Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
CLEBURNE, Patrick. b. near Queenstown, Cork 17 March 1828; a private in British army 1847–50; went to the United States 1850; studied law at Helena, Arkansas; a private in Confederate army 1861; brigadier general, March 1862; commanded a division at battle of Stone River 2 Jany. 1863, and at Chickamauga 21 Sep. 1863; killed at battle of Franklin, Tennessee 30 Nov. 1864.
CLEGG, Samuel. b. Manchester 2 March 1781; apprenticed to Boulton and Watt; invented lime purifiers for purifying gas; engineer of Chartered gas company, London 1814; invented and patented a water meter 1816; an engineer at Liverpool where he lost all his money; reconstructed the mint at Lisbon; M.I.C.E. 1829. d. Fairfield house, Adelaide road, Haverstock hill, London 8 Jany. 1861. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 552–4 (1862).
CLEGG, Samuel (only son of the preceding). b. Westminster 2 April 1814; made a trigonometrical survey of part of the Algarves in Portugal 1836; resident engineer of Southampton and Dorchester railway 1844–5; M.I.C.E. 1848; professor of civil engineering and architecture at Putney college, Surrey 1849; lecturer on civil engineering to Royal Engineers at Chatham 1849 to death; author of A practical treatise on the manufacture and distribution of coal gas 1841, 4 ed. 1866. d. Putney 25 July 1856. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi, 121–4 (1857).
CLEGHORN, Thomas (son of Alexander Cleghorn, collector of customs at Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 3 March 1818; ed. at Edin. academy and univ.; called to Scottish bar 1839; advocate depute; registrar of friendly societies; sheriff of Argyleshire 19 Feb. 1855 to death; legal adviser of Free church of Scotland 1871; founded Wellington school for reformation of young criminals; author with Robert Balfour of History of the Speculative Society; wrote many articles in early numbers of North British Review; revised Journal of Lord Cockburn 2 vols. 1874. d. Edin. 13 June 1874. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. viii, 468–9 (1875); Journal of jurisprudence xviii, 385–6 (1874).
CLELAND, Robert Stewart (3 son of Samuel Cleland of Stormont castle, co. Down). b. 24 June 1840; ed. at Eton and Harrow; cornet 7 dragoon guards 7 July 1857; lieut. 9 lancers 6 Nov. 1860, lieut.-col. 27 June 1879 to death. d. at Murree, Bengal 7 Aug. 1880 from wounds received in the action of Killa Kazi 11 Dec. 1879. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 46–7, portrait.
CLEMENT, William Innell. Newsvendor in London; purchased a share of the Observer 1815, conducted it 1815 to death; published Cobbett’s Register; bought the Morning Chronicle 1822 for £42,000, sold it to John Easthope 1834 for £16,500; bought Bell’s Life in London 1825, conducted it 1825 to death, raised circulation from 3000 to 30,000. d. Hackney, London 24 Jany. 1852. bur. Kensal green 31 Jany. G.M. xxxvii, 306–7 (1852); A. Andrews’s British Journalism ii, 85, 93, 172–3, 206 (1859); J. Grant’s Newspaper Press iii, 28–33 (1872).
CLEMENT, William James (eld. son of Wm. Clement of Shrewsbury, surgeon, who d. 15 Jany. 1853). b. Shrewsbury 1804; a surgeon at Shrewsbury; M.R.C.S. 3 Dec. 1824, F.R.C.S. 26 Aug. 1844; obtained Fothergillian gold medal; mayor of Shrewsbury 1863, 64 and 65; M.P. for Shrewsbury 11 July 1865 to death; author of Observations in surgery and pathology 1832. d. The council house, Shrewsbury 29 Aug. 1870.
CLEMENTS, Frank, stage name of Robert Menti. b. Aberdeen 8 July 1844; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen; appeared on the stage for the first time at New theatre, Birmingham 1861; leading actor at T.R. Birmingham 1867–9 and 1870 to Dec. 1873; manager and leading actor at T.R. Nottingham 1869–70; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre, July 1874 as Lord Moray in Charles the First; played nearly every leading legitimate and Shakespearian character in the provinces 1875–7; played Philip de Comines in Louis xi at Lyceum theatre, March 1878; member of the companies of Miss Genevieve Ward and Madame Modjeska in the United States; killed by a railway train passing over him at Newark, New Jersey 8 May 1886.
