Camille Felix Désiré Caillard (12 September 1822 – 1 May 1898) was a British barrister and County Court judge from 1859 until 1897.
Biography
editThe only son of Camille Timothée Caillard, a French cavalry officer, Caillard was educated privately before being called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1845.[1] He was appointed to the county court bench in 1859 by Lord Chelmsford, which provoked accusations of favouritism as Caillard was "a man nobody knew".[2] Succeeding Joseph Grace Smith, he sat for Circuit No. 52, which included Bath and Swindon.[1][3] On his retirement in 1897, he was the longest serving county court judge.[4]
Caillard was a JP for Wiltshire and Somerset,[1] and from May 1878 a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire.[5]
Personal life
editCaillard married Emma Louisa (1827–1865), daughter of Vincent Stuckey Reynolds of Taunton, in 1850. She was a first cousin of Benjamin Disraeli.[4] By her he had at least four sons and five daughters. In 1861[3] he bought Wingfield Manor, a large house from the early 18th century,[6] at Wingfield in west Wiltshire, within reach of Bath; the house had earlier been owned by his predecessor, Joseph Smith.[3]
In 1872, he remarried to Amy Ursula, widow of Captain John Hanham and younger daughter of Alexander Copland: they had one son.[1][4]
The eldest son from his first marriage was the financier Sir Vincent Caillard (1856–1930),[4][3] who from c.1895 owned much of the land in Wingfield parish.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Obituary". The Law Journal: 250. 7 May 1898.
- ^ Polden, Patrick (1999). A History of the County Court, 1846–1971. Cambridge University Press. p. 65.
- ^ a b c d "The Caillard Family". Bradford on Avon Museum. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ a b c d Davenport-Hines, Richard. "Caillard, Sir Vincent Henry Penalver". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32236. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "No. 24581". The London Gazette. 14 May 1878. p. 3048.
- ^ Historic England. "Wingfield House (1021893)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ Chettle, H. F.; Powell, W. R.; Spalding, P. A.; Tillott, P. M. (1953). "Parishes: Wingfield". In Pugh, R. B.; Crittall, Elizabeth (eds.). A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 7. Victoria County History. University of London. pp. 69–76. Retrieved 31 August 2023 – via British History Online.