CASWALL, Rev. Henry (brother of the preceding). b. Yateley 1810; ed. at Chigwell gr. sch. and Kenyon coll. Ohio, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; ordained deacon by Bishop of Ohio 1831, being the first ordained graduate of Kenyon college; returned to England 1842, obtained a private act of parliament 6 and 7 Vict. c. 32, removing disabilities attaching to his ordination in the U.S. 31 May 1843; V. of Figheldean, Wilts. 1848–70; preb. of Salisbury 1 Feb. 1860–1870; author of America and the American church 1839, 2 ed. 1851; Mormonism and its author 1852; Scotland and the Scottish church 1853; The Western world revisited 1854. d. Franklin, Panama 17 Dec. 1870.
CATER, Thomas Orlando. Second lieut. R.A. 1 April 1809; colonel 28 Nov. 1854 to 26 May 1857 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 26 May 1857. d. Blomfield road, Maida hill, London 5 June 1862 aged 71.
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 1862. d. London 23 July 1864.
CATOR, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. Beckenham 1785; ed. at Westminster and Woolwich; second lieut. R.A. 7 May 1803, col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 1854, col. commandant 1 April 1860 to death; brigadier general 21 Feb. 1854; L.G. 25 Sep. 1859. Granted distinguished service reward 1 April 1856; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 6 Eaton place, London 11 May 1866.