iii, 3 (1840), portrait.
CARLETON, John William (eld. son of Andrew Carleton of Hermitage, co. Leitrim). b. Hermitage 1812; ed. at Elphin and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1856; called to Irish bar Jany. 1839; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of A practical treatise on the law of judgment and judgment debts in Ireland 1844; The law relating to the qualification and registration of parliamentary voters in Ireland 1852; A compendium of the practice at elections of members to serve in Parliament as regulated by the several statutes in force in Ireland 1857, 6 ed. 1865. d. Dublin 11 Nov. 1878.
CARLETON, Rev. Richard (youngest son of 1 Baron Dorchester 1724–1808). b. Portman sq. London 10 Feb. 1792; ed. at Trin. hall Cam., M.A. 1811; R. of Boughton, co. Northampton 1819–43; R. of Nateley-Scures, Hants. 1819 to death; F.R.S. 9 Feb. 1826. d. Brighton 2 Feb. 1869.
CARLETON, William (youngest child of Mr. Carleton of Prillisk near Clogher, co. Tyrone, farmer). b. Prillisk 20 Feb. 1798; private tutor in family of a farmer named Murphy in co. Louth; settled at Dublin 1830; granted a civil list pension of £200, 14 July 1848; author of Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry 1830, 2 series 1833, 11 ed. 1876; Tales of Ireland 1834; Fardorougha the miser 1839, dramatised and produced at a Dublin theatre; Valentine McClutchy the Irish agent 3 vols. 1845, 3 ed. 1859; The Squanders of Castle Squander 2 vols. 1852, 2 ed. 1873. d. Woodville, Sandford, Dublin 30 Jany. 1869. Dublin Univ. Mag. xvii, 66–72 (1841), portrait, xxvi, 737–47 (1845).
CARLETON, William. b. Dublin about 1835; made his début in America 26 Feb. 1866 as a vocalist at Tony Pastor’s opera house Bowery New York, and as an actor Feb. 1868 at the Worrell Sisters theatre N.Y. in drama of Pickwick; author of many Irish plays, farces and songs; committed suicide by suffocation in New York, Aug. 1885.
CARLILE, Rev. James. b. Paisley 1784; ed. at Glasgow Univ. D.D.; minister of the Scots church St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 1813 to death; acted as their missionary to Parsonstown 1839–51; resident comr. to Irish Board of education 1830–9; author of Examination of arguments for Roman Catholic episcopacy 1815; Letters on the divine origin and authority of scripture 2 vols. 1833; Manual of the anatomy and physiology of the human mind 1851, 2 ed. 1859. d. Dublin 31 March 1854. Rev. J. Carlile’s Station and occupation of the saints in their final glory (1854) pp. v-xxxv and 139–65.
CARLILE, Rev. Warrand (12 child of James Carlile of Paisley, thread manufacturer). b. Paisley 12 Nov. 1796; ed. at Glasgow Univ.; licensed by presbytery of Paisley; Presbyterian minister at Carlow 1836–42; missionary at Brownsville Hanover, Jamaica, Jany. 1843 to death; visited the United States 1854 and England 1858 and 1863. d. Brownsville 25 Aug. 1881. Thirty-eight years mission life in Jamaica, a brief sketch of the Rev. W. Carlile by One of his sons (1884).
