Frederic Boase
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CHESTER, Harry (youngest son of sir Robert Chester of Bush hall, Herts. 1768–1848). b. 1 Oct. 1806; ed. at Charterhouse, Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam.; clerk in Privy Council office May 1826 to 1 Jany. 1859; assistant sec. to Committee of Privy Council on education 1840–58; author of The lay of the Lady Ellen, a tale of 1834, London 1835, and of an article entitled The food of the people in Macmillan’s Mag. Oct. and Nov. 1868. d. 63 Rutland gate, London 5 Oct. 1868.
CHESTER, Joseph Lemuel (son of Joseph Chester of Norwich, Connecticut, grocer, who d. 1832). b. Norwich 30 April 1821; a merchant’s clerk in New York 1840, in Philadelphia 1845; a temperance lecturer in many of the states; musical editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book 1845–50; one of the editors of Philadelphia Inquirer and of the Daily Sun 1852; member of council of Philadelphia 1854; one of aide-de-camps of governor of Pennsylvania with rank of colonel 1855–8; lived in London 1859 to death; made most extensive extracts from parish registers, and at his death left 87 folio vols. of such extracts; copied the matriculation register of the university of Oxford 1866–9; D.C.L. Ox. 22 June 1881; one of founders of Harleian Society 1869; a member of first council of Royal Historical Society 1870; published Greenwood cemetery and other poems 1843; The registers of the abbey of St. Peter, Westminster 1876, (Harleian Society) also Privately Printed for the author; The parish registers of St. Michael, Cornhill, London 1882. d. 124 Southwark park road, London 26 May 1882. Latting’s Memoir of Colonel Chester 1882; Dean’s Memoir of Colonel Chester 1884, portrait; Marshall’s Genealogist vi, 189*–92* (1882); New Monthly Mag. June 1881 pp. 626–30, portrait.
CHESTERFIELD, George Augustus Frederick Stanhope, 6 Earl of (only son of 5 Earl of Chesterfield 1755–1815). b. Bretby hall, Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire 23 May 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 29 Aug. 1815; lord of the bedchamber to George iv, 11 Aug. 1828 to 26 June 1830; master of the Buckhounds 30 Dec. 1834 to April 1835; P.C. 29 Dec. 1834; began racing 1826, won Ascot cup with Zinganee 1829, the Oaks with Industry 1838 and Lady Evelyn 1849 and St. Leger with Don John 1838; master of Pytchley hounds 1838–40; the yellow gossamer overcoat known as a Chesterfield was called after him; he is depicted under name of Earl of Chesterlane in D’Horsay, or the follies of the day by A man of fashion 1844. d. 3 Grosvenor sq. London 1 June 1866. bur. at Bretby church 8 June. Rice’s History of the British turf i, 284–6 (1879); Sporting Preview xxix, 450–2 (1858), lvi, 10, 79 (1866); Baily’s Mag. ii, 55–8 (1861), portrait; Sporting Times 7 March 1885; Doyle’s Official baronage i, 374, (1886), portrait.
CHESTERFIELD, George Philip Cecil Arthur Stanhope, 7 Earl of. b. 28 Sep. 1831; ed. at Eton; cornet Royal horse guards 21 Aug. 1849, lieut. 2 Sep. 1853 to 1860; M.P. for south Notts. 18 Dec. 1860 to 1 June 1866 when he succeeded, d. Bretby hall 1 Dec. 1871.
CHESTERFIELD, George Philip Stanhope, 8 Earl of. b. 29 Nov. 1822; succeeded 1 Dec. 1871, his claim was admitted by House of Lords 7 July 1873. d. Killendanagh near Lifford, co. Donegal 19 Oct. 1883.
CHESTERFIELD, Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore Stanhope, 9 Earl of (eld. son of Sir Edwyn Francis Scudamore Stanhope, 2 baronet 1793–1874). b. Teignmouth, Devon 8 April 1821; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1841; succeeded as 3 baronet 8 Feb. 1874, as 9 Earl 19 Oct. 1883. d. St. Leonard’s on Sea 21 Jany. 1887.
