Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
CARY, Francis Stephen (son of Rev. Henry Francis Cary 1772–1844, translator of Dante). b. Kingsbury, Warws. 10 May 1808; studied art in London, Paris, Italy, and Munich; manager of Art school, Streatham st. Bloomsbury, London 1842–74; a candidate for decoration of houses of parliament in competitions held at Westminster Hall 1844 and 1847; exhibited 34 pictures at R.A. 8 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk st. gallery 1834–76. d. Abinger, Surrey 5 Jany. 1880.
CARY, George Hunter (eld. son of Wm. Henry Cary of Woodford, Essex, surgeon). b. Woodford Dec. 1831; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and King’s college, London; pupil of Sir Hugh Cairns; barrister I.T. 13 June 1854; Attorney General of British Columbia 21 March 1859; Attorney General of Vancouver Island 1861 to Nov. 1865 when he resigned; Leader of Government party in House of Assembly, Vancouver Island. d. 1 Upper George st. Bryanston sq. London 15 July 1866. Law Times xli, 684 (1866).
CARY, Rev. Henry (brother of Francis Stephen Cary 1808–80). b. 12 Feb. 1804; ed. at Merchant Taylors and Worcester coll. Ox., scholar 1821, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 15 Nov. 1827; retired from practice 1832; ordained deacon 1834; P.C. of St. Paul’s, Oxford 1839–44; C. of Drayton, Berks. 1847–9; went to New South Wales 1849; district court judge at Sydney 1861–70; author of A practical treatise on the law of partnership 1827; Memoir of the Rev. H. F. Cary 2 vols. 1847; edited Memorials of the great civil war in England 2 vols. 1842; The works of Plato vol. 1, 1848. d. Sydney 30 June 1870; Law Times xlix, 496 (1870).
CARYSFORT, John Proby, 2 Earl of (2 son of 1 Earl of Carysfort 1751–1828). b. Elton hall near Oundle 1780; ed. at Rugby; ensign 10 foot 3 June 1795; major 1 foot 25 March 1802; captain 1 foot guards 25 May 1803 to 4 June 1814; commanded brigade of guards in Flanders 1813–4; general 9 Nov. 1846; M.P. for Buckingham 1805–6, for Hunts. 1806–7 and 1814–8; succeeded 7 April 1828 but never took his seat in House of Lords; insane for some years before his death. d. Westbury near Bristol 11 June 1855.
CARYSFORT, Granville Leveson Proby, 3 Earl of (brother of the preceding). b. 1781; ed. at Rugby; midshipman R.N. 21 March 1798; present at battles of the Nile and Trafalgar; captain 28 Nov. 1806; admiral on h.p. 9 July 1857; M.P. for co. Wicklow 13 Feb. 1816 to 22 July 1829; succeeded 11 June 1855. d. Elton hall 3 Nov. 1868.
CARYSFORT, Granville Leveson Proby, 4 Earl of (son of the preceding). b. Bushy park, co. Wicklow 14 Sep. 1825; ensign 43 foot 8 Feb. 1842; captain 74 foot 14 March 1851 to 1853; M.P. for co. Wicklow 25 Feb. 1858 to 3 Nov. 1868, when he succeeded; controller of Queen’s household 25 June 1859 to July 1866; P.C. 6 July 1859; K.P. 1869. d. Florence 18 May 1872.
CASAMAJOR, Arsene Augustus Joseph. Winner of junior sculls at Barnes regatta 1852, of senior sculls 1853; won diamond sculls at Henley on Thames 1855, 1856–7–8 and 1861; won Wingfield challenge sculls at Henley 1855, thus becoming amateur champion of the Thames a title he retained until July 1861; rowed upwards of 50 public races winning more than 40 of them Aug. 1852 to June 1861, he was never beaten in a sculler’s race; an early member of London rowing club; aquatic editor of The Field. d. from breaking a blood vessel Belmont terrace, Wandsworth road, London 7 Aug. 1861 aged 27. Rowing Almanac (1862) xiii-xvi, portrait; The Field 10 Aug. 1861 p. 132, 17 Aug. p. 147.
