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in the eleven 1844-7, captain 1847; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 23 March 1847; rowed No. 2 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 29 March 1849, No. 4, 15 Dec. 1849 and stroke 3 April 1852; played in Oxford eleven 1848-9; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1855; Vinerian scholar 1852; Petrean fellow of Exeter coll. 1852 to 7 Sept. 1858; barrister L.I. 30 April 1856, bencher 2 Nov. 1875 to death, treasurer 1895; Q.C. 9 Feb. 1874; practised in court. of chancery, became leader in Rolls court; major of Inns of court or 14th Middlesex r.v. 5 Nov. 1869 to Dec. 1876; M.P. for Oxford 3 April 1880 to Sept. 1881; justice of chancery div. of high court of justice 6 Sept. 1881; knighted at Windsor castle 7 Dec. 1881; lord justice of appeal 9 Jany. 1897 to death; P.C. 15 Jany. 1897; umpire at Oxford and Cambridge boat race 1857-81. d. 33 Queen's gate gardens, Hyde park, London 15 Feb. 1899. bur. Brookwood cemet. Foster's Oxford men 1893 prt.; Law quarterly review, April 1899 pp. 128-9; Men and women of the time 1899 p. 200; Law gazette 4 June 1891 p. 45 prt.; Vanity Fair 28 March 1885 prt., 10 July 1886 p. 17; The rowing almanack 1900 p. 156; I.L.N. 25 Feb. 1899 p. 259 prt., 25 March p. 430; Men of mark 1883 p. 28 prt. CHOLMELEY, WILLIAM (4 son of rev. Robert Cholmeley 1780-1852, R. of Wainflete, Lincs. 1817-52). b. 30 March 1823; educ. St. Bartholomew's hosp.; M.R.C.S. 1844; M.D. St. Andrews 1850; consulting phys. in Russell sq. and Grosvenor st. London many years; chief founder of Great Northern central hospital, Holloway road, London 1856, senior phys. to death; edited Medical times and gazette ten years. d. 71 Clarendon road, Notting hill, London 18 June 1896. Times 23 June 1896 p. 12.

CHOLMLEY, GEORGE (2 son of Henry Hopkins Fane, who assumed name of Cholmley 1791 and d. 1809). b. Dec. 1782; cornet 7 light dragoons 11 June 1801, major 27 April 1809, sold out 7 May 1812; colonel 3rd West York militia 27 Jany. 1820 to 18 Sept. 1852. d. Howsham, east riding of Yorkshire 24 Nov. 1857. Michell's Rugby school register 1901 i p. 118; Times 27 Nov. 1857 p. 1.

CHOLMONDELEY, THOMAS GRENVILLE (2 son of 1 baron Delamere 1767-1855). b. 4 Aug. 1818; educ. Rugby; ensign 43 foot 3 April 1835, captain 21 July 1843, sold out Aug. 1850; lieut. col. 1st royal Cheshire militia 1 Oct. 1852 to death. d. Abbot's Moss, Northwich, Cheshire 9 Feb. 1883. Times 13 Feb. 1883 p. 1.

CHRETIEN, CHARLES PETER (2 son of Joseph Chretien of London). b. 1820; educ. King's coll. sch. London, head boy and Brasenose coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; fellow of Oriel coll. 1843-64, tutor 1848-60, dean 1850-9; ordained deacon 1844, priest 1846; R. of Cholderton, near Salisbury 1860-75; select preacher at Oxf. 1859-61; author of An essay on logical method 1848; Lectures on the study of theology 1851; The letter and the spirit six sermons on the inspiration of holy scripture 1861; Evidences for those who think and feel more than they can read, printed Oct. 1861, included in the volume Tracts for priests and people by various writers, 2nd series 1862. d. Bexley, Kent May 1893. Times 25 May 1893 p. 10; I.L.N. 3 June 1893 p. 676.

