CHEAPE, Sir John (brother of the preceding). b. 1792; second lieut. Bengal engineers 3 Nov. 1809, col. commandant 19 Feb. 1844 to death; general 6 Dec. 1866; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 5 June 1849, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; served in the 3 campaigns of first Burmese war 1824–6; second in command in second Burmese war 1852–3. d. Old park, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 30 March 1875. W. F. B. Laurie’s Second Burmese war 1853.
CHEEKE, Alfred, b. Evesham, Worcs. 1811; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1836; went to Sydney, Oct. 1837; comr. of Court of Claims, March 1841; crown prosecutor at quarter sessions, June 1841; chairman of quarter sessions 1844–5 and 1851–7; comr. of Court of requests for county of Cumberland, Jany. 1845; district court judge 1858 to June 1865; puisne judge of supreme court, June 1865 to death. d. Darling point, Sydney 14 March 1876. Heads of the people ii, 151–2 (1848), portrait.
CHEETHAM, John (son of George Cheetham of Stayleybridge). b. Stayleybridge 1802; a merchant and manufacturer; M.P. for South Lancashire 14 July 1852 to 23 April 1859, and for Salford ll July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. 18 May 1886.
CHELMSFORD, Frederick Thesiger, 1 Baron (youngest son of Charles Thesiger, collector of customs in island of St. Vincent, who d. 18 Feb. 1831). b. 1 Fowkes buildings, Tower st. London 15 July 1794; midshipman R.N. 1807; student of G.I. 5 Nov. 1818, of I.T. 2 March 1824, barrister I.T. 21 May 1824; went Home circuit, became leader; K.C. 7 July 1834; bencher of IT. 18, Nov. 1834, reader 1842, treasurer 1843; solicitor general 17 April 1844 to July 1845; knighted at Buckingham palace 23 May 1844; attorney general 29 June 1845 to 3 July 1846 and Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852; lord chancellor 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859 and 6 July 1866 to 29 Feb. 1868, when he resigned office; P.C. 26 Feb. 1858; M.P. for Woodstock 20 March 1840 to April 1844, for Abingdon 11 May 1844 to 1 July 1852 and for Stamford 10 July 1852 to 1 March 1858; F.R.S. 19 June 1845; created baron Chelmsford of Chelmsford, Essex 1 March 1858. d. 7 Eaton sq. London 5 Oct. 1878. Illust. news of the world, vol. 1 (1858), portrait; London Society xi, 87, 95 (1867), portrait.
CHENERY, Thomas, b. Barbados 1826; ed. at Eton and Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1868; correspondent of Times at Constantinople 1854–6, wrote leading articles and reviews in Times; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; Lord Almoner’s professor of Arabic at Oxford, April 1868 to Nov. 1877; member of Ch. Ch. Ox., incorporated M.A. 1868; member of 2 class of Imperial order of Medjidie, July 1869; secretary to Royal Asiatic Society; one of the revisers of Old Testament 1870–83; editor of Times Nov. 1877 to death, worked on it to 1 Feb. 1884; published The six assemblies of El Hariry translated 1867; edited the Machberoth Ithiel of Jehudah ben Shelomo Alkharzi. d. 16 Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet st. London 11 Feb. 1884. Journal of Royal Asiatic Soc. xvi, pp. xii-xv (1884); Times 12 Feb. 1884 p. 6, cols. 5–6; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 180 (1884), portrait; Graphic xxix, 148 (1884), portrait.
CHEPMELL, Rev. Havilland Le Mesurier. Educ. at Pembroke coll. Ox., Townsend scholar, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. and D.D. 1851; chaplain to Royal military college, Sandhurst 1841–67; translated Lectures on Roman History by B. G. Niebuhr 1849; author of Course of history, Greek, Roman and English, 10 ed. 1874, 2nd series 2 vols. 1857. d. The hermitage, St. Martin’s, Guernsey 21 March 1887.
CHERMSIDE, Henry Lowther (2 son of the succeeding). b. 1825; second lieut. R.A. 19 June 1844, colonel 8 Sep. 1875 to 16 Nov. 1878 when he retired with hon. rank of major general; commanded R.A. at Poona 1876–8; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Regia house, Teignmouth 2 Jany. 1886.
CHERMSIDE, Sir Robert Alexander (3 son of Dr. Chermside of Portaferry, co. Down). b. Portaferry 1787; Assist, surgeon to 7th Hussars 16 Aug. 1810; Surgeon to 10th Hussars 29 June 1815 to 30 Oct. 1823; graduated M.D. at Edin. 1817; L.R.C.P. London 16 April 1821, F.R.C.P. 27 April 1843; phys. to British embassy at Paris; physician extraordinary to Duchess of Kent; K.C.H. 31 July 1835; Knight of St. John of Jerusalem; Knight of Red Eagle of Prussia; Knight of Legion of Honour. d. Oxford 8 Sep. 1860.
CHERRY, Frederick Clifford. Veterinary surgeon of 11 light dragoons 12 Oct. 1803, of Waggon Train 16 July 1807 to 25 Sep. 1819 when placed on h.p.; Vet. surgeon 2 life guards 10 May 1833; principal vet. surgeon in the army 17 Sep. 1839 to death. d. Clapham, London 11 July 1854.
CHESHAM, Charles Compton Cavendish, 1 Baron (4 son of 1 Earl of Burlington 1754–1834). b. Savile row, London 28 Aug. 1793; M.P. for Newtown, Hants. 1821–6 for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1831–2, for East Sussex 1832–41, for Youghal 1841–7, for Bucks 1847–57; created Baron Chesham of Chesham, Bucks. 15 Jany. 1858. d. 19 Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1863.