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

history of the Campbells of Melfort by M. O. C._ (1882) 60–62. CAMPBELL, JOHN ARCHIBALD (_eld. son of John Campbell of the Citadel, Leith_). _b._ 1788; a writer to the Signet 1813; joint crown agent 1813–6; sheriff clerk of Midlothian 1843–59; helped to found some of the most thriving institutions in Edinburgh; F.R.S. Edin. 1837. _d._ 2 Albyn place, Edin. 7 Sep. 1866 in 78 year. CAMPBELL, SIR JOHN EYTON, 8 Baronet. _b._ 22 May 1809; succeeded April 1834. _d._ Gibraltar 9 Dec. 1853. CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS (_son of Walter Frederick Campbell 1798–1855_). _b._ 29 Dec. 1822; ed. at Eton and Univ. of Edin.; barrister I.T. 2 May 1851; private sec. to Lord privy seal 1853; assistant sec. to general board of health 1854; sec. to Lighthouse commission 1859; groom of Privy chamber 1861; sec. to Mines commission 1863; sec. to Coal commission 1866; groom in waiting in ordinary to Victoria 1874–80; invented sunshine recorder for indicating varying intensity of sun’s rays; author of _Popular tales of the West Highlands orally collected 4 vols._ 1860–2; _Frost and fire_ 1865, _new ed. 2 vols._ 1867; _Circular notes, tour round the world 2 vols._ 1876; issued a series of Gaelic texts under title of _Leabhair na Fenine_ 1872. _d._ Cannes 17 Feb. 1885. _I.L.N. lxxxvi_, 224, 294 (1885), _portrait_. CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS GLENCAIRN. Ensign 91 foot 25 Oct. 1827, lieut. col. 14 April 1846 to 12 Nov. 1860; colonel 79 foot 12 July 1868 to death; L.G. 3 Feb. 1870; C.B. 6 March 1858. _d._ Jersey 20 Aug. 1870 aged 60. CAMPBELL, REV. JOHN MCLEOD (_eld. child of Rev. Donald Campbell 1758–1843, minister of Kilninver, Argyleshire_). _b._ Ardnaddy house near Kilninver 4 May 1800; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow 1811–20 and Edinburgh; licensed as a preacher 1821; minister of parish of Row, Dumbartonshire 8 Sep. 1825 to Aug. 1831 when deposed by General Assembly on charge of holding and teaching doctrines on assurance of faith and atonement contrary to standards of the church; minister of Blackfriars st. chapel Glasgow 17 Sep. 1833 to April 1859; D.D. Glasgow April 1868; author of _Sermons and lectures_ 1832; _Christ the bread of life_ 1851, _2 ed._ 1869; _The nature of the Atonement_ 1856, _4 ed._ 1873; _Thoughts on revelation_ 1862. _d._ Acknashire, Rosneath 27 Feb. 1872. _J. M. Campbell’s Reminiscences and reflections_ 1873; _Memorials of J.M. Campbell edited by his son Rev. Donald Campbell 2 vols._ 1877, _portrait_; _Blackwood’s Mag. cxxii_, 283–302 (1877). CAMPBELL, SIR JOHN NICHOLL ROBERT, 2 Baronet (_eld. child of Sir Robert Campbell, 1 baronet 1771–1858_). _b._ Vizagapatam 25 May 1799; entered Madras army 1 Sep. 1818, captain 8 Dec. 1826; chargé d’ affaires in Persia to 1861; knighted at St. James’s palace 22 Dec. 1832; K.C.H. 1836; succeeded 28 Feb. 1858. _d._ Germany 11 May 1870. CAMPBELL, SIR LOUIS HENRY DUGALD, 9 Baronet. _b._ 2 March 1844; succeeded 9 Dec. 1853. _d._ Kildalloig, co. Argyle 18 June 1875. CAMPBELL, PATRICK. _b._ 1779; lieut. col. R.A. 29 July 1825 to 11 Nov. 1836 when he retired on full pay; secretary of legation in Columbia 29 Dec. 1826; agent and consul general in Egypt 7 Jany. 1833 to 13 Aug. 1841 when he retired on a superannuation allowance; general 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Rockstone place, Southampton 29 Aug. 1857. CAMPBELL, REV. PETER COLIN. Principal of University of Aberdeen 1855 to death; author of _The theory of ruling eldership or the position of the lay ruler in reformed churches examined_ 1866. _d._ Chanonry, Aberdeen 