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CRUCHLEY, GEORGE FREDERICK. Publisher, mapseller, engraver and
printer at 38 Ludgate st. London to 1833, at 81 Fleet st. 1833–76;
sold his entire stock at Hodgsons 16 Jany. 1877. _d._ 65 Grand
parade, Brighton 16 June 1880 in 84 year.

CRUICKSHANK, BRODIE. Author of _Eighteen years on the gold coast of
Africa 2 vols._ 1853. _d._ Lisbon 17 Nov. 1854.

CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE (_younger son of Isaac Cruikshank of London,
caricaturist, who d. 1810 or 1811_). _b._ Duke st. Bloomsbury,
London 27 Sep. 1792; employed to complete the plates left
unfinished by Gillray 1811; illustrated the political pamphlets of
Wm. Hone 1819–21; published _Illustrations of phrenology_ 1826;
_Illustrations of time_ 1827; illustrated Fielding, Smollett and
Goldsmith for _Roscoe’s Novelist’s Library 17 vols._ 1831–2;
illustrated the _Comic Almanac_ 1835–53; _Bentley’s Miscellany 14
vols._ 1837–41; _Ainsworth’s Magazine_ 1842–45; published _The
Bottle_ 8 plates 1847 and _The Drunkard’s Children_ 8 plates 1848
many thousands of which were sold in a few days, the subject was
represented at 8 London theatres at once; a student at the R.A. 22
April 1853; produced the Worship of Bacchus 1862, presented to
National gallery by public subscription 1869; granted civil list
pension of £95, 19 June 1867; many of his works were purchased by
the Westminster Aquarium for £2500 July 1876. _d._ 263 Hampstead
road, London 1 Feb. 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 9 Feb.,
removed to St. Paul’s cathedral 29 Nov. 1878. _Life by W. B.
Jerrold, 2 ed._ 1883; _George Cruikshank the artist by W. Bates_,
_2 ed._ 1879; _G. W. Reid’s Descriptive catalogue of the works of
G. Cruikshank 3 vols._ 1871; _W. Thornbury’s British Artists ii_,
55–69 (1861); _W. M. Rossetti’s Fine Art_ (1867) 277–82; _P. G.
Hamerton’s Etching and etchers_ (1876) 316–23; _James Grant’s
Public characters ii_, 236–51 (1841); _G. Cruikshank’s Omnibus_
(1842) 1–8, _portrait_; _Temple Bar lii_, 499–516 (1878);
_Illustrated Review iii_, 385–91 (1873), _portrait_.

CRUIKSHANK, ISAAC ROBERT (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Duke st.
Bloomsbury, London 27 Sep. 1789; a midshipman in H.E.I. Co.’s
service; made water colour drawings for private patrons;
caricaturist and miniature painter; insolvent Dec. 1826;
illustrated Pierce Egan’s _Life in London_ 1821 (the 3 chief
characters in which Tom, Jerry and Logic he designed from himself,
his brother George and Pierce Egan) and _The Finish_ 1831;
Westmacott’s _English Spy_ 1825; Cumberland’s _British theatre 39
vols._ 1823–31 and many other books. _d._ of bronchitis at 206
Pentonville road, Islington, London 13 March 1856. _George
Daniel’s Love’s last labour not lost_ (1863) 173–76.

CRUM, WALTER (_2 son of Alexander Crum of Thornliebank near Glasgow,
merchant manufacturer_). _b._ Glasgow 1796; scientific chemist and
manufacturer at Glasgow; member of Philosophical Soc. of Glasgow
1834, pres. 1852; F.R.S. 29 Feb. 1844; pres. of Anderson’s Univ.
Glasgow; best known for his successful efforts to place the arts
of dyeing and calico printing on a scientific basis; the first
person to give the true formula for gun cotton. _d._ The Ronken,
Thornliebank near Glasgow 5 May 1867. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi_,
8–10 (1868).

CRUMMER, JAMES HENRY. _b._ Birr, King’s county; ensign 28 foot July
1805, captain 20 July 1815 to 1 March 1839 when placed on h.p.;
served in Peninsular war 1809–14; commandant of Island of Calamo
1822–27; police magistrate and superintendent of convicts at
Newcastle, N.S.W. 1837–49; police magistrate of Maitland 1849–58
and of Port Macquarie 1858–64. _d._ Port Macquarie 29 Dec. 1867.

CUBBON, SIR MARK (_son of Rev. Thomas Cubbon_). _b._ 1785; lieut. 15
Madras N.I. 20 July 1801; joint comr. of Mysore 1831–34, sole
comr. 17 May 1834 to Feb. 1861; col. of 15 Madras N.I. 8 Oct. 1839
to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 26 May 1856.
_d._ at Suez on his way home 23 April 1861 in 77 year, there is a
fine equestrian statue of him at Bangalore where the Cubbon park
is named after him. _Rice’s Mysore and Coorg 1877 passim_; _J. F.
Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_, _2 ed._ (1874) 96–7.

CUBITT, JOSEPH (_only son of Sir Wm. Cubitt 1785–1861_). _b._
Horning, Norfolk 24 Nov. 1811; assistant to his father 1832–43;
constructed great part of London and South Western railway
1838–41, Great Northern railway 1846–50 and London, Chatham and
Dover railway 1855–64; built new Blackfriars bridge, London
1865–69 opened by the Queen 6 Nov. 1869; M.I.C.E. 1840, vice pres.
1865. _d._ 7 Dec. 1872. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_,
249–51 (1875).

CUBITT, THOMAS (_son of Jonathan Cubitt of Buxton near Norwich, who
d. 1807_). _b._ Buxton 25 Feb. 1788; a master carpenter in London
1809; built London Institution, Finsbury Circus 1815–19; built
over large portion of the Five Fields, Chelsea 1824–29; covered
with mansions, district between Eaton sq. and the Thames since
known as Pimlico; built over Clapham park about 250 acres 1824;
constructed about 1000 yards of embankment above Vauxhall bridge
at his own expense; built large factory at Thames Bank, burnt down
17 Aug. 1854; church of St. Barnabas, Ranmore near Dorking was
built at his cost 1859; A.I.C.E. 1839. _d._ Denbies near Dorking
20 Dec. 1855. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi_, 158–62
(1857); _J. S. Bright’s Dorking_ (1884) 133–6; _G.M. xlv_, 202–205
(1856).

NOTE.—His will the longest on record extended to 386 Chancery
folios of 90 words each and covered 30 skins of parchment; the
personalty exceeding £1,000,000 the probate duty was £15,000.

CUBITT, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Joseph Cubitt of Bacton Wood near
Dilham, Norfolk, miller_). _b._ Dilham 1785; a millwright at
Horning, Norfolk; invented and patented self regulating windmill
sails 1807; employed by Ransome and Son of Ipswich, agricultural
implement makers 1812–21, a partner 1821–26; invented the
treadmill 1817, at once adopted in chief gaols of the U.K.; a
civil engineer in London 1826–58; designed the Oxford canal and
Liverpool junction canal; constructed South Eastern railway
1836–46, blew down face of the Round Down Cliff with a monster
charge of 18,000 pounds of gunpowder which he exploded by
galvanism 26 Jany. 1843; superintended construction of Great
Exhibition 1851 for which he was knighted at Windsor Castle 23
Oct. 1851; M.I.C.E. 1823, member of council 1831, vice pres. 1836,
pres. 1850–52; F.R.S. 1 April 1830. _d._ Clapham Common, London 13
Oct. 1861 in 77 year. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_,
554–58 (1862); _Our iron roads by F. S. Williams_, 2 ed. (1883)
123–26; _I.L.N. ii_, 76–7 (1843).

