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).