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CHASE, Ann (dau. of Mr. M’Clarnonde, who d. 1818). b. North of Ireland 1807; went to New York 1824; m. 1836 Franklin Chase, consul general at Tampico, Mexico; in the Mexican war 1846 city of Tampico was surprised and taken by the American forces, through her instrumentality, without loss of life, the fortress of the city was named Fort Ann in her honour, and the ladies of New Orleans presented to her a service of plate; lived at Tampico 1834–71 and at Brooklyn, New York 1871 to death, d. Brooklyn 24 Dec. 1874. S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed. 1855 pp. 859–61, portrait.

CHASE, John. b. John st. Fitzroy sq. London 26 Feb. 1810; landscape water-colour painter; member of New Society of painters in water-colours 1835: exhibited 11 pictures at R.A. and 8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1826–70; author of A practical treatise on landscape painting and sketching from nature in water-colours, edited by Rev. James Harris 1861. d. 113 Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 8 Jany. 1879.

CHASLES, Victor Euphémion Philarète. b. Mainvilliers near Chartres 8 Oct. 1798; fled to England soon after the Bourbon restoration 1815; a proof reader at Valpy’s printing office in Took’s Court, Chancery lane, London; wrote in the Athenæum 1832 to death; keeper of Mazarin library, Paris 1837; professor in Collége de France, Paris; translated many books from English into French, d. Venice 19 July 1873.

CHASSELS, Rev. David, b. Glasgow 30 April 1787; went with his parents to United States 1795; graduated at Dartmouth college, Vermont 1810; principal of the academy in Peacham, Vermont, and then of academy in Cambridge, New York; ordained by Presbytery of Troy 1820; took charge of the Fairfield academy 1821 and then of academy at Herkimer; a good teacher and fine classical scholar, d. Holland Patent, Oneida county, New York 10 Jany. 1870.

CHATELAIN, Clara De (dau. of M. de Pontigny). b. London 31 July 1807; wrote a number of fugitive pieces in English under pseudonyms of Leopold Wray, Baronne Cornelie de B., Rosalia Santa Croce and Leopoldine Ziska; wrote and composed many ballads; translated upwards of 400 songs; author of The Silver Swan 1847; A handbook of the four elements of vocalization 1850; The sedan chair 1866; Truly noble 1870; her name and her assumed names are attached to 140 original tales, 50 fairy tales and 16 handbooks, (m. 13 April 1843 the succeeding, they received the Dunmow flitch of bacon from W. H. Ainsworth 19 July 1855). d. insane in London 30 June 1876; bur. in Lyndhurst churchyard, Hants. 7 July. In Memoriam of Clara de Chatelain with a catalogue of her works 1876; Fleurs et fruits, souvenirs de feu Madame C. de Chatelain 1877, portrait; Andrews’s History of the Dunmow flitch (1877) 18, 27–31.

CHATELAIN, Jean Baptiste François Ernest De. b. Paris 19 Jany 1801; published a weekly paper in London called Le petit Mercure 1825 which he changed to Le Mercure de Londre 1826; went on foot from Paris to Rome to study sayings and doings of Pope Leo XII, 1827; edited Le propagateur de la Gironde at Bordeaux 1830 for which he was condemned to 6 month’s imprisonment and fined 1320 francs 5 May 1831; published many works in France 1833–8; assumed title of Chevalier 1840; lived in England 1842 to death, naturalised 6 June 1848; author of Rumbles through Rome 1852; Ronces et Chardons 1869 and 50 other works, the chief being Beautés de la poesie Anglaise, 5 tomes 1860–72 containing over 1000 translations of poems from Chaucer to Tennyson; received Prussian order of Merit 1835. d. 20 Warwick crescent, Regent’s park, London 15 Aug. 1881. bur. in Lyndhurst churchyard 22 Aug. Catalogue des Ouvrages du Chevalier De Chatelain 1875.

CHATTERLEY, Louisa (dau. of Madame Simeon of St. James’s st. Piccadilly, London, milliner). b. St. James’s st. 16 Oct. 1797; made her début on the stage at Bath, Nov. 1814 as Juliet; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre 9 July 1816 as Harriet in Is he jealous; acted at Surrey theatre 1817, Olympic 1820, Covent Garden 1821; the best representative of a Frenchwoman on the English stage, (m. 11 Aug. 1814 Wm. Simmonds Chatterley, actor 1787–1822, she m. (2) 13 Feb. 1830 Mr. Place), d. 37 Brompton sq. London 3 Nov. 1866. Oxberry’s Dramatic biography v, 271–82 (1826), portrait; British Stage iv, 237 (1820), portrait; The Era 18 Nov. 1866 p. 11.

