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CHATTERLEY, LOUISA (_dau. of Madame Simeon of St. James’s st.
Piccadilly, London, milliner_). _b._ St. James’s st. 16 Oct. 1797;
made her début on the stage at Bath, Nov. 1814 as Juliet; first
appeared in London at Lyceum theatre 9 July 1816 as Harriet in _Is
he jealous_; acted at Surrey theatre 1817, Olympic 1820, Covent
Garden 1821; the best representative of a Frenchwoman on the
English stage, (_m._ 11 Aug. 1814 Wm. Simmonds Chatterley, actor
1787–1822, she _m._ (2) 13 Feb. 1830 Mr. Place), _d._ 37 Brompton
sq. London 3 Nov. 1866. _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography v_, 271–82
(1826), _portrait_; _British Stage iv, 237_ (1820), _portrait_;
_The Era 18 Nov. 1866 p._ 11.

CHATTERTON, FREDERICK BALSIR (_eld. son of Edward A. Chatterton of
London, box bookkeeper at many theatres who d. 5 Dec. 1875 in 65
year_). _b._ Euston sq. London 17 Sep. 1834; amateur actor at
Cabinet and Soho theatres 1852; acting manager at Lyceum theatre
1857 and 1861–2; lessee of St. James’s theatre 1859–60; joint
lessee with Edmund Falconer of Drury Lane theatre 12 Sep. 1863,
sole lessee 22 Sep. 1866 to 4 Feb. 1879 when he closed the theatre
being £36,000 in debt; joint manager with B. Webster of Princess’s
and Adelphi theatres 1871; made his début as a reciter at St.
James’s hall, London 14 March 1883. _d._ 18 Feb. 1886. _E.
Stirling’s Old Drury Lane i_, 273–317 (1881); _Illust. sporting
news v_, 593 (1866), _portrait_; _Touchstone, March 1879 p. 3_,
_portrait_.

CHATTERTON, LADY HENRIETTA GEORGIANA MARCIA (_only child of Rev.
Lascelles Iremonger, prebendary of Winchester, who d. 6 Jany.
1830_). _b._ 24 Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 11 Nov. 1806;
author of _Aunt Dorothy’s Tales_, _2 vols. 1837 anon._; _Rambles
in the South of Ireland_ 1839, _2 ed._ 1839; _Home sketches and
foreign recollections_ 1841; _Allanston or the Infidel_ 1843;
_Compensation_, _2 vols._ 1856 _anon._; _The reigning beauty 3
vols._ 1858; _Memorials of Admiral Lord Gambier 2 vols._ 1861;
_Leonore a tale and other poems 2 vols._ 1864; _Won at last 3
vols._ 1874 and 20 other books; received into Church of Rome, Aug.
1875. (_m._ (1) 3 Aug. 1824 Sir W. A. Chatterton 1787–1855. _m._
(2) 1 June 1859 Edward Heneage Dering 2 son of Rev. John Dering,
R. of Pluckley, Kent, he was _b._ 15 March 1827). _d._ Malvern
Wells 6 Feb. 1876. _Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton with
some passages from her diary by E. H. Dering_ 1878; _J. Gillow’s
English Catholics i_, 478–80 (1885).

CHATTERTON, SIR JAMES CHARLES, 3 Baronet (_youngest son of Sir James
Chatterton, 1 baronet, who d. 9 April 1806_). _b._ 1792; cornet 12
light dragoons 23 Nov. 1809; lieut. col. 4 dragoon guards 9 Dec.
1831 to 3 Oct. 1848 when placed on h.p.; col. 5 lancers 23 Feb.
1858 to 22 Nov. 1868; general 31 March 1866; col. 4 dragoon guards
22 Nov. 1868 to death; M.P. for co. Cork 1831–5 and 1849–52;
sheriff of co. Cork 1851–2; a gentleman of the privy chamber;
succeeded his brother 7 Aug. 1855; K.S.F.; K.H. 1832; K.C.B. 10
Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ Albemarle st. Piccadilly,
London 5 Jany. 1874. _I.L.N. xvi_, 133 (1850), _portrait_;
_Graphic ix_, 52, 59 (1874), _portrait_.