CLEMENTS, John. Bookseller and stationer at 21 Little Pulteney st. Golden sq. London; one of the first to attempt publication of cheap serial works among which were The romancist and novelist library issued in weekly parts; obtained contract for first supply of envelopes ever used by the Stationery office; the first to introduce sale of note paper in 5 quire packets. d. Tunbridge Wells 10 Nov. 1878 in 73 year.
CLEMO, Ebenezer. b. London about 1831; went to Toronto, Canada 1858; patented a mode of using nitric acid in the conversion of straw and grasses into pulp, and for treating this pulp with a solution of hydrate of an alkali to reduce it to a fibrous pulp for making paper 1860; author of The life and adventures of Simon Seek, or Canada in all shapes, by Maple Knot, Montreal 1858; Canadian homes or the mystery solved, Montreal 1858. d. Morristown 1860.
CLEMONS, Clement. Entered Madras army 1819; major 20 Madras N.I. 21 Oct. 1842, lieut.-col. 23 March 1849 to 1855; lieut.-col. 12 N.I. 1855–6, 21 N.I. 1856–7, 43 N.I. 1857 to 3 Dec. 1857, 38 N.I. 3 Dec. 1857 to 7 Oct. 1860; L.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. 4 St. Stephen’s crescent, Bayswater, London 27 Jany. 1885 in 82 year.
CLERK, Sir George, 6 Baronet (elder son of James Clerk, who d. 1793). b. Edinburgh 19 Nov. 1787; succeeded his uncle Sir John Clerk 24 Feb. 1798; entered Trin. coll. Ox. 21 Jany. 1806, D.C.L. 1810; called to Scottish bar 1809; M.P. for Midlothian 1811–32 and 1835–7, for Stamford 1838–47 and for Dover 1847–52; a lord of the Admiralty 1819–27 and 1828–30; clerk of the ordnance, May 1827; under sec. of state for home department 5 Aug. to 22 Nov. 1830; sec. to the Treasury 19 Dec. 1834 to 21 April 1835 and Sep. 1841 to Feb. 1845; vice pres. of Board of Trade 5 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846; P.C. 5 Feb. 1845; master of the Mint 12 Feb. 1845 to 14 July 1846; F.R.S. 27 May 1819; chairman of Royal academy of music. d. Penicuik house near Edin. 23 Dec. 1867. G.M. v, 246–7 (1868).
CLERK, Sir James, 7 Baronet. b. London 17 July 1812; succeeded 23 Dec. 1867. d. St. Vincent’s hall, Clifton, Bristol 17 Nov. 1870.
CLERK, Robert. Writer Madras civil service 1816; secretary to Government in military department 1831–2, in civil department 1835–6 and 1837–44, in secret political and public departments 1836–7; resigned the service 22 Feb. 1844. d. Westholme house, Pilton, Shepton Mallet 3 April 1873 aged 75.
CLERKE, Venerable Charles Carr (3 son of Rev. Sir Wm. Henry Clerke, 8 Bart. 1751–1818). b. 30 Dec. 1798; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student, B.A. 1818, M.A, 1821, B.D. 1830, D.D. 1847; select preacher 1826; V. of St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford 1827; archdeacon of Oxford 9 March 1830 to death; R. of Milton, Berks. 1836–75; canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 24 March 1845 to death; sub-dean of Ch. Ch. 1853 to death; author of Duty of churchwardens 1864; Daily devotions for a churchman’s household 1868. d. Ch. Ch. Oxford 24 Dec. 1877.
CLERKE, Saint John Augustus (son of Jonathan Clerke). b. 1795; ensign 94 foot 13 Oct. 1808; major 77 foot 26 May 1825 to 30 Dec. 1828 when placed on h.p.; colonel 75 foot 22 March 1858 to death; general 8 March 1867; K.H. 1832. d. 66 Mountjoy sq. Dublin 17 Jany. 1870.
CLERKE, Sir William Henry, 9 Baronet (brother of Ven. Charles Carr Clerke 1798–1877). b. London 13 Sep. 1793; ensign 89 foot 10 Jany. 1811; lieut. 52 foot 19 Sep. 1811, captain 25 April 1822 to 2 May 1823 when placed on h.p.; succeeded 10 April 1818; sheriff of Flintshire 1848. d. Heath house, Aston on Clun, Salop 16 Feb. 1861.