CHETHAM-STRODE, Sir Edward (4 son of Thomas Chetham of Mellon hall, Derbyshire). b. 5 July 1775; entered navy 29 April 1786; captain 13 Oct. 1807; captain of the Leander 50 guns 1 May 1816 to July 1819; superintendent of Haslar hospital and Royal Clarence Victualling yard 5 April 1838 to 23 Nov. 1841; R.A. on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.C.H. 1 Jany. 1837; knighted by Wm. iv, at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837; K.C.B. 8 May 1845; assumed additional surname of Strode 1845; granted good service pension 18 June 1857; admiral of the white 22 Aug. 1857. d. Southill house, Shepton-Mallet, Somerset 1 April 1862.
CHETWODE, Sir John Newdigate Ludford, 5 Baronet, b. Oakley near Mucklestone, Staffs. 12 Nov. 1788; succeeded 17 Dec. 1845; sheriff of Warwick 1852. d. Oakley 8 Sep. 1873.
CHETWYND, Richard Walter Chetwynd, 6 Viscount, b. Bolton row, London 14 Dec. 1800; succeeded 27 Feb. 1821. d. Marpool near Exmouth 6 Dec. 1879.
CHETWYND, Sir George, 3 Baronet, b. Grendon hall near Atherstone, co. Warwick 6 Sep. 1809; succeeded 24 May 1850. d. Grendon hall 25 March 1869.
CHETWYND, George (son of W. J. Chetwynd, captain 52 foot). b. 1824; receiver and accountant general, Post Office, London 1864 to death; C.B. 16 May 1881. d. Hyde Vale, Blackheath, London 3 Dec. 1882.
CHETWYND, William Fawkener. b. 15 Oct. 1788; M.P. for Stafford 11 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841. d. Brocton hall near Stafford 25 April 1873.
CHEVALLIER, Rev. Temple (eld. son of Rev. Temple Fiske, Chevallier, R. of Badingham, Suffolk), b. Badingham 19 Oct. 1794; ed. at Pemb. coll. Cam., fellow 1819; 2 wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1817; B A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1833; fellow and tutor of St. Cath. hall, Cam.; V. of St. Andrew the Great, Cam. 1821–34; Hulsean lecturer 1826–7; P.C. of Esh near Durham 1835–69; registrar of Univ. of Durham 1835; professor of mathematics in Univ. of Durham 1835–71 and professor of astronomy 1841–71; hon. canon of Durham cathedral 2 Oct. 1846, canon res. Sep. 1865 to death; F.R.A.S. 13 Dec. 1839; author of A translation of the epistles of Clement of Rome, Polycarp, and Ignatius and of the Apologies of Justin Martyr and Tertullian 1833, 2 ed. 1851 and of 18 papers in journals of Royal Astronom. Soc. d. at house of his son-in-law, the vicarage, Harrow-Weald, Middlesex 4 Nov. 1873. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxiv, 137–39 (1874).
CHEVERS, Norman (son of Forbes Mackbean Chevers, surgeon R.N.) b. Greenhithe on the Thames 1818; ed. at Guy’s hospital; assistant surgeon Bengal army 1 Aug. 1848; secretary to Medical Board, Calcutta 1855–61; principal of Calcutta medical college, professor of medicine and first phys. of the college hospital 27 April 1861 to 1876; deputy surgeon general to 1876; C.I.E.; Co-editor of the Indian annals of medical science 1853–72; author of Management of the diseases of the heart 1851; Removable and mitigable causes of death 1852; Medical jurisprudence in India 1855, 3 ed. 1861 for which he was awarded the Swiney prize by Royal coll. of phys.; Preservation of the health of seamen 1864, 2 ed. 1866; Commentary on the diseases of India 1886. d. 32 Tavistock road, Bayswater, London 2 Dec. 1886. British medical journal 18 Dec. 1886 p. 1245; Biograph vi, 129–31 (1881).
CHEYNE, Charles Hartwell Horne (eld. son of Rev. Charles Cheyne, second master at Christ’s hospital, who d. 1867). b. 1 May 1838; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s, and St. John’s coll. Cam., foundation scholar, June 1859, 18 wrangler 1861, B.A. 1861, M.A. 1864; second mathematical master of Westminster school, March 1863 to Dec. 1876; F.R.A.S. June 1868; author of An elementary treatise on the planetary theory 1862, 3 ed. 1883; The Earth’s motion of rotation, including the theory of precession and nutation 1867. d. Torquay 1 Jany. 1877. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxvii, 147 (1877).