CHATTERTON, Frederick Balsir (eld. son of Edward A. Chatterton of London, box bookkeeper at many theatres who d. 5 Dec. 1875 in 65 year). b. Euston sq. London 17 Sep. 1834; amateur actor at Cabinet and Soho theatres 1852; acting manager at Lyceum theatre 1857 and 1861–2; lessee of St. James’s theatre 1859–60; joint lessee with Edmund Falconer of Drury Lane theatre 12 Sep. 1863, sole lessee 22 Sep. 1866 to 4 Feb. 1879 when he closed the theatre being £36,000 in debt; joint manager with B. Webster of Princess’s and Adelphi theatres 1871; made his début as a reciter at St. James’s hall, London 14 March 1883. d. 18 Feb. 1886. E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane i, 273–317 (1881); Illust. sporting news v, 593 (1866), portrait; Touchstone, March 1879 p. 3, portrait.

CHATTERTON, Lady Henrietta Georgiana Marcia (only child of Rev. Lascelles Iremonger, prebendary of Winchester, who d. 6 Jany. 1830). b. 24 Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 11 Nov. 1806; author of Aunt Dorothy’s Tales, 2 vols. 1837 anon.; Rambles in the South of Ireland 1839, 2 ed. 1839; Home sketches and foreign recollections 1841; Allanston or the Infidel 1843; Compensation, 2 vols. 1856 anon.; The reigning beauty 3 vols. 1858; Memorials of Admiral Lord Gambier 2 vols. 1861; Leonore a tale and other poems 2 vols. 1864; Won at last 3 vols. 1874 and 20 other books; received into Church of Rome, Aug. 1875. (m. (1) 3 Aug. 1824 Sir W. A. Chatterton 1787–1855. m. (2) 1 June 1859 Edward Heneage Dering 2 son of Rev. John Dering, R. of Pluckley, Kent, he was b. 15 March 1827). d. Malvern Wells 6 Feb. 1876. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton with some passages from her diary by E. H. Dering 1878; J. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 478–80 (1885).

CHATTERTON, Sir James Charles, 3 Baronet (youngest son of Sir James Chatterton, 1 baronet, who d. 9 April 1806). b. 1792; cornet 12 light dragoons 23 Nov. 1809; lieut. col. 4 dragoon guards 9 Dec. 1831 to 3 Oct. 1848 when placed on h.p.; col. 5 lancers 23 Feb. 1858 to 22 Nov. 1868; general 31 March 1866; col. 4 dragoon guards 22 Nov. 1868 to death; M.P. for co. Cork 1831–5 and 1849–52; sheriff of co. Cork 1851–2; a gentleman of the privy chamber; succeeded his brother 7 Aug. 1855; K.S.F.; K.H. 1832; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 5 Jany. 1874. I.L.N. xvi, 133 (1850), portrait; Graphic ix, 52, 59 (1874), portrait.

CHATTERTON, John Balsir (son of John Chatterton of Portsmouth, professor of music). b. Portsmouth 1802; pupil of Robert Bochsa the harpist; professor of the harp at R.A. of Music, London 1827; harpist to the Queen 1842 to death; published numerous transcriptions from popular operas for the harp. (m. Eliza Davenport only dau. of Thomas Davenport Latham of Coombe hill, Croydon, she d. 9 Jany. 1877 in 71 year), d. 32 Manchester st. Portman sq. London 9 April 1871. Wm. Ball’s Musical Gem (1831) 50–1, portrait.

CHATTERTON, Sir William Abraham, 2 Baronet, b. 6 Aug. 1787; succeeded 9 April 1806. d. Rolls park, Chigwell, Essex 7 Aug. 1855.

CHATTO, William Andrew (only son of Wm. Chatto of Newcastle, merchant, who d. 1804). b. Newcastle 17 April 1799; wholesale tea-dealer in Eastcheap, London 1830–4; edited New Sporting Magazine 1839–41; projected Puck a journalette of fun, a penny daily comic illustrated paper 22 numbers 6 May 1844 to 29 June 1844; author of Scenes and recollections of fly-fishing by Stephen Oliver the younger 1834; The angler’s souvenir by P. Fisher 1836, 2 ed. 1871; A treatise on wood engraving 1839, 3 ed. 1877; Facts and speculations on the origin and history of playing cards 1848. d. The Charterhouse, London 28 Feb. 1864.

