Camille Caillard Explained

Camille Felix Désiré Caillard (12 September 1822 – 1 May 1898) was a British barrister and County Court judge from 1859 until 1897.

Biography

The 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.[3] On his retirement in 1897, he was the longest serving county court judge.

Caillard was a JP for Wiltshire and Somerset, and from May 1878 a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire.

Personal life

Caillard 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 he bought Wingfield Manor, a large house from the early 18th century, at Wingfield in west Wiltshire, within reach of Bath; the house had earlier been owned by his predecessor, Joseph Smith.

In 1872, he remarried to Amy Ursula, widow of Captain John Hanham and younger daughter of Alexander Copland: they had one son.

The eldest son from his first marriage was the financier Sir Vincent Caillard (1856–1930), who from c.1895 owned much of the land in Wingfield parish.[5]

References

  1. 7 May 1898 . Obituary . The Law Journal . 250.
  2. Book: Polden, Patrick . A History of the County Court, 1846–1971 . . 1999 . 65.
  3. Web site: The Caillard Family . 31 August 2023 . Bradford on Avon Museum.
  4. 32236. Davenport-Hines. Richard. Caillard, Sir Vincent Henry Penalver.
  5. Book: Chettle . H. F. . A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 7 . Powell . W. R. . Spalding . P. A. . Tillott . P. M. . 1953 . University of London . Pugh . R. B. . Ralph Pugh . . 69–76 . Parishes: Wingfield . 31 August 2023 . Crittall . Elizabeth . British History Online.