Wendover, 1797 : Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1796–9 : Commissioner of the Board of Control (commonly called the India Board) 1799–1800 : Foreign Secretary, 1807 : fought a duel with Lord Castlereagh, Sep. 22, 1809 : M.P. for Liverpool, 1812 : President of the Board of Control, June 4, 1816, to Jan. 12, 1821 : nominated Governor - General of India March, 1822, but, on Lord Castlereagh's death. Canning resigned that appointment and again became Foreign Secretary, 1822 : M.P. for Harwich, 1822 : Prime Minister, April, 1827, and Chancellor of the Exchequer : died Aug. 8, 1827 : father of Earl Canning (q.v.). Viceroy and Governor-General, 1856–62.
CAPEL, HON. SIR THOMAS BLADEN (1776–1853)
Son of fourth Earl of Essex : born Aug. 25, 1776 : was in the Navy, 1791–1847, rising to be Admiral : served on various stations, and under Nelson at the Nile and Trafalgar : at the forcing of the Dardanelles, 1807 : off N. America : K.C.B., 1832 : and from 1834 to 1837 was Naval C. in C. in the E. Indies, in the Winchester, 50 guns : G.C.B., 1852 : died March 4, 1853.
CAPON, SIR DAVID (1793–1869)
Born in Bombay, 1793 : educated in England: entered the E. I. Co.'s military service, 1809 : joined the Bombay N.I., 1810 : in the Palampur expedition, 1813 : in the Konkan, 1817 : commanded troops at Aden, 1838 : twice attacked by large bodies of Arabs : commanded a Brigade of the Bombay Army at the siege of Multan, 1848–9 : in the subsequent pursuit of the Sikhs : K.C.B., 1862 : General, 1868 : died Dec. 17, 1869.
CAPPEL, SIR ALBERT JAMES LEPPOC (1836–)
Born 1836 : served in the Crimea 1855–6 : entered the Indian Telegraph Department, 1857, and was Director of Indian Telegraphs, 1883–9 : K.C.I.E. in 1887.
CAPPER ( ? –1809)
Colonel in the Madras Army : influential in the affairs of Fort St. George in the latter part of the 18th century : on more than one occasion was employed by the Governors in civil and ecclesiastical negotiations : as, e.g. in 1787. in the time of Sir Archibald Campbell, when the Council had to settle important matters with regard to the Roman Catholic population of Madras, and French influence had to be excluded : saw active service and fought "with spirit and gallantry" at Arikera, under Colonel Montresor, 1800 : distinguished himself under Wellesley : became Lt-Colonel and Adjutant-General. When Sir George Barlow was Governor of Madras, Capper became implicated in the disputes between General Hay Macdowall, C. in C. of the Madras Army, and the Civil Authorities, 1809 : Macdowall had resigned in Jan. and left for England : the responsibility of publishing his Army Order against Munro (which gave further offence to the Madras Government) rested with Colonel Capper, and his suspension was the result : he, too, started for England, but was lost at sea on the voyage, March, 1809.
CAREY, ARTHUR DOUGLAS ( ? - )
I.C.S. : educated at the City of London School : went out to Bombay, 1865 : Collector of Salt Revenue, 1881 : acting Commissioner of Inland Customs, 1881 : in 1885 travelled, via Ladak to Northern Tibet, to Lake Mungtsa, Khotan, Kuchar, Lake Lob, Tsaidam, Urumtsi, Yarkand, to Ladak : Commissioner of Customs, Salt, Opium and Abkari, 1891 : on special duty to Lisbon, in connexion with Goa Treaty negotiations, 1891–2 : retired 1893.
CAREY, EUSTACE (1791–1855)
Missionary : son of Thomas Carey, a non-commissioned officer : nephew of the Rev. Dr. W. Carey (q.v.) : born March 22, 1791 : educated at Bristol College : arrived at Serampur as a missionary in 1814; founded a missionary establishment at Calcutta, 1817 : left India, 1825 : urged the cause of missions in England : wrote about missions and a memoir of W. Carey : died July 19, 1855.
CAREY, FELIX (1782–1822)
Missionary : son of the Rev. Dr. W. Carey (q.v.) : went with his parents to India : assisted his father in his Biblical translations : besides many translations in Bengali, he published a Burmese grammar, and began a Burmese dictionary and Pali grammar : he died at Serampur, Nov. 10, 1822.
