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 of £580, introduced lithography into the Admiralty; F.S.A. 1827;
M.R.I.A. 1827; founder and pres. of Society of Noviomagus 11
Dec. 1828 to his death; helped to found Camden Soc. 1839,
Percy Soc. 1840 and British Archælogical Assoc. 1843; edited
Willis’s Current Notes Jany. 1851 to death; author of
Researches in the South of Ireland 1834; Fairy legends and
traditions of the South of Ireland 3 parts 1825–28, several
editions; Legends of the Lakes, or sayings and doings at
Killarney 2 vols. 1829, new ed. 1874; The popular songs of
Ireland 1839 another ed. in Morley’s Universal Library vol. 40;
The Keen of the South of Ireland illustrative of Irish history,
Percy Soc. vol. 13 (1842); A walk from London to Fulham
1860, and many other works and translations. d. 3 Gloucester
road, Old Brompton, London 8 Aug. 1854. Fairy Legends of the
South of Ireland by T. C. Croker with a memoir of the author
by his son T. F. D. Croker 1862; Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxiv, 203–
16 (1849), portrait; Fraser’s Mag. iii, 67 (1831), portrait; Mrs.
Balmanno’s Pen and pencil (1858) 156–71, portrait; C. R.
Smith’s Retrospections i, 251–57 (1883); Numismatic Chronicle
xviii, 20–1 (1856); Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 49–53,
portrait; G.M. xlii, 397–401 (1854).
CROKER, William. Ensign 17 foot 27 March 1803, lieut. col. 1
April 1836 to 5 Nov. 1847 when he sold out; C.B. 20 Dec.
1839; colonel in the army 9 Nov. 1846. d. Cheltenham 11 Aug.
1852 aged 64.
CROLL, Alexander Angus (youngest son of George Croll of Perth).
b. Perth 1811; civil engineer in London; a pioneer in extension
of telegraphy; chairman of United Kingdom electric telegraph
company; publicly presented with a testimonial of plate worth
1000 guineas 1871; originated and erected the Wool Exchange
in city of London; colonel 2 Tower Hamlets volunteers 1869–
85; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1853. d. Dunblane,
Scotland 7 June 1887. bur. Woking cemetery, Surrey 11 June.
I.L.N. xxiii, 195 (1853).
CROLL, Francis. b. Musselburgh about 1826; line engraver. d.
Edinburgh 12 Feb. 1854. Art Journal (1854) 119.
CROLY, Rev. George. b. Dublin 17 Aug. 1780; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, scholar 1798, B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804, hon. LLD. 1831;
came to London about 1810; dramatic critic to the New Times;
took charge of parish of Romford, Essex 1832–35; R. of St.
Benet Sherehog with St. Stephen’s, Walbrook, London 1835 to
death; afternoon preacher at Foundling hospital 1847–48;
wrote poems in the Literary Gazette from 1817; edited The
Graces 1824, The Literary Souvenir 1825–34; author of Paris in
1815, 1817; The Beauties of the British poets 1828; Tales of
the Saint Bernard 1829; Salathiel, A story of the past, the
present and the future 1829, new ed. 1855; The life and times
of George the Fourth 1830, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1841; Divine
providence, or the three cycles of Revelation 1834; A memoir
of Edmund Burke 2 vols. 1840; Historical sketches, speeches
and characters 1842; Marston, or the soldier and statesman 3
vols. 1846, 3 ed. 1861; Scenes from Scripture with other
poems 1851; The book of Job 1863, and numerous other
books and single sermons. d. suddenly whilst walking in
Holborn, London 24 Nov. 1860. bur. St. Stephen’s, Walbrook
where a bust of him was placed. The book of Job by Rev. G.
Croly with a biographical sketch by his son 1873; A few
personal recollections of Rev. G. Croly by Richard Herring
1861; James Grant’s Metropolitan pulpit i, 239–56; G. Gilfillan’s
A second gallery of literary portraits (1850) 145–59; G.M. x,
104–7 (1861); I.L.N. iv, 248 (1844), portrait, xxiv, 401 (1854),
portrait.
CROMBIE, Thomas. Ensign 79 foot 12 Aug. 1824; major Rifle
corps 16 Nov. 1841 to 20 Oct. 1848 when placed on h.p.;
captain Coldstream guards 22 June 1849 to 9 Feb. 1855 when
placed on h.p.; col. 96 foot 10 May 1872 to death; general 1
Oct. 1877. d. 33 Half Moon st, Piccadilly, London 14 Oct. 1877.
CROMMELIN, Thomas Lake. b. 1805; executed commissions for
gentlemen on the chief public races 1835–52; a butcher in
Melbourne, Australia 1853; police magistrate Victoria gold
fields 1854; commissioner of crown lands Riverina district, New
South Wales 1860, resigned 1869; sec. to Union club, Sydney
for one month only 1869. d. in house of his friend hon. John
Bowie Wilson at Sydney 7 April 1877. Sporting Times 2 May
1885 pp. 2–3.
CROMMELIN, William Arden (son of Charles Barker Crommelin of
Garruckpore). b. 1823; second lieut. Bengal engineers 10 Dec.
1841, colonel 1 Jany. 1870 to 31 Dec. 1878 when he retired
with hon. rank of L.G.; C.B. 26 July 1858; inspector general of
military works 2 Aug. 1865 to 1877, granted service reward 12
Jany. 1875. d. Brightlands, Barnes, Surrey 30 Oct. 1886.
CROMPTON, Sir Charles John (3 son of Peter Crompton, M.D. of
Derby). b. Derby 12 June 1797; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1818, M.A. 1821; barrister I.T. 23 Nov. 1821, bencher 1851;
tubman in Court of Exchequer, postman; contested Preston,
Dec. 1832 and Newport, Isle of Wight, July 1847; assessor of
Court of Passage, Liverpool 1836–52; a comr. of inquiry into
Court of Chancery, Dec. 1850; justice of Court of Queen’s
Bench, Feb. 1852 to death; serjeant-at-law Feb. 1852;
knighted at St. James’s palace 26 Feb. 1852; author with John
Jervis of Reports in the Court of Exchequer 1830–32, 2 vols.
1832–33; with Roger Meeson of Reports in the Court of
Exchequer 1832–34, 2 vols. 1834–35; with R. Meeson and
Henry Roscoe of Reports in the Court of Exchequer 1834–36, 2
vols. 1834–36. d. 22 Hyde park sq. London 30 Oct. 1865. Law
mag. and law review xxiii, 1–30 (1867); I.L.N. xxi, 356 (1852),
portrait.