CASSAL, Hugues Charles Stanislas (son of a solicitor at Altkirch, département du Haut-Rhin, France, who d. 1845). b. Altkirch 1 April 1818; LL.B. Univ. of France 1839, LLD. 1840; practised at French bar 1840–5; member for Altkirch in Assemblée Nationale 1848; went to England, Jany. 1852; taught French at University college school, London 1856 to death; professor of French at Univ. college, London 1860 to death; created Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur 12 July 1880; author of The graduated course of translation from English into French 2 parts 1875–6, new ed. 1880; Anthology of modern French poetry 2 vols. 1876; A glossary of idioms Gallicisms and other difficulties contained in the senior course of the modern French reader 1881. d. 105 Adelaide road, South Hampstead, London 11 March 1885. Athenæum 21 March 1885 p. 375.
CASSELL, John (son of Mark Cassell, landlord of the Ring o’ Bells in old churchyard, Manchester, who d. 1830). b. the Ring o’ Bells 23 Jany. 1817; apprenticed to a joiner in Salford; went to London, Oct. 1836; a temperance lecturer; a tea and coffee dealer and patent medicine agent at 14 Budge Row, city of London 1847, at 80 Fenchurch st. 1849; started a paper called The Teetotal Times; a publisher in London 1850, took into partnership G. W. Petter and T. D. Galpin 1859; published Working Man’s Friend 1850; Popular Educator 1852; Cassell’s Illustrated Family Paper 31 Dec. 1853 to death; Cassell’s Illustrated Family Bible 2 vols. 1860–66. d. 25 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 2 April 1865. T. Frost’s Forty years recollections (1880) 226–38; Cassell’s Illust. family paper 20 May 1865 pp. 262–4, portrait; Le Livre, Juin 1885 pp. 163–73.
CASSELLS, Andrew. b. 1811; member of council of India 1874–84. d. 2 Aug. 1886.
CASSERLY, Eugene. b. Ireland 1822; admitted to New York bar 1844; corporation attorney 1846–7; practised at San Francisco 1850–69 and 1873 to death; edited a paper at San Francisco; elected a senator in congress from California for the term 1869–75 but resigned before expiration of his term. d. San Francisco 14 June 1883.
CASSIDY, James. Composed many pieces of dance music; member of orchestra of T.R. Dublin many years. d. Dublin 28 March 1869.
CASSIE, James. b. Keith hall, Aberdeenshire 1819; pupil of James Giles R.S.A.; a landscape painter at Aberdeen, then at Edin. 1869 to death; exhibited 21 pictures at R.A., London 4 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1854–79; A.R.S.A. 1869, R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1879. d. Edinburgh 11 May 1879.
CASTLE, William Langford. b. 31 March 1800; entered navy 19 March 1813; captain 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on half pay 24 May 1867. d. New lodge, Lymington 6 Aug. 1874.
CASTLEMAINE, Richard Handcock, 3 Baron (eld. child of Richard Handcock, 2 baron Castlemaine 1767–1840). b. Dublin 17 Nov. 1791; M.P. for Athlone 15 July 1826 to 3 Dec. 1832; succeeded 18 April 1840; a representative peer for Ireland 6 July 1841 to death. d. 4 July 1869.
CASTLESTUART, Robert Stuart, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 Earl of Castlestuart 1723–1809). b. Dublin 19 Aug. 1784; succeeded 26 Aug. 1809. d. Stuart hall, Tyrone 10 June 1854.
CASTLESTUART, Edward Stuart, 3 Earl of. b. Lower Brook st. London 11 Sep. 1807. Succeeded 10 June 1854. d. East Cliff, Dover 20 Feb. 1857.
CASTLESTUART, Charles Andrew Knox Stuart, 4 Earl of. b. Clifton 23 April 1810; succeeded 20 Feb. 1857. d. Stuart hall 12 Sep. 1874.
CASTLETOWN, John Wilson Fitzpatrick, 1 Baron (natural son of John Fitzpatrick 2 Earl of Upper Ossory 1745–1818). b. London 23 Sep. 1811; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Queen’s county 1837–41, 1847–52, and 1865–9; P.C. Ireland 1848; lord lieutenant of Queen’s county 15 Nov. 1855 to death; created baron Castletown of Upper Ossory, Queen’s county 10 Dec. 1869. d. 32 Hertford st. London 22 Jany. 1883. I.L.N. lxxxii, 149 (1883), portrait.