CLERKE, Sir William Henry, 10 Baronet. b. Clonmel 17 Nov. 1822; a principal clerk in the Treasury, London; succeeded 16 Feb. 1861. d. 10 Eaton place south, London 8 Feb. 1882.
CLEUGH, Venerable John. Educ. at Trin. hall, Cam., B.D. 1824; civil chaplain at Malta 1824 to 1865; archdeacon of Malta 1865 to death. d. Valetta, Malta 25 March 1881 aged 88.
CLEVELAND, Henry Vane Powlett, 2 Duke of (eld. child of 1 Duke of Cleveland 1766–1842). b. London 16 Aug. 1788; M.P. for co. Durham 1812–18, for Tregony 1818–26, for Totnes 1826–30, for Saltash 1830–1, for South Shropshire 24 Dec. 1832 to 29 Jany. 1842 when he succeeded; cornet 7 hussars 6 July 1815; major 2 Ceylon regiment 3 July 1823; major 75 foot 11 Dec. 1823 to 6 July 1826 when placed on h.p.; colonel 1 Durham militia 1842–60; general 23 Oct. 1863; K.G. 11 April 1842. d. Raby castle, Durham 18 Jany. 1864. Doyle’s Official baronage i, 415 (1886), portrait.
CLEVELAND, William John Frederick Powlett, 3 Duke of (brother of the preceding). b. London 3 April 1792; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., M.A. 1812; M.P. for Winchelsea 1812–15, for co. Durham 1815–31, for St. Ives, Cornwall 1846–52, for Ludlow 1852–57; kept racehorses from 1843 but was very unlucky, his only good horse being Tim Whiffler which won the Goodwood and Doncaster cups; succeeded 18 Jany. 1864. d. Raby castle 6 Sep. 1864. W. Day’s Reminiscences of the turf, 2 ed. (1886) 328–42.
CLEVELAND, John Wheeler. Entered Madras army 1808; commandant of Trichinopoly 26 Nov. 1844 to 26 April 1850; col. 18 Madras N.I. 1 Oct. 1846 to 30 June 1853; commandant of Southern division of the army 17 Feb. 1852 to 10 May 1857; col. 38 N.I. 30 June 1853 to 1869; general 6 March 1868; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. Cleveland house, Bangalore 1 Nov. 1883 aged 92.
CLIAS, Peter Henry. An officer in Swiss artillery; introduced gymnastics into Swiss army 1814; professor of gymnastics in academy of Bern; came to London 1822, introduced his system of gymnastics into British army and navy; professor of gymnastics in Royal military academy, Woolwich 20 March 1823 to 4 Sep. 1825; author of Elementary course of gymnastic exercises 1824. d. Bern about Dec. 1854, left a considerable sum of money to city of Bern under condition that his skeleton should be exhibited in the Natural history museum as a palpable confirmation of beneficial effects of gymnastics.
CLIFDEN, Henry Agar-Ellis, 3 Viscount (eld. son of 1 Baron Dover 1797–1833). b. Spring gardens, London 25 Feb. 1825; succeeded his father 10 July 1833; succeeded his grandfather as 3 Viscount Clifden 13 July 1836; won the Derby and St. Leger with Surplice 1848 no horse having won both these races since 1800; won the Great Northamptonshire stakes 1852 with Poodle carrying the extraordinary feather weight of 4 st. 5 lb. d. Dover house, Whitehall, London 20 Feb. 1866. Illust. sporting news v, 136 (1866), portrait; G.M. i, 584–5 (1866).
CLIFFE, Charles Frederick. Edited Gloucestershire Chronicle; author of The book of South Wales, the Bristol Channel, Monmouthshire and the Wye 1847, 3 ed. 1854; The book of North Wales, scenery, antiquities, highways and byeways, lakes, streams and railways 1850, 2 ed. 1851. d. Clifton, Bristol 7 Oct. 1851 aged 42.
CLIFFORD, Hugh Charles Clifford, 8 Baron. b. New park, Somerset 29 May 1790; ed. at Stonyhurst; travelled in south of Europe where he made a large collection of all the catechetical works of instruction authorized by the several religious communities of the continent; succeeded 29 April 1831. d. Rome 28 Feb. 1858. buried Rome 2 March by the side of Cardinal Weld. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 509–11 (1885).