CROMPTON, Joshua Samuel (son of Joshua Crompton of York, who
d. 1832). b. 17 Sep. 1799; M.P. for Ripon 1832 to 1834. d.
Azerley hall, Ripon 17 June 1881.
CROMPTON, Thomas Bonsor (youngest son of John Crompton of
Farnworth mills, Lancashire, paper maker). b. Farnworth 20
May 1792; partner with his brother John Crompton in
Farnworth Mills, sole proprietor 1835 to death; contrived
several mechanical appliances for utilising fibres hitherto
considered unsuitable for being made into paper; became an
extensive newspaper proprietor; proprietor of the Morning
Post; erected very large cotton mill at Prestolee near Farnworth
about 1833. d. the Hassels, Sandy, Beds. 3 Sep. 1858.
CROMPTON-STANSFIELD, William Rookes (brother of Joshua
Samuel Crompton 1799–1881). b. 3 Aug. 1790; ed. at Harrow
and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; barrister I.T. 22
May 1819; M.P. for Huddersfield 1837 to 1853; took additional
name of Stansfield 1819. d. Frimley park, Surrey 5 Dec. 1871.
CROMWELL, Rev. Thomas. b. 14 Dec. 1792; entered Literary
department of Longman & Co. of London, publishers; minister
of Unitarian chapel, Stoke Newington Green 1839–64; minister
of old presbyterian chapel at Canterbury 1865 to death; F.S.A.
Dec. 1838; author of The school boy with other poems 1816;
Honour, or arrivals from college, privately printed 1820, a
comedy played at Drury Lane 17 and 18 April 1819; Oliver
Cromwell and his times 1821, 2 ed. 1822; History of the town
and borough of Colchester 2 vols. 1825; History description of
the parish of Clerkenwell 1828; The Druid, a tragedy 1832;
Walks through Islington 1835; The soul and the future life
1859. d. Canterbury 22 Dec. 1870. Notes and Queries 4th
series, ix, 198, 267, 347 (1872).
CRONYN, Right Rev. Benjamin (son of Thomas Cronyn, mayor of
Kilkenny). b. Kilkenny 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1822,
M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1855; held curacies in Ireland 1826–
32; R. of St. Paul’s, London, Canada West 1832–57; bishop of
Huron 14 Oct. 1857 to death, consecrated at Lambeth 28 Oct.
1857. d. London, Ontario 21 Sep. 1871. I.L.N. xli, 576, 587
(1862), portrait.
CROOK, Joseph (eld. son of Joshua Crook of Whitebank, Bolton).
b. 1809; cotton manufacturer at Bolton; M.P. for Bolton 9 July
1852 to Jany. or Feb. 1861. d. Oakfield, Heaton, Bolton 8 Dec.
1884 in 76 year.
CROOKS, James. b. Kilmarnock, Scotland 1778; one of earliest
settlers in Upper Canada, lived at Niagara 1794; established
first paper mill in and sent first load of wheat and flour from
Upper Canada to Montreal; served with distinction during war
of 1812; member of Canadian legislative assembly and council.
d. West Flamborough, Ontario 1860.
CROOKSHANK, Alexander Crowder. Deputy controller Dublin
district 11 Dec. 1872 to death; C.B. 24 May 1873. d. 20 Upper
Mount st. Dublin 14 April 1877. Graphic xv, 408 (1877),
portrait.
CROPPER, Joseph Almond. b. Loughborough; barrister G.I. 11 Feb.
1823; devised property to Westminster hospital worth £800
per annum, to St. George’s hospital worth £700, and to
Middlesex hospital property worth £600 per annum and the
sum of £4000, these 3 hospitals are enabled by special acts of
parliament to receive lands notwithstanding the Statute of
Mortmain. d. Fulwood house, Gray’s Inn London 27 Sep. 1862
aged 79.
CROSBY, Allan James (only son of James Crosby of Streatham).
Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 9 Nov. 1854 aged 18, B.A.
1858, M.A. 1873; barrister I.T. 1 May 1865; employed in the
public record office about 1860 to death; edited Accounts and
papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, Camden Soc. 1867;
Calendar of foreign state papers of the reign of Queen
Elizabeth 4 vols. 1871–80. d. Holmbush, Ide near Exeter 5
Dec. 1881. Antiquarian Mag. i, 152 (1882).
CROSBY, James. b. 1806; ed. at Greenwich and Trin. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1826; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830; police magistrate at
Kingston, St. Vincent, May 1844; member of house of
 assembly St. Vincent many years, speaker 1853; stipendiary
magistrate British Guiana, March 1857, immigration agent
general British Guiana 1 Oct. 1862 to death. d. Georgetown,
Demerara 30 Aug. 1880.
CROSKERY, Rev. Thomas (son of Mr. Croskery of co. Down,
tradesman). b. Carrowdore near Belfast 26 May 1830; licensed
to preach by presbytery of Down 6 May 1851; a reporter and
subsequently editor of the Banner of Ulster; ordained minister
of Creggan, co. Armagh 17 July 1860, translated to Clonakilty,
co. Cork 24 March 1863; minister of chapel at Waterside, city
of Londonderry 1866–75; professor of logic and belles lettres
in Magee college, Londonderry 1875–79, professor of theology
1879 to death; author of A catechism on the doctrines of the
Plymouth brethren; Plymouth brethrenism, a refutation of its
principles and doctrines 1879; Irish Presbyterianism, its history,
character, influence and present position 1884. d. 3 Oct. 1886.
CROSLAND, Thomas Pearson. b. Crosland near Huddersfield 29
Dec. 1815; a merchant at Huddersfield; M.P. for Huddersfield
14 July 1865 to death. d. Gledholt near Huddersfield 8 March
1868.
CROSLEY, Alexander. b. Camberwell 1827; a solicitor in London
1850 to death; common councilman for Langbourn ward 1857–
61; under sheriff for London and Middlesex 8 times. d. 76
Camberwell grove, London 14 Jany. 1876 in 49 year.
CROSLEY, Sir Charles Decimus (son of Henry Crosley). b. the
Grove, Camberwell, Surrey 21 Feb. 1820; ed. at Camberwell; a
stock and share broker in city of London 1846 to death; sheriff
of London and Middlesex 1854–55; knighted at Buckingham
palace 1 May 1855 after visit of Emperor of the French;
chevalier of legion of honour; a comr. of inland revenue for
Middlesex. d. Eastbourne 12 Oct. 1882.
