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Charles Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart

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On 30 September 1818 he married Henrietta Mather, daughter of Thomas Mather in France. The couple remarried at Portsea, England, 12 February 1819. Lady Cathcart accompanied her husband, and their daughters, to Canada in June, 1845. Lady Cathcart presented colours to one of the militia regiments in
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died while commanding a Royal Navy vessel in the West Indies. After his father was elevated to an earldom in 1814 he became known by the
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On the Phenomena in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh of the Igneous Rocks in their relation to the Secondary Strata,
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and where he announced the discovery of a new mineral, a sulphide of cadmium, which was found in excavating the
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in Naples and Sicily. He became heir apparent to the lordship of Cathcart in 1804, after his brother
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Boase, G.C.; revised by James Lunt. "Cathcart, Charles Murray, second Earl Cathcart (1783–1859".
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Montreal. The family returned to England in May, 1847. His daughter Elizabeth married General
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in Holland as the head of the quartermaster-general's staff and was present at the ill-fated
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Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada
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Index

The Right Honorable
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Governor General of the Province of Canada
Victoria
The Lord Metcalfe
The Earl of Elgin
Walton
Essex
St Leonards-on-Sea
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Order of St. Vladimir, 4th Class
Knight Fourth Class of the Military William Order
United Kingdom
British Army
General
Northern District
Commander-in-Chief, North America
Commander-in-Chief, Scotland
War of the Fifth Coalition
Walcheren Campaign
Peninsular War
Battle of Barrosa
Battle of Salamanca
Battle of Vitoria
War of the Seventh Coalition
Battle of Waterloo
General
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