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

CHAMBERS, William (brother of the preceding). b. Peebles 16 April 1800; bookseller at Leith 1819–23, at Broughton st. Edin. 1823; edited Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 4 Feb. 1832 to death; partner with his brother Robert 1832; lord provost of Edin. 1865–9; LLD. Edin. 1872; presented town of Peebles with a library (10,000 volumes) and other buildings called the Chambers Institution opened Aug. 1859; spent about £25,000 on St. Giles’s church, Edin., re-opened 23 May 1883; accepted offer of a baronetcy May 1883 but died before receiving the honour. d. Chester st. Edinburgh 20 May 1883. Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvii, 177–90 (1851); Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, fourth series 1860, portrait.

CHAMBERS, William Frederic (eld. son of Wm. Chambers of H.E.I.Co’s civil service who d. 1793). b. India 1786; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, M.D. 1818; physician to St. George’s hospital, London 20 April 1816 to 1839; F.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1819, censor 1822, 1836, consilarius 1836, 1841, 1845, an Elect 1847; F.R.S. 13 March 1828; phys. in ord. to Queen Adelaide 25 Oct. 1836; phys. to Wm. IV. 4 May 1837; created K.C.H. by Queen Victoria at St. James’s palace 8 Aug. 1837 but allowed to decline assumption of the prefix Sir; the leading phys. in London 1836–48, being the last who to any extent monopolised consulting practice among the rich and noble; phys. in ord. to Queen Victoria 8 Aug. 1837. d. Hordle Cliff near Lymington, Hants. 16 Dec. 1855. Lives of British physicians 2 ed. 1857 pp. 388–402; Munk’s Roll of physicians iii, 196–200 (1878); Medical Circular i, 373 (1852), portrait.

CHAMBRE, William (younger son of Meredith Calcott Chambre of Hawthorn hill, co. Armagh, who d. 8 Feb. 1812). Lieut. York light infantry volunteers 27 May 1812; captain 11 foot 10 Jany. 1822 to 30 July 1844 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 26 Jany. 1874. d. 1 Duncairn terrace, Bray, co. Dublin 24 Oct. 1876.

CHAMIER, Frederick (4 son of John Chamier, member of council for Madras presidency, who d. 23 Feb. 1831). b. London 1796; midshipman R.N. 24 June 1809; served in United States war 1812; commander 9 Aug. 1826; placed on reserved list July 1851; retired captain 1 April 1856; author of The life of a sailor 3 vols. 1832; Ben Brace 3 vols. 1836; Jack Adams 3 vols. 1838; Tom Bowling 3 vols. 1841; My travels, or an unsentimental journey through France, Switzerland and Italy 3 vols. 1855, and of many papers in New Monthly Mag.; edited W. James’s Naval history of Great Britain, 3 ed. 6 vols. 1837. d. 29 Warrior sq. St. Leonard’s on Sea 31 Oct. 1870. New Monthly Mag. lii, 508–10 (1838), portrait.

CHAMIER, Henry. Writer Madras civil service 1812; chief sec. to Madras government 1837–43; member of council 1843–8; pres. of the revenue, marine and college boards 1843 to 14 Jany. 1867 when he resigned the service. d. 9 Waterloo crescent, Dover 4 Feb. 1867 aged 71.

CHAMPAIN, Sir John Underwood Bateman (2 son of Agnew Champain, major 9 foot, who d. 1876). b. Gloucester place, London 22 July 1835; ed. at Cheltenham and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal Engineers 11 June 1853, lieut. col. 31 Dec. 1878 to death; director in chief of Indo-European government telegraph department 1869 to death; granted special permission to accept a sword of honour from Shah of Persia 1885 an honour quite unprecedented; K.C.M.G. 31 Dec. 1885; assumed additional name of Bateman 1870. d. San Remo 1 Feb. 1887. Sir F. J. Goldsmid’s Telegraph and Travel (1874) 206–388, 639.

CHAMPION, John George. b. Edinburgh 5 May 1815; Ensign 95 foot 2 Aug. 1831, major 11 Nov. 1851 to death; served at Hong-kong 1847–50; brought a collection of dried plants to England 1850, most of his novelties were described in Hooker’s Journals; placed last set of his plants in the Kew herbarium 1854, his name is commemorated in the genus Championia and by the splendid plant Rhodoleia Championi. d. Scutari hospital 30 Nov. 1854 of wounds received at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. G. Bentham’s Flora Hongkongensis (1861) 8*–9*; Gardener’s Chronicle (1854) 819–20; G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) 93–5.

