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172 (1852), _portrait_. CARNEGY, ALEXANDER. _b._ 25 Feb. 1793; ensign Bengal army 20 Aug. 1813; lieut. col. of 15 Bengal N.I. 5 Nov. 1841, of 27 N.I. 1843, of 36 N.I. 1849–51; col. 15 N.I. 15 Sep. 1851 to death; commissioner at Peshawar, Punjab 26 June 1852; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ Meggetland house, Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1862. CARNEGY, PATRICK. _b._ 20 May 1825; entered Indian civil service 1846; assistant comr. in Oude 1856; deputy comr. of Lucknow district; comr. of the Bareilly division; first civil officer who entering service in uncovenanted branch, ever attained rank of a comr.; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; F.R.G.S.; author of _Kutcherry technicalities or vocabulary of law terms as used in the Mofussil courts N.W.P. Allahabad_ 1853; _Notes on the land tenures and revenue assessments of Upper India_ 1874. _d._ Norwood near London 12 Nov. 1886. CARNWATH, THOMAS HENRY DALZELL, 11 Earl of. _b._ 2 Sep. 1797; succeeded 1 Jany. 1839. _d._ Bagnéres de Bigorre, Hautes Pyrénées, France 14 Dec. 1867. CARNWATH, HENRY ARTHUR HEW DALZELL, 12 Earl of. _b._ Heidelberg 12 April 1858; succeeded 14 Dec. 1867. _d._ Harrow school 13 March 1873. CARNWATH, ARTHUR ALEXANDER DALZELL, 13 Earl of (_2 son of 10 Earl of Carnwath 1768–1839_). _b._ 15 Sep. 1799; ensign 45 foot 29 April 1819; captain 48 foot 28 June 1827, lieut. col. 23 April 1841 to 13 Dec. 1853 when placed on h.p.; inspecting field officer of militia 1853–8; commanded south eastern district of England 1861–5; col. 48 foot 10 Aug. 1864 to death; general 14 April 1873; succeeded his nephew 13 March 1873. _d._ 28 Eaton place, London 28 April 1875. CARON, RÉNÉ EDOUARD (_son of Augustin Caron of parish of St. Anne Cote of Beaupré, Lower Canada_). _b._ St. Anne, Nov. or Dec. 1800; barrister Lower Canada 1826; member of city council of Quebec 1832, mayor 1833–7; M.P. for Upper town of Quebec 1834–6; Q.C. 1848; member of legislative council of Canada 1841–57, speaker 8 Nov. 1843 to 1847 and 11 March 1848 to 1853, member of executive council 28 Oct. 1851; puisne judge of superior court 15 Aug. 1853, of Court of Queen’s Bench, Quebec 27 Jany. 1855; lieutenant governor of province of Quebec 11 Feb. 1873 to death. _d._ Quebec 13 Dec. 1876. _Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians_ (1862) 472–3. CARPENTER, GEORGE (_son of the succeeding_). Ensign 53 foot 1 Oct. 1818; lieut. col. 41 foot 27 Dec. 1850 to death; killed at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854 in 55 year. _G. Ryan’s Our heroes in the Crimea_ (1855) 70–2. CARPENTER, GEORGE. Entered Bengal army 1791; colonel 49 Bengal N.I. 29 April 1823 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ 7 Great Cumberland place, London 30 Jany. 1855 aged 91. CARPENTER, JOSEPH EDWARDS. _b._ London 2 Nov. 1813; wrote for magazines at a very early age; gave a musical entertainment called _The Road, the Rail and the River_ in London and the provinces; produced _The Sanctuary_ a musical drama in 2 acts 1854, _Love and Honour_ a drama in 3 acts at Surrey theatre 1854 and _Adam Bede_ a drama in 3 acts at same house 1862; author of upwards of 2500 songs and duets; edited _Penny Readings in prose and verse 10 vols._ 1865–7; author of _Random rhymes or lays of London_ 1833; _Lays for light hearts_ 1835; _Songs and ballads_ 1844; _Poems and lyrics_ 1845; _Border ballads_ 1846; _Lays and legends of fairy land_ 1849; _My jubilee volume_ 1883. _d._ 20 Norland sq. Bayswater, London 6 May 1885. _Illust. news of the world ii_, 425 (1858), _portrait_. CARPENTER, MARGARET SARAH (_2 dau. of Alexander Geddes of Alderbury, Wiltshire_). _b._ Salisbury 1793; _portrait_ painter in London 1814; exhibited 147 pictures at the R.A. 50 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk st. gallery 1818–66; granted civil list pension of £100 per annum 29 Nov. 1866. (_m._ 1817 Wm. Hookham Carpenter 1792–1866). _d._ 22 Upper Gloucester place, London 13 Nov. 1872. _E. C. Clayton’s English female artists i_, 386–8 (1876). CARPENTER, MARY (_eld. child of Rev. Lant Carpenter of Bristol, Unitarian minister 1780–1840_). _b._ Exeter 3 April 1807; kept a school with her mother at Bristol 1829; opened a ragged school in Bristol 1 Aug. 1846, a reformatory at Kingswood 11 Sep. 1852, a reformatory for girls in Park row, Bristol 10 Oct. 1854 and a certified industrial school there April 1859; took leading part in conferences on ragged schools held in Birmingham, Dec. 1851, Dec. 1853 and Jany, 1861; visited India 1866–7, 1868–9, 1869–70 and 1875–6; visited America and Canada 1873; read many papers at meetings of Social Science Association; author of _Meditations and prayers anon._ 1845; _Our convicts, how they