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COURTENAY, FRANCIS BURDETT (_son of Mr. Courtenay of Ryde, Isle of
Wight, surgeon_). M.R.C.S. 13 July 1833; settled in London as a
specialist in urethral diseases 1833; surgeon to hospital for
stricture of the urethra, London; author of _Enlargement of the
prostate gland in old people_ 1839; _Pathology and cure of
stricture of the urethra_ 1843; _On Spermattorrhea and the
professional fallacies which prevail in relation to its nature_
1858, _13 ed._ 1884; _Revelations of quacks and quackery, by
Detector, pseud._ 1865, _11 ed._ 1886. _d._ 2 Chandos st.
Cavendish sq. London 15 March 1886 in 76 year. _Medical Circular
iii_, 71, 72 (1853).

COURTENAY, GEORGE WILLIAM CONWAY. _b._ Beach hall near Chester 1795;
entered navy 26 Sep. 1805; captain 14 April 1828; consul general
at Hayti 1832–42; V.A. 29 July 1861. _d._ 1E The Albany,
Piccadilly, London 31 March 1863.

COURTHOPE, WILLIAM (_only son of Thomas Courthope of Rotherhithe_).
_b._ Rotherhithe 6 May 1808; private clerk to Francis Townsend,
Rouge Dragon 1824; clerk to the College of Arms 1833; Rouge Croix
pursuivant of arms Feb. 1839; sec. to Garter King of arms 1842;
barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1851; Somerset Herald 31 Jany. 1854;
registrar of College of arms, Nov. 1859; author of _Synopsis of
extinct baronetage_ 1835; _Memoir of Daniel Chamier_ 1852,
privately printed; _A pictorial history of the Earls of Warwick by
John Rows_ dated 1845 but not published until 1859; edited Sir N.
H. Nicolas’s _Historic peerage of England_ 1853. _d._ Hastings 13
May 1866. _bur._ Wadhurst.

COURTNEY, JOHN SAMPSON (_eld. son of James Courtney of the Excise
1778–1860_). _b._ Ilfracombe 10 Oct. 1803; clerk in Mount’s Bay
bank, Penzance 1829, manager 1856 to death; author of _A guide to
Penzance and its neighbourhood, including the Islands of Scilly_
1845; and of several papers in _Transactions of Royal Cornwall
Polytechnic Society_ 1838–42. _d._ Alverton, Penzance 10 Feb.
1881. _Half a century at Penzance_ (1825–1875) _from notes by J.
S. Courtney, written by Louise Courtney_ 1878; _Times 12 Feb. 1881
p. 9, col. 6_.

COUSEN, JOHN. _b._ Mirashay near Bradford 19 Feb. 1804; one of the
best landscape engravers, retired from practice about 1864;
engraved book plates after Turner for _The Rivers of France_, and
after Stansfield for _Heath’s Picturesque Annual_ 1833 and 1834;
engraved plates for the Royal, Vernon and Turner galleries issued
in the _Art Journal_. _d._ Holmesdale road, South Norwood near
London 26 Dec. 1880. _bur._ Croydon cemetery.

COUSINS, SAMUEL. _b._ Exeter 9 May 1801; apprenticed to S. W.
Reynolds the engraver, Sep. 1814, assistant to him; a mezzotint
engraver at 104 Great Russell st. London 1826; A.R.A. Nov. 1835,
associate engraver 1854, the first academician engraver 10 Feb.
1855; presented an almost complete set of his engravings to
British Museum 1872; gave £15,000 to R.A. for benefit of poor
artists about 1872; T. Agnew and Sons held an exhibition of his
works at Manchester 1877; another exhibition took place at the
Fine Art Society 148 New Bond st. London 1883 and a third was held
at H. Graves and Co.’s, Pall Mall 1887. _d._ 24 Camden sq. London
7 May 1887. _G. Pycroft’s Memoir of S. Cousins_ (1887) _privately
printed_; _Artists at home 1 April 1884 pt. ii, p._ 19; _Sandby’s
History of Royal Academy ii_, 322–4 (1862).

COVENTRY, THOMAS. Barrister L.I. 1 July 1824; author of _Concise
forms in conveyancing_ 1827; _On conveyancers’ evidence_ 1832; _A
readable edition of Coke upon Littleton_ 1830; author with Samuel
Hughes of _Analytical digested index to the common law reports 2
vols._ 1827. _d._ Nice 19 April 1869 aged 72.

COWAN, CHARLES (_son of Rev. Thomas Conolly Cowan, who d. Reading
1856_). M.D. Edin. and L.R.C.S. Edin. 1833, M.D. Paris 1834; pres.
of Hunterian Soc.; an early exponent of the science and art of
auscultation; practised at Bath 1835–9, at Reading 1839 to death;
senior phys. Royal Berkshire hospital 1839, the best speaker in
the profession; author of _A Bedside manual, or a physical
diagnosis of the lungs, &c._ 1836; _Phrenology consistent with
science and revelation_ 1841, and many other works. _d._ Reading 6
Dec. 1868 aged 62. _Barker’s Photographs (1868), ii_, 9–13,
_portrait_.

COWAN, JOHN (_son of Hugh Cowan of Ayr_). _b._ Ayr 1798; ed. at Ayr
academy and Univ. of Edin.; called to Scotch bar 1822; sheriff of
Kincardineshire 10 Jany. 1848; solicitor general for Scotland 18
April 1851; lord of session and lord of justiciary 23 June 1851 to
Jany. 1874 with courtesy title of Lord Cowan. _d._ Elmbank,
Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1878.

COWARD, JAMES. _b._ London 25 Jany. 1824; a chorister in Westminster
abbey; obtained 13 prizes for glees 1845–67; organist of Lambeth
parish church; organist at Crystal palace 1857 to death; conductor
of the Western Madrigal Society, Oct. 1864 to March 1872; organist
of St. George’s church, Bloomsbury 1866–69, of the Sacred Harmonic
Society and of Grand lodge of Freemasons; organist of St. Magnus
the Martyr, London Bridge to death; published _O Lord correct me_
an anthem, _Sing unto God_ a canon, _Airy fairy Lilian_ and other
part songs. _d._ 38 Lupus st. Pimlico, London 22 Jany. 1880.

COWELL, JOSEPH LEATHLEY. _b._ near Torquay 7 Aug. 1792; midshipman
R.N. 1805–8; made his debut 23 Jany. 1812 at Devonport as Belcour
in _The West Indian_; first appeared in London at Drury lane
theatre 1812 as Samson Rawbold in Colman’s _Iron Chest_, acted
there till 1818; composed and acted on the Lincoln circuit a three
hours olio called ‘Cowell alone or a trip to London’; played at
Adelphi, Drury Lane and Astley’s; first appeared in America at
Park theatre, New York, Oct. 1821 in _The foundling of the
forest_; left the Park theatre 24 July 1823; opened Philadelphia
theatre at Wilmington, Delaware, Sep. 1827; acted at Adelphi and
other London theatres; author of _Thirty years passed among the
players in England and America 2 vols._ 1845. _d._ Vauxhall,
London 14 Nov. 1863. _J. N. Ireland’s Records of New York stage
i_, 394–5 (1866); _Era 22 Nov. 1863 p. 10, col. 1_.

