Chapter C (8)

NOTE.—On the death of the 3rd baronet the title was assumed by
the grandson of the 1st baronet on the ground that the 3rd
baronet left no legitimate issue, but the Heralds’ College
confirmed Sir W. R. Codrington in the baronetcy.

COEY, SIR EDWARD (_son of James Coey of Larne, co. Antrim_). _b._
Larne 1805; mayor of Belfast 1861, alderman 1861; knighted by Earl
of Carlisle, lord lieut. of Ireland 1861; sheriff of Antrim 1867.
_d._ Merville, Belfast 26 June 1887.

COFFEY, JAMES CHARLES (_2 son of Edmund Coffey of co. Kerry_). _b._
Dublin 1815; called to Irish bar, Trinity term 1843; went Munster
circuit; Q.C. 13 June 1864; county court judge for Westmeath,
transferred to Leitrim, transferred to Londonderry, retired 1879;
edited the _Monitor_ a whig anti-repeal paper. _d._ Sea Point, co.
Dublin 31 July 1880.

COFFIN, SIR EDWARD PINE (_youngest son of Rev. John Pine of East
Down, Devon 1736–1824, who assumed name of Coffin 1797_). _b._
East Down 20 Oct. 1784; entered commissariat service 25 July 1805;
deputy commissary general 4 Aug. 1814; commissary general 1 July
1840 to 1 April 1848 when placed on h.p.; had charge of relief
operations at Limerick and on west coast of Ireland during famine,
Jany. to Aug. 1846; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1846; one of comrs.
of inquiry into working of royal mint 1 April 1848. _d._ Gay st.
Bath 31 July 1862.

COFFIN, HENRY EDWARD. _b._ 1794; entered navy 1 Oct. 1805; captain
23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875. _d._ Springfield
house, Caversham near Reading 31 Aug. 1881 in 88 year.

COFFIN, SIR ISAAC CAMPBELL (_eld. son of Francis Holmes Coffin,
admiral R.N._) _b._ 1801; entered Madras army 3 June 1818;
commanded Hyderabad subsidiary force 6 Nov. 1855; commanded
southern division of Madras army 28 March 1859 to 28 March 1864
for which he was created K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; col. 12 Madras N.I.
23 July 1858 to 1869; L.G. 18 July 1869. _d._ 9 St. John’s park
south, Blackheath, Kent 1 Oct. 1872.

COFFIN, JOHN TOWNSEND. _b._ 1789; entered navy 7 Nov. 1799; captain
26 Dec. 1822, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 26 June 1863.
_d._ Holgate hill, York 29 April 1882.

COFFIN, RIGHT REV. ROBERT ASTON. _b._ Brighton 19 July 1819; ed. at
Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; V. of St. Mary
Magdalene, Oxford 1843; received into Church of Rome 3 Dec. 1845;
ordained priest at Rome 1847; superior of St. Wilfrids, Cotton
hall, Staffs. 1848–9; entered novitiate of Redemptorist Fathers at
St. Trond in Belgium and made his profession 2 Feb. 1852; R. of
St. Mary’s, Clapham 1855; provincial 1865–82; bishop of Southwark,
April 1882 to death; consecrated at Rome 11 June 1882, enthroned
at St. George’s cathedral, Southwark 27 July 1882; author of _The
oratory of the faithful soul translated from F. L. Blosius_ 1848,
and of translations of many of the works of St. Alphonsus de
Liguori. _d._ house of the Redemptorists, Teignmouth 6 April 1885.
_Gillow’s English Catholics i_, 523–6 (1885).

COFFIN, WILLIAM FOSTER. _b._ Bath 1808; ed. at Eton; called to Lower
Canadian bar 1835; comr. of police 1840; raised and commanded
Montreal field battery 1855; comr. of ordnance and admiralty lands
for dominion of Canada; author of _Memorial to Sir E. W. Head_
1855; _1812, The war and its moral 2 vols._ 1864; _Three chapters
on a triple project_; _Thoughts on defence from a Canadian point
of view_; _Quirks of diplomacy_. _d._ 1878.

COGAN, REV. ELIEZER (_son of John Cogan of Bothwell,
Northamptonshire, surgeon who d. 1784_). _b._ Rothwell 1762; ed.
at Daventry; Presbyterian minister at Cirencester 1787–9, at
Walthamstow 1801–16; kept a school at Higham Hill, Walthamstow
1801–28; author of _An address to the Dissenters on classical
literature_ 1789; _Reflections on the evidences of Christianity_
1796; _Sermons chiefly on practical subjects 2 vols._ 1817; edited
_Moschi Idyllia tria, Grece_ 1795. _d._ Higham Hill 21 Jany. 1855.
_Christian Reformer xi_, 237–59 (1855); _Dict. of Nat. Biog. xi_,
219–20 (1887).

COGHLAN, SIR WILLIAM MARCUS (_son of Jeremiah Coghlan, captain
R.N._) _b._ Plymouth 31 May 1803; ed. at Addiscombe; Second lieut.
Bombay Artillery 19 Dec. 1820, colonel 28 Nov. 1854, col.
commandant 8 May 1859 to death; political resident and commandant
at Aden 1854–63; general 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 6 June 1864. _d._
Ramsgate 26 Nov. 1885.

COGSWELL, JOHN. _b._ March 1827; a printer and stationer at Bath to
1833; reporter on the _Hastings News_ 1833–50; edited the
_Hastings Chronicle_ 1850, the _Hastings and St. Leonards Times_,
the _West Surrey Times_ 1880–3 and 1886 to death. _d._ 13 April
1887.

COHEN, LIONEL LOUIS (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ London 2 June
1832; foreign banker with his father under name of Louis Cohen and
Sons 1852; senior partner 1882–5 when he retired; a trustee and
manager of Stock Exchange 1870 to death; a founder and vice-pres.
of United Synagogue; pres. of Jewish Board of Guardians 1869 to
death; M.P. for North Paddington 25 Nov. 1885 to death. _d._ 9
Hyde park terrace, London 26 June 1887. _Vanity Fair 24 April
1886, portrait._

COHEN, LOUIS (_son of Joseph Cohen_). _b._ Sep. 1799; entered the
Stock Exchange, London 1819, member of its committee 15 years;
warden of Great Synagogue, London 1837; member of committee of the
Seven Elders; member of Board of Deputies 25 years, the main
author of new constitution of the Board. _d._ 84 Gloucester place,
Portman sq. London 15 March 1882, personalty sworn £623,000, 22
April 1882. _Jewish Chronicle 17 March 1882 p. 12, 24 March p.
12._

COLBORNE, NICHOLAS WILLIAM RIDLEY-COLBORNE, 1 Baron (_2 son of Sir
Matthew White Ridley of Blagdon, Northumberland, 2 baronet
1745–1813_). _b._ St. Marylebone, London 14 April 1779; ed. at
Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1800; entered at G.I. 12 Dec.
1795 but withdrew 26 April 1809 without being called; assumed
additional name of Colborne 21 June 1803; M.P. for Appleby
1807–12, for Thetford 1818–26, for Horsham 1827–32, for Wells
1834–7; created Baron Colborne of West Harding, Norfolk 15 May
1839; member of Fine Arts commission 1841, of Metropolitan
improvements commission 1842. _d._ 19 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London
3 May 1854.

COLBRAN, JOHN. _b._ 1809; a bookseller at Tunbridge Wells; started
in 1833 the _Tunbridge Wells Visitor_, the first newspaper there;
started the _Tunbridge Wells Gazette_ 1851; retired 1874. _d._
Tunbridge Wells 20 Sep. 1884.

COLBURN, HENRY. Kept circulating library in Conduit st. London 1816;
publisher in New Burlington st. 1817; partner with Richard Bentley
1830 to Aug. 1832; publisher at Windsor; publisher in Great
Marlborough st. London 1853, retired in favour of Hurst and
Blackett; chief publisher of novels many years; published
_Colburn’s Modern Standard Novelists 19 vols._ 1835–41; originated
_New Monthly Mag._ 1814; with Wm. Jerdan _Literary Gazette_ 25
Jany. 1817, _Court Journal_ 1828, _United Service Mag._ 1829. _d._
Bryanston sq. London 16 Aug. 1855, his copyrights were sold for
£14,000, 26 May 1857. _H. Curwen’s History of booksellers_ (1873)
279–95.

