The following is from the Royal Society memoir of Sir Proby Thomas Cautley KCB FRS. There
is a tree that summarizes the text. The Yorks. connection looks promising! Anthony
"The Cautleys were a northern family, originating in Cumberland, Westmorland, and
Yorkshire. Proby's father went to school in Bolton (3),probably the Bolton a few miles
east of Askrigg in Wensleydale, and one of Both Proby's grandfathers were clergymen
(5). His father, Thomas Cautley (c. I756-I817), was a scholarly man who had spent most of
his life in the
university. He had entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1772, and remained there taking
the degrees of B.A., M.A. and B.D. (6). He was chosen Second Wrangler in his B.A.
examination, and elected a Fellow in 1778. He remained in the university until about 1796,
holding various administrative offices (7). One incident of his life at Cambridge has
survived, and shows him signing a memorial along with nine other Fellows, objecting to
what they considered an
irregularity in the 1786 election for the Fellowship. The Master demanded an apology, and
on this being refused had an admonition against each of the protesting Fellows entered in
the Conclusion Book, a severe punishment for men who might later wish to be considered for
high offices in the university.The Lord Chancellor as Visitor to the College was consulted
and advised an apology, but Thomas Cautley and two others refused to sign it, and in any
event the apology was not accepted (8).
About 1796, Thomas Cautley married and left the university to take up residence in Roydon,
a living he had held since 1791 (9). His wife, however, died in 1798 after the birth of
their second child (10). Eighteen months later, he
married Catherine Proby, one of the daughters of a neighbouring clergyman; they were
married in the church of Stratford St Mary on 23 December 1799 (11). Catherine Proby (c.
1772-1830) was the second of the eight daughters of the Reverend Narcissus Charles Proby
(1738/9-1804) and his wife Arabella, nee Weller, (1752-1841), both of Irish origin. There
were at least also three sons (12). By the standards of the day, the Reverend Proby was
wealthy, owning land in Cheshire, Stratford St Mary and Ireland; each daughter had a
marriage settlement of £1000 (13).The Reverend Proby died on 20 December 1804 (14), but a
year earlier, the Reverend Cautley had combined his own with his father-in-law's
living (I5).
After the Reverend Proby's death, the Cautleys moved into the Stratford parsonage.
Proby had a sister, Catherine Maria, a year younger than himself, and later his brother
George and another sister, Arabella, were born (16). The Cautleys were very comfortably
off with the income from two livings.
The atmosphere of the home was intellectual, and there is evidence of interest shown in
painting, 'botanizing', collecting fossils and reading (17). Life in the village
was simple and pleasant. Stratford St Mary straggles along what was the old coaching road
to London, and there is still a lock on the River Stour, which runs through the
village-perhaps of interest to the children. George, in later life, produced some little
books of verses (18), and in a poem dedicated to
Proby on the opening of the Ganges Canal reminds him of The garden brook, home of thy
first essay, The mimic sluice, and fairy waterwheel, And those mild eyes which blest thy
thoughtful play... (19)
The Reverend Cautley did not live long to enjoy the pleasures of family life. His health
declined after 1807 (20), and he died on 13 July 1817 (21), and was buried in Roydon
Church, where the tablet also commemorates his first wife. Proby had by then already gone
to Charterhouse. His brother George entered Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1825 (22), and
also became a clergyman, while his sisters remained at home with their mother until her
early death on 5 June 1830 (23). There are memorials to her and to Proby's father in
Stratford St Mary church.
Proby's childhood was passed in the midst of a large family: his own family, and,
living nearby, his grandmother Proby and his mother's seven sisters and their
offspring. This was in marked contrast to his life in India, in which vast continent he
was to arrive alone, aged 17 years and 9 months.
-----Original Message-----
From: catley-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:catley-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Graeme
Simpson
Sent: 14. maj 2012 09:55
To: Catley Rootsweb List
Subject: [CATLEY] Proby Thomas Cautley
I have just finished reading a book called "Mussoorie Medley (Tales of Yesteryear) by
Ganesh Saili. For those not familiar with India, Mussoorie is a hill station around 7
hours drive northish of New Delhi.
There is a picture towards the back of the book of a marble bust with the following
information:
Proby Thomas Cautley (1802-1871) was honoured with a marble bust when he was 45. It
dominates the library of Roorkee University where he trained technicians who make the
Ganga Canal, that would one day irrigate 20 million acres of the Doab, the country's
richest agricultural region. He vacationed Mussoorie as a member of the Himalaya Club.
FamilySearch has a birth/christening of a Proby Thomas Cautley in Raydon Suffolk in
January 1802, to Thomas Cautley and Catherine Proby. There is also a child born in Landour
(part of Mussoorie) in
1840 whose father was Proby Thomas Cautley.
Don't know if this fits the Cat(t)ley names but it is a close variant, so I pass it on
in case it helps someone on the list.
Regards
Graeme Simpson
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