Background
He was born at Taunton, Somerset about 1810, and was the son of Lieutenant and Paymaster John Chorley of the 1st Somerset militia (died February 1839).
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Charles Chorley
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The greater part of his life was spent at Truro, where he acted for thirty years as sub-editor and reporter of the Royal Cornwall Gazette, the old-established Tory paper of the county. He held also the posts of secretary to the Truro Public Rooms Company, and sub-manager of the Truro Savings Bank. Foreign eleven years (1863-1874) he edited the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, and was involved in the management of the society.
He died at Lemon Street, Truro, on 22 June 1874, aged 64.