COLBY, THOMAS FREDERICK (_eld. child of Thomas Colby, major R.M. who
d. 1813_). _b._ St. Margaret’s-next-Rochester 1 Sep. 1784; ed. at
Northfleet school and R.M.A. Woolwich; second lieut. R.E. 2 July
1801; lost his left hand by explosion of a pistol, Dec. 1803;
F.R.S. 13 April 1820; surveyed Ireland 1824–46; col. R.E. 10 Jany.
1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. (_m._ 1828 Elizabeth Hester
2 dau. of Archibald Boyd, treasurer of Londonderry, she was
granted a civil list pension of £100, 10 Feb. 1853). _d._ New
Brighton near Liverpool 9 Oct. 1852. _J. E. Portlock’s Life of
General Colby_ 1869; _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii_, 132–7
(1853).

COLCHESTER, CHARLES ABBOT, 2 Baron (_elder son of 1 baron Colchester
1757–1829_). _b._ St. James’s, Westminster 12 March 1798; entered
navy 8 April 1811; captain 26 Jany. 1826, placed on h.p. Jany.
1833; admiral on h.p. 11 Jany. 1864; succeeded as 2 Baron 7 May
1829; vice pres. of Board of Trade and paymaster general 28 Feb.
to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; postmaster general, Feb. 1858 to
June 1859. _d._ 34 Berkeley sq. London 18 Oct. 1867. _Walford’s
Photographic portraits of living celebrities_ 1859, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xxxii_, 312 (1858), _portrait_.

COLDSTREAM, JOHN (_only son of Robert Coldstream of Leith,
merchant_). _b._ Leith 19 March 1806; ed. at Leith, High sch.
Edin. and Univ. of Edin.; apprenticed to Dr. Charles Anderson of
Leith 1823; entered Royal Medical Society 19 Nov. 1824; studied in
Paris 1827–28; practised at Leith 1828–47; mem. of Wernerian
Society 9 Jany. 1830; enrolled as Fellow for life of Botanical
Soc. 9 Dec. 1858, date of dissolution of Wernerian Soc.; F.R.C.P.
1845; removed to Edinburgh 1847; mem. of Royal Physical Society 17
Feb. 1849, one of the presidents 4 Dec. 1850. _d._ Irthing house
near Carlisle 17 Sept. 1863. _J. H. Balfour’s Biography of the
late John Coldstream_ (1865), _portrait_.

COLE, REV. ARTHUR RAGGETT. Ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1864, M.A.
1866, B.D. 1874; C. of St. Luke, Southampton 1864–68; C. in charge
of Hurstbourne Priors, Hants. 1868 to death; author of _A short
liturgy for the school room service_, _2 ed._ 1870; _Drawing near
with faith_ 1872; _A book of family prayers for a month_ 1875;
edited the _Etcetera_, monthly mag. 1872–4. _d._ Hurstbourne
Priors 23 Sep. 1877.

COLE, GEORGE, _b._ 1810; portrait painter at Portsmouth; painted a
canvas show-cloth 20 feet square for Wombwell’s menagerie; studied
animal painting in Holland; exhibited 16 pictures at the R.A., 35
at B.I. and 209 at Suffolk st. gallery 1838–80; member of society
of British Artists 1850. _d._ of heart disease at 1 Kensington
crescent, London 7 Sep. 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxiii_, 307, 309 (1883),
_portrait_.

COLE, GEORGE WARD. _b._ Lumley castle, Durham 15 Nov. 1793; in the
navy 1807–17 when placed on h.p.; in the merchant service 1817–39;
arrived in Melbourne 4 July 1840; built Cole’s Wharf on the Yarra
1841; built the “City of Melbourne” 1851 the 1st screw steamer
ever seen south of the equator, she traded between Melbourne and
Launceston and was finally wrecked on King’s Island, Bass’s
Straits 1853; introduced sugar-beet into Victoria from Holland
1863; member for Gipps Land of Victorian legislative council, July
1853–1855; member for the Central province of legislative council
1859 to death; an executive councillor 1867; wrote several
pamphlets in support of protection. _d._ 26 April 1879. _Men of
the time in Australia, Victorian series_ (1878) 37–39.

COLE, SIR HENRY (_son of Henry Robert Cole, captain 1 dragoon
guards_). _b._ Bath 15 July 1808; ed. at Christ’s hospital; clerk
to Francis Palgrave of the Record Commission 1824–9; one of the 4
senior assistant keepers of the Records 1838–41; edited _Guide_
newspaper 1837, _Post Circular_ 1838; sec. of committee on penny
postage 1838; edited _Journal of Design_ March 1849 to Feb. 1852;
member of Society of Arts 1846; member of executive committee of
Great Exhibition 1851, 3 Jany. 1850; general adviser to Exhibition
of 1862 with a fee of £1500; sec. to royal commission at Paris
exhibitions 1855 and 1867; chief manager of Exhibitions in London
1871–4; sec. of School of Design 31 Oct. 1851; sec. of Department
of practical art Jany. 1852 to April 1873; C.B. 25 Oct. 1851,
K.C.B. 25 March 1875; published under the pseudonym of Felix
Summerly, the following books, _The Home Treasury_. A series of
children’s books. Lond. printed by J. Cundall 1843–44; _Pleasure
excursions to Croydon_ 1846; _Heroic tales of ancient Greece,
translated from the German of B. G. Niebuhr_ 1849, and the
following handbooks, _Westminster Abbey_ 1842, _Picture galleries_
1842, _Canterbury_ 1843, _Hampton Court_ 1843, _National gallery_
1843, _Temple Church_ 1843; _Shall we keep the Crystal palace, by
Denarius_ 1851; edited _Works of T. L. Peacock 3 vols._ 1875.
(_m._ 28 Dec. 1833 Marian Fairman 3 dau. of Wm. Andrew Bond of
Ashford, Kent, she was granted a civil list pension of £150, 10
June 1882, author of _The Mother’s Primer, by Mrs. Felix Summerly_
1844). _d._ 96 Philbeach gardens, Earl’s Court, London 18 April
1882. _Fifty years of public work of Sir H. Cole 2 vols._ 1884,
_portrait_; _Practical Mag. vii_, 321, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xix_,
487, 509 (1851), _portrait, lxiii_, 36, 38 (1873), _portrait,
lxxx_, 417 (1882), _portrait_.

NOTE.—He originated the idea of Christmas cards, the first of
which was issued by Joseph Cundall at 12 Old Bond st, 1846,
the drawing was made by J. C. Horsley printed in lithography
by Jobbins of Warwick court, Holborn and coloured by hand,
about 1000 copies were sold of the card which was the usual
size of a lady’s calling card.

COLE, HENRY THOMAS (_2 son of George Cole, captain Cornwall
militia_). _b._ Bath 2 Feb. 1816; barrister M.T. 4 Nov. 1842,
bencher Jany. 1867, treasurer 1883–4; became leader of Western
circuit; recorder of Penzance April 1862 to April 1872; Q.C. 13
Dec. 1866; recorder of Plymouth and Devonport April 1872 to death;
M.P. for Falmouth and Penryn 6 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880. _d._ 4
Glendower place, South Kensington, London 5 Jany. 1885.

COLE, HENRY WARWICK (_3 son of Wm. Nicholas Cole of Islington,
solicitor_). _b._ 12 Oct. 1812; ed. at Univ. coll. London;
barrister I.T. 10 June 1836, bencher 1861, reader 1873, treasurer
1874; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; judge of county courts, circuit 21
Warwickshire 11 Sep. 1872 to death; author of _The law of domicile
of Englishmen in France_ 1857; _St. Augustine a poem in 8 books_
1877; contributed to _Quarterly Review and Fraser’s Mag._ _d._ 23
High st. Warwick 19 June 1876.

COLE, JOHN LOWRY (_3 son of 2 Earl of Enniskillen 1768–1840_). _b._
8 June 1813; sheriff of Fermanagh 1842. M.P. for Enniskillen 21
Feb. 1859 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ Florence court, co. Fermanagh 29
Nov. 1882.