CUBITT, WILLIAM (_brother of Thomas Cubitt 1788–1855_). _b._ Buxton
near Norwich 1791; served in the navy 4 years; builder in Gray’s
Inn road, London to 1851; M.P. for Andover 29 July 1847 to July
1861 and 17 Dec. 1862 to death; contested City of London 29 July
1861; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1847–49; alderman of
Langbourn ward 1851–63, lord mayor 1860–62; pres. of St.
Bartholomew’s hospital; prime warden of Fishmongers’ Company;
A.I.C.E. 22 Jany. 1833, member of council 1842–43. _d._ Penton
lodge, Andover 28 Oct. 1863. _G.M. xvi_, 120–2 (1864); _I.L.N.
xxxvii_, 435 (1860), _portrait_.

CUFF, JAMES DODSLEY (_son of Mr. Cuff of Corsley near Warminster,
Wilts. yeoman_). Clerk in Bank of England about 1805 to death,
clerk in bullion office there 1825 to death; an original member of
Numismatic Society of London 1836; collected coins for 40 years
which were sold for £7054, 29 June 1854; F.S.A.; contributed
descriptions of coins to a supplement to Ainslie’s _Illustrations
of the Anglo-French coinage_ 1830. _d._ Prescott lodge, Clapham
new park, London 28 Sep. 1853 in 73 year. _Numismatic Chronicle
xvii_, 15 (1855); _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. x_, 122
(1855).

CUFFE, SIR JONAH DENNY WHEELER, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Sir Richard
Wheeler, knight, who took name of Cuffe_). _b._ 1765 or 1766;
student at Lincoln’s Inn 17 May 1790; created a baronet of Ireland
1 Oct. 1799. _d._ Leyrath, co. Kilkenny 9 May 1853.

CUITT, GEORGE (_only son of George Cuitt of Richmond, Yorkshire,
painter 1743–1818_). _b._ Richmond, Oct. 1779; a landscape
painter; a drawing master at Chester 1804; resided at Masham,
Yorkshire 1820 to death; published _Etchings of ancient buildings
in Chester, castles in North Wales etc._ 1816; _Wanderings and
pencillings amongst the ruins of the olden time, a series of 23
etchings_ 1848, reissued 1855 and many other etchings. _d._ Belle
Vue, Masham 15 July 1854. _G.M. xlii_, 311 (1854).

CULLEN, HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL PAUL (_son of Hugh Cullen of Prospect
near Ballytore, co. Kildare, farmer_). _b._ Prospect 29 April
1803; ed. at Ballytore and Carlow college; entered Urban college
of the Propaganda at Rome 29 Nov. 1820; ordained priest 1829; vice
rector of the Irish college in Rome 1829, rector 1832–48; rector
of the Propaganda college, May 1848 to Jany. 1849; archbishop of
Armagh 19 Dec. 1849; consecrated in church of St. Agatha of the
Goths, Rome 24 Feb. 1850; presided over national synod held in the
college at Thurles, Aug. 1850 being first held in Ireland since
convention of Kilkenny 1642; translated from Armagh to Dublin 3
May 1852; created a cardinal priest with title of San Pietro in
Montorio 22 June 1866 being first Irishman raised to that rank;
founded Catholic University of Ireland at Drumcondra 20 July 1862;
presided at synod of Maynooth Sep. 1875; author of _Pastoral
Letters 1852–56_. _d._ 59 Eccles st. Dublin 24 Oct. 1878. _bur._
beneath high altar in chapel of Clonville college 29 Oct. _P. J.
O’Byrne’s Lives of the Cardinals_ (1879) 13–28, _portrait_; _Sir
C. G. Duffy’s League of North and South_ (1886) 136, 171–75,
301–81; _M. Comerford’s Collections_ (1883) 188–91; _J. E.
Cairnes’s Political Essays_ (1873) 263 _etc._; _I.L.N. lxxiii_,
421 (1878), _portrait_.

CULLEN, WILLIAM. Second lieut. Madras artillery 1804, colonel 1 Oct.
1842 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Alleppey, Madras 1 Oct.
1862.

CULLENFORD, WILLIAM. _b._ Halesworth, Suffolk, Jany. 1797; acted in
the provinces; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre 30 Sep.
1836 as Wharton in _The Christening_; acted chiefly at Adelphi and
Haymarket to July 1864 when he retired; a founder of Royal general
theatrical fund 16 Feb. 1839, sec. of the fund 16 Feb. 1839 to
death. _d._ Jasmine cottage, New Maiden, Surrey 6 Sep. 1874.

CULLIMORE, ISAAC. _b._ Ireland 1791; an original member of
Numismatic Society 1836; he devoted his whole life to study of
Egyptian antiquities, one of the first Orientalists who made use
of astronomy to fix important dates in ancient history; published
174 plates of oriental cylinders or seals from collections in
British Museum, in parts 1842–52; author of _Pharoah and his
Princes_ in _Syro-Egyptian Soc. Papers vol. 1, 1845_. _d._
Clapham, London 8 or 12 April 1852. _Numismatic Chronicle xv_, 22
(1853); _W. H. Ward’s article on Babylonian seals in Scribner’s
Mag. Jany. 1887_.

CULSHA, REV. EDWARD WIDT (_only son of Edward Culsha of Islington,
London_). Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 20 May 1846 aged 19, B.A.
1850, M.A. 1854; C. of Little Malvern, and Head Master of Colwall
gram. sch. Herefordshire 1855 to death; author of _Antar and other
poems_ 1852; _Eastern lands and Eastern people_ 1861. _d._ Colwall
11 Jany. 1863.

CULVERWELL, ROBERT JAMES. _b._ 13 July 1802; L.S.A. 1824, M.R.C.S.
1827, M.D. Giessen 1841; edited a monthly periodical entitled
_Leisure Moments_ from April 1850 to 1852, 3 vols.; had a museum
of 1000 specimens of morbid pathology; proprietor of The Argyll
Baths, 10 Argyll place and 5 New Broad st. London; author of _A
practical treatise on bathing_ 1829; _On consumption_ 1834, _2
ed._ 1842; _The Confessional_ 1841; _Guide to health and long
life_ 1844, _2 ed._ 1852; _The enjoyment of life_ 1850; _Fragments
from the mountains 2 vols._ 1855; _What to eat, drink and avoid_,
and many other medical books. _d._ 10 Argyll place, Regent st.
London 9 Dec. 1852. _The life of Dr. Culverwell written by
himself_ (1852), _portrait_.

CUMBERBATCH, ABRAHAM CARLTON. Attached to consulate at Paris
1825–28; vice consul at Constantinople 24 Aug. 1830, consul
general there 3 May 1845 to 30 Nov. 1864 when he retired; C.B. 7
April 1866. _d._ Heron court, Richmond, Surrey 25 Oct. 1875.

CUMBERLAND, CHARLES BROWNLOW. _b._ 1801; ensign 35 foot 21 Dec.
1820; lieut.-col. 96 foot 22 July 1842 to 8 July 1856 when he
retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G. _d._ 21 Milverton
crescent, Leamington 27 Nov. 1882.

