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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_.
CLUTTERBUCK, REV. JAMES CHARLES (_2 son of Robert Clutterbuck of
Watford, Herts. 1772–1831_). _b._ Watford 11 July 1801; ed. at Ex.
coll. Ox., fellow 26 Dec. 1822 to 19 Jany. 1831; B.A. 1826, M.A.
1827; C. of Watford; V. of Long Wittenham, Berkshire 14 Jany. 1830
to death; rural dean of Abingdon 1869 to death; great authority on
all questions relating to water; member of Board of Thames
Conservancy. _d._ Long Wittenham 8 May 1885.
CLYDE, COLIN CAMPBELL, 1 Baron (_eld. child of John McLiver of
Glasgow, cabinet maker, who d. 22 Dec. 1859, by Agnes Campbell_).
_b._ Glasgow 20 Oct. 1792; ed. at Glasgow high sch. and Gosport;
gazetted ensign 9 foot under name of Campbell 26 May 1808;
lieut.-col. 98 foot 19 June 1835 to 1 April 1853; aide-de-camp to
the Queen 23 Dec. 1842 to 20 June 1854; commanded third division
of army under Lord Gough in Punjaub campaigns of 1848–49;
commanded the Peshawur district 1851–52; commanded Highland
brigade in the Crimea 1854; commandant at Balaklava 1854; colonel
67 foot 24 Oct. 1854 to 15 Jany. 1858; commanded first division of
British army in the Crimea, Dec. 1854 to 3 Nov. 1855; inspector
general of infantry, Sep. 1856; commander in chief in India 11
July 1857; stormed Lucknow, Nov. 1857, captured it 19 March 1858,
left India 4 June 1860; colonel 93 foot 15 Jany. 1858 to 4 June
1860; general 14 May 1858; colonel Coldstream guards 22 June 1860
to death; field marshal 9 Nov. 1862; admitted to freedom of city
of Glasgow 1856, of London 20 Dec. 1860; granted pension of £2,000
by the H.E.I.Co. 1858; created Baron Clyde of Clydesdale 16 Aug.
1858; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 9 June 1849, G.C.B. 5 July 1855;
K.S.I. June 1858, K.C.S.I. 25 June 1861. _d._ the Government
house, Chatham 14 Aug. 1863. _bur._ Westminster abbey 22 Aug.,
statue of him by Marochetti erected in Carlton gardens, Pall Mall
1867, and a statue by Foley at Glasgow 1868. _Shadwell’s Life of
Lord Clyde 2 vols._ 1881, _portrait_; _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the
Victorian age ii_, 372–446 (1880); _A personal narrative of the
siege of Lucknow by L. E. R. Rees_, _3 ed._ 1858; _Illust. news of
the world i_, (1858), _portrait_.
COATS, THOMAS (_4 son of James Coats of Paisley, thread
manufacturer_). _b._ Paisley 18 Oct. 1809; thread manufacturer
with his brother Peter, at the Ferguslie thread works, Paisley,
one of the largest in the world; pres. of Paisley Philosophical
Institution 1862–4, to which he gave an observatory on Oakshaw
hill 1882; presented to town of Paisley a public park called the
Fountain’s Gardens 1868; chairman of Paisley school board 1873 to
death; made valuable collection of Scottish coins. _d._ 15 Oct.
1883, statue of him erected at Paisley.
COBBE, GEORGE (_2 son of Charles Cobbe of Newbridge house, co.
Dublin 1756–98_). _b._ 1782; second lieut. R.A. 9 Oct. 1799, col.
commandant 29 Aug. 1857 to death; general 15 Dec. 1864. _d._ 9
Sydney place, Onslow sq. Brompton London 8 Feb. 1865.
COBBE, HENRY CLERMONT (_eld. son of Thomas Alexander Cobbe
1788–1836, col. H.E.I.C.S._) Ensign 86 foot 15 Feb. 1831;
lieut.-col. 2 West India regiment 26 May 1844 to 14 April 1854;
lieut.-col. 4 foot 14 April 1854 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._
in the camp before Sebastopol 6 Aug. 1855.