CROSMOND, Rosa, stage name of Helen Turner (dau. of Sarah
Rachael Leverson known as Madame Rachel of 47 New Bond
 st. London, enameller of ladies faces, who d. 12 Oct. 1880
aged 60). Member of Carter’s choir at Albert hall, London
about 1873; studied at Royal Academy of Music; sang at Her
Majesty’s theatre 1878–79 and with Mapleson’s company in the
United States; secured a high position at Milan particularly for
her representation of Aida about 1881. (m. Edmund Turner of
London, silk merchant who d. about 1879). d. St. George’s
hospital, London 27 April 1888, having shot herself in a cab in
Piccadilly Circus the night before.
CROSS, Edward. Superintendent of the Royal Menagerie, Exeter
Change, Strand, London 1794 to 1814, Chunee the elephant
shot there 9 March 1826, proprietor 1814 to 16 June 1829
when it was taken down and he removed his menagerie to the
King’s Mews, Charing Cross; originated the Surrey Zoological
gardens comprising 15 acres at Walworth, opened 12 Aug.
1831, proprietor 1831–44, the conservatory 300 feet in
circumference was the largest in England; exhibited the Indian
one-horned rhinoceros which cost £800, 1834, three giraffes
1836, picture of Mount Vesuvius painted by Danson 1837
reproduced 1846, Iceland and its volcanoes 1839, Jullien
conducted promenade concerts here 1849–51. d. 48
Newington place, Kennington road, London 26 Sep. 1854 aged
80. Hone’s Every-day book ii, 321–36 (1838); Brayley’s Surrey
iii, 409–11 (1850).
CROSS, John. b. Tiverton, May 1819; studied painting at St.
Quentin and Paris; exhibited a cartoon of ‘The death of
Thomas à Becket’ at Westminster Hall 1844, and a large oil
painting called ‘The clemency of Richard Cœur-de-Lion towards
Bertrand de Gourdon’ 1847 which gained a first premium of
£300 and was purchased by the comrs. for £1000; an
exhibition of his principal works was held at Society of Arts,
Adelphi 1861; his widow Mary Cross was granted civil list
pension of £100, 19 June 1862. He d. 38 Gloucester road,
Regent’s Park, London 27 Feb. 1861.
CROSS, John (2 son of James Cross of Mortfield near Bolton,
Lancs. solicitor and banker, who d. 1 Nov. 1850 aged 79). b.
Mortfield 18 Jany. 1807; ed. at Bolton gr. school; articled to his
father; solicitor at Bolton 1829–33; barrister G.I. and M.T. 8
June 1836; serjeant at law 17 May 1858; chairman of board of
directors of Londonderry and Coleraine railway; author of A
treatise on the law of lien and stoppage in transitu 1840. d. 2
Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 1 June 1861.
CROSS, John Henry. b. London; connected with the Religious
tract society more than 40 years; wrote for it 609 separate
publications (majority being small books for children), total
circulation of which amounted to nearly 80,000,000 copies,
selections from them have been translated into 30 languages;
edited the Child’s Companion 33 years, the Tract magazine 6
years. d. Lougborough road, Brixton 5 Feb. 1876 aged 72.
CROSS, John Kynaston (son of John Cross of Gartside house,
Bolton). b. 13 Oct. 1832; a merchant at Manchester and a
cotton spinner at Bolton; M.P. for Bolton 4 Feb. 1874 to 18
Nov. 1885; under sec. of state for India, Jany. 1883 to July
1885; author of Imports, exports and the French treaty 1881 in
Cobden Club Papers; hanged himself at Fernclough, Heaton,
Bolton 20 March 1887.
CROSS, Mary Ann (youngest child of Robert Evans 1773–1849,
surveyor to Sir Roger Newdigate of Arbury hall, Warws.) b.
Arbury farm, parish of Chilvers Coton, Warws. 22 Nov. 1819;
ed. at Nuneaton and Coventry; removed with her father to
Foleshill road, Coventry, March 1841; lived at 142 Strand,
London as assistant editor of Westminster Review Sep. 1851 to
Oct. 1853; lived with George Henry Lewes at Holly lodge,
Wandsworth 1859–60, at 16 Blandford sq. Regent’s park 1860–
63, and at The Priory 21 North bank, St. John’s Wood 1863–
78, G. H. Lewes d. 28 Nov. 1878, she proved his will 16 Dec.
1878; founded George Henry Lewes studentship worth nearly
£200 a year to be held for 3 years by some student occupied in
 physiological investigation 1879; published The life of Jesus
critically examined by D. F. Strauss, translated from the fourth
German edition 3 vols. 1846 anon.; The essence of Christianity
by Ludwig Feuerbach translated from the second German
edition by Marian Evans 1854; author of the following works
under pseudonym of George Eliot: Scenes of clerical life 2 vols.
1858, Adam Bede 3 vols. 1859, The mill on the Floss 3 vols.
1860, Silas Marner the weaver of Raveloe 1861, Romola 3 vols.
1863, Felix Holt the Radical 3 vols. 1866, The Spanish Gypsy, a
poem 1868, Agatha, a poem 1869, Middlemarch a study of
provincial life 4 vols. 1871–72, The legend of Jubal and other
poems 1874, Daniel Deronda 4 vols. 1876, Impressions of
Theophrastus Such 1879, How Lisa loved the King 1883,
Essays and leaves from a Note-Book 1884. (m. 6 May 1880
under name of Mary Ann Evans Lewes, John Walter Cross of
Weybridge, Surrey). d. 4 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 22 Dec. 1880.
bur. by side of G. H. Lewes in Highgate cemetery 29 Dec.
portrait of her by Sir Frederick Burton in National portrait
gallery. The life of George Eliot by J. W. Cross 3 vols. 1884, 2
portraits; George Eliot by Mathilde Blind 1883; G. W. Cooke’s
George Eliot, critical story of her life 1883; Our living poets by
H. B. Forman (1871) 467–500; Biographical sketches by C. K.
Paul (1883) 141–70; Westminster Review, Jany. 1882 pp. 65–
71.
