Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
CELESTE, Madame, stage name of Celeste Elliott (dau. of Monsieur Keppler of Paris). b. Paris 6 Aug. 1811; ed. at Academie Royale de Musique; made her first appearance at Bowery theatre, New York as a dancer 27 June 1827; first appeared in London at Drury Lane theatre 1830 in ballet of La Bayadère; played in Italy, Germany and Spain 1832–3; played in United States 1834–7 clearing sum of £40,000; manager with B. Webster of T.R., Liverpool Christmas 1843; directress of Adelphi theatre, London 1844–8; manager of Lyceum theatre, London 28 Nov. 1859 to Aug. 1860; re-appeared in New York 23 Aug. 1865; sailed for Australia Oct. 1866 and returned to England early in 1868; made her last appearance 15 May 1878 at Drury Lane; her best characters were Mathilde in The French Spy and Miami in The green bushes. (m. 1828 Henry Elliott of Baltimore who d. 1842). d. 18 Rue Chapeyron, Paris 12 Feb. 1882. H. P. Phelps’s Players of a century (1880) 122, 189, 198, 265, 278; C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 74–83; Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 27–8, portrait; Brown’s American stage (1870) 65, 74, portrait; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait.
CHABOT, Charles. b. Battersea, London 1815; a lithographer and engraver in Skinner st. Snowhill, Holborn; an expert in handwriting; gave evidence at trial of Wm. Roupell, M.P. for Lambeth, who was sentenced to penal servitude for life for forgery 24 Sep. 1862; examined handwriting of letters of Junius and compared it with handwriting of persons to whom letters had been attributed 1871. d. 26 Albert sq. Clapham, London 15 Oct. 1882 in 68 year. Cornhill Mag. Feb. 1885, pp. 148–62; I.L.N. lxxxi, 549 (1882), portrait.
CHABOT, Philip James (son of Mr. Chabot of Spitalfields, London, dyer who d. 1832). b. Spitalfields 1801; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 11 May 1830; a dyer in Fashion st. Spitalfields 1832–56; originator of the Silk Conditioning Society, secretary and manager to death; member of Spitalfields Mathematical Soc. 1834, F.R.A.S. 1845; member of Cavendish, Philological and Chemical Societies; made several improvements in dyeing. d. 41 Claremont sq. Pentonville, London 11 Jany. 1868.
CHAD, Sir Charles, 2 Baronet. b. 21 April 1779; ensign 92 foot 15 March 1798; cornet royal horse guards 3 May 1800; lieut. 2 life guards 2 April 1803 to 7 Nov. 1805 when he retired; succeeded 24 Nov. 1815. d. 1 Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 30 Sep. 1855.
CHADS, Sir Henry Ducie (eld. son of Henry Chads, captain R.N. who d. 10 Oct. 1799). b. 1788; entered navy Sep. 1803, captain 25 July 1825; captain of Andromache 28 guns 1834–7 and 1841–5; commodore in East Indies 3 Feb. 1844 to 29 June 1844; superintendent of royal naval college at Portsmouth and captain of Excellent 28 Aug. 1845 to 12 Jany. 1854; fourth (afterwards third) in command of Baltic fleet on board Edinburgh 6 Feb. to Dec. 1854; commander in chief at Cork 1 April 1856 to 24 Nov. 1858; chairman of committee on coast defence 1859; admiral 3 Dec. 1863; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; granted good service pension 4 May 1865. d. Southsea 7 April 1868. Memoir of Sir H. D. Chads by an Old follower (M. Barrows) 1869, portrait; James’s Naval history v, 409–23 (1860).
CHADS, John Cornell (brother of the preceding). Second lieut. R.M. 4 May 1809; captain 1 West India Regiment 27 Jany. 1820, major 22 April 1836 to 3 March 1843 when he retired on full pay; president of British Virgin Islands 1852 to death. d. Government house, Tortola 28 Feb. 1854 aged 60.
CHADWICK, Rev. Francis (son of Francis Chadwick of Burgh hall, Lancs.) b. 14 Sep. 1801; entered Society of Jesus 7 Sep. 1818; prefect of studies and professor of rhetoric at Stonyhurst college 1827, minister of Stonyhurst 12 March 1833; went to Rome 14 Jany. 1834; sailed from Portsmouth for Calcutta 31 May 1834; served Mission at Calcutta 1834–8 and 1839–42; served Missions of Worcester 1842, Holywell 1844–6, London 1851. d. Oxford 5 March 1857.