COBBETT, JOHN MORGAN (_2 son of Wm. Cobbett, political writer
1762–1835_). _b._ 1800; barrister L.I. 26 Nov. 1830; M.P. for
Oldham 9 July 1852 to 6 July 1865 and 5 June 1872 to death; author
of _Letters from France, containing observations on that country
during a journey from Calais to the South as far as Limoges_ 1825.
_d._ 20 Brompton crescent, South Kensington, London 13 Feb. 1877.
COBBETT, RICHARD BAVERSTOCK BROWN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
1804; attorney at Manchester 1838 to death; defended some of the
Chartists; sec. to the council of Manchester Political Union which
got up the great demonstration on Kersal Moor to demand the six
points of the Charter 24 Sep. 1838; author of some legal
pamphlets. _d._ Wilmslow, Manchester 3 June 1875.
COBBETT, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). Brought actions
against several of the judges in connection with an attempt on his
part to obtain release of the Tichborne claimant by means of a
writ of habeas corpus. _d._ the watchman’s room, central hall of
Houses of Parliament, Westminster 12 Jany. 1878.
COBBIN, REV. INGRAM. _b._ London, Dec. 1777; ed. at Hoxton academy
1798–1802; Independent minister at South Molton 1802; assist. sec.
to British and Foreign school society; first sec. of Home
Missionary society 1819; Owing to weak health he did not hold any
pastorate for more than a short period; author of _Elements of
English grammar_ 1828, _thirty three editions_; _Elements of
Arithmetic for children_ 1828, _fifteen editions_; _Evangelical
Synopsis_ 1833; _The Condensed Commentary_ 1837; _The Portable
Commentary_ 1843; _Domestic Bible_ 1844; _Bible Remembrancer_
1848; _Scripture light on Popish Darkness_ 1851; and about 30
other works. _d._ of phthisis at Denmark cottage, Cold Arbour
lane, Kennington, London 10 March 1851. _Congregational year book
1851 p. 212._
COBBOLD, JOHN CHEVALIER (_eld. child of John Cobbold of Ipswich,
brewer 1774–1860_). _b._ Ipswich 24 Aug. 1797; banker and merchant
at Ipswich and Harwich; chairman of Eastern union railway co. and
of Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds railway co.; M.P. for Ipswich 30
July 1847 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ Holywells, Ipswich 6 Oct. 1882.
_Public men of Ipswich_ (1875) 57–63; _Graphic xxvi_, 412 (1882),
_portrait_.
COBBOLD, JOHN PATTESON (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Ipswich
12 July 1831; a banker and brewer at Ipswich; M.P. for Ipswich 6
Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ the Cliff, Ipswich 10 Dec. 1875.
_Licensed victualler’s year book_ (1876), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxvii_, 614, 629 (1875), _portrait_; _Public men of Ipswich_
(1875) 274.
COBBOLD, REV. RICHARD (_20 child of John Cobbold of Ipswich,
brewer_). _b._ Ipswich 1797; ed. at Bury St. Edmunds and Caius
coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Wortham, Suffolk
1826 to death; rural dean of Hartismere, Suffolk 1844–69; author
of _History of Margaret Catchpole 2 vols._ 1845 of which 100,000
copies were sold; _Mary Ann Wellington 3 vols._ 1846; _The young
man’s home_ 1848 and other books. _d._ Wortham rectory 5 Jany.
1877. _Public men of Ipswich_ (1875) 170.
COBBOLD, THOMAS CLEMENT (_3 son of John Chevalier Cobbold
1797–1882_). _b._ Ipswich 22 July 1833; ed. at Charterhouse;
served in diplomatic service abroad 5 Sep. 1855 to 22 Dec. 1875;
M.P. for Ipswich 1 Jany. 1876 to death; C.B. 2 Sep. 1879. _d._
Ipswich 21 Nov. 1883. _Graphic xiii_, 75, 84 (1876), _portrait_.
COBBOLD, THOMAS SPENCER (_youngest son of Rev. Richard Cobbold
1797–1877_). _b._ Ipswich 26 May 1828; ed. at the Charterhouse and
Edin. univ., M.D. and gold medallist 1851, curator of the
anatomical museum 1851–7; lecturer on botany at St. Mary’s
hospital, London 1857–61, at Middlesex hospital 1861 where he
lectured on comparative anatomy 13 years; practised in London
1865; Swiney lecturer on geology at British Museum, May 1868 to
May 1873; professor of botany at Royal Veterinary college 1873 of
helminthology 1874; F.R.S. 2 June 1864; author of _Entozoa, an
introduction to the study of Helminthology_ 1864; _Tapeworms_
1866, _4 ed._ 1883; _Parasites, a treatise on the Entozoa of man
and animals_ 1879. _d._ 74 Portsdown road, Maida hill, London 20
March 1886. _Barker’s Photographs of eminent medical men ii_,
77–81 (1868), _portrait_; _Lancet 27 March 1886 p._ 616.