CHICHESTER, Henry Thomas Pelham, 3 Earl of (eld. son of 2 Earl of Chichester 1756–1826). b. Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 25 Aug. 1804; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam.; cornet 6 dragoons 24 June 1824; lieut. Royal horse guards 28 April 1827; succeeded as 3 Earl 4 July 1826; pres. of Church Missionary Society 1835; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 22 Feb. 1841 to death; joint comr. to consider state of bishoprics in England and Wales 30 Jany. 1847; chief comr. for management of ecclesiastical estates 24 Aug. 1850 to Oct. 1878; lord lieut. of Sussex 21 Nov. 1860 to death. d. Stanmer park near Lewes 16 March 1886. Sunday at home (1885), 296–300, portrait.
CHICHESTER, Sir Alexander Palmer Bruce, 2 Baronet. b. Malta 24 Dec. 1842; succeeded 10 Dec. 1851; sheriff of Devon 1868. d. Arlington court, Barnstaple 25 Jany. 1881.
CHICHESTER, Frederick Richard, called by courtesy, Earl of Belfast (younger son of 3 Marquis of Donegall 1797–1883). b. 25 Nov. 1827; ed. at Eton; pres. of Classical harmonist’s society established at Belfast 1852; author of Two generations or birth parentage and education, a novel 2 vols. 1851; Poets and poetry of the nineteenth century, a course of lectures 1852. d. Naples 15 Feb. 1853.
CHICHESTER, John Ludford (6 son of 2 Marquis of Donegall 1769–1844). b. 12 Nov. 1811; M.P. for Belfast 20 Aug. 1845 to 1 July 1852. d. Cambridge house, Twickenham 22 April 1873.
CHICHESTER, Sir John Palmer Bruce, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Palmer Bruce Chichester 1769–1823, colonel of Royal Cardigan rifle corps). b. 1794; served in the navy 1810–20; M.P. for Barnstaple 3 May 1831 to 23 June 1841; created baronet 7 Sep. 1840. d. 20 Eaton sq. London 10 Dec. 1851.
CHIFNEY, Samuel (younger son of Samuel Chifney, jockey 1753–1807). b. 1786; rode for Prince of Wales at Stockbridge races 1802; won the Oaks on Briseis 1807, on Sorcery 1811, on Landscape 1816, on Shoveller 1819 and on Wings 1825; won the Derby on Sam a horse called after himself 1818 and on Sailor 1820; won the One thousand guineas on Extempore 1843; a trainer at Newmarket to 1843; had a stud of his own there 1843–51. d. Hove, Brighton 29 Aug. 1854. Sporting Review vii, 416 (1842), portrait, xxxii, 231–5, 312–6 (1854) xxxiii, 31–5, 89–95, 162–7, 231–6, 309–14, 401–6 (1855) xxxiv, 5–10, 75–8 (1855).
CHIFNEY, William (brother of the preceding). b. Newmarket 1784; a trainer near Newmarket; owner with his brother of a small stud of horses at Newmarket to June 1834; publicly thrashed on 31 May 1803 Lieut. col. George Leigh, an equerry to Prince of Wales, for abusing his father, imprisoned for the assault 6 months at Cambridge. d. Pancras sq. Pancras road, London 14 Oct. 1862. H. Corbett’s Tales of sporting life (1864) 176–82.
CHILD-VILLIERS, Frederick William (3 son of 5 Earl of Jersey 1773–1859). b. Berkeley sq. London 20 July 1815; ed. at Eton; lieut. Coldstream Guards 1838 to 24 May 1844 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Weymouth 15 Dec. 1847 to 1 July 1852; lieut. col. commandant of 5 Middlesex militia 16 May 1853 to 4 May 1855; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1869. d. Berkeley sq. 24 May 1871.
CHILDE, Henry Langdon. b. 1782; made his first magic lantern 1797; painted on glass and produced slides illustrating natural history and astronomy; invented dissolving views 1807 which he exhibited at Adelphi theatre, London 1818 and at Her Majesty’s theatre 1837–40; connected with the Polytechnic Institution, Regent st. from date of opening 6 Aug. 1838 for nearly 20 years; invented the chromatrope, a lantern slide by which beautiful effects of colour were produced. d. Mostyn road, Brixton, London 15 Oct. 1874.
