Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

CARRINGTON, Frederick Augustus (only son of Rev. Caleb Carrington, V. of Berkeley, Gloucs. who d. 1839). b. 1801; barrister L.I. 7 Feb. 1823; recorder of Wokingham, Oct. 1858 to death; published with Joseph Payne Reports of cases argued and ruled at Nisi Prius 9 vols. 1825–41. d. 28 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 30 July 1860.

CARRINGTON, Frederick George (3 son of Noel Thomas Carrington of Devonport, poet 1777–1830). b. about 1816; contributed to the Bath Chronicle, Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, Cornwall Gazette, West of England Conservative, Bristol Mirror and Gloucester Journal; editor and proprietor of Gloucestershire Chronicle; wrote treatises on Architecture and Painting for Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. d. Gloucester 1 Feb. 1864. G.M. xvi, 535 (1864).

CARRINGTON, Henry Edmund (brother of the preceding). b. Maidstone 16 March 1806; connected with the Plymouth Journal, Devonport Telegraph, Sherborne Mercury, and Western Luminary; edited the Bath Chronicle; author of The Plymouth and Devonport guide with sketches of the surrounding scenery 1828. d. Bath 5 Feb. 1859.

CARRINGTON, Richard Christopher (2 son of Richard Carrington of Brentford, brewer who d. July 1858). b. Chelsea 26 May 1826; ed. at Hedley and Trin. coll. Cam., 36 wrangler 1848; B.A. 1848; observer in Univ. of Durham Oct. 1849 to April 1852; built a house at Redhill near Reigate with an observatory attached 1852–4; built an observatory on top of an isolated conical hill known as the Middle Devil’s Jump at Churt Surrey 1866; F.R.A.S. 14 March 1851, hon. sec. Feb. 1857 to Feb. 1862, gold medallist 1859; F.R.S. 7 June 1860; author of A catalogue of 3735 circumpolar stars observed at Redhill 1857 printed by the Admiralty; Observations of the spots on the sun from Nov. 9, 1853 to March 24, 1861 made at Redhill 1863; found dead in his house at Churt 27 Nov. 1875. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxvi, 137–42 (1876); I.L.N. lxviii, 119 (1876), portrait; Times 22 Nov. 1875 p. 5, col. 3, 7 Dec. p. 11, col. 6.

CARROLL, Sir George. Stockbroker at 26 Oxford st. London 1811; contractor for state lotteries having offices in Cornhill, Oxford st. and Charing Cross, lotteries were abolished Oct. 1826; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1837–8; knighted at the Guildhall 9 Nov. 1837; an original director of London Joint Stock bank 1836; alderman of Candlewick ward 23 Dec. 1839 to death; lord mayor 1846–7; president of St. Bartholomew’s hospital. d. Loughton, Essex 19 Dec. 1860 aged 76. bur. Norwood cemetery 27 Dec. I.L.N. ix, 295, 309 (1846), portrait; City Press 22 Dec. 1860 p. 5.

CARROLL, Rev. Richard. b. Dublin 14 July 1807; entered Society of Jesus at Cheiri 18 Sep. 1825; ordained priest 20 Dec. 1834; professed of the four vows 2 Feb. 1845; superior of Seminary at Stonyhurst Sep. 1845 to Sep. 1849; sent to mission of St. Francis Xavier, Liverpool Sep. 1849 where he became distinguished as a preacher. d. Liverpool 14 Feb. 1858.

CARROLL, Sir William Fairbrother (3 son of Daniel Carroll of Uskane, co. Tipperary, barrister). b. Glencarrig, co. Wicklow 28 Jany. 1784; entered navy 5 Dec. 1795; captain 6 Dec. 1813; head of Bath police several years; R.A. 24 Jany. 1849; commander in chief at Cork 28 July 1853 to 13 Aug. 1855; lieutenant governor of Greenwich hospital 13 Aug. 1855 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852; was in action with the enemy 67 times. d. Greenwich hospital 8 April 1862.

CARROW, John Monson (eld. son of Rev. Richard Carrow, R. of Broxholme, Lincs. who d. 20 Feb. 1847 aged 72). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1834; judge of county courts, circuit 57, (Somerset) 13 March 1847 to death; recorder of Wells 1852 to death; one of the authors of Cases relating to railways and canals 4 vols. 1840–8; and of New Sessions cases 3 vols. 1845–9. d. Weston-super-Mare 8 May 1853. G.M. xxxix, 668–9 (1853).