COBDEN, RICHARD (_2 son of Wm. Cobden of Dunford, Heyshott near
Midhurst, Sussex, farmer, who d. 15 June 1833_). _b._ Dunford 3
June 1804; calico printer at Manchester 1829–39; M.P. for
Stockport 1841–7, for West riding of Yorkshire 1847–57, for
Rochdale 1859 to death; member of Anti-Corn law league Oct. 1838
to 1846, repeal of the corn law was chiefly due to him, sum of
nearly £80,000 was raised for him by subscription 1846; negotiated
commercial treaty with France signed 23 Jany. 1860; presented with
sum of £40,000 by about 100 friends 1860; admitted to freedom of
city of London 6 June 1861; author of the following pamphlets
_England, Ireland and America by a Manchester manufacturer_ 1835;
_Russia by a Manchester manufacturer_ 1836; _1792 and 1853 in
three letters_ 1853; _How wars are got up in India_ 1853; _What
next? and next?_ 1856; _The three, panics of 1848, 1853 and 1862_,
1862. _d._ 23 Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 2 April 1865; _bur._
West Lavington churchyard near Midhurst 7 April. _J. Morley’s Life
of R. Cobden 2 vols._ 1881, _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National
portrait gallery iii_, 51–4 (1847), _portrait_; _H. R. F. Bourne’s
English merchants ii_, 365–84 (1866); _J. H. Jennings’s Anecdotal
history of the British parliament_ (1880) 332–8; _Fagan’s Reform
club_ (1887) 41, _portrait_.
COCHET, JOHN. _b._ Rochester 3 Aug. 1760; entered navy 22 Dec. 1775,
captain 9 Dec. 1796, placed on h.p. 30 May 1799; principal agent
for transports in the Mediterranean 2 May 1805 to June 1810;
admiral 23 Nov. 1841. _d._ Bideford 10 June 1851.
COCHRANE, CHARLES (_natural son of hon. Basil Cochrane, lieut. col.
36 foot who d. 14 May 1816_). Traversed the United Kingdom dressed
in Hungarian costume and sang songs while playing the guitar
1825–6; the farce of _The Wandering Minstrel_ by Henry Mayhew
produced at Fitzroy theatre, London 16 Jany. 1834 was founded on
his eccentricities; pres. of National philanthropic instit. in
Leicester sq. London 1842–50; contested city of Westminster July
1847; author of _Journal of a tour made by Senor Juan de Vega, a
character assumed by an English gentleman 2 vols._ 1830. _d._
Nelson sq. Blackfriars road, London 13 June 1855 in 48 year. _G.M.
xliv_, 324–5 (1855).
COCHRANE, SIR JAMES (_4 son of Thomas Cochrane, speaker of house of
assembly at Nova Scotia_). _b._ Nova Scotia 1798; barrister I.T. 6
Feb. 1829; attorney general of Gibraltar 1837, chief justice 1841
to May 1877; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1845; _d._
Glenrocky, Gibraltar 24 June 1883.
COCHRANE, JOHN GEORGE (_son of Mr. Cochrane of Glasgow_). _b._
Glasgow 1781; bookseller and publisher with John White in Fleet
st. London; manager of foreign bookselling house of Messrs.
Treuttel and Wurtz, Soho sq.; acting editor of _Foreign quarterly
review_ 1827–35; edited _Caledonian Mercury_ at Edin.; catalogued
Sir Walter Scott’s library at Abbotsford; edited a newspaper at
Hertford; sec. and librarian of London library, London 17 Feb.
1841 to death, library was opened 3 May 1841; compiled two
catalogues of the library 1842 and 1847. _d._ London library, St.
James’s sq. London 11 May 1852. _Catalogue of the London library
by R. Harrison_ 1875 _pp. vii-xi_.
