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.

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[6] 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<ref name = Who'sWho/> 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 of Salisbury, then of Bath and Wells and lastly of Exeter.<ref name = Who'sWho/> He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.<ref name = Who'sWho>Who's Who 1914. Adam & Charles Black. 1914. p. 365.</ref>

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". Retrieved 22 August 2009.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage. J. Whitaker & Sons. 1918. p. 362.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mortimer, John (2005). Zerah Colburn the Spirit of Darkness. Arima Publishing. p. 172. ISBN 1-84549-024-X.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Walford, Edward (1919). The County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd. p. 634.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 31427. p. 8221. 1 July 1919. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 28092. p. 8985. 24 December 1907.
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 27811. p. 4548. 27 June 1905. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
  8. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 28263. p. 4853. 22 June 1909. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 "ThePeerage - Sir Charles Edward Heley Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Bt". Retrieved 13 January 2007.
  10. ↑ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929). Armorial Families. vol. I. London: Hurst & Blackett. p. 341.
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Henry Herbert Wills		 High Sheriff of Somerset
1911 		Succeeded by
William Bucknell Broadmead
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Wyphurst)
May – Oct 1919 		Succeeded by
Gerald Chadwyck-Healey