CHATTERTON, JOHN BALSIR (_son of John Chatterton of Portsmouth,
professor of music_). _b._ Portsmouth 1802; pupil of Robert Bochsa
the harpist; professor of the harp at R.A. of Music, London 1827;
harpist to the Queen 1842 to death; published numerous
transcriptions from popular operas for the harp. (_m._ Eliza
Davenport only dau. of Thomas Davenport Latham of Coombe hill,
Croydon, she _d._ 9 Jany. 1877 in 71 year), _d._ 32 Manchester st.
Portman sq. London 9 April 1871. _Wm. Ball’s Musical Gem_ (1831)
50–1, _portrait_.

CHATTERTON, SIR WILLIAM ABRAHAM, 2 Baronet, _b._ 6 Aug. 1787;
succeeded 9 April 1806. _d._ Rolls park, Chigwell, Essex 7 Aug.
1855.

CHATTO, WILLIAM ANDREW (_only son of Wm. Chatto of Newcastle,
merchant, who d. 1804_). _b._ Newcastle 17 April 1799; wholesale
tea-dealer in Eastcheap, London 1830–4; edited _New Sporting
Magazine_ 1839–41; projected _Puck a journalette of fun_, a penny
daily comic illustrated paper 22 numbers 6 May 1844 to 29 June
1844; author of _Scenes and recollections of fly-fishing by
Stephen Oliver the younger_ 1834; _The angler’s souvenir by P.
Fisher_ 1836, _2 ed._ 1871; _A treatise on wood engraving_ 1839,
_3 ed._ 1877; _Facts and speculations on the origin and history of
playing cards_ 1848. _d._ The Charterhouse, London 28 Feb. 1864.

CHAVASSE, PYE HENRY, _b._ Cirencester 1810; L.S.A. 1833; M.R.C.S. 18
Jany. 1833, F.R.C.S. 12 Aug. 1852; practised at Birmingham
1834–74; pres. of Queen’s college medical chirurgical society
1856–8; author of _Advice to mothers on the management of their
offspring_ 1839, _14 ed._ 1885; _Advice to a mother on the
management of herself_ 1869, _4 ed._ 1879; _Counsel to a mother_
1869, _4 ed._ 1879; _Aphorisms on mental culture of a child_ 1872,
_2 ed._ 1877; his books were translated into nearly every European
language and several Asiatic. _d._ 214 Hagley road, Edgbaston,
Birmingham 21 Sep. 1879.

CHAYTOR, SIR WILLIAM RICHARD CARTER, 2 Baronet, _b._ 7 Feb. 1805;
M.P. for city of Durham 23 March 1831 to 29 Dec. 1834; succeeded
28 Jany. 1847. _d._ Scrafton lodge, Middleham, Yorkshire 9 Feb.
1871.

CHEAPE, DOUGLAS (_younger son of John Cheape of Rossie, Fifeshire
1757–1838_). _b._ 1797; member of Faculty of Advocates, Edin.
1819; professor of civil law in Univ. of Edin. 1827–42,
substituted English for Latin in class examinations; author of
_Res Judicata_ and other squibs published in the _Court of Session
Garland_ 1839, his other squibs were _The book of the chronicles
of the city, being a Scriptural account of the election of a
member for the city of Edinburgh in May 1834_, and probably _La
festa d’Overgroghi_ (Over Gogar near Edinburgh) a burlesque opera
in Italian and English. _d._ Trinity grove, Trinity near Edin. 1
Sep. 1861. _Blackwood’s Mag. cix_, 111–2 (1871).

CHEAPE, SIR JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1792; second
lieut. Bengal engineers 3 Nov. 1809, col. commandant 19 Feb. 1844
to death; general 6 Dec. 1866; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 5 June
1849, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; served in the 3 campaigns of first
Burmese war 1824–6; second in command in second Burmese war
1852–3. _d._ Old park, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 30 March 1875. _W.
F. B. Laurie’s Second Burmese war_ 1853.