CARRUTHERS, Right Rev. Andrew. b. Glenmillan near New Abbey in stewartry of Kircudbright 7 Feb. 1770; ed. at Scotch college, Douay; ordained priest 1795; stationed at Balloch, Perthshire, then at Traquair, Peebleshire, afterwards at Munchies and Dalbeattie; vicar apostolic of eastern district of Scotland 28 Sep. 1832 to death; consecrated at Edinburgh as bishop of Ceramis in partibus infidelium 13 Jany. 1833. d. Edinburgh 24 May 1852. Gordon’s Catholic church in Scotland 474, portrait.

CARRUTHERS, Richard. Ensign 26 foot 19 May 1814; major 2 foot 19 Feb. 1836 to 23 July 1839 when he retired; C.B. 6 June 1840. d. 1 Brunswick gardens, Kensington, London 17 Feb. 1864 aged 63.

CARRUTHERS, Robert (son of Mr. Carruthers of Mouswald, Dumfries, farmer). b. Dumfries 5 Nov. 1799; master of national school at Huntingdon; edited Inverness Courier, April 1828 to death, he made it the most popular paper in North of Scotland, proprietor 1831; hon. LLD. Edin. 21 April 1871; published History of Huntingdon 1824; The Highland note book or sketches and anecdotes 1843; The poetical works of Alexander Pope 4 vols. 1853; wrote with Robert Chambers most of the original matter in Chambers’s Cyclopædia of English literature 2 vols. 1843–4. d. Inverness 26 May 1878. G.M. Nov. 1884 pp. 448–51; I.L.N. lxii, 557 (1878), portrait.

CARSON, Right Rev. Thomas (elder son of Rev. Thomas Carson 1763–1816, R. of Kilmahon, Cloyne). b. Kilmahon rectory 27 Aug. 1805; ed. at Glanmire school and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1826, LL.B. and LLD. 1832; V. of Urney, co. Cavan 1838; R. of Cloon and vicar general of Kilmore 1854; dean of Kilmore 1860; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh 1870 to death; consecrated at Armagh 2 Oct. 1870. d. Portrush, co. Antrim 7 July 1874.

CARSWELL, Sir Robert. b. Paisley 3 Feb. 1793; studied at Glasgow, Paris and Lyons; M.D. Marischal college, Aberdeen 1826; made a series of 2000 water-color drawings of diseased structures in Paris for University college, London 1828–31; professor of pathological anatomy at the college 1831–40; phys. to King of the Belgians at Lacken near Brussells 1840 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; author of Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease, with coloured plates 1837; and of 7 articles in Cyclopædia of practical medicine 4 vols. 1833–5. d. Lacken 15 June 1857.

CARTE, John Elliot. Assistant surgeon in army 31 Dec. 1841; surgeon 14 foot 26 Jany. 1858; deputy inspector general 22 June 1870 to 17 Feb. 1872 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 5 July 1865. d. Portland place, Brighton 19 April 1876.

CARTER, George. b. Bromfield near Ludlow, Salop 29 Nov. 1792; whip to the Warwickshire hounds 1823–5, to Mr. West’s harriers 1825–7; whip to Duke of Grafton 1827–31 and huntsman 1833–42; huntsman to Grantley Berkeley 1831–3; huntsman of the Tedworth hounds 1842–65; had few equals and no superiors whether in the kennel or in the field. d. Milton, Pewsey Vale, Wilts. 21 Nov. 1884. Hound and horn or the life and recollections of George Carter the great huntsman by I. H. G. (1885), portrait.

CARTER, Harry William (eld. son of Wm. Carter, M.D. of Canterbury who d. 1822). b. Canterbury 7 Sep. 1787; ed. at Kings sch. Canterbury and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, M.B. 1811, M.D. 1819; Radcliffe travelling fellow 1812; F.R.C.P. 1825; phys. at Canterbury 1825–35; author of A short account of some of the principal hospitals of France, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands with remarks on the climate and diseases of these countries 1821, and of some essays in Cyclopædia of practical medicine. d. Kennington hall near Ashford, Kent 16 July 1863.