12 Dec. 1876. CAMPBELL, SIR ROBERT, 1 Baronet (_son of John Campbell of Ballyshannon, co. Donegal_). _b._ Ballyshannon May 1771; a director of East India company 23 July 1817 to 1852; created baronet 30 Sep. 1831. _d._ 5 Argyle place, London 28 Feb. 1858. CAMPBELL, ROBERT CALDER (_son of Rev. Pryce Campbell, minister of Ardeseir, Nairn_). _b._ Scotland 1798; lieut. Madras army 2 Oct. 1818; served in Burmese war 1826–7; major 43 Madras N.I. 28 April 1836 to 1 Aug. 1839 when he retired; author under name of Calder Campbell of _Lays from the East_ 1831; _The palmer’s last lesson and other poems_ 1838; _Rough recollections of rambles at home and abroad 3 vols._ 1847; _Winter nights, a novel 3 vols._ 1850; _The three trials of Loide, and other poems_ 1851; _Episodes in the war life of a soldier_ 1857. _d._ University st. London 13 May 1857. CAMPBELL, THOMAS. _b._ Edinburgh 1 May 1790; apprenticed to a marble cutter; a sculptor in Rome 1818–30; executed many busts and _portrait_ statues in bronze and marble; exhibited 38 works at Royal Academy 1827–57; lived in London 1834 to death; his chief works are statue of Princess Pauline Borghese at Chatsworth, statue of the Queen at Windsor, monuments of Sir W. Hoste in St. Paul’s cathedral and of Duchess of Buccleuch at Boughton. _d._ 16 Great Marlborough st. London 4 Feb. 1858. CAMPBELL, REV. THOMAS HEWITT (_son of Duncan Campbell of Upper Gloucester st. London, merchant_). _b._ 7 July 1828; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Ox., junior Univ. math, scholar 1848, B.A. 1851, M.A. 1853; fellow of his college to 1862; under master at Charterhouse; head master of Wolverhampton gr. sch.; appointed principal of Otago college, New Zealand 1863; drowned off Port Chalmers, Otago 4 July 1863. CAMPBELL, WALTER FREDERICK. _b._ 10 April 1798; M.P. for Argyleshire 14 March 1822 to 3 Dec. 1832 and 13 Jany. 1835 to 23 June 1841; author of _Life in Normandy 2 vols._ 1863, published anonymously by his son John Francis Campbell. _d._ 8 Feb. 1855. CAMPBELL, WILLIAM. Cornet 2 Dragoon guards 6 Jany. 1832, lieut. col. 30 Jany. 1846 to death; C.B. 27 July 1858. _d._ Cawnpore 9 July 1858. CAMPBELL, WILLIAM (_brother of Sir James Campbell 1790–1876_). _b._ near Port of Monteith, Perthshire 1793; general warehouseman in Glasgow 1814; partner with his brother; active promoter of scheme for building 20 new Free churches in Glasgow and 200 additional churches in Scotland; member of Glasgow town council; proprietor of Tillichewan castle. _d._ 2 April 1864 in 71 year. _J. A. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 131–8. CAMPBELL, WILLIAM, _b._ Glasgow; came to Newcastle about Nov. 1877; landlord of Duke of Wellington public house High bridge, Newcastle; exhibited himself at Egyptian hall, London, _d._ Newcastle 26 May 1878. NOTE.—He was 76 inches round the breast and weighed 52 stone. CAMPBELL, WILLIAM GEORGE. Barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1836; comr. in lunacy 26 Nov. 1845 to 1878; hon. comr. in lunacy 1878 to death. _d._ 50 Ennismore gardens, London 13 June 1881 in 71 year. CAMPERDOWN, ROBERT DUNDAS DUNCAN-HALDANE, 1 Earl of (_eld. son of Admiral Adam Duncan, 1 Viscount Duncan 1731–1804_). _b._ 21 March 1785; succeeded as 2 Viscount 4 Aug. 1804; created Earl of Camperdown of Lundie, co. Forfar and Glenagles, co. Perth 12 Sep. 1831; K.T. 12 May 1848. _d._ 1 Wilton terrace, Belgrave sq. London 22 Dec. 1859. CAMPERDOWN, ADAM DUNCAN-HALDANE, 2 Earl of (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ Edinburgh 25 March 1812; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1834; M.P. for Southampton 1837–41, for Bath 1841–52 for Forfarshire 1854 to 22 Dec. 1859 when he succeeded as 2 Earl; obtained repeal of the Window tax by 14 and 15 Vict. cap. 36, 24 July 1851 for which he was presented with freedom of Dundee Dec. 1851; a lord of the Treasury 8 March 1855 to March 1858. _d._ Weston, Warwickshire 30 Jany. 1867. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 280–1. CAMPION, GEORGE B. _b._ 1796; an original member of New Society (now Royal Institute) of painters in water colours 1834 to which he contributed landscapes; many of his views have been published; landscape drawing master at Royal Military academy Woolwich 1 Dec. 1841 to death; author of _The adventures of a chamois hunter_ and of some papers on German art in _Art Journal_. _d._ Munich 7 April 1870. CANDLISH, REV. ROBERT SMITH (_youngest child of James Candlish of Edinburgh, teacher of medicine who d. 29 April 1806 aged 46_). _b._ Nicolson st. Edin. 23 March 1806; ed. at Glasgow college 1818–23; private tutor at Eton Dec. 1823; licensed by presbytery of Glasgow 6 Aug. 1828; assistant minister at St. Andrew’s Glasgow 1829, at Bonhill, Dumbartonshire 1831–3; minister of St. George’s Edin. 14 Aug. 1834; D.D. Princeton coll. New Jersey 1841; left Scotch kirk 18 May 1843; had leading share in organisation of Free church; minister of St. George’s free church Edin. 1846 to death; convener of education committee of Free church 1846; moderator of General Assembly 1861; principal of New college Edin. 1862; D.D. Edin. 1865; author of _Contributions towards the exposition of the book of Genesis 3 vols._ 1843–62; _Scripture characters and miscellanies_ 1850, _4 ed._ 1872; _Life in a risen Saviour_ 1858, _3 ed._ 1863; _Reason and revelation_ 1859, _2 ed._ 1864; _The fatherhood of God_ 1865, _5 ed._ 1870. _d._ Melville st. Edinburgh 19 Oct. 1873. _Memorials by Wm. Wilson_ 1880, _portrait_; _Life by J. L. Watson_ 1882, _portrait_; _A. Beith’s Three weeks with Dr. Candlish_, _2 ed. 1874_; _J. A. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 139–46, _portrait_; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic viii_, 407, 412 (1873), _portrait_. CANE, ROBERT, _b._ Kilkenny 1807; surgeon at Kilkenny 1832 to death; M.R.C.S. England 1841; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1844; M.D. Glasgow 1842; chief promoter of repeal movement at Kilkenny, mayor 1844 and 1849; originated Celtic Union a semi-political and semi-literary society 1853; edited the _Celt_, a magazine, first number appeared 1 Aug. 1857; author of _The Williamite and Jacobite wars in Ireland_ 1859. _d._ William st. Kilkenny 17 Aug. 1858. _Irish quarterly review viii_, 1004–96 (1858). CANN, ABRAHAM (_son of Robert Cann of Colebrooke near Crediton, farmer_). Baptized Colebrooke 2 Dec. 1794; wrestled with and defeated all the best wrestlers in Devonshire; beat James Warren at Eagle tavern, City road, London 21 Sep. 1826; wrestled with James Polkinghorne, champion of Cornwall for £200 a side at Tamar Green near Devonport 23 Oct. 1826 in presence of 12000 spectators when match was declared to be drawn; is the hero of H. Kingsley’s novel _Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn_ 1859. _d._ Colebrooke 7 April 1864. _Sporting Mag. lxvii_, 165 (1826), _lxix_, 55, 215, 314, 344 (1827); _London Mag. 1 Oct. 1826 pp._ 160–3; _Illust. sporting news iii_, 100 (1864), 2 _portraits, v_, 197 (1866), _portrait_. CANNING, CHARLES JOHN CANNING, 1 Earl (_youngest child of George Canning 1770–1827, prime minister_). _b._ Gloucester lodge, Brompton, London 14 Dec. 1812; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1833; M.P. for Warwick Aug. 1836 to 15 March 