COLE, PENNEL. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Feb. 1810, col. 20 June 1854 to
11 Aug. 1856 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 11 Aug. 1856. _d._
Boulogne 25 March 1862 aged 70.

COLE, WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ London; entered navy 5 Jany. 1802; captain
on h.p. 28 June 1838; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837. _d._ Lechlade, Gloucs. 15
May 1856.

COLE, WILLIAM ROBERT. Barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838; went
north-eastern circuit; author of _Law and practice on criminal
information_ 1843; _Law and practice in ejectment_ 1856. _d._
Warrington gardens, Maida hill, London 27 Dec. 1881.

COLEBROOKE, SIR WILLIAM MACBEAN GEORGE (_son of Paulette Welbore
Colebrooke, lieut.-col. R.A. who d. 28 Sep. 1816_). _b._ 1787;
Second lieut. R.A. 17 Aug. 1803; served in Mahratta war 1817–8;
comr. of Eastern inquiry 1823–31; lieut. governor of Bahamas 9
Sep. 1834; governor general of Leeward islands 11 Jany. 1837;
knighted by Wm. iv at Windsor castle 31 March 1837; lieut.
governor of New Brunswick 25 March 1841–1848; governor of British
Guiana 28 April 1848; governor of Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent,
Tobago and St. Lucia 11 Aug. 1848 to 1856 when he retired on
pension of £750; col. commandant R.A. 25 Sep. 1859 to death;
general 26 Dec. 1865; K.H. 1834, C.B. 1 May 1848. _d._ Salthill,
Bucks. 6 Feb. 1870.

COLEMAN, REV. WILLIAM HIGGINS. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A.
1836, M.A. 1839; a master at Christ’s hospital, Hertford 1840–7;
at Ashby-de-la-Zouch gr. sch. 1847 to death; author with Rev. H.
R. Webb of _Flora Hertfordiensis_ 1849; published in _Journal of
Biblical Literature_, July 1863 an elaborate paper on The
Eighteenth chapter of Isaiah, which was reprinted with others
under title of _Biblical papers, being remains of the Rev. W. H.
Coleman_ 1864. _d._ Burton on Trent 12 Sep. 1863.

COLENSO, FRANCES ELLEN (_2 dau. of the succeeding_). _b._ 30 May
1849; befriended Cetywayo 1881; author with Col. Edward Durnford
of _History of the Zulu war_ 1880; _The ruin of Zululand_ 1884.
_d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 29 April 1887.

COLENSO, RIGHT REV. JOHN WILLIAM (_son of John Wm. Colenso of
Lostwithiel, mineral agent for Duchy of Cornwall, who d. 23 Dec.
1860 aged 82_). _b._ St. Austell 24 Jany. 1814; ed. at Devonport
and St. John’s coll. Cam.; second wrangler and Smith’s prizeman
1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. and D.D. 1853; fellow of his
college 13 March 1837 to 1846; mathematical master at Harrow
1839–42; private tutor at Cam. 1842–6; V. of Forncett St. Mary,
Norfolk 1846–53; bishop of Natal 23 Nov. 1853, consecrated in St.
Mary’s, Lambeth 30 Nov.; suffragan to bishop of Cape Town 6 Dec.
1853, who pronounced sentence of deposition against him 16 April
1864, he appealed to the Crown, and the judicial committee of the
privy council pronounced all the legal proceedings null and void
in law; publicly excommunicated at Maritzburg cathedral 5 Jany.
1866; author of _The elements of Algebra designed for the use of
schools_ 1841, and numerous other works on mathematics; _Village
sermons_ 1854; _Ten weeks in Natal_ 1855; _First steps in
Zulu-Kaffir_ 1859 and many other works concerning, and in that
language; _The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua critically examined_
1862–65, 5 volumes, with other editions of the whole work and of
parts of it; _Natal sermons, a series of discourses in the
cathedral church of St. Peter’s, Maritzburg_ 1866; _Lectures on
the Pentateuch and the Moabite stone_ 1873; _The treatment by the
Natal government of Langalibalele and the Amahlubi tribe_ 1874.
_d._ Pieter-Maritzburg, Natal 20 June 1883. _Dict. of Nat. Biog.
xi_, 290–3 (1887); _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 76–9,
_iii_, 1125–7; _J. F. Hurst’s History of rationalism_ (1867)
401–409; _Churchman’s Family Mag. v_, 395–408 (1865); _Boase’s
Collectanea Cornubiensia_ 153–4; _Graphic xxvii_, 652 (1883),
_portrait_; _Bookseller 30 July 1863 pp._ 356–8.

NOTE.—Part i of The Pentateuch an edition of 10,000 copies
excited much comment and gave rise to the publication of
upwards of 130 works in which its principles were adversely
criticised. Of the Bishop’s Arithmetic designed for Schools,
more than 400,000 copies were sold.

COLERIDGE, REV. DERWENT (_younger son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge the
Poet 1772–1834_). _b._ Greta hall, Keswick 14 Sep. 1800; ed. at
St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1829; master of Helston gr.
sch. 1827–41; principal of St. Mark’s college, Chelsea 1841–64;
preb. of St. Paul’s 28 Feb. 1846 to death; R. of Hanwell 1864–80;
edited works of Hartley Coleridge, S. T. Coleridge, J. Moultrie
and W. M. Praed; author of _The scriptural character of the
English Church_ 1839; _Life of Hartley Coleridge_ 1849. _d._ Eldon
lodge, Torquay 28 March 1883. _The church of England photographic
portrait gallery_ 1859 _pt._ 9, _portrait_; _Illust. news of the
world viii_, (1861), _portrait_; _Guardian 18 April 1883 p._ 569.

COLERIDGE, HERBERT (_only son of Henry Nelson Coleridge, chancery
barrister 1798–1843_). _b._ Hampstead 7 Oct. 1830; ed. at Eton and
Balliol coll. Ox., Balliol scholar 1847, Newcastle scholar 1848,
double first class 1852; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1854; member of
Philological Soc. Feb. 1857, hon. sec. of a special committee ‘for
collecting words and idioms hitherto unregistered,’ this scheme
developed into J. A. H. Murray’s ‘New English dictionary’
published by Clarendon Press 1884 etc.; author of _Glossarial
index to the printed English literature of the thirteenth century_
1859. _d._ 10 Chester place, London 23 April 1861. _Macmillan’s
Mag. v_, 56 (1862).

COLERIDGE, REV. JAMES DUKE (_eld. son of James Coleridge of Heath’s
Court, Ottery St. Mary, Devon 1760–1836_). _b._ 13 June 1789; ed.
at Balliol coll. Ox., B.C.L. 1821, D.C.L. 1835; V. of Kenwyn and
Kea, Cornwall 1823–8; R. of Lawhitton, Cornwall 1826–39; V. of
Lewannick, Cornwall 1831–41; V. of Thorverton, Devon 1839 to
death; preb. of Exeter cath. 5 Aug. 1825 to death; author of _A
selection of family prayers_ 1820, _3 ed._ 1831; _Observations of
a Parish Priest in scenes of sickness and death_ 1825; _A
companion to first lessons for the services of the Church on
Sundays and the fasts and festivals_ 1838. _d._ Thorverton 26 Dec.
1857. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 79, 313, _iii_,
1128.

COLERIDGE, SIR JOHN TAYLOR (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Tiverton 9 July 1790; ed. at Ottery St. Mary, Eton and C.C. coll.
Ox., scholar, April 1809; took both Bachelors’ prizes for English
and Latin essays 1813; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1817, hon. D.C.L. 1852;
Vinerian law scholar 1812; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1812 to
7 Aug. 1818; a certificated special pleader; barrister M.T. 25
June 1819; a bankruptcy comr. 1827; recorder of Exeter, Feb. 1832;
serjeant-at-law 14 Feb. 1832; a justice of Court of King’s Bench
27 Jany. 1835 to 28 June 1858; knighted at St. James’s Palace 18
Feb. 1835; member of Inns of Court commission 1834, and of Law
Courts commission 1858; P.C. 5 June 1858, member of judicial
committee; edited _Blackstone’s Commentaries 4 vols._ 1825; author
of _Memoir of the Rev. John Keble_ 1869, _4 ed._ 1874. _d._
Heath’s Court, Devon 11 Feb. 1876. _Law Mag. and law review vii_,
263–84 (1859), _i_, 486–99 (1876); _I.L.N. vi_, 245 (1845),
_portrait_, _xxxiii_, 142 (1858), _portrait_, _lxviii_, 190, 213
(1876), _portrait_.