COCHRANE, SIR THOMAS JOHN (_eld. child of Sir Alexander Forester
Inglis Cochrane, G.C.B. 1758–1831_). _b._ Edinburgh 5 Feb. 1789;
entered navy 15 June 1796; captain 23 April 1806; second in
command on East India station 1842 to 1845; commander-in-chief
1845 to 1847; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 18 Dec. 1852 to
Jany. 1856; admiral 31 Jany. 1856; admiral of the fleet 12 Sep.
1865; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 29 May 1812;
governor of Newfoundland 16 April 1825 to 1834; M.P. for Ipswich
1837–41; C.B. 18 April 1839, K.C.B. 29 Oct. 1847, G.C.B. 18 May
1860. _d._ Ryde, Isle of Wight 19 Oct. 1872. _bur._ Kensal Green
cemetery 25 Oct.
COCHRANE, WILLIAM GEORGE. Ensign 40 foot 13 Feb. 1805; lieut.-col.
10 foot 16 Sep. 1836 to 10 July 1837 when placed on h.p.; deputy
adjutant general in Ireland 11 Dec. 1846 to 1 April 1852; colonel
11 foot 23 June 1856 to death; L.G. 26 Sep. 1856. _d._ 127
Piccadilly, London 4 Sep. 1857.
COCK, HENRY. Entered Bengal army 1802; col. 64 Bengal N.I. 1849 to
death; C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ Hopton hall near Lowestoft 17 Feb.
1851.
COCK, REV. THOMAS ASTLEY. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., 27 wrangler
1834, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1839; mathematical tutor King’s coll. London
and professor of mathematics Queen’s coll. London many years. _d._
18 Rodney st. Pentonville, London 3 July 1885 in 74 year.
COCKAYNE, REV. THOMAS OSWALD (_son of Mr. Cockin_). _b._ 1807; ed.
at St. John’s coll. Cam., 10 wrangler 1828, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1835;
a master at King’s college sch. London 1842–69; member of
Philological and Early English Text Societies; author of _The
civil history of the Jews from Joshua to Hadrian_ 1841, _2 ed._
1845; _Greek Syntax_ 1846; _Life of Marshal Turenne_ 1853;
_Leechdoms, Wort-cunning and Starcraft of early England 3 vols._
1858; _Spoon and Sparrow, or English roots in Greek, Latin and
Hebrew_ 1861. Shot himself at Carrackdew, St. Ives 2 or 3 June
1873. _Cornish Telegraph 18, 25 June 1873._
COCKBURN, ALEXANDER (_4 son of Sir James Cockburn 6 baronet
1729–1804_). _b._ 20 Aug. 1776; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo.
to Wurtemburg 6 March 1820 to 8 Feb. 1823, to Columbia, South
America 28 Feb. 1826 to 21 Sep. 1829. _d._ St. Heliers, Jersey 14
Oct. 1852.
COCKBURN, SIR ALEXANDER JAMES EDMUND, 10 Baronet (_only son of the
preceding_). _b._ 24 Dec. 1802; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., fellow
commoner 1825, fellow 1829; LL.B. 1829, LLD. 1874; barrister M.T.
6 Feb. 1829, bencher 1841, treasurer 1853; recorder of Southampton
26 July 1840 to Aug. 1846; Q.C. Oct. 1841; M.P. for Southampton 31
July 1847 to Nov. 1856; solicitor general 11 July 1850; knighted
at Buckingham Palace 14 Aug. 1850; attorney general 28 March 1851
to Feb. 1852 and 28 Dec. 1852 to 21 Nov. 1856; recorder of
Bristol, April 1854 to Nov. 1856; led the prosecution of Wm.
Palmer the Rugeley poisoner who was hanged 14 June 1856; lord
chief justice of court of Common Pleas 21 Nov. 1856; lord chief
justice of court of Queen’s bench 24 June 1859, of England 2 Nov.
1874 to death; P.C. 2 Feb. 1857; succeeded his uncle as 10 baronet
30 April 1858; arbitrator for Her Majesty under treaty of
Washington 1 Sep. 1871; G.C.B. 12 Feb. 1873; presided at trial of
The Queen v Castro (Tichborne claimant) 1873–4, 188 days, longest
trial upon record except that of Warren Hastings; admitted to
freedom of city of London 9 March 1876; chairman of Cambridge
University commission 1877–8; presided in court of crown cases
reserved 20 Nov. 1880. _d._ from angina pectoris 40 Hertford st.