CHILDE, James Warren. Landscape and Miniature painter in London 1798 to death; most of his exhibited works were portraits of popular actors and actresses; exhibited 76 pictures at R.A. and 16 at Suffolk st. gallery 1798–1853. d. 27 Scarsdale villas, Kensington, London 19 Sep. 1862 aged 82.
CHILDE, William Lacon. b. 3 Jany. 1786; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Wenlock 9 March 1820 to 2 June 1826; sheriff of Salop 1828. d. 15 Dec. 1880.
CHILDERS, John Walbanke. b. 27 May 1798; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Cambridgeshire 21 Dec. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834, for Malton 12 Feb. 1836 to April 1846 and 28 July 1847 to 1 July 1852. d. Cantley hall, Doncaster 8 Feb. 1886. Times 9 Feb. 1886 p. 10 col. 4.
CHILDERS, Michael. Ensign 2 West India regiment 25 Feb. 1799; lieut. col. 11 light dragoons 21 Sep. 1820 to 25 March 1836 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818; colonel 10 Jany. 1837; retired 8 June 1838. d. Sandhutton near York 9 Jany. 1854.
CHILDERS, Robert Cæsar (son of Rev. Charles Childers, chaplain at Nice). b. 1838; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., Hebrew scholar; a writer in Ceylon civil service 1860, private secretary to the governor Sir Charles McCarthy 3 years; office assistant to government agent in Kandy to March 1864 when he returned home; sub-librarian at India office, London 1872; professor of Pali and Buddhist literature at Univ. coll. London, July 1873 to death; published Pali text of the Khadduka Patha with English translation and notes in Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Nov. 1869 being the first Pali text printed in England; Dictionary of the Pali language 2 vols. 1872–5, awarded by the Institute of France the Volney prize, July 1876 as the best philological work of the year. d. Weybridge, Surrey 25 July 1876. Annual report of Royal Asiatic Society, June 1877 pp. viii-x.
CHILDREN, John George (only child of George Children of Ferox hall, Tunbridge, Kent 1742–1818). b. Ferox hall 18 May 1777; ed. at Eton and Queen’s coll. Cam.; established gunpowder mills at Ramhurst 1813; a librarian in department of antiquities at British Museum 1816, keeper of the Zoological collections 1823 to 25 March 1840; F.R.S. 12 March 1807, one of the secretaries 1826–7 and 1830–7, vice pres. 1837–8; F.R.S. of Edin. 1812; F.S.A. 1816; pres. of Entomological Soc. 1834–5; discovered a method for extracting silver from its ore without the use of mercury 1824; published translations of Thenard’s Traité de Chymie 1819, and of Berzelius’s Use of the blowpipe in chemical analysis 1822. d. Halstead place, Kent 1 Jany. 1852. Memoir of J. G. Children, privately printed 1853; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 137–40 (1853); G.M. xxxvii, 622–4 (1852).
CHILDS, Charles (son of the succeeding). b. 1807; head of firm of John Childs and Son of Bungay, Suffolk, printers 1853 to death; gave evidence before select committee of House of Commons on the Queen’s printers’ patent 1859; wrote several articles in the Westminster Review. d. Bungay 26 Dec. 1876.
CHILDS, John. b. Bungay 1783; printer at Bungay 1806 to death; projected with Joseph Ogle Robinson the series known as ‘Imperial octavo editions of standard authors’; a pioneer of movement for cheap and good literature for the million. d. Bungay 12 Aug. 1853 in 70 year.
CHILDS, Joseph. Second lieut. R.M. 21 April 1809, col. commandant 14 July 1855 to 31 March 1857 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 31 March 1857. d. Liskeard, Cornwall 2 Jany. 1870 aged 83.
CHILTON, George (eld. son of George Chilton of Chancery lane, London, solicitor). Educ. at Queen’s coll. Ox, B.A. 1818; barrister I.T. 16 June 1820, bencher 1837, reader 1848, treasurer 1849; recorder of Gloucester, March 1837 to death; Q.C. 1837; judge of county courts for Greenwich and Lambeth (circuit 48), July 1847 to death; edited R. B. Comyn’s A treatise on the law of landlord and tenant, 2 ed. 1830. d. Boulogne 1 Nov. 1852 aged 56.