CARTER, Henry Lee. Gave an entertainment called “The two lands of gold” at the Marionette theatre previously known as the Adelaide gallery, Adelaide st., Strand, London April 1853. d. Kensington house asylum, Kensington, London 3 Oct. 1862 aged 37.

CARTER, James. b. Colchester 5 July 1792; tailor at Colchester 1819; removed to London 1836; author of Lectures on taste; A lecture on the primitive state of man; Memoirs of a working man 2 vols. 1845–50. d. St. John’s place, Camberwell 1 June 1853. G.M. xl, 96 (1853).

CARTER, James. b. parish of Shoreditch, London 1798; a landscape and figure engraver; engraved many plates for the annuals especially Jennings’s Landscape Annual 1830–40; engraved plates after Goodall, Nasmyth and Richard Wilson for Art Journal and E. M. Ward’s pictures of ‘The South Sea Bubble’ and ‘Benjamin West’s First essay in art.’ d. 6 Fleur de Lis street, Norton Folgate, London 23 Aug. 1855.

CARTER, Sir James (son of James Carter of Portsmouth). b. 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1832; judge of supreme court of New Brunswick 1834, chief justice 20 Dec. 1850 to 1865 when he retired on a pension; knighted by patent 12 Oct. 1859. d. Mortimer lodge near Reading 10 March 1878 in 74 year.

CARTER, John (2 son of Thomas Carter of Castle Martin, co. Kildare). Entered navy 14 Jany. 1798; captain 7 Dec. 1815; superintendent of royal hospital at Haslar 2 Dec. 1841 to Dec. 1846; R.A. 8 April 1851; admiral on h.p. 4 Oct. 1862. d. 12 Devonport st., Portsmouth 2 April 1863.

CARTER, John (2 son of Wm. Carter of Southwark, London). b. Southwark 8 March 1804; Cadet H.E.I. Co.’s service; chronometer maker at 207 Tooley st. London 1827 and at 61 Cornhill 1840 to death; his chronometers obtained prizes and pecuniary rewards from government; a common councilman of London, alderman of Cornhill ward 1851 to death, sheriff 1852–53, lord mayor 1859–60; colonel London rifle brigade; F.R.A.S. 1830; F.S.A. 3 March 1853; juror in section of mechanics at Imperial exhibition Paris 1855. d. Stamford hill, London 8 May 1878. Illust. news of the world iv, 289, 308 (1859), portrait; I.L.N. xxxv, 437, 463, 472, 490 (1859), portrait.

CARTER, Owen Browne. Architect at Winchester; lived at Cairo, Egypt about 1830 where he executed many drawings, a selection of which was published in a folio vol. entitled Illustrations of Cairo 1840; author of Picturesque memorials of Winchester 1830, Some account of the church of St. John the Baptist at Bishopstone 1845, and of articles in Weale’s Quarterly Papers on Architecture. d. Salisbury 30 March 1859 aged 53.

CARTER, Robert Meek (eld. son of John Carter of Bridlington, Yorkshire). b. Skeffling, Holderness 1814; a coal merchant and cloth finisher at Leeds; alderman of Leeds; M.P. for Leeds 17 Nov. 1868 to Aug. 1876. d. The Grange, Burley near Leeds 9 Aug. 1882.

CARTER, Samuel (son of Samuel Carter of Coventry). b. Coventry 15 May 1805; solicitor in partnership with his uncle Josiah Conder at Birmingham 1827 to 16 Aug. 1839 when Conder died; solicitor to London and Birmingham railway co. (afterwards London and North Western) 1831–60; solicitor to Birmingham and Derby railway co. (afterwards the Midland) 1835–68; had control of 40 bills promoted by the two companies in one parliamentary session; practised in London 1850–68; M.P. for Coventry 26 March to 11 Nov. 1868, contested Coventry Nov. 1868 and Feb. 1874. d. 3 Clifton place, Hyde park, London 31 Jany. 1878. bur. Kenilworth parish churchyard. Solicitors’ Journal xxii, 302 (1878).

CARTER, Thomas. Clerk at the Horse Guards, Whitehall, London April 1839, first class clerk in Adjutant general’s office to death; author of Curiosities of war and military studies 1860, 2 ed. 1871; Medals of the British army and how they were won 1860–61; Historical record of the Forty-fourth foot 1864; edited Historical record of the Thirteenth regiment of light infantry 1867; Historical record of the Twenty-sixth regiment 1867; a constant contributor to Notes and Queries. d. 11 Lorrimore sq. Walworth, London 9 Aug. 1867.

