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

CASWALL, REV. EDWARD (_son of Rev. Robert Clarke Caswall, V. of Yateley, Hampshire_). _b._ Yateley 15 July 1814; ed. at Marlborough and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1838; P.C. of Stratford-sub-Castle, Wilts. 1840–6; received into R.C. church by Cardinal Acton at Rome Jany. 1847; admitted into congregation of the Oratory at Edgbaston, Birmingham 29 March 1850 where he was ordained priest; author of _A new art teaching how to be plucked, being a treatise after the fashion of Aristotle, writ for the use of students in the Universities, to which is added a synopsis of drinking by Scriblerus Redivivus, Oxford_ 1835, _7 ed._ 1837, often reprinted; _Sermons on the seen and the unseen_ 1846; _Lyra Catholica containing all the breviary and missal hymns translated_ 1849 adopted in most R.C. prayer books; _The Masque of Mary and other poems_ 1858; _A May pageant, a tale of Tintern, and other poems_ 1865. _d._ The Oratory, Edgbaston 2 Jany. 1878. _Gillow’s English catholics i_, 429–31 (1885). CASWALL, REV. HENRY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Yateley 1810; ed. at Chigwell gr. sch. and Kenyon coll. Ohio, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; ordained deacon by Bishop of Ohio 1831, being the first ordained graduate of Kenyon college; returned to England 1842, obtained a private act of parliament 6 and 7 Vict. c. 32, removing disabilities attaching to his ordination in the U.S. 31 May 1843; V. of Figheldean, Wilts. 1848–70; preb. of Salisbury 1 Feb. 1860–1870; author of _America and the American church 1839_, _2 ed._ 1851; _Mormonism and its author_ 1852; _Scotland and the Scottish church_ 1853; _The Western world revisited_ 1854. _d._ Franklin, Panama 17 Dec. 1870. CATER, THOMAS ORLANDO. Second lieut. R.A. 1 April 1809; colonel 28 Nov. 1854 to 26 May 1857 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 26 May