CHAVASSE, Pye Henry, b. Cirencester 1810; L.S.A. 1833; M.R.C.S. 18 Jany. 1833, F.R.C.S. 12 Aug. 1852; practised at Birmingham 1834–74; pres. of Queen’s college medical chirurgical society 1856–8; author of Advice to mothers on the management of their offspring 1839, 14 ed. 1885; Advice to a mother on the management of herself 1869, 4 ed. 1879; Counsel to a mother 1869, 4 ed. 1879; Aphorisms on mental culture of a child 1872, 2 ed. 1877; his books were translated into nearly every European language and several Asiatic. d. 214 Hagley road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 21 Sep. 1879.

CHAYTOR, Sir William Richard Carter, 2 Baronet, b. 7 Feb. 1805; M.P. for city of Durham 23 March 1831 to 29 Dec. 1834; succeeded 28 Jany. 1847. d. Scrafton lodge, Middleham, Yorkshire 9 Feb. 1871.

CHEAPE, Douglas (younger son of John Cheape of Rossie, Fifeshire 1757–1838). b. 1797; member of Faculty of Advocates, Edin. 1819; professor of civil law in Univ. of Edin. 1827–42, substituted English for Latin in class examinations; author of Res Judicata and other squibs published in the Court of Session Garland 1839, his other squibs were The book of the chronicles of the city, being a Scriptural account of the election of a member for the city of Edinburgh in May 1834, and probably La festa d’Overgroghi (Over Gogar near Edinburgh) a burlesque opera in Italian and English. d. Trinity grove, Trinity near Edin. 1 Sep. 1861. Blackwood’s Mag. cix, 111–2 (1871).

CHEAPE, Sir John (brother of the preceding). b. 1792; second lieut. Bengal engineers 3 Nov. 1809, col. commandant 19 Feb. 1844 to death; general 6 Dec. 1866; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 5 June 1849, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; served in the 3 campaigns of first Burmese war 1824–6; second in command in second Burmese war 1852–3. d. Old park, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 30 March 1875. W. F. B. Laurie’s Second Burmese war 1853.

CHEEKE, Alfred, b. Evesham, Worcs. 1811; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1836; went to Sydney, Oct. 1837; comr. of Court of Claims, March 1841; crown prosecutor at quarter sessions, June 1841; chairman of quarter sessions 1844–5 and 1851–7; comr. of Court of requests for county of Cumberland, Jany. 1845; district court judge 1858 to June 1865; puisne judge of supreme court, June 1865 to death. d. Darling point, Sydney 14 March 1876. Heads of the people ii, 151–2 (1848), portrait.

CHEETHAM, John (son of George Cheetham of Stayleybridge). b. Stayleybridge 1802; a merchant and manufacturer; M.P. for South Lancashire 14 July 1852 to 23 April 1859, and for Salford ll July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. 18 May 1886.

CHELMSFORD, Frederick Thesiger, 1 Baron (youngest son of Charles Thesiger, collector of customs in island of St. Vincent, who d. 18 Feb. 1831). b. 1 Fowkes buildings, Tower st. London 15 July 1794; midshipman R.N. 1807; student of G.I. 5 Nov. 1818, of I.T. 2 March 1824, barrister I.T. 21 May 1824; went Home circuit, became leader; K.C. 7 July 1834; bencher of IT. 18, Nov. 1834, reader 1842, treasurer 1843; solicitor general 17 April 1844 to July 1845; knighted at Buckingham palace 23 May 1844; attorney general 29 June 1845 to 3 July 1846 and Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852; lord chancellor 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859 and 6 July 1866 to 29 Feb. 1868, when he resigned office; P.C. 26 Feb. 1858; M.P. for Woodstock 20 March 1840 to April 1844, for Abingdon 11 May 1844 to 1 July 1852 and for Stamford 10 July 1852 to 1 March 1858; F.R.S. 19 June 1845; created baron Chelmsford of Chelmsford, Essex 1 March 1858. d. 7 Eaton sq. London 5 Oct. 1878. Illust. news of the world, vol. 1 (1858), portrait; London Society xi, 87, 95 (1867), portrait.