CROSS, Philip Henry Eustace. L.R.C.S. Ireland 1848; assistant
surgeon 1 West India regiment 3 April 1849; surgeon 97 foot 7
Sep. 1855; surgeon 13 foot 16 June 1857 to 19 Nov. 1858;
staff surgeon 19 Nov. 1858; served in the Crimean war;
surgeon major 27 Feb. 1872 to 14 April 1875 when he retired;
slowly murdered his first wife Mary Lawson Cross by giving her
doses of arsenic and strychnine, she d. at Shandy hall, Cork 2
June 1887, (m. (2) 17 June 1887 his governess Miss Skinner);
found guilty of murder 17 Dec. 1887, hanged in Cork gaol 10
Jany. 1888. Pall Mall Gazette 10 Jany. 1888 p. 7, col. 2.
CROSSE, Andrew (elder son of Richard Crosse of Fyne court,
Broomfield, Somerset). b. Fyne court 17 June 1784; ed. at Rev.
Mr. Seyer’s school, The Fort, Bristol 1793–1802, caned on an
average 3 times a day for 7 years; gentleman commoner at
Brasenose coll. Ox. 1802, B.A. 1806; experimented on electro-
crystallisation; observed appearance of insect life in metallic
solutions supposed to be destructive to organic life 1837, the
publication of this discovery gained him great notoriety. d. in
the room in which he was born at Fyne Court 6 July 1855.
Memorials scientific and literary of Andrew Crosse the
electrician by C. A. H. Crosse 1857; H. M. Noad’s Manual of
Electricity, 4 ed. (1855) 173–77, 256, 378–83, 390, 401;
Letters of H. G. Atkinson to Harriet Martineau (1851) 361–67.
CROSSE, Thomas Bright (only son of Thomas Ikin). b. 1796; ed.
at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1817; assumed surname of Crosse 8
Sep. 1828; sheriff of Lancashire 1837; M.P. for Wigan 1 July
1841 to April 1842 when unseated on petition. d. 75
Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 21 March 1886.
CROSSLEY, Sir Francis, 1 Baronet (youngest son of John Crossley
of Halifax, carpet manufacturer, who d. 17 Jany. 1837). b.
Halifax 26 Oct. 1817; carpet manufacturer at Dean Clough
mills, Halifax, the largest concern of the kind in the world; M.P.
for Halifax 1852–59, for west riding of Yorkshire 1859–65, for
north west riding 1865–68, for north division of west riding
1868 to death; mayor of Halifax 1849 and 1850; founded 21
almshouses at Halifax 1855; donor of the People’s park, Halifax
at cost of £41,300, opened 14 Aug. 1857, where a statue of
him was erected 14 Aug. 1860; created baronet 23 Jany. 1863;
author of Canada and United States 1856. d. Belle Vue, Halifax
5 Jany. 1872, personalty sworn under £800,000, 27 May 1872.
Thrift by S. Smiles (1875) 205–17; Enoch Mellor’s A true life
1872; Illust. news of the world iii (1859), portrait; Family
Friend 1 March 1870 pp. 39–43, portrait; I.L.N. lx, 55, 57, 587
(1872), portrait.
CROSSLEY, James (son of James Crossley of Halifax, clothing
merchant 1767–1831). b. The Mount, Halifax 31 March 1800;
articled to Thomas Ainsworth of Manchester, attorney 1817;
partner in firm of Ainsworth, Crossley and Sudlow at
Manchester 1823–24 when Ainsworth died, partner in firm of
Crossley and Sudlow 1824–60 when he retired; pres. of
Incorporated Law Assoc. of Manchester 1840 and 1857; pres.
of Manchester Athenæum 1847–50; pres. of Chetham Soc.
Dec. 1847 to death, this society was mooted at his house in
Booth st. Piccadilly early in 1843 and founded at the Chetham
library 23 March 1843; F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1852; member of
Surtees Soc. 1858, vice pres. 1861; pres. of Spencer Soc.
1866; the first pres. of Record Soc. 1878; one of chief
contributors to Retrospective Review 1820; collected a library
of 100,000 volumes, part of which was sold at Manchester,
May 1884, and the remainder in London, July 1884 and June
1885; edited for the Chetham Soc. Potts’s Discovery of witches
in the county of Lancaster 1845; The diary and
correspondence of Dr. John Worthington 2 vols. 1847–55;
author of Vade-Mecum to Hatton 1867 privately printed. d. the
Stocks house, Cheetham hill road, Manchester 1 Aug. 1883.
bur. Kersal church 6 Aug. Palatine note book iii, 221–29 (1883),
portrait; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors and orators (1850) 67–
72; W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire iii, 49, portrait; Antiquarian Mag.
iv, 198–202 (1883); Bibliographer, Sep. 1883, pp. 97–9;
Manchester Guardian 2 Aug. 1883, p. 6, cols. 1–5; Momus 11
March 1880, portrait.
Note.—He is described under the initial C in an article called The Theatre in W.
H. Ainsworth’s “December Tales” 1823 pp. 165–79, the article was written by
J. P. Aston author of Sir John Chiverton.
CROSSLEY, John (brother of Sir Francis Crossley 1817–72). b.
Halifax 16 May 1812; mayor of Halifax 1849, 1850, 1861 and
1862; M.P. for Halifax 3 Feb. 1874 to Feb. 1877; built with his
brothers Sir F. Crossley and Joseph Crossley (who d. 14 Sep.
1868) the Crossley Orphan house and school on Skircoat Moor
 about 1861. d. Broomfield, Halifax 16 April 1879. Weekly
Welcome (1879) 357–8, portrait.
CROSSLEY, John Sydney. b. Loughborough 25 Dec. 1812;
engineer to Leicester Canal company 1832; resident engineer
to Midland Railway company 1857, engineer in chief 1858 to
April 1875; M.I.C.E. 1 March 1859. d. Barrow upon Soar 10
June 1879. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lviii, 341–43 (1879).
CROWDER, Sir Richard Budden (eld. son of Wm. Henry Crowder
of Montagu place, London). b. London 1796; ed. at Eton and
Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 25 May 1821; went Western
circuit; Q.C. 1837; recorder of Bristol, Aug. 1846 to April 1854;
counsel of the Admiralty and judge advocate of the Fleet, Aug.
1849 to March 1854; M.P. for Liskeard 3 Jany. 1849 to March
1854; justice of Court of Common Pleas, March 1854 to death;
serjeant at law, March 1854; knighted at St. James’s palace 3
May 1854. d. 17 Carlton house terrace, London 5 Dec. 1859.