CHAMPNEYS, Very Rev. William Weldon (eld. son of Rev. Wm. Beyton Champneys). b. Camden Town, London 6 April 1807; matric. from Brasenose coll. Ox. 3 July 1824, scholar of his college, fellow 1831; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; C. of St. Ebbe’s, Oxford 1831–7; R. of St. Mary’s, Whitechapel, London 1837–60; canon residentiary of St. Paul’s cath. 3 Nov. 1851 to 11 Nov. 1868; V. of St. Pancras, London 1860–8; dean of Lichfield and R. of Tatenhill, Staffs. 11 Nov. 1868 to death; author of Images or allegories for the young 1849, 8 ed. 1868; Six lectures on Protestantism 1852; The Sunday school teacher, 3 ed. 1857; The Spirit in the word 1862, 4 ed. 1866; Facts and Fragments 1864. d. the Deanery, Lichfield 4 Feb. 1875. Rev. W. W. Champneys’s Story of the tentmaker (1875) 7–14, portrait; Drawing room portrait gallery (4th series 1860) 1–2, portrait.

CHANCE, Henry (youngest son of Wm. Chance of Birmingham). b. Newhall st. Birmingham 1794; a certificated conveyancer 1819; barrister L.I. 21 May 1824; practised as conveyancer 1819–66 when he retired; author of A treatise on Powers 2 vols. 1831. d. 7 North villas, Camden sq. London 16 Feb. 1876.

CHANDLER, Very Rev. George. Educ. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1804, D.C.L. 1824; R. of Southam, Warws. 1815–30; R. of All Souls, St. Marylebone, London 1825–47; Bampton lecturer 1825; dean of Chichester 20 Feb. 1830 to death, installed 18 March 1830; R. of Felpham, Sussex 1832 to death; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1833; author of The Bampton lectures 1825. d. The Deanery, Chichester 3 Feb. 1859 aged 80.

CHANDLER, Johanna. b. 1820; called a meeting at Mansion House, London 2 Nov. 1859 when sum of £800 was collected for a National hospital for the paralysed and epileptic, which was opened in Queen’s square, Bloomsbury, May 1860; founded Samaritan society to give aid to out-door patients and Home for convalescent women patients at East Finchley. d. 43 Albany st. Regent’s Park, London 12 Jany. 1875. Facta non verba by the author of Contrasts [Wm. Gilbert] (1874) 101–25; Good Words vii, 537–42 (1866).

CHANDLESS, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Chandless of York place, Portman square, London). b. 1798; barrister G.I. 19 June 1822, practised in court of chancery; bencher of his inn 5 May 1847, treasurer 1850–51; Q.C. 11 July 1851. d. 45 Harewood sq. London 22 Feb. 1883 in 85 year.

CHANNELL, Sir William Fry (son of Pike Channell, an officer in the navy, afterwards a merchant in London). b. 31 Aug. 1804; barrister I.T. 25 May 1827, went Home circuit; serjeant at law 19 Feb. 1840; shared with Serjeant Talfourd leading business of Court of Common Pleas 1840–6 when practice was thrown open to the bar generally; obtained patent of precedence 1844; leader of Home circuit 1845–57; Baron of Court of Exchequer 12 Feb. 1857 to Jany. 1873; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 June 1857; issued an address to Beverley at general election July 1852 but withdrew before the election; nominated a P.C. Feb. 1873 but did not live to be sworn in. d. 2 Clarendon place, Hyde park gardens, London 26 Feb. 1873. Law mag. and law review ii, 351–4 (1873); I.L.N. lxii, 234, 249, 318 (1873), portrait.

CHAPLIN, Charles. b. 21 April 1786; M.P. for Lincolnshire 25 June 1818 to 23 April 1831. d. London 24 May 1859.

CHAPLIN, Edward. b. Ryhall, Rutland 28 March 1842; ed. at Harrow; captain Coldstream guards 1871; M.P. for Lincoln 4 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; master of the Blankney hounds 1872–6; a member of the Four-in-hand club 1877. d. 25 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 23 Dec. 1883. Baily’s mag. xxxi, 311–2 (1878), portrait.

