Part i

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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