Edward Cadogan (rower)

Edward Cadogan (1833–1890) was a British clergyman and

Cadogan took holy orders and in 1872 became Rural Dean and Rector of Wicken, Northamptonshire.^[3][4] He added a new wing at the Rectory at cost of £300 in 1873, not long after his arrival in the parish.^[5] Cadogan was concerned with the village school which, in 1875, he claimed that he found 'struggling into life and health'. Within three years Cadogan placed it on a sound footing and there were about 80 children on the books. He appealed for increased subscriptions and threatened a school board if these were not forthcoming. He offered to hand the management over to the subscribers or their elected representatives.^[5]

Cadogan killed himself at his Rectory in Wicken on 16 April 1890, an inquest jury returned a verdict of "suicide whilst temporarily insane".^[6]

Cadogan married Alice Smith in 1856. Their daughter Blanche Ann married Sir William Carlile, MP for Buckingham.^[7] Their son, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Osbert Samuel Cadogan, 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers, was killed in action on 30 October 1914.^[8] A grandson, Edward Henry Cadogan, played first-class cricket for Hampshire.^[9] Cadogan's second daughter Edith Elise married fellow author and yachtsman Francis Cowper; their eldest son Frank Cadogan Cowper became a noted artist.

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