CARLISLE, George William Frederick Howard, 7 Earl of (eld. son of 6 Earl of Carlisle 1773–1848). b. Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 18 April 1802; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827; M.P. for Morpeth 1826–30, for Yorkshire 1830–2 and for West Riding of Yorkshire 1832–41 and 4 Feb. 1846 to 7 Oct. 1848 when he succeeded; chief sec. for Ireland 22 April 1835 to 6 Sep. 1841; P.C. 20 May 1835; P.C. Ireland 30 Sep. 1835; chief comr. of woods and forests 6 July 1846 to March 1850; lord lieut. of East riding of Yorkshire 22 July 1847; F.R.S. 3 June 1847; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 6 March 1850 to Feb. 1852; lord rector of Univ. of Aberdeen March 1853; K.G. 7 Feb. 1855; lord lieut. of Ireland 28 Feb. 1855 to 26 Feb. 1858 and 18 June 1859 to Oct. 1864; grand master of order of St. Patrick 1855–8 and 1859–64; author of Diary in Turkish and Greek waters 1854; Daniel’s second vision; paraphrase in verse 1858. d. Castle Howard, Malton, Yorkshire 5 Dec. 1864. My reminiscences by Lord Ronald Gower i, 111–95 (1883); H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland iii, 125–88 (1872); Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, 2 series i, 131–61 (1877); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 131–42; Orators of the age by G. H. Francis (1847) 206–16; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 278–80 (1854), iii, 317–32 (1854); Drawing room portrait gallery, 2 series (1859), portrait; I.L.N. xxvi, 280 (1855), portrait.
CARLOS, Edward John (only child of Wm. Carlos of Newington, Middlesex). b. Newington 12 Feb. 1798; an attorney in City of London 1820 to death; contributed to Gent. Mag. reviews of architectural books 1822–48 and a series of descriptions of new churches in London 1824–33; author of Historical and antiquarian notices of Crosby hall 1832; G. Skelton’s Oxonia restaurata, 2 ed. 1843; author with W. Knight of An account of London bridge with observations on its architecture during its demolition 1832. d. York place, Walworth, London 20 Jany. 1851.
CARLYLE, Jane Baillie (only child of John Welsh of Haddington, surgeon 1776–1819). b. Haddington 14 July 1801; ed. at Haddington school; known from her wit and beauty as ‘the flower of Haddington.’ (m. at Templand 17 Oct. 1826, Thomas Carlyle 1795–1881); lived at 5 Cheyne row, Chelsea 10 June 1834 to death. d. in her carriage in Hyde park, London 21 April 1866. bur. at Haddington. Letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by J. A. Froude 3 vols. 1883, portrait; Graphic xxiii, 160 (1881), portrait.
CARLYLE, John Aitken (2 son of James Carlyle of Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, mason 1757–1832). b. Ecclefechan 7 July 1801; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1825; travelling physician to Countess of Clare 1831–7, to Duke of Buccleuch 1838–43; published Dante’s Divine comedy, the Inferno with the text of the original collated from the best editions and explanatory notes 1849, 3 ed. 1882; edited Irving’s History of Scottish poetry 1861; made over in 1878 to acting committee of Association for better endowment of Univ. of Edin. £1,600 to found 2 medical bursaries of not less than £25 each tenable for one year. d. Dumfries 15 Dec. 1879. Graphic xxiii, 160 (1881), portrait.
CARLYLE, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. Ecclefechan 4 Dec. 1795; ed. at Annan school and Univ. of Edinburgh; teacher of mathematics in a school at Annan 1814–6; schoolmaster at Kirkcaldy 1816–8; studied law at Edin. and took pupils 1819–22; tutor to Arthur and Charles Buller 1822–4; lived at 21 Comely bank close to Edinburgh 1826–8, at Craigenputtock 16 miles from Dumfries 1828–34, at 5 Cheyne row, Chelsea 10 June 1834 to death; gave lectures in London, May 1837, 1838, 1839 and 1840; lord rector of Univ. of Edin. Nov. 1865, installed 29 March 1866; pres. of Edinburgh philosophical institution 1868 and 1877; pres. of London library, St. James’s sq. London, July 1870 to death, having been the first person to suggest formation of the library; received Prussian order of Merit, Feb. 1874; author of Life of Schiller 1825, 2 ed. 1845; Wilhelm Meister’s apprenticeship 3 vols. 1824; Sartor Resartus 1835; History of the French revolution 3 vols. 1837; Life and letters of Oliver Cromwell 2 vols. 1845; The life of Frederick the Great 6 vols. 1858–65. d. 5 Cheyne row, Chelsea 5 Feb. 1881, the house was renumbered 24 in Sep. or Oct. 1881. bur. Ecclefechan churchyard 10 Feb. Thomas Carlyle, a history of the first 40 years of his life by J. A. Froude 2 vols. 1882, portraits; Thomas Carlyle, a history of his life in London by J. A. Froude 2 vols. 1884, portraits; Memoir by R. H. Shepherd 2 vols. 1881; J. B. Crozier’s Religion of the future (1880) 1–104; Obiter dicta (1884) 1–54; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age ii, 253–80 (1844) portrait; Biographical Mag. i, 1–22 (1877); The Maclise portrait gallery by W. Bates (1883) 172–8, portrait; Dict. of national biog. ix, 111–27 (1887).