CHENERY, Thomas, b. Barbados 1826; ed. at Eton and Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1868; correspondent of Times at Constantinople 1854–6, wrote leading articles and reviews in Times; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; Lord Almoner’s professor of Arabic at Oxford, April 1868 to Nov. 1877; member of Ch. Ch. Ox., incorporated M.A. 1868; member of 2 class of Imperial order of Medjidie, July 1869; secretary to Royal Asiatic Society; one of the revisers of Old Testament 1870–83; editor of Times Nov. 1877 to death, worked on it to 1 Feb. 1884; published The six assemblies of El Hariry translated 1867; edited the Machberoth Ithiel of Jehudah ben Shelomo Alkharzi. d. 16 Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet st. London 11 Feb. 1884. Journal of Royal Asiatic Soc. xvi, pp. xii-xv (1884); Times 12 Feb. 1884 p. 6, cols. 5–6; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 180 (1884), portrait; Graphic xxix, 148 (1884), portrait.

CHEPMELL, Rev. Havilland Le Mesurier. Educ. at Pembroke coll. Ox., Townsend scholar, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. and D.D. 1851; chaplain to Royal military college, Sandhurst 1841–67; translated Lectures on Roman History by B. G. Niebuhr 1849; author of Course of history, Greek, Roman and English, 10 ed. 1874, 2nd series 2 vols. 1857. d. The hermitage, St. Martin’s, Guernsey 21 March 1887.

CHERMSIDE, Henry Lowther (2 son of the succeeding). b. 1825; second lieut. R.A. 19 June 1844, colonel 8 Sep. 1875 to 16 Nov. 1878 when he retired with hon. rank of major general; commanded R.A. at Poona 1876–8; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Regia house, Teignmouth 2 Jany. 1886.

CHERMSIDE, Sir Robert Alexander (3 son of Dr. Chermside of Portaferry, co. Down). b. Portaferry 1787; Assist, surgeon to 7th Hussars 16 Aug. 1810; Surgeon to 10th Hussars 29 June 1815 to 30 Oct. 1823; graduated M.D. at Edin. 1817; L.R.C.P. London 16 April 1821, F.R.C.P. 27 April 1843; phys. to British embassy at Paris; physician extraordinary to Duchess of Kent; K.C.H. 31 July 1835; Knight of St. John of Jerusalem; Knight of Red Eagle of Prussia; Knight of Legion of Honour. d. Oxford 8 Sep. 1860.

CHERRY, Frederick Clifford. Veterinary surgeon of 11 light dragoons 12 Oct. 1803, of Waggon Train 16 July 1807 to 25 Sep. 1819 when placed on h.p.; Vet. surgeon 2 life guards 10 May 1833; principal vet. surgeon in the army 17 Sep. 1839 to death. d. Clapham, London 11 July 1854.

CHESHAM, Charles Compton Cavendish, 1 Baron (4 son of 1 Earl of Burlington 1754–1834). b. Savile row, London 28 Aug. 1793; M.P. for Newtown, Hants. 1821–6 for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1831–2, for East Sussex 1832–41, for Youghal 1841–7, for Bucks 1847–57; created Baron Chesham of Chesham, Bucks. 15 Jany. 1858. d. 19 Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1863.

CHESHAM, William George Cavendish, 2 Baron, b. 20 Oct. 1815; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Peterborough 30 July 1847 to 1 July 1852, for Bucks. 23 Dec. 1857 to 10 Nov. 1863 when he succeeded. d. Latimer, near Chesham, Bucks. 26 June 1882.

CHESHAM, Sarah. Tried at Chelmsford assizes 1847 upon a charge of poisoning the illegitimate child of Lydia Taylor but acquitted; tried 1848 for poisoning two of her children but acquitted; tried at Chelmsford assizes 6 March 1851 for poisoning with arsenic her husband Richard Chesham, who d. May 1850, when she was found guilty and sentenced to death; known as ‘Arsenic Sal’; executed at Chelmsford 25 March 1851. A.R. (1850) 109, (1851) 396–400; A. H. Dymond’s The law on its trial (1865) 211–19.

CHESNEY, Charles Cornwallis (son of Charles Cornwallis Chesney, captain Bengal artillery who d. 1830). b. Packolet, near Kilkeel, co. Down 29 Sept. 1826; second lieut R.E. 18 June 1845, lieut col. 1 March 1868 to death; commanded R.E. in home district 1873 to death; professor of military history at Sandhurst 1858–68; the best military critic of his day; member of royal commission on military education 1868–70; sent by government to report on Franco-German war 1871; author of A military view of recent campaigns in Virginia and Maryland 1863, 2 ed. 1864; Waterloo lectures, a study of the campaign of 1815, 1868, 3 ed. 1874; Essays in military biography 1874. d. 11 Grosvenor mansions, Victoria st. London 19 March 1876. Graphic xiii, 342, 348 (1876), portrait.