CHINNERY, Rev. Sir Nicholas, 3 Baronet (only son of Sir Brodrick Chinnery, 2 baronet 1779–1840). b. Bath 7 July 1804; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; succeeded 17 Jany. 1840; C. of Trinity chapel, Conduit st. London 1855–6; author of Anglican formalism 1862; The design of heresies 1867; killed in a railway accident between Abergele and Llandulas stations on Chester and Holyhead railway 20 Aug. 1868, when 33 persons were literally burned alive. A.R. (1868) 106–11; I.L.N. liii, 234 (1868).
CHIOSSO, James. Opened gymnasia and schools of arms at 21 New road, Marylebone, London 1853, and at 123 Oxford st. 1854; professor of gymnastics at University college school, London, where he erected one of the earliest gymnasia in London about 1838; invented the Calisthenic and Gymnastic Polymachinon 1855; author of Remarks on physical education 1845; Gymnastics an essential branch of national education 1854; The gymnastic polymachinon 1855. d. 11 Norfolk villas, Bayswater, London 14 March 1864 aged 75. Illust. Sporting news i, 116 (1862), portrait.
CHIPP, Edmund Thomas (eld. son of the succeeding). b. London 25 Dec. 1823; a member of Society of British Musicians 1842; organist of St. John’s chapel, Hampstead 1843–6; a violinist in Queen’s private band 1843–55; organist at St. Olave, Southwark 1847–52 and at St. Mary-at-Hill 1852–6; organist at Panopticon, Leicester sq. 1855 and at Holy Trinity church, Paddington 1856–62; Mus. Bac. Cam. 1859, Mus. Doc. 1861; organist of St. George’s ch. and Ulster Hall, Belfast 1862–6, and of Ely cathedral, Nov. 1866 to death; composed Job an oratorio; Naomi a sacred idyll, several songs, services, and organ and pianoforte music. d. Nice 17 Dec. 1886. Biograph vi, 563–5 (1881); Graphic xxxv, 100 (1887), portrait.
CHIPP, Thomas Paul. b. London 25 May 1793; teacher of the harp; harpist in orchestra of Covent Garden theatre 1818, of Her Majesty’s theatre 1826; a member of all chief London orchestras 1813–66; played at coronations of George iv, Wm. iv, and Victoria. d. Camden Town, London 19 June 1870.
CHISHOLM, Caroline (dau. of Wm. Jones of Wootton, Northamptonshire). b. Wootton, May 1808; went to Madras 1832 where she established Female school of industry; went to Sydney 1839 where she opened an office for the use of emigrants, Jany. 1841; promoted emigration of families from England 1846–54; laboured in Australia 1854–66; granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1867; author of The A.B.C. of colonisation 1850, Emigration and transportation relatively considered. (m. 1830 Archibald Chisholm, captain 13 Madras N.I. who d. Rugby 17 Aug. 1877 aged 82). d. 43a Barclay road, Walham Green near London 25 March 1877. bur. Northampton 31 March. Mackenzie’s Memoirs of C. Chisholm 1852, portrait; Michelet’s La Femme (1860) 398–406; I.L.N. xx, 301 (1852), portrait, xxiv, 337 (1854), portrait, lxx, 349 (1877), portrait.
CHISHOLM, Walter (son of Mr. Chisholm of Easter Harelaw near Chirnside, Berwickshire, shepherd). b. Easter Harelaw 21 Dec. 1856; wrote poems signed ‘Wattie’ in the Haddington Courier and in the People’s Friend; his poem entitled Scotia’s Border Land gained second prize in competition promoted by People’s Journal Christmas 1876. d. of pleurisy at Dowlaw farm 1 Oct. 1877. Poems by the late Walter Chisholm, edited by W. Cairns 1879 pp. ix-xvi.
CHITTY, Edward (3 son of Joseph Chitty of the Middle Temple, London, barrister 1776–1841). b. 1804; barrister L.I. 7 July 1829; went to Jamaica 1840; author of An index to all the reported cases of equity and bankruptcy 2 vols. 1831, 3 ed. 4 vols. 1853; author with E. E. Deacon of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 4 vols. 1833–7; with Basil Montagu of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1840; with F. Forster of A digested index to all the common law reports relating to conveyancing and bankruptcy 1841. d. Cambridge lodge, Walham green near London 28 Sep. 1863.
