Chelmsford
FREDERIC AUGUS- TUS THESIGER, LORD, eldest son of the first Lord Chelmsford, who was twice lord-chancellor of England; born May 21, 1827, educated at Eton, served in the Crimea and through the Indian mutiny. As deputy adjutant-general he served in the Abyssinian campaign, was nominated C. B., made aide-de-camp to Her Majesty, and adjutant-general to the forces in India (1868-1876), and in 1877 was appointed commander of the forces and lieutenant-governor of Cape Colony. He restored Kaffraria to tranquillity, and was given the chief command in the Zulu war of 1879. After great difficulties with the transport, and some disasters, he gained the decisive victory of Ulundi, before the arrival of Sir Garnet Wolseley, who had been sent to supersede him. On his return to England he was made G. C. B., and in 1884 lieutenant of the Tower. He died in 1905.
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Chelone
a genus of turtles, including the tortoise, often written chelonia. See TORTOISE and TURTLE.
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Chelsea
chel'se, formerly a suburb, now a district of London, having somewhat less than 100,000 people. It is situated on the north bank of the Thames and forms the river frontage of the Hyde Park district. Chelsea Hospital for old soldiers and the Sloan Botanic Garden are of interest. The latter is famed for fine old cedars. To Americans the chief interest of the neighborhood is its literary associations. Swift, Steele, Leigh Hunt, and George Eliot lived here. Locke and Addison lived hard by. Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle, lived in a quiet street. A statue of Carlyle has been erected on the Chelsea Embankment. He was known as the "Sage of Chelsea." Chelsea was a favorite haunt of Henry VIII and his sixth queen, Catharine Parr.
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Chelsea (City in Suffolk county Mass)
a city in Suffolk county, Mass.; separated from from East Boston by Chelsea creek, and from Charlestown by the Mystic river. It is a suburb of Boston, and is connected with it by ferries, electric and steam railroads; and the Mystic river is crossed here by a bridge 3,000 feet long. Chelsea has a 'United States Naval and Marine Hospital, Soldiers' Home, Fitz Public Library, court house, city hall, etc. Though Chelsea is in the Boston customs district and most of its business men are directly identified with the interests of Boston, it has extensive manufactories of rubber goods, foundry and machine Chemistry." shop products, leather, cordage, brass goods, pottery, has numerous churches, high and graded public schools, weekly newspapers, and settwo National Banks. Chelsea was tled as Winnisimmet in 1630; was a part of Boston until it was organized as a town in 1738, and was incorporated as a city in 1857. The city suffered severe property losses from a destructive fire in 1908, but recovered quickly. Pop. (1910) 32,452; (1920) 43,184.
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Chelsea (Formerly a suburb of London)
formerly a suburb of London, England, now a parliamentary and metropolitan borough of Greater London, on the Thames, opposite Battersea, and chiefly distinguished for containing a royal military hospital, originally commenced by James I. as a theological college, but converted by Charles II. for the reception of sick, maimed, and superannuated soldiers. The building was finished in 1692 by Sir Christopher Wren. Connected with the hospital is a royal military asylum, founded in 1801, for the education and maintenance of soldiers' children. Chelsea has long been and still is the chief residential section in London of writers and artists. In the last century George Eliot, Whistler, Rossetti and Carlyle lived there, and the latter's former home in Cheyne Row is now a public memorial to him. The Chelsea embankment, between Victoria and Battersea bridges, is a famous London riverside promenade. Chelsea porcelain (1745-1784), enjoys a high reputation. Pop. (1918) 63,130.
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Cheltenham
a borough of Pennsylvania, in Montgomery co. It is on the Philadelphia, Newtown and New York railroad. It is a suburb of Philadelphia and is almost entirely a residential city. Pop. (1910) 8,434; (1920) 11,015.
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Cheltenham
a borough and watering place in Gloucestershire, England. It lies in a valley, on the Chelt river. The town is well laid out and has many public promenades, gardens, and squares. It contains the parish church of St. Mary's, dating from the 14th century, an art school, and several colleges and private schools. Its popularity is due chiefly to which are of great its mineral waters medical value. Pop. about 60,000.
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Chemistry
AGRICULTURAL. See AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY.
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Chemistry
ANIMAL. See ANIMAL CHEMISTRY.
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Chemistry
INDUSTRIAL. Chemistry of Manufactures.
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Chemistry
PHYSIOLOGICAL. Chemistry of Living Organisms.
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Chemulpo
a town on the W. coast of Korea, 25 miles by road W. S. W. of the capital, Seoul. It is one of the three treaty ports opened in 1883 to foreign commerce, the volume of which has since steadily advanced, in spite of the drawbacks resulting from the great difference between high and low water here (33 feet), and the want of wharves. 30,000; the bulk of the for- Pop., about eigners are Japanese. Small steamers owned by Japanese run to Seoul in summer, and Chemulpo is connected by telegraph both with China and Japan.
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Cheney
CHARLES EDWARD, an American clergyman; born in Canandaigua, N. Y., Feb. 12, 1836. He was graduated at Hobart College in 1857, and, after a course at the Theological Seminary of Virginia, was ordained a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal rector of Church in 1858. Becoming Christ Church, Chicago, he incurred censure for heterodoxy and was tried on that charge and deposed from the priesthood. He at once became a leader in the Reformed Episcopal movement, and was consecrated bishop of the new denomination in 1873, a post he continued to hold, as well as the rectorship of Christ Church. He died in 1916.
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Cheney (II)
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) EDNAH DOW (LITTLE- HALE), an American writer; born in Boston in 1824. She was president of the New England Woman's Club and the Massachusetts Suffrage Association. She wrote "Handbook of American History for Colored People"; "Life of Louisa M. Alcott"; and several stories, besides other books. She died in 1904. CHÉNIER, ANDRÉ MARIE DE (shānya'), a French poet; born in Constantinople, Oct. 30, 1762. Shortly before the Terror he made a vigorous attack on the Jacobins in the "Journal de Paris." He wrote Louis XVI.'s appeal to the people after the death sentence. He celebrated in verse Charlotte Corday. He perished under the guillotine July 25, 1794.
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