CHESNEY, Francis Rawdon (2 son of Alexander Chesney 1755–1843, coast-officer in the district of Mourne, co. Down). b. Ballyvea Mourne 16 March 1789; 2 lieut. R.A. 9 Nov. 1804, commanded R.A. at Hong Kong 1843–7, col. 11 Nov. 1851 to 6 Jany. 1855, col. commandant 27 June 1864 to death; general 1 Jany. 1868; explored Syrian route to India 1830–1; commanded expedition for examining route to India by the Euphrates 1835–6; explored the Tigris and Karūm 1836–7; surveyed Euphrates route again 1857; F.R.G.S. 1838, gold medallist 1838; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; author of Expedition for survey of Euphrates and Tigris 2 vols. 1850; Observations on past and present state of fire arms 1852; The Russo-Turkish campaign of 1828 and 1829, 1854; Narrative of Euphrates expedition 1868. d. Packolet 30 Jany. 1872. The Life of F. R. Chesney, by his wife and daughter, edited by S. Lane-Poole (1885), portrait; Dublin Univ. mag. xviii, 574–80 (1841), portrait; Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlii, 159–61 (1872).

CHESSAR, Jane Agnes. b. Edinburgh 1835; had charge of a class in Home and Colonial training college, London 1852–66; lecturer and private tutor in London 1866–75; member for Marylebone of London school board 27 Nov. 1873 to 1875; edited Mrs. Somerville’s Physical geography 1877; W. Hughes’s Manual of geography 1880; wrote much for the Queen and other newspapers. d. Brussels 3 Sep. 1880. Graphic ix, 30 (1874), portrait.

CHESTER, Harry (youngest son of sir Robert Chester of Bush hall, Herts. 1768–1848). b. 1 Oct. 1806; ed. at Charterhouse, Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam.; clerk in Privy Council office May 1826 to 1 Jany. 1859; assistant sec. to Committee of Privy Council on education 1840–58; author of The lay of the Lady Ellen, a tale of 1834, London 1835, and of an article entitled The food of the people in Macmillan’s Mag. Oct. and Nov. 1868. d. 63 Rutland gate, London 5 Oct. 1868.

CHESTER, Joseph Lemuel (son of Joseph Chester of Norwich, Connecticut, grocer, who d. 1832). b. Norwich 30 April 1821; a merchant’s clerk in New York 1840, in Philadelphia 1845; a temperance lecturer in many of the states; musical editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book 1845–50; one of the editors of Philadelphia Inquirer and of the Daily Sun 1852; member of council of Philadelphia 1854; one of aide-de-camps of governor of Pennsylvania with rank of colonel 1855–8; lived in London 1859 to death; made most extensive extracts from parish registers, and at his death left 87 folio vols. of such extracts; copied the matriculation register of the university of Oxford 1866–9; D.C.L. Ox. 22 June 1881; one of founders of Harleian Society 1869; a member of first council of Royal Historical Society 1870; published Greenwood cemetery and other poems 1843; The registers of the abbey of St. Peter, Westminster 1876, (Harleian Society) also Privately Printed for the author; The parish registers of St. Michael, Cornhill, London 1882. d. 124 Southwark park road, London 26 May 1882. Latting’s Memoir of Colonel Chester 1882; Dean’s Memoir of Colonel Chester 1884, portrait; Marshall’s Genealogist vi, 189*–92* (1882); New Monthly Mag. June 1881 pp. 626–30, portrait.

CHESTERFIELD, George Augustus Frederick Stanhope, 6 Earl of (only son of 5 Earl of Chesterfield 1755–1815). b. Bretby hall, Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire 23 May 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 29 Aug. 1815; lord of the bedchamber to George iv, 11 Aug. 1828 to 26 June 1830; master of the Buckhounds 30 Dec. 1834 to April 1835; P.C. 29 Dec. 1834; began racing 1826, won Ascot cup with Zinganee 1829, the Oaks with Industry 1838 and Lady Evelyn 1849 and St. Leger with Don John 1838; master of Pytchley hounds 1838–40; the yellow gossamer overcoat known as a Chesterfield was called after him; he is depicted under name of Earl of Chesterlane in D’Horsay, or the follies of the day by A man of fashion 1844. d. 3 Grosvenor sq. London 1 June 1866. bur. at Bretby church 8 June. Rice’s History of the British turf i, 284–6 (1879); Sporting Preview xxix, 450–2 (1858), lvi, 10, 79 (1866); Baily’s Mag. ii, 55–8 (1861), portrait; Sporting Times 7 March 1885; Doyle’s Official baronage i, 374, (1886), portrait.