CUMBERLAND, FREDERIC WILLIAM. _b._ London 1820; ed. at collegiate
school, Dublin and King’s college, London; appointed to
engineering department of the Admiralty 1844; architect at
Toronto, Canada 1847 to death; constructed Ontario, Simcoe, and
Huron railway 1852–54; designed University of Toronto 1859 said to
be finest specimen of Norman Gothic architecture in America;
organized in Toronto a regiment afterwards called Royal Grenadiers
1861, colonel 1861–64; represented Algoma district in legislature
of Ontario 1867 and in Dominion parliament 1871. _d._ Toronto 5
Aug. 1881.

CUMBERLAND, JOHN. Publisher in London; published _Cumberland’s
British Theatre, printed from the acting copies as performed at
the Theatres Royal, London_, _39 vols._ 1823–31; _Cumberland’s
Minor Theatre 14 vols._ 1831–32, these two series were republished
in 64 or _65 vols._ 1838; foreman of the jury at coroner’s inquest
on body of Colonel Fawcett killed by Lieut. Munroe in a duel 1
July 1843. _d._ 185 Camden road, London 13 June 1866 in 79 year.

CUMBERLAND, OCTAVIUS. _b._ 1810; entered navy 16 April 1825; captain
29 Sept. 1855; retired R.A. 25 Aug. 1873; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._
New hall, Penicuik, Edinburgh 6 Aug. 1877.

CUMBERLAND, RICHARD FRANCIS (_son of Richard Cumberland, officer in
3 foot guards_). _b._ 1792; a page of honour; ensign 3 foot guards
27 Jany. 1809, lieut. 25 Dec. 1813 to 1825 when he sold out;
aide-de-camp to Duke of Wellington in principal actions in
Peninsular war 1812–14; wounded at repulse of French sortie from
Bayonne. _d._ Royal Mint, London 9 March 1870.

CUMBERLEGE, EDWARD ALTHAM. Colonel Bengal infantry 4 Feb. 1861; L.G.
17 Sep. 1871. _d._ 23 Burlington road, Westbourne park, London 28
Dec. 1873 aged 70.

CUMING, HUGH. _b._ West Alvington, Kingsbridge, Devon 14 Feb. 1791;
apprenticed to a sail maker; went to South America 1819; in
business at Valparaiso 1819–26; cruised in the South Pacific and
along Western coast of America collecting plants and shells
1826–29; cruised among islands of Philippine group where he
collected 130,000 specimens of dried plants 1835–39; his
collection of shells the largest and most valuable private one in
existence contained 30,000 species and varieties; G. B. Sowerby
named a genus of bivalved shells Cumingia after him 1833; F.L.S.
_d._ 13 Gower st. London 10 Aug. 1865. _Athenæum 19 Aug. 1865 pp._
247–8; _Proc. of Royal Linnæan Soc._ (1865–6) 57–9.

CUMING, RICHARD. _b._ London 20 March 1777; one of first members of
Aurelian Soc. 1801 afterwards known as Entomological Soc. of
London; member of Lambeth Chemical Soc. established 1801; invented
the Phantasmagoria 1801 which was shown by Philipstal at Lyceum
theatre 1802; made purchases from all celebrated collections of
curiosities and natural history which were sold 1806–70; Assoc.
British Archæol. Soc. 1858; translated greater part of Cuvier’s
Règne Animal to which Edward Pidgeon’s name is attached. _d._ 63
Kennington park road, London 15 Feb. 1870. _bur._ Norwood cemetery
22 Feb. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxvii_, 542–4 (1871).

CUMMING, SIR HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1772; cornet 11 light dragoons 12 May
1790, lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1803 to 20 Jany. 1837; present at every
engagement in the Peninsula except siege of Badajoz; col. 12
lancers 20 Jany. 1837 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846; K.C.H. 13
March 1833. _d._ 15 Upper Grosvenor st. London 28 Nov. 1856.

CUMMING, REV. JAMES. _b._ St. James’s, Westminster 23 Oct. 1777; ed.
at Trin. coll. Cam., 10 wrangler 1801, B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804,
fellow of his college 1803–15; professor of chemistry in Univ. of
Cam. 1815 to death; made important modifications and
simplifications of electric methods; pres. of Cambridge
Philosophical Soc.; F.R.S. 4 Jany. 1816, F.G.S. 1816; R. of North
Runcton, Norfolk 1819 to death; author of _A manual of
Electro-Dynamics_ 1827. _d._ North Runcton 10 Nov. 1861.

CUMMING, REV. JOHN. _b._ parish of Fintray, Aberdeenshire 10 Nov.
1807; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and univ.; M.A. 1827; licensed to
preach by Aberdeen presbytery 3 May 1832; minister of National
Scottish church, Crown court, Covent Garden, London 18 Aug. 1832
to 21 July 1879, church was rebuilt at cost of £5000, 1847–8; a
prominent controversialist; opposed the Free church of Scotland in
many pamphlets and lectures; took part in the Maynooth controversy
1845; became widely known by his writings on the interpretations
of prophecy; lectured against Bishop Colenso 1863; his letters to
the _Times_ signed a ‘Beemaster’ attracted much notice and were
the basis of a work called _Beekeeping_ 1864; his admirers raised
a sum of £3000 for him 1879 which bought an annuity of £300;
author of _Lectures for the times, or an exposition of Tridentine
and Tractarian Popery_ 1844; _Is Christianity from God? a manual
of Christian evidence_ 1847, _11 ed._ 1871; _Apocalyptic Sketches
3 series_ 1848–50; _Prophetic studies, or lectures on the book of
Daniel_ 1850; _Signs of the times, or present, past and future_
1854; _The great tribulation, or things coming on the earth_ 1859;
_Popular lectures on the Essays and Reviews_ 1861; _The Millenial
rest, or the world as it will be_ 1862; _Moses right and Bishop
Colenso wrong_ 1863; _Driftwood, seawood and fallen leaves 2
vols._ 1863, and more than 90 other books. _d._ Chiswick 5 July
1881. _In memoriam Rev. John Cumming, D.D, printed for private
distribution n.d._; _Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London_ (1873)
201–17; _Westminster Review n.s. viii_, 436–62 (1855); _Essays by
George Eliot_ (1884) 145–99; _Illust. news of the world iii_
(1859), _portrait_; _Graphic xxiv_, 149 (1881), _portrait_.

CUMMING, REV. JOSEPH GEORGE (_2 son of Joseph Notsall Cumming of
Mattock_). _b._ Matlock 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at Oakham gr. sch. and
Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; C. of North Runcton, Norfolk
1835–38; vice principal of King William’s college, Isle of Man
1841–55; master of Lichfield gr. sch. 1855–58; warden and
professor of classical literature and geology in Queen’s college,
Birmingham 1858–62; R. of Mellis, Suffolk 1862–67; V. of St.
John’s, Bethnal Green, London 1867 to death; F.G.S. 1846; author
of _The Isle of Man, its history, physical, ecclesiastical, civil
and legendary_ 1848; _A chronology of ancient, sacred and profane
history_ 1853; _The great Stanley, or James VIIth Earl of Derby_
1867. _d._ St. John’s vicarage, Bethnal Green 21 Sep. 1868. _Reg.
and mag. of biog. i_, 219–20 (1869).