COLERIDGE, SARA (_only dau. of Samuel Taylor Coleridge the poet
1772–1834_). _b._ Greta hall near Keswick 22 Dec. 1802; published
a translation of Martin Dobrizhoffer’s _Account of the Abipones 3
vols._ 1822; _Pretty lessons for good children_ 1834;
_Phantasmion_ 1837 a fairy tale; edited with her husband, S. T.
Coleridge’s _Biographia Literaria_ 1847; one of the three maidens
celebrated in Wordsworth’s _Trias_ 1828. (_m._ 3 Sep. 1829 her
cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge, barrister, he was _b._ 25 Oct. 1798
and _d._ 26 Jany. 1843). _d._ Chester place, Regent’s park, London
3 May 1852. _Memoir of Sara Coleridge edited by her daughter Edith
Coleridge, 4 ed._ 1874; _G.M. xxxviii_, 540–2 (1852).

COLES, COWPER PHIPPS (_3 son of Rev. John Coles 1787–1865, R. of
Silchester, Hants._) _b._ 9 July 1819; entered navy 15 Dec. 1831;
captain on h.p. 27 Feb. 1856; C.B. 23 March 1867; carried out an
elaborate series of experiments on the methods of applying armour
to vessels and mounting guns, the ship ‘Captain’ was built from
drawings by Coles and Messrs. Laird 1866–70; author of _Our
national defences_ 1861, _4 ed._ 1862. (_m._ 11 March 1856 Emily 3
dau. of Henry S. Pearson, she was granted civil list pension of
£150, 11 Feb. 1871, and _d._ 11 Jany. 1876). _drowned_ in the
Captain, off Cape Finisterre 7 Sep. 1870 when nearly all the crew
perished. _Journal of Royal United Service Instit. iv_, 280,
_vii_, 110, _xi_, 434; _I.L.N. xl_, 399 (1862), _lvii_, 307, 329,
(1870), _portrait_.

COLES, HENRY BEAUMONT. _b._ London 1794; barrister G.I. 30 Jany.
1837; M.P. for Andover 29 July 1847 to 20 March 1857. _d._ Portman
sq. London 23 Nov. 1862.

COLES, ROBERT BARTLETT. _b._ 1785; cornet 8 dragoons 20 Aug. 1803;
major 76 foot 24 Oct. 1821 to 19 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.;
col. 65 foot 25 July 1857 to death; general 31 May 1865. _d._
Glencot, Wilts. 27 Oct. 1869.

COLES, WILLIAM COWPER. Ensign 40 foot 31 Oct. 1805; major 2 Life
Guards 21 March 1829 to 20 Jany. 1832 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 9
March 1861. _d._ Woodcote, Salop 26 Aug. 1867 aged 77.

COLLARD, FREDERICK WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Collard of Wiveliscombe,
Somerset_). _baptized_ Wiveliscombe 21 June 1772; employed by
Longman, Lukey and Broderip, music publishers at 26 Cheapside,
London 1786; pianoforte maker with Muzio Clementi in London 1799
to 24 June 1831, with his brother W. F. Collard to 24 June 1842,
with his two nephews 1842 to death; took out many patents for
improvements in pianos; supplied bugles, fifes and drums to
regiments of East India Co. to 1858. _d._ 26 Cheapside, London 31
Jany. 1860.

COLLARD, WILLIAM FREDERICK (_brother of the preceding_). _baptized_
at Wiveliscombe 25 Aug. 1776; member of firm of Muzio Clementi and
Co. pianoforte makers 26 Cheapside down to 24 June 1831; partner
with his brother 1831–42; invented many improvements in pianos.
_d._ Folkestone 11 Oct. 1866.

COLLEDGE, THOMAS RICHARDSON. _b._ 1796; pupil of Sir Astley Cooper;
practised in Canton and Macao; founded Medical missionary society
in China 1837, pres. 1837 to death; surgeon to consulate at Canton
to May 1841 when the office was abolished; M.D. King’s coll.
Aberdeen 1839; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1840; F.R.S. Edin. 1844; F.R.C.S.
England 1853; lived at Cheltenham 1841 to death. _d._ Lauriston
house, Cheltenham 28 Oct. 1879.

COLLEN, GEORGE WILLIAM. Portcullis pursuivant of arms 6 Nov. 1841 to
death; author of _Britannia Saxonica, a map of Britain_ 1833;
_Debrett’s Peerage continued_ 1840. _d._ 52 Camden sq. London 9
Jany. 1878 in 79 year.

COLLETON, SIR ROBERT AUGUSTUS FULFORD GRAVES, 8 Baronet. _b._ 19
Sep. 1824; succeeded 29 July 1848. _d._ Fermoy, Ireland 28 Oct.
1866.

COLLETTE, JOHN HICKEY. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 7 Madras light
cavalry 12 Aug. 1839 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Nice 23
Oct. 1858 aged 77.

COLLEY, SIR GEORGE POMEROY POMEROY- (_youngest son of Hon. George
Francis Colley of Ferney, co. Dublin 1797–1879, commander R.N._)
_b._ 1 Nov. 1835; ed. at R.M.A. Sandhurst; ensign 2 foot 28 May
1852, major 12 May 1875 to 24 April 1880 when placed on h.p.;
professor at the staff college 1 July 1871 to 30 Nov. 1873;
commanded the transport in Ashanti expedition, Dec. 1873 to Feb.
1874; military sec. to Viceroy of India 13 April 1876 to 12 April
1878, private sec. to him 13 April 1878 to 19 Feb. 1880; C.B. 31
March 1874; K.C.S.I. 29 July 1879; assumed additional surname of
Pomeroy by r.l. 8 May 1880; author of the article _Army_ in
_Encyclopædia Britannica_, _9 ed._, _ii_, 559–619 (1875); governor
and commander in chief Natal 24 April 1880 to death. Shot by the
Boers on Majuba hill at Laing’s Nek, North Natal 27 Feb. 1881.
_Army and navy mag. i_, 554–61 (1881), _ii_, 673–89 (1881),
_portrait_; _A narrative of the Boer war by T. F. Carter_ 1883;
_T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the Empire_ (1879) 44–50; _I.L.N.
lxxiv_ 576 (1879), _portrait_, _lxxviii_, 224 (1881), _portrait_.

COLLIER, SIR EDWARD (_son of Edward Collier of Blockley, Worcs._)
_b._ Blockley 1783; entered navy, Feb. 1796; captain 18 Nov. 1814;
V. A. 18 June 1857; retired on a pension 27 Nov. 1857; admiral 4
Oct. 1862; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840; K.C.B. 7 June 1865. _d._ Blockley 5
Aug. 1872.

COLLIER, HENRY THEODOSIUS BROWNE. _b._ 1791; entered navy 28 April
1800; captain on half pay 26 Dec. 1822; retired admiral 26 June
1863. _d._ 25 Ryder st. St. James’s, London 10 Sep. 1872.

COLLIER, JOHN PAYNE (_son of John Dyer Collier of London, writer on
the press 1762–1825_). _b._ Broad st. London 11 Jany. 1789;
reporter on _The Times_ 1809–21, on the _Morning Chronicle_
1821–47; summoned before House of Commons 15 June 1819 for
misreporting a speech of Joseph Hume, and committed to custody of
the serjeant-at-arms; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1829; deputy licenser
of plays; a founder of the Camden Society 1838; sec. of Royal
commission on British Museum 1847–50; accused of having committed
many literary frauds in connection with Shakespearian and other
documents; granted civil list pension of £100, 30 Oct. 1850;
author of _Criticisms on the Bar, by Amicus Curiæ_ 1819; printed
privately and anonymously _The Poet’s Pilgrimage_ 1822; published
a new ed. of _Dodsley’s Old Plays 12 vols._ 1825–7; _Punch and
Judy_ 1828, _anon._; _History of English dramatic poetry and
annals of the stage 3 vols._ 1831, _new ed._ 1879; _Shakespeare’s
Library 2 vols._ 1843; _Shakespeare’s Works 8 vols._ 1844, _6
vols._ 1858; _Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare’s
plays from the folio in the possession of J. P. C. [i.e. the
Perkins folio]_ 1853; _The works of Edmund Spenser 5 vols._ 1862.
_d._ Riverside, Maidenhead 17 Sep. 1883. _bur._ Bray churchyard 20
Sep. _J. P. Collier’s An old man’s diary 4 parts_ 1871–2;
_Wheatley’s Notes on the life of J. P. Collier_ 1884; _Literary
Cookery_ 1855, _anon. by E. A. Brae_; _Antiquarian Mag. iv_, 272–5
(1883); _I.L.N. lxxxiii_, 309 (1883), _portrait_; _N. E. S. A.
Hamilton’s Genuineness of Collier’s Annotated Shakespeare_ 1860.