CHRISTIAN, EWAN. b. 20 Sept. 1814; architect in London 1843 to death; architect to Ecclesiastical commissioners 10 Whitehall place 1854 to death; designed new National portrait gallery in St. Martin's place, opened 4 April 1896; exhibited 19 designs at R.A. 1833-79; F.R.I.B.A.; resided at Hampstead nearly 50 years. d. Thwaitehead, 50 Well walk, Hampstead 21 Feb. 1895. Mag. of art 1895 p. 240 prt. ; The Guardian 6 March 1895

P. 359. CHRISTIAN, JONATHAN (son of George Christian of Dublin, solicitor). b. Carrickon-Suir, Tipperary 17 Feb. 1811; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister Kings Inns, Dublin 1834; Q.C. 21 Dec. 1846; third serjeant-atlaw, June 1851 to 1855; solicitor general for Ireland, March 1856 to Feb. 1858; justice of court of Common Pleas, Ireland, Feb. 1858 to 30 March 1867; lord justice of appeal in chancery 30 March 1867, retired 11 Nov. 1878; granted pension of £2,666 13 4, 1 Dec. 1878; P.C. Ireland 1867. d. 35 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 29 Oct. 1887. Men of the time 1887 p. 228; I.L.N. 5 Nov. 1887 p. 540, 3 Dec. p. 649; Irish law times 5 Nov. 1887 p. 589.

CHRISTIE, ALBANY JAMES (1 son of Albany Henry Christie of Chelsea). b. 1817 or 1818; entered Oriel coll. Oxf. as Bible clerk 2 July 1835, matric. same day; Michel scholar of Queen's coll.; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; fellow of Oriel 24 April 1840 to 1845; a member of society of Jesus; ordained priest; attached to Jesuit ch. in Farm st. and Mount st. London about 1868 to death; author of Two lectures on the papacy. Preston 1857; The martyrdom of St. Cecily: a drama 1865, 6 ed. 1876; Union with Rome: five afternoon lectures 1869; The first Christmas: a mystery

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play 1876; The end of man: a poem in four books 1886, 4 ed. 1888 and other books. d. at presbytery of the Jesuits, 111 Mount st. London about 6 May 1891. bur. cemet. of St. Thomas's ch. Fulham. Merry England, June 1891 p. 145; Times 14 May 1891 p. 7.

CHRISTIE, ALEXANDER. b. Montrose about 1841; captain in the merchant marine; traded to China and the East; author of 3 autobiographical tales under name of Lindsay Anderson, his wife's and mother's maiden names, Among typhoons and pirate craft 1891; A cruise in an opium clipper 1891; Allan Gordon from cabin boy to quarter deck 1892 and of articles in magazines. d. 247 Mile End road, London 6 Oct. 1895. Ralph Thomas's Swimming 1904 p. 395.

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CHRISTIE, EDWARD RICHARD. b. 1858 or 1859; educ. Ch. coll. Camb., B.A. 1882, M.A. 1886; ordained deacon 1882, priest 1883; C. of St. John the Evangelist, Clapham, London 1882-3; head master of West Kent gr. sch. Brockley 1885 and of Magd. coll. sch. Oxford, Nov. 1886 to 1888; author of Sketches of Cambridge in verse 1879; The prince imperial 1880. d. Wandsworth, London 19 April 1889. The Guardian 1 May 1889 p. 676. CHRISTIE, GEORGE HENRY (son of James Christie of 8 King st. St. James's, London, auctioneer 1773-1831). b. 1811; educ. Eton; auctioneer of pictures and works of art at 8 King st. with his brother, James Stirling Christie 1831, he d. 1834; partner with Wm. Manson 1831 till his death 19 June 1852; partner with Edward Manson, retired 1863. d. Framingham manor house, near Norwich 29 Nov. 1887. Times 2 Dec. 1887 p. 7.