CASWALL, Rev. Edward (son of Rev. Robert Clarke Caswall, V. of Yateley, Hampshire). b. Yateley 15 July 1814; ed. at Marlborough and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1838; P.C. of Stratford-sub-Castle, Wilts. 1840–6; received into R.C. church by Cardinal Acton at Rome Jany. 1847; admitted into congregation of the Oratory at Edgbaston, Birmingham 29 March 1850 where he was ordained priest; author of A new art teaching how to be plucked, being a treatise after the fashion of Aristotle, writ for the use of students in the Universities, to which is added a synopsis of drinking by Scriblerus Redivivus, Oxford 1835, 7 ed. 1837, often reprinted; Sermons on the seen and the unseen 1846; Lyra Catholica containing all the breviary and missal hymns translated 1849 adopted in most R.C. prayer books; The Masque of Mary and other poems 1858; A May pageant, a tale of Tintern, and other poems 1865. d. The Oratory, Edgbaston 2 Jany. 1878. Gillow’s English catholics i, 429–31 (1885).
CASWALL, Rev. Henry (brother of the preceding). b. Yateley 1810; ed. at Chigwell gr. sch. and Kenyon coll. Ohio, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; ordained deacon by Bishop of Ohio 1831, being the first ordained graduate of Kenyon college; returned to England 1842, obtained a private act of parliament 6 and 7 Vict. c. 32, removing disabilities attaching to his ordination in the U.S. 31 May 1843; V. of Figheldean, Wilts. 1848–70; preb. of Salisbury 1 Feb. 1860–1870; author of America and the American church 1839, 2 ed. 1851; Mormonism and its author 1852; Scotland and the Scottish church 1853; The Western world revisited 1854. d. Franklin, Panama 17 Dec. 1870.
CATER, Thomas Orlando. Second lieut. R.A. 1 April 1809; colonel 28 Nov. 1854 to 26 May 1857 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 26 May 1857. d. Blomfield road, Maida hill, London 5 June 1862 aged 71.
CATES, James. Appointed an attendant at British Museum, London 19 July 1810, attendant in the reading room 20 Jany. 1815, superintendent 1824 to death. d. 38 Alfred st. St. Giles’s, London 22 Dec. 1855 aged 78. R. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1871) 200–208; Report on British Museum (1850) 310–312.
CATHCART, Charles Murray Cathcart, 2 Earl (eld. son of 1 Earl Cathcart 1755–1843). b. Walton, Essex 21 Dec. 1783; cornet 2 life guards 2 March 1800; permanent assistant quartermaster general 28 July 1814 to 26 June 1823; lieut. col. royal staff corps at Hythe 1823–30; governor of Edinburgh Castle 1837–42; col. 11 hussars 30 Aug. 1842 to 19 Nov. 1847; succeeded as 2 Earl 17 June 1843; governor and commander in chief in British North America 16 March 1846 to 1 Oct. 1849; col. 3 dragoon guards 19 Nov. 1847 to 9 Jany. 1851; commanded northern and midland district of England 1849–54; col. 1 dragoon guards 9 Jany. 1851 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 21 June 1859; discovered a new mineral, a sulphate of cadmium 1841 which was named Greenockite. d. St. Leonard’s on Sea 16 July 1859. H. J. Morgan’s Eminent Canadians (1862) 448–57; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. iv, 222–4 (1862).
CATHCART, Frederick Mac Adam (brother of the preceding). b. 28 Oct. 1789; cornet 2 dragoons 12 Jany. 1805, captain 12 Jany. 1808 to 18 May 1820 when placed on h.p.; sec. of embassy at St. Petersburg 26 May 1820; minister plenipotentiary to the Diet at Frankfort 15 Jany. 1824 to 1826; colonel of Ayrshire militia 6 April 1852; Knight of Russian order of St. Anne. d. Clarendon sq. Leamington 5 March 1865.