Traits of character by a contemporary i, 251–82 (1860); Eton
portrait gallery (1876) 445–47.
CROWDY, Charles (3 son of James Crowdy of Highworth, Wilts.
solicitor). b. Highworth, March 1786; entered navy 7 Sep.
1799; captain 13 Jany. 1834; placed on retired list 1 July 1851;
retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867. d. Pittville lawn, Cheltenham 17
May 1870.
CROWDY, John. b. Lewknor, Oxon. 6 Jany. 1834; foreign editor of
the Guardian 1854 to death; editor successively of The
Choirmaster, The Musician, The Musical Standard, and The
Artist from its commencement 15 Jany. 1880; published The
church choirmaster 1864; A free chant service 1865; A
recitative service 1865; A short commentary on Handel’s The
Messiah 1875; author of a system of recitative for psalms and
canticles in Congregational worship called ‘Free Chant’,
designed to provide for an undisturbed delivery of the words
with suitable musical chords or cadences without necessity of
 signs. d. Addlestone, Surrey 12 Jany. 1883. The Artist 1 Feb.
1883 pp. 45, 48.
CROWE, Catherine Ann (dau. of John Stevens of Clarges street,
Piccadilly, London). b. Englefield Green, Kent 1790; lived in
Edinburgh many years; a disciple of George Combe; one of the
persons to whom authorship of The Vestiges of Creation was
attributed 1841; author of Aristodemus, a tragedy 1838,
anon.; The adventures of Susan Hopley 3 vols. 1841, a
dramatic version of this novel entitled Susan Hopley or the
vicissitudes of a servant girl by Dibdin Pitt was produced at the
Victoria theatre, London 31 May 1841 and played more than
300 nights; Men and women, or manorial rights 3 vols. 1843;
The Seerest of Prevorst, translated from Kerner 1845; The
story of Lilly Dawson 2 vols. 1847; The night side of nature, or
Ghosts and ghost seers 2 vols. 1848, several eds.; Light and
darkness or mysteries of life 3 vols. 1850; The adventures of a
beauty, a novel 3 vols. 1852; The cruel kindness, a drama in 5
acts performed at Haymarket theatre, June 6, 1853; Linny
Lockwood 2 vols. 1853; Spiritualism and the age we live in
1859; Adventures of a monkey 1861 and many books for
children. (m. Oct. 1822 in London, lieut.-col. John Crowe who
d. 7 March 1860). Resided at 22 Sandgate road, Folkestone,
where she became bedridden and died of natural decay on 14
June 1872; Her son and only child Capt. John William Crowe is
resident Leonard lodge, Dover road, Folkestone 1888. Victoria
Mag. xxxiii, 35–44 (1879); Colburn’s New monthly mag. xcvi,
439–45 (1852).
CROWE, Eyre Evans (son of David Crowe, captain in H.E.I.Co.’s
army). b. Redbridge, Southampton 20 March 1799; ed. at
Carlow and Trin. coll. Dublin; Paris correspondent of Morning
Chronicle 1832–44, joined staff of Daily News 1846, editor
1849–51; author of The pleasures of Melancholy, and a Saxon
tale 1819; To-day in Ireland 1825; Yesterday in Ireland 1829;
The History of France 3 vols. 1830–31 and Lives of Foreign
Statesmen 1833 both in Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopædia;
 Connemara 1843; Charles Delmer, a story of the day 1853;
The Greek and the Turk or powers and prospects in the Levant
1853; History of the reigns of Louis xviii and Charles x 2 vols.
1854; The History of France 5 vols. 1858–68. d. 56 Beaumont
st. Marylebone, London 25 Feb. 1868.
CROWE, John. Ensign 32 foot 7 Aug. 1800, captain 30 May 1805
to 4 May 1826; major on h.p. 4 May 1826; served in Peninsula,
July 1811 to end of the war 1814; lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837;
retired 1846; K.H. 1837. d. Fairlea villa near Bideford 7 March
1860 aged 77.
CROWE, Sir John Rice. Served in the Russian navy 6 years;
British vice-consul at Hamerfest in Norway, May 1824, consul
there 14 March 1837; consul general in Norway 16 Aug. 1843
to 2 April 1875 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 5 Dec.
1859; knighted at Windsor Castle 7 July 1874. d. near
Christiania 10 Jany. 1877 aged 84. Times 24 Jany. 1877 p. 6,
col. 4.
CROWFOOT, Rev. John Rustat (son of Wm. Henchman Crowfoot
of Beccles, Suffolk, surgeon). b. Beccles, 21 Feb. 1817; ed. at
Eton and Caius coll. Cam., 12 wrangler 1839, B.A. 1839, M.A.
1842, B.D. 1849, fellow of his college 1840–52; C. of
Eynesbury, Hunts. 1840–47; C. of St. Mary the Great, Cam.
1852–54; P.C. of Southwold, Suffolk 1854–60; V. of
Wangfordcum-Reydon, Suffolk 1860 to death; published
Remarks on the University of Cambridge 1848; Academic notes
on Holy Scripture 1st series 1850; Plea for a colonial college at
Cambridge 1854; Fragmenta Evangelica 1870; Observations on
the collation in Greek of Cureton’s Syriac Fragments of the
Gospels 1872. d. Wangford vicarage 18 March 1875.
CROWLEY, Abraham. Head of brewing firm of A. Crowley and Co.
at Alton, Hants.; many refreshment houses were established in
London and other places which especially supplied Crowley’s
ales; built and supported a British school for 150 girls at Alton
 1845. d. Alton 6 May 1864 aged 70. Hampshire Chronicle 14
May 1864 p. 5.
CROWLEY, Nicholas Joseph (3 son of Peter Crowley of Dublin). b.
Dublin 6 Dec. 1819; a pupil of Royal Dublin Society; exhibited
46 pictures at the R.A. 1835–57; member of Royal Hibernian
academy 1838; painted several portraits of Daniel O’Connell
1844; painted ‘Taking the Veil’ for St. Vincent’s hospital, Dublin
1845, in the background of this picture there is a portrait of
himself; many of his pictures were engraved and lithographed.
d. 13 Upper Fitzroy st. London 4 Nov. 1857.
CROWLEY, Peter O’Neill (son of Mr. Crowley of Ballymacoda, co.