CHRISTIE, JAMES. b. 1828; educ. Glasgow univ., B.A. 1856, M.A. 1857, M.D. 1860; FF.P.S. Glasgow 1877; phys. to Sultan of Zanzibar about 1870-76; professor of physiology, Anderson's coll. Glasgow 1884-91; medical officer of health at Hillhead, Glasgow 1878 to death; author of Cholera epidemics in East Africa: an account of the several diffusions of the disease in that country from 1821 till 1872. 1876. d. 2 Jany. 1892. Addison's Glasgow graduates 1898 p. 106. CHRISTIE, JOHN. b. 1824 or 1825; ordained; D.D.; member of Aberdeen school board many years; professor of divinity and church history, Aberdeen univ. 1877 to death. d. Aberdeen 24 May 1889. Aurora Borealis academica 1899 pp. 176-80 prt.; The Guardian 29 May 1889 p. 850.

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CHRISTOPHERS, SAMUEL WOOLCOCK. Falmouth 25 April 1810; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1835; minister in Cornwall 1835-45, at Plymouth 1845-8, Devonport 1848-51, Exeter 1851-4, Manchester 1854-60, Great Queen st. London 1861-4, Croydon 1864-7, Liverpool 1867-70, Redruth 1872-5, at Formby near Liverpool 1879 to death; author of Hymn-writers and their hymns 1866; Homes of old English writers 1873; The poets of Methodism 1875, new ed. 1877; From out of the deeps by an old Cornish boy 1875, new ed. 1877; The new Methodist hymn book and its writers 1876. d. Trevorra Formby, near Liverpool 14 Aug. 1889. Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis 1874 i 69; Minutes of conference 1890 p. 13.

CHURCH, JABEZ (son of Jabez Church of Westminster, gas and water engineer, pres. of Soc. of engineers 1872-4). b. Chelmsford 1845; articled to his father, partner with him till his death; engineer of many gas works; designed and erected waterworks at Henley-on-Thames, Great Marlow, Clactonon-Sea, Barton-on-Humber, Braintree, Halstead and Goring, also the Mid-Sussex waterworks; pres. of Soc. of engineers 1882-4. d. 17 Holland park gardens, London 20 March 1896. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxxv 399 (1896); Times 24 March 1896 p. 10. CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1 son of John Dearman Church of Lisbon, merchant, d. 1828). b. Lisbon 25 April 1815; educ. Redland, near Bristol 1828-33 and Wadham coll. Oxf., Somerscales exhib. 1834, 1835; Hody Greek exhib. 1836-8; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, hon. D.C.L. 1875; fellow of Oriel coll. 183852, tutor 1839-42, hon. fellow 1873, junior proctor 1844-5; ordained deacon 1838, priest 1852; R. of Whatley, Somerset, Jany. 1853 to Sept. 1871; chaplain to bishop of Salisbury 1869-85; dean of St. Paul's 26 Sept. 1871 to

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death, installed 17 Oct.; one of founders of The Guardian, weekly paper 21 Jany. 1846; a leading member of high church party; author of The catechetical lectures of St. Cyril, translated with notes 1841; Essays and reviews 1854; Saint Anselm 1870; Spenser 1879; Dante and other essays 1888; Miscellaneous writings, 5 vols. 1888; History of the Oxford movement: twelve years 1833-45. 1891 and many other books. d. Dover 10 Dec. 1890. bur. Whatley churc-h yard, prt. by E. Miller lent to Victorian exhibition, opened in London 2 Dec. 1891, prt. in small common room of Oriel college. Life and letters of Dean Church, edited by his daughter, M. C. Church 1894 prt.; Lathbury's Dean Church 1905 prt.; Donaldson's Five great Oxford leaders 1900; The Anglican pulpit of to-day 1886 pp. 187-99; Vanity Fair 30 Jany. 1886 prt.; Rannie's Oriel college 1900 pp. 209, 223; Church portrait journal 1884, v p. 9 prt.; I.L.N. 13 Dec. 1890 p. 740 prt.

CHURCH, WILLIAM. b. state of Vermont, U.S.A. 1779; an M.D.; mechanical engineer at Birmingham 1824-59; took out 20 patents 1824-52. d. Vermont 6 Oct. 1863, prt. by John Moore exhibited at R.A. 1837. Prosser's Birmingham inventors 1881 p. 234; Birmingham Daily post 23 April 1864, memoir, reprinted in Mechanic's mag. 6 May 1864.

