Sir Charles Edward Heley Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Baronet (26 August 1845 – 5 October 1919) was a British lawyer and baronet.

Background

He was born Charles Healey, the only son of Edward Charles Healey. After his father's death, he succeeded him in the control of the magazine The Engineer. Chadwyck-Healey was called to the bar by

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in 1872, was appointed a

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in 1891 and became a

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four years later.

Career

In 1903, Chadwyck-Healey was nominated chairman of the Admiralty Volunteers Committee, an office he held until 1914. Subsequently, he was member of the Admiralty Transport Arbitration Board, for which he was created a

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, of Wyphurst, in the County of Surrey on 6 May 1919. Chadwyck-Healey served as

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in 1911 and served in the county as a Deputy Lieutenant as well as

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, exercising the latter post also in the county of

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. He was a county alderman for

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and sat in its

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. Chadwyck-Healey was an honorary captain in the Royal Navy Reserve and commanded the hospital ship Queen Alexandra. In 1905, he was appointed to the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble Minded and was appointed a Companion of the

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. After his resignation four years later, he was promoted to Knight Commander. Chadwyck-Healey served as chancellor first of the

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, then of Bath and Wells and lastly of Exeter. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Family

On 6 February 1872, he married firstly Rosa Close, daughter of John Close, and had by her a son. She died in 1880 and on 17 May 1884 Chadwyck-Healey married Frances Katharine Wait, eldest daughter of

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. By his second wife, he had two further sons and a daughter. His daughter married Edward Williams, an officer of the

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, in 1925. Chadwyck-Healey died in 1919 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Gerald.

References

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