CHEEKE, ALFRED, _b._ Evesham, Worcs. 1811; barrister M.T. 29 Jany.
1836; went to Sydney, Oct. 1837; comr. of Court of Claims, March
1841; crown prosecutor at quarter sessions, June 1841; chairman of
quarter sessions 1844–5 and 1851–7; comr. of Court of requests for
county of Cumberland, Jany. 1845; district court judge 1858 to
June 1865; puisne judge of supreme court, June 1865 to death. _d._
Darling point, Sydney 14 March 1876. _Heads of the people ii_,
151–2 (1848), _portrait_.

CHEETHAM, JOHN (_son of George Cheetham of Stayleybridge_). _b._
Stayleybridge 1802; a merchant and manufacturer; M.P. for South
Lancashire 14 July 1852 to 23 April 1859, and for Salford ll July
1865 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ 18 May 1886.

CHELMSFORD, FREDERICK THESIGER, 1 Baron (_youngest son of Charles
Thesiger, collector of customs in island of St. Vincent, who d. 18
Feb. 1831_). _b._ 1 Fowkes buildings, Tower st. London 15 July
1794; midshipman R.N. 1807; student of G.I. 5 Nov. 1818, of I.T. 2
March 1824, barrister I.T. 21 May 1824; went Home circuit, became
leader; K.C. 7 July 1834; bencher of IT. 18, Nov. 1834, reader
1842, treasurer 1843; solicitor general 17 April 1844 to July
1845; knighted at Buckingham palace 23 May 1844; attorney general
29 June 1845 to 3 July 1846 and Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852; lord
chancellor 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859 and 6 July 1866 to 29 Feb.
1868, when he resigned office; P.C. 26 Feb. 1858; M.P. for
Woodstock 20 March 1840 to April 1844, for Abingdon 11 May 1844 to
1 July 1852 and for Stamford 10 July 1852 to 1 March 1858; F.R.S.
19 June 1845; created baron Chelmsford of Chelmsford, Essex 1
March 1858. _d._ 7 Eaton sq. London 5 Oct. 1878. _Illust. news of
the world, vol._ 1 (1858), _portrait_; _London Society xi_, 87, 95
(1867), _portrait_.

CHENERY, THOMAS, _b._ Barbados 1826; ed. at Eton and Caius coll.
Cam., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1868; correspondent of _Times_ at
Constantinople 1854–6, wrote leading articles and reviews in
_Times_; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; Lord Almoner’s professor of
Arabic at Oxford, April 1868 to Nov. 1877; member of Ch. Ch. Ox.,
incorporated M.A. 1868; member of 2 class of Imperial order of
Medjidie, July 1869; secretary to Royal Asiatic Society; one of
the revisers of Old Testament 1870–83; editor of _Times_ Nov. 1877
to death, worked on it to 1 Feb. 1884; published _The six
assemblies of El Hariry translated_ 1867; edited the _Machberoth
Ithiel of Jehudah ben Shelomo Alkharzi_. _d._ 16 Serjeant’s Inn,
Fleet st. London 11 Feb. 1884. _Journal of Royal Asiatic Soc. xvi,
pp. xii-xv_ (1884); _Times 12 Feb. 1884 p. 6, cols. 5–6_; _I.L.N.
lxxxiv_, 180 (1884), _portrait_; _Graphic xxix_, 148 (1884),
_portrait_.

CHEPMELL, REV. HAVILLAND LE MESURIER. Educ. at Pembroke coll. Ox.,
Townsend scholar, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. and D.D. 1851;
chaplain to Royal military college, Sandhurst 1841–67; translated
_Lectures on Roman History by B. G. Niebuhr_ 1849; author of
_Course of history, Greek, Roman and English_, _10 ed._ 1874, _2nd
series 2 vols._ 1857. _d._ The hermitage, St. Martin’s, Guernsey
21 March 1887.

CHERMSIDE, HENRY LOWTHER (_2 son of the succeeding_). _b._ 1825;
second lieut. R.A. 19 June 1844, colonel 8 Sep. 1875 to 16 Nov.
1878 when he retired with hon. rank of major general; commanded
R.A. at Poona 1876–8; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ Regia house,
Teignmouth 2 Jany. 1886.