COWELL, SAMUEL HOUGHTON (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Craven
buildings, Drury lane, London 5 April 1819; first appeared on the
stage at Boston, U.S. 1829 as Crack in T. Knight’s _Turnpike
Gate_; acted in all chief theatres in the U.S.; played Alessio in
_La Sonnambula_ at Surrey theatre, London 15 July 1844; acted at
T.R. Edinburgh 4 years, then in London at Olympic, Princess’s and
Covent Garden, at Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin; one of the leaders
of the Monte Christo row at Drury Lane theatre 12 June 1848; the
leading comic singer at chief music halls in London and the
provinces 1851–60; sang in United States 1860–62; his best songs
were _Billy Barlow_, _Lord Lovel_, _The ratcatcher’s daughter_,
_Alonzo the brave and Richard the Third_; sang _The Ratcatcher’s
Daughter_ at Canterbury Arms 12 Feb. 1855 and more than 50 nights
afterwards; sang _Lord Lovel_ 600 times; composed music to his own
ballads _Clara Cline_, _The Yellow Busha-Belle_, _In Westminster_
1855, _&c._ _d._ Crown hotel, Blandford, Dorset 11 March 1864.
_Rambles by Patricius_ Walker [_W. Allingham_] 1873, _pp._ 252–55;
_Tallis’s Illustrated life in London_ (1864) 86, 88, 89, _2
portraits_; _Theatrical times iii_, 241–2 (1848), _portrait_;
_Illust. sporting news iii_, 92 (1864), _v_, 268 (1866),
_portrait_; _Era 20 March 1864 p. 6, col. 2_; _S. Cowell’s New
illustrated pocket songster 4 vols._ 1856.

COWELL, WILLIAM. _b._ Dublin 1820; connected with Broadway theatre,
New York 1847; travelled with Barry Sullivan the actor as business
manager 1858; wrote pamphlets in defence of the stage against
attacks of Rev. Dr. Hatfield of Chicago; his pamphlets were
considered as able a defence of the profession as ever written.
_d._ Philadelphia 24 Feb. 1868.

COWELL-STEPNEY, SIR JOHN STEPNEY, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Andrew
Cowell of Coleshill, Bucks., general who commanded brigade of
guards in Irish rebellion, and d. 21 Sep. 1821_). _b._ 23 Feb.
1791; ensign Coldstream guards 18 May 1809, captain 15 June 1830
to 22 May 1832 when he sold out; served in 6 campaigns under Duke
of Wellington and Lord Lynedoch; assumed additional surname of
Stepney 29 Dec. 1857; sheriff of Carmarthen 1862; M.P. for
Carmarthen 1868–74; K.H. 1832; created baronet 22 Sep. 1871;
author of _Leaves from the diary of an officer of the Guards_
1854. _d._ 5 St. George’s place, London 15 May 1877. _T.
Nicholas’s County families of Wales i_, 282 (1872).

COWEN, SIR JOSEPH (_eld. son of John Cowen of Winlaton, Durham_).
_b._ Greenside, Durham, Feb. 1800; a fire brick and clay retort
manufacturer; alderman of Newcastle; chairman of Gateshead Board
of Guardians; appointed by act of parliament a life member of Tyne
improvement commission, chairman of this commission; M.P. for
Newcastle upon Tyne, July 1865 to death; knighted at Buckingham
palace 14 March 1872. _d._ Stella hall near Blaydon-on-Tyne 19
Dec. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiv_, 22, 36 (1874), _portrait_, _lxviii_, 35
(1876).

COWEN, WILLIAM. _b._ Rotherham, Yorkshire; landscape painter;
exhibited at Society of Artists 1811, at British Institution
1823–60, at the R.A. 1824–39; published _Yorkshire scenery from
drawings by W. Cowen_ 1826; a series of 12 etchings of Corsica
1843 included in his _Six weeks in Corsica_ 1848; contributed view
of Kilchurn castle, Loch Awe to fresco competition in Westminster
hall 1844. _d._ about 1860.

COWIE, HUGH (_eld. son of Alexander Cowie of Auchterless, co.
Aberdeen_). _b._ June 1829; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin.
coll. Cam., scholar, 26 wrangler 1851; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1860;
barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1862, bencher 26 May 1880; a revising
barrister for home circuit 1868; recorder of Maldon and of Saffron
Walden 11 Aug. 1873 to death; admitted barrister M.T. 13 April
1875; chancellor of diocese of Durham, Jany. 1876; sec. to
Criminal code commission 1878; Q.C. 16 Dec. 1882; reporter in
Court of Exchequer for the _Law Journal Reports_ 1864–71. _d._
Ythandale, Wimbledon park near London 20 July 1886.

COWIE, ROBERT. _b._ Lerwick, Shetland Islands 1842; ed. at Univs. of
Aberdeen and Edin; M.A. Aberdeen; M.D. Edin. 1866; author of
_Shetland descriptive and historical_ 1871, _3 ed._ 1879. _d._ 8
May 1874.

COWLE, WILLIAM. _b._ 6 Feb. 1802; played with success leading
characters at various London theatres from 1822; a favourite actor
at Birmingham; a founder of Royal general theatrical fund 7 Nov.
1838, one of its annuitants Feb. 1862 to death. _d._ 92 Camden St.
London 22 March 1885.

COWLEY, HENRY RICHARD CHARLES WELLESLEY, 1 Earl (_eld. child of
Henry Wellesley, 1 baron Cowley 1773–1847_). _b._ Hertford st.
London 17 July 1804; attaché of embassy at Vienna 1 Oct. 1824;
succeeded 27 April 1847; minister plenipotentiary to Berne 29 Feb.
1848; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Frankfort 8 Feb. 1849,
to Germanic confederation 7 June 1851; P.C. 2 Feb. 1852;
ambassador extraord. and plenipotentiary to French republic 5 Feb.
1852 to July 1867; joint plenipo. with Earl of Clarendon at
conference of Paris Feb. to March 1856; signed treaty of peace
with Russia 30 March 1856, with Persia 4 March 1857; created Earl
Cowley and Viscount Dangan 11 April 1857; employed on a
confidential mission to Vienna Feb. to March 1859; signed at
Paris, treaty of commerce between England and France 23 Jany.
1860; retired on a pension of £1700 16 July 1867; C.B. 27 April
1848, K.C.B. 1 March 1851, G.C.B. 21 Feb. 1853; K.G. 3 Feb. 1866.
_d._ 20 Albemarle st. London 15 July 1884. _bur._ parish church,
Draycot near Chippenham 19 July. _Times 16 July 1884 p. 9, col.
5_.

COWLING, JOHN. _b._ 1802; educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., senior wr.
and 1st Smith’s prizeman 1824, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, fellow of St.
John’s coll. 6 April 1824; barrister M.T. 9 Nov. 1827; deputy high
steward of Univ. of Cam. 1839 to death; standing counsel to Univ.
of Cam. 1845 to death. _d._ 28B Albemarle st. London 12 Dec. 1855.

COWPER, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK COWPER, 6 Earl (_eld. son of 5
Earl Cowper 1778–1837_). _b._ George st. Hanover sq. London 26
June 1806; cornet Royal horse guards 28 April 1827, lieut. 1830;
lieut. 31 foot 13 Feb. to 6 March 1835; M.P. for Canterbury 31
July 1830 to 29 Dec. 1834; under secretary of state for foreign
department 13 Nov. to 17 Dec. 1834; succeeded 21 June 1837; lord
lieut. of Kent 21 April 1849 to death. _d._ at house of governor
of the gaol, Maidstone 15 April 1856. _Waagen’s Treasures of art
in Great Britain iii_, 7–17 (1854).

COWPER, SIR CHARLES (_son of Ven. Wm. Cowper 1780–1858_). _b._
Drypool, Yorkshire 26 April 1807; secretary of Church and school
lands corporation at Sydney 1826–33 when corporation was
dissolved; sheep breeder on the Murray river 1833; member for co.
Cumberland of legislative council 1843–50, for Durham 1851–56, for
Sydney 1856–59, for Liverpool Plains 1869–70; colonial sec. N.S.W.
26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856, 7 Sep. 1857 to 26 Oct. 1859, 9 March
1860 to 15 Oct. 1863, 3 Feb. 1865 to 21 Jany. 1866 and 13 Jany.
1870 to 15 Dec. 1870; agent general for N.S.W. in London 6 Dec.
1870 to 31 May 1871; C.M.G. 23 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1872.
_d._ Eldon road, Kensington, London 19 Oct. 1875. _Heaton’s
Australian dictionary of dates_ (1879) 44–7.