CATHCART, Sir George (brother of the preceding). b. Albemarle st. London 12 May 1794; ed. at Eton and Univ. of Edin.; cornet 2 Life Guards 25 May 1810; lieut. 6 dragoon guards 1811 to 1818 when placed on h.p.; captain 7 hussars 1819 to 1826 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 8 foot 20 March 1828 to 25 Sep. 1835 when placed on h.p.; lieut col. 1 dragoon guards 11 May 1838 to 19 Jany. 1844 when placed on h.p.; deputy lieut. Tower of London 13 Feb. 1846 to 13 Feb. 1852; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; governor and commander in chief of Cape of Good Hope 20 Jany. 1852 to April 1854; granted distinguished service reward 13 July 1853; adjutant general 12 Dec. 1853; commanded fourth division of British army in the Crimea 1854 to death; knight of Russian order of St. Wladimir 3 June 1814; K.C.B. 31 May 1853; author of Commentaries on the war in Russia and Germany in 1812 and 1813, London 1850; shot through the heart at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854; Correspondence of Sir G. Cathcart 1856; Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea vol. 5 (1875); I.L.N. xx, 125 (1852), portrait.
CATHCART, Sir John Andrew, 5 Baronet (son of Hugh Cathcart). b. 18 Feb. 1810; succeeded his grand uncle 1828. d. Edinburgh 25 March 1878.
CATHERWOOD, Frederick. Artist and traveller; drew views of city of Thebes, city of Jerusalem and temples of Baalbec from which Burford painted his pictures of these places published with descriptions 1834–44; travelled in Central America 1839–40; explored Peninsula of Yucatan 1841; took charge of the works for the railway across Isthmus of Panama 1851; author of Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan 1841; left Liverpool for New York on board the “Pacific” 23 Jany. 1856 which steamship has never since been heard of.
CATOR, Bertie Cornelius (son of Joseph Cator of Beckenham, Kent who d. 1818). b. Beckenham 26 Sep. 1787; entered navy April 1800; captain 7 June 1814; retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 12 April 1862. d. London 23 July 1864.
CATOR, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. Beckenham 1785; ed. at Westminster and Woolwich; second lieut. R.A. 7 May 1803, col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 1854, col. commandant 1 April 1860 to death; brigadier general 21 Feb. 1854; L.G. 25 Sep. 1859. Granted distinguished service reward 1 April 1856; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 6 Eaton place, London 11 May 1866.
CATT, William (son of John Catt of Sussex, farmer). b. 1780; miller at Lamberhurst, afterwards at Bishopstone near Seaford where he constructed largest watermill in Sussex; his mills became so influential as to govern the flour trade in South of England. d. Newhaven 4 March 1853 in 73 year. M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 217–19, portrait.
CATTERALL, Joseph (son of Paul Catterall of Preston, cotton spinner). b. 10 July 1812; barrister M.T. 23 May 1845; district registrar at Preston of Court of Chancery of county palatine of Lancaster 1 March 1854 to 21 Dec. 1876; recorder of Wigan 19 May 1862 to April 1880. d. Fleetwood, Lancs. 6 March 1882.
CATTERALL, Peter (brother of the preceding). b. 1796; attorney at Preston 1817–52; principal registrar of Duchy of Lancaster 10 Feb. 1846 to death. d. Winckley square, Preston 14 July 1873. Law Times lv, 281, 317 (1873).
CATTERMOLE, George. b. Dickleborough near Diss, Norfolk 8 Aug. 1800; placed with John Britton the antiquary; a water colour painter; an Associate exhibitor of Society of painters in water colours 1822, a Member 1833–50; refused offer of knighthood, July 1839; received at French International exhibition 1855, one of the two grandes médailles d’ honneur awarded to English artists; a member of Royal Academy of Amsterdam 1856; published Cattermole’s Historical annual 1841; Cattermole’s Portfolio of original drawings; illustrated many books and annuals. (m. 20 Aug. 1839 Clarissa Hester dau. of James Elderton, deputy remembrancer of Court of exchequer, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 28 Jany. 1875). d. 4 The Cedars road, Clapham common, London 24 July 1868. John Sherer’s Gallery of British artists i, 97–106.
CATTERMOLE, Rev. Richard (brother of the preceding). b. about 1795; secretary to Royal Society of Literature 17 June 1823 to 1852; studied at Christ’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1831; V. of Little Marlow, Bucks. 1848 to death; one of the editors of the Sacred Classics or select library of divinity 30 vols. 1834–6; author of Becket and other poems, anon., 1832; The book of the cartoons of Raphael 1837; The literature of the Church of England 2 vols. 1844; Evenings at Haddon hall 1850. d. Boulogne 6 Dec. 1858.