CLIFFORD, Charles Hugh Clifford, 9 Baron. b. 27 July 1819; succeeded 28 Feb. 1858. d. Ugbrook park, Chudleigh, Devon 5 Aug. 1880.
CLIFFORD, Sir Augustus William James, 1 Baronet. b. 26 May 1788; ed. at Harrow; midshipman R.N. May 1800, captain 23 July 1812, R.A. 23 March 1848, admiral 7 Nov. 1860; M.P. for Bandon Bridge 1818–20, for Dungarvan 1820–2, for Bandon Bridge again 1831–2; gentleman usher of the black rod 24 July 1832 to death; deputy lord great chamberlain of England several times between 1843 and 1866; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830; created baronet 4 Aug. 1838. d. House of Lords, Westminster 8 Feb. 1877, personalty sworn under £250,000, 28 April 1877. Graphic xv, 172, 179 (1877), portrait; I.L.N. lxx, 171, 181 (1877), portrait.
CLIFFORD, Sir Henry Hugh (3 son of 8 Baron Clifford 1790–1858). b. 12 Sep. 1826; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 7 Aug. 1846; A.Q.M.G. China 20 Aug. 1857 to 24 Aug. 1859; A.Q.M.G. Aldershot 18 Feb. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1864; A.Q.M.G. at head quarters 1 Jany. 1865 to 25 Nov. 1868; A.D.C. to commander in chief I April 1870 to 4 Dec. 1873; A.A.G. at head quarters 5 Dec. 1873 to 31 Oct. 1875; M.G. Cape of Good Hope 6 April 1879 to 14 Nov. 1880; M.G. eastern district 1 April 1882 to 15 Sep. 1882; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; C.B. 2 June 1869; K.C.M.G. 19 Dec. 1879; granted pension of £100 for distinguished service 7 Oct. 1874. d. Ugbrook 12 April 1883. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age i, 208–21 (1880); Graphic xix, 372 (1879), portrait.
CLIFFORD, Henry Morgan (only son of Morgan Morgan Clifford of Penystone, co. Hereford, who d. 1814). b. 1806; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; chairman of Herefordshire quarter sessions 1845; M.P. for Hereford 1847–65; a comr. of lunacy 1853; col. of Monmouthshire militia 5 March 1858. d. St. Ronan’s, Torquay 12 Feb. 1884 in 78 year.
CLIFFORD, Sir William John Cavendish, 2 Baronet. b. London 12 Oct. 1814; ed. at Eton; entered navy 24 Feb. 1829, captain 18 Aug. 1847, V.A. 1 Oct. 1871, retired 7 May 1872, retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877; C.B. 5 July 1855; succeeded 8 Feb. 1877. d. Bournemouth 11 April 1882.
CLIFFORD, William Kingdon (son of Wm. Clifford of Exeter, bookseller, who d. Feb. 1878). b. Exeter 4 May 1845; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., a minor scholar, Oct. 1863; 2 wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1867; B.A. 1867, M.A. 1870; fellow of his college, Oct. 1868; took part in English eclipse expedition 1870, wrecked in the Psyche off Catania; professor of applied mathematics at Univ. coll. London 1871; F.R.A.S. 12 Dec. 1873; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; a prominent member of Metaphysical Soc. 1874; author of Mathematical fragments 1881; Mathematical papers edited by R. Tucker 1882; Common sense of the exact sciences edited by K. Pearson 1885. (m. 7 April 1875 Sophia Lucy Jane dau. of John Lane of Barbadoes, she was granted civil list pension of £80, 13 Oct. 1880). d. Madeira 3 March 1879. bur. Highgate cemetery. Lectures and essays by the late W. K. Clifford edited by Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock vol. 1 (1879), portrait; Edinburgh Review cli, 474–511 (1880).
CLIFTON, Sir, Arthur Benjamin (youngest son of Sir Gervase Clifton, 6 baronet, who d. 1815). b. 1772; ed. at Rugby; cornet 3 dragoon guards 6 June 1794, major 17 Dec. 1803 to 22 Nov. 1810; lieut.-col. 1 dragoons 22 Nov. 1810 to 11 June 1829 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 lancers 25 Aug. 1839 to 30 Aug. 1842; col. 1 dragoons 30 Aug. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; K.C.H. 1832. d. 52 Old Steyne, Brighton 7 March 1869. bur. Clifton, Notts. 12 March, personalty sworn under £140,000, May 1869.