CUMMING, WILLIAM. _b._ about 1822; M.R.C.S. 1844, L.S.A. 1847; a
surgeon in London; the pioneer of modern ophthalmology; the first
to demonstrate that rays of light falling on the human retina
might be reflected back to the eye of an observer, this important
fact was communicated by him to the Medico-Chirurgical Soc. of
London, June 1846 in a paper _On a luminous appearance of the
human eye_. _d._ 15 Warkworth terrace, Commercial road, London 5
June 1855 aged 33.

CUMMING-BRUCE, CHARLES LENNOX (_2 son of Sir Alexander Penrose
Cumming-Gordon 1 baronet, who d. 10 Feb. 1806_). _b._ 20 Feb.
1790; ed. at Winchester and C.C. coll. Ox., M.A. 1810; M.P. for
Inverness district of burghs 17 May 1833 to 17 July 1837, for
Elgin and Nairnshire 25 April 1840 to 11 Nov. 1868; joint sec. of
board of control Feb. to Dec. 1852; assumed additional surname of
Bruce on his marriage 1820. _d._ Broom hall near Dunfermline 1
Jany. 1875.

CUMMING-GORDON, ROUALEYN GEORGE GORDON (_2 son of the succeeding_).
_b._ Altyre, co. Elgin 15 March 1820; ed. at Eton; cornet Madras
cavalry 1838–40; ensign royal Newfoundland companies 3 Nov. 1843;
ensign Cape Mounted rifles 23 Feb. 1844 to 22 July 1845 when he
sold out; hunted in interior of South Africa 1845–50; exhibited
his trophies at Great Exhibition 1851; lectured in London and the
provinces 1855–58; kept a museum of his trophies at Fort Augustus
on the Caledonian canal 1858 to death; author of _Five years of a
hunter’s life in the far interior of South Africa 2 vols._ 1850
which had an immense success; _The lion hunter of South Africa_
1856. _d._ Fort Augustus 24 March 1866. _I.L.N. xx_, 512 (1852),
_portrait_.

CUMMING-GORDON, SIR WILLIAM GORDON, 2 Baronet. _b._ Altyre 20 July
1787; succeeded his father 10 Feb. 1806; M.P. for Elgin district
of burghs 23 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832. _d._ Altyre 23 Nov. 1854.

CUNARD, SIR EDWARD, 2 Baronet (_son of the succeeding_). _b._
Halifax, Nova Scotia 1 Jany. 1816; agent of Cunard line of
steamers at New York 1835–65; head of firm of Cunard, Burns and
Mac Iver 1865 to death. _d._ suddenly at New York 6 April 1869,
personalty sworn under £300,000, 5 June 1869.

CUNARD, SIR SAMUEL, 1 Baronet (_son of Abraham Cunard of
Philadelphia, mechanic_). _b._ Halifax, Nova Scotia 21 Nov. 1787;
a merchant at Halifax; established with George Burns of Glasgow
and David Mac Iver of Liverpool the British and North American
Royal mail steam packet company 1838; contracted with the
government 4 May 1839 for conveyance of the mails between
Liverpool and Halifax, Boston and Quebec for 7 years at £60,000
per annum, the first voyage across the Atlantic was made by the
Britannia 4–18 July 1840; F.R.G.S. 1846; created baronet 9 March
1859. _d._ 26 Prince’s gardens, Kensington, London 28 April 1865,
personalty sworn under £350,000, 27 May. _W. S. Lindsay’s Merchant
Shipping iv_, 178–86, 217–20, 226–50 (1876); _Fortunes made in
business ii_, 325–71 (1884); _London Society xxxviii_, 33–47
(1880).

CUNDY, THOMAS (_eld. son of Thomas Cundy of London, architect
1765–1825_). _b._ 1790; an architect in London; surveyor to Earl
Grosvenor’s London estates Dec. 1825 to death; erected Holy
Trinity, Paddington, St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, and other churches
in west end of London. _d._ Bromley, Kent 15 July 1867.

CUNINGHAM, ALEXANDER (_2 son of Charles Cuningham of Newholm,
Lanarkshire_). _b._ Edinburgh 1805; ed. at high school and univ.
of Edin.; a writer to the signet 1827; joint sec. with his father
to comrs. of northern lighthouses 1842, sec. 1846–75; fellow of
royal Scottish society of arts before whom he read many papers on
subjects connected with lighthouse service. _d._ Palmerston place,
Edinburgh 16 June 1883.

CUNINGHAM, DAVID. Entered Bombay army 1816; brigadier in command at
Aden 18 Sep. 1848 to 9 Jany. 1851; col. 1 Bombay light cavalry 19
Oct. 1849 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Cluny house near
Dunkeld 4 Sep. 1861 aged 59.

CUNINGHAM, JOHN (_eld. son of John Cuningham of Port Glasgow,
merchant_). _b._ Port Glasgow 1782; admitted advocate at Scotch
bar 1807; deputy to Lord Advocate Jeffery, Dec. 1830; sheriff of
Morayshire 1831; solicitor general for Scotland 22 April 1835;
judge of supreme court with courtesy title of Lord Cuningham 9
Feb. 1837 to May 1853 when he resigned. _d._ 23 Moray place,
Edinburgh 26 Oct. 1854. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882),
47–48, _portrait_.

CUNLIFFE, SIR ROBERT HENRY, 4 Baronet (_2 son of Sir Foster
Cunliffe, 2 baronet 1755–1834_). _b._ Chester 22 April 1785;
entered Bengal army 1798; major 1 Bengal N.I. 17 Oct. 1818; col. 4
Bengal N.I. 30 May 1828 to death; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1829;
succeeded 15 June 1834; C.B. 28 July 1838; general 13 Oct. 1857.
_d._ Acton park near Wrexham, Denbighshire 10 Sep. 1859.

CUNNINGHAM, FRANCIS (_youngest son of Allan Cunningham the poet
1784–1842_). _b._ 1820; ensign 23 Madras light infantry 1838;
field engineer at defence of Jellalabad; Mysore comr. at Bangalore
1850–61; retired with rank of lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1861; published
an edition of Marlowe 1870, of Massinger 1871, and of Ben. Jonson
1871; a frequent contributor to _Saturday Review_. _d._ 18
Clarendon road, South Kensington, London 3 Dec. 1875.

CUNNINGHAM, REV. JOHN WILLIAM. _b._ London 3 Jany. 1780; ed. at St.
John’s coll. Cam., 5 wrangler 1802, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, fellow
of his college; C. of Ripley, Surrey 1802; C. of Clapham to 1811;
a prominent member of the evangelical party; edited _Christian
Observer_ 1850–58; V. of Harrow 1811 to death; author of _World
without souls_ 1805, _6 ed._ 1816; _The Velvet Cushion_ 1814, _10
ed._ 1816; _Sancho or the Proverbialist_ 1817, anon. and other
books. _d._ Harrow 30 Sep. 1861.

CUNNINGHAM, JOSEPH DAVEY (_eld. son of Allan Cunningham the poet
1784–1842_). _b._ Lambeth 9 June 1812; ed. at Addiscombe and
Chatham; sailed for India, Feb. 1834; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers,
captain 13 Nov. 1849 to death; lived among the Sikhs as political
assistant to col. Wade and other officers 1837–45; political agent
at Bhopal 7 March 1846 to 26 Oct. 1849; author of _History of the
Sikhs_ 1849. _d._ suddenly near Umballa, Punjab 28 Feb. 1851. _J.
D. Cunningham’s History of the Sikhs_ (1849), _preface_.