CHAPLIN, William James (son of Wm. Chaplin of Rochester). b. Rochester 1787; one of the largest coach proprietors in the kingdom, being owner of 64 stage coaches worked by 1500 horses; chairman of London and South western railway company to death; sheriff of London 1845–46; M.P. for Salisbury 1847–1857. d. 2 Hyde Park gardens, London 24 April 1859 aged 71.

CHAPMAN, Rev. Benedict. Educ. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam., 6 Wr. 1792, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, D.D. 1840; fellow of his college, tutor, master, May or June 1839 to death; R. of Ashdon, Essex 1818 to death. d. Ashdon rectory 23 Oct. 1852 in 83 year. bur. in chapel of his college 30 Oct.

CHAPMAN, Henry Samuel. b. Kennington, London, July 1803; went to Canada 1823; founded at Montreal 1833 Daily Advertiser first daily newspaper published in Canada, edited it 1833–4; barrister M.T. 12 June 1840; a judge of supreme court of New Zealand, June 1843 to March 1852; colonial sec. of Van Diemen’s Land, March 1852 to Nov. 1852; attorney general of Victoria 11 March 1857 to 29 April 1857 and March 1858 to 27 Oct. 1859; formed a ministry, March 1858; acted as judge of supreme court of Victoria 1862 to March 1863; judge of supreme court of New Zealand 1865–77; author of Thoughts on the money and exchanges of Lower Canada 1832; The New Zealand portfolio 1843. d. Dunedin, N.Z. 27 Dec. 1881.

CHAPMAN, Henry Thomas (elder son of Thomas Chapman of Ampthill, Beds. who lived to be 94). b. Ampthill 1806; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London, house surgeon; surgeon in Lower Seymour st. London; lecturer on surgery in school next St. George’s hospital; fellow of Med. and Chir. Soc. 1837; author of A brief description of surgical apparatus 1832; The treatment of obstinate ulcers and cutaneous eruptions of the leg without confinement 1848, 3 ed. 1859; Varicose veins, their nature, consequences and treatment 1856. d. Cheltenham 19 Nov. 1874.

CHAPMAN, Right Rev. James. b. 1799; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1845; Fell. of his coll.; deacon 1824, priest 1825; assistant master at Eton; R. of Dunton Waylett, Essex 1834–45; Bishop of Colombo 24 April 1845–1861; Fell. of Eton, April 1862; R. of Wootton Courtney, Somerset 1863 to death; Preb. of Wells cath. 1868. d. Wootton Courtney 20 Oct. 1879.

CHAPMAN, John (son of John Chapman of Loughborough, clockmaker). b. Loughborough 20 Jany. 1801; manufacturer with his brother Wm. of machinery required for the bobbinet trade technically called insides 1823–34 when completely ruined by the protection laws; wrote for the Mechanics Magazine which he edited short time 1835; sec. to Safety cabriolet and two-wheel carriage company in London 1836; invented all the valuable improvements found in the modern ‘Hansom cab,’ a patent for his cab was granted 31 Dec. 1836; laid before Board of Trade a project for constructing Great Indian Peninsular railway 1844; prepared a great scheme for irrigation of India which was formally sanctioned by the government just after his death; author of The cotton and commerce of India, published 1 Jany. 1851; Principles of Indian reform 1853, and of many articles in periodicals and newspapers. d. London 11 Sep. 1854. General Baptist Mag. iii, 169–76, 209–17, 292–8, 329–32 (1856); Nottingham Review 11 Sep. to 3 Dec. 1833.

CHAPMAN, John (son of John Chapman of Ashton, Lancs. who d. 19 May 1819 aged 55). b. Ashton 1810; sheriff of Cheshire 1856; M.P. for Great Grimsby 14 Feb. 1862 to 6 July 1865 and 5 Feb. 1874 to death. d. Hill End, Mottram in Longdendale, Cheshire 18 July 1877 in 67 year.

