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COMBERMERE, STAPLETON COTTON, 1 Viscount (_2 son of Sir Robert
Salusbury Cotton, 5 baronet, who d. 24 Aug. 1809_). _b._ Llewenny
hall, co. Denbigh 14 Nov. 1773; ed. at Westminster; 2 lieut. 23
foot 26 Feb. 1790; lieut.-col. 25 light dragoons 9 March 1794 to
14 Feb. 1800; lieut.-col. 16 light dragoons 14 Feb. 1800 to 27
Jany. 1813; succeeded 24 Aug. 1809; M.P. for Newark 1806–1814;
commanded a brigade of cavalry in Portugal 1808; commanded whole
allied cavalry under Duke of Wellington 1810–14; col. 20 light
dragoons 27 Jany. 1813–1819 when regiment was disbanded; created
Baron Combermere of Combermere Abbey 17 May 1814 for his brilliant
services during Peninsula war, with an annuity of £2000 for two
generations; commanded allied cavalry in France 1815–16, the
forces in West Indies 21 Dec. 1816 to 9 Feb. 1821; governor of
Barbados 14 Feb. 1817 to 2 March 1821; commander in chief in
Ireland 1822–5; col. 3 light dragoons 25 Jan. 1821 to 16 Sep.
1829; governor of Sheerness 25 Jany. 1821 to 11 Oct. 1852;
commander in chief in India 9 Feb. 1825 to 1 Jany. 1830, captured
city of Bhurtpoor, Hindostan 18 Jany. 1826; created Viscount
Combermere 2 Dec. 1826; col. 1 life guards 16 Sep. 1829 to death;
P.C. 15 Dec. 1834; constable of Tower of London 11 Oct. 1852 to
death, sworn in 21 Feb. 1853; field marshal 2 Oct. 1855; G.C.B. 21
Aug. 1813, G.C.H. 24 July 1817, K.S.I. 19 Aug. 1861; portrait in
National portrait gallery. _d._ Clifton 21 Feb. 1865. _bur._
Wrenbury ch. where is a monument; statue by Marochetti at Chester
castle. _Memoirs 2 vols._ 1866, 2 _portraits_; _Army and navy mag.
iii_, 481–5 (1882), _portrait_.

COMER, JOHN. Popular singer at concerts in Bath 1821; sang in
principal cities in Italy 1830–5; Mus. Doc. Bologna 1832;
principal bass singer in Italian opera at Her Majesty’s theatre,
London 1835; lived at Taunton from 1836 to death; leader of the
Taunton Madrigal Soc. many years. _d._ Ilchester 17 March 1886
aged 86.

COMER, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Bath 19 Dec. 1790;
first appeared on stage at Bath theatre 1803 as Don Cæsar in _The
castle of Andalusia_; first appeared in London 1816 as the Officer
in _The Slave_; went to United States 1827; director of music at
Tremont theatre, Boston 1828 and at other houses there. _d._
Bromfield house, Boston 27 July 1862. _Ireland’s New York Stage
i_, 224, 556 (1866).

COMPTON, HENRY, stage name of Charles Mackenzie (_6 child of John
Mackenzie of Huntingdon_). _b._ Huntingdon 22 March 1805; clerk in
office of Mr. Symonds of Aldermanbury, London, cloth merchant;
acted on the Bedford, Lincoln and York circuits 1826–37; first
appeared in London at Lyceum theatre 24 July 1837 as Robin in _The
Waterman_; played at Drury Lane 1837–8, 1839 and 1843–4, at Lyceum
1838–9, at Princess’s 1844–7, at Olympic 1847–50 and 1850–3, at
Strand 1849–50, at Haymarket 1853–70, at Globe 1871, at Lyceum
1874; went on a tour with the Vezin-Chippendale company; last
appeared at Prince of Wales’s theatre, Liverpool 14 July 1877; the
best Shakespearean clown of his time. _d._ 12 Stanford road,
Victoria road, Kensington 15 Sep. 1877. _Memoir of H. Compton
edited by C. and E. Compton_ 1879, _portrait_; _Actors by daylight
i_, 289 (1838), _portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_,
_part 11_, _portrait as Launce_; _The Players ii_, 25 (1860),
_portrait_; _Theatrical times ii_, 1 (1847), _portrait_.

COMPTON, HENRY COMBE. _b._ 6 Jany. 1789; ed. at Eton and Merton
coll. Ox; M.P. for South Hants. 1835–57. _d._ Minstead manor
house, Lyndhurst, Hants. 27 Nov. 1866.

COMYN, SIR ROBERT BUCKLEY (_3 son of Rev. Thomas Comyn, V. of
Tottenham, Middlesex who d. 16 Feb. 1798_). _b._ Tottenham 26 June
1792; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; commoner of St. John’s
coll. Ox. 1809; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1815, D.C.L. 1842; barrister L.I.
24 Nov. 1814; puisne judge of supreme court of Madras 19 Aug.
1825, chief justice 31 Dec. 1835 to Jany. 1842 when he resigned;
knighted at Carlton house 9 Feb. 1825; bencher of M.T. 1844;
author of _Treatise on law of Usury_ 1817; _Treatise on the law of
landlord and tenant_ 1830; _History of Western Europe from the
birth of Charlemagne to the accession of Charles v_, 1841. _d._ 9
New st. Spring gardens, London 23 May 1853.

CONDER, JOSIAH (_4 son of Thomas Conder of London, engraver, who d.
June 1831 aged 84_). _b._ Falcon st. Aldersgate, London 17 Sep.
1789; lost his right eye by small pox 1795; assisted his father in
a bookselling business at 30 Bucklersbury 1802–11, carried on the
business alone 1811–19; edited _Eclectic Review_ 1814–37; edited
_Patriot_ newspaper, Jany. 1833 to death; edited _Modern Traveller
30 vols._ 1825–9; author of _Gloria in excelsis Deo, a poem_ 1812;
_The law of the Sabbath_ 1830, _2 ed._ 1852; _Italy 3 vols._ 1831;
_A dictionary of geography_ 1834; _An analytical view of all
religions_ 1838. _d._ 28 Belsize road, St. John’s Wood, London 27
Dec. 1855. _Josiah Conder, a memoir by E. R. Conder_ 1857.

CONDY, NICHOLAS. _b._ Torpoint, Cornwall 1793; ensign 43 foot 9 May
1811, lieut. 24 Feb. 1813 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; a
painter at Plymouth; chiefly produced small water-colours on
tinted paper about 8 inches by 5, which he sold at prices ranging
from fifteen shillings to one guinea each; exhibited 2 landscapes
at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. gallery 1830–45; published
_Cotehele on the banks of the Tamar with a descriptive account by
the Rev. F. V. J. Arundell_, _17 plates_. _d._ 10 Mount Pleasant
terrace, Plymouth 8 Jany. 1857 aged 64.

CONDY, NICHOLAS MATTHEWS (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Union st.
Plymouth 1818; a painter at Plymouth; exhibited three sea pieces
at R.A. 1842–5, which gave hopes of his becoming a distinguished
artist. _d._ The Grove, Plymouth 20 May 1851. _Reminiscences of a
yachting cruise by Mrs. N. M. Condy with drawings by T. G. Dutton
from sketches by N. M. Condy_ 1852, _portrait_.

CONGLETON, JOHN VESEY PARNELL, 2 Baron (_eld. son of 1 Baron
Congleton 1776–1842_). _b._ Baker st. London 16 June 1805; ed. at
Edin.; received a commission in the army which he never took up;
became acquainted with A. N. Groves in Dublin 1827, conveyed him
to Russia in the yacht The Osprey 1829; took a room in Aungier st.
Dublin for The Brethren 1829; travelled in the East 1830–4 and in
India 1834–7; resided at Teignmouth where he lived with great
simplicity, preached to The Brethren congregations and spent
nearly all his capital in good works 1837–42; succeeded 8 June
1842; resided at Islington 1842–6, at Brighton 1846–9, in London
1849 to death; minister in the Orchard st. chapel, London 1849–60,
in the Welbeck st. chapel 1860 to death; gave one half his income
in charity; author of _The resurrection life, a tract_ 1845, _13
editions_; _The true idea of Baptism_ 1850; _The Psalms, a new
version_ 1860, _another ed._ 1875, and of many tracts. _d._ 53
Great Cumberland place, London 23 Oct. 1883. _bur._ Kensal Green
cemetery where upwards of 1000 Plymouth Brethren attended. _Memoir
of Lord Congleton by H. Groves_ 1884, _portrait_.

