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