CHERMSIDE, SIR ROBERT ALEXANDER (_3 son of Dr. Chermside of
Portaferry, co. Down_). _b._ Portaferry 1787; Assist, surgeon to
7th Hussars 16 Aug. 1810; Surgeon to 10th Hussars 29 June 1815 to
30 Oct. 1823; graduated M.D. at Edin. 1817; L.R.C.P. London 16
April 1821, F.R.C.P. 27 April 1843; phys. to British embassy at
Paris; physician extraordinary to Duchess of Kent; K.C.H. 31 July
1835; Knight of St. John of Jerusalem; Knight of Red Eagle of
Prussia; Knight of Legion of Honour. _d._ Oxford 8 Sep. 1860.

CHERRY, FREDERICK CLIFFORD. Veterinary surgeon of 11 light dragoons
12 Oct. 1803, of Waggon Train 16 July 1807 to 25 Sep. 1819 when
placed on h.p.; Vet. surgeon 2 life guards 10 May 1833; principal
vet. surgeon in the army 17 Sep. 1839 to death. _d._ Clapham,
London 11 July 1854.

CHESHAM, CHARLES COMPTON CAVENDISH, 1 Baron (_4 son of 1 Earl of
Burlington 1754–1834_). _b._ Savile row, London 28 Aug. 1793; M.P.
for Newtown, Hants. 1821–6 for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1831–2, for
East Sussex 1832–41, for Youghal 1841–7, for Bucks 1847–57;
created Baron Chesham of Chesham, Bucks. 15 Jany. 1858. _d._ 19
Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1863.

CHESHAM, WILLIAM GEORGE CAVENDISH, 2 Baron, _b._ 20 Oct. 1815; ed.
at Eton; M.P. for Peterborough 30 July 1847 to 1 July 1852, for
Bucks. 23 Dec. 1857 to 10 Nov. 1863 when he succeeded. _d._
Latimer, near Chesham, Bucks. 26 June 1882.

CHESHAM, SARAH. Tried at Chelmsford assizes 1847 upon a charge of
poisoning the illegitimate child of Lydia Taylor but acquitted;
tried 1848 for poisoning two of her children but acquitted; tried
at Chelmsford assizes 6 March 1851 for poisoning with arsenic her
husband Richard Chesham, who _d._ May 1850, when she was found
guilty and sentenced to death; known as ‘Arsenic Sal’; executed at
Chelmsford 25 March 1851. _A.R._ (1850) 109, (1851) 396–400; _A.
H. Dymond’s The law on its trial_ (1865) 211–19.

CHESNEY, CHARLES CORNWALLIS (_son of Charles Cornwallis Chesney,
captain Bengal artillery who d. 1830_). _b._ Packolet, near
Kilkeel, co. Down 29 Sept. 1826; second lieut R.E. 18 June 1845,
lieut col. 1 March 1868 to death; commanded R.E. in home district
1873 to death; professor of military history at Sandhurst 1858–68;
the best military critic of his day; member of royal commission on
military education 1868–70; sent by government to report on
Franco-German war 1871; author of _A military view of recent
campaigns in Virginia and Maryland_ 1863, _2 ed._ 1864; _Waterloo
lectures, a study of the campaign of 1815_, 1868, _3 ed._ 1874;
_Essays in military biography_ 1874. _d._ 11 Grosvenor mansions,
Victoria st. London 19 March 1876. _Graphic xiii_, 342, 348
(1876), _portrait_.

