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

_Mrs. Oliphant’s Life of E. Irving_, (_4 ed._) 356, 396, 398; _The old church porch i_, 87, 206 (1854); _The morning watch ii_, 869–73 (1830); _Saturday Review xliv_, 104–5 (1877); _Clement Boase’s Catalogue of books relating to Catholic Apostolic Church_ (1885) 9–12. CARDEN, SIR JOHN CRAVEN, 4 Baronet. _b._ Templemore house, Tipperary 1 Dec. 1819; succeeded 23 March 1847. _d._ Templemore abbey, Tipperary 23 March 1879. CARDEN, JOHN SURMAN. _b._ 15 Aug. 1771; entered navy 28 May 1788; captain 22 Jany. 1806; commanded the Ordinary at Sheerness 1825–40; admiral on half pay 3 July 1855. _d._ Ramoan rectory, Ballycastle, co. Antrim 22 April 1858. CARDEW, GEORGE. Second lieut. R.E. 20 Dec. 1798, colonel 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 1 April 1855 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Portland terrace, Southsea 9 May 1859 aged 76. CARDIGAN, JAMES THOMAS BRUDENELL, 7 Earl of (_only son of 6 Earl of Cardigan 1769–1837_). _b._ Hambledon, Hants. 16 Oct. 1797; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Marlborough 1818–29, for Fowey 1830–2, for North Northamptonshire 21 Dec. 1832 to 14 Aug. 1837 when he succeeded; cornet 8 hussars 6 May 1824, major 3 Aug. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1830 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 11 hussars (which became the crack cavalry regiment) 25 March 1836 to 20 June 1854; commanded light cavalry brigade in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 1855; led the charge at Balaklava 25 Oct. 1854 when out of 607 men 409 were lost; inspector general of cavalry 1 Feb. 1855 to 31 March 1860; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; commander of legion of honour 2 Aug. 1856; col. 5 dragoon guards 14 Aug. 1859; col. 11 hussars 3 Aug. 1860 to death; L.G. 13 Feb. 1861; fought a duel which arose out of what was known as the “Black Bottle Quarrel” with Captain Harvey Garnett Phipps Tuckett on Wimbledon Common 12 Sep. 1840 when Tuckett was slightly wounded; tried before House of Lords for feloniously shooting Tuckett 16 Feb. 1841 when upon a technical deficiency of proof he was unanimously declared Not Guilty; kept staghounds in Leics. 1839–42. _d._ Deene park near Wansford, Northamptonshire 28 March 1868. _F. A. Whinyates’s From Coruna to Sevastopol_ (1884) 149–202; _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i_, 209–43 (1850); _Kinglake’s Crimean war vol. 5_; _G. Ryan’s Was Lord Cardigan a hero at Balaklava?_ 1855; _The trial of James Thomas, Earl of Cardigan_ 1841; _Baily’s Mag. xv_, 55–60 (1868), _portrait_; _I.L.N. iv_, 216 (1844), _portrait, lii_, 353 (1868), _portrait_. CARDWELL, EDWARD CARDWELL, 1 Viscount (_elder son of John Cardwell of Liverpool, merchant 1781–1831_). _b._ 24 July 1813; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., double first class 1835, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, D.C.L. 1863; scholar of his college 1832, fellow 1835; barrister I.T. 16 Nov. 1838, bencher 28 April 1868; M.P. for Clitheroe 1842–7, for Liverpool 1847–52, for city of Oxford 1852–7 and 21 July 1857 to 6 March 1874; joint sec. to Treasury Feb. 1845 to July 1846; pres. of Board of trade 28 Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; P.C. 28 Dec. 1852; chief sec. for Ireland June 1859 to July 1861; P.C. Ireland 5 July 1859; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 25 July 1861 to March 1864; sec. of state for Colonies March 1864 to June 1866; sec. of state for war 9 Dec. 1868 to 21 Feb. 1874; reorganised army by abolishing purchase system 20 July 1871 and introducing short service; created Viscount Cardwell of Ellerbeach 6 March 1874; an ecclesiastical comr. to Nov. 1882; pres. of commission on Vivisection 23 June 1875 to March 1876. _d._ Villa Como, Torquay 15 Feb. 1886. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. _St. James’s Mag. Jany. 1870 pp._ 527–32, _portrait_; _I.L.N. iv_, 65 (1844), _portrait, xlvi_, 251 (1865), _portrait, liv_, 436 (1869), _portrait_. CARDWELL, REV. EDWARD (_youngest son of Richard Cardwell of Blackburn 1749–1824_). _b._ Blackburn 3 Aug. 1787; ed. at Brasn. coll. Ox., fellow 1809; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1819, D.D. 1831; select preacher 1823; Camden professor of ancient history 1825 to death; R. of Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire 1828–36; principal of St. Alban hall Ox. Oct. 1831 to death; published _Aristotle’s Ethica 2 vols._ 1828–30; _Enchiridion theologicum Anti-Romanum 3 vols._ 1836–7; _Josephus de bello Judaico 2 vols._ 1837; _Documentary annals of the reformed church of England 2 vols._ 1839; _Synodalia, a collection of articles of religion 2 vols._ 1842. _d._ Principal’s lodge, St. Alban hall Oxford 23 May