Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase
1874. _d._ 17 Jany. 1886. _Biograph iii_, 6–8 (1880).
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CAREY, ROBERT (_son of Sir Octavius Carey 1785–1844, major
general_). _b._ 12 Dec. 1821; ensign 40 foot 15 Nov. 1839, major 6
Aug. 1858 to 28 Oct. 1859 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant
general in Australia 12 March 1860 to 6 Aug. 1863; D.A.G. in New
Zealand 7 Aug. 1863 to 31 March 1866; M.G. 22 July 1869; deputy
judge advocate 1 Aug. 1870 to 31 March 1882; C.B. 2 May 1862,
granted Service reward 8 March 1875. _d._ 17 Belgrave road, London
25 Jany. 1883.
CARFRAE, JOHN. Entered Madras army 1797; colonel 50 Madras N.I. 15
May 1834 to death; general 5 March 1859; author of _The pilgrim of
sorrow being a collection of odes, lyrics, etc._ 1848. _d._ Bower
house, Dunbar 29 Aug. 1860.
CARGILL, JASPER FARMER. Barrister M.T. 11 June 1841; a revising
barrister at Kingston, Jamaica 1848; acting chairman of quarter
sessions there 1855; judge of supreme court, Jamaica 1856 to
death. _d._ Kingston 27 Nov. 1871 in 65 year.
CARINGTON, ROBERT JOHN CARINGTON, 2 Baron (_only son of Robert
Smith, 1 Baron Carington 1752–1838_). _b._ St. James’s place,
London 16 Jany. 1796; ed. at Eton and Christ’s coll. Cam., M.A.
1815; M.P. for Wendover 1818–20, for Bucks 1820–31, for Chipping
Wycombe 1831 to 18 Sep. 1838 when he succeeded his father; F.R.S.
14 Feb. 1839; col. of Royal Bucks. militia 7 March 1839 to death;
took surname of Carington in lieu of Smith by royal license 26
Aug. 1839; lord lieutenant of Bucks. 20 Feb. 1839 to death. _d._
Wycombe abbey, Bucks. 17 March 1868.
CARLETON, JOHN WILLIAM. Cornet 4 dragoons 2 July 1807, lieut. 11
April 1809 to 5 June 1817 when placed on h.p.; the first editor of
the _Sporting Review_ 1839; edited _The sporting sketch book_
1842; published under pseudonym of “Craven” _Hyde Marston, or a
sportsman’s life 3 vols._ 1844 which is autobiographical;
_Recreations in shooting with some account of the game of the
British isles_ 1846. _d._ Hayes, Middlesex 29 May 1856. _Sporting
Review iii_, 3 (1840), _portrait_.
CARLETON, JOHN WILLIAM (_eld. son of Andrew Carleton of Hermitage,
co. Leitrim_). _b._ Hermitage 1812; ed. at Elphin and Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1856; called to Irish bar Jany. 1839; Q.C.
4 July 1860; author of _A practical treatise on the law of
judgment and judgment debts in Ireland_ 1844; _The law relating to
the qualification and registration of parliamentary voters in
Ireland_ 1852; _A compendium of the practice at elections of
members to serve in Parliament as regulated by the several
statutes in force in Ireland_ 1857, _6 ed._ 1865. _d._ Dublin 11
Nov. 1878.
CARLETON, REV. RICHARD (_youngest son of 1 Baron Dorchester
1724–1808_). _b._ Portman sq. London 10 Feb. 1792; ed. at Trin.
hall Cam., M.A. 1811; R. of Boughton, co. Northampton 1819–43; R.
of Nateley-Scures, Hants. 1819 to death; F.R.S. 9 Feb. 1826. _d._
Brighton 2 Feb. 1869.