COWPER, EBENEZER. Articled to Mr. Lloyd, engineer, Gravel lane,
Southwark, London; partner with his brother Edward Cowper; spent
his life in putting up printing presses in England, Scotland,
Ireland and on the Continent on the Cowper-Applegath model; the
first edition of the Waverley novels was printed at Edinburgh off
a Cowper machine; erected 12 machines at Imprimerie Royale, Paris
1830; Cowper machines although superseded by the Walter press for
printing newspapers are still used for printing books; erected the
printing machinery in the Bank of England. _d._ Harbourne road,
Edgbaston, Birmingham 14 Sep. 1880 aged 77. _Engineering 24 Sep.
1880 p. 257_; _Iron 24 Sep. 1880 p. 244_.

COWPER, EDWARD (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1790; ironmonger
at St. Mary, Newington Butts 1816; printer in Nelson sq. 1818;
partner with his brother-in-law Augustus Applegath; they jointly
invented the four-cylinder printing machine and erected it at the
Times office 1827; partner with his brother Ebenezer as machine
makers, their machines were widely used throughout Europe;
invented an ink distributing machine; professor of manufacturing
art and machinery at King’s college, London 1846 to death. _d._ 9
Kensington park road, London 17 Oct. 1852. _Wyman’s Bibliography
of printing_ (1880), 14, 146.

COWPER, HENRY FREDERICK (_2 son of 6 Earl Cowper 1806–56_). _b._ 18
April 1836; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; contested Tamworth,
Oct. 1863 and Herts. March 1864; M.P. for Herts. 24 July 1865 to
Nov. 1885. _d._ Panshanger, Hertford 10 Nov. 1887. _I.L.N. liv_,
213 (1869), _portrait_.

COWPER, JOHN CURTIS, stage name of John Curtis (_son of David Curtis
of Manchester, painter_). _b._ Port st. Piccadilly, Manchester 7
June 1827; first appeared at T.R. Manchester as Romeo; played star
engagements with G. V. Brooke; leading tragedian at T.R.
Liverpool; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre, 17 Dec.
1862 as Duke Aranza in _The Honeymoon_; played leading parts at
Drury Lane, Princess’s, Holborn and other London theatres. _d._
Barnes, Surrey 30 Jany. 1885. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London 4
Feb.

COWPER, VEN. WILLIAM. _b._ Whittington, Lancs. 28 Dec. 1780; C. of
Rawdon near Leeds; senior assistant colonial chaplain 1 Jany.
1808; arrived in Sydney 18 Aug. 1809; Inc. of St. Philip’s ch.
Sydney, Aug. 1809 to death, ch. was consecrated 25 Dec. 1810;
organised the Benevolent 1818, Bible and Religious tract societies
in N.S.W.; sec. of diocesan committees of the S.P.C.K. and S.P.G.;
archdeacon of Cumberland and Camden 1848 to death; special
commissary during Bishop Broughton’s absence in Europe 1852. _d._
Sydney 6 July 1858.

COX, DAVID (_only son of Joseph Cox of Birmingham, whitesmith, who
d. about 1830_). _b._ Heath mill lane, Deritend, Birmingham 29
April 1783; scene painter at Birmingham theatre 1800–4; came to
London 1804; member of Soc. of painters in water colours 1813;
drawing master in schools at Hereford 1814–26; exhibited 136
pictures at Pall Mall gallery 1844–54; made his first sketching
visit to Bettws-y-coed then nearly unknown 1844, painted sign of
the Royal Oak Inn there 1847 which he re-touched and varnished
1849; the greatest English water colour painter except Turner, his
picture ‘The Hayfield’ fetched £2950 at the Quilter sale, April
1875, a price unparalleled for any water-colour; the best
collections of his works were exhibited in Liverpool, Nov. 1875
numbering 448 pictures insured for about £100,000, and at
Manchester Exhibition 1887; illustrated various works; author of
_The young artist’s companion_ 1825; _A treatise on landscape
painting_ 1841. _d._ Greenfield house, Harborne near Birmingham 7
June 1859. _A biography of D. Cox by W. Hall_ (1881), _portrait_;
_Memoirs of D. Cox by N. N. Solly_ (1875); _Sherer’s Gallery of
British artists, i_, 124–6; _Redgrave’s Century of painters ii_,
479–86 (1866); _I.L.N. xxxv_, 28, 42 (1859), _portrait_.

COX, DAVID (_only child of the preceding_). _b._ Dulwich Common,
summer of 1809; pupil of his father; a water-colour painter;
exhibited at the R.A. 1827; associate of Soc. of painters in
water-colours 1849. _d._ Chester house, Mount Ephraim road,
Streatham, Surrey 4 Dec. 1885.

COX, REV. EDWARD (_son of Edward Cox, who d. 27 Dec. 1849 aged 73_).
_b._ about 1806; ed. at Old hall near Ware, Herts.; assistant
priest at Chelsea; pres. of St. Edmund’s college at Old hall
green, Aug. 1840 to Aug. 1851; missioner at Southampton, Aug. 1851
to death; a member of the Southwark chapter, vicar general; canon
of Southwark; published _The history of the church translated from
the German of the Rev. J. J. von Döllinger 4 vols._ 1840–2; _A
treatise on the church, translated from the German of the Rev. H.
Klee_ 1847; _The Our Father, or illustrations of the Lord’s
prayer, from the German of J. E. Veith_ 1849. _d._ Southampton 9
Nov. 1856.

COX, EDWARD TOWNSEND (_son of Rev. Thomas Cox, chaplain of St.
John’s, Deritend, Birmingham_). _b._ Deritend 1769; surgeon at
Stratford-on-Avon, surgeon to the infirmary at Birmingham 40
years; took an active part in founding and conducting Royal school
of medicine; a most successful accoucheur; disliked travelling so
much that he had never seen the sea. _d._ 26 Nov. 1863. _W. S.
Cox’s Annals of Queen’s college, iv_, 149–54 (1873).

COX, EDWARD WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Charles Cox of Taunton,
manufacturer_). _b._ Taunton 1809; barrister M.T. 5 May 1843;
recorder of Helston and Falmouth, Feb. 1857 to June 1868; serjeant
at law 29 May 1868; recorder of Portsmouth, June 1868; M. P. for
Taunton 1868–1869 when unseated on petition; chairman of second
court of Middlesex sessions, March 1870 to death; founded 22 Feb.
1875 Psychological society of Great Britain, pres. to his death,
society was dissolved 31 Dec. 1879; established _Law Times_ 8
April 1843; _County courts chronicle and gazette of bankruptcy_
1846; _Exchange and Mart_; _The country, a journal of rural
pursuits_ 1873; purchased from Benjamin Webster _The Field, a
gentleman’s newspaper devoted to sport_; proprietor of _The Queen,
a lady’s newspaper_; wrote or edited 1829, _A Poem_ 1829; _Reports
of cases in criminal law 13 vols._ 1846–78; _The magistrate_ 1848;
_The advocate_ 1852; _The law and practice of joint-stock
companies_ 1855, _7 ed._ 1870; _Reports of all the cases relating
to the law of joint-stock companies 4 vols._ 1867–71; _What am I?_
1873; _The mechanism of man_ 1876; _A monograph of sleep and
dreams_ 1878. _d._ Moat mount, Mill Hill, Middlesex 24 Nov. 1879.
_S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life ii_, 121–6 (1883);
_Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 208–11; _I.L.N. 6 Dec. 1879
pp._ 529, 530, _portrait_.

COX, REV. FRANCIS AUGUSTUS. _b._ Leighton Buzzard 7 March 1783; ed.
at the Baptist college, Bristol and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1802;
ordained to ministry of Baptist congregation at Clipstone,
Northamptonshire 4 April 1804; pastor of Baptist chapel, Hackney,
London 3 Oct. 1811 to death; sec. to general body of dissenting
ministers of the three denominations residing in and near London 3
years; a projector and founder of London University 1828,
librarian short time; LLD. Glasgow 1824, D.D. Waterville, U.S.
1838; author of _Female scripture biography 2 vols._ 1817;
_History of the Baptist missionary society from 1792 to 1842_, _2
vols._ 1842, and many other works. _d._ King Edward’s road, South
Hackney, London 5 Sep. 1853.