Cork, tenant farmer). b. Ballymacoda 23 May 1832; a farmer;
joined the Fenian movement; one of the party who attacked
Knockadoon coastguard station 5 March 1867; mortally
wounded in a fight with the constabulary in Kilclooney wood,
co. Cork 31 March 1867. d. Mitchelstown 31 March 1867. bur.
at Ballymacoda 2 April. John Savage’s Fenian heroes and
martyrs (1868) 262–66, 273–80.
CROWTHER, Rev. Jonathan (son of Rev. Timothy Crowther of St.
Austell, Cornwall, methodist minister 1757–1829). b. St. Austell
31 July 1794; ed. at Kingswood school, Gloucs.; head master
Woodhouse Grove school near Bradford 1814–16; head master
of Kingswood sch. 1823; general superintendent of Wesleyan
missions in India 1837–43; classical tutor in Wesleyan
Theological Institution at Didsbury, Lancs. 1849; edited London
Quarterly Review; author of The Methodist manual 1810, 2 ed.
1811; A defence of the Wesleyan Theological institution, 3 ed.
1834; Sermons 1839. d. at house of Rev. Wm. Williams at
Leeds 16 Jany. 1856. The Pulpit iv, (1825), portrait; Slugg’s
Woodhouse Grove school (1885) 92–6.
CROZIER, Richard (eld. son of Rawson Bodham Crozier of West
hill, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 1775–1849). b. 26 Aug. 1803;
entered navy 1 Nov. 1813; captain 20 March 1839; admiral on
h.p. 1 April 1870; K.T.S. May 1824. d. Westhill 3 Feb. 1880.
CROZIER, William. Studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital;
M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1862; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co.
1842; professor of anatomy and physiology at the Medical
college, Calcutta 1855 to death. d. on board P. and O. steamer
Simla on his way to England 19 Nov. 1862 aged 45.
CRUCHLEY, George Frederick. Publisher, mapseller, engraver and
printer at 38 Ludgate st. London to 1833, at 81 Fleet st. 1833–
76; sold his entire stock at Hodgsons 16 Jany. 1877. d. 65
Grand parade, Brighton 16 June 1880 in 84 year.
CRUICKSHANK, Brodie. Author of Eighteen years on the gold
coast of Africa 2 vols. 1853. d. Lisbon 17 Nov. 1854.
CRUIKSHANK, George (younger son of Isaac Cruikshank of
London, caricaturist, who d. 1810 or 1811). b. Duke st.
Bloomsbury, London 27 Sep. 1792; employed to complete the
plates left unfinished by Gillray 1811; illustrated the political
pamphlets of Wm. Hone 1819–21; published Illustrations of
phrenology 1826; Illustrations of time 1827; illustrated
Fielding, Smollett and Goldsmith for Roscoe’s Novelist’s Library
17 vols. 1831–2; illustrated the Comic Almanac 1835–53;
Bentley’s Miscellany 14 vols. 1837–41; Ainsworth’s Magazine
1842–45; published The Bottle 8 plates 1847 and The
Drunkard’s Children 8 plates 1848 many thousands of which
were sold in a few days, the subject was represented at 8
London theatres at once; a student at the R.A. 22 April 1853;
produced the Worship of Bacchus 1862, presented to National
gallery by public subscription 1869; granted civil list pension of
£95, 19 June 1867; many of his works were purchased by the
Westminster Aquarium for £2500 July 1876. d. 263 Hampstead
road, London 1 Feb. 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 9 Feb.,
removed to St. Paul’s cathedral 29 Nov. 1878. Life by W. B.
Jerrold, 2 ed. 1883; George Cruikshank the artist by W. Bates,
2 ed. 1879; G. W. Reid’s Descriptive catalogue of the works of
G. Cruikshank 3 vols. 1871; W. Thornbury’s British Artists ii,
55–69 (1861); W. M. Rossetti’s Fine Art (1867) 277–82; P. G.
 Hamerton’s Etching and etchers (1876) 316–23; James Grant’s
Public characters ii, 236–51 (1841); G. Cruikshank’s Omnibus
(1842) 1–8, portrait; Temple Bar lii, 499–516 (1878);
Illustrated Review iii, 385–91 (1873), portrait.
CRUIKSHANK, Isaac Robert (brother of the preceding). b. Duke
st. Bloomsbury, London 27 Sep. 1789; a midshipman in H.E.I.
Co.’s service; made water colour drawings for private patrons;
caricaturist and miniature painter; insolvent Dec. 1826;
illustrated Pierce Egan’s Life in London 1821 (the 3 chief
characters in which Tom, Jerry and Logic he designed from
himself, his brother George and Pierce Egan) and The Finish
1831; Westmacott’s English Spy 1825; Cumberland’s British
theatre 39 vols. 1823–31 and many other books. d. of
bronchitis at 206 Pentonville road, Islington, London 13 March
1856. George Daniel’s Love’s last labour not lost (1863) 173–
76.
CRUM, Walter (2 son of Alexander Crum of Thornliebank near
Glasgow, merchant manufacturer). b. Glasgow 1796; scientific
chemist and manufacturer at Glasgow; member of
Philosophical Soc. of Glasgow 1834, pres. 1852; F.R.S. 29 Feb.
1844; pres. of Anderson’s Univ. Glasgow; best known for his
successful efforts to place the arts of dyeing and calico printing
on a scientific basis; the first person to give the true formula
for gun cotton. d. The Ronken, Thornliebank near Glasgow 5
May 1867. Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, 8–10 (1868).
CRUMMER, James Henry. b. Birr, King’s county; ensign 28 foot July
1805, captain 20 July 1815 to 1 March 1839 when placed on
h.p.; served in Peninsular war 1809–14; commandant of Island
of Calamo 1822–27; police magistrate and superintendent of
convicts at Newcastle, N.S.W. 1837–49; police magistrate of
Maitland 1849–58 and of Port Macquarie 1858–64. d. Port
Macquarie 29 Dec. 1867.
CUBBON, Sir Mark (son of Rev. Thomas Cubbon). b. 1785; lieut.
15 Madras N.I. 20 July 1801; joint comr. of Mysore 1831–34,
 sole comr. 17 May 1834 to Feb. 1861; col. of 15 Madras N.I. 8
Oct. 1839 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856,
K.C.B. 26 May 1856. d. at Suez on his way home 23 April 1861
in 77 year, there is a fine equestrian statue of him at Bangalore
where the Cubbon park is named after him. Rice’s Mysore and
Coorg 1877 passim; J. F. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has
known, 2 ed. (1874) 96–7.