CLIFTON, Henry Robert, known as Harry Clifton. b. Hoddesdon, Herts.; apprenticed to John Clark, circus proprietor, who taught him riding and clowning; comic and motto vocalist at music halls in London and the provinces, many of his songs obtained great popularity; organised a concert company with which he visited every town in Great Britain and Ireland 1864–72. d. of hepatic disease at 26 St. Stephen’s road, Hammersmith, London 15 July 1872 aged 40. The Era 21 July 1872 p. 12, col. 3.
CLIFTON, John Talbot. b. London 5 March 1819; M.P. for North Lancs. 1844–7; col. 1 royal Lancashire militia 8 Oct. 1852–1870; sheriff of Lancs. 1853. d. on board his steam yacht Taurus at Algiers 16 April 1882.
CLIFTON, Sir Juckes Glanville Juckes, 8 Baronet. b. Aug. 1769; succeeded his brother 28 April 1837. d. Clifton hall near Nottingham 1 Oct. 1852.
CLIFTON, Rev. Robert Cox. b. Gloucester 4 Jany. 1810; ed. at Worcester and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of his coll. 1833; clerk in orders at Manchester collegiate church 1837, elected to a fellowship by the collegiate chapter 6 Dec. 1843; R. of Somerton, Oxon 1840 to death; canon of Manchester, Dec. 1843 to death; a trustee of Owen’s college, Manchester; author of several sermons and pamphlets. d. Somerton rectory 30 July 1861.
CLIFTON, Sir Robert Juckes, 9 Baronet. b. 24 Dec. 1826; ed. at Eton; lost heavily on the turf during his minority; succeeded 1 Oct. 1852; M.P. for Nottingham 26 Dec. 1861 to May 1866 (when unseated on petition) and 18 Nov. 1868 to death. d. Clifton hall 30 May 1869.
CLINT, Alfred (youngest son of the succeeding). b. Alfred place, Bedford sq. London 22 March 1807; painted portraits and landscapes; member of Society of British artists 1843, secretary 1853–9, pres. 1869–81; best known as a marine painter; exhibited 24 pictures at R.A. 35 at B.I. and 343 at Suffolk st. gallery 1828–79; drew and etched illustrations to Bennett’s Pedestrian’s guide through North Wales 1838; author of Landscape from nature 1855. d. 54 Lancaster road, Notting hill, London 22 March 1883, I.L.N. lxxxii, 332 (1883), portrait.
CLINT, George (son of Michael Clint of Lombard st. London, hairdresser). b. Brownlow st. Drury Lane, London 12 April 1770; a house painter, painted the stones of the arches in nave of Westminster abbey; a miniature painter in Leadenhall st.; made copies in colours from prints after Morland and Teniers; painted a series of dramatic scenes; exhibited 99 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 15 at Suffolk st. gallery; A.R.A. 1821–36. d. 10 Pembroke sq. London 10 May 1854. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 66–8 (1862).
CLINTON, Charles Rodolph Trefusis, 18 Baron. b. South Brent, South Devon 9 Nov. 1791; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; fellow of All Souls coll.; M.P. for Callington 4 March 1813 to 10 June 1818; a comr. of excise 29 Sep. 1823; succeeded 7 Oct. 1832; lieut.-col. commandant of North Devon yeomanry cavalry 1842. d. Heanton Satchville house, North Devon 10 April 1866.
CLINTON, Rev. Charles John Fynes (3 son of Rev. Charles Fynes 1748–1827, preb. of Westminster, who took name of Clinton 1821). b. 16 April 1799; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; V. of Orston, Notts 1827–55; R. of Cromwell, Notts 1828 to death; author of An address to all classes on the first visitation of cholera 1832; Plain doctrinal and practical sermons 1842; edited H. F. Clinton’s Epitome of chronology of Rome and Constantinople 1853; Literary remains of H. F. Clinton 1854. d. of pleurisy at 3 Montague place, St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London 10 Jany. 1872.