CHADWICK, Right Rev. James (3 son of John Chadwick of Drogheda). b. Drogheda 24 April 1813; entered St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw 26 May 1825, ordained priest 17 Dec. 1836, general prefect, professor of humanities, mental philosophy and pastoral theology successively 1837–50; professor again 1856–9 and 1863; served missions in North of England 1850–6; chaplain to Lord Stourton 1859–63; bishop of Hexham and Newcastle 31 Aug. 1866 to death; consecrated at St. Cuthbert’s 28 Oct. 1866. d. Newcastle 14 May 1882. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 444–6 (1885).
CHADWICK, Samuel Taylor. L.S.A. 1831, M.R.C.S. 1831, F.R.C.S. 1858; M.D. Edin. 1848; surgeon at Wigan 1831, at Bolton 1837 to May 1863 when he was presented by 7000 working men with a full-length portrait of himself; made over to trustees sum of £22,000 to build and maintain an orphanage for children in the Bolton union 1868–9, orphanage was opened Dec. 1874; a bronze statue of him in Town hall square, Bolton, was unveiled 1 Aug. 1873. d. Peel house, Southport 3 May 1876 aged 66. I.L.N. lxiii, 127, 129, (1873).
CHADWICK, William (2 son of John Chadwick of Pentonville, London, mason, who d. 1821). b. 1797; statuary and mason in Southwark 1818; built St. Peter’s church, Newington; erected bridges on Great Western railway; carried out line of railway from Didcot to Oxford 1844; chairman of London and Richmond railway which line was opened 27 July 1846. d. 8 Jany. 1853.
CHAINE, James. b. Ballycragie, co. Antrim 1841; sheriff of Antrim 1873; M.P. for co. Antrim 16 Feb. 1874 to death. d. Larne, co. Antrim 4 May 1885.
CHALK, Sir James Jell (2 son of James Chalk of Queenborough, Kent). b. Queenborough 1803; articled to an attorney 1819, admitted 1824; a strolling actor; entered Ecclesiastical commission office 4 Oct. 1836; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1839; assistant sec. to Ecclesiastical commissioners Sep. 1849, sec. Dec. 1850 to 4 Oct. 1871 when he resigned; knighted at Osborne 28 July 1871; F.S.A. 30 May 1872; d. 80 Warwick sq. Pimlico, London 23 Sep. 1878.
CHALLICE, Annie Emma (dau. of Mr. Armstrong). b. London 1821; author of The village school fête 1847; The sister of charity 1857; The secret history of the court of France under Louis XV, 1861 anon.; French authors at home 1864; Illustrious women of France 1873. (m. the succeeding). d. of cancer of the liver at 7 Upper Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 11 Jany. 1875.
CHALLICE, John. b. Horsham, Sussex 1815; L.S.A. 1836, M.D. King’s college, Aberdeen 1850, F.R.C.P. Edin. 1860; deputy coroner for East Middlesex to 1860; medical officer of health for Bermondsey 1856 to death; author of Should the Cholera come what ought to be done? 1848; Medical advice to mothers 1851; Letter to Lord Palmerston on sanitary reform 1854. d. 13 Great Cumberland st. London 11 May 1863.
CHALLIS, Rev. James (4 son of John Challis of Braintree, Essex). b. Braintree 12 Dec. 1803; ed. at Mill Hill school, London and Trin. Coll. Cam., scholar 1824, senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1825, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; fellow of his college 1826–31; re-elected fellow May 1870; R. of Papworth Everard 1830–52; examiner for the Smith prizes 1836–78; Plumian professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy in Univ. of Cam. 2 Feb. 1836 to death; director of Cambridge observatory 1836–61; invented the Meteoroscope 1848 and the Transit reducer 1849; F.R.A.S. 8 April 1836, F.R.S. 9 June 1848; author of Notes on the principles of pure and applied calculation and applications of mathematical principles to theories of the physical forces 1869; Lectures on practical astronomy and astronomical instruments 1879. d. 2 Trumpington st. Cambridge 3 Dec. 1882. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xliii, 160–79 (1883).