CONGREVE, GEORGE. Ensign 29 foot 8 April 1825, lieut.-col. 11 Feb.
1846 to 29 Sep. 1859 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 24 May 1847;
quartermaster general East Indies 28 Nov. 1854 to 1860; M.G. 20
July 1860. _d._ Simla 30 April 1861.

CONGREVE, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, 3 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir Wm.
Congreve 2 baronet 1772–1828_). _b._ 1827; succeeded 16 May 1828;
last heard of in 1860 when he was in Sydney and proposed going to
Omaha in Fiji islands; advertised for in _The Times_ 17 Feb. 1882
p. 1 col. 2. Sir James Hannen judge of the Court of Probate
directed letters of administration to issue 30 Nov. 1882,
presuming that his death took place 14 Feb. 1860 when he wrote his
last letter home.

CONINGHAM, HENRY. Entered Madras army 1819; col. 7 Madras light
cavalry 24 Oct. 1858 to death; L.G. 6 Nov. 1866. _d._ Nice 21
April 1868 aged 70.

CONINGHAM, WILLIAM (_son of Rev. Robert Coningham of Londonderry_).
_b._ Rose hill near Penzance 1815; cornet 1 dragoons 1834–6;
contested Brighton, July 1847 and Westminster, July 1852; M.P. for
Brighton 28 March 1857 to Jany. 1864; published _Twelve letters by
John Sterling_ [to William Coningham] 1851, _3 ed._ [1872]; _Lord
Palmerston and Prince Albert.... Letters by W. Coningham, together
with “The suppressed pamphlet,” entitled “Palmerston, what has he
done?” by “One of the people”_ 1854, and other books. _d._ 6 Lewes
crescent, Kemp Town, Brighton 20 Dec. 1884.

CONINGTON, FRANCIS THIRKILL (_3 son of Rev. Richard Conington,
Minister of chapel of ease, Boston, Lincs. who d. 25 Sep. 1861
aged 65_). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 12 June 1846 aged 18;
fellow of his coll. 1849 to death; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; examiner
in science in Univ. of Ox. 1860–1; author of _Handbook of chemical
analysis_ 1858; contributed to periodicals 1860 to death. _d._
Boston 20 Nov. 1863 aged 35.

CONINGTON, JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Boston 10 Aug.
1825; ed. at Beverley gr. sch., Rugby and Magd. coll. Ox., demy,
June 1843; Hertford and Ireland scholar 1844; scholar of Univ.
coll. March 1846, fellow May 1847 to 1855; sec. of Union Society
1845, pres. 1846, librarian 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; Eldon law
scholar for 6 months 1849; student at L.I. June 1849 but not
called to bar; contributed to _Morning Chronicle_ 1849–50; Corpus
professor of Latin in Univ. of Ox. June 1854 to death; published
_The Agamemnon of Æschylus translated into English verse_ 1848;
_On the academical study of Latin_ 1855; _The works of Virgil with
a commentary 3 vols._ 1858–70; _The odes and carmen seculare of
Horace translated into English verse_ 1863, _4 ed._ 1870; _The
Æneid of Virgil translated into English verse_ 1866, _3 ed._ 1870.
_d._ Boston 23 Oct. 1869. _bur._ Fishtoft churchyard 26 Oct.
_Miscellaneous writings of John Conington edited by J. A. Symonds
with a memoir by H. J. S. Smith 2 vols._ 1872; _Memoirs of Mark
Pattison_ (1885) 245–52.

CONNELL, ARTHUR (_eld. son of Sir John Connell, judge of the
admiralty court of Scotland_). _b._ Edinburgh 30 Nov. 1794; ed. at
High sch. and Univ. of Edin.; Snell exhibitioner at Univ. of
Glasgow; matric. from Balliol coll. Ox. 20 March 1812; passed
advocate at Scotch bar 1817 but never practised; professor of
chemistry in Univ. of St. Andrews 1840–56; F.R.S. Edin. 1829,
F.R.S. 1855; established several new mineral species; author of _A
treatise on the election laws in Scotland_ 1827, many papers in
_Trans. of Royal Soc. of Edin._ and in _Edin. Philos. Journal._
_d._ St. Andrew’s, Fife 31 Oct. 1863.

CONNELLAN, OWEN. _b._ co. Sligo 1800; employed as a scribe in Royal
Irish academy more than 20 years; Irish historiographer to George
iv and William iv 1821–37; professor of Irish in Queen’s college,
Cork 1849 to death; author of _The gospel according to St. John,
in Irish with an English translation_ 1830; _A Dissertation on
Irish grammar_ 1834; _The annals of Ireland translated from the
original Irish of the Four Masters_ 1846; _The proceedings of the
Great Bardic Institution_ 1854 being vol. 5 of _Transactions of
Ossianic Society_. _d._ Dublin 1869.

CONNELLAN, THADDEUS. Author of _The two first books of the
Pentateuch, the types cut from Irish MSS._ 1820; _The
Irish-English guide to the Irish language_ 1824; _The King’s
Letter translated into Irish_ 1825; _The Irish-English spelling
book_ 1825; _The Irish-English primer_ 1825; _Easy lessons on
money matters, commerce, trade, wages etc._ 1835; _Psalma Daibi_
1836; _The Gospel of St. Matthew in Irish_ 1840; _The Acts of the
Apostles in Irish_ 1840. _d._ Sligo 25 July 1854.

CONNOLLY, WILLIAM HALLETT. Second lieut. R.M. 8 May 1795,
lieut.-col. 16 April 1832, col. commandant of Woolwich division 10
July 1837 to 1842 when he retired on full pay; general 20 June
1855. _d._ King’s terrace, Southsea 20 June 1861 aged 79.

CONNOP, RICHARD. Ensign 93 foot 30 Dec. 1813, captain 25 Sep. 1817
to 19 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 31 March 1866. _d._
Dawlish 5 Feb. 1867 aged 75.

CONNOR, VERY REV. GEORGE HENRY (_eld. son of George Connor, master
in chancery in Ireland_). _b._ 21 Dec. 1822; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1851; M.A. at Ox. 1859; V. of Newport,
Isle of Wight 1852–82; hon. chaplain to the Queen 11 Oct. 1872,
chaplain in ord. 8 Feb. 1875, resident chaplain in ord. 2 Nov.
1882 to death; dean of Windsor 30 Oct. 1882, installed 10 Nov.
1882. _d._ The deanery, Windsor castle 1 May 1883. _Church
portrait journal i_, 93 (1880), _portrait_; _Graphic xxvi_, 412
(1882), _portrait_.

CONNOR, SKEFFINGTON. _b._ Dublin 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1828, LL.B. and LLD. 1845; called to Irish bar 1838; called
to Canadian bar at Toronto 1842; bencher of Canadian law society
1850, Q.C. 1850; represented South Oxford in legislative assembly
1856–63; solicitor general for Upper Canada 1858; puisne judge of
Court of Queen’s Bench, Upper Canada 1 Feb. 1863. _d._ Toronto 29
April 1863.

CONOLLY, HENRY VALENTINE (_son of Valentine Conolly of 37 Portland
place, London, who d. 2 Dec. 1819_). _b._ 5 Dec. 1806; ed. at
Rugby; a writer in Madras civil service 19 May 1824; collector and
magistrate in Malabar 1841 to death; murdered by some Mopla
fanatics in his house at Calicut 11 Sep. 1855; there is a monument
to him in the cathedral Madras, and a scholarship was founded in
his memory at the Madras University.