CHAPMAN, Mary Francis (dau. of Mr. Chapman of Dublin, custom house officer). b. Dublin 28 Nov. 1838; ed. at Staplehurst, Kent; published following novels under pseud. of J. C. Ayrton, Mary Bertrand 1856, Lord Bridgnorth’s Niece 1862, A Scotch Wooing 1875, Gerald Marlowe’s Wife 1876; wrote with her father in Churchman’s family magazine 1869 an historical tale called Bellasis or the fortunes of a cavalier; her last work The gift of the Gods 1879 appeared under her own name. d. Old Charlton, Kent 18 Feb. 1884.

CHAPMAN, Matthew James. Educ. at Univ. of Edin. and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.D. Edin. 1820; B.A. Cam. 1832, M.A. 1835; published Barbadoes and other poems 1833; Jephtha’s Daughter a dramatic poem 1834; Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, translated 1836. d. 25 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 15 Nov. 1865 aged 69.

CHAPMAN, Sir Montague Lowther, 3 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Thomas Chapman, 2 baronet 1756–1837). b. 10 Dec. 1808; M.P. for Westmeath 12 Aug. 1830 to 23 June 1841; succeeded 23 Dec. 1837; sheriff of Westmeath 1844; sailed from Melbourne for Sydney May 1852 but his ship was never heard of again; death announced as having occurred on the coast of Australia 17 May 1852. Annual Register 1853 p. 229.

CHAPMAN, Sir Stephen Remnant (son of Richard Chapman of Tainfield house, Taunton). b. Tainfield house 1776; second lieut. R.E. 18 Sep. 1793; sec. to Lord Mulgrave, master general of the ordnance 1810 to 29 July 1825; civil sec. at Gibraltar 1825–31; col. R.E. 29 July 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; governor, vice admiral and commander in chief at Bermuda 23 April 1831 to 8 Feb. 1839; carried into effect emancipation of the slaves there 1834; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; col. commandant R.E. 9 March 1860 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at St. James’s palace 8 June 1831; F.R.S. 21 Nov. 1816. d. Tainfield house 6 March 1851.

CHAPPELL, Edward. b. 10 Aug. 1792; entered navy, May 1804; captain 27 Dec. 1838; retired R.A. 20 Jany. 1858; secretary to Royal mail steam packet company, Feb. 1842; author of Narrative of a voyage to Hudson’s Bay 1817; Voyage to Newfoundland and the southern coast of Labrador 1818. d. Charlwood st. west, Warwick sq. London 21 Jany. 1861.

CHAPPLE, James. b. Exeter; Won the Derby on Dangerous 1833 on Amato 1838; won the Oaks on Vespa 1833; won Cesarewitch on Glauca 1850 and Cambridgeshire on Landgrave 1850; rode many years for Sir Gilbert Heathcote; had no superior for a knowledge of pace and fineness of hand. d. Newmarket, 10 June 1858 in 63 year. Sporting Review xxvii, 58–61 (1852), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 13 June 1858 p. 4.

CHAPPLE, John. b. 10 Jany. 1826; worked under I. K. Brunel the civil engineer and G. G. Scott the architect; restored churches at Frinstead, Kent and Chesham, Bucks.; clerk of the works for restoration of St. Albans Abbey 1870–6 and 1877 to death; supervised restoration of great church of St. Nicholai, Hamburg 1876–7; member of council of St. Albans 1877, mayor 1879, alderman 1883 to death, d. Torrington hall, St. Albans 6 Feb. 1887. The Herts Advertiser 12 Feb. 1887.

CHARLEMONT, Francis William Caulfield, 2 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Earl of Charlemont 1728–99). b. 3 Jany. 1775; M.P. for Armagh in Irish House of Commons 1797 to 4 Aug. 1799 when he succeeded; one of representative peers for Ireland 22 Nov. 1806 to death; K.P. Oct. 1831; P.C. Ireland 1832; lord lieut. of Tyrone 1839 to death; created Baron Charlemont in peerage of the U.K. 13 Feb. 1837. d. Clontarf 26 Dec. 1863.

CHARLES, Rev. John (son of John Charles of Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire). b. 1770; M.A. Marischal college and Univ. of Aberdeen 26 March 1792; schoolmaster of Glenbervie; minister of Garvock 7 June 1821 to death; author of A sermon preached in the church of Glenbervie 1814; The Protestant’s Hand Book 1855. d. 17 Nov. 1868 aged nearly 99.