COX, REV. GEORGE VALENTINE (_son of Charles Cox of St. Martin’s,
Oxford_). _b._ Oxford 1786; ed. at Magdalen college sch. and New
coll. Ox., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808; master of New college school 1806
to June 1857; Esquire Bedel in law in Univ. of Ox. March 1806, in
medicine and arts 29 Jany. 1815 to 1866, University coroner 1808;
chaplain of New coll. 1812–20; author of _Jeannette Isabelle 3
vols._ 1837 a novel; _The Prayer book epistles_ 1846;
_Recollections of Oxford_ 1868; translated from the German
Dahlmann’s _Life of Herodotus_ 1845, Neander’s _Emperor Julian and
his generation_ 1850, and Ullmann’s _Gregory of Nazianzum_ 1851.
_d._ Cowley lodge, Oxford 19 March 1875.

COX, HARRY, stage name of Oliver James Bussley. _b._ Bristol 1841;
first appeared in London at Prince of Wales’s theatre 15 April
1865 as Alessio in H. J. Byron’s burlesque _La Sonnambula_; acted
at Strand theatre, April 1872 to day before his death. _d._ 3
Burfield st. Hammersmith 10 Jany. 1882. _Era 14 Jany. 1882 p. 5,
col. 2_; _Entr’ Acte 21 Jany. 1882, portrait_.

COX, HENRY CHAMBERS MURRAY. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel 58
Bengal N.I. 5 June 1853 to 1869; general 9 Dec. 1871. _d._ St.
Ann’s, Burnham, Somerset 22 July 1876.

COX, JOHN. Second lieut. Rifle brigade 16 March 1808, major 19 Aug.
1828 to 17 Feb. 1837 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 18 Dec. 1855;
colonel 88 foot 13 Oct. 1860 to death; K.H. 1832. _d._ Cheltenham
7 Feb. 1863.

COX, JOHN HAMILTON (_only son of Wm. Cox, K.H. who d. 13 Jany.
1857_). _b._ 1817; ensign 75 foot 10 Oct. 1834, captain 23 March
1849 to 2 Dec. 1862 when placed on h.p.; brigade major to Highland
brigade during Indian mutiny; C.B. 24 May 1873; M.G. retired on
full pay 5 July 1873. _d._ 37 Sterndale road, West Kensington,
London 10 March 1887.

COX, JOHN LEWIS. Head of the firm of Cox and Sons (afterwards Cox
and Wyman) printers to the H.E.I. Co. Great Queen st. London;
master of Stationer’s Co. 1849–50. _d._ Ham Common near London 1
Feb. 1856 aged 79.

COX, ROBERT (_3 son of Robert Cox of Georgie Mills, co. Edinburgh,
leather-dresser_). _b._ Georgie 25 Feb. 1810; ed. at high sch. and
Univ. Edin.; a writer to the signet 1832; sec. of a literary
institution at Liverpool 1835–39; edited _Phrenological Journal_,
numbers xxxiv to l of the first series and 1841–47; compiled index
to the _22 vols._ of _Encyclopædia Britannica_, _7 ed._ 1842;
author of _Sabbath laws and Sabbath duties_ 1853; _The literature
of the Sabbath question 2 vols._ 1865; bequeathed his collection
of books on the Sabbath question to Advocates’ library, Edin. _d._
Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1872.

COX, TALBOT ASHLEY. _b._ 9 July 1836; ensign 3 foot 29 July 1853,
lieut. col. 12 July 1871 to death; C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ Cawnpore
9 Dec. 1877.

COX, WILLIAM. Second lieut. 95 foot 6 June 1805; major 75 foot 20
June 1834 to 1 July 1843 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854;
K.H. 1835. _d._ St. Leonard’s on Sea 13 Jany. 1857.

COX, SIR WILLIAM (_3 son of John Cox of Coolcliffe, co. Wexford
1749–93_). _b._ Coolcliffe 5 Dec. 1776; ensign 68 foot 1 Oct.
1794; commanded fortress of Almeida, April 1809 to 27 Aug. 1810
when its magazine having exploded he surrendered; lieut. col.
Portugese army 16 Feb. 1809 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.;
K.T.S. 28 Aug. 1815; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 13
Aug. 1816; colonel in British army 12 Aug. 1819; sheriff of King’s
County 1825. _d._ Longford place, Monkstown, co. Dublin 1 July
1864.

COX, WILLIAM JAMES (_2 son of Philip Cox 1779–1841, proprietor of
the Royal tennis court, James st. Haymarket, London_). _b._ 2 Feb.
1806; part proprietor of the Royal tennis court many years;
champion of England at game of tennis. _d._ Brantford, Canada West
30 June 1864. _J. Marshall’s Annals of tennis_ (1878) 100–106.

COX, WILLIAM SANDS (_eld. son of Edward Townsend Cox of Birmingham,
surgeon 1769–1863_). _b._ 38 Cannon st. Birmingham 1802; L.S.A.
1823; M.R.C.S. 1824, F.R.C.S. 1843; started a medical and surgical
class-room at Temple row, Birmingham 1 Dec. 1825; removed to an
old chapel in Paradise st. 1830 which he named the School of
Medicine, it was incorporated by royal charter as the Queen’s
college 1843, principal of the college 1858–9; founded Queen’s
hospital, Birmingham 1840–1; F.R.S. 5 May 1836; member of French
Institute; hon. member of nearly every important surgical school
in Europe; author of _A synopsis of the bones, ligaments and
muscles, bloodvessels and nerves of the human body_ 1831; _Annals
of Queen’s college 4 vols._ 1873. _d._ Woodside, Kenilworth 23
Dec. 1875. _Barker’s Photographs of eminent medical men i_, 61–6
(1865), _portrait_, _reprinted in Cox’s Annals iv_, 155–60 (1873);
_E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham_ (1877) 132–39.

COXE, REV. HENRY OCTAVIUS (_8 son of Rev. Richard Coxe, V. of
Bucklebury, Berkshire_). _b._ Bucklebury 20 Sep. 1811; ed. at
Westminster and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; entered
manuscript department of British Museum, May 1833; C. of Culham
1839–48, of Tubney 1848–55 both near Oxford; sub-librarian of
Bodleian library 16 Nov. 1838, librarian 6 Nov. 1860 to death,
catalogue of 723 folio volumes was compiled 1859–80; select
preacher to Univ. of Ox. 1842; Whitehall preacher 1868; chaplain
of C.C. coll. Ox. 1847–74; lecturer at St. Martin’s, Carfax,
Oxford 1852–59; C. of Wytham, Berks. 1861–68; R. of Wytham 1868 to
death; presided at annual meeting of Library Association at Oxford
1 to 3 Oct. 1878, pres. of Association 25 Sep. 1879 to death;
published _Forms of bidding prayer_ 1840; _Rogeri de Wendover
Chronica 5 vols._ (_English Hist. Soc._) 1841–4; _The Black
Prince, an historical poem written in French by Chandos Herald
(Roxburghe club)_ 1842; _Report on the Greek manuscripts yet
remaining in libraries of the Levant_ 1858. _d._ St. Giles’s road,
Oxford 8 July 1881. _bur._ at Wytham 12 July.

COXE, SIR JAMES (_4 son of Robert Coxe of Georgie, Midlothian_).
_b._ Georgie 1811; ed. at Gottingen, Heidelberg, Paris and Univ.
of Edin., M.D. Edin. 1835; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1835; F.R.C.P. Edin.
1837; wrote Report on management of the insane in Scotland 1855;
paid comr. in lunacy for Scotland 23 Sep. 1857 to death, wrote
first fifteen reports of the Commissioners; knighted by patent 10
Aug. 1863; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ Folkestone on returning from Paris 9
May 1878. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x_, 15 (1880).