CONOLLY, JAMES. _b._ 19 Feb. 1818; cornet 5 dragoon guards 17 June
1836; deputy adjutant general Canada 6 Dec. 1861 to 20 May 1865;
assistant quartermaster general at Aldershot 7 Nov. 1867 to 31
Aug. 1869; military attaché at Vienna 1869–71, at Paris 5 April
1871 to 30 Dec. 1880; L.G. 26 Dec. 1880; placed on retired list
with hon. rank of general 19 Feb. 1885; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._
Wiesbaden 22 June 1885.

CONOLLY, JOHN (_son of Mr. Conolly of Market Rasen, Lincs. who d.
1799_). _b._ Market Rasen 27 May 1794; ensign in Cambridgeshire
militia 1812–16; studied at Univ. of Edin. 1817–21, M.D. 1821;
physician at Chichester 1822–23, at Stratford-on-Avon 1823–7;
professor of practice of medicine in Univ. coll. London 1828–30;
practised at Warwick 1830–8; resident phys. to Middlesex county
asylum at Hanwell 1 June 1839 to 1844, where he entirely abolished
restraint; kept a private asylum at Lawn house near Hanwell 1852
to death; an original member of British medical Assoc. 1832, of
Ethnological Soc. 1843; author of _The construction and government
of lunatic asylums_ 1847; _The treatment of the insane without
mechanical restraints_ 1856; _A study of Hamlet_ 1863. _d._ Lawn
House near Hanwell 5 March 1866. _Sir James Clark’s Memoir of J.
Conolly_ 1869; _Medical Circular ii_, 469–70 (1853), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xlviii_, 317 (1866), _portrait_.

CONOLLY, THOMAS. _b._ Kilcooly abbey, Tipperary 23 Feb. 1823; ed. at
Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Donegal 1848; M.P. for Donegal
20 Feb. 1849 to death. _d._ Castletown house, Celbridge, Kildare
10 Aug. 1876.

CONQUEST, BENJAMIN OLIVER, stage name of Benjamin Oliver. _b._ near
St. Michael’s church, Cornhill, London 1805; first appeared on the
stage as a witch in _Macbeth_ at Lyceum theatre; acted at Pavilion
theatre 1827; sang song of _Billy Barlow_ 4 times every night for
28 weeks; projected and opened with Wyman and Freer the Garrick
theatre, Whitechapel 1830, proprietor of it with Gomersal to 4
Nov. 1846 when it was burned down; landlord of “The Hampshire Hog”
tavern 410 Strand, London 1847–51; lessee of Grecian theatre, City
road, London at rent of £1300, 4 March 1851 to death. _d._ New
north road, London 5 July 1872. _Actors by daylight i_, 337 (1839)
_portrait_.

CONQUEST, JOHN TRICKER. _b._ Chatham, Kent 1789; assistant surgeon
military depot, Chatham 1808; studied at Univ. of Edin., M.D.
1813; L.C.P. London, Dec. 1819; gave 4 courses of lectures on
midwifery yearly at his house 4 Aldermanbury Postern, London about
1820–4; lecturer on midwifery at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1825;
noted for his operation of tapping for hydrocephalus; author of
_Outlines of midwifery_ 1820, _6 ed._ 1854; _The Holy Bible with
twenty thousand emendations_ 1841; _Letters to a mother on the
management of herself and her children in health and disease_
1848, _4 ed._ 1852. _d._ The Oaks, Plumstead common 24 Oct. 1866
aged 77. _Medical Circular iii_, 51–53 (1853), _portrait_; _Physic
and physicians ii_, 265–67 (1839).

CONRAN, GEORGE. Second lieut. Madras artillery 27 July 1811, col.
commandant 15 May 1851 to death; general 14 Dec. 1868. _d._ Bath
28 Aug. 1869 aged 76.

CONROY, SIR EDWARD, 2 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir John Conroy 1
baronet 1786–1854_). _b._ Dublin 6 Dec. 1809; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.,
B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; attaché to special mission to Brussels
1831–8; deputy registrar of births, deaths and marriages in London
1836–42. _d._ Arborfield near Reading 3 Nov. 1869.

CONROY, RIGHT REV. GEORGE (_son of Nicholas Conroy_). Professor of
dogmatic theology, All Hallow’s college, Dublin 1857–66; sec. to
Cardinal Cullen, and professor of dogmatic theology in Holy Cross
college, Clonliffe 1866–7; bishop of Ardagh 1871 to death;
consecrated in St. Mel’s cathedral, Longford 11 April 1871; author
of _Occasional sermons, addresses and essays_ 1884. _d._ St.
John’s, Newfoundland 4 Aug. 1878.

CONROY, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of John Ponsonby Conroy of
Bettyfield, co. Roscommon 1759–97_). _b._ Caerhyn, Carnarvonshire
21 Oct. 1786; second lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803, second captain 13
March 1811 to 17 June 1822 when placed on permanent h.p.; K.C.H.
17 Aug. 1827; comptroller of the household to Duchess of Kent to
1837 when he retired on pension of £3000; created baronet 7 July
1837; comr. of Colonial audit board; sheriff of Montgomeryshire
1843; col. of Montgomeryshire militia 30 Aug. 1852. _d._
Arborfield near Reading 2 March 1854.

CONSTABLE, HENRY (_son of a small tradesman_). _b._ Birmingham 10
April 1851; taught riding by T. Stevens on the Ilsley Downs;
apprenticed to Wm. Reeves at Epsom 1867–71; first rode at Wye
meeting on Skittles 1870; headed list of winning jockeys 1873,
taking 110 races out of 395 mounts; won the Derby on Mr. W. S.
Crawfurd’s Sefton 1878; first jockey and trainer to Lord Rosebery.
_d._ Epsom 17 Feb. 1881. _Illust. sporting and dramatic news i_,
61 (1874), _portrait_, _iii_, 261 (1875), _portrait, xiv_, 563,
572 (1881), _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. xxv_ (1874), _portrait_.

CONSTABLE, THOMAS (_youngest son of Archibald Constable of
Edinburgh, publisher 1774–1827_). _b._ Craigcrook near Edin. 29
June 1812; learned printing with C. Richards of St. Martin’s lane,
London; printer and publisher in Edin. to 1860; Her Majesty’s
printer and publisher 7 Sep. 1839; issued _Constable’s Miscellany
of foreign literature 10 vols._ 1854–5; issued _Constable’s
Educational series 36 vols._ 1857–72; published _The works of
Dugald Stewart edited by Sir W. Hamilton 10 vols._ 1854; author of
_Archibald Constable and his literary correspondents 3 vols._
1873; _Memoir of Lewis D. B. Gordon_ 1877, _privately printed_;
_Memoir of Rev. C. A. C. de Boinville_ 1880. _d._ Marston Biggot
rectory, Frome, Somerset 26 May 1881.

CONSTABLE, SIR THOMAS ASTON CLIFFORD, 2 Baronet. _b._ Tixall hall,
Staffs. 3 May 1806; succeeded 25 Feb. 1823. _d._ Burton Constable,
Yorkshire 22 Dec. 1870.

CONWAY, FREDERICK B. (_son of Wm. A. Conway, actor 1780–1828_). _b._
London 10 Feb. 1819; made his first appearance at Princess’s
theatre 4 Oct. 1847; went to the United States 1850 where he acted
with Edwin Forrest playing Iago to his Othello, De Mauprat to his
Richelieu and other companion parts; opened Pike’s opera house
Cincinnati 1859; played at Sadler’s Wells theatre, London 1861;
played leading parts at New Brooklyn theatre, New York 1864–73.
_d._ Manchester, Massachusetts 6 Sep. 1874.

CONWAY, THOMAS SYDENHAM. _b._ 7 June 1810; ensign 22 foot 14 Feb.
1828; deputy adjutant general Bombay 1849–51; captain Grenadier
guards 14 July 1854 to 8 March 1864 when placed on h.p.; placed on
retired list with hon. rank of general 7 June 1880; C.B. 4 July
1843. _d._ 19 Bury st. St. James’s, London 7 June 1885.