CAULFIELD, Right Rev. Charles (eld. son of Rev. Hans Caulfield, R. of Kilmanagh, co. Kerry, who d. June 1854). Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1858; ordained deacon 1827, priest 1828; P.C. of Clamantagh, Ossory 1832; R. of Kilcock, Kildare 1832–43; R. of Creagh, Ross 4 Aug. 1843 to Jany. 1858; archdeacon of the Bahamas 2 Feb. 1858; bishop of Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas (the first) 6 Nov. 1861 to death; consecrated at Lambeth 24 Nov. 1861; author of The fall of Babylon 1839. d. Nassau 4 Sep. 1862.
CAULFIELD, Henry (son of 1 Earl of Charlemont 1728–99). b. 29 July 1779; M.P. for co. Armagh 17 July 1802 to 29 April 1807, 23 Sep. 1815 to 10 June 1818 and 22 March 1820 to 24 July 1830. d. Hockley near Armagh 4 March 1862.
CAULFIELD, James (son of Ven. John Caulfield, archdeacon of Kilmore). b. 30 Jany. 1782; entered Bengal army 1798; col. 10 Bengal light cavalry 10 March 1841 to death; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; a director of East India company 1848 to death; M.P. for Abingdon 8 July 1852, but did not take his seat dying on day parliament met. d. Copswood, co. Limerick 4 Nov. 1852.
CAULFIELD, Richard, b. city of Cork 23 April 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, M.A. and L.L.D. 1866; librarian of Royal Institution, Cork 1864 to death; librarian of Queen’s college, Cork 1876 to death; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1862; edited for Camden Society Diary of Rowland Davies, D.D. dean of Cork 1857; published Life of St. Finn Barre 1864 the MS. of which he discovered in Bodleian library, Oxford 1862; edited Council book of corporation of Cork 1876 and other valuable works, d. city of Cork about 20 Feb. 1887.
CAUNT, Benjamin. b. Hucknall-Torkard, Notts. 22 March 1815; pugilist; beaten by Wm. Thompson known as Bendigo 21 July 1835, fought him again 3 April 1838 when Caunt won; beat John Leechman known as Brassey after 101 rounds 26 Oct. 1840 and became champion of England; beaten by Nicholas Ward 2 Feb. 1841, beat him 11 May 1841; went to the United States Sep. 1841; proprietor of Coach and Horses public house, 90 St. Martin’s lane, London 1843 to death; fought Bendigo near Sutfield green, Oxfordshire for £200 a side and the championship 9 Sep. 1845 when referee decided in favour of Bendigo in the 93rd round; fought Nat. Langham 23 Sep. 1857 when after 60 rounds no decision was given, d. 90 St. Martin’s lane, London 10 Sep. 1861. bur. Hucknall-Torkard churchyard 14 Sep. H.D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii, 47–93 (1880), portrait; Fights for the championship by the Editor of Bell’s Life in London (1860) 135–42, 158–209; Modern Boxing by Pendragon i.e. H. Sampson (1879) 2–9.
CAUNTER, Rev. John Hobart. b. Dittisham, Devon 21 July 1794; went to India as a cadet about 1809; studied at Peterhouse coll. Cam., B.D. 1828; incumbent of St. Paul’s chapel, Foley place, London 1825–44; V. of Hailsham, Sussex 1844–6; minister of St. James’s chapel, Kennington 1846–8; C. of Prittlewell, Essex 1848 to death; edited The Oriental Annual 1830–9; author of The Cadet 2 vols. 1814, a poem; The romance of history, India 3 vols. 1836 republished 1872; The fellow commoner, a novel, anon., 3 vols. 1836; The poetry of the Pentateuch 2 vols. 1839; Illustrations of the five books of Moses 2 vols. 1847. d. Edward st. Portman sq. London 14 Nov. 1851. G.M. xxxvii, 627–8 (1852); Notes and Queries 4 S. vi, 274, 353, 445 (1870).
CAUSTON, Sir Joseph (son of R. Causton of St. Albans). b. St. Albans 1815; wholesale stationer at 47 Eastcheap, London 1837 to death; common councilman for Billingsgate 1848; alderman for Bridge within 1867 to death; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1868–9; knighted at Windsor Castle 11 Dec. 1869 after the Queen’s visit to the city to open Blackfriars bridge and Holborn viaduct. d. Champion hill near London 27 May 1871. bur. Norwood cemetery 3 June. City Press 3 June 1871 p. 5 and 10 June p. 5.
