COPLEY, Sir Joseph William, 4 Baronet, b. London 27 July 1804; succeeded 21 May 1838; sheriff of Yorkshire 1843. d. Sprotborough hall, Doncaster 4 Jany. 1883.
COPPOCK, James (eld. son of Wm. Coppock of Stockport, Cheshire, mercer). b. Stockport 2 Sep. 1798; partner in a silk firm in London; admitted attorney 1836; sec. to Liberal Registration Society with a residence in the Society’s rooms 3 Cleveland row, St. James’s 1835; treasurer of county courts, Aug. 1857 to death; sec. of the Reform Club, London, May to June 1836 when he was elected an hon. life member and appointed solicitor to the club; author of The electors’ manual 1835. d. 3 Cleveland row, St. James’s, London 19 Dec. 1857.
CORBALLIS, John Richard (2 son of Richard Corballis of Rosemount, Roebuck, co. Dublin). b. Dublin 1796; ed. at the Lay college of Maynooth and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1816, LL.B. and LLD. 1832; barrister King’s Inns, Dublin 1820; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher of King’s Inns; comr. of charitable bequests for Ireland 18 Sep. 1845; law adviser to the Crown in Ireland 1853–58 and 1859–64; crown prosecutor on the Home circuit; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Kilkenny to 1862. d. Rosemount 13 Feb. 1879 in 83 year.
CORBALLY, Matthew Elias. b. 1797; sheriff of Meath 1838; M.P. Meath 1840–41 and 1842 to death. d. Corbalton hall, Tara, co. Meath 25 Nov. 1870.
CORBAUX, Marie Françoise Catherine Doetter, usually called Fanny Corbaux (dau. of François Corbaux, F.R.S. who d. 1 May 1843 aged 74). b. 1812; studied at National Gallery and British Institution; gained gold medal of Society of Arts for a portrait in miniature 1830; hon. mem. of Society of British Artists 1830; mem. of New Soc. of Painters in Water colours; granted civil list pension of £30, 26 Sep. 1871; wrote in the Athenæum, Letters on the physical geography of the Exodus; wrote in the Journal of sacred literature a series of papers giving the history of a remarkable nation called ‘the Rephaim’ in the Bible; wrote an historical and chronological introduction to The Exodus Papyri by D. I. Heath 1855. d. Brighton 1 Feb. 1883. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists ii, 68–70.
CORBET, Sir Andrew Vincent, 2 Baronet. b. Shawbury park, Shropshire 15 June 1800; succeeded 5 June 1835; sheriff of Shropshire 1843. d. Brancepeth castle, Durham 13 Sep. 1855.
CORBETT, Panton (2 son of Ven. Joseph Plymley, archdeacon of Salop, who took surname of Corbett 1806 and d. 22 June 1838 aged 79). b. Bank house, Longnor, Salop, April 1785; barrister L.I. 21 June 1806; M.P. for Shrewsbury 1820–1830; high steward of borough of Welshpool; sheriff of Shropshire 1849; chairman of Shropshire quarter sessions 1850 to June 1855. d. Longnor hall, Shropshire 22 Nov. 1855.
CORBETT, Sir Stuart (son of Ven. Stuart Corbett, archdeacon of York, who d. 25 Aug. 1845 aged 71). b. Tankersley, Yorkshire 1802; entered Bengal army 1814; lieut. col. 25 Bengal N.I. 26 Dec. 1846 to 1854; colonel 16 Bengal N.I. 18 May 1856 to death, M.G. 4 Feb. 1859; commanded Benares division 6 July 1863 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849, K.C.B. 28 Jany. 1862. d. Nynee Tal, India 1 Aug. 1865.
CORBETT-WINDER, Uvedale (brother of the preceding). b. 15 Nov. 1792; ed. at Pemb. coll. Ox.; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1815; comr. of bankruptcy in Wolverhampton district; recorder of Bridgnorth 1844–71; recorder of Wenlock to 1871; judge of county courts, circuit 27, Shropshire, March 1847 to Sep. 1865 when he resigned; assumed additional surname of Winder 2 June 1869. d. 36 Princes gardens, London 7 Feb. 1871.
CORCORAN, Michael, b. Carrowkeal, co. Sligo 21 Sep. 1827; emigrated to United States 1849, clerk in the post office there; colonel of 69 New York militia, Aug. 1859; taken prisoner at battle of Bull Run 21 July 1861, released 15 Aug. 1862; brigadier general 21 July 1861; organised the Corcoran legion which took part in the battles of Nansemond river and Suffolk, April 1863 and held in check advance of the enemy upon Norfolk, the legion was attached to army of the Potomac, Aug. 1863. d. of injuries received by a fall from his horse near Fairfax courthouse, Virginia 22 Dec. 1863. The captivity of General Corcoran 1862; Bramhall’s Military souvenir (1863), memoir and portrait No. 45.