are made and should be treated 2 vols._ 1864; _Six months in India 2 vols._ 1868 and 9 other books. _d._ Bristol 14 June 1877. _Life and work of Mary Carpenter by J. E. Carpenter_ 1879, _portrait_; _Theological Review, April 1880 p._ 279; _The children of the street by M. H. Hart_ 1880; _Fortnightly Review xxxiii_, 662–71 (1880); _Graphic xv_, 624 (1877), _portrait_; _Times 18 June 1877 p. 8, cols. 3–5_. CARPENTER, REV. PHILIP PEARSALL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Bristol, Nov. 1819; ed. at Bristol and York; B.A. London 1841; Presbyterian minister at Stand, then at Warrington 1846–61; bought a vast collection of 14 tons of shells in Liverpool for £50, 1855, a full report on these shells occupies 209 pages of _British Association report for 1856_; lived in Montreal 1865 to death; formed a great collection of Chitonidæ. _d._ Montreal 24 May 1877. _Memoir of P. P. Carpenter edited by R. L. Carpenter_ 1880, _portrait_. CARPENTER, RICHARD CROMWELL (_son of Richard Carpenter of Middlesex_). _b._ 21 Oct. 1812; ed. at the Charterhouse; architect in London; district surveyor for East Islington; exhibited 9 works at R.A. 1830–49; built churches of St. Stephen and St. Andrew at Birmingham 1844 and 1846, St. Paul at Brighton 1849, and St. Mary Magdalen, Munster sq. London 1852 where the west window was filled with stained glass to his memory at a cost of £425; restored Chichester cathedral, Sherborne Abbey and St. John’s college, Hurstpierpoint. _d._ 40 Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 27 March 1855. CARPENTER, THOMAS DAVID. Entered Madras army 1819; lieut. col. 1 Madras N.I. 1 Sep. 1847 to 29 Aug. 1859; M.G. 29 Aug. 1859. _d._ Secunderabad 17 Oct. 1860 aged 56. CARPENTER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1797; apprenticed to a bookseller in Finsbury; edited with Wm. Greenfield _Scripture Magazine_ afterwards expanded into the _Critica Biblica 4 vols._ 1824–7; edited _Shipping Gazette_ 1836, _Era_ 1838, _Railway Observer_ 1843, _Lloyd’s Weekly News_ 1844, _Court Journal_ 1848, _Sunday Times_ 1854, _Bedfordshire Independent_ 1854; issued a publication entitled _Political Letters_ 1830–1 which was unstamped for which he was tried 14 May 1831 and imprisoned in the King’s Bench; from his prison he edited _Political Mag._ Sep. 1831 to July 1832, republished as _Carpenter’s Monthly political mag._ 1832; hon. sec. to Chancery reform association 1851–3; author of _Sancta Biblica 3 vols._ 1825; _Scripture natural history_ 1828; _A peerage for the people_ 1835, _4 ed._ 1848; _A comprehensive dictionary of English synonyms_, _6 ed._ 1865; _An introduction to the reading and study of the Bible 3 vols._ 1867–8. _d._ Colebrooke row, Islington, London 21 April 1874. CARPENTER, WILLIAM BENJAMIN (_brother of Mary Carpenter 1807–77_). _b._ Exeter 29 Oct. 1813; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1835; lecturer on medical jurisprudence at Bristol medical school; Fullerian professor of physiology at Royal Institution London 1844; edited _British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review_ 1847–52; professor of forensic medicine at Univ. college London 1849–59; principal of University hall London 1851–9; registrar of Univ. of London May 1856 to Feb. 1879, F.R.S. 1 Feb. 1844, Royal medallist 1861; pres. of British Association at Brighton Aug. 1872; corresponding member of Institute of France 1873; C.B. 4 Dec. 1875; Lyell medallist of Geological Soc. 1883; author of _The principles of general and comparative physiology_ 1839, _4 ed._ 1854; _Popular cyclopædia of science_ 1843; _Manual of physiology_ 1846, _4 ed._ 1865; _Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera, Ray Society_ 1862. _d._ 56 Regent’s park road, London 10 Nov. 1885. _J. Timbs’s Year book of facts_ (1873) 1–8, 126–33, _portrait_; _Medical Circular ii_, 169–71 (1853), _portrait_; _T. H. Barker’s Photographs of medical men_ (1865), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxi_, 148, 150 (1872), _portrait, lxxxvii_, 559 (1885), _portrait_. CARPENTER, WILLIAM HOOKHAM (_only son of James Carpenter of Old Bond st. London, bookseller who d. 30 March 1852 aged 84_). _b._ Bruton st. London 2 March 1792; bookseller and publisher in Lower Brook st. London 1817; keeper of prints and drawings in British Museum, March 1845 to death; a trustee of National _portrait_ gallery 1856 to death; member of Academy of fine arts at Amsterdam 1847; F.S.A. 13 Jany. 1853; author of _Pictorial notices, consisting of a memoir of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, with a descriptive catalogue of the etchings executed by him_ 1844; _A guide to the drawings and prints exhibited to the public in the King’s library, British Museum_ 1858, _3 ed._ 1862. _d._ British Museum, London 12 July