CUNNINGHAM, PETER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Pimlico, London
7 April 1816; ed. at Christ’s hospital; clerk in Audit office
1834, chief clerk 1854–60; art critic of _Pictorial Times_;
treasurer of Shakespeare Society; author of _Songs of England and
Scotland_ 1835; _The handbook of Westminster Abbey_ 1842; _The
life of Inigo Jones_ 1848; _The handbook of London 2 vols._ 1849,
_2 ed._ 1850; _The story of Nell Gwynn_ 1852; edited many books.
_d._ Ureulam road, St. Albans 18 May 1869. _G. Hodder’s Memories
of my time_ (1870) 384–93; _I.L.N. xxviii_, 205, 206 (1856),
_portrait_.

CUNNINGHAM, PETER MILLER (_5 son of John Cunningham of Dalswinton
near Dumfries, farmer_). _b._ Dalswinton, Nov. 1789; ed. at Univ.
of Edin.; assistant surgeon in royal navy 10 Dec. 1810, surgeon 28
Jany. 1814; surgeon superintendent of convict ships, left the sea
May 1841; published _Two years in New South Wales 2 vols._ 1827;
_On the motions of the earth and on the conceptions, growth and
decay of man_ 1834; _Hints for Australian emigrants_ 1841. _d._
Greenwich 6 March 1864. _Rev. D. Hogg’s Life of Allan Cunningham_
(1875) 12–14, 360–8.

CUNNINGHAM, REV. WILLIAM (_eld. son of Charles Cunningham of
Hamilton, Lanarkshire, merchant, who d. 1811_). _b._ Hamilton 2
Oct. 1805; ed. at Dunse and Univ. of Edin. 1820–28; assistant
minister of Middle church, Greenock 15 Oct. 1830; minister of
Trinity college church, Edin. Jany. 1834; D.D. Princeton college,
New Jersey 1842; professor of theology in New college, Edin. 1843,
professor of church history there 1845 to death, principal June
1847 to death; the ablest defender of Calvinism of his time;
edited _British and Foreign Evangelical Review_ Oct. 1855 to Oct.
1860; moderator of general assembly 19 May 1859 to death; the sum
of £7000 was presented to him 1859; author of _The reformers and
the theology of the Reformation_ 1862; _Historical theology, a
review of the principal doctrinal discussions in the Christian
church from the Apostolic age_ 1863, _2 ed._ 1864; _Discussion on
church principles, Popish, Erastian, Presbyterian_ 1863. _d._
Edinburgh 14 Dec. 1861. _Life of W. Cunningham by R. Rainy and J.
Mackenzie_ 1871, _portrait_; _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881)
193–200, _portrait_; _Sermons from 1828 to 1860 by the late W.
Cunningham, edited by Rev. J. J. Bonar_ 1872.

CUNYNGHAME, SIR ARTHUR AUGUSTUS THURLOW (_3 son of Sir David
Cunynghame, 5 baronet 1769–1854_). _b._ 2 Aug. 1812; 2 lieut.
royal rifles 2 Nov. 1830; lieut.-col. 13 foot 3 Nov. 1846; captain
Grenadier guards 1 Dec. 1846; lieut.-col. 20 foot 27 April 1849;
lieut.-col. 27 foot 2 April 1852 to 16 Dec. 1853 when placed on
h.p.; assistant quartermaster general of first division in the
Crimea 1854–55; commanded a division of Turkish contingent May
1855; col. of 36 foot 2 Dec. 1868 to 2 Feb. 1876; commanded forces
in South Africa 5 Nov. 1873 to 1 March 1878; col. commandant of
first battalion royal rifles 2 Feb. 1876 to death; lieut. governor
of Cape of Good Hope 5 March 1877 to 1878; general 1 Oct. 1877,
placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2
June 1869, G.C.B. 13 June 1878; author of _An Aide-de-camp’s
recollections of service in China 2 vols._ 1844; _A glimpse at the
Great Western republic_ 1851; _Travels in the Eastern Caucasus_
1872; _My command in South Africa_ 1879. _d._ on board ship at
Aden on his way home from India 10 March 1884. _I.L.N. lxxii_, 273
(1878), _portrait_.

CUPPAGE, SIR BURKE (_son of lieut. gen. Wm. Cuppage, who d. 7 Jany.
1848 aged 87_). _b._ Charlton, Kent 1794; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec.
1812; commanded R.A. in south western district 1857–63; col.
commandant 2 Feb. 1868 to death; governor of Jersey 23 Oct. 1863
to 1 Oct. 1868; K.C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ 4 Cranley place, Onslow
sq. London 19 April 1877.

CURETON, REV. WILLIAM (_2 son of Wm. Cureton of Westbury,
Shropshire_). _b._ Westbury 1808; ed. at Newport and Ch. Ch. Ox.,
B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. and D.D. 1858; chaplain of his college
1831–38; C. of Oddington, Oxon. 1831; sub librarian of Bodleian
library, Oxford 1834–37; assistant keeper of MSS. in British
Museum 1837–50; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1838; select preacher at Ox. 1840;
chaplain in ord. to the Queen 18 June 1847; canon of Westminster
and R. of St. Margaret’s, Westminster 5 Dec. 1849 to death;
corresponding member of French Institute 1855, foreign associate
1860; crown trustee of British Museum 1859; chairman of committee
of Oriental translation fund 1863; author of _Vindiciæ Ignatianæ,
the writings of St. Ignatius vindicated from heresy_ 1846; _Corpus
Ignatianum_ 1849; _Spicilegium Syriacum with an English
translation_ 1855; _Remains of an ancient recension of the Gospels
in Syriac_ 1858. _d._ Westbury 17 June 1864. _The church of
England photographic portrait gallery_, _part 21_ (1859),
_portrait_; _G.M. xvii_, 520–23 (1864); _I.L.N. xxiv_, 400 (1854)
_portrait_.

CURIE, PAUL FRANCIS. M.D. Aberdeen 1815; member of Gallican Society;
co-editor of _Archives de la médecine homœopathique 1836–37_;
author of _Principles of Homœopathy_ 1837; _Annals of the London
homœopathic dispensary_ 1844; _A treatise on cholera, English and
Asiatic_ 1849; _Domestic practice of homœopathy_ 1850. _d._ 17
Hanover sq. London 5 Oct. 1853.

CURLING, HENRY. Ensign 25 foot 25 Oct. 1827 to 20 Aug. 1829 when
placed on h.p.; lieut. 91 foot 6 Jany. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834 when
placed on h.p.; retired 1854; author of _The soldier of fortune 3
vols._ 1843; _John of England, a romance 3 vols._ 1846;
_Shakespeare the poet, the lover, the actor 3 vols._ 1848;
_Nonpareil House 3 vols._ 1855; _Recollections of the mess table
and the stage_ 1855; _Camp club in the Crimea_ 1856; _Edith
Frankheart or the baronet’s daughter 3 vols._ 1857; _The Self
divorced or the school for wives 2 vols._ 1861; _Geraldine Maynard
3 vols._ 1864 and 12 other books. _d._ Weardale villas, Earl’s
court terrace, Kensington, London 10 Feb. 1864.

