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

CATES, JAMES. Appointed an attendant at British Museum, London 19 July 1810, attendant in the reading room 20 Jany. 1815, superintendent 1824 to death. _d._ 38 Alfred st. St. Giles’s, London 22 Dec. 1855 aged 78. _R. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum_ (1871) 200–208; _Report on British Museum_ (1850) 310–312. CATHCART, CHARLES MURRAY CATHCART, 2 Earl (_eld. son of 1 Earl Cathcart 1755–1843_). _b._ Walton, Essex 21 Dec. 1783; cornet 2 life guards 2 March 1800; permanent assistant quartermaster general 28 July 1814 to 26 June 1823; lieut. col. royal staff corps at Hythe 1823–30; governor of Edinburgh Castle 1837–42; col. 11 hussars 30 Aug. 1842 to 19 Nov. 1847; succeeded as 2 Earl 17 June 1843; governor and commander in chief in British North America 16 March 1846 to 1 Oct. 1849; col. 3 dragoon guards 19 Nov. 1847 to 9 Jany. 1851; commanded northern and midland district of England 1849–54; col. 1 dragoon guards 9 Jany. 1851 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 21 June 1859; discovered a new mineral, a sulphate of cadmium 1841 which was named Greenockite. _d._ St. Leonard’s on Sea 16 July 1859. _H. J. Morgan’s Eminent Canadians_ (1862) 448–57; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. iv_, 222–4 (1862). CATHCART, FREDERICK MAC ADAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 28 Oct. 1789; cornet 2 dragoons 12 Jany. 1805, captain 12 Jany. 1808 to 18 May 1820 when placed on h.p.; sec. of embassy at St. Petersburg 26 May 1820; minister plenipotentiary to the Diet at Frankfort 15 Jany. 1824 to 1826; colonel of Ayrshire militia 6 April 1852; Knight of Russian order of St. Anne. _d._ Clarendon sq. Leamington 5 March 1865. CATHCART, SIR GEORGE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Albemarle st. London 12 May 1794; ed. at Eton and Univ. of Edin.; cornet 2 Life Guards 25 May 1810; lieut. 6 dragoon guards 1811 to 1818 when placed on h.p.; captain 7 hussars 1819 to 1826 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 8 foot 20 March 1828 to 25 Sep. 1835 when placed on h.p.; lieut col. 1 dragoon guards 11 May 1838 to 19 Jany. 1844 when placed on h.p.; deputy lieut. Tower of London 13 Feb. 1846 to 13 Feb. 1852; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; governor and commander in chief of Cape of Good Hope 20 Jany. 1852 to April 1854; granted distinguished service reward 13 July 1853; adjutant general 12 Dec. 1853; commanded fourth division of British army in the Crimea 1854 to death; knight of Russian order of St. Wladimir 3 June 1814; K.C.B. 31 May 1853; author of _Commentaries on the war in Russia and Germany in 1812 and 1813_, London 1850; shot through the heart at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854; _Correspondence of Sir G. Cathcart_ 1856; _Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea vol. 5_ (1875); _I.L.N. xx_, 125 (1852), _portrait_. CATHCART, SIR JOHN ANDREW, 5 Baronet (_son of Hugh Cathcart_). _b._ 18 Feb. 1810; succeeded his grand uncle 1828. _d._ Edinburgh 25 March 1878. CATHERWOOD, FREDERICK. Artist and traveller; drew views of city of Thebes, city of Jerusalem and temples of Baalbec from which Burford painted his pictures of these places published with descriptions 1834–44; travelled in Central America 1839–40; explored Peninsula of Yucatan 1841; took charge of the works for the railway across Isthmus of Panama 1851; author of _Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan_ 1841; left Liverpool for New York on board the “Pacific” 23 Jany. 1856 which steamship has never since been heard of. CATOR, BERTIE CORNELIUS (_son of Joseph Cator of Beckenham, Kent who d. 1818_). _b._ Beckenham 26 Sep. 1787; entered navy April 1800; captain 7 June 1814; retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 12 April