COXE, VEN. RICHARD CHARLES (_brother of Rev. Henry Octavius Coxe
1811–81_). Ed. at Reading gr. sch.; matric. from Worcester coll.
Ox. 29 Nov. 1817 aged 17, scholar 1818, B. A. 1821, M.A. 1824;
fellow of his coll. 1823–26; Inc. of Abp. Tenison’s chapel, Regent
St. London 1829–41; V. of Newcastle 1841–53; hon. canon of Durham
1843–58; archdeacon of Lindisfarne, March 1853 to death; V. of
Eglingham, Northumberland, March 1853 to death; canon of Durham,
Dec. 1857 to death; author of _Lectures on the evidence from
miracles_ 1832; _The Mercy at Marsdon rocks_ 1844; _Poems
scriptural, classical and miscellaneous_ 1845; _Leda Tanah the
martyr’s child, Derwent Bank_ 1851. _d._ Eglingham vicarage 25
Aug. 1865.

COXETER, ELIZABETH. _b._ Witney, Oxon. 1 Feb. 1775. _d._ Newbury,
Berkshire 27 Nov. 1876 nearly 102 years of age. _Notes and
Queries_ 5 _S. iii_, 144 (1875), _vi_, 460 (1876).

COYNE, FREDERICK. Comic singer at principal music halls in London
and the provinces 1867 to death; wrote the music to _Tuner’s
Oppertuner-ty, a song_ 1879. _d._ 8 Huntingdon st. Kingsland road,
London 23 Feb. 1886 aged 39. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 27 Feb.
_Entr’acte 6 March 1886 p. 9_, _portrait_.

COYNE, JOSEPH STIRLING (_son of Denis Coyne, port surveyor of
Waterford_). _b._ Birr, King’s county 1803; his first farce called
_The Phrenologist_ was produced at T.R. Dublin, June 1835; came to
London 1836 where his farce _The queer subject_ was produced at
Adelphi theatre, Nov. 1836; author of upwards of 55 dramas,
burlesques and farces produced chiefly at Adelphi and Haymarket
theatres; his drama called _Everybody’s Friend_ was brought out at
the Haymarket 2 April 1859 it was reproduced at St. James’s 16
Oct. 1867 as _The Widow Hunt_; contributed to the first number of
_Punch_ 17 July 1841; secretary to Dramatic authors’ society 1856
to death; dramatic critic on _Sunday Times_ newspaper; author of
_Scenery and antiquities of Ireland 2 vols._ 1842; _Pippins and
pies, or sketches out of school_ 1855; _Sam Spangle or the history
of a harlequin_ 1866. _d._ 61 Talbot road, Westbourne park, London
18 July 1868.

CRABB, GEORGE. _b._ Palgrave, Suffolk 8 Dec. 1778; classical master
at Thorp-Arch school, Yorkshire; studied German at Bremen 1801–6;
gentleman commoner at Magd. hall, Ox. 1814, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1822;
barrister I.T. 3 July 1829; author of _English synonyms explained,
in alphabetical order_ 1816, _7 ed._ 1844 after which the book was
stereotyped; _Universal technological dictionary 2 vols._ 1823;
_Universal historical dictionary 2 vols._ 1825; _History of the
English law_ 1829; _Precedents in conveyancing 2 vols._ 1835, _5
ed._ 1859; _Digest and index of all the statutes at large 4 vols._
1841–7; _Law of real property 2 vols._ 1846. _d._ Hammersmith 4
Dec. 1851.

CRABB, REV. JAMES (_3 son of James Crabb of Wilton, Wiltshire, cloth
manufacturer_). _b._ Wilton 13 April 1774; joined the Wesleyans,
Feb. 1791; kept a school at Romsey, and at Spring hill,
Southampton; minister of Zion chapel, Lansdowne hill, Southampton,
opened 9 June 1824; founded infant day schools at Kingsland Place,
Southampton, the earliest in England; was popularly known as the
Gipsy’s friend and was the missionary referred to in Rev. Legh
Richmond’s _Dairyman’s Daughter_ as having first brought her to a
sense of religion; author of _The Gipsies Advocate_ 1831, _3 ed._
1832; _An address to Irvingites in which their heresy, modes of
worship, etc. are set forth_ 1836. _d._ Springhill house,
Southampton 17 Sep. 1851. _Memoir of Rev. James Crabb by John
Rudall_ 1854, _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvi_, 659–60 (1851).

CRABBE, EYRE JOHN. Ensign 74 foot 11 June 1807, lieut.-col. 6 Nov.
1841 to 1 May 1846 when placed on retired full pay; col. in the
army 28 Nov. 1854; K.H. 1837. _d._ Highfield, Southampton 19 March
1859 aged 68.

CRABBE, REV. GEORGE (_eld. son of George Crabbe the poet
1754–1832_). _b._ Stathern, Leics. 16 Nov. 1785; ed. at Ipswich
gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807; C. of Pucklechurch,
Gloucs. 1817–34; V. of Bredfield and Pettistree, Suffolk 1834 to
death; author of _Life of George Crabbe_ 1838; _Outlines of a
system of natural theology_ 1840. _d._ Bredfield vicarage 16 Sep.
1857.

CRACE, FREDERICK (_son of John Crace of London, architectural
decorator 1754–1819_). _b._ 3 June 1779; architectural decorator;
employed on work at royal palaces, London, Brighton and Windsor; a
comr. of Sewers; began to collect maps and views of London about
1818, his splendid collection was purchased by the British Museum
from his son John Gregory Crace 1880, it consists of between five
and six thousand prints and drawings arranged in a series of 57
portfolios, it is described in _Catalogues of maps, plans and
views of London collected and arranged by F. Crace edited by J. G.
Crace_ 1878, a very large number of the illustrations in Thornbury
and Walford’s _Old and New_ London are derived from this
collection. _d._ Vine cottage, Blyth lane, Hammersmith 18 Sep.
1859. _The Little journal i_, 136–42 (1884).

CRACKANTHORPE, WILLIAM (_son of Christopher Cookson who assumed name
of Crackanthorpe, and d. 1800_). _b._ 25 Feb. 1790; ed. at St.
John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1816; had an interview with
Napoleon at Elba 25 Feb. 1815 the day before he escaped to France;
sheriff of Cumberland 1826; chairman of Westmoreland poor law
board 40 years; rebuilt parish church of Newbiggin and the rectory
house at his own expense. _d._ Newbiggin hall, Westmoreland 10
Jany. 1888.

CRACKLOW, HENRY. Ensign Bombay army 23 Dec. 1819; colonel 2 Bombay
N.I. 1855–69; M.G. 22 Aug. 1855; general 28 March 1874; placed on
retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Castle hill, Inverness 15 May 1886
in 83 year.

CRACROFT, PETER (_2 son of Robert Cracroft of Hackthorne, Lincs.
1783–1862_). _b._ 15 March 1816; entered navy 4 June 1830, lost
the Reynard on the Pratas shoal, China 1846; captain 20 Nov. 1854;
commodore in charge at Jamaica 31 March 1863 to death; C.B. 7 Oct.
1862. _d._ Admiralty house, Port Royal, Jamaica 2 Aug. 1865.
_Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxvi, p. cxlviii_, (1866).

CRADOCK, REV. EDWARD HARTOPP (_3 son of Edward Grove of Shenstone
park, Staffs._) _b._ 26 April 1810; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, B.D. and D.D. 1854; fellow of Brasenose to
1845, principal 27 Dec. 1853 to death; R. of Tedstone Delamere,
Herefordshire 1845–54; canon of Worcester 31 Jany. 1848 to 1854;
assumed name of Cradock by r.l. 22 May 1849. _d._ Oxford 27 Jany.
1886.

CRAIG, JAMES THOMSON GIBSON (_2 son of Sir James Gibson Craig, 1
baronet 1765–1850_). _b._ 12 March 1799; ed. at high school and
univ. Edin.; a writer to the signet; an original member of the
Bannatyne club 1823, for which he edited _Papers relating to the
marriage of King James Sixth_ 1828; issued in an edition of 25
copies a series of facsimiles of historic and artistic
bookbindings in his collection 1882; issued in 1883 a facsimile
reprint of the _Shorte summe of the whole catechism 1583 by John
Craig_; a first part of his valuable library was sold in London,
June 1887. _d._ Edinburgh 18 July 1886.

