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

CARMICHAEL, JAMES (_son of George Carmichael of the Trongate, Glasgow, merchant_). _b._ Glasgow, 1776; millwright with his brother Charles at Dundee 1810; fitted up first twin steam-boat for ferry across the Tay at Dundee 1821; invented planing, shaping and boring machine used at Woolwich and Portsmouth; made locomotive steam engines for Dundee and Newtyle railway 1832–3 the first locomotives made in Scotland; invented fan blast or blowing machine for heating and melting iron, brought into practical use about 1829. _d._ Fleuchar Craig, Dundee 14 Aug. 1853, bronze statue of him erected in Albert sq. Dundee. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 144–7; _I.L.N. lxix_, 245 (1876). CARMICHAEL, SIR JAMES ROBERT, 2 Baronet. _b._ Devonshire place, London 11 June 1817; ed. at Charterhouse and Sandhurst; succeeded 4 March 1838; a claimant to Scottish earldom of Hyndford; chairman of the Submarine and of the Mediterranean extension telegraph companies. _d._ 12 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 7 June 1883. CARMICHAEL, JAMES (OR JOHN) WILSON. _b._ Newcastle 1800; apprenticed to a shipbuilder; a marine painter; went to London about 1845; exhibited 21 sea pieces at R.A. 21 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1835–62; author of _The art of marine painting in water colours_ 1859; _The art of marine painting in oil colours_ 1864. _d._ Scarborough 2 May 1868. CARMICHAEL, SIR THOMAS GIBSON, 12 Baronet. _b._ Castle Craig, Peebleshire 27 Oct. 1817; commander R.N. 9 Nov. 1846; succeeded 8 May 1850. _d._ Civita Vecchia, Italy 30 Dec. 1855. CARNAC, JOHN RIVETT. _b._ 28 June 1796; Midshipman 29 April 1812; captain 10 Jany. 1837; retired V.A. 30 Nov. 1863. _d._ 34 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 1 Jany. 1869. CARNAC, SIR JOHN RIVETT, 2 Baronet (_son of Sir James Rivett Carnac, 1 baronet 1784–1846_). _b._ Baroda, East Indies 10 Aug. 1818; succeeded 28 Jany. 1846; M.P. for Lymington 1852 to 1860. _d._ Winchester 4 Aug. 1883. _I.L.N. xxii_, 293 (1853), _portrait_. CARNE, ELIZABETH CATHERINE THOMAS (_4 dau. of the succeeding_). _b._ Rivière house, Phillack, Cornwall 16 Dec. 1817; head of bank of Batten, Carne, and Carne at Penzance 1858 to death; gave site for Elizabeth or St. Paul’s schools opened at Penzance 2 Feb. 1876; founded schools at Wesley Rock, Carfury and Bosullo all near Penzance; built a museum at Penzance for her fine collection of minerals; author of _Three months rest at Pau in the winter and spring of 1859 by John Altrayd Wittitterly pseud._ 1860; _Country towns and the place they fill in modern civilisation_ 1868; _England’s three wants, anon._ 1871; _The realm of truth_ 1873 and of many articles in _London Quarterly Review_. _d._ Penzance 7 Sep. 1873. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 60, 1113; _Geol. Mag. x_, 480, 524 (1873). CARNE, JOSEPH (_eld. son of Wm. Carne of Penzance, banker 1754–1836_). _b._ Truro 17. April 1782; manager of Cornish Copper company’s smelting works at Hayle 1810 or 1811; partner in bank of Batten, Carne, and Carne at Penzance 1820 to death; F.R.S. 28 May 1818; pricked for sheriff of Cornwall 1837 but declined to serve; pres. of Penzance Natural history and antiquarian soc. 1849–55; author of many papers in _Transactions of Royal Geol. Soc. of Cornwall_ 1816–51. _d._ 28 Chapel st. Penzance 12 Oct. 1858. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 61, 1114. CARNEGIE, JOHN WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1833; major 15 Bengal N.I. 30 Sep. 1860 to 6 June 1862; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Gipsy hill near London 6 Jany. 1874. CARNEGIE, SWYNFEN THOMAS (_youngest son of 7 Earl of Northesk 1758–1831_). _b._ Rosehill, Hampshire 8 March 1813; entered navy 3 Aug. 1826; served in operations connected with civil war in Spain 1833–8, received order of San Fernando; captain R.N. 10 June 1845; C.B. 5 July 1855; officer in command of defences of the Thames and superintendent of steam naval organisation at Sheerness 1852; controller general of coast guard 6 Feb. to 27 April 1863; retired admiral 18 June 1876; M.P. for Stafford 1841–7; a lord of the treasury 11 March to 6 July 1846; a lord of the admiralty 9 March