1837 when on death of his mother he became Viscount Canning; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 4 Sep. 1841 to 27 Jany. 1846; first comr. of woods and forests 2 March to 6 July 1846; P.C. 18 March 1846; postmaster general 5 Jany. 1853 to 4 July 1855; governor general of India 4 July 1855 to March 1862; the first viceroy of India 2 Aug. 1858; G.C.B. 31 March 1859; created Earl Canning 21 May 1859; ranger of Greenwich park 1860; the first grand master of order of Star of India 25 June 1861 to March 1862; K.G. 21 May 1862. _d._ Grosvenor sq. London 17 June 1862. _bur._ Westminster abbey 21 June. _Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 356–60; _Men whom India has known_ (1874) 50–5; _Nolan’s British empire in India ii_, 706 (1860), _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world viii_, (1861), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxvii_, 649 (1855), _portrait, xli_, 1, 8, 22 (1862), _portrait_. CANNON, EDWARD ST. LEGER. _b._ 1803; entered navy 10 Nov. 1816; captain 9 Nov. 1846; captain of Centaur 6 guns 23 July 1851 to 29 July 1853; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ The Glen, Walmer, Kent 20 Nov. 1881. CANNON, RICHARD, _b._ 1779; clerk at the Horse Guards 1 Jany. 1802; principal clerk in adjutant general’s office to Jany. 1854 when he retired on full pay of £800 a year; edited _The historical records of the British army 66 vols._ 1836–53, being records of all the regiments of cavalry (except Royal horse guards) and of 42 regiments of infantry. _d._ 30 Oct. 1865. CANNON, ROBERT (_son of Rev. D. Cannon, D.D._) _b._ 1811; entered Madras army 1826, captain 40 Madras N.I. 15 Jany. 1841 to 26 March 1846; raised 500 men in Devonshire for British auxiliary legion of Spain; major in 6th Scotch regiment 1835; lieut. col. in Auxiliary legion 5 May 1836 and in 9th regiment 26 May 1836; commanded 9th and 10th regiments, styled the Royal Irish 20 March 1837; granted license to accept cross of first class of order of St. Ferdinand 9 Oct. 1837 and of second class 1 March 1839; granted license to accept insignia of order of Charles the third 5 Feb. 1848; joined Turkish army at Shumlah as “Behram Pacha” early in 1854; took a division of Turkish army to Eupatoria Dec. 1854; present at bombardment of Sebastopol April 1855; hon. lieut. gen. (Ferik) in service of the Sultan 5 Dec. 1856. _d._ Folkestone 5 April 1882. _I.L.N. xxviii_, 405 (1856), _portrait, lxxx_, 396 (1882), _portrait_. CANNON, THOMAS, _b._ Eton 14 March 1790; a bargeman at Windsor; fought and beat Dolly Smith at Shirley Common near Windsor 6 May 1817; fought Joshua Hudson for £100 a side at Yateley, Hants. 23 June 1824 when Cannon won; fought Hudson again on Warwick race course for £500 a side 23 Nov. 1824 when Cannon won again; gamekeeper to “Pea-green” Hayne 1824; fought James Ward for £500 a side at Warwick 19 July 1825 when Ward won; appeared at Coburg theatre London Aug. 1825 in _The fight at Warwick_; fought Edward Neale for £100 a side at Warfield, Berks. 20 Feb. 1827 when Neale won; landlord of the Castle tavern, 16 Jermyn st. St. James’s, London 1828; a swan-watcher for Corporation of London at Strand-on-the-Green Chiswick, Middlesex; shot himself at Strand-on-the-Green 11 July 1858. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica ii_, 248–62 (1880), _portrait_. CANTERBURY, CHARLES JOHN MANNERS-SUTTON, 2 Viscount (_eld. son of 1 Viscount Canterbury 1780–1845_). _b._ London 17 April 1812; succeeded 21 July 1845; comr. to inquire into local charges on shipping 1853. _d._ 13 Chesterfield st. London 13 Nov. 1869. CANTERBURY, JOHN HENRY THOMAS MANNERS-SUTTON, 3 Viscount (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Downing st. London 27 May 1814; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1835; registrar of Faculty office 1841 to death; M.P. for town of Cambridge 1839–40 and 1841–7, for Newark-on-Trent 1847–57; under sec. of state for home department 3 Sep. 1841 to 5 July 1846; chairman of commission on harbour dues 1853–4; lieutenant governor of New Brunswick June 1854 to Oct. 1861; governor of Trinidad 6 Sep. 1864 to 24 April 1866; governor of Victoria 15 Aug. 1866 to 2 March 1873; K.C.B. 23 June 1866; G.C.M.G. 25 June 1873. _d._ 12 Queensberry place, South Kensington, London 24 June 1877. _I.L.N. xxxv_, 586 (1859). _portrait, lxxxi_, 19 (1877), _portrait_. CANTRELL, JOSEPH THOMAS (_eld. son of Joseph Cantrell of King’s Newton near Derby_). _b._ 1802; ed. at Repton gr. sch.; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1831; judge of Wirksworth and Staffordshire potteries court of requests; judge of county courts circuit 19, Derbyshire, March 1847 to death. _d._ King’s Newton 4 April 1862. CAPE, JAMES MATTHEW. _b._ 1796; edited _British Press_; worked on _Mirror of Parliament_, on _Morning Chronicle_, on _Times_ nearly 26 years; an active leader of the old Reform party; author of many important anonymous contributions to London Journals. _d._ 61 Victoria road, Kentish Town, London 18 Jany. 1874. CAPE, REV. JONATHAN. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., 5 wrangler 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; professor of mathematics at Addiscombe college 1823–65; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; author of _Mathematical tables_ 1838, _3 ed._ 1860; _A course of mathematics 2 vols._ 1839–40, _2 ed._ 1842–4. _d._ George st. Croydon 9 Sep. 1868 aged 75. CAPE, LAWSON (_son of John Cape of Uldale, Cumberland_). _b._ 6 Dec. 1807; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1827; M.D. Edin. 1833; L.R.C.P. London 1835, F.R.C.P. 1857; phys. to Royal infirmary for children Waterloo bridge road 1836–46; asst. phys. to General lying-in hospital York road, Lambeth 1837, phys. 1844 to death; lecturer on midwifery at St. Thomas’ hospital 1837–48. _d._ 28 Curzon st. London 22 March 1877. CAPE, WILLIAM TIMOTHY (_eld. son of Wm. Cape of Ireby, Cumberland_). _b._ Walworth, Surrey 25 Oct. 1806; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; went with his father to Van Diemen’s Land 1821; head master of Sydney public school July 1829; kept a private school in King st. Sydney 1830–5 when he transferred his pupils to Sydney college; head master of Sydney college 19 Jany. 1835 to 1842; kept another school in Sydney 1842–56; member for Wollombi of legislative assembly of N.S.W. 1859; fellow of St. Paul’s college Sydney; comr. of national education. _d._ Warwick st. Pimlico, London 14 June 1863. _J. H. Heaton’s Australian dictionary of dates_ (1879) 33–5. CAPEL, JAMES. Clerk in office of Sir Edmund Antrobus and Co. of the Stock exchange London, partner in the firm; head of firm of James Capel and Co. stock brokers; chairman of board, of managers of stock exchange; chairman of committee of Spanish bondholders many years. _d._ 62 Westbourne terrace, London 18 Nov. 1872 aged 84. CAPEL, SIR THOMAS BLADEN (_youngest son of 4 Earl of Essex 1732–99_). _b._ 25 Aug. 1776; entered navy 12 April 1792; signal lieut. to Lord Nelson at battle of the Nile; captain 27 Dec. 1798; commanded Royal George and Apollo yachts 1821–5; commander in chief of East India station 30 May 1834 to July 1837; admiral 28 April 1847; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.B. 20 Feb. 1832; G.C.B. 6 April