COLLINGS, JOHN ELIAS (_son of lieut.-col. Joseph Collings_). _b._ 11
Sep. 1821; ensign 33 foot 21 June 1839, lieut.-col. 17 Nov. 1857
to 28 Oct. 1868 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depôt 1
April 1873 to 24 Jany. 1874 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 18 Sep.
1879; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July
1881; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. _d._ Grange hill, Guernsey 10 Dec. 1886.

COLLINGS, SIR WILLIAM (_2 son of John Collings of St. Peter port,
Guernsey_). _b._ St. Peter port 1781; jurat of royal court of
Guernsey 1822; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838; colonel
of Royal Guernsey militia to death. _d._ Guernsey 18 June 1854.

COLLINS, CHARLES ALLSTON (_younger son of Wm. Collins the painter
1788–1847_). _b._ Hampstead 25 Jany. 1828; practised as a painter
1848–58; contributed to _Household Words_; art critic to the
_Echo_; author of _A new sentimental Journey_ 1859; _The
eye-witness, seeing is believing_ 1860; _A cruise upon wheels 2
vols._ 1862; _The bar sinister 2 vols._ 1864; _Strathcairn 2
vols._ 1864; _At the bar, a tale 2 vols._ 1866. _d._ Thurloe
place, Brompton, London, about midnight 9–10 April 1873.
_Illustrated Review v_, 423–8 (1873), _portrait_; _Graphic vii_,
312, 318 (1873), _portrait_.

COLLINS, CHARLES JAMES. On the parliamentary staff of the _Sun_,
_Daily Telegraph_ and _Standard_; edited _Comic News 1 May 1847_;
projected and edited the _Racing Times_ 1861; author of
_Kenilworth_ and other burlesques; _Life and adventures of Dick
Diminy_ 1854; _Sackville Chase 3 vols._ 1863; _Matilda the Dane, a
romance of the affections_ 1863; _The man in chains 3 vols._ 1864;
_Singed Moths, a city romance 3 vols._ 1864. _d._ 9 Manor terrace,
Brixton, London 31 Dec. 1864.

COLLINS, EDWARD FRANCIS. _b._ North of Ireland 1807; came to London
1832 and became private secretary to Joseph Hume, M.P.; sub-editor
of the _Sun_; edited the _Hull Advertiser_ 1842–66; sub-editor of
_The Tablet_ 1868; author of _A form of reciting the most holy
rosary, compiled for the nuns of the convent of our Lord of Mercy
at Hull_ 1859, _anon._ _d._ Upper Clapton near London 3 Jany.
1872.

COLLINS, FRANCES (_dau. of Wm. Dunn of London, engineer_). _b._ 1840
or 1841; author with Mortimer Collins of the novels entitled
_Frances 3 vols._ 1874, _another ed._ 1880, her name is not on the
original ed.; _Sweet and twenty 3 vols._ 1875, _another ed._ 1877;
_The village comedy 3 vols._ 1878; _You play me false 3 vols._
1878; author of _Mortimer Collins, his letters and friendships 2
vols._ 1877; _A broken lily 3 vols._ 1882; author with her cousin
F. Percy Cotton of _Mudge and her chicks by a Brother and Sister
[F.P.C. and F.C.]_ 1880; _The Woodleighs of Amscote by F. Percy
Cotton and F. Collins_ 1881; edited with Tom Taylor _Pen sketches
by a Vanished Hand, from papers of M. Collins_ 1879; edited with
Edmund Yates _Thoughts in my garden by M. Collins 2 vols._ 1880.
(_m._ 4 May 1868 Mortimer Collins 1827–76). _d._ Pine-tree hill,
Camberley, Surrey 16 March 1886, cremated at Woking cemetery 20
March.

COLLINS, HENRY POWELL. M.P. for Taunton 8 Oct. 1812 to 29 Feb. 1820;
sheriff of Somerset 1827. _d._ Weston-super-Mare 22 Aug. 1854 aged
78.

COLLINS, JOHN (_eld. son of John Collins, landlord of the Lucan Spa
house near Dublin_). _b._ Lucan, Sep. 1804; a cook in his father’s
hotel; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 29 Aug. 1832
as Captain Macheath in _The Beggar’s Opera_, chief tenor singer
there; original actor of Paul Clifford at Covent Garden 1835;
first appeared Park theatre, New York 17 Aug. 1846, the best
singer of Irish ballads and humorous songs in America; acted in
United States 1846–64, at Adelphi theatre, London, Oct. 1864, in
Australia 1866. _d._ Philadelphia 13 Aug. 1874. _Actors by
daylight ii_, 153 (1839), _portrait_; _Belgravia xvi_, 443 (1872);
_Ireland’s New York Stage ii_, 464–5 (1867).

COLLINS, MORTIMER, whose full names were Edward James Mortimer
Collins (_only child of Francis Collings of Kingsbridge, Devon,
who d. 1839_). _b._ Plymouth 29 June 1827; reading boy at Gilbert
and Rivingtons, St. John’s sq. London 5 May to 29 June 1838;
assistant in a shop in Holborn 1838; usher in Rev. Richard
Harris’s school at Westbury, Wilts. 1843–5; his first poem, signed
E. J. M. C. printed in _Bath and Cheltenham Gazette 10 April
1844_; contributed to _Felix Farley’s Journal_ at Bristol 1847–9,
Paris correspondent 1848; private tutor at Windermere 1847–8;
usher at Rev. J. H. Crump’s school, Lechlade, Gloucs. Jany. to
June 1849; tutor at Rothwell, Northamptonshire 1849; editor of the
_Lancaster Gazette_, May 1850; master of a school at Launceston
for 3 months in 1851; head master of lower school, Elizabeth
college, Guernsey 1852–5; contributed to _Dublin Univ. Mag._ 1851
and to _Punch_ 1853; started the _Channel Islands Mag._ 1 May
1853, 3 numbers only; opened a private school in Guernsey 1855–6;
edited the _Leamington Mercury_ 1856–7; private tutor at Carlisle
1858; edited the _Plymouth Mail_ 1859, _Nottingham Guardian_
1860–1; contributed to _Temple Bar_ 1861–7; editor of and
contributed to _The Owl_ 1864–6; joint editor of _The Globe_ 1866;
author of _Windermere a poem and Sonnets, Kendal_ 1848; _Idyls and
Rhymes_ 1855; _Summer songs_ 1860; _Who is the heir? 3 vols._
1865; _A selection from the works of Sir Walter Scott_ in Moxon’s
Miniature Poets 1866; _Sweet Anne Page 3 vols._ 1868; _The Ivory
gate 2 vols._ 1869; _Letter to the Eight Hon. B. Disraeli_ 1869 in
verse, anon.; _The Vivian romance 3 vols._ 1870; _The Inn of
strange Meetings, and other Poems_ 1871; _The secret of long life_
1871 _anon._, _5 ed._ 1879; _Marquis and Merchant 3 vols._ 1871;
_The British birds, a communication from the Ghost of
Aristophanes_ 1872, _2 ed._ 1878; _The Princess Clarice 2 vols._
1871; _Two plunges for a pearl 3 vols._ 1872; _Squire Sylvester’s
Whim 3 vols._ 1873; _Miranda a Midsummer madness 3 vols._ 1873;
_Mr. Carington, a tale of love and conspiracy by Robert Turner
Cotton 3 vols._ 1873, _pseud._; _Transmigration 3 vols._ 1874;
_Blacksmith and Scholar, and from Midnight to Midnight 3 vols._
1876; _A fight with fortune, 3 vols._ 1876, _another ed._ 1880.
(_m._ (1) 9 May 1850 at Wargrave, Berks., Susan dau. of William
Hubbard, and widow of Rev. J. H. Crump, chaplain of the Mill Hill
school, Middlesex, who _d._ 14 Feb. 1849 aged 46, she _d._ 5 Aug.
1867 aged 59. _m._ (2) 4 May 1868 at St. Martins in the Fields,
London, Frances dau. of Wm. Dunn of London, engineer, she _d._ 16
March 1886 aged 45). _d._ Nightingale hall, Richmond 28 July 1876.
_bur._ Petersham churchyard 1 Aug. _Mortimer Collins his letters
and friendships, edited by Frances Collins 2 vols._ 1877; _Dublin
Univ. Mag. xc_, 340–56, 474–98, 561–93 (1877); _I.L.N. lxix_, 205,
206 (1876), _portrait_.