Note.—On the eightieth anniversary of his birth, 4 Dec. 1875, a gold medal was struck in his honour and an address signed by upwards of 100 men and women eminent in science, literature and art was presented to him; a bronze statue of him by J. E. Boehm in the public garden at end of Great Cheyne row, Chelsea was unveiled by Professor Tyndall 26 Oct. 1882. He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel The Warden under name of “Dr. Pessimist Anticant.”
CARLYLE, Thomas (son of Wm. Carlyle of King’s Grange, Kirkcudbrightshire). b. King’s Grange 17 July 1803; ed. at Annan, Dumfries and Univ. of Edin.; called to Scottish bar 1824; practised in Edin. 1824–35; counsel for Rev. J. M. Campbell in the Row heresy case 1831; claim to dormant title of Baron Carlyle devolved on him Oct. 1824; named the ninth apostle of Catholic Apostolic church, April 1835, the Apostle for North Germany 1838; author of An essay to illustrate the foundation of Christianity By a Layman 1827; The moral phenomena of Germany 1845; A short history of the Apostolic work 1851; Our present position in spiritual chronology 1853, another ed. 1879 and 19 other books. d. Heath house, Albury, Surrey 28 Jany. 1855. Miller’s Irvingism i, 14, ii, 416; Athenæum 14 May 1881 p. 654.
CARLYON, Clement (4 son of Rev. John Carlyon 1722–98, R. of Bradwell, Essex). b. Truro, Cornwall 14 April 1777; ed. at Truro gr. sch. and Pemb. coll. Cam., tenth wrangler 1798, B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801, M.L. 1804, M.D. 1813; elected travelling bachelor 1798; physician at Truro 1806–61; mayor of Truro 5 times; author of Latin letters to the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge, Gottingen 1799–1800; Observations on the endemic typhus fever of Cornwall 1827; Early years and late reflections 2 vols. 1836–43, 2 ed. 4 vols. 1856–8; Scripture notices and proofs 1838. d. Truro 5 March 1864. G.M. xvi, 797–8 (1864).
CARLYON, Edward Augustus (2 son of major general Edward Carlyon of Tregrehan near Par, Cornwall 1783–1854). b. 3 June 1823; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1850; author of The laws and practice of whist by Cælebs [E. A. Carlyon] 1851, 3 ed. 1858. d. Gwavas Napier, New Zealand 4 Dec. 1874.
CARMENT, Rev. David (son of James Carment of Keiss near Wick, schoolmaster). b. Keiss 28 Sep. 1772; entered King’s college Aberdeen Nov. 1791, M.A. 1795; parish schoolmaster of Strath, Isle of Skye 1795–9; licensed to preach by presbytery of Skye 4 April 1799; assistant minister of Croy near Inverness March 1803; minister of Gaelic chapel in Duke st. Glasgow April 1810; minister of parish of Roskeen 14 March 1822 to 1 Aug. 1843; a member of the Assembly 1825; took an active part in the Disruption controversy 1842–3; minister of a church built for him in Roskeen 1845 to July 1852; author of The fiery cross 1842. d. 26 May 1856. J. A. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 147–52.