Mayfair, London 20 Nov. 1880. _A generation of Judges by Their
Reporter_ (1886) 1–20; _Ballantine’s Some experiences of a
barrister ii_, 113–19 (1882); _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I
have known, second series i_, 162–83 (1877); _E. Yates’s
Recollections ii_, 129–38 (1884); _Law Mag. xlvi_, 193–213 (1851);
_Law Mag. and Review i_, 50–3, 896–903 (1872); _The Englishman
xiv_, 88–90 (1880), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xvii_, 121 (1850),
_portrait, lxvi_, 287 (1875), _portrait, lxxvii_, 521 (1880),
_portrait_.
NOTE.—He was the first legally styled Lord chief justice of
England; Sir Edward Coke assumed that title which most of his
successors also did, but it was not until the Supreme Court of
Judicature act 1873 that the title was fully recognised.
COCKBURN, SIR FRANCIS (_brother of Alexander Cockburn 1776–1852_).
_b._ 10 Nov. 1780; cornet 7 dragoon guards 16 Oct. 1800; lieut.
col. New Brunswick Fencibles 27 Oct. 1814 to 25 April 1816 when
placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 2 West India regiment 30 July 1829 to
9 Nov. 1846; governor of Honduras 1830–7, of the Bahamas 1837–44;
knighted by patent 8 Sep. 1841; colonel 95 foot 26 Dec. 1853 to
death; general 12 Nov. 1860. _d._ East Cliff, Dover 24 Aug. 1868.
COCKBURN, SIR GEORGE, 8 Baronet (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
London 22 April 1772; entered navy as captain’s servant 12 March
1781; captain 20 Feb. 1794; suggested and planned capture of
Washington 1813; commander-in-chief at St. Helena Oct. 1815 to
June 1816; conveyed Napoleon Buonaparte from Plymouth to St.
Helena in the Northumberland 8 Aug. to 16 Oct. 1815;
commander-in-chief on North America and West India station 6 Dec.
1832 to Feb. 1836; admiral 10 Jany. 1837; rear admiral of the U.K.
10 Aug. 1847; admiral of the fleet 1 July 1851 to death; first
naval lord of the Admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 13 July 1846;
major-general of marines 5 April 1821; M.P. for Portsmouth
1818–20, for Weobley, co. Hereford 1820–6, for Plymouth 1826–32,
for Ripon 1841–7; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 20 Feb. 1818; F.R.S.
21 Dec. 1820; P.C. 30 April 1827; succeeded 26 Feb. 1852. _d._
Leamington Spa 19 Aug. 1853. _J. Allen’s Battles of the British
Navy ii_, 420 (1852), _portrait_; _G.M. xl_, 406–10 (1853);
_I.L.N. xxiii_, 165, 166 (1853), _portrait_.
COCKBURN, HENRY THOMAS (_4 son of Archibald Cockburn, a baron of
Court of Exchequer in Scotland_). _b._ in or near Edin. 26 Oct.
1779; ed. at Edin. high school and college; called to Scotch bar
Dec. 1800; advocate depute 1806–10; leader with Jeffrey of the
Scottish bar; solicitor general for Scotland 3 Dec. 1830 to 1834;
lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1831; one of lords of Court of
Session as Lord Cockburn 5 Nov. 1834; a lord comr. of justiciary
14 June 1837 to death; author of _Life of Lord Jeffrey 2 vols._
1852. _d._ Bonaly near Edin. 26 April 1854. _Memorials of his time
by H. T. Cockburn_ 1856, portrait; _Journal of H. T. Cockburn
1831–44_, _2 vols._ 1874; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882),
_portrait_.
COCKBURN, SIR JAMES, 7 Baronet (_brother of Sir Francis Cockburn
1780–1868_). _b._ 21 March 1771; succeeded his father 26 July
1804; under sec. of state for department of war and colonies
1806–7; governor and commander-in-chief of Curaçoa 10 April 1807
to 1811; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda islands 26
April 1811 to 1 July 1819; inspector general of Royal marines;
major general 22 Feb. 1831; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1847. _d._
Portman sq. London 26 Feb. 1852.