CHALLIS, Thomas (son of Thomas Challis of 92 Fore st. Cripplegate, London, butcher). b. 92 Fore st. 1 or 2 July 1794; a skin broker in Finsbury, a hide and skin salesman in Leadenhall and Bermondsey markets; alderman of Cripplegate ward 17 Oct. 1843; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1846–7; lord mayor 1852–3, there was no procession or dinner in consequence of recent death of Duke of Wellington; M.P. for Finsbury 9 July 1852 to 20 March 1857. d. Baker st. Enfield 20 Aug. 1874. I.L.N. xxi, 396 (1852), portrait; City Press 22 Aug. 1874 p. 5, 29 Aug. p. 4.
CHALMER, James Archibald. Second lieut. R.A. 10 Aug. 1804, assistant director general 17 Jany. 1843, colonel 11 Nov. 1851 to 15 May 1855; M.G. 15 May 1855. d. 17 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 9 Dec. 1856 aged 69.
CHALMERS, George Paul (son of Mr. Chalmers of Montrose, master of a small coasting vessel). b. Montrose 1833; apprenticed to a ship-chandler; ed. at Trustees school, Edin. 1853–5; painter in Edin. of portraits, subject pictures and landscapes; A.R.S.A. 1867, R.S.A. 1871; exhibited 58 pictures at R.S.A. 1855–78, 20 at Glasgow 1862–78, and 6 at R.A. 1863–76; found insensible in an area in Charlotte st. Edin. 16 Feb. 1878. d. Royal infirmary, Edin. 20 Feb. 1878. George Paul Chalmers, R.S.A. 1879, portrait; Good Words xix, 285–8 (1878).
CHALMERS, James. b. Arbroath 2 Feb. 1782; bookseller in Castle st. Dundee; convener of the Nine Incorporated Trades; member of town council, Dundee, treasurer several years; vice consul for Sweden and Norway at Dundee Sep. 1827; suggested a uniform rate of postage and exhibited a sample of an adhesive postage stamp in Dundee, Aug. 1834; competed for premium of £200 offered by the Government for best design of a postage stamp, there were 2000 candidates, but the premium was never awarded, d. Comley bank, Dundee 26 Aug. 1853. James Chalmers the inventor of the adhesive stamp by Patrick Chalmers 1884; Philatelic Record iii, 194–201, iv, 27, 68, 167, 169–72, 184–6.
CHALMERS, James. b. Perthshire; an engineer in America; practised in London 1861 to death; invented Chalmers target for defence of ships of war, it was tried at Shoeburyness 1863 and nearly completed at Atlas works, Sheffield for War Office at time of his death; made a design for a wrought-iron railway tunnel across the English channel; his Indian problem at chess baffled some of the best players; author of Channel railway connecting England and France 1861, 2 ed. 1867; England’s danger, the Admiralty policy of naval construction 1864; Armour for ships and forts 1865. d. 22 Southampton road, Haverstock hill, London 26 Dec. 1868 aged 49.
CHALMERS, Patrick (eld. son of Patrick Chalmers of Auldbar castle near Brechin who d. 1826). b. Auldbar castle 31 Oct. 1802; cornet 3 dragoon guards 12 June 1823, captain 1826–27 when he sold out; M.P. for Forfar district of burghs 15 Jany. 1835 to April 1842; F.S.A. 24 Jany. 1850; author of The ancient sculptural monuments of Angus 1848; The Cartulary of the abbey of Arbroath, vol. 2, 1856. d. Rome 23 June 1854. bur. churchyard of Auldbar church which he had just rebuilt. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xi, 164–70 (1855).
CHALMERS, Rev. Peter. Licensed by presbytery of Glasgow 11 Sep. 1814; minister of Dunfermline (second charge) 17 March 1817, ordained 18 July 1817; minister of Dunfermline (first charge) 5 Oct. 1836 to death; joined Free Secession 18 May 1843 but changed his mind and was received back 21 June 1843; D.D. 5 Feb. 1855; author of Two discourses on the sin, danger and remedy of duelling 1822; An historical and statistical account of Dunfermline 2 vols. 1844–59. d. the Abbey church manse, Dunfermline 11 April 1870 in 80 year.