CHESNEY, FRANCIS RAWDON (_2 son of Alexander Chesney 1755–1843,
coast-officer in the district of Mourne, co. Down_). _b._ Ballyvea
Mourne 16 March 1789; 2 lieut. R.A. 9 Nov. 1804, commanded R.A. at
Hong Kong 1843–7, col. 11 Nov. 1851 to 6 Jany. 1855, col.
commandant 27 June 1864 to death; general 1 Jany. 1868; explored
Syrian route to India 1830–1; commanded expedition for examining
route to India by the Euphrates 1835–6; explored the Tigris and
Karūm 1836–7; surveyed Euphrates route again 1857; F.R.G.S. 1838,
gold medallist 1838; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; author of _Expedition for
survey of Euphrates and Tigris 2 vols._ 1850; _Observations on
past and present state of fire arms_ 1852; _The Russo-Turkish
campaign of 1828 and 1829_, 1854; _Narrative of Euphrates
expedition_ 1868. _d._ Packolet 30 Jany. 1872. _The Life of F. R.
Chesney_, _by his wife and daughter, edited by S. Lane-Poole_
(1885), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. mag. xviii_, 574–80 (1841),
_portrait_; _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlii_, 159–61 (1872).

CHESSAR, JANE AGNES. _b._ Edinburgh 1835; had charge of a class in
Home and Colonial training college, London 1852–66; lecturer and
private tutor in London 1866–75; member for Marylebone of London
school board 27 Nov. 1873 to 1875; edited _Mrs. Somerville’s
Physical geography_ 1877; _W. Hughes’s Manual of geography_ 1880;
wrote much for the _Queen_ and other newspapers. _d._ Brussels 3
Sep. 1880. _Graphic ix_, 30 (1874), _portrait_.

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._ 43^a 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.

CHRISTOFF, GEORGE, stage name of George Christopher. One of the best
tight rope dancers in England; performed at the New Queen’s
theatre, London in _The last days of Pompeii_, drama in 5 acts by
John Oxenford 8 Jany. 1872, and several months afterwards. _d._
Lambeth infirmary, London 13 June 1881 aged about 55.

CHRISTOPHER-NISBET-HAMILTON, ROBERT ADAM (_elder son of Philip
Dundas, governor of Prince of Wales Island, who d. 1807_). _b._ 9
Feb. 1804; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; advocate 1826; M.P. for city of
Edin. 1831–2, for North Lincolnshire 1837–57; F.R.S. 18 April
1833; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 1 March
to 30 Dec. 1852; assumed surname of Christopher in lieu of Dundas
20 Jany. 1836, took additional surname of Nisbet-Hamilton 1854.
_d._ 23 Chesham place, London 9 June 1877.

CHRISTY, HENRY (_2 son of W. Miller Christy of Woodbines, Kingston
upon Thames, banker 1778–1858_). _b._ 26 July 1810; partner in
firm of Messrs. Christy’s of Bermondsey and Stockport,
manufacturers; succeeded his father as a director of London joint
stock bank 1858; travelled in Scandinavia 1852–3; explored with
Edward B. Tylor all parts of Mexico; examined the caves in valley
of the Vezere, south of France, finding thousands of specimens of
remains; F.G.S. 1858; selected by council of Royal society to be
elected a fellow 1 June 1865; author with E. Lartet of _Reliquiæ
Aquitanicæ, being contributions to the archæology and palæontology
of Perigord and the adjacent provinces of Southern France_
1865–70. _d._ La Palisse, Allier, France 4 May 1865. _Proc. of
Linnæan Soc._ (1865) 85–90.

NOTE.—By his will he bequeathed his magnificent collections
illustrating the history of early man, with the equally large
series of articles representing the habits of modern savages,
to the nation; the trustees of the British Museum secured the
suite of rooms at 118 Victoria st. Westminster (in which
Christy himself had lived) and here the collection was
exhibited until 1884 when it was moved to the British Museum.

CHUBB, JOHN (_son of Charles Chubb of London, locksmith, who d. 16
May 1845_). Locksmith in St. Paul’s churchyard, London, afterwards
in Queen Victoria st.; M.I.C.E. 1845, read a valuable paper on
locks and keys before that institution 1850 for which he was
awarded Telford silver medal; patented various improvements in
locks and safes. _d._ Radcliffe house, Brixton Rise, London 30
Oct. 1872 in 57 year. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. ix_,
310–43 (1850).

CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (_2 son of Matthew Church of Cork_). _b._ 1784;
ensign 13 foot 3 July 1800; major 1 Greek light infantry 9 Sep.
1809; lieut.-col. 2 Greek light infantry 19 Nov. 1812 to 1815 when
both regiments (which he had raised) were disbanded; commander in
chief in Sicily 1820; generalissimo of Greek army 1827–8 and
1832–43 when he joined the revolutionary party; C.B. 4 June 1815;
knighted at Carlton house 12 June 1822; G.C.H. 1837. _d._ Athens
20 March 1873.