CRAIG, RICHARD DAVIS (_eld. son of Rev. Thomas Craig of Bocking,
Essex_), _b._ Bocking 2 Nov. 1810; studied at London Univ.; drew
Boundary Act which became part of Reform act 1832; private sec. to
E. J. Littleton chief sec. for Ireland 1833; barrister L.I. 18
Nov. 1834, bencher 3 Nov. 1851; one of the 2 revising barristers
for London and Westminster 1835–40; Q.C. 11 July 1851; retired
from practice 1867; published with J. W. Mylne _Reports of cases
in Chancery_ 1835–41, _5 vols._ 1837–48; with T. J. Phillips
_Reports of cases in Chancery_ 1840–41, _1 vol._ 1842; author of
_Legal and equitable rights and liabilities as to trees and woods_
1866. _d._ Liss, Hampshire 8 May 1884.

CRAIG, WILLIAM. _b._ Dublin 1829; water-colour painter; exhibited at
R.A. Dublin 1846; went to United States 1863; an original member
of American Society of water-colour painters. Drowned in Lake
George, New York 1875.

CRAIG, SIR WILLIAM GIBSON, 2 Baronet (_brother of James Thomson
Gibson Craig 1799–1886_). _b._ 2 Aug. 1797; admitted advocate
1820; M.P. for co. Edinburgh 1837–41, for city of Edin. 1841–52; a
lord of the treasury 6 July 1846 to Feb. 1852; succeeded his
father 6 March 1850; lord clerk register and keeper of signet of
Scotland 3 July 1862 to death; P.C. 8 Dec. 1863. _d._ Riccarton
near Edin. 12 March 1878. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x_, 24
(1880).

CRAIGIE, DAVID. _b._ Leith near Edinburgh 6 June 1793; ed. at Univ.
of Edin., M.D. 1816; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1832, pres. Dec. 1861; phys.
to Edin. Royal infirmary 1833; editor of _Edinburgh Medical and
Surgical Journal_ 1820–32, sole proprietor and editor 1832–55;
F.R.S. Edin. 1833; author of _Elements of general and pathological
anatomy_ 1828, _2 ed._ 1848; _Elements of anatomy, general,
special and comparative_ 1838; _Elements of the practice of physic
2 vols._ 1840, and of 30 separate papers on medical subjects. _d._
17 May 1866. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. vi_, 15–16 (1869).

CRAIGIE, DAVID. Navigating lieutenant R.N. 17 Aug. 1838; staff
commander 11 June 1863; retired captain 20 Jany. 1864; C.B. 2 June
1869. _d._ London 8 April 1883.

CRAIGIE, SIR PATRICK EDMONSTONE (_3 son of Laurence Craigie of
Glasgow_). _b._ 1794; ed. at Glasgow school and college; ensign 52
foot 3 June 1813; lieut. col. 55 foot 21 Nov. 1834 to 11 Aug. 1844
when placed on h.p.; aide de camp to the Queen 23 Dec. 1842 to 20
June 1854; commanded centre division of Madras army 7 Jany. 1855
to 23 April 1860; col. of 31 foot 20 Feb. 1859, of 55 foot 1 June
1862 to death; general 21 Jany. 1868; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 13
March 1867. _d._ Warrior terrace, St. Leonards 13 Dec. 1873.

CRAIGIE, ROBERT. Entered navy 22 March 1811; captain 7 Nov. 1839;
admiral on h.p. 1 April 1870. _d._ Dawlish 2 March 1873 in 73
year.

CRAIGIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Belnaboth, Aberdeenshire 11 March 1799;
studied for medical profession at Marischal college, Aberdeen and
at Univs. of Edin. and Dublin; settled at Ancaster, Canada West
1834, removed to Hamilton 1845; held a high position as a
scientific authority on meteorology, botany, horticulture and
agriculture; a member of Board of arts and manufactures of Canada
West. _d._ Hamilton, Aug. 1863.

CRAIK, GEORGE LILLIE (_eld. son of Rev. Wm. Craik, assistant
minister of parish of Kennoway, Fifeshire, who d. 1830_). _b._
Kennoway 1798; ed. at St. Andrew’s Univ.; edited the _Star_ local
paper 1817; came to London 1826; professor of English literature
and history at Queen’s college, Belfast 1849 to death; examiner
for Indian civil service in London 1859 and 1862; author of _The
pursuit of knowledge under difficulties 2 vols._ 1830–31;
_Sketches of the history of literature and learning in England 6
vols._ 1844–45 expanded into _A Compendious History of English
literature and of the English language 2 vols._ 1861; _Spenser and
his poetry 3 vols._ 1845; _Bacon, his writings and his philosophy
3 vols._ 1846–7; _Romance of the peerage 4 vols._ 1848–50; author
with C. Macfarlane of _The pictorial history of England 4 vols._
1837–41. _d._ 2 Chlorine place, Belfast 25 June 1866.
_Certificates in favour of G. L. Craik for the office of one of
the Latin masters in the new Edinburgh Academy._

CRAIK, HENRY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Prestonpans, East
Lothian 8 Aug. 1805; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews; tutor in family
of Anthony Norris Groves of Exeter 1826, in family of John Synge
of Buckridge house near Teignmouth 1828–31; pastor of Baptist
chapel, Shaldon, Devon 1831–32; laboured in Bristol with George
Muller (founder of the New orphan houses, Ashley Down) 1832 to
death, founded with him a society at Bristol similar to the
Plymouth Brethren 1832; author of _The Hebrew language, its
history and characteristics_ 1860; _Principia Hebraica_ 1863. _d._
Hampton park, Redland near Bristol 22 Jany. 1866. _W. E. Tayler’s
Passages from the diary and letters of H. Craik_ 1866.

CRAMER, JOHANN BAPTIST (_eld. son of Wilhelm Cramer of London,
violinist 1745–99_). _b._ Mannheim 24 Feb. 1771; taken to London
1774; made his first appearance as a pianist 1781; travelled
abroad 1788–91, 1798 and 1816–18; a member of board of management
of Royal Academy of Music 1822; founded firm of music publishers
J. B. Cramer and Co. in Regent st. London 1828 from which he
retired 1835; occupied the foremost rank of his day as a pianist;
composed, adapted and arranged 250 pieces of music; his _Eighty
four Studies_ are still very popular. _d._ Kensington terrace,
London 16 April 1858. _The Harmonicon i_, 179–81 (1823),
_portrait_.

CRAMP, REV. JOHN MOCKETT (_son of Rev. Thomas Cramp, founder of
Baptist church at St. Peter’s, Isle of Thanet, who d. 17 Nov. 1851
aged 82_). _b._ St. Peter’s 25 July 1796; ed. at Stepney college,
London; pastor of baptist chapel, Dean st. Southwark 1818;
assistant pastor at St. Peter’s 1827–42; pastor of baptist chapel,
Hastings 1842–44; pres. of baptist college, Montreal 1844–49;
pres. of Acadia college, Nova Scotia 1851–69; edited _The
Register_ a Montreal weekly religious journal 1844–49; edited with
Rev. W. Taylor _The Colonial Protestant_ a monthly mag. 1848–49;
general editor of _The Pilot_ Montreal newspaper 1849–51; author
of _A text book of Popery_ 1831; _Baptist history from the
foundation of the Christian church to the eighteenth century_ 1868
and many other books. _d._ Wolfville, Nova Scotia 6 Dec. 1881.

