He never resided at Buckden, but made his home at Southoe, about a mile away, where he had purchased an estate, on which, when Sir John Harington wrote, he was ‘living in good state,’ allowing the episcopal palace to fall into decay. He died suddenly at Southoe on 11 April 1608, and was buried the next day in the chancel of the parish church. No monument was ever erected to his memory, and the engraved slab placed over his grave has been removed. He had only one child, Joan, born on 20 Feb. 1574, while he was still president of Queens', who married Sir Richard Brooke, in the county of Chester, from whom she was soon separated. Her only daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1595, married to Torel Joceline in 1616, was the author of ‘The Mother's Legacy to her Unborn Child,’ first published in 1624, and died in childbed on 12 Oct. 1622. Chadderton's portrait has been engraved by Woolnoth, from an original portrait, for Hibbert and Ware's ‘Manchester.’ The only printed works he left are: 1. A copy of twenty-two Latin elegiac verses prefixed to Barnaby Googe's translation of the first six books of the ‘Zodiake of Life,’ by Marcellus Palingenius, 1561. 2. ‘Oratio in Disputatione Philosophiæ coram Regia Majestate, 7 Aug. 1564,’ printed in Nichols's ‘Progr. Eliz.’ iii. 68. 3. ‘The Direction of the Ecclesiastical Exercise in the Diocese of Chester,’ in Strype's ‘Ann.’ vol. ii. bk. i. App. Nos. 38, 39. 4. ‘Interpretation of the Statutes of King's College,’ 5 April 1604, in Heywood and Wright's ‘Laws of King's and Eton Colleges,’ pp. 276–83. 5. ‘Letter of thanks to Cecil on his appointment to the Presidentship of Queens' College,’ in Searle's ‘Hist. of Queens' Coll.’ p. 305.
[Le Neve's Fasti; Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, vol. i. bks. iii. iv.; Cooper's Athenæ Cantab. ii. 482–4; Annals of Camb. ii. 196, 239, 251, 262, 309, 313, 367; Hibbert and Ware's Manchester, i. 101; Wardens of Manchester (Chetham Soc.); Nichols's Progr. Eliz. i. 186, ii. 298, 434, 453; Progr. James I, i. 96, 594; Strype's Annals; Lives of Parker, Grindal, Whitgift (indexes); Searle's Hist. of Queens' College (Camb. Antiq. Soc.); Mullinger's University of Cambridge, ii. 190, 214, 226.]
CHADS, Sir HENRY DUCIE (1788?–1868), admiral, son of Captain Henry Chads, also of the navy, who died in 1799, was in 1800 entered at the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, from which in September 1803 he joined the Excellent with Captain Sotheron. In that ship he served for the next three years in the Mediterranean, and on 5 Nov. 1806 was promoted to be a lieutenant of the Illustrious off Cadiz. In 1808 he was appointed to the Iphigenia frigate, with Captain Henry Lambert, and in 1810 took part in the operations leading up to the capture of Mauritius. On 13 Aug. Chads commanded the Iphigenia's boats in the attack on the Isle de la Passe, and on the death of Lieutenant Norman succeeded to the command of the whole party. In reporting the affair, however, Captain Pym erroneously described the command as falling to Lieutenant Watling, who was two years junior to Chads; a mistake which caused the admiralty to withhold the promotion which would otherwise have been conferred on the commanding officer (James, Naval Hist. 1860, v. 148).
The capture of the Isle de la Passe ended unfortunately. In an attack on Grand Port three of the ships got ashore and were taken or destroyed; while on 27 Aug. the Iphigenia was beset in the narrow passage by a squadron of fourfold force, and on the 28th was compelled to surrender, the officers and ship's company becoming prisoners of war (ib. v. 167). When Mauritius was captured, 3 Dec. 1810, the prisoners were set free, and Chads was again appointed to the Iphigenia, which was recovered at the same time. The ship was at once sent home, and was paid off in May 1811. In the following December Chads was appointed to the Semiramis, in which he continued till August of the next year, when Captain Lambert commissioned the Java, and at his request Chads was appointed her first-lieutenant. The Java was a fine 38-gun (18-pounder) frigate, taken from the French only the year before, and now under orders to carry out to Bombay the new governor, General Hislop, and a large quantity of naval stores. Her crew was exceptionally bad; an unusually large proportion of the men had never been at sea before, and a very great many were drafted on board from the prisons. She carried also a hundred or more supernumeraries, and when she sailed from Spithead on 12 Nov. 1812 she had on board upwards of four hundred men all told. Owing to the crowding, bad weather, and the rawness of the ship's company, drill was almost entirely neglected, and the guns had been rarely or never exercised, when, on 29 Dec. 1812, on the coast of Brazil, in latitude 13° S., she met the United States frigate Constitution. The Constitution was a more powerful ship, with a numerous and well-trained crew. Under the circumstances the Java's defence was highly creditable. The action lasted for more than two hours. Although, about the middle of the time, Captain Lambert fell mortally wounded, and though the heavy, well-aimed broadsides of the Constitution