COLLINS, SAM, stage name of Samuel Thomas Collins Vagg (_son of
Samuel Vagg who d. Uxbridge 13 Feb. 1868_). Comic singer at Mogul
music hall, Drury lane, London where he made a great hit with the
song _Paddy’s Wedding_; proprietor of Marylebone music hall,
London and Welsh harp, Hendon; became bankrupt on his own petition
2 July 1861; sang at all the chief music halls in London and the
provinces; proprietor of Lansdowne music hall, Islington green,
London, afterwards known as Collins’s music hall 1862 to death.
_d._ 10 Paradise row, Islington 25 May 1865 aged 39. _Illust.
Sporting news iv_, 217 (1865), _portrait_; _Era 28 May 1865 p. 10,
4 June p. 11_.

COLLINS, SAMUEL (_son of a hand-loom weaver_). _b._ Hollinwood near
Manchester 1 Dec. 1802; a hand-loom weaver; a follower of Henry
Hunt and Wm. Cobbett; took part in the meeting at Peterloo 1819;
wrote homely verses, some of them in the Lancashire dialect which
were collected in a small vol. entitled _Miscellaneous poems and
songs of S. Collins with a biographical notice by B. Brierley_
1859. _d._ Hale Moss, Chadderton near Manchester 8 July 1878.

COLLINS, THOMAS (_2 son of Rev. Thomas Collins, V. of Farnham,
Yorkshire who d. 7 May 1870 aged 89_). _b._ 1825; ed. at
Charterhouse and Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1847; barrister I.T. 4 May
1849; M.P. for Knaresborough 1851–2, 1857–65 and 12 May 1881 to
death; M.P. for Boston 1868–74. _d._ Harrogate 26 Nov. 1884 in 59
year.

COLLINS, WILLIAM. _b._ Eastwood, Renfrewshire 12 Oct. 1789; elder of
Tron. ch. Glasgow 1814, and chief mover in appointment of Rev.
Thomas Chalmers to that ch. 1815; opened first local Sabbath sch.
Glasgow 1816; publisher and bookseller; lecturer on Temperance in
Scotland and England 1829–34; founder of British and Foreign
Temperance Soc. London 1830; founder of 20 new churches in Glasgow
1834 etc.; joined the Free ch. movement in 1843 and aided in
erecting many Free churches. _d._ Rothesay 2 Jany. 1853. _Wylie’s
Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 165–72; _Burns’s Temperance
Dictionary_ (1864) _pp._ 433–43.

COLLINS, WILLIAM ANTHONY (_2 son of Charles Collins of Brixworth
hall, Northamptonshire_). _b._ London 1801; ed. at Ch. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1829, bencher 1861;
Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861. _d._ Warrior sq. St. Leonard’s on Sea 30 March
1875. _bur._ Tonbridge, Kent.

COLLINS, REV. WILLIAM LUCAS (_only son of Rev. John Collins of
Axwich, Glamorgan_). Educ. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A.
1841; C. of Great Houghton, Northamptonshire 1835–62; R. of
Cheriton, Glamorganshire 1863–7; V. of Kilsby 1867–73; R. of
Lowick 1873 to death; V. of Slipton 1876 to death; hon. canon of
Peterborough 1871 to death; editor of _Ancient classics for
English readers_ 1870, wrote the vols. on _Homer’s Iliad and
Odyssey, Aristophanes, Lucian, Virgil, Plautus, Terence, Cicero,
Livy and Thucydides_; author of _The luck of Ladysmede_ 1860; _The
education question_ 1862; _Etoniana ancient and modern_ 1865; _The
public schools by W. L. C._ 1867; _Montaigne_ in Mrs. Oliphant’s
_Foreign classics for English readers_ 1879; _Butler_ in Knight’s
_Philosophical classics for English readers_ 1881; _La Fontaine
and other French fabulists_ in _Foreign Classics_ 1882;
contributed to _Blackwood’s Mag._ from 1843. _d._ Lowick rectory
24 March 1887 aged 70. _Blackwood’s Mag. cxli_, 734–6 (1887).

COLLINSON, JAMES (_son of Mr. Collinson of Mansfield, Notts.
bookseller_). _b._ Mansfield about 1825; ed. at Royal Academy
school; exhibited a picture called ‘The charity boy’s début’ at
the R.A. 1847; one of the original 7 brothers of the
Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood; contributed a devotional poem in blank
verse entitled _The Child Jesus_ to the Pre-Raphaelite periodical
_The Germ_ 1850; lived in seclusion at Stonyhurst 1851–4; fellow
of Society of British Artists. _d._ of pneumonia at 16 Paulet
road, Camberwell, London 24 Jany. 1881. _Fraser’s Mag. May 1882
pp._ 568–80.

COLLINSON, REV. JOHN (_son of Rev. Richard Collinson of Bristol_).
Educ. at Winchester and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806;
one of Select Preachers 1809, Bampton Lecturer 1813; R. of
Gateshead 1810–40; R. of Boldon, Durham, 1840 to death; hon. canon
of Durham 1844 to death; author of _Analysis of Hooker’s eight
books of ecclesiastical polity_ 1810; _Life of Thuanus with
account of his writings_ 1807; _Key to the writings of the Fathers
of the Christian church_ 1813; _Observations on the history of the
gospel from Solomon’s temple to first Christian century_ 1830;
_History of Reformation, from the French of A. Ruchat_ 1845. _d._
Boldon 17 Feb. 1857. _G.M. ii_, 492–93 (1857).

COLLINSON, SIR RICHARD (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Gateshead 7
Nov. 1811; entered navy 2 Dec. 1823; captain 23 Dec. 1842; captain
of the Enterprise 14 Dec. 1849 to 6 May 1855 during the expedition
to Behring strait in search of Sir John Franklin; granted good
service pension 4 Dec. 1857; an elder brother of the Trinity House
1862, deputy master 7 Sep. 1875 to death; V.A. 17 March 1869;
retired admiral 30 July 1875; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 29 May
1875; F.R.G.S. gold medallist 1848; edited for the Hakluyt Society
_The three voyages of Martin Frobisher in search of a passage to
Cathaia and India by the Northwest_ 1867. _d._ Haven Green, Ealing
12 Sep. 1883. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v_, 606–9, 734 (1883);
_I.L.N. xxvi_, 472 (1855), _portrait_, _lxxxiii_, 309 (1883),
_portrait_.

COLLIS, REV. JOHN DAY (_eld. son of Rev. Robert Fitzgerald Collis
1790–1863, preb. of Kilconnel, co. Galway_). _b._ 24 Feb. 1816;
ed. at Rugby and Worcester coll. Ox., Eaton scholar 1835, B.A.
1838, M.A. 1841, B.D. and D.D. 1860; Kennicott Hebrew scholar
1839; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1841; fellow of his
college; head master of Bromsgrove gr. school Dec. 1842–1867,
tercentenary of the school was celebrated 31 March 1853, the
chapel was built at cost of £1500, 1856; hon. canon of Worcester
1854 to death; Grinfield lecturer on Septuagint in Univ. of Ox.
1863–65; V. of Stratford-on-Avon 1867 to death; founded Trinity
college school at Stratford-on-Avon 27 Jany. 1872; author of _The
chief rules of Greek accentuation_ 1849 and other Greek school
books; _The chief tenses of Latin irregular verbs_ 1854 and other
Latin school books; _Historical notes on the church of St. John
the Baptist_, _Bromsgrove_ 1859; _Ponticulus Latinus, History of
Rome to destruction of Carthage_ 1860. _d._ Shottery hall,
Stratford-on-Avon 1 April 1879. _bur._ Bromsgrove cemetery 4
April.

