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Cassan — Chambers.
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His literary remains consist of a Sermon published in 1819 on The Sin of Schism, and Lives of the Bishops of Sherborne and Salisbury (1824), and Bath and Wells (1830). Also a pamphlet on the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, and various genealogical notices contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine.


CASSILLIS, EARL OF. See KENNEDY, JOHN.


CASTLEHAVEN, EARL OF. See TOUCHET, GEORGE.


CATLIN or CATLYN, Sir ROBERT.
Judge.
d. 1574.

There is no record of his admission to the Inn, but he was Reader in 1547. In 1554 he became Serjeant-at-Law, and two years later King's Serjeant. He was raised to the Bench of Common Pleas in 1558, and became Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1560, with the honour of knighthood. He was engaged in the trial of the Duke of Norfolk for conspiracy in favour of Mary Queen of Scots. He died in 1574.


CHALK, Sir JAMES JELL.
1803—1878.

Admitted 17 November, 1836.

Second son of James Chalk of Tunbridge, Kent. He was called to the Bar 22 Nov. 1839. In the year of his admission he entered the service of the Ecclesiastical Commission, where he spent the rest of his life, first as Assistant Secretary and then as Secretary. He retired from his duties in 1871, and was knighted. He died 23 Sept. 1878.


CHAMBERLEN, HUGH or HUGO.
Physician.
1664—1728.

Admitted 19 November, 1683.

Son and heir of Hugo Chamberlen, M.D., of St. Clement Danes. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1683, the year of his admission to the Inn. He subsequently studied at Leyden, and in 1694 was admitted a Fellow of the College of Physicians. He acquired a large and fashionable practice, and amongst his friends and clients were Atterbury and the Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby, at whose house he died 17 June, 1728. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, where there is a life-size effigy of him over his tomb. He is referred to by Swift in his Letters to Stella, and there is a copy of his Sale Catalogue of Books in the British Museum.


CHAMBERS, Sir ROBERT.
Indian Judge.
1737—1803.

Admitted 28 June, 1754.

Eldest son of Robert Chambers, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he was born. He was educated at the Grammar School of his native place (the school also, about the same time, of the future Lords Stowell (q.v.) and Eldon (q.v.)), and at Oxford. In 1762 he was elected Vinerian Professor of English Law at his University in succession to Sir W. Blackstone (q.v.), which position he filled with distinction till his appointment in 1773 as Judge in the Supreme Court