COULSON, William (brother of the preceding). b. Torpoint, Cornwall 15 Sep. 1801; studied in Berlin 1824–26; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1851, Hunterian orator 1861; a founder of Aldersgate st. school of medicine 1826; surgeon to Aldersgate st. dispensary 1828–32; consulting surgeon to City of London Lying-in hospital 1830; senior surgeon to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1843; sheriff of Cornwall 1863; F.S.A. 19 June 1856; accumulated £200,000, one of the largest fortunes ever made in practice; author of On deformities of the chest 1836, 2 ed. 1837; On diseases of the hip joint 1837, 2 ed. 1841; On diseases of the bladder and prostate gland 1838, 6 ed. 1865; On lithotrity and lithotomy 1853; Lectures on diseases of the joints 1854. d. 1 Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 5 May 1877. Medical Circular ii, 329–32, 349–51 (1853), portrait; Beattie’s Life of T. Campbell ii, 448–52 (1849).
COULTON, David Trevena. b. Devizes 1810; contributed to Quarterly Review; founded the Britannia, a weekly journal of news, politics and literature 13 April 1839 which he sold 1850; edited the Press and St. James’s Chronicle, weekly paper 1854 to death; invented a plan for an atmospheric railway; author of Fortune, a romance of life 3 vols. 1853; and of An inquiry into the authorship of the letters of Junius. d. Brighton 8 May 1857.
COUPER, Sir George, 1 Baronet (elder son of Robert Couper, M.D. of Fochabers, Morayshire). b. 21 June 1788; ensign 69 foot 2 Nov. 1797; major 92 foot 30 Dec. 1819 to 20 March 1823 when placed on h.p.; principal equerry and comptroller of the household to Duchess of Kent 1839 to death; K.H. 1831, C.B. 19 July 1838; created baronet 23 June 1841. d. Frogmore near Windsor 28 Feb. 1861.
COURTAULD, Samuel (eld. son of George Courtauld the first to introduce silk throwing into Essex). b. Albany in the State of New York 1 June 1793; brought to England in his infancy; developed the business of a silk throwster into that of a manufacturer of crape; head of firm of Courtauld & Co. crape manufacturers, Bocking, Essex; in the Consistory court 8 Nov. 1837 raised question of legality of a church rate in Braintree, case settled in house of lords in his favor 12 Aug. 1853; presented with a testimonial worth 700 guineas at Braintree 25 Sept. 1855; F.R.A.S. 8 Nov. 1867. d. Gosfield hall, Essex 21 March 1881, personalty sworn under £700,000, 7 May 1881. I.L.N. 13 Oct. 1855 pp. 445–46 with view of testimonial; Monthly Notices of R.A.S. xlii, 144 (1882); The Braintree church rate case, Gosling v. Veley, by W. W. Attree 1853.
COURTENAY, Francis Burdett (son of Mr. Courtenay of Ryde, Isle of Wight, surgeon). M.R.C.S. 13 July 1833; settled in London as a specialist in urethral diseases 1833; surgeon to hospital for stricture of the urethra, London; author of Enlargement of the prostate gland in old people 1839; Pathology and cure of stricture of the urethra 1843; On Spermattorrhea and the professional fallacies which prevail in relation to its nature 1858, 13 ed. 1884; Revelations of quacks and quackery, by Detector, pseud. 1865, 11 ed. 1886. d. 2 Chandos st. Cavendish sq. London 15 March 1886 in 76 year. Medical Circular iii, 71, 72 (1853).
COURTENAY, George William Conway. b. Beach hall near Chester 1795; entered navy 26 Sep. 1805; captain 14 April 1828; consul general at Hayti 1832–42; V.A. 29 July 1861. d. 1E The Albany, Piccadilly, London 31 March 1863.
COURTHOPE, William (only son of Thomas Courthope of Rotherhithe). b. Rotherhithe 6 May 1808; private clerk to Francis Townsend, Rouge Dragon 1824; clerk to the College of Arms 1833; Rouge Croix pursuivant of arms Feb. 1839; sec. to Garter King of arms 1842; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1851; Somerset Herald 31 Jany. 1854; registrar of College of arms, Nov. 1859; author of Synopsis of extinct baronetage 1835; Memoir of Daniel Chamier 1852, privately printed; A pictorial history of the Earls of Warwick by John Rows dated 1845 but not published until 1859; edited Sir N. H. Nicolas’s Historic peerage of England 1853. d. Hastings 13 May 1866. bur. Wadhurst.
COURTNEY, John Sampson (eld. son of James Courtney of the Excise 1778–1860). b. Ilfracombe 10 Oct. 1803; clerk in Mount’s Bay bank, Penzance 1829, manager 1856 to death; author of A guide to Penzance and its neighbourhood, including the Islands of Scilly 1845; and of several papers in Transactions of Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1838–42. d. Alverton, Penzance 10 Feb. 1881. Half a century at Penzance (1825–1875) from notes by J. S. Courtney, written by Louise Courtney 1878; Times 12 Feb. 1881 p. 9, col. 6.
COUSEN, John. b. Mirashay near Bradford 19 Feb. 1804; one of the best landscape engravers, retired from practice about 1864; engraved book plates after Turner for The Rivers of France, and after Stansfield for Heath’s Picturesque Annual 1833 and 1834; engraved plates for the Royal, Vernon and Turner galleries issued in the Art Journal. d. Holmesdale road, South Norwood near London 26 Dec. 1880. bur. Croydon cemetery.
COUSINS, Samuel. b. Exeter 9 May 1801; apprenticed to S. W. Reynolds the engraver, Sep. 1814, assistant to him; a mezzotint engraver at 104 Great Russell st. London 1826; A.R.A. Nov. 1835, associate engraver 1854, the first academician engraver 10 Feb. 1855; presented an almost complete set of his engravings to British Museum 1872; gave £15,000 to R.A. for benefit of poor artists about 1872; T. Agnew and Sons held an exhibition of his works at Manchester 1877; another exhibition took place at the Fine Art Society 148 New Bond st. London 1883 and a third was held at H. Graves and Co.’s, Pall Mall 1887. d. 24 Camden sq. London 7 May 1887. G. Pycroft’s Memoir of S. Cousins (1887) privately printed; Artists at home 1 April 1884 pt. ii, p. 19; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 322–4 (1862).