COCKBURN, JAMES HORSFORD. Entered navy 1 Dec. 1829; captain 7 April
1850; R.A. 6 April 1866; commander-in-chief East Indies 6 Sep.
1870 to death. _d._ Government house, Calcutta 10 Feb. 1872 aged
56.
COCKBURN, VERY REV. SIR WILLIAM, 9 Baronet (_brother of Alexander
Cockburn 1776–1852_). _b._ 2 June 1773; ed. at St. John’s coll.
Cam., 12 wrangler 1795, B.A. 1795, M.A. 1798, B.D. and D.D. 1832;
fellow of his college 1796–1806; Christian advocate to Univ. of
Cam. 1803–10; dean of York 17 Oct. 1822 to death; R. of Kelston
near Bath 1832 to death; succeeded his brother Sir George Cockburn
19 Aug. 1853. _d._ Kelston rectory 30 April 1858.
COCKBURN, SIR WILLIAM SARSFIELD ROSSITER, 6 Baronet. _b._ 11 June
1796; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1823; succeeded 19
March 1835. _d._ Downton near Kington, Herefordshire 12 April
1858.
COCKBURN-CAMPBELL, SIR ALEXANDER THOMAS, 2 Baronet. _b._ Madras
1803; succeeded 11 Dec. 1824; assumed additional name of Campbell
by royal licence 19 July 1825; superintendent of police in Western
Australia, Sep. 1857; resident magistrate of Albury 1861. _d._ 23
April 1871.
COCKERELL, CHARLES ROBERT (_son of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, architect
1754–1827_). _b._ London 28 April 1788; ed. at Westminster school;
explored Greece, Asia Minor and Sicily 1810–11; discovered
Æginetan and Phigaleian marbles 1811; surveyor to St. Paul’s cath.
1819; A.R.A. 1829, R.A. 1836; architect of Bank of England 1833;
prof. of architecture, Royal academy 1840–57; one of the 8 foreign
assocs. of French Instit. 1841; built the Taylor buildings at
Oxford 1841–2; member of academy of St. Luke, Rome 1843; D.C.L.
Ox. 20 June 1844; pres. of R.I.B.A. 1860–1, gold medallist 1848;
author of _Antiquities of Athens_ 5 _parts, fo._ 1830;
_Iconography of the West front of Wells Cathedral_ 1851;
_Illustrations of the genius of M. A. Buonarotti, fo._ 1857 and
other works. _d._ 13 Chester terrace, Regent’s Park, London 17
Sept. 1863. _bur._ St. Paul’s cath. 24 Sept. _Sandby’s History of
Royal academy ii_, 199–201 (1862); _G.M. xv_, 785–91 (1863);
_I.L.N. xliii_, 341, 342 (1863), _portrait_.
COCKERELL, FREDERICK PEPYS (_2 son of the preceding_). _b._ 87 Eaton
sq. London, March 1833; ed. at Winchester and King’s coll. Lon.;
pupil of Philip Hardwick, R.A. 1854–5; exhibited 54 designs at the
R.A. 1854–77; designed Freemasons’ hall in Great Queen st. 1861;
A.R.I.B.A. 1860, F.R.I.B.A. 30 May 1864, sec. 1871; his design for
the Albert Memorial was selected by the judges, but the Queen
preferred the Gothic design of Sir G. G. Scott. _d._ Paris 4 Nov.
1878. _Builder 16 Nov. 1878 p. 1194, 23 Nov. p. 1230, 20 Dec. p.
1393 and 27 Dec. p. 1433._
COCKS, ARTHUR HERBERT (_3 son of Philip James Cocks of Stepple hall,
Salop 1774–1857_). _b._ 18 April 1819; entered Bengal civil
service 1837; retired on annuity fund 1863; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._
Ashburn place, Cromwell road, London 29 Aug. 1881.
COCKS, ROBERT. b, 1796; established music publishing business in
London 1823 which became one of the largest; published many
valuable theoretical works including translations of foreign
authors; built and endowed 10 almshouses at Old Buckenham,
Norfolk, completed Aug. 1861. _d._ May 1887.
COCKTON, HENRY. _b._ London 7 Dec. 1807; lost his money in a malting
speculation at Bury St. Edmunds; author of _Valentine Vox the
Ventriloquist_ 1840 published in monthly numbers; _George St.
