CARMICHAEL, JAMES (_son of George Carmichael of the Trongate,
Glasgow, merchant_). _b._ Glasgow, 1776; millwright with his
brother Charles at Dundee 1810; fitted up first twin steam-boat
for ferry across the Tay at Dundee 1821; invented planing, shaping
and boring machine used at Woolwich and Portsmouth; made
locomotive steam engines for Dundee and Newtyle railway 1832–3 the
first locomotives made in Scotland; invented fan blast or blowing
machine for heating and melting iron, brought into practical use
about 1829. _d._ Fleuchar Craig, Dundee 14 Aug. 1853, bronze
statue of him erected in Albert sq. Dundee. _W. Norrie’s Dundee
Celebrities_ (1873) 144–7; _I.L.N. lxix_, 245 (1876).
CARMICHAEL, SIR JAMES ROBERT, 2 Baronet. _b._ Devonshire place,
London 11 June 1817; ed. at Charterhouse and Sandhurst; succeeded
4 March 1838; a claimant to Scottish earldom of Hyndford; chairman
of the Submarine and of the Mediterranean extension telegraph
companies. _d._ 12 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 7 June
1883.
CARMICHAEL, JAMES (OR JOHN) WILSON. _b._ Newcastle 1800; apprenticed
to a shipbuilder; a marine painter; went to London about 1845;
exhibited 21 sea pieces at R.A. 21 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st.
gallery 1835–62; author of _The art of marine painting in water
colours_ 1859; _The art of marine painting in oil colours_ 1864.
_d._ Scarborough 2 May 1868.
CARMICHAEL, SIR THOMAS GIBSON, 12 Baronet. _b._ Castle Craig,
Peebleshire 27 Oct. 1817; commander R.N. 9 Nov. 1846; succeeded 8
May 1850. _d._ Civita Vecchia, Italy 30 Dec. 1855.
CARNAC, JOHN RIVETT. _b._ 28 June 1796; Midshipman 29 April 1812;
captain 10 Jany. 1837; retired V.A. 30 Nov. 1863. _d._ 34 Seymour
st. Portman sq. London 1 Jany. 1869.
CARNAC, SIR JOHN RIVETT, 2 Baronet (_son of Sir James Rivett Carnac,
1 baronet 1784–1846_). _b._ Baroda, East Indies 10 Aug. 1818;
succeeded 28 Jany. 1846; M.P. for Lymington 1852 to 1860. _d._
Winchester 4 Aug. 1883. _I.L.N. xxii_, 293 (1853), _portrait_.
CARNE, ELIZABETH CATHERINE THOMAS (_4 dau. of the succeeding_). _b._
Rivière house, Phillack, Cornwall 16 Dec. 1817; head of bank of
Batten, Carne, and Carne at Penzance 1858 to death; gave site for
Elizabeth or St. Paul’s schools opened at Penzance 2 Feb. 1876;
founded schools at Wesley Rock, Carfury and Bosullo all near
Penzance; built a museum at Penzance for her fine collection of
minerals; author of _Three months rest at Pau in the winter and
spring of 1859 by John Altrayd Wittitterly pseud._ 1860; _Country
towns and the place they fill in modern civilisation_ 1868;
_England’s three wants, anon._ 1871; _The realm of truth_ 1873 and
of many articles in _London Quarterly Review_. _d._ Penzance 7
Sep. 1873. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 60, 1113; _Geol.
Mag. x_, 480, 524 (1873).
CARNE, JOSEPH (_eld. son of Wm. Carne of Penzance, banker
1754–1836_). _b._ Truro 17. April 1782; manager of Cornish Copper
company’s smelting works at Hayle 1810 or 1811; partner in bank of
Batten, Carne, and Carne at Penzance 1820 to death; F.R.S. 28 May
1818; pricked for sheriff of Cornwall 1837 but declined to serve;
pres. of Penzance Natural history and antiquarian soc. 1849–55;
author of many papers in _Transactions of Royal Geol. Soc. of
Cornwall_ 1816–51. _d._ 28 Chapel st. Penzance 12 Oct. 1858.
_Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 61, 1114.
CARNEGIE, JOHN WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1833; major 15 Bengal
N.I. 30 Sep. 1860 to 6 June 1862; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Gipsy
hill near London 6 Jany. 1874.
CARNEGIE, SWYNFEN THOMAS (_youngest son of 7 Earl of Northesk
1758–1831_). _b._ Rosehill, Hampshire 8 March 1813; entered navy 3
Aug. 1826; served in operations connected with civil war in Spain
1833–8, received order of San Fernando; captain R.N. 10 June 1845;
C.B. 5 July 1855; officer in command of defences of the Thames and
superintendent of steam naval organisation at Sheerness 1852;
controller general of coast guard 6 Feb. to 27 April 1863; retired
admiral 18 June 1876; M.P. for Stafford 1841–7; a lord of the
treasury 11 March to 6 July 1846; a lord of the admiralty 9 March