CONY, BARKHAM. _b._ Ely 5 Nov. 1802; made his first appearance in
London 1828 at Coburg theatre in _Love me, love my dog_; first
appeared in America 1835 with a number of well-trained dogs who
assisted in the performance which consisted of _Forest of Bondy_
and _Cherokee Chief_; played successful engagements all over the
United States and Great Britain; styled the “Dog Star.” _d._
Chicago 1 Jany. 1858.

CONYBEARE, VERY REV. WILLIAM DANIEL (_son of Rev. Wm. Conybeare, R.
of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London, who d. 5 April 1815 aged
76_). _b._ London 7 June 1787; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.,
B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; founded with Sir Henry de la Beche, Bristol
Philosophical and Literary Institution 1817; corresponding member
of French Institute; V. of Sully, Glamorganshire 1821–36; V. of
Axminster 1836–44; Bampton lecturer 1839; dean of Llandaff 29 Sep.
1844 to death; F.R.S. 9 Dec. 1819, F.G.S. 1821; gave the name of
Plesiosaurus to a new genus of reptilia forming an intermediate
link between the Ichthyosaurus and Crocodile; author of
_Elementary course of theological lectures_ 1836; _Geological
memoir of the landslip in Devon_ 1840; author with Wm. Phillips of
_Outlines of the geology of England and Wales_ 1822. _d._
Itchenstoke near Portsmouth 12 Aug. 1857. _Quarterly Journal of
Geol. Soc. xiv_, 24–32 (1858); _Proc. of Royal Soc. ix_, 50–2
(1857); _G.M. iii_, 335–7 (1857); _I.L.N. xxxi_, 309 (1857),
_portrait_.

CONYBEARE, REV. WILLIAM JOHN (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1
Aug. 1815; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow, 15
wrangler and 3 classic 1837, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; Whitehall
preacher 1841; principal of the newly founded Liverpool Collegiate
Institution 1842–8; V. of Axminster 1848–54; author of _Essays
ecclesiastical and social_ 1855; _Perversion, or the causes and
consequences of infidelity, a tale for the times 3 vols._ 1856
_anon._; author with Rev. J. S. Howson of _The life and epistles
of St. Paul 2 vols._ 1852. _d._ of consumption at Weybridge 22
July 1857.

CONYNGHAM, FRANCIS NATHANIEL CONYNGHAM, 2 Marquis (_2 son of 1
Marquis Conyngham 1766–1832_). _b._ Dublin 11 June 1797; cornet 2
life guards 21 Sep. 1820, lieut. 13 Dec. 1821 to 12 June 1823 when
placed on h.p.; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 6 Jany.
1823 to 2 Jany. 1826; M.P. for co. Donegal 1825 to 1832; a lord of
the treasury 30 April 1826 to 30 April 1827; succeeded 28 Dec.
1832; postmaster general 5 July to 31 Dec. 1834 and 8 to 30 May
1835; lord chamberlain of the household, May 1835 to 6 May 1839;
G.C.H. 1823; K.P. 27 March 1833; P.C. 20 May 1835; lord lieut. of
co. Meath 27 May 1869 to death; general 21 March 1874. _d._ 5
Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 17 July 1876, personalty sworn
under £500,000, 9 Sep. 1876. _I.L.N. lxix_, 113, 119, 255 (1876),
_portrait_; _Graphic xiv_, 102, 108 (1876), _portrait_.

CONYNGHAM, GEORGE HENRY CONYNGHAM, 3 Marquis. _b._ London 3 Feb.
1825; cornet 2 dragoons 31 Dec. 1844; major 1 life guards 24 Aug.
1861 to 13 June 1868 when placed on h.p.; equerry to the Queen 30
Sep. 1872 to death; succeeded 17 July 1876; col. Royal East Kent
yeomanry cavalry 16 Jany. 1878 to death; placed on retired list
with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. _d._ Belgrave sq. London 2
June 1882.

CONYNGHAM, FRANCIS NATHANIEL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Goodwood 24 Sep. 1832; served in R.N. 1846–60; M.P. for Clare
1857–9 and 1874–80. _d._ The Muirshiel, Lockwinnock, Renfrewshire
14 Sep. 1880.

COODE, GEORGE (_eld. son of Manners Benson Coode of St. Helier’s,
Jersey_). _b._ 1807; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833; assistant sec. to
Poor law commission 18 Aug. 1834 to 13 June 1846; drafted the
Irish poor law act, 1 & 2 Vict. c. 56; comr. for consolidating the
statute law 1853; comr. for inquiry into state of education in
England 1859; author of _Report on the law of settlement and
removal of the poor_ 1851; _On legislative expression_ 1853;
article on the _Poor laws_ in _Encyclopædia Britannica_, _8 ed._
xviii, 295–316 (1859); _Report of local taxation and digest of the
laws relating to 24 local taxes_ 1862; _Report on the fire
insurance duties_ 1862. _d._ Roselands, Walmer, Kent 27 Sep. 1869.
_Law mag. and law review xxviii_, 178, 318–25 (1870).

COODE, SIR JOHN HENRY (_son of Edward Coode of Penryn, Cornwall_).
_b._ Penryn 11 Feb. 1779; entered navy 16 June 1793; captain 21
Oct. 1810; R.A. 26 June 1847; V.A. on h.p. 27 May 1854, pensioned
10 Dec. 1855; C.B. 19 Sep. 1816, K.C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Plymouth
19 Jany. 1858.

COOK, ALEXANDER SHANK (_son of Rev. George Cook, professor of moral
philosophy at St. Andrews_). _b._ 9 Dec. 1810; ed. at St. Andrews;
advocate at Edin. 1834; procurator for church of Scotland 1861 to
death; advocate depute; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 22 March 1858
to death. _d._ Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1869.

COOK, EDWARD DUTTON (_eld. child of George Simon Cook of Tudor st.
Blackfriars, London, solicitor, who d. 12 Sep. 1852_). _b._ 9
Grenville st. Brunswick sq. London 30 Jany. 1829; articled to his
father; pupil of Rolt the painter; dramatic critic of _Pall Mall
Gazette_ 1867 to Oct. 1875, of _The World Oct._ 1875 to death;
edited _Cornhill Mag._ 1868–71; wrote all the lives of dramatists
and actors in letter A of _Dictionary of national biography_ 1885;
author of _Paul Foster’s Daughter 3 vols._ 1861; _Leo 3 vols._
1863; _Hobson’s Choice, a story_ 1867; _Art in England, notes and
studies_ 1869; _A book of the play 2 vols._ 1876; _Hours with the
players 2 vols._ 1881; _On the stage_ 1883 and 9 other books. _d._
suddenly outside his house 69 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park,
London 11 Sep. 1883. _Longman’s Mag. Dec. 1883 pp. 179–87_;
_Theatre, Nov. 1883_, 212, 272, _portrait_; _Graphic xxviii_, 321
(1883), _portrait_.

COOK, HENRY DAVID. Writer Madras civil service 1835; civil and
sessions judge, Calicut 1857–66; civil and sessions judge,
Coimbatore 1866 to 18 Sep. 1870 when he retired on annuity. _d._
England 16 June 1882.

COOK, JAMES. Edited _Paisley and Renfrewshire Gazette_ from its
commencement Oct. 1864 to his death; author of _Bibliography of
the writings of Charles Dickens_ 1879. _d._ Paisley 25 Oct. 1882
aged 65.

COOK, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. John Cook 1771–1824, professor of
biblical criticism in Univ. of St. Andrews_). _b._ St. Andrews 1
Sep. 1807; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, A.M. 1823, D.D. 9 Dec.
1848; licensed for ministry of Church of Scotland 13 Aug. 1828;
minister of Laurencekirk 1829–45; minister of St. Leonard’s in St.
Andrews 1845–63; moderator of General Assembly 19 May 1859,
convener of many of its important committees; Emeritus professor
of ecclesiastical history in Univ. of St. Andrews 19 June 1860 to
30 July 1868; a dean of the chapel royal, Sep. 1863; author of
_Evidence on church patronage_ 1838; _Six lectures on the
Christian evidences_ 1852. _d._ St. Andrews 17 April 1869.