CARTER, Rev. Thomas. b. 1774; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1802; fellow of Eton 14 April 1829; V. of Burnham, Bucks. 1833 to death; vice provost of Eton 1857 to death. d. Burnham vicarage 8 Oct. 1868.

CARTER, Thomas Wren. b. Nov. 1789; entered navy 29 March 1800, captain 25 April 1831; captain of Britannia 120 guns 9 Aug. 1852 to 13 March 1855; R.A. 31 Jany. 1856, retired admiral 20 Nov. 1876; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 1 Feb. 1874.

CARTHEW, George Alfred (only son of George Carthew of Harleston, Norfolk, solicitor). b. 20 June 1807; solicitor at Framlingham, Suffolk, and at Harleston 1830–9, at East Dereham 1839 to death; F.S.A. 2 Feb. 1854; author of The hundred of Launditch and deanery of Brisley in the county of Norfolk, 3 parts 1877–9; A history of the parishes of West and East Bradenham 1883; The origin of family or surnames 1883, and of many papers in antiquarian periodicals; found dead in his chair at Millfield, East Dereham 21 Oct. 1882. Athenæum 4 Nov. 1882 p. 598.

CARTHEW, James. b. Liskeard, Cornwall Jany. 1770; entered navy 8 Dec. 1780, captain 11 July 1801; admiral 14 Jany. 1850; placed on half pay 1853; pensioned 21 Jany. 1854. d. Tredudwell near Fowey 28 Nov. 1855.

CARTIER, Sir George Etienne, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Jacques Cartier 1774–1841, lieut. col. Canadian militia). b. St. Antoine, Lower Canada 6 Sep. 1814; called to bar in L.C. Nov. 1835; Q.C. 1854; provincial sec. of L.C. 25 Jany. 1856; attorney general of L.C. 1856–8, 1858–62, and 1864 to 1 July 1867; premier of Canadian government 6 Aug. 1858 to May 1862; C.B. 29 June 1867; member of Canadian privy council July 1867; minister of militia and defence 1867–73; created baronet 24 Aug. 1868. d. 47 Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. London 21 May 1873. H. J. Morgan’s Eminent Canadians (1862) 603–8; I.L.N. xlv, 496 (1864), portrait.

CARTLITCH, John. b. in or near Manchester 1793; chief tragedian of Richardson’s theatre at all the great fairs in England; the original Mazeppa at Astley’s Amphitheatre Easter 1831, played the part more than 1500 times; landlord of King of Prussia public house Fair st. Horsleydown, London 1836, of Spread Eagle 137 Whitecross st. 1837–8; played at Franklin theatre, New York 1839; made his début in Philadelphia, at Museum Masonic hall 10 July 1849 as Rivers in His last legs; last appeared on the stage at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 25 June 1860; kept a café in Fourth st. Philadelphia. d. Philadelphia 12 Dec. 1875. The Era 9 Jany. 1876 p. 5, col. 4.

Note.—John Richardson the famous showman who died 14 Nov. 1836 aged 70, left him a legacy of £1000 because he was “such a bould speaker and might be heard from one end of the fear to the other when the trumpets were going.”

CARTMELL, Rev. James. b. 1810. Educ. at Em. coll. Cam.; 7 wrangler 1833, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1846, D.D. 1849; fellow of Christ’s coll. 1836, master 13 Feb. 1849 to death; vice chancellor of Univ. of Cam. 1849, 1865, and 1866; a member of council of the senate to Nov. 1880; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 7 Feb. 1851 to death. d. The lodge, Christ’s college, Cambridge 23 Jany. 1881.

CARTTAR, Charles Joseph (son of Joseph Carttar of Greenwich, solicitor). Solicitor at Greenwich 1830 to death; coroner for West Kent 1832 to death; conducted 14 Nov. 1878 inquest upon the 640 bodies found after sinking of the Princess Alice in the Thames 3 Sep. 1878; managed several elections at Greenwich for Conservative party. d. Catherine house, Blackheath road, Greenwich 19 March 1880 aged 71.

CARTWRIGHT, Edmund. Entered Bengal army 1795; brigadier in command at Delhi 1826–34, and at Agra 1834; colonel 10 Bengal N.I. 5 June 1829; col. 57 Bengal N.I. 1834 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Piccadilly, London 31 March 1853.