CHITTY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1801; practised in London as a special pleader below the bar 1820–77; taught many men who became judges and leading counsel; author of Forms of practical proceedings in the courts of Queen’s Bench Common Pleas and Exchequer of Pleas 1834, 12 ed. 1883; edited J. F. Archbold’s Practice of the Court of King’s Bench, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1835, 5 ed. 2 vols. 1836, 6 ed. 2 vols. 1838, 7 ed. 2 vols. 1840, and 8 ed. 2 vols. 1845–7. d. 47 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London 13 Feb. 1878.
CHITTY, Tompson. Barrister M.T. 31 Jany. 1851; edited Joseph Chitty’s A practical treatise on the law of contracts, not under seal, 3 ed. 1841; author with Leofric Temple of A practical treatise on the law of carriers of goods and passengers 1856. d. Stockwell Surrey 4 Feb. 1863.
CHOLMELEY, Sir Montagu John, 2 Baronet. b. Grantham 5 Aug. 1802; M.P. for Grantham 14 June 1826 to 23 April 1831, for North Lincolnshire 12 Jany. 1847 to 1 July 1852, and 31 March 1857 to death; succeeded 10 March 1831. d. Easton hall, Grantham 18 Jany. 1874.
CHOLMLEY, Sir George, 7 Baronet. b. Welburn, Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire 26 Nov. 1782; M.P. for Yorkshire 6 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832, for west riding of Yorkshire 20 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841, for Preston 29 June 1841 to 21 March 1857; succeeded 8 Jany. 1834; assumed name of Cholmley in lieu of Strickland by royal licence 17 March 1865. d. Newton hall near Malton 23 Dec. 1874.
CHOLMONDELEY, George Horatio Cholmondeley, 2 Marquis of. b. Paris 16 Jany. 1792; M.P. for Castle Rising, Norfolk 21 Feb. 1817 to 24 Dec. 1821; summoned to House of Peers in his father’s barony of Newburgh 24 Dec. 1821; succeeded 10 April 1827; Joint hereditary grand chamberlain of England 10 April 1827 to death; P.C. 19 July 1830. d. Cholmondeley castle, Nantwich, Cheshire 8 May 1870.
CHOLMONDELEY, William Henry Hugh, 3 Marquis of. b. Piccadilly, London 31 Aug. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Castle Rising 1 Feb. 1822 to 3 Dec. 1832, for South Hants. 14 July 1852 to 21 March 1857; succeeded 8 May 1870; joint hereditary grand chamberlain of England 8 May 1870 to death. d. Houghton hall, Rougham, Norfolk 16 Dec. 1884.
CHORLEY, Charles (son of John Chorley, lieutenant 1 Somerset militia, who d. 22 Feb. 1839 aged 66). b. Taunton about 1810; sub-editor of Cornwall Gazette at Truro 30 years; sec. to Truro Public Rooms company; sub-manager of Truro Savings’ bank; edited Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall 1863–74; published Jephtha or the Vow, a tragedy by [George] Buchanan, translated from the Latin by C. C[horley] 1854; The Baptist or calumny, a tragedy by [George] Buchanan, translated from the Latin by C. C[horley] 1864, Verse by C. C. 1867. d. 24 Lemon st. Truro 22 June 1874. Journal of Royal Instit. of Cornwall, Oct. 1874 pp. iii, iv, vii.
CHORLEY, Henry Fothergill (3 son of John Chorley of Blackley Hurst, Lancs. lock maker, who d. 15 April 1816). b. Blackley Hurst 15 Dec. 1808; started with his brother W. B. Chorley, M.D. an annual called The Winter’s Wreath 1828; a reviewer on the Athenæum 1833–66, musical critic of it 1833–68; author of Sketches of a Sea-port town 3 vols. 1835; Conti the discarded, a novel 3 vols. 1835; Memorials of Mrs. Hemans 2 vols. 1836; Modern German music 3 vols. 1854; Thirty years musical recollections 2 vols. 1862; Prodigy, a tale of music 3 vols. 1866; librettos for Wallace’s Amber Witch, and Bennett’s May Queen. d. 13 Eaton place west, London 16 Feb. 1872. H. F. Chorley, autobiography, memoir and letters, compiled by H. G. Hewlett 2 vols. 1873, portrait; Musical cynics of London, a satire by George Linley 1862 a satirical poem on H. F. Chorley.