CARLETON, WILLIAM (_youngest child of Mr. Carleton of Prillisk near
Clogher, co. Tyrone, farmer_). _b._ Prillisk 20 Feb. 1798; private
tutor in family of a farmer named Murphy in co. Louth; settled at
Dublin 1830; granted a civil list pension of £200, 14 July 1848;
author of _Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry_ 1830, _2
series_ 1833, _11 ed._ 1876; _Tales of Ireland_ 1834; _Fardorougha
the miser_ 1839, dramatised and produced at a Dublin theatre;
_Valentine McClutchy the Irish agent 3 vols._ 1845, _3 ed._ 1859;
_The Squanders of Castle Squander 2 vols._ 1852, _2 ed._ 1873.
_d._ Woodville, Sandford, Dublin 30 Jany. 1869. _Dublin Univ. Mag.
xvii_, 66–72 (1841), _portrait, xxvi_, 737–47 (1845).
CARLETON, WILLIAM. _b._ Dublin about 1835; made his début in America
26 Feb. 1866 as a vocalist at Tony Pastor’s opera house Bowery New
York, and as an actor Feb. 1868 at the Worrell Sisters theatre
N.Y. in drama of _Pickwick_; author of many Irish plays, farces
and songs; _committed suicide_ by suffocation in New York, Aug.
1885.
CARLILE, REV. JAMES. _b._ Paisley 1784; ed. at Glasgow Univ. D.D.;
minister of the Scots church St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 1813 to
death; acted as their missionary to Parsonstown 1839–51; resident
comr. to Irish Board of education 1830–9; author of _Examination
of arguments for Roman Catholic episcopacy_ 1815; _Letters on the
divine origin and authority of scripture 2 vols._ 1833; _Manual of
the anatomy and physiology of the human mind_ 1851, _2 ed._ 1859.
_d._ Dublin 31 March 1854. _Rev. J. Carlile’s Station and
occupation of the saints in their final glory_ (1854) _pp. v-xxxv
and_ 139–65.
CARLILE, REV. WARRAND (_12 child of James Carlile of Paisley, thread
manufacturer_). _b._ Paisley 12 Nov. 1796; ed. at Glasgow Univ.;
licensed by presbytery of Paisley; Presbyterian minister at Carlow
1836–42; missionary at Brownsville Hanover, Jamaica, Jany. 1843 to
death; visited the United States 1854 and England 1858 and 1863.
_d._ Brownsville 25 Aug. 1881. _Thirty-eight years mission life in
Jamaica, a brief sketch of the Rev. W. Carlile by One of his sons_
(1884).
CARLISLE, GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK Howard, 7 Earl of (_eld. son of 6
Earl of Carlisle 1773–1848_). _b._ Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 18
April 1802; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827;
M.P. for Morpeth 1826–30, for Yorkshire 1830–2 and for West Riding
of Yorkshire 1832–41 and 4 Feb. 1846 to 7 Oct. 1848 when he
succeeded; chief sec. for Ireland 22 April 1835 to 6 Sep. 1841;
P.C. 20 May 1835; P.C. Ireland 30 Sep. 1835; chief comr. of woods
and forests 6 July 1846 to March 1850; lord lieut. of East riding
of Yorkshire 22 July 1847; F.R.S. 3 June 1847; chancellor of Duchy
of Lancaster 6 March 1850 to Feb. 1852; lord rector of Univ. of
Aberdeen March 1853; K.G. 7 Feb. 1855; lord lieut. of Ireland 28
Feb. 1855 to 26 Feb. 1858 and 18 June 1859 to Oct. 1864; grand
master of order of St. Patrick 1855–8 and 1859–64; author of
_Diary in Turkish and Greek waters_ 1854; _Daniel’s second vision;
paraphrase in verse_ 1858. _d._ Castle Howard, Malton, Yorkshire 5
Dec. 1864. _My reminiscences by Lord Ronald Gower i_, 111–95
(1883); _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland iii_, 125–88 (1872);
_Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, 2 series i_, 131–61
(1877); _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876)
131–42; _Orators of the age by G. H. Francis_ (1847) 206–16;
_Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_, 278–80 (1854), _iii_, 317–32
(1854); _Drawing room portrait gallery_, _2 series_ (1859),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xxvi_, 280 (1855), _portrait_.
