CARDIGAN, JAMES THOMAS BRUDENELL, 7TH EARL OF (1797-1868), English soldier, born at Hambleden, Bucks, on Oct. 16, 1797. He entered the army in 1824, and as lieutenant-colonel, first in the 15th Hussars (1832-34), and later in the 11th Hussars, made himself one of the most unpopular officers in the army. Within two years he held 105 courts-martial, and made more than 700 arrests. He succeeded to the peerage in 1837. In 1840 he fought a duel with one of his former officers, Capt. Tuckett, and in was tried before the House of Lords on a charge of shooting his adversary, but he was ac quitted on a trivial technical ground. In 1854, at the outbreak of the Crimean War, Lord Cardigan was appointed to the com mand of the light cavalry brigade, and in the famous charge of the light brigade at Balaclava, he was the first man to reach the Russian lines. He was created K.C.B. in 1855, and was appointed inspector-general of cavalry, and lieutenant-general in 1861. He died, without heirs, on March 28, 1868, and the family titles passed to the 2nd marquess of Ailesbury.