CRAMPTON, SIR JOHN FIENNES TWISLETON, 2 Baronet (_elder son of the
succeeding_). _b._ Dawson st. Dublin 12 Aug. 1805; ed. at Eton and
Trin. coll. Dublin; attached to mission at Turin 1826, to embassy
at St. Petersburg 1828; paid attaché at Brussels 1834, at Vienna
1839; sec. of legation to Confederated states of Swiss Cantons
1844, in the United States 1845, chargé d’Affaires there 1847–49
and 1850–52; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to U.S. 19 Jany.
1852, the pres. of the U.S. discontinued official intercourse with
him 28 May 1856 on account of his recruiting soldiers in the U.S.
for the British army, when he returned to England but he held the
appointment to 20 Jany. 1857; K.C.B. 20 Sep. 1856; envoy extraord.
and min. plenipo. to King of Hanover 2 March 1857, at St.
Petersburg 31 March 1858, at Madrid 11 Dec. 1860 to 1 July 1869
when he retired on pension; succeeded his father 10 June 1858.
_d._ Bushey park, Enniscorthy, co. Wicklow 5 Dec. 1886.

CRAMPTON, SIR PHILIP, 1 Baronet (_3 son of John Crampton of Merrion
sq. Dublin 1732–92_). _b._ Dublin 7 June 1777; assistant surgeon
in army; surgeon to Meath hospital, Dublin 1798; M.D. Glasgow
1800; taught anatomy in private lectures and maintained a
dissecting room behind his own house; surgeon general to the
forces in Ireland to his death, the last who held that
appointment; surgeon in ord. to the Queen for Ireland; a member of
senate of the Queen’s Univ.; pres. of Royal college of surgeons,
Dublin 3 times; F.R.S. 16 April 1812; created baronet 14 March
1839. _d._ Merrion sq. Dublin 10 June 1858. _Dublin Univ. Mag.
xv_, 613 (1840), _portrait_; _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii_,
52–53 (1861).

CRAMPTON, PHILIP CECIL (_4 son of Rev. Cecil Crampton 1733–1819, R.
of Headford, co. Galway_). _b._ May 1782; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, scholar 1800, fellow 1807, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1807; LL.B.
1809, LLD. 1810; called to Irish bar 1810; professor of common and
feudal law in Univ. of Dublin 1816–34; solicitor general for
Ireland 23 Dec. 1830; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1831; justice
of Court of Queen’s Bench, Ireland 21 Oct. 1834 to Jany. 1859;
M.P. for Milborne, Port, Somerset 15 July 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832;
contested Univ. of Dublin, Dec. 1832 and Dungarvan, Feb. 1834;
P.C. 1858. _d._ St. Valente, Bray, co. Wicklow 29 Dec. 1862.
_Address on Judge Crampton’s retirement with some of his charges
to Juries_ 1859; _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_
(1885) 299–302.

CRAMPTON, THOMAS. _b._ Sheerness 1817; organist at Staines 1840,
afterwards at Brentford and Ealing; government lecturer at Kneller
Hall training college 1854; composed anthems, glees and
instrumental music; purchaser of music to the British Museum 1875;
published _The church psalter_ 1854; _The part singer_ 1868;
_Twenty-four school songs with lessons on musical notation_ 1873;
_Forty school songs_ 1882; _Music for the New Code staff notation_
1884; composed and printed upwards of 35 pieces of music; some of
his duets and trios appeared under the nom de plume of J. Karl
Bernhardt. _d._ 2 Devonshire gardens, Chiswick 13 April 1885.

CRANE, LUCY (_dau. of the succeeding._) _b._ Liverpool 22 Sep. 1842;
ed. in London; wrote the original verses and rhymed versions of
nursery legends for her brother Walter Crane’s Coloured Toybooks
1869–75; delivered lectures in London and the North on Art and the
formation of taste; author of _Household stories from the Brothers
Grimm, translated_ 1882; _Art and formation of taste, Six
lectures_ 1882. _d._ Bolton-le-Moors 31 March 1882.

CRANE, THOMAS (_son of Mr. Crane of Chester, bookseller_). _b._
Chester 1808; artist at Chester 1825; associate of Liverpool
Academy 1835, member 1838, treasurer 1841; lived at Torquay
1844–57; his principal works were portraits in oil, water-colour
and crayon; exhibited 9 subject pictures at the R.A.; illustrated
various books. _d._ Lambton terrace, Bayswater, London 15 July
1859.

CRANWORTH, ROBERT MONSEY ROLFE, 1 Baron (_elder son of Rev. Edmund
Rolfe, R. of Cockley Cley, Norfolk, who d. 24 July 1795_). _b._
Cranworth, Norfolk 18 Dec. 1790; ed. at Bury school, Winchester
and Trin. coll. Cam., 17 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815;
fellow of Downing coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 21 May 1816, bencher
1832; recorder of Bury St. Edmunds about 1830; K.C. Aug. 1832;
M.P. for Penryn 1832–39; solicitor general 6 Nov. to 20 Dec. 1834
and 30 April 1835 to 11 Nov. 1839; baron of Court of Exchequer 11
Nov. 1839 to 2 Nov. 1850; one of comrs. of the Great Seal 19 June
to 15 July 1850; vice chancellor 2 Nov. 1850; P.C. 13 Nov. 1850;
created Baron Cranworth of Cranworth, co. Norfolk 20 Dec. 1850
being the first and only instance of a vice chancellor receiving
dignity of a peer; one of the two lords justices of appeal in
chancery 8 Oct. 1851; lord chancellor 28 Dec. 1852 to 26 Feb. 1858
and 7 July 1865 to 6 July 1867. _d._ 40 Upper Brook st. London 26
July 1868. _bur._ Keston churchyard. _Men of the time British
statesmen_ (1854) 251–58; _Law mag. and law review xxvi_, 278–84
(1869); _The British cabinet in 1853 pp._ 251–58; _I.L.N. xvii_,
357 (1850), _portrait_, _xxx_, 109 (1857), _portrait_, _liii_,
114, 153 (1868), _portrait_.

CRAUFURD, EDWARD HENRY JOHN (_eld. son of John Craufurd 1780–1867,
secretary to senate of Ionian islands_). _b._ 9 Dec. 1816; ed. at
Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1840, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister
I.T. 21 Nov. 1845; admitted barrister M.T. 10 April 1854; edited
_The Legal Examiner_ 1852; M.P. for Ayr district 22 July 1852 to
26 Jany. 1874; author of _Advocacy in county courts_. _d._
Portencross, Ayrshire 29 Aug. 1887.

CRAUFURD, JAMES (_eld. son of Archibald Clifford Blackwell Craufurd
of Ardmillan, Ayrshire_). _b._ Havant, Hants. 1805; ed. at Ayr
academy and at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; admitted advocate
1829; sheriff of Perthshire 14 March 1849; solicitor general for
Scotland 16 Nov. 1853; lord of session 10 Jany. 1855 to death with
courtesy title of Lord Ardmillan; lord of justiciary 16 June 1855
to death. _d._ 18 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1876. _Journal of
jurisprudence xx_, 538–9 (1876); _Graphic xiv_, 308 (1876),
_portrait_.

CRAVEN, LOUISA, Countess of (_youngest dau. of John Brunton
1750–1832, manager of the Norwich theatre_). _b._ Norwich 21 Jany.
1779; made her first appearance on the stage at Covent Garden 25
Oct. 1803 as Lady Townley in the _Provoked Husband_; made her last
appearance at Covent Garden 21 Oct. 1807 as Clara Sedley in _The
Rage_. (_m._ 12 Dec. 1807 Wm. Craven 1 Earl of Craven, he was _b._
1 Sep. 1770 and _d._ 30 July 1825). _d._ Hampstead Marshall,
Newbury 27 Aug. 1860. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses i_,
94–102 (1844), _portrait_; _British Stage ii_, 241 (1818),
_portrait_; _Theatrical Inquisitor xiii_, 3 (1818), _portrait_;
_Bentley’s Miscellany xviii_, 249–51 (1845).

CRAVEN, WILLIAM CRAVEN, 2 Earl of. _b._ 18 July 1809; ed. at Eton
and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 30 July 1825; knight of the griffin at
the Eglinton tournament 28 to 31 Aug. 1839; lord lieut. of Warws.
29 March 1854 to 1856; devoted great attention to coursing and
held spring and autumn meetings at Ashdown hills on his own
property. _d._ Royal hotel, Scarborough 25 Aug. 1866. _Baily’s
Mag. viii_, 327–9 (1864), _portrait_; _Nixon and Richardson’s
Eglinton tournament_ (1843), _portrait_.

