CAW, John Young. b. Perth about 1810; ed. at St. Andrew’s and Trin. coll. Cam.; connected with Bank of Manchester, then with Manchester and Salford bank; member of Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 1841, librarian 1854–6; F.S.A.; author of The necessity and advantage of a bankers clearing house 1847; Some remarks on the deserted village of Oliver Goldsmith 1852. d. Fountain villa, Cheetham hill near Manchester 22 Oct. 1858.
CAWDOR, John Frederick Campbell, 1 Earl of (elder son of John Campbell 1 baron Cawdor who d. 1 June 1821 aged 71). b. London 8 Nov. 1790; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1812, D.C.L. 1841; F.R.S. 11 June 1812; M.P. for Carmarthen 20 Dec. 1813 to 1 June 1821; created Viscount Emlyn of Emlyn and Earl of Cawdor 5 Oct. 1827; lord lieut. of Carmarthenshire 15 May 1852 to death. d. Stackpoole court, Pembrokeshire 7 Nov. 1860.
CAWLEY, Charles Edward (son of Samuel Cawley of Gooden house, Middleton near Manchester). b. Gooden house 7 Feb. 1812; civil engineer in London and Manchester; engineer to Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale railway; M.I.C.E. 30 June 1846; alderman of Salford 1859 to death; arbitrator to Board of Trade 1868; M.P. for Salford 17 Nov. 1868 to death. d. The Heath, Kersal near Manchester 2 or 9 April 1877. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. l, 175–7 (1877); Graphic xv, 356 (1877), portrait.
CAY, John (eld. son of Robert Hodshon Cay of North Charlton, Northumberland, judge admiral of Scotland). b. Edinburgh 31 Aug. 1790; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; admitted advocate 1812; sheriff of Linlithgowshire 1822 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1821; member of Royal Scottish Society of Arts; author of An analysis of the Scottish reform act 2 parts 1837–40; Analysis of the burgh registration act; Outlines of the procedure at elections for members of parliament. d. Edinburgh 13 Dec. 1865. Journal of Jurisprudence x, 24 (1866).
CAYLEY, Charles Bagot (younger son of Henry Cayley of St. Petersburg, merchant 1768–1850). b. near St. Petersburg 9 July 1823; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1845; published Dante’s Divine comedy, translated in the original ternary rhyme 4 vols. 1851–5; Psyche’s Interludes 1857 a small vol. of poems; The Psalms in metre 1860; Filippo Malincontri or student life in Venetia, an autobiography translated from the Italian 2 vols. 1861; The Iliad of Homer, homometrically translated 1877; author with F. Garrido of History of political and religious persecutions 2 vols. 1876. d. suddenly of heart disease at 4 South crescent, Bloomsbury, London, night of 5–6 Dec. 1883. Athenæum ii, 776, 817 (1883).
Note.—An accurate likeness of him exists in Ford Madox Brown’s fresco in the Manchester town hall, of Wm. Crabtree of Broughton watching the transit of Venus over the sun 24 Nov. 1639. He was the original of Oliver Serpleton in Oliver Madox Brown’s story The Dwale Bluth (in his Literary Remains 1876).
CAYLEY, Sir Digby, 7 Baronet. b. York 13 March 1807; succeeded 15 Dec. 1857. d. Brompton near Scarborough 22 Dec. 1883.
CAYLEY, Edward Stillingfleet (only son of John Cayley of Low hall near Brompton, who d. 16 June 1846). b. Newbold hall near Market Weighton 13 Aug. 1802; ed. at Rugby and Brasenose coll. Ox.; M.P. for North Riding of Yorkshire 17 Dec. 1832 to death; chairman of committees on Hand-loom weavers 1834–5 and on Agricultural distress; edited Agricultural and Industrial Mag. 25 numbers 1 Oct. 1834 to 1 Dec. 1835. d. 11 Dean’s yard, Westminster 25 Feb. 1862. Farmer’s Mag. x, 81–4 (1844), portrait, xxi, 354–5 (1862).
CAYLEY, Edward Stillingfleet (elder son of the preceding). b. 30 July 1824; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister I.T. 13 June 1851; author of The European revolutions of 1848 2 vols. 1856; The war of 1870 and the peace of 1871, 1871. d. Wydale, Brompton 10 Sep. 1884.
CAYLEY, Sir George, 6 Baronet (only son of sir Thomas Cayley, 5 baronet 1732–92). b. 27 Dec. 1773; succeeded 15 March 1792; invented an instrument for testing purity of water by abstraction of light, and another for obtaining and applying electric power to machinery; carried out a system of arterial drainage in Yorkshire on a principle previously unknown in England; the first promoter and adopter of cottage allotment system; chairman of the Polytechnic Institution, Regent st. London 1838; chairman of the Whig club at York. d. Brompton 15 Dec. 1857. The Times 18 Dec. 1857 p. 7, col. 6.