COLLIS, MAURICE HENRY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1824; ed.
at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1847, M.B. 1849, M.D. 1867, L.R.C.S.I.
1847, F.R.C.S.I. 1850; surgeon to Meath Hosp. 1851 to death; pres.
of council of Irish Medical Assoc.; author of _On the diagnosis
and treatment of cancer and the tumours analogous to it_ 1864.
_d._ Dublin 28 March 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 404–5
(1869).

COLLS, REV. JOHN FLOWERDEW. _b._ 15 Aug. 1801; ed. at Merchant
Taylors’ and Trin. coll. Cam., B.D. 1834, D.D. 1842; R. of
Laindon, Herts. 1853 to death; author of _Vindication of infant
baptism_ 1829; _Utilitarianism unmasked_ 1844. _d._ 9 Hanover st.
Hanover square, London 19 Nov. 1878.

COLLYER, JOHN (_eld. child of the succeeding_). _b._ 15 July 1801;
ed. at Charterhouse and Clare coll. Cam., fellow, B.A. 1822, M.A.
1825; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1827; commissary of Norwich 1842;
judge of county courts, circuit 35, Cambridgeshire, March 1847 to
death; author of _A practical treatise on the law of Partnership_
1832, _2 ed._ 1840; _Reports of cases decided in the court of
Chancery by Sir J. L. Knight Bruce_ 1844–6, _2 vols._ 1845–7;
author with Edward Younge of _Reports of cases in the court of
Exchequer in Equity_ 1833–41, _4 vols._ 1836–46; _Reports of cases
decided in the court of Chancery by Sir J. L. Knight Bruce_
1841–4, _2 vols._ 1843–4. _d._ Hackford hall, Reepham, Norfolk 1
Sep. 1870.

COLLYER, VENERABLE JOHN BEDINGFELD (_2 son of Rev. Daniel Collyer of
Wroxham hall, Norfolk_). _b._ 26 Jany. 1777; ed. at Clare coll.
Camb., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1808; V. of Wroxham, Norfolk 1801 to death;
archdeacon of Norwich 23 Sep. 1844 to death; author of Charges and
Sermons 1838–56. _d._ Hackford hall, Norfolk 29 March 1857.

COLLYER, REV. WILLIAM BENGO (_son of Thomas Collyer of Deptford,
builder_). _b._ Deptford 14 April 1782; ed. at the Old college,
Homerton; Congregational minister at Peckham 1800 to death, his
chapel was rebuilt and reopened under name of Hanover chapel 1816;
ordained Dec. 1801, D.D. Edin. 1808; minister at Salter’s hall
chapel, Islington 1813 to death; author of _Fugitive pieces for
the use of schools_ 1803; _Hymns designed as a substitute for Dr.
Watts_ 1812; _Services suited to the solemnisation of matrimony
with original hymns_ 1837, and several series of popular lectures
on scripture subjects. _d._ May 1854. _European Mag. lxxii_,
407–10 (1817), _portrait_; _Waddington’s Congregational history
iv_, 136–42 (1878); _The Unique, vol. 2_ (1825), _portrait_; _Some
of Dr. Collyer’s errors stated and corrected_ 1821.

COLNAGHI, DOMINIC PAUL (_eld. son of Paul Colnaghi of London, print
dealer 1751–1833_). _b._ London 15 July 1790; head of the firm of
Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, print dealers 14 Pall Mall East 1833;
had a European reputation as an authority on prints; a connoiseur
in ancient armour, original possessor of a large portion of the
Meyrick collection; retired from business 1865; published
_Colnaghi’s Patriotic fund almanac_ 1854; _Colnaghi’s Crimean
almanac_ 1855. _d._ 62 Margaret st. Cavendish sq. London 19 Dec.
1879.

COLOMB, GEORGE THOMAS. Ensign 96 foot 8 Dec. 1808; captain 5 dragoon
guards 17 March 1825 to 27 April 1827 when placed on h.p.; col. 4
West India regiment 24 April 1866 to 3 March 1869; L.G. 31 March
1866; col. 97 foot 3 March 1869 to death. _d._ Dalkey, co. Dublin
20 March 1874.

COLONSAY, DUNCAN M’NEILL, 1 Baron (_2 son of John Mc. Neill of
Colonsay, Argyllshire, who d. 1846_). _b._ Colonsay 20 Aug. 1793;
ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; called to Scottish bar
1816; advocate depute 1820–4; sheriff of Perthshire, Dec. 1824 to
Dec. 1834; solicitor general for Scotland Nov. 1834 to April 1835
and Sep. 1841 to 26 Oct. 1842; Her Majesty’s advocate for Scotland
26 Oct. 1842 to July 1846; dean of faculty of advocates 1843–51; a
lord of session 15 May 1851; a lord of justiciary 30 May 1851;
lord justice general and pres. of court of session 15 May 1852 to
Feb. 1867; P.C. 8 Aug. 1853; M.P. for Argyllshire 1843–51; created
baron Colonsay of Colonsay and Oransay in the co. of Argyle 26
Feb. 1867. _d._ Pau, France 31 Jany. 1874.

COLQUHOUN, FRANCES SARA (_dau. of Edward Fuller Maitland of Park
place, Stansted hall, Essex_). Completed Henry Kirke White’s
fragment beginning ‘Much in sorrow, oft in woe’ which completion
has been universally accepted for use in the Church of England;
author of _Rhymes and Chimes_ 1876. (_m._ 29 Jany. 1834 John
Colquhoun 1805–85). _d._ 27 May 1877.

COLQUHOUN, SIR JAMES, 4 Baronet. _b._ Edinburgh 7 Feb. 1804; ed. at
Geneva; succeeded 3 Feb. 1836; lord lieutenant of Dumbartonshire
1837; M.P. for Dumbartonshire 1837–1841. Drowned in Loch Lomond 18
Dec. 1873.

COLQUHOUN, JAMES NISBET. _b._ parish of St. Pierre, Guernsey 23 June
1791; Second lieut. R.A. 1 June 1808, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846 to
death; inspector of carriage department at Woolwich 1845; raised,
organized, equipped and commanded corps of artillery attached to
British auxiliary legion under De Lacy Evans for service of Queen
of Spain in war against Don Carlos 1835–6; A.I.C.E. 1843, member
of council 1846; F.R.S. _d._ Woolwich barracks 17 Sep. 1853. _Min.
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii_, 149–56 (1854).

COLQUHOUN, JOHN (_brother of Sir James Colquhoun, 4 baronet
1804–73_). _b._ Charlotte sq. Edin. 6 March 1805; ensign 33 foot
1828; lieut. 4 dragoon guards 1829 to 1834 when he sold out;
author of _The moor and the loch_ 1840, _6 ed._ 1884; _Rocks and
Rivers_ 1849; _Salmon casts and stray shots_ 1858; _Sporting Days_
1866, and of 2 lectures, _The feræ naturæ of the British islands_
1873, _Instinct and Reason_ 1874. _d._ Royal Terrace, Edinburgh 27
May 1885. _The moor and the loch_, _6 ed._ 1884; _The Chiefs of
Colquhoun by W. Fraser_, _2 vols._ _privately printed Edin._ 1869.

COLQUHOUN, JOHN CAMPBELL (_5 son of Sir James Colquhoun, 2
Baronet_). _b._ Edinburgh 31 Jany. 1785; studied at Göttingen;
called to bar in Scotland 7 June 1806; sheriff depute of
Dumbartonshire 1815–84; author of _Isis Revelata, an inquiry into
the origin, progress and present state of animal magnetism_ 1836
and of a translation of Wienholt’s _Seven lectures on
Somnambulism_ 1845. _d._ Edinburgh 21 Aug. 1854.