COOK, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. George Cook 1772–1845, leader of
the ‘moderate’ party in the Church of Scotland_). _b._ 12 Sep.
1807; ed. at St. Andrews Univ., A.M. 1823, D.D. 1843; licensed for
ministry of Church of Scotland 17 Sep. 1828; minister of Cults,
Fifeshire 1832; translated to second charge at Haddington 1833, to
the first charge 1843; sub-clerk of the Assembly 25 May 1859,
principal clerk 22 May 1862, moderator 24 May 1866; author of
_Styles of writs and forms of procedure in the church courts of
Scotland_ 1850, _4 ed._ 1870. _d._ Haddington 11 Sep. 1874.

COOK, JOHN DOUGLAS. _b._ Banchory-Ternan, Aberdeenshire 25 March
1811; held an appointment in India; sec. of commission to inquire
into revenues of Duchy of Cornwall; private sec. to Lord Lincoln,
governor of Ionian Islands; reported in parliament for _The
Times_; edited _Morning Chronicle_ 1852–5; edited _Saturday
Review_ from first number 3 Nov. 1855 to death, joint owner of it
with A. J. B. Beresford Hope, M.P. _d._ G1 The Albany, Piccadilly,
London 10 Aug. 1868. _bur._ Tintagel churchyard. _James Grant’s
The Saturday Review its origin and progress_ 1873.

COOK, PAUL (_son of Charles Cook of Jersey, Wesleyan minister_).
President of French Methodist Conference; considered the founder
of French Sunday schools. _d._ Paris 2 May 1886 aged 59.

COOK, RICHARD. _b._ London 1784; ed. at Royal Academy; gold
medallist of Society of Arts 1832; A.R.A. 1816, R.A. 1822;
exhibited pictures chiefly historical; illustrated _Scott’s Lady
of the Lake_ 1810. _d._ Cumberland place, Hyde park, London 11
March 1857. _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_, 34 (1862).

COOK, SAMUEL. _b._ Camelford, Cornwall 1806; apprenticed to a
woollen manufacturer at Camelford 1815; a painter and glazier at
Plymouth; exhibited pictures chiefly coast scenes at New
Water-Colour Society in Pall Mall, London about 1830–59, a member
of the Society 1850; his “Early morning at the Lizard” was sold to
Rev. Henry Tozer for 137 guineas at Plymouth 7 Feb. 1882. _d._
near Plymouth 7 June 1859. _Hayle Miscellany vol. 2_ (1860),
_portrait_.

COOK, THOMAS. Entered navy 17 July 1807; lieutenant 1 June 1818;
professor of fortification and artillery at H.E.I. Co.’s military
academy, Addiscombe, Jany. 1837 to death; F.R.S. 4 June 1840. _d._
Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 11 Dec. 1858.

COOKE, EDWARD. Barrister M.T. 12 Nov. 1819; judge of county courts,
circuit 11, Bradford 1854 to 1861 when he resigned; author of _The
real cause of the high price of gold_ 1819; _A treatise on the law
of insolvent debtors_ 1827, _2 ed._ 1839. _d._ 2 Taviton st.
Gordon sq. London 6 Feb. 1862 aged 70.

COOKE, EDWARD WILLIAM (_son of George Cooke of London, line engraver
1781–1834_). _b._ Pentonville, London 27 March 1811; painted sign
of the “Old Ship Hotel” at Brighton 1825; etched 2 series of
plates entitled “Coast sketches” and “The British Coast”; made 70
drawings of new London bridge 1825–31, most of which were engraved
and published 1833; executed a series of pencil drawings for Earl
de Grey 1832; travelled abroad 1832–44; A.R.A. 1851, R.A. 1864;
exhibited 129 pictures at R.A., 115 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st.
gallery; 2 of his pictures are in the National Gallery, “Dutch
boats in calm” and “The Boat house”; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; published
_Views in London and its vicinity_ 1834; _Grotesque animals
invented, drawn and described_ 1872; _Leaves from my sketch book 2
series_ 1876–7. _d._ Glen Andred, Groombridge near Tunbridge Wells
4 Jany. 1880. _I.L.N. xlv_, 173 (1864), _portrait_; _Graphic xxi_,
252 (1880), _portrait_.

COOKE, GEORGE. _b._ Manchester 7 March 1807; first appeared on the
stage at Walsall, March 1828; acted at Strand theatre, London
1837, at Drury Lane 1839, at Marylebone 1847; played at Strand
theatre 1848, at Olympic theatre to death. (_m._ 1840 Eliza
Stuart, she _d._ 13 June 1877 aged 74); committed suicide 4 March
1863. _Theatrical Times iii_, 376, 397 (1848), _portrait_.

COOKE, REV. GEORGE LEIGH (_son of Rev. Samuel Cooke, V. of Great
Bookham, Surrey, who d. 30 March 1820_). Matric. from Ball. coll.
Ox. 26 Jany. 1797 aged 17; scholar of C.C. coll. 1797, fellow
1800–15, tutor; B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804, B.D. 1812; Sedleian
professor of natural philosophy in Univ. of Ox. 1818–26; keeper of
the Univ. archives 1818–26; V. of Cubbington, Warws. 1820 to
death; V. of Rissington Wick, Gloucs. 1820 to death; P.C. of
Hunningham, Warcs. 1820 to death; founded the Literary Dining
Club, sec. of it many years; author of _The three first sections
and part of the seventh section of Newton’s Principia_ 1850. _d._
Cubbington 29 March 1853 aged 73.

COOKE, GEORGE WINGROVE (_eld. son of T. H. Cooke of Bristol_). _b._
Bristol 1814; ed. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1834; barrister M.T. 30
Jany. 1835; contested Colchester, Feb. 1860, Marylebone, April
1861; special correspondent of _The Times_ in China 1857–8;
copyhold and inclosure comr. Dec. 1862 to death; author of
_Memoirs of Lord Bolingbroke_ 1835, _2 ed._ 1836; _The history of
party from the rise of the Whig and Tory factions to the passing
of the Reform bill 3 vols._ 1836–37; _Act for the enclosure of
commons with a treatise on the law of rights of common_ 1846, _4
ed._ 1864; _Treatise on agricultural tenancies_ 1850, _new ed._
1882; _A treatise on the law and practice of copyhold
enfranchisement_ 1853; _Inside Sebastopol_ 1856; _China and Lower
Bengal_ 1858; _Conquest and colonisation in North Africa_ 1860.
_d._ 25 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 18 June 1865.

COOKE, REV. HENRY (_youngest child of John Cooke of Grillagh near
Maghera, co. Londonderry, farmer_). _b._ in farm house of Grillagh
11 May 1788; matric. at Glasgow college, Nov. 1802; licensed by
the presbytery of Ballymena; pastor at Duneane near Randalstown,
co. Antrim 1808–10; minister at Donegore, co. Antrim 1811–18;
studied at Glasgow and Trin. coll. Dublin 1815–18; pastor of
Killyleigh, co. Down 1818–29; moderator of general synod of
Ulster, June 1824; pastor of May st. chapel, Belfast 24 Nov. 1829
to Feb. 1868; D.D. Jefferson college, U.S. 21 Oct. 1829; LLD.
Dublin 9 Feb. 1837; granted freedom of city of Dublin 6 Feb. 1839;
challenged O’Connell to a public discussion in Belfast 6 Jany.
1841, which he declined; moderator of the general assembly 1841;
agent for distribution of _Regium Donum_ 29 Nov. 1845 to death;
professor of sacred rhetoric, assembly’s college, Belfast, Sep.
1847 to death, pres. of the college 1848 to death; dean of
residence for presbyterian church, Queen’s college, Belfast 1849;
author of _Translations and paraphrases in verse for the use of
the Presbyterian church, Killyleigh_ 1821; edited, _J. Brown’s
Self-interpreting Bible_ 1855, _2 ed._ 1873. _d._ Ormean road,
Belfast 13 Dec. 1868, statue of him erected at Belfast, Sep. 1875.
_J. S. Porter’s Life of Rev. Henry Cooke_ (1871), _portrait_.