CARLOS, EDWARD JOHN (_only child of Wm. Carlos of Newington,
Middlesex_). _b._ Newington 12 Feb. 1798; an attorney in City of
London 1820 to death; contributed to _Gent. Mag._ reviews of
architectural books 1822–48 and a series of descriptions of new
churches in London 1824–33; author of _Historical and antiquarian
notices of Crosby hall_ 1832; _G. Skelton’s Oxonia restaurata_, _2
ed._ 1843; author with W. Knight of _An account of London bridge
with observations on its architecture during its demolition_ 1832.
_d._ York place, Walworth, London 20 Jany. 1851.
CARLYLE, JANE BAILLIE (_only child of John Welsh of Haddington,
surgeon 1776–1819_). _b._ Haddington 14 July 1801; ed. at
Haddington school; known from her wit and beauty as ‘the flower of
Haddington.’ (_m._ at Templand 17 Oct. 1826, Thomas Carlyle
1795–1881); lived at 5 Cheyne row, Chelsea 10 June 1834 to death.
_d._ in her carriage in Hyde park, London 21 April 1866. _bur._ at
Haddington. _Letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited
by J. A. Froude 3 vols._ 1883, _portrait_; _Graphic xxiii_, 160
(1881), _portrait_.
CARLYLE, JOHN AITKEN (_2 son of James Carlyle of Ecclefechan,
Dumfriesshire, mason 1757–1832_). _b._ Ecclefechan 7 July 1801;
ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1825; travelling physician to Countess
of Clare 1831–7, to Duke of Buccleuch 1838–43; published _Dante’s
Divine comedy, the Inferno with the text of the original collated
from the best editions and explanatory notes_ 1849, _3 ed._ 1882;
edited _Irving’s History of Scottish poetry_ 1861; made over in
1878 to acting committee of Association for better endowment of
Univ. of Edin. £1,600 to found 2 medical bursaries of not less
than £25 each tenable for one year. _d._ Dumfries 15 Dec. 1879.
_Graphic xxiii_, 160 (1881), _portrait_.
CARLYLE, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Ecclefechan 4
Dec. 1795; ed. at Annan school and Univ. of Edinburgh; teacher of
mathematics in a school at Annan 1814–6; schoolmaster at Kirkcaldy
1816–8; studied law at Edin. and took pupils 1819–22; tutor to
Arthur and Charles Buller 1822–4; lived at 21 Comely bank close to
Edinburgh 1826–8, at Craigenputtock 16 miles from Dumfries
1828–34, at 5 Cheyne row, Chelsea 10 June 1834 to death; gave
lectures in London, May 1837, 1838, 1839 and 1840; lord rector of
Univ. of Edin. Nov. 1865, installed 29 March 1866; pres. of
Edinburgh philosophical institution 1868 and 1877; pres. of London
library, St. James’s sq. London, July 1870 to death, having been
the first person to suggest formation of the library; received
Prussian order of Merit, Feb. 1874; author of _Life of Schiller_
1825, _2 ed._ 1845; _Wilhelm Meister’s apprenticeship 3 vols._
1824; _Sartor Resartus_ 1835; _History of the French revolution 3
vols._ 1837; _Life and letters of Oliver Cromwell 2 vols._ 1845;
_The life of Frederick the Great 6 vols._ 1858–65. _d._ 5 Cheyne
row, Chelsea 5 Feb. 1881, the house was renumbered 24 in Sep. or
Oct. 1881. _bur._ Ecclefechan churchyard 10 Feb. _Thomas Carlyle,
a history of the first 40 years of his life by J. A. Froude 2
vols._ 1882, _portraits_; _Thomas Carlyle, a history of his life
in London by J. A. Froude 2 vols._ 1884, _portraits_; _Memoir by
R. H. Shepherd 2 vols._ 1881; _J. B. Crozier’s Religion of the
future_ (1880) 1–104; _Obiter dicta_ (1884) 1–54; _R. H. Horne’s
New spirit of the age ii_, 253–80 (1844) _portrait_; _Biographical
Mag. i_, 1–22 (1877); _The Maclise portrait gallery by W. Bates_
(1883) 172–8, _portrait_; _Dict. of national biog. ix_, 111–27
(1887).