CHARLES, Thomas (younger son of Wm. Charles of Maidstone, felter and blanket cleaner, who d. 1832). Apprenticed to his father, became his partner, succeeded to the business 1832 which he sold 1840; author of a translation of Boethius’s Consolations of philosophy; bequeathed his valuable collections to the town of Maidstone which purchased his house and opened The Charles Museum in it, Jany. 1858. d. Chillington house, Maidstone 29 April 1855 aged 77. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 141–6 (1883); J. M. Russell’s History of Maidstone (1881) 357–62.

CHARLESWORTH, Edward Parker (son of Rev. John Charlesworth, R. of Ossington, Notts.) b. 1783; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1807; physician at Lincoln 1807 to death; visiting phys. to Lincoln lunatic asylum 1820 to death, where he substituted moral control and kindness in place of physical control and coercion; author of Remarks on the treatment of the insane 1828. d. Lincoln 20 Feb. 1853. G.M. xxxix, 548–50 (1853).

CHARLESWORTH, Rev. John (brother of the preceding). b. Ossington parsonage 1782; practised with a surgeon at Clapham, London 1804; ordained deacon by Bishop of Norwich 1809; R. of Flowton, Suffolk 1814–44; kept his terms at Queen’s coll. Cam. 1820–3, B.D. 1826; R. of St. Mildred’s, Bread st. London 1844 to death. d. Islington, London 22 April 1864. bur. churchyard of Limpsfield, Surrey. J. P. Fitzgerald’s The quiet worker for good, a sketch of the late John Charlesworth 1865.

CHARLESWORTH, John Charlesworth Dodgson. b. Chapelthorpe hall near Wakefield 1815; ed. at Sedbergh, Yorkshire and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; M.P. for Wakefield 27 March 1857 to 23 April 1859. d. 21 March 1880.

CHARLESWORTH, Maria Louisa (dau. of Rev. John Charlesworth 1782–1864). b. rectory of Blakenham Parva near Ipswich 1 Oct. 1819; lived at Nutfield, Surrey 1864 to death; author of The female visitor to the poor, by a Clergyman’s daughter 1846; A book for the cottage 1848; The light of life 1850; Ministering Children 1854 which had a very large circulation; Where dwellest thou? or the Inner home 1871. d. Nutfield 16 Oct. 1880. Woman’s Work in the great harvest field x, 45–7 (1881).

CHARLETON, Robert (eld. son of James Charleton, who d. Ashley hill, Bristol 1847). b. Bristol 15 April 1809; pin manufacturer at Kingswood near Bristol 1833–52; one of the deputation of 3 Friends, to Emperor of Russia Feb. 1854; went with Robert Forster as a deputation to governments of Northern Europe to present the “Plea for liberty of conscience” issued by Society of Friends 1858; lectured in England and Ireland 1860 to death; author of Opposition to the war, an address 1855; A brief memoir of Wm. Forster 1867; Thoughts on the Atonement 1869. d. Ashley Down, Bristol 5 Dec. 1872. Memoir of Robert Charleton edited by his sister-in-law Anna F. Fox 1873, portrait.

CHARLEVILLE, Charles William Bury, 2 Earl of (only son of 1 Earl of Charleville 1764–1835, by Catherine Maria dau. of Thomas Townley Dawson and widow of James Tisdall, she was b. 22 Dec. 1762 and d. 24 Feb. 1851). b. 29 April 1801; M.P. for Carlow 15 June 1826 to 3 Dec. 1832, for Penryn and Falmouth 11 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; succeeded as 2 Earl 31 Oct. 1835; representative peer of Ireland 13 April 1838 to death. d. near London 14 July 1851. Burke’s Portrait gallery of distinguished females i, 5 and ii, 8 (1833); G.M. xxxv, 429–30 (1851).

CHARLEVILLE, Charles William George Bury, 3 Earl of. b. Geneva 8 March 1822; succeeded 14 July 1851. d. Charleville forest, Tullamore, King’s county 19 Jany. 1859.

CHARLEVILLE, Charles William Francis Bury, 4 Earl of. b. Charleville Forest 16 May 1852; succeeded 19 Jany. 1859. d. Staten island, New York 3 Nov. 1874.

CHARLEVILLE, Alfred Bury, 5 Earl of. b. 19 Feb. 1829; succeeded 3 Nov. 1874. d. Brighton 26 June 1875.