CHURCHILL, ALFRED SPENCER (2 son of 6 duke of Marlborough 1793-1857). b. 24 April 1824; cornet 4 light dragoons 1 July 1842; lieut. 83 foot 2 April 1847, sold out 19 Sept. 1848; M.P. for Woodstock 18 Dec. 1845 to 23 July 1847 and 24 July 1857 to 20 March 1865; contested Brecknock 4 Oct. 1866; adjutant Oxfordshire yeomanry cavalry 21 Oct. 1848, lieut. col. 25 April 1860 to March 1866; member of Soc. of arts 1862, chairman of council 1875-6 and 1878-80. d. 16 Rutland gate, London 21 Sept. 1893. bur. churchyard of Stanford, Worcestershire. Journal of Soc. of arts 29 Sept. 1893 p. 948, 6 Oct. p. 964; I.L.N. 30 Sept. 1893 p. 426, 7 Oct. p. 439 prt. CHURCHILL, RANDOLPH HENRY SPENCER (3 son of 7 duke of Marlborough 1822-83). b. Blenheim palace 13 Feb. 1849; educ. Eton 1863-5 and Merton coll. Oxf. 1867-70; B.A. 1871, M.A. 1874; hon. LL.D. 1888; kept a pack of harriers at Blenheim 1867–69; M.P. for Woodstock 4 Feb. 1874 to 18 Nov. 1885; contested Central div. of Birmingham 24 Nov. 1885; M.P. for South div. of Paddington 25 Nov. 1885 to death; leader of the Fourth party in house of commons 1880-5, said to consist of 17 sheep and 4 shepherds;

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chairman of council of National union of conservative associations 15 Feb. to 31 July 1884; sec. of state for India 24 June 1885 to 1 Feb. 1886; chancellor of exchequer and leader of house of commons 22 July to 22 Dec. 1886; partner with earl of Dunraven as owners of racehorses 1881-91, they won with L'Abbesse de Jouarre, Newmarket May plate 1888, the Oaks 1889 and Prince of Wales handicap at Sandown 1890; travelled in South Africa, April to Dec. 1891; author of Plain politics for the working classes. Edited by E. A. Arnold 1885; Men, mines and animals in South Africa 1892, 4 ed. 1895. d. 50 Grosvenor sq. London 24 Jany. 1895. bur. Bladon churchyard, near Blenheim, prt. by E. Long, R.A. in Constitutional club, London, prt. by A. Hartley belongs to Earl of Rosebery, prt. by E. Ward belongs to Lord Tweedmouth, marble bust in members' corridor of house of commons unveiled 18 April 1898, statue by W. Story in chapel at Blenheim. WV. S. Churchill's Lord R. Churchill, 2 vols. 1906, 14 prts.; Jennings' Speeches of Lord R. Churchill, 2 vols. 1889; Crozier's Lord R. Churchill: a study of English democracy 1887; Escott's Lord R. Churchill as a product of his age 1895; Smalley's London letters 1890, i 187-206; Anderson's Scenes in the house of commons 1884 pp. 193-201; Stead's Portraits and autographs 1890 p. 48 prt.; C. Brown's Life of Beacons field 1882, ii 306 prt.; Baily's mag. Nov. 1890 pp. 289-93 prt.; Strand mag. Feb. 1895 p. 190, 4 prts.; St. James's Budget 25 Jany. 1895 p. 1, full page prt.; Vanity Fair 10 July 1880 prt., 5 Jany. 1889 prt.; Pall Mall budget 17 April 1890 p. 481 and 12 Feb. 1891, full page prts.; I.L.N. 14 Aug. 1886 p. 161, full page prt., 2 Feb. 1895 pp. 129, 141, full page prt. and supplement, 5 prts.