George Julian, the Prince_ 1841; _Stanley Thorne 3 vols._ 1841;
_Sylvester Sound the Somnambulist_ 1844; _The love match_ 1845;
_The Steward_ 1850; _The sisters, or the fatal marriage_ 1851;
_Lady Felicia_ 1852; _Percy Effingham 3 vols._ 1853. _d._ Bury St.
Edmunds 26 June 1853. _Cockton’s George St. George Julian_ 1841,
_portrait_.
CODD, EDWARD. Entered navy 11 Sep. 1820; captain 1 May 1851; admiral
26 Sep. 1878. _d._ 23 Hanover sq. London 14 April 1887 aged 82.
CODRINGTON, CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM. _b._ 12 March 1805; M.P. for East
Gloucs. 1834 to death. _d._ Dodington, Gloucs. 24 June 1864.
CODRINGTON, SIR EDWARD (_youngest son of Edward Codrington of London
1732–75_). _b._ 27 April 1770; entered navy 18 July 1783; captain
6 April 1795; captain of the Orion at Trafalgar 1805; colonel of
Marines 4 Dec. 1813; commander-in chief of Mediterranean squadron
1 Nov. 1826 to April 1828 when recalled; commanded allied fleets
of England, France and Russia at battle of Navarino 20 Oct. 1827;
commanded Channel fleet 7 June 1831 to 24 Oct. 1831; admiral 10
Jany. 1837; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 22 Nov. 1839 to 10
Dec. 1842; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 13 Nov. 1827, declined to
pay the fees which amounted to £386 7s. 2d.; G.C.M.G. 23 April
1827, resigned 1828 but reinstated by Wm. iv, 17 Aug. 1832; M.P.
for Devonport 1832–39; groom in waiting in Queen’s household July
1846; F.R.S. 21 Nov. 1822. _d._ 110 Eaton sq. London 28 April
1851. _Memoir by his daughter Lady Bourchier 2 vols._ 1873, 2
_portraits_; _J. Allen’s Battles of the British navy ii_, 514,
(1852), _portrait_.
CODRINGTON, SIR HENRY JOHN (_youngest son of the preceding_). _b._
Preston Candover, Hants. 17 Oct. 1808; ed. at Harrow; entered navy
21 Feb. 1823; captain 20 Jany. 1836; employed in the Baltic during
Russian war 1854–6; admiral superintendent of Malta dockyard
1858–63; admiral 18 Oct. 1867; commander-in chief at Plymouth
1869–72; admiral of the fleet 22 Jany. 1877 to death; C.B. 18 Dec.
1840, K.C.B. 13 March 1867; his portrait is in the Painted Hall at
Greenwich. _d._ 112 Eaton sq. London 4 Aug. 1877. _Selections from
the letters of Sir H. Codrington edited by his sister Lady
Bourchier_ 1880.
CODRINGTON, SIR WILLIAM JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 26
Nov. 1804; ensign 88 foot 22 Feb. 1821; ensign Coldstream guards
24 April 1823, captain 8 July 1836; commanded first brigade of
light division in the Crimea 1 Sep. 1854; commanded the light
division 30 July 1855 to 10 Nov. 1855; commander-in-chief in the
Crimea 11 Nov. 1855 to 12 July 1856; col. of 54 foot 11 Aug. 1856,
of 23 foot 27 Dec. 1860 and of Coldstream guards 16 March 1875 to
death; M.P. for Greenwich 9 Feb. 1857 to 23 April 1859; contested
Westminster, Feb. 1874 and Lewes, April 1880; governor of
Gibraltar, May 1859 to Nov. 1865; general 27 July 1863, placed on
retired list 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 March
1865. _d._ Danmore cottage, Hackfield near Winchfield, Hants. 6
Aug. 1884. _Army and navy mag. iii_, 358–60 (1882), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xxvii_, 520 (1855), _portrait, xxx_, 479 (1857),
_portrait_.
CODRINGTON, SIR WILLIAM RAIMOND, 4 Baronet. _b._ Rennes, Brittany 25
Jany. 1806; succeeded 1816. _d._ Château de la Boullaye near
Montfort, Brittany 7 or 17 Dec. 1873.
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