CHORLEY, John Rutter (brother of the preceding). b. Blackley Hurst about 1807; secretary to Grand Junction railway between Liverpool and Birmingham; formed a fine collection of Spanish plays which he gave to British Museum; principal reviewer of German, Italian and Spanish books for the Athenæum 1846–54; author of The Wife’s Litany, and other poems 1865. d. 29 June 1867. H. F. Chorley’s Autobiography ii, 254–92 (1873).
CHOWN, Rev. Joseph Parbery. b. Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire 9 Dec. 1821; ed. at Horton (now Rawdon) college; pastor of Sion baptist chapel, Bradford 1848–75; pastor of Bloomsbury chapel, London 1875–85; pres. of London baptist association 1879; pres. of Baptist union of Great Britain and Ireland 1883; author of many circular letters written for the Yorkshire Baptist Association and of sermons, which had a wide circulation; one of the most popular Baptist preachers. d. 24 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 8 July 1886. The Baptist 16 July 1886 pp. 42–4; The Freeman 16 July 1886 pp. 464–5; John Taylor’s Bibliotheca Northamtonensis.
CHOWNE, William. M.R.C.S. 1813; M.D. Edin. 1827, L.R.C.P. 1833, F.R.C.P. 1857; practised in Holland, Lincs. 1813–27, moved to London 1833; assistant phys. to Charing Cross hospital, lecturer on medicine, obstetrics and diseases of women and children; pres. of Westminster Medical Soc.; pres. of Harveian Soc. 1850–1; author of An oration delivered before the Medical Society of London, with an appendix on coroners’ inquests 1846. d. 17 Sep. 1870 aged 79. Medical Circular i, 261–3, 301 (1852), portrait.
CHRISTIAN, Richard. b. Cottesmore, Rutland, March 1779; head groom to Sir Wm. Heathcote 1799–1809; a farmer at Luffenham, Rutland 1809–17; whip to Lord Scarborough at Rufford 1820–35. d. 5 June 1862. Post and Paddock by the Druid pp. 336–67; Silk and Scarlet by the Druid pp. 1–69, portrait.
CHRISTIE, Alexander (eld. son of David Christie of Edinburgh). b. Edin. 1807; ed. at Edin. academy and univ.; apprenticed to a writer to the signet; studied art in Edin., London and Paris; an assistant in ornamental department of School of Art, Edin. 1843, director 1845; A.R.S.A. 1848, where he exhibited pictures for some years; painted a large picture ‘The apparition of the Cross to Constantine,’ as an altar-piece for the chapel at Murthley Castle; delivered lectures on art at Philosophical Instit. of Edin. d. 5 May 1860.
CHRISTIE, James Robert (2 son of Samuel Hunter Christie 1784–1865). b. Woolwich 9 Feb. 1814; mathematical master at Royal military academy, Woolwich 1837–47, first mathematical master 1847–65; F.R.S. 18 March 1847; F.R.A.S. 13 Jany. 1854; author of Introduction to practical astronomy 1853; Test questions in pure and mixed mathematics 1866. d. Arundel house, South Norwood park near London 28 Feb. 1879. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xl, 188 (1880).
CHRISTIE, John. Entered Bengal army 1822; captain 1 European light cavalry 1 Jany. 1846 to 21 Feb. 1861; aide-de-camp to the Queen 7 March 1856 to 21 Feb. 1861; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. San Remo, Italy 7 May 1869.
CHRISTIE, Jonathan Henry. Educ. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1815; barrister L.I. 21 May 1824; fought a duel with John Scott editor of the London Magazine at Chalk farm near London at 9 p.m. 16 Feb. 1821 when at the second fire Scott fell mortally wounded and died at Chalk farm tavern 4 March; tried at the Old Bailey for murder 13 April 1821 when acquitted. d. 9 Stanhope st. Hyde park gardens, London 15 April 1876 aged 83. J. G. Millingen’s History of duelling ii, 244–52 (1841); A. Steinmetz’s Romance of duelling ii, 253–9 (1868).
CHRISTIE, Samuel Hunter (youngest son of James Christie of 90 Pall Mall, London, auctioneer 1730–1803). b. 90 Pall Mall 22 March 1784; admitted sizar at Trin. coll. Cam. 7 Oct. 1800, scholar 1803, 2 wrangler and bracketed 1 Smith’s prizeman 1805; B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; founded Cambridge university boat club; captain of Grenadier company of Cambridge volunteers; mathematical assistant at Royal military academy, Woolwich 1806, professor of mathematics 1838–54; F.R.S. 12 Jany. 1826, sec. of Royal Soc. 1837–54, contributed to the Transactions many papers on magnetism and kindred subjects; author of An elementary course of mathematics 3 parts 1845–7. d. Ailsa villa, Twickenham 24 Jany. 1865. Proc. of Royal Soc. xv, 11–14 (1867).