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CHURTON, WILLIAM RALPH (son of Edward Churton 1800-74, archdeacon of Cleveland 1846-74). b. 1836 or 1837; educ. Eton and King's coll. Camb., scholar 19 April 1856, fellow 1859, senior fellow 1877 to death, the first tutor under statute of 1861, 1865-7, dean 1865-79; 15th wrangler 1860; B.A. 1860, M.A. 1863, BD. 1873; D.D. Trin. coll. Hartford, Connecticut; ordained deacon 1860, priest 1861; C. of St. George's, Kidderminster 1860-4; C. of Great St. Mary's, Camb. 1864-85; C. of St. Luke's, Chesterton 1886 to death; exam. chaplain to bishops of St. Albans 1860 to death; hon. canon of Rochester 1871-7; canon of St. Albans 1877

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to death; author of The influence of the Septuagint version of the Old Testament upon the progress of Christianity 1861; Commentary on the Old Testament as far as Exodus xx 1876; The Septuagint or the oldest version of the Hebrew scriptures 1877; The uncanonical and apocryphal scriptures 1884 and other books. d. suddenly while riding in an omnibus in Long Acre, London 24 May 1897. bur. Mill road cemet. Camb. Withers's Register of admissions to King's college, Cambridge 1903 p. 12; Guardian 26 May 1897 p. 823, 2 June pp. 864, 867, 885.

CLABON, JOHN MOXON. b. 1815; admitted attorney and solicitor 1837; practised in London to death; partner with J. P. Fearon as parliamentary agents 21 Great George st. 1846 to Fearon's death 17 Nov. 1873; director of Equity and law life assurance soc. 1853, deputy chairman 1864, chairman Dec. 1878 to death; solicitor to attorney general in charity matters and to charity comrs. 1873 to death; senior grand deacon of Freemasons. 1866; pres. of Freemasons board of benevolence many years; vice-pres. of Incorporated law soc. 1879-80, pres. 1880-1; author of Praise, precept and prayer: a book of family worship 1862; Small sermons on great texts 1881 and 2 other small books, also of 7 papers written for annual provincial meetings of Incorp. law soc. 1874-80. d. Clare bank, Granville road, Sevenoaks 16 Nov. 1898. Law Journal 26 Nov. 1898 p. 582, 14 Jany. 1899 p. 28, 18 March p. 170; Times 19 Nov. 1898 p. 11.

CLACK, RICHARD AUGUSTUS (son of a Devonshire clergyman). Portrait painter in London about 1830-44, at Exeter 1844-56, then at Hampstead; exhibited 27 pictures at R. A., 5 at B.I, and 14 at S.S. 1827-75. d. 1881. G. Pycroft's Art in Devonshire 1883 p. 20. CLANCARTY, RICHARD SOMERSET LE POER TRENCH, 4 Earl of (1 child of 3 earl of Clancarty 1803-72). b. Dublin 13 Jany. 1834; educ. Cheltenham coll. 1846-52 and Trin. coll. Camb.; captain Galway militia 6 June 1853, lieut. col. 14 Nov. 1865, hon. col. 31 Jany. 1877 to death; succeeded 26 April 1872. d. 34 Lennox gardens, London 29 May 1891. bur. Highgate old cemet. Evans's Our old nobility, 5 ed. 1907 pp. 280-3; I.L.N. 6 June 1891 p. 758.

CLAPHAM, JOHN PEELE (son of Wm. Clapham of Leeds). b. Leeds 7 July 1801; treasurer of 17 county courts in Yorkshire to death; an active promoter of religious, educational and philanthropic objects; edited Leeds

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Sunday school hymn book 1833 and revised ed. 1862, to which he contributed 21 hymns under signature of J.P.C. d. Ilkley 19 Nov. 1875. Smith's Old Yorkshire 1881 pp. 218-20; Julian's A dict. of hymnology 1892 p. 234.