CUBITT, Joseph (only son of Sir Wm. Cubitt 1785–1861). b.
Horning, Norfolk 24 Nov. 1811; assistant to his father 1832–
43; constructed great part of London and South Western
railway 1838–41, Great Northern railway 1846–50 and London,
Chatham and Dover railway 1855–64; built new Blackfriars
bridge, London 1865–69 opened by the Queen 6 Nov. 1869;
M.I.C.E. 1840, vice pres. 1865. d. 7 Dec. 1872. Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 249–51 (1875).
CUBITT, Thomas (son of Jonathan Cubitt of Buxton near Norwich,
who d. 1807). b. Buxton 25 Feb. 1788; a master carpenter in
London 1809; built London Institution, Finsbury Circus 1815–
19; built over large portion of the Five Fields, Chelsea 1824–
29; covered with mansions, district between Eaton sq. and the
Thames since known as Pimlico; built over Clapham park about
250 acres 1824; constructed about 1000 yards of embankment
above Vauxhall bridge at his own expense; built large factory
at Thames Bank, burnt down 17 Aug. 1854; church of St.
Barnabas, Ranmore near Dorking was built at his cost 1859;
A.I.C.E. 1839. d. Denbies near Dorking 20 Dec. 1855. Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi, 158–62 (1857); J. S. Bright’s
Dorking (1884) 133–6; G.M. xlv, 202–205 (1856).
Note.—His will the longest on record extended to 386 Chancery folios of 90
words each and covered 30 skins of parchment; the personalty exceeding
£1,000,000 the probate duty was £15,000.
CUBITT, Sir William (son of Joseph Cubitt of Bacton Wood near
Dilham, Norfolk, miller). b. Dilham 1785; a millwright at
Horning, Norfolk; invented and patented self regulating
 windmill sails 1807; employed by Ransome and Son of
Ipswich, agricultural implement makers 1812–21, a partner
1821–26; invented the treadmill 1817, at once adopted in chief
gaols of the U.K.; a civil engineer in London 1826–58;
designed the Oxford canal and Liverpool junction canal;
constructed South Eastern railway 1836–46, blew down face of
the Round Down Cliff with a monster charge of 18,000 pounds
of gunpowder which he exploded by galvanism 26 Jany. 1843;
superintended construction of Great Exhibition 1851 for which
he was knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct. 1851; M.I.C.E.
1823, member of council 1831, vice pres. 1836, pres. 1850–
52; F.R.S. 1 April 1830. d. Clapham Common, London 13 Oct.
1861 in 77 year. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 554–58
(1862); Our iron roads by F. S. Williams, 2 ed. (1883) 123–26;
I.L.N. ii, 76–7 (1843).
CUBITT, William (brother of Thomas Cubitt 1788–1855). b.
Buxton near Norwich 1791; served in the navy 4 years; builder
in Gray’s Inn road, London to 1851; M.P. for Andover 29 July
1847 to July 1861 and 17 Dec. 1862 to death; contested City
of London 29 July 1861; sheriff of London and Middlesex
1847–49; alderman of Langbourn ward 1851–63, lord mayor
1860–62; pres. of St. Bartholomew’s hospital; prime warden of
Fishmongers’ Company; A.I.C.E. 22 Jany. 1833, member of
council 1842–43. d. Penton lodge, Andover 28 Oct. 1863. G.M.
xvi, 120–2 (1864); I.L.N. xxxvii, 435 (1860), portrait.
CUFF, James Dodsley (son of Mr. Cuff of Corsley near Warminster,
Wilts. yeoman). Clerk in Bank of England about 1805 to death,
clerk in bullion office there 1825 to death; an original member
of Numismatic Society of London 1836; collected coins for 40
years which were sold for £7054, 29 June 1854; F.S.A.;
contributed descriptions of coins to a supplement to Ainslie’s
Illustrations of the Anglo-French coinage 1830. d. Prescott
lodge, Clapham new park, London 28 Sep. 1853 in 73 year.
Numismatic Chronicle xvii, 15 (1855); Journal of British
Archæol. Assoc. x, 122 (1855).
CUFFE, Sir Jonah Denny Wheeler, 1 Baronet (elder son of Sir
Richard Wheeler, knight, who took name of Cuffe). b. 1765 or
1766; student at Lincoln’s Inn 17 May 1790; created a baronet
of Ireland 1 Oct. 1799. d. Leyrath, co. Kilkenny 9 May 1853.
CUITT, George (only son of George Cuitt of Richmond, Yorkshire,
painter 1743–1818). b. Richmond, Oct. 1779; a landscape
painter; a drawing master at Chester 1804; resided at
Masham, Yorkshire 1820 to death; published Etchings of
ancient buildings in Chester, castles in North Wales etc. 1816;
Wanderings and pencillings amongst the ruins of the olden
time, a series of 23 etchings 1848, reissued 1855 and many
other etchings. d. Belle Vue, Masham 15 July 1854. G.M. xlii,
311 (1854).
CULLEN, His Eminence Cardinal Paul (son of Hugh Cullen of
Prospect near Ballytore, co. Kildare, farmer). b. Prospect 29
April 1803; ed. at Ballytore and Carlow college; entered Urban
college of the Propaganda at Rome 29 Nov. 1820; ordained
priest 1829; vice rector of the Irish college in Rome 1829,
rector 1832–48; rector of the Propaganda college, May 1848 to
Jany. 1849; archbishop of Armagh 19 Dec. 1849; consecrated
in church of St. Agatha of the Goths, Rome 24 Feb. 1850;
presided over national synod held in the college at Thurles,
Aug. 1850 being first held in Ireland since convention of
Kilkenny 1642; translated from Armagh to Dublin 3 May 1852;
created a cardinal priest with title of San Pietro in Montorio 22
June 1866 being first Irishman raised to that rank; founded
Catholic University of Ireland at Drumcondra 20 July 1862;
presided at synod of Maynooth Sep. 1875; author of Pastoral
Letters 1852–56. d. 59 Eccles st. Dublin 24 Oct. 1878. bur.
beneath high altar in chapel of Clonville college 29 Oct. P. J.
O’Byrne’s Lives of the Cardinals (1879) 13–28, portrait; Sir C.
G. Duffy’s League of North and South (1886) 136, 171–75,
301–81; M. Comerford’s Collections (1883) 188–91; J. E.
Cairnes’s Political Essays (1873) 263 etc.; I.L.N. lxxiii, 421
(1878), portrait.