CARTWRIGHT, Fairfax William (eld. son of Wm. Cartwright 1797–1873). b. London 14 May 1823; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1844; fellow of All Souls’ college; served in Austrian army; major 2 hussars British German legion 7 Nov. 1855; M.P. for South Northamptonshire 25 Nov. 1868 to death. d. 7 New Burlington street, London 2 Feb. 1881.

CARTWRIGHT, Frances Dorothy (youngest child of rev. Edmund Cartwright 1743–1823 inventor of the power loom). b. Goadby Marwood, Leics. 28 Oct. 1780; author of The life and correspondence of Major Cartwright 2 vols. 1826; Poems, chiefly devotional, privately printed 1835; her translations of the Spanish poet Nunez Riego’s poems appeared with her initials in his Obras postumas poeticas 1844. d. Brighton 12 Jany 1863.

CARTWRIGHT, Samuel. b. Northampton 1789; an ivory turner; mechanical assistant to Charles Dumergue of Piccadilly, London, dentist; a dentist at 32 Old Burlington st. London 1811–57; at the head of his profession, made more than £10,000 a year for some years; dentist in ordinary to George IV.; the first pres. of Odontological Soc. 1856–7; F.R.G.S. 1830, F.L.S. 19 Nov. 1833, F.R.S. 11 Feb. 1841. d. Nizell’s house near Tunbridge 10 June 1864. British journal of dental science vii, 287 (1864); Proc. of Linnæan Soc. 1865, p. 84; Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v, 42–4 (1867).

CARTWRIGHT, William (2 son of Wm. Ralph Cartwright of Aynhoe 1771–1847, M.P. for Northamptonshire). b. 22 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; ensign 61 foot 2 July 1812; captain 8 hussars 2 July 1823 to 19 May 1825 when placed on h.p.; general 19 Nov. 1871. d. 16 Green st. Grosvenor sq. London 5 June 1873.

CARVOSSO, Rev. Benjamin (son of Wm. Carvosso of Mousehole near Penzance, Wesleyan preacher 1750–1834). b. Gluvias parish, Cornwall 29 Sep. 1789; admitted as a probationer by Wesleyan conference 1814; a missionary at Hobart Town in Van Diemen’s Land 1820 and 1825–30, in New South Wales 1820–5; Wesleyan minister in various parts of England 1830 to death; author of The great efficacy of simple faith, a memoir of William Carvosso 1835; Drunkenness, the enemy of Britain, arrested by the hand of God 1840; An account of Miss Deborah B. Carvosso 1840; Attractive piety or memorials of Wm. B. Carvosso 1844. d. Tuckingmill, Cornwall 2 Oct. 1854. G. Blencowe’s Memoir of Rev. B. Carvosso 1857.

CARY, Francis Stephen (son of Rev. Henry Francis Cary 1772–1844, translator of Dante). b. Kingsbury, Warws. 10 May 1808; studied art in London, Paris, Italy, and Munich; manager of Art school, Streatham st. Bloomsbury, London 1842–74; a candidate for decoration of houses of parliament in competitions held at Westminster Hall 1844 and 1847; exhibited 34 pictures at R.A. 8 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk st. gallery 1834–76. d. Abinger, Surrey 5 Jany. 1880.

CARY, George Hunter (eld. son of Wm. Henry Cary of Woodford, Essex, surgeon). b. Woodford Dec. 1831; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and King’s college, London; pupil of Sir Hugh Cairns; barrister I.T. 13 June 1854; Attorney General of British Columbia 21 March 1859; Attorney General of Vancouver Island 1861 to Nov. 1865 when he resigned; Leader of Government party in House of Assembly, Vancouver Island. d. 1 Upper George st. Bryanston sq. London 15 July 1866. Law Times xli, 684 (1866).

CARY, Rev. Henry (brother of Francis Stephen Cary 1808–80). b. 12 Feb. 1804; ed. at Merchant Taylors and Worcester coll. Ox., scholar 1821, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 15 Nov. 1827; retired from practice 1832; ordained deacon 1834; P.C. of St. Paul’s, Oxford 1839–44; C. of Drayton, Berks. 1847–9; went to New South Wales 1849; district court judge at Sydney 1861–70; author of A practical treatise on the law of partnership 1827; Memoir of the Rev. H. F. Cary 2 vols. 1847; edited Memorials of the great civil war in England 2 vols. 1842; The works of Plato vol. 1, 1848. d. Sydney 30 June 1870; Law Times xlix, 496 (1870).