CAUTLEY, Sir Proby Thomas (son of Rev. Thomas Cautley, R. of Roydon, Suffolk who d. 13 July 1817). b. Roydon 1802; ed. at Charterhouse and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 1819, lieut. col. 5 May 1849 to 17 May 1854; constructed Ganges canal works 1843–54, canal opened 8 April 1854; director of canals in North West Provinces 1848; member of council of India 1858–68; chairman of public works committee 1860; gave to British Museum extensive collection of fossil mammalia from Sivalik hills in North West Provinces of India; F.G.S. 1836, Wollaston medalist 1837; F.R.S. 2 April 1846; K.C.B. 29 July 1854; wrote an elaborate report on construction of Ganges canal consisting of 3 vols. with a large atlas of plans 1860. d. The Avenue, Sydenham park, Kent 25 Jany. 1871 in 69 year.
CAUTLEY, Rev. William Grainger (son of Rev. J. Cautley of Messing, Essex). Educ. at Christ’s hospital and Pemb. hall, Cam., 15 wrangler and 2 chancellor’s medallist 1805, member’s prizeman 1806 and 1807, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1809; fellow of Clare hall 1808–31; chaplain to the forces 25 Dec. 1809 to 21 April 1818; present at battle of Waterloo; R. of Earsham, Norfolk 1831 to death. d. Earsham 26 March 1855 aged 72.
CAVAGNARI, Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon (eld. son of Major the Count Adolphe Cavagnari, private secretary to Prince Lucien Buonaparte). b. Stenay, department of the Meuse, France 4 July 1841; ed. at Christ’s hospital, London; granted a certificate of naturalisation 7 Dec. 1857; ensign 1 Bengal Fusiliers, 9 April 1858; held political charge of the Kohat district, April 1866 to May 1877; deputy comr. of Peshawar, May 1877; negotiated treaty of Gandamuck with Yakub Khan, Ameer of Afghanistan 26 May 1879; British resident at Cabul 24 July 1879; C.S.I. 1 Jany. 1877, K.C.B. 19 July 1879; killed by Afghans in citadel, Cabul 3 Sep. 1879. Kaliprasanna’s Life of sir L. Cavagnari 1881, portrait; Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 37–41, portrait; Graphic xx, 4, 29, 261, 304 (1879), portraits.
CAVE, Sir Stephen (eld. son of Daniel Cave of Cleve hill near Bristol 1789–1872). b. Clifton 28 Dec. 1820; ed. at Harrow and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1846; M.P. for New Shoreham 29 April 1859 to 24 March 1880; paymaster general and vice pres. of board of trade 10 July 1866 to Dec. 1868; P.C. 10 July 1866; judge advocate and paymaster general 25 Feb. 1874 to Nov. 1875; paymaster general Nov. 1875 to 24 March 1880; went on a special mission to Egypt, Dec. 1875; chairman of West India committee; G.C.B. 20 March 1880. d. Chambéry, Savoy 6 June 1880, personalty sworn under £350,000 21 Aug. 1880. I.L.N. lxvii, 581 (1875), portrait; Graphic xi, 574, 589 (1875), portrait.
CAVE-BROWNE-CAVE, Sir John Robert, 10 Baronet. b. Stretton-en-le-Field near Ashby-de-la-Zouch 4 March 1798; succeeded 22 Aug. 1838; sheriff of Derbyshire 1844. d. Stretton hall 11 Nov. 1855.
CAVENDISH, Frederick Charles (2 son of 7 Duke of Devonshire, b. 1808). b. Compton place, Eastbourne 30 Nov. 1836; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1858; private sec. to Earl Granville, pres. of the council 1859–64; M.P. for north division of west riding of Yorkshire 15 July 1865 to death; private sec. to W. E. Gladstone, July 1872 to Aug. 1873; a lord of the treasury, Aug. 1873 to Feb. 1874; financial sec. to the treasury, April 1880 to May 1882; chief sec. to Earl Spencer, lord lieutenant of Ireland, May 1882, sworn in at the Castle, Dublin 6 May; stabbed to death in Phœnix park, Dublin by assassins calling themselves “the Invincibles” 6 May 1882. bur. in churchyard of Edensor near Chatsworth 11 May, a memorial window placed in St. Margaret’s church, Westminster at cost of members of House of Commons 22 Feb. 1883, statue of him at Barrow in Furness uncovered 2 June 1885. C. Brown’s Life of Lord Beaconsfield ii, 237 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. xlviii, 144 (1866), portrait, lxxx, 456, 477, 502 (1882), portrait.
