CHATTERLEY, Louisa (dau. of Madame Simeon of St. James’s st. Piccadilly, London, milliner). b. St. James’s st. 16 Oct. 1797; made her début on the stage at Bath, Nov. 1814 as Juliet; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre 9 July 1816 as Harriet in Is he jealous; acted at Surrey theatre 1817, Olympic 1820, Covent Garden 1821; the best representative of a Frenchwoman on the English stage, (m. 11 Aug. 1814 Wm. Simmonds Chatterley, actor 1787–1822, she m. (2) 13 Feb. 1830 Mr. Place), d. 37 Brompton sq. London 3 Nov. 1866. Oxberry’s Dramatic biography v, 271–82 (1826), portrait; British Stage iv, 237 (1820), portrait; The Era 18 Nov. 1866 p. 11.
CHATTERTON, Frederick Balsir (eld. son of Edward A. Chatterton of London, box bookkeeper at many theatres who d. 5 Dec. 1875 in 65 year). b. Euston sq. London 17 Sep. 1834; amateur actor at Cabinet and Soho theatres 1852; acting manager at Lyceum theatre 1857 and 1861–2; lessee of St. James’s theatre 1859–60; joint lessee with Edmund Falconer of Drury Lane theatre 12 Sep. 1863, sole lessee 22 Sep. 1866 to 4 Feb. 1879 when he closed the theatre being £36,000 in debt; joint manager with B. Webster of Princess’s and Adelphi theatres 1871; made his début as a reciter at St. James’s hall, London 14 March 1883. d. 18 Feb. 1886. E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane i, 273–317 (1881); Illust. sporting news v, 593 (1866), portrait; Touchstone, March 1879 p. 3, portrait.
CHATTERTON, Lady Henrietta Georgiana Marcia (only child of Rev. Lascelles Iremonger, prebendary of Winchester, who d. 6 Jany. 1830). b. 24 Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 11 Nov. 1806; author of Aunt Dorothy’s Tales, 2 vols. 1837 anon.; Rambles in the South of Ireland 1839, 2 ed. 1839; Home sketches and foreign recollections 1841; Allanston or the Infidel 1843; Compensation, 2 vols. 1856 anon.; The reigning beauty 3 vols. 1858; Memorials of Admiral Lord Gambier 2 vols. 1861; Leonore a tale and other poems 2 vols. 1864; Won at last 3 vols. 1874 and 20 other books; received into Church of Rome, Aug. 1875. (m. (1) 3 Aug. 1824 Sir W. A. Chatterton 1787–1855. m. (2) 1 June 1859 Edward Heneage Dering 2 son of Rev. John Dering, R. of Pluckley, Kent, he was b. 15 March 1827). d. Malvern Wells 6 Feb. 1876. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton with some passages from her diary by E. H. Dering 1878; J. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 478–80 (1885).
CHATTERTON, Sir James Charles, 3 Baronet (youngest son of Sir James Chatterton, 1 baronet, who d. 9 April 1806). b. 1792; cornet 12 light dragoons 23 Nov. 1809; lieut. col. 4 dragoon guards 9 Dec. 1831 to 3 Oct. 1848 when placed on h.p.; col. 5 lancers 23 Feb. 1858 to 22 Nov. 1868; general 31 March 1866; col. 4 dragoon guards 22 Nov. 1868 to death; M.P. for co. Cork 1831–5 and 1849–52; sheriff of co. Cork 1851–2; a gentleman of the privy chamber; succeeded his brother 7 Aug. 1855; K.S.F.; K.H. 1832; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 5 Jany. 1874. I.L.N. xvi, 133 (1850), portrait; Graphic ix, 52, 59 (1874), portrait.
CHATTERTON, John Balsir (son of John Chatterton of Portsmouth, professor of music). b. Portsmouth 1802; pupil of Robert Bochsa the harpist; professor of the harp at R.A. of Music, London 1827; harpist to the Queen 1842 to death; published numerous transcriptions from popular operas for the harp. (m. Eliza Davenport only dau. of Thomas Davenport Latham of Coombe hill, Croydon, she d. 9 Jany. 1877 in 71 year), d. 32 Manchester st. Portman sq. London 9 April 1871. Wm. Ball’s Musical Gem (1831) 50–1, portrait.
CHATTERTON, Sir William Abraham, 2 Baronet, b. 6 Aug. 1787; succeeded 9 April 1806. d. Rolls park, Chigwell, Essex 7 Aug. 1855.
CHATTO, William Andrew (only son of Wm. Chatto of Newcastle, merchant, who d. 1804). b. Newcastle 17 April 1799; wholesale tea-dealer in Eastcheap, London 1830–4; edited New Sporting Magazine 1839–41; projected Puck a journalette of fun, a penny daily comic illustrated paper 22 numbers 6 May 1844 to 29 June 1844; author of Scenes and recollections of fly-fishing by Stephen Oliver the younger 1834; The angler’s souvenir by P. Fisher 1836, 2 ed. 1871; A treatise on wood engraving 1839, 3 ed. 1877; Facts and speculations on the origin and history of playing cards 1848. d. The Charterhouse, London 28 Feb. 1864.
CHAVASSE, Pye Henry, b. Cirencester 1810; L.S.A. 1833; M.R.C.S. 18 Jany. 1833, F.R.C.S. 12 Aug. 1852; practised at Birmingham 1834–74; pres. of Queen’s college medical chirurgical society 1856–8; author of Advice to mothers on the management of their offspring 1839, 14 ed. 1885; Advice to a mother on the management of herself 1869, 4 ed. 1879; Counsel to a mother 1869, 4 ed. 1879; Aphorisms on mental culture of a child 1872, 2 ed. 1877; his books were translated into nearly every European language and several Asiatic. d. 214 Hagley road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 21 Sep. 1879.
CHAYTOR, Sir William Richard Carter, 2 Baronet, b. 7 Feb. 1805; M.P. for city of Durham 23 March 1831 to 29 Dec. 1834; succeeded 28 Jany. 1847. d. Scrafton lodge, Middleham, Yorkshire 9 Feb. 1871.
CHEAPE, Douglas (younger son of John Cheape of Rossie, Fifeshire 1757–1838). b. 1797; member of Faculty of Advocates, Edin. 1819; professor of civil law in Univ. of Edin. 1827–42, substituted English for Latin in class examinations; author of Res Judicata and other squibs published in the Court of Session Garland 1839, his other squibs were The book of the chronicles of the city, being a Scriptural account of the election of a member for the city of Edinburgh in May 1834, and probably La festa d’Overgroghi (Over Gogar near Edinburgh) a burlesque opera in Italian and English. d. Trinity grove, Trinity near Edin. 1 Sep. 1861. Blackwood’s Mag. cix, 111–2 (1871).