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. 1839. d. Hotel du Louvre, Boulogne 21 Nov. 1870.
CARMICHAEL, James (son of George Carmichael of the Trongate, Glasgow, merchant). b. Glasgow, 1776; millwright with his brother Charles at Dundee 1810; fitted up first twin steam-boat for ferry across the Tay at Dundee 1821; invented planing, shaping and boring machine used at Woolwich and Portsmouth; made locomotive steam engines for Dundee and Newtyle railway 1832–3 the first locomotives made in Scotland; invented fan blast or blowing machine for heating and melting iron, brought into practical use about 1829. d. Fleuchar Craig, Dundee 14 Aug. 1853, bronze statue of him erected in Albert sq. Dundee. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 144–7; I.L.N. lxix, 245 (1876).
CARMICHAEL, Sir James Robert, 2 Baronet. b. Devonshire place, London 11 June 1817; ed. at Charterhouse and Sandhurst; succeeded 4 March 1838; a claimant to Scottish earldom of Hyndford; chairman of the Submarine and of the Mediterranean extension telegraph companies. d. 12 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 7 June 1883.
CARMICHAEL, James (or John) Wilson. b. Newcastle 1800; apprenticed to a shipbuilder; a marine painter; went to London about 1845; exhibited 21 sea pieces at R.A. 21 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1835–62; author of The art of marine painting in water colours 1859; The art of marine painting in oil colours 1864. d. Scarborough 2 May 1868.
CARMICHAEL, Sir Thomas Gibson, 12 Baronet. b. Castle Craig, Peebleshire 27 Oct. 1817; commander R.N. 9 Nov. 1846; succeeded 8 May 1850. d. Civita Vecchia, Italy 30 Dec. 1855.
CARNAC, John Rivett. b. 28 June 1796; Midshipman 29 April 1812; captain 10 Jany. 1837; retired V.A. 30 Nov. 1863. d. 34 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 1 Jany. 1869.
CARNAC, Sir John Rivett, 2 Baronet (son of Sir James Rivett Carnac, 1 baronet 1784–1846). b. Baroda, East Indies 10 Aug. 1818; succeeded 28 Jany. 1846; M.P. for Lymington 1852 to 1860. d. Winchester 4 Aug. 1883. I.L.N. xxii, 293 (1853), portrait.
CARNE, Elizabeth Catherine Thomas (4 dau. of the succeeding). b. Rivière house, Phillack, Cornwall 16 Dec. 1817; head of bank of Batten, Carne, and Carne at Penzance 1858 to death; gave site for Elizabeth or St. Paul’s schools opened at Penzance 2 Feb. 1876; founded schools at Wesley Rock, Carfury and Bosullo all near Penzance; built a museum at Penzance for her fine collection of minerals; author of Three months rest at Pau in the winter and spring of 1859 by John Altrayd Wittitterly pseud. 1860; Country towns and the place they fill in modern civilisation 1868; England’s three wants, anon. 1871; The realm of truth 1873 and of many articles in London Quarterly Review. d. Penzance 7 Sep. 1873. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 60, 1113; Geol. Mag. x, 480, 524 (1873).