CHALMERS, Sir William (eld. son of Wm. Chalmers, town clerk of Dundee). b. Castle st. Dundee 1785; ensign 52 foot 9 July 1803, captain 27 Aug. 1807 to 2 Oct. 1817 when placed on h.p.; brigade major of various infantry brigades in Peninsular campaigns 1810–14; colonel of 20 foot 28 Feb. 1853, of 78 foot 30 Sep. 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; K.C.H. 1837, C.B. 19 July 1838; knighted by patent 17 April 1844; principal clerk of the peace for the county of Forfar and keeper of Sasines about 1830 to death. d. Glenericht, Perthshire 21 June 1860. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 179–81.
CHALON, Alfred Edward (younger son of Jean Chalon, professor of French at Royal military college at Sandhurst). b. Geneva 15 Feb. 1780; student at R.A. London 1797; exhibited 363 pictures at R.A. and 21 at B.I. 1801–60; A.R.A. 1812, R.A. 1816; founded with 7 other artists the Evening Sketching Society 1808 which lasted 40 years; the most fashionable portrait painter in water colours; painted the first portrait of Queen Victoria after her accession and many portraits of the female aristocracy; painter in water colours to the Queen; exhibited at Society of Arts a collection of 120 of his brother’s works with some of his own 1855. d. El Retiro, Campden hill, Kensington, London 3 Oct. 1860. Athenæum, ii, 487, 756, 792 (1860); Art Journal (1860) 337, (1862) 9; A memoir of T. Uwins with his correspondence with A. E. Chalon 1858.
CHALON, John James (brother of the preceding). b. Geneva 27 March 1778; a student at Royal Academy, London 1796; member of Watercolour society 1808–13; A.R.A. 1827, R.A. 1841; exhibited 86 pictures at R.A. and 49 at B.I. 1801–54; painted landscapes, figure and animal subjects, and marine pictures with equal facility; author of Sketches of Parisian manners 1820. d. El Retiro, Campden hill, Kensington 14 Nov. 1854. Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 468–73 (1866); Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 167–9 (1862).
CHALON, Thomas Barnard. Judge advocate general Madras army 21 Aug. 1840 to 17 June 1859; retired M.G. 17 June 1859. d. Stuttgard 28 Jany. 1867 aged 67.
CHALONER, Thomas (son of Robert Chaloner of Guisborough). b. 6 Feb. 1815; entered navy 2 Aug. 1827; captain 6 April 1853, retired 31 March 1866; retired admiral 2 Aug. 1879; C.B. 24 May 1881. d. Long Hull, Guisborough 20 Oct. 1884.
CHALONER, Thomas (son of a baker at Manchester). b. Manchester 2 June 1839; won the St. Leger by a head on Caller Ou 1861 when betting was 100 to 1 against him, on The Marquis 1862, Achievement 1867, Formosa 1868, and Craigmillar 1875; won the Oaks on Feu de Joie 1862, the Two thousand guineas and Derby on Macaroni 1863; won 409 races 1855–63; combined coolness with great ability and a patience excelled by no other jockey; a trainer at Newmarket 1879 to death. d. Osborne house, Newmarket 3 April 1886. Sporting Review lii, 61–3 (1864), portrait, Illust. sp. and dr. news i, 16 (1874), portrait, iii, 261 (1875), portrait, and 17 April 1876, portrait; Sporting Life 5 Feb. 1887 p. 5, portrait.
CHAMBERLAIN, Charles Francis Falcon (youngest son of Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1 baronet 1773–1829). b. 11 Oct. 1826; major Bombay staff corps 13 June 1866 to death; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. d. Umballa, Punjab, India 31 Oct. 1870.
CHAMBERLAIN, Sir Henry Orlando Robert, 3 Baronet (elder son of Sir Henry Chamberlain, 2 baronet 1796–1843). b. 15 Dec. 1828; succeeded 8 Sep. 1843; member of Corps of Gentlemen-at-arms Oct. 1857 to 1860. d. Bruges 30 Dec. 1870.