CLINTON, Henry Fynes (brother of the preceding). b. Gamston, Notts. 14 Jany. 1781; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., student Dec. 1802 to June 1809, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1805, one of the few who passed an examination for the M.A. degree; M.P. for Aldborough 3 Nov. 1806 to June 1826; a candidate for librarianship of British Museum, Dec. 1827; author of Fasti Hellenici 4 vols. 1824–34; Fasti Romani 2 vols. 1845–50. d. Welwyn, Herts. 24 Oct. 1852. Literary remains of H. F. Clinton edited by Rev. C. J. F. Clinton 1854; C. Brown’s Lives of Nottinghamshire worthies (1882) 338–41; G.M. xxxix, 315–6 (1853).
CLISSOLD, Rev. Augustus (son of Augustus Clissold of Stonehouse near Stroud, Gloucs.) b. 1797; matric. from Exeter coll. Ox. 6 Dec. 1814, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; C. of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London; C. of St. Mary, Stoke Newington; pres. of Swedenborg Association 1845; purchased in 1854 for use of the Swedenborg Society a 70 years lease of 36 Bloomsbury st. London; author of Principles of Apocalyptical interpretation 3 vols. 1845; Spiritual exposition of the Apocalypse 4 vols. 1851; Transition or the passing of ages 1868; Prophetic spirit in relation to wisdom and madness 1870; The creeds of Athanasius, Sabellius and Swedenborg examined 1873, 2 ed. 1873 and 17 other books. d. 4 Broadwater Down, Tunbridge Wells 30 Oct. 1882.
CLISSOLD, Rev. Henry. Educ. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; R. of Chelmondiston, Suffolk 1830–58; author of Last hours of eminent Christians 1848; Lamps of the church, lives of eminent Christians 1862. d. 19 Talbot sq. Sussex gardens, London 10 Jany. 1867.
CLISSOLD, Rev. Stephen. b. about 1790; ed. at Clare coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; R. of Wrentham, Suffolk 1830–53; hon. canon of Norwich cathedral 1848 to death; author of Letters of Cincinnatus 1815; Considerations on the trade, manufacture and commerce of the British Empire 1820. d. Wrentham 12 May 1863.
CLITHEROW, John (eld. son of Christopher Clitherow of Bird’s Place, Essendon, Herts). b. 13 Dec. 1782; ensign 3 foot guards 19 Dec. 1799, lieut.-col. 15 Sep. 1825 to 22 July 1830; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; administered government of Canada after decease of Lord Sydenham 1841; col. 67 foot 15 Jany. 1844 to death. d. Boston house, Middlesex 14 Oct. 1852.
CLIVE, Caroline (2 dau. of Edmund Meysey Wigley of Shakenhurst, Worcs.) b. Brompton Grove, London 24 June 1801; author of ix Poems by V. 1840, 2 ed. 1841; The valley of the Rea, a poem by V. 1851; Paul Ferroll, a tale by the author of, ix Poems by V. 1855; Why Paul Ferroll killed his wife 1860; John Greswold 2 vols. 1864. (m. 10 Nov. 1840 Rev. Archer Clive, preb. of Hereford, he was b. 16 March 1800 and d. 17 Sep. 1878). d. by an accident from fire at Whitfield near Hereford 13 July 1873. Contemporary Review xxiii, 197–217 (1874).
CLIVE, George (3 son of Edward Bolton Clive of Whitfield, Herefordshire, who d. 22 July 1845 in 81 year). b. Verdun, France, Oct. 1806; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 29 June 1830; assistant poor law comr. 1836–9; police magistrate for Kensington and Wandsworth 1840–7; judge of county courts circuit 47 Southwark, March 1847 to 1858; recorder of Wokingham 1849–58; M.P. for city of Hereford 14 Feb. 1857 to 9 March 1869 (when unseated on petition) and 3 Feb. 1874 to March 1880; under sec. of state for home department, June 1859 to Nov. 1862; chairman of Herefordshire quarter sessions, Jany. 1871 to death. d. Perrystone near Ross 8 June 1880. O’Malley and Hardcastle’s Reports of election petitions i, 194–7 (1870).
CLIVE, Henry Bayley (4 son of Wm. Clive of Leigh hall, Salop 1745–1825). b. Styche, Market Drayton 1800; M.P. for Ludlow 1847–52. d. Styche 26 Feb. 1870.
CLIVE, Robert Henry (2 son of Earl of Powis 1754–1839). b. 15 Jany. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1809, LLD. 1835; M.P. for Ludlow 1818 to 1832, for South Shropshire 1832 to death; under sec. of state for home department 21 April 1818 to 17 Jany. 1822; pres. of Cambrian archæological assoc. 1852; author of Documents connected with the history of Ludlow and the Lords Marchers 1841 preface signed R. H. C. d. Shrewsbury 20 Jany. 1854.