COOKE, JAMES (_son of Thomas Taplin Cooke, circus proprietor, who d.
19 March 1866 aged 84_). Leading rider of his father’s company;
the only real rival of the great Andrew Ducrow; proprietor of a
circus about 1837–49 and 1850–56; resided in Edinburgh 1856 to
death. _d._ Portobello, Edin. 5 Sep. 1869 aged 59.

COOKE, SIR JOHN HENRY. _b._ 1791; ensign 43 foot 15 March 1809;
captain 25 foot 27 July 1838 to 15 Dec. 1840 when placed on h.p.;
conducted Louis xviii from Ghent to Paris, June to July 1815; sub
officer of corps of gentlemen at arms 2 Oct. 1844 to 16 Sep. 1862;
ensign of Yeomen of the guard 16 Sep. 1862, lieut. 2 Feb. 1866 to
death; knighted at Windsor Castle 11 Dec. 1867. _d._ Albion villa,
Upper heath, Hampstead 31 Jany. 1870.

COOKE, JOHN P. _b._ Chester 31 Oct. 1820; leader of the orchestras
at Adelphi, Strand and Astley’s, London successively; leader at
Burton’s theatre, New York 1850; musical director at several New
York theatres; composed and arranged music for the _Winter’s
Tale_, _Midsummer Night’s Dream_ and other Shakespearean plays;
wrote melodies for the _Sea of Ice_. _d._ New York 4 Nov. 1865.

COOKE, RICHARD HARVEY. Ensign 1 Foot Guards 20 Feb. 1798, captain 7
Nov. 1811 to 26 March 1818; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ 45 Upper Brook
st. London 8 Oct. 1856.

COOKE, REV. ROBERT. _b._ Waterford about 1820; joined the
Congregation of Oblates of Mary Immaculate in France, ordained
priest; stationed at Grace Dieu, Leics., at Everingham park,
Yorkshire 1847–51; founded mission at Howden; restored mission at
Pocklington; stationed at Leeds 1851; introduced the Oblates into
Ireland, result being establishment of a mission at Inchicore;
established a house of his order at Kilburn, London where a new
church was erected 1879; founded church of the English Martyrs,
Tower Hill, London; author of _Pictures of youthful holiness_
1872; _Catholic memories of the Tower of London_ 1875, translated
into French 1875; _Sketches of the life of Mgr. de Mazenod, bishop
of Marseilles and founder of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate 2
vols._ 1879–82. _d._ London 18 June 1882. _Gillow’s English
Catholics i_, 557–8 (1885).

COOKE, THOMAS (_son of Mr. Cooke of Allerthorpe in the East Riding
of Yorkshire, shoemaker_). _b._ Allerthorpe 8 March 1807; kept a
school at Allerthorpe 1823–9; optician at York about 1836 to
death; made a telescope of 25 inches aperture 1863–8 which was
mounted at Gateshead 1869, it is still the largest and best in the
United Kingdom; invented an automatic engine for the graduation of
circles, perfected the astronomical clock, and built nearly 100
turret clocks for public institutions and churches; F.R.A.S. 1859.
_d._ 19 Oct. 1868.

COOKE, THOMAS POTTER (_son of Mr. Cooke of London, surgeon, who d.
1793_). _b._ Titchfield st. Marylebone 23 April 1786; served in
navy 1796–1802, present in battle off Cape St. Vincent 1797; made
his début at Royalty theatre, Wellclose sq. Jany. 1804; stage
manager of Surrey theatre 1809–16; acted at Lyceum 1820–2, at
Covent Garden 1822–5; played Le Monstre (Frankenstein) 80 nights,
at Porte Saint Martin theatre, Paris 1825–6; played at Adelphi
1828–9; his best known part was William in Douglas Jerrold’s drama
_Black-eyed Susan_, which he acted over 100 nights from 6 June
1829 at Surrey theatre; acted at Covent Garden 1829–34 and 1836,
at Drury Lane 1834–6; made his last appearance on the stage 2 May
1861 at Princess’s theatre; he is described by Christopher North
in _Noctes Ambrosianæ_ as ‘the best sailor out of all sight and
hearing that ever trod the stage.’ _d._ 37 Thurloe sq. London 4
April 1864. _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii_, 109 (1825),
_portrait_; _Stirling’s Old Drury Lane ii_, 105–11 (1881);
_Tallis’s Illustrated life in London_ (1864) 33, 36, 40, 41, 3
_portraits_; _Actors by daylight 11 Aug. 1838 pp. 185–87_,
_portrait_.

NOTE.—He left by his will £2000 to the Dramatic College, the
interest of which was to be paid for a prize nautical drama,
in compliance with the terms of the grant ‘True to the core, a
story of the Armada,’ a drama by Angiolo Robson Slous was
produced at Surrey theatre, London 8 Sep. 1866, the prize
having been awarded to him at Maybury college, Surrey 23 April
1866.

COOKE, THOMAS TAPLIN. Proprietor of a circus, his company consisted
of his 19 sons and daughters; built the first circus in Edinburgh
1835; chartered a vessel and shipped all his circus to the United
States 1837, where he performed to 1839 when his circus and all
his horses were burnt at Baltimore. _d._ 2 Barossa place,
Brompton, London 19 March 1866 aged 84.

COOKE, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ 1806; minister in the Methodist New
Connexion body 1827 to death; filled in succession all the
important offices of his denomination; author of _Christian
theology explained and defended_ 1846, _new ed._ 1879; _Discourses
illustrative of sacred truth_ 1871; _Explanations of difficult
portions of holy scripture_; _A survey of the unity, harmony and
growing evidence of sacred truth_; _The Shekinah, or the presence
and manifestation of Jehovah under the several dispensations_, and
other works including a number of polemical treatises in connexion
with Roman Catholicism. _d._ Burslem house, Forest Hill 25 Dec.
1884.

COOKE, WILLIAM. Lessee and manager of Astley’s Amphitheatre,
Westminster bridge road, London 1855–60; took his farewell benefit
30 Jany. 1860. _d._ 149 Acre lane, Brixton 6 May 1886.

COOKE, WILLIAM BERNARD (_brother of George Cooke, engraver
1781–1834_). _b._ London 1778; pupil of Wm. Angus the engraver;
published _The Thames_ 1811 for which he engraved nearly all the
plates; published with his brother George Cooke _Picturesque views
on the Southern coast of England 1814–26_, chiefly from drawings
by Turner; illustrated 10 other works 1812–40. _d._ Camberwell,
London 2 Aug. 1855.

COOKE, SIR WILLIAM BRYAN, 8 Baronet (_younger son of Sir George
Cooke 7 baronet, who d. 2 June 1823_). _b._ 3 March 1782; ed. at
Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; ensign 1 foot guards 15 Oct.
1803 to 1808 when he sold out; lieut.-col. 3 West York militia 26
Oct. 1811, col. 23 Feb. 1812 to 7 Dec. 1819; contested city of
York 1818; banker at Doncaster, Retford and Worksop 1 Jany. 1819;
succeeded 2 June 1823; the first mayor of Doncaster 1836, alderman
1837–8; sheriff of Yorkshire 1845; author of _The seize Quartiers
of the family of Bryan Cooke_ 1857. _d._ Wheatley hall near
Doncaster 24 Dec. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_, 185–6 (1852).