CHRISTIE, Samuel Tolfrey. Ensign 80 foot 22 Jany. 1836, lieut. col. 5 March 1858 to Nov. 1865; C.B. 14 May 1859; L.G. 5 April 1876. d. Roehampton, Surrey 5 Oct. 1876.
CHRISTIE, William Dougal (eld. son of Dougal Christie, M.D. of the H.E.I. Co.’s Bombay medical service). b. Bombay 3 Jany. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1862; barrister I.T. 16 June 1840; M.P. for Weymouth 1842–7; sec. of legation at Berne 25 Feb. 1851; chargé d’affaires in Argentine Republic 10 Oct. 1854, minister plenipotentiary 15 Jany. 1856; envoy extraord. to Emperor of Brazil 2 Sep. 1859 to 20 Oct. 1863 when he retired; C.B. 24 July 1871; author of Notes on Brazilian questions 1865; Life of the First Earl of Shaftesbury 2 vols. 1871; Ballot and corruption and expenses at elections 1872. d. 32 Dorset sq. Marylebone, London 27 July 1874. Fraser’s Mag. xxxiv, 661–3 (1846); I.L.N. lxv, 140, 355 (1874).
CHRISTIE, William Harvey (son of Thomas Christie, M.D. of Cheltenham). b. Ceylon 2 Aug. 1808; ed. at Rugby and Woolwich; ensign 80 foot 8 April 1825, major 9 Nov. 1838 to 17 Jany. 1840; police magistrate at Hyde park barracks, Sydney to 1842; agent for church and school estates, Sydney 1842–52; postmaster general of N.S.W. 1852–1865. d. Pyrmont, Sydney 19 March 1873.
CHRISTISON, John. b. 18 Nov. 1788; sheriff of Ayrshire 13 March 1854 to death, d. 11 June 1862.
CHRISTISON, Sir Robert (son of Alexander Christison, professor of humanity in Univ. of Edin., who d. 25 June 1830). b. Edin. 18 July 1797; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1819, LLD. 1872; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1823, pres. 1839 and 1848; professor of medical jurisprudence in Univ. of Edin. 23 Feb. 1822 to 1832, professor of clinical medicine 1832–55, professor of materia medica 1832 to April 1877; medical witness in almost every important case in Scotland 1829–66; one of the Queen’s phys. in ord. in Scotland 1848–82; a crown representative in general medical council 1858–77; pres. of Royal Soc. of Edin. 1868–73; created baronet 20 Nov. 1871; pres. of British medical assoc. 1875; author of A treatise on poisons 1829, 4 ed. 1845; On granular degeneration of the kidneys 1839; A dispensatory or commentary on the pharmacopœias of Great Britain 1842, 2 ed. 1848. d. 40 Moray place, Edin. 27 Jany. 1882. Life of Sir R. Christison edited by his sons 2 vols. 1885–6, 2 portraits; S. Muspratt’s Chemistry vol. 1 (1853), portrait.
CHRISTMAS, Rev. Henry, afterwards Noel-Fearn (only son of Robert Noble Christmas of Taunton). b. London 1811; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; librarian and sec. of Sion college, London 1841–8; minister of Verulam chapel, Lambeth 1843–56; lecturer at St. Peter’s church, Cornhill 1852–66; C. of St. James’s, Thames st. 1866; professor of English history and archæology in Royal Society of Literature 1854–9; joint hon. sec. of Numismatic Society of London 1844–7, his collection of coins was sold at Sotheby’s for £1260, 1–5 Feb. 1864; edited Churchman 1840–3, Church of England Quarterly review 1840–3 and 1854–8, British Churchman 1845–8, Literary Gazette 1859–60; F.R.S. 14 April 1842; F.S.A.; author of The Voyage, a poem 1833; The cradle of the twin giants, science and history 2 vols. 1849; The shores and islands of the Mediterranean 3 vols. 1851 and 15 other books; took name of Noel-Fearn 1866. d. suddenly of apoplexy in a cab in the Haymarket, London 11 March 1868.