CLIVE, Robert Windsor (son of the preceding). b. Grosvenor st. London 24 May 1824; M.P. for Ludlow 1852–1854, for South Salop 1854 to death. d. 53 Lower Grosvenor st. London 4 Aug. 1859.
CLIVE, Venerable William (brother of Henry Bayley Clive 1800–1870). b. 14 March 1795; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; V. of Welshpool 1819–65; archdeacon of Montgomery 29 Feb. 1844–1861; preb. of St. Asaph 25 July 1849; hon. canon of St. Asaph 1854 to death; R. of Blymhill, Staffs. 1865. d. Blymhill rectory 24 May 1883.
CLOËTÉ, Sir Abraham Josias (2 son of Peter Laurence Cloëté, member of council at Cape of Good Hope). b. Cape of Good Hope 7 Aug. 1794; cornet 15 hussars 29 Jany. 1809; deputy quartermaster general at Cape of Good Hope 1840–54; commanded forces in West Indies 1855–61; colonel 19 foot 10 March 1861 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 23 Sep. 1847, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; knighted at St. James’s palace 9 June 1854. d. 88 Gloucester terrace, London 26 Oct. 1886.
CLONCURRY, Valentine Browne Lawless, 2 Baron (2 son of 1 Baron Cloncurry 1735–99). b. Merrion sq. Dublin 19 Aug. 1773; ed. at Portarlington, Chester and Trin. coll. Dublin; member of Society of United Irishmen; member of executive directory of United Irish Society 1797; arrested 31 May 1798, again 14 April 1799, confined in the Tower of London 8 May 1799 to March 1801; succeeded as 2 Baron 28 Aug. 1799; P.C. for Ireland 1831; created a Baron of the United Kingdom 14 Sep. 1831. d. Maretimo, Blackrock near Dublin 28 Oct. 1853. W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Life of Lord Cloncurry 1855; G.M. xli, 82–7 (1854); Personal recollections of Lord Cloncurry (1849).
CLONCURRY, Edward Lawless, 3 Baron. b. Lyons house, co. Kildare 13 Sep. 1816; ed. at Eton and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1861; succeeded 23 Oct. 1853; killed by falling from a window of Lyons house whilst of unsound mind and unaccountable for his acts 3 April 1869. Morning Post 6 April 1869 p. 5.
CLONMELL, John Henry Scott, 3 Earl of. b. Hertford st. London 4 Jany. 1817; succeeded 18 Jany. 1838. d. Bishop’s court, Naas, co. Kildare 7 Feb. 1866.
CLOSE, Very Rev. Francis (youngest son of Rev. Henry Jackson Close, R. of Bentworth, Hants. who d. April 1806). b. near Frome 11 July 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Cam. Scholar 1817, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1857; C. of Church Lawford, Warws. 1820–22; C. of Willesden and Kingsbury 1822–24; P.C. of Cheltenham 1826–56; Dean of Carlisle 24 Nov. 1856 to Aug. 1881 when he resigned; P.C. of St. Mary, Carlisle 1865–68; a most popular evangelical preacher; author of upwards of 70 books. d. Morrab house, Penzance 18 Dec. 1882. buried Carlisle cemetery 23 Dec. The Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1861, 32–33, portrait; Illust. news of the world viii, (1861), portrait; Congregationalist iv, 562–72 (1875); A golden decade of a favoured town by Contem Ignotus (1884) 11–69; E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 429–30; I.L.N. lxxxii, 45 (1883), portrait.
CLOSE, Thomas (son of John Close of Manchester, merchant). b. Manchester 12 Feb. 1796; a founder and original member of Reform club, London 1836; auditor of the London and South Western railway many years; F.S.A. 10 May 1855; author of St. Mary’s church, Nottingham, its probable architect and benefactors 1866, drew up elaborate pedigrees of the Tattershall and Wake families and many illuminated pedigrees of royal, noble and illustrious houses. d. Nottingham 25 Jany. 1881. Manchester school register iii, 66–8 (1874).