CARMICHAEL, Charles Montauban. b. 21 Sep. 1790; cornet Bengal army 27 March 1806; colonel 8 Bengal light cavalry 1852–8; L.G. 14 April 1862; colonel 20 Hussars 30 Sep. 1862 to death; C.B. 20 Dec. 1839. d. Hotel du Louvre, Boulogne 21 Nov. 1870.
CARMICHAEL, James (son of George Carmichael of the Trongate, Glasgow, merchant). b. Glasgow, 1776; millwright with his brother Charles at Dundee 1810; fitted up first twin steam-boat for ferry across the Tay at Dundee 1821; invented planing, shaping and boring machine used at Woolwich and Portsmouth; made locomotive steam engines for Dundee and Newtyle railway 1832–3 the first locomotives made in Scotland; invented fan blast or blowing machine for heating and melting iron, brought into practical use about 1829. d. Fleuchar Craig, Dundee 14 Aug. 1853, bronze statue of him erected in Albert sq. Dundee. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 144–7; I.L.N. lxix, 245 (1876).
CARMICHAEL, Sir James Robert, 2 Baronet. b. Devonshire place, London 11 June 1817; ed. at Charterhouse and Sandhurst; succeeded 4 March 1838; a claimant to Scottish earldom of Hyndford; chairman of the Submarine and of the Mediterranean extension telegraph companies. d. 12 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 7 June 1883.
CARMICHAEL, James (or John) Wilson. b. Newcastle 1800; apprenticed to a shipbuilder; a marine painter; went to London about 1845; exhibited 21 sea pieces at R.A. 21 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1835–62; author of The art of marine painting in water colours 1859; The art of marine painting in oil colours 1864. d. Scarborough 2 May 1868.
CARMICHAEL, Sir Thomas Gibson, 12 Baronet. b. Castle Craig, Peebleshire 27 Oct. 1817; commander R.N. 9 Nov. 1846; succeeded 8 May 1850. d. Civita Vecchia, Italy 30 Dec. 1855.
CARNAC, John Rivett. b. 28 June 1796; Midshipman 29 April 1812; captain 10 Jany. 1837; retired V.A. 30 Nov. 1863. d. 34 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 1 Jany. 1869.
CARNAC, Sir John Rivett, 2 Baronet (son of Sir James Rivett Carnac, 1 baronet 1784–1846). b. Baroda, East Indies 10 Aug. 1818; succeeded 28 Jany. 1846; M.P. for Lymington 1852 to 1860. d. Winchester 4 Aug. 1883. I.L.N. xxii, 293 (1853), portrait.
CARNE, Elizabeth Catherine Thomas (4 dau. of the succeeding). b. Rivière house, Phillack, Cornwall 16 Dec. 1817; head of bank of Batten, Carne, and Carne at Penzance 1858 to death; gave site for Elizabeth or St. Paul’s schools opened at Penzance 2 Feb. 1876; founded schools at Wesley Rock, Carfury and Bosullo all near Penzance; built a museum at Penzance for her fine collection of minerals; author of Three months rest at Pau in the winter and spring of 1859 by John Altrayd Wittitterly pseud. 1860; Country towns and the place they fill in modern civilisation 1868; England’s three wants, anon. 1871; The realm of truth 1873 and of many articles in London Quarterly Review. d. Penzance 7 Sep. 1873. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 60, 1113; Geol. Mag. x, 480, 524 (1873).
CARNE, Joseph (eld. son of Wm. Carne of Penzance, banker 1754–1836). b. Truro 17. April 1782; manager of Cornish Copper company’s smelting works at Hayle 1810 or 1811; partner in bank of Batten, Carne, and Carne at Penzance 1820 to death; F.R.S. 28 May 1818; pricked for sheriff of Cornwall 1837 but declined to serve; pres. of Penzance Natural history and antiquarian soc. 1849–55; author of many papers in Transactions of Royal Geol. Soc. of Cornwall 1816–51. d. 28 Chapel st. Penzance 12 Oct. 1858. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 61, 1114.