CHURCHILL, FRANCIS GEORGE SPENCER, 2 Baron. _b._ Blenheim 6 Oct.
1802; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; attaché at Vienna 10 Aug.
1823, at Lisbon 12 Jany. 1828; succeeded his father 7 March 1845;
commanded Oxfordshire yeomanry 1857–74. _d._ 32 Albemarle st.
London 24 Nov. 1886.

CHURCHILL, ALFRED B. _b._ Constantinople; succeeded his father as
editor and proprietor of Turkish semi-official paper the _Jeride
Hawades_; much improved character of Turkish printing; attended
the Sultan on his visit to England, July 1867 as official
historiographer. _d._ Constantinople, Nov. or Dec. 1870 aged 45.

CHURCHILL, FLEETWOOD. _b._ Nottingham, Feb. 1808; studied in London,
Dublin and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1831; practised at Dublin 1832–75;
fellow of King and Queen’s college of Phys. 27 Oct. 1851, censor
1855–7, vice pres. 1856, professor of midwifery in school of
physic 1856–64, pres. 1867–8; pres. of Obstetrical Soc. of Dublin
1856 and 1864; author of _Diseases of females_ 1838; _Operative
Midwifery_ 1841; _Diseases of Children_ 1850. _d._ Ardtrea rectory
near Stewartstown 31 Jany. 1878. _Dublin Journal of medical
science lxv_, 285–8 (1878).

CHURCHILL, HENRY ADRIAN (_son of Wm. Nosworthy Churchill_). _b._
1828; attaché at Teheran 22 April 1852; attached as secretary and
interpreter to staff of General Williams in Asia 18 July 1854 to
28 Nov. 1855 when taken prisoner at capitulation of Kars; consul
general in Syria 1862, at Algiers 1863–7; political agent and
consul at Zanzibar 15 June 1867 to 12 Feb. 1872 when he retired on
a pension; consul in Sicily 1 Oct. 1879 to death; C.B. 19 June
1856. _d._ Palermo 12 July 1886.

CHURCHILL, JOHN SPRIGGS MORSS (_3 son of Rev. James Churchill,
Independent minister at Ongar, Essex_). _b._ Ongar 4 Aug. 1801;
medical bookseller at 16 Princes st. Soho, London 1830–54, at New
Burlington st. 1854 to 31 Dec. 1870 when he retired; published
_British and foreign medical review_ 1838, _Lancet_ 1842–7,
_Medical Times_ 1850 and nearly all the medical books; projected
and edited a series of medical manuals. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 3
Aug. 1875. _H. Curwen’s History of booksellers_ (1873) 339–45;
_Medical times and gazette ii_, 197–200 (1875).

CHURSTON, JOHN YARDE-BULLER, 1 Baron (_2 son of Sir Francis
Buller-Yarde 2 baronet 1767–1833_). _b._ Dilhorne hall, Staffs. 12
April 1799; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; succeeded 17 April 1833; M.P.
for South Devon 13 Jany. 1835 to 2 Aug. 1858 when created Baron
Churston of Churston Ferrers and Lupton, Devon; lieut.-col. of
South Devon militia 1845; special deputy warden of the stannaries
1852; changed his name from Buller-Yarde to Yarde-Buller by royal
license 13 Feb. 1860. _d._ Lupton near Brixham 4 Sep. 1871.
_I.L.N. xxxvii_, 191, 208 (1860), _portrait, lix_, 259, 530
(1871).