CHAMBERLAIN, John Henry (son of Rev. Joseph Chamberlain, minister of Calvinistic Baptists at Leicester). b. Leicester 26 June 1831; architect at Birmingham 1856 to death; partner with Wm. Martin 13 April 1864 to death; built Institute buildings in Paradise st. and Free Libraries in Edmund st; member of council of Midland Institute 1867, hon. sec. 1868 to death; member of Society of Artists March 1861, professor of architecture 1861, vice pres. 1879. d. at house of Lawson Tait, The Crescent, Birmingham 22 Oct. 1883. Edgbastonia iii, 161–6 (1883), portrait; The Architect 27 Oct. 1883 pp. 254–5.
CHAMBERLAIN, William Charles (brother of Charles Francis Falcon Chamberlain). b. 21 April 1818; entered navy June 1831, captain 21 Feb. 1856; superintendent of Chatham dockyard 30 Nov. 1868 to 19 Jany. 1874; R.A. 19 Jany 1874, superintendent of Devonport dockyard 5 Aug. 1875 to 1 May 1876. d. Brighton 27 Feb. 1878.
CHAMBERLAYNE, Thomas (only son of Rev. Thomas Chamberlayne, R. of Charlton, Kent). b. 1805; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox.; purchased the old hull of a celebrated cutter called the Arrow, and from her midship section built a cutter of 84 tons called the Arrow which won cups and prizes worth several thousands, she beat the America and the Mosquito at Ryde 22 July 1852, and the Volante and 6 other yachts at Ryde 4 Aug. 1869; made a beautiful cricket ground at Cranbury near Winchester 1834, and got together an Eleven second to none in England; pres. of Marylebone Cricket Club; a great coursing, hunting and coaching man; built stables at Cranbury at an expense of £20,000 which are matchless in style; sheriff of Hampshire 1835. d. Cranbury park 21 Oct. 1876. Baily’s mag. xii, 55–59 (1867), portrait; Hunt’s yachting mag. i, 103 (1853), xviii, 30–5, 381–91, xxv, 699 (1876).
CHAMBERLAYNE, William, b. The Ryes, Essex 12 Aug. 1788; ed. at Westminster; captain 2 dragoon guards 9 May 1811 to 30 Dec. 1826 when placed on h.p.; general 14 Jany. 1866. d. Orford house, Oakley, Essex 21 July 1869.
CHAMBERS, Rev. John Charles (son of John Chambers of The Tything, Worcester, topographer 1780–1839). b. The Tything 23 Nov. 1817; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1842; founded the first Sunday schools in Cambridge; C. of Sedbergh, Yorkshire 1842–6; missionary priest at Perth 1846–50; canon and chancellor of St. Ninian’s cathedral, Perth 1850–5; V. of St. Mary Magdalene, Harlow 1855–6; Inc. of St. Mary the Virgin, Crown st. Soho, London 1856 to death, this was the first parish in which church guilds were set on foot; warden of House of Charity, Soho Nov. 1856 to death; author of Sermons 1857; Reformation not deformation 1864; The destruction of Sin, being thirteen addresses delivered in Advent 1872, edited by J. J. Elkington 1874. d. London 21 May 1874.
CHAMBERS, John Graham (eld. son of Wm. Chambers of Hafod, Cardiganshire 1809–75). b. Llanelly, Carmarthenshire 12 Feb. 1843; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1865; the best walker in the University; rowed against Oxford 1862 and 1863; won the 7 mile walking championship March 1866; founded the Amateur Athletic Club at Beaufort house grounds, Walham green, 1866; pres. of Cambridge University Boat Club 1864–6; won the Colquhoun sculls at Cam. 1863, and the senior sculls at Barnes 1865 and 1866; coached the Cambridge crew at Putney 1871–4; edited Land and Water 1871 to death. d. 10 Wetherby terrace, Earl’s court, London 4 March 1883. Sporting Mirror v, 121–3 (1883), portrait; Land and Water xxxv, 175–6, 249–50 (1883); Illust. sporting and dr. news i, 136 (1874), portrait.
CHAMBERS, Montagu (5 son of George Chambers of Harford, Hunts.) b. 1799; ensign Grenadier Guards 9 Nov. 1815 to 1 Oct. 1818 when placed on h.p.; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1828, bencher 3 Nov. 1845, treasurer 1868; Q.C. 3 July 1845; M.P. for Greenwich 8 July 1852 to 20 March 1857 and for Devonport 22 May 1866 to 26 Jany. 1874; edited the Law Journal Reports 1835 to death. d. 394 Uxbridge road, London 18 Sep. 1885.