CHESTERFIELD, George Philip Cecil Arthur Stanhope, 7 Earl of. b. 28 Sep. 1831; ed. at Eton; cornet Royal horse guards 21 Aug. 1849, lieut. 2 Sep. 1853 to 1860; M.P. for south Notts. 18 Dec. 1860 to 1 June 1866 when he succeeded, d. Bretby hall 1 Dec. 1871.

CHESTERFIELD, George Philip Stanhope, 8 Earl of. b. 29 Nov. 1822; succeeded 1 Dec. 1871, his claim was admitted by House of Lords 7 July 1873. d. Killendanagh near Lifford, co. Donegal 19 Oct. 1883.

CHESTERFIELD, Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore Stanhope, 9 Earl of (eld. son of Sir Edwyn Francis Scudamore Stanhope, 2 baronet 1793–1874). b. Teignmouth, Devon 8 April 1821; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1841; succeeded as 3 baronet 8 Feb. 1874, as 9 Earl 19 Oct. 1883. d. St. Leonard’s on Sea 21 Jany. 1887.

CHETHAM-STRODE, Sir Edward (4 son of Thomas Chetham of Mellon hall, Derbyshire). b. 5 July 1775; entered navy 29 April 1786; captain 13 Oct. 1807; captain of the Leander 50 guns 1 May 1816 to July 1819; superintendent of Haslar hospital and Royal Clarence Victualling yard 5 April 1838 to 23 Nov. 1841; R.A. on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.C.H. 1 Jany. 1837; knighted by Wm. iv, at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837; K.C.B. 8 May 1845; assumed additional surname of Strode 1845; granted good service pension 18 June 1857; admiral of the white 22 Aug. 1857. d. Southill house, Shepton-Mallet, Somerset 1 April 1862.

CHETWODE, Sir John Newdigate Ludford, 5 Baronet, b. Oakley near Mucklestone, Staffs. 12 Nov. 1788; succeeded 17 Dec. 1845; sheriff of Warwick 1852. d. Oakley 8 Sep. 1873.

CHETWYND, Richard Walter Chetwynd, 6 Viscount, b. Bolton row, London 14 Dec. 1800; succeeded 27 Feb. 1821. d. Marpool near Exmouth 6 Dec. 1879.

CHETWYND, Sir George, 3 Baronet, b. Grendon hall near Atherstone, co. Warwick 6 Sep. 1809; succeeded 24 May 1850. d. Grendon hall 25 March 1869.

CHETWYND, George (son of W. J. Chetwynd, captain 52 foot). b. 1824; receiver and accountant general, Post Office, London 1864 to death; C.B. 16 May 1881. d. Hyde Vale, Blackheath, London 3 Dec. 1882.

CHETWYND, William Fawkener. b. 15 Oct. 1788; M.P. for Stafford 11 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841. d. Brocton hall near Stafford 25 April 1873.

CHEVALLIER, Rev. Temple (eld. son of Rev. Temple Fiske, Chevallier, R. of Badingham, Suffolk), b. Badingham 19 Oct. 1794; ed. at Pemb. coll. Cam., fellow 1819; 2 wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1817; B A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1833; fellow and tutor of St. Cath. hall, Cam.; V. of St. Andrew the Great, Cam. 1821–34; Hulsean lecturer 1826–7; P.C. of Esh near Durham 1835–69; registrar of Univ. of Durham 1835; professor of mathematics in Univ. of Durham 1835–71 and professor of astronomy 1841–71; hon. canon of Durham cathedral 2 Oct. 1846, canon res. Sep. 1865 to death; F.R.A.S. 13 Dec. 1839; author of A translation of the epistles of Clement of Rome, Polycarp, and Ignatius and of the Apologies of Justin Martyr and Tertullian 1833, 2 ed. 1851 and of 18 papers in journals of Royal Astronom. Soc. d. at house of his son-in-law, the vicarage, Harrow-Weald, Middlesex 4 Nov. 1873. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxiv, 137–39 (1874).