CURLING, THOMAS BLIZARD (_3 son of Daniel Curling, F.S.A. who d.
1824_). _b._ London, Jany. 1811; M.R.C.S. 1832, F.R.C.S. 1843,
mem. of council 1864, pres. 1873; assistant surgeon to London
hospital 1834, lecturer on surgery 1846, surgeon 1849 to Aug.
1869; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; pres. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1871;
retired from practice 1879; author of _Treatise on Tetanus_ 1836;
_Observations on diseases of the Rectum_ 1851, _4 ed._ 1876;
_Treatise on diseases of the Testis_ 1873, _4 ed._ 1878. _d._
Cannes 4 March 1888. _Medical Circular iii_, 439 (1853),
_portrait_; _Barker’s Photographs_ (1865) _pp._ 131–32,
_portrait_.

CURRAN, WILLIAM HENRY (_son of John Philpot Curran 1750–1817, master
of the Rolls in Ireland_). Called to bar in Ireland 1816;
insolvency comr. in Ireland; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1848;
author of _Life of John Philpot Curran 2 vols._ 1819; _Sketches of
the Irish bar, with essays 2 vols._ 1855. _d._ 9 Fitzwilliam
place, Dublin 25 Aug. 1858 in 69 year.

CURRER, FRANCES MARY RICHARDSON (_only child of Rev. Henry
Richardson 1758–84, R. of Thornton in Craven, who took name of
Currer, June 1784_). _b._ Eshton hall near Skipton on Craven 3
March 1785; the greatest female book collector in Europe,
principal part of her library of 20,000 vols. was sold at
Sotheby’s for nearly £6000, Aug. 1862; privately printed
_Catalogue of the library of Miss Currer at Eshton hall by Robert
Triphook_ 1820, _2 ed. by C. J. Stewart_ 1833; _Extracts from the
literary and scientific correspondence of Richard Richardson,
M.D., F.R.S. of Bierley, Yorkshire_ 1835. _d._ Eshton hall 28
April 1861. _Nichols’s Illustrations i_, 225–52 (1817); _T. F.
Dibdin’s Reminiscences of a literary life ii_, 949–57 (1836); _T.
F. Dibdin’s Bibliographical tour ii_, 1081–90 (1838).

CURREY, FREDERICK (_son of Benjamin Currey, clerk of the
Parliaments_). _b._ Norwood, Surrey 19 Aug. 1819; ed. at Eton and
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister L.I. 7 May 1844;
F.L.S., sec. 1860–80, vice pres. and treasurer 1880 to death;
F.R.S. 3 June 1858, member of council; his collection of fungi is
now in the Kew Herbarium, the genus of fungi, Curreya, was founded
by Saccardo as a momento of Currey; edited _The natural history
review_ 1861 _etc._; translated Hofmeister’s _On the germination
of the higher Cryptogamia_ 1862; edited C. D. Badham’s _Esculent
funguses_ 1863. _d._ 2 Vanbrugh park road, Blackheath 8 Sep. 1881.
_Journal of botany n.s. x_, 310–12 (1881).

CURREY, REV. GEORGE (_son of Rev. James Currey, preacher of the
Charterhouse, London_). _b._ Charterhouse sq. London 7 April 1816;
ed. at Charterhouse and St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar 1834,
Bell’s Univ. scholar 1835, 14 wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841,
B.D. 1850, D.D. 1864; fellow of his college 1839, lecturer 1840,
tutor 1844, Hulsean lecturer 1851 and 1852; preacher of the
Charterhouse 1849–71, master 17 Jany. 1871 to death; preb. of St.
Paul’s 1872; published _Hulsean Lectures_ 1851–52; edited
_Tertulliani libri tres De Spectaculis_ 1854; author of _An
English grammar_ 1856; a commentary on Ezekiel in the Speaker’s
Commentary and Commentaries on Ecclesiastes and Revelations in the
S.P.C.K. Commentary. _d._ The master’s lodge, Charterhouse 30
April 1885. _I.L.N. lxxxvi_, 583 (1885), _portrait_.

CURRIE, AUGUSTUS ARTHUR (_4 son of John Currie 1797–1873_). _b._ 21
Jany. 1831; ensign 45 Bengal N.I. 20 Oct. 1849; major Bengal staff
corps 1869, lieut.-col. 2 March 1875 to 31 Dec. 1880 when he
retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G.; C.B. 19 Nov. 1879.
_d._ St. Leonard’s 23 May 1884.

CURRIE, CLAUD. Entered medical service of Madras army 1806;
inspector general of hospitals 31 Jany. 1846, phys. general 19
Aug. 1846 to 31 Jany. 1851. _d._ 3 Westbourne terrace, London 8
Aug. 1854 aged 65.

CURRIE, SIR FREDERICK, 1 Baronet (_3 son of Mark Currie of Cobham,
Surrey_). _b._ 3 Feb. 1799; ed. at Charterhouse and Haileybury;
entered Bengal civil service 1817; judge of court of Sudder
Adawlut of the north western provinces 1840–42; one of secs. of
government of India 1842–49; chief sec. to Lord Hardinge during
campaign of 1845–46; created baronet 11 Jany. 1847; a member of
supreme council of India 1 April 1847 to 14 Jany. 1848, an
ordinary member of council 12 March 1849 to 1853 when he retired
on the annuity fund; a director of East India Co. April 1854,
chairman 1857–58 being the last chairman; one of the 6 members of
first council of sec. of state for India elected by the E.I.
company; vice pres. of council of India 21 Sep. 1858. _d._ St.
Leonard’s 10 Sep. 1875. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 295, 434 (1875).

CURRIE, HENRY. _b._ Westminster 1798; ed. at Eton; member of firm of
Glyn and Co. bankers, London; M.P. for Guildford 29 July 1847 to 1
July 1852. _d._ West Horsley place near Guildford 26 May 1873.

CURRIE, JOHN. _b._ 28 May 1797; M.P. for Hertford 30 April 1831 to 3
Dec. 1832. _d._ Queen’s sq. Bath 19 May 1873.

CURRIE, MARK JOHN. _b._ London 21 June 1795; entered navy 29 April
1808; captain 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on half pay 24 May 1867. _d._
Collington house, Thicket road, Anerley 1 May 1874.

CURRIE, RAIKES. _b._ 15 April 1801; member of firm of Glyn and Co.
bankers, London; M.P. for Northampton 26 July 1837 to 21 March
1857. _d._ Minley manor, Farnborough, Hants. 16 Oct. 1881,
personalty sworn under £280,000, 17 Dec. 1881.

CURRIE, SIR WALTER. _b._ 1819; commandant of armed mounted police at
Cape of Good Hope 1855 to death; knighted by patent 24 May 1860.
_d._ 7 June 1872.

CURRY, RICHARD (_son of Thomas Curry of Gosport, Hants._) _b._ 1772;
entered navy 22 March 1780; captain 7 Jany. 1802, R.A. 10 Jany.
1837, V.A. 9 Nov. 1846; admiral on h.p. 1 July 1851; C.B. 26 Sep.
1831. _d._ Stoke, Devonport 27 Dec. 1855.

CURSETJEE, ARDASEER. _b._ Bombay 6 Oct. 1808; in charge of
shipbuilding yard at Mazagon 1828, assistant builder there 1833;
introduced gas lighting into Bombay 1835, sewing machines,
photography and electroplating; chief engineer at Bombay steam
factory, July 1840 to July 1858 being the first Indian native
placed over Europeans; A.I.C.E. 24 March 1840; F.R.S. 27 May 1841.
_d._ Lowjee house, Marsh Gate, Richmond, Surrey 16 Nov. 1877.
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li_, 271–4 (1878).