CRAVEN, GEORGE GRIMSTON CRAVEN, 3 Earl of. _b._ Charles st. Berkeley
sq. London 16 March 1841; ed. at Harrow; succeeded 25 Aug. 1866;
high steward of Newbury, Berkshire 14 Jany. 1869; lord lieut. of
Berks. 11 Aug. 1881 to death; master of the old Berkshire hounds,
a steeple chaser, continued the Ashdown coursing meeting. _d._
Ashdown park, Berks. 7 Dec. 1883. _bur._ Binley churchyard near
Coventry 13 Dec. _Baily’s Mag. xxii_, 187 (1872), _portrait_.

CRAVEN, FULWAR (_elder son of Rev. John Craven of Chilton house,
Wiltshire, who d. 19 June 1804_). _b._ 25 June 1782; captain 1
dragoons 1803–1806; owner of race horses; won the Oaks with
Deception 1839; one of the most notable and eccentric characters
on the turf. _d._ Brockhampton park, Gloucs. 14 April 1860. _H.
Corbet’s Tales of sporting life_ (1864) 99–108; _W. Day’s
Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1886) 138–42.

CRAVEN, KEPPEL RICHARD (_youngest child of 6 Baron Craven 1737–91_).
_b._ 1 June 1779; ed. at Harrow; resided with his mother at Naples
1805; chamberlain to Princess of Wales 1814–15; purchased a large
convent in the mountains near Salerno, South Italy, and lived
there 1834; author of _A tour through the southern provinces of
the kingdom of Naples_ 1821; _Excursions in the Abruzzi and
northern provinces of Naples 2 vols._ 1838. _d._ Naples 24 June
1851. _Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach_ (1826), _i_, 72, 85,
364, _ii_, 74, 84, 95, 173, _portrait_; _Madden’s Literary life of
Countess of Blessington, ii_, 124–39 (1855).

CRAWFORD and BALCARRES, JAMES LINDSAY, Earl of. _b._ Balcarres,
Fifeshire 24 April 1783; succeeded as 7 Earl of Balcarres 27 March
1825; created Baron Wigan in peerage of United Kingdom 5 July
1826; had Earldom of Crawford (dormant since 1808) confirmed to
him by House of Lords 1848 and thus became 24 Earl of Crawford and
premier Earl on union roll of Scotland; claimed Dukedom of
Montrose 1855. _d._ Dunecht house, Aberdeen 15 Dec. 1869.

CRAWFORD and BALCARRES, ALEXANDER WILLIAM CRAWFORD LINDSAY, Earl of
(_eld. child of the preceding_). _b._ Muncaster Castle 16 Oct.
1812; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1833; succeeded 15
Dec. 1869; collected from all parts of the world the famous
Crawford library consisting of more than 50,000 books and MSS.,
the first portion of which was sold for £19,000 in 1887, one book
the Mazarin Bible fetched £2650; author of _Letters on Egypt, Edom
and the Holy Land 2 vols._ 1838; _Lives of the Lindsays 3 vols._
1840, _3 ed._ 1858; _Ballads, songs and poems translated from the
German_ 1841; _Progression by antagonism, a theory_ 1846;
_Sketches of the history of Christian art 3 vols._ 1847, _new ed.
2 vols._ 1885; _Scepticism, a retrogressive movement in theology_
1861; _Etruscan inscriptions analysed_ 1872; _The Earldom of Mar
in sunshine and in shade during five hundred years 2 vols._ 1882.
_d._ Villa Eualenina, Florence 13 Dec. 1880. _bur._ at Dunecht
house, April 1881, personalty sworn under £300,000 April 1881.
_Athenæum 25 Dec. 1880 p._ 865; _I.L.N. lxxxi_, 124 (1882).

NOTE.—His body was stolen April 1881 by Charles Soutar a
ratcatcher, but the theft was not discovered until Dec. 1881,
the body was found on the farm of Dumbreck near Dunecht house
18 July 1882 and buried in family vault under Wigan parish
church 26 July 1882. C. Soutar was sentenced to 5 years penal
servitude 24 Oct. 1882.

CRAWFORD, ABRAHAM (_youngest son of Rev. Thomas Crawford, V. of
Lismore, co. Waterford_). _b._ Lismore, Oct. 1788; entered navy 19
May 1800; captain 5 Jany. 1829; retired captain 5 Jany. 1849;
retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865. _d._ Teignmouth, Devon 17 Jany.
1869. _Reminiscences of a naval officer by Capt. A. Crawford, R.N.
2 vols._ 1851.

CRAWFORD, EDMUND THORNTON (_son of Mr. Crawford of Cowden near
Dalkeith, land surveyor_). _b._ Cowden 1806; landscape and marine
painter; A.R.S.A. 1839, R.S.A. 1848; one of the greatest landscape
painters in Scotland; contributed many pictures to Royal Scottish
Academy 1831–77; lived at Lasswade near Edinburgh 1858 to death.
_d._ Lasswade 27 Sep. 1885. _bur._ in new cemetery at Dalkeith.

CRAWFORD, GEORGE MORLAND. _b._ Chelsfield court lodge, Kent 1816;
barrister I.T. 5 May 1837; Paris correspondent of _Daily News_
1850 to death; a severe censurer of the Imperial government; very
intimate with Thiers, Gambetta and Floquet; stung by a wasp in the
carotid artery, Oct. 1885. _d._ from blood poisoning in Paris 23
Nov. 1885. _Daily News 26 Nov. 1885 p._ 3, _28 Nov. p._ 3; _Pall
Mall Gazette 26 Nov. 1885 p._ 11, _27 Nov. p._ 3, _portrait 9 Dec.
p._ 5.

CRAWFORD, JOHN. _b._ Greenock 31 Aug. 1816; a house painter at Alloa
1834 to death; author of _Doric lays, being snatches of song and
ballad 2 vols._ 1850–60; committed suicide at Alloa 13 Dec. 1873.
_Memorials of the town and parish of Alloa, by the late John
Crawford with memoir of the author by Rev. Charles Rogers_ 1874.

CRAWFORD, JOSEPH TUCKER. Consul general in Island of Cuba, April
1842 to death; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859. _d._ Havannah 21 July 1864.

CRAWFORD, REV. THOMAS JACKSON (_son of Wm. Crawford, professor of
moral philosophy in United college, St. Andrews_). _b._ St.
Andrews; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, B.D. 1831, D.D. 1844;
minister of parish of Cults 1834, of parish of Glamis 1838, of St.
Andrews parish Edin. 1844; professor of theology in Univ. of Edin.
1859 to death, being the last person appointed by the town to any
chair in the Univ.; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 1861; a dean of
the chapel royal; moderator of general assembly 1867; author of
_Reasons of adherence to the Church of Scotland_ 1843;
_Presbyterianism defended against the exclusive claims of prelacy
as urged by the Romanists and Tractarians_ 1853, _2 ed._ 1867;
_The Fatherhood of God_ 1866, _3 ed._ 1870; _The mysteries of
Christianity_ 1874. _d._ Genoa 11 Oct. 1875. _Scott’s Fasti iii,
pt. 2, p._ 772; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix_, 17 (1878).

CRAWFORD, WILLIAM (_2 son of Archibald Crawford of Ayr, poet
1779–1843_). _b._ Ayr 1825; teacher of drawing at Royal
Institution, Edinburgh; exhibited pictures at Royal Scottish
Academy, many of which were bought by Royal Assoc. for Promotion
of fine arts in Scotland; his portraits in crayons of children and
ladies were much sought after; A.R.S.A. 1860. _d._ Lynedoch place,
Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_, 146 (1869).

CRAWFORD, WILLIAM THOMAS. Second lieut. R.A. 21 June 1833, lieut.
col. 1 April 1855 to death; C.B. 24 March 1858. _d._ Rome 6 March
1862.