CHARLTON, Edward (2 son of Wm. John Charlton of Hesleyside, Northumberland 1784–1846). b. 23 July 1814; M.D. Edin. 1836; M.D. Durham 1856, D.C.L. 1870; practised at Newcastle; pres. of Royal Med. Soc. of Edin.; pres. of British Medical Assoc. 1870; author of An account of the late epidemic of scarlatina in Newcastle 1847; Memorials of North Tyndale and its four surnames 1871. d. 7 Eldon sq. Newcastle 14 May 1874. Medical times and gazette i, 632, (1874).

CHARLTON, John. b. Hartlepool, Durham 1828; Jockey to Baron Rothschild 1851; won the One thousand guineas on Mentmore Lass 1853, Oaks on Mincemeat 1854, Derby and Oaks on Blink Bonny 1857, Ascot cup on Skirmisher 1857. d. Malton 27 July 1862. Sporting Review xxxviii, 17–19 (1857), portrait; I.L.N. xxii, 416 (1857), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 3 Aug. 1862 p. 5.

CHARLTON, Rev. William Henry. Educ. at Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; V. of Felmingham, Norfolk 1834 to death; P.C. of parish chapel of St. Marylebone, London 1851 to death; author of Poems and translations 1834; Sacred sonnets and other poems 1854. d. 11 July 1866 aged 79.

CHARNOCK, Richard (2 son of James Charnock of Islington, London). b. 1799; student of Gray’s Inn 28 July 1813; admitted solicitor 1820; barrister I.T. 12 June 1840; one of Her Majesty’s gentlemen at arms 1837–41; author of A digest of all the new rules as to practice and pleading in all the courts 1836, 2 ed. 1845; Digest of the various decisions since the new pleading rules came into operation 1837; The act for abolishing arrest on mesne process in civil actions 1838; The police guide, containing the Metropolitan and City of London police acts 1841; edited J. Story’s Commentaries on the law of Bailments 1839. d. 5 King’s Bench Walk, Temple 26 May 1864.

CHARRETIE, Anna Maria (dau. of Mr. Kenwell of Vauxhall, London, architect). b. Vauxhall 5 May 1819; studied drawing under Valentine Bartholomew; miniature and oil painter; exhibited 40 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 32 at Suffolk st. Gallery 1843–75. (m. 1841 John Charretie, captain H.E.I.Co., he d. 18 Nov. 1868). d. 8 Hornton St. Kensington, London 5 Oct. 1875. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists i, 415–9 (1876).

CHARRINGTON, Harold (son of Spencer Charrington of Hunsden house, Ware, Herts.) Naval cadet 13 April 1869; lieut. 23 June 1880; flag lieut. of Euryalus 16 guns 15 April 1882; went with E. H. Palmer and Wm. Gill to Egypt for the purpose of detaching the Arabs from Arabi Pacha; shot by the Arabs near Gaza 11 Aug. 1882. bur. in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral, London 6 April 1883. Graphic xxvi, 469 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxi, 461 (1882), portrait.

CHART, Henry Nye (eld. son of John Chart of London, who d. 1863 aged 76). b. 1822; acted at Sadler’s Wells theatre under name of Henry Nye; low comedian and stage manager at Brighton theatre, July 1850 and acting manager 1852 to 28 Feb. 1854; lessee of Brighton theatre 29 July 1854 to 7 May 1866 when he purchased theatre and opened a new house on same site 15 Oct. 1866. (m. 27 July 1867 Ellen Elizabeth Rollason, leading actress at Brighton theatre). d. 9 New road, Brighton 18 June 1876. Era 25 June 1876 p. 5, col. 1, 2 July p. 10, col. 4.

CHARY, Chintamanny Ragoonatha. Attached to the Madras observatory nearly 40 years, first assistant 1863 to death; took a chief share in making 38,000 observations with transit-circle for the star catalogue; member of expeditions to observe total eclipses of the sun 18 Aug. 1868 and 11 Dec. 1871; discovered 2 new variable stars; F.R.A.S. 12 Jany. 1872; edited for 12 years astronomical portion of Asylum Press Almanac; published 1874 a pamphlet on the Transit of Venus, which appeared in 6 Indian languages as well as in English, d. Madras 5 Feb. 1880. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xli, 180 (1881).