Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

CALL, SIR WILLIAM PRATT, 2 Baronet. _b._ 28 Sep. 1781; succeeded 1 March 1801; sheriff of Cornwall 1807; partner in banking house of Call, Marten and Co. _d._ Whiteford house near Callington 3 Dec. 1851. CALLAGHAN, JEREMIAH THOMAS FITZGERALD. _b._ about 1830; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar, Jany. 1854; acting consul general at Labuan 27 May 1861; governor of Labuan 10 April 1862 to Nov. 1866; administrator of government of Gambia 10 May 1871; governor of Falkland islands 18 May 1876; governor of the Bahamas 11 Sep. 1880 to death; C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._ New York 9 July 1881. CALLAGHAN, THOMAS. _b._ Dublin 18 Sep. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1836; called to the Irish bar 1839; emigrated to New South Wales 1840; crown prosecutor 1841; chairman of quarter sessions, Dec. 1844; a district court judge 1859 to death, held his first court at Yass 19 July 1859; published _Acts and ordinances of New South Wales with notes and index 3 vols._ 1844–52. _d._ Braidwood, N.S.W. 28 Nov. 1863. _Heads of the people i_, 161 (1847), _portrait_. CALLCOTT, MARIA. Author of _Home among strangers a tale 2 vols._ 1848; _The singers alphabet_ 1849; _The power of meekness_ 1853; _The two firesides a tale of 90 years ago_ 1859. (_m._ Wm. Hutchins Callcott 1807–82). _d._ 1 Campden house road, Kensington 19 Aug. 1881 aged 73. CALLCOTT, WILLIAM. _b._ Kensington near London 1800; violinist in orchestra of King’s theatre (now Her Majesty’s), Pall Mall; repetiteur for the ballet there; musical director of Adelphi, Olympic and Astley’s Amphitheatre where he composed for Andrew Ducrow music for his representation of “The Grecian Statues”; his musical compositions for pantomimes and melodramas were the best since those of Wm. Henry Ware. _d._ Gravesend 6 Nov. 1878. CALLCOTT, WILLIAM HUTCHINS (_son of John Wall Callcott, musical composer 1766–1821_). _b._ Kensington, London 1807; member of Royal society of musicians 4 July 1830; organist of Ely place chapel; his arrangements and transcriptions for the piano amount to many hundred pieces; author of _The child’s own singing book_ 1843; _A few facts on the life of Handel_ 1859. _d._ 1 Campden house road, Kensington 5 Aug. 1882. CALLENDER, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ Clifton 24 June 1830; student of St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1849, registrar 1854, assistant surgeon 1861, surgeon 1871 to death, lecturer on anatomy 1865, lecturer on surgery 1873; surgical editor of _St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports_ 1865–74; M.R.C.S. 1852, F.R.C.S. 1855, F.R.S. 8 June 1871; sec. of Clinical Soc. 1867–70, pres. 1877–9; author of _Anatomy of the parts concerned in femoral rupture_ 1863 and of many papers in _Transactions of Medical Chirurgical, Clinical and Pathological Societies_. _d._ on board the Gallia on his way home from Australia 20 Oct. 1879. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 29 Oct. _St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports xv_, _pp. xli-xlvii_, (1879); _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii_, 480–2 (1880). CALLENDER, WILLIAM ROMAINE (_eld. son of Wm. Romaine Callender of Manchester who d. 1872_). _b._ Manchester 2 June 1825; cotton spinner and merchant at Bolton and Manchester; member of Manchester school board 24 Nov. 1870, vice chairman Dec. 1870 to death; M.P. for Manchester 7 Feb. 1874 to death; F.S.A. 2 June 1859; author of _Education statistics of Manchester_ 1852; _The commercial crisis of 1857 its causes and results_ 1858. _d._ Eversfield place, St. Leonard’s on Sea 22 Jany. 1876. _Graphic xiii_, 182, 188 (1876), _portrait_. CALLOW, JOHN. _b._ London 19 July 1822; studied art in Paris 1835–44; a landscape painter in water colours; professor of drawing in royal military academy at Addiscombe, July 1855 to 1861; sub.-professor of drawing at Woolwich 1861; a teacher in London; several of his studies have since his death been printed in colours as a series of progressive lessons in art of water-colour painting; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1844–67. _d._ Lewisham near London 25 April 1878. CALTHORPE, GEORGE GOUGH-CALTHORPE, 3 Baron. _b._ 22 June 1787; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 5 June 1807. _d._ Lyons Sep. 1851. CALTHORPE, FREDERICK GOUGH, 4 Baron (_3 son of 1 Baron Calthorpe 1749–98_). _b._ London 14 June 1790; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Hindon, Wilts. 1818–26, for Bramber, Sussex 1826–31; a metropolitan comr. in lunacy; assumed name of Gough in lieu of Calthorpe 14 May 1845; sheriff of Staffs. 1848; succeeded Sep. 1851; gave to town of Birmingham, Calthorpe park opened 15 April