CLOUGH, Arthur Hugh (2 son of James Butler Clough of Liverpool, cotton merchant 1784–1844). b. Liverpool 1 Jany. 1819; ed. at Rugby and Balliol coll. Ox., scholar Nov. 1836, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; fellow of Oriel coll. 1842 to Oct. 1848, tutor 1843–8; principal of University hall, Gordon sq. London, Oct. 1849 to 1851; professor of English language and literature at Univ. coll. London, Nov. or Dec. 1850; sec. to commission on military education 1856; author of The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, a long vacation pastoral 1848; Plutarch’s lives, the translation called Dryden’s Corrected from the Greek and revised 1859; author with Thomas Burbidge of Ambarvalia, poems 1849. d. Florence 13 Nov. 1861. Poems and prose remains of A. H. Clough edited by his wife 2 vols. 1869; Poems by A. H. Clough with a memoir [by F. T. Palgrave], 2 ed. 1863; A. H. Clough a monograph by S. Waddington 1883; J. C. Shairp’s Balliol scholars, a remembrance 1873; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. iv, 589–607 (1883).
CLOUGH, Very Rev. Charles Butler (4 son of Rev. Roger Clough, canon of St. Asaph). b. 1793; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1825; V. of Mold, Flintshire 1824–54; archdeacon of St. Asaph 20 Feb. 1844–1854, hon. canon of St. Asaph 25 July 1849–1854, dean and chancellor of St. Asaph 1854 to death. d. the Deanery, St. Asaph 4 Sep. 1859.
CLOWES, George (son of Wm. Clowes of London, printer 1779–1847). b. 1814; ed. at Tooting and London Univ. college; partner with his father 1846; printed the official publications of the Great Exhibition 1851; auditor to the Guild of Literature many years; printed and published The Law Reports 1865 to death. d. Oak hill, Surbiton 3 Nov. 1886. London Figaro 20 Nov. 1886 p. 6, col. 2, portrait.
CLOWES, Thomas Ball (son of Mr. Clowes of Canterbury, surgeon). b. Wingham, Kent 30 June 1787; entered navy 17 June 1801; captain 16 May 1823, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 24 Sep. 1863. d. Upton, Slough 31 March 1864.
CLOWES, Rev. William (son of Wm. Clowes of Burslem, Staffs., potter). b. Burslem 12 March 1780; a working potter; attended the first camp meeting ever held in England, which was at Mow Hill near Harrisehead 31 May 1807; a local Wesleyan preacher, Oct. 1808; one of founders of Primitive Methodist connection 14 March 1810; preached in most of the northern counties of England, also in London and Cornwall. d. Hull 2 March 1851. Davison’s Life of W. Clowes (1854), portrait; Petty’s Primitive Methodist connection (1864), portrait.
CLOWES, William (brother of George Clowes 1814–86). b. 15 May 1807; entered his father’s business 1823, partner with him 1846; trustee of Printers’ pension corporation 1844, treasurer 1853. d. Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 19 May 1883.
CLULOW, Rev. William Benton. b. Leek, Staffs.; ed. at Hoxton academy; pastor of Congregational chapel at Shaldon, Devon 1823–35; classical tutor of Airedale college, Bradford 1835–43; author of Aphorisms and reflections, a miscellany of thought and opinion 1843; Sunshine and Shadows, or Sketches of thought, philosophic and religious 1863; Essays of a recluse, or traces of thought, literature and fancy 1865. d. Leek 16 April 1882.
CLUTTERBUCK, Henry (5 child of Thomas Clutterbuck of Marazion, Cornwall, attorney, who d. 6 Nov. 1781). b. Marazion 28 Jany. 1767; M.R.C.S. 7 Aug. 1790; practised at Walbrook, city of London 1790–1802; projected The Medical and Chirurgical Review 1795, edited it 1795–1807; M.D. Glasgow 16 April 1804; licentiate of College of Physicians 1 Oct. 1804; physician in Bridge st. Blackfriars 1808 to death; physician to general dispensary, Aldersgate st. 1809; lectured on materia medica and the practice of physic; author of Remarks respecting venereal disease 1799; An enquiry into the seat and nature of fever 1807, 2 ed. 1825; An essay on Pyrexia, or symptomatic fever 1837; A series of essays on inflamation 1846. d. 1 Crescent, New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 24 April 1856. Lives of British physicians (1857) 403–16; T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery ii, (1840), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery ii, 88–9 (1846), portrait; Medical Circular ii, 495–7 (1853), portrait.