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born April 23, 1809; died March 20, 1877. 

 He was the brother of the reigning Graiid- 

 dnke, and as such the prospective heir to .the 

 grand-duchy. He was married to Princess 

 Elizabeth of Prussia, a cousin of the King. 

 His oldest son, Prince Ludwig, became in his 

 place heir-apparent to the throne, and on June 

 12th became Grand-duke of Hesse, on the 

 death of Ludwig III. (See LTJDWIG III.) 



CHAVEE, HONORIS JOSEPH, a Belgian scholar, 

 born June 13, 1815 ; died July 16, 1877. In 

 1844 he went to Paris, where he was professor 

 at the College Stanislas and the Athen6e. He 

 was the author of a considerable number of 

 works, the most important of which is the 

 "Lexicologie Indo-Enropeenne " (1849). He 

 also contributed a number of articles to the 

 Revue du XIX mt Siecle, and to the Revue de 

 Linguistique, which he founded himself in 

 1867. 



CHISHOLM, Mrs. CAROLINE, a British philan- 

 thropist, born about 1810 ; died March 25, 

 1877. She showed at an early age a philan- 

 thropic character, and upon being married to 

 Captain Chisholm, of the Indian army, she found 

 her field of usefulness considerably extended. 

 Her attention being directed in Madras to the 

 neglected and dangerous condition of the sol- 

 diers' daughters, she established for them an 

 industrial home. Her husband soon after 

 going to Sydney for his health, she accom- 

 panied him there. Here she entered upon 

 that career of usefulness which has made her 

 name known throughout the British Empire. 

 She took charge of the emigrants who arrived 

 friendless and penniless, and secured for them 

 situations in the interior, making many jour- 

 neys for that purpose. She established an 

 office in Sydney, at which all persons needing 

 employment might attend daily ; and by her 

 disinterested efforts placed many thousands in 

 positions of respectability and comfort. She 

 returned to England in 1846, receiving a testi- 

 monial of 150 upon her departure; there she 

 established the Family Colonization Society, by 

 which passage money was paid in weekly in- 

 stallments, and did much to relieve emigrants 

 of the poorer class. She returned to Australia 

 in 1854, and went back again to England in 

 1866. She wrote " Voluntary Information of 

 the People of New South Wales," and "Perils 

 in the Polar Seas : True Stories of Arctic Ad- 

 venture and Discovery " (1874). 



CHRISTIDES, a Greek statesman, died Janua- 

 ry 20, 1877. He had been Minister of Finance 

 on several occasions, and at the time of his 

 death was a deputy for Syra. 



CIBOT, FRANCOIS BAR-rnELEMY MICHEL 

 EDOUARD, a French painter, born February 

 11, 1799; died in February, 1877. He ex- 

 hibited for the first time in 1827. He painted 

 a large number of views from France, among 

 them "The Valley of Sceaux," "The Banks 

 of the Sarthe," and others. 



CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN, a British scholar, 

 born in 1788 ; died March 20, 1877. He wrote 



"The Riches of Chaucer" and "Tales from Chau- 

 cer, in Prose." Together with his wife he 

 edited a "Concordance to Shakespeare," and 

 an edition of the great dramatist's plays, pub- 

 lished by Messrs. Cassell. He was likewise the 

 author, in association with Mrs. Clarke, of 

 some delightful books for the young, and during 

 the last few years contributed largely to the 

 Gentleman's Magazine, in which he completed 

 shortly before his death an interesting set of 

 reminiscences of his celebrated friends. 



CLAUSEN, HENRIK NIKOLAI, a Danish states- 

 man and theologian, born April 22, 1793; 

 died March 28, 1877. He spent several years 

 in Germany, Italy, and France, and was con- 

 siderably influenced in his theological views 

 by Schleiermacher. After his return to Den- 

 mark he was appointed professor in the Univer- 

 sity of Copenhagen. He was a member of the 

 provincial diet in Roeskilde from 1840 to 1848, 

 and its president during the last 3 years ; was 

 a member of the Constitutional Assembly of 

 1848-'49, from 1848 to 1851 privy councilor and 

 a minister without portfolio, and since then was 

 a member of the Riksdag. He was the author 

 of "Katholicismens og Protestantismens Kir- 

 keforfatning, Lfire og Ritus" (1825), " Det Nyo 

 Testaments Hermeneutik " (1840), "Udvikling 

 af de christelige Hovedlardomme " (1845), 

 "Christelig Troeslare"(1853), and "Dat evan- 

 geliske Kirkelivs Nutid og Fremtid" (1859). 

 He was the editor since 1831 of the Zeitschrift 

 fur auslandische theologi&che Litcratur. 



CLIFFORD, Sir AUGUSTUS, a British admiral, 

 born May 24, 1788; died February 8, 1877. 

 He entered the navy in 1808, saw some severe 

 service on the coasts of Egypt and Italy, and 

 obtained post-rank in 1812. He sat in Parlia- 

 ment for Bandonbridge in 1818, forDungarvan 

 in 1820, and again for Bandonbridge in 1881. 

 In 1882 he was appointed Gentleman Usher of 

 the Black Rod, an office he held up to his death. 

 He was created a baronet in 1888. He was 

 the senior flag-officer on the retired list, his 

 commission as captain dating from 1812; rear- 

 admiral, 1848 ; vice-admiral, 1855 ; and admiral, 

 1860. 



COBBETT, JOHN MORGAN, a British lawyer, 

 born in 1800; died February 18, 1877. He 

 was called to the bar, at Lincoln's Inn, in 1880, 

 entered Parliament at the general election of 

 1852, as one of the members lor Oldham, which 

 his father had represented before him, and con- 

 tinued to hold his s.eat until 1865, when he was 

 defeated. He was again sent to Parliament in 

 1 872 by his former constituents. He published 

 a selection from his father's political works, 

 and also wrote the preface to a recent edition 

 of the " Legacy to Laborers." 



COBDEN, Mrs. RICHARD, the widow of the 

 eminent statesman, died nt an advanced nge 

 April 17, 1877. She was the daughter of Hugh 

 Williams, of Gellygoch, Montgomeryshire, and 

 in 1840 married Richard Cobden, whoso widow 

 she was left by his death, twelve years ago. 

 After the death of her husband, she published. 