COOKE, SIR WILLIAM FOTHERGILL (_eld. son of Wm. Cooke, professor of
medicine at Durham Univ._) _b._ Ealing near London 1806; ed. at
Durham school and Univ. of Edin.; ensign 39 Madras N.I. 8 Jany.
1826, resigned his commission 1836; partner with Charles
Wheatstone, Nov. 1837, they patented magnetic needle telegraph 12
June 1837; laid down a telegraph between Paddington and West
Drayton 1838–9, and from West Drayton to Slough 1842; invented
with Wheatstone the single needle apparatus 1845; one of founders
of Electro telegraph company 1846; received with Wheatstone the
4th royal Albert gold medal 1867; A.I.C.E. 21 May 1867; knighted
at Windsor Castle 11 Nov. 1869; granted civil list pension of
£100, 25 July 1871; author of _Telegraphic Railways_ 1842. (_m._
1838 Anna Louisa dau. of Joseph Wheatley of Treeton, Yorkshire,
she was granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1880). _d._ 31
Castle st. Farnham, Surrey 25 June 1879. _W. T. Jeans’s Lives of
the electricians i_, 134, 323 (1887); _W. F. Cooke’s The electric
telegraph, was it invented by professor Wheatstone?_ _2 vols._
1857; _Authorship of the practical electric telegraph of Great
Britain by Rev. T. F. Cooke_ 1868; _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of
C.E. lviii_, 358–64 (1879).

NOTE.—The merit of initiating the idea of an international
exhibition has been often warmly contested, but there is no
doubt that the original proposition was made to the Committee
of the Society of Arts in 1844 by Sir W. F. Cooke.

COOKE, WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ Dublin 11 April 1797; pupil of his uncle
George Cooke the engraver; received from Society of Arts a gold
medal for improvements in engraving upon steel 1826; employed upon
the Annuals and other illustrated publications to about 1840 when
he left England and settled at Darmstadt; engraved several
pictures after Turner, Cox and Landseer. _d._ Darmstadt 6 April
1865.

COOKESLEY, JOHN. Entered navy 29 Jany. 1791; captain 7 Dec. 1818,
retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired R.A. 8 July 1851; invented a very
simple and efficacious species of raft fully described and
illustrated in the _Nautical Mag. iv_, 73–77 (1835). _d._ Rackley,
Portishead near Bristol 25 Nov. 1852 aged 78.

COOKESLEY, REV. WILLIAM GIFFORD. _b._ Brasted, Kent 1 Dec. 1802; ed.
at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; assistant
master of Eton 1825–55; V. of Hayton, Yorkshire 1857–60; P.C. of
St. Peter’s, Hammersmith 1860–8; R. of Tempsford, Beds. 22 Oct.
1868 to death; published _Selections from Pindar_ 1838; _Pindari
Carmina_ 1844 _2 vols._ 1851; _Selecta e Catullo_ 1845; _A revised
translation of the New Testament_ 1859, and 13 other works. _d._
Tempsford rectory 16 Aug. 1880.

COOKSON, REV. HENRY WILKINSON (_6 son of Thomas Cookson of Kendal_).
_b._ Kendal 10 April 1810; ed. at Kendal, Sedbergh and St. Peter’s
coll. Cam., 7 wrangler 1832, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.D. and D.D.
1848; tutor of his college, Master 3 Nov. 1847 to death; R. of
Glaston, Rutland 1847–61; vice-chancellor of Univ. of Cam. 1848,
1863, 1864, 1872, 1873; member of council of the Senate almost
continuously from institution of that body 1856; pres. of
Cambridge Philosophical Soc. 1865–6; declined bishopric of
Lichfield 1867. _d._ St. Peter’s college lodge, Cambridge 30 Sep.
1876.

COOKSON, ISAAC. _b._ 1776; a glass manufacturer at Newcastle to
1845; sheriff of Newcastle 1801, alderman 22 Sep. 1807, mayor
1809–10; bought Meldon park, Northumberland for 56,900 guineas 19
April 1832; sheriff of Northumberland 1838. _d._ Munich 8 Oct.
1851.

COOLEY, WILLIAM DESBOROUGH. F.R.G.S. 1830, hon. free member 1864;
granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; wrote for
Lardner’s ‘Cabinet Cyclopædia’ _The history of maritime and inland
discovery 3 vols._ 1830–1; published _The world surveyed in the
xix century 2 vols._ 1845–8; _Inner Africa laid open_ 1852;
_Physical geography, or the terraqueous globe and its phenomena_
1876 and other works. _d._ 56 Crowndale road, Somers Town, London
1 March 1883. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v_, 232–3 (1883).

COOMBES, ROBERT. _b._ Vauxhall, London 1808; a waterman on river
Thames; sculled his first race 4 July 1836; beat J. Kelly 4 Oct.
1838; stroke in the winning four at Liverpool regatta 1840 beating
5 crews; beat H. Clasper on the Tyne 18 Dec. 1844; beat C.
Campbell 19 Aug. 1846 when he became champion of the Thames;
presented with a champion belt 28 Oct. 1846; raced T. Cole for
£200 a side 24 May 1852 when Cole won; won the pairs with Wilson
at Thames regatta 1845; with his brother Tom Coombes beat Richard
and Harry Clasper on the Thames 1847; trained the Cambridge crew
1852; never surpassed in speed and style during his time; author
of _Hints on rowing and training_ 1852. _d._ Kent lunatic asylum,
Maidstone 25 Feb. 1860. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London 7 March.
_I.L.N. 29 May 1852 p._ 436, _portrait_.

COOPE, OCTAVIUS EDWARD (_3 son of John Coope of London, sugar
refiner_). _b._ Leyspring, Essex 1814; a sugar refiner in London;
a partner in brewing firm of Ind, Coope and Co. at Romford, Essex
1846, established a branch brewery at Burton-on-Trent 1856 the
third largest brewing firm in Burton; M.P. for Great Yarmouth 29
July 1847 to June 1848 when unseated on petition; contested Tower
Hamlets, Nov. 1868; M.P. for Middlesex 14 Feb. 1874 to 18 Nov.
1885, for Brentford division of Middlesex, Dec. 1885 to death;
gave £15,000 towards rebuilding Whitechapel church 1875. _d._ 41
Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 27 Nov. 1886, personalty
sworn upwards of £542,000. _Licensed Victuallers’ year book_
(1876) 80–81, _portrait_; _Morning Advertiser 29 Nov. 1886 p. 5
and 3 Dec. p. 2_.

COOPER, ABRAHAM (_son of Mr. Cooper of Red Lion st. Holborn, London,
tobacconist_). _b._ Red Lion st. 8 Sep. 1787; member of the
Artists’ fund 1812, chairman; awarded premium of 150 guineas by
British Institution for his picture of the ‘Battle of Waterloo’
1816; A.R.A. 1817, R.A. 1820–66; exhibited 332 pictures at R.A.
and 74 at British Institution 1812–69; pre-eminent as a painter of
battle pieces; furnished the illustrations to _Sporting, by
Nimrod_ 1838, and other works. _d._ Woodbine cottage, Woodlands,
Greenwich 24 Dec. 1868. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. _J. Sherer’s
Gallery of British artists ii_, 4–7; _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_,
131–2 (1869).

COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON, 2 Baronet. _b._ Great Yarmouth 13 Jany.
1797; succeeded 12 Feb. 1841; sheriff of Herts. 1864. _d._
Gadesbridge, Hemel Hempstead 6 Jany. 1866.

COOPER, BRANSBY BLAKE (_eld. son of Rev. Samuel Lovick Cooper
1763–1817, R. of Bacton, Norfolk_). _b._ Great Yarmouth 2 Sep.
1792; midshipman in the navy; second assistant surgeon R.A. 2 Dec.
1811 to 1 April 1816 when placed on permanent h.p.; M.R.C.S. 1823,
hon. fellow 1843, member of the council 1848; brought an action
against Thomas Wakley editor of _The Lancet_ for defamation of
character, and obtained £100 damages 12 Dec. 1828; surgeon of
Guy’s hospital, London to death; F.R.S. 18 June 1829; author of
_The life of Sir Astley Cooper baronet 2 vols._ 1843; _Lectures on
the principles and practice of surgery_ 1851. _d._ Athenæum club,
Pall Mall, London 18 Aug. 1853. _J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical
recollections of the medical profession_ (1874) 520–6; _Medical
Circular ii_, 511–14 (1853).

