Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameSir Charles Murray Cathcart Earl Cathcart 
[73, Cathcart article, Vol II, pp. 527-9], [60, Cathcart article, Vol III, p. 108], [3, His death, Q3 of 1859, Hastings dist, vol 2b, p. 19]
[73, Cathcart article, Vol II, pp. 527-9], [60, Cathcart article, Vol III, p. 108], [3, His death, Q3 of 1859, Hastings dist, vol 2b, p. 19]Death16 Jul 1859, St Leonards-on-Sea
General2nd earl. A soldier throughout his life, ending as Lt-Gen in 1841. FRS.
FatherWilliam Schaw Cathcart Earl Cathcart (1755-1843)
MotherElizabeth Elliott (-1847)
Spouses
Notes for Sir Charles Murray Cathcart Earl Cathcart
He also has strong scientific interests, was elected FRS and read several papers there, discovering a mineral cadmium sulphite, named after him as greenockite.
He was a direct descendant of the lords Cathcart of Scotland, being the eleventh lord thereof (the third of whom is a Trotter and thus P-L ancestor).
He was a direct descendant of the lords Cathcart of Scotland, being the eleventh lord thereof (the third of whom is a Trotter and thus P-L ancestor).