CHIOSSO, James. Opened gymnasia and schools of arms at 21 New road, Marylebone, London 1853, and at 123 Oxford st. 1854; professor of gymnastics at University college school, London, where he erected one of the earliest gymnasia in London about 1838; invented the Calisthenic and Gymnastic Polymachinon 1855; author of Remarks on physical education 1845; Gymnastics an essential branch of national education 1854; The gymnastic polymachinon 1855. d. 11 Norfolk villas, Bayswater, London 14 March 1864 aged 75. Illust. Sporting news i, 116 (1862), portrait.

CHIPP, Edmund Thomas (eld. son of the succeeding). b. London 25 Dec. 1823; a member of Society of British Musicians 1842; organist of St. John’s chapel, Hampstead 1843–6; a violinist in Queen’s private band 1843–55; organist at St. Olave, Southwark 1847–52 and at St. Mary-at-Hill 1852–6; organist at Panopticon, Leicester sq. 1855 and at Holy Trinity church, Paddington 1856–62; Mus. Bac. Cam. 1859, Mus. Doc. 1861; organist of St. George’s ch. and Ulster Hall, Belfast 1862–6, and of Ely cathedral, Nov. 1866 to death; composed Job an oratorio; Naomi a sacred idyll, several songs, services, and organ and pianoforte music. d. Nice 17 Dec. 1886. Biograph vi, 563–5 (1881); Graphic xxxv, 100 (1887), portrait.

CHIPP, Thomas Paul. b. London 25 May 1793; teacher of the harp; harpist in orchestra of Covent Garden theatre 1818, of Her Majesty’s theatre 1826; a member of all chief London orchestras 1813–66; played at coronations of George iv, Wm. iv, and Victoria. d. Camden Town, London 19 June 1870.

CHISHOLM, Caroline (dau. of Wm. Jones of Wootton, Northamptonshire). b. Wootton, May 1808; went to Madras 1832 where she established Female school of industry; went to Sydney 1839 where she opened an office for the use of emigrants, Jany. 1841; promoted emigration of families from England 1846–54; laboured in Australia 1854–66; granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1867; author of The A.B.C. of colonisation 1850, Emigration and transportation relatively considered. (m. 1830 Archibald Chisholm, captain 13 Madras N.I. who d. Rugby 17 Aug. 1877 aged 82). d. 43a Barclay road, Walham Green near London 25 March 1877. bur. Northampton 31 March. Mackenzie’s Memoirs of C. Chisholm 1852, portrait; Michelet’s La Femme (1860) 398–406; I.L.N. xx, 301 (1852), portrait, xxiv, 337 (1854), portrait, lxx, 349 (1877), portrait.

CHISHOLM, Walter (son of Mr. Chisholm of Easter Harelaw near Chirnside, Berwickshire, shepherd). b. Easter Harelaw 21 Dec. 1856; wrote poems signed ‘Wattie’ in the Haddington Courier and in the People’s Friend; his poem entitled Scotia’s Border Land gained second prize in competition promoted by People’s Journal Christmas 1876. d. of pleurisy at Dowlaw farm 1 Oct. 1877. Poems by the late Walter Chisholm, edited by W. Cairns 1879 pp. ix-xvi.

CHITTY, Edward (3 son of Joseph Chitty of the Middle Temple, London, barrister 1776–1841). b. 1804; barrister L.I. 7 July 1829; went to Jamaica 1840; author of An index to all the reported cases of equity and bankruptcy 2 vols. 1831, 3 ed. 4 vols. 1853; author with E. E. Deacon of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 4 vols. 1833–7; with Basil Montagu of Reports of cases in bankruptcy 1840; with F. Forster of A digested index to all the common law reports relating to conveyancing and bankruptcy 1841. d. Cambridge lodge, Walham green near London 28 Sep. 1863.

CHITTY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1801; practised in London as a special pleader below the bar 1820–77; taught many men who became judges and leading counsel; author of Forms of practical proceedings in the courts of Queen’s Bench Common Pleas and Exchequer of Pleas 1834, 12 ed. 1883; edited J. F. Archbold’s Practice of the Court of King’s Bench, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1835, 5 ed. 2 vols. 1836, 6 ed. 2 vols. 1838, 7 ed. 2 vols. 1840, and 8 ed. 2 vols. 1845–7. d. 47 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London 13 Feb. 1878.

CHITTY, Tompson. Barrister M.T. 31 Jany. 1851; edited Joseph Chitty’s A practical treatise on the law of contracts, not under seal, 3 ed. 1841; author with Leofric Temple of A practical treatise on the law of carriers of goods and passengers 1856. d. Stockwell Surrey 4 Feb. 1863.

CHOLMELEY, Sir Montagu John, 2 Baronet. b. Grantham 5 Aug. 1802; M.P. for Grantham 14 June 1826 to 23 April 1831, for North Lincolnshire 12 Jany. 1847 to 1 July 1852, and 31 March 1857 to death; succeeded 10 March 1831. d. Easton hall, Grantham 18 Jany. 1874.

CHOLMLEY, Sir George, 7 Baronet. b. Welburn, Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire 26 Nov. 1782; M.P. for Yorkshire 6 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832, for west riding of Yorkshire 20 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841, for Preston 29 June 1841 to 21 March 1857; succeeded 8 Jany. 1834; assumed name of Cholmley in lieu of Strickland by royal licence 17 March 1865. d. Newton hall near Malton 23 Dec. 1874.