CHAMBERS, Robert. b. Walker near Newcastle 14 June 1831; worked as a puddler at a forge on banks of the Tyne; won sculler’s prize at Thames national regatta 1856 and 1858; beat T. White of Bermondsey for £200 on the Tyne 19 April 1859; sculled H. Kelley for the championship 29 Sep. 1859 when he won easily; beat White again 18 Sep. 1860, and G. W. Everson of Greenwich 14 April 1863; beat R. A. W. Green the Australian 16 June 1863; beaten by Cooper of Newcastle 28 July 1863 but beat him 7 Sep. 1864 and 12 June 1865; beaten by H. Kelley for the championship 8 Aug. 1865; beat J. H. Sadler of Putney 22 Nov. 1866; introduced the long slow stroke in rowing; rowed 112 races 90 of which he won. d. of consumption, result of overtraining, at The King’s Arms, St. Anthony’s, Newcastle 4 June 1868. Rowing Almanac (1861), portrait, (1862) 105–6, (1886) 163; Illust. Sporting news i, 141 (1862), portrait, ii, 64, (1863), portrait, iv, 361 (1865), portrait, v, 745 (1866), portrait; I.L.N. lv, 513 (1869); Bell’s Life in London 13 June 1868 p. 9.
CHAMBERS, Robert (2 son of James Chambers of Peebles, cotton manufacturer). b. Peebles 10 July 1802; bookseller at Leith 1818–22, at Edin. 1822; partner with his brother William as publishers in Edin. 1832 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1840; F.G.S. 1844; hon. LLD. St. Andrews 1868; author of Traditions of Edinburgh 2 vols. 1823, new ed. 1868; History of the rebellion of 1745, 1828, 7 ed. 1869; Biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen 4 vols. 1832–4; Vestiges of the natural history of creation 1844, anon. 12 ed. 1884; The book of days 2 vols. 1862–4. d. St. Andrews 17 March 1871. Memoir of W. and R. Chambers by W. Chambers, 12 ed. 1883, portrait; Illust. Review i, 423–7 (1871), portrait.
CHAMBERS, William (brother of the preceding). b. Peebles 16 April 1800; bookseller at Leith 1819–23, at Broughton st. Edin. 1823; edited Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 4 Feb. 1832 to death; partner with his brother Robert 1832; lord provost of Edin. 1865–9; LLD. Edin. 1872; presented town of Peebles with a library (10,000 volumes) and other buildings called the Chambers Institution opened Aug. 1859; spent about £25,000 on St. Giles’s church, Edin., re-opened 23 May 1883; accepted offer of a baronetcy May 1883 but died before receiving the honour. d. Chester st. Edinburgh 20 May 1883. Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvii, 177–90 (1851); Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, fourth series 1860, portrait.
CHAMBERS, William Frederic (eld. son of Wm. Chambers of H.E.I.Co’s civil service who d. 1793). b. India 1786; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, M.D. 1818; physician to St. George’s hospital, London 20 April 1816 to 1839; F.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1819, censor 1822, 1836, consilarius 1836, 1841, 1845, an Elect 1847; F.R.S. 13 March 1828; phys. in ord. to Queen Adelaide 25 Oct. 1836; phys. to Wm. IV. 4 May 1837; created K.C.H. by Queen Victoria at St. James’s palace 8 Aug. 1837 but allowed to decline assumption of the prefix Sir; the leading phys. in London 1836–48, being the last who to any extent monopolised consulting practice among the rich and noble; phys. in ord. to Queen Victoria 8 Aug. 1837. d. Hordle Cliff near Lymington, Hants. 16 Dec. 1855. Lives of British physicians 2 ed. 1857 pp. 388–402; Munk’s Roll of physicians iii, 196–200 (1878); Medical Circular i, 373 (1852), portrait.
CHAMBRE, William (younger son of Meredith Calcott Chambre of Hawthorn hill, co. Armagh, who d. 8 Feb. 1812). Lieut. York light infantry volunteers 27 May 1812; captain 11 foot 10 Jany. 1822 to 30 July 1844 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 26 Jany. 1874. d. 1 Duncairn terrace, Bray, co. Dublin 24 Oct. 1876.
