Charles Chadwyck-Healey

He was born Charles Healey, the only son of Edward Charles Healey.[2] After his father's death, he succeeded him in the control of the magazine The Engineer.[3] Chadwyck-Healey was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1872, was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1891 and became a bencher four years later.[4]

In 1903, Chadwyck-Healey was nominated chairman of the Admiralty Volunteers Committee, an office he held until 1914.[4] Subsequently, he was member of the Admiralty Transport Arbitration Board,[3] for which he was created a baronet, of Wyphurst, in the County of Surrey on 6 May 1919.[5] Chadwyck-Healey served as High Sheriff of Somerset in 1911 and served in the county as a Deputy Lieutenant[6] as well as Justice of the Peace, exercising the latter post also in the county of Surrey.[2] He was a county alderman for Somerset and sat in its Quarter Sessions.[2]

Chadwyck-Healey was an honorary captain in the Royal Navy Reserve and commanded the hospital ship Queen Alexandra.[4] In 1905, he was appointed to the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble Minded[7] and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath.[8] After his resignation four years later, he was promoted to Knight Commander.[9] Chadwyck-Healey served as chancellor first of the Diocese of Salisbury, then of Bath and Wells and lastly of Exeter.[7] He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.[7]

On 6 February 1872, he married firstly Rosa Close, daughter of John Close, and had by her a son.[10] She died in 1880 and on 17 May 1884 Chadwyck-Healey married Frances Katharine Wait, eldest daughter of William Killigrew Wait.[10] By his second wife, he had two further sons and a daughter.[10] His daughter married Edward Williams in 1925.[10] Chadwyck-Healey died in 1919 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Gerald.[11]