CURSHAM, MARY ANN. Resided at Sutton, Notts; author of _Emanuel
Swedenborg and other poems by M. A. C._; _Martin Luther a poem by
M. A. C._ 1828; _Norman Abbey a tale of Sherwood forest, by a
Lady_ 1832; _Poems, sacred, dramatic and lyric_ 1833; _The
infant’s decalogue or a metrical version of the ten commandments
by M. A. C._ 1836. _d._ 1 North bank, Derby 17 Dec. 1881.

CURTEIS, SIR THOMAS ISAAC HORSLEY (_son of John Curteis of
Norfolk_). _b._ 1780; Exon of Yeomen of the Guard 31 May 1805 to
May 1839; knighted at St. James’s palace 27 June 1833. _d._
Twyford, Norfolk 26 Dec. 1858.

CURTIS, CHARLES BERWICK (_youngest son of Sir Wm. Curtis, 1 baronet
1752–1829_). _b._ Culland’s grove, Southgate 18 March 1795; ed. at
Harrow; gunpowder manufacturer with Thomas Curtis and W. G. Harvey
near Hounslow 1820–69; at time of his death the firm owned six
factories in Middlesex, Kent, South Wales and Argyleshire;
A.I.C.E. 1 March 1842; invented a self acting signal for railways
1842 which was used for some time. _d._ 105 Eaton sq. London 26
Oct. 1876.

CURTIS, JAMES GRAY WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1826; captain 37
Bengal N.I. 13 Jany. 1842 to 8 Dec. 1850; deputy assistant
commissary general 27 March 1849 to 8 Dec. 1850; C.B. 9 June 1849;
retired colonel 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Oaklands, Shepherd’s Bush,
London 16 Nov. 1870.

CURTIS, JOHN. _b._ Norwich 3 Dec. 1791; F.L.S. 1822; made
entomological tours in Scotland 1825, France 1829, Italy 1843,
1850 and 1851; entomological editor of _Gardener’s Mag._ 1841–47;
granted civil list pension of £100, 25 Nov. 1842 and another of
£50, 19 April 1861; published _British entomology illustrated with
770 plates_, _16 vols._ which came out in numbers 1 Jany. 1824 to
1 Dec. 1839; _A guide to an arrangement of British insects_ 1829,
_2 ed._ 1837. _d._ Belitha villas, Barnsbury park, London 6 Oct.
1862. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._ (1863) 35–41.

CURTIS, JOHN CHARLES. Principal of the British and Foreign School
society’s training college, Borough road, London many years before
his death; author of _A School and college history of England_
1860; _Chronological and genealogical tables of English history_
1863; _An English grammar for schools_ 1876 and many other school
books. _d._ 24 Villa road, Brixton 10 May 1888 aged 61.

CURTIS, JOHN HARRISON. A dispenser in the navy and at Haslar
hospital; lived at 18 Soho sq. London and advertised himself in
the newspapers and by pamphlets as an aural surgeon 1815; founded
Royal dispensary for diseases of the Ear, Carlisle st. Soho 1816;
employed Hume Weatherhead and other persons to write his books;
made £5000 a year for many years; had a tube from his consulting
room to his waiting room by which he could hear what the patients
said of themselves; always received his patients in full dress of
time of George iv; gambled away his earnings at Junior United
Service Club; retired to Isle of Man 1848 where he became insane;
published _A treatise on the physiology and diseases of the ear_
1817, _5 ed._ 1831; _An essay on the deaf and dumb_ 1829; _A
treatise on the physiology and diseases of the eye_ 1833;
_Observations on the preservation of hearing and on hearing
trumpets_ 1834, _11 ed._ 1839; _On the Cephaloscope and its uses_
1842; _Advice to the deaf_ 1841, _5 ed._ 1845 and other works.
_d._ in an asylum in the Isle of Man about 1860. _J. F. Clarke’s
Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession_ (1874)
358–73.

CURTIS, SIR LUCIUS, 2 Baronet (_son of admiral Sir Roger Curtis,
K.C.B. 1 baronet 1746–1816_). _b._ 3 June 1786; entered navy 2
June 1795; captain 22 Jany. 1806; R.A. 28 June 1838; admiral
superintendent at Malta 8 March 1843 to 8 March 1848, admiral 9
July 1855; succeeded 14 Nov. 1816; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 10
Nov. 1862. _d._ Portsdown hill near Portsmouth 14 Jany. 1869.
_Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i_, 201, 355 (1869).

CURTIS, MATTHEW. Machine maker at Manchester, employing 1000
persons, his cotton machinery was sent all over the world; elected
a member of the first town council of Manchester after the charter
was granted in 1839; mayor of Manchester 1860–1 and 1875–6. _d._
Manchester 9 June 1887.

CURTIS, SAMUEL. _b._ Walworth, London 1779; nurseryman in Essex;
proprietor of _Botanical Mag._ 1801–46; F.L.S. 20 Nov. 1810; built
a house called La Chaise at Rozel in Jersey, where he _d._ 6 Jany.
1860. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._ (1860) _p._ 22.

CURTIS, REV. THOMAS. _b._ England about 1780; publisher in London;
published the Encyclopædia Metropolitana 59 parts 1817–45; went to
the United States 1829; pastor of Baptist church in Wentworth st.
Charleston some years; established a young ladies school at
Limestone Spring; a very powerful preacher. _d._ in a burning
steamer on the Potomac river 1858.

CURTIS, REV. THOMAS F. (_son of the preceding_). _b._ England 26
Sep. 1815; pastor of a baptist church near Boston, U.S.; professor
of theology in Lewisbury Univ. Panama to 1865; lived at Cambridge,
Mass. 1867 to death; author of _Progress of Baptist principles in
the last hundred years_ 1857; _The human element in the
inspiration of the Sacred Scriptures_ 1867 in which he repudiated
inspiration and authenticity of much of the Old Testament and part
of the New. _d._ Cambridge 9 Aug. 1872.

CURTIS, WILLIAM FREDERICK (_eld. child of Timothy Abraham Curtis
1786–1857, governor of Bank of England 1838_). _b._ 4 May 1810;
cornet 1 Bombay light cavalry 26 July 1833; deputy judge advocate
general 17 July 1851 to 12 Jany. 1857; lieut.-col. 21 hussars 4
April 1860 to 4 March 1868 when placed on h.p.; placed on retired
list 4 May 1880; L.G. 8 May 1881. _d._ Upper Norwood, Surrey 2
Sep. 1882.

CURWEN, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. Spedding Curwen 1790–1856,
Independent minister_). _b._ Hurst house, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire
14 Nov. 1816; assistant pastor independent chapel, Basingstoke
1838; co-pastor at Stowmarket, Suffolk 1841; pastor at Plaistow,
Essex 1844–64; invented the ‘Look and say’ method of learning to
read 1839; advocated Tonic Sol-fa system of teaching music in a
series of articles in _Independent Mag._ 1842, lectured on the
system 1853–56; started _The Tonic Sol-fa Reporter_ 1853; sided
ardently with the North on outbreak of American civil war 1861,
published various tracts on the subject and organised the first
Freed slaves aid society in England; Euing lecturer at Anderson’s
college, Glasgow 1866–1867; member of West Ham school board
1871–73; founded Tonic Sol-fa college at Forest Gate, Essex,
incorporated 1875, opened 1879 where there is a portrait of him;
author of _Singing for schools and congregations, a grammar of
vocal music_ 1848; _Pupils’ manual of the Tonic Sol-fa method of
singing_ 1852; _Peoples service of song_ 1863. _d._ Heaton house,
Heaton Mersey, Lancs. 26 May 1880. _bur._ Ilford cemetery 3 June.
_Memorials of John Curwen_ (1882), _portrait_; _Grove’s Dict. of
Music iv_, 144–50 (1884).

