Camille Caillard

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Camille Felix Désiré Caillard (12 September 1822 – 1 May 1898) was a British barrister and County Court judge who served from 1859 until 1897. He was the only son of Camille Timothée Caillard, a French cavalry officer, and was privately educated before being called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1845. In 1859 Lord Chelmsford appointed him to the county court bench, a decision that drew accusations of favouritism since Caillard was then "a man nobody knew." He succeeded Joseph Grace Smith and sat for Circuit No. 52, which included Bath and Swindon. At his retirement in 1897 he was the longest-serving county court judge.

Caillard acted as a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire and Somerset, and from May 1878 he was a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire. He married Emma Louisa Reynolds (1827–1865) in 1850; she was the daughter of Vincent Stuckey Reynolds of Taunton and a first cousin of Benjamin Disraeli. They had at least four sons and five daughters. In 1861 he bought Wingfield Manor, a large early-18th-century house at Wingfield in west Wiltshire, near Bath; it had previously been owned by his predecessor Joseph Smith.

In 1872 he remarried Amy Ursula Copland, widow of Captain John Hanham and younger daughter of Alexander Copland, and they had one son. The eldest son from his first marriage was Sir Vincent Caillard (1856–1930), a financier who from around 1895 owned much of the land in Wingfield parish.