CHOLMONDELEY, George Horatio Cholmondeley, 2 Marquis of. b. Paris 16 Jany. 1792; M.P. for Castle Rising, Norfolk 21 Feb. 1817 to 24 Dec. 1821; summoned to House of Peers in his father’s barony of Newburgh 24 Dec. 1821; succeeded 10 April 1827; Joint hereditary grand chamberlain of England 10 April 1827 to death; P.C. 19 July 1830. d. Cholmondeley castle, Nantwich, Cheshire 8 May 1870.
CHOLMONDELEY, William Henry Hugh, 3 Marquis of. b. Piccadilly, London 31 Aug. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Castle Rising 1 Feb. 1822 to 3 Dec. 1832, for South Hants. 14 July 1852 to 21 March 1857; succeeded 8 May 1870; joint hereditary grand chamberlain of England 8 May 1870 to death. d. Houghton hall, Rougham, Norfolk 16 Dec. 1884.
CHORLEY, Charles (son of John Chorley, lieutenant 1 Somerset militia, who d. 22 Feb. 1839 aged 66). b. Taunton about 1810; sub-editor of Cornwall Gazette at Truro 30 years; sec. to Truro Public Rooms company; sub-manager of Truro Savings’ bank; edited Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall 1863–74; published Jephtha or the Vow, a tragedy by [George] Buchanan, translated from the Latin by C. C[horley] 1854; The Baptist or calumny, a tragedy by [George] Buchanan, translated from the Latin by C. C[horley] 1864, Verse by C. C. 1867. d. 24 Lemon st. Truro 22 June 1874. Journal of Royal Instit. of Cornwall, Oct. 1874 pp. iii, iv, vii.
CHORLEY, Henry Fothergill (3 son of John Chorley of Blackley Hurst, Lancs. lock maker, who d. 15 April 1816). b. Blackley Hurst 15 Dec. 1808; started with his brother W. B. Chorley, M.D. an annual called The Winter’s Wreath 1828; a reviewer on the Athenæum 1833–66, musical critic of it 1833–68; author of Sketches of a Sea-port town 3 vols. 1835; Conti the discarded, a novel 3 vols. 1835; Memorials of Mrs. Hemans 2 vols. 1836; Modern German music 3 vols. 1854; Thirty years musical recollections 2 vols. 1862; Prodigy, a tale of music 3 vols. 1866; librettos for Wallace’s Amber Witch, and Bennett’s May Queen. d. 13 Eaton place west, London 16 Feb. 1872. H. F. Chorley, autobiography, memoir and letters, compiled by H. G. Hewlett 2 vols. 1873, portrait; Musical cynics of London, a satire by George Linley 1862 a satirical poem on H. F. Chorley.
CHORLEY, John Rutter (brother of the preceding). b. Blackley Hurst about 1807; secretary to Grand Junction railway between Liverpool and Birmingham; formed a fine collection of Spanish plays which he gave to British Museum; principal reviewer of German, Italian and Spanish books for the Athenæum 1846–54; author of The Wife’s Litany, and other poems 1865. d. 29 June 1867. H. F. Chorley’s Autobiography ii, 254–92 (1873).
CHOWN, Rev. Joseph Parbery. b. Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire 9 Dec. 1821; ed. at Horton (now Rawdon) college; pastor of Sion baptist chapel, Bradford 1848–75; pastor of Bloomsbury chapel, London 1875–85; pres. of London baptist association 1879; pres. of Baptist union of Great Britain and Ireland 1883; author of many circular letters written for the Yorkshire Baptist Association and of sermons, which had a wide circulation; one of the most popular Baptist preachers. d. 24 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 8 July 1886. The Baptist 16 July 1886 pp. 42–4; The Freeman 16 July 1886 pp. 464–5; John Taylor’s Bibliotheca Northamtonensis.
CHOWNE, William. M.R.C.S. 1813; M.D. Edin. 1827, L.R.C.P. 1833, F.R.C.P. 1857; practised in Holland, Lincs. 1813–27, moved to London 1833; assistant phys. to Charing Cross hospital, lecturer on medicine, obstetrics and diseases of women and children; pres. of Westminster Medical Soc.; pres. of Harveian Soc. 1850–1; author of An oration delivered before the Medical Society of London, with an appendix on coroners’ inquests 1846. d. 17 Sep. 1870 aged 79. Medical Circular i, 261–3, 301 (1852), portrait.
CHRISTIAN, Richard. b. Cottesmore, Rutland, March 1779; head groom to Sir Wm. Heathcote 1799–1809; a farmer at Luffenham, Rutland 1809–17; whip to Lord Scarborough at Rufford 1820–35. d. 5 June 1862. Post and Paddock by the Druid pp. 336–67; Silk and Scarlet by the Druid pp. 1–69, portrait.
CHRISTIE, Alexander (eld. son of David Christie of Edinburgh). b. Edin. 1807; ed. at Edin. academy and univ.; apprenticed to a writer to the signet; studied art in Edin., London and Paris; an assistant in ornamental department of School of Art, Edin. 1843, director 1845; A.R.S.A. 1848, where he exhibited pictures for some years; painted a large picture ‘The apparition of the Cross to Constantine,’ as an altar-piece for the chapel at Murthley Castle; delivered lectures on art at Philosophical Instit. of Edin. d. 5 May 1860.
CHRISTIE, James Robert (2 son of Samuel Hunter Christie 1784–1865). b. Woolwich 9 Feb. 1814; mathematical master at Royal military academy, Woolwich 1837–47, first mathematical master 1847–65; F.R.S. 18 March 1847; F.R.A.S. 13 Jany. 1854; author of Introduction to practical astronomy 1853; Test questions in pure and mixed mathematics 1866. d. Arundel house, South Norwood park near London 28 Feb. 1879. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xl, 188 (1880).