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CLAPPERTON, JAMES BUNCLE. assistant surgeon Bengal army 19 Dec. 1812, surgeon 6 Jany. 1825; superintending surgeon Barrackpore 23 July 1843 to 26 Aug. 1853; inspector general of hospitals 26 Aug. 1853 to 10 April 1857, surgeon general 10 April 1857, retired 13 Feb. 1858. d. 3 Buckland villas, Belsize park, Hampstead 20 Jany. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. March 1869 p. 250. CLAREMONT, EDWARD STOPFORD. b. 24 Jany. 1819; ensign 1 foot 9 Feb. 1838, lieut. 16 July 1841; lieutenant Canadian rifle regiment 8 March 1844, captain 14 Nov. 1845, placed on h.p 10 Aug. 1855; D.A.A.G. Canada 1 May 1845 to 31 May 1848 and 9 Sept. 1848 to 31 March 1851; assist. queen's comr. headquarters of French army in Crimea 11 May 1854 to 18 Aug. 1855; C.B. 13 Oct. 1855; military attaché at Paris 1 Oct. 1858, being the first military attaché at any embassy, resigned 16 March 1871; a groom of privy chamber to the queen 1 Oct. 1862 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877, retired with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; colonel of Bedfordshire reg. 2 March 1883 to death. d. 122 Avenue les champs elysées, Paris 16 July 1890. I.L.N. 26 July 1890 p. 102, 27 Sept. p. 412.

CLARINA, EYRE CHALLONER HENRY MASSEY, 4 Baron (1 son of 3 baron Clarina 1798-1872). b. Baker st. Marylebone, London 29 April 1830; educ. Eton; ensign 68 foot 8 Oct. 1847; lieut. 7 foot 21 Nov. 1851; lieut. 31 foot 30 July 1852, captain 14 Jany. 1853; captain 95 foot 30 June 1854, major 17 Nov. 1857 to 1 April 1873; D.A.Q.M.G. Crimea 11 Jany. to 21 June 1856; served in Indian mutiny 1858; lieut col. 97 foot 1 April 1873, placed on h.p. 9 Sept. 1874; commanded Ireland 15 Jany. to 30 Sept. 1881 and Dublin district 1 Oct. 1881 to 31 March 1886; L.G. 5 Nov. 1885, general 28 Jany. 1891; placed on retired list I April 1891; colonel of Durham light infantry 11 Nov. 1895 to death; succeeded 18 Nov. 1872; C.B. 21 June 1887; a repres. peer for Ireland 21 Feb. 1889 to death. d. 59 Albert bridge road, Battersea, London 16 Dec. 1897. Times 17 Dec. 1897 p. 10; I.L.N. 12 March 1898 p. 384.

CLARK, SIR ANDREW, 1 Baronet (son of

Andrew Clark of Ednie, parish of St. Fergus,

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Aberdeenshire, surgeon, who d. 1833 or 1834). b. Aberdeen 28 Oct. 1826; apprenticed to Dr. Webster of Dundee; M.R.C.S. 1844 ; asst. surgeon R.N. 1 Sept. 1846, retired 1853; curator of museum of London hosp. 1853, assistant phys. 1854, phys. 14 Aug. 1866 to 1886; M.D. Aberdeen 1854; M.R.C.P. 1854, F.R.C.P. 1858, Croonian lecturer 1868, Lumleian lecturer 1885, pres. 26 March 1888 to death; had largest practice of any phys. in London; practised at 16 Cavendish sq. 1867 to death; created baronet 6 Aug. 1883; F.R.S. 4 June 1885; pres. of Royal med. and chir. soc. 1892 to death. d. 16 Cavendish sq. London 6 Nov. 1893. bur. Essendon, near Hatfield, prts. by Frank Holl, R.A. and G. F. Watts, R.A. Trans. of Medico Chirurgical soc., vol. lxxvii 1894, memoir by W. S. Church; Journal of pathology and bacteriology 1894, ii 265, memoir by S. Delépine and list of 100 papers; R. Lehmann's An artist's reminiscences 1894 pp. 281-5; Men of mark 1878 p. 29 prt.; Strand mag. Jany. 1894 pp. 65-76, 2 prts.; Mug. of art 1894 p. 269, full page prt.; I.L. N. 11 Nov. 1893 p. 595 prt., 622, 30 Dec. p. 842, 12 May 1894 p. 594 prt.