NOTE.—On the eightieth anniversary of his birth, 4 Dec. 1875,
a gold medal was struck in his honour and an address signed by
upwards of 100 men and women eminent in science, literature
and art was presented to him; a bronze statue of him by J. E.
Boehm in the public garden at end of Great Cheyne row, Chelsea
was unveiled by Professor Tyndall 26 Oct. 1882. He is drawn by
Anthony Trollope in his novel _The Warden_ under name of “Dr.
Pessimist Anticant.”
CARLYLE, THOMAS (_son of Wm. Carlyle of King’s Grange,
Kirkcudbrightshire_). _b._ King’s Grange 17 July 1803; ed. at
Annan, Dumfries and Univ. of Edin.; called to Scottish bar 1824;
practised in Edin. 1824–35; counsel for Rev. J. M. Campbell in the
Row heresy case 1831; claim to dormant title of Baron Carlyle
devolved on him Oct. 1824; named the ninth apostle of Catholic
Apostolic church, April 1835, the Apostle for North Germany 1838;
author of _An essay to illustrate the foundation of Christianity
By a Layman_ 1827; _The moral phenomena of Germany_ 1845; _A short
history of the Apostolic work_ 1851; _Our present position in
spiritual chronology_ 1853, _another ed._ 1879 and 19 other books.
_d._ Heath house, Albury, Surrey 28 Jany. 1855. _Miller’s
Irvingism i_, 14, _ii_, 416; _Athenæum 14 May 1881 p. 654_.
CARLYON, CLEMENT (_4 son of Rev. John Carlyon 1722–98, R. of
Bradwell, Essex_). _b._ Truro, Cornwall 14 April 1777; ed. at
Truro gr. sch. and Pemb. coll. Cam., tenth wrangler 1798, B.A.
1798, M.A. 1801, M.L. 1804, M.D. 1813; elected travelling bachelor
1798; physician at Truro 1806–61; mayor of Truro 5 times; author
of _Latin letters to the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge, Gottingen_
1799–1800; _Observations on the endemic typhus fever of Cornwall_
1827; _Early years and late reflections 2 vols._ 1836–43, _2 ed. 4
vols._ 1856–8; _Scripture notices and proofs_ 1838. _d._ Truro 5
March 1864. _G.M. xvi_, 797–8 (1864).
CARLYON, EDWARD AUGUSTUS (_2 son of major general Edward Carlyon of
Tregrehan near Par, Cornwall 1783–1854_). _b._ 3 June 1823;
barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1850; author of _The laws and practice of
whist by Cælebs_ [_E. A. Carlyon_] 1851, _3 ed._ 1858. _d._ Gwavas
Napier, New Zealand 4 Dec. 1874.
CARMENT, REV. DAVID (_son of James Carment of Keiss near Wick,
schoolmaster_). _b._ Keiss 28 Sep. 1772; entered King’s college
Aberdeen Nov. 1791, M.A. 1795; parish schoolmaster of Strath, Isle
of Skye 1795–9; licensed to preach by presbytery of Skye 4 April
1799; assistant minister of Croy near Inverness March 1803;
minister of Gaelic chapel in Duke st. Glasgow April 1810; minister
of parish of Roskeen 14 March 1822 to 1 Aug. 1843; a member of the
Assembly 1825; took an active part in the Disruption controversy
1842–3; minister of a church built for him in Roskeen 1845 to July
1852; author of _The fiery cross_ 1842. _d._ 26 May 1856. _J. A.
Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 147–52.
CARMICHAEL, CHARLES MONTAUBAN. _b._ 21 Sep. 1790; cornet Bengal army
27 March 1806; colonel 8 Bengal light cavalry 1852–8; L.G. 14
April 1862; colonel 20 Hussars 30 Sep. 1862 to death; C.B. 20 Dec.
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