Prominent Cayleys

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• John Cayley, killed in 1716 by Mrs Macfarlane
• William Cayley, British Consul in Portugal and Spain who died in 1768
• Captain William Cayley who died in 1801
• Cornelius Cayley who became an early Methodist preacher (1727-1779)
• Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet, inventor and pioneer of manned flight (1773-1857)
• Edward Stillingfleet Cayley⬀, politician and author (1802-1862)
• William Cayley⬀ Canadian politician (1807-1890)
• Arthur Cayley⬀, mathematician, who paved the way for a number of branches of modern mathematics (1821-1895)
• Charles Bagot Cayley linguist, translator and friend of Christina Rossetti (1823-1883)
• Sir Richard Cayley⬀ lawyer who was Chief Justice of Ceylon (1833-1908)
• Deputy Surgeon-General Henry Cayley⬀ who served in India and became honorary surgeon to Edward VII (1834-1904)
• Hugh St Quentin Cayley⬀ Canadian lawyer and politician (1857-1934)
• Sir Walter de Sausmarez Cayley⬀ an army officer who served during World War One in the Gallipoli campaign and then in Mesopotamia (1864-1952)
• Major-General Douglas Edward Cayley⬀ who played a leading role in the Gallipoli campaign in the First World War (1870-1951)
• Dorothy Cayley⬀ a leading mycologist (1874-1955)
• Neville William Cayley⬀ (1886-1950), Australian bird painter. His father, Neville Henry E Peniston Cayley, was another Australian bird painter, and emigrated to Australia in 1877. This family came from Norwich, and their name was originally spelt ‘Caley’: they seem unconnected with the Cayleys of Brompton, Yorkshire. For more information about Neville William Cayley and his family, see the page Australian Bird Painter’s Family
• Richard Cayley⬀ submarine officer in World War 2, known as ‘deadeye Dick’ (1907-1943)
• Andrew Cayley⬀ senior international criminal lawyer, appointed in 2009 chief international prosecutor in the Cambodian Khmer Rouge tribunal. He was born in Sussex, and is descended from a family which moved from London to the Burnley area of Lancashire in the mid-19th century (b. 1964)