CLARK, ANDREW RUTHERFURD (2 son of rev. Thomas Clark, D.D., minister of St. Andrew's ch. Edinb.) b. 1828; member of Scotch bar 1849; advocate depute 1851-2, 1853-8, 1859-60; sheriff of Inverness 2 Oct. 1860, of Haddington and Berwick 21 Nov. 1862 to Oct. 1869; solicitor general for Scotland 14 Oct. 1869 to 4 March 1874; dean of faculty of advocates, March 1874; lord of session as lord Rutherfurd Clark, May 1875, resigned 1896. d. suddenly in his library at Inveresk house, Musselburgh 26 July 1899. Times 27 July 1899 p. 6; I.L.N. 4 Nov. 1899 p. 662. CLARK, DANIEL KINNEAR. b. 1821; civil engineer at 11 Adam st. Adelphi, London 1855-72 and at 8 Buckingham st. Strand 1872 to death; M.I C.E.; M.I.M.E.; author of Railway machinery: a treatise on the mechanical engineering of railways, 2 vols. 1855; Railway locomotives: their progress, mechanical construction and performance, 2 vols. 1856-60; Manual of rules for mechanical engineers 1877, 3 ed. 1884; Tramways: their construction and working, 2 vols. 1878-81; The steam engine, 2 vols. 1893 and other books. d. 8 Buckingham st. Strand, London 22 Jany. 1896. Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. 1896 cxxiv 409-13.

CLARK, EDWARD. b. 1831 or 1832; architect in London; designed The Bedford music hall, Grove st. Camden Town, opened Sept. 1861,

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The Forresters music hall, Cambridge road, Whitechapel, opened 13 April 1870 and other halls in London and the country; Collins's, Standard and Sebright music halls, all in London, were rebuilt from his plans. d. suddenly at Royal Alhambra palace, Leicester sq. London 9 July 1894. The Era 14 July 1894.

CLARK, EDWIN (1 son of Josiah Clark, a pillow lace manufacturer at Marlow). b. Marlow 7 Jany. 1814; studied at Cambridge two years; mathematical master at Coombe Wood and then at Brook Green, Hammersmith 1839-45; resident engineer of Britannia and Conway tubular bridges 1846-50; chief engineer to Electric telegraph co. Aug. 1850 to about 1860; invented and patented the hydraulic graving dock and canal lift; constructed the great dock at Bombay and others at Malta and London; designed the great swing bridges at Arnheim, Lyons and Rochester, Aire tubular bridge and Scarborough viaduct; original inventor of block system of signalling 1853; laid cable from Dungeness to Holland; erected telegraph for chief English railways; laid out a general plan of railways for Russia 1856; engineer to Crystal palace co. and completed building of the palace after the fire 1868; M.I C.E. 3 Dec. 1850, Telford medallist 1866; his contracts amounted to 5 millions in 1873; retired 1876; travelled in South America 1876-8; F.R.A.S. 9 July 1858; his translation into French of The chronicles of the Canongate was published in France 1828; author of The Britannia and Conway tubular bridges, 2 vols. 1850, atlas folio; A visit to South America 1878. d. from internal cancer at his residence, Cromwell house, Marlow 22 Oct. 1894. Knight's Biography, supplement 1872 p. 384; Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. 1895, cxx 344-54; Monthly notices of Royal astronom. soc. lv 190-2 (1895).

CLARK, FREDERICK LE GROS (youngest child of a merchant of Mincing lane, city of London). b. Mincing lane 7 Feb. 1811; apprenticed to Benjamin Travers, senior surgeon to St. Thomas's hospital, Feb. 1827; M.C.S. 1833, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council July 1864 to 1879; professor of human anatomy and surgery 1867, Hunterian professor of surgery and pathology 1868, examiner 1870, vice-pres. 1872, pres. 1874; studied in Paris, Edinb. and Berlin 1833-5; surgeon at Finsbury sq. London 1843-48, at Spring gardens 1848-58, at St. Thomas st. 1858-77, at Sevenoaks 1877 to death; lecturer on descriptive and surgical anatomy at St. Thomas's hosp. 1842, assistant surgeon 1843, surgeon 1853-73, consulting

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