CAVENDISH, George Henry (2 son of hon. Wm. Cavendish 1783–1812). b. 19 Aug. 1810; M.P. for North Derbyshire 27 May 1834 to 24 March 1880; raised to rank of an Earl’s son 1837 and to that of a Duke’s son 1858. d. Ashford hall near Bakewell 23 Sep. 1880.
CAVENDISH, Henry Frederick Compton (3 son of 1 Earl of Burlington 1754–1834). b. 5 Nov. 1789; lieut. 10 hussars 22 June 1808; lieut. col. 1 life guards 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; colonel 2 dragoon guards 2 June 1853 to death; general 9 Nov. 1862; M.P. for Derby 17 June 1818 to 29 Dec. 1834. d. Burlington gardens, London 5 April 1873.
CAW, John Young. b. Perth about 1810; ed. at St. Andrew’s and Trin. coll. Cam.; connected with Bank of Manchester, then with Manchester and Salford bank; member of Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 1841, librarian 1854–6; F.S.A.; author of The necessity and advantage of a bankers clearing house 1847; Some remarks on the deserted village of Oliver Goldsmith 1852. d. Fountain villa, Cheetham hill near Manchester 22 Oct. 1858.
CAWDOR, John Frederick Campbell, 1 Earl of (elder son of John Campbell 1 baron Cawdor who d. 1 June 1821 aged 71). b. London 8 Nov. 1790; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1812, D.C.L. 1841; F.R.S. 11 June 1812; M.P. for Carmarthen 20 Dec. 1813 to 1 June 1821; created Viscount Emlyn of Emlyn and Earl of Cawdor 5 Oct. 1827; lord lieut. of Carmarthenshire 15 May 1852 to death. d. Stackpoole court, Pembrokeshire 7 Nov. 1860.
CAWLEY, Charles Edward (son of Samuel Cawley of Gooden house, Middleton near Manchester). b. Gooden house 7 Feb. 1812; civil engineer in London and Manchester; engineer to Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale railway; M.I.C.E. 30 June 1846; alderman of Salford 1859 to death; arbitrator to Board of Trade 1868; M.P. for Salford 17 Nov. 1868 to death. d. The Heath, Kersal near Manchester 2 or 9 April 1877. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. l, 175–7 (1877); Graphic xv, 356 (1877), portrait.
CAY, John (eld. son of Robert Hodshon Cay of North Charlton, Northumberland, judge admiral of Scotland). b. Edinburgh 31 Aug. 1790; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; admitted advocate 1812; sheriff of Linlithgowshire 1822 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1821; member of Royal Scottish Society of Arts; author of An analysis of the Scottish reform act 2 parts 1837–40; Analysis of the burgh registration act; Outlines of the procedure at elections for members of parliament. d. Edinburgh 13 Dec. 1865. Journal of Jurisprudence x, 24 (1866).
CAYLEY, Charles Bagot (younger son of Henry Cayley of St. Petersburg, merchant 1768–1850). b. near St. Petersburg 9 July 1823; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1845; published Dante’s Divine comedy, translated in the original ternary rhyme 4 vols. 1851–5; Psyche’s Interludes 1857 a small vol. of poems; The Psalms in metre 1860; Filippo Malincontri or student life in Venetia, an autobiography translated from the Italian 2 vols. 1861; The Iliad of Homer, homometrically translated 1877; author with F. Garrido of History of political and religious persecutions 2 vols. 1876. d. suddenly of heart disease at 4 South crescent, Bloomsbury, London, night of 5–6 Dec. 1883. Athenæum ii, 776, 817 (1883).
Note.—An accurate likeness of him exists in Ford Madox Brown’s fresco in the Manchester town hall, of Wm. Crabtree of Broughton watching the transit of Venus over the sun 24 Nov. 1639. He was the original of Oliver Serpleton in Oliver Madox Brown’s story The Dwale Bluth (in his Literary Remains 1876).
