CLIVE, Henry Bayley (4 son of Wm. Clive of Leigh hall, Salop 1745–1825). b. Styche, Market Drayton 1800; M.P. for Ludlow 1847–52. d. Styche 26 Feb. 1870.
CLIVE, Robert Henry (2 son of Earl of Powis 1754–1839). b. 15 Jany. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1809, LLD. 1835; M.P. for Ludlow 1818 to 1832, for South Shropshire 1832 to death; under sec. of state for home department 21 April 1818 to 17 Jany. 1822; pres. of Cambrian archæological assoc. 1852; author of Documents connected with the history of Ludlow and the Lords Marchers 1841 preface signed R. H. C. d. Shrewsbury 20 Jany. 1854.
CLIVE, Robert Windsor (son of the preceding). b. Grosvenor st. London 24 May 1824; M.P. for Ludlow 1852–1854, for South Salop 1854 to death. d. 53 Lower Grosvenor st. London 4 Aug. 1859.
CLIVE, Venerable William (brother of Henry Bayley Clive 1800–1870). b. 14 March 1795; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; V. of Welshpool 1819–65; archdeacon of Montgomery 29 Feb. 1844–1861; preb. of St. Asaph 25 July 1849; hon. canon of St. Asaph 1854 to death; R. of Blymhill, Staffs. 1865. d. Blymhill rectory 24 May 1883.
CLOËTÉ, Sir Abraham Josias (2 son of Peter Laurence Cloëté, member of council at Cape of Good Hope). b. Cape of Good Hope 7 Aug. 1794; cornet 15 hussars 29 Jany. 1809; deputy quartermaster general at Cape of Good Hope 1840–54; commanded forces in West Indies 1855–61; colonel 19 foot 10 March 1861 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 23 Sep. 1847, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; knighted at St. James’s palace 9 June 1854. d. 88 Gloucester terrace, London 26 Oct. 1886.
CLONCURRY, Valentine Browne Lawless, 2 Baron (2 son of 1 Baron Cloncurry 1735–99). b. Merrion sq. Dublin 19 Aug. 1773; ed. at Portarlington, Chester and Trin. coll. Dublin; member of Society of United Irishmen; member of executive directory of United Irish Society 1797; arrested 31 May 1798, again 14 April 1799, confined in the Tower of London 8 May 1799 to March 1801; succeeded as 2 Baron 28 Aug. 1799; P.C. for Ireland 1831; created a Baron of the United Kingdom 14 Sep. 1831. d. Maretimo, Blackrock near Dublin 28 Oct. 1853. W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Life of Lord Cloncurry 1855; G.M. xli, 82–7 (1854); Personal recollections of Lord Cloncurry (1849).
CLONCURRY, Edward Lawless, 3 Baron. b. Lyons house, co. Kildare 13 Sep. 1816; ed. at Eton and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1861; succeeded 23 Oct. 1853; killed by falling from a window of Lyons house whilst of unsound mind and unaccountable for his acts 3 April 1869. Morning Post 6 April 1869 p. 5.
CLONMELL, John Henry Scott, 3 Earl of. b. Hertford st. London 4 Jany. 1817; succeeded 18 Jany. 1838. d. Bishop’s court, Naas, co. Kildare 7 Feb. 1866.
CLOSE, Very Rev. Francis (youngest son of Rev. Henry Jackson Close, R. of Bentworth, Hants. who d. April 1806). b. near Frome 11 July 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Cam. Scholar 1817, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1857; C. of Church Lawford, Warws. 1820–22; C. of Willesden and Kingsbury 1822–24; P.C. of Cheltenham 1826–56; Dean of Carlisle 24 Nov. 1856 to Aug. 1881 when he resigned; P.C. of St. Mary, Carlisle 1865–68; a most popular evangelical preacher; author of upwards of 70 books. d. Morrab house, Penzance 18 Dec. 1882. buried Carlisle cemetery 23 Dec. The Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1861, 32–33, portrait; Illust. news of the world viii, (1861), portrait; Congregationalist iv, 562–72 (1875); A golden decade of a favoured town by Contem Ignotus (1884) 11–69; E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 429–30; I.L.N. lxxxii, 45 (1883), portrait.
CLOSE, Thomas (son of John Close of Manchester, merchant). b. Manchester 12 Feb. 1796; a founder and original member of Reform club, London 1836; auditor of the London and South Western railway many years; F.S.A. 10 May 1855; author of St. Mary’s church, Nottingham, its probable architect and benefactors 1866, drew up elaborate pedigrees of the Tattershall and Wake families and many illuminated pedigrees of royal, noble and illustrious houses. d. Nottingham 25 Jany. 1881. Manchester school register iii, 66–8 (1874).