Charles Chadwyck-Healey

Charles Chadwyck-Healey

Sir Charles Edward Heley Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Baronet KCB, QC, DL, JP (26 August 1845 – 5 October 1919)[1] was a British lawyer and baronet.

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Background

Born Charles Healey, he was the only son of Edward Charles Healey.[2] After his father's death, he succeeded him in the control of the magazine The Engineer.[3] Chadwyck-Healey was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1872, was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1891 and became a bencher four years later.[4]

Career

In 1903, Chadwyck-Healey was nominated chairman of the Admiralty Volunteers Committee, an office he held until 1914.[4] Subsequently he was member of the Admiralty Transport Arbitration Board,[3] for which he was created a Baronet, of Wyphurst, in the County of Surrey on 6 May 1919.[5] Chadwyck-Healey served as High Sheriff of Somerset in 1911 and represented the county as Deputy Lieutenant as well as Justice of the Peace, exercising the latter post also in the county of Surrey.[2] He was a county alderman for Somerset and sat in its Quarter Sessions.[2]

Chadwyck-Healey was an honorary captain in the Royal Navy Reserve and commanded the hospital ship Queen Alexandra.[4] In 1905, he was appointed to the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble Minded[6] and was awarded a Companion of the Order of the Bath.[7] After his resignation four years later, he was promoted to Knight Commander.[8] Chadwyck-Healey served as chancellor first of the diocese Salisbury, then of Bath and Wells and lastly of Exeter.[6] He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.[6]

Family

On 6 February 1872, he married firstly Rosa Close, daughter of John Close, and had by her a son.[9] She died in 1880 and Chadwyck-Healey remarried Frances Katharine Wait, eldest daughter of William Killigrew Wait, on 17 May 1884.[9] By his second wife, he had two other sons and a daughter.[9] His daughter married Edward Williams in 1925.[9] Chadwyck-Healey died in 1919 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son Gerald.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsC2.htm. Retrieved 22 August 2009. 
  2. ^ a b c Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companioage. J. Whitaker & Sons. 1918. pp. 362. 
  3. ^ a b Mortimer, John (2005). Zerah Colburn the Spirit of Darkness. Arima Publishing. pp. 172. ISBN 1-84549-024-X. 
  4. ^ a b c Walford, Edward (1919). The County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd. pp. 634. 
  5. ^ London Gazette: no. 31427. p. 8221. 1 July 1919. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
  6. ^ a b c Who's Who 1914. Adam & Charles Black. 1914. pp. 365. 
  7. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 27811. p. 4548. 27 June 1905. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
  8. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 28263. p. 4853. 22 June 1909. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
  9. ^ a b c d "ThePeerage - Sir Charles Edward Heley Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Bt". http://www.thepeerage.com/p21298.htm#i212980. Retrieved 13 January 2007. 
  10. ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929). Armorial Families. vol. I. London: Hurst & Blackett. pp. 341. 
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
 (of Wyphurst)
May – Oct 1919		 Succeeded by
Gerald Chadwyck-Healey

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