COOPER, SIR CHARLES (_3 son of Thomas Cooper of Henley-on-Thames_).
_b._ Henley-on-Thames, March 1795; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827;
judge of supreme court of South Australia 1839–56, chief justice
June 1856 to 1861; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 June 1857;
Cooper’s Creek in Queensland was named after him. _d._ 12 Pulteney
st. Bath 24 May 1887.

COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (_eld. son of Basil Henry Cooper of Great
Marlow, solicitor, who d. 1813_). _b._ Great Marlow 20 March 1808;
resided at Cambridge 1826 to death; coroner of borough of
Cambridge 1 Jany. 1836; admitted solicitor, Nov. 1840; town clerk
of Cambridge 1849 to death; F.S.A. 10 April 1851; author of _A new
guide to the university and town of Cambridge_ 1831 _anon._; _The
annals of Cambridge 5 vols._ 1842–53; _The memorials of Cambridge
3 vols._ 1858–66; _Memoirs of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and
Derby edited by Rev. J. E. B. Mayor_ 1874; author with his eldest
son Thompson Cooper of _Athenæ Cantabrigienses 2 vols._ 1858–61;
contributed to _Gent. Mag._, _Notes and Queries_, and other
antiquarian publications. _d._ 29 Jesus lane, Cambridge 21 March
1866. _Dict. of Nat. Biog. xii_, 139–40 (1887); _Reliquary vii_,
34–40 (1866).

COOPER, CHARLES PURTON (_son of Charles Cooper of St. Dunstan’s,
London_). _b._ 1793; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., double first class
1814, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1816; obtained
leading practice in V.C. Knight-Bruce’s court, quarrelled with him
and left the court; Q.C. 1837; bencher of his Inn 1836, treasurer
1855, master of the library 1856 to which he presented _2000
vols._ on civil and foreign law 1843; secretary to Record
Commission 12 March 1831 to 20 June 1837 when it lapsed on the
king’s death; Queen’s serjeant in Duchy of Lancaster 1834 to
death; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1832; F.S.A.; contested Canterbury 18 Aug.
1854 and 28 March 1857; author of _Notes in French on the Court of
Chancery_ 1828, _2 ed._ 1830; _An account of the public records of
the United Kingdom 2 vols._ 1832; _Reports of cases decided by
Lord Brougham_ 1835; _Reports of cases decided by Lords Cottenham
and Langdale and by V. G. Shadwell_ 1841; _Reports of Lord
Cottenham’s decisions 2 vols._ 1847; wrote, edited or printed 52
pamphlets on political topics 1850–57. _d._ Boulogne 26 March
1873. _Report from the select committee on record commission_
(1836) 1–275; _Sir Henry Cole’s Fifty years of public work_ (1834)
_i_, 7, _ii_, 20, 23.

COOPER, EDWARD JOSHUA (_eld. son of Edward Synge Cooper of Dublin,
who d. 1830_). _b._ Stephens Green, Dublin, May 1798; ed. at
Armagh, Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; erected an observatory at Markree
castle, co. Sligo 1831 where he kept meteorological registers 1833
to death; M.R.I.A. 1832, Cunningham gold medallist 1858; M.P. for
co. Sligo 1830–41 and 1857–9; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; author of _Views
in Egypt and Nubia_ 1824 privately printed; _Catalogue of Stars
near the Ecliptic observed at Markree 4 vols._ 1851–6 printed at
Government expense, and _Cometic Orbits_ 1852. _d._ Markree castle
23 April 1863. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xiii_, 1–3 (1864).

COOPER, FREDERICK FOX (_son of Mr. Cooper of London, editor of John
Bull_). _b._ 4 Jany. 1806; called Fox after his godfather C. J.
Fox, M.P.; articled to Isaac Cooper a stockbroker; managed
successively Olympic, Marylebone, Victoria, City of London and
Strand theatres; sec. to Duke of Cumberland as grand master of the
Orange lodges in England; examined 4 days before House of Commons
on subject of Orangeism 1835; proprietor of the _Nelson Examiner_,
New Zealand 1841; started with The Chisholm, _The Cerberus_, a
newspaper which under 4 heads advocated 4 different lines of
politics, No. 1, 17 June 1843, it was published at 164 Strand,
London down to 18 Nov. 1843; author of _The sons of Thespis_,
produced at Surrey theatre, _Jenny Jones_, _Fleet Prison_, _Master
Humphrey’s Clock_, _Black Sentinel_, _Rejected Addresses_, _The
deserted village_, and many travesties and dramatic sketches. _d._
56 Prince’s Road, Lambeth, London 4 Jany. 1879. _Theatrical Times
ii_, 177 (1847), _portrait_; _Era 19 Jany. 1879 p. 12, col. 2_.

COOPER, FREDERICK HENRY (_younger son of Rev. Allen Cooper,
incumbent of St. Mark’s, North Audley st. London_). Entered Bengal
civil service 1847; comr. at Lahore to death; C.B. 18 May 1860;
author of _The Crisis in the Punjaub_ 1858; _The handbook for
Delhi_ 1863. _d._ Trent rectory near Sherborne 22 April 1869 aged
42.

COOPER, GEORGE (_son of Mr. Cooper, assistant organist at St. Paul’s
cathedral, who d. 1843_). _b._ Lambeth 7 July 1820; organist of
St. Benet’s, Paul’s wharf, London 1834, of St. Anne and St. Agnes
1836; assistant organist of St. Paul’s cathedral, March 1838 to
death; organist of St. Sepulchre’s 1843 to death, of Christ’s
hospital 1843, of the Chapel Royal, St. James’s, Sep. 1856 to
death; author of _The organist’s assistant_; _The organist’s
manual_ 1851, 26 numbers; _Organ arrangements 3 vols._ 1864 etc.;
_Classical extracts for the organ_ 1867–69, seven numbers;
_Introduction to the organ_; _Maud Irving or the little orphan, An
operetta in 5 acts_ 1872. _d._ 2 Oct. 1876. _Musical Standard 7,
14, 21, 28 Oct. 1876, 18, 25 Nov., 9, 23 Dec._

COOPER, HENRY. Ensign 62 foot 26 Feb. 1829; lieut. col. 45 foot 19
July 1848 to 1 May 1861; inspecting field officer 1861–2; col. 79
foot 21 Aug. 1870 to 17 March 1876; col. 45 foot 17 March 1876 to
death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Bottesham hall, Cambs. 24 Aug.
1878.

COOPER, HENRY CHRISTOPHER, _b._ Bath 1819; solo violinist at Drury
Lane theatre 1830; principal violinist at Royal Italian opera;
leader at Philharmonic Society; violinist at provincial festivals;
conductor at Gaiety theatre, Glasgow to death; one of the foremost
of English school of violinists, _d._ 220 Hope st. Glasgow 26
Jany. 1881.

COOPER, JOHN (_son of Mr. Cooper of Bath, locksmith_). _b._ Bath
1790; apprenticed to a brush maker at Bath; first appeared on the
stage at Bath theatre 14 March 1811 as Inkle in Colman’s drama
_Inkle and Yarico_; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre
15 May 1811 as Count Montalban in _The honeymoon_ and received £4
a week; played at Liverpool some years as the rival of Vandenhoff;
played at Drury Lane theatre 1820–45, stage manager; played at
Princess’s theatre to 1859; had studied 200 parts and was ready at
very short notice to undertake any of them; the last actor of the
Kemble school; lived at 6 Sandringham gardens, Ealing. _d._
Tunbridge Wells 13 July 1870. _Oxberry’s Dramatic biog. v_, 73–86
(1826), _portrait_; _Metropolitan Mag. xviii_, 74–80 (1837);
_Jerrold’s Bride of Ludgate_ (_Lucy’s ed._ 1872), _portrait_.