CARYSFORT, John Proby, 2 Earl of (2 son of 1 Earl of Carysfort 1751–1828). b. Elton hall near Oundle 1780; ed. at Rugby; ensign 10 foot 3 June 1795; major 1 foot 25 March 1802; captain 1 foot guards 25 May 1803 to 4 June 1814; commanded brigade of guards in Flanders 1813–4; general 9 Nov. 1846; M.P. for Buckingham 1805–6, for Hunts. 1806–7 and 1814–8; succeeded 7 April 1828 but never took his seat in House of Lords; insane for some years before his death. d. Westbury near Bristol 11 June 1855.

CARYSFORT, Granville Leveson Proby, 3 Earl of (brother of the preceding). b. 1781; ed. at Rugby; midshipman R.N. 21 March 1798; present at battles of the Nile and Trafalgar; captain 28 Nov. 1806; admiral on h.p. 9 July 1857; M.P. for co. Wicklow 13 Feb. 1816 to 22 July 1829; succeeded 11 June 1855. d. Elton hall 3 Nov. 1868.

CARYSFORT, Granville Leveson Proby, 4 Earl of (son of the preceding). b. Bushy park, co. Wicklow 14 Sep. 1825; ensign 43 foot 8 Feb. 1842; captain 74 foot 14 March 1851 to 1853; M.P. for co. Wicklow 25 Feb. 1858 to 3 Nov. 1868, when he succeeded; controller of Queen’s household 25 June 1859 to July 1866; P.C. 6 July 1859; K.P. 1869. d. Florence 18 May 1872.

CASAMAJOR, Arsene Augustus Joseph. Winner of junior sculls at Barnes regatta 1852, of senior sculls 1853; won diamond sculls at Henley on Thames 1855, 1856–7–8 and 1861; won Wingfield challenge sculls at Henley 1855, thus becoming amateur champion of the Thames a title he retained until July 1861; rowed upwards of 50 public races winning more than 40 of them Aug. 1852 to June 1861, he was never beaten in a sculler’s race; an early member of London rowing club; aquatic editor of The Field. d. from breaking a blood vessel Belmont terrace, Wandsworth road, London 7 Aug. 1861 aged 27. Rowing Almanac (1862) xiii-xvi, portrait; The Field 10 Aug. 1861 p. 132, 17 Aug. p. 147.

CASSAL, Hugues Charles Stanislas (son of a solicitor at Altkirch, département du Haut-Rhin, France, who d. 1845). b. Altkirch 1 April 1818; LL.B. Univ. of France 1839, LLD. 1840; practised at French bar 1840–5; member for Altkirch in Assemblée Nationale 1848; went to England, Jany. 1852; taught French at University college school, London 1856 to death; professor of French at Univ. college, London 1860 to death; created Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur 12 July 1880; author of The graduated course of translation from English into French 2 parts 1875–6, new ed. 1880; Anthology of modern French poetry 2 vols. 1876; A glossary of idioms Gallicisms and other difficulties contained in the senior course of the modern French reader 1881. d. 105 Adelaide road, South Hampstead, London 11 March 1885. Athenæum 21 March 1885 p. 375.

CASSELL, John (son of Mark Cassell, landlord of the Ring o’ Bells in old churchyard, Manchester, who d. 1830). b. the Ring o’ Bells 23 Jany. 1817; apprenticed to a joiner in Salford; went to London, Oct. 1836; a temperance lecturer; a tea and coffee dealer and patent medicine agent at 14 Budge Row, city of London 1847, at 80 Fenchurch st. 1849; started a paper called The Teetotal Times; a publisher in London 1850, took into partnership G. W. Petter and T. D. Galpin 1859; published Working Man’s Friend 1850; Popular Educator 1852; Cassell’s Illustrated Family Paper 31 Dec. 1853 to death; Cassell’s Illustrated Family Bible 2 vols. 1860–66. d. 25 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 2 April 1865. T. Frost’s Forty years recollections (1880) 226–38; Cassell’s Illust. family paper 20 May 1865 pp. 262–4, portrait; Le Livre, Juin 1885 pp. 163–73.