COMYN, Sir Robert Buckley (3 son of Rev. Thomas Comyn, V. of Tottenham, Middlesex who d. 16 Feb. 1798). b. Tottenham 26 June 1792; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; commoner of St. John’s coll. Ox. 1809; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1815, D.C.L. 1842; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1814; puisne judge of supreme court of Madras 19 Aug. 1825, chief justice 31 Dec. 1835 to Jany. 1842 when he resigned; knighted at Carlton house 9 Feb. 1825; bencher of M.T. 1844; author of Treatise on law of Usury 1817; Treatise on the law of landlord and tenant 1830; History of Western Europe from the birth of Charlemagne to the accession of Charles v, 1841. d. 9 New st. Spring gardens, London 23 May 1853.
CONDER, Josiah (4 son of Thomas Conder of London, engraver, who d. June 1831 aged 84). b. Falcon st. Aldersgate, London 17 Sep. 1789; lost his right eye by small pox 1795; assisted his father in a bookselling business at 30 Bucklersbury 1802–11, carried on the business alone 1811–19; edited Eclectic Review 1814–37; edited Patriot newspaper, Jany. 1833 to death; edited Modern Traveller 30 vols. 1825–9; author of Gloria in excelsis Deo, a poem 1812; The law of the Sabbath 1830, 2 ed. 1852; Italy 3 vols. 1831; A dictionary of geography 1834; An analytical view of all religions 1838. d. 28 Belsize road, St. John’s Wood, London 27 Dec. 1855. Josiah Conder, a memoir by E. R. Conder 1857.
CONDY, Nicholas. b. Torpoint, Cornwall 1793; ensign 43 foot 9 May 1811, lieut. 24 Feb. 1813 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; a painter at Plymouth; chiefly produced small water-colours on tinted paper about 8 inches by 5, which he sold at prices ranging from fifteen shillings to one guinea each; exhibited 2 landscapes at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. gallery 1830–45; published Cotehele on the banks of the Tamar with a descriptive account by the Rev. F. V. J. Arundell, 17 plates. d. 10 Mount Pleasant terrace, Plymouth 8 Jany. 1857 aged 64.
CONDY, Nicholas Matthews (son of the preceding). b. Union st. Plymouth 1818; a painter at Plymouth; exhibited three sea pieces at R.A. 1842–5, which gave hopes of his becoming a distinguished artist. d. The Grove, Plymouth 20 May 1851. Reminiscences of a yachting cruise by Mrs. N. M. Condy with drawings by T. G. Dutton from sketches by N. M. Condy 1852, portrait.
CONGLETON, John Vesey Parnell, 2 Baron (eld. son of 1 Baron Congleton 1776–1842). b. Baker st. London 16 June 1805; ed. at Edin.; received a commission in the army which he never took up; became acquainted with A. N. Groves in Dublin 1827, conveyed him to Russia in the yacht The Osprey 1829; took a room in Aungier st. Dublin for The Brethren 1829; travelled in the East 1830–4 and in India 1834–7; resided at Teignmouth where he lived with great simplicity, preached to The Brethren congregations and spent nearly all his capital in good works 1837–42; succeeded 8 June 1842; resided at Islington 1842–6, at Brighton 1846–9, in London 1849 to death; minister in the Orchard st. chapel, London 1849–60, in the Welbeck st. chapel 1860 to death; gave one half his income in charity; author of The resurrection life, a tract 1845, 13 editions; The true idea of Baptism 1850; The Psalms, a new version 1860, another ed. 1875, and of many tracts. d. 53 Great Cumberland place, London 23 Oct. 1883. bur. Kensal Green cemetery where upwards of 1000 Plymouth Brethren attended. Memoir of Lord Congleton by H. Groves 1884, portrait.
CONGREVE, George. Ensign 29 foot 8 April 1825, lieut.-col. 11 Feb. 1846 to 29 Sep. 1859 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 24 May 1847; quartermaster general East Indies 28 Nov. 1854 to 1860; M.G. 20 July 1860. d. Simla 30 April 1861.
CONGREVE, Sir William Augustus, 3 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Wm. Congreve 2 baronet 1772–1828). b. 1827; succeeded 16 May 1828; last heard of in 1860 when he was in Sydney and proposed going to Omaha in Fiji islands; advertised for in The Times 17 Feb. 1882 p. 1 col. 2. Sir James Hannen judge of the Court of Probate directed letters of administration to issue 30 Nov. 1882, presuming that his death took place 14 Feb. 1860 when he wrote his last letter home.
CONINGHAM, Henry. Entered Madras army 1819; col. 7 Madras light cavalry 24 Oct. 1858 to death; L.G. 6 Nov. 1866. d. Nice 21 April 1868 aged 70.
CONINGHAM, William (son of Rev. Robert Coningham of Londonderry). b. Rose hill near Penzance 1815; cornet 1 dragoons 1834–6; contested Brighton, July 1847 and Westminster, July 1852; M.P. for Brighton 28 March 1857 to Jany. 1864; published Twelve letters by John Sterling [to William Coningham] 1851, 3 ed. [1872]; Lord Palmerston and Prince Albert.... Letters by W. Coningham, together with “The suppressed pamphlet,” entitled “Palmerston, what has he done?” by “One of the people” 1854, and other books. d. 6 Lewes crescent, Kemp Town, Brighton 20 Dec. 1884.
CONINGTON, Francis Thirkill (3 son of Rev. Richard Conington, Minister of chapel of ease, Boston, Lincs. who d. 25 Sep. 1861 aged 65). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 12 June 1846 aged 18; fellow of his coll. 1849 to death; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; examiner in science in Univ. of Ox. 1860–1; author of Handbook of chemical analysis 1858; contributed to periodicals 1860 to death. d. Boston 20 Nov. 1863 aged 35.