CAYLEY, Sir Digby, 7 Baronet. b. York 13 March 1807; succeeded 15 Dec. 1857. d. Brompton near Scarborough 22 Dec. 1883.
CAYLEY, Edward Stillingfleet (only son of John Cayley of Low hall near Brompton, who d. 16 June 1846). b. Newbold hall near Market Weighton 13 Aug. 1802; ed. at Rugby and Brasenose coll. Ox.; M.P. for North Riding of Yorkshire 17 Dec. 1832 to death; chairman of committees on Hand-loom weavers 1834–5 and on Agricultural distress; edited Agricultural and Industrial Mag. 25 numbers 1 Oct. 1834 to 1 Dec. 1835. d. 11 Dean’s yard, Westminster 25 Feb. 1862. Farmer’s Mag. x, 81–4 (1844), portrait, xxi, 354–5 (1862).
CAYLEY, Edward Stillingfleet (elder son of the preceding). b. 30 July 1824; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister I.T. 13 June 1851; author of The European revolutions of 1848 2 vols. 1856; The war of 1870 and the peace of 1871, 1871. d. Wydale, Brompton 10 Sep. 1884.
CAYLEY, Sir George, 6 Baronet (only son of sir Thomas Cayley, 5 baronet 1732–92). b. 27 Dec. 1773; succeeded 15 March 1792; invented an instrument for testing purity of water by abstraction of light, and another for obtaining and applying electric power to machinery; carried out a system of arterial drainage in Yorkshire on a principle previously unknown in England; the first promoter and adopter of cottage allotment system; chairman of the Polytechnic Institution, Regent st. London 1838; chairman of the Whig club at York. d. Brompton 15 Dec. 1857. The Times 18 Dec. 1857 p. 7, col. 6.
CAYLEY, George John (younger son of Edward Stillingfleet Cayley 1802–62). b. 26 Jany. 1826; ed. at Eton; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; author of Some account of the life and adventures of Sir Reginald Mohun, Baronet, done in verse 1850; Las alforjas or the bridle roads of Spain 2 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1860. d. Hunton rectory, Kent 11 Oct. 1878.
CAZALET, Edward. b. Brighton 1827; author of The Berlin conference and the Anglo-Turkish convention 1878; The Eastern congress an address to working men 1878, 2 ed. 1879; Bimetallism and its connection with commerce 1879. d. Hotel d’Angleterre, Constantinople 21 April 1883.
CAZALET, Rev. William Wahab. b. 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; ordained deacon 1834, priest 1836; teacher of elocution in London; chaplain to the union, Watford, Herts.; author of The history of the Royal Academy of music 1854; On the right management of the voice in speaking and reading 1855; Stammering its cause and cure 1858; The voice or the art of singing 1861. d. Watford 24 April 1875.
CAZENOVE, John (son of James Cazenove of Old Broad st. London, merchant, who d. 20 Oct. 1827 aged 83). b. 1788; one of a club of 35 members formed to promote views of political economy 1821; president of London Chess Club; author of A selection of games at chess 1817; An elementary treatise on political economy 1840; Thoughts on a few subjects of political economy 1859. d. 13 Middleton road, Battersea Rise, London 15 Aug. 1879.
CAZENOVE, Philip (brother of the preceding). b. Nov. 1798; ed. at the Charterhouse; member of Stock Exchange, London; head of firm of P. Cazenove and Co. stockbrokers Threadneedle st.; a munificent supporter of Church societies, hospitals and charities of every kind. d. Clapham Common, London 20 Jany. 1880, personalty sworn under £250,000 Feb. 1880. Guardian 28 Jany. 1880 p. 106, col. 1.
CECIL, Rev. William (son of Rev. Richard Cecil). b. 1792; ed. at Magd. coll. Cam.; Bell’s Univ. scholar 1811; 17 wrangler 1814; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; fellow of his college; R. of Longstanton St. Michael near Cambridge 1823 to death; author of The church choir, a collection of psalm and hymn tunes 1846; Recollections suitable for confirmation and other solemn seasons 1856, 3 ed. 1873; Spanish metres illustrated in music and English verse 1866. d. Longstanton rectory 10 Feb. 1882.