COLQUHOUN, JOHN CAMPBELL (_eld. son of Archibald Campbell, lord
registrar of Scotland, who took name of Colquhoun and d. 1820_).
_b._ Edinburgh 23 Jany. 1803; ed. at Edin. high sch. and Oriel
coll. Ox., B.A. 1823; M.P. for Dumbartonshire 1832–4, for
Kilmarnock 1837–41, for Newcastle under Lyme 1842–7; author of
_Short sketches of some notable lives_ 1855; _Life in Italy and
France in the olden times_ 1858; _William Wilberforce his friends
and his times_ 1866, _2 ed._ 1867; _Memorials of H. M. Colquhoun_
1870, and numerous other works. _d._ Chesham st. London 17 April
1870.

COLQUHOUN, SIR ROBERT GILMOUR (_eld. son of Robert Colquhoun of
Camstroden, Dumbarton_). _b._ Glasgow 9 Jany. 1803; ed. at Pemb.
coll. Ox.; British consul at Bucharest 17 Nov. 1834, consul
general there 15 Dec. 1837, agent and consul general 18 Nov. 1851;
consul general and agent in Egypt 13 Dec. 1858 to 14 Aug. 1865;
C.B. 5 Dec. 1859, K.C.B. 30 May 1865. _d._ Fincastle, Perthshire
10 Nov. 1870.

COLT, REV. SIR EDWARD HENRY VAUGHAN, 6 Baronet. _b._ Lescroft,
Staffs. April 1808; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1836; V. of
Hill, Gloucs. 1839 to death; succeeded 9 June 1849. _d._ Hill
vicarage 15 Oct. 1882.

COLTHURST, SIR GEORGE CONWAY, 5 Baronet. _b._ 1824; ed. at Harrow;
succeeded 22 June 1829; M.P. for Kinsale 8 June 1863 to Jany.
1874. _d._ Buxton 24 Sep. 1878.

COLVILE, CHARLES ROBERT (_eld. son of Sir Charles Henry Colvile of
Duffield hall, Derbyshire, who d. 28 Sep. 1833_). _b._ London 30
March 1815; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for South Derbyshire
1841–59 and 1865–8; sheriff of Derbyshire 1874. _d._ Lullington
hall, Burton-on-Trent 10 March 1886.

COLVILE, REV. FREDERICK LEIGH (_eld. son of Frederick Charles
Colvile of Marylebone, London_). Educ. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A.
1840, M.A. 1843; V. of Leek Wootton near Warwick 1842–80; chaplain
of Stoneleigh abbey 1853–80; rural dean of Coventry 1856–80;
author of _Catechism on the liturgy of the Church of England_, _9
ed._ 1850; _Stoneleigh Abbey from its foundation by F. L. C.,
privately printed_ 1850; _Worthies of Warwickshire_ 1870. _d._
Kempsey, Bournemouth 28 March 1886.

COLVILE, HENRY ROBERT (_4 son of Robert Colvile of Newton hall,
Cambs. 1763–99_). _b._ 1795; ed. at Eton; ensign 3 foot guards 29
Dec. 1813, lieut.-col. 25 March 1852 to Feb. 1854; col. 12 foot 29
Oct. 1864 to death; general 27 March 1868. _d._ Kempsey hall near
Worcester 1 Nov. 1875.

COLVILE, SIR JAMES WILLIAM (_eld. son of Andrew Wedderburn,
afterwards Colvile, of Crombie, Fifeshire, who d. 1856_). _b._
London 12 Jany. 1810; ed. at Eton and Trin coll. Cam., B.A. 1831,
M.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1835, bencher; advocate general
at Calcutta 1845–8; puisne judge of supreme court of Bengal
1848–55, chief justice 1855–9; knighted by patent 9 Dec. 1848;
P.C. 6 July 1859; assessor of judicial committee of privy council
on Indian appeals 1859; member of judicial committee 20 Nov. 1865
to Nov. 1871, one of the 4 paid judges Nov. 1871 to death; pres.
of Asiatic Society of Calcutta; F.R.S. 29 April 1875. _d._ 8
Rutland gate, London 6 Dec. 1880. _bur._ Craigflower near
Dunfermline 11 Dec. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv_, _page x_ (1883);
_Graphic iv_, 531 (1871), _portrait_.

COLVIN, JOHN. Lieut. col. Bengal Engineers 20 April 1835; C.B. 2
July 1838; retired col. Bengal army 4 Sep. 1839. _d._ Lintwardine,
Herefordshire 27 April 1871.

COLVIN, JOHN RUSSELL (_2 son of James Colvin of London and Calcutta,
merchant_). _b._ Calcutta May 1807; ed. at St. Andrew’s, Fifeshire
and Haileybury; went to Bengal 1826; assistant to Registrar of the
Sudder Court 1826, to Resident at Hyderabad 14 Dec. 1827;
assistant sec. in Revenue and Judicial department at Calcutta 4
Jany. 1831; Sec. to Board of Revenue in Lower Provinces 13 March
1835; private sec. to Lord Auckland the Governor General 1836–42;
resident in Nepaul 1845; commissioner of Tenasserim provinces
1846; judge of Sudder Court at Calcutta 1849; lieut. governor of
north western provinces 1853. _d._ Agra 9 Sep. 1857. _G.M. iv_,
212–19 (1858).

COMBE, BOYCE (_2 son of Harvey Christian Combe of Cobham park,
Surrey 1752–1818_). _b._ London 1789; ed. at Harrow; barrister
L.I. 19 Nov. 1813, bencher; magistrate at Thames police court
1833, at Lambeth St. near Whitechapel 1838, at Hatton garden 1839,
at Clerkenwell 1842, at Southwark 1851 to death. _d._ 43 Upper
Seymour st. Portman sq. London 7 Jany. 1864. _I.L.N. x_, 332
(1847), _portrait_.

COMBE, GEORGE (_son of George Combe of Edinburgh, brewer, who d. 29
Sep. 1815 in 60 year._) _b._ Livingston’s yards, Edin. 21 Oct.
1788; studied at Univ. of Edin. 1802–4; admitted a writer to the
signet 31 Jany. 1812, practised in Edin 1812–36; a founder of
Phrenological Society, Feb. 1820; delivered 158 lectures on
phrenology and education in United States 1838–40; author of
_Elements of phrenology_ 1824, _8 ed._ 1855; _Outlines of
phrenology_ 1824, _9 ed._ 1854; _The constitution of man
considered in relation to external objects_ 1828, _9 ed._ 1860;
_Notes on the United States 3 vols._ 1841, and numerous other
works. _d._ Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey 14 Aug. 1858. _bur._ in the
Dean cemetery, Edin. _The life of George Combe by Charles Gibbon 2
vols._ 1878, _portrait_; _Charles Mackay’s Forty years
recollections_ (1877) _ii_, 241–70; _H. Martineau’s Biographical
sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 265–77; _R. Capen’s Reminiscences of
Spurzheim and Combe_ 1881; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882)
161–6, _portrait_.

COMBE, RICHARD THOMAS (_2 son of John Maddison of Alvingham, Lincs,
who d. 1849_). _b._ 1813; ed. at Winchester and Univ. coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1835; barrister M.T. 1840; assumed name of Combe in lieu of
Maddison by royal license 18 Dec. 1849; chairman of Ilminster
bench of magistrates; recorder of Langport; sheriff of Somerset
1867. Shot himself 8 May 1880.

COMBE, THOMAS (_son of Thomas Combe of Leicester, bookseller_). _b._
June 1796; assistant to Joseph Parker of Oxford bookseller to
1823, to M. A. Nattali of London 1823–7; partner with his father
1827; senior partner in University press, Oxford; manager of
classical side of Clarendon press, Ox.; architypographer to Univ.
of Ox.; managing partner of the Bible press, Ox.; built and
endowed church of St. Barnabas’s, Jericho, Oxford 1869; built
chapel attached to Radcliffe infirmary, Ox.; owner of Holman
Hunt’s picture ‘The light of the world’ which his widow gave to
Keble college, Ox. _d._ The Clarendon press, Oxford 29 Oct. 1872.