CHAMIER, Frederick (4 son of John Chamier, member of council for Madras presidency, who d. 23 Feb. 1831). b. London 1796; midshipman R.N. 24 June 1809; served in United States war 1812; commander 9 Aug. 1826; placed on reserved list July 1851; retired captain 1 April 1856; author of The life of a sailor 3 vols. 1832; Ben Brace 3 vols. 1836; Jack Adams 3 vols. 1838; Tom Bowling 3 vols. 1841; My travels, or an unsentimental journey through France, Switzerland and Italy 3 vols. 1855, and of many papers in New Monthly Mag.; edited W. James’s Naval history of Great Britain, 3 ed. 6 vols. 1837. d. 29 Warrior sq. St. Leonard’s on Sea 31 Oct. 1870. New Monthly Mag. lii, 508–10 (1838), portrait.
CHAMIER, Henry. Writer Madras civil service 1812; chief sec. to Madras government 1837–43; member of council 1843–8; pres. of the revenue, marine and college boards 1843 to 14 Jany. 1867 when he resigned the service. d. 9 Waterloo crescent, Dover 4 Feb. 1867 aged 71.
CHAMPAIN, Sir John Underwood Bateman (2 son of Agnew Champain, major 9 foot, who d. 1876). b. Gloucester place, London 22 July 1835; ed. at Cheltenham and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal Engineers 11 June 1853, lieut. col. 31 Dec. 1878 to death; director in chief of Indo-European government telegraph department 1869 to death; granted special permission to accept a sword of honour from Shah of Persia 1885 an honour quite unprecedented; K.C.M.G. 31 Dec. 1885; assumed additional name of Bateman 1870. d. San Remo 1 Feb. 1887. Sir F. J. Goldsmid’s Telegraph and Travel (1874) 206–388, 639.
CHAMPION, John George. b. Edinburgh 5 May 1815; Ensign 95 foot 2 Aug. 1831, major 11 Nov. 1851 to death; served at Hong-kong 1847–50; brought a collection of dried plants to England 1850, most of his novelties were described in Hooker’s Journals; placed last set of his plants in the Kew herbarium 1854, his name is commemorated in the genus Championia and by the splendid plant Rhodoleia Championi. d. Scutari hospital 30 Nov. 1854 of wounds received at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. G. Bentham’s Flora Hongkongensis (1861) 8*–9*; Gardener’s Chronicle (1854) 819–20; G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) 93–5.
CHAMPNEYS, Very Rev. William Weldon (eld. son of Rev. Wm. Beyton Champneys). b. Camden Town, London 6 April 1807; matric. from Brasenose coll. Ox. 3 July 1824, scholar of his college, fellow 1831; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; C. of St. Ebbe’s, Oxford 1831–7; R. of St. Mary’s, Whitechapel, London 1837–60; canon residentiary of St. Paul’s cath. 3 Nov. 1851 to 11 Nov. 1868; V. of St. Pancras, London 1860–8; dean of Lichfield and R. of Tatenhill, Staffs. 11 Nov. 1868 to death; author of Images or allegories for the young 1849, 8 ed. 1868; Six lectures on Protestantism 1852; The Sunday school teacher, 3 ed. 1857; The Spirit in the word 1862, 4 ed. 1866; Facts and Fragments 1864. d. the Deanery, Lichfield 4 Feb. 1875. Rev. W. W. Champneys’s Story of the tentmaker (1875) 7–14, portrait; Drawing room portrait gallery (4th series 1860) 1–2, portrait.
CHANCE, Henry (youngest son of Wm. Chance of Birmingham). b. Newhall st. Birmingham 1794; a certificated conveyancer 1819; barrister L.I. 21 May 1824; practised as conveyancer 1819–66 when he retired; author of A treatise on Powers 2 vols. 1831. d. 7 North villas, Camden sq. London 16 Feb. 1876.
CHANDLER, Very Rev. George. Educ. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1804, D.C.L. 1824; R. of Southam, Warws. 1815–30; R. of All Souls, St. Marylebone, London 1825–47; Bampton lecturer 1825; dean of Chichester 20 Feb. 1830 to death, installed 18 March 1830; R. of Felpham, Sussex 1832 to death; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1833; author of The Bampton lectures 1825. d. The Deanery, Chichester 3 Feb. 1859 aged 80.
