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Clement Winstanley Carlyon was born at Kenwyn in Cornwall in 1838.  At the time of the 1841 census he was living in Perranzabuloe with his father Clement and mother Harriet, brother George and sister Edith.  His father Clement Carlyon became Rector of St Just in Roseland where he made major alteration to the church and is also thought to have helped carve some of the woodwork. 

Clement entered the Plymouth Division of the Royal Marines in April 1853 and was promoted from Second to First Lieutenant in August 1858 (1,2).  He was promoted to Captain in 1867.   He went on half pay shortly after this. He appears to have been a bit of a sportsman because in July 1867 he was in the Glamorgan Cricket Team that played Gloucestershire at the Spa Ground in Gloucester (3).  

In 1864 he had married Lilian Maria Shewen in Droxford, Hampshire but his daughter Dorothy Georgina wasn’t born until the summer of 1880 at Walmer, Kent (4).  At the time of the 1871 census he was on half pay and he was living with his sister and her husband, Revd Charles Littledale, and for some reason his wife wasn’t with him.  

He was promoted to Major in 1879 and his final promotion was to Lieutenant Colonel in 1883, and he was placed on the retired list the same year (2).  His last posting appears to have been to HMS Duncan which was the flagship of the Commander in Chief at the Nore, Admiral Sir Reginald Macdonald (5); this was based at Sheerness and the local R.N. barracks and the ship were merged into one establishment in 1882 and the ship was only retained as a “saluting ship”.  

Lieutenant Colonel Carlyon came to Budleigh Salterton around 1885 by his own testimony (6); and he appears in the Voters Lists for 1888. His first residence was in Little Knowle.  In1889 the family were living at 4 Victoria Place and in 1890 they are listed at 13 Victoria Place (7).  By the time of the 1891 census they had moved to number 1 West Terrace.  The voters list for 1892 has him at number 2 West Terrace.  The family were undoubtedly renting accommodation.   

In 1891 misfortune caught up with him because in June 1891 he was declared bankrupt (2).  He appeared at Exeter Castle in the Exeter Court of Bankrupcy and his liabilities were found in total to be £428-15-2d (6).  He said the cause of the failure was insufficiency of income, pressure of his creditors, sickness in the family and heavy law costs.  Messrs. Reep, Lane & Co. (London solicitors) had seven years previously made an arrangement with his creditors but this had eventually failed.   

In July the Exeter Court devised a new scheme by which he agreed to pay £100 per annum, out of his pension of £300, to his creditors.  The debt seems to have related to a mortgage and the principal creditor was his brother who was owed the sum of £300.  His brother agreed to be the last to receive repayment and thus all the creditors agreed to the scheme.  He had two life assurance policies valued at £500 on death and the premiums for these policies had to be paid annually as part of the scheme.  Because the schedule for repayment had been agreed by the creditors and approved by the Court, the bankcrupcy was annulled in October of 1891. 

Clement was not in the 1893 Voters Lists so I assume they left the town in 1892, and they appear in the 1893 edition of Kelly’s Directory for Cornwall  living in St. Mawes in his father’s old parish, and in 1914 his house is listed as “The Hermitage”.  Clement died in St. Mawes in 1919. 

Compiled and Researched by Roger Lendon © 2010 

(1)Army Lists

(2)London Gazette

(3)http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/245/245752/245752.html 

(4)www.freeBMD.org 

(5)Navy List 1882

(6)Account of a court case in the Exeter Flying Post

(7)Town Directories

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