CHURTON, VENERABLE EDWARD (_2 son of Ven. Ralph Churton 1754–1831,
archdeacon of St. David’s_). _b._ Middleton Cheney,
Northamptonshire 26 Jany. 1800; ed. at Charterhouse 1810–18 and
Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; head master of Hackney church
of England school 1830–4; R. of Crayke, Yorkshire 1835 to death;
preb. of York cath. 1841 to death; archdeacon of Cleveland 21
Jany. 1846 to death; edited with Rev. W. Gresley _The Englishman’s
Library_, for which he wrote _The early English Church_ 1840;
author of _Lays of faith and loyalty_ 1847; _The book of Psalms in
English verse_ 1854; _Gongora, an historical and critical essay on
the times of Philip iii and iv of Spain with translations 2 vols._
1863. _d._ Crayke 4 July 1874. _Poetical remains of Edward
Churton_ 1876, _portrait_.

CHURTON, EDWARD. Bookseller and publisher as 26 Holles st. Cavendish
sq. London many years. _d._ Wanganui, New Zealand 24 July 1885
aged 73.

CHUTE, JAMES HENRY. _b._ Gosport 4 July 1810; played at Bristol
theatre as Mr. Chew; performed on the York and Lincoln circuits;
played at T.R. Dublin 7 years; joined the Bristol stage about
1842; lessee of the Old theatre, King st. Bristol, Sep. 1853 to
death, of the new theatre Bristol to death; made his last
appearance 6 April 1876. _d._ Bristol 23 July 1878. _Era 28 July
1878 p. 4, col. 4, 4 Aug. p. 10, col. 1._

CHUTE, SIR TREVOR (_3 son of Francis Chute of Chute hall, Tralee,
co. Kerry, who d. 12 Aug. 1849_). _b._ Spa, Tralee 31 July 1816;
ensign Ceylon rifle regiment 10 Aug. 1831; captain 70 foot 8 Nov.
1839, lieut. col. 14 Dec. 1849 to 12 May 1863 when placed on h.p.;
brigadier general Bengal 1858–9 and 1860–1; brigadier general
Australia 1863–5; major general New Zealand 1865–7; major general
Australia 1867–70; col. 22 foot 6 May 1873 to death; general 1
Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 3 April 1846,
K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Egmont, Bracknell, Berks. 12 March
1886. _Sir J. E. Alexander’s Bush fighting_ (1873) 267–305.

CHUTE, WILLIAM LYDE WIGGETT. _b._ 16 June 1800; sheriff of Norfolk
1832; M.P. for West Norfolk 29 July 1837 to 23 July 1847. _d._ The
Vyne near Basingstoke 6 July 1879.

CIANCHETTI, PIO (_2 son of Francesco Cianchetti of Rome_). _b._
London 11 Dec. 1799; performed a sonata of his own composition in
the opera concert room, London 1805; performed in Germany, Holland
and France; spoke the English, French, German and Italian
languages at 8 years old; composed instrumental pieces including a
grand concerto which he executed at a concert in London 1809;
acted as composer and conductor of Madame Catalani’s concerts in
England 1822; composed concertos, pianoforte music and songs;
edited an edition in score of symphonies and overtures by Mozart
and Beethoven. _d._ Cheltenham 21 July 1851.

CLAIRMONT, CLARA MARY JANE (_dau. of Mr. Clairmont, who d. about May
1798, by Mary Jane, who m. (2) Wm. Godwin the author_). _b._ 27
April 1798; ed. at Walham Green; went to France with her half
sister Mary Godwin, when she eloped with the poet Shelley 28 July
1814; introduced herself to Lord Byron early in 1816, became his
mistress, her daughter Allegra was born at Bath 12 Jany. 1817 and
_d._ in the convent of Bagna-Cavallo near Ravenna 19 April 1822; a
governess in Russia about 1823–9; lived in Italy and Paris. _d._
Florence 19 March 1879. _C. K. Paul’s Life of Wm. Godwin ii_, 108,
213, 217, 247–8, 280 (1876); _Moore’s Life of Lord Byron_ (1847)
389, 557, 567. _Dowden’s Life of P. B. Shelley i_, 439–522 (1886).

CLANCARTY, WILLIAM THOMAS LE POER TRENCH, 3 Earl of. _b._
Castletown, co. Kildare 21 Sep. 1803; lieut.-col. of Galway
militia 1830–65; succeeded 24 Nov. 1837. _d._ Salt hill near
Dublin 26 April 1872.