CHANDLER, Johanna. b. 1820; called a meeting at Mansion House, London 2 Nov. 1859 when sum of £800 was collected for a National hospital for the paralysed and epileptic, which was opened in Queen’s square, Bloomsbury, May 1860; founded Samaritan society to give aid to out-door patients and Home for convalescent women patients at East Finchley. d. 43 Albany st. Regent’s Park, London 12 Jany. 1875. Facta non verba by the author of Contrasts [Wm. Gilbert] (1874) 101–25; Good Words vii, 537–42 (1866).
CHANDLESS, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Chandless of York place, Portman square, London). b. 1798; barrister G.I. 19 June 1822, practised in court of chancery; bencher of his inn 5 May 1847, treasurer 1850–51; Q.C. 11 July 1851. d. 45 Harewood sq. London 22 Feb. 1883 in 85 year.
CHANNELL, Sir William Fry (son of Pike Channell, an officer in the navy, afterwards a merchant in London). b. 31 Aug. 1804; barrister I.T. 25 May 1827, went Home circuit; serjeant at law 19 Feb. 1840; shared with Serjeant Talfourd leading business of Court of Common Pleas 1840–6 when practice was thrown open to the bar generally; obtained patent of precedence 1844; leader of Home circuit 1845–57; Baron of Court of Exchequer 12 Feb. 1857 to Jany. 1873; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 June 1857; issued an address to Beverley at general election July 1852 but withdrew before the election; nominated a P.C. Feb. 1873 but did not live to be sworn in. d. 2 Clarendon place, Hyde park gardens, London 26 Feb. 1873. Law mag. and law review ii, 351–4 (1873); I.L.N. lxii, 234, 249, 318 (1873), portrait.
CHAPLIN, Charles. b. 21 April 1786; M.P. for Lincolnshire 25 June 1818 to 23 April 1831. d. London 24 May 1859.
CHAPLIN, Edward. b. Ryhall, Rutland 28 March 1842; ed. at Harrow; captain Coldstream guards 1871; M.P. for Lincoln 4 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; master of the Blankney hounds 1872–6; a member of the Four-in-hand club 1877. d. 25 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 23 Dec. 1883. Baily’s mag. xxxi, 311–2 (1878), portrait.
CHAPLIN, William James (son of Wm. Chaplin of Rochester). b. Rochester 1787; one of the largest coach proprietors in the kingdom, being owner of 64 stage coaches worked by 1500 horses; chairman of London and South western railway company to death; sheriff of London 1845–46; M.P. for Salisbury 1847–1857. d. 2 Hyde Park gardens, London 24 April 1859 aged 71.
CHAPMAN, Rev. Benedict. Educ. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam., 6 Wr. 1792, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, D.D. 1840; fellow of his college, tutor, master, May or June 1839 to death; R. of Ashdon, Essex 1818 to death. d. Ashdon rectory 23 Oct. 1852 in 83 year. bur. in chapel of his college 30 Oct.
CHAPMAN, Henry Samuel. b. Kennington, London, July 1803; went to Canada 1823; founded at Montreal 1833 Daily Advertiser first daily newspaper published in Canada, edited it 1833–4; barrister M.T. 12 June 1840; a judge of supreme court of New Zealand, June 1843 to March 1852; colonial sec. of Van Diemen’s Land, March 1852 to Nov. 1852; attorney general of Victoria 11 March 1857 to 29 April 1857 and March 1858 to 27 Oct. 1859; formed a ministry, March 1858; acted as judge of supreme court of Victoria 1862 to March 1863; judge of supreme court of New Zealand 1865–77; author of Thoughts on the money and exchanges of Lower Canada 1832; The New Zealand portfolio 1843. d. Dunedin, N.Z. 27 Dec. 1881.
CHAPMAN, Henry Thomas (elder son of Thomas Chapman of Ampthill, Beds. who lived to be 94). b. Ampthill 1806; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London, house surgeon; surgeon in Lower Seymour st. London; lecturer on surgery in school next St. George’s hospital; fellow of Med. and Chir. Soc. 1837; author of A brief description of surgical apparatus 1832; The treatment of obstinate ulcers and cutaneous eruptions of the leg without confinement 1848, 3 ed. 1859; Varicose veins, their nature, consequences and treatment 1856. d. Cheltenham 19 Nov. 1874.