CULLEN, William. Second lieut. Madras artillery 1804, colonel 1
Oct. 1842 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Alleppey, Madras 1
Oct. 1862.
CULLENFORD, William. b. Halesworth, Suffolk, Jany. 1797; acted
in the provinces; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre
30 Sep. 1836 as Wharton in The Christening; acted chiefly at
Adelphi and Haymarket to July 1864 when he retired; a
founder of Royal general theatrical fund 16 Feb. 1839, sec. of
the fund 16 Feb. 1839 to death. d. Jasmine cottage, New
Maiden, Surrey 6 Sep. 1874.
CULLIMORE, Isaac. b. Ireland 1791; an original member of
Numismatic Society 1836; he devoted his whole life to study of
Egyptian antiquities, one of the first Orientalists who made use
of astronomy to fix important dates in ancient history;
published 174 plates of oriental cylinders or seals from
collections in British Museum, in parts 1842–52; author of
Pharoah and his Princes in Syro-Egyptian Soc. Papers vol. 1,
1845. d. Clapham, London 8 or 12 April 1852. Numismatic
Chronicle xv, 22 (1853); W. H. Ward’s article on Babylonian
seals in Scribner’s Mag. Jany. 1887.
CULSHA, Rev. Edward Widt (only son of Edward Culsha of
Islington, London). Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 20 May 1846
aged 19, B.A. 1850, M.A. 1854; C. of Little Malvern, and Head
Master of Colwall gram. sch. Herefordshire 1855 to death;
author of Antar and other poems 1852; Eastern lands and
Eastern people 1861. d. Colwall 11 Jany. 1863.
CULVERWELL, Robert James. b. 13 July 1802; L.S.A. 1824,
M.R.C.S. 1827, M.D. Giessen 1841; edited a monthly periodical
entitled Leisure Moments from April 1850 to 1852, 3 vols.; had
a museum of 1000 specimens of morbid pathology; proprietor
of The Argyll Baths, 10 Argyll place and 5 New Broad st.
London; author of A practical treatise on bathing 1829; On
consumption 1834, 2 ed. 1842; The Confessional 1841; Guide
to health and long life 1844, 2 ed. 1852; The enjoyment of life
 1850; Fragments from the mountains 2 vols. 1855; What to
eat, drink and avoid, and many other medical books. d. 10
Argyll place, Regent st. London 9 Dec. 1852. The life of Dr.
Culverwell written by himself (1852), portrait.
CUMBERBATCH, Abraham Carlton. Attached to consulate at Paris
1825–28; vice consul at Constantinople 24 Aug. 1830, consul
general there 3 May 1845 to 30 Nov. 1864 when he retired;
C.B. 7 April 1866. d. Heron court, Richmond, Surrey 25 Oct.
1875.
CUMBERLAND, Charles Brownlow. b. 1801; ensign 35 foot 21
Dec. 1820; lieut.-col. 96 foot 22 July 1842 to 8 July 1856 when
he retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G. d. 21 Milverton
crescent, Leamington 27 Nov. 1882.
CUMBERLAND, Frederic William. b. London 1820; ed. at collegiate
school, Dublin and King’s college, London; appointed to
engineering department of the Admiralty 1844; architect at
Toronto, Canada 1847 to death; constructed Ontario, Simcoe,
and Huron railway 1852–54; designed University of Toronto
1859 said to be finest specimen of Norman Gothic architecture
in America; organized in Toronto a regiment afterwards called
Royal Grenadiers 1861, colonel 1861–64; represented Algoma
district in legislature of Ontario 1867 and in Dominion
parliament 1871. d. Toronto 5 Aug. 1881.
CUMBERLAND, John. Publisher in London; published
Cumberland’s British Theatre, printed from the acting copies as
performed at the Theatres Royal, London, 39 vols. 1823–31;
Cumberland’s Minor Theatre 14 vols. 1831–32, these two
series were republished in 64 or 65 vols. 1838; foreman of the
jury at coroner’s inquest on body of Colonel Fawcett killed by
Lieut. Munroe in a duel 1 July 1843. d. 185 Camden road,
London 13 June 1866 in 79 year.
CUMBERLAND, Octavius. b. 1810; entered navy 16 April 1825;
captain 29 Sept. 1855; retired R.A. 25 Aug. 1873; C.B. 2 June
 1869. d. New hall, Penicuik, Edinburgh 6 Aug. 1877.
CUMBERLAND, Richard Francis (son of Richard Cumberland,
officer in 3 foot guards). b. 1792; a page of honour; ensign 3
foot guards 27 Jany. 1809, lieut. 25 Dec. 1813 to 1825 when
he sold out; aide-de-camp to Duke of Wellington in principal
actions in Peninsular war 1812–14; wounded at repulse of
French sortie from Bayonne. d. Royal Mint, London 9 March
1870.
CUMBERLEGE, Edward Altham. Colonel Bengal infantry 4 Feb.
1861; L.G. 17 Sep. 1871. d. 23 Burlington road, Westbourne
park, London 28 Dec. 1873 aged 70.
CUMING, Hugh. b. West Alvington, Kingsbridge, Devon 14 Feb.
1791; apprenticed to a sail maker; went to South America
1819; in business at Valparaiso 1819–26; cruised in the South
Pacific and along Western coast of America collecting plants
and shells 1826–29; cruised among islands of Philippine group
where he collected 130,000 specimens of dried plants 1835–
39; his collection of shells the largest and most valuable
private one in existence contained 30,000 species and
varieties; G. B. Sowerby named a genus of bivalved shells
Cumingia after him 1833; F.L.S. d. 13 Gower st. London 10
Aug. 1865. Athenæum 19 Aug. 1865 pp. 247–8; Proc. of Royal
Linnæan Soc. (1865–6) 57–9.
CUMING, Richard. b. London 20 March 1777; one of first
members of Aurelian Soc. 1801 afterwards known as
Entomological Soc. of London; member of Lambeth Chemical
Soc. established 1801; invented the Phantasmagoria 1801
which was shown by Philipstal at Lyceum theatre 1802; made
purchases from all celebrated collections of curiosities and
natural history which were sold 1806–70; Assoc. British
Archæol. Soc. 1858; translated greater part of Cuvier’s Règne
Animal to which Edward Pidgeon’s name is attached. d. 63
Kennington park road, London 15 Feb. 1870. bur. Norwood
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