OBITUARY NOTICES OF FELLOWS DECEASED. 



ARTHUR CAYLEY was the second son of Henry Cayley and Maria 

 Antonia Doughty ; he was born at Richmond, in Surrey, on 16 August, 

 1821. 



The family, to whose fame so much honour has been added by ono 

 of the greatest mathematicians of all time, is of old origin and 

 illustrious descent. Its name, like not a few English names, is 

 derived from a locality in Normandy ; there was a Castellum 

 Cailleii near Rouen held by baronial tenure. The head of the house 

 appears to have come to England with William the Conqueror and to 

 have settled in Norfolk, becoming Lord of Massingham, Cranwich, 

 Brodercross, and Hiburgh in that county. The influence of the family 

 increased and, by the time of Edward II, Sir Thomas de Cailli 

 possessed estates also in Yorkshire. Ou his decease without issue, 

 the Yorkshire property was transferred to a younger branch of the 

 family and was inherited by a long succession of Cayleys who mado 

 their home at Thormanby. One of these was knighted, as Sir William 

 Cayley, in 1641 ; in 1661 he was created a baronet in recognition of 

 his services during the Civil Wars, the title surviving to the present 

 day. The fourth son of Sir William, Cornelius, settled at York ; and 

 the eldest son of the latter, also Cornelius, born in 1692, was a 

 barrister and in 1725 was appointed Recorder of Kingston-npon-HulI, 

 an office which he held until a few years before his death in 1779. 

 Probably the advantages offered by Hull, then, as now, the greatest 

 port on the northern coast of England, suggested commerce as an 

 occupation for some members of the Recorder's large family ; two of 

 his sous became Russia merchants, settling in St. Petersburg. The 

 younger of these, being the fifth son of the Recorder, was Henry 

 Cayley, born in 1768; he married, in 1814, Maria Antonia Doughty, 

 a daughter of William Doughty. The eldest son of this marriage 

 died in infancy. The youngest son, Charles Bagot, was a scholai, 

 possessed of linguistic genius ; he was particularly interested in the 

 Romance languages and he made verse-translations of Homer's Iliad, 

 Dante's Divine Comedy, and the Sonnets of Petrarch. The second 

 son was Arthur, the subject of the present sketch ; he was born during 

 a visit of his parents to England. Before passing to the details of his 

 life, it may be added that the second of his father's sisters married 



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