CURZON, EDWARD. _b._ 9 Dec. 1789; entered navy 7 Nov. 1804; captain
8 Feb. 1823; captain of the Asia 84 guns 1826–28; retired V.A. 5
Jany. 1858; C.B. 18 Nov. 1827. _d._ St. Anne’s, Derby 7 March
1862.

CURZON, EDWARD CECIL (_younger son of the succeeding_). _b._ 8 Nov.
1812; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1840;
barrister L.I. 7 May 1840; registrar of copyright of designs
1842–63; registrar of joint stock companies 1863–76. _d._
Scarsdale house, Wright’s lane, Kensington, London 12 Feb. 1885.

CURZON, ROBERT (_2 son of 1 Viscount Curzon 1733–1820_). _b._ 13
Feb. 1774; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1795; M.P. for
Clitheroe, Lancs. 1 June 1796 to 23 April 1831. _d._ Parham park
near Steyning, Sussex 14 May 1863.

CUSACK, JAMES WILLIAM (_3 son of Athanasius Cusack of Laragh house,
co. Kildare 1749–1813_). _b._ 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin;
M.R.C.S. 1812; resident surgeon in Steevens’ hospital, Dublin
1812, visiting surgeon to 1857; surgeon to Swift’s hospital for
the insane; an original projector of Park st. school of medicine;
M.D. Dublin 1850; professor of surgery in Univ. of Dublin 1852 to
death; surgeon in ord. to Queen in Ireland, July 1858 to death;
sec. to Royal college of surgeons Ireland long time, pres. 3
times; famous as a lithotomist. _d._ 7 Merrion sq. north Dublin 25
Sep. 1861 in 74 year. _Dublin Quarterly Journal of medical science
xxxiii_, 255–58 (1862).

CUSHMAN, SUSAN WEBB (_dau. of Elkanah Cushman of Boston, U.S.
merchant_). _b._ Boston 17 March 1822; made her début 8 June 1839
at Park theatre, New York as Laura Castelli in Epes Sargent’s play
_The Genoese_; made a remarkable success in _Satan in Paris_; came
to England 1846; played Ophelia and Juliet (200 nights) at
Haymarket theatre, London with great success 1846; retired from
the stage 1847. (_m._ 22 March 1848 James Sheridan Muspratt of
Liverpool, chemist 1821–71). _d._ Liverpool 10 May 1859. _Tallis’s
Drawing room table book, part 8_, _portrait_; _Ireland’s New York
Stage ii_, 271 (1867).

CUST, CHARLES HENRY (_2 son of 1 Earl Brownlow 1779–1853_). _b._ 27
Sep. 1813; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1836; cornet royal horse
guards 14 March 1834, captain 4 July 1845 to 1847 when he sold
out; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1859; M.P. for North Shropshire
13 July 1865 to Aug. 1866. _d._ 19 May 1875.

CUST, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (_youngest son of 1 Baron Brownlow
1744–1807_). _b._ 30 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 17 March 1794;
ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; cornet 16 dragoons 15 March 1810; major
55 foot 24 Oct. 1821 to 27 July 1822 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for
Grantham 1818–26, for Lostwithiel 1826–32; equerry to Prince
Leopold of Saxe Coburg for many years from 1816, master of his
household to 1865; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 Aug. 1831;
K.C.H. 1831; assistant master of ceremonies to the Queen 18 Dec.
1845, master 1 Jany. 1847 to Feb. 1876; colonel 16 lancers 9 April
1859 to death; general 12 Jany. 1866; created baronet 23 Feb.
1876; author of _Noctes Dominicæ, or Sunday night readings_ 1848;
_Family reading, The New Testament narrative_ 1850; _Annals of the
wars of the eighteenth century 5 vols._ 1857, _3 ed._ 1862;
_Annals of the wars of the nineteenth century 4 vols._ 1862–63;
_Warriors of the thirty years war 2 vols._ 1865; _Warriors of the
civil wars of France and England 3 vols._ 1867–69. _d._ 8 Jermyn
st. Piccadilly, London 14 Jany. 1878. _bur._ at Belton near
Grantham.

CUST, HENRY FRANCIS COCKAYNE (_eld. son of hon. and Rev. Henry
Cockayne Cust 1780–1861, canon of Windsor_). _b._ Cockayne,
Hatley, Beds. 15 Sep. 1819; ed. at Eton; ensign 25 foot 30 March
1838; captain 8 hussars 19 Feb. 1847 to 24 Feb. 1854 when he sold
out; private sec. to Earl of Eglinton while lord lieut. of Ireland
1852; assumed additional name of Cockayne 14 Dec. 1861; sheriff of
Beds. 1869; M.P. for Grantham 1874–80. _d._ 5 April 1884.

CUST, PEREGRINE FRANCIS (_5 son of 1 Baron Brownlow 1744–1807_).
_b._ 13 Aug. 1791; M.P. for Honiton 1818–26; M.P. for Clitheroe
1826–32. _d._ 15 Sep. 1873.

CUSTANCE, WILLIAM NEVILLE (_2 son of Hambleton Thomas Custance of
Weston house near Norwich 1779–1845_). _b._ 24 Oct. 1811; ensign
95 foot 11 Oct. 1831; lieut.-col. 6 dragoon guards 1 Aug. 1856 to
27 July 1861 when placed on h.p.; commandant cavalry depot,
Canterbury 1 Oct. 1862 to 9 July 1866 when placed on h.p.; col. 11
Hussars 8 March 1875 to death; general 7 Sep. 1880; placed on
retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 21 Jany. 1858. _d._ Brookheath,
Salisbury 7 Feb. 1886.

CUTTS, MARIA. _b._ Loughborough, Leics. 1811; entered novitiate of
Society of the Sacred Heart in Paris 1828; a professed nun 1836;
superior of the convent at Grand Coteau, St. Landry parish,
Mississippi; superior of all the convents of her order in the west
of the United States. _d._ Grand Coteau 1853.

CUYLER, JACOB GLEN. Ensign 69 foot 26 Oct. 1799; major Cape Regiment
26 Jany. 1806 to 25 May 1817 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 11 Nov.
1851. _d._ 14 April 1854.

CYPLES, WILLIAM. _b._ Longton, Staffs. 31 Aug. 1831; edited several
provincial newspapers; contributed to many leading periodicals;
lived at Nottingham long time, lived in London 1877 to death;
author of _Pottery Poems_; _Satan restored, a poem_ 1859; _Philip
the Dreamer 3 vols._ 1866; _An inquiry into the process of human
experience_ 1880; _Hearts of gold_ 1883. _d._ Hammersmith 24 Aug.
1882. _Church quarterly review xiii_, 